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VOL. XII. NO. 22.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By The Georgian Co.
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Countess Ends Life
When Love Fails
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Aug 28.—A commotion has
been caused in society circles by the
suicide of the beautiful young Coun
tess Majgherita Cicconi at a hotel in
AJban Hills, where she was living
with her suitor, Signor Pontocorvo.
The Countess, who was widely
known for her culture and also as
a sportswoman, was the daughter
of Countess Schwartz, of Vienna.
When but sixteen* she married a mid
dle-aged Milanese professor of music.
Her last letters accused Pontocorvo
of systematically ruining her finan
cially.
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ence to Balk Appeal
LION’S LEG PUT IN CAST
BY SURGEON AT GRADY
Heroic Officer Dead, Many Hurt
in Battle With Fire and
Crazed Passengers.
NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—The Ham
burg-American liner Imperator, the
biggest passenger - carrying ship
afloat, which arrived in port last
night with 3,100 passengers on board,
was swept by fire to-day as she lay at
her pier in Hokoken, N. J.
Second Officer Herman Gerbracht
lost his life while trying to close/the
fire doors and confine the flames to
the fifth deck, dr provision room.
It was reported that two seamen had
been burned to death, and for a long
time they w’ere missing, but subse
quently were found.
Many of the crew' were injured
fighting Hie flames and battling with
the 1,200 steerage passengers who
w r ere panic-stricken as the fire raged.
The damage to the ship is esti
mated at $350,000.
First Cabin Deck Saved.
By the terrific work, the flames
were kept from spreading to the first
cabin and the superstructure, and
within four hours the flames were un
der control. They hud licked their
way into the coal bunkers, however,
and the firemen settled themselves
down to carry on a patient battle.
The danger, however, to the bal
ance of the ship was entirely over,
Captain Ruser said.
If the fire had occurred at sea un
der the same conditions, the tragedy
probably w'ould have been a duplicate
of the Titanic disaster.
The Imperator got into her berth at
7:15 .o'clock last night with the big
gest passenger record in the history
of trans-Atlantic travel. Among her
763 first-class passengers were George
Ade. William Ellis Corey. Samuel Un-
termyer, Paul Warburg, Mrs. Rudolph
Spreckels, F. W. Woolworth, Julius
P. Meyer, vice president of the Ham
burg-American line, and Allison Ai*-
mour.
Flames Spread Quickly.
I The fire was discovered in the pro
vision room on the ship about 5
o’clock. Fed by the oils and fats of
the foodstuffs, it spread rapidly. The
crew was assisted by the trained fire
fighters from Hoboken, Jersey Citv
and New York.
\ The provision room is in the after
part of the vessel. So swiftly did the
flames eat their way that it had been
communicated to the second cabin
before the alarm became general.
Steerage passengers, hearing the
crackling of the walls and stays, set
up a cry of fright which echoed over
the entire ship.
Autoist Held For
Knocking Down Boy
Benjamin Rentz, the 15-year-old
messenger boy who was knocked*
down and severely injured by an au
tomobile driven by R. C. Bone, 7
East Ontario avenue, late Wednesday
night, was reported to be resting well
at the Grady Hospital Thursday.
Bone, who was arrested, will be tried
in Recorder’s Court Thursday after
noon on the charge of reckless driv
ing.
Young Rentz was crossing Mitch
ell street at the corner of Whitehall
on his bicycle when the accident oc
curred. He sustained a bad cut over
the right eye and a number of bruises.
Dignified Governors
Stay Late For Tango
' COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 28.—
Well, the tango isn't such a naughty
dance—if you want to.take the opin
ion of a large number of Governors
for it.
The State executives w r ho are in
convention h^re looked at a tango ex-
hibitio.n last night. They looked long
and Critically. At the conclusion of
the dance there were encores. Also
more encores. When the tangoers
were too tired to respond to more
encores the Governors gravely an
nounced that “although we had noth
ing like that in our time, this tango
dance looks very, very interesting.”
