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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
ATLANTA HOMES OPENED TO WEE
OLD! SCOTCH LAD AND BONNIE SISTERS
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Witnesses at New Haven Wreck
Inquest, Enraged by Secrecy,
Reveal Evidence.
NEA\ HAVEN, Sept. 4.—Death carp
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, which crushed out
the lives of 21 persons near North
Haven, Conn., Tuesday, were so old
the woodwork was rotten, according
to the testimony to-day at the inquest
of the rear-end collision of the Bar
Harbor Express and the White Moun
tain Express.
This testimony was given before
Coroner Eli Mix by W. F. Clarkson, of
New Haven, who was one of the first
to visit the scene of the wreck. The
debris was burned before any official
representing the county, State or
Federal Government could examine
the remains of tho three fatal cars.
Coroner Mix defied public opinion
by making his. investigation secret, as
officials of the New Haven road de
sired.
Witnesses Reveal Stories.
Most of the witnesses, however,
were so enraged at the star chamber
proceedings that thev revealed their
testimony to correspondents when
they left the inquest room.
The inquiry really was begun on
the day of the wreck, when, in com
pany with railroad officials and Chief
Engineer C. C. El well, of the Public
Utilities Commission of Connecticut,
in the office building of the New
Haven Railroad, he took the testi
mony of some railroad men concerned .
in the wreck.
This testimony, all taken by railroad
stenographers and transcribed on
railroad typewriters, is now in the
hands of the Coroner and the New
Haven road, and because Coroner Mix
refuses to make it public, the railroad
also refuses.
Wreck History To Be Bared.
The public hearing set for Friday
morning in this city under the aus
pices of the Interstate \Commerce
Commission will develop all the tes
timony gone over by the Coroner and
will prove the most exhaustive inquiry
into the manner of operating the New
Haven road that has been held since
the big monopoly began to make
wreck history two years ago.
Jus^ before Coroner Mix began his
inquest to-day members of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers en
gaged a lawyer and announced they
will ask for an injunction restrain
ing Mix from resorting to star cham
ber methods. Mix defied them.
Attorney E. E. Perry, representing
A. B. Miller, engineer of the White
Mountain Express, declares the
Brotherhood believes an attempt is
being made to use Miller as a scape
goat.
Questions Coroner’s Actions.
“It seems peculiar Mix should de
tain Miller and Flagman Murray
without bond and permit certain of
ficials who were told distinctly to re
move those banjo signals to remain
free,” he asserts.
Engineer Miller, of the White
Mountain Express, held without bail
and incommunicado, had the right-of-
way over the tracks where he was
running just before the wreck, ac
cording to one who was present at the
star chamber session. The Bar Har
bor 'Express, he asserts, ran by North
Haven and tripped the signal which
gave Miller the right of way over
the three-mile tangent ahead. The
engineer of the later train is said to
have admitted this.
The investigation will hinge, ac
cording to one prominent railroad
man, on the testimony of Flagman
Murray, of. the Bar Harbor Express,
who will be asked to explain why,
during the six minutes he is said to
have had. he did not run back the re
quired 1,800 feet and set the torpe
does that would have stopped the on-
rushing White Mountain Express.
U. S. Is Powerless to
Force Open Inquest.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission an
nounced to-day that there was r.o
way in which it could compel Coroner
Mix to abandon his plan of secret
hearings on the New Haven wreck f t
Wallingford, Conn. The commission
can, however, compel the attendance
of a representative of the commission
and has instructed Chief Inspector
Belnap to be present at the star
chamber sessions.
The records of the commission show
that the New York, New Haven and
Hartford hits 154 miles of track
equipped with disk or clockwork sig
nals which are much inferior to the
modern semaphore.
Found His Bride on
Football Gridiron
MARY, MARGARET AND DAVID LOGAN.
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Sails for Europe to Seek Health
and Strength for Campaign
Against Tammany.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4.—A ro
mance which had its beginning on
Franklin Field during a football
game in 1910 when ''Texas” "Ramsdell
was the star player for the University
of Pennsylvania, terminated when the
former world’s champion sprinter and
al!-round athlete married Miss Nina
Foster, a popular Darby school
teacher.
Fred L. Ramsdell was graduated
from the university as a civil en
gineer in 1911. He will become one
of the proprietors of a school at San
Ahtonio, Texas, his home city, after
his wedding tour.
