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VOL. XL NO. 123.
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EXPECTED
Harwell Thinks Company Will
Raise the Standard Without
Fight Before State Board.
IMPROVED PRODUCT AT
SAME RATE IS PROBABLE
New Smoke Inspector May Be
Announced Friday—He Will
Renew Crusade.
n man R. M. Harwell, of the city
and gas commission, said today
ndications were that the Atlanta Gas
Light Company would increase the
Standard of its product from eighteen
> twenty candle power without a fight
, so e the state railroad commission.
r;ii“ increase in candle power would
,usc the utility corporation to give
rjch better gas for the same money
.nd would directly effect a large ma
,r;t.y of the population of Atlanta.
Some weeks ago the smoke and gas
omint. Aon prepared to protest to the
allroad commission about the quality
t gas being sold here.
Finds Officials
Willing To Co-Operate.
Numerous tests showed that the
tandard was not constant at eighteen
andle power. Members of the com
mission had many complaints from cit
izens.
Chairman Harwell said today that he
ha*.i found the officials of the company
desirous of co-operating with the com
mission to provide better gas and that
he believed twenty cahdle power stand
ard could be obtained for Atlanta by an
amicable agreement
The new smoke and gas inspector
■robably will be announced tomorrow.
He will either be C. P. Poole or E. C.
Kollock, both of whom are college
trained men. The chairman has the
power to make the choice.
Smoke Crusade
To Be Renewed.
4 s soon as the inspector is named
he smoke crusade will be resumed
nd the gas situation gone into in de
tail.
The members of the commission have
nnounced that the new inspector shall
iv 3 full authority to make cases
gainst the nuisance with the new ad
listration, declaring that it already
' o been demonstrated that the smoke
usance can be abated quickly and
■iiotnlcally in Atlanta.
RUNAWAY BOYS NOW
ANXIOUS TO RETURN
TO ATLANTA HOMES
’.itis Holmes, 11 years old, and his
i-~ brother, Lawrence, who two weeks
- ran away from the Southern Chris
’"ii home to become tramps, are in
I " ksonville, Fla., and want to return
" Atlanta.
The two orphan brothers had varied
xueriencea in their first hoboing trip
n fact, so varied that they have ask
" to be brought back to the kind home
mt- which they ran away, under prom
to remain.
Lawrence, the older boy, is in the
ands of Jacksonville police, and may
" sent to a reformatory. Curtis has
"itten to Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, ma
"nfl of the Southern Christian home,
’Siting that she send for him. Mrs.
'' >ti lias not decided what she will do.
1 urtis and Lawrence walked out of
Atlanta, and until their shoes were
■’>ne. kept to the dirt roads. Then they
l ’ng on to the back steps of a pas
train, and were put off. tine
'ghi they spent in the rain on top of a
r, '"ight car. Curtis fell off the car. but
' uninjured, and a man who found
' "ling tramps bought them a ticket
1 ’at ksonville.
hotel bureaus to
iNTRODUCE LONELY
GUESTS ARE URGED
t
HICAGO. Dec, 26. — Frank Floren
'nd three Boston girls are sad to
fhe Boston girls spent Christmas
the < 'ongress hotel, and a hotel
L'tinas is enough to make any one
'■"l Florentine is a clerk at the ho-
He is sad because the plea of the
ng women that he introduce to them
! ’ desirable young men to help them
’ away their Christmas solitude was
I’ig a job for him.
neea introduction bureaus in
hr said. "They would help a
■strangers who arc lonely and
' ould remove some of the unpleas
■s of hotel living. Bureaus
"'Wi which guests could meet each
.respectable persons who live
-ity would be a great attraction."
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use For Results
SANE RECORD
SETBYI9I2
XMAS IN
ATLANTA
Lawlessness This Year Is 50
Per Cent Below That of the
Same Day in 191 i.
BUT ONE NEGRO IS KILLED
IN FIGHTS: 2 WHITES HURT
Only 50 Gun Toters Found in
Total of 202 Celebrators
Taken by Police.
A compilation of police and hospital
statistics on “the morning after the
night (and day) before" shows that yes
terday was by 50 per cent a “saner”
Christmas than the same day of 1911.
Yesterday there was but one fatality,
as compared with four on Christmas
day, 1911, Wednesday’s tragedy was
the shooting and killing of Robert Hen
derson, a negro, by John Henry Per
kins, another negro, in the Crew street
alley, back of the Atlanta hospital. Per
kins was arrested, and will plead guilty,
claiming self-defense.
