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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. I'm. 5 A Jd , n* 1 < j > .■tv Stalwart Lincoln McConnell Is Here to Preach ||j | [j [ +•+ !••+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +*4* *••!• +•+ +*4* Pitcher, Detective, Evangelist, He Knows Life IN T HE big thing is to show the world that its one besetting sin is superficiality; that every man and every woman has Success and Reward as his gods; that they all must rush and come and go in a mad whirl to keep up and get ahead; that their heroes are those whose rank is based on nothing more than a transient ap peal to the senses. The besetting sin is that things worth while are forgotten or neglected, that the world is superficial, shallow, eager only to get on, to provide itself with the outward show that it has gotten on— which may be a lie in many instances—and to worship Success, Success, Success.—Lincoln McConnell. Atlantan Is Slated For New Judgeship Governor Intimates He May Name City Man, Saying He Wants to Please Bar. Prisoner and His Counsel Are Equally Confident They Will Be Able to Get a New Trial on Ground of Outside Influences. Cheers for the Solicitor After Recesses and Applause in Court Will Be Principal Points Urged by Lawyers for Convicted Man. Big, Hard-Fisted Man of the Gospel Never Has Sermonized on Hell, and He Loves the Crowds on Broadway. Lincoln M cConnell. Desperate efforts to save Leo Frank from the gallows, to which he was consigned by sentence of Judge Roan, are taking definite shape. The trump card of his lawyers will be affidavits or showings of some sort to the effect, that certain members of the Jury which convicted Frank were deeply biased against him by more than one Incident. Meanwhile, Solicitor Dor sey is satisfied that the case he made against Frank will stand. Argument for a new trial will be made before Judge Roan October 4, Just six days before the date set for Frank’s execution. Then Frank's lawyers, headed by Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold, will exhaust every re source at their command to obtain a new trial or to stave off the death sentence. Apparently Leo Frank has an Im pregnable confidence in his advocates- Occasional bulletins from the Tower, where he Is held, declare that ne fol lows the usual routine of his rather methodical life as closely since his sentence as before. His attention to matters of health is scrupulous, In cluding daily exercises and cold baths and a careful selection of food. He directs the affairs of his factory by daily consultation with his assistants and associates. He receives his friends with a calmness that would make him out indifferent to the fate that overshadows him* Business Associates Visitors. Almost every day Sig Montag and Herbert Schiff, his associates in the business of the National Pencil Fac tory, are his visitors, besides other friends. His wife and his father-in- law come also, bearing his meals, and hardly a minute of the day is he alone. But never a time during the day la there any appearance of per turbation on the part of the prisoner. Neither have his lawyers exhibited anv signs of dismay. It is generally believed that they are confident tin v can prove the existence of undue prejudice against their client, and an element of unfairness In his trial. This they will attempt to prove by a chain of incidents, chief among which will be cheering which attend ed the appearance of Solicitor Dor sey outside the courtroom on more than one occasln, and the applau is which burst out even in the court room when the trial was at its most tense point. It mav be that the fl&ht of the de fense will be made along other lines as well, but none of them has been revealed, nothing except the charge of undue influence on the Jurymen. With the Interest that has grown about the figure of Frank, the negro Jim Conley almost has been forgot ten. However, he was recalled last week when it was announced an ef fort would be made to obtain his in - dictment by the Grand Jury on the charge of being an accessory after the fact 1n the murder of Mary Phagan. In the light of Frank’s conviction and the negr./s own statement on the wit ness stand, it is believed this will be effected without delay. Await Day of Argument. Altogether, for the first time since the murder of Mary Phagan, the case has assumed something of an un eventful tone. There is still the en thralling Interest with which all At lantans have Invested the case, and the lawyers involved are laying their plans without rest. But the interest must wait and the speculation must be held up until the day for the argu ments before Judge Roan. It appeared at one time last ween as if a lively Interest In the case would break out like Hre, when Clara Bell Griftin, an employee of the Na tional Pencil Factory, as was Mary Phagan, was mysteriously missing for the space of a Jay. Then it was that speculation was rife, and all sorts if possibilities were suggested. But the girl was found at Grady Hospital, and the suggestion of another Mary Phagan mystery, and a likely effect on the Frank case, was driven away. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD ARRANGE SPECIAL PROGRAM - E. H. LeVert, one of the best known Woodmen in Georgia, will deliver the principal address at the entertain ment and reception of Atlanta Camp, No. 430, Woodmen of hte World, next Friday evening. Mr. Hoyl also will speak. A special program will be presented during the evening, and refreshments will be served. $2.00 TO CHATTANOO GA AND RETURN W. and A. Railroad will sell round trip tickets from Atlanta to Chattanooga and return for train leaving Atlanta at 8:35 a. m. ThursJay, September 11, 1913, good returning not later than train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m. Saturday, September 13, 1913. C. E. HARMAN, General Passenger Agent. A "hefty,” hard-fisted gentleman named Lincoln McConnell has come to town to preach the gospel after his own fashion. Atlanta evidently likes that fashion, because It has felt the weight of his preaching once before, and now he is called to the Baptist Tabernacle, that agency of militant Christianity. He will preach his first sermon as pastor of the Tabernacle to-day. Lincoln McConnell Is a big, straight, powerful man, even more aggressive than that militant institution, the the Tabernacle. You have but to feel the force of his hand-clasp to know that—a heavy hand it is. too, that once curved a baseball with a power that all East Tennessee dreaded, and that was terrible to the wrong doers of Atlanta during the four years that he was a member of the Atlanta police force, a plain clothes man. To a Sunday American reporter he admitted yesterday that his religion Implied a mission to “clean up.” Not Enough to Preach. "It is not enough to preach that you must be just good," he said, "or to sit idly by, keeping your hands out of affairs, saying all the time that this world is but a station on the road to something better. “It is not a station, but a very sig nificant place itself. It may be the best place I’ll ever get to, or you. I wouldn’t ask a better heaven than Atlanta if the devil would just get out. and I would be glad to stay here a thousand years. “There's the real mission—to get the devil out. not to preach of some thing better farther on. That’s what we are set here for. There may be no better place and it may be that we are supposed to make this world clean enough to fit our idea of heaven That's why preachers should work actively to' ’clean up’ their cities "God Is interested in politics. God Is interested in everything, your di gestion. your brain, and politics as " And so you sense the McConnell fashion of preaching the gospel. You know evep without his telling you that his big work lies in talking to men, in organizing law and order leagues and ’clean up campaigns, In talking logic, and not sentiment "I have yet to preach my first sermon on hell,” he said. Naturally, he will not preae.i against the fads and foibles of men and women, against their amusements or their fashions "These things are little, trivial, and are not wrong in themselves, he said It was almost with Impatience that he said It. . A reporter, waiting outside the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon to keep an appointment with Dr. Mc Connell, saw a tall, pleasant-faced, voung-looking man coming down Luckie street. The man had his coat under one arm. his right sleeve rolled back, and his straw hat swinging in his right hand. An upstanding Amer ican citizen he was, who might have been a baseball player or a lawyer or a traveling man or a college prOfeS- SOr. z *U He stopped at the entrance to the Tabernacle, caught the reporter’s hand, and said, “Come in, son.” And the reporter followed Dr. Lincoln Mc Connell Into his study and heard a romantic story. It was the story of Dr. McConnell. The reporter made sure of that. Once Athlete, and Worthless. Once the evangelist was a college athlete, back in Maryville, Tenn.. and a worthless sort of person with it, he confessed. Not worthless because he was an athlete. Lincoln McConnell believes firmly In athletes and athlet ics. But worthless because he was too well satisfied with the “day-to- day” ,existence of the son of a well- to-do family. He studied law be cause he feit it natural that he should. Then his father died, and, finding law little to his taste, he drifted out into the world to make a living. He came to Atlanta as Instructor In a school which was to teach Atlanta women how to cut patterns and dress designs Such institutions had a con siderable vogue 25 years ago, he ex plained, but the vogue xvas not suf ficient to support the establishment with which he cast his fortunes. And so, from force of necessity, he worked in Durand’s restaurant for several years, as a