BIG LINER AGROUND.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—The Ham-
burg-American liner President Lin
coln went aground at 7 o'clock this
morning in a dense fog off Bay Ridge,
while outward bound. She was float
ed at 9:50 a, m. No damage was done.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Mayor Wil
liam J. Gaynor, who yesterday ac
cepted an independent nomination 'or
re-election, unexpectedly sailed for
Europe to-day for a two weeks’ vaca
tion. Mayor Gaynor has been ill for
two weeks and was so weak to-day
when he boarded the Baltic that he
could hardly stand.
Just as he was sailing the Mayor
issued a statement attacking Tam
many.
"No wonder they are so ferocious
against me,” said the Mayor, "for they
have had four lean, hungry years. I
refused to turn a single city depart
ment over to Charles F. Murphy and
his crew of grafters.”
The Mayor has been suffering from
a recurrence of throat trouble caused
by the old wound made by a would-
be asasssin three years ago.
Mayor Gaynor will return aboir
September 22.
Nurse Is Wooed and
Won by Her Patient
NEW YORK. Sept. 4.—Miss Ethel
G. Burd, daughter of Captain George
E. Burd, of the. steam engineering
department of the United States
Navy, has given up the white cap of
a nurse for an engagement ring.
Announcement was made to-day
that Miss Burd, who for two years
was a nurse in the Long Island Col
lege Hospital in Brooklyn, will on Oc
tober 12 become the bride of Harrv
Luck, proprietor of a summer hotel in
the Adirondacks. ,
While playing golf several montas
ago Mr. Luck injured his knee and
was brought to the hospital for treat
ment. There the romance began.
Women Jailed for
Copper Mine Riots
CALUMET. MICH., Sept. 4.—Riot
ing among the striking copper miners
and non-union men continued to-dav.
Fifteen arrests were made, several
women being taken into custody.
Four non-union men were badly beat
en by strikers at Laurium and Han
cock.’ Picketing by strikers to-day
was heavier and more determined
than since the resumption of mining
three weeks aeo.
The Prosecuting Attorney plans the
prosecution of all cases at once.
No Attempt to Take
Kentucky Fugitive
LEXINGTON, Sept. 4.—Reports from
Burnside, Ky., say that Josh Tartar,
who shot Town Marshal John Coomer in
the neck and killed John Fitzgerald in
a running light, and who made his es
cape. is recovering from injuries in his
leg and arm which he received in the
battle.
Tartar has been located near his own
home and a surgeon from Burnside has
been in daily attendance upon him. Of
ficers are not attempting to arrest him.
HERE’S SUFFRAGE HEN!
SUMMIT, N. J. t Sept. 4.—A hen
was found sitting on a number of
eggs in the original ballot box of
this town which is to be used in *.i.e
coming primaries. The box has not
been used since 1869.
Stranded Trio Joyous as They
Hear That They Will Be
Given Work.
Numbers of Atlanta homes have
been opened to the wee Scotch lad
and the bonnie lassies since the pub
lication in Wednesday’s Georgian that
City Warden Thomas Evans was
looking for someone to take them as
house servants. The Warden said he
would be able to place them all in
good homes before Thursday night.
Mary, Margaret and David Logan,
those are their names, were down at
the Warden’s office early Thursday
morning, wearing broad smiles. They
were joyous over the fact that their
bewildering struggling in a strange
city was at an end.
“We do not know mill work,” said
Mary, the eldest, “but we can do
housework.”
The story of how these young peo- |
pie came from Glasgow, Scotland, to I
this land of opportunity and met so j
many bitter disappointments during I
ten months touched all Atlanta. The i
uncle who was to provide for them
lost all bis money, and they finally
had reached Atlanta and took up
abode in the Fulton Bag and Cotton
Mills settlement.
Even there they could not get work
because of their inexperience. Dut
these sturdy young Scots were not
discouraged. They smiled and said
they would get work finally.
When Warden Evans told them
Thursday that several persons would
be down to see them to give them
work, their smiles greatly broadened,
and they told him how much they ap
preciated his help in most charming
Scotch accentie.
From the looks of these young peo
ple, some Atlantans are going to get
some mighty good servants.
Negro Barber Held
On ‘Tiger’ Charge
W. A. Jones, a negro barber with a
shop at No. 35 Ivy street, was arrested
Thursday morning on a charge of run
ning a blind tiger. The arrest was made
by Detectives Cowan and Ozburn, who
took into custody the 12-year-old son of
Jones when they discovered him carry
ing a case of whisky along Ivy street.
