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HKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1013.
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Latent picture of Andreir Carnegie. Thin photograph was taken
'thursday m \etr York and shows the ironmaster and advocate of peace
just as he looks to-day.
Ft. McPherson's System of Keep
ing Fighting Men in Good
Humor Successful.
LOVE PLAYS BIG PART
Regular Wears His Heart on His
Sleeve and Wants Sweet
heart Badly.
-Confronted, as are military officials
everywhere, with the problem* of how
to decrease desertions and to foster
contentment among the soldiers, the
authorities at Fort McPherson, At
lanta's suburban army post, think
they have solved it to some degree.
Dances and moving picture shows
are their most powerful weapons in
ihe fight against discontent.
t’olonel John T. Van Orsdale and
f'baplain Henry L. Durrant hav**
worked together in the introduction
of interesting innovations by which
they hoge to hold the heart and in
terest of the enlisted men. The plan,
as outlined yesterday by the chap
lain. tells the story of a great trust
pat in the efficacy of wholesome
amusement as the best antidote
against dissatisfaction and restless-
“We encourage these things to
overcome the great loneliness and
restlessness that affects the soldier,”
said the chaplain. "He is essential
ly a wanderer, and grows tired of
surroundings without change."
He told of other phases of the
plan. An enlisted men’s club has
been established. A library of fic
tion is offered, without cost, to the
soldier for his reading The weekly
dances and the picture shows three
times a week are only part of a big
scheme to hold the men. Boxing,
baseball games, vaudeville shows, all
are encouraged.
The dances, the chaplain explained,
are extremely popular, offering to the
soldiers that companionship with
girls, for which there is a peculiai
yearning in the hearts of all soldiers.
Petticoat World.
“Pretty much their whole world
revolves around the ‘petticoats,’ as
they call the girls," he said. “As
with sailors, so with soldiers. On
the stre?t they are honestly excited
by the sight of a pretty girl. it
may be due to the fact that he is
kept eternally with hundreds of other
men,' but for some reason the soldier
man is keenly susceptible to feminine
charms.**
The soldier’s girl is as much a type
as the soldier himself, Mr. Durrant
said. And. according to his analy
sis, hen- she is, the composite sweet
heart of Fort McPherson:
She is honest and sincere with her
soldier lover, and demands sincerity
in return. The soldier always tells
the truth about himself to her.
She is ladylike and proper enough,
and yet she has no mock modesty.
This is her sincerity again. She
comes out to see him. and is not
ashamed to admit it.
She is a good fellow. She under
stands. She knows that he has not
alt the money in the world, with his
$15 a month, and consequently does
not demand anything of him. Shi*
even is ready to lend him money, if
he wants it.
Fond of Simple Things.
She is fond of the simple things—
likes to stroll a-field, to pick flowers,
to watch the Sunday afternoon base
ball games, sitting on th*- grass like
a good comrade, and candidly yelling
\ for her favorites This, w 1th her. is
preferable to picture shows.
And then, of course, she is pretty,
in varying degrees
Mr. Durrant explained why the
men sometimes desert. There are
times when to this big-hearted fel
low there comes an acute loneliness
and restlessness. The world of men
is too much with him. He longs for
the streets and the sight and com-
paniorship of grls, even more than
is afforded' film by the free discipline
a; the fort. ,
Donelineas and restlessness are the
biggest factors.
The chaplain was hearty in his en
riorsement of the plan of the War
Department whereby a regiment is
kept in a post only a short time.
Old Plan Unbearable.
“Under the old plan, with ten or
twelve years’ stay In one place, prob
ably, army Ife became unbearable to
many men, ’ he said. “There were
desertions. Many men did not re
enlist at the expiration of their
terms. Now. with the change of
scene*, it is somewhat different, and
the life more to bv desired."