Woman Nearly Killed
By Fall Down Stairs
While coming down stairs in the
home of her son-in-law. R. G. Ander
son, No. 4 Baltimore block, Thursday
morning, Mrs. E. M. Wilson, aged 68
years, missed her footing and fell to
the bottom of the steps. She was
taken, unconscious, to the Gradv Hos
pital, where it is reported she is se
riously injured.
The accident to Mrs. Anderson is
the second in the family within three
weeks. E. G. Taylor, Mrs. Wilson’s
brother-in-law, is at the Grady Hos
pital with a fractured hip. Anderson
is a fireman at station No. 11.
Solicitor Cites Prisoner’s State
ment on Stand, “Now is the
Time, This is the Place,”
Solicitor Dorsey was as busily en
gaged on the Frank case Thursday as
he was any day before Leo Frank
was convicted of the murder of Mary
Phagan. If the factory superintend
ent finally succeeds in avoiding the
penalty fixed it will not be because the
Solicitor has not fought to the utetr-
mosi of his strength to put the rope
around Frank’s neck.
Briefly but pointedly Solicitor Dor
sey Thursday morning summed up hi<=
opinion of Leo Frank’s latest alleged
“Miss Queen,’’
baby lioness
of Grant Park
Zoo, exhibiting
her fractured
leg in plaster
cast as she sits
complacently in
lap of
Edward Boyd,
the lion keeper,
Mrs. Marshall Leaves
1,600th Calling Card
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — Mrs. !
Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the Vice
President, still holds the lead In the
calling-card handicap being run in
Washington society.
She left the 1600th card she has
distributed personally since March 4,
and has now called on everybody who
called on her since her arrival in
Washington. Mrs. Marshall has de
termined to take a rest from calling
Queen Mary Pays
Debts of Princess
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Queen Marv
of England, hearing that her sister-
in-law, Princess Alexandra of Teck,
was “broke” and hard pressed by
trades people, is said to have loaned
the princess $15,000 to satisfy the
creditors.
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Girl's Prayer For
Death Answered
YONKERS, vN. Y.. Aug. 28.—Ruth
Hamilton died in answer to her
prayers. Brief periods of lucidity
during the night, which alternated
with long lapses into unconscious
ness, were spent by the girl In pray
ing that she might join her boy lover.
Charles Rich, who shot and killed
himself, after mortally wounding
her.
They had ben sweethearts a few
months, and had agreed to die to-
Smoke rolled upward from the liner, I gether.
shore that
giving the impression on
the Hamburg-American pier was on
fire. Police reserves were rushed ti
the scene.
Captain Ruser, chief of the five
commanders of the leviathan, wai
one of the first to reach the provision
room. He personally took command
and directed the fight against the
flames. The room was seething not
and filled with smoke, but the man
da6hed in with lines of hose and soon
thousands of gallons of water were
being poured upon the blaze.
When the woodwork of the second
cabin ignited, word v~s sent to the
pier to summon the land firemen, am
< 4 a general alarm was turned in to the
Hoboken fire department.
The land force was soon on tha
scene, and several high-pressure
streams w**re added to the fight.
Acts of heroism mingled with acts
of cowardice during the worst of
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King Cables Friends
That He Is Improving
According to a cable received by
friends, George E. King, head of the
King Hardware Company, of Atlan
ta, is improving from his long illness
in the American Hospital in Paris.
Mr. King was taken sick in Venice
while he was on his tour abroad and
remained there nearly a month.
He will sail October 2 for America,
accompanied by Mrs. King, Mrs. La-
conte. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon ai>d Miss
Mary King.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local showers Thurs
day; fair Friday.
X-ray photo
graph showing
compound
fracture in leg
of lioness.
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statement concerning the
the Solicitor’s speech.
“Frank.” said the Solicitor in his
quiet manner, “declared on the stand
that ‘now' was the time and here the
place.’ That’s all I have to say.”
The Solicitor declared that the
State would ask the new Grand Jury,
which w’ill be sworn tn Tuesday, to
indict Jim Conley immediately as an
acknowledged accessory after the fact
in the murder of Mary Phagan. H* 1
declared further that he had no in
tention of asking for a shortening of
the sentence, as this was in the prov
ince of the Grand Jury and the judge.
No Vacation for Dorsey.
