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JTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, NOVKMHKK 30, 1013.
Colonel Goethals Reports That if
More Occur They Will Neces
sarily Push Date Beyond Jan
uary 1, 1915, Scheduled Time.
Whitehall Walks 7 o Be Fixed After Christmas
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Store Patrons Will Be Able to Purchase as Usual
Hero is rejuvenated Whitehall street, with the “ends” soon to be as high and as desirable ns the “middle.” The view
is south from a point just north of Trinity avenue. The county has done a record job and storekeepers anticipate little inter
ference with Christmas business. Sidewalk adjustments will be made after the holidays.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—No defi
nite date for the official opening of
the Panama Canal is set in the an
nual report of Colonel George Go
ethals, chairman and chief engineer of
the Canal Commission, which has just
been submitted to Secretary of War
Garrison. Neither is there any pre
diction as to when- ships may pass
ipom ocean to ocean.
The first day of the canal’s actual
operation still depends upon the
treacherous slides of Culebra Cut and
how fast the dredges can work to keep
the channels open.
“It has been the general belief that
the effect of the water in the cut
would tend to retard slides, and ex
perience below the Gatun Locks fully
justified this belief,” said Colonel
Goethals. “On the other hand, the
geologist is of the opinion that the
water may to some extent develop
new slides. Again, much ado was
made in 1909 over the seamy character
of rock on the Isthmus, through which
water flows quite rapidly, in conse
quence of which the question was
raised that the lake might leak out
through seams and crevices.
“The Sooner the Better.”
“If these things are liable to occur,
the sooner the better, if the official
opening of the canal is to occur Jan
uary 1, 1915; for if water were not
admitted this fall, but were deferred
until May 1, 1914, the full height could
not be reached until October. 1914,
leaving little time for the determina
tion of these questions. These con
siderations led to the conclusion that
the water should be turned into the
vout at the earliest date practicable
'for getting the dredges to work <:n
the slides.
“The present plans, therefore. ar<3
based upon the blowing up of Gam
boa Dike on October 10, its removal
by dredges immediately thereafter,
the transfer of two suction dredges
p id a ladder dredge to the Cucaracha
slide, the smaller dipper dredges to
work on the other slides until the full
width of the channel is attained, and
the passage of vessels through the
canal as soon a" channels of full
depth and of sui. dent width have
been secured.
Cost $349,505,222 Thus Far.
The financial operations of the ca
nal are told in big figures. The dis
bursing omcer has paid out $20,524.-
705 on pay rolls alone. Congress so
* <t has appropriated $349,505,222 ijr
mil construction, of which $10,676,-
1 went for fortifications.
' -< great detail Colonel Goethals
of the engineers' work during
l ist year, and with particular sat-
;ion it is reported that the mech-
.* ,-m of the vast locks and dams
4 s tested with success. The gates at
Ga’un were swung in one minute and
51 seconds for each leaf. The heavy
iron chains which are depended upon
to . prevent an unruly vessel from
crashing into the locks were raised
and lowered in ample time to meet,
any emergency. The locomotives
which will tow the ships through
the locks were tried out, and the elec
tric installation which will invoice
the use of a current of 44,000 volts.
Remarkable Yield
Of 250-Acre Farm
Stories of the remarkable records
of counties in raising foodstuffs have
grown with great zest out of Geor
gia products activities, and now
comes the smallest county in the
State—Rockdale—with a claim that
Tb second to none.
A farmer who cultivated 200 acres
of a 250-acre tract in <that county
raised this year 125 bales of cotton
worth $8,125; cotton seed worth
$1 250; 1.000 bushels of corn, $1,000;
8,000 bundles of fodder. $160; 20 tons
of hay. $400; 400 bushels of oats,
$200, and wheat, potatoes, vegetables,
fruits and every other kind of proven
der in the calendar of the farm.
On one exceptional acre of this
ground the farmer raised more than
140 bushels of corn. This acre was
* exceptional only Inasmuch as It had
been given special attention, but any
other acre would have brought the
same result, with the same care.
