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THE ATE A Vi A GEORGIAN VXD NEWS, MONDAY. APRIT, 28. 1f>13 u High Rental as Vice Cause to Be Probed lllmoi* White Slave Committee Will Force Landlords to Tell of Their Profits. F GRIEVE UKn 7 Several Hundred Members ot Nomadic Tribe Are in A1 lanta for Ceremony. fill '.Hi rnris Henat tblfl WMK. bjcct of inquiry by th* I! httu slave tommitt family Bound by the tie t>f grief in Ut iith. several hundred men. women aXi<1 children made up an odd profession t*> Oakland Cemetery this morning. Th-y were members of the tribe of nomad Irish Horse traders, known >* triieve as the Clan O’Hara, and the were burying their (lead who had died In Uie last year. ' The tribe has been in Atlanta sev- eial weeks, waiting for the day »» E. funeral-. They * awn- her*- from the North, and from tin- WfH, tiav* . n* sver the country in big wagon rubins. Atlanta is their burial ground, aim | they come each year for the rlb-s. j The tribe members followed sever j coffin's to the cemetery to-day. tiny white coffins of lildren, larger vs bib coffins in which ley the bodies of young girls, and one large black • as- bet, within nrhidi. was the body «»f one of the giandmot u rs of the trio* All the dead were women. Four nr Voung ■ i.ildren. two a) inatur< .voni- en. ami one is a girl-woman, 19 yar- atd M;,« Alatnle Nelson, who iti year- youthful was a wife and mother I/«*r both has been In Atlanta since* last June, awaiting the day of burial. The bodies of the others have been here less than that time, in the chapel of Greenberg A' Hond. to whom tin no mads always-* intrust the details of their tribal burial. Father Kennedy", in the Church «»f the Immaculate Conception, conduct ed the services this morning. From the church the tribe made its way to Oakland Cemetery, where the ««i' ? - tnotty was* concluded at the lot which} the tnl>e owns. Wagons Baar Mourners. The funeral procession was uniqm Behindfthc somber line of hears* v came, 1 i»e. free wanderers, riding i <*rriag.-s and wagons that huv known the road. Sturdy and weather-1 beaten, the vehicles were typical **i the people they bore. \ number **f the tribe rod* in unwonted automo bile*. Months that have elapsed since the death of most of those who were buried to-day have not .“erred to les sen the grief of th* tribe, it seem* i. to-day. In the long lino of carriage - aero many women who crooned and wept. Very young children were frightened and quiet, older children frankly crying. II- re and there a man, to whom probably one of tha •even was very near and dear, was Sobbing loudly: most of th* men. though, rode with faces set and stern. No Expense Spared. The tribe, reputed to be wealthy, •pares no expense in the burial of its dead. The caskets were elaborate and costly, the hearses were luxuriantly fitted, and every other appointment of the ceremony whs in keeping. The tribe members probabh will begin to leave Atlanta immediately, now that the ceremony that brought them to this city is over. Next year they will see each other here again, at the last of April. When the nine solemn occasion will come, and the game tie of death will be revealed. It la the one tie among the lnemb- v-, and it Keeps them close together in heart Tin dead burled to-day were Mrs. Mamie Nelson. .*ge 19. who died in Montgomery. Ala.; Mrs. Bridget Sher lock, who died at Sparks, On., October 1, 1911!; Bridget Oosteila, age 2 years, who died at HlaektHiear, Uu.. Novem ber 4. 191_’: Maggie < 'arroll, age 14 died at Alenc. Ha., September 15, 1912; Annie Sherlock, age 49, died at Bax ley. Ha.. October 1 .*», m2: Bridget Alack, age IS months, died in Vln- oauia. and Mrs Bridget O'Hara, who died in Savannah. Lillian Lorraine and Movie Owner Rewed • how Girl Becomes Mrs. Frederick W. Gresheimer Second Time in Thirteen Months. NfclW VORK. April i’s Lillian kor- raine. whose swing song'' in the “Follies of 1910" lifted her into the front rank of stage celebrities, again is the bride of Frederick \V. c.res- heitner, a moving picture and real estate man. Their marriage Frl*Jt»> was their second in thirteen months “Yes," Miss Lorraine told a report sr. “we were married again. You know Mr. Gresheimer am! I went through a ceremony a year ago last month, but the fact that he was not tree from bis former marriage made it illegal. Ob! I can't explain. It was something about ih* law As to her possible return u* the stage Mrs. Gresheimer is undecided, j FRATS ONLY 'TOLERATED' AT MERCER. SAYS HEAD MA*'ON. April '> The attitvd* «*i I tie ofti .ais ot Ab rc* i l’nivcrsitj t r-ard the Greek letter “frills" is made known by President S. V. Jameson in reply to the ex**, uth e - oinmittc** of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. \\ hicii sought permission to name a local ; d- isei whose duti>-« it would be to ^C.ng the : i oinb* . • "t lies lv.i .