The case contained 24 half pints of
whisky, and when the officers questioned
the boy he told them he was on his way
to his father’s barber shop
City Clerk for 50
Years Is Honored
COLUMBUS, Sept. 4.—At yesterday
afternoon’s monthly meeting of the Co
lumbus City Council, an ordinance was
introduced creating the office of deputy
city clerk.
M. M. Moore, who recently celebrated
his fiftieth anniversary as city clerk, Is
in feeble health and can not discharge
the arduous duties connected with the
office, but the Mayor and Aldermen, not
wishing to retire him from office, have
decided to create the office of deputy
clerk in order to give him such assist
ance as he needs in handling the af
fairs of the office.
FUNERAL OF PERCIVAL ELDER.
JACKSON. Sept. 3.—The funeral of
Percival Elder, who died at a private
sanltorium in Atlanta Tuesday night,
was held at the Flovilla Methodist
Church Wednesday afternoon at 3
o’clock. Rev. J. A. Sprayberry conduct
ing the services. He was the son >f
the late Mr. and Mrs. George Elder,
of Flovilla, the latter of whom died
only a few months ago.
NO METHOD IN THIS MADNESS.
DENVER, Sept. 4.—In an effort to
kill off the new town of Ramona,
where the sale of liquor is permitted,
prohibitionists of Colorado Springs
cut off Ramona’s water supply, u is
alleged.
The Georgian Divides Glory
With Crackers in Another
Great Baseball Victory
THE CRACKERS HAVE WON TWO GAMES. AND
THE GEORGIAN HAS WON TWO GREAT VICTORIES,
ALSO. THE GREAT STORIES WRITTEN BY THE GEOR
GIAN'S EXPERTS ARE THE TALK OF THE TOWN. A BASE
BALL SERIES HAS NEVER BEEN ‘ COVERED” SO COM
PLETELY. EVERY LITTLE DETAIL IS DESCRIBED
DAILY.
THERE ARE TWO MORE GAMES SCHEDULED BE
TWEEN THE GULLS AND CRACKERS. IT IS HARD TO
TELL WHICH TEAM WILL WIN THESE GAMES, BUT THE
GEORGIAN IS GOING TO BE A WINNER ANYWAY.
THIS AFTERNOON ALL OF THE GEORGIAN'S EX
PERTS WILL BE ON THE JOB AGAIN. BE SURE TO
READ WHAT THEY WRITE. IT IS SPICY, AUTHENTIC
AND INTERESTING.
AMONG THOSE WHO ARE COVERING” THIS
SERIES FOR THE GEORGIAN ARE:
BILLY SMITH. THE CRACKER MANAGER, THE
MAN WHO BROUGHT A RANK TAIL-ENDER OF 1912 UP
TO THE TOP.
JOE AGLER, THE CORKING FIRST BASEMAN, WHO
HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY JERSEY CITY, BUT WHO WILL
BE WITH THE YANKEES NEXT SEASON.
I?OU CASTRO, FORMER CRACKER, WHO KNOWS
"INSIDE ” BALL BETTER .THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN
THE SOUTH.
0. B. KEELER, THE GEORGIAN’S BASEBALL EX-
PERT, WHO WRITES THE BREEZIEST ARTICLES OF
ANY CRITIC IN THE SOUTH.
W. S. FARNSWORTH, SPORTING EDITOR OF THE
GEORGIAN. WHO FOR SIX YEARS TRAVELED WITH
THE RED SOX, YANKEES, GIANTS AND DODGERS.
FUZZY WOODRUFF, KNOWN BY EVERY FAN IN
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE, WHO HAS A WONDERFUL
STYLE ALL HIS OWN.
INNIS BROWN, FORMER VANDERBILT HERO, WHO
PERSONALLY KNOWS EVERY MEMBER OF THE GULLS
AND CRACKERS.
THE GEORGIAN WILL ALSO HAVE STAFF PHOTOG
RAPHERS AT THE PARK TO SNAP EVERY PLAY OF IM-
PORTANCE.
THE GEORGIAN’S BASEBALL EXTRASWILL RUN
COMPLETE DETAILED REPORTS OF THE GAME, SENT
IN PLAY BY PLAY. EVERY BALL AND STRIKE WILL BE
ACCOUNTED FOR IN THESE EXTRAS.
ORDER YOUR GEORGIAN EARLY FOR THE NEXT
TWO DAYS IF YOU WANT TO BE SURE OF GETTING
ALL THE REAL NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THIS GREAT
SERIES.