The money represented in the crop
will buy the land. The farm js on
the market at that price and has been
listed with J. E. Mercer. who is con
ducting a real estate office with spe
cial attention to farm lands.
Developers of Land
Are Making Dirt Fly
On Williams Street
‘Second Ansley Park’ Is Promised in
West Peachtree Neighborhood.
Many Homes Going Up.
Owners of land in the neighborhood
of Williams and West Fourteenth
streets are leaving no stones unturn
ed to develop this property for home-
seekers, and there is probably as
much activity in the section as in
any other neighborhood of the city.I
The Peters Land Company, the
Cobb Realty Company, the W. J.
Davis Syndicate, Morris Brandon, J.
R. Wylie, and A. J. & H. F. West are
pushing important developments.
Thousands of dollars are being spent
cutting down hills andmlling up hol
lows, and there is promise of a “sec
ond Ansley Park” west of West
Peachtree street.
Within the last year a great many
new' homes have been built. On West
Tenth street, west of Spring street,
for instance, half a dozen houses have
been erected and a new one is now
going up. Williams street has been
worked out 400 feet north of Tenth,
and during the winter it will be
extended to Fourteenth. Four new
homes will soon be erected on Wil
liams in the Fourteenth street neigh
borhood.
Furniture Concern Near
mit Customers Through
Trinity Avenue To Ad-
Second-Story Window.
Owners of property on Whitehall
and their tenants south of Mitchell
street have decided that they don’t
want any interference with the side
walks at this time, but w’ill serve the
public from the elevated sidewalks
and have the readjustments done aft
er the Christmas holidays.
Captain R. M. Clayton, City Engi
neer, in charge of Whitehall street re
grading, sent a man around last week
and sounded the tenants and owners,
with the result mentioned above.
Only one owner, John H. James, has
adjusted his store to the new grade
level. His ’ ee at No. 135 Whitehall,
occupied furniture concern, has
been drop, a floor, and the sidewalk
in front cut away. Since the road
bed will not be fixed right away and
the rest of the sidewalk will remain
for the present, however, the store
will receive its patrons through the
second story, with a wooden bridge
spanning the cut. If customers/hap
pen to enter by the present ground
floor, they will probablv have to climb
upstairs to eet their goods.
The Whitehall job one of the two
big close-in engineering feats of the
year, Ivy street regrading and filling
being the other. The County Com
missioners have made a record on
Whitehall, and in the opinion of real
estate men the job ..ill be a monu
ment to them for all time. This was
the one thing needed, say the land-
brokers, to lift into eminent respec
tability a section of Whitehall that
had too long been running down
hill.
COPnEI E ELKS PLAN MEMORIAL
CORDEI-E. Nov. 29.—The Cordele
Lodee of Elks has arranged an ex
cellent program for the annual memo
rial exercises to be held Sunday. De
cember 7. Judee W. F. George, of
the Cordele Circuit, has been se
cured to deliver the address of the
occasion. A musical program is be
ing prepared by Mesdames O. M.
Heard T. .T. Durrett. J. .T. Willis and
A. E. Jordan. Miss Sadie Ellis and
R. E Harris. Mrs. .T. Gordon Jones
. will be in charge of the decorations.
COMPLAINT AT^WATER.
MIT T FrvGEVTI T E. Nov. 29 —A hot
fight is being made here on the water
that is being furnished by the water
Vorrnnrv The waterworks is owned by
n Philadelphia concern and the water
is so muddv ’t can’t he used for rook
ing or drinking purposes A citizens'
meeting was railed and n’ans made for
the erection of an independent plant.
PLANMINC WHITE WAV.
MTT T EPGEVTBT.r Nov. 29.—Mll-
wtgevfile is s<>' n to hav*> a “white wav.”
The rvo^po Rfve»* M’Hs are making
LproraH-rs for if. the large
iiehts almost eve r v merchant in the
1 city has contracted . for electric signs.
