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SNAKE GOWN WORN BY
ATLANTA SOCIETY GIRL
In Remarkable Daily Program He
Gives Business Advice and Re
ceives Many Visitors.
Remarkable a* wag tht* crime of
which he stands convicted, remark
able as has been the fortitude with
which he has borhe his sentence to
the gallows, remarkable as has been
the tireless interest in the case, they
are none more striking than the daily
routine that Leo M. Frank so s
through in his Tower cell.
It Is hard to conjure interest in
these narrow confines of steel and
stone. Rife there would seem as dully
monotonous as a lonesome existen.
on a desert isle.
But Frank's personality makes this
routine as vividly Interesting as
though tt were enacted in the throb
bing heart of the city instead of the
quiet monastery of the prison. For
as a prisoner under sentence of
cteath, even as he was a prisoner un
der charge of crime or the manager
of a business concern, Frank remains
a business man.
Looks to His Health.
The same rules of 1 if♦* he followed
when he was factory superintendent
are followed by him each day as he
awaits the decision of the question
whether he is to be tried again or is
lo hang by the neck.
As a business man Frank knows
that his health must be good, his
mind must be vigorous, for him to
win the battle ahead of him. Accord
ingly his health is his first interest.
A cell has never been considered a
health resort, bht Frank is trying in
that cell to keep himself tu the beat
physical and mental shape possible.
He insists on nine hours' sleep
and he gets it. If his mind is per
turbed by dreadful dreams through
the right, the Jailers have not found
it. They'say he she os as soundly as
;t ,i aV laborer who has well earned his
rest.
Kceos Up With News.
hTomplly at 7 o’clock each morn
ing he leaps from bed and hiH dally
routine begins. First, he takes deep
breathing exereir • at the grated win
dow of his little room. Then for
20 to 30 minutes he works witn the
dumbbells. His watchers say that h
does this work with spirit and in-
ttrest.
A shower bath adjoin? hi? Cell. Ur.
dev the water lie unes. and then come?
out for a brisk rub-down.
This done, he don? his bath robe,
and sitting: on the side of the col,
reads the morning papers carefully,
absorbing not only all the news 'n
reference to hi? case, but everything
of general Interest. Completing Ms
toilet, he walks about the cell until
s:f.O o'clock, when his father-in-law.
Kmll Sellg, Is his first visitor of the
day.
Mr. Sellg brings his breaktast from
ihe Selig home. It Is always a
light re peas t of cantaloupe or other
fruit, coffee and rolls. As he eats
this with evident relish, Frank con
verses with his father-in-law. their
conversation being largely of aft airs
of the Selig household, In which |
Frank resided before his imprison
ment.
Gives Business Advice.
Other intimate friends follow. Stg
Montag. head of the National Pencil
Company, and Herbert Schiff. the as
sistant superintendent, never miss
an hour or so.each day in the Tower.
When they come, the affairs of the
pencil factory are the subject of the
conversation. Frank’s advice on all
matters is eagerly sought and he
keeps in almost as active touch with
the concern as he did when he was
a free man. Frank, in reality, is still
superintendent of the National Pen
cil Company in fact as well as in
name.
Other friends follow until 12:30,
when Frank is left to himself. Then
he takes up the work on his case,
making notes of suggestions to his
counsel, studying the testimony for
weak places, reading the argument
of counsel for the State to suggest
points of attack.
His dinner arrives at 1:80 o'clock
and after he has eaten, the prisoner
usually lays on his cot. resting and
thinking until the arrival of his wife
at 4 o’clock.
Wife Remains Several Hour*.
Mrs. Frank sits oufside the cell
and they converse through the barred
door. As a rule they are never dis
turbed during this period.
At 6:30 o’clock Frank’s supper ar
rives and his wife remains until he
concludes this meal. Then, with a
farewell kiss, she leaves him to him-
self and his thoughts.
When she departs he goes over the
afternoon papers and magazines,
which his friends send him. From
8 until 9:30 o’clock he receives visits
from friends and then is again left
to his studies. He Invariably works
on his case until a few minutes be
fore 11 o'clock, when he retires.
This routine hardly varies five
minutes from day to day It is as
regular as that of a soldier. It is
as carefully planned as the daily life
of a boarding school miss. It is
simply in keeping with the remark
able nature of this remarkable pris-
^ner.
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New, Dazzling
Costume Prom
ises to Become
Rage—‘X-Rays
Are Not in It.’
