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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN.
AT' .' NT.' i
SUNDAY JULY 27. 1013.
JUST II DISEASE
Dementia Telephonica, Recently
Discovered Malady, Is Superin
duced by “Line Is Busy.”
ATLANTANS ARE AFFLICTED
Operators at Ivy Exchange De
clare That They Had Known of
It for Years.
"Number, please?"
The voice came over the wire. It
Twaa sweet and »oft and dreamy-llke.
®But the voice In answer was not.
"Gimme Main 100, and darn quick,
?fcoo,” It growled. Of course, it came
l-rfrom a man.
"This Is the ninth time I’ve rung
Bfam,” he raved on. “You tell me
ftthey’re busy, and I know they ain’t.
**They've got no right to be busy.”
And his voice w f ent up and out with
fe. shriek.
The little Incident is» Just as was
{recorded by a pretty switchboard op
erator in an Atlanta exchange. The
man in question was not a brute. He
way merely a victim of Dementia Tel
ephonica.
Yes, there is such a disease, and
business men are acutely susceptible
to its visitations. The Journal of the
lAmer can Medical Association in a
Srecent number discusses* the new dis
ease and pours out its sympathy on a
certain victim whose case is men
tioned and analyzed.
Wrong Number One Cause.
The telephone dementia, it seems,
usually seizes its victim about the
fourth or fifth time he has been told
that a number is busy, and then finds
out that it was nothing of the kind.
Sometimes it comes over the suffer
er, causing him to see red and to talk
blue, when he calls once, twice, then
three times, and finds each time that
the poor little “hello” girl has given
him the wrong number.
The girls in the Atlanta exchange
say they understand now. and do not
pay any attention to it. The men do
not mean it.
A gir’ on the Ivy exchange Tvas
asked yesterday just what she thought
of th£ scientific discovery of the dis
ease.
“Huh.’ she snorted—if a pretty girl
can snort—“are the wise ones just
finding that out? Why we knew' all
the time that there was something
like this, although we didn’t know'
how ;o call it. The best treatment
We know' is, when they rave, to pull
out the plug and let them talk to
themselves. And to ourselves w r e
mu r mur, ’poor fellow.’ Or maybe it’s
a woman.”
, Maybe it is a woman, The medical
men say that women are susceptible
well as men. and as violently de
moniac when they succumb.
Diseases Develops in Germany.
The malady first was noted scien
tifically when a lawyer was put on
trial in Berlin, accused of slander
ing the postofEice, which also controls
the telephone in the land of the Kai
ser and of government ownership.
The lawyer lost his patience after he
had called his number three times in
ithe course of three-quarters of an
hour. The girl told him that “Num
ber Undsoweiter” was busy. Later he
found that it hadn’t been, and he ex
ploded.
The medical expert of the court be
fore which the law'yer was taken tes
tified that the defendant w'as of a
highly nervous temperament, and that
he had heard of men going insane
from telephone vexation. And so de
mentia telephonica became a subject
for research, and was put in the doc
tor’s books.
Stovall Departs for
Post in Switzerland
New United States Minister Enroute
to New York From Savannah.
Sails July 29.
SAVANNAH, July 26.—Colonel and
Mrs. Pleasant A. Stovall, their daugh
ter, Mrs. Burton L. Mason, and their
'son, Master Joe Stovall, are now’ upon
the high seas, en route to New York,
from which port they will embark on
July 29 for Switzerland, where Colo
nel Stovall goes to take charge of his
post as United States Minister to that
country. The party will be joined in
Europe by Miss Pleasant Stovall, an
other daughter, who is already there.
The son. Joe. was taken ill about a
week ago, and it was thought at that
time that arrangements for the trip
would have to be changed, but a rap
id recovery made it possible for the
entire party to leave on schedule
time.
American Girl Jilts a Lord l[l[
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Fails in Turkey Trot Test
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Nobleman “Stiff, Clumsy”
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Don’t Be
“Grouchy”
just because your stomach
has “pone back” on you.
There’s a splendid chance
for it to “come back”
with the aid of
KOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
It soothes and tones the
tired nerves, promotes
bowel regularity, aids di
gestion and will help you
back to health. Try it.
