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VOL. 1. NO. 3.').
Copyright, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
Appeal Made That Speculators
Are Making Fortune* st the Ex
pense of the Consumer—‘Buy
No More Until Cheap,’ Is Order.
Letters and Telegrams to Lead
ing Cities of the United States
Start War on Both the Fresh
and Cold Storage Products.
NEW TOP.K, Nov. 29.—The Na
tional Executive Committee of the
Housewives’ league has called upon
its members throughout the United
States to boyoof eggs until prices
come down.
Tbe appeal* which is being sent by
letter and ▼/Ire to the chief offh ers
of local Housrwives' Leagues in all of
the important cities in the land, says.
The situation in the egg mar
ket is a«nte and chaotic. The
consumer is being exploited. Aft
er careful deliberation the Na
tional Executive Committee of the
House wives’ League calls upon its
members and consumers in these
United States to protest against
the present manipulation by ceas
ing to buy eggs until conditions
change. Notify all members. Re
port to National Executive Com
mittee. Give wide publicity.
Watch daily press.
JENNIE DEWEY HEATH,
National President.
AGNES B. GRIFFIN,
National Secretary.
Boycott Fresh Eggs, Too.
The boycott applies- to all kinds of
•ggs, both fresh and storage. It is
the first thing of the kind ever at
tempted by the Housewives’ League,
and It is the first national anti-egg
crusade in the history of the trade.
Cleveland and other cities have had
local egg and butter boycotts, but
there has been no nation-wide move.
The Housewives’ league, with its
700,000 members, has large organiza
tions in New York, Chicago, Balti
more, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg and Washington, and the boy
cott, it is expected, will center mostly
at the big cities, though the appeal
is made to all members, everywhere.
The National Executive Committee
has forwarded to United States At
torney General McReynolds, at Wash
ington, for his action, an alleged let
ter from "Silent Sam” Wets, a Chi
cago egg buyer, to The New York
Produce News, in which Wetz is rep
resented as saying he is not satisfied
with a profit of $840 a car on storage
eggs, and so will hold back from the
market the rest of his stock until the
price advances to a point where he
can clean up $1,200 a car. In tne
letter reference is made to Joseph
and Pharaoh and the com famine in
Egypt.
Armours in the Combine.
It is reported in the trade that Wetz
and his partner had 140 cars of stor
age eggs, 21 of which they sold to the
Armours, and the balance they are
holding for a rise in price. Thu Ar
mours keep their eggs until they, too,
can get what profit they require. They
have been accused ot controlling the
market for eggs and poultry, as well
as for meat and meat products.
“We have been driven into our boy
cott,” Mrs, Heath said last night, “by
the egg speculators, whom we have
not been able to overcome in any
other way, and our final resolve was
actually brought about by the singu
lar discovery I Hjade yesterday.
-As is known, the Housewives’
League has been trying to force eggs
out of cold storage at a price which
would enable retailers to sell them at
30 cents a dozen. We soon found that
many retailers were cheating their
customers by selling storage eggs un
der the guise of fresh eggs at prices
ranging up to 50 cents a dozen.
Speculators Make Fortunes.
"The speculators make fortunes out
of e"s s and the public has to pay the
consequences in the increase in the
cost of living. There are right now
vast quantities of eggs in storage out
of which several different sets of food
gamblers have made fortunes.’’
There were, November 1, over
1 800 000 cases of eggs (54,000,000 doz
en— 648.000,000 eggs) in storage in the
public warehouses at New York, Chi
cago lersev City and other chief
points. This did not include millions
of dozens held in private coolers by
the -Beef Trust" and by the big com
mission houses here and elsewhere,
many of which are active speculators
in eggs and butter.
Pope Says Tango Is
Immoral: Forbids
Dance to Catholics
Sift Skirts and Transparent Gowns
Also Under Ban of Several
Bishops.
Special Cabie to The American.
ROME, Nov. 29.—The Vatican, replying
to Inquiries from several bishops, seek
ing advice regarding the tango and
other modem dances, declares the tango
must be considered Immoral and there
fore forbidden to Catholics.
