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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 / / r ■ *k- JM >\\ 3AKBV < 1f * 1 ■WW |r. W -\\ |V’.'. I 4- S&S l!3J| : Mr ? _ Iwßwsf v ' * *w st ■- .■ 1 aTLovo" w . .«■ .-gw ■**«--- JA’-' 3 -®*a .W hP-v / j»z 4x « ■‘■"tl • ;: ' . < “\ > ’ ‘ ‘‘**" \ I . K ftl *> **« ■> '*& < wT\ ' * JKBI x -<i f' 4 • /Bbßßk ' TWV THW 4 «HI I I -.<<>**• ■»-.''.M a \\ <. » * i .-I ■■ -■ ■> hwiJ 8 O? vmSL = ijy t ' -74/ Wlil - > itrTh vP* -JI ® □’ A-...,, 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- (v <>> W ; a ■» « 7 ' ' fi < I / /w ; -' - i W I i » \ 1 &r ®i L : ■ 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 ■ ~7| -WneM.N4lB wwyHßnupA*: , . * - iF-j? jinr*' jgißfeiijiyjT**" ■■*• , fc' : * M i»slT<. s. wcaiMOrSWmwsr T<F t . '-* Im i ** f V < SaKaßßig. - r. > .j®ai 1 * * * ■jWzA: "jT ''' -2 ' i ivfc. *■ ■ -e WS FREEDOM 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. i 0/ $' ' ' I / 1 f / ..'L A '- LLAAIJ®?tA':£L ' 7a- W&4 & jjUgK ' 2W Wa \ wMEfe&y ) B v ; -Ift I ! 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 '• 5