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IfKARST'M si ,\ DAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C! A., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1013.
17th’s Mounted Eager for War
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Troopers Want to Show Worth
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Huerta Is Ready to Yield as. Rebels
Make Big Inroads on Federal Terri
tory-Power Appears Tottering.
Rough Riding Practice Daily
Trooper of Seventeenth's so out corps is shown throwing his
horse to form an equine breastwork.
BUTGIRLHITS
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plied with ammunition, and Joked
them about the coming battle.
General Villa says that he plans to
take his whole army of 7.000 men, ex-
< ept the 1.000 who will be left to gar
rison Juarez
No heavy artillery was taken south
to-day, but will be loaded and sent
away by next Tuesday, Twenty-one
cannon wll compose the artillery di
vision. Rebel leaders In Juarez pro
fess ignorance of the location or the
strength of the enemy.
Mexicans Hear Revolt of
Negroes Halts Interval tion
Case Is Expected to Bare Work
Done by Famous Peasant
Monk.
Special Cable to The American.
KIEFF, Nov. 29—The affaire Bei
lis, as the case of Mendel Beilis is
termed throughout Russia, is only at
Its beginning according to numerous
Russian newspapers. In a few days
the trial of M. Schoulgine, member of
the “Extreme Right” of the Duma will
begin at Kieff. He is to be tried for
his connection with an article which
appeared in a Conservative newspa
per several weeks ago in which the
Russian Government was roundly de
nounced for "trying to fasten the
murder of U shin sky upon a Jew.”
The same attorneys who defended
Carnival Employee Dies as Train
Speeds Him to Atlanta Hospital
for Operation.
With a bullet in his brain, Charles
(“(’ash”) Moore, a showman, well
known in the carnival world of the
South, died on a Seaboard train at
Dallas, Ga„ Saturday night while
speeding to Atlanta for surgical aid.
The bullet was fired accidentally
by Miss Pearl Hawes, a young socie
ty woman of Piedmont. Ala., where
Moore was operating a shooting gal
lery in connection with the Mayolym-
pla Carnival Company, late Saturday
afternoon. Scores of persons wit
nessed the shooting.
Miss Hawes was aiming at the tar
get when Moore leaned over to pick
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29—A force
of about 3,500 cavalry, infantry and
artillery, or nearly one-fourth of the
whole force assigned to duty on the
Mexican border, will he concentrated
at El Paso within a few days. This
army concentration is proceeding
simultaneously with the concentra
tion of the naval forces at Vera Cruz
and Tampico.
This concentration of forces i ssnnt
explained by any of the officials at
either the War or Navy depart
ments.
The State Department and the War
T>epartment both assert that every -
thing is quiet at El Paso. The One
Hundred and Twentieth Cavalry
squadron of 250 men, which has been
in pursuit of the Navajos in Ari
zona, was to-day ordered to proceed
to El Paso
Chihuahua Cut Off.
News was received to-day at the
War Department of a defeat of the
Federal forces in a two-day battle
29 miles south of Juarez. Communi
cation with Chihuahua has been cut
and there Is no confirmation of the
report that a force of 12,000 rebels
was attacking that city. Army offi
cers say the outcome of the fighting
at Chihuahua will have an Impor
tant hearing on the general cam
paign and will probably result in a
general retreat of Huerta’s forces to
ward the capital.
Americans and other foreigners
arc leaving Monterey as rapidly as
possible. Dispatches received at the
State Department to-day say every
train for Laredo from Monterey is
loaded with Americans, other for
eigners and Mexicans.
The State Department to-day gave
out a report from Monterey that the
papers there are stating that the ne
groes of the United States are in re
bellion and that the President and
Secretary Bryan have been m busy
wit!) the Insurrection they have no
time to oevote to Mexico. The "ne
gro revolution" is reported to be
most viriu- In "Indiana, Texas and
(’dorado.”
Britain Waives Naval Rights.
None of the departments had any
information to-day regarding the re
port from Mexico City that Mr.
O’Shaughnessy was about to make
some declaration th.it the troubles
between the United, States and Mex
ico would soon be settled.
The Navy Department to-day con
firmed the exclusive story of The
American that Great Britain had
waived her naval rights in Mexican
waters in a personal communication
between Admiral Sir Christopher
Crndock and Rear Admiral Fletcher.
Sir Christopher Is said to have
assured Admiral Fletcher that no ac
tion would he taken by the British
ships without consultation with the
American commander. This state
ment was made to dispose of the re
port that there had been a clash be
tween the British and American
commanders over the question of se
niority.
American Women,Not
French, Bold, He Says
True Parisienne Conventional, Gay
^ Cafe Customer? New Yorkers,
Max Nordeau Declares.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Nov. 29—That American
women who come to Paris smoke
cigarettes in public, attend the night
restaurant?, wear lavish gems and
daring gowns are responsible for the
reputation Parisiennes have acquired
for unconventionally is the conten
tion of Max Nordau, in the Decem
ber number of LaRevue.
