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D K. J. O. SEAMAN, cap-
lain of Yaraab Patrol,
which will go to Dallas to try
and win the Shriners’ conven
tion for Atlanta.
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PONIES AND CARTS
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BOYS AND GIRLS
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ATLANTA, (JA., SUNDAY, 'APRIL 27, 1913.
MAIN SHEET-Part IL
ALL THE LATEST NEWS.
Dukes Lease Dorchester House
f 2.
Atlantan Is In London Society
OFJLLMTIlTotoccokmteWifeFavoSe
Sunday American and Georgian
Give Away Costly Prizes to
Many Young Worker.
Mrs. .Tames B. Duke, formrly Mrs. William Inman, of At
lanta, and Dorchester House, in which she will entertain this
London season.
FREE THEATER SEATS, TOO
Coupons in Paper Will Entitle
You to Seats—Ponies and
Carts in Voting Flan.
Boy.' and Kiris, would you like to
have a Shetland pony all your own?
Would you like to have a strong,
beautifully finished cart and harness
for the pony?
Of course you would.
Well, here’s your chance. Th6
Sunday American ahd The Georgian
will give ponies and carts free to
many of the boys and girls of At
lanta. Everyone has an even chance
—that is, everyone who starts at once.
Those who start later will be handi
capped, of course, but not with an
insurmountable handicap.
Who enjoys the theater? Don’t all
speak at once.
Everyone enjoys seeing a good play,
nnd all summer there are going to be
i'ood plays at the Atlanta Theater,
where Miss Billy Long is heading a
stock company than which none bet
ter ever was seen here.
Readers to Gain Seats.
The Sunday American and Georgian
have made arrangements with the
management of the Atlanta Theater
whereby thousands of the readers of
these newspapers will be given free
seats to the best plays.
We couldn’t give ponies and carts
to all our readers. So we have ar
ranged a contest which will decide
who gets these costly and attractive
prizes.
But we can see that thousands of
our readers get good reserved seats
at the play. So there’s no contest for
the tickets.
It’s the easiest thing you ever heard
of to get them.
Thursday of this week, a coupon
will be printed in the Georgian. An
other will appear Friday, another Sat
urday, and the fourth on Sunday in
The American. Cut out these cou
pons; mail them to our office with a
stamped and self-addressed envelope,
and you will receive by return mail
reserved seat ticket for the Atlanta
Theater—one of the best in the house.
Great Plays on List.
Who wouldn’t be glad to see “The
Deep Purple,” “Get Rich Quick Wall
ingford,” “Alias Jimmy Valentine,”
“Arizona,” “Paid in Full,” “The ‘Mind
the Paint’ Girl” and other plays which
have made a sensation in New York,
and which, many of them, will be
presented for the first time in Atlanta
by the company which Miss Billy
Long heads?
Already several thousand Atlantans
have seen Miss Billy Long in “Wild
fire,” the play which Lillian Runseil
made famous. The verdict is unani
mous that Miss Billy Long is a fin
ished actress, charming, dainty and
talented. The supporting company is
entirely competent. Each perform
ance has demonstrated that Atlanta Is
to have the privilege this summer of
seeing the best plays, produced by a
well balanced and thoroughly de
lightful company. •
So save the four coupons; mail
th’em in, and get a seat. Perhaps you
will want to take someone with you.
In this case, send us two sets of cou
pons.
Probably you’ll be going to the At-
'.anta Theater anyway, when you hear
just how good the stock company is,
and here is your chance to save
money, while not foregoing the pleas
ure you need as a relief from busi
ness cares or household worries.
But to return to the ponies—all
harnessed and hitched to pretty carts.
Ponies for the Children.
Thene are to be the very best little
Shetland ponies that money can buy—
fine, intelligent, gentle little animals—
the kind that, love you faithfully as
any collie you ever owned.
Within a few days the ponies will
be here for your inspection.
You may be assured The Georgian
and The American are not going to
disappoint you—we couldn’t afford it.
We have thousands upon thousands
of friends, but we want more. And
the friendship of the bovs and girls
who will be readers years from now
when the grown-ups are gone is more
important to us, perhaps, than the
friendship of the mothers and fathers
who are readers now.
Someone told us that there was no
better way to make a friend of a boy
or a girl than to present him or her
with a pony and cart. It sounds as if
It ought to be true. We’re going to
try it.
We said “give,” and we mean it.
No Chance in Contest.
