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TITE A r ri ANTA U EOKGFDVTV AND NEWS
! WEARING BOOSTER BUTTONS NOW
GREAT FAD IN ATLANTA SOC IETY
MISS FRANCES WILLIAMS.
In Atlanta
“The Darby
Sept. 15! Besides, it s rainy.
Goodbye
St
raw:
Come in and try on tbis New Shape.
Then you 11 be happy un til the G round-
Hog comes out again next Spring
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efforts the booster button adorning
the girls of Atlanta nas become one
of the common spectacles of Peach
tree street.
Almost as many girls as men are
wearing them now, and they are as
enthusiastic as their brothers and
sweethearts over the new movement.
Thousands of the buttons have
been given out to firms and business
men. but there are still plenty left
for distribution. Organizations, firms
and others who desire to get some of
the buttons and aid in the good work
of boosting Atlanta can have them
by writing to The Georgian or
Hearst’s Sunday American and tell
ing how many they need. They will
fie sent at once to any address.
Women Are Active
In Bond Election
SAVANNAH, Sept. 15.—Suffragists
will gain a firm foothold in Savan
nah to-day If the election for a $200,-
000 auditorium bond issue carries.
For the first time in the city's his
tory society women have been active
in the campaign, and to-day they are
prominen t at the, voting places.
Striker Prefers Jail
Sentence to $10 Fine
MOBILE. Sept. 15.—A. C. Smith, a
striking boilermaker who violated an
Injunction recently Issued against him
and other members of his union by
K^ing on the property of the Gulf
City Boiler Works and interfering
with strike-greakers, was fined $10 or
24 hours in jail.
Smith went to jail. A motion to
dissolve the injunction now In force
was refused.
Celebrates Silver
Wedding Over Phone
NEW YORK, Sept. 35.—Franklin D.
Smith, of Chicago, unable to go home
to celebrate his silver wedding anniver
sary. gave a dinner to his friends at ihe
Astor Hotel here and used the long dis
tance telephone.
The party assembled, Mrs. Smith was
called to the phone in Chicago arui con
gratulations wuo exchanged.
National Association Secretary Is
Here to See if Atlanta Can Fur
nish Adequate Quarters.
Fred E. Farnsworth, secretary of
the American Bankers' Association
for the past six years, Is In Atlanta
to determine whether the city's hotels
can giva adequate accommodations to
the National Bankers' Convention in
the autumn of 1914.
“There is no doubt that Atlanta can
do everything else handsomely in the
way of entertainment,” says Mr
Farnsworth. “We know all about
Southern hospitality and we know the
Atlanta bankers. But Atlanta Is grow
ing so rapidly that its hotels are busy
all the while. The question is, can
all other business be turned away to
take care of the 3,000 or more bank
ers?
Bankers Want the Best.
“You know bankers want the best
of everything. They won't take rooms
without baths, and they positively
■will not ‘double uo.’ ”
Mr Farnsworth Is just from Wash
ington, where he has been working
hard to assist the bankers in getting
what they regard as vital amend
ments to the Owen-Glass currency
bill
"I do not believe the Administra
tion currency reform plan will pass
in its present form,” he says. “It will
pass the House practically as it
stands, but, In my belief, it will be
amended considerably in the Senate.
The temper of the Senate is shown
by the fact that while the bankers
were to have had a six-hour hearing
before the committee, they were kept
four and a half days by the eager
questioning of the committeemen,
hich covered not only the currency
bill but all manner of subjects di
rectly and indirectly connected with
finance.
Bill To Be Debated.
“The currency bill undoubtedly will
be the leading topic of discussion at
the Boston- convention which opeus
October 6. The currency commissd^fT
of the association will makf* a report,
and general debate will follow. South
ern members of this commisison are
jfis eph McCord', of Atlanta, and Sol
Wexler, of New Orleans.