Probably the
most striking of
the countless in
dividual costumes
devised as the
outgrowth of the
rapid-fire (and as
qulchly fall back;
fads which have
had their brief
stay in Atlanta
one originated by
Miss Elinor Maitv.
a member of the
younger set, re
siding at No. 80
E a s t Fourteenth
street.
The u n u s u a !
part of Mis»
Macy’s costume
consists In the
drapery of boa
constrictor skin
wound snake-like
from her shoul
ders to her feet.
When q u e 8
tinned rather
skeptically about
the adaptability of
the new costume
Miss Mary replied
that It was Just as
serviceable as any
hobble that was
ever invented,
with the dazzle
added.
“I can’t explain
It.” she said, 'I
suppose you will
have to try it for
yourself. but
somehow or oth* i
I can glide along
along so nice and
easy this way.
“Besides, .is you
see. one gets the
dazzling effect in
this costume that
is absolutely im
possible with nnv
other gown. Why.
get out or* Peach
tree street with
this costume un
der t he rays of the
sun and the effect
would be incom
parable. The X-
rays and the sil
houettes and the
rest of them sim
ply would not. be
In it.”
The friends of
Miss Macy and
others who see
“poM^ibllitier'' in
the latest drapery
effect, predict that
it will be the rage,
especially at fash-
i o n a d 1 e balls,
within a short
time.
MISS ELINOR MACY IN SNAKE GOWN.
Increase in Attendance at Fifteen
Members of Association 1,363
More Than Year Ago.
A total of 1,363 more persons at
tended Atlanta’s Sunday schools Sun
day than the same day last year, the
total attendance at the fifteen Sunday
schools in the association being 5,066,
or an average attendance of 337. The
attendance at these same schools last
year was 3,703, making ai\ average
of 247. This shows an average in
crease of 90. which is regarded as re
markable.
The First Christian Church led the
list, with an attendance of 598. with
its old rivals right behind, St. Paul
Methodist having 555 and the Second
Baptist 519.
Following is the attendance Sun
day:
111 EVIDENCE III
EUROPE THU
MONElf Bill
E
Churches.
fcJt Paul Methodist 1,800
Church Attend. Attend
Memb I-ast Yr. Sunday
Tabernacle Baptist
First Methodist .
Second Baptist ....
First Christian
Brace Methodist
Capitol Ave. Bap..
Central Baptist . . .
North Ave. Pres..
West Knd Baptist
Jackson Hill Bap. .
Ponce DeLeon Bap.
West End Christian
Gordon St. Baptist
Inman Park Bap..
1,300
1,400
1,200
1,200
1.200
852
875
WS
8tHl
750
475
180
342
125
452
467
248
342
344
307
320
210
200
196
270
124
74
42
484
322
519
598
415
396
351
249
291
284
IH
191
121
Mrs. Virginia Richardson, sixty-eight
years old, died Sunday at the resi
dence. No. 478 Courtland street. She
is survived by three children, M. G.
Robertson, Mrs. W. L. Harrison
and Mrs. Luke Langford, of Thom-
asville. Ga. Funeral services will
be held at 3:30 o’clock Monday aft
ernoon at Patterson's chapel, the
Rev. J. B. Robins officiating. In
terment at Oakland,
Prison Board Takes Up Plea of
Condemned Doctor—Friends
Say He Has Chance.
The Georgia Prison Commission
convened in regular session Monday-
morning at the Capitol. The session
probably will continue throughout the
week.
Among the important cases before
the Commission is the case of Dr. W.
J. MeNaughton, the Emanuel County
physician under sentence of death for
killing Fred Flanders, and the case
of J. J. Mangham. the Griffin cotton
mill operator serving a four-year term
for alleged frauds in connection with
the insolvency of the mill in which
he was interested.
Friends of Dr. MeNaughton claim
he has a splendid chance to win clem
ency, as new affidavits have be?n
presented in which it is alleged Flan
ders’ death was caused by acute
nephritis rather than by arsenic poi
soning. The Prison Commission will
weigh carefully every bit of the new
I evidence.
The Commission also will go care-
i fully into the Maugham case, in
j which a hearing was granted several
weeks ago. A vigorous light is being
made in behalf of the Griffin man.
150 Enter National
Golf Tournament
GARDEN CITY. N. Y Sept 1 -Some
sensational »lf flaying is in prospect
during the coming week as the result
of the beginning of the rational tourna-
j inent here to-day. There are 150 en
trants. .
