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THE WEATHER
Forecast: Fair tonight and Wed
nesday. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 34
degrees; 10 a. m.. 36 degrees: 12 noon.
40 degrees; 2 p. m., 43 degrees.
VOL. XL NO. 122.
INTRASTATE
SHIPMENTS
OFLIOUOR
REFUSED
Southern Express Company
Tells Georgia Agents Not to
Accept Consignments.
ORDER OF U. S. COURT
IS OBSERVED STRICTLY
Jacksonville and Chattanooga
Merchants Reap All of the
Christmas Harvest.
Wholesale liquor dealers, said io be
operating in various Georgia cities, are
vie today, enviously watching Jack
-onvllle and Chattanooga merchants
monopolize the much- prized Georgia
■ 'hristmas trade.
A recent injunction granted in favor
,f the Jacksonville dealers by United
States Judge John M. Cheney, order
ing the Southern Express Company to
refuse liquor shipments from Georgia
dealers consigned to Georgia points,
has crimped all plans for a Christmas
cleanup.
Complying with the order of the Fed
eral court, General Manager John B.
Hockday, of the Southern Express Com
pany, lias Issued orders to all Georgia
•gents to refuse liquor shipments con
signed anywhere in the state. Geor
gia, as far as the state dealers are con
cerned, is as dry as a bone.
Georgia Dealers
Completely Shut Out.
Whether Judge Cheney’s eleventh
pour injunction has caused a falling
off of liquor shipments over Georgia is a
matter of conjecture. Express compa
ny officials are authority for the state
ment that there is no way of deter
mining the weight of the traffic at this
“ason. especially this early.
But the JacksonviUians in the West
Bay street liquor section, with their bill
and their theory about their property
right to a monopoly of the Georgia busi
ness. because of this state's prohibition
law, have shut the Georgia dealers out
f tlie killing completely.
Southern Express officials said today
r.i'.t the general traffic in Atlanta was
heaviest in years, but that it was
ving more rapidly than usual. This,
• y ar; •< fifing t’o admit, is due to the
u<- .- ' xpi ess company system, designed
n. ordered into effect in September by
interstate commerce commission.
•This is the first Christmas business
. bo handled under the new system,
. liieh Is uniform throughout the tvhole
ountry. and operates alike on every
•xpress company.
People Take to
Nev/ System Quickly.
The system is simplicity itself, and
s marked success in aiding the pub
end the express companies in han
dling the Christmas rush is said to be
due primarily to the fact that it is
uniform.
Under orders of the interstate cotn
c'l, ~ commission, all collect pack
s are required to be stamped with
lit'- labels, and a duplicate of the
yblll, also white, pasted on the pack
«e Prepaid packages are stamped
a. yellow label, and the waybill on
" paid package is yellow.
Local express officials are enthusias
ovc ■ the system, and they say they
H getting away the bulk of Atlanta’s
business this year with unusual dis
patch.
According to estimates given, 90 to
wagons are being operated in At
•'* to handle the business from the
11 ’ > in the Terminal station.
I'tuple are becoming educated rapid
to the new system,” said one offi
"Thls idea of initiating them, so
’ K )>eak, into the working of the ex-
• companies has greatly facilitated
" company’s work. They know what
” d‘> now, and explanations and much
i one are saved. There are less incor
tly directed packages than usual.
100.” I
$1,000,000 ROOM FOR
MRS. WIDENER IN
VILLA AT NEWPORT
NEW YORK. Dee. 24.—The American
'ft News. Just out. says that an art
h m of this city and London has re-j
wed a commission to arrange an en-1
room decorated with panels by the
i tlst Boucher in' the Newport home of
'■ s. George W. Widener.
1 he cost of the room is put at sl.-
•'OO and it will be a feaeure of the
'OO,OOO villa, for wrtlch ground has
’ “ broken.
Hr. Whlener, who was a Titanic vie
upproved the plans for the house
“fore his death.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use For Results
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: ‘Lovely Day/ Official j
: Forecast for Xmas:
• Lapsing into the language of • |
• the common people, the weather •
• man declared that Atlanta will • |
• have a “lovely day” tomorrow. It • I
i • is not often that the weather man •
j • speaks thus. Usually he talks of • ]
I • highs and ‘ lows" and climatic •
• and meteorological conditions. •
• Tomorrow will be even lovelier •
• than today, he declares. He ex- •
, • plains this promise by the fact •
, • that the smoke of the factory dis- •
• trict will be cut off, and the skies •
• will be clear enough to inspire •
• poets to rhapsody. It will be no •
• colder than today. •
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Miss Lucy Hoke Smith
Loses $5,000 Brooch
At Navy Yard Dance
Georgia Senator’s Daughter Tells
Police She Thinks Diamond
Pin Was Stolen.