Jury Award $3,500
For Girl’s Right Leg
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The Chicago
Ra,iwa>.i Company has been ordered
to pay $3,500 for cutting off the right
leg of Bernadette Crowell. The child
is 12 years old now. She was 9 when
she lost her leg. The 3-year interval
has been consumed in the legal bat
tle for damages.
Two juries voted 11 to 1 in each
case in favor of assessing damages
from $10,000 to $15,000. In the first
trial the solitary juror held out un
til a disagreement was reported. In
the second trial recently the solitary
juror held out until he induced the
other eleven to reduce their estimate
of a right leg’s value to $3,500.
Bernadette is the daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Crowell and Mrs. Crowell is
the widow of a city fireman who lost
his life four years ago when fighting
a fire.
Monster Pumpkin
Attracts Crowds
A hug€L pumpkin weighing 75
pounds, the prize of the Hart County
Fair this month, has been placed in
the window of Lynch, the tailor, at
No. 8 Whitehall street, where thou
sands viewed it Saturday.
The pumpkin was raised at T. B.
Harper's Fernw r ood farm, two miles
from Hartwell. It is 71 inches in cir
cumference. Fifty-nine other mon
ster pumpkins were taken from the
same vine.
Ruin Faces Town; Its
Founder a Bankrupt
MUSKOGEE. OKLA„ Nov. 29—A
mere shadow of the wealthy Wain-
wright estate exists to-day. The for
mer county official was once one or the
biggest cattlemen, landowners, nank-
ers ana capitalists in this section of
1 the country, but now he is not only
i bankrupt, bui is charged with embez
zling.
It is reported that the town of Wain-
wright, of which W. H. Walnwright
is the founder, is practically closed up,
except for the postoffice and bank.
Pennsylvania Law
Bars Chorus Girls
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 29.—The
baldheaded row in theaters through
out Pennsylvania will be deserted. In
all theatrical companies only women of
21 years of age or more will appear
on the stage. This is the effect of
a new law which regulates the hours
during which women may work.
The wide-sweeping effect of the law
did not become known until to-day,
when several local theatrical man
agers learned to their dismay that
women under 21 years of age are
prohibited 'rom working after 9
o’clock at vaght.
Rich Men Gypsies
In Order to Get Well
HILLSDALE. MICH., Nov. 29 —Many
outfits of nomads visit Hillsdale Coun
ty each summer, but the outfit that for
the past few weeks has been near the
fair grounds Is out of the usual class.
Attention was attracted to this large
camp by the neat tents and wagons,
but more especially by the clean and
we’l dressed appearance of the campers
themselves. Ire heads of the party
were the Hamilton brothers, of Cincin
nati, who are said to be wealthy.
A few years ago the family lost two
children from consumption and the doc
tors recommended outdoor life.
YEAR IN JAIL FOR TWO EGGS.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA„ Nov. 29 —
For theft of two eggs, Charles H.
Thumel was sentenced in Criminal
Court here to serve a yean in the pen
itentiary. It was his second convic
tion on a charge of petit larceny, and
this, according to State statutes,
amounts to a felony.
Society a ‘Frost,’
He Remains Hermit
COLUMBIA, MO., Nov. 29.—After
living ten years a recluse in a little
hut near here, PL E. Tyler, a univer
sity graduate, came from his seclu
sion long enough to call society a
“frost.”
“Yes,” he said, “society is a frost.
Behind its empty shell there are al
ways slimy fingers reaching out for
gold.”
Tyler lives in a little hovel on a
high knoll. He left it recently, but
soon went back.
Football Skill Saves
Pastor From Thugs
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—It was only a few
years ago that the Rev. Archie (_. Pres
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 one 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.
Postmaster 16 Years,
Ends Life on Removal
Water Main Ready
For Pace’s Ferry
Pace’s Perry road citizens will soon
have an ex^ra supply of water, as
well as substantial improvements to
their thoroughfare. Six-inch pipes
have been placed along Andrew^ ave
nue from Pace's Ferry road to Peach
tree and the main will be laid next
week. This piping will furnish wa
ter for the country estate of John W.
Grant.
Owners between Buekhead and Mr.
