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TUE ATLANTA GEORGIAN VST) NT TVS SATURDAY. MAY ft. 191ft. li Big Shetland Pony Contest On! UNOAV SCHOOL % %t win Help ¥« win RJLLf SERVICE Nomination Counts 1,000 Votes i MAYOR-COUNCIL Baptist and Christian Churches i Will Discuss Contest at the Auditorium-Armory. More than 5,000 scholars represent ing the First Christian and the Sec ond Baptist Sunday schools will as semble In front of the Georgia State capitol to-morrow morning and march to the auditorium, where rivals In one of thf* most exciting contests ever held in Atlanta will gather in joint service. The campaign for members, begun three months ago on a chal lenge from the Second Baptist Sun day school, come* to a close Sunday, May 11. To-morrow the contestants will meet to discuss the campaign. Rev. L. O. Bricker, of the First Christian Church, said to-day: “We have won. It has been a great con test and the results have been mag nificent.” Rev. John E. White, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, said: “The battle is not yet lost. We have time.” At the meeting to-morrow the Fir a t Christian Sunday school will report, as the result of the contest, an In crease In membership in the three months from 330 to an enrollment of 4,000. The Second Baptist will re port an increase from an enrollment of 420 to 3,700. When the two schools assemble on the capitol steps a panorama picture of the gathering will be taken, and as the process-ion moves across the Washington Street viaduct a moving picture film will be mftde. It Is esti mated that more than 5,000 members of the two schools will be present and appear In the pictures. Prior to the gathering at i’.io capitol, each of the schools will meet in their respec- ; live places for exercises at 9:30 o’clock. The joint meeting will ho at 10:15 o’clock and the services at the auditorium will begin at 11 o’clock, lasting an hour. Pastors of the two churches will make addresses, drawing lessons from the contest and summarizing Its re sults. Professor Perey J. Starnes wjll preside at the organ, and Mrs. Starnes will .sing Gounod's “Ave Maria.” Th rt congregation will read in unison tlv twenty-third' Psalm and reports -f the contesting schools for May 4 will be read. A chorus choir, comprising members from both schools, will oc cupy the platform. Including the results of last Sun: day’s work, the standing of the two schools in points scored Is: First Uhristian. 44,357; Second Baptist, 38,536, which gives the Christians a lead of 5,821 points. Work to Overoome Lead. “It will be a difficult task to over come that lead,” said Dr. White to day. “Put the Second Baptist will not quit the fight until the time limit is reached. One class alone in our school started off with a membership \ of 75 and reached 400 last Sunday, i They expect to have 600 next Sun day, and before the contest ends they have set 1,000 for their mark. That is a class for young men, and ’ts growth has been one of the marvels of the contest.” At the beginning of the campaign the Second Baptist school gave the i Christian workers a handicap of 140 points each unday. aggregating for the entire period about 2,000. It is said that while the 5,000 lead of the | Christian school may not be over come by May 11, that number may h ■ greatly reduced At the conclusion of the presei t contest the Baptist Sunday schools of ’ the city will challenge the Methodists to a similar membership campaign, i which, If accepted, will enlist 60 Sun - j day sc hools in an effort to Increase i their enrollments. More Than an Event. Dr. White said: “The contest just closing has proved j more than an event: it is a move ment. We believe Atlanta can be made the banner Bible school city of 1 the world. And the really greatest part of the movement is that it is bringing the children back into th ri church ‘service. There has been an alarming decrease in the churches everywhere in attendance on the part of children at church. In my church the Sunday school and the church are practically one and the same thing. “The contest has stimulated other Sunday schools of the city and it Is estimated that the attendance has in three months increased from about 1ft.000 to 18,000. All the churches have 1 felt the effects of the rivalry that has j spurred us on to enlarge our Sunday schools, and the results will continue .to be felt. And, think of it, if thr* contest can hr arranged with the Methodist schools there will be 6ft organizations of men and women and boys and girls enlisted in a campaign to make this the greatest of Bible study cities. Churches Drawn Together. 