There’s to be no lottery. There’s
game of chance involved. No
money is needed.
B is to be a voting contest, a sim
ple contest, the rules of which we can
explain to you in a very few minutes,
you will drop in and talk it over.
On another page you will find a
nomination coupon, which entitles you
to enter the name of some boy or girl,
and gives the candidate a start of
L000 votes. All the nominees are to
call and see us, and receive the simple
mstructions. The rest is simply a
matter of skill and determination.
•Nothing could be fairer.
Boys and girls, don’t vou want a
pony?
’frown-ups, may we not present you
a seat at the Atlanta Theater?
Gainesville Women in Telegram
Insist on Her Retention as
Postmaster.
END TEN DAYS’ CAMPAIGN
95 Per Cent of Hall County Peo
ple Stand Behind Her, Is
Friends’ Assertion.
GAINESVILLE, GA.. April 26.—
Vv T omen of Gainesville, who have for
ten days been campaigning Hall
County in the interest of Mrs. Helen
Longstreet, widow of the Confederate
General, went direct to President
Wilson to-day in their fight to have
her retained as postmaster at Gaines
ville.
A 700-word telegram telling of the
campaign was dispatched to the Chief
Executive.
Women in autos and buggies have
gone into every corner of the county,
talking to farmers in the fields and
their wives in the homes. It is said
95 per cent of the county's popula
Former Mrs. William
Extensively
Inman Will Entertain
in England.
Atlanta friends, who have recently
visited Mrs. James B. Duke, of New
York, bring delightful news of her
plans for the reason in London. The
Dukes, who sailed a few days ago
on the “Mauretania,” will occupy the
Whitelaw Reid residence, Dorchester
House, for this season, which is their
second in London society. Last year,
Mrs. Duke was one of the most ad
mired of the American hostesses in
London, and her social success is as
sured.
She is a former Atlantan, having
been Mrs. William Inman, famous
throughout the South for her social
graces and her unusual beauty. She
is a member of the Holt family, a
leading one of Georgia, and before
her first marriage, as Nannaline Holt,
was one of Macon’s belles. Last sea.
son, the beautiful Southern woman
entertained in a small way in London,
but this year she has planned more
elaborate entertaining at Dorches
ter House, thus returning the flatter
ing attentions from the highest so
ciety of London, which were shown
her during her first season.
Mrs. Duke hap all the attributes to
make her a notable London hostess,
youth, beauty, and wealth. Her hus
band is a member of the Duke family
of tobacco millionaires. They have
a magnificent estate near New York,
the hospitalities of which many At
lanta friends have enjoyed. The
Dukes also entertain at their town
house, though Mrs. Duke is more fond
of the English metropolis, from a so
cial standpoint, than of New York.
Mrs. John Grant, on her recent visit,
was entertained at dinner by Mr.
and Mrs. Duke, and Mrs. Hugh Wil-
let was a recent Atlanta guest of the
Dukes.
Miss Mary Duke, reputed to be the
wealthiest unmarried girl in the
United States, is a member of the
Duke family, well known in Atlanta.
She visited here a few spawns ago,
and was extensively entertained. Her
hosiess was Miss Mary Thomas, now
Mrs. Pratt Adams, of Savannah.
tion is for the retention of Mrs.
Longstreet.
The Memorial Day message reads:
We are addressing you on a
day when the South decorates
the graves of those who fought
and fell in her defense. This
patriotic day marks the comple-,
tion of a canvass of Hall Coun
ty, personally conducted by the
women of this city and extend
ing over a period of ten days in
the interest of the reappointment
of Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet as
postmaster.
In this canvass we journeyed
over the county in automobiles
and carriages and old and young
have participated with equal en
thusiasm. The most influential
of our sex have been into every
nook and corner of Hall County.
We visited the homes of the far
mers, talked with their wives
and children and went‘out into
the fields where the men were
plowing.
95 Per Cent Behind Her.
We find that 95 per cent of the
patrons of the office are as loyal
First General Assembly Since
1904 Not Divided Into Smith-
Brown Factions.
MUCH WORK IS AHEAD
Continued Page 2, Column 5, This
Section.
Legislators Should Work Witih
Governor-elect Slaton in
Perfect Harmony.
On Wednesday, June 25, there will
assemble In Atlanta the first non-
factional Legislature since the one
of 1904.
