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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 103.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. DECEMBER l, 1913. By c ^T<T,
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EX-GUARD TELLS STORY OF CRUELTY
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ELOPE IN AUTO, AWAKEN RURAL
PASTOR AND WED AT MIDNIGHT
Mr. and Mrs- W K. Allaun. who are happy over fooling: their friends.
Hundred Workers for $250,000
University Fund Enthusiastic
ally Launch Canvass.
Qnite a long- while ago somebody
•aid something about striking while
the iron was hot. and that valuable
advice was adhered to Saturday
morning In a most impressive man
ner, when the Oglethorpe Committee !
of One Hundred got together to plan
the $250,000 campaign.
They struck, and struck hard, and
they planned to keep on striking.
Take one example from the ad
dress of Captain J. W. English.
"Now is the time," Captain Eng
lish said, when the working commit
tee haa been named. "Now is the
time, and tm Illustrate what this
thing mean* >• Atlanta, even If you
take it in a purely commercial way,
I want to call your attention to
something.
"The present status of the currency
bill at Washington looks like a di
vision of four regional banks. That
*»eing the case, the contest in every’
section will be sharp and fierce for
the location of a bank. New Or
leans is mire to press Atlanta hard
for the Southeastern bank, that will
make of the city in which it is lo
cated a great money center for the
section.
"Gentlemen, if we can in the next
few days turn up a couple of hundred
thousand dollars in subscriptions to
this gTeat cause of education, don t
you KNOW that will have a pro
found effect in favor of the argu
ment for locating that grpat regional
bank here?
"Gentlemen, let's go to work!”
Fourteen Committees Chosen. t
That was just one phase of the
question, but it drew prolonged ap
plause from the members of the Com
mittee of One Hundred, who already
werq at work.
Captain English called the commit
tee to order at 11 o’clock In the as
sembly room of the Chamber of Com
merce. Ivan E. Allen, from his knowl
edge of the cause and what had been
done, was asked to conduct the busi
ness of appointing the committees to
serve with the 20 chairmen In the
fund campaign.
It was expected only to mention
the names of the chairmen and get
from them suggestions of men they
wished to serve with them. But the
meeting ran clear away from that in
the first ten minutes.
The chairmen wanted to get to
work. They turned in so many sug
gestions for helpers, and the helpers
assented so heartily, that in less than
30 minutes fourteen of the twenty
committees were complete, and names
were piling for the other six, to
be apportioned as soon as possible.
That was the way that Committee
of One Hundred went at it. No chair
man appointed the working commit
tees—the Committee of One Hundred
did it, and it was a good job.
And then Mr. Allen cut loose a fiery
little speech, and told the commit-
lees all about what they were to do
ond how they were to go at it, and
then he gave out their "assignments."
To Double Old Amounts.
On the table were 1,700 cards, each
card bearing the name and amount of
the old subscription made nine years
ago to found another university in
Atlanta—a plan that fell through by
no fault of Atlanta.
The cards were made up In packets
of 00 each, and two packets were
given to each of the chairmen
"One hundred and twenty names
I*piece." said Mr. Allen. "Now. go
10 it—and make 'em double up. On*
man came to me the other day uni
Bandits Tear Rings
| From Fingers When
Girl in Anto Swoons
NEW YORK. Nov. 29.—In one of
the boldest automobile robberies ever
perpetrated in New York, three
masked bandits early to-day held up
the motor car of Cornelius Doremus,
president of the Germania Life In
surance Company, at a lonely spot in
Pelham Parkway, obtaining loot val
ued at more than $2,000. A stylishly
dressed woman in the car, who Mr.
Doremus said was one of his three
daughters, fainted, and the robbers
tore the rings from her fingers as she
lay In a swoon.
Mr. Doremus, who is more than 70
years old, had been at the Wood-
manston Inn for dinner. One of the
robbers detected him trying to hide a
roll of $500, and struck him in the
face, knocking him unconscious.
Saxon King Seeks
His Second Bride
Special Cable to The American.
