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IIE AUNT'S
OF BOOSTERS AT DALLAS
T itled couple, who
have been noparatod for
some time, and are now
K"«'kiiiK legal freedom. The
Duchess of Westminster above
and her husband, the Duke,
below.
Vanguard of Yaarab Special Reaches
Texas City and Makes Canvass of
Delegates Already on the Ground
for Big Convention.
English Duke Files Divorce Pa
pers, Naming Spanish Noble
as Party to Action.
Connecticut Youth Declares That
Term in Jail Has “Made a
TVIan" of Him.
Atlanta wins the next re
DALLAS, TEXAS, May 10.
union of the Shrinem.”
This confident declaration was made by Fred Geisler, assist
ant general passenger agent of the Seaboard Air Line and one
of the Atlanta boosters, upon his arrival here in the lead of the
Yaarab Special.
‘ There is nothing else to it, declared Mr. Geisler, after a
canvass of the situation! “Atlanta is the logical point for the
next convention, and so Atlanta it will be despite all else to the
'contrary. If Memphis were eliminated. I would feel confident in
saying that wc would win on the first ballot.
“With two Southern cities in
■ j
the race, though, it will require
some work to ’bring the bacon
to Atlanta.’ still we arc all
fighters and the battle will
mean an easy victory."
Great Preparation*.
Great preparations are being made
here to entertain the visitor*. Re
ports along the various routes of
travel declare that they have passed
along as if they owned the railroads,
and the “Dallaaitee" are determined
not to dispel their jubilant spirits
while they are here.
The Yaarab Temple will arrive to
morrow morning and will probably
occupy their sleepers until 7 o’clock
4if their jubilations tan be restrained
after their arrival).
The visitors w ill parade later in the
day, and when this event is “pulled
off” it is expected that it will be such
a demonstration of music and cos
tumes as has never been heard or seen
in the Lone Star State since the stel
lar emblem was wrested from Mexi
can rule.
Recaption of Noblaa.
Following the parade, there will be
a reception of representatives and no
bles. and at 11 o’clock there will be
religious services at the Scottish Rite
Cathedral for the visitor*. On Mon
day local representatives and nobles
will escort the Shrine; a to their head
quarter* and the bureau of registra
tion In the morning. At noon tlfey
will be taken to luncheon, and a spe
cial entertainment will be arranged
for the patrols and bands at Lake Cliff
Casino. All of the visitors will b<
tendered an informal reception in tl;/
evening. The official opening of the
Imperial Council wlli take place Tues
day morning at 10 o’clock. Through
out the week the Visitors will be en
tertained in one prolonged array of
festivities, including band concerts,
automobile drives around the city for
tiie wives of ihe visiting nobles, and
dancing.
The Yaarab Special was personally
conducted by Assistant General Pas
senger Agent John L. Meek of the
Southern Railway; A P Matthews
division passenger agent of the Frisco
lines, and N. C. Woodridge, .South
eastern pas.«fenger agent of the Texes
and Pacific.
Albert B. Baumann, official repr*
sentative of Alhambra Temple of
Shriner*, of Knoxville, who. with mo r c
than 60 other Knoxville nobles, \asscd
through Atlanta yesterday afternoon,
declared he would vote for Atlanta for
the 1914 Shriners’ conclave. The en
tire Knoxville delegation'became en
thusiastic boosters of Atlanta aft r
their two-hour stay here.
Shriner Boosters Strongly
Armed for Convention Fight
Es selamu aleikum!
Liberally translated, that means. "We go in peace, and we shall
return with the bacon!’’
All of which Islam the truth, as eyery good Shriner will agree,
right off the reel.
Otherwise, may Nemesis overtake him!
Ho long as Forrest Adair holds on to the rope, which never yet has
he turned loose before turning loose time, all will be well.
The Atlanta Shrine. Yaarab Temple, abundantly equipped either
for a frolic or a fight, but altogether anticipating the former, arrived In
Dallas. Texas this morning.
It is there to attend the 39th annual session of the Imperial Council
of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of
North America.
• li also Is there to invite the Imperial Council to meet in Atlanta
next year.
Tiie session of the Imperial Coun
cil opens in Dallas on Monday morn
ing, May 12. and continues through
Thursday. May 15.
it will be attended by approxi
mately forty thousand Shriners. and
their families. It will bring into Dal
las the biggest crowd that fine city
ever entertained, and it will be a
crowd fashioned of the flower of
American citizenship, from one end
of the nation to the other.
Yaarab Temple will lose no time
r-xtending its invitation to the Im
perial Council to meet In Atlanta next
year.
