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■ :o Pictures--One of Joy, Oneof Pa-hos--Seen by Evelyn Wren in Holiday Shopping Throngs in Atlanta
VAUDEVILLE AT "FIVE POINTS" FOR THE CHRISTMAS FUND
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Here’s Opportunity for
I his Big, Generous
City to Show Real
Christmas Spirit by
Making Glad Un
fortunates.
By Evelyn Wren
" ’eft her limousine at the entrance
f one of the biggest of Whitehall
-treat's stores, drew her wraps closer
r ound her shoulders and strolled down
i aisle as one on familiar ground.
Phe floorwalker bowed as she passed,
'-:■ he knew her as one of the firm's
nost profitable customers.
I was at her elbow as she stopped be
'<'rr- a case filled with handsome furs,
•ny one worth the month’s income of a
king man. She fingered them criti
cally.
Something a little better, please."
die said. “I want them for Frances,
tou know. Her father has promised
ter tin electriij coupe for Christmas and
di c 's teased me for a set of white furs.
Her dark ones look so odd with the
ight upholstery. Yes, you might send
hat set on approval."
Another Picture Here.
1 Passed on to tlje bargain counter
1 ea dozen women were Inspecting
h< price tags on odds and ends. A
-n. frail and white, stood beside a
’■■■man whose cloak looked frayed and
of date, even in that department of
i’ spised “cheap stuff." She picked up a
f'- muff of imitation fur, so thin, eo
that It hud been cast out of fts
iw n department.
Look, Charlie," she said “agerly,
Minnie has been just crazy for a pret-
V muff, and she hasn't had anything
In «<! long. See, this Is only 49
tnts I believe I could clean it and
sake it look nice.”
I’he man looked at the pitiful bit of
■"ish, fingered the change in his pock
t- and shook his head, slowly.
I reckon not, Mary,” he said regret-
U 'A "I g O t the rent and the doctor to
,:i '. you know Maybe you can take
linnle to a picture show Christmas,
letter just buy that remnant flannel
"Ou came for.”
Contrasts One Might See.
:lst two pictures before Christmas,
ady of the limousine. Just two of
"musands you might see, gentlemen
11,1 roll top desk, if you would go
nu with me in Whitehall street on
of these bright days before. Christ
mas.
■ would like to take you for a stroll, if
•uld give you eyes to see something
• y Our own circle.
"'might find something to think
_ _' ul m the little ones in ragged cioth
pressing their notes against tbs
HEARTS’ DESIRE
plate glass windows where dolls and
steam engines and wonderful toys are
displayed; looking with hungry eyes
into the shops where pounds and
pounds of candy and fruit are being
weighed by fast-working girls for cus
tomers already laden with Christmas
packages.
You might find a contrast between
the shabbily clad women haunting the
cheaper stores of the side streets and
counting their hoards of nickels and
pennies, and the tailored matrons who
trip from their coupes to the portals of
the jewelers’ shops.
How to Reach These Kiddies.
I have stood beside many of these
shabby mothers this week as they
paused before a counter of ten-cent
toys, looked longingly at red rubber
balls and picture books and tiny, tawd
ry dolls, and passed on to buy a pair of
coarse, cheap shoes Instead.
These mothers did not pause to look
at silks and satins; they did not give
a glance to furs and tailored suits. I
saw few of them bestow a second look
on any garment she might have worn
herself. They were looking at little
things for the children —the children
who will have no visit from Santa
Claus because Santa Claus is a twen
tieth century saint, who visits only the
well-to-do.
You, lady' of the limousine, need not
order your chauffeur to drive you to
some poor family and play Lady Boun
tiful in your motor car. You. gentlemen
of the roll top desk, heed not take a
moment from your business or jour
club to 'help these mothers bring Santa
Claus to their homes. It might he bet
ter If you could see for yourselves, but
you will not.
But if you will send a check or mere
ly telephone a promise to the Christmas
Editor of The Georgian, your gift will
be devoted to sending a bit of Christ
mas happiness into as many homes as
the amount will permit. And it takes
little—pitifully little to yon who spend
so freely—to make a child happy on
Christmas morning.
Toss a C°in in the Barrel.
Many good Atlantans have given to
the fund, and given freely, with a word
to say they were glad of the opportun
ity. The opportunity still is open to
you and all your friends. The fund is
growing, but it is still far short of the
sum needed to play Santa Claus to all
the needy, for The Georgian has a list
of the families where Santa would not
have come. The Christmas editor
knows almost every one, the names of
every boy and girl, and their ages, even
the sizes of the shoes they need that
they may go to school In a winter like
this.
The monej will be expended for the
children and the children only; first for
toys and candies and fruit, and then,
where there is need, for shoes and
stockings and perhaps here and there
a bit of other clothing.