Beginning with the.General Assem
bly of 1906-08, and continuing on
down through that of 1910-12, the
various Georgia Legislatures elected
have been either pro-Brown or pro-
Smith, and much of their activities,
perhaps the greater part, have been
fashioned along factional lines and
designed to secure factional advan
tage. •
The new Legislature, elected at the
same time John M. Slaton was named
governor, is largely composed of new
men, members-eleet who belong par
ticularly to no faction in Georgia,
and who are presumably free from
acute partisan bias or inclination.
Governor Brown and former Gov
ernor Smith have each served one
full term in the Executive, office and
a fraction of another. Governor
Brown has almost two entire terms
to his credit; Governor Smith has
one entire term and one-fourth of
another.
Gubernatorial honors, therefor?,
seem to be about even between
Joseph M. Brown and Hoke Smith.
Such further rivalry as may crop out
between them likely will develop* if
at all, in the brocader field of national
politics. And with that the Georgia
Legislatures of the future will not be
directly concerned.
There will be forty members of
the last House of Representatives in
the next, which is not much over
twenty per cent of the House mem
bership. This is a remarkably low-
proportion of old membership to
“come back.” It means, indeed, prac
tically a new and inexperienced
House, which will not be aggressive
ly concerned with the partisan man
euvers of past Houses.
A dozen or so old House members
have been returned to the Senate,
but that branch of the Legislature
also is to be made *up in its heavy
majority aspect of new material. And
it, like the House, will not incline to
sit up nights thinking how it may put
either the Brownites or the Smith-
ites “in a hole.”
Optimistic Circumstances.
Intelligent observers of things po
litical In Georgia are viewing these
circumstances with optimistic eye.
They see in the non-factional make
up of the incoming General Assem
bly great promise of much effective
and business-like legislation, isadly
needed, and best to be designed
through methods and influences as
far removed from partisan feeling
and prejudice as possible.
When John M. Slaton was named
governor, lie was accepted generally
as standing between the ancient Brown
and Smith factions, and appealing
impartially to each for support, but
to neither s a faction in politics.
Taking their cue from the gover-
r.or-to-be, Legislative candidates, all
the way along, announced themselves
for membership in the General As
sembly pretty much upon the same
sort of platform.
The consequence was the election
of a Legislature predisposed, theore
tically, anyway, and no doubt cer
tainly, to take its working “tip” from
the Governor, and to strive willingly
to help carry through his legislative
program.
As illustrative of how nicely the
incoming Legislature likely will be
balanced, it now looks as if Wil
liam H. Burwell, of Hancock ,County,
will be Speaker of the House, and
either John Allen, of Baldwin, or
Randolph Anderson, of Chatham,
President of the Senate.
Representative Burwell in the past
has been affiliated more with the
Hoke Smith faction in Georgia poli
tics than otherwise, and both
Senator Allen and Senator Anderson
have been affiliated with the Brown
faction.
The prospect ahead is, therefore,
Continued on Page 2, Column 4, This
Section.
Kansas Speculator
Once Owned Town;
Living in Poverty
J. Fogel Still Optimistic and Plays
Piano to Keep Up
Courage.
WEIR, KANS., April 26.—Neglected
and alone, with old friends dead and
the last of his relatives gone, the
one-time owner of the city of Weir,
J. Fogel, is spending the last years
of his life In a little room in a small
hoteP here In poverty.
Fogel once w-as a millionaire and
owned practically all of this town in
its pioneer days. He lost his fortune
but won part of it back several years
later. Adverse fortune pursued him.
however, until but a few hundred
dollars of his great w r ealth of early
clays was left. This lie invested in a
small brick plant south of town last
year, which soon closed.
Despite his misfortune he continues
to be optimistic, and plays the piano
continuously for hours, as he says,
“to keep up his courage.” He is past
seventy.
Harris Appointment
Is Delayed Once More
Republicans Disposed to Hold Up
Confirmation of Georgian as
Director of National Census.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Action
on the appointment of William J.
Harris, qf Georgia, for director of the
census has again been postponed. The
Census Committee was scheduled to
meet to-day to consider his name,
which was sent to the Senate by the
President several days ago, but a
quorum could not be obtained and Un-
meeting adjourned to ipeet again on
Monday. The Republicans are by no
means disposed to let President Wil
son’s appointments go through easily,
and there is no assurance that Harris
will be confirmed without a fight.
in the executive session of the Sen
ate yesterday the Republicans held up
about -forty postmasters’ appoint
ments. They were mostly in cases
where President Taft, in the regular
course Qf » xpiratlon*, had made ap
pointments which the Democrats, for
political reasons, held up
Grad of 1861 Speaks
To Mercer Alumni
Annual Meeting Will Be Held in
Chapel at Macon in Month
of June.
