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I T 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. ► 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 4m® s