The invitation will be backed by
an abundance of cordiality and assur
ance of Southern hospitality—and a
$100,000 guarantee fund, just to in
Hyndes, and Joe Greenfield, and he
asked them how about it.
The verdict of the Adulr court of
original jurisdiction was affirmed.
Noble Maddox gave it as his opln
Ion that Atlanta could do anything
Noble Hynds ruled that Atlanta
would do anything it wanted to do,
and Noble Greenfield handed down n
decision to the effect that Atlajite
always had done everything it under
took. Noble Paxon said he thought
so to.
It was agreed that not less than
$70,000 would have to be raised, if
the invitation was to be extended. It
was not asked whether that sum
could be raised,—it merely was asked
in how short a time might it be sub
scribed.
It was decided to put a twelve-
hour limit upon Atlanta’s most gen-
sure the putting of the little pot in j erou ® enterprise,
the big one when the Nobles come Before nightfall of the following
D tQwn t day the sum agreed upon was sub-
Forrest Adair. Illustrious Poten scribed, und more! In'all It touch-
ate of Y’aarab, heads the Georgia
| ielegation to Dallas.
All Shriners Know Adair.
Every wearer of the scimitar and
the crescent in this country knows
Forrest Adair, either in person or by
reputation. Wherever tiie red fez
of Shrinedom is known, there the
name of Forrest Adair is a household
word.
Not a great while ago, Forrest
Adair began thinking about the pos
sibility of bringing next year's Im
perial Council to Atlanta. The more
he thought of the idea, the better he
liked It.
Could Atlanta get it? Could At
lanta hG&le it, after it got it? Thus-
wise. most searchlngly. did Forrest
Adair inquire of himself.
Having examined himself, cross
examined himself, and redirectly ex
amined himself, Forrest Adair hand
ed in a verdict of guilty—Atlanta ness os the\ nv»y
It now remains
could do both things, and would!
d the grand total of $100,000!
Hotels Are Examined.
Then Forrest Adair began to look
Into the most vital point in the sit
uation, once the possibility of invit
ing the Imperial Council had been
resolved Into a certainty—the ques
tion of hotel accommodation.
Could Atlanta, with its 200,000 pop
ulation. properly care for some 50,000
visitors, and particularly of such a
character as a session of the Imperial
Council Would insure?
To get at the exact truth of that
question required more than twelve
hours’ work.
Statistics, facts and figures, were
obtained from every hotel, and first-
class boarding houses in the city, now
operating, or that might be opened
to the visitors.
The result of this investigation was
most satisfactory. Atlanta easily
can take care of the visiting Shrin
ers—every one in comfort, and thou
sands in such extreme* of luxurious
hoose.
>nly for the At
Forrest Adair and his Nobles will
fail of that undertaking?
it were treason to suggest it! It
were a high crime and misdemeanor
even to hint it!
Have these people, bearing abroad
the enthusiasm, the honor, the pro-
gressiveness of Atlanta, standing
sponsors for 'that far-famed “Atlan
ta spirit,” which has moved mighty
mountains of obstruction in the past,
ever failed?
Not that anybody ever has noticed
and these Yaarab Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine are not going to begin
that unworthy and un-Atlantaesqqe
business in Dallas.
And what are some of the rea
sons why the Imperial Council should
come to Atlanta next year?
Because there isn’t a Shriner In
the United States who has not heard
of Atlanta, and who doesn’t know
that It is the greatest city'of the
Southeastern section of the nation,
and who wouldn’t be. glad to visit it,
either for tiie first time in his life
or the ’umpsteenth, a3 the case may
be
Because, Atlanta is the most inter
esting city in the Southeast. Its lo
cation is ideaC’from a climatic stand
point, for a May session of any body
of men, large or small, and particu
larly suited for the annual gather
ing of the supreme organization of
the Shrine in America.
Because Atlanta has 35 high-class
hotels, capable of accommodating,
with ease, 30,000 transients, or more.
And because it has first-class board
ing houses that may accommodate
not less than an additional 30,000
visitors. Besides these ample hotel
accommodations, there is railroad
yard room, in and very near the city,
where scores of Pullman cars may
be parked, if desirable.
Because Atlanta lias one of the
largest auditoriums in the South, w ith
a seating capacity of 8,000, wherein
every year the Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company, of New York, ap
pears in repertoire of complete pro
ductions.
Because Atlanta a city wherein
the industrial South may be looked
into by those who care to take the
time more advantageously than any
other Southern .-ity. Its Industries
are more diversified, and its business
interests more general.
