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the weather Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Cloudy, wit' l local rains today; in reusing cloudiness tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 123. uiimm ■EISEII MS P 0« 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. r— 1 f/s /j//A ’ , • ' > „ sex: 1 ■ aigw will WUHHEHB" , u ■ *■ Jr I i \vk'\ \ lOi!w''i/ 1 V A. .. i ® A 3 ‘ a A'" < "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