general utility man whose duties were divided between being a waiter, caterer and general overseer. Then he stood the regula^ examina tion for applicants for * ie police force, becoming a supernumerary and later a full-fledged detective. “Criminal Class” la Fiction. “There is no criminal class,” he said. “A man becomes a criminal be cause of conditions of heredity or force of circumstances. We are all potential criminals. I am, I know, with my temper, which is as hot as the devil ever wanted a man's tem per to be. I might have been a mur derer, you see. So might we all. There is no criminal class, so called. ‘There is so much good in the worst of us,’ you know. “And there is not a man alive who can not be saved by the power of God.” All this he learned from his study of men. which began when he was “on the force.” A rather kaleidoscopic career his was until he was converted, about 1893. Dr. McConnell gives nimself no credit for inward grace on account of the conversion, but attributes it alto gether to his wife. “A good, brave wife is one of the greatest moral forces,” he .^aid, and began to talk adoringly of Mrs. Mc Connell. Founded Wesley Church. He received later his license to preach in the Methodist Church, and served in that denomination for many years. It was as a Methodist preacher that he was in Atlanta and founded the Wesley Memorial Church. That Institution stands to-day at Auburn avenue and Ivy street, a monument to his zeal. Building the church, Dr. McConnell started without even a congregation or a place to hold a meeting with the few men and wom en he collected. For several years Dr. McConnell has been a traveling evangelist and a lecturer under the auspices of a lyceum bureau, with his headquarters on his farm in South Georgia. Sev eral years ago he became a Baptist. Now he is in Atlanta to preach his sermons of compelling logic, on such subjects as “Who Was Christ—a Man or a God?” and to tell his con gregation, as he told the reporter yesterday: “Christianity is a fact, a scientific, living fact that can be logically proved.” “More men ran be reached, in re ligion as in everything else, through pure logic. Christianity Is on a log- President Elliott Declares He Will Improve System and Equip Line With Steel Coaches. NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 6.— While the Interstate Commerce Com mission investigators of the New York, New Haven and Hartford wreck were hearing a story of lax discipline and disregard for rule or ders and signals to-day, President Howard Elliott, of the road, issued a statement in which he promised sweeping reforms in the manage ment and improved equipment, in cluding 900 steel nassenger cars. In the opening he said: ‘‘1, of course, deplore more than any words can express the terrible accident of Tuesday last, and 1 shall use all means In my power to create an organization and to provide fa cilities that will reduce to am inimum the danger of such occurrences.” During the investigation it was brought out that wealthy commuters of the road have an arrangement whereby they are provided with all- steel cars to and from New York. These are equipped for card playing and the serving of drinks, and their users paid $3,000 yearly for them in addition to the regular fare. The general public is not permitted to use these cars. There are half a dozen In the serv ice, according to A. B. Smith, gen eral passenger agent. A dramatic conclusion was given to the hearing when Eingineer A. B. Miller, pilot of the White Mountain Express, which plowed through the cars of the Bar Htfrbor Express, asked permis sion to testify again. He then swore that he had been forced to do the work of another man as well as his own for a week previous to the wreck. In his pledge of reforms, President Elliott said that the most radical would be made on that branch of the system where wrecks have been most frequent. “As rapidly as a close study of the situation will permit,” he added, “ar rangements for closer supervision on other parts of the road will be ar ranged for, if it seems necessary.” Mr. Elliott said to-night that he had no idea who would succeed J. P. Morgan * Co. as financial agents of the road, but that he believed Mr. Morgan would retain his position as director of the system. That an Atlanta attorney will re ceive the appointment to the new Su perior Court judgeship created by the last Legislature, was indicated Sat urday night by Governor Slaton, who declared he wanted to select a man pleasing to the members of the At lanta bar The appointment will be made early next week, following a hearing Monday of representatives of the Atlanta bar. “I am endeavoring to select a man for tiie new judgeship who will har monize the various interests of the Atlanta bar,” declared the Governor, “for there Is no better bar in the United States, in my opinion. I have granted a hearing to some of these gentlemen Monday, and expect