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t ALWAYS FIRST « ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW= Both Phones Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 22. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1913. Copyright, 1906. By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS PAY NO • MORE EVENING EDITION RTA BACKS DOWN ON DEMANDS a 4-*4- 4-*4- +•+ +•+ +•+ 4-»4- +•+ 4-«4 - +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•4* +•+ +•4* 4-«4* 4-»4* 4-»4- 4*»4- 4-»4* 4-«4- D orsey 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. ew 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. i V V - . * A'A"' 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 Continued on Page 2, Cofumn 1. 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. * ■.% 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£ Yuan’s Political Foe LI /" 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. 01 9 I