Because Atlanta is one of the most
beautiful cities In the world. Its
business heart of steel and its bust
ling thoroughfares and busy mans,
have caused it to be called the “Chi
cago of the South.’ while its far-
famed Peachtree Street has* been
compared time and again with Cleve
land’s wonderful Euclid Avenue, in
point of genuine loveliness and home
like appeal.
Citizenship Is Enterprising.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—Preliminary
proceedings for divorce have been be-
;un by the Duke of Westminster. It
is understood that tiie Duchess con
template* a counter suit.
The co-respondent named by the
Duke is the Duke of Alba, who at
one time was reported to be engaged
to an American girl and who is well
known in cosmopolitan society.
The cave when it comes to trial is
likely to create a sensation.
The matrimonial infelicity of the
Westminsters has long been a subject
of gossip, and reports that one or the
other of the pair intended to seek
divorce have been frequent for some
years. These report** have not had
legal foundation hitherto.
The domestic troubles of Hugh
Richard Arthur Grosvenor. second
Duke of Westminster, and his Duch
ess have for some time been public
property, and divorce proceedings
have been freely predicted. Their
marriage took place in 1901 and they
have two children. Lady Ursula Gros
venor. age 11, and Lady Mary, age 3.
Duke is Immenie'y Rich.
The Duchess, daughter of Colonel
Cornwallis West, is a lister of the
Princess of Pless, and her only broth
er is George Cornwallis West, the
second husband of the former Lady
Randolph Church. The Duke of
Westminster, who was born in 1879,
u» one of the richest men in England,
owning 30,000 ro res in Cheshire and
Flintshire and 600 acres in London.
He is chiefly known as a sportsman,
especially as a keen poloist.
Duke Polo Enthusiast.
The Duke is paying the expenses
of the British polo team that is now
on its way to this country tf> compete
with the American team for the inter
national championship. He had a
great deal to do with the selection
of the English players, and person
ally choie the ponies that are being
brought over, scouring England and
Ireland for the v be«-t animals ob
tainable.
' The open break between tlie pair
came a few months ago. when, aftef
a violent scene, the Duke lk said to
have ordered the Duchess out of his
town residence, Grosvenor House,
following a ball given at Bucking
ham Palace by the King and Queen,
to which the Duchess was invited and
the Duke pointedly wag not asked.
Photos Cause Trouble.
Last March the couple formally
separated. Photographs published
last winter in the papers showing the
Duchess hand in hand on the ice and
waltzing and tobogganing with a pro
fessional skater in Switzerland are
believed to have been a partial cause
of the separation. The Duchess is do
scribed as very handsome, dashing
and stylish, with a splendid figure,
dark brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and
dark eyebrows.
Tiie Duke’s name was not entirely
free from scandal before his marriage.
The Duke of Alba, named as co
respondent, is the descendant of an
English King and a Spanish grandee
with a fortune. His full name is
Jacobo Marla del Pilar Carlos Manuel
Stuart Fitz-Jame? (tenth Duke of
Berwick and seventeenth Duke of
Alba de Tormes). He was bora at
Madrid in 1878. The first Duke was
a son of James II and Arabella
Churchill, sister of the first Duke of
Marlborough.
The Duke of Alba Is a bachelor.
Five or six years ago It was rumored
that he-was engaged to Miss Math
ilda Townsend, of Washington and
Philadelphia. His father died at the
Holland House, New York, in Octo
ber, 1901. He had come here as a
guest of Sir Thomas Llpton to watch
the America’s cup races.
A convict for three years and glad
of it!
That’s the surprising attitude of
Otto Vogt, of Hartford. Conn., who
has just been released from the At
lanta Federal Prison.
“You won’t believe me,” said young
Vogt a few hours before he boarded
a train for his home in Hartford
yesterday, “but I wouldn’t have miss
ed the experience for anything. It
wiiji an education for me.
“If the treatment I received there
and the knowledge I gained while in
side those walls don’t make a man of
me, why, I’m hopeless; that’s all.’’
Determined to “Make Good.”
Vogt is a clean-cut, upstanding
sort of youth whose prison expe
rience has left him with a deter
mination to “make good." Three years
ago lie was committed to the Fed
eral Prison for sending improper mat
ter through the mails.
"It was more youthful ignorance
than anything else,” said Vogt. “I did
not know the law then, but I do now.
I also know that one may learn what
he might never learn outside prison
walls in the way of becoming a use
ful and upright citizen.
“While I have the opportunity, I
want to express my thanks through
The Sunday American to the officials
of the prison for their treatment of
me during my three-year term. While
I was in the penitentiary I served
the trade of barber, but my greatest
benefit came from learning the es
sentials of real citizenship.
Praises Warden Moyer.