MUNICH, Nov. 29—Rumors are
current here that King Frederick Au
gustus of Saxony, whose wife eloped
in 1902 with Professor Giron, the
French tutor of her children, then was
divorced and later became the wife
of Enrico Toselli, an Italian music
teacher, is abottt to marry agai*-
Gossip in court circles here is to
the effect that the King we ts to
make one of the six daughters of
King Ludwig of Bavaria Queen of
Saxony. He in said to favor Princess
Hildegarde, who is 32 years old. Ne
gotiations are believed to have been
opened between the two royal houses.
The Pope has twice refused to
grant King Frederick permission to
marry again.
Executioner Too Old,
Soldier to Hang Man
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—“Sandy"
McMickle, the gray-haired execution
er of Bermuda, has not hanged a man
in 37 years, but he has drawn the
modest salary tha. goes with the Joo.
Last week he waa notified that he
would have to hang a negro recently
convicted of murder. "Sandy" asked
to be excused, because he was old
and woefully out of practice.
The authorities decided to let "San
dy" off and engaged a British soldier,
a piper in prison for assaulting an
officer, to do the jc\>. The soldier
said he was willing, provided he ob
tained freedom, 20 pounds sterling
and j-droad transportation. This was
granted.
Held for Browning
Of 3 Companions
MOBILE. Nov. 29.—Robert B.
Chow, 29 years old, a one-legged
newsboy from St. Louis, is under ar
rest at the police station in connec
tion with the drowning of William
Bean, Thomas Patterson and Henry
Roberts in Mobile River late this aft
ernoon when a hoat that the four
occupied was turned over.
Chow, it is charged, was drinking
and refused to bail out the boat when
it began leaking and rocked it so
hard that it capsized. Charles Ol
sen, mate of the steamer Mount Ver
non, tried to save the boys, but Chow
was the only one he could reach.
Detectives Save
Negro From Mob
A display of firearms by Detec
tives Black and Bullard was ail that
saved "Pink” Lyons, a negro, from
being lynched by a mob of his race
late Saturday night, after he had shot
land slightly wounded an unidentified
I negro in a brawl at No. 62 1-2 De-
leatur street. Lyons, after the shoot-
| jng, ran across the railroad tracks.
| with the detectives In pursuit. Black
I fired at the negro, and when he
I stopped Bu’tard arrested him. The
mol, tried 10 take him om the off)-
i - iic •' Ht "fing taken in ’he
Who Dictographed Mayor
and Felder Again in
Limelight.
A. S. Colyar, whose dictographing of
Mayor Woodward and Attorney Thomas
H. Felder created a sensation last sum
mer, was placed under arrest Saturday
afternoon by city detectives on a war
rant sworn out in Rome, Ga., charging
him with cheating and swindling. H. J. ,
Awtrey swore ont the warrant and al
leges that the offense was committed 1
November 8.
Colyar was taken to police headquar- j
ter» and detained in the office of Chief
j of Detectives Newport A. Lanford. He
j declined to discuss £he case othtr than i
I to say he would be cleared of the charge.
] He also declined to tell of the nature of
the charge, while the local officers'have
not been advised.
The arrest adds another chapter to j
the history of a man. w’ho has attracted
attention throughout the country for .
many years by the many sensational
things In which he has figured. He
comes from a prominent Tennessee lam- I
ily, his father being the noted editor of '
a Nashville newspaper.
j Copeland Resigns
As Deputy State
Insurance Chief
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
John Copeland has tendered his resig
nation to Comptroller General Wright,
to take effect on January 1. He will
become a consulting actuary in At
lanta.
Mr. Copeland's present position is
the highest in the State Insurance
Department, under the Comptroller
General, and through it is adjusted
practicallv every question coming to
the department for settlement.
The position pays a salary of
$3,000 per annum, and is one of far-
reaching responsibility and trust.
3 Generations Take
Part in Initiation
Continued 3, Column 6
DALTON, Nov. 29.—With his grand
father, R. H. Baker, and hiB father, i
F. F. Baker, Sr., present and particl- *
patlng in the work, F F. Baker, Jr., j
at a special meeting of the Dalton
Lodge, No. 105, Free and Accepted Ma- j
sons, was given the master's degree, i
rounding out three generations in the |
family as enthusiastic Masons.
