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TI1E ATLANTA OF.OIfiilAX AND NEWS, SATURDAY
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HALT Stilt
Baptist and Christian Churches
Will Discuss Contest at the
Auditorium-Armory.
More, than 5,000 scholars represent
ing the First Christian and the Sec*'
ond Raptist Sunday schools will as
semble In front of the Georgia State
apitol to-morrow morning and march |
to the auditorium, where rivals In one
of the most exciting contests ever
held In Atlanta will gather in joint
service. The campaign for member',
begun three months ago on a chal
lenge from the Second Baptist Sun
day school, cornea 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 hae been a great con
test and the results have been mag
nificent.”
Rev. John K. White, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church, said : “The j
battle is not vet lost. We have
time.”
At the meeting to-morrow the First
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 capltol steps a panorama picture
of the gathering will be taken, and
the procession moves across the
Washington Street viaduct a moving
picture film will be made. 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 the capitol, each of
the schools will meet in their respec
tive places for exercises at 9:30
o'clock. The joint meeting will bt*
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 I
make addresses, drawing lessons from
the contest and summarizing its re
sults. Professor Percy J. Starnes will j
preside at the organ, and Mrs. Starnes
- ill sing Gounod’s “Ave Marla.” Tlv*
ongregation will read in unison the
twenty-third Psalm and reports of
the contesting schools for May 4 will
he 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
''hristian, 44,357; Second Baptist,
S.536, which gives the Christians a 1
lead of 5,821 points.
Work to Overcome Lead.
“It will be a difficult task to over- i
come that lead,” said Dr. White to- |
<iay. “Rut the Second Raptist will |
not quit the fight until the time limit (
is reached. One class alone In our |
school started ofT with a membership
of 75 and reached 40ft last Sunday. ,
They expect to have 600 next Sun
day. and before the contest ends they
have set 1,000 for their mark. That j
Is a class for young men, and 'tn
growth has been one of the marvels
of the contest.*’
At the beginning of the campaign
the Second Baptist school gave the
Christian workers a handicap of 14ft
points each ainday, aggregating for
the entire period about 2.000. It is
said that while the 5,000 lead of the
Christian school may not be ovai*-
ome by May 11, that number may b»
greatly reduced
At the conclusion of the present
contest the Baptist Sunday schools of
the city will challenge the Methodists
to a similar membership campaign,
which, if accepted, will enlist 60 Sun
day schools in an effort to Increase
their enrollments.
More Than an Event.
Dr. White said:
“The contest just closing Jias proved
more than an event; It Is a move
ment. We believe Atlanta can be
made the banner Bible school city of
the world. And the really greatest
part of the movement is that If Is
bringing the children back into the
. hurch service. There has been an
alarming decrease in the churches
everywhere in attendance on the port
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 hos in
three months increased from about
10.000 to 18,000. All the churches have
felt the effects of the rivalry that lias
spurred us on to enlarge our Sunday
schools, and the results will continue
to be felt. And, think of it. if the
contest can be arranged with the
Methodist schools there will be 60
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.
“Tne 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
the Baptist school we had no idea
what it meant. The plan has grown
greater and greater and the results
have far exceeded our exi>ectations.
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 would be possi
ble. Of course wr- expect to win the
contest, but the Baptists have been
a most worthy rival.”
Big Shetland Pony Contest On! IfllfOR'COUNCIL
Early Start Will Help You Win ROW FIRED W
+•*
Nomination Counts 1,000 Votes
White City Park Now Open
Miss Mabel lmslee. one of t
the stock company at the Atla
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, good for five votes in The Geor
gian yesterday. Another appears to
day, and there will be a coupon worth
five votes every day !n The Georgian
until thp 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 yqur 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
the contestant 100 Vote^while a sub
scription to the dally and Sunday for
one year gives 8,500 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 are
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 ca.rrler or newsboy
In Atlanta, two In Georgia and one
outside the Rtate.
Every pony Is guaranteed to he 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 are com
ing in rapidly from the boys and girls
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 Long 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.
As a Gebrgia girl who has “made
good” on the stage. Atlantans natural
ly are interested jn 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 sye the stock
company playing tit ere.
It* is because it is a good company
playing there, and in productions that
were sensations in New York.
lit* attractive
nta Theater.
young women in
Free Concerts To Be
Resumed To-morrow
Festival Association Program at
Armory Includes Intermezzo
From ‘Manon Lescaut.’