Instead Return-
i n g Voyager
Will Wed
Canadian Who
Has Lots of
Money.
Went Abroad
Fully Expect
ing to Accept a
Title, but the
Cabaret Ruin-,
ed Plan.
M ISS BETTY HAMILTON, who says she
refused to many an English nobleman
because he turkey trots so clumsily.
NEW YORK,
July 26.—When
Miss Betty Ham
ilton, daughter of
a wealthy Guate
malan planter,
sailed for England
two months ago
she said she was
going to marry a
real, live English
lord. She would
not give his name.
Yesterday she
returned aboard
the Kronprinz
Wilhelm with the.
new’s that she had
discarded the lord
in favor of a sim
ple Canadian with
lots of money and
that she wdll be
married within the
next two weeks at
the hotel where
she is staying.
“All American
girls like to know
men with titles.”
s*aid Miss Hamil
ton. “I really in
tended to marry
the lord until he
took me to a cab
aret and started
to ‘turkey trot.’
He was so stiff
and clumsy that I
there and then
made up my mind
that he would not
be a good husband
for me.
“I did not tell
him so then, as I
was not quite, sure
whether I loved
my Canadian friend wen enougn to
marry him. I thought the matter
over and at tea at the Hotel Savoy
next day I accepted the Canadian and
wrote a note to the lord. 1 am sure I
acted wisely and I feel I shall be hap
pier as plain Mrs. instead of Lady
So-and-So."
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Dabbler in Oils, Has
No Fear of Broyles
Painter Sings Jingle While He Pum
mels Antagonist in Fight Over
Old Dollar Debt.
I am a dabbler in paints and oils,
What do I care about old Judge
Broyles?
Thus sang Wallace Fanning, a
painter, whils; he vigorously pummel-
ed R. M. Moore, according to Moore's,
story in police court Saturday after
noon. The two men fought on the
sidewalk in front of Johnson’s sa
loon on Decatur street.
Judge Broyles fined him $15 and
costs—on the charge of fighting.
According to the stories of both
men, the fight started over a dollar
which Fanning claimed Moore has
been owing him for four years.
Moore said Fanning dragged him out
on the sidewalk, and when he warn
ed the painter that “Judge Broyles
would get him,” Fanning sang his
song.
Croker Visit Starts
Tammany War Talk
Friends Hope That Former Boss Will
Wrest Power of Organization
From Murphy.
Mrs. Melchers Dies;
Widow of Editor
Survived by Three Daughters and
One Son—End Comes at Son-
in-Law’s Home.
NEW YORK, July 26.—Richard
Croker is coming home from Ireland
next autumn. Word to that effect
reached former associates of the one
time Tammany boss to-day.
While many of Croker’.« intimates
hope that he will project himself into
the Tammany broil and try to regain
control, others say the former boss
has no such idea. If Croker does
try it, Tammany Hall, the leaders say,
has a desperate fight ahead, for Mur
phy. they maintain, will not abdicate
without a hard tussle.
Croker’? 300-acre farm in Richfield
Springs is being overhauled.
All the buildings on the farm are
being painted an eiperald hue and the
whole estate is being done over.
Drouth Broken When
Countryside Prays
Seven Weeks of Dry Weather Fol
lowed by Heavy Rain After
Prayer Meeting.
Mrs. Emilie Melchers died at the
home of her son-in-law, Emile Breit-
enbucher. Sunset avenue, Saturday.
Mrs. Melchers was 65 years of age
and the widow of Franz Melchers, for
many years editor of The Deutsche
Zeitung at Charleston, S. C. •
She is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Emile Breitenbueher, of Atlanta;
Mrs. Herman Bischoff. of Charleston,
S. C., and Mrs. Julius Berndt, of Bal
timore, Md.. and one son, Alex Mel
chers. of New York City.
The funeral and interment will be
at Charleston,' S. C.
University Club Has
Improved Lodgings
Several Rooms Furnished Snugly
for Out-of-Town Members of
Organization.
Pony Contest Now at Fever Heat
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But Four Days Left in Vote Race
Thousands of Atlantans Cheated
by Clique of Drivers—Inspec
tor Begins a Crusade.
Better Start Now and Win That
Automobile—Big Opportunity
Among Business Folk.