"When you see a woman wearing
stunning hats, lunching at Pre Oapl-
tan, teaing at the Ritz, dining at De-
Doyon, supping at The Abbaye and
de Thelme, flirting at Deauville,
gambling at Monte Carlo, drinking
champagne or smoking cigarettes
you can be sure she is a New York
er and not a Parisienne,” he says.
"The true Parisienne is. a strictly
conventional woman who shrinks
from such follies.”
Fain and Stamps
At Possum Dinner
KID
LEADS
Scout Corps Members Believe Their Work Will
Add to Regiment’s Efficiency.
U.S. Navy IsSuffering From
Lack of Officers, Sags Blue
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The
United States Navy is facing grave
danger through lack of officers to
man warships in time of war, accord
ing to the annual report of Admiral
Victor Blue, chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, made public here to-div.
Congress is urged to mnke n redis
tribution of naval officers to remedy
this condition.
Admiral Blue states that there are
now 1,000 officers of the grades of
Junior lieutenant and ensign as com
pared with 750 officers above these
grades. Under these conditions, says
the admiral, officers of the junior
grades reach the grade of lieutenant
at an age when officers are not pro
moted to th«- grade of captain.
Recruiting in the navy during the
year was unsatisfactory, with tlie ex
ception *qf the month of June, when
on unprecedented number of men en
listed The navy is far short of its
authorized quota of 51.590 men, jsays
the report, and therefore Is short ,,f
men to put the battleship fleet Into
active service.
Now that the war talk is sounded
and echoed everywhere, most eager
of all the military population of Fort
McPherson are the members of the
mounted detachment of the Seven
teenth Infantry. To the foot soldiers
campaigning is an old story. Those
who saw service in Cuba and in the
Philippines tell the others all about It.
There have been sham battles and
hikes and real half-rations ramps.
And altogether the foot soldier will
find nothing new at the front.
But with the mounted scout it is
i different The mounted detachment
of the infantry regiment is a new in
stitution. There was none in the last
campaigns. The mounted detachment
was added to the Seventeenth, as to
other regiments, with a view to in
creasing the efficiency of the Infantry
arm. Officers at the fort declare un
reservedly their belief that the proj
ect was successful, and that the
mounted scouts have added greatly
to the effectiveness of the corps
However, the scout corps still is
something of an experiment. And the
U.S. HasNewDeath Engine;
General Evans Explains It
Here we have the very latest in-
■ trument of death and destruction
the newest trump card In the great
Game of War.
It is cylindrical in shape, three
Inches in diameter, about a foot long,
and about as much as you would care
to hold out at arm’s length
^ It is called a "high explosive shrap-
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1 nel .shell,” and if that somewhat
knotted and combined name lias a
tang of German about It, one may
remember that the new destroyer is
the Invention of a German war en
gineer Earhardt by name.
General R. K Evans, of tlie De
partment of the Gulf, balanced the
newest shell on his knee and ex
plained its construction and purpose.
“Formerly our field artillery carried
two types of shell.” said the General,
“the shrapnel shell, for exploding in
the face <»/ troops In the open and
hurling upon them a shower of balls,
and the high explosive projectile, com
monly called a ‘shell.’ used for bat
tering down walls and fortifications,
tearing open earthworks and the like.
“The new shell combines both these
operations, and may be used for ei
ther purpose.
Construction Quite Simple.
“Its construction is quite simple, at
that At the conical point here we
have a movable ring of brass, marked
like the combination of a safe. In
the base of the shell, extending up
about two inches from the bottom, is
a charge of black powder. The body
of the cylinder Is occupied by 260
balls, bedded in high explosive, some-
| thing like the famous ’lyddite' that
caused so much talk by its use by the
British artillery in the Boer war.
•'Now, suppose the shell Is to be
used as shrapnel—that is, against
troops in the field. The battery pre
ferably is ‘masked,* or hidden just
over the brow of a hill or rise in the
ground, and if notice of the enemy's
advance has been received early
enough, the guns already are trained
to drop their shells at a certain point
on the road, say two miles away.
Set Time Fuse.
“The shell is prepared for firing
simply ‘setting’ the time fuse, of ful
minate. This is done by turning the
brass ring in the point to the figure
that Indicates a range of (in this case)
about 3,400 yards. That automati
cally regulates the amount of fulmi
nate to be burned before the black
powder charge Is reached, so that the
shell, whose speed, of course. Is a
fixed and known quantity, is exploded
Just in front of the troops on which
It is aimed, showering upon them, in
stead of one soltd missile, 250 balls, at
a velocity slightly greater than that
of the shell itself.
“It is, in effect, a prodigious shot
gun spraying the advancing troops
with bullets.