The tournament resolved itself into
the que^fl >n "Who is there to beat
Jerome tfravers?*'
Samuel Untermeyer, Returning,
Discusses Foreign Opinion
of United States.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Among a
group of thoughtful men coming hdme
aboard the Imperator from a summer
in Europe I passed an hour with
Samuel Untermeyer, during which
time he di» listed in a most interest
ing manner his observations of the
European s- ntiment toward our coun
try and ts conditions. England,
France and Germany take almost as
much interest in our coufitry as in
their own and the thoughtful Ameri
can can *ee himself view from the
vantage ground of distance by the
public nv n of the older nations.
1 asketi Mr. Untermeyer about this
and his comment was strong and
terse. He said:
“In I mdon, Paris and Berlin the
progress of the currency bill is being
followed with the closest and most
critica 1 scrutiny. Every one of twenty
or more leading world financiers In
those cities with whom I di.^cussed
the subject had a copy of the bill as
originally indorsed and had kept in
close touch with the changes that
were being made and discussed. Many
of them, especially the Germans, had
analyzed it. section by section, and
were marvelously equipped to dis
cuss its merits and demerits in the,
minutest detail.
‘The subject Is to-day far better
understood in Berlin than in New'
York. The Germans are students of
the science of finance as distinguished
from mere banking. With us the
metropolitan banker imagines he is
a financier, when, in fact, the every
day business of banking, as preached
in America, has no more relation to
finance than that of pork packing or
cotton spinning, and far less than the
practice of law.
Think Bill Will Help.
“Whilst there Is a wide divergence
of view' upon certain features of the
bill, there i| a consensus of opinion
that, crude and imperfect as it still
is in some places, on the whole It, or
anything that could be derived, would
be a vast improvement upon the
archaic, absurd, panic-breeding sys
tem under which we. are staggering.
“There is a far more hopeful feel
ing abroad in financial circles as to
the immediate future than has been
apparent at any time within the past
two years. The settlement of the
Southern Pacific controversy with the
Government, leaving undisturbed the
officers and directors designated by
the Union Pacific, following the solu
tion of other difficulties of like char
acter. has led to the conviction that
our war upon the trust is largely
Pickwickian and that these problems
will be solved without seriously af
fecting property rights or disturb
ing existing control or conditions.
“Whatever temporary influence the
St. Louis and San Francisco incident
may have had on foreign investors
has disappeared. It is generally rec
ognized that the purchasers of the
bondis knew’ they were buying a pre
carious security, as evidenced by the
low price at which they were sold
“Above all things, the foreign in
vestor is just and enlightened; his
confidence in our stability and future
is unabated. With a sound currency
system foreign investments will take
on a new impetus, provided our bank
ing law's are revised so as to protect
investors and dismember and pre
vent the dan* rous concentration of
the control of credit in the hands of
a few' men from which w’e are suf
fering.
Europe Far Ahead Socially.
“But far above and beyond all these
matters the most important lessons
we have yet to learn from the old
world are in the domain of social re
forms and social justice. We havy
not yet begun to attack the great
problems that they are solving. Parks,
public amusements, industrial trade
schools, scientific and humane trea*-
ment of the criminal and insane, old
age pensions, insurance against sick,
ness, accidents and unemployment
conservation of the health of the
masses, protection of trades unions
are all subjects in which they are
many years in advance of us. ,Am
when we come to the problems of
municipal government we are fairly
put to shame and bound in all fair
ness to admit that we are mere tyros
and victims of a system of grafi
and incompetence that returns us
nothing for our vast outlays.”
Mr. Untermeyer, fresh from his
labors in connection with the Pujo
committee, went to Europe for a few
weeks' vacation and his observation?
abroad were direct’- i n the line of
hits moK recent activities at home.
IDS Dll
TRUST’S AIDE,
United States Attorney General
Says He Advised Corporation
How to Evade Law.
Continued from Page 1.
during the latter part of the winter
to confer with the officers of the com
pany, of which Mr. Walter Jennings
is president.
“It probably was the National Fuel
Gas Company. They wanted to know
what they could do and what they
could not do under the Seven Sisters’
law'.
Calls it “Muck-Raking."
“I am not sure whether the seven
bills which constitute this law had
been enacted or whether they were
still before the Legislature. It Is suf
ficient to say the legislation had, in
the opinion of the officers of the com
pany, made it necessary to seek legal
advice as to future operation.
