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6 A 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. 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