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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AM) NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913.
SENSATIONAL EFFORT TO OBTAIN
REAL INSIDE GRAFT EVIDENCE
Continued From Page 3,
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him
ford Tjm have got him doing three men's w«
do the work of the judge down there. * * •
Miles- Well, Mr Woodward, suppose w *• leave!
Woodward—I would like to have some kind of in idea or statement
of what • • • so as to know what • * *.
Miles Yes; that is. something specif)*-.
Woodward—1 don’t know what to do
February—Well, I will have to go through these papers and see
what I can get.
Woodward—Get anything that looks lik* graft I don't care who it
hits and especially Beavers
February—Well, I will have to go through these papers and see what
I (’an get.
Woodward—We are going to get tip the money to pay for it. They’ll
want to know what you have got and what you cnn prove. Then I can
give him an answer. Are you a stenographer?
Woodward—What do they pay you?
February—One hundred dollars. I am clerk of the detective office,
and I spend a great deal of my time in working for Judge Broyles, which
makes one man working in two different departments.
Miles—Are you married?
February—Yes, sir.
Miles— (Excessive noise rendered conversation inaudible >
Woodward—I won’t do anything until It is substantiated
Miles—Yes. just forget it. You know you have never broken your
word yet.
Woodward—1 heard they charged me with ho mV meanness.
Miles—1 think that is a great compliment.
Woodward—I heard they said something of that kind down there.
Miles—That would tickle me to death if some woman would say
that to me.
Woodward- The woman. I understand, said sne would not get or.
the stand and swear to it.
Colyar— Well, t understood that the woman said she did not know
you.
(Noise interfered with sound over dictograph.)
Woodward—1 have a lot of fellows to come up to me and say: "Is
this Mayor Woodward? 1 have seen your picture—’’ Oh, 1
don't know that it is true about me.
Miles—Personally (on account of Mr. Miles talking so low, was un
able to understand him).
Woodward—Well, they have pretty good evidence on him.
Colyar—On w ho '.’
Woodward—Beavers.
* t.’olyar—1 know one of the vie- commission leaders was put out of a
hotel in Birmingham three years ago with a prominent mans wife. . .
Woodward—1 tell you what to do You get this stenographer up
there and see what he can do. You needn't let me know’ about It; Just
tell Miles.
Colyar —How about Lanford?
Woodward—We want Beavers first, then Lanford.
Miles I agree with you. it is best that aftn we go into this and
raise the money to pay for it, we go out of the county, and it will he
turned over to be examined, to see that they are the papers, and then
the money is to he turned over. Now, this list you speak of If Feb
ruary don’t want it t o go out in his own handwriting. 1 will take it and
copy it in my own handwriting And if he gets into trouble we will pro
tect him. Still, in a thing like this I don’t mind getting in trouble for
the right. If he gets in jail 1 will promise that he will get out. . .
Woodward We have got lawyers here that will get you out pretty
quick. And 1 have the pardon power still.
Miles And when they see you have got them they are going to be
was not interested, the interview end
ed," fa id Jones.
Mayor Woodward said the first he
knew of Colyar was one dav last
veek. Colyar called at the City Had
and told the Mayor’s secretary, Frank
Hammond, he had some important
evidence to submit to the Mayor
When he was delayed in getting Int*
in* office, he grew impatient and de-
red that it was more trouble to
see the Mayor of Atlanta than the
President of the United States.
Felder Tells of Evidence.
‘Monday.’’ said Mayor Woodward
’Colonel Felder came to my office. He
told me that in working on the Pha-
gan case he had unearthed some
startling evidence of corruption in the
police department.
“ 'Give me the evidence,’ I said to
him, ‘and I will sec that it is given
proper attention and investigation.'
"He explained that it would take
funds to employ a detective to got
the evidence together, as the man he
had employed was confined to the
Phagan case.
‘‘My reply was that if the evidence
was sufficient to convict. 1 did not
think there would be the least trouble
about getting the money. His re
ply was that it was in documentary
mighty quick to quiet down. . . . Now suppose we arrange for an
other meeting. You set the hour and I will meet you at any time and
place.
February—Well, we woufd better call you up.