The chaplain’s whole analysis of
the pleasures and the behavior of the
enlisted man tended to an analysis of
the soldier himself The picture
41-hieh he drew of the soldier in th
Atlanta post is that of a type. And
it is:
He is very much of a boy. “crazy"
about the girls, and in love with
love. His heart is on his sleeve
He is fond of the simple pleasures
—the stroll afield, the baseball game,
the moving picture, dancing
He is of the stripe that makes
heroes, full of a buoyant enthusiasm
and patriotism, ready to cry at "taps'
and to cheer at the sight of a waving
flag
He likes the melodramatic* spice of
life, and is always looking for it. He
is a wanderer, and in his wanderings
he looks for romance.
He gambles, and usually he drinks.
Again he is the boy, because the
l ations are very attractive to
Put with it all, he is very much
rnnn. i <■< ause. you know, "The
r bravest arc the tenderest, the loving
are the daring.*’ \
Each Will Be 30,500-Ton Type
and Sister Ships to the Fuso,
Now Building. -
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ARMORED TO MAIN DECK
Speed of Vessels to Be 27 Knots
an Hour Faster Than Any of
Our Warships.
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Woman Points to Fact That Laird of Skibo is
Registered as a Voter in Scotland.
Miss Mar Scott-Troy, n San Fraticisco suffragette, lias quea
tioned Andrew Carnegie's claim to United States citizenship and
in a pointed question makes the following demand of the Laird of
Skibo:
“What right have you to pose as an American citizen
when you are registered as a voter in the parish of Dornoch,
in the County of Sutherland, Scotland? You are voter No. 11
on the official list received by me to-day from the Sheriff of
the county. Why did King Edward offer you a dukedom?”
Mr. Carnegie is described on the voting list as “A gentle
man. Place of abode, Skibo Castle.
In answer Mr. Carnegie's secretary, James Bertram, makes
the following reply:
“Mr. Carnegie is an American citizen. He became so
without naturalization because he came here when he was 11
years of age, and his father was naturalized before he became
of age. If he is registered as a voter in Scotland he had noth
ing to do with it personally. He is a property owner there
and his name probably appears on their registry list in con
nection with that fact. He could not vote in that country be
cause he is an alien there.
TOKIO, JAPAN, May 10.—The Na-
vy Department has contracted for
three battleships of 30,500 tons each,
to be built in Japan.
They will he sister ships to the
Fuso, now building in the naval
dockyards at Kure.
Squadron of Four.
When completed the new Japan
ese battleships will comprise a hom
ogeneous squadron of four, of which
the Fuso, now under construction at
Kure, will be launched in the latter
part of this year.
They will be, It is understood, en
larged and improved editions of the
Hiyei class, which goes into commis
sion next fall. The Hiyei class ships
carry eight 13:5-fnch guns, but the
new ships, It is believed, will carry
ten of the same caliber. They will
be arranged in five iwo-gun turrets
on the fore-and-aft line, so as to be
trained on either broadside, and the
second and the fourth turret will be
raised above the first and the fifth
so as to give a deadahead and dead-
astein fire of four guns. This ar
rangement ol the turret guns was
first introduced in the American bat
tleships South Carolina and Michi
gan, and proved such a success that
it has been almost universally copied
by foreign nations.
Heavy Armor Belt.
Very little is definitely known of
the Fuso. but it is supposed that her
armor, in accordance with the Jap
anese practice since the Russian War,
will consist of a moderately heavy
belt, probably ten inches thick, ex
tending over nearly her entire length,
and carried clear up to the main
deck. ^
The ship is designed, according to
report, for a speed of twenty-seven
knots. This would make her faster
than any ship of the American navy
except a few torpedoboat destroyers.
Letter Travels 3
Miles in 20 Years
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Missive Long Overdue Is Finally
Delivered in San Francisco.
Mailed in Oakland.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—A let
ter which was posted in Oakland 20
years ago was delivered the other
day at the office of the San Francisco
Board of Education. "Found m box
by carrier” was written on it, to ex
plain why it had lain so long neg
lected.
The envelope contained a card en-
nouncing the marriage of Joseph B.