MACON, GA., April 26.—The Mer
cer Alumni Association will hold an
annual meeting at the college chapel
June 3, when three addresses will be
made as special features. Dr. R. H.
Harris, of Cairo, class of 1861, will
make an address on “The Memories
of the Pust.”
A. W. Evans, of Sandersville, will
make an address on the "Inventory
of the Present.’’ Mr. Evans is a well-
known man here and his talk is sure
to be a feature.
Judge W. H. Felton, of Macon, will
be the third speaker and will deliver
an address on “The Call of the Fu
ture.”
Judge Miller Sent
To South America
Former Law Partner of Senator Ba
con Made Umpire in Ecuadorean
Railroad Dispute.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Judge
A. L. Miller, of Macon, Ga., former
law partner of Senator Bacon, has
been agreed upon as umpire in the
dispute between the Government of
Ecuador and the Guyaquil and Quito
Railroad, to succeed Henry Janes,
recently recalled.
Judge Miller was recommended to
Secretary of State Bryan by Senator
Bacon and Senator Hoke Smith. Sec
retary Bryan then submitted his
name to the conflicting parties, and
they accepted him without delay.
Judge Miller will leave for Ecua
dor soon and probably will remain
there about five months. His fee,
which will be paid Jointly by the
government and the railroad, will
amount to $1,500 or $2,000 a month,
his total compensation to be about
$10,000.
TATNALL MAN ANNOUNCES
FOR ATLANTA JUDGESHIP
SAVANNAH, GA., April 26.—A. S.
Way, of Reidsville, Tatnall County,
who was one of the speakers to-day
at the annual celebration of the Mid
way Society in Liberty County, an
nounced his candidacy for judge of
the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, to suc
ceed the incumbent, Judge Sheppard,
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Optimistic Wearers of Fez in This
City Ready to Sweep Away All
Opposition That May Appear at
the Convention in Dallas, Tex.
Atlanta Shriners yesterday de
clared themselves settled In the con
viction that Atlanta’s bid for the 1914
national convention of Shriners will
be successful. Their optimism Is in
vincible.
“Everything is working out to help
us,” said J. C. Greenfield, Masonic
secretary and a member of the execu
tive committee of Yarab Shrine.
Even train schedules help, Atlanta
Shriners have found. En route to
Dallas next month thousands of
Shriners from the East will pass
through Atlanta, many of them trav
eling leisurely. One of the latest
plans Is to meet and entertain those
of the Dallas-bound pilgrims who can
stop long in Atlanta, and to h*t them
see what the city has to offer.
Many of the delegates already are
on their way to the convention In
Dallas, Mr. Greenfield explained yes
terday. The time of the meeting is
May 14, but hundreds of delegates
there are who travel according to
their own sweet will and make many
stops.
Another of the latest plans evolved
by the Atlanta Shriners to attract
eyes to their city is to exploit historic
Atlanta, an the points of adventurou.3
interest. Battlefields about Atlanta,
political and literary shrines, notable
spots generally, will be exhibited in
support of Atlanta’s bid. It is likely
that folders exploiting historic At
lanta by means of photographs and
descriptions will be prepared.
Already hotel folders, statistical
folders relating to population, busi
ness assets, social features and ever /
other phase of life in Atlanta have
been compiled, and will be used as
ammunition in Atlanta's bombard
ment of the Dallas convention.
Weather Fine Argument.
The newest folder, now in process
of compilation, will bear Atlanta’s
clinching argument. It relates to the
weather. Atlanta’s weather in May,
it declares, is the most desirable of
any. And it has figures to prove it,
based on scientific calculations from
the Weather Bureau stations.
Weather is ever a great considera
tion among the Shriners w T hen they
begin to talk convention. The joy of
a convention is a delicate thing, sen
sitively susceptible to vacillations of
the thermometer. And for the Shrin
ers things must be just right.
Realizing the fastidiousness of
Shriners regarding the weather, At
lanta Shriners are preparing their ar
gument. Atlanta's weather is in
finitely more desirable than that of
Memphis in the month of May, the
bulletin will attempt to prove.
