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ROCKEFELLER
MANSION
Congressional Officer Bound to
Summon Oil King’s Brother '
to Pujo Inquiry.
v'EW YORK, Dec. 31.—A small army
of detectives under Sergeant-at-Arms
Charles F. Riddell, of the national house
of representatives, and his assistant,
Richard White, guarded the town and
country homes of William Rockefeller
today in an endeavor to serve Mr.
Rockefeller with a subpena to testify
before the Pujo money trust investigat
ing committee in Washington.
At Mr. Rockefeller’s town house at
SS9 Fifth avenue the detectives divided
their activities by watching the adjoin
ing mansions. The houses flanking the
Rockefeller mansion on both sides are
occupied by sons-ln-law of the oil mag
nate and the three are known to be
connected by secret passageways.
A report was current in the morning
that the much wanted witness was
safely secluded upon his great country
estate at Tarrytown, but detectives on
guard there reported that Rockefeller
had not been seen.
“Rockefeller vs. Nation.”
“It is now a question," said Mr. Rid
dell. “whether Mr. Rockefeller is a big
ger man than the United States. It
seems to me that it should not be pos
sible for one man to set the government
nf this great republic at defiance. More
over. if Mr. Rockefeller eventually es
capes service the power and authority
■f the national house of representatives
will fall into disrepute and it will be
difficult for us to get service on any
one in the future.’ 1
The detectives and deputy sergeant
at-arms about the Rockefeller town
house were placed at intervals of 100
feet and were divided into squads. Each
man carried a duplicate of the sub
nene.
In addition to putting guards about
the Rockefeller and adjoining resi
dences, Mr. Riddell stationed three
men in the courtyards of the St. Regis
hotel, which commands a rear view of
the Rockefteller home.
"WUI Be Caught Soon.”
“I have over twenty men with me
alone, and I think we ought to get Mr.
Rockefeller very soon," he said. "But If
need be I can get twenty thousand here
at a moment’s notice. If twenty thou
sand are not enough, I can call out the
entire standing army of the United
States. And we will get Mr. Rockefel
ler, even if we do have to call out the
army. Our man is not going to beat
the government just because he is a
multi-millionaire. We have orders to
serve Mr. Rockefeller, and we are going
to have him within 36 hours. But it is
a serious matter. It is no Joke.”
No siege of a rockbound castle ever
arried more of a thrill with It than
rhe beleaguering of “Castle” Rockefel
ler, Every’ time any one attempts to
leave or enter the mansion, detectives
and deputy sergeants-at-arms dash up
in a body, waiving subpenas In their
hands. There was talk of setting up
tents in the streets around the house
und establishing a regular bivouac, but
this suggestion was treated lightly,
“U. S. AGAINST 136
CASES CHEESE” IS
TITLE OF THIS SUIT
The United States Government Against
136 Cases of Cheese’ ’ is the title of a ease
entered by F. C. Tate, United States dis
trict attorney. In the Federal court this
morning. A writ of seizure was procured,
authorizing the government officials to
condemn 136 cases of cheese at Athens,
unsigned to a merchant of that city by
Crosby & Meyers, of Nashville. Tenn.
A violation of the government regula
tions through misbranding is alleged, the
pectflcatlon being that the cases are
under weight. Condemnation of the goods
and probable criminal proceedings against
the consignor firm will ensue.
BOY ASKS SIO,OOO FOR
HURTS FROM HOT METAL
Asserting that he was crippled for life
when two employees of the Atlanta Util
ity Company overturned a ladle of molten
metal on his leg, Willie J. Bannister, aged
fifteen, brought suit for 310,000 damages
in superior court today. The suit was
instituted by W. J. Bannister, father of
the boy, acting as his best friend.
“Turn Over
A New Leaf”
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care of the Stomach, Liver and
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well. Make the appetite keen,
digestion perfect and Liver ac
tive by the daily use of
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Bitters
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BLIND TIGER KINS
FLEES CfOE
Dan Shaw Walks Away in
Double Shackles and Wear
ing Prison Garb.