The total number of arrests yesterday
was 202, as compared with about 350 in
1911. White persons constituted only
about 25 per cent of this year’s total.
This year’s number of Christmas
drunks fell way short of last year.
Only about 15 per cent of the cases on
docket at police headquarters are
“drunk" charges.
Even the “pistol toters” fell short.
However, about fifty were arrested yes
terday on that charge.
Chief Beavers this morning had
his guests for breakfast 150 men and
women. The remainder of the 202 ar
rested were released on bond.
Fireworks Record
Cut in Half.
According to the police, only about
half as much fireworks was in evidence
yesterday as on the same date last
year. Yet there was too much, as is evi
j denced by the charges on the desk ser
geant’s slate.
A blind tiger transaction between a
negro and a white man yesterday aft
ernoon at Glenn and McDaniel streets
resulted in the serious wounding of the
principal participants and a score of
eut and bruised negroes. Emmett
Howe, a tinsmith of 390 Cooper street,
and Ed Eumlln. a young boilermaker,
were the whites most severely injured.
They were cut about the face, hands
and body, but will recover.
J. K. Minton, of 58 Milledge avenue,
was the chief offender with a toy pis
tol. William Prather, the young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Prather, of 188 Wiley
street, w'as the victim of Minton’s pis
tol. The boy was seriously injured.
Minton and the boy were in Fowler’s
store, on Edgewood avenudl at 1 o’clock
in the afternoon. Some one bf\ught in
a ,38-caliber toy pistol, which was load
ed with a blank cartridge.
Minton, according to his own state
ment, pointed the gun in the boy’s face
and fired. A gaping wound was inflict
ed in his cheek and he was rushed to
the Grady hospital. Toxemia poisoning
is feared.
Emergency Work
For Hospitals.
The hospitals were kept busy all day
answering emergency calls. At the
Grady hospital alone, 23 emergency
cases were brought in by ambulances,
while a large number walked in to have
burned members treated.
As a sort of menu for their breakfast
at police headquarters this mornifig.
Judge Broyles, of the recorder’s court,
had it announced that there would be
no after-Christmas reductions in fines
of offenders of the Christmas peace.
Recorder Broyles issued .the following
“scale” of flnes to be handed out today,
according to then ature and extent of
the offense:
Plain drunk, $5.75.
Drunk, with “trimmings.” $10.75 to
$175.
Shotting fireworks in streets, $1.75 to
$5.75.
Shotting pistols—blanks. $10.75 to
$50.75.
Shotting pistols bullets. $100.75
straight.
Carrying weapons without license,
j held to grand jury under bond in the
I sum of S2OO.
!‘-SANTA CLAUS” KILLED
BY A HEAVY FUR COAT
OTTAWA. ONTARIO. Dec 26.—Alder-
I man James Mackay, manager of one of
the biggest business concerns In Hamll-
i ton Canada, Is dead after playing Santa
Claus at a children’s entertainment at
ISt Joseph church, Hamilton.
I Becoming overheated wearing a large
I fur coat lie took sick suddenly. As he
I reached his home In a cab, tie said: ‘I
1 feel sick and think lam dying. In a
few minutes he was dead.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1912.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
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"Come on, boys, ring your bells hard and look as pleading as possible—maybe Woodrow will do some! king for us afi a while. 1
see that mysterious gink has got him to pose with him for a photograph! Wait till Woodrow gets a swal with thai mallet! Ci!
Oi! Well, of all the nerve! Look at the Common People with a fur overcoat on. while we’re freezjng here! I'll take that away
from him before he’s twenty minutes older! Ah, this is a hard world! Talk about the ’Christmas Spirit’ even poor Joe, our
trained canine, isn’t arousing any sympathy!”
IR THOMAS LIPTON
REJECTED IN PUBLIC
BECAUSE HE’S FICKLE
BOSTON, Dee. 26. —When’ Sir Thom
as Lipton was here recently he set all
Boston laughing by telling a good
natured yarn of how Mayor Fitzgerald
once “stole" the royal launch by mis
take. "Honey Fitz" retorted in kind
by telling the following, which only
adds to the popular yachtsman’s laurels
as a capital humorist:
"Following the banquet to Sir
Thomas at the Copley Plaza. 25 or 30
personal-friends joined us in an Infor
mal chat. Some young girls and some
married women were trying to get Sir
Thomas to commit himself as to the
girls he had met. Finally he said: 'lf you
want to know who Lady Lipton is go
ing to be, she is,right here in this room.
Stand up, Rose.’ speaking to my daugh
ter.