“The bankers' objection to the plan
as outlined are fourfold: Govern
mental control, governmental issue of
Lank notes, the disposition of reserves
and dispoistion of the 2 per cent
Government bonds.”
Mr. Farnsworth sees good times
ahead.
“Autumn has not developed the ex
pected stringency of money,” he says.
“The crons are moving without undue
strain, and prospects are for healthy
conditions to follow. The South in
particular seems to be in good shape."
Dinner Is Planned.
J. K. Ottley, of the Fourth National
Bank; Haynes McF^idden, secretary
of the Georgia Bankers’ Association,
and Fred Houser, secretary of the At
lanta Convention Bureau, met Mr.
Farnsworth at the Terminal Station
Monday morning at 11:15 o’clock. Mr.
Farnsworth was taken to the Pied
mont Hotel. Monday night there will
be a dinner in his honor at the Ansley
Hotel. He remains until Tuesday aft
ernoon.
The convention bureau has secured
pledges of 1,791 rooms which will be
set aside for the use of the Bankers’
Convention in the Atlanta hotels. It
is believed this pledge will be satis
factory.
“I think the association will take
kindly to the idea of coming to At
lanta, as it did In 1895,” says Mr.
Farnsworth. "The only question is
one of accommodations.”
Fitzsimmons’ Son
Blinded by Enemy
EE PASO, TEXA'J, Sept. 18.—A
young man who claims to he Robert
Fitzsimmons, Jr., son of the famous
pugilist and an actor, lies in the
hospital here to-day blinded by am
monia which was thrown into his
eyes by a man with whom he had
quarreled.
The victim will lose the sight of
both eyes.
Today Is
"Darby Day
partment of Labor, and four employ
ees of the Department of Commerce,
who are alleged to have been stump
ing Alabama in the interest of Repre
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson,
candidate for Senator.
All have been recalled from that
State as a result of protests made
by friends of Representative Clayton,
recently appointed by Governor
O'Neal of Alabama to succeed the late
Senator Johnston.
It is understood that the protests
charged that these Government em
ployees had violated the executive
order against “pernicious political ac
tivity.” If the charges are substan
tiated they undoubtedly will be rep
rimanded by the President.
Miss Thelma Freeman, the pretty
15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Freeman, of Atlanta, is back at
the home of’her parents, after figur
ing in a runaway that had them near
ly distracted with anxiety.
The young girl disappeared from
home Saturday. Her father and
mother instituted an immediate
search. They thought she might have
accompanied a friend from Montgom
ery back to the Alabama city. They
wired the Montgomery police. De
tectives Pa^ni* and (’loud visited the
home of the young woman, who had
just returned from Atlanta, and con
firmed the suspicions of Mr. and Mrs.
Freeman by discovering little Miss
Freeman comfortably esoonced there
and not at all willing to return home.
Mr. Freeman was notified and ar
rived at Montgomery at 10:50 Sun
day. His daughter meanwhile was
taken to the police station. She met
him with a storm of protestatlonr
against coming back to Atlanta, scold
ing him severely for following her to
Montgomery.
The father argued and remon
strated with her and finally persuad
ed her that the strictness with which
she was treated by her mother at
home was in reality for her own good.
A reconciliation was effected and
father and daughter left the station
together. They returned 10 Atlanta
on the evening train over the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad.
WILSON PUIS m
ONAIDSOFHOBSQN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Presi
dent Wilson has wielded the “big
stick” sfi Miss Julia Lathrop, head
of the children’s bureau of the De-
FATHER PURSUES
RUNAWAY GIRL
North Avenue Belle Enlists Her
Friends in Cause of “500,-
000 by 1920.”
With the advent of the new booster
buttons bearing the picture of one of
Atlanta’s prettiest society girls,
“boosting for Atlanta” promises to
become as great a fad as the tango,
the turkey trot and the hundred and
one other things with which society
whiles away its time.
