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the weather
i Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
; fair and somewhat warmer today;
fair tomorrow.
VOL. XI. NO. 113.
HOLIDAY FOR
BEHMUDAAS
WILSONS
LEAVE
President-Elect and Family;
Bring Vacation to End After
Delightful Rest.
TEAL WORK AHEAD ON
GOVERNOR'S PROGRAM
Political Conferences and Prep
arations for Speeches Will
Occupy His Time.
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, Dec. 14.
T > s. parture of President-elect Wood-
~x Wilson and family for the United
<• ttt-s was made the occasion for
, j.-lif! iy In Hamilton.
Buf-* ' going on board the steamer
rnudian. upon which he will travel
to N ov York, the president-elect issued
■ statement thanking the people of
B. .■ .ml ', for their consideration toward
iLo and riling them what a good time
had hail.
\i,> Wilson, .is well as the other
.•>mers of hi- family, looked much
nettled by the vacation.
Bermudians have invited the presi-
...;, .(ct to spend his winter vacation
after h. takes the presidential
ehair.
Governor Wilson plans to get down
to strenuous work on his return to the
United States, preparing several
speeches he will make before his inau
guration and holding numerous politi
cal conferences.
OXYGEN TREATMENT
RELIEVES CONDITION
OF WHITELAW REID
LONDON, Dec. 14.—The condition of
Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador
at the court of St. James, was so se
rious today that oxygen was adminis
tered. This relieved the American dip
lomat, and the physicians expect no
itnmedlate crisis.
The ambassador’s son, Ogden Mills
Reid, has been summoned from New
York. A series of inquiries are being
made by prominent persons at Dor
•’hester house, but none is allowed to
see the patient.
The foreign office bulletin issued by
■the ambassadors orders:
"The American ambassador had a
favorable night. IHs condition is more
favorable."
INQUEST BEGUN INTO
DEATH OF ZION CITY
WOMAN FROM BURNS
CHICAGO, Dec. 14. —A inquest Into
•the death of Mrs. Katherine Mole, aged
21. was begun in Zion City today by
Coroner Taylor, of Libertyville.
The woman’s body was exhumed
when the coroner was informed that
she died after having suffered from
burns for more than a fortnight with
out medical attendance. The death
certificate was signed by Dr. Larose,
the health officer at Zion City, and the
body was buried. Later the coroner
heard of the circumstances surrounding
ihe woman’s death and ordered the
body exhumed.
It is the Intention, if possibly to pre
fer criminal charges against Dr. Larose,
the coroner says.
records in bibb show
DECLINE IN DIVORCES
MACON, GA., Dec. 14.—Bibb supe
'ior court records show that there has
b'- n a decline in the "divorce evil” in
this county during the present year,
"here have been 114 divorce suits tiled,
1 nd 75 have been granted, while there
>ir<- more than 200 pending on the dock
*■l. Some of these, however, date live i
■'•ars back. The average length of time!
required to obtain a divorce in Bibb
‘ aunty is is months.
Last year there was one divorce for
I D’ six marriages. This year there
•i divorce proceeding for every ten,
arriages, showing a change in favor
: happy marriages. The great majority
■i divorce suits in this county’ is filed
white people.
GIBSON PEIMS FICTION
IN HIS PRISON CELL
>SHE.\. x. y. Dec. 14.—Burton W.
‘"-"n. the lawyer accused of strang-
! K Mrs. Szabo, is writing Action in his
11 in Jail here. He has written one <
'i.'’ of several thousand words that
" been purchased by a New York
aldisher. He Is at wor g ret ising the
sheets. The lawyer • tpeets to
Zea sized sum from his firs' 1
wpt in the literary field.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Gus Edwards and Pretty Songbirds in Al Fresco Show for Christmas Fund
ALL "FIVE POINTS” IS A STAGE THIS AFTERNOON
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Her ettre the Gus Edwards girls who will cm< rttiin :;t Five Points this afternoon for, The Georgian s Christinas fund for Atlanta s poor kiddies. Some of the
pretty young women will sell Georgians, mid there 11 be no use trying to dodge them. Woe be to the ‘tightwaddos” this day!
