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ITTCARSKS SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1013.
AID RAILROADS
Cry for Increased Revenue May
Be Met by Creating Class
ified Service.
BURDEN PUT ON LUXURIOUS
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Extia Charge for Trains With ‘Ex- j
tras,’ Lower Fares for Dry
Coaches, Suggested.
By SIDNEY ESPEY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—As a re-
suit of the constant cry of railroads
for increased revenues and the op
posing demands of the shipping and
raveling public for lower rates, it is
possible that the classification of pas
senger travel now common In Europe
may be adopted by American rail
roads. The proposition has the sup
port of some members of Congress,
who believe that the system could be
put into effect such a way that
th^ poor could travel more cheaply
than they now journey, and the rich,
by paying added rates, could have
the luxurious 'appointments which
they demand in railroad travel.
There are commonly three classes
of passenger accommodations on
European trains, and in some Con
tinental countries there are four
classes. The rates bear a fixed rela
tion to each other. In the same way
the accommodations bear a fixed re
lation, first-class travel being very
comfortable, while fourth-class offers
little compensation for its discom
forts except the fact that the trav
eler eventually reaches his destina
tion. Second-class travel is the
•.standard abroad.
Modifications Proposed.
It is predicted that something of
this kind may result in America from
long-continued agitation over rail
road raves. Second-class travel ac
commodations would be those of the
more comfortable day coach and per
haps the tourist sleeper. First-class
travel would comprise Pullman draw
ing rooms, observation platforms,
writing rooms, libraries and the fine
appointments of “de luxe" trains. Be
low second-class travel the railroads
may provide for less expensive equip
ment and slower trains. If the plan
is over adopted, tlie details must, of
course, be worked out by the rail
roads in conjunction with the Inter-
vstate Commerce Commission.
Such a system is in partial opera
tion in the United States to-day.
There are a number of “extra fare”
trains, vestibuled trains, magnifi
cently appointed, which run at high
speed with few stops. And there are
plenty of third, fourth and fifth-class
trains also, although the railroads do
not make a. practise of compensating
passengers for the discomforts of this
inferior travel.
The management of railroads is
certain to be a live subject should a
general re lassiflcation of passenger
travel be attempted.
Suffragists Try to Save Woman
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Object to Her Going to Galiows
Plea Is Made for Life Sentence
Mrs. Bessie .7. VVakefield, who is condemned to pay the death
penalty for killing her husband, posed with tier little boy and girl.
63-Cent Chair Makes Husband-Slaver Under Sentence of Death
Sen. Sherman Happy breaks Down in Prison.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman, of Illinois, is
the first Senator on record who found
the appointments of the Senate office
building too luxurious for comfort.
His offices are handsomely furnished
with leather upholstered chairs.
The Senator had a furniture dealer
send up an assortment of chairs. He
Look an ordinary kitchen chair that
cost 63 cents. It sheds its pale mo
lasses radiance on a dark red desk
that probable cost Uncle Sam $200.
“1 did my work for twenty years in
a chair like this,” said Senator Sher
man. “Now I am comfortable.”
Hash at Seven Cents
‘Too Rich’ for Them
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Talk of hun
ger strikes, riots, of raids and boy
cotts, is abroad among women stu
dents of the University of Chicago
to-day. The price of hash at Uex-
Ington Commons, where the co-eds
eat, has advanced to 7 cents.
"Seven cents for their old hash!
I’ll never pay it,” vowed one mili
tant, unburdening her soul to a group
of equally Indignant co-eds. "I’ll live
on pie first.” —
The price of hash at Lexington all
last year, according to the com
plaints, was 5 cents.
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HARTFORD, CONN., Nov. 29.—
Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, of Bristol,
condemned to be hanged March 4 for
aiding in the murder of her husband,
finds in the Connecticut "Womans
Suffragist Association the only hope
for the preservation of her life.
Beading suffragists are planning to
petition the State Board of Pardons
to commute her sentence to life im
prisonment. Everything else has
failed in the attempt to save her
from the gallows. A stubborn defense
in the trial courts, an appeal to the
Supreme Court, a pitiful prayer to
Governor Baldwin by her aged moth
er-all have been futile. Now. if. the
efforts of the suffragists fail, Mrs.
Wakefield must be hanged, the first
woman so to pay the penalty for a
crime since Connecticut has had a
constitution.