"Now, you can easily Imagine the
terrible effect of a battery of six guns,
or maybe several batteries, playing at
top speed, from a hidden location,
upon a body of troops. If they con
tinue to advance, the gunners, sig
naled by men posted at the hill crest,
change the setting of the time fuses,
so that the shrapnel always is well
scouts at the fort are ready to prove
their worth in real warfare. Now
adays they are more zealous and un
tiring than ever in their drills and in
their exercise of the horses. Much of
their work consists of drills with the
machine guns, and in this the scout
corps has attained an exceptional
adeptness.
They are rather proud of them
selves. these mounted soldiers, and
are inclined to be a little boastful of
how they will shine in war times over
the less spectacular infantrymen of
the old line. And with it all they are
sincerely eager that this war talk
materialize into something more than
a rumor.
Many of the men in the mounted
detachment of the Seventeenth are
old cavalrymen who keep themselves
primed for service by their monkey
drills and their broncho-busting
feats. That is, they perform as manv
of the old rough-riding tricks as will
he allowed, as a great part of the
monkey drill has been tabooed by or
der of the army physicians, who as
cribe to them a number of injuries.
spread out and effective when the fly
ing charge'explodes.
Great Flying Shotgun.
"The shell is a gigantic flying shot-
gan.
"The high explosive powder, in this
case, is no more active than the same
amount of sawdust would be. It does
not explode, and Is not intended 13.
But when the object is to batter down
a wall or demolish fortifications th°
time fuse is not set. but a percussive
or striking detonator is fixed so that
the high explosive charge In the she'll
explodes on striking anything- stone,
brick, sandbags, wood or even soft
earth."
Three sizes of the new shell are
made for our batteries—3-inch, 4-Inch
and 6 inch, the last for the howitzers.
The larger sizes contain proportion
ately more explosive and balls, b'lt
the operation is identical. The pret
tiest part of the mechanism, undoubt
edly, is the timing device, which per
mits the shell to be exploded at any
point In Its flight with beautiful ac
curacy. That, of course, necessitates
absolute uniformity In the velocity of
the projectile, and in the burning of
the fulminate fuse, which Is ignited
by the discharge of the gun.
War Now Mathematics.
"The game of war," said General
Evans, “has come to be largely a mat
ter of cold mathematics Particular
ly is that true in the case of artillery,
either on land or sea. The illustra
tion of a masked battery dropping its
shells over the brow of a hill upon
troops two miles away is only r>ne of
the commonplaces of modern field ar
tillery operations.”
But it does take shrewd mathemati
cal application, and a very high or
der of Intelligence -the operation of
these terrible "peacemakers" And
that leads the general to another ob
servation.
Favors Large Standing Army.
"How on earth could untrained vol
unteers. or even militia, be expected
to handle such weapons with any ef
fect?" he wonders. "It is a tremen
dous argument for that greatest of
all brands of ‘peace insurance’—an ef
ficient and adequate standing army
and a thoroughly organized body of
reserves."
After which General Evans is in
clined to speak feelingly of the Army
League, which he is assisting to or
ganize, to achieve just the ends he has
mentioned.
Huerta Sends Two
Traitors to Penal Colony.
VERA CRUZ, Nov. 29.—Major Ca-
dena and Lieutenant Pin Pena, Gov
ernor and commander, respectively, of
the Santiago military prison in Mex
ico City, were brought here to-day
under arrest and sent aboard a gun
boat for the penal colony of Quin
tana Roo, Yucatan. The arrest is
said to .have been due to the dis
covery of a plot to release and arm
the prisoners for an attack on the
National Palace in conjunction with
dissatisfied troops.
Special Envoy Lind is expected back
from Tampico to-night.
The battleship New Jersey left last
night for Tampico and Tuxpam.
GOES FAR FOR FALSE LEG.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 29.—Minns-
apolis has been "put on the map"
again. As a market for wooden legs,
its fame has traveled all the way tc
Mexico City. Likewise. Felipe Bra-
eh<* has traveled all the way from
Mexico City to get a wooden leg. It
was a journey of 5,000 miles by sea
and land.
—
Beilis will have charge of Schoul-
gine’s case, and in many respects the
coming trial will be of greater im
portance and Interest to Russia than
the Beilis trial. It is expected that
one of ihe sensational features will
be the laying bare of the information
imparted in the Beilis trial by the
peasant Monk Raspotine. He is said
to have been the man who, at the
time of the assassination of Pre
mier Stolypin in Kieff. influenced the
Czar to order the Kieff authorities to
"find the Jew who committed this rit
ual murder.”
Beilis has been unofficially notified
that the prosecution will not take an
appeal in his case, and in confirma
tion of this the Military Governor,
who has surrounded the Beilis home
since the end of the trial, was made
known to-day. This is something of
a double-edged blessing to Beilis.