Miles—I am so busy that i am not in my office very much, and you
may not catch me,
Colyar—Can you meet mt at 8 o'clock to-night, here?
Miles—Yes: I can meet you here.
tAt this Juncture someone knocked on the door and told Mr. Colyar
that he was wanted at the telephone. Mr. Colyar replied by saying he
couldn't come as he was busy.)
February—Well, we will call you up.
Colyar—He is coming here at 8 o’clock to-night. • • • My numhe*
tip here is Atlanta phone 2401.
Miles—Yea, 1 will call for you. Now, that is to-night?
Colyar—Yes.
Miles—I will be here at 8 o’cl>'k That is all right?
Woodward—J am satisfied that if we can establish * • •+ Do you
understand this much, that we nave got something (voice too low’ and
indistinct to hear).
Mile;* Yes, it has got to be positive.
Colyar—Want a match? "■
Mile* I got one. Well, good lu.?k.
Woodward—(Voice too low to hear.)
Colyar—They will frame u- on anybody that you report.
Woodward—(Talked very low and indistinct.)
Colyar— What protection have we got?
Woodward — Well, I don't think there will he any trouble a; all.
• * * We could get together rind establish * * * There is some
thing wrong, it is simply a • • • Now, Mr. February, you get a list
of the papers you can furnish me against those men and give them :o
me or Miles, and then we will know how to talk with you. As it Is. we
don't know whether you can get anv'thing or not.
Colyar- What do you think of the Phagan case?
Woodward Phagan rase? I think it has been mighty mussed up.
The only thing I know on that subject is w hat I see in the papers, and
they have very little in connection with it. (Balance inaudible.)
Colyar—Tom Felder talks too much.
Woodward — I think so. too. I don’t know what he said on the out
side, but he talked some to me, not a great deal; I didn’t see him five
minutes.
Woodward I only had a very few words. • • • Well, 1 will see I
you again.
Colyar anti February- -Well, good-bye. Mayor.
State of Georgia—County of Fulton.
Personally appeared before me. the undersigned notary public for the
State and county aforesaid. George M. Gentry, a stenographer, who
makes oath and says that the foregoing conversation between A. S. Col-
val James G. Woodward, Mayor of the city of Atlanta; E. O. Miles aril
G. C February took place in room No. 31 of Williams House No 2.
hi 34 and 36 North Forsyth Street. Atlanta. Ga., on May 21, 1913, and it
is a true and correct transcript as taken down by ihe affient through a
diciograph, which was stationed in room No. 32 of said hotel.
GEORGE M. GENTRY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d dav of May, 1913.
CHARLES S. TYERSON.
Notary Public. Fulton County, Georgia.
State of Georgia- County of Fulton
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned notary public for the
Slate and county aforesaid, A. S. Colyar and G. < '. February, both of
whom are personally known to me. who make oath that the above con
versation between James G. Woodward, Mayor, and E. < >. Miles and the
affiants, as herein set out. look pia e in room No. 31 of Williams Hou* *
No. 2. at 34 and 36 North Forsyth Street. Atlanta. Georgia, and that same
was reported by George M. Gentry, a stenographer, in room No. 32 of
said Williams House, and that the same is a true and correct transcrip
tion of said conversations - A. S. COLYAR.
G. C. FEBRCARY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d dav of May. 1913.
VY. W. BROWN.
Notary Public. Fulton County. Georgia.
Felder Charges Police
Plot to Shield Slayer
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‘Church Needs Better Preachers’
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Good Ones Scarce, Says Stelzle
v • r *1- #*f 4* • v t*t 4* • *r
Difficult Task for Seminaries
Records Show He Has Been Con- :
fined in Numerous Prisons and
Twice in Asylum.
Job of Supplying Ministers for
Congregations Hardest of
All—Each Wants Best.
Declares Part of Conversation
Said to Have Been Recorded
Is False.
Mayor James G. Woodward, in com
menting Saturday afternoon on the
published dictograph record of the
conversation said to have been held
between E. O. Allen. A. S. Colyar,
G. C. February and himself in the
Williams House on Wednesday after
noon. declared that it was a “frame-
up of a dirty gang.’’
Mayor Woodward admitted having
conversation with the men above
mentioned, however, but declared that
only half of the conversation which
has been attributed to him is true.