’ King" Dan Shaw —“king" because of
his well established superiority among
all other convicted "blind tiger” oper
ators in Atlanta—escaped from the city
and a series of sentences by walking
away from stockade officers today.
"King Dan.” with a half dozen other
prisoners, was taken to the blacksmith
shop of the city construction depart
ment on (’alb street, near Grant park.
During the morning he was missed, and
still is missing.
Shaw worked in double shackles and
prison clothes, both of which he wore
wheruhe escaped. -According to officers
in charge of the construction shop, he
walked out with a wheelbarrow to go to
the coal pile. That was the last seen of
him.
Shaw was serving time for unlaw
fully selling liquor. He completed a 30-
day sentence December 26 and imme
diately started on another like sen
tence.
At the completion of the latter he was
to have begun serving a third sentence
of 30 days at the station house. After
that his fate was to be decided by the.
United States supreme court, before
which one of his many cases now is
pending.
Shaw is well known to city and coun
ty police. All of these were notified of
his escape, and it is believed he will not
go free long.
MAN TRAPPED ON BRIDGE
IS CRUSHED BY TRAIN
CHICAGO, Dec. 31. —A man about fifty
years old, unidentified, was killed by a
through train on the Chicago, Aurora and
Elgin railway, when the victim was
trapped on the bridge crossing the Des
plaines river at Waldheim cemetery, be
tween Forest Park and Maywood He
stepped from in front of an east bound
train and was struck by a westbound
train. A watch and 70 cents tn change
was found on the body. No marks of
identification were found.
WOMAN WRAPPED IN A
SHEET FREED BY COURT
CHICAGO, Dec. 31. —Mrs. Marie Waller,
living at 6041 Bishop street, was ar
raigned before Municipal .lodge Courtney,
on complaint of Robert Nicol, who said
she had gone about wrapped in a sheet
and frightened his seven-year-old daugh
ter. Elizabeth, “nearh out of her wits."
Her defense that she was “trying to
amuse ’he children" won her freedom.
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iLTE ATLANTaJgEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1912.
BY PARCELS POST
ATLANTA HAS "SPRING MAID."
Generally one popular song hit Is con
sidered sufficient to satisfy the producer
of a musical play. This being true, Werba
& Luescher, who are presenting Mlzzi
Hajos in her second season as dainty
Princess Bozena in “The Spring Maid,”
which comes to the Atlanta today, with
matinee Wednesday and night, should be
more than satisfied, as this operetta has
nearly a dozen decided hits and at least
four that everybody remembers. These
are the waltz number “Day Dreams,” the
romantic duet, "Two Little Love Bees,”
the two-step called "Fountain Fay,” and
"How I Love a Pretty Face" waltz.
Many New Year parties will be given at
the Atlanta.
"EVERYWOMAN” IS BOOKED.
The dramatic spectacle. "Everywoman,"
in many ways the most-talked-about play
of recent years. Is to be offered at the At
lanta theater three nights beginning on
Thursday, January 2, with Saturday matt
nee. This unique production Is a sort of
nondescript in the matter of classification.
It partakes of the nature of drama, opera
and spectacle, and yet in reality it is not
defined as one or the other.
The work is on a vast scale and the
preparation for the production engaged
the. various departments of the Savage
producing offices for nearly a year.
Seats are now selling for the engage
ment.
GRAND BILL MAKES HIT.
“The Venetian Four” made the big hit
in the Grand vaudeville bill last night.
Three are violinists and one a player on
the harp. Their musical offering is given
on a beautifully set stage, representing a
night scene in Venice.
Grant and Hoag, in a comedy sketch
called “The Troublesome Trunk,” came
second in the recommendation of the crit
ical Monday night audience. They have a
clever sketch, the man especially being
• very' good, while the young woman is
handsome and wears charming gowns,
causing her partner to announce in an
aside thjjt "this act loses a lot of money
on fine dresses.”
“The Antique Girl” is a musical com
edy, presented by quite a large company.
The honors of the cast are grabbed by
George M. George, as Jonathan Pinney,
proprietor of the antique shop, which is
the scene of the play. The other princi
pals are good and the music and dancing
make up an amusing half hour.