Grant's place have recently graded
sidewalks and tenants have planted
rye on their lawns, making a very
pleasing effect in color.
Spanking for Bride
Promised by Mother
BILLINGS, MONT., Nov. 29.—Out
witting his brother. Hays. Henry
Bryan, a recent arrival in the city
from St. Louis, eloped with Miss Vida
Emmerick, who arrived here recently
from that city.
The girl, who is only 16, was de
nied a marriage license here on the
orders of her mother.
Bryan then secured an automobile,
and motored to the first town west of
Billings, where they boarded a train
for the West. The girl's mother as
serts that when she returns that she
will give her a lirst-class spanking
for not obeying her.
Confesses to Slaying
And Then Surrenders
ROME, Nov. 29.—Marion Barren,
a negro, confessed over the tele
phone to Attorney W. B. Bebane lo
the murder of Joe Collins at the lock
and dam near here several days ago,
and asked him what he would do
about it
The lawyer told Barrett to surren
der to the Sheriff, and shortly after
ward the negro did so.
Statewide Search
For Runaway Boy
GADSDEN ALA., Nov. 29.—A
State-wide search has been started
for William Ponder, the 14-year-o'd
son of W. A. Ponder, of this city, wno
after stealing a pistol and razor from
his father's room, told companions he
was going out to see the world.
The boy’s mother can not be con
soled. and it is feared she will lose
her reason.
Heirs to Millions
Work as Deckhands
Concerns Are Ready
To Occupy Offices
In Chamber’s Home
Many Organizations and Individual
Concerns Will Locate on North
Pryor—Month to Finish.
A few days more than a month wlV
be required to put the new Chamber
of Commerce home in first class con
dition for tenants, and the tenants
are preparing already to move. Prac
tically all the space has been let.
Nearly ''very booster organization
in the city will be housed in th<
chamber home. The subsidiaries of
the chamber, the Industrial and Sta
tistical Bureau and the Atlanta Con
vention Bureau, will have commo
dious offices, as will the Atlanta
Freight Bureau, the Merchants and
Manufactures Association and the
Credit Men’s Association.
The Credit Men’s Association will
open an adjustment bureau which
will extend greatly the service in re
ports on commercial credits.
A large real estate firm has taken
quarters on the fourth floor.
BIGNESS HILLED
1,
Patterson, Hero of
Dayton Flood, Fights
To Keep Out of Jail
Cash Register Head, Convicted Un
der Sherman Act, Alleges
393 Errors in Trial.
Investigator Declares System Fol
lowed Same Methods as Frisco
and Met Same Fate.
WASHINGTON, Nov, 29.—"The
diseases w'hich sapped the life of
the Frisco system and brought it to
the point of bankruptcy are the same
diseases which have contributed so
largely to the weakened condition of
the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad,” declared Louis
R. Brandeis, of Boston, ifl Washing
ton to-day
Mr. Brandeis, as a citizen of Mas
sachusetts, assumed the responsibil
ity of investigating the affairs of the
New Haven road to-day. As a citi
zen of the United States he analyzed
the affairs 'of the Frisco Railroad
system. His verdict is that a de
sire on the part of the heads of these
railroads to make a stb In the finan
cial world rather than to increase the
efficiency of the-ir properties for th-'
benefit of the people Is responsible for
the outright bankruptcy of the Frisco
and the state of affairs which caused
the New Haven stock to drop 200
points^on the exchange.
“The bankruptcy of the Frisco is a
signal instance of the curse of big
ness,” said Mr. Brandeis. “It was not
surprising that bankruptcy overtook
the Frisco. In fact, it is surprising
that the system escaped that fate for
so long.
“The conditions under which the
affairs of the road were being ad
ministered made failure inevitable. I
have expected this crash for some
time. No great railroad system di
rected as the Frisco was directei
could long hope to avert such an out
come. It was the great prosperity of
the nation alone which prevented an
earlier climax. The manipulators of
the system were carried over the thin
ice beneath which yawned the black
chasm of bankruptcy only by the
very momentum of the times.”