J
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Miss Lucy j
Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Hoke |
Smith, of Georgia, today reported to the
police the loss of a horseshoe brooch
containing 30 diamonds and valued at
$5,000.
' Mirs Smith says she lost the brooch at
! the navy yard dance last Saturday night.
It is believed the gem was stolen and
’ Miss Smith spent several days in personal
1 detective work before she took her fath
er’s advice ami reported her loss to the
police today.
Miss Smith is one of the season’s de
butantes and as the navy yard dance is
one of the chief society events in the
capital, the loss of the brooch has cre
’ ated a stir in the smart set.
EDOUARD DETAILLE,
FAMOUS PAINTER OF
WAR SCENES, DEAD
PARIS, Dec. 24.—Edouard Detaille,
the famous military painter, died here
late last night, at the age of 64 years.
He was known as the military artist
because his greatest paintings had been
those of military subjects. He saw
> service in the Franco-Prussian war, in
order to secure the real atmosphere of
. conflict.
His “Le Regiment Qui Passe (Tho
Passing of the Regiment)’’ brought him
: fame, as did “The March of the Ar
tillery of the Guard.”
Other famous paintings by him were
"En Reconnaisance," 18’5. and “Salut
Aux Blesses," 1877. Among his portrait
works he painted the Prince of Wales,
the Duke of Connaught, the emperor of
Russia and many other notables.
He was born in Paris October 5, 1848,
and was the most distinguished pupil
, of Mesisioniere, who noted his wonder
i ful ability when still a lad.
EMPLOYERS MUST
PROVIDE SEATS FOR
WOMEN AND GIRLS
H. M. Stanley, commissioner of com
merce and labor, has made a very im
portant ruling of Interest to all mer
cantile, manufacturing and mechanical
establishments employing women and
girls.
He holds that under section 3150 of
the civil code and section 130 of the
penal code, suitable seats must be pro
vided for all female employees in all
mercantile, manufacturing and mechan
ical establishments in Georgia, and
their use permitted when such females
are not necessarily engaged In the
duties for which they were employed.
Commissioner Stanley rules that al
though there happens to be a seat the
female employee might use—for ex
ample, seats for customers In mercan
tile establishments —this would not be a
compliance with the sections cited, but
that seats must be especially provided
for all female employees.
4 VASSAR GIRLS TAKE I
BABY BOY TO MOTHER
AT CHRISTMAS TIME
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-—John Williams,
six months old, accompanied by four
young ladies from Vassar college,
passed through Chicago today on his
way to Minneapolis. John Is going to
pay a Christmas visit to his mother.
The mother, Mrs. John Williams, was
compelled to allow the baby to go to a ,
state home at Albany, N. Y. She has j
employment In Minneapolis and sent I
for the child. She had no money to ,
I pay railroad fare and her request was ;
refused until the four college girls'
heard of the case and determined to >
bring the baby with them.
CHILDREN, SENDING
LETTERS TO SANTA
IN FLUE, BURN BABY
LOUISVILLE. KY. Dec. 24.—Left
alone by their mother while she did
Christmas shopping this morning, Mar
garet and Russell Sehubnell, aged five
and seven, were sending letters up the
chimney to Santa I laus, when they
set fire to the baby buggy containing
their eleven-months-old sister.
The bugg.v was consumed and the
infant burned to a <;riu»
TURNEHAGAIN
DEFIES CITY
COUNCIL IN
LIGHTWAR
Declares He Did Mot Infer j
Grafting —Reiterates Charge I
of ■‘Undue Influence.”
ACCUSED BODY CONVENES
MEETING TO ARRAIGN HIM
Electrician Asserts He Is Will- j
ing to Face Men Who Have
Branded Him "Liar.”
i
Facing an investigation anil possibly;
impeachment by the general council. I
City Electrician It. C. Turner today de- •
fiantly declared that several member.-';
of council owed him an apology so:
calling him a liar.