Closeness of Battle for Shetlands
Leaves Chance for Everybody
in Final Week.
City Weights Inspector W. T. j
Buchanan Saturday declared that al
most every family in the city was be
ing cheated in ice. He explained that
he had discovered what seems to oe
an agreement between a majority
of the negro ice peddlers to give short
weights and that consumers were
powerless against such a combina
tion.
"These peddlers have worked out %
shrewd scheme to swindle the buyers
and also the Ice manufacturers," he
explained. “They pay for all the Ice
secured at the factories in tickets.
When they cut up a 200-pound cake,
instead of making four 50-pound
blocks, they make five blocks, to be
sold for 50 pounds each. They then
take tickets for four of the blocks and
sell the fifth one for cash. This money
they put in their pockets."
Inspector Buchanan turned to a ne
gro sitting in his office in the City
Hall, who had been called up on com
plaint of a woman on Highland ave
nue who said he gave her only 17
pounds for 10 cents
Make Big Profits.
"How much can a peddler make on
the side a day?” he asked.
“A smart negro can make from $3
to $4,’’ he answered, very frankly.
“You see,” continued Inspector
Buchanan, “it would not be so bad if
onlv a few peddlers were guilty, but
when they are agreed. It does no good
to change from one to another.
*‘Most families have n > scales and
don’t realize they .are being cheated.
Poor Suffer the Most.
"Among the poor people who buy
only small quantities of ice the prac
tice of the peddlers practically
amounts to robbery. They don’t get
half what they pay for.”
Inspector Buchanan said he was
glad to say that the Ice manufactur
ers were giving him all possible as
sistance in stopping this thievery.
He announced that next week he
expected assistance in his department
from Council that would enable him
to protect everybody in Atlanta in
the purchases of ice. He has been
doing all the work of inspecting
weights and measures alone, but has
petitioned Council for two assistants
during the ice season.
This will be a live week In The
American and Georgian’s Want-A i
Contest, and if you don’t enter and
get busy, you’re apt to be sorry.
Somebody will be driving that 1913
five-passenger automobile around
this fall. Somebody will be pounding
that fine piano. Somebody will be
sitting on the back of an observation
car on the way to California, all ex
penses paid.
And it might as well be you.
All it takes is make up your mind,
sign the coupon, get busy and stick to
it. If you work, you win.
The Want-Ad Man wants to see
you Monday morning, or you can see
one of the district managers. Sup
pose you drop in and chat with the
manager at the headquarters nearest
your home. Or come and see the
Want-Ad Man at No. 7 Edgew’ood
avenue. Any one of them will put
you next.
There's a big opportunity for some
body willing to hustle around uptown
and round up the business. Real es
tate men. retail stores, everybody, can
use a want ad in their business, and
this kind of business counts up fast
Get In the game.
There’s a coupon on another page
w’orth 1,000 votes to start with. Clip
it out, fill out the blanks and start in
Monday to win a grand prize.
Do it now.
Standing of the contestants In The
Georgian and American pony contests
again is published Sunday. It was
found impossible to change the stand
ing every day, or even to bring them
| completely up to date for Sunday,
but the vote tables, as printed, in
complete as they are. show' that it
still is “anybody’s race,” and that the
contestants are passing and repassing
one another at the lead In bewilder
ing fashion.
Four days remain of the contest,
and only two days of the “Red Let
ter Ballot" offer. Many of the boys
and girls have been holding strength
Two hustlers for Shetland
prizes. At the top is Eleanor
Raoul, No. 350 Washington
street, while below is Henry
Hull, No. 95 Jones avenue.
Cumberlands Lose
Publishing House
Federal Judge Decides Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A., Is Entitled to
Proprty in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, July 26.—After liti
gation covering many years, the
Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing
House In this city goes from the con
trol of the old Cumberland Presby
terian Church to the Presbyterian
Church U. S. A., under a decree of
Judge Sanford, of the \United States
District Court.
An attempt was made to transfer
this property to the United Church,
but the Tennessee Supreme Court
held that the union of the Presby
terians was invalid.
Judge Sanford’s decision removes
the old directors. In decreeing the
publishing house property to the
union he follows the lead of courts of
ten States outside of Tennessee in
passing on the transfer of the church
property.