The Four Florlmonds give a good lad
der act. similar to that of the Englishman
who made a big hit. here recently, yet
with a difference. They confine their act
to various clever tricks on the ladders,
doing much more of this than the
Englishman, though lacking his “line of
talk.”
The week’s bill is completed with Gere
and DeLaney, in a picturesque roller
skating novelty; Frank Mullane and a
"singing comedy,” by J. K. Murray. Clara
Lane and J. S. Murray.
WALTER JONES GETS OVATION.
“Baby Mine” received a greeting last
night at the ■Lyric accorded but few
shows In a season.
And "Baby Mine” deserved It, too.
Everybody being more or less familiar
with the story of the farce, it is not nec
essary to recount it. But with the pres
ent company lies the real value of the
entertainment. Thu rankest barnstorm
ers could get fun a-plenty out of the lines
an<l situations, but In the hands of the
AT THE PLAYHOUSES
present cast it Is simply a scream—a
young riot.
Walter Jones, who created the part of
Jimmy several seasons ago. is the ring
leader of the fun, and he is backed up
handsomely by Miss Marjorie Cortland as
Zoie Hardy, the pseudo-mother, and Miss
Vera Rail, as Jimmy's wife.
Beneath all the fun there Is the pretty
love story of the wife who is only a
child, and whose heart centers in her love
for her husband —a veriest butterfly, and
just as thoughtless. As a farce, "Baby
Mine” is as good as a comedy, and as a
comedy It is as uproarious as a farce.
And at the popular Lyric prices it
sounds untrue, but suffice it to say that
no high price show visiting Atlanta this
season will be any better.
Last night’s audience gave both Miss
Cortland and Mr. Jones distinct ovations
and rendered due homage to the rest of
the cast—as it should.
Here all week nightly, and matinees to
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Satur
day.
See it—and if you have, see it again.
CYNTHIA PEROT IS ZO ZO.
Cynthia Perot, a Titian. Parisian
blonde, will be the dashing Zo Zo, who
leads the Maxim Girls in their mad
frolic in the final act of "The Merry
Widow.’ The new and lavish production
of the famous Lehar operetta will be of
fered by Henry W. Savage at the At
lanta theater Monday, .Januarv 20.
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Every package is guaranteed. For
sale by all druggists or by mail, 25c,
stamps or coin.
Exelento Medicine Company
ATLANTA, GA.
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I Florida Oranges . 12c doz. I
'1 English Walnuts . . 9c lb. ||
I Black Walnut Meats 9c lb I
I Chalmers’Gelatine, pkg. 8c I
15c Pkg. Seeded Raisins 7jc I
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DELAY 2 PARCELS
POST FEATU RES
“C. 0. D.” and Special Deliv
ery Won’t Be Tried Till Sys
tem Is Working Smoothly.
Equipment for the parcels post serv
ice in Atlanta, including stamps of the
'aggregate value of about 3100,000. maps,
scales and Insurance tags, came to
Postmaster H. L. McKee this morning,
dispatched from the postoffice depart
ment at Washington. With the arrival
of this matter, preparation in every de
tail has been completed for handling
the fourth-class mail matter under the
new’ system.
There came also an order from Post
master General Hitchcock, which an
nounced the fact that because of the
untried condition of the new system,
the C. O. D. feature of the parcels post
will not be put in operation immedi
ately. It said:
“The C. O. D. feature will not be
placed in effect until the department
has opportunity to determine the best
system after observing the operation of
the service.”
Also, in regard to the special deliv
ery feature of the original law, the or
der announced a delay, saying:
“tin account of the increase of weight
and size of the fourth-class matter to
be accepted for mailing under the par
cels post flaw, the department has not
considered it wise to begin special de
livery service of this class of matter
when the law goes into effect January
1. The advisability of providing spe
cial delivery for such mail can be more
readily determined after the parcels
post is in full operation.”
The arrangement for insurance of the
parcels is settled, however, and will go
into immediate operation. Upon pay
ment of a fee of ten cents, announces
Postmaster McKee, the delivery of the
package is insured. Insurance tags
will be placed on sale with the stamps.