*?.*’ fa■ Ilit> nto A •*►■'. lei. ; "Fiats ate only tolerated at Met- r i. replied Dr. Jameson. WIFE OF FORMER MAYOR OF LOUISVILLE AUTO VICTIM > **«UI8VIL.LK. KY. Apii -8. Mrs. J *»*•*« Worth Bingham, wife of for- c m vA*y°' Bingham died to-day < ru«tot* uries suffered yesterday v. to . < vapor m °W)e in which t»h<* was rid- } fui w> struck b> an electric car. ^ Intern Callahan, nephew of M.- | 5 stoma* was sHghth hurl \l - 14 !5’ 8 r n fa tAo children and * be chest. L mg Milk \* • r- un- "High rental exhaui ability to provide healthful *ecr**‘ lion." s.ild Lieutenant Govern**!' O’Hara. ‘’It c*»mpels many to live .1 insufficient quarters, dejuivea young girls of needed privacy and lower*, their pride. It also exhausts th* fam ily's vitality so that parents have n : th»* opportunity to d»*vote to their children the time and attention neces sary t<» steer tii *m clear «*f tempta tion." Landlo!*.* will lx summoned to tell of their profits, and expert* will be hoard on the actual valuation of ♦he property on which higl charged. I Dr. A. J, McKelway Takes the South to Task for Conditions. Great Congress Meetings. A scathing arraignment of the Southern States for permitting wlia* Ik terms the slavery of children ir h* mills and factories by Dr. A. J M*TColway. of Washington. Souther) secretary ol tlit National Child Labor '’ongre.-a. formed th*- big feature of ntals an* ; t j UJ aI .( nu , n tal conferences of the j Southern Sociological Congress tills morning. Dr. McKelway Spring Guano Sales 0 T~i rr 1 “’'t uf ( 'hlld Dahor in the Sout Largest Lver Known n.* *„i,t.un.* *m child we^m ^ j First Methodbt (Tiurcli, the Heavy Rains Cause of Record- Breaking Movement During the Past Week. Commercial feitili/.eis experienced a heavier movement last week than at any tipie during the season. The unusually heavy demand is believed to have resulted from th** heavy rains, which dela- ed the farmers with their work. Fertilizer men are expecting this \n eek to prove the banner week in sales, indications pointing to •« heavy demand as the season nears an end The total amount of fertiliser used by Geot gin cotton planters this season is expected to jgirpass by a great figure the records of format* years. Air Tragedy Claims British Lieutenant Biplane Stops Suddenly 100 Feet Above Earth, Then Plunges Downward—Cause a Mystery. Spsclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. FARNHoKorOH. WN'tlhAND. April s. Lieutenant Rogers Harrison, British Army aviator, was killed here to-day 1»> a full of 400 feet «i the Cody biplane which won the $25,000 army prise last year. Lieutenant Harrison, one of the most daring of the aviation corps, was maneuvering over th*- acrodonie here when the machine sudd* nly stop ped. hung suspended, then dropped suddenly. The biplane was eomtiderod one *»f the best in the world. Kxperts can not account for the accident. ODDITIES —iu the— DAY’S NEWS l*ASTI!Y TABOO \T HARVARD. Pies, puddings, cream puffs and* oth er pastry are taboo at Harvard l Di versity. ('trails in various forms have been substituted and nr** very popular with the students. KTUANGI.KS HKRSKLF W ITH A SHKKT. Although strapped linn and foot to a bed in the insane de partment of St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburg, I'n., Mrs. IMith l’*>lllns aged 41. tor** a strip from the bed sheet with her teeth and hands and strangled herself to death. FIGHT OYKR FlirRi’H COLLFa*- TU iN. Tw«»nty-flv*‘ persons were cu; 1 and bruised, one seriously, in a dis pute over which faction should take up th collection at the Greek K ish* , services in St. Mary's Greek Outho- lie Ohurcii. New Salem, Pa. Spe- i 1! policemen quelle*! the turmoil, but tlu-j collection wurf not taken up. DAXt’FS HERSKLF NKAKl.Y TO DEATH. Mrs. John Kuzins, of Bea ver Falls. Pa., a bride of three da>*. trying to establish a mark of !