Dr. Starnes to Play
Own Compositions
‘A Lake and a Fairy Boat,' One of
Concert Features—Organist’s
Wife to Sing.
Compositions of Verdi, Mozart.
Wagner and Gabriel-Marie will be
heard in the farewell concert of Dr.
Percy J. Starnes, city organist, at the
Auditorium Sunday afternoon. He
will also play two of his own compo
sitions, an improvisation upon a
Scotch melody, and a song, "A Lake
and a Fairy Boat." The overture to
Wagner’s “Tannhauser” will close the
program.
Dr. Starnes will he assisted by his
wife. Mrs*. Lillian Belle Starnes, col
oratura soprano. She will sing the
aria from Verdi’s “La Traviata,” Mo
zart’s aria. “Die Koenigin Der Nacht.”
and Dr. Starnes’ “A Lake and a Fairy
Boat.” The latter will no heard in
Atlanta to-day for the first time.
McKee Likely to End
Postmaster Term
National Politics Not Expected to
Have Any Effect on Changes
in Atlanta Office.
National politics will have no im
mediate effect on the Atlanta post
mastership. according to reports
spread in Atlanta Saturday afternoon.
Postmaster H. L. McKee, appointed
under President Taft, probably will
be allowed to complete his term,
which ends in January. 1914. with no
attempt at ousting him anticipated.
A report will be made by postoffic'*
inspectors on charges of alleged in
efficiency that were made against the
department executives of the Atlanta
postoffice.
“Of course, I don’t know what the
reports will say, said .»Ir. McKee.
“But if they find inefficiency. I never
knew it existed.”
In reserve for this final spurt and
j from Sunday on to the close will set
a trying pace for the “trailers." It
is no time for the weak-hearted, but
it is the very season which the real
contenders enjoy.
Large numbers of the boys and
girls are expected Sunday to yisit
the newly arrived ponies, which are
stabled with the original nine in the
rear of Loomis street. The baker’s
dozen of newcomers are beauties. One
is just the thing for some little fel
low—it is so small that it could stand
between the legs of a full-grown trot
ting horse and never disturb the big
fellow’.
All have kind faces, with small
heads and ears, considered by horse
men to be the signs of good breed
ing.
John G. Mobley, who raised the po
nies, wrote an interesting account of
how they were shipped in his last
letter to The American.
“I had three carpenters w’orking all
day building thirteen crates, one for
each of the ponies,” he says. “Into
each crate was built a box, later
filled with oats. Each pony was
given a new tin pail full of water
and hitched to the crate with a new
halter. They should arrive In per
feet condition.”
They did. No one ever saw a
friskier bunch than was unloaded
from the express car Thursday.
The “dark horse” who has been
waiting for the final week to make a
sprint to victory has an excellent
The University Club is planning to
care for its out-of-town members
properly while they are in Atlanta,
and the transient facilities have been
improved.
Several rooms v/ith oath have been
furnished in comfortable style, which
will be let to members at $1.50 a day.
The idea has proven popular and a
great, number of non-resident mem
bers are taking advantage of the op
portunity of staying at the club rather
than in a hotel.
$15
$15
ROUND TRIP
To
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Tickets on sale July 26,
27 and 28. Limited August
5, with privilege of exten
sion until August 20.
TWO DAILY THROUGH
TRAINS.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Credit House Gives
Holen Better Post
Made Manager of Adjustment De
partment of Firm’s New
York Office.
CORDELE, July 26.—Seven weeks’
drouth in the vicinity of Rebecca was
broken yesterday by a heavy rain,
and the people of that place believe
that a prayer service the night before
to invoke the Almighty to send show
ers upon the crops was altogether re
sponsible.
Crops w’ere burning up and It ap
peared that the entire year’s work
of the farmers would be a failure.
| It was suggested that a prayer serv
ice be held at the Baptist Church,
the proposition meeting with instant
approval.
According to announcement, the
people for miles around met at Re
becca and offered up prayers, con
tinuing in the service for some time.
Apparently in answer to this prayer,
the rain came the following day.
O. M. Holen, who for several
months has been identified with the
local office of the Credit Clearing
House, has been promoted to the
management of the Adjustment De
partment of the New York office.