The rest, the Chief Executive asserts,
was injected Into the records and is
false. The men who have sworn to
the statement have perjured them-
selvcs. the Mayor declares.
‘ I did not offer them any money,
but I will say now that I will sub
scribe to a fund that might unearth
any graft in any city department. But
1 haven't got any 11,000 to give.
Denies Phagan Connection.
■ Another thing 1 want to make clear
is that my dealing with those men
had nothing whatever to do with the
Phagan case. They told me they had
evidence of the corruption of Beav
ers and Lanford. is wanted to see
what they had.
"1 don't suppose anyone takes se
riously the statement that Colonel
Felder controls me. It is just as ab
surd to believe that he controls So
licitor Dorsey or the Governor.’’
"G. C. February, secretary to De
tective Chief Newport Lanford, and
A S. Colyar, that long-haired m\s-
teriout* investigator, talked to me
about evidence they had proving that
Chief of Police Beavers and Chief
Lanford were protecting disorderly
houses and blind tigers. They talked
of protecting February’s job and tht
need of $ 1,00ft to pull off the affair
Told Them to Get Proof.
• My reply was i f February could
show up any crooks in the police de
partment 1 did not think the people
of Atlanta would stand for him losing
his job. I told them to produce the
evidence. If It was worth anything
I told them 1 did not think there
would be any trouble about a Just
reward, but that I did not have any
11.000 to give them.
Trte Phagan cas*- was not men
tioned.
Charles t Jones, owner of yom* 1 of
the lose*! "bouses in our midst." a.so
sa'd he was persuaded to visit the
ir' sterious room of Colyar. No 31
When he spoke about money to
> up Beavers, and 1 told him 1
form.
"Just as bo was about to leave.
Charlie Jones tame in. As I remem
ber, Colonel Felder left immediately
Jones had been up to the meeting of
Council Monday afternoon, i under
stood, and dropped by just for n min
ute.”
Mayor’s Next Experience.
Mayor Woodward said bis next ex
perience with the alleged plotters et
a 1. was on Wednesday afternoon when
February and K. O. Miles, a private
detective, tame to his office in the
Empire Building
"It was a little after 3 o'clock," said
the Mayor ‘They told me they could
show* up Beavers and Lanford with
unquestionable proof. 1 was reluctant
to go. but they insisted, so I told them
Wants Congress to
Govern All Aliens
WASHINGTON May 24.—That
Congress shall have the right to leg
islate on questions affecting the right
of citizens of foreign nations residing
In the United States is the proposal
of Representative Rartholdt of Mis
souri. in a resolution offered in the
House. The resolution was inspired
by the California situation.
Bartholdt declares that the United
States should not be in a position of
being embroiled in an international
controversy on account of the action
of a single State.
GARY VICE DISTRICT~GETS
CLEAN-UP LIKE ATLANTA
GARY. 1ND . May 24 The levee dis
trict of this city to-day was empty
Every man and woman habitue had
left the city in compliance with Mayor
Knott's order to the Chief of Police to
give the town *‘a real. not a fake,
clean-up.'
If you have, anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar-
pest circulation of any Sunday newt
paper m the South.
Co'or. el Thomas B. Felder entered
into an explicit and detailed denial to
The Geotglan of all the charges of
attempted bribery contained in the
affidavits signed by C C. Febuary
secretary to Chief of Detectives Lan
ford, and A. S. Colyar, a private de
tective with n spectacular career
’oionel Felder declared the alleged
dictograph record of conversation he
is alleged to have had with Colyar
and Febuary In Williams House No.
2 a • frame-up" and a fabrication
The report that he had offered $1.-
<*00 for the Coleman affidavit in the
Phagan case and affidavits said to in
dicate graft in the Police Department
he branded as absolutely faise
The whole plot had been concocted
he said, to discredit himself and W. J.
Burns and drive them from the Pha
gan cast* so the guilty person might
be protected.
"Every move made by the police in
the Phagan case has been for the pro
tection of the real criminal,” said
("oionel Felder. "Tht- police have kept
an innocent negro there in a cell for |
three week* In the hope that they
can crush a confession out of him and
let the real culprit go free.
"Guilty Person Protected.”