Mrs. Wakefield was .sentenced to
gether with James Plew. her com-
■ panion, for killing her husband. Plew.
I after arrest, confessed to the plot to
slay the husband, hoping thus to save
himself from the gallows. Ten days
ago, when he was sentenced, he made
an abject plea for a Jesser sentence
than death, offering his confession as
his extenuation. But Judge Burpee,
before whom he and the woman were
tried, said he could find no circum
stances to temper the horror of the
crime.
Woman Now a Wreck.
Until her collapse a few days ago,
Mrs. Wakefield was a beautiful wom
an. She still is young. She was Bes
sie Webster, the belle of the moun
tainside near Lake Quassapaug,
where she was born. Seven years
ago, when she was seventeen, she
eloped with William Wakefield, a
farmer twenty years her senior. The
marriage was unhappy, as it devel
oped soon after the wedding. Two
children were born to the Wakefields,
children who now are six and four
years old. respectively, and who are
ignorant to-day of their mother’s
plight.
The arrival of the children did not
mend the breach between Wakefield
and his wife'. The woman was un
happy until James Plew came into
her life. He visited her often, and
Wakefield became suspicious. Plow
and the woman determined to kill
him. They made the attempt once.
June 22, but were unsuccessful, as
Plew related in his confession. Then,
the night following, Plew lured
Wakefield Into the woods, eight miles
from his house, and shot him. stab
bed him. and hung the body to a
tree.
Man Loses His Nerve.
Mrs. Wakefield, following the lines
of the plot, told the police that her
husband was missing. The body was
found several days after, and Plew
and Mrs. Wakefield were arrested on
suspicion. The man, losing his nerve,
confessed. In spite of the employ
ment of the best lawyers for the
woman, hardly a contest could be
entered to this evidence, and the sen
tence of death was passed
Most pitiful figure in all the trag
edy, more pitiful even than those of
the two blissfully ignorant children,
is that of Mrs. Frank Webster, Mrs
Wakefield’s mother, who poured out
her heart in an appeal to Governor
Baldwin to save her daughter. She
spoke of Mrs. Wakefield as her hoy-
denish, untrained daughter, who is
suffering because of her lack of ad
vantages.
“I am praying as T write.” she in
formed the (governor in her appeal,
“that God will direct you to save my
daughter from death.
“The law is harsh and cruel. We
have no money, no influence, no hope
but that which God gives all His
children.
“Do not hang her. Let us work the
penalty out. 1 am old now, and my
children do not need me.
“Let me come to New Haven and
live in the prison with my girl. To
gether we shall work to pay what
Bessie ow r es.”
I’m Not Afraid of
Any Bill of Fare
If You Use a Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablet After Each Meal You
Can Eat What You Like.
It does not make any difference what
you eat If you will provide your sys
tem with the wherewithal to digest It.
No bill of fare should appaU or dis
gust a man who wants to eat. There
is a simple, sure way and that is by
carrying a Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet in
your pocket or purse to be eaten after
each meal.
“I Love to Get My Hand on a Bill of
Fara."
This tablet win go into your stomach
like food. It will mix with your digest -
ive juices, strengthen them to their
correct proportions. Then it will fol
low fne food into the intestines where
it will again aid in the work of diges
tion.
F-!ven though you eat too much at. any
meal a little tablet taken at the close of
your dinner will cause that dinner to
he thoroughly digested without harmful
effects.
Acute Indigestion has no fears for ths
man who will occasionally use a Stu
art’s Dyspepsia Tablet.
We are a nation of “high livers ’’
We travel exceedingly fast In all we do
and eating rich food at all hours has
made indigestion and stomach trouble
our national disease
A Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet will make
you free from this danger and the best
of it all is that you may test yourself
af any time and prove this statement
true
Go to your druggist to-day and buy
a box, price 60 cents.
NEW COLLEGE IS
Edgar M. Taylor. 74, Father of
Infant Twins, Arrested for
Starting Fight.
NEW. YORK Nov. 29. "What .1..
you mean by shooting mv dog?" oV
words to that general effect, came
from Edgar M. Taylor —second lar
gest land owner in South Orange,
N. J., war veteran, 74 years old and
the father of year-old twins—as a
shot grazed his leg and landed in
Sam, his collie, which he had taken
for a walk late Saturday night.
The bullet came frorr Die trusty
weapon of Patrolman Theodore
Stleve, member of the police force
25 years and well past 65.