Women wearing slit skirts or trans
parent gowns have been forbidden by
several bishops to attend church ser
vices.
Woman Lawyer Acts
As Cook’s Prosecutor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—Women
lawyers frequently try cases in the
District of Columbia courts, but sel
dom do they display the militancy
shown to-day by Mrs. Stephen Lyd-
dane, who acted as an assistant pros
ecuting attorney against a negro cook
charged with stealing $28 from her
mistress.
After Mrs. Lyddane had spent con
siderable time examining a witness
she said:
"You’re the biggest liar that ever
set foot in that box.”
Mrs. Lyddane obtained a convic
tion.
‘Decollete’ in Newest
Style Wanders Far
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Nov. 29.—The decolef.te
leg has just been introduced by sev-'
eral ultra-fashionable women. Wom
en have appeared at the theaters this
week wearing gowns daringly slashed
which reveal that the accustomed silk
stockings are lacking.
Even at his season this might be
accepted as a return to the fashion
of Eve. But some of the ladies have
had dainty arabesques painted on
their nether limbs, and one wore a
string of diamonds caught below her
knee.
Armless Man Uses
Leg to Save Canoeist
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Stanley Mar
tin has no arms, but he saved Henry
Carlson, employed in Vincennes ave
nue, who was drowning in the lake.
Carlson was paddling a canoe a quar
ter of a mile off Thirty-seventh street
when the wind capsized his craft.
He swam to the pier at Thirty-fifth
street, but the cold and the exertion
had worn him out, and he was ready
to sink when Martin put his leg over
the side of the pier ar.d pulled him
out.
‘Ad’ Finds Mother
Lost for 44 Years
CUMBERLAND, MD., Nov. 29.—
Through a newspaper advertisement,
Benjamin Betts, of Keokuk, Iowa, and
his mother, Mrs. Margaret Betts, Mc
Keesport. Pa., have been reunited after
forty-four years.
Betts was separated from his moth
er after the Civil War, when he was
9. He had. kept up a search for years
without result. He is 153 and his mother
75. Betts went West and became
wealthy. *
Films Help Elect
Woman to Board
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 39.—Woman
suffragists are jubilant over the fact
that in this city November 4 a notable
victory was won for the cause when
Mrs. Julia Belle Tuteweiler was elected
to the office of School Commissioner.
She reveived about 3,000 more votes
than her nearest competitor.
The Board of School ‘Commissioners
in Indianapolis is elected on a non
partisan basis, and is open to women in
the State.
Prison for Forger
Son of Millionaire
SPRINGFIELD, MO., Nov. 29.—B. J.
Gifford, son of a millionaire, was brought
here and placed In the Greene County
jail. Gifford had violated a parole and
will be taken to prison to-morrow.
During a month of liberty, it is al
leged Gifford forged a draft for $2,100
on a country bank and later deposited
the draft in the Bank of Marshfield,
taking a certificate of deposit, on which
he obtained goods at a grocery.
12,000 Mixed Drinks
Bring Divorce Suit
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Twelve thousand
drinks, ranging from simple mixed pota
tions to fancy concoctions, is the record
which Mrs. John Barry Sears posted up
against her husband in five years of
married life.
Mrs. Sears, who is suing for divorce,
said Mr. Sears started his conviviality
during the honeymoon and kept it up
with few lapses from his high-pressure
standard.
TO GIVE LIFE TO
Will Soon Sail for Holy Land,
Where He Will Resume Work
•for Humanity.
HIS CAMPAIGN WORLD-WIDE
Will Make Work of the Soup
Kitchens and Pasteur Insti
tute Much Broader.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Nathan
Straus will devote his future exclu
sively to humanitarian work. His
son, Nathan Straus, Jr., last night
said his father had withdrawn from
R. H. Macy & Co., not to devote his
energies to other large financial proj
ects, but to carry out long-cherished
philanthropic plans.
Mr. Straus will make a \vorld-w r ide
campaign to improve social condi
tion®. He will strive to bring about
the universal adoption of pasteuriza
tion of all milk fed to infants, which
he has already successfully carried
out in many places. His first work
will be done in Palestine early in the
coming year.