The free Sunday afternoon concerts
at the Auditorium-Armory will be re
sumed to-morrow, with one of the
rnosL attractive programs Ur. Starnes
and the Atlanta Music Festival Asso
ciation have ever presented.
The program Includes the Intermez
zo from Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut,”
which many operagoers consider the
musical gem of that nerformance.
Wagner’s ovtrure to “Die Meister-
slnger” and an improvisation on Ger
man folk-songs also wii’ be included.
The concerts begin promptly at 3:30
o’clock. From this time on the ’con
certs will take place as regularly .ta
possible through the spring and sum
mer.
The Atlanta Music Festival Chorus
will meet for rehearsal at Cable Hail,
84 North Broad street, Monday even
ing at 8 o’clock.
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. Waters, however, refused
to allow the animal to be shot.
Report Monday Will Clear Men
Accused of Grafting by Al
derman McClelland.
Exoneration of all city officials in
volved in the graft charge?, assured
to-day by members of the investigat
ing committee. has developed an
acme stage In the relations of Mayor
Woodward and the council.
Referring to reports that the fire
probe committee would clear Fire
j (’hief W. R. Cummings of the accu
sations of corruption. Mayor Wood
ward said he would not be surprised
at anything that committee would do.
Already members of the CouncUmanic
Graft Probe Committee have been
much nettled by the declaration of
the Mayor that the committee “had
to exonerate the three Aldermen to
protect Council.”
The committee probing the coun-
cilmairic graft charges will meet this
afternoon to frame its report to Coun
cil As ft was given general author
ity to investigate all graft and cor
ruption, It is expected it will frame
a general reply to numerous charges
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
igation 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 l)e given a clean bill as
far as graft is converned. The com
mittee will recommend a better sys
tem of purchasing supplies for the
department and erticise its heads for
not following the requisition system.
The committee heard new evidence
yesterday afternoon, but when it went
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
I report.
Mayor Woodward took the stand
first and told the committee that
Thomas Reynolds, t lie mysterious
man who promised important new
evidence, had failed to show up as he
had promised.
The committee decided to close tne
investigation without waiting for him.
j but George Napier, attorney for Chief
I Cummings, was allowed to make a
| brief reply to the interviews that
> Reynolds lias given out.
Calls Reynold* Crook.
Reynolds is a crook,” Interrupted
Chief Cummings.
Mr. Napier said that Reynolds had
been fired from Die 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 a
present of $400, to the stand. Davld-
! son presented a cancelled check on
I the Fourth National Bank for $400.
[(•ashed by himself on April 25. 1911,
which he .said showed how he se
cured the money to present to Chief
Cummings. He also showed the stub
of this check in his check book and
said that of the several hundred stubs
it was the only one for as large an
amount as $400.
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 fire depart
ment: that no efforts were ever made
to make hose companies live up to
their guarantees, and that no compe*-
itive bids were ever asked in the pur
chase of new' hose or the sale of old
hose.
Chief Cummings produced a moss
of records, which, he said, refilled the
Mayor’s evidence.
Brvan Can Win in
Ti
916, Says Martine
Jersey Senator Think* Nothing Can
Beat Him. Assuming Wilson
Dosen’t Run.
ST. LOUIS. May 3.—If William J.
Bryan 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 here to attend the dedication of
the Jefferson memorial Mr. Martine
said the one-term plank in the Dem
ocratic platform would prevent Pres
ident Wilson’s renomination.
“Bryan will be the logical candi
date," he said. “People have come
to know and to understand him bet
ter. People think fbat 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
&teel Prestidigitator Wants to Know
How Foreign Wizards
Wlz.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. May 3.—To Inquire into
the mysteries of levitation is the aim
of a young savant named Schwldtal
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 the
fakirs and dervishes, and especially
from a scientific viewpoint the ec
static state in which the fakiis are
observed to accomplish wonderful
feats. The ecstasy is produced by a
constant repetition of mystic words
At first they pronounce only the
name "Allah" combined with rhyth
mic movements called "slkrs.” This
has never before been thoroughly in
vestigated.
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 are served.
AGENT BREAKS IN AND
SELLS BURLESON BOOK
WASHINGTON. May S.—Poatmaa-
ter General Burleson is oui $5, but
he has a perfectly good book “Bd”
Smith, confidential clerk, explained to
a visitor that his chief was very busy,
but lie managed to get him in.
