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♦ l r •• •• ,,gpy&r 4 A TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, JITY 27, 1012. Slashed Skirts Block Fitfh Avenue! l |||||]5J 4>«4. •!•••!« +t+ N.Y.Mob leers Four Gay Women TOWN IS PICKED •I* • *!• *•* *1* • v +•* Police Rescue Scared Wearers If PRESIDENT Uncle Sam Enters Moving Picture Field Films Arc Being Made to Aid Work of Reclaiming Lands in West. An actual snapshot of a slashed skirt wearer just before she and some other women caused a traffic blockade in Fifth avenue, New York. Governor Keeps Silence While His Friends Sound Georgia, and the Hoke* Smith Clan Prepares to Decide the Factional Struggle. There is a well-defined, positive and a gressive movement on to nominate Governor John M. Slaton for Senator in next year’s primary. The Governor himself is not known to be a party to it, and the impres sion is that he is not, at least, di rectly. Nevertheless, the Slaton senatorial bourn is on. and it is causing no end of comment, not only among mem bers of the Legislature now in At lanta and visiting statesmen, but throughout the State generally. Governor Slaton certainly has said no public word that can be twisted cr construed into the suggestion of his senatorial candidacy, and it prob ably is true that he has given the matter only the most casual thought thus far. It is generally taken for granted that Senator Hoke Smith will be a candidate to succeed himself. He has served a portion of Senator Clay’s unexpired term and has given his friends to understand that he will be in the August primary of next year. Brown Name Discussed. If there is to be a hotly contested senatorial campaign next year, there fore, it likely will open along about May. Before Governor Brown retired from the Executive Office, his name frequently was discussed for the senatorial succession. The wiser and more experienced observers of things political in <#eor- g a predict confidently that Governor Slaton and former Governor Brown v ,11 not both be in the senatorial race. anH that whichever announces, if either, it will be with a pretty thor ough understanding of what the oth er will do. The dopesmiths, therefore, are fig uring a senatorial race next year with Senator Smith on the one hand and either Governor Brown or Governor Slaton on the other. Which one it shall be probably will be thrashed out between this time and January 1, 1914. If Governor Slaton elects to have a try for the Senate next year, there by giving up the Governorship at the expiration of a first term, it; will pre cipitate a very warm fight for the Executive succession, and already ru mor is fixing that up also. Both Factions Groom Men. In the event Governor Slaton an nounces for the Senate, It Is said that Congressman Hardwick will be put in the race for Governor by the friends cf Senator Smith,, and that Congressman Gordon Lee or former President of tne Senate TV. S. West will he his opponent, put forth by the Slaton and Brown people. In addition to the aforementioned gubernatorial prospects reported more or less willing to have them selves figured upon, it is being stage- whispered that Speaker Burwell and President Anderson, of the present Legislature, have their ears to the ; round, and Attorney General Thom- :to S. Felder is another Barkis thought to be not absolutely and al together unwilling. Old Foes Once More. Of coin' e, if the Slaton senatorial boom really isn’t a boom at all. and if the Governor should put a quietus upon it, why. then, the rather pret ty and thrilling house of cards the wise political bigwigs have set up will tumble down, and the next sen atorial race will resolve itself, per haps. into a fight betw'een those an cient enemies. Senator Hoke Smith end former Governor “Little Joe” Brown. If that race materializes, it will be hot enough for all ordinary purposes, to be sure, and in a way it Would be more clean cut and demonstrative of genuine strength, moreover. Tt would line up for a final battle royal the two factions that have dis puted control in Georgia for many years, with the assured prospect ahead that a settlement had come at last to stay put. That there will be a merry war for the senatorial succession next year i«vnot to be doubted. Senator Smith’s frrends realize it and make no bones of admitting it. They, however express themselves as perfectly willing to meet the is sue thus set up, if that becomes nec essary. They call attention to his undoubt ed influence in the Senate and his closeness to the White House, and they assert that he is more useful to Georgia in Washington than he "'as evenin the State Capitol in At- Ir.nta. On the other hand the Senator's unloving friends claim that far from withdrawing from Georgia politics since he was sert to Washington, he 1° more intimately engaged