*001 dances at $1 a dance at her wedding festivities, collajised within seven dances of her g<»al and may die. Ac cording to a Polish custom, each male guest was to give the bride »i lilv* dollar for each dance with her. — PRRVKNTED m'HlAL A1.1VK. Fnusual precautions against being buried alive were taken by Mrs. Mu - j Hanna Rlcclardi. of New York »’ity.j She requested that no one be Allowed to touch her bode for five hours after her death and that it should not b* embalmed. Her instructions were! varrh-d out. She was burled in a bur- ! g Err-proof steel coffin. ‘The Fx- Houth" at it the most Important meeting of the day. In ad dition to Dr. .McK**Jway’s forceful ex position of the child labor problem in h«- Soutii nd Ids remedial sugges tions, other addresses on the subject * 1 giv* n. Principal J. A. Burns, *1 Oneida, Ky„ known Xhroughout the 1’iwted States As “Burns «»f the Viountains,*' spoke on "The (Children >f the Mouthern Highlands." Other conferences tills morning were as follows: Organised charities, at the Wesley Memorial Hhurch: * ourts and prisons, at. the First Baptist Ghurch .Sunday school room; public health, at th. First Baptist Hhurch; travelei>’ aid, at the First Methodist Church Sun- 'ay school room; church and social service, at th* Central Congregational Church; race problems, at the Bap tist Tub* made. Great Sessions Held. Although one of the principal speakers failed to arrive, the two general sessions of the HociologiC t» Congress held yesterday afternoon a.nd evening at the Auditorium and it th* Wesley M. modal Church are considered t li« • greates- sociological gatherings In the history of the* work. Fifteen hundred people heard nd* .Tosses by men who have devoted their lives to educating America along civic, economic and moral lines. The speaker v/h*» failed to arrive was Richmond R Hobson, Congress man from Alabama. Mr. Hobson wad delay* (i by a storm on the Chesi- peake, where he was a spectator at the navy target practice, and it is doubtful if he will come to Atlantu at •ill. A stirring add rest* on “The Social Program of the Church.” by Dr. Wai ter RuuKchbenbush, one of America’s greatest sociologists, was the big fea ture of tin- afternoon session. Dr Ttauschenbush declared that th« church could and should do much toward solving the child labor prob lem the greater problem, lie declared, that confronts the people of the Southland. What ‘Thy Kingdom Come' Means. I>r. owen R. Lovojoy, **f New York general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee. spoke on 'The Gospel for Modern Industry." " ‘Thy kingdom come.' " declared Dr. Love Joy, "means the coming of J the day when child labor will be done •iw.»n with, when **ver> little tot shall have its quota of sunlight and hap piness. of hours of play and recrea tion. The time will come eventually when the little ones will get their share of the joys of life when the men and women «*f this oountr> will awake to tin* awful curse of child la bor and that time is not far off." With a brilliant plea for a bureau of vital statistics in Georgia. Miss Julia Lathrop, director of the Federal Children’s Bureau, at Washington, D. <’.. delivered a strong address at the evening session of the congress. “Europe, to maintain its armies, must know of the advent of each child," Miss Lathrop said, “and if this information is valuable in maintain ing armies, how much more valuable it would be in times of peace.” Others who delivered addresses yes- teriluy included Bishop Wilbur Thir- kicld, <f New Orleans, and Dr. T. M. Moore, of Toronto. Canada. MONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Real Estate Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT CO. 1211-12 Fourth National Bank Bldg. rattlkr f liarles Cam rt M.I) HIM AS Bill ul Ne\> York, is re- c Where Shall I Go? ig experience ar Oakland iwokc at night to find a siuik* coiled on his breast strike. H did n-*t dove tc ; daylight the snake seeince ind Carrt'i’t drew bis pistol off Us head. coverin'.; from .1 ha’ 1 I in Rt»dwciHl ''unvi-ii 1 * • <1 »>• lar* ratt I : Women Gamble tor High Stakes Man> wotoen are gamblers for very idgh stakes The>' stak*- tlieir h.-alih and x-hm! looks upon ever> - U*ing working out all right when at tacked by thosi- ullmerns which their a*r\ alone are called up* n t<* suffer 'file only excuse can b* ignorance i of the dangerous consequences **r an • aversion to undergo meiihal oxaml- 1 nation. This tnay often be avoitied [by rc-oun**- to !.>dta it'inkham's VegetabF t’on*pound, •« perfc< t.