THREE INCENDIARIES
BLAMED FOR GREAT
NAPLES HARBOR FIRE
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NAPLES, Dec. 14.—Neapolitan cara
bineers today began searching for three
incendiaries who are believed to have
started the tire which swept the old
section of the Neapolitan harbor yes
terday, destroying or damaging about
90 ships, with loss estimated between
.$500,000 and $750,019). Most of the.
burned vessels were fishing boats.
Giueseppe Demeo, captain of the
steamer Antonienetta, told the police la
had seen several strange men in a small
boat make their way through the ship
ping, deliberately setting it on lire.
These are the men for whom search is
being made.
Another theory is that the lire was
set by spontaneous combustion in the
hold of an oil tank steamer from New
York, which was being unloaded in
the harbor. Two fishermen were made
insane by the loss of their boats ami
tried to commit suicirde by leaping into
the bay.
I BIG BANQUET TO MARK
OPENING OF COLLEGE
VALDOSTA, GA., Dec. 14.—The
Chamber of Commerce will-give a ba li
quet on the evening of January 2, in
honor of the opening of the South
Georgia Normal college in this city. The
banquet will be given at the Hotel Pat
i terson, and covers will be laid for sev
eral hundreds uests. Invitations have
been mailed to Governor Grown. < ,ox -
ernor-elect Slaton. Senators Bacon and
Smith, Georgia members of, congr ss
members of the state legislti tui ptom-
Inent educators in Georgia, and the
board of trustees and faculty of the
college, who will be honor guests ot
the Chamber of Commerce.
ARRESTED AS A ROBBER,
MAN SUES FOR SIO,OOO
MARION, ILL., Dec. 14.—Suit for
i SIO,OOO has been filed in the city court
I by Jesse 11. Bounett against the St.
j Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway Company, alleging false per
secution and imprisonment. According
to Bounett’s lawyer, he was arrest* d
March 15, 1912. and charged with hold
ing up the station master nt Marion,
111. At the preliminary hearing he
proved he was in Salem, 111., at the time
the robbery was committed.
WORKS 40 HOURS. BUT
FAILS TO SAVE A LIFE
ST’. LOUIS, Doc. 11. Tih- f-Hor:s «»f
a doctor and a. trained nurse who w r
in attendance I” hours failed u, - ,
th<* life of F'redi i ick Liin' nan, a-» w i
fount! in iii< roo.n at M.i
ph wood. The room v;< • tilled -,vh .■ u
H< ‘i«. fevjihout i i u-jiii. - '•.iii'. I
'detectives watch
PARROT FOR CLEW TO
: I CAUSE OF TWO DEATHS
DENVER. ' i >U>„ Dee. 14. -In the
‘ hop<- that a parrot, long the companion
of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Johnson, may re
-1 , .
peat some please that will give a. clew
! as to the reason for the death of the
i | couple, tin bird is being watched night
'■ I and day by a detail of detectives.
The Johnsons Were found shot to
death tn a hotel room here Tuesday.
I Ti ' bird was walking along the foot
board of the bed, muttering to the dead
bodes. The polici bellev. there may
’ haw been a quarrel before the trag
edy. The* think the parrot may re*
, I pern some phrase that will strengthen
. th i: I iieory.
GEORGIAN SHOWS
MISSOURI GIRL HE
CAN TAKE A DARE
MACON. GA., Dre. 14.—“ if you’ll
come to Missouri f » me, I’ll go with
• ■ii i. M
proposition made i Miss < >na Lavonia
* Scott, m Middlehoro, Mo., to Otis C.
. .lonrs, af’t r he had proposed to her in a
i correspondence courtship.
i Jones took the d irt. vein, to Mis
■ souri. brought h>'r bark to Macon, and
'they wrif married here, immediately
. uj »n their .• nival, at the parsonage of
Rrv. T. W. Callaway.