in under taking to shape things locally than < ver before, and that his hand fig ures in every political frame-up es- ved. even to the smallest and most inconsequential postoffices. SEASHORE EXCURSION AUGUST 7. Jacksonville, Brunswick, St. Simon, Cumberland, At lantic Beach. $6.00—Limit ed 6 days. Tampa, Fla., $8 Limited 8 days. SPECIAL TRAINS, olid Pullman train. Coach train, servations Now. ERN RAILWAY. Cornish, Where Summer Capital Is Located, Is Mythical Village in Vermont Hills. By JONATHAN WINFIELD. CORNISH, N. H., July 26—(There really isn’t any such place as Cor nish, but It makes a good date line.) When President Wilson selected the mythical town of Cornish for the “Summer Capital of the United States” and the Churchill home as the Summer White House, he little dreamed that he was getting within striking distance of the most unique town In the United States. Yes, I know that “most unique” is a phrase condemned by all writers and speakers of good English, but it is the only superlative adjective applicable to the town of Baltimore, Vermont. There is at least one other Balti more in the United Strffes which has gained prominence because of its size and the excellence of its crabs and oysters. Baltimore, Vt., has exactly 22 inhabitants and 12 voters! Also, 1 have it directly from the oldest in habitant of the place that neither of the other Baltimore’s luxuries have ever reached this namesake of the Maryland metropolis. Few Know of Town. So small is the town of Baltimore, Vt., that but a select few r in this sec tion of the country know of its ex istence. Shortly after my arrival here I heard rumors of the strangeness of the town from a “foreigner’’ here, who had evinced an interest in the peculiar things, iln his adopted land. The only man In Windsor, N. H., the town opposite Cornish, who would admit that he had ever heard of such a place was the oldest inhabitant, Da vis by name, who volunteered to guide me to the smallest town in the Uni ted States, provided I would supply the automobile. The road to Baltimore led up the side of a steep mountain and during our a went the patriarch of Windsor regaled me with strange tales of the town which we were approaching. In rmont. it appears, every town must Four Days Left in Race for Shet- lands—Splendid Chance for Every Entry. Standing of the contestants in The Georgian and American pony contests again is published Sunday. It v?as 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 si ill 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 in reserve for this final spurt and 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 visit the newly arrived ponies, -which are stabled with the original nine In the ax ieal> Needed Also to Quell the Stampede Caused by Daring Costumes. NEW YORK. July 26.—It required three policemen, a quick-witted chauffeur and a taxicab to Rescue from a jeering crowd four young women who ventured into Fifth ave nue dressed In gowns of the latest and most daring Parisian styles. The young women, who, it Is said, are models, appeared shortly after noon Each was bew ilderingly clad the most striking point of their «it- tlre being skirts daringly slashed above the knee. The slash was !n front, too, which gave the skirt a rather startling appearance as the wearer walked. And every skirt was of the “transparent’’ variety that is calculated to “turn the head” of any man. A crowd quickly collected. Up Fifth avenue from Forty-first to For ty-second street the unique parade passed. At every step recruits fell into line, and soon the crowd over flowed the curb and threatened to hold up traffic for blocks. By the time they had reached the library esplanade the girls were badly fright ened and striving to get away from their pursuers. At Forty-second street and Fifth avenue the jam became so great that the fair devotees of fashion were un able to progress. Backed against the wall, they were forced to listen for several moments to remarks of a complimentary, but embarrassing, na ture from grinning and appreciative spectators have a charter. Baltimore obtained its charter in 1786 when there were twenty people in the township—think of it, a cen tury and a quarter, and the population of a town increases only 10 per cent. I or two persons. Baltimore Holds Back Returns. In this connection, said the oldest inhabitant, an interesting incident oc. curred during the 1900 election for President. Vermont was the laut State to file returns of her election in that year. Indeed she was so far be hind the others that many queries were made from Washington as to the reason for the delay. “Baltimore has not yet sent in the returns” came back the reply from Montpelier to each of the questions concerning the reason for Vermont’s tardiness. Fin ally one enterprising New York news paper sent a