Hundreds of Atlanta society per
sons have taken to wearing the but
tons, and they have developed into
enthusiastic boosters for the Gate
City.
Miss Frances Williams, of No. 35
West North avenue, one of Atlanta’s
prettiest girls, was one of the first
to take up the new fad. She obtained
a button shortly after they were re
ceived at The Georgian office and has
worn it proudly and enthusiastically
ever since.
She has enlisted many of her
friends in the cause of “600,000 people
for Atlanta,” and as a result of her
nil SCDRES
Councilman Ashley, After Inspec
tion, Criticises Carrier System
at Disposal Plant.
Atlanta’s new’ crematory Is practi
cally out of operation and Monday
the carts w’ere turned to the old
dumping grounds with their loads of
garbage This was the report made
to Mayor Woodward by Councilman
Claude Ashley Monday, following a
visit by him to the crematory, and
criticism of the plant’s collapse was
widespread.
In his talk with the Mayor, Mr.
Aahlev severely criticised the ar
rangements by which the garbage Is
transported from the pit to the fur
naces. and offered the suggestion that
traveling cranes be substituted for
the present system.
“The system of handling the gar
bage in use now keeps one spot in the
pit clean, but fails to properly remove
the garbage along the sides of the
pit,” he said.
Double Strain on Motors.
“A great many cables have been
broken on the buckets used, while the
heavy strain burns out the motors
rapidly. The system In use is similar
to the trap-stick system, having a
bucket on each end. The buckets are
swung out, and at times are at a
great angle, making a double strain
on the motors.”
“They are three months behind on
their promises, and the plant Is prac
tically at a standstill,” ?aid the May
or. sarcastically. “Why, they said
they would have one unit of the plant
ready by June 1 and the entire plant
completed by June 15. Here It is
three months after the time promised
for completion and to-day they are
not even working the one unit prom
ised for June 1.
“Someone asked me the other day
w'hy we were raising so much of a
row about the crematory. Well, 1
think when a thing coats a city $250.-
000 that we are entitled to raise a
row if the thing Is not what it should
be.
Forfeit a Mere Bagetelle.
If w r e can save the city $50,000 in
the cost of this plant I think we will
be doing well. And until this plant Is
in perfect working order we are go
ing to continue to raise a row.
"The contract called for the turning
over of the plant to the city August
15 and a forfeit of $25 a day for each
day’s delay. A month has passed
since the final date and while we
have a forfeit of $25 a day charged
against the manufacturers the total
sum of It but a drop In the bucket
compared to what we expect to f»ave
the city on this plant.”
Mayor Woodward some time age
appointed Frank Lederle as the engi
neer to represent the city In a test
run of the plant. The plant has not
yet been turned over to Lederle for
the 30-day test.
Treats 395 Rabies
Patients; All Saved
Judge Russell to
Head Appeals Court
By Service Seniority
Judge Richard B. Russell will be
come Chief Judge of the Court of
Appeals by right of senority of ser
vice, and not by election, as has
been the prevailing Impression.
Judge Russell would have been
Chief Judge in any event, but under
the rules of the court the oldest
Judge In point of service becomes
Chief Judge automatically, and there
fore no election will be necessary in
the case of Judge Russell. He is the
senior member of ,the court, after
Judge Hill, the present Chief Judge,
appointed to the new Atlanta Court.
In order to permit Judge Hill to
complete the work he now’ has in
hand before leaving the Appellate
bench, the Court of Appeals will hear
no arguments between now and Oc
tober 13.
It may be that Judge Hill will not
leave the Appellate b. nch formally
before that date.
American Miner Is
Cruelly Slain by
Bandits in Mexico
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 15.—News
of the murder of Morris P. Root,
American superintendent of th^ El
Tlgre mines at Tepic, Mexico, was
brought here by the steamer Peru,
w’hich had almost 100 refugees
aboard.
The mining engineer was intercept
ed by bandits on his way to Join em
ployees of the company preparing to
defend the mine property. He was
cut to pieces.
