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a 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. FREE PONIES AND CARTS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS SEE PAGE 4 THIS SECTION THEATER TICKETS FOR EVERYBODY j SEE i PAGE 6 THIS | SECTION 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, F114 I 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.