man up to "discover’’ Baltimore and to find out why it had not sent in its oleetion returns. After many hardship® he reached the town and put the question to the leading citizen, who renlied with a tone of surprise: “Waal, you see, we done forgot to vote on the right dav, an' we’re waitin’ to find out if it’s le gal to vote now.” They have little or no money in Baltimore, practically all the ex change of commodities being done oy means of direct trading. The commu nity is practically self-supporting, and the Inhabitants make their own clothing and knit their own socks. Even their hats are home products. The only article of wear that I could find which was not made by the Bal timoreans was their shoes. These are curiosities! The men of the village—pardon, town—on week days wear the most primitive of foot wear—leather boots with iron soles. The Sheriff of Baltimore showed me his pair of never-wear-outs, which, he said, had been in his family for 30 years, and they did not show’ the leas; sign of giving way. Sheriff Kennedy informed me that 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- ing horse and never disturb the big fellow'. Good Breeding Shown. All have kind faces, with small heads and ears, considered by horse men to be the signs of good breed ing. Johrf G. Mobley, who raised the po nies, wrote an interesting account of how’ they were shioped in his last letter to The American. “I had three carpenters working 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 par Thursday. The “dark horse” who has been waiting for the final week to make a sprint to victory has an excellent 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 th< ontestani 2,000 votes, and even a $1 subscription, for six months, yields 800 votes. These are not extra 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 write “Red Letter Ballot” on the corner of the receipt which every contestant uses. Four More Busy Days. 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 knowing that they were fairly beaten. The only soreness will be felt by those who say ”1 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. WASHINGTON. July 26—Through the award of contracts for several thousand feet of motion picture films it has become known that the United States Government is engaged in the moving picture business on a large scale. The enterprise is being carried on by the Reclamation Service in its camps :n the West, a number of which have been established for great irrigation projects and other engineering work. The “movies” fur nish their part in the general scheme to keep the workmen and their fanne- ilies, isolated from the wmrld, con tented and happy. Railroad ChiefLeaves $20,000 to Secretary Man Who Ended Life In Missouri River Provides Handsomely for Employee in Will. Woman to Run for Council in Chicago ‘Bath House John” and “Hinky Dink” to Have Rival in First Ward. CHICAGO, July 26.—Mrs. Anna Car- lo-BIasi is a candidate to represent the First Ward in the City Council. For many years she has been a leader among the thousands of Italians who live in the First Ward, and she has lent her aid admitted as important, to “Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse John’’ Coughlin, w'ho, from time imme morial, have been returned to the Coun cil by the hirst Ward quite as a matter of course. “But they have been Aldermen long enough.’’ said Mrs. Celia Palmer, quot ing Mrs. Blasi, her mother. “Thousands of working men and women, Italian, German, Bohemian and of other nation alities, have urged her to run.” Notorious “Black Bart" Holzhay Released from Michigan Prison After Serving for 24 Years. Gets 7,109 Words On Back of Postal Albanian Athlete Proves To Be Wizard When it Comes to Fine Writing. BOSTON, July 26.—Joseph S. A. Ber- tasso, Albanian, athlete and “small let ter champion,’’ maintains he is the “finest w’riter in the world,’’ and from the records available it appears that his claim is w'ell founded. Bertasso lays claim to—trie unusual art of engrossing legibly, on the back of an ordinary postal card, more man one- quarter of the words to be found in the most modern unabridged dictionaries, and that by so doing he has more than doubled the record of any other “fine” or “small” writer in the world. Bertasso’s record is 7.109 words, writ ten wdth ar. ordinary pen, on the back of an ordinary postal card, in seven hours and fifteen minutes. Traffic policemen finally forced a path for a taxicab and the four blushing young women were hoisted in and wheeled away. he and his sons had “leather shoes ’ for Sunday wear, but he admitted that they w’ere * a mite uncomfort able after wearing the other kind.” The only mail which reaches Bal timore arrives every other w r eek. Their school is their mother’s kne *, their church the parlor of the Sher Iff’s home. Every one of the 22 in habitants is related, and their physi cal condition is a touching proof '-*f the evils of intermarriage and the danger of tuberculosis in the moun tain districts. Lincoln Highway To Cross Country Tin Cans Now Used To Make Shingles Pittsburg Inventor Finds Way to Utilize Component Part of City Trash Heaps. PITTSBURG, July 26.