Travis and Nellie C. Wallace, on
Thursday. May 18, 1893. at the Cali
fornia College in Oakland, und stat
ing that they would be at home in
Tulare, Cal., after May 23.
It was addressed to Mme. Louise
Humphrey-Smith, teacher of elocu
tion, San Francisco. On the envelope
vv.is a stamp of the Columbian Expo
sition issue, commemorating the
World’s Fair at Chicago.
The Kan Francisco postmark of
May 23, 1893, was on it, Indicating
that it was received on this side of
the bay. Apparently it was sent back
to Oakland, the Oakland stamp of
May, 1893, and also of April, 1913,
being on it. It has been sent to the
Board of Education with the idea that
Mme. Humphrey-Smith, being desig
nated as a teacher, can be reached
in this way if still living.
Baseball League
Aids Church Work
Sunday School Attendance and Con
duct of Boys Riased by Stand
ard of Teams.
PRATT. KANS., May 10. The
churches of Pratt have joined in a
baseball league season of fifteen
games. Each Sunday School.. rep
resenting Its church, lias charge of
Its individual team As a result
there are more young men attending
Sunday School now than ever before
and the collections have increased,
l.ast Sunday the following combi-
tion was carried by the various base
ball fans and players: A Bible, a
quarterly and a 1013 baseball guide
The contract which ail the players
must sign, stipulates that the player
cannot use tobacco, swear or flirt
and must attend Sunday School at
least three Sundays out of each
month.
At one of the churches, so a playet
says, the lesson was cut short last
Sunday and the question ably dis
cussed as to whether a pitcher could
legalyy make a balk while standing
outsl'de of his box.
IWOMEN THREATEN STRIKE
UNLESS MICE ARE BARRED
ST. CLAIREVIUI. E, O.. May 10.—
The proverbial dislike all women have
for rodents, even the smallest of the
species, is responsible for a threat
ened strike among the women clerks
In the Belmont County court house.
The edict issued to the officials is:
"No mice in the building, or we quit.”
In addition there has been a mark
ed falling off in the business >f the
marriage license bureau, which is lo
cated in the court house. The build
ing has been so infested with mice
that many a bride-to-be has refused
to enter the building. ♦ wn to aid her
husband-to-be to obtain a marriage
license.
The officials in this department
have indorsed th. strike of the worn* n
and hope to rid the court house of
mice.
Operation Asked
To Prevent Crime
Kansas City Prisoner Believes
Pressure on Brain Responsible
for His Misdeeds.
KANSAS CITY, May 10.—Harry
Morris, 22 years old, held in
the County Jail charged with a crime,
pleaded in a letter to a local paper
for an operation on his head to cure
him of his criminal tendencies.
Morris is to have his chance. Judge
Ralph Latshaw said he would order
the prisoner sent to the General Hos
pital if anything could bo done for
him there. Dr. U. E. Gatelaw. super
intendent of the hospital, said Mor
ris would be put under the care of
the aurgeons of the institution. An
X-ray of the man’s head will be
made, and if the photographs show
any pressure on the brain the skull
will be raised.
In his letter, Morris said: "I want
some doctor to take enough interest
to perform an operation on my bead,
as 1 think 1 have what physicians
term a ‘skull pressure on the brain.’
I was hit on the head with a brick
when 1 was sixteen years old. and
since then have been leading a life
of crime and wickedness.”
GIRL OF SEVENTEEN IS
CONVICTED OF ROBBERY
CHICO, CAL.. May 10:—Myrtle Col-
lins. the 17-year-old girl charged with
having robbed a companion in an au
tomobile a; the point of a revolver,
and who was brought here from Oak
land. pleaded guilty before the Juven
ile Court •
She stole a revolver from Chauffeur
William Lansdale while riding with
him. and used it to take $15 away
from him. She said sin* walked seven
miles to Durant and there boarded a
train for Oakland.
She is said to be the sister of a no
torious highwayman who escaped
from the Oregon penitentiary som*
time ago.
Chicago Baby Scholar
to Study in Rome
Janet Urie, Daughter of Roosevelt's
Former Physician, to Enter Mon-
tessori School in Italy.