SENATE IIIITO
DELAY MDNEY
Weeks Offers Resolution Defer-;
ring Action on Currency Meas
ure Until the Next Session.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Senator
Weeks, of Massachusetts, offered in
the Senate to-day a resolution direct
ing the Senate Committee on Bank
ing and Currency to prepare a cur
rency bill and report it to the Senate
on December 2 next. The resolution
alro directs the chairman of the com
mittee to ask that the bill then be
made the unfinished business of the
Senate.
Senator Weeks asked to have the
resolution lie on the table, giving no
tice that he would speak on It to
morrow.
It is expected that the issue as to
whether currency legislation shall be
enacted at the present nession will o ‘
squarely met in the consideration of
the resolution.
The President and the Administra
tion forces will make every effort to
defeat the resolution. If the resolu
tion is referred to the Banking and
Currency Committee and two Demo
cratic members of the committee
should vote with the Republicans in
favor of the resolution, the line-up
would be 6 to 4 In favor of putting 1
currency legislation over to tiie next I
regular session.
Thomas A. Edison Ill
On Auto Trip in Maine
PORTLAND. ME.. Sept. 4 —Thom
as A. Edison, with his wife, daughter
and son and Miss Grace Miller,
reached this city from Morhegan. Mr
Edison retired at once and when an
effort was made to see him it was
said he was slightly ill.
It was reported that the Edisons
had come oack to Maine because of
ill health.
FINE CROPS IN BUTTS.
JACKSON, Sept. 4—Butts County
will without doubt harvest the largest
crop of hay in her entire history. The
farmers of Butts County are beginning
to experiment with alfalfa, some splen
did crops having been made this year.
The local corn crop was the largest in
years.
Wears Gaudy Hose;
Is Poisoned by Dye
TULARE, CAL., Sept. 4—Harry
Metcalf, a member of Company H,
California Volunteer Infantry, is se
riously ill at his home as the result
of being poisoned with aniline dyes
from gaudy socks.
*MetcaIf fainted while at drill last
evening, and when he failed to re
cover in a reasonable time was hur
ried home. An examination followed,
which showed he had the character
istic symptoms of aniline poisoning
PELHAM FIRM BANKRUPT.
PELHAM, Sept. 4.—Brown & Kahn
filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy to-day, with liabilities of $10,-
000 and assets estimated at $4,000.
Pastor Quits ‘Worst
Town’ as Hopeless
SHARON, PA., Sept. 4—The Rev.
H. E. Renicks has resigned the pas
torate of the Farrell Baptist Church,
declaring that Farrell. Pa., was the
worst city in the Western Hemi
sphere and that it was impossible for
him to save 1t from meeting the fate
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
He came to this town from Spring-
field, Ohio, two years ago. He has
opinions of the old school Baptists
that conflicted with the views of his
congregation, and recently refused to
sanction a church fair and soctal,
saying that they were "unholy.”
Certain members of his flock took
him to task for this, and the church
was rent asunder by two factions.
Then he preached a sermon about the
unholiness of the Sunday pleasure-
seekers, and Anally gave up his task.
Augusta to Charge
For Use of Streets
AUGUSTA. Sept. 4.—General Man- j
ager Mason, of the Atlanta and Caro- |
lina Construction Company, after ap- |
pearing before the City Council of
Augusta asking for a franchise to use
the streets for an electric railroad lo |
connect Augusta and Atlanta via Ath- |
ens, was informed that a previous
franchise granted his company would
be renewed.
He was told also that the city
would charge a license of $1,666.66 for
the use of its streets per annum until
the present franchise of the Augusta-
Aiken Railway and FMectric Corpora
tion and various steam railroad cor
porations expire, and that after that
the franchises wil! come higher.
Audubon Official
To Talk on Birds
A general invitation has been issued
to the public to hear the address to
night of James Jlenry Rice, Jr., field
agent of the National Audubon So
ciety, at the North Avenue Presbyte
rian Church, No. 627 Peachtree street,
at 8:30.
The subject is “Birds and Their Use
to Man.” The Boy Scouts will act as
ushers.