—An indus trial process makes it possible to con- \ert a disreputable and wholly un lovely iln can into a roof shingle. Every dump In the Pittsburg district is being raked over for old tin cans. The shingles hi|ve been tested and pronounced good. A machine for cutting off the ends of the can and rolling it into a straight form Is now operating. After being rolled straight, it is put through a corrugating machine. It is then put through a weatherproofing process and through a vat containing a liquid paste, like tar. SNAKE GULPS HER APPLE. SUNBURY. PA., July 26 — Sitting in a hammock that was swung under a tree. Miss Lillian Gaul, who lives on a farm a mile to the south of lown, fell asleep with a small harvest apple in her hand. Something awakened her, and she was! horrified to find a small garter snake in her iup trying to swal low tb apple, which had roiled from her hand Watch Marks Time Of Owner’s Death Timepiece Stops When Machinist Drops Dead From Heart Fail ure on Street Car. Association Plans to Spend $10,000,- 000 on Mammoth Undertaking of Coast to Coast Road. MILWAUKEE, July 26. — When Gustav Maresch. a machinist em ployed by the Columbia Construction Company, dropped dead from heart failure on a Muskego avenue car on Eleventh avenue, his watch, which he had carried for seven years and which he boasted never lost a second, sud denly stepped. Maresch, according to reports made by the street car crew' and the police, fell from his seat in the car at 6:34 si. m. The large silver watch taken from the body at the morgue showed that it had slopped at that moment BOARD AT $3.25 PER MONTH. BALTIMORE. July 26.—The hgh cost of living has no terrors for Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lindeman, No. 23 North Eden street, who furnished board and lodging for adults at $3.25 ■a month and made a fair profit—until the boarders began to leave without paying. Then tlie Lindemans had to close their boarding houee. MANY WIDOWS MARRY. VANCOUVER, WASH.. July 26—Of the 171 marriage licenses issued in Clark County in Tune, fifty were to widows. The greatest number of those married came from Portland. DETROIT. July 26—The Lincoln Highway Association is the new’ name of what has been known formerly as the Coast to Coast Rock Highway Asso ciation. according to a formal announce ment made at the headquarters just es tablished here. It is declared that the oblect and purposes of this mammoth undertaking have not been charged, and of the $10,000,000 necessary to carry the work through to completion more than $4. 200.000 has already been pledged. In fact, engineers of the Lincoln High way Association are already at work mapping out the route of the highway. Takes Off Freckles, Removes Tan. $25,000 To Be Spent On Nickel Problem Massachusetts Institute t*> Investi gate How Far Five Cents Should Carry Passenger. ‘Valueless’ Land Worth Thousands BOSTON, July 26.—The Massachu setts Institute of Technology will spend $5,000 annually for five years, the gift of an anonymous benefactor, to determine how far a street rail way can carry a passenger with rea sonable profit for a nickel. Incident ally it may use some of the money to investigate the conflicting claims of the Boston Elevated and the citi zens of Ward 26. The railroad -com pany declared it can not afford a 5- cent fare to Hyde Park and thp citi zens there say it can and should. MARQUETTE, MICH., July 26.— “Black Bart” Holzhay, whose crimi nal career was one of the most spec tacular ever recorded in States, Is now a free man, after hav - ing served twenty-four years of a life sentence imposed on him in 1889 for murder. His release is made possible by legislation enacted two years ago, which extends the benefits of the parole law to convicts undergoing life sentence. Holzhay is now 47 years old. When he entered prison he was illiterate and possessed a record as? a desperado, stage coach and train robber. He gave the prison much trouble during the first few years, but following a surgical operation his changed completely and he became a model prisoner. Had Picturesque Career. Because of his swarthy appearance and ill-kept beard Holzhay gained the name of “Black Bart,” the bandit, and under that sobriquet he became notorious as. the mos*t picturesque criminal in the histories of Wisconsin and Michigan—the terror of two States. His exploits in the woods of North ern Michigan rivaled those of Jesse James. A peaceful lumberlack for a long while, he