F. F. Baker, Hr., is grand marshal of
the State Grand Lodge
Black Cat Editor
Shot; Near Death
FRYEBERG. MAINE. Nov. 29.—Her
mann D. Umbstaetter, of Boston, editor
of The Black Cat Magazine, lies in a
critical condition at Kezar Lake as a
result of a hunting accident. At Lovell
Center he was crossing a stone wall
when he stumbled and fell. His gun was
discharged.
The shot entered his left aide and
plowed through one lung, barely missing
his heart.
Vice President Does
Xmas Buying Early
| CHICAGO, Nov. 29.- After doing
their Christmas shopping early. Vice
President and Mrs. Thomas R. Mar
shall are on their way to Washington.
Vice President and Mrs Marshall
! visited at the home of Mrs. Marshall’s
; parents Mr. and Mrs. W E. Kimsey,
* f Scottsdale n09r Phoenix, Ann,
November Clearings $7,000,000
Over Same Month in 1912,
Week Shows Increase.
With the bank clearings for No
vember, 1913, exceeding by more than
seven million dollars the figures for
November a year ago, indications
were Saturday that the clearings for
the year will exceed by many mil
lions of dollars any year in the his
tory of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association.
"Unless the clearings for Decem
ber fall far short of what they have
ever been for that month," said J.
G. Lester, secretary of the Clearing
House Association. Saturday morn^
ing, "this year is going to be the big
gest we have ever had, and the clear
ings will compare very favorably
with any city in the United Stated
"There are no figures available as
yet on the clearings for the year, buJ
Indications are they will exceed any
other year by many millions of dol
lars."
The clearings for the month of No
vember, 1913, were $79,708,928.03, an
increase of $7,186,516.03 over Novem
ber, 1912. This increase is consid
ered remarkable, as there is usually
a falling off in bank clearings to
ward the close of the year.
An increase of the same generous
proportions is seen in the bank clear
ings for the week that closed Satur
day at noon, as compared with the
same week last year. This week the
clearings were $15,309,981.94, while
last year for the corresponding week
the clearings were only $13,128,i48.98,
a gain of more than two millions.
The c learings for this week are sev
eral million dollars smaller than last
week, but this failing off is but the
natural decrease always apparent aft
er the 15th of each month.
Gov. Blease Paroled
Man Dead 19 Months
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Nov. 29.—A
number of peculiar cases have come to
light since the list of paroled convicts
by Governor Cole L. Blease has been
made public.
In Spartanburg County one of th*
paroled men had been dead nineteen
months, and another, in a difficulty at
Moore Station, shot a man. In Lex
ington County Jacob Jeter, the firs
man to receive a pardon by Blease
has been pardoned the second tlrn
within three years while serving
life sentence for murder. Joe Th
son. charged with shooting a polic*
man ill Marlboro County and set
tenced to six months in the penitei
I tiary, was granted a full pardon ij
! Blease before beginning to serve bj
J sentence.
15,000 Christmas
Seals Sold in D?j
DURHAM, 1 . ‘ ' I
bers of the Civic League started the 1
cross seal sale here by selling 15,
in one day. Before Christmas
women intend selling 150,000,
| money derived from the sale to
to the tuberculosis sanitarium to
I erected here.
I Already several sites have been
fared and several thousand dolla]
subscribed.
ELKS PLAN MEMORIAL.
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will hold memoril
Chur Decern er 7. Paul Brown.
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Adventure and Romance Attend
Cc-uple’s Thrilling Trip to
Atlanta From Norfolk.
"Oh. it was such fun to fool our
nJs! And so roman tic 1°
£htit is the only reason, says
W. E. Allaun, daughter
>rk millionaire banker and
| .‘•ociety girl of New York
n t News, Va., that she
| Norfolk with Mr. Allaun
*wn to his Huimates as
six-cylinder automobile,
veral hundred miles’ ride,
up with incident, landed
I'mont Hotel in Atlanta.,
re spending their honey-
reiving the blessings of
>me.
j See the Romance.
irse it was romantic!"
