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! A 5 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 / 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 +•+ 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. THE RANDOLPH COMPANY 56 1 ? WHITEHALL Phone M. ATLANTA'S BEST PARLORS FOR Hair Dressing Shampooing Manicuring Special tickets for Scalp Treatment We carry a complete line of Hair Goods Lady agents wanted to sell the "Sani-Masseur” 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. f THE GEM VACUUM GLEANER l (ft) m CO) # m m <s> in) <ss> m The cheapest and best Hand Cleaner on he market. (0) (0) m Takes the place of a broom, dust-pan, (fi) dust-olotli and carpet-beater. Golden Rod Electric. 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