If the desirv were not to protect
the guilty person, why should they
desire to eliminate Burns and myself?
Burns nas a reputation for landing
every criminal he goes after. He has
a reputation for being absolutely mer
ciless in the manner he hunts down
his man. It is as certain as anything
can he in the detection of criminals j
that he will be successful, ones he j
gets started on a ease. He is known
to be unpurchasable. Everybody
Vnows that he could have accepted a
million dollars at any time during the
chase for the M Namara brothers if
he had been willing to say that he
had not been able to find the dyna
miters
‘‘\s for myself, my professional rep
utation. at least, is that if 1 have not
done a case in which 1 was interested
any good, I certainly have not done it
any harm.
"So. 1 repeat, what other motive
could they have in trying to drive Mr.
Burns and myself from the Phagan
c«°.9e except to protect the real cul
prit ?
"That so-called dictograph conver
sation was a frame-up and a fabrica
tion from start to finish in a long^*'
statement that I am preparing. I will
show this conclusively. I will demon
strate it by the very conversation that
is alleged to have been reproduced in
the other room by the dictograph 1
will show that things were written
that never would have been said by
persons in conversation.
•1 will show its absolute absurdity
with such clearness that no room will
be left for doubt. It will be so plain
that he who runs may read. It won t
require any detective to show that it
is a frame-up. and one of the clum
siest and crudest that ever was at
tempted
"That Coleman affidavit, In which
the mother and stepfather of the
murdered Mary Phagan are made to
say that they never hired me or ap
proved of me as an attorney to prose
cute the Phagan slayer, was extorted,
in my opinion Asa matter of fact 1
nr\e- said 1 was employed bv thw
Colemans I announced that 1 had
been engaged by residents of Beil
wood who were friends of the be-
*<a/ed family. It is true, however,
that Mr. Coleman approved of my
selection. I never offered $1,000 for
ihe possession of this affidavit.
"Neither is it true that I wont to
Mayor Woodward and told him tiiar
there was lots of graft in the city, bu:
that it would take a good deal of
money to uncover it. I had only a
brief conversation with the Mayor,
ard 1 told him at the time that I did
not w ish to undertake anything or be
come interested in anything that
would take my time from the prose
cution of the Phagan case. It was
not unde! stood that 1 was to probe
into the city’s graft conditions.
Will Expose Colyar.
"Along with my detailed statement
to-morrow I shall make public some
of the startling incidents in the ca
reer of this man Colyar. 1 have Known
his history for years. What 1 have
to say about him—and practically
every statement I make will be sup
ported by affidavits—will cause a
grave doubt as to his credibility.
"1 am acquainted with his move
ments when he went into Mexico. I
know of the humiliation he was to his
father, who waj a well-known public
man. I will tell of these things when
I make my formal statement to-mor
row.
"Colyar came to me and said that
he had evidence «of graft in the Po
lice and Detective Departments He
sraid he knew tHat hush money was
being paid the police authorities by
the proprietors of disorderly houses.
"I said to him: ‘Don’t you know.
Colyar. that nobody would believe a
word y ou had to say 7 If y ou’ve got
any papers that you think are worth
anything, you can bring them to nm
and Ili look them over.’ it is from
these conversations that we had in
my office that he has framed up this
so-called dictograph conversation,
adding the conversation that gi\ s
it the appearance <»f an attempt to
bribe.
Burns Fought, He Sa>s.
"It is nothing but a plot to get
me out of the Phagan case, but I
am certain of one thing, and that is
that Burns and Tobie. if they are
not circumvented by this gang, will
have the guilt fixed upon the right
person within a very short time after
Burns arrives here. They will have
to work against difficulties, for as
soon as it became known that Burns
was going to enter the cave all of
the witnesses ivere instructed not to
talk to any of the Burns operatives,
although they had been allowed t«'
talk to the Pinkertons, hired by the
National Pencil Company, without
reserve."
Colonel Felder is bitter in his at
titude toward Colyar and the people
he represents, and declares that lie
will have them "shown up” wUhin
another 24 hours.
He was so harassed hv the con
stant ringing of the telephone Friday
night that, with Mrs. Felder, he left
home shortly after 7 o'clock with tt f
intention, he said, of hiding himself
somewhere up town. He found a
group of his friends at one of t ie
clubs and he staved there until short
ly after 10 o'clock when he met Mrs.