And you. every-day folk, who can not
send a check or a substantial gift, do
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1912.
EXPLOSION PLAYS
HAVOC IT NWS
One Hundred Vessels Reported
as Destroyed or Damaged.
Many Believed Dead.
NAPLES, Dec. 13.—A tremendous ex
plosion followed by fire, occurred in the
harbor this afternoon. It is reported
that more than a hundred small ves
sels were destroyed or damaged.
Immediately following the explosion
the mayor of Naples was requested*by
the harbor commandant to send all
available doctors to the water front and
to arrange for the disposition of bodies
that might be recovered. He said he
believed there had been heavy loss of
lite, but was unabld to make any esti
mate.
It was rumored that the entire cargo
of a ship loaded with dynamite had
blown up and sunk every vessel within
a radius of a mile. A large detachment
of the municipal police was sent to the
water front to preserve order.
OFFERED LARGE FORTUNE.
SHIES AT LETTERS “D. F.”
ST. PA LIL. MINN.. Dec. 13. For merely
lending his assistance in digging up *215.-
000 in gold from t*here it lies burled near
the Mexican bonier, 11. .1. Maxfield, state
commissioner of immigration of Minne
sota. is offered $53,7.">0. This proposal
came in a letter io Mr. Maxfield last night
from a man who claims to be held as a
prisoner in a Mexican bastile. The letter
is presumed to be one of many sent to
this country by swindlers. It is signed
"A. de Cre” and instructs Mr. Maxfield
to wire hfs acceptance to "Nuno Ortigosa,
Lista Carrcos, Mexico, D. F.” "I guess
I know what that ‘D. F.* stands for,”
said Mr. Maxfield. He will turn the let
ter over to the nostoffice authorities
not fail to pass Five Points tomorrow
afternoon and toss your coin Into the
barrel which will be waiting to re
ceive it.
Hugh Cardoza, of the Grand, and Gus
Edwards, composer and vaudeville star,
have promised an open air performance
at Five Points, with chorus girls selling
Georgians, and Gus Edwards himself
playing ragtime at a piano on a big
auto truck. These people of the theater
know no real Christmas themselves;
their holidays mean extra perform
ances and dreary hours in hotel rooms,
but never haw I known acto: or ac
tress to refuse to give an hour of extra
work for the sake of children at Christ-
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
The contributions to date follow:
W. R. Hea st . SIOO
J. M. Slaton .’ 25
F. J. Paxon - 25
R. F. Maddox 25
Forrest Adair 25
J. W. English 25
John E. Murphy 25
W. T. Gentry 25
George Adair 25
Joel Hurt 25
W. H. Glenn 25
E. H. Inman 25
A friend • J 25
Harold S. Holmes 25
J. B. Cleveland ■ •• • 25
M s. J. B. Whitehead 25
George M. McKenzie 25
John W. Grant 10
Henry Durand .... 10
Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10
Mrs. E. L. Connally 10
Oscar Elsas 1°
Charles C. Jones 1°
Carlos Mason 10
M . and Mrs. John F. Kiser 10
Morris Brandon I 0
R. J; Guinn 0
E. P. Ansley 5
E. C. Peters 5
M. L. Thrower 5
S. B. Turman • 5
Mrs. Robert Maddox 5
Mrs. J. M. High 5
Mrs. George McKenzie .5
Mrs. P. H. Alston 5
M. H. Wilensky 5
A friend 5
J. S. Akers 5
Clifford L. Anderson 5
Dr. E. G. Ballinger » ••• 5
Chief J. L. Beavers 5
Marion Jackson 5
A friend 5
Dr. George Brown 5
J. P. Alien 5
Robert L. Cooney 5 ,
J. J. Disosway 5
Marion Cobb and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr 5
Reuben R. Arnold 5
W. E. Chapin 5
C. E. Sciple 5
Spencer Wallace Boyd 5
James G. Woodward 5
Thomas C. Biggs (Velie Motor
Company) 5
Charles A. Smith 5
George S. Obear 5
Eugene R. Black 2
Dr. T. B. Hinman/ 2
Olive and Frances Marion 2
A Friend * 2
Mrs. Bolling Jones . ... 1
H. H. Cabaniss . . 1
Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1
Mary S. Connally 1
Margaret Massengale . 1
Ormond Massengale 1
St. Elmore Massengale, Jr. . . 1
Scherer Lunch 1
Judge Broyles 1
Total $757
WOMAN WHO SLAPPED
COP SAYS HE WAS RUDE
The case of Mrs. N. E. Manning, charged
with slapping the face of Policeman W.
L Payne, was postponed Wednesday on
account of the illness of the defendant.
The Incident grow out of Policeman
Payne attempting to get Mrs. Manning’s
small son to identify two youths who
had thrown a rock through a laundry
window and not about a robbery case.