63-Cent Chair Makes
Sen. Sherman Happy
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
took 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.
“I 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
Ministers Buy Space
To Get Weddings
SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—A silent battle
Is being waved on Courthouse Hill by
three ministers of the gospel, the
Rev. August Sandell, the Rev. George
Kindred and the Rev. A. E. Greene,
wW»se offices surround the courthouse
on two sides, bearing announcements
of their calling and the further state
ment that they perform marriage cer
emonies. Mr. Kindred goes to the
extent of buying newspaper space
Underlying the question of mar
riage ceremonies is a total of approx
imately $30,000 paid out annually in
ft" S.
Tihe Rev. August Sandell, the pi
oneer in the business, uses an auto
mobile in going to and returning from
work.
Before competition became so
strong the Rev, Mr. Sandell is said
to have taken in from $300 to $700 a
month in fees.
DAYTON, OHIO, Nov. 29.—An ap
peal* was filed in the United States
Court to-day by President John H.
Patterson and 28 other officials of the
National Cash Register Company,
who were convicted last year of vio
lations of the criminal sections of the
Sherman anti-trust law. The con
victed men were some of them sen
tenced to terms in the penitentiary,
which were suspended pending ap
peal.
Patterson was given a year in pris
on and a $5,000 fine. Soon afterward
the Dayton flood occurred, and he be
came a national figure by the manner
in which lie took charge of the rescue
and relief work. The appeal contains
over a million words. A total of 393
errors are alleged to have been made
in the trial.
Albany Man Hurt as
Auto Turns Turtle
ALBANY, Nov. 29—Randolph
Shaffer, a well-known business man
of Albany, was seriously injured when
an automobile he was driving to New
ton turned a complete somersault.
Mr. Shaffer was driving at about
35 miles an hour when he met some
negroes. As he turned to pass them
his car struck a sand bed. causing it
to skid and turn turtle. The. negroes
picked up the injured man and car
ried him to Newton, where first aid
was given. A local physician rushed
to the scene, where it was found that
Mr. Shaffer had fractured his left
arm, broken his nose, suffered sev
eral severe scalp wounds, bruised his
l«*ft hip, hurt his jaw and received
Sther minor injuries. A piece of glass
penetrated his skull, but nqt deep
enough to cause serious injury. He
was later brought to an Albany hos
pital.
Preacher in Strange
Trance After Spree
ROME, Nov. 29.-^Thomas Bright, a
Hardshell Bapil. t preacher, was
stricken with a strange malady while
sobering up^after a spreed. When the
police went to feed him he asked them
to turn him over. This they did,
and then he fell into a trance. It then
took the whole force, from the Chief
of Police to the patrol wagon chauf
feur. to revive Bright. When th3y
finally succeeded, the Chief decided to
send him home.
In the patrol wagon Lright persist
ed in standing on one leg at a time
and begged the police to change them
for him.
Must RepeatWedding
Date or Go to Jail
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—George B.
Helmle. for sixteen years postmaster
of Nyaek. worrying over the loss of
his position Januarj' 1 next, turned
on the gas and killed himself in the
library of his home here.
Mrs. Helmle found her husband
per*ted in a reclining chair with a
gas u**' in his mouth.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Talk of hun
ger strikes,. riots, of raids and boy
cotts, is abroad among women stu
dents of the University ot Chicago
to-day. The price of hash at Lex
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.
| Disguised as a Man,
She Fails as Footpad
SUNBURY, PA., Nov. 29.—While
Harold K. Jones w r as walking along a
dark street, returning from a visit to
his sweetheart, he was accosteij, by a
stranger, who asked him for a match
Jones said “Sure,” dropped his
head and was getting it when the
person said, “Hands up.” Jones looked
up and into the barrel of a small re
volver.
Life a flash Jort**s’ foot and
fist flew out and t_he highwayman
was on the ground.
The footpad was then revealed as a
woman. She begged off, saying that
her husband had deserted her.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29.—Three
vouthful heirs to millions, all recent
graduates from Eastern universities,
worked as common deckhands on board
the Pacific Coast Company’s steamship
Congress for a monthly wage of $25.