“Bang!” went another shot, and
Sam went to the happy hunting
ground. Stieve started away with
the air of one who had done his duty,
painful as it may have been.
With all his war blood boiling
within him Mr. Taylor charged at
Stieve and a battle of yean?* was# on.
Five minutes it waged on the side
walk and five more in the gutter.
Stieve was about to take the count,
when Patrolman Patrick Skeffington
came along and dug him out of the
mud.
Comes Out Almost Unscathed.
Mr. Taylor then turned Ills atten
tion to Skeffington. bpt the allied
forces were too much for him and
he was marched to the police sta
tion. There. Httle damaged, lie was
released on his own recognizance for
a hearing.
According to the police, a neighbor
of Mr. Taylor had complained that
his collie was vicious and had bit
ten a child. They asserted that Mr.
Taylor was warned to keep his dog
chained in his yard or it would be
shot.
Mr. Taylor said of his dog:
“Sam was a gifted dog In many
ways. A boy was tormenting the
dog with a stick. Sam snapped at
him, but only scraped the skin. No
complaint has ever been made to
me.”
Dog Played With Children.
Mrs. Taylor said that Sam was a
great favorite of the children. Be
sides the twins, the Taylors have a
girl 4 years old. The twins are be# -
“Sam,” said Mrs. Taylor, “always
went where the children did. He
romped in the yard with our little
girl and with all the other children
in the neighborhood.”
Mr. Taylor has ever been an ac
tive citizen of South Orange. As
chairman of the Committee on
Streets of the South Orange village-
trustees from 1891 to 1893 he was
most energetic and no one who op
posed him forgot it.
Dr. Murphy and Dr. Martin De
fend Aims of Distinctive De
gree in America.
(TIP'AGO, Nov. 29. A vigorous r s -
ply to an attack on the recently or
ganized American College of Surgeons
was made by members of this body
here.
Dr. William F. Noble, a graduate
of Rush MedicrJ allege in 188S, in
the last issue of t e Illinois Medical
Journal, official organ of the Illinois
Medical Society, characterized the
American College of Surgeons as “an
attempt to engraft upon the demo
cratic tree of free A’merlcan medicine
a roya’ sprout of would-b^aristocracy
from ‘Or Lon'on town.’ ”
In the official bulletin of the Chi
cago Medic? 1 Society, Dr. Henry F.
Lewis, a graduate of Harvard Medi
cal College in 1888 and professor of
gynecology in the Bennett Medical
College, calls the American College of
Surgeons “a self-appointed nobility.”
The two articles, appearing in the
official journals of their respective
organizations, are taken to represent
the sentiment of a goodly portion
of the membership, and nave attract
ed wide attention.
Thinks Attacks Petty.
Dr. John B. Murphy, elected presi
dent of the Clinical Congress of Sur
geons at the convention held recent
ly, and a charter member of the
American College of Surgeons, de
clared that the simultaneous at
tacks are so petty and so utterly
without justification that they are un
worthy of a reply.
“Concerning any criticism of the
American College of Surgeons I have
nothing to say." Dr. Murphy replied to
a question. “The names of the of
ficers and board of regents of the col
lege are sufficient proof of the sincere
character and high standing of the
men composing the entire body.
“Of course, any revolutionary
measure always brings opposition,
and the whines of the disgruntled
ones standing outside and looking in
are inevitable.”
More pointed in his remarks was
Dr. Franklin H. Martin, secretary of
the American College of Surgeons.
"Dr. Lewis and Dr. Noble are both
men of the highest standing in their
profession,” he said. “They are both
fully competent to have qualified for
membership in the American College,
had they cared to do so, but the trou
ble is they are both congenital insur
gents. Their opposition is no doubt
inspired by sincere motives, but they
are misinformed.
Charles Edison Says
Good-Bye to Watch
Loses Timepiece in Waters of Bay
When Parting With Friend,
Bishop Brent.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 —
Charles Edison, son of the Menlo
Parle Inventor, while hiding good-bye
to-day to Bishop C. H. Brent, of the
Episcopal Diocese of the Philippines,
lost his watch.
The Bishop and Edison are old
friends. In the final confusion of
leaving ship after the warning bell
Edison was standing at the rail with
his timepiece in one hand and the
palm of the Bishop grasped right I?
in the other.
“Good-bve, Bishop,” cried Edison.