Root was 50 years old and had been
in Mexico sixteen years.
Max Lambert, another American
engineer who arrived on the Peru,
was left for dead by bandits w’ho at
tacked his home in the state of Tepic.
iAmbert’s wife and child escaped by
crawling through a rear window and
he remained to greet the bandits,
whose approach was noticed when
they were a mile away. When they
departed Mra Lambert returned and
got aid.
Blease Wanted as
Witness Against
U. S, by Publisher
WILMINGTON. Sept. 15.—Cole L.
Blease, Governor of South Carolina, is
wanted In Elizabeth City as a witness
for the defendant In the case of the
United States against the publisher of
‘Down Homer,’ a free thought maga
zine, W. O. Saunders, who is to be
tried October 14 on the charge of
publishing. In violation of the Fed
eral statute, matter tending to incite
murder and arson.
Saunders wrote and published an
article in which he stated that “Cole
Blease ought to be shot,” and he
hopes to prove by the Governor him
self that he has not been murdered or
incinerated as a result of anything he
has written about him.
Miss Lon Hook Dies;
Funeral on Tuesday
Miss Lou T. Hook, 44 years old,
well-known Atlantan, died Monday
morning at the residence at East
Lake Junction
Frank Case and New Bench Ap
pointments Cause Congestion
in Court—100 Await Trial.
Solicitor General Dorsey is on a still
hunt for a judge to conduct the large
grist of cases which have piled up
since the June term of court. The
Frank trial caused all other court
business to accumulate, and the re
cent bench appointments still further
have delayed the disposal of several
scores of CAses.
More than one hundred prisoners
are In the county Jail awaiting (rial.
Some of them have been there much
longer than is usual to hold them be-
for trial. The Solicitor wishes to have
them placed on trial at the earliest
possible moment and does not wish to
wait until some time in October for
Judge Ben H. Hill to take the new
Atlanta circuit Judgeship if he can
avoid this delay.
An effort is being made to have
one of the Superior Court judges pre
side. If this fails, it is probable that
a Judge from an outside circuit will
be brought in.
Conley One To Be Tried.
Jim Conley, self-confessed accessory
after the fact In the murder of Mary
Phagan. will be one of those placed
on trial. Nothing of the spectacular
interest that obtained at the Frank
trial will be show’n when the negro
Is brought, into couru It will be little
more than a formality. ’ Conley will
plead guilty and will be sentenced.
There will be no witnesses.
Judge Roan will hear the argu
ment for a new trial of Frank October
4, but all the subsequent litigation In
behalf of the convicted man will be
heard by another Judge.
The recent bench appointments also
may cause another delay in,the set
tlement of the celebrated Crawford
case. Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford has
been accused of poisoning her wealthy
husband, Joshua Crawford. Solicitor
Dorsey found himself disqualified to
act as the prosecutor of Mrs. Craw
ford. Frank A. Hooper and several
other* were named later to act in this
capacity, but the same disqualifica
tion existed in each case. Charles S.
Reid finally was selected to draw up
the blank bill of indictment against
the accused woman and conduct the
prosecution.
Defense Urges Haste.
He wa9 prepared to go ahead with
the case until It became known that
Governor Slaton had appointed him
as the judge of the Stone Mountain
Circuit, of which he now is prose
cutor. This will make it necessary
to select still another attorney to
conduct the case against Mrs. Craw
ford and may result In a delay of
several weeks more.
Burton Smith, one of her attorneys,
said Monday that it was the desire of
Mrs. Crawford’s counsel to bring the
accusations to an issue as soon as
posible. He declared that if the mem
bers of the Grand Jury regarded the
evidence against her sufficient to
warrant an Indictment, her lawyers
were anxious that this be done at
once so that Mrs. Crawford would
have the opportunity to defend her
self.
TI 56; DRIZZLE
Chilly Rain and Fall Weather
Bring Out Overcoats and
Start Grate Fires.