"‘I won’t accept you, Sir Thomas.
You’re too fickle,’ my daughter replied.
"After the laugh iiad subsided, Sir
Thomas remarked: ‘At last I know
how it feels to be rejected.' ”
SPECULATORS GET
CORNER ON TABLES
FOR NEW YEAR EVE
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Ticket specula
tors have obtained a corner on reserva
tions for tables in cases for New Year’s
eve aijd the prices have been trebled.
Managers of downtown cases say they
do not know how the tickets got into
the hands of the scalpers. Inquiry at
almost all of the fashionable loop cases
showed that it was impossible to get
reservations.
In the places where ticket scalpers
flourish, however, signs showed that
tables “in any case" could’ be obtained.
The price asked for reservations for a
table of four is $64. The deposit usual
ly asked by restaurant keepers is $6 for
each person.
ESCAPES APE MEN
FATTENING HIM FOR
FEAST OF CANNIBALS
HAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2»> -Guy I>e-
V’illepion. formerly a teacher at a local
academy who arrived here from the west
coast of South America, today told how
he had been fattened for a feast by can
nibals while attempting to cross from
Ciudad to Buenos Ayres. He escaped
after many adventures and found his way
to Callan.
"They were a strange people.” he said,
"and appeared to be half man and half
ape. I have no doubt that they meant to
eat me. I was mystified by all their kind
ness until I saw that it was all directed
to the one end of getting me fat. Then
I thought I had better leave and I did.”
ADMIRAL DEWEY 75 TODAY.
WASHINGTON, Dec 26.—Admiral
George Dewey celebrated his sevnty
fiith birthday today, spending the major
portion of the day at the home of Mrs
Dewey. • The admiral is in the best of
health
ALL ATLANTA HAS REAL
MERRY CHRISTMAS; ON
ITS GOOD BEHAVIOR. TOO
The man who said December 21 was
the shortest day in the year joined the
Ananias club by acclamation today.
When Atlanta woke up, shuddered and
groped through its respective trousers
for the elusive carfare and found noth
ing but an expired transfer, it knew
that December 26 marks the most ex
aggerated shortness in the calendar.
But we had a high old time, anyway!
Didn’t we? Sure!
Statistics carefully prepared by a
leading actuary today and based on his
observations up to. midnight indicate
that the average male person in Atlanta
celebrated Christmas with the follow
ing ingredients:
Eggnog, 2-3 pint.
Toddies. 12-5.
Tom and Jerry. 3-4 ounce.
Candy. 3-4 pound.
Cake, 11 ounces.
Turkey, 2-3 pound.
Cigars. 2-5 cigar.
Firecrackers, 1-4 package.
A trace each of Jamaica rum, lemon
peel, champagne, liniment, burn oint
ment. apollinaris, medicated gauze and
liver pills.
A sharp advance in demand for head
ache remedies, ice water and short
time loans was observed-early today.
Those Revolving Pavements Again.
The figures show the average, and if
you didn’t get your share of everything
on the list, maybe you made it up on
something else. For instance, the tee
totaler’s non-consumption of eggnog
was balanced by some fellows who
used enough for two. Some experts
took enough to make up for the whole
Anti-Saloon league. There was quite a
deal of complaint last night about the
narrowness of the streets and the dis
advantages <>f revoking pavements, and
a petition to council was contemplated.
But, as the lamented Milton sang, it
is no time for mirth or laughter in the
cold, gray dawn of the morning after
the Twenty-fifth ot December. The
words of'Omar to tho effect that 'twas
the day after Christmas, when all in
the town are busted and grouchy from
batting around, and the coin we have
spent for toys, eats and booze will be
missed when we have to cough up for
new shoes.
This Is the day when one hunts up
his last year's resolutions, patches them
together with the gluepot, and makes up
his mind that all this kind of thing
doesn’t pay and this time next year will
tell a different story.
And the Society for the Prevention of
Useless Giving will find a heavy mail
this week. Everybody is a Spug to
day.
Atlanta Unusually Good.
Atlanta’s Christmas was a fast day
and a revival con pared to some noted
holidays in past years, however. Not a
death from Christinas causes was reg
istered up to midnight, and only one
participant in a too exuberant eeklira
tivti wu» sv badlj carved up that the
undertakers felt.any hopes. Only one
boy reached Grady hospital via the toy
pistol route, and the physicians say the
supply of detached fingers is far below'
the Christinas average.