His Wife III.
Mr. Straus, because of the illness of
his wife, has of late withdrawn from
all hut the most urgent business af
fairs and remained at his home, No.
27 West Seventy-second street. Mrs.
Straus is rapidly improving, and it is
expected that she will be able to sail
for Europe early In January with Mr.
Straus and their son.
“For the present, before I again
enter business, I shall devote myself
to assisting my father,” said young
Mr. Straus. “In particular, my fa
ther’s enterprises in Palestine ne-d
more careful attention.
Work in Holy Land.
“I shall accompany him, and shall
remain in the Holy Land several
months to extend tha work of the
Nathan Siraus Relief Bureau, which
operates soup kitchens: the Inter
national Health Bureau, and the
Pasteur Anti-Hydrophobia Institute,
all of which have been established by
my father.
•‘Mv father has spoken to me for at
least ten years about some day mak
ing a world-wide campaign, urging
the universal adontion of pasteuriza
tion of all milk fed to infants.”
Tango Made Part of
Her Wedding March
CHICAGO. Nov. 29.—Miss Florence
Eisendratli was married to-day to L.
Monteflore Stein on the Art Floor at
the Blackstone Hotel. .Some said it was
the finest "tango wedding” in history.
At the sound of the wedding march
a couple were seen dancing at the head
of the roped aisle. They rushed for
ward and backward as though wings
were on their heels.
They were not awed by the solemn
strains of the music. They were Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Castle dancing. ‘"The
Castle Walk.”
Close behind, the bridal couple and
their attendants followed.
Speaks 17 Tongues,
No English; Is Barred
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Lucien Canale,
a Roumanian who arrived recently by
the North German Lloyd liner Barbaros-
sa from Naples, was held by the Immi
gration boarding officer because he ad
mitted that he had no relatives or
friends in America, and could not talk
English.
He has, according to his own declara
tion, mastered seventeen other lan
guages of the world. Including Chinese.
But they will do him no good here as
an interpreter and he can not translate
any into English.
Memorial to Twain
At Last Completed
HANNIBAL, MO., Nov. 29.—The me
morial of Mark Twain is completed,
Frederick C. Hibbard, of Chicago, the
sculptor, announced.
Because the season is late the Mark
Twain Memorial Commission has decid
ed to postpone the unveiling exercises
until spring.
The monument stands in Rlverview
Park, which overlooks the prairies of
Illinois and the Mississippi.
‘Healthiest Baby'
May Die of Paralysis
HARLAN, IOWA, Nov. 29.—Johnnie
Tramp, the three-year-old Iowa boy
who won the first prize in the baby
health contest, has infantile paralysis,
and liis condition is critical.
There has been no case of the disease
in this county, and physicians are at a
loss to account for the child's illness.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1913.
PRICE PTVE CENTS.
Woman, Clad Only in
Fog, Bathes in Surf; 1
Identity a Mystery !
I Residents Christen Her ‘September
Morn,' but She Always Proves
*n Elusive Nymph.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29.—Clad in
nothing- more than the dense fog
which has overhung Los Angeles har
bor each morning for the last few
days, a young woman has created a
sensation among the residents of Ter
minal Island by her predilection for
indulging in an early morning syrf
bath.
Residents of the island who are
early morning risers have christened
the young woman the “Early Riser”
and "September Morn,” and although
many of them have attempted to
learn the identity of the fair bather,
none has succeeded.
Men in Slit Skirts Go
Out to Catch Hugger
NEW YORK. Nov. 29.—In the
Sixth Ward of New Brunswick, N. J.,
there strolled about the streets last
night three slender figures in s.it
.skirts, low-brimmed velvet hats with
plumes on ’em. and all heavily veiled.
While all did their best to walk like
perfect ladies, there were many griev
ous lapses in these efforts, for the
three were slender, muscular young
men, and they were out trying to trap
a hugger who must be found.
In the last five nights i:i the Sixth
Ward this hugger has attacked twen
ty young women and girls, and a sit
uation of actual terror has been cre
ated. wherein women fear to go about
the streets unescorted.
Judge Puts Curb on
Extravagant Wives!