At each of the four windows in the
Atlanta postoffice, parcels post stamps
are obtainable.
The delay in the complete operation
of the law is due to the spirit of ex
periment which is attached to the new
system, in stations high and low. The
final arrangement by which the traffic
will be handled is to be determined by
developments and exigencies in Atlanta
as well as In Washington.
MONEY TO BUY LAND
NEAR RESERVOIRS TO
BE REAPPROPRIATED
While Mayor Winn has vetoed the
resolution of council appropriating $16,-
000 of premium bond money to pur
chase the private land which borders
the city water reservoirs, members of
the water board and the bond commis
sion today prepared to introduce an or
dinance at the next meeting of council
making the money available..
Mayor Winn said he thought the
money should be used to purchase the
land, especially since the health offi
cers had condemned it as in an insani
tary condition: but he said he was
forced to veto the resolution because it
was passed without the bond ordinance,
which provided that the money be spent
for other purposes, being repealed. The
new ordinance will amend the bond
ordinance, legalizing the expenditure.
Chamberlin=Johnson=Dußose Co.,
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS
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We Will Back Our Good Wishes With
Good Deeds All Through the Year
The good wishes that we extend the people of Atlanta
for the New Year are as sincere as man can make them.
They arise from a sense of gratitude. But still it is not
so much our good wishes that we would impress upon you
now.
It is fitting and proper that we should, as we enter an
other year, call to mind and renew our pledge of service.
We pledge ourselves, insofar as it lies within our power,
to the cause of making 1913 a year of prosperity—from Jan
uary Ist to December 31st. Whatever good we can do to
morrow we shall do.
Whatever good we can do any day during the coming
year we shall do—just as the opportunity arises—when the
good wishes of today, however sincere, are forgotten.
We will make mistakes, we know—but they will be mis
takes of accident, not of substance, for the very good reason
that the firm principle of fairness shall abide in this store
and guide our actions during 1913 as it has during every year
since its foundation in 1866.
Chamberlin=Johnson=Dußose Company
PRESIDENT IS BACK AT
WHITE HOUSE FOR BIG
NEW YEAR RECEPTION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Bronzed
by his week in the tropical sun and
enthusiastic over the future of the
Panama canal which practically will
be completed during his administra
tion, President Taft returned here at 10
o’clock today, thus ending his long
trip. The president, accompanied by
Mrs. Taft, Charlie Taft. Mr. and Mrs.
C. P. Taft and their daughter, Miss
Louise Taft; Assistant Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop,
Secretary to the President and Mrs. C.
D. Hilles, Lieutenant Commander Tim
mons and Major T. L. Rhoades, left
Washington on December 19 for the
Panama trip.
Immediately upon reaching Union
Station today the president, Mrs. Taft,
Charles Taft, Colonel and Mrs. George
W. Goethals, who accompanied the
party back from Panama, and the pres
ident's aids motored to the white
where they prepared for the strenuous
duties coincident with tomorrow’s re
ceptions. The president's program for
today Included the signing of a large
amount of mail and attending to a
number of routine duties which had
accumulated in his absence. Tomor
row will be devoted to the New Year
calls and receptions.
The president will leave probably at
midnight for New York to attend the
Whitelaw Reid funeral services and a
dinner at the Waldorf on Sunday.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Frank Pierce Anderson.
The body of Frank Pierce Anderson,
the Western and .Atlantic fireman who
died at a local sanitarium Saturday, was
taken to McDonough this morning for
funeral and Interment. T. 11. Harrison,
of Nashville, known as the ’‘engineer
preacher,” and who formerly worked with
Anderson, will preach the funeral. An
derson was 58 years old, and lived at 93
West Cain street. He Is survived by his
wife, a son, a brother and five sisters.
Burt C. Livingston, Jr.
The funeral of Burt C. Livingston. Jr.,
two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Livingston, who died at the residence at
Carey Station yesterday morning, will be
held today, and Interment will bo in Hol
lywood cemetery.
Mrs. Lewis Brown.