Even the list of those who had drunk
not wisely, but too frequently, was
shunter than the average on the police
docket, and the cells at the station did
not overflow into the corridors, as in
the past. Almost everybody got home
before the owl cars ran. bearing the
last of the Christinas packages and -the
hardest to untie.
The fact that no sudden eases of in
ternal lead poisoning developed during
the day Is especially remarkable, in
that revolvers appeared to be plentiful.
The police removed 50 of these Christ
mas expressions of good will towaid
men from 150 prisoners hauled up foi
failing to carry their refreshments
quietly, an average of one gun to three
men.
Education Tells on Negro.
Thirty-five of these modern weapons
were extracted from negroes, an indi
cation that the cause of education
among the colored race is relegating
the once favorite razor to the inn. The
50 artillerymen will explain to Judge
Broyles today that they were on the
way to the pawn shop to-pledge their
family heirlooms for the price of a
rocking horse for the babies. Maybe
he’ll believe it—and maybe he won’t.
Expressmen and postoffice employees
feel better than the average man to
day, having had slight' opportunity to
celebrate on their own account The
express wagons were on the jump from
a week before Christmas until after
midnight of Christmas eve, but every
thing tn the office was cleared away
before noon yesterday and delivered at
its destination.
The postoffice workers kept busy with
late packages, but they didn't, have halt
the trouble they’ll find next year when
the parcels post will be working fine
and everything from Shetland ponies t >
pet alligators will travel by mall. Th"
express companies very considerately
persuaded congress to let the parcels
post law go into effect on January 1,
thereby relieving the postoffice work
ers of the Christmas rush this year.
Good Eating For AH.
If any family went without a Christ
mas dinner it was because the head of
it war too proud to accept charity
There were basket dinners and uptown
dinners, good things sent out by Sun
day schools and Individuals, feasts
spread by the Salvation Army, the res
cue mission, Uy half a dozen other or
ganizations.
The Georgian's Empty Stocking fat 1
supplied toys and clothing for 600 chil
dren and the money for a good dipner
and a bushel or two of coal for all'tlie
mothers it could each. Mo<t of the
organizations worked with th. Asso
ciated Charities. and tb< (’li.lpi ■ ■■ at
tribution was mow saiieiy and . is. •
handled than in past *eat»oit<.
INCOME TAX LAW ON
PARTY SCHEDULE FOR
THE EXTRA SESSION
WASHINGTON'. Dec. 26 -Asa result
of Speaker Clark'sx conference with
President-elect Wilson Tuesday it be
came known today that the Democratic
leaders of the house soon will perfect
the plans for the passage of an income
tax law at th< extra session of con
gress which will be called in March or
April Wilson la to, have a conference
in the near future with Oscar L'nder
wood. It Is known that ('lark and Un
derwood are agreed on the plan to set
tle the whole national tax problem as
far as possible, including the passage
of the tariff legislation.
The pwesenl outlook is trial there will
be no anti-trust legislation at the extra
session, but It is believed the leaders
can not esvap- making some attempt to
pass laws for general currency reform
and feupervi ion of Wall Street
Just what Wall Street legislation will
)» undertaken will depend partly on
the report to be made by the trust in
vestigating committee. The progress
this committee Is making strongly im
presses many congressmen and there
will he a demand for the tmjnediate
passage of remedial legislation.
HE COMMITS SUICIDE
RATHER THAN SERVE
SIX YEARS SENTENCE
NASHVILLE, GA.. Dec. 26.—Batey
Gaskins committed suicide here by
shooting himself in the head with a
rifle, rather than serve a six years
penitentiary sentence.
Gaskins came here several months
ago and shot into Albritton’s store.
Judge Bule's office and other places.
He was tried and convict < of assault
with intent to murder and sentenced to
six years In the penitentiary. The cits,
was carried to tin gupp-me court and
sent back to another trial. In the sec
ond trial Gaskins was again convicted,
the jury recommending that hi be pun
ished for a misdemeanor. Judge Thom
as refused to net on th, jury's recom
mendation and again sentenced Gas
kins to six years in tin penitentiary.
The ease was again carried to u . su
preme court end was affirmed.
Gaskins iiad said that In would not
serve th- sentence. Wlur It. b arm d
that the decision of the lower court
had been affirmed he shot himself.
CHANNEL IS SWEPT
BY TERRIFIC GALE;
SHIPS WRECKED
PLYMOUTH. ENG. Dec. 26.—Sev
eral wrecks have been caused by a
terrific gale that is raging in the Eng
lish channel and sweeping vast waves
upon the coasts of France and England.