—
DETROIT. Nov. 29.—Compulsory sav- j
Ing for a certain class of wives Is to !
be enforced bj’ Judge I*acy, of the j
Wayne County Domestic Relations l
Court, who says his experience has con
vinced him that many couples “go
wrong” because some women are ex
travagant.
In cases where men make complaints
of 1his character, Judge Lacy an
nounced he will enter an order requiring
the husband to pay his wife a specific
amount each week and compelling the
wife to deposit a specific amount in a
bank.
Fiance May Keep
Engagement Ring
PITTSBURG, Nov. 29.— 1 The suit of
Miss Jeanette Adler, a young business
woman, with beauty and wit, against
Paul M. Feldstein, her former fiance, for
return of an engagement ring he had
given her, was decided by a jury in the
Criminal Court.
Miss Adler met Feldsteln in January.
They become engaged in April and he
gave her the ring, which cost $210.
Feldstein broke the engagement,
seized an opportunity, while she was
washing her hands one day and took the
ring. Miss Adler sued. Judge and Jury
decided in favor of Feldstein.
Heirs to Millions
Work as Deckhands
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—Three
youthful heirs to millions, ail recent
graduates from Eastern universities,
worked as common deckhands ,»n board
tlie Pacific Coast Company's steamship
Congress for a monthly wage of
One of the young men was a nephew
of George H. Higbee, vice president and
manager of the Pacific Coesl Company.
The second was the son of Superin
tendent Dickey, of the Union Iron
Works.
Football Skill Saves
Pastor From Thugs
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—It was only a few
years ago that the Rov. Archie ( ITes-
ton. pastor of the Forest Glen Congre
gational Church, was a football player.
Recently he was overborne by four
robbers. The surprise of their attack
enabled them to get some small change
from his pocket, but before they could
get at his watch, the oi}0 thing of value
about his person, he had squirmed from
under the scrimmage in a way that
football players know', and. once on his
feet, repulsed further attacks with the
straight-arm.
‘Little Women’ Hero,
Laurie, Is Physician
ROCHESTER, Nov. 29.—The orig
inal of Laurie, the hero of Louisa
May Alcott’s ‘‘Little Women.” has
been discovered here. He is Dr.
Frederick L. H. Willis. No. 243 Alex
ander street, who claims to have doc
umentary evidence in the form of let
ters written by Louisa Alcott.
Dr. Alcott has begun writing his
memoirs, a considerable portion of
which are devoted to the Alcott fam
ily, whom Dr. W illis knew intimately
for a great many years.
PARTY || |[|j[] Sleuth’s Raid on Flat a Mystery
KILLGIRLJHEN Neice of McMillin Is Puzzled
[ +•* *•* +•* / *•+ +•+ +•+
‘No Quarrel/ Says Tennessee Girl
Mrs. John J. Collins, niece of ex-Governor McMillin, of Ten
nessee, who says she doesn't know why anyone should pursue her
husband.
Two Men and Woman Proceed
With Gay Plans Despite Driver
Friend's Plight.
MOB MENACES CHAUFFEUR
Police Barely Save Owner of the
Machine From Excited Throng
Which Gathers.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Driving
down Third avenue last night In his
auto, Marino Condlto, of No. 2156 j
Bathgate avenue, saw Charles Kearn. ‘
Joseph Murphy and Miss Margaret
Haran, friends of his, all living at No.
621 East One Hundred, and Eighty-
first street. They told Condlto they
were bound for a dance at Niblo’s
Garden, One Hundred and Seventieth
street and Third avenue. He sug
gested that they ride in his car.
Condlto was not driving fast when. :
between One Hundred and Seventy-
fourth and One Hundred and Seven
ty-fifth streets a little girl darted
WAR RACES
from the east side of the street. She
ran directly in front of his car and
was knocked down, two wheels pass
ing over her. She was killed Instantly.
Almost instantly the streets were
filled with a screaming, threatening
crowd. Men climbed upon the wheels
of the machine in an effort to strike
Condlto. Policemen came and fought
them back. Then women made a mad
rush at the driver.
Leave Child Unidentified.