to reach a decision in the matter early next wek.” Among those prominently mention ed for the place are Colonel Edgar E. Pomeroy, of the Fifth Regiment, and Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Moun tain Circuit. Superior Court. The new appointee will be forced to run In the elections next year. Automobile Thieves Set Atlanta Record Three Cars Stolen In Week—C. E. Corwin Is Latest Victim of the Robbers. HURST GREEK THEATER SCENE OF ART TRIUMPH Miss Margaret Anglin in Sopho cles' 1 Electra' Wins Glory Be fore Audience of 10,000, Roosevelt Outlines South American Trip Itinerary Includes Exploration of Forests of the Amazon for Nat ural History Museum. Three automobile thefts within a week is Atlanta’s record. The car of C. E. Corwin, with the F. A. Hardy & Co. firm, was the third to be taken. Mr. Corwin left the machine in front of the Grant Building Saturday. When he came out of the building the car was gone. The car is a 1912 Hudson, with license number 18944. G. A. Howell, one of the other vic tims of the auto thieves, found his stolen car a few miles from town with a broken axle. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, tv Tho Hearst Greek Theater of the I niver- sity of California, Berkeley, attained its crowning glory to-night when, be fore an audience of nearly 10,000 peo ple. Margaret Anglin asserted her right to rank among America’s great est tragic actresses. The play was the “Electra.’’ of Sophocles, upon the production of which Miss Anglin had devoted months of hard and exhaustive study, rewarded with a triumph only equalled by her performance of “An tigone” on the same stage three years ago.. Patient, painstaking and specialized effort and genius reached back across the centuries and lifted out of another vanished civilization the great work of the greatest Greek tragic poet and placed it before a vast audience in exquisite perfection. It seemed almost like working a miracle, and yet It wa.s done through the ambition and studious labor of Maragaret Anglin. In artistry and interest, the performance surpassed all expectations. Miss Anglin’s “Electra” was a tri umph. The costuming and scheme of color, designed and supervised by Livingston Platt, were remarkable ex amples of stage detail. The musical setting, specially composed by Wil liam Furst, was interpreted by an orchestra of 50 pieces under his di rection. The proceeds approximated $10,000. DR. C. A. RIDLEY PREPARES FOR HIS SPECIAL SERVICES | Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, of Central Bap tist Church, will speak on “The King- |i dom of God and Money” at the morn ing service Sunday, and at night he . will deliver another message prepar- || atorv to the series of meetings soon to begin in Central Church. MERRY MAIDENS CO. IN MUSICAL COMEDY AT BONITA NEXT WEEK With a bunch of beauty show girls and not r. dull moment ts what is promised by the Merry Maidens Musical Comedy Compa ny at the Bonita next week. There will be fun and frolic from mart to finish, all good, all clean^ all clever. Forget dull care by a visit io the Bonita—a good antidote fof the blues. leal and demonstrable basis, and men can be shown just why, and where, and what for.” “You are pot going to talk about card playing, or dancing, or theater going. or slit skirts, or the scarlet woman, then?” the reporter asked. Dr. McConnell smiled. There were worlds of scorn and disgust In his smile. Describes “The Big Thing.” “The big thing is none of these. The big thing is to show the wor’d that its one besetting sin is super ficiality, that every man and every woman has Success and Reward as his gods, that they all must rush and come and go in a mad whirl to keep up and get ahead, that their heroes are those who are in the popular eye as successes, and whose rank is based on nothing more than a transient ap peal to the senses. The besetting sin is that things worth while are for gotten or neglected, that the world )9 superficial, shallow, eager only to get on, to provide itself with the outward show that it has gotten on—which may be a lie in many instances—and to worship Success. Success, Success. “This world is very much wonh while, and life is very much worth while, and striving is very much worth while, so that there should >#j no place for envy or for the struggle Just to show' off or to achieve the public eye.” NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Colonel Roosevelt has announced the outline of his coming trip to South America. The Colonel will leave October 4 on the steamship Van Dyke and go direct to Rio Paneiro. From there he will go to Sao Paulo, Buenos Ayres, Cor dova, Bahia Blanca, Valparaiso and back to Santiago. He expects also to make a tour through the Amazonian forest, ac companied by two naturalists. This part of the journey will be under the direction of the American Museum of Natural History. 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