1 “The Baptist and Christian churches have been drawn very closely togeth er in this contest. The best of Chris tian spirit has been displayed and the results have been far greater than we expected.” Dr. L. O. Bricker said: “When we entered the contest with th Baptist school we had no idea what it meant. The plan has grown greater and greater and the results have far exceeded our expectations. What was intended for a. plan to benefit the two churches has spread to every church in Atlanta, I believe More young people have been en rolled in the Sunday schools than we had ever dreamed wouhl be possi ble. Of cour.-e we exp'Ct to win the contest, but the Baptists have been a most worthy rival.” Report Monday •Will Clear Men Accused of Grafting by Al derman McClelland, Miss Mabel Lmslee, one of the attractive young stock company at the Atlanta Theater. women in White City Park Now Open Third Coupon of Series Good for Theater Seats Appears To-day—Clip It. Well, the pony contest Is on! Of course, you saw the second cou pon. gbod for five votes in The Geor gian yesterday. Another appears to day, and there will be a coupon worth live votes every day in The Georgian unfll the contest closes, while in ev ery Issue of The Sunday American there will be a coupon worth fifteen votes. * Begin at once to save them. Get your friends to save them for you. And remember they must be voted within fifteen days; otherwise, they are valueless. / But while coupons from the daily and Sunday issues are worth saving, and will help you to win one of the Shetland ponies, with harness and cart all complete, the votes for new subscriptions are really what will de cide the winners. A subscription to The Sunday American only for one month gives tlfe contestant 100 votes, while a sub scription to the daily and Sunday for one year gives 3,50ft votes. Subscrip tions for Intermediate periods are carefully graded In value. Contest Rules Simple. Remember that advance subscrip tions from old subscribers count the same as new subscriptions, and pay ment of arrearages also counts in the .same proportion. The Georgian and American nre giving away twelve ponies to success ful boys and girls in a subscription contest in which the rules are sim plicity itself. Eight go to children in , Atlanta, one to a carrier or newsboy in Atlanta, two in Georgia and one outside the State. Every pony Is guaranteed to be a sound, healthy, serviceable pet. broken to drive, gentle, kind and safe for a child to drive. An early start In the race for the , beautiful little Shetlands is a great advantage, and nominations arc com ing in rapidly from the hoys and gir's of Atlanta who realize this fact. Do not delay longer if you contem plate entering, as every boy and girl of spirit does. The nomination itself counts for 1,000 votes. Save Theater Coupons. Miss Billy Dong Is a Georgia girl— that is, she claims the State for her home, although born In Texas. She was educated in Athens, and spent much of her girlhood days in the State. A.s a Georgia girl who has “made, good” on the stage. Atlantans natural ly are interested in seeing her. This is one of the reasons The Georgian and American free seat presentation is proving so popular. But it is not merely local pride which is causing crowds to go to the Atlanta Theater to see the stock company playing there. It is because it is a good company playing there, and in productions tnn* were sensations in New York. Free Concerts To Be Resumed To-morrow | Festival Association Program at Armory Includes Intermezzo From ‘Manon Lescaut.’ Tiie free Sunday afternoon concerts at the Auditorium-Armory will be re sumed vO-inorrow, with one of the most attractive program* Dr. Starnes and the Atlanta Music Vestival Asso ciation have ever presented. The program includes the intermez zo from Puecini’s “Manon Lescaut,” which many operagoers consider the nfusical gem* of that nerformance. Wagner’s ovtrure to “Die Meister- singer" and an Improvisation on Ger man folk-songs also wlT be included. The concerts begin promntly at 3:30 o’clock. From this time on the con certs will take place as regularly .is possible through the spring and sum mer. The Atlantu Music Festival Chorus will meet for rehearsal at Cable Hall 84 North Broad street, Monday even ing at 8 o’olock. Vicious Dog Attacks Child iu “Tag” Game Little Alga Peters, of 216 South Pryor Street. Is Severely Bitten Before Rescued. Alga Peters, ten years old, is in a serious condition at her home, 218 South Pryor Street, as a result of a strenuous game of “tag" which she and other children of the neighbor hood played. A bulldog belonging to G. G. Wat ers, 98 Waters Avenue, became ex cited when it saw the children run ning about the street, and leaped upon the Peters girl. She was se verely bitten about the head and arms before rescued. The Peters family notified the po lice, and an officer was sent to kill the dog. WaterB, however, refused to allow the animal to be shot. Exoneration of all city officials In volved in the graft charge*, assured to-day by members of the Investlgat- . ing committee, has developed an acute stage in the relations of Mayor Woodward and the council. Referring to reports that the fin probe committee would clear Fire Ghlef W. B. (’umming.-: of the accu sations of corruption. Mayor Wood - i ward said he would not be surprised 1 at anything that committee would do. Already members of the f’ouncllmanic Graft Probe Committee have been much nettled by the declaration of Jhe Mayor that the committee “had to exonerate the three Aldermen to! protect Council.” The committee probing the eoun- ! cilmanlc graft charges will meet this j afternoon to frame Its report to Coun cil. As it was given genera! author ity to Investigate all graft and cor ruption, it is expected it will fram- a general reply to numerous charge^ made by Mayor Woodward and his right-hand man In Council, Alderman John E. McClelland. Probers Silent as to Report. Because of this delicate situation the members of the fire probe com mittee, who completed their invest - tigation yesterday, decline to make any formal statement as to their formal report until the meeting of Council Monday. But it is learned on good authority that Chief Cum mings will he given a clean bill as far a.s graft is converned. The com mittee will recommend a better sys tem of purchasing supplies for th< department and crticise its heads for not following the requisition system. The committee heard new evidence yesterday afternoon, but when it verb into executive session a formal re port written some days ago by a sub committee was agreed upon. Committee Meets Monday. A meeting of the committee will be held Monday for the signing of this report. Mayor Woodward took the stand first and told the committee that Thomas Reynolds, the mysterious man who promised important new evidence, had fail(*l to show up as he had promised. ’Phe committee decided to close the investigation without waiting for him. j hut George Napier, attorney for chief Cummings, was allowed to make a ' brief’ reply to the Interviews that Reynolds lv*s given out. Calls Reynolds Crook. “Reynolds is a crook,” interruptc u Chief dimming 1 '. Mr. Napier said that Reynolds had been fired from i,he fir* department of Clarksburg, W. Va., for drunkenness, and that he was the agent for a fire hose company Mayor Woodward called R. E. Da vidson, the fire engine agent who de clared he . gave Chief Cummings n present of $400, to the stand. David son presented a < • needed check on the Fourth National Bank for $400, cashed by himself on April 25, 1911, which he said showed how lie se cured the money to present t<* Chief Cummings. He also showed the stub of this check in his check book apd said that of the several hundred stubs it was the only one for as large an amount as $4ftft. Woodward Criticises Department. Mayor Woodward presented a re port by his secretary. Frank Ham mond. that there was no adequate system of records in the tire depart ment; that no efforts were ever made to make hose companies live up lo their guarantees, and that no compet itive bids were ever asked In the pur chase of new hose or the sale of old host. Chief Cummings produced a mass of records, tVhich, he said, refuted the Mayor’s evidence. F. and A. M. Lodge Will Hold Reception First Annual Affair Will Take Place at College Park on May 9. Angell Fears Not To Tread Our Soil Author of “The Great Illusion” Com ing to Further His Peace Propaganda. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, May 3.—Among the pas sengers on the Kronprtnzessin Oeeille are Norman Angell, the author of “The Great Illusion,” who is on his way to the United States to continue his peaca propaganda, and D. A. Ansell, the Mexican Consul General at Montreal, who has been at Nice for eight weeks. The latter thinks that everything will turn out all right in Mexico, but emphasizes the fact that there is need of a strong, stable Government. Bryan Can Win in 1916, Says Martine Jersey Senator Thinks Nothing Can Beat Him, Assuming Wilson Dosen’t Run. ST. LOUIS. May 3.—If William J. Bfryan is a candidate for the Presi dency in 1916 nothing can prevent his election, according to Senator James E. Martine of New Jersey, who was hero to attend the dedication <>f the Jefferson memorial. Mr. Martine st^ld *the one-term plank In the Dem ocratic platform would prevent Pres ident Wilson’s renornlnation. “Bryan will be the logical candi date,” he ha Id. “People have come to know and to understand him bet ter. People think that he has become more stable in his views, struck an equilibrium, as it were. The fact Is. that Mr. Bryan Is just as radical to day as he was twenty years ago, but the people have grown up to him.” Carnegie Interested In Feats of Fakirs Steel Prestidigitator Wants to Know How Foreign Wizards Wiz. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BERLIN, May 3.—To inquire into the mysteries or levitation is the aim of a young savant named Schwidtal of Posen. Andrew Carnegie has financed a small party of investigators who will go to Egypt immediately under Sch- wldtal to study the secrets of th" fakirs and dervishes, and especially from a scientific viewpoint the ec static state in which the fakirs are observed to accomplish wonderful feats. The ecstasy is produced by a constant repetition of mystic words At first they pronounce t only the name “Allah” combined with rhvth- I mic movements called "sikr.s." This has nev< r before been thoroughly in vestigated. Airships Made Safer by Aid of Gyroscope | Elmer Sperry Tells Engineers of a Stabilizer Perfected by Naval Aviators. NEW YORK. May 3 —By meins of a specially constructed gyroscope av iation accidents have been reduced to a minimum, through the control be ing taken vet of the hands of the aviator at critic'll moments in the. fight. This was li.j substance f»f an ad- vii- js delivered before the N<nv York Electrical Society by Elmer A Sper- f ry, inventor of the gyroscopic .‘•tabil- iz< r for ships. The apparatus has practically been I develop'd within the last few months, and has > een perfected during expert - I .»qi qii.’A Jotj.uuifuoo in epmn sjuaui ! Navy Department at San Diego, Cal- j ifornia. Forces Prize Beauty To Return Diamond Traveling Man Accused Show Girl of Keeping Gem He Had Loaned to Her. ST. LOUIS, May 3.—Having re turned the $500 diamond ring, claim ed by W. A. Purnell, traveling sales man for a Fifth Avenue, New York, concern, Mrs. Laura Hill, of New York, Is no longer In the custody of the police. Mrs. Hill was winner in the $1,000 prize beauty contest of the Shuberts in New York last year. She later be came a show girl, and ie now with the Gertrude Hoffman Company, playing here. Purnell followed her from New York, caused her arrest, charging that she had kept the ring, although he had only lent it to her. Mrs. Hill declares he gave her the ring, but after a talk at police head quarters she returned ft. Mrs. Bryan Takes Vegetarian Cure: Goes to a Sanitarium Where Meat Is Regarded as a Poison. WASHINGTON, May 3.—Not con tent with introducing grape Juice to a champagne society coterie Mrs. Wil liam Jennings Bryan‘has undertaken the vegetarian cure for society fa tigue. The strenuous social life led by the premier of the cabinet and Mrs. Bry an since inauguration have tired her so that she has been obliged to retire temporarily from the social whirl and recuperate at a nearby sanitarium where meat Is regarded as poison and only vegetables arc served. AGENT BREAKS IN AND SELLS BURLESON BOOK { WASHINGTON, May 3.- Postmas ter General Burleson is out $•"». but he has a perfectly good book. “Ed” Smith, confidential clerk, explained to a visitor that his chief was very busy, but he managed to get hipi in. “Look here, Smith,” said the Post master General afterward.