Mrs Manning does not deny slapping the
policeman, but says It was only after he
was extremely rude to her
CUBAN MONUMENT TO
HONOR MAINE'S DEAD
HAVANA. Dec. lU. President Gomez
has' approved the proposal submitted to
him for a battleship Maine monument to
cost $200,000. The monument will con
sist of a base and on that will be mounted
the Maine's front turret with ten
inch guns, above which will be an alle
gorical figure of the explosion which
figure will arise a. representation of the
new born Cuban republic.
GUS EDWARDS AND SOME OF HIS CLEVER AIDES
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FDRXMfIS, 1322
Convicted Slayer of Kingston
Mayor Voluntarily Begins
Ten-Year Sentence.
W. J. Wooten> who shot and killed
. H. Griffin, the mayor of Kingston,
several months ago, has given himself
tip to the prison commission of Georgia,
and asked that h< lie sent to the prison
farm at once, notwithstanding the fact
that his petition for a new trial had
not been disposed of finally at the time.
Wooten was sent up for ten years for
killing Griffin, and appealed tils case to
the supreme court. The ease was af
firmed a few days ago, and Wooten read
about it in flip supreme court, head
notes. printed in the daily newspapers
the same day.
He proceeded immediately to the
court house in < ’artersVille, withdrew
his petition for a new trial, and left at
once for Atlanta, where he surrendered
to the prison commission.
“I might have waited the ten days or
two weeks it will take the supreme
court remittur to reach the Cartersville
court,” he said to one of the commis
sioners, "but I prefer to save the time
by giving up now.
"It is nearly Christmas. When I get
out ten years from now, it will be near
ly Christmas again I will enjoy getting
out then a lot more than I would afte’
Christmas. If I waited for the supreme
court remittur to reach the Bartow
court it likely would be after Christ
mas. 1 hope you gentlemen understand
and will send me to the stale farm at
once.”
Wooten was so: warded to Milledge
ville immediately. He did not seem to
realize that lie can reduce nis sentence
in prison materially by good behavior.
Wooten is well-to-do, and before his
unfortunate falling out with Griffin was
one of the most influential men of Bar
tow county. His victim was prominent
and the. head of the village government
of Kingston at the time he was killed
TOWN COUNCIL COMPOSED
OF COLLEGE PROFESSORS
OXFORD, GA., Dee. 18. Town coiin
cllmen of Oxford for the coming year
have been elected. They are Dr. E. 11.
Johnson, W. T. Burt. J. Z Johnson, D.
T. Stone, victor Williams. Professor
H. H. Stone and D W F. Melton.
Three are professors in Emory college.
The first meeting of the new council
will be the first Tuesday in January.
Pete Smith was elected justice of the
peace.
Oxford for many years has had a
commission form of government. At
the first meeting of the council the
mayor and other officers will be elected.
EARTH GIVES WAY, MAN IS
DRAGGED FROM DEEP ABYSS
LOCUST GAP, PA., Dec. 13.—Wil
liam Quirk, shipping clerk at the Lo
cust Spring colliery, was engulfed In a
cave-in which carried him 40 feet into
the earth He was drawn Into a chasm,
having been swallowed to his shoulders
by the rushing earth.
William McHale, a pumpman, wit
nessed Quicks disappearance. and,
picking up a long rope, which was lying
near by, rushed to bis aid. Quick uas
dragged out.
ATHENS BANKERS
GIVEN Flit YEARS
J. W. Griffin and R. H. McCrary
Sentenced for Violation of
State Banking Laws.
ATHENS. GA., Dec. 13.—Judge Brand
this afternoon sentenced J. W. Griffin
and R. H. McCrary to five years each
in the penitentiary for the misdemeanor
charges to which the two officers of
the defunct Athens Trust and Banking
Company, which failed last February,
had pleaded guilty.
Griffin was president of the concern,
which did business as a banking com
pany for a few months. McCrary was
cashier. B6th had been prominent In
business affairs in north Georgia, Grif
fin being president of the Crawford oil
mill.
The heavy sentences came as great
surprises to the defendants and attor
neys. It was thought that settlement
would he reached with much ifghte.
punishment.
The bank was capitalized at SIOO,OOO.
It had $40,000 in deposit accounts and
other liabilities when it failed.
Tin .sentences will stand without ap
peal. since the defendants pleaded
guilty to violating the state banking
laws.
SAVANNAH MAYORALTY
CANDIDATE NOMINATED
SAVANNAH, GA., Dee. 13. -The first
gun In the niunictp.i I campaign w:>-
fired ■ ist night when tip friends of
Captain George W. Walker turned out
in force to give their candidate a rous
ing welcome Captain Walker accept
ed his formal notification of his choice
as the candidate to lead the adminis
tration forces with the first public ad
dress he has made during his long res
idence in Savannah.