Look here. Smith,” said the Post
master General afterwards, “don’t you
know that you let a book agent In
to ses me. But never mind. He
had a book for sale for which I
have been looking for the last three
years, and 1 bought one from him.”
DR BURROUGH8 TO PREACH.
Dr. P. 0. Burroughs, of Nashville,
Tenn.. will preach at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. at First Baptist Church to-mor
row.
Wayman First Asked
Doctor to Kill Him
Physician at Inquest Says Chicago
Attorney Wanted Vital Organ
Cut in Operation.
CHICAGO. May 3.—That John E.
W. Wayman, former State's Attorney,
who shot and killed himself April 17.
had aeked Dr. W. K. Murray some
time previously to kill him was the
testimony developed to-dav at the
Coroner's inquest Dr. Murray him
self made the admission
“Did he ask jvou to operate so that
a vital organ would be cut, causing
death?” Dr. Murray was asked.
“Yes," he replied
F. and A. M. Lodge
Will Hold Reception
First Annual Affair Will Take Place
at College Park on
May 9.
Annourn ements were issued to-day
for tile first annual reception <>f 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 be 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 arc
Miss Verna Ruth Harris and Miss
Agnes Coleman, with recitations and
readings. Music will be furnished by
Slaiten’s orchestra.
More than 200 guests are expected
and supper -will be served.
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 Kronprinzessin Cedlie
are Norman Angell, the author of
“The Great Illusion.” who is on his
way to the United States to continue
his peace' propaganda. and D. A.
Anseli, 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 i.s need of a strong, stable!
Government.
Airships Made Safer
by Aid of Gyroscope
Elmer Sperry Tells Engineers of a
Stabilizer Perfected by
, Naval Aviators.
NEW YORK, May 3.—By means of
a specialty constructed gyroscope av
iation accidents Have been reduced to
a minimum, through the control be
ing takc-n otit of the handri of the.
aviator at critical moment? in the
fight.
This was the substance of an ad-
iiret's delivered before the New York
Electrical Society by Elmer A. Sper
ry, inventor of the gyroscopic tt&bil-
izt-r for ships
The apparatus has practically been
developed within the last few months,
and has keen perfected during experl-
iRt w -to| j.mnfuo) nt epvui sjueui
Navy Department at San Diego, Cal
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 poltce.
Mrs. Hill wa^ 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 it.
Watch for the An
nouncement of our auc
tion sale of Bungalows
and lots in Sunday’s
American.
W. E. Treadwell & Oo.
24 South Broad St.
YALE SENIOR CAPTURES
BURGLARS WITH PENCIL
NEW HAVEN. CONN, May 3 —
By leveling a pencil at two thieves
whom he found. Ip his room, Richard
Davidson, a Yale Senior, bluffed them
into thinking thu* he had a pistol and
held them until ’the police arrived.
They confessed to a long series of
lliefts. including the looting of the
room of Robert Alphonso Taft of
Harvard, son of ex-President ’Taft.
White City Park Now Open
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make needles for all ma
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Can save you money and
trouble.
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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 a
bottle and begin to take it today.
Accept no substitute.
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 Deneehaud and its jol
ly Cabaret”—Muriel A Frances, "Just Two Giris
Forsyth Theater; Rockwell A Carr, “Kollege Kids.
Forsyth Theater
“A regular place wfith a regular proprietor—that
is Cafe Deneehaud.
(Miss) Billy Long.
“The Cafe Deneehaud i
Our dinner was delightful”-
nio Bcottl.
“The food 4*nd service we received at ’Cafe
Deneehaud were just like New York’s”—Joe Weber.
Lew Fields, io f W^ber A Fields Co
and the Cabaret is greaf? n -—
» grand—magnificent.
Enrico Caruso, Anto-
K D A D |7 T* I Each Week-Night, 8:00 to 12:00.
^ D 1\. Hi 1 • High-Class. Where the Crowds Go.
CAFE DENECHAUD, 9 Walton Street--Just Off Peachtree
FREE THE A TER TICKETS
and The Atlanta Georgian
FINAL COUPON TO-MoRROW
Coupon No. 3 of the Free Theater Ticket Series will be found on Page 1 of to-day’s
Georgian.
The Iasi coupon of the series will appear in 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, and we will send yon a reserved seat, ticket for one
of the Miss Rilly Long Stock Co.’n plays at, the Atlanta Theater .
Thousands of tickets arc 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 to voil.
A Free Ticket for Every Set of hour Coupons Returned
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