CHICAGO, May 10.—Little Jane^
Erie, who Is two years old, and until
recently a .resident of Hull House,
has sailed for Europe to study in
Rome. Sho Is to have the most mod
ern training that it is possible for
the daughter of progressive parents
to have.
Miss Janet already ran lisp In
three languages, and when next she
sees her Chicago friends they expect
that she will talk Italian fluently.
Little Janet is the daughter of Dr.
John Francis Urie, former assistant
Surgeon General In the United States
Navy, and private physician to Theo
dore Roosevelt when the latter was
President. Her mother is the daugh
ter of William Dudley Foulke, author,
sociologist and progressive leader.
She is herself a woman of remarkable
attainments and will take a course of
training for educating her daughter
under the direct supervision of Mme.
Montessori In Rome.
The atm of the parents Is to give
their daughter the proper start to
ward becoming the most modern and
scientifically brought up Twentieth
Century woman. Roth parents ac
companied Miss Janet when she
sailed.
The Urie family expects to live In
Rome tor at least tf year, and prob
ably longer, if Miss Janet has not in
that time mastered all the fine points
in the Montessori methods of train
ing, her mother expects to have be
come sufficiently skilled to continue
the work in Chicago.
DENNIS TOO FUNNY TO
BE GOOD NAME FOR CITY
DENNIS. KAN. May 10.—This
town has boon trying to struggle
along under the handicap of its name
for more than 30 years, but it
hardly has grown in all that time.
Now a new generation of hustlers
has come along, and they have de
cided that the only way to get the
town anywhere is to change its name.
Rivals have always poked fun at
the twin, saying. "Oh. it’s name is
Dennis!” This has always been
good for a laugh, but it won’t be
any longer.
Signers for the necessary peti
tions are now being obtained, and as
soon as the petitions are ready they
will be sent to the Legislature.
The townspeople, who favor the
name Fairfield, believe the change
will be made.
LABOR UNIONS ASKED TO
RAISE FUND FOR DARR0W
CHICAGO, May 10.—Clarence S.
Harrow surprised the Chicago Feder
ation of Labor to-day by walking in
and taking a seat. He was given a
rousing reception and addtessed the
Federation on the child labor ques
tion. Later it developed that Har
row s fortune of $150,000 had bee :
swallowed up in his two trials*.
\ lott« r was read from President
Charles H. Mover of the Western
Federation of Miners calling on all
union labor organizations to- sub
scribe to a fund to assist Darrow m
i his third trial. This move was in
dorsed by the Federation and colie
rions will be made. The trial is
| for June 16,
Home Run Hits Horse
and Man; Wins in 9th
Wagon Is Wrecked, but Driver With
Sore Head Grins at Victory—Be
ing a Baseball Fan.
I'jEW YORK, May 10.—A home
run hatted out by a Paterson, N. J.,
high school boy in a vacant lot won
the game for his team in the ninth
inning yesterday.
The ball went into the street and
struck Andrew 7 Van Ninwegen, of
57 Clinton Street, a baker, who was
driving by. It hit his head and
caromed off upon the back of his
horse.
The horse ran away, the baker fell
from his seat, and his wagon was
wrecked.
The baker, a baseball fan, was un
able to find who had knocked the
ball, and didn’t care when he learned
it had been a home run that won
the game.
MOURNED Tor dead man
COMES HOME; SISTER FAINTS
SACRAMENTO, May 10.—R. S.
Kies, formerly of this city, arrived
here from Nogales, having been em
ployed near Madero, in the State of
Chihuahua in Mexico, for several
years by the Madero Lumber Com
pany as a night rider. He was re
ported to have been killed in the
Mexican rebellion, and when he
walked into the presence of his sis
ter, Mrs. Charles Gaylord, she nearly
fainted. Kies said that he had been
shot three times and knifed once dur
ing the Madero rebellion.