He assumes his new’ duties August
1 with the best wishes of many
friends he has made during his stay
in Atlantal
SUGAR
25 Pounds $1.25
20 Pounds 1.00
10 Pounds 50
5 Pounds 25
Extra fancy
Lemons.. doz.
Cash Grocery Co.
118 Whitehall
WHY FEEL TIRED?
TRY LIVER EASE
Thousands Testify to the Su
periority of Dr. Verdier’s
Liver Ease Over Calomel.
We want those who have not tried
this great substitute for Calomel to
try one bottle on our money-back plan
if vou are not thoroughly satisfied.
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DR. VERDIER’S LIVER EASE is
sold and guaranteed by every druggist
in town, 50c for a large bottle. It is
pleasing to the taste, any child will
drink it from the bottle readily and
there will be none of the sick, bad
after effects.
Auk vv.ir druggist tr-day for a bot
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you need it lit the house for the en
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some >f the family will rot need at
least one dose of this wonderful med
icine Get it to-day.
Semi-Annual
Reductions
NOW !N FORCE ON
Regal Shoes
An unusual opportunity to buy Standard Shoes at
a big saving. Original price stamped in every shoe.
FOR WOMEN
$3.50 and $4.00 Grades
Now $1.50 to $2.75
FOR MEN
$3.50 to $5.00 Grades
Now $2.25 to $3.60
Make your selections early, as the range of sizes
and styles diminishes as the sale advances.
Regal Shoe Store
O
L. J. Wing, Proprietor.
6 Whitehall St.
chance In the "Red Letter Ballots,”
which make subscriptions for The
Sunday American count strongly In
vote totals. A $2 year’s subscription
to The Sunday American yields the
contestant 2,000 votes, and even a $1
subscription, for six months, yields
800 votes. These are not e.xtra votes,
but Include both the regular and ex
tra votes.
It Is not necessary, the contest
manager explains, to clip a coupon
from the paper for every “Red Let
ter Ballot.” It serves as well to w'rite
“Red Letter Ballot” on the corner of
the receipt which every contestant
uses.
Someone is sure to be disappointed
when the contest closes and the dis
appointed boys and girls will be those
who were too sure of their strength,
and "took It easy." Those who did
their level best will not be disap
pointed, for they will have the satis
faction of knowMng that they were
fairly beaten. The only soreness will
be felt by those who say "I could
have done more, but I thought It was
needless.”
By next Sunday probably It will be
possible to announce the winners. But
In the meantime there will be a busy
four days.
S ARE ILL
in ii m en
Magical Development of Section
Is Aided by Gainesville and
Northwestern Road,
Magical development In the lum
ber sections of the North Georgia
mountains has caught in its tide not
only Robertstown, about whose
growth a story appeared recently in
The Sunday American, but neighbor
ing towns as well—Helen, Brookton,
Clermont and Cleveland.
It is at Helen that the overnight
town was built, and not at Roberts
town, as the story had it. Helen,
named for the daughter of the presi
dent of the new railroad into that
section, was laid down in the prime
val forest, and now is a town with
electric-lighted hotel and residences,
waterworks and all the appurten
ances of a modern city.
The new railroad is the Gainesville
and Northwestern Railroad, which
now has In operation 37 miles of
track well constructed and laid with
60-pound rail, with modern depots
being completed along the line of
road between Gainesville and North
Helen. Robertstown, an old settle
ment, now is known as North Helen,
the name being changed by the rail
road company.
The trains are operated by a tele
phone system, and are imposing af
fairs with their 75-ton locomotives.
Stops are made at sixteen stations
along the line.
Old Mill Theater
Changes Its Policy
Whitehall Street Playhouse Under
New Management Abandons
Vaudeville for Moving Pictures.
The Old Mill, the Whitehall street
motion picture theater, is under new
management and will henceforth be
known as Lynch’s. With the new
management, an entire change of pol
icy will be put into operation. There
wiU be no vaudeville, but first-run
feature pictures will be offered. The
highest class entertainment will be
afforded by Miss Verna Sterkx, vio
linist. and A1 Johnson, character
singer.
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The Ice-Kist has no dasher or
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The cold penetrates from the
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