In view of the daily threats Beilis
receives through the mail from the
Black Hand, warning him that he will
never be allowed to leave Russia
alive, has regarded the military guard
most kindly.
Preacher Convicted
Of Being 'Blind Tiger’
CALHOUN. Nov. 29.—The Rev. J.
W. C. West has been convicted and
sentenced in the Gordon County Su
perior Court on the charge of being
a blind tiger. He is a Baptist
preacher and resides near Oakman,
about twelve miles from here.
He pleaded not guilty to the
charge, but the evidence was strong
ly against him and showed that the
liquor was concealed in his barn,
while the thirsty ones went to the
barn, took what they wanted and left
the money.
30 Convicts Pursue
Studies by Mail!
LINCOLN, NEBR., Nov 29 —A cor
respondence course for ambitious con
victs is to be opened by the University
of Nebraska, confined to those at the
State penitentiary. Already :»0 men I
have applied to have their names en- |
rolled as students. Four of the 30 are
"lifers." Every lifer expects to be par
doned some time
The course will include arithmetic,
American history, grammar and litera
ture. bookkeeping and agriculture.
Chaplain Johnson will be the principal.
up a rifle for another patron. As she
pulled the trigger the showman’s head
was directly in line with the aim.
With the rifle’s report, Moore sank
to the ground. The leaden pellet had
entered his skull behind the ear an I
penetrated upward toward the brain.
Miss Hawes collapsed and was
taken home in a hysterical condition.
Physicians hastily summoned de
clared that Moore’s one chance for
life was an immediate surgical op
eration.
He was placed on a train and. ac
companied by E. J. Janz, manager of
the carnival company, began the race
with death.
Moore regained partial conscious
ness before he died. Lifting his head
slightly from the stretcher on which
he was lying in the baggage car of
the train, he asked what had hap
pened.
When informed of the race witn
death that was being made, he re
plied :
"It’s no use, boys. That's one guy
that you can’t beat.”
Moore sank back and died a few
minutes later. The train was just
steaming into the yard at Dallas,
having made but a short portion of
the distance.
Allen Edwards and “Sport” Ram-
seur, shipping clerks of the Fain &
Stamps Wholesale Grocery Company,
entertained 25 of their fellow em
ployees at a possum dinner at the
Piedmont Hotel Saturday night. W.
P. Fain and W. O. Stamps, mem
bers of the firm, also were present,
Mr. Stamps serving as toastmaster.
Among the speakers w r ere Messrs.
Stamps and Fain, Ben Thompson,
C. W. Rose, Ralph Jones and R.
Frank Taylor, assistant manager of
the Piedmont, who w ( as a guest at
the feast.
Alas! Alas! Denver Is
Now a Closed Port
DENVER, Xov. 29.—Free lunch in
saloons of this city is at an end.
The City Council at a meeting put
back into the liquor ordinance the
clause barring it.
Both sides were heard, the “drys”
finally winning after a bitter fight.
The clause had been stricken out by
the committee. The saloonmen made
a hard fight to retain it.
Mrs. Slaton Is Second, While
Others in Family Are High
in List.
Continued From Page 1.
whose property for taxable purposes
is valued at $334,500; Mrs. Hattie I
Brandon. $317,000, and Mrs. Lena
Swift Huntley, $224,000.
It is impossible to tell from the tax
books the exact wealth of Atlantans
because so much of the property is
given in under the names of corpora
tions. Figuring the assessments to
be 60 per cent of the actual value of
the property, however, a pretty accu
rate idea of the holdings of the rich
est citizens can be obtained.
The assesments of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Grant total $2,068,650. This,
together with the assessments of Mrs.
W. D. Grant, his mother, and Mrs.
Slaton, his sister, makes the Grant
family the city’s largest taxpayers.
The aggregate of William T. Hea
ley's assessments is $1,063,909.
Including the. Coca-Cola Company,
in which he is the principal stock
holder, Asa G. Candler pays on $2,-
164,800.
Here is a list of assessments of a
number of the other largest taxpay
ers:
Forrest and George Adair, $638,200.
E. L. Connally, $398 930.
F. M. Coker. $240,375.
Julius and H. L. DeGive. $590,800.
James W. English, $351,175.
D. Greenfield estate, $419,590,
Joel Hurt. $656,838.
E. H. Inman, $421,010: S. M. In
man. $902,200; Mrs. J. V. D. Inman,
$355,000.
Enoch C. Jones. $299,000.
John E. Murphy, $412,100.
George M. and W, M. McKenzia,
$436,345.
J. f’arroll Payne. $442,565.
L. Z. Rosser. $305,27;*.
A, G. Rhodes, $803,600.
Ernest Woodruff $167,890.
Hoke Smith, $276,000.
W. IT, and J. H. Kiser, $659,300.
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