Krom the College Park Baptist church
this afternoon at 2 o’clock, was conducted
the funeral of Mrs. Lewis Brown, aged 74,
who diet! al the residence in College Park
Sunday night. The deceased is survived
by her husband and five children: O. A.
Brown, Mrs. Henry K French, Mrs. E.
W. Dee, Mrs. W. J. Creel and Miss E.
Brown. The interment will be In the
College Park cemetery.
Mrs. Louis Sharpe.
The funeral of Mrs. Louis Sharpe, who
died last week hi Nashville, was held this
morning at 10 o'clock from Patterson's
chapel, interment following in Westview
cemetery. Rev. G. L. Hanscom officiated.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Foster.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Foster, 27 years
of age, died at the residence, 366 Capi
tol avenue, early this morning. The fu
neral will be held from the home tomor
row at 12:30 p. m., and the body will be
sent to Selma, Ala., for Interment. Rev.
C. T. A. Pise, rector of St. Philips Cathe
dral, will conduct the services. The de
ceased is survived by her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Foster; a
sister, Mrs. J. C. Rennie, of Selma, and
a brother, George F. Foster, of Atlanta.
WILD CARS WRECK ENGINE.
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 91.—Throe
loaded freight cars and a caboose es
caped from a switch engine here today,
dashed down an incline half a mile and
collided with a through freight engine,
demolishing it. Fireman Evans was
slightly injured.
CHAMBER ASKS
SMOKEREPOBT
Committee of Trade Body De
termined to See War on
Nuisance to End. , ,
An accounting will be asked of the
Atlanta smoke board by the smoke re
vision committee of the Chamber of
Commerce. The number of plants in 1
which means of eliminating the smoke
nuisance are enforced: the number of
prospective applications of the law, and
the policy of the board toward every,
form of establishment are points on
which information is desired by the
chamber.
The attitude of the board toward en
forcing the law in manufacturing
plants, office buildings, hotels and
apartment houses and the relative de
gree of importance attached to observ
ance of the law by each of these will
be ascertained.
The chamber’s smoke revision com
mittee, at a meting yesterday after
noon. announced its intention of see
ing the campaign for smoke elimination
to the end. The chairman, J. M. Van-
Harlingen. himself a member of the
city smoke board, was requested to ask
for a report of work done and in pros
pect for the future. The report will be
made pnblic when received.
BABY CRIED ALL THE
TIME WITH!ECZEMA
Would Nearly Tear Himself to Pieces.
Dark Hard Crust. Water Oozed
From It. Cuticura Soap and Cirti
cura Ointment Cured.
topper Hill. Va. —"My was two
years and six month* old when Ma troaMo.
eczema, first became notlceaHe. The ecup
tlon looked aonwewn*
like poison oak wtam it
ttrrt broke out and would
Itch and bum so badly
that be teouM nearly
tear himself to ptaoeg.
It would braek out tn
red bUtoer* on some
''parts of Ms body. Where
hb clotting catue In eon
tact wHh it. it wonM
form a dark bard crest and wator would ooze
from it nearly all she Hn». It <w nailed the
woret tr*m of eraema. After about fbnr
m.mths It spread over ttie entire body. To
nay -be suffered most terribly wonM <n>ty be
putting tt mildly. Hte was trimpty unbearable
suffering. He would ery all the Mme and I
did not see hardly a minute's reel wttti Mm
for irix month*.
” Hi* ankles and back Juet over the kid
ney* were the worst of alt. sbto bin hands and
feet were very bad. Hl* ankle* were a per
fect raw »ore JiHt terrible to look a*. Then I
reed of tHibcura Soap and OhitnsaA and
sent for a sample. They seemed to ease
more than anythin* I bad used, eo I bought
some more and used them. Outteura Soap
nod Ointment c’trcd tom oomptetely.'’
Signed! Mrs. G. K. Hain, Apr. IT, IMS.
Ontlcwa Soap 85n and Cuttoora Ointment
50c. are sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed fbeo. with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad
dress post-card "Ouslewa. Dept. T. Boston "
WTonder-faCT'd men shonM use Outfcura
Soap Shaving Stick. 25c. Sample free.
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