With the temperature in the fifties
and a chilling, depressing rain spread
ing a mantle of gloom over (he city,
Atlanta Monday shivered In real fall
weather.
Overcoats made their first appear
ance on the streets and brought envy
to the hearts of those not so well pre
pared or not yet ready to admit that
summer had gone. The Peachtree
parade was a rather drab affair, lack
ing the usual gay coloring. The At
tractive had been momentarily laid
aside for the comfortable.
Coal dealers said that the cool snap
brought a lively awakening In tbetr
line, scores of housewives suddenly
remembering that a cheery blaze at
home would not be amiss.
The temperature at noon was 56,
with little prospect of a change for
the better, and the weather bureau
announced that there would be more
rain to-night and to-morr6w.
Three Feet of Water
In Mobile Streets.
MOBILE, Sept. 15.—A total of 11.01
inches of rain has fallen in Mobile
within the past two days, doing many
thousands of dollars damage.
Streets of the business district were
flooded three feet. In many places
water backed up into several stores.
Asheville Dons Furs;
Coal Dealers Rushed.
ASHEVILLE. Sept. lf> Overcoats
and furs to-day took the place of
straw hats and summer suits, because
of the sudden drop in the tempera
ture followed by a 24-hour wintry
rain. Every other person met on the
streets wore an overcoat. The coal
dealers of the city have been called
upon to add extra equipment, so
great was the demand for fuel. No
crops will be damaged by the sudden
drop.
Bryan Denies He’s a
“Peanut Secretary"
PHOENIXVILLE. PA.. Sept. 15.—
William J. Bryan denies he is a vau-
devilllan or a “Peanut Secretary of
State,” or that he has made a trav
esty of diplomacy.
The Secretary of State has con
fided his views to persons with whom
he has come in contact on the Chau
tauqua circuit. He asserted that he
is a much-malinged individual He
said he objected to being called a
mountebank or a trapeze performer.
Park Bench Aimed
As Bar to Spooning
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The
non-flirting bench is being given a
tryout in the local parks.
The bench is divided into three
parts by wrought iron arms, especil-
ly designed to chill spooning
thoughts.
CASTOR IA
PARTS, Sept. 15.—Professor Elie
Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur Institute,
considers the reported discovery of
the microbe of hydrophobia by Dr.
Hideyo Noguchi, of the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research, of-New
York, to bo of great medical Impor
tance.
He remarked to-day that not one
death had occurred among the 395
persons treated at the Institute in
1912. This is tho second time this
record has been made in 27 years.
Taken to Hospital in
Car That Struck Her
Roxie^ Carmichael, a negress, was
Injured Monday morning when she
was run down at Peachtree and Cain
streets by an automobile driven by W.
P. Wash, No. 335 North Jackson
street, who was on his way to Union
Station to catch a train for Athens,
where he Is a student at the univer
sity.
Mr. Wash took the woman to Grady
Hospital. Physicians state she is not
seriously injured.
Mr. Wash reported the accident to
the police. No case was made against
him.
Divorce Suit Based
On Photo of Woman
Because, among other things, she
found in her husband’s pockets the
picture of a scantily clad woman
drinking a glass of beer, Mrs. Dell
Foret filed j>etltion for divorce and
alimony against L. C. Foret, a tailor,
in Judge Bell’s division of the Supe
rior Court Monday.
Attorney John Y. Smith will rep
resent thep laintilf in the suit.
Atlanta Train Near
Plunge Into River
EUFAULA, Sept. 15.—Just after the
Atlanta train on the Central of Geor
gia Railroad had crossed the bridge
over the Chattahoochee River to-day
the trucks of the tender Jumped the
track.
Had the accident occurred a few
feet farther back the train probably
would have toppled 100 feet Into the
river. ■- —m,
Surviving her are four sisters. Mrs.