“Good-bye, my son, and good luck,”
answered the Bishop.
Just then an excited stranger
dashed by. jostling Edison s elbow.
“Good-bye, watch," murmured Ed
ison. as the timepiece dropped into
the bay.
GIRL CAPTURES
Champion Eater Out
With Open Challenge
LAWRENCE, MASS.. Nov. 29.—
Charles W. Olidden, who calls him
self the “champion food destroyer of
the world." has Issued a challenge
that he can eat more in three hours
than any two men together. He holds
three world's “records.” Among his
claimed gastronomic feats are:
Forty pounds of watermelon in one
hour.
Seventy-eight pancakes in 57 min
utes.
Six boiled dinners at one meal.
One hundred and thirty-two eggs-—
raw. scrambled, fried, boiled and
poached—at one meal.
Fifty-eight ears of corn at one sit
ting.
HOMEAT LAST OF PICKPOCKETS'
Grand Jury Fails, but
Dry s’ Will Fight On
SAVANNAH, Nov. 29 The hopes of
the anti-saloon element that the Grand
Jury would take some decisive step to
ward stamping out the liquor evil were
dispelled when that body returned a
presentment, taking cognizance of the
fact that the law was being violated,
but staling that it was up to the offi
cers of the county and city to enforce
the law, and not the Grand Jury.
“The fight is not over by any man
ner of means, however.” paid W. B.
Stubbs, the leader. "We intend to fight
until we have Savannah as clean as At
lanta ’’
Kidnaped Fourteen Years Ago,
Punxsutawney Youth Has Just
Learned His Identity.
SEATTLE, Nov. 29. -John James
Hurley, who was kidnaped fourteen
years ago, is speeding back to his
mother, sisters and brothers at Punx-
sutawnev, Pa., his identification having
been fully established by the Seattle
police and those of his old hometown.
John James, as he was known until
a few days ago. was stolen from his
mother at Punxsutawney wiien he
was 6 years old. He always has be
lieved that his kidnaper was his fa
ther. He knew the man as Hurley.
The mother In Pennsylvania had kept
up a search for the boy, and Johft
James, remembering coal mines and
Pennsylvania and a town the name of
which was so odd he could never
bring It from his childhood memo
ries, also had striven to .establish his
identity. Since having been cast off
five years ago by the man who stole
him he had been busy sending letters
to the police of various towns In
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Emma Floetke, who bad a
boarding house in a Washington lum
ber camp where John James worked,
heard his story, and, having lived in
Western Pennsylvania, she advised
him to write to Punxsutawney
He did so two weeks ago, and an
answer came from Chief of Police
Palmer and one from the mother.
Through the exchange of letters John
James’ identity lias been fully estab
lished.
George Morgan, Who Spent 30
Years in Prisons, Trapped.
Posed as Manufacturer,
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Miss Anna
Koener, of No. 264 K street, Staple-
ton, was waiting for a friend at
Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street
last night when a young man step
ped up to her and said:
“You’ve Just been robbed. That old
fellow' picked your pocket.”
Miss Koener Investigated and ut
tered a scream of corroboration. Her
only quarter and a pair of gold ear
rings w ere in the bag; her friend had
not appeared, and Stapleton Is a long
and watery walk. She screamed
again and ran after the aged man.
who had been pointed out to her.
Policeman Burke came up with M.
J. Sinclair, the man who had first
warned the girl.
Burke took them all to the station
house, however. The young people
were now convinced of the old man’s
Innocence and told Lieutenant Finn
so. •
“No pocketbook on him,” said Finn
to Lieutenant Beck. “Of course, not
Take him down to hearquarters. He’s
got a record as long as your arm.”
The finger prints and photographs
completing a record of half a cen
tury of crime were found chronicling
the record of “George Morgan.” He
was Henry Morton, too, and “Scotch
Jack” and "Harry King,” as he chose.
He was called "The King of the Pick
pockets” forty years ago, and thirty
years of his seventy have been spent,
behind prison bars In London. Paris
and many cities of the United States.
Postmaster 16 Years,
Ends Life on Removal
NEW YORK. Nov. 29.—George B.
Helmle. for sixteen years postmaster
of Nyack, worrying over the loss of
his position January 1 next, turned
on the gas and killed himself In the
library of bis home here.
Mrs. Helmle found her husband
seated In a reclining chair with a
gas tube in his mouth.
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