Felder, who had been witnessing i
rehearsal at the Grand Theater.
“If they're framing up on you I
want to te“ you you've got mv eym-
pathv," «aid one of his friend., heart
ily
"Thank you, old t» o” r 'vnf 1 the
Colonel, "but T don't i-®! any sym
pathy. I’ll have these on the
run so quick it’ll rrvtk* heir leads
swim!”
Who •£ A. S. Colyar?
The records show that Colyar was
once mnfined in the Middle Tennes
see Jnsafie Asylum, and that more
recently he was sent to Lyons View,
the East Tennessee Asylum. Infor
mal ion from Nashville Is that he
served time in prisons all over the
State, as well as in Sing Sing. New’
York, and a jail in Virginia. Tele
grams from Chattanooga paint him
as a wild adventurer who spends con
siderable time In prison and is al
ways in trouble.
In Prison Many Times.
NASHVILLE, TENN . May 24.—
A. S, Colyar Is a son of the late S.
Colyar, of this city, one of the most
brilliant lawyers and statesmen Ten
nessee ever produced. When not vio
lently insane his mind works bril
liantly. but always to the wrong end.
He has been in prison time after time,
but always evaded long sentences
through influence of his father’s
friends.
Young Colyar’s most noted exploit,
as it is understood here, consisted in
connection with the famous Mollineux
murder case in New York. He went
from Nashville to New York, saw
General Mollineux and offered to have
his son acquitted for $20,000.
’Your son is innocent,” Colyar is
teported to have said. "One of my
clients. n,ov in the Tennessee peni
tentiary, is guilty. He confessed ,o
me. For $20,000 I can get him out of j
the penitentiary , bring him here, in- j
due e him to confess and save your j
son's life.”
Next day. so the story here run®, i
General Mollineux advanced him half |
the money. Colyar went back io
Nashville, engaged a well-known
pickpocket ax a confederate, took him
to New “York with half a dozen
guards and claimed the rest of the
$20,000. The ruse might have worked,
> xcept for the fact that an assistant
district attorney secured information
about Colyar and blocked his plans.
Leaving New York, he started for
Tennessee, only to stop off in V ir-
ginia, get in more trouble and serve
more time. Then he went to Athens,
(la., and lived on (he fat of the land
while posing as a Baptist ministerial
candidate. At least, this is the story
told here.
In Mexico Once.
In Mexico City Colyar posed as a
son of John G. Carlisle, was the guest
of honor at a dinner attended by the
1‘resident, and secured an advance of
$10,000 from the American Ambassa
dor.
Returning to Tennessee, he w r ent to
.McMinnville and stole a mule.
! Through interposition of “friends lie
| was sent to an insane asylum. He
set fire to the institution and rode
into Nashville to notify the fire de
partment. Several persons were in
cinerated in this fire.
In Financial Trouble.
For the past ten years A. S. Colyar
has been out of fine serious trouble
into another, until his father's friends
have despaired of him.
His last trouble in Tennessee was
in the town of Lafollette, a wealthy
mining center in East Tennessee. He
then became involved in serious finan
cial difficulties which promised a pris
on sentence. Nashville people who
revered the name out of memory of
an honored sire saved him by con
vincing a judge that young Colyar
was unbalanced, and he was sent to
Lyons View. Knoxville, the East Ten
nessee asylum for the insane.
Merchants' Parade
Wednesday Greets
Half Holiday Here
Plans for a monster parade of At
lanta jobbers, commission merchants,
meat packers, retail grocers and mar
ket men will be concluded at a meet
ing of business men in Taft Hall
Tuesday evening.
The parade, tc be held Wednesday,
will inaugurate the commencement
of the half holiday for retail mer
chants through June. July and Au
gust. The procession will be more
than two miles long and will be one
of the most pretentious pageants ev
er seen in Atlanta.
At Tuesday evening's meeting R.
A. Broyles. E. L. Adams, \V. O.
Stamps, John M. McCullough and
Harry L Sehlesinger will speak.