Albert Howell, Sr., Mrs. F. J. Brant-
ling, Mrs. Tyre L. .Jennings and Miss
Sue Hook, all of Atlanta, and three
brothers, E. B. and J. S. Hook, of Au
gusta, and A. S. Hook, of Atlanta.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, the
Rev. L. O. Brlcker officiating. Inter
ment will be in Augusta.
Columbus to Vote
In Three Elections
COLUMBUS, Sept. % 15.-The city of
Columbus has three registration books
open at this time.
One is for the waterworks bond elec
tion, which takes place October 18, the
other for the commission government
election to be held December 10, while
the third Is for the general city elec
tion, which is to be held on the second
Saturday In December, which is the
13th of the month.
Austria Likely to
Have Fair Exhibit
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, Sept. 15.—Although the
Austrian Government has not yet re
plied to the United States’ Invitation
to participate officially in the Pana
ma Fair, there is a videspread move
ment among the industrialists of Aus
tria-Hungary in favor of sending in
hibits to San Francisco.
Many applications for space have
been received already.
Diary of Honeymoon
Used to Win Decree
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 15.—Three weeks
after her marriage Mrs. Charles Huf-
schmidt began to keep a diary for a
divorce suit which she anticipated
bringing.
She exhibited the record to show
cruel treatment.
You are invited to the
Atlanta Theater, Tuesday
night, September 16. Bril
liant music and interesting
exercises. Admission free.
Southern College of Pharmacy.
Misdemeanor Docket
Being Cleared Rapidly.
Between 20 and 25 misdemeanor
cases, including the case of Ike Jack-
son, negro, who was sentenced for a
year for stabbing a negro woman,
were disposed of in Judge Calhoun’s
division of the City Court Monday
morning. More than 200 cases, the
heaviest docket in years, probably
will be completed this week.
Judge Calhoun’s division was called
Monday following adjournment of the
criminal branch of the Superior Court,
presided over by Judgf* Roan, who is
holding court in the Stone Mountain
Circuit.
Por Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bough!
! Bears the
| Signature of
Millionaire Who Was
Store Cash Boy Dead
ST. LOTTIS, Sept. 15.—Ellis Mich
els, millionaire merchant, who is
ead here, began his business career
i Memphis as cash boy in a depart-
lent store.
WOMEN FROM ATLANTIC
TO PACIFIC
From all sections of this great
; country, no city so large, no vil-
! lage so small but that some worn-
} an has written words of thanks
■< for health restored to the Lydia E.
I Plnkham Medicine Co., of Lynn,
- Mass. Any woman who is suf-
' fering from the Ills peculiar to her
> sex should not rest until she has
, given this famous remedy, Lydia
fiX Pinkhams Vegetable Com-
! pound, a trial.
CHATTANOOGA.
Only $3 round trip. First-
| class tickets. Sold daily Sept.
! 12th to 19th and morning 20th.
Return limit September 27, privi
lege extension. Honored on all
trains; stopovers permitted.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Guaranteed Fresh Country
EGGS
nv*
LOW™.
Guaranteed
12 Good
Eggs to the
Dozen
7 lbs. Fresh Roast=QC r
ed Grain Coffee
20 lbs. Sugar $1.00
Gallon Valva Syrup j 44c
No. 10 Silver Lear Lard $1.29
No. lO Cottolene $1.09
ArgoSalmon, can 12 l-2c
Gash Grocery Co. Whitehall
Night School at Georgia Tech
Will Open September 17. Enrollment and
Registration September 15 to 19 Inclusive
Courses in Architecture, Mechanical Draw-
i n g, Electrical Engineering, Woodwork,
Carpentry and Joinery, Foundry Practice,
Machine Shop, Mechanical Engineering,
Mathematics, Chemistry, English.
This Night School Is a Regular Department of Ga. Tech
Contingent Fee $5 Per Term. TUITION FREE
For further information write J. N. G. Nesbit.