One of the voung men was a nephew
of George H Higbee. vice president and
manager of the Pacific Coast Company
The second was th'' son of Superin
tendent Dickey, of the Union Jron
Works.
Bottle Floats 1,100
Miles in South Seas
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—After
drifting 1,100 miles through the South
Seas, a bottle containing a menu card
of the liner Sonoma, thrown overboard
from the steamer near Honolulu in
April, 1907, has been picked up at Arorai
Island, in the Gilbert group.
The bottle was sent to .Sydney from
the Gilberts and presented bv the
steamship agents to Captain Trask of
i the .Sonoma ^
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 29.—“June 14.
1887,” Philip Lebroski will have to
repeat ten times a day for sixty days
in order to keep out of the House of
Correction, by sentence pronounced
upon him by District Court Judge
Eisner.
Lebroski, who is a well-to-do real
estate owner, was arrested when a
patrolman found him shaking his fi-
and swearing at his wife, perched on
the highest gable on their residence.
During the trial Lebroski Md the
court he was trying to forget he was
married.
The court said no man had a right
to forget such a date, and then or
dered the man to recite the date of
the wedding ten times daily or he
would have to go to jail.
‘Buried Treasure’
Is Just Three Cents
OLYMPIA, WASH., Nov. 29.—John
McSorley, an aged bachelor, who lived
alone in a little cabin, died recently.
Although he left about $400 in cash
In a bank and some scattered, proper
ty, he had always been considered a
miser.
Meilton Giles, police judge, hired
two men at $3 a day to dig around
the shack.
Tucked carefully away near the
head of the bed they came upon a
package neatly folded. With bated
breath they opened it.
Inside they found—three copper
cents.
Tne administrator has abandoned
the treasure search.
Never Rode in Train,
Street Car or Auto
WABASH, IND., Nov. 29.—Wabash
County has at least one resident who
has never ridden on a railroad train,
street car or automobile, and whose
fastest rate of travel is limited to
the speed of his horse.
This man is Jonathan Beal, who
has lived in New Holland for sixty
years.
Mr. Beal travels little and his jour
neys during the last threescore
years have been confined almost
wholly to trips to Wabash, the coun
ty seat, eleven miles from his homo.
In making the trip he always uses his
horse and has refused many invita
tions to ride in a machine. '
Girl Weds Rival of
Suicide Who Shot Her
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 29.—As a
sequel to being shot by a rejected
suitor, who committed suicide, Miss
Hattie Weier. of Corcoran, was mar
ried to Rudolph Babler, the man who
aroused the jealousy of the frenzied
j suitor, Remie de Hosiers.
Body 50 Years in Lot
Now in Family Vault
*
SAVANNAH. Nov. 29.—The remains
of Louis Barie, who died in 1853, head
of an aristocratic French family that
made history In Savannah, are to-day at
rest In the old family vault In the
Cathedral Cemetery, &fter lying 50 years
In a vacant lot, in the heart of the res
idential section, In an unmarked
grave.
Mystery surrounds the circumstances
under which the body was exhumed, for
the last Barie is said to have died sev-
eial years ago. Whether some provi
sion was made several years ago for
the ceremony that was performed this
week can not be learned.
Grand Jury Fails, but
‘Drys’ 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 iaw\ and not the Grand Jury.
“The fight is not over by any man
ner of means, however,” said W. B.
Stubbs, the leader. "We intend to fight
until we have Savannah as clean a a At
lanta.”
SLIDES PIPE 10
Girl Outwits Mother Who Locks
Her in Room and Couple
Flees in Auto.
Nine Seek To Be Tax
Equalizers in Floyd
ROME, Nov. 29.—There Is a hot
contest in progress here as to who
will be chosen Tax Equalizers for
Floyd County at the meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners
Monday.
Nine well-known citizens are can
didates for the three positions. They
are I, D. Gaillard, John C. Pi tntup, O.