“They should have asked me to ex- !
plain what I meant by my eommunlea- I
tion to council before jumping up and I
denouncing me,” he said.
"I did not mean that they had been i
grafting when I said .that they had '
been ‘seen.’
"I did mean that undue influence had
been brought to beat on them.
Thinks Several are
Disqualified to Serve.
“As a matter of fact. 1 think several
members of the committee are disqual
ified to serve on it. -While I did not,
call any names in my communication,
the affiliations of some of the members
of the committee with the Georgia Rail
way and Power Company are obvious.
“The brother of Aiderman John S.
Candler L one u. iij< d.re.io! -
“A number of the directors were ac
tive in behalf of Aldine Chambers for
mayor. He. naturally feels under obli- .
gations to them.
“J. C. Rushin, of the Atlanta Gas
Light Company, a subsidiary company,
was one of the principal supporters of
Orville H. Hall for council.
“Councilman Claude C. Mason has al
ways been opposed to me. He had the
regulation of gas put under the city
smoke inspector to keep me from hav
ing anything to do with It.”
Declares McClelland
Owes Him Apology.
Aiderman John E. McClelland was
the only member of‘ the committee
Electrician Turner did not say was dis
qualified. But as Aiderman McClelland
had denounced him as a liar, he said
the aiderman owed him an apology.
Mr. Turner concluded by saying that
he did not "yet feel that he owed coun
cil an apology” for charging that mem
bers of the council electric lights com
mittee were favoring the new street
lighting contract because of the desires
of the president of the Georgia Railway
and Power Company, and “that their
conduct indicated that they had been
seen.”
Members of council won’t apologize.
They are much aroused over the charges
and have announced that they will seel;
to impeach Turner, He is certain to
undergo a gruelling cross-examination,
for no member of council has shown
a disposition to defend him.
The members of the electric lights
committee were anxious to go into the
Investigation yesterday afternoon, but
the city electrician could not be found.
Council then voted to meet as a com
mittee of the whole this afternoon, and
the marshal was instructed to have
j Turner present.
Willing To Go
Before Council.
Turner said today that he would go
before the body In response to a mere
request, adding that it would not take
legal force to produce him.
It w ill be one of the liveliest sessions ;
that Council has held in a long time,
for all the members of council are of
fended at the accusations, and they are
united on a plan to prove the city elec- !
triclan a “liar and a faker,” according I
j to Councilman Claude C. Mason.
I Aiderman John E. McClelland, chair- '
I man of the electric lights committee,;
i said that Turner's charges were the j
i “dirtiest, filthiest lies lie had everj
heard." N.
The contract with the electric com- j
I pany for the street lighting is as yet I
unacted upon by council. It will be j
considered at the next meeting, and.!
with the favorable report of the elec- I
trie lights committee, there is no doubt !
that it will be adopted
$4,884 ON DRUNKEN MAN
SHOCK FOR POLICEMAN
JERSEY CITY N. J.. Dec. 24. -Pa-j
trolman Fayer almost died of shock
when he discovered $4,884 on tin- pi r
son of David O’Keefe, retired butcher,
whom lie found lying in a stupor and
who is in Jail charged > T'h intoxica
tion.
ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1912.
Christmas Editor Santa Claus to 600 Poor Kiddies
MOTHERS ALSO REMEMBERED
TOMORROW!
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WATSON TO SUSPEND
PUBLICATION OF HIS j
“PROGRESSIVE” PAPER
Through his son, J. D. Watson, Thom
as E. Watson announces the suspen
sion, with the current issue, of his
weekly newspaper, The Progressive
Democrat, published at Thomson
The venture was launched some 18 ,
months ago, but has been a growing (
financial burden upon Mr. Watson since (
its first issue. The editor says, more- (
over, that it has been extremely diffi- j
cult to keep The Progressive Democrat ,
from lapping over Into the field of an- ,
other Watson publication. The Jeffer- |
sonian Weekly. ,
Mr. Watson announced some time ,
ago his intention of coming to Atlanta j
to start a morning daily, and it may be
that the suspension of The Progressive |
Democrat is a step in that direction. |
The impression, however, is that it was 1
suspended merely because it lias been a I
pronounced financial failure and a drag i
upon the other Watson periodicals.