FEET
lief
With Watery Blisters. Also on Neck
and Face. Itched So Could Not
Sleep, Used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment Six Days. Trouble Left,
1® Roach St. Atlanta. Ga.—"A fow
months ago I had soma kind of skin eruption
that spread until my limbs and feet were
covered with blotches and
watery blisters. It looked
like eczema. When the
trouble reached ray neck and
face I was almost driven
frantic. It itched and stung
so intensely that I could not
sleep or wear any clothing on
the affected parts. I used
almost everything without re-
After two months I commenced to use
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and after two
days I noticed improvement and in six days
the trouble left My akin was fair and
smooth again and the eruption never re
turned.
"My cousin was a sufferer from pimples,
known as acne, on his face and seemed t-o
grow worse all the time. 1 recommended
Cuticura Soap and Ointment to him and
now his face is smooth for the first time In
three years and he owes It all to Cuticura
Soap and Ointment.’’ (Signed) Walter
Battle. Oct. 7, 1912.
A single hot bath with Cuticura Soap and
a gentle anointing with Cuticura Ointment
are often sufficient to afford immediat e relief
In the most distressing canes of skin and
scalp diseases when all else falls* Cuticura
Soap (25c.) and Cuticura Ointment (Me >
are sold everywhere. Liberal sample of each
mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book Address
post-card “Cuticura. Dept. T, Boston
WMen who shave and shampoo with Cu
ticura Soap will find it best for skin and scalp.
Brenau has a pres
tige as a training
school for music
teachers second to
no other institution
in the South.
B REN A U Conservatory has probably
educated more music teachers, ivho are
now occupying responsible and remu
nerative positions, than any other institution
in the South.
' I 'HE recent addition to the faculty of
1 Dr. Henry G. Hanchett as Principal
of the Normal Department still further
enlarges the opportunities for young women
who desire to secure the very best training.
Dr. Hanchett is one of the best known
teachers in America to-day, and the fact
that he is willing to undertake the Work of
teacher training in this institution is another
evidence of the fact that Brenau is recog
nized as one of the foremost institutions for n
the study of music in America.
D R. Hanchett has made many successful
Concert tours of America and has
done perhaps more than any other liv
ing man to popularize classical music. He
is not only a performer of rare artistic finish
hut an entertaining lecturer as well, and a
distinct feature of all of his recitals is the
careful explanation of all the distinguishing
characteristics of the numbers which he
plays on the piano or the pipe organ, in the
playing of which he is equally skilled.
D R. Hanchett first outlined a course in
musical pedagogy and analysis when
a member of the faculty of the Metro
politan Conservatory of Music in the city of
New York in 1893, and it is a development
of this course which he will give at Brenau
during the session beginning September 11,
1913, and which he will probably repeat in
the summer session beginning in J une, 19b4.
r HE addition of Dr. Hanchett to the
faculty undoubtedly gives Brenau the
most distinguished coterie of musicians
in the South. In addition to Dr. Hanahett
the faculty includes Otto Pfefferkorn,
who has been head of the piano department
for a dozen years; J. T. Sinnette and Benj.
F. Havens, who came with Dr. Simmons
from Shorter College; Bruno Michaleis, a
native of Leipzig and graduate of the
famous Royal Conservatory there, and sev
eral others. The vocal department, pre
sided over hy Mrs. Lessie Southgate Sim
mons, will maintain its usual high standard.
Mrs. Simmons has a rare gift of inspir
ing her pupils with the utmost enthusiasm,
and she is ably assisted hy Miss Mary Helen
Howe, Ellmer Zoller andMissNellie Laing.
7 HE normal and theoretical course,
which will he offered hy Dr. Han
chett and Mrs. Simmons during the
year beginning September 11th, affords
unparalleled opportunities for Southern
teachers, and for students who are prepar
ing to teach.
7 ^HE normal course will embrace a gen
eral discussion of the application to
musical pedagogy of the following
subjects: Sensation; The Brain; Nervous
Activity; The Unconscious Man; Habit;
Consciousness; Attention; Perception and
Conception; Memory and Association; The
Sense of Time and Space; Reasoning; Im
pulse, Instinct, Volition, Expression; methods
of securing Attention; methods of developing
Musical Intelligence; methods of enhancing
Emotion; methods of improving Action; the
Body as the Organ of the Soul; Education
is Drawing-out; Aim and End of Teaching.
JN CONJ UNCTION With this specifi-
£ cally pedagogical course teachers are
offered the course in Musical Analysis,
Musical History, Harmony and Solfeggio.
AS PREPARATION for self-sus-
^2 taining life Work a course in music
and musical pedagogy at Brenau af
fords opportunities which cannot he found
elsewhere in the South.
Brenau College-Conservatory
Gainesville, Georgia.