Although worn out as a result of
the long strain. Solicitor Dorsey de
clared Thursday that it was his in
tention to keep right at w’ork without
taking a vacation. A few days of
"taking it easy,” he said, will put him
in excellent shape for the remalnd^r
of the summer.
The w'heels of activity in the Solici
tor’s office, which had stopped for a
few hours after Frank’s conviction
was obtained, started again Thursday
as noiselessly and smoothly as though
there had been no interruption of
their tireless activity.
If the lawyers for Frank are going
to put forth herculean efforts to save
hjm from the gallows, every move on
their part will be met with the most
stubborn resistance by Dorsey.
When they announced that they
“Miss Queen,” Recovering Rap
idly From Accident at Zoo, Now
Suffers Exaggerated Ego.
Miss Queen, the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nero, of Grant Park,
who is recuperating at the home of
her parents after having her broken
leg X-rayed and reset by Dr. Good
win Gheesling at Grady Hospital last
week, is recovering rapidly from the
accident, but faces the danger of a
calamity even greater than a broken
leg.
She is rapidly developing a case of
exaggerated ego, commonly known
as the "swelled head.”
Miss Queen was a shy, timid young
thing tw'o weeks ago. She had no in
timate friends, but spent most of her
time playing with her younger broth
er. She never quarreled with the
butcher when the bone he left for her
had a trifle too little meat on it.
Then she broke her leg and was
taken to Grady Hospital. The fact
that she was not only the first u£
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Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Nero’s immediate family, but the first a
of her race, to try to bite a leg off an
ope|ating table In an Atlanta hos
pital; that she w*as the first of her
race to be punched, prodded and
X-rayed by a real, honest-to-good -
ness surgeon: that she now’ w r ears a
plaster of parts cast while her brother
and papa and mamma wear nothing
but a roar and a ferocious expression
—all this has gone to her head.
She acts like a chorus girl!
Yearns for Publicity.
Miss Queen yearns for publicity
now, since she came home from the
hospital, with a great and unsatisfied
yearning. She pines for attention,
and if anybody looks at her brother
or any of her relations In the big
house at Grant Park, she cries in
much the same manner as does a cho
rus girl when she learns there is a
prettier girl in the cast than she.
“Miss Queen is mighty conceited
since she came home from the hos
pital,” said Edward T. Boyd, who
takes care of Mr. and Mrs. Nero an •
theli children. "She used to run
away when anyone went into her
room. Now’ it is all changed. She is
always showing her bandaged feg, an i
gets mad if you don't p$y any atten
tion to It. I’ve seen her run up to
the bars of her cage, whore a crowd
of people were standing, and stick her
leg, with its plaster cast, through the
bars as much as if to say: ‘Look at
me; I’m the only thing around here
that there’s anything unusual about.
I’m the real attraction here!”’
Miss Queen w r as as unique a patient
as ever invaded the operating room
of Grady Hospital. When Mr. Boyd i
brought her to the hospital In a cab 1
one day, the learned^surgeons argued
for an hour trying to determine
whether she had broken her ulna and
radius, or had merely "busted some
thing.” They agreed that if she ha I
been a human being she would hav^
had a complete fracture of the ulna
and radius—since she was not a hu
man being, but a lioness, they declare
firmly that she "busted something, ’
and let it go at that.
ORPS, LI RETURNS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—John Lind, special envoy from
President Wilson, in Mexico, was to-day ordered to return to Mexi
co City from Vera Cruz.
The order for the return to the Mexican capital of Mr. Lind
followd he receipt here of a very optimistic message from Mr. Lind
in Vera Cruz.
It is probable, unless the present program mascarries, that
there will be a full discussion in the Mexican capital to-morrow
night or Sunday relative to the chief points at issue between the
United States and Mexico, the principal one of which is the elimi
nation of Huerta.
In his latest note to the American goverment Huerta with
draws his demand for an immediate exchange of Ambassadors be
tween the two governments, which would involve recognition, and
amends this to ask that the present personnel of the Embassy in
Mexico City be kept unchanged until after the October elections.
General Huerta points out ini ]
his second note that a provisional Chinese Police Slay
President of Mexico is debarred
by the Mexican constitution from
succeeding himself. Therefore,
the request made in the Ameri
can note that h not be a candi
date was made without knowl
edge of the Mexican constitu
tion, which
the very thing anticipated by
the American proposals.