While the excitement was at high
pitch Kearn, Murphy ard Miss Haran
climbed from the car. No effort was
made to stop them by the crowds.
They gave their names and addresses
to the police, boarded a street car and
went on to the dance. They did not
know the identity of y the mangled
child, whose body still lay on the side
walk, where a man had carried it.
The victim was 9-year-old Kath
erine Quinn, of No. 4008 Third ave
nue. While the crowd was still press
ing about the driver, her mother, Mrs.
Katherine Quinn, appeared. She made
a desperate effort to get at Condlto,
screaming:
Mother Inflames Crowd.
“You’ve murdered my little girl!”
Her cries excited the crowd to a
still more dangerous pitch, and when
the policemen started with Condlto
toward the Tremont station a thou
sand persons followed. Among those
who were admitted to the station was
the gilef-crazed Mrs. Quinn.
When Condlto 1 was being arraigned
she again leaped at him, screaming.
“You mitirdcrer! You killed my little
girl!”
So frantic was siie that the police
had difficulty in controlling her. Cor
oner Healy arrived.
“Who were those two men and
the woman who left your car?” he
demanded.
Condlto gave the names, and said
they had gone on to the dance.
“Fine Friend*.”
“They are friends of mine,” he
added.
“Fine friends to desert you at a
time like this to go to a dance!” said
the Coroner.
“But I can get them any time I
want them,’ Condito said. “They
didn’t mean to desert me.”
One of Broadway’s Best Known Men Routed
From His Bed at Mid rflffht.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—John J. Col
lins, member of a Broadway vaude
ville agency a.ftd husband of Dorothy
Regel Winsch, niece of ex-Governor
McMillin, of Tennessee, has begun an
investigation of a raid by six private
detectives who entered his apartment
at the Dazian, No. 142 West Forty-
fourth street.
Mr. Collins retired about 9 o'clock.
His wife haji been staying at her
Atlantic City home, where she went
week-ends during the summer, he
said. At 12:16 o’clock two detectives
who had been about West Forty-
seventh street for a week walked into
the lower hallway of the hotel and
pinioned the arms of the telephone
operator, flashing badges.
Four other men, including a
nephew of Paul Kelly, the gang lead
er, walked to the elevator, seized the
car and ran it to the eighth flodr,
where Mr. Collins sublets an apart
ment. 11
“Are you John J. Collins?” the in
truders asked when the booking
agent opened the door.
He gasped a reply, but they passed
by him and searched every nook
of the two rooms. Then they depart
ed and jumped into an automobile.
Policemen Involved.
Manager Dazian, of the hotel, was
called and an employee sounded a po
lice whistle, but the detectives had
made known their identity to a po
liceman, who allowed to to get
out of sight.
"This is the most mysterious occur
rence I can imagine,” Collins said to
day.
“I was in bed when those big fel
lows entered my rooms. I could not
hope to overpower them, so I let
them go through the place
“My w’ife is os surprised as 1 am.
She can not understand why apyone
should be interested enough in my
affairs to pay for private detectives."
Mrs. Collins was anxious to hear
the details of the raid. She said she
thought it was a joke when she heard
about it.
Have Love Spats.
“Quarrels? Yes, we have had love
spats, but never anything serious. My
husband has had so much traveling
to do that I seldom come to New
York.”
Mrs. Collins was told that after the
raid a woman was seen in the hallway
of the apartment house talking with
one of the detectives.
“That must have been some woman
living in the house. I can not imagine
that any one would try to make things
unpleasant for John,” Mrs. Collins re
plied. “You see, there is much gossip
along Broadway because I have to be
away from my husband so much.”
Marriage Record.
Collins said he had been twice mar
ried, but he could not connect any in
cident with his or his wife’s former
marriages which would cause investi
gation. Mrs. Collins, he explained,
was first married to F. H. Regel, of
St. Louis. When she became a widow
she had an allowance of $300 % a month
beside her home in Atlantic City.
Then she met Louis J. Winsch, to
whom she was married in November,
1910.
She met Collins, and a. suit for $10,-
000, charging alienation of affection,
was brought against him. The suit
was withdrawn. After divorcing Mr.