LEAVES
Stranger in Strange Land Enters
House Next to His After
Night of Pleasure,
DENVER, May 10—When Miss
Minnie O’Connell. Just out of high
tchool, awoke In the night and dis
covered » man in her room she did
not scream. On her bureau was a
beautiful now toilet set that she had
Just received for her birthday. She
was positive that the strange man
was a burglar who had come to steal
that new toilet set, and she decided
that she would lie very quiet and
get a good look at him, so she could
identify him and have him arrested,
and thus have her birthday gift re
stored.
In the meantime the man wap ex
periencing equally strange sensations,
but he was not so calm as was the
young lady. In fact, when he struck
a match and discovered that he was
not in his own room, but had in
truded upon the slumbers of a strang. 1
young lady, he precipitately removed
himself, together with coat and hat
and vest, of which he had divested
himself before he discovered his sur
roundings. Very softly he sneaked
out, just in time to avoid discovery
by Mr. and Mrs. O’Connell, who had
been aroused by the fioise.
When Miss O’Connell hysterically
told her parents that she had beer
disturbed by a burglar they tele
phoned for the police. Several police
men ransacked the house witl\put dis
covering the felon.
Next morning a woman who lives
next door came over with profuse
apologies of her boarder, a young
man named Nuttall, who, It seemed,
had got into the wrong house.
The two houses are just alike. Mr.
Nuttall has been in Denver only a
short time, having come here from
the East By mistake he entered
the wrong house.
DOG MAY BITE YOU IF
YOU HAVE PULLED HIS TAIL
WILMINGTON, DEL., May 10.—
Mrs*. Mary McCormick was arraigned
in the City Court on the charge of
harboring a vicious dog, but after
the case had been explained to the
court by Prosecuting Attorney John
F. Lynn, Judge Churchman decided
tha the woman could not be held or.
that charge, so she was dismissed.
The court was informed that the
dog had bitten a child after the lat
ter had pulled the dog’s tail. Mr.
Lynn said that some court had de
cided that a dog could not be con
sidered vicious unless it had bitten
more than one person, or in other
words, each dog is entitled to one
bite.
Judge Churchman said that he did
not agree w ith this rule, and that he
never heard any court rule that way.
He decided that if the child had
pulled the dog's tail he did not think
anything could be done with the
owner of the dog.
Genius of Winsted
Misses a Chance
Greatest Nature Fakir in America
Lets Green-Spotted Birds by
Unclassified.
Has the fertile brain of the genius
of Winsted, Conn., lost its cunning?
It surely must be so. For years read
ers of newspapers all over the coun
try have chuckled over storieu un
der the Winsted date line, which dealt
with some of the most marvelous na
ture fakes that it Is possible to Im
agine. But yesterday there came
over the wires an item which admit
ted of the greatest possibilities in the
hands of the imaginative correspond
ent of Winsted, and instead of send
ing out a story of some new wonder,
the following matter-of-fact para
graph tricked over The Sunday
American wires:
WINSTED, CONN., May 3.—
Bird lovers in Pleasant Valley
•thought they had discovered a
new' bird yesterday when a flock
appeared with spots of green on
their plumage. But somebodj' re
membered th'at the old iron bridge
is receiving a fresh coat of dark
green paint and the local natural*
ists decided not to write to any of
the museums.
In the words of Shakespeare,
“What a fall was that, my country
man. '*
PETRIFIED TREES
Prehistoric Used That Tool Con
clusion Reached by Scientist
After Examination.
Marriage Bars Man
From Cornell Crew
College Boy Takes Bride and
Given Release by Coach for
His Action.
Is
ITHACA, May 10.—That marriage
is a bar to rowing, at least in Cor
nell. has been demonstrated In the
case of E. W. Pollard, until recently
a member of the junior varsity crew
and a member of last year’s crack
freshman combination, who has been
dropped from rowing by Charles E.
Courtney, coach. Pollard slipped
quietly' out of town a few days ago,
telling Courtney he would be away
from crew practice for several days
because he had to go to Syracuse to
see a sick brother. The bluff worked
for a day or two, but Courtney' picked
up a Syracuse newspaper which in
formed him that Pollard had married
a school chum in Fulton, where he
lives.