1 FIRE RUINS SEARCHED FOR
BODY OF OIL FIRM'S HEAD
PITTSBURG, Dee. 14. -Search for
Colonel John Taylor, president of the
Taylor Oil Company and general agent
of the Eureka Pipe. Lino Company, a
I subsidiary of the Standard Oil Cornpa-
II ny, who has been missing since yester
day’s apartment house the. was r<-
. sumed .today, but il was feared his body
t is in tile ruins.
Colonel Tayka I- lather of Oscar D.
Taylor, national commander of the
Spanish-Ameriean war veterans. Sev
eral of the Injured were in a serious
j condition today.
SENT TO SETTLE TITLE
TO OKEFENOKEE ISLAND
WAYCROSS, GA., Dee. 14. —Next
week, in superior court, rhe suit brought
by the Hubard Company for posses
; sion of liillys island, in the heart of
the Okefenokee swamp, will be settled,
i' Tin island contains approximately 10.-
ihiii acres, heavily timbered, and is
worth at least sloU,<>*>**. The Hebards
claim the land by a deed secured when
- me 1 , than 500.000 acres were purchased
wral years .go fm their big mills
at Waycross.
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. Iflk!.
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Don't Forget to Toss a Coin
J Into the Barrel for Atlanta’s
Poor Kiddies.
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: Don't Forget to Toss :
: A Coin in the Barrel :
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- Atlanta fathers and mothers, •
• bachelors and ba-'helor maids, bur- • I
• ryhig uptown for their Christmas •
» shopping today, will lind an oppor- •
• (unity to send gifts and happiness •
. • to children not on their private •
• lists if they will pause for a mo- •
• merit at Five Points, Peachtree •
• nd Marietta streets, and toss a •
• coin into the barrel there. •
• The biiirel is for the Empty •
I ® Stocking Fund* and the higher • |
• rises the flow of coin and currency • |
. • the more Christmas joy for the •
• hundreds of poor children on Th •
• Georgian’s Christmas list. ■» '
ij® Gus Edwards and his company ■«
• of petty gills will be at Five •
i • Points with a piano, and there will »
• be a long performance of outdoor •
• vaudeville. Some of the girls will •
• sell Georgians to passersby, and »
• as the money will all go into the •
I • ban el, dimes «ill b< ■■ c< pt- • ’
• able than pennies. •
■I • Don’t forget to v isit Flv< Points •
• and don’t go empty-handed. •
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By Left Hook
Come on, you guys Be good sport.-J .
• all of you. Kick in with a quarter or] 1
’ two for the kids. You won’t miss the | (
1 pi Ice of a white chip or a couple of
smokes or more.
Come on down Peachtree to Five
Points and lump the pretty girls sell
ing papers. Ease up and slip one of
them an iron man and don’t wait for
the change. If you’re girl shy. slid*
' over to the barrel and play it’s the |
kitty in a no-limit game. Feed it with I
a dollar bill, or* a half, or a quarter. L
1 It’s all for a good cause.
What’s a quarter to any of you good .
sports? There Isn’t a one of you who
wouldn't slip that much of a tip to your
I barber or the hail boy, or the Greek
I who shines your shoes tn this before-
Chrfstmas time.
Dig Deep This Time.
Why not hand that much to some
pour kid who hasn't had a taste of real
candy or a regular square meal in a
' .war? It's a cheap sport and a piker
who’d make a stall In a case like this.
■* Dig, and dig deep as you can. This ii
pay day, anyway .
' H doesn’t make anj difference
whetiiei you’r* J.-w nr Gentile, Protes
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Continued on Page Two.