"I was a practicing attorney at the
time and did not see any wrong in
giving legal advice where it was
asked
‘Just about this time I had been
employed by the Government in the
anthracite coal suits, but that had no
possible connection with the ques
tions presented to me or the New
Jersey law.
“I consider this only another effort
at muck-raking. For the life of me I
can not see how' I can be criticised."
‘Will you give any of the details of
the advice tendered Mr. Jenning-s and
his associates?” was asked.
'Further than that it related, as I
recall, to the transfer of certain stock.
It would be unprofessional for me to
talk about what took place at the con
ference,” replied the Attorney General.
“Do you recall who asked you to
confer with the officers of the com
pany?”
“I do not remember."
“The conference did take place in
the Standard Oil Building at No. 26
Broadway?”
“Yes.”
“And in room No. 1209, tike execu
tive offices of the National Fuel Gas
Company?”
"Yes, if that is the number of Mr.
Jennings’ office.”
“Is it proper to ask what remuner
ation you received for your services?”
Mr. McReynold^ seemed to find re
lief in his answer to all questions
concerning a fee. He said:
“Whether or not the question is a
proper one, it is certainly proper for
me to answer since I did not get a
cent for my services.”
The reporter asked if it was not un
usual for an attorney to give advice to
U. S. Blackmailers
Clean Up $1,000,000
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—W. S. Burns,
son of the head of the Burns Detec
tive Agency, who arrived on the Im
perator, said:
“There are more American crooks
in Europe than ever. The Parisian
police estimate Americans have given
up $1,000,000 to them in blackmail
the past year.”
BUST UTS
Jersey Setback for
Votes for Women
, TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 1.—
Woman suffrage in New Jersey has
received a setback of at leas? on*
year through an opinion of Assistant
Attorney General Gaskill that the
failure to properly advertise the pro-
jK>sed changes in the State’s constitu
tion renders impossible the ratifica
tion of suffrage by this winter's Leg
islature. •
Tennessee Doctor Is
Held as a Slaver
MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 1— Dr. J.
D. Stevens is under a $500 bond here
on a charge of white slavery. Fed
eral officers charge that he brought
Elizabeth Martin to Memphis from
St. Louis and that the couple had
lived together almost tw'o years.
Dr. Stevens has a wife and son liv
ing in Knoxville, Tenn.
a rich corporation without being paid.
Mr. McReynolds explained:
•*T never rendered a bill for the
service performed.”
“Were you ever requested to render
a bill?” w r as asked.
“I don’t think I w r as.” •
Had Wilson’s Offer.
The further explanation was offered
that Mr. McReynolds had under ad
visement at the time President Wil
son’s offer to enter the Cabinet as At
torney General.
“If any matters relating to the Na
tional Fuel Gas Company should ever
come before the Attorney General’s
office during my term I would have it
handled by one of my assistants or
special council. I would feel it my
duty to adopt such a course on ac
count of my previous slight contact
with the company.”
Investigation show’s that the Na
tional Fuel Gas Company was incor
porated on December 8, 1912, in New
Jersey. Its principal office was given
then as Bayonne. Last Febuary the
offices w'ere transferred to the Hudson
Trust Company Building in Hoboken.
Since that time it appears that all
records and books were removed to
the Standard Oil Building on lower
Broadway.
The articles of incorporation - gave
the purpose of the National Fuel Gas
Company as that of a holding com
pany; also to project pipe lines, sup
ply gas fuel, develop mines, construct
telephone and telegraph systems and
to “transport goods.’’
Third Degree Fatigues Him—May
Collapse When Shown Trunk
He Hid Wife’s Body In.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COMO, ITALY. Sept. 1.—Porter
Charlton, the young American, was
arraigned to-day before Examining
Magistrate Regnani for preliminary
interrogation on the charge of beating
his wife to death w’ith a hammer and
a statue of “Love,” then burying her
body in Lake Como.
Young Charlton is confined in a
large, airy room with iron-barred
windows in St. Dominick prison. He
is allowed to send out for his meals
and to have any books he desires.
He is allowed to purchase tobacco,
being an inveterate cigarette smoker.
One of the first things the prisoner
did w’as to send out for pens, paper
and ink, saying he intended to keep a
diary ring his captivity. When the
trial proper begins, Deputy Camera,
who was hired by Charlton’s father,
will be his chief counsel.