Jacob Schiff Sees
Prosperity Ahead
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May i ..—Jacob Schiff
declares that Americans can look for
ward to a good sound money market
in the near future, after Congress has
disposed of the tariff bill. He said:
"I have made a very careful
study of European money mar
kets while abroad, and I think
money is on a more solid basis
than ever. * With the settlement
of Balkan affairs. I find markets
stronget and better than ever.
“We have i good, sound market
which will improve surprisingly
within the next few months.”
Caruso Nervous as
He Sings to His Son
LONDON, May 24.—Caruso was
nervous when he appeared in "Pag-
liacci” at Covent Garden last night,
for in the audience there was a critic
whom he especially desired to pleaw
and he did not know whether or not
he would succeed.
' 1 really was singing to an audience
of one.” the tenor said, "and that is
the most difficult of a'l audiences. 1
knew there was sitting in one of the
i boxes a critic whom I did not dare
to disappoint, a critic who was listen
ing to me for the first time, my little
eon.”
By REV. CHARLES STELZLE
The Presbyterian Church needs
1.000 additional ministers to man its
churches, according to the report of
the committee on Christian life and
work, which reported at the North
ern Assembly Friday.
Among the many topics discussed
at the Assembly meetings, few are of
more importance than that of secur
ing ministers—not more ministers
necessarily, but better ministers, for
the demand to-day is for the highest
type of leadership in the church.
There never was a time in the his
tory of the church w hen the chances
for making good as a preacher were
so great as ii is to-day. The church
is being asked to take the lead in
the important social problems of the
day. as well as the religious questions
of the period Foi a real man's man,
here's the job of the twentieth cen
tury.
Many Men Needed.
But while better men are needed
we- can’t get away from the proposi
tion that we need a good many of
them. This is the problem which
faces the church.
Dr W. H. Houston, of Coiumbus,
secretary of the committee on va
cancy and supply, w r hich has charge
of finding preachers for vacant
churches, gave a stirring address. He
made the startling statement that
there are. 3,00ft ordained ministers in
the Presbyterian Church who are nol
pastors—that is. they are not ir
charge of churches. To be sure, many
of these men are engaged in other
forms of religious work, but the great
mass of them are either without
churches, but looking for positions as
pastors, or else they are engaged in
business.
How to tie up these men—at least,
some of them is the task confront
ing Dr. Houston's committee. Tne
Assembly voted to give the commit
tee “half a cent a member” to make
the experiment of finding churches for
the unemployed ministers and minis
ters for vacant churches. This means
that Dr. Houston will have about $7.-
000 to spend this year for the purpose
in question, as there are nearly 1,400,-
000 members in the church.
Half a cent a member per year may
seem like a mighty small contribution
for this purpose, but Dr. Houston be
lieves he can make the demonstration
with this amount.
Here's good luck to him.
For if he succeeds, he will render |
a great service not only for the Pres- ;
byterians. but for all other non-Epls-
copal churches which must depend
upon the wisdom of their sessions
and other boards or committees to j
find ministers.
In ihe churches governed by bish- !
ops these officials simply say to an j
unemployed minister: ' You go to that
church,” and. he goes. And to that
church they say, “Here’s your preach
er,” and he stays Just as long as
the bishop says so. Now the democ
racy of the Presbyterian Ghurch is a
fine thing. It gives each church the
right to ‘‘call” just the preacher it
wishes. But the system also holds
some very serious disadvantages.
However, men have always paid dear
ly for the benefits of democracy, and
if they want it, they must pay the
price.
Work for Seminaries.
Dr. A. H. Barr, of Baltimore, re
ported on theological seminaries. To
many people here’s the crux of the ;
entire situation: If the seminaries
can make good in training men and
training them in the right way. so as
to give their students i lie light kind'
of an outlook upon their tasks, it j
will help immensely.
Dr Barr said it was quite a popu
lar thing to criticise theological sem
inaries for their alleged shortcomings.
That's easy. Few men can give us
a program and a curriculum which
w ill not only develop men of superior
type—this they can do without much
difficulty—but to take the ordinary
man who comes to the seminary to
become a preacher and really make a
great preacher of him—there’s the
rub.
Usually, the $1,000 church wants a
$10,000 preacher; so the job of sup
plying preachers is difficult at best.