Memphis is Atlanta’s only known
competitor for the convention. Its
bid has been in the field for some time,
r
and it, also, has raised something
more than the $60,000 necessary to
underwrite the expenses of the con
vention.
But what Memphis is doing to ob
tain the convention is a mystery to
Atlanta Shriners, they say. The two
cities are courteous rivals, and for
mally refrain from sending to each
other their respective literature. At
lanta’s name, Atlanta’s fame, Atlan
ta’s advantages are proclaimed to ev
ery other shrine city in North Amer
ica and even in Honolulu—hut not in
Memphis. And Memphis haH not
worried Atlanta Shriners with its lit
erature.
Not knowing what arguments they,
have to face, Atlantans aro arming
themselves against every conceivable
showing that may be made by their
opponents, and are accumulating, be
sides, what they think are argu
ments that can not be answered by
Memphis.
Money Raising Great Feat.
Prouder than of anything else are
Atlanta Shriners of the fact that they
accumulated nearly $80,000 as assur
ances that Atlanta could take care
of the convention within the space of
nine hours. The achievement will be
the basis of one of Atlanta's siiffest
arguments.
“Doesn’t that show that we want
the Shriners, and that we can take
car - of them?” asked Mr. Greenfield.
“That will be a great argument in
itself.”
The executive committee of Yaraab
Shrine, whose members will present
Atlanta’s argument, is composed of
Fred J. I’axon, chairman; Forrest
Adair, potentate of the temple; W. W.
Orr, John J. Woodside, J. C. Green
field and R. J. Maddox. Each mem
ber will go armed with arguments,
ready to work on the floor of the con
vention, to buttonhole the nobles ev
erywhere, to talk and to pull wires
incessantly. For, after all, the busi
ness of obtaining conventions is not
much different from that of nom
inating a President of the United
States, being largely a matter of vote-
getting and persuasion. The best bet
of the Yaraab Shriners is that the
delegates to Dallas already will haA'e
been persuaded that Atlanta is the
logical point.
Yaraab Patrol Going.
The executive committee will not be
alone, however. Among the dele
gation to go from Atlanta will be the
Yaraab Patrol, forty strong, under
command of Dr. J. O. Seaman, cap
tain The patrol, fantastically clad,
has been drilled for three months in
intricate and novel maneuvers. Dr.
Seaman said yesterday that the pa
trol is the most perfectly drilled body
of its kind that he has ev£r seen.
The patrol, made up of representa
tive business men of Atlanta, will be
a spectacular feature in the delega
tion. Two uniforms have been pre
pared for its members, one the con
ventional zouave pattern, and the
other a handsome suit of original de
sign, the details of which will not be
revealed until the Atlanta men burst
into their full glory In Dallas.
Dr. Seaman thinks that Mils patrol
will he a big factor in the success
which he foresees awaits Atlanta’s
bid.
“Such Tvorkers as these, who al
ready have given months of their time
and energy to preparation, will be of
great help,” he said. “Their presence
and their enthusiasm and the working
and the talking that they will do will
help as much as any single showing
of facts, I think, whether about money,
or climate, or entertainment, or ho
tels.”
Primed With Hotel Facts.
And about the hotels! Atlanta’s
delegation will go to Dallas primed
on this special point. Locked in the
big safe at the Masonic Temple are
contracts signed by every hotel in At
lanta, agreeing to furnish rooms* to
more than 15,000 visitors in 1914. Res-
servations aro designated, here a year
in advance, the price stipulated, and
every arrangement completed. Shrin
ers in Dallas will have the word of the
Yaraab nobles that Atlanta is big
enough to take care of the convention,
and ready enough.
“Sure, Atlanta is big enough.” said
Mr. Greenfield, talking over plans.
“It is the right size. Shriners have
foresworn the custom of holding con
ventions in the largest cities, where
they will be lost in the crowds. At
lanta is the size that appeals to them
as ideal; large enough to provide
every convenience and every desirable
form of entertainment, and at the
same time not too large to overshadow
and cloud the glory of the convention,
and of the 30,000 fez wearers.”
Mr. Greenfield eaid that he has re
ceived piles of letters from Shriners all
over the United States and from men
proTninem In the world of Shriners.
assuring Atlanta of their support. The
letters come in reply not only to the
literature sent from Atlanta, but also
to the solicitations of other Southern
Shriners. most of whom have been en
listed in Atlanta’s cause. The 3,00«t
Shriners in Georgia, he said, are ail
active workers.