%, “don’t you know that you let a book agent in to see me. But never mind. He had a book for sale for which 1 have been looking for the last three soars, and 1 bought one fr.un him.” DR. BURROUGHS TO PREACH. Dr. P. E. Burroughs of Nashville, Tenn., will preach at 11 a. m. and S p. m. at First Baptist Church to-mor- Wayman First Asked Doctor to Kill Him Physician at Inquest Says' ChicagoJ Attorney Wanted Vital Organ Cut in Operation. CHICAGO, May 3.—That John \ W. Wayman. former State’s Attorn* > who shot and killed himself April had asked Dr. W. K. .Murray soni time previously to kill him was the. testimony developed to-day at the Coroner’s inquest. Dr. Murray him self made the admission. "Did he ask you to operate so that a vital organ would be cut, causing death?” Dr. Murray was asked. “Yes,” he replied Spring-Tired, Spring-Sick, IS Spring -We a k, Spring - Miserable, prevalent condition at this season, caused by impure blood. Thousands are ‘ off their feed,” have poor appe tite, bad digestion, dull headaches, heavy feet, tire easily, think slowly, and work poorly. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the ideal remedy. It purifies and vitalizes the blood, overcomes that tired feeling, sharpens the appetite, aids digestion, and makes life worth living. Buy begin to take it substitute. bottle and Accept no a today. That’s What They All Say! Follow The Stars “After the Theater the place to dine is Cafe Deneehaud”— Edwin Vail, leading man Billy Long Co., Atlanta Theater. “Here's luck to Cafe Denechaud and Its jol ly Cabaret”—Muriel & Frances, “Just Two Girls,” Forsyth Theater; Rockwell & Carr, “Kollege Kids,” Forsyth Theater. “A regular place with a regular proprietor—that is Cafe Denechaud. and the Cabaret is great!”— (Miss) Billy Long. "The Cafe Denechaud is grand—magnificent. Our dinner was delightful”—Enrico Caruso. Anto nio Scotti. “The food and service we received at ^Cafe Denechaud were just like New York’s”—Joe Weber, Low* Fields, to fi Weber & Fields Co PAR ADFTI Each Week-Night, 8:00 to 12:00. -»»• IlJ .Hk l\ Hi I • High-Class. Where the Crowds Go. CAFE DENECHAUD, 9 Walton Street—Just Off Peachtree Watch for the An-~ nouncement of our auc tion sale of Bungalows and lots in Sunday’s American. W. E. Treadwell & Co. 94 South Broad St. LIGHT RUNNING TRAOK MASK NCaKTlRCO Announcements were issued to-day for the first annual reception of Col lege Park Lodge No. 454, F. and A. M., to be held in the bank building at College Park at 8 o’clock. May 9. The reception will be of a social nature. The speakers will he the Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg, chaplain of the lodge, and T. H. Jeffries. John F. Bradley will be master of the cere monies. Others on the program are Miss Verna Ruth Harris and Miss Agnes Coleman, with recitations and readings. Music will be furnished bj Slatten’s orchestra. More than 200 guests are expected and supper will be served. YALE SENIOR CAPTURES BURGLARS WITH PENCIL NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 3.— By leveling a pencil at two thieves whom he found in his room, Richard Davidson, a Yale Senior, bluffed them into thinking that he had a pistol and held them until the police arrived. They confessed to a long series of thefts, including the looting of the room of Robert Alphonso Taft ofj Harvard, son of ex-President Taft. Not sold under any other name. Buy direct and secure maker’s advantages. We rent and repair, aiso make needles for all ma chines. Can save you money and trouble. FREE THEATER TICKETS and The Atlanta Georgian FINAL COUPON TO-MoRROW < oupon No. 3 of the Croc Theater Ticket Series will be found on Page 1 of to-day’s Georgian. The last coupon of the series will appear iu Hearst’s Sunday American to-morrow. Cut out and send the four coupons, of consecutive numbers, to our office, by mail. In close a self-addressed, stamped envelope, mid we will send you a reserved seat ticket for one of the Miss Billy Long Stock Co.’s plays at the Atlanta Theater . Thousands of tickets are ready for distribution under this unusual offer the most liberal ever made by a newspaper. Nothing required except, the four coupons of consecutive numbers and a stamped, addressed envelope for the return of the ticket t-o you.