Warden Moyer certainly treats the
prisoners with the highest courtesy,
just as though they were his chil
dren. Deputy Hawk also is especial
ly pleasant toward the unfortunate
inmates.
“The prisoners appreciate all that
is done for them by the people of
Atlanta. We were delighted by the
fruit sent us by Mrs. I. Springer dur
ing our holidays and by the candy
and and moving pictures which came
as a result of the interest of Mrs.
Emma Neal Douglas.’’
Vogt said that he proposed to re
turn to his home and enter in busi
ness there among the people that
know* him.
“And I’m going to make good,” he
declared.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Meets King and Queen
American Authoress Presented at
British Court by Member of
Embassy Staff.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—The King and
Queen held court at Buckingham Pal
ace Thursday evening. The American* 1
presented were Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wil
cox, the poetess, and Adrian Iselin
and Miss Louise Iselin, Mrs. Charles
Edward Greenougli and Miss Helen
Marie Stuart, all of New York.
Mrs. Wilcox said afterward that she
was greatly Impressed by the splendor
and particularly by the great pre
ponderance of youthful and beautiful
women.
The famous American authoress
arrived recently from North Africa
and found a note from the Ameri
can Embassy notifying her she
would be introduced to the King and
Queen at court May 7. She imme
diately became busy, as she had not
a dress suitable for the occasion.
Fortunately her dressmaker was
working on an evening gown, so Mrs.
Wilcox telephoned her to alter it so
as to render it suitable for court
and to add the usual long train.
It is said the King and Queen are
very fond of Mrs. Wilcox’s poetry
and it is known that King Edward
and Qu<An Alexandra were two of
her greatest admirers.
Mrs. John M. Slaton and Miss
Hildreth Burton-Smith Stars in
Spring Production.
A spectacular event of the Atlanta
socle*y year will be the annual play
by tlu* Atlanta Players' Club, to be
produced probably Friday, May 23.
The date has not been fixed defl-
nitely.
Numerous inquiries of the club
members failed to penetrate the se
crecy of their arrangements until
Saturday, when details of the spring
production were announced.
“The Importance of Being Earnest,”
a breezy comedy by Oscar Wilde, full
of clever lines*, demanding person
ality for its successful delineation,
will be produced, with Mjs. John M.
SI iton, the wife of the Governor-
elect, and Miss Hildreth Burton-
Smith, daughter of Burton Smith, and
the niece of Senator Hoke Smith, in
the leading roles, respectively, that
of Lady Bracknell and of Hon.
Gwendolyn Fairfax.
Rehearsals w’ere begun Friday night
and will continued frequently until
the evening of the performance. The
parts, as assigned at the first re
hearsal^, are:
Algernon Moncrief Lamar Hill.
John Worthing Marsh Adair
Rev. Cannon Chasuble, D. I)
Hamilton Douglas, Jr.
Lane, man servant. . .B. Frank Taylor
Lady Bracknell.. Mrs. John M. Slaton
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Miss Hildreth Burton-Smith
Cecily Cardew... Mrs. William Owens
Miss Prism, governess
Mrs. Henry Bernard Scott
Most of the members of the cast
have appeared iifvamateur produc
tion** previously, and are known as
possessing considerable ability. Miss
Burton-Smith, however, essays her
first appearance in this play.
The play, well known to students
of the drama, contains no lines of
sensational nature. It is a Dimple
comedy, and greatly in favor with
the Players’ Club of London, where
it ha* been played with great sue
cess on several occasions.
Til# play is being prepared under
the direction of Warren A. Rogers,
who has recently assumed the posl
tion of dramatic director of the Play
ers’ Club, and now is actively engaged
every evening in drilling the player?
and in rehearsing with them the min
ute -details of the plot. Rehearsals
are beinfe; held on the stage of the
Grand Opera House.
Mr. Rogers is a man who has had
many years experience as a stage di
rector. having been associated with
Viola Allen, Richard Mansfield and
Cohan and Harris, and having him
self staged “The Fortune Hunter,”
“Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.”
“Brewster’s Millions,” and other sue
cessful productions.
State Superintendent of Educa
tion Feels Southern Literary
Men Have Been Hurt.
The voice of M. L. Brittain, Geor
gia State Superintendent of Schools, '
la added to the charges of partiality x
and discrimination against the South,
that is being made by Southern edu
cators generally regarding Brander
Mathews’ text book “An Introduc
tion of the Study of American Litera
ture.”
“Dr. Matthew* has not treated tho
subject of Southern literature fair
ly,” he said yesterday. “It seems that
he is incapable of doing so, as any
other Northerner is.