The Brazilian steamer Govaz, eat l y
ing many passengers and In avy cargo,
went ashon on the Atlantic coast in tin
pl irkness ol ••.cry mol ,mq. Tugs Wet
Immediately dlsp itehed to her aid.
Loti i in tin- foreniior t ,o -ehootior
« <'• driven a.-bore. A ■ 1 ■ffic ,o Halt
ing era/', are aliasing
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ c
BHUNIBYCUTS
TO OUT OF
PRISON TO
LIBERTY
Alleged Burglar and Forger
Obtains Saw Mysteriously
and Wins Freedom.,
“SMOOTHEST PEN ARTIST”
WAS WANTED IN ATLANTA
Alarm Sent Out. But Detectives
Fail to Find a Clew in the
Daring Escape.
MONTGOMERY. ALA.. Dec. 26.-
Benjamin Al. Brumby, alleged burglai
and forger, is celebrating Christmas by
traveling, but he forgot to leave his
itinerary with tin jailer. Brumby re
ceived a nice new saw for his Christ
mas present and just before midnight
he had trimmed the steel bars from a
jail window and made his exit. There
is racing and chasing in several direc
tions today, but Ben Brumby is proba
bly many miles away.
Brumby, black sheep of one of Ma
rietta’s proudest families, was forced to
spend his Christmas day In the Mont
gomery. pail for lack of any/rieud will
ing to put up $5,000 bond for him whlh
his habeas corpus writ was being con
sidered by the supreme court. Air
. Brumby had been Invited to spend the
holidays in Atlanta, to explain why he
had broken into the offices of Smith
1 Hamoiruid * Smith, helped himself to
Mank checks and pen and Ink and
forged the names of Alex W. Smith am:
Theodore Hammond to large-sized
checks, on eof which he cashed.
Brumby Objected
To Coming Here.
But Mr. Brumby preferred celebrat
ing the season in Montgomery, and se
cured a writ of habeas corpus rather
. than return to Georgia with the detee
, live who came to escort him home. Lo
cal authorities placed him in jail while
the justices studied his plea, but Brum
by grew- impatient at the law’s delays
and settled the questions under dispute
by leaving while the discussion of tech-
I nicalities still were under way.
"The smoothest pen artist in Amev
i lea,” is the description given Bruinb?
1 by Pinkerton detectives, who have fol
years regarded him as one of the! l
i chief excuses for being the bank
i ers’ protective business. So clever was
liis imitation of the signature of Mr
< Smith, the Atlanta lawyer, that .Mr
Smith hesitated a long time before sat
ing positivelj the writing was not his
own.
Two charges—burglars and forgery—
were registered in Atlanta against
Brumby, and tile governor of AlabamJ
recognized requisition papers Issued by
Governor Broun of Georgia. Tho bur
. giar.v charg. applied to Brumby’s en-
• trance of' the law office in the Grant
building bs which he secured blank
checks and copies of the lawyers' sig
natures. The forgery charge covered
Brumby's peTf*work and his cashing a
i $592 check drawn against the account
of Alex W. Smith. Brumby did no;
• cash tile Hammond check for sß9.'.
• though he went to an Atlanta bank to
• do so. The paying teller recognized
' ■ him as having ligui'ed in a forgery eus:
1 some years ago, and asked that In wait
' a moment. Brumbj did not wait, lit
1 dl-.ii mid nent to Montgomery
• whole he was arrfested several da-y-
• later while plating pool. He is eonsid-
• eii-d one of the Lest amateur pool play-
• ers in the country and has play.-
■ matches with all the champions of re-
• eent years.
j Received As War
t Hero In Marietta.
>1 The entrance of the Atlanta offlees
I | took place on the night of December
t I il. and the Smith check was cashed a
day or two later. When Brumby was
arrested in Montgomery by a detective
of tip Atlanta Pinkerton agency. De
tective Hollingsworth, of the Atlanta
city force, came to take him back to
k l Georgia and was balked by the writ ot
habeas corpus.
Benjamin Brumby is a scion of a
"inoted famii.t In Marietta. I’rom boy
-1 j hood in was considered the "black
■ | sheep" of the family, and he drifted
away from ("obb county and went East.
■ His last appearance in Marietta oC-
■ curred shortly after’the'Spanish-Atner-
'• iean war, when Lieutenant Brumby.
' flag lieutenant of Admiral Dewey's ship
' was given a reception at ills home city.
Hen Brumby, his &pu»ln. was among
- the guests. H* disappeared shortly aft-
- i ward nd hie m.u been seen al hoim