CONTRIBUTIONS
The contributions to date follow.*
W. R. Hearst $100.60
J. M, Slaton 25.00
F. J, Paxon 25.00 ,
R. F. Maddox 25.00
Forrest Adair 25.00
J. W. English 25.00
John E. Murphy 25.00
W. T. Gentry 25.00 i
George Adair 25.00
Joel Hurt 25.00
W. H. Glenn 25.00 <
E. H. Inman 25.0 C
A friend 25.00
Harold S. Holmes 25.00
J. 8. Cleveland 25.00 ,
Mrs. J. B. Whitehead 25.00
George M. McKenzie 25.00
Scherer Lunch 10.00
John W. Grant > 10.00
Henry Durand . . 10.00
Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10.00
Mrs. E. L. Connally 10.0(1
Oscar Elsas 10.00
Charles C. Jones 10.00
Carlos Mason . . *. . 10.00
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10.00
Morris Brandon IC.OO
R. J. Guinn 5.00
E. P. Ansley 5.00
E. C. Peters 5.00 ,
M. L. Thrower 5.00
S. B. Turman 5.00
Mrs. Robert Maddox 5.00
Mrs. J. M. High 5.00 ,
Mrs. George McKenzie 5.00
Mrs. P. H. Alston 5.00
M. H. Wtlensky 5.00 ,
A friend 5.00
J. K. Ottley 5.00
J. S. Akers . . 5.00
Clifford L. Anderson 5.00
Dr. E, G. Ballenger 5.00
Chief J. L. Beavers 5.00
WOMAN LEADS AUTO
BANDITS IN A DARING
GEM SHOP ROBBERY
< lib'AGO, D< • It. l.d by u styl
ishly dressed woman, tin automobile
bandits who have terrorized certain sec
tions of Chicago committed their four
teenth robbery within a. week last night,
and today police and detectives have
redoubled their efforts to catch the
thleves. The band! rode up to the
display window of William Mellish’.s
jewelrj tore in Erst Sixty-third street,
smashed the window ami took jewels
valued al SI,OOO.
Besides the woman the .■ won- three,
men in the car. 'rimy drove up to the
place leisurely. The woman and two
men got out. The woman and one of
the men smashed the window. The
other man waved a big revolver and
kept back the crowd attracted by the
crash.
The man who rilled tin window cut
Ids hand. The woman screamed and the
three jumped Imo the c.y and the
ehaufl'-ui diu'. ■ .• ' iy at top -peed.
Marion Jackson 5.00
A friend 5.00
Dr. George Brown 5.00
J. P. Alien 5.00
Robert L. Cooney 5.00
Marion Cobb Bryan and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr 5.00
Reuben R. Arnold 5.00
Charles J. Haden 5.00
Darnel W. Rountree 5.00
J. K. Orr 5.00
Charles C. Thorn 5.00
W. E. Chapin 5.00
C. E. Sciple 5.00
Spencer Wallace Boyd 5.00
J. B. Hockaday 5.00
James G. Woodward 5.00
Thomas C. Biggs (Velie Motor
Company) ... 5.00
Charles A. Smith 5.00
George S. Obear 5.00
Shelby Smith 2.50
Eugen? R. Black 2.00
Dr. T. B. Hinman 2.00
Olive and Frances Marion 2.00
Anonymous 2.00
A friend 2.00
Mrs. Bolling Jones 1.00
H. H. Cabamss 1.00
Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1.00
A Friend . I.OC
Miss Lucile LaHatte 1.00
Mary S. Connally 1.00
Margaret Massengale 1.00
A Friend 1.00
Ormond Massengale 1.00
St. Elmo Massengale, Jr 1.00
Judge Broyles 1.00
Merryman Cross .25
Total $804.7>
D. N. McCullough, box Indian River or
anges.
Bell Bros., barrel of apples.
5 TOTS ASPHYXIATED
PLAYING SANTA CLAUS;
PULMOTOR SAVES TWO
CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—The coroner to
dit began an investigation Into the
death of tiiree children asphyxiated
while playing Santa Claus.
Mrs. Margaret Ustich left her five
children to go to her work. Three
quarters of an hour later she returned.
The children were unconscious. The
pulmotoi*~rescued two of them. The
dead children are ten months, three
years and five years old.
WIFE STABBER ARRESTED.
! SAVANNAH, GA.. Dee. 11.—Ed Neid
lingen. wanted for stabbing his wife.
Mrs. Bessie Neidlingen, was arrested
wldle using tin telephone tn a grocery
stori on tie outskirts of the city. The
wif< stabber showed tight while the tel
•■p mm- w..s being Used to notify police
headquarters of his arrest.