When Pollard strolled down to the
boat house last Friday, Courtney
said:
“Hello, Pollard, how do you like
married life?” Pollard admitted he
liked it and waited a second for
Courtney to assign him to a crew.
No such order came. Just before
Courtney pushed out in his launch, he
turned and said:
“What, Pollard, are you here yet?
You’d better look out, or the boys
will throw you Into the inlet.” Then
Pollard knew he never would earn a
varsity crew C. No married man
ever has rowed in the Cornell shell,
and apparently Courtney will see to it
that none ever does.
GREAT FALLS. MONT.. May 10.—
Going to prove that men inhabited
this part of the world in prehistoric
times and even then used axs and
shov ed Judgment In felling trees, Sol
omon Abbott, of Shelby, north of this
city, has developed startling evidence
in his section.
Not far from the Sullivan ranCg
and near the junction of Cut Bank
Creek and Two Medicine Creek, there
is a butte, probably 450 or 500 feet
above (he surrounding country and
about' seven miles* in circumference.
It has cut banks so steep at every
point that they are impassable for
cattle and horses, and at but one
point is a fence needed to keep the
animals on top of the butte.
The butte Is absolutely devoid of
timber, but at one time on the sum
mit there grew a fine straight pine #
tree two feet in diameter and not
short of 80 to 100 feet high. This la
proved by the fact that the tree now
lies full length on the ground, cut
into two-foot lengths, the ax marks
of the woodman being plainly dis
cernible In every cut of the wood,
which Is now petrified.
To fell the tree up bill, as was done,
it had to be chopped on the side to
ward which it was to fall almost
entirely, and the petrified stump
shows that this was done. Every one
of the cuts, which hint of commercial
purposes for the wood, gives indis
putable evidence of the woodman’s
ax.
Abbott is a pioneer and is believed
to have been the first white man to
have climbed to the.top of the butte.
He found the petrified tree ‘just as
it is to-day. and the wonder is in
what age was the tree cut and what
sort of people did it an£ wiih what
sort of an ax.
CHILDREN BORROW PARENTS
SO THAT THEY MAY MARRY
KANSAS CITT, MO.. May 10.—
Determined to be married despite the
fact both were under age and neither
could obtain parental consent, Roland
H. Fairchild, nineteen years old, and
Lucile Hatfield, sixteen years old.
bargained for the services of two
elderly and respectable looking guests
of the Helping Hand to furnish the
needed “parental consent.”
The entire party was arrested la
ter at the Wyandotte County Court
house just as the two residents' of
the Helping Hand were telling Pro
bate Judge John T. Sims they had
no objection to the marriage of their
offspring.
The "near” bride and bridegroom
were returned to the homes of their
respective parents.
On Brookhaven
Car Line
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On Beautiful
Peachtree Road
HIGH-CLASS BUILDING LOTS
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LOCATION
On Peachtree Road and Brookhaven Street car line, at the junction of Piedmont Avenue.
This property is right in the hub of Peachtree Road’s greatest development, at the Five
Points of approach to all that is and will be in this most desirable and exclusive section.
IMPROVEMENTS
Water, Sewer, Curbing and Gutter, Cement Sidewalks, Street Car Service, Electric Lights,
Telephone accessible.
HOME AND ESTATES
Surrounding and adjacent to Peachtree Highlands, value from $5,000 to $200,000, in all direc
tions, have fixed the present values on all surrounding property at $50.00 to $100 per front
foot.
This property is being developed to the highest extent. Every street will be a wide one,
with easy grades, and all lots made perfect. All streets will be cherted, and cement side
walks, water and sewer mains will be laid in front of every lot.
All the above improvements without cost to purchaser.
OPPORTUNITY
Does not present itself often here is yours. These lots are going FAST.
WE SOLD 25
%
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L. P. BOTTENFIELD
1021-25 Empire Building
Phone Main 3010