\ -afe ard harmless iTiucdj. compount cti i from root* and tur»*e. which for nrur- ' h for :* ei*is 1 as been curing - an ills **n fr* Musi iiav< u kt'\ mailo. a sale ojumhmI. jiu ulcr. Ii'ii* xvii'c lixud. shoes hali'-soled, sfim repair ed. a trunk nieuded- or a tlnnisaml ami one things attended to. l>ut where shall 1 go? The Itusiness Guide in lhr '' Want Ad" seetion of The *i<»orgian au- swci's ; In- <|u< ~. i>>ii. N. Free Pony Contest : : NOW OPEN! :: MIWt^ggMaaSBM^ £ VERY Boy and Girl that wants to own a Shetland Pony, Cart and Harness should enter this popular Contest now! An equal chance for every Contestant to win one of the Twelve Pony Outfits offered by Hearst’s Sunday American and The Atlanta Georgian. —Eight pony outfits will be c>iveii away to white boys atul girls in Atlanta and suburbs. Th** distribution will be made as follows: One pony outfit to the boy or girl receiving the greatest number'of votes in each of the following districts: District No. 1—East of Marietta Street and west of Pied mont Avenue, from (Georgia Railroad right-of-way to city limits. District No. 2—East of Piedmont Avenue and west of Edge wood Avenue, from Georgia Railroad right-of-way to city ilmits. Includes Druid Hills, Edgewood, Kirk wood and Decatur. District No. 3—South of Edgewood Avenue and east of South Boulevard to city Emits, east and south. Includes South Kirkwood and Ormewood. District No. -I—West of Smith Boulevard and east of South Pryor from Georgia Railroad right-of-way to city lim its. Includes South Atlanta and Lakewood Heights. District No. 5—West of South Pryor to Central of Georgia right of way. West of railroad to include Oakland City, Fort McPherson. East Point, College Park, Egan and 1 Ianeville. District No. (>—West of Central of Georgia right-of-way to city limits, from West Hunter Street soutii to Oakland ('ity. District No. 7—North of West Hunter Street and west of Marietta Street to city limits, north and west. One pouv outfit to the carrier or newsbov employed bv THE GEORGIAN and HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN receiving the greatest number of votes cast for newsboys and carriers. Four prize ponv outfits will be given to Out-of-town hoys and girls. They will he distributed as follows: 'I wo pony outfits will be given to the white hoys or girls in the State of Georgia, outside of Atlanta and suburbs, who receives the greatest nu iber of votes and next great est number, respectively. One outfit will he given to th*- white hoy or girl receiv ing the greatest number of votes cast for contestants out side of the State of Georgia, anvwhere that THE GEOR GIAN and HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN are sold. One outfit will he given to the out-of-town agent em ployed by THE GEORGIAN and HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN who receives the greatest number of votes cast for agents. Nominations for contestants will fa- received during the period beginning Monday, April 28th,and concluding at mid night, Saturday, May ".1st. Voting coupons will appear daily in THE GEORGIAN and in every issue of HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, beginning with THE GEORGIAN’S issue of Thursday, May 1st, and concluding with THE GEORGIAN’S issue of Thursday, July 31st. The contest will close at midnight July 31st. THE GEORGIAN’S Daily vote coupons will count for five votes each, and THE SUNDAY AM ERICAN vote coupons for fifteen votes each in favor of the contestant whose names they bear. Votes will be credited for paid-in-advance subscriptions received, according to the following table: Votes. 3,500 1,700 800 250 2,000 950 450 150 1,300 650 300 100 ribers who advance as Daily and Sunday, 1 year.... Daily and Sunday, 6 months. Daily and Sunday, 3 months. Daily and Sunday, 1 month.. Daily only, 1 year Daily onlv, 6 months Daily only, f Daily only, 1 Sunday only, Sunday only, Sunday only, Sunday only, The above months month 1 year 6 months. . . . 3 months.... 1 month vote credits will or iPPl foi to old a term SUDS* m less pay subscription arrearages well as new subscribers. No vote credit will ho issued for subscriptions for than one month nor more than two years. In the event of a tie vote for any of the ponv outfit prizes, the contestants so tying will each receive a ponv outfit. Vote coupons clipped from THE GEORGIAN and SUN DAY AMERICAN must be voted within fifteen days from date of issue. Coupons that are more than fifteen days old will not he credited to any contestant. Except for the separate prizes offered to THE GEOR GIAN and HEARST'S SUN AY AMERICAN carriers, news boys and out-of-town agents, no employee of these newspa- ers, nor any member of employee’s family, will he eligible as a contestant. If you know some bright boy or girl who would like to own a handsome pony, cart and harness, send us his or her name on this NOMINATION BLANK Only one Nomination Blank can he doted for any con testant. I nominate, as a candidate in The Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian Pony Outfit Contest: Name Address Nominated by Address GOOD FOR 1 OOO VOTES Hearst’s Sunday American and The Atlanta Georgian