MEAT INSPECTION J
SERVICE ESCAPES
CONGRESS PROBE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. —The house |
committee on expenditures in the de- ,
' partment of agriculture has decided not ]
j to investigate alleged irregularities in <
the Federal meat inspection service, i
which, it was charged, grew out of fa
voritism to the packers. (
It ha? been decided that evidence <
; produced at. the spectaular hearings last »
1 summer, when the Rev. Caroline Bart- ’
i letc Crane gave sensational testimony, >
I is not sufficient to warrant another in- 1
Iquiry. '
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ALLEGED EMBEZZLER ,
RETURNED TO ATLANTA >
t
J. D. Adams, former bookkeeper for ,
the Dougherty-Little-Redwine Compa- <
ny. recently indicted by the Fulton j
grand jury on three counts charging f
larceny after trust, was brought to At
lanta. today from Sibley, Texas, by Dep
uty Sheriff Plennle Miner. Adams is ■
• charged with having embezzled some t
$350 of the company’s funds. 1
“VINEGAR KING’’ MOURNS BRIDE. ,
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y„ Dei-. 24. ,
Stephen Scott, tin “vim-gar king," to- ,
day is disconsolate over t ie continued (
absence of hie ninetecn-year-old bride,
•< huii In married Ins summer.
Pathetic Scenes as Gift Pack
ages Are Given to Parents at
Office of The Georgian.
A line of women stretching from the
second floor down the stairs to the
street thronged The Georgian office
early today. Mothers with bent shoul
ders and wrinkled cheeks, shivering
even on a mild Christmas eve like this
because their clothing is worn thin;
women whose dull life of toil and hard
ship has not driven out the mother
love; they came Intent on bearing home
the packages of toys and garments the
Christmas Editor had promised them
for their children.
For ten days the good people of At
lanta had been pouring their contri
butions into the Empty Stocking Fund.
For a week the Christmas Editor and
his volunteer assistants had been
shopping and packing.
And when the fund was closed and
all the money counted, it was found
that enougli had been received to give
600 t bildren a package of shoes and
clothing and a big bag of toys and
fruit.
$2 Bill For Each Mother.
And more than this, there was a new
two-dollar bill In an envelop- for every
mother on the list. Those two-dollar
bills helped a lot toward putting a
Christmas dinner in the pantry for to-,
morrow.
With the assistance of the Associated
Charities, which made up tile list of
children in need of help and which aid
ed In delivering the gifts when delivery
was necessary, the distribution went on
rapidly. In most cases the mothers
were sent a note inviting them to call
at The Georgian office for a package for
the children.
The Christmas Editor did not care to
humiliate any mother or child by mak
ing public delivery of a "charity” pack
age. In Home cases, where the mother
was unable to call, the gifts were sent
out In a plain delivery’ truck with no
indication that it came from a public
fund.
Pathetic Scene in Toy Room.
It was a pathetic scene, this line of
silent women waiting at the door of the
toy room. They clutched their cards
tightly in chapped and reddened hands
and huddled together in a corner while
their packages wen- being looked, up.
They seldom spoke among themselves.
There was none of the cheery , reckless
good fellowship that prevails among
Continued on Pane Two.
SUES FATHER-IN-LAW
FOR $25,000 DAMAGES
FOR KILLING HUSBAND
DALTON, GA., Dec. 24.—Mrs. Martha
Ludie Davis, widow of Hewlett Davis,
who was shot and killed by h|s father,
A. R. Davis, has brought suit against
her husband’s slayer for $25,000 dam
ages, the sulf being tiled in the clerk's
• office here Monday afternoon, by her
• attorneys. W. E. Mann and W. C. Mal
tin.
In her petition for damages she al
. leges that the defendant killed her
. husband "without any fault or cause”
, on her husband’s part, "and the death
, resulted from the crime and criminal
and other negligence of defendant."
She alleges further that her husband
was 30 years of age. in good health and
with an earning capacity of $750 per
I year, having had a reasonable expect-
L ancy of 35 years to live.
The suit is returnable to the April
[ term of Whitefield superior court.
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MAKES COFFIN OF
CHRISTMAS GIFTS;
KILLS SELF IN IT
DENVER COLO., Dec. 24.—Kenneth
. K. Kane, a railway mail clerk, collect
ed packages containing Christmas
presents, arranged them in the shape of
a coffin on the floor of the kitchen in his
home, placed a Christmas card from
■ his sister Miss Bernice Kane, who is
111 In a Chicago hospital, at the head,
and lay down inside the casket of gij’t:;.