Dr. Barr reported that the enrollment
in the junior classes in all Presby
terian theological seminaries this
year is 30 less than it was a year ago,
although there are 60 more men in
the senior classes than there were
last year. This proves that either
students are holding on better In the
upper classes or else some men are
coming back to the seminaries and
finishing their courses. No doubt, the
seminaries are improving their cur-
riculums. This will help in inducing
more men to take the course.
Pay for Students.
Dr. William McKibbin offered a res
olution that the Board of Education
pay ordained ministers who wish to
return to the seminary for additional
work the same amount of money that
is paid the regular student for the
Gospel ministry. Dr. McKibbin is
himself the president of a theological
seminary—Lane, of Cincinnati—and
he knows something of the difficulties
In the way of securing men and train
ing them.
The discussion of the day with ref
erence to the entire subject revealed
a decided interest in the matter, many
of the commissioners speaking to it.
First of Seaboard's
Steel Diners Here
The first of six new' steel dining
cars purchased by the Seaboard Air
Line Railway arrived in Atlanta this
afternoon and was met at the-Union
Depot by Assistant General Passen
ger. Agent Fred GeDsler and Robert
F. Maddox, one of the directors of
the road.
The new, cars, which are 73 feer.
long and seat 36 people, are equipped
with the latest devices. Suction fans
prevent all odors from the kitchen
entering the car.
The cars will be run from New
York and Washington to Birming
ham and Florida. They cost $30,000
each and others will be put in serv
ice as soon as the Pullman Company
can finish them.
Roosevelt in Person
To Push Libel Suit
MARQUETTE, MICH., May 24.—
Arrangements were completed to-day
by attorneys for the trial Monday of
the libel suit for J10.000 brought by
Theodore Roosevelt against George
A. Xewett. editor of Iron Ore, a week
ly paper of Ishpeming, Mich.
' Roosevelt is expected to arrive here
Monday.
The defense of Editor Xewett will
be that he was criticising, in an edi
torial, a public man who was running
for office. Many prominent men from
all over the country will testify for
Roosevelt.
Time Clock Accuses
Man It Once Saved
CHICAGO, May 24.—The time clock
in the Cook County Jail, which saved
James Dugan, a guard, from being
prosecuted on the charge of complic
ity in the murder of his father-in-law
on December 18. 1912, will be used In
an effort to prove a charge of robbery
against Dugan.
According to the clock record, Du
gan did not punch the time clock on
the night a number of freight cars
were robbed. A man under arrest,
who confessed his part in the rob
bery, said Dugan was one of the
thieves.
Suffragists Called
“Slaves to Clothes"
Dollar Diplomacy
Called Necessity
CHICAGO, May 24.—“Dollar diplo
macy” has become a necessity be
cause the use of diplomacy has come
to be more and more used to safe
guard and advise traders who are
pushing commerce into new quarters
This was fhe statement of William J
Calhoun, former Minister to China.
‘‘Why should the United States
spend $330,000,000 on the Panama. Ca
nal ‘if it is the policy to sit on the
bank and watch other nations’ ships
sail across the-Pacific to trade expan
sion?” was his criticism of the Gov
ernment’s foreign trade policy.
Nun and Rich Sister
Meet After 19 Years
MOBILE. ALA.. May 24.—Mrs.
Thomas P. Conroy, a wealthy woman
of Boston, and her sister, who is Sis
ter Mary Vincent, a nun stationed
at Providence Infirmary, have just
met here for the first time in 19
years.
Before coming to Mobile. Sister
Mary Vincent was stationed at Bir
mingham for 10 years.
Marshall Rebuked by
Bacon for Reed Rule
Wanted Woodward to See Just
What Sort of a Crook Colyar
Was, He Declares.
Inward O. Miles, a private detec
tive, assumes the responsibility f >Y
the presence of Mayor Woodward at
the Williams House, resulting in tiic
dictographlng of the Chief Executive
of Atlanta. He also says it was at
his suggestion Colonel Thomas B
Feider discontinued even his i
quaintance with A. S. Colyar. the
wild-eyed investigator from Tennes
see.
Miles’ statement to a Georgian re
porter follows*
“Colonel Felder had already been
to see Colyar and he asked me to gu
and see what he had; to examine an
papers, etc.