Dr. Matthews, the Columbia Uni
versity professor, who is considered
generally the leading figure in Amer
ican belles lettres, recently published
his book. It w’as hailed as the last
word in its subject, and w r as adopted
in many public schools everywhere.
The book has not been adopted in
any of the schools of Georgia of
which he is aware. Mr. Brittain said.
The charge by Mr. Brittain cam*
yesterday at the same time as a
widely published attack on the book
by Mrs. Thomas Randolph Leigh,
state historian of the Alabama Divis
ion of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Mrs. Leigh’s attach
was bitter.
“It is a misnomer,” she declared,
“Professor Mathews’ book,” she
charged, “contains 28 portraits of lit
erary men, and of this number only
two Southerners are represented—
Edgar Allen Poe and Joel Chandler —
Harris. The picture of the latter Is
so small it may be covered w’ith tho
thumb. Though the bools contains 269
pages only two short sentences are
devoted to that inimitable Georgian,
whose unforgettable figure of Uncle
Remus will sit by the fireside on win
ter nights and entertain counties
children and grownups years after
moths have devoured the 269 pages
written by the partisan professor,
who gives a list of 288 literary con
tributions by Americans, among
which are found only 24 from the
pens of Southerners.
‘“On the other hand,” she continues,
“seventeen pages are devoted to the
plebeian, Whittier, whose clumsy p*n
so often stumbled and fell as he
mixed Indifferent verse with aboli
tion ribble with such rancor that hi3
own fellow' citizens rose up as an in
dignant mob and sacked and burned
his printing office.
lantans in Dallas, to press the but-
Then he called in Nobles Robert I lon Hn ,j bring home the bacon!
F. Maddox, Frederick Paxon, John, Does anybody in Atlanta doubt that
Because its citizenship is the most
enterprising in all Dixit, airt its
amazing and result-getting “Atlanta
spirit” has brought it a qua > of
unique fame as broad as the auion
itself.
Because its generous hospitality i*
a happy and established fact that
always may be depended upon. If
the Imperial Council comes to At
lanta. it will want tc come again.
Because. Shriners know that Atlan
ta is the city that first brought
Shrinedom to the S**uth. It was lure
that the great ordei got its first firm
foothold in Dixie. Every Shriner has
heard of Yaarab Temple, and its
magnificent history
And because the Imperial Council
mast know that a city responding
so readily to the very suggestion of
Use Imperial Council’s meeting in
its midst next year, is necessarily a
city that will make the meeting a
memorable one.
Yaarab Temple journeyed from At
lanta to Dallas in a sumptuous spe
cial train, composed entirely of Pull
mans.
This train, dining car and special
kitchen car, is parked in Dallas, and
a portion of the party is quartered
therein for the Imperial Council ses
sion.
Yaarab Temple number? among its
membership the highest type of cit
izens Atlanta and Georgia boasts, so
cially, professionally, or otherwise. Its
roll is made up of bankers, merchants,
lawyers, brokers, ministers, physi
cians, editor?, manufacturers, real
estate dealers, capitalists, and lead
ers in every line of endeavor imag
inable.
Its guarantee fund of $100,000 was
subscribed to by every class, rich and
poor, prominent or modestly obscure.
Subscriptions to the necessary
guarantee fund ran all the way from
25 cents to $1,000 each, and the 25-
cent subscribers were just as loyal
and patriotic in the love of Atlanta
as were the big fellows.
That’s Atlanta’s way. When it
makes up its mind, it makes it up
in every possible direction.
The Atlanta Delegation.
The Yaarab Special left Atlanta
Friday night, by way of the South
ern Railway, at 10 o’clock, and ar
rived in Dallas this morning at 5
o’clock. Short stop? were made at
Meridian. Jackson and Vicksburg.
Returning, the Atlanta party will
leave Dallas Thursday night at 8
o’clock, arriving in Atlanta Saturday
night at 9:20 On the return trip,
a short but delightful side trip to Hot
Springs will be made.
Besides the official delegation from
Yaarab Temple, the entire Yaarab
Patrol, forty strong, and the Yaarab
Drum Corps, thirty strong, is in Dal
las. About 200 Atlanta Shriners are
at large in Texas to-day.
The meeting of the Imperial Coun
cil of the Mystic Shrine in North
America ip the biggest annual event
in Shrinedom. These sessions always
ar attended by crowd? running from
25.000 to 50,000.
Atlanta, although one of the vet
eran Shrine cities in the nation, never
yet has entertained the Imperial
tfouncil. It has gore after that dis
tinguished gathering for next year
with characteristic determination and
vim,• however, and there seems to b
little if anv doubt that the invitation
is to be accepted.
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