IX®
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p £or« c
1 0,000 VIEW
CORPSE OF
SLAYER
CLAY
Throngs of Curious File Past *
Body as It Lies on Slab in
Undertaker’s Chapel. (
TO BE BURIED IN OBSCURE
CORNER OF WESTVIEW
Father of Slain Wife Denies
Pastors’ Pleas That Tragedy
Victims Rest Together.
Lying on a slab In an undertaking
establishment in South Pryor street to
day is the body of Robert L. Clay, wife
slayer, who was hangreq yesterday in
the Fulton Tower. It has lain there
since it was cut down from the gal
lows, and since that hour there has
been an almost unbroken line of people
r>assing tn and out of the mortuary
chapel to gaze curiously upon the
corpse of a man hanged by' the law.
P. J. Bloomfield, the funeral director
in charge, said today he believed 10,(100
persons had viewed the body In his
chapel. They began coming shortly
after the execution, and not until late
in the night was the long line broken.
They began again early today, and
they’ will keep on until the hour of the
funeral, tomorrow afternoon.
Grave To Be in
I Isolated Spot.
Clay had been but an ordtnai-y work
-1 Ing man in life; in death he became
I the center of notoriety. The most dis
tinguished citizen in Atlanta, dead by a
natural end, would not have attracted
| one-tenth such a concourse to his bier.
Not a governor nor a senator whose
body has lain In state in the capitol
corridor has drawn such an outpouring
of the public to gaze upon a corpse.
The body’ of Robert Clay win be
buried tomorrow afternoon In a single
grave in Westview cemetery, purchased
privately yesterday, and in a spot iso
lated from the main avenues of the city
of the dead. Clay's last words on earth
were a plea that he might be buried
beside the wife he had slain.
But the father of the murdered wom
an had been Inflexible In hia refusal
to grant this boon. Her body lies in
Marvin cemetery, a country burial
ground, far out from the city. That of
her husband will rest alone In ths out
skirts of Westview.
Pastors Promised ? t
To Plead for Him.
Funeral services will be conducted at
2 o’clock tomorrow qjftemoon in the
mortuary chapel, 84 South Pryor street,
by Rev. B. F. Fraser, of St. Paul Meth
odist church, and Rev. Hugh Wallace,
of the Jones Avenue Baptist church,
who, with Rev. Chauncey Foote, a Bap
tist city missionary, were on the scaf
fold with the condemned man. Clay
had turned to them just before he step
ped on the trap, and had kissed them on
the lips, as he kissed Sheriff Mangum
and Deputy Wiley Roberts.
Mr. Fraser and Mr. Wallace promised
Clay they would make every effort to
persuade bls wife’s relatives to permit
him to be burled by her side in Marvin
church yard, and they kept their prom
ise by calling yesterday afternoon at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Hughes, the murdered woman’s parents,
at 218 Berean avenue.
They found that Mrs. Hughes ha<!
spent the hours before Clay's execution
on her knees In her room, praying ear
nestly that the soul of the man who
had killed her daughter might be saved
Sheriff Mangum
Unnerve dby Ordeal.
The mother consented readily to per.
mitting Clay’s body to rest beside his
wife’s, but the old father, though he
declared he had frogiven his son-in
law, would not waver In his refusal. At
last the two ministers abandoned their
pleadings and returried to their homes.
Sheriff Wheeler Mangum showed to
day the effects of the strain he had un
dergone yesterday In sending Clay to
his death. It developed today that the
sheriff had been peculiarly affected in
the execution of the onlv two white
rnen he has hanged, in that both of
them hail been his former employees
and personal acquaintances. George
Burge, twanged for slaying his wife and
child a year or more ago. and Robert
Clay, executed yesterday, had been
switchmen for the Western and Atlan
tic railway when Mr. Mangum was
yardtnaster, and he knew both well.
Wheeler Mangum was famous sot
leading religious meetings and song
services among the yar detnployees. and
Clay reminded him yesterday of these
Sunday meetings among the freigh
curs.