The interrogation of Charlton on
his arrival lasted three hours and wis
carried on through an interpreter. The
young prisoner was greatly fatigued
when he was taken to his cell.
At the next examination Charlton
will be confronted with the trunk in
which he hid his wife’s body in the
lake. It was feared that the grew-
some sight will prove too much for
him and that he will break down.
Ancient Church Sold
In France for $4.19
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Sept. 1.—Ancient churches
are cheap in France. One sacred edi
fice at Clair^Containe, near Paris, has
just been sold at auction for $4.19.
Numerous historical mementoes
were removed by the local authori
ties, including a tablet recalling that
the church was built “in honor of
God and of Our Lady” in 1100 A. D.,
by Comte Simon de Montfort.
Memphis Wife Held
As Husband’s Slayer
MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 1.—Eva
Darnell is under arrest here charged
with poisoning her husband, Dixon
Darnell, in order to collect his life in
surance.
Following her arrest the authorities
began an investigation into the deaths
of three other men who died sud
denly. Reports received by the po
lice declare the men were -poisoned
for a similar reason.
Twenty Tons of Dynamite UseJ if,
Removing Last Barrier in the
Miraflores Locks.
PANAMA. Sept. 1.—The last ret
maining barrier at the Pacific end <>| *
the Panama Canal was blown out by f
dynamite yesterday morning. It wu*
an intensely interesting spectacle. Af
exactly 9:30 o’clock an electric switett
was turned on and the l h 500 spectator^
including the Shriners visiting he;q
from the United States and officers >f
the British cruiser New Zealand, we e
rewarded by a wonderful sight. Huna
dreds of tons of mud and stone weid
thrown high in the air and the thunJ
derous roar of the explosjons r J
echoed in the nearby hilfc#:
Twenty Tons Exploded.
About twenty long tons, equivalent!
to 44,800 pounds, of 45 per cent dyna-J ,
mite constituted the blast, which wa*t
one of the largest ever set off In the
canal.
The charge, which was planted itt
541 holes at an average depth of 20i ^
feet, tore a big gap in the barrier, but!
not to a sufficient depth to permit
water to flow’ through, as the sea levc4
channel was at low tide.
Equally interesting as the explosion,
was the actual breaking of the barrier
yesterday afternoon, the tide creep
ing steadily up until at 1:35 o’clock it
was level with the top of the gap. X
workman seized a shovel and made a
small trench through which a rill o£
water trickled. Gradually it widened,
until an hour later a raging torrent*
wdth a 35-foot fall, poured through
an opening 400 feet wide into that
part of the canal between Gamboa
dike and the Miraflores locks, which '
previously had been excavated by
steam shovels.
Cut Entirely Filled.
This cut, w’hich is 5,000 feet long,*
500 feet wide and 41 feet deep bel >w
mean sea level, was entirely filled by
3 o’clock, when the w'aters of the
Pacific laved for the first time the
solid masonry of the Miraflores io.ks.
Dredges passed last night through
the opening, and in a few days the
last vestige of the barrier will be re
moved, giving a practically complete.]
channel at the Pacific end. The
dredges will begin on September 2
remove the last barrier of the Atlan
tic channel. When this work is ac
complished, ships may navigate in the
lock ends.
GOLF TOURNEY AT ROME.
ROME, GA., Sept. 1.—The Coosa
Country Club w-ill start on Labor Day
a big golf tournament. Men will play
eighteen holes and ladies nine holes, at;
medal play. Cups will be offered for
the winner and runner-up in each
event.
5E=
“How Does Wrigley’s
Steady Your Nerves?”
“The same way tobacco
steadies yours.
“It’s wonderful. Try it.”
It’s a soothing outlet for nervousness. It's
a refreshing, pleasant pastime that im
proves teeth, breath, appetite, digestion.
Carry this inexpensive pleasure in your
pocket. It’s always ready to chew and to
benefit you—to take away the effects of
over-smoking and over-eating. It’s as good
for you as sunshine.
BUY IT BY THE BOX
Look for the spear
Avoid imitations
Conduct of Police in
Dublin Strike Probed
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DUBLIN, Sept. 1.—A public inquiry
into the conduct of the police during
I the rioting in the tramway strike was
demanded to-day by the Lord Mayor
as the result of allegations that con
stables w'ere using their influence and
authority against the strikers.
The Inchicor district virtually is
under martial law. The police were
unable to handle the situation, and
troops were sent there. Tram serv
ice is at a standstill.
Chew it after every meal
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