Captain R. J. Duvant, the opposition
candidate, will be similarly honored to
night with a similar meeting at the
same place.
MASONS PLAN TRIBUTE
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
ALEXANDRIA, VA., Dec 13. -Elabo
rate preparations are being made by the
Alexandria-Washington Masonic lodge, of
which the first president was the original
worshipful master, for the observance
Saturday of the 113th anniversary of
Washington's death. Masons from many
cities will Join In the pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon, where solemn service will he held
at the tomb of the father of his country.
Word was received today that unusually
large delegations would be present from
Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
GETS FOUR YEARS SENTENCE.
WAYCROSS, GA.. Dee. 13. L. I.
Miller, a young white man, living near
Waycross, has been given a four
year penitentiary sentence by Judge
Parker in superior court for seduction.
Attorneys for Miller will seek a new
trial
J. R. Sasnett 111.
J. R. Sasnett, of Hapeville, is criti
cally ill at his home. Mr. Sasnett has
for years been prominent among the
traveling men of the state. He has
been confined to bis home for about a
year and became worse a week «« leu
Jaj e ago.
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! Gus Edwards and His
Songbirds Wil! Give
Street Performance
for Benefit of Poor
I Kiddies; l oss a Coin
into the Barrel!
11 an actor whose time, is worth a
thousand dollars a week and a dozen
singers nnd chorus girls who play two
performances a day all winter are will
ing to give a whole afternoon to help
make the poor kiddles happy on Christ
mas day, aren’t you willing to dig up a
quarter or a dime to help?
You'll have your opportunity tomor
row afternoon at Five Points, when you
join the Saturday parade up and down
Peachtree street, as everybody does.
For at this busiest of busy corners will
be a big motor truck with n piano on It.
And Gus Edwards, dancer, singer nnd
composer, will be beating that plarm
until ragtime and popular melodies.
iyritt-n by Edwards himself, just poiu
out of it in stiearns.
Pretty Girls to Sell Papers.
It isn l every day you can hear Gus
Edwards play even for the price of a
theater ticket. But he has promised t<
do something for the children he won’t
do for money, and he will be right
there on the truck.
\\ Ith him will be half e dozen girla o.
his company, which offers "Song Revut
of 1912” at the Grand next week. They
come to Atlanta two days ahead of time
just m put on this performance. There
will be singing and dancing on the
truck, and the girls who are not In th«
performance ■.■ ill be selling Georgian.'
to the crowd at any price from twr
cents to a della.-. And every cent or
the money will go into the big barrel by
the truck, to sweil the fund which wfl'
till the Christmas stockings or the poo:
children of Atlanta.
For Those Who Have No "Daddy.”
He will be a cold-hearted man wh.
passes that corner tomorrow y ithou
tossing a coin into the barrel or Imying
a paper from one of the pretty girls
who will pjaj newsboy tlm-e for tb«
afternoon. Surely the man who passe
on without contributing his mite has
neve been a boy. He must have been
born grown-up, with an old nan's
heart. Certainly he will be a bachelor,
for surely no man .with happy children
of his own waiting for daddy t o com
home could fall to add a mite to help
th.se children who have no daddies, or
whose daddies have no jobs.
R< membe tl a every c < nt of the
money goes to tit. children’s fund. The
truck is loaned by the Velie company,
the piano by the Cleveland-Manning
Piano < ontpany, and even the signs are
given by AleGruth & M. Rae, so every
thing will be "velvet” for the children.
The Georgian has a list of hundreds
y hose < hristmas would be a gloomy
day, indeed, were it not for the kind
ness of Atlantans, expressed througn
the Empty Stocking Fund.
TO SEEK COMMUTATION
FOR CONDEMNED SLAYER
AUGUSTA. GA., Dec 13. Pierce
Bros., attorneys for J. Ed Brazell, con
victed murderer of Carrie Bell Duncatt.
who is under sentence to die on Janu
atv 3, will appear before the prison
commission of Georgia on December IS
or 19 and make a final appeal for th
commutation of the man's sentence.
Brazell was recently adjudged sane
by a board of experts from the state
sanitarium. He appears to be indiffer
ent to his fate.
MORGAN REFUSES TO AID
THE PEACE MOVEMENT
NEW York, r»ec. 13. At the Carnegie
peace dinner at the Hotel Astor rhe
Baroness Bertha Von Suttner stated that
J. Pierpont Morgan recently told her he
was not interested in universal react and
refused to contribute to tire, cause. VV-ien
Mr. Carnegie was asked what he thouglit
2? Mr. Morgan a attitude he replied aharp
tr» "I am net thinking '•
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