suddenly broke into a series of crimes which continued until the mention of his* name struck terror to the hearts of travelers in the North woods. Holzhay’s career of crime continued unmolested, banks, stores, trains, stage coaches and private houses alike falling into his hands and get ting out again with less than they possessed before. Finally Holzhay planned to hold up the stage which passed Lake Gogebic, learning that several Chicago bankers, among them A. E. Fleischbein, were to be on board. He stopped the coach and demand ed the money from the bankers. Fleischbein reached his hand into his pocket, but instead of cash he pulled out a revolver. Before he could shoot, the bandit had fired and Fleischbein ! fell mortally wounded. A second man tried to resist, but Holzhay shot him also, searched the men and got away. Two States Joint in Pursuit. The authorities of two States took up the pursuit. Trains were watched and stages guarded. But for a long time Holzhay evaded his pursuers. He slept in the woods, only going to the villages for necessary food. He was captured in Republic. In his cell he was as fearless as if he were holding up a train or a coach. On one occasion he stole a table knife, sharpened it on the flloor of his cell and held one of the guards at bay. Finally the physicians decided that he was insane, and he was sent to the asylum at Ionia. There he was oper ated upon and then returned to Mar quette. Since the operation Holzhay has been a different man. He has given no trouble whatever, his demeanor has bef»n as gentle as that of a child, and all his tim e when not at work has been devoted to reading. KANSAS CITY, July 26.—The win of George Townsend, lnterurban rail, way builder, who ended his life in th« Missouri River, filed for probate her^ leaves his estate to his relatives and to Mrs. M. A. Schadden, his private secretary. Henry M. Beardsley, his attorney said he thought $26,000 would cove) the personal property. The remaindej of the estate is composed mostly oi Kansas lands, which are expected .• bring the total to $100,000. Mrs. M. A. Schadden, of Kansa» City, his confident^ secretary, wa* originally bequeath • t $2,500. This had the United j been changed to $20,000. Townsend was a brother of Congressman Town- send, of New Jersey. STRAY DOG SAVES TOWN WHEN HE DISCOVERS FIRE IOWA CITY, LOWA, July 26.—A stray dog, sheltered for the night by a kindly man, saved the town of Downey from destruction by Are when It awakened Its protector. Station Agent Flynn, who found a nearby store and factory ablaze. The two structures were destroyed, but Flynn aroused the town and the citizens, character ! improvising a fire brigade, saved the remainder of the village. Jacobs’ Liver Salt On Arising and You’ll Enjoy Your Breakfast Harvard Planning to Start Kindergarten University to Experiment in Edu cation of Children From 4 to 6 Years of Age. Farmer Awakens to Knowledge De spised Acres Are Desired by Lumber Company. MEDICINE LODGE, KANS., July 26.—Ten acres of plow land in a little canyon for which he never expected to get $100 has been found by J. W. Smith, known hereabouts as ‘’Buffalo” Smith, to hold a fortune for him. The ten acres are covered with old walnut trees, the only grove of the kind with in miles of this city. Several years ago Smith rented his ranch, which included the canyon of walnut trees, and went to Idaho. Sev eral months ago a timber hunter for a walnut mill learned of the gro/u and tried to buy the land. Th*> man’s insistence aroused Smith's curiosity and he came back to look it over. Smith had a survey made of the patch a.id is now dicker ing with the walnut mill for a sale. The last offer was for $10,000 for the patch. He is holding out for more. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., July 26.— Harvard plans to establish an experi mental kindergarten rext fall with children from 4 to 6 years of age. The faculty of the department of ed ucation will be in charge. The proposal is to accept about 100 students of either sex at a tuition fee of $100. They will be carried through to the age of 9 yea,rs. BALTIMORE, MD. $20.85 Round Trip $20.85 Tickets on sale August 1, 2 and 3. Return limit Au gust 15. Through electric lighted steel sleeping cars. Dining cars on most con venient schedules. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Delayed Shipment of Gold- Filled Frames Just Received Great numbers of people have been unable to get our special offer glasses in last few days on account of this shipment. As they are now in, you will have another opportunity. FINDS SNAKE IN HIS BED. NASHVILLE, 1ND., July 26.—Joshua Rogers, living 5 miles south of Cooler, can explain the feeling of a man who awakens suddenly and finds a big blacksnake his bedfellow. 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