Then he sent a bullet crashing through
i his brain. A neighbor found his body.
"I am pretty near through with the
• whole thing,” Kane told the neighbor
several hours before he took his life.
> ”1 want to get along with everybody,
but it makes me mighty sore when I
think of the big crowd my wife has
• invited for Christmas dinner. I asked
her not to have any one there, so that
, we could be by ourselves.”
Mrs. Kane returned from a visit out
of town today.
INMATE OF POORHOUSE
1 GETS $500,000 FORTUNE
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MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Dec. 24.—Word
believed by the authorities to be authen
tic has come to Charles Drake, an in
mate of the county poorhouse, that a rel
ative lias left him an estate valued at
’ | nearly a half million dollars. Drake, who
Is 5C years -ild. has been a county de
| for five yean
HOHL
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ’’^h’S 0
I (01. JOE NASH
TO BEMIDE
HEJODF
Milllll
William G. Obear Will Be Os
sered His Old Position of
Quartermaster General.
CHANGE WILL BECOME
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1
Captains Eubanks and Coch
ran. Veterans in State Serv
ice. May Be Affected.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Van Holt
Nash. Jr., of Atlanta, will be appoint
ed adjutant general of the state of
Georgia on January 1. succeeding the
present holder of that state house of
fice, General William G. Obear.
General Obear will be tendered i
old position of quartermaster general
by the governor, but will not say
whether he will accept the office.
Governor Brown is understood to
have h.-id Colonel Nash in mind for the
adjutant generalship for some time, but
for reasons personal to Colonel Nash
has delayed the appointment.
General Obear is holding his present
commission to office from Governor
Hoke Smith. Governor Brown did not
reappoint General Obear when Govern,
or Smith vacated the executive office—
the adjutant general holds office at the
pleasure of the governor—but permit
ted him to continue as adjutant gen
eral. under Governor Smith’s commis
sion.
Governor Smith
Combined Offices.
Governor Smith, by executive order,
had previous!} - combined the office ol
adjutant general and quartermaster
general, and placed General Obear in
charge, relieving the then adjutant gen
era,!. A. J. Scott.
When the legislature passed an act
last summer combining the two offices,
the present governor vetoed it. And
today it became apparent, in the an
nouncement that General Obear was to
be offered his former position, some
thing of the idea the governor had in
mind when iie killed the act.
General Obear has been informed of
the impending change and proposal with ■■
respect to himself, but declines to sa>
what he will do.
Colonel Nash and Governor Browi,
. have been close friqnds for many year
and It long lias been an open secret ii>
Georgia military circles that Nash
might have been adjutani general lon ,
ago had he asked for the position.
General Obear was appointed on Au
gust 7, 1911. The position carries with
1 it the title of brigadier general and
chief of staff to the governor, and pays
$2,000 per year salary.
Both Veterans
In State Service.
Colonel Nash has been connected with
the state military for twenty-odd years
and is one of the best known and most
popular men in Georgia. He is now a
member of the governor’s staff.
General Obear Ims served about the
same period of time, and has a long
record of efficiency.
The impending change may afftect the
two military clerks now serving tn the
adjutant general’s office, Captain Eu
banks and Captain Cockran, because
they were placed In their present po
sitions when the office of quartermaster
general practically was suspended by
, Governor Spilth’s executive order com
blning it with the adjutant generalship
ami the salary formerly paid the quar
termaster was divided between the twe
clerks.
If the office of quartermaster is re
vived and General Obear accepts it, it
may displace entirely Captains Eu
banks and Cockran, both of whom live
In Atlanta and have been in the mili
tary service of the state for years.
BLEASEPARDONS’79,
INCLUDING SLAYERS,
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 24.—Govern
or Blease today gave Christmas pres
ents in the nature of pardons or paroles
to 79 inmates of the state penitential’}
and today the free men are pouring
through the doors of the prison.
The crimes against the men range
all the way from first degree murder
down to minor offenses.
COAST LINE CHANGES.
SAVANNAH, GA. Dee. 24.—0. T
Waring, superintendent of the Atlantic
Coast Line at Florence. S. C., has been
appointed engineer of roadway, with
offices at Savannah, succeeding T. S
Tutwiler, who has been assigned :■
special duty. The change becomes es
fective January 1.