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T 3 TI1E ATLANTA OF.OIfiilAX AND NEWS, SATURDAY i •' i »*. 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 LIOMT SUNNI HO Not sold under any other name. Buy direct and secure maker’s advantages. We rent and repair, also make needles for all ma chines. Can save you money and trouble. THE NEW HOME SEW INQ MACHINE CO No. 44 Edgewood Avenue No. 10 Equitable Building Spring-Tired, Spring-Sick, Spring-Weak, Spring-Miserable, is a 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 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 HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN 20 East Alabama Street Atlanta 35 Peachtree Street That Has Puzzled The Whole World Cleared Up In To-morrow’s SUNDAY AMERICAN