“I went, and as soon as I saw Co*-
var I was disgusted. The Lov!
doesn't make mistakes, and the Lo i
certainly put the brand of a crook
on that fellow's physiognomy If He
ever put It anywhere.
“Colyar wanted Mayor Woodward
and asked me to get him. 1 went to
the Mayor and said: ’I want to take
you down to see the greatest fre.ik
and crook you ever saw in your lif-\
• I want you to hear his line of bunk.
You don’t have to say anything—just
come along and listen to what he
hands out.’
Thought Someone Listened.
•‘That was Wednesday afternoon. I
didn’t think anything about a dicto
graph, but I knew, or at leasf
thought, that he had somebody lis
tening in the next room. I couldn't
help knowing that, because every
now and then Colyar raised his voice
so they could hear. Anybody on the
streets a block could have heard
him had they listened.
“After the conversation, practical
ly as reported In the dictograph.
Mayor Woodward left.
“Colyar told me not to forget to
bring Colonel Felder and the money
next morning at 10 o'clock. I asked
him what money, and he said the
$1,000 for the papers. I told him I
didn’t want to buy any papers; that
if Colonel Felder or anybody else did.
that was their business, but I didn’t
believe they did.
“Then I went back and reported to
Colonel Felder And advised him to
have nothing more to do with Col
yar; not to go back to the Williams
House and even not answer his tele
phone calls.
Felder Quit Negotiations.
“They waited all day Thursday, and
Colonel Felder didn't go back and
didn’t answer the telephone calls.,
Thar’s why it was published in ! n
completed form. They saw the jig
was up. and I believe Colyar then
sold the story.
“I know young Gentry, who tooK
down the dictograph report, and I'll
wager $100 ne won't sign an affida
vit It has been published In unex
purgated form. Nothing has been
added, but some things have been
left cut. However. I can't say that
the emissions made any materia!
change.
"Yes. I am the one that caused
Mayor Woodward to go there. He i*s
all right., 1 just wanted him to hear
the ’line of bunk that crook had to
hand out.
White City Park Now Open
WASHINGTON. May 24.—Senator j
Bacon sharply rebuked Vice President
Marshall in executive session of the
Senate for attempting to use the fa
mous Reed rules by counting Sena
tors to make the quorum not voting.
Senator Bacon declared the only
way such a rule should ever be en
forced would be through changed
rules.
M'LOUGH LIN FEARS INVADERS.
NEW YORK, May 24.—M. E. Me-
Loughlin, national lawn tennis cham
pion. arrived here yesterday and imme
diately began practice on the West Side
courts, preparatory to the Davis Cup
marches igainst the Australians. He
said the Australian team Is very formi
dable.
CONFEDERATE VET
ERANS — CHATTA
NOOGA.
The N„ C. & St. L. Ry. and W. &
A. R. R. will sell round-trip tickets
at REDUCED RATES, ATLANTA
TO CHATTANOOGA AND RE
TURN. $3.00, tickets on vale May
24 to 28, inclusive, and for trains
scheduled to arrive Chattanooga
before noon of May 29, with re
turn limit June 5, with an exten
sion by deposit at Chattanooga, to
June 25. 1913. Regular trains leave
Union Passenger Station at 8 a
m.. 8:35 a. m.. 4:50 p. m. and 8:60
p. m. All these trains carry Pull
man parlor cars and flrst-clas a
coaches. The 8:60 p. m. train car
ries local sleeper to Chattanooga.
SPECIAL TRAIN will leave At
lanta. carrying the Atlanta party,
at 2:15 p. m., May 26. The West
ern and Atlantic Railroad is the
Battlefield Route. Sherman's line
of march, every foot of it being
historic. For further information
call upon any agent or
C. E. HARMAN,
General Passenger Agent.
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WASHINGTON. May 24—Repre
sentative Stanley E. Bowdle, of Ohio,
who succeeded Nicholas Longworth,
arou5«ed the ire of Washington suf
fragists by declaring that the suf
fragettes w’ould do well to emanci
pate themselves from the slavery of
clothes
He also suggested that they stop
the slaughter of rare and beautiful
birds for the adornment of woman
kind, take better care of their serv
ants and abolish :he deadly hook
and eye.
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