L. Wilkerson, L. A. Dempsey, R. II.
Foss, L. (’. Barton. Sheldon Sims, W,
H. H. Camp and John P. Rush.
Cow Devours Vest;
6-Year Suit Ensues
SAVANNAH, Nov. 29.—Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Pierce are to-day happy
In their new home at Dawson, Ga.,
following a sensational elopement, in
which the pretty young bride, Miss
Helen Creech, risked life and limb
to escape an irate parent and rejoin
her husband of an hour.
The couple were quietly married,
but as they walked from the parson
age the bride’s mother snatched the
blushing girl from the arm of her hus
band and whisked her away in an au
tomobile to their home. Here she was
locked in an upstairs room and the
mother announced that no law except
force and arms could force her to
abandon her position in front of the
door.
While the youthful husband was
besieging law offices in every buill-
ing in the city and finding that noth
ing could be done to aid him. his bride
was evolving a method of escape.
When it became dark, she managed
to raise the second-story window and
slide down a drain pipe. After an
hour’s search, she located Pierce, but
they were afraid to risk going to the
station, for the escape had been dis
covered. They managed to recruit
two friends with mortocycles and as
excess passengers they raced through
the country to cut off the train at a
station fifteen miles distant.
‘Decollete’ in Newest
Style Wanders Far
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Nov. 29.—The decolett®
leg has just been introduced by sev
eral ultra-fashionable women. Wom
en have appeared at the theaters this
week wearing gowns daringly slashed
w'hich 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.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. 29—Be
cause a cow ate a vest July, 1907, six
years of litigation and hundreds of dol
lars in court costs followed.
The ?est contained a lease on gas
land in Licking County and provided
that the Bennington Oil and Gas Com
pany lease 246 acres of land from Park
PeCrow. The vest was hung on a rail
fence by Justice Shipley, who drew the
instrument, while the Magistrate drank
from a spring. The cow grabbed tht
waistcoat while Shipley’s back was
turned Litigation over the lease en
sued and has been going on ever since.
Victim of Pellagra
Drinks Carbolic Acid
SPARTANBURG, Nov. 29 —Afflict
ed with pellagra, W. M. Meares, a
white man 52 years of age, drank
three ounces of carbolic acid at his
home on West Perry street and was
later found dead by members of the
family.
Meares, a carpenter, contracted the
disease about a year ago and it had
affected him in a manner that he
was unable to work at his trade. It
is thought the disease had affected his
mind.
Mean’ Man Kills
Flowers With Salt
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The meanest of
policemen travels a beat In South Chi
cago. But he may not travel long, for
Dr. Julius Gottlieb, nature lover, is after
his scalp and so Is Captain Collins.
Dr. Gottlieb is the South Chicago
ambulance surgeon, who transformed a
tin-can alley Into n garden.
The alley was adjacent to the police ,,
station. J
When cold weather arrived Dr. Gott
lieb transplanted all his plants. The
more beautiful ones he placed in pots
and with them decorated the rooms of
the police station.
Last week he noticed that the plants
were dying He discovered that some
body h^id put salt in every plant Jar.
Science Explains
Mystery of Ghosts
BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Now me
“haunted” house—chronicled in fic
tion, and actually shunned in real
life—has been deprived of its mysti
fying wonders, says The Journal of
the American Medical Association.
The sensations of apparitions in
duced by the breathing, during sleep,
of a tainted atmospherq are of in
terest to the students of pV^chic m^^^
ifestations. The hot air
often praised for its ventilating ef
fect—and with justice when properly
operated and in perfect condition—
may evidently become a distinct men
ace to health, as well as a cause of
“ghosts.”
Men in Slit Skirts Go
Out to Catch Hugger
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—In ths
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 veilel.
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 trao
a hugger who must be found.
In the last five nights 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 wpmen fear to go about
Judge Puts Curb on
Extravagant Wives
DETROIT. Nov. 29.—Compulsory sav
ing for a certain class of wives is to
he enforced by Judge Lacy, of the
Wayne County Domestic Relations
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 this 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.—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 Feldstein 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. a