Winsch in Illinois and taking a trip
to Europe, Mrs. Winsch was married
to Collins In Stamford, Conn , and
they lived at Atlantic City.
Denies Causing Divorce.
Collins denied that he was instru
mental in winning Mrs. Winsch from
her husband. He said he was intro
duced to her while she was connected
with a vaudeville sketcji, and that
after she was separated from her for
mer husband, he proposed marriage.
Mr. Collins, who was once president
of the F. C. Whitney Producing Com
pany, is one of the best known agents
along Broadway.
The detectives who went to his
rooms refused to tell who had em
ployed them, but they admitted that
their client is rated as wealthy.
Rebels Revert to Savage State as
. They Practically Gain Control of
All of Northern Mexico and
Execute All the “Traitors."
Washington, Inactive Diplomatic
ally, Gives El Paso More Sol
diers—Carranza Victories May
Bring Recognition of U. S,
EL PASO, Nov. 29. - Juarea, the
Mexican city that lies just across a
narrow yellow river from United
States soli, is to-day witnessing
scenes typical of an nnbrldlsd, bar
barous war. The hospitals are filled
with wounded soldiers of the rebel
army. The dungeons beneath the mu
nicipal jail and military forts are
crowded with trembling, fearful sol
diers of the Mexican Government who
are expecting death" at any moment
from the rides of their captors.
In the valleys and mountains about
Juarez, there is comparative calm and
quiet to-day. But the suggestion of
cruelties, of summary executions of
prisoners lurks in the country about
the battlefields of two days ago.
Rebels Control the North.
Ao a. result of that battle the rebel
forces are in control practically of
all the northern states of the republic.
But it seems that with the success
of the rebels there is no change of
conditions for the better. There is
the same story of murder and of
high-handed treatment of the prison
ers and fugitives. Pancho Villa, lead-
er of the rebel troops at Juarez, ad
mits having murdered scores of Fed.
erals whom his army captured. He
said he captured BOO Federals in the
battle just outside Juarez Wednesday.
He brought only 200 of them to the
city. The others, it is plain, faced the
firing squad, their hands tied behind
their backs, and were shot down for
their allegiance to the central gov.
ernment.
The field on which the battle wad
fought bore few evidences of & deadly
conflict when it was visited by sight-i
seers afterward. In the immediate
vicinity of the fight only two graves
could be found, and the dsad soldiers
therein had their arms tied behind
their backs. They, like hundreds ot
others probably, were victims of the
murderous vengeance of the rebels
The soldiers of Villa lost few of
their number as a result of ths bat
tle with the Federals. A great many
rebels were wounded, but the actual
fatality was small. The Federals,
too, probably lost few men In battle,
their losses being the result of the
arbitrary execution of prisoners by
order of Villa.
Victors Act Like Savage*.
The rebels, having routed the at
tacking Federals. conducted them*
selves with all the abandon of sav
ages. They tore uniforms and finer,
ies from the bodies of their dead ene
mies, and returned to Juarez In e
joyful, ioudly-yelilng procession,
decked in Federal garb
There are 6,000 rebel soldiers under
General Villa in Juares. Villa says
there are other soldiers of his army
farther south, and that he la in con
trol of Northern Mexico. Tt Is very
likely there will be no more attacks
on Juarez, after the Federals were
repulsed so decisively Wednesday
However, the citizen* and soldiers
of the United States. Just soroas the
river from Juarez, are taking no
chances. Orders have come from the
War Department, demanding ample
protection for BI Paeo and Its cltl-
zens, and as a result the Twentieth
United States Infantry is oomtng
from Fort Douglas. Utah, to guard ;h.t
environs of the city.
By this arrangement, the two regi
ments of cavalry now at BSI Paso,
Fort Biles and the suburbs of ftie city
may guard every approach to El
Paso. In addition, the Fifteenth, just
arrived from the Northern posts, and
the Second are here, and a a battery
of the Fifth Artillery, while Briga
dier General Hugh L. Seott, with a.
squadron of the Twelfth Cavalry, will
come to El Paso as soon as he ha-
composed ihe threatened outbreak
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