This would indicate on the face
of it that Huerta admits that he con-
Mtitutionally is debarred from being a
candidate at the polls next October.
It is pointed out in administration
circles, however, that General Huerta
may resign the presidency at any
time between now' and October and
thus make himself eligible as a can
didate.
, Cunning Trap Seen.
The second note does not carry
much w’elght in Washington. State
Department officials see in it a clev
erly devised trap by wjiieh the United
States would recognize the present
de facto administration of Mexico. If
it assented to Huerta’s view and as
sumed that he was constitutionally
the Provisional President of Mexico
ad interim ffye United States would
have swept the ground from beneath
its feet In its refusal to recognize the
Huerta regime in Mexico as more
then a de facto administration.
Unusual activity was noticed in the
White House, and in the State and
War Departments. Secretary of
State Bryan expressed belief that his
message of the day previous to the
United States Embassy and to all
consular agents, instructing them to
render every possible aid to Amer
icans departing from Mexico, would
prevent any Americans from suffer
ing at the hands of the Mexicans.
The consular agents have been in
structed to provide with funds every
American not able financially to buy
passage to the United States, and a
number of ships are riding in every
Mexican harbor, ready to aid in the
exodus.
Following a long conference betw'een
President Wilson and Assistant Sec
retary of War Breckenridge, it was
expected that a movement of troops
would be Immediately ordered to the
Mexican border. It is the President’s
plan, not only to strengthen the bor
der patrol, but he desires the strictest
vigilance by troops already guarding
the international line.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN, Aug. 28. Gendarmes Fri
day last arrested and shot Represen
tative Wu Han (’hi, who drafted the
motion asking President Yuan Shi
Kai to resign. .To-day five Kuo Min
expressly Stipulates T ~ng (Democratic party) Senator*
and four Representatives were' ar
rested. /
The Senate has passed a resolution
asking the President whether he in
tends to govern without the Parlia
ment and announcing that if it faiis
to receive a satisfactory answer Par
liament will dissolve.
Page Rents $12,000
House in London
LONDON, Aug 28.—Ambassador
Page announces he had rented No.
6 Grosvenor square, where he will
have as neighbors the Duchess of
Manchester. Anthony Drexel, James
B. Duke, who is occupying the homo
of Mrs. James Henry Smith for the
season, and Lord Strathcona. J. P.
Morgan also rents a house there.
The house is five-storied, contains
23 bed and dressing rooms, 7 recep
tion rooms and an exceedingly largo
hall. The rent Is said to be $42,000
a year.
Mystery in Theft
of $26,000 Jewels
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—The police to
day faced a deep mystery in the theft
of $26,000 worth of gems from a big
downtown jewelry store.
The thief, the police believe, intend
ed to steal the sample case of William
H. Antone, salesman for an Eastern,
firm, but made a mistake and took the
sample cases of Charles H. Anderson,
salesman for a Philadelphia house,
Antone’s sample case contained $100,•
000 worth of stones.
Army Enlistments in
August Break Records.
President Wilson’s ultimatum to
Mexico has been interpreted by many
In the South as a rumbling of war
drums, according to Lieutenant J. A.
Gallogly, U. S. A., who is in charge
of the Atlanta district of the recruit
ing service, and there has been a
sudden influx of enlistments in Atlan
ta. Birmingham, Macon, Augusta and
Columbus.
Around-Britian Flyer
Awarded for Pluck
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug 28.—Harry G.
Hawkes, the young British aviator
who had to abandon his flight around
Great Britain for a $25,000 purse when
almost in reach of his goal, will be
rewarded for his pluck and endurance.
The London Daily Mall to-day an
nounced it would give Hawkes $5,000.
Hawkes probably will make another
attempt soon to fly around the islands,
Milwaukee to Have
4 Women ‘Sheriffs’
MILWAUKEE. WIS . Aug. 28 -
Four women Deputy Sheriffs have
been appointed by Sheriff McGreal,
their terms to sover the period of the
State Fair, September 8 to 12.
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