Allaun. "The wild
{the forests of Virginia
[tains of the Carolinas.
[with the 'unstable and
•eing charter members
Juice Club—why, of
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| he romance," Mr. Al-
Ked. ";n running ahead < f
mstabie and having the
|wn in a. town of 200 peo-
Sa turd ay night at mid-
vllaun was Mis* Ann it.
Ihter of M. A. Finch, cf
|md Newport News. Mr
prominent clubman >t
is well known through-
^th, where most of his
est« are.
[.11 about how they hap-
It Saturday morning
\"<n engaged foi yea;.-.
Mr Allaun. arid ev
isking us when they
S invued to tne wed -
friends got to brag
ging around that he was going to be
best man, and, of course, we just had
to fool them. Nobody knew when we
were going to get married. We didn’t
know ourselves until last Friday,
w'hen we planned the whole thing.
"Saturday Mrs. Allaun came to Nor
folk and came to my office. I had my
automobile and chauffeur out in
front, and we calmly walked out and
got In like we were going for a ride
We met severa !of our friends while
driving around Norfolk, but none of
them suspected. We left Norfolk just
Id neon . nd drove the car t >
Halifax, N. <\, about 150 miles, get
ting there about 9:45 o'clock Saturday
night.
Married at Midnight.
“We woke up the Clerk of the Court
and made him give us a license, and
then a newspaper correspondent got
on our trail and we had to fly. We
motored over to Weldon, N. arriving
there shortly before midnight. We
woke up the Rev. J. A. Honnady, a
Methodist minister there, and wert
married in front of an open fireplace
"Sunday we drove the car to Dur
ham, N. C., where we wired our folks
that we were married. Monday we
drove to Greensboro, N. C., and from
there to harlotte. Then we started
to Anderson and our honeymoon came
near breaking up.
“We were going something like 35
miles an hour through some little vil
lage when a country constable tried
to stop us. He veiled that we were !
under arrest and we turned the car j
j loose. The last we saw of the con- 1
1 stable ht was standing in the middle I
of the road waving his arms and j
yelling at the top of his voice"
RUN DOWN BY AUTO.
JACKSONVILLE. Nov 29.—An
thony Gormas is in St. Luke’s Hos
pital with a broken rib and genera'
bruises He was run down by an au
tomobile ow ned and driven 1 1
Wichmann, proprietor of the Falstaff*
Saloon *
Burglars Invade
North Side Homes,
Terrifying Women
. Burglars terrified women in two
North Side homes Friday night, and
though the police responded to calls
as quickly as possible no clews to the
intruders could be found.
Miss Bertha Franklin, who was
sleeping on the second floor of the
home of her brother, Charles Frank-
line, at No. 14 West Fourteenth street,
awoke to find a man standing over
her with a flashlight. She screamed.
The burglar leaped out a window and
fled.
Mrs. J Montagon w'as alone with
four little children at her home, No.
48 East Merritts avenue, when she
heard someone crawling on a tin roof
at the rear of the house. She called
the police by telephone and stood
guard with a pistol.
RECORD COTTON SEED YIELD.
ELBERTON, Nov. 28.—D. J. Max
well of Centerville District, by ac
tual weight, gathered 3,400 pounds of
seed cotton from one and one-quar
ter acres of land this year. He used
2 0 pounds of commercial fertilizer
BARRETT SPEAKS IN ELBERTON
ELBERTON, Nov. 29.—Charles S
Barrett, president of the Xationu.’
Farmers' Union, addressed a small
but appreciative audience at th*
courthouse here yesterday. He spoke
at Bowmaji last night
Former Guard Quit Job Because
It Was “Like Sending Men’s
Souls to Hell.”
One of the most shocking of afl
the tales of the cruelty at the Atlan
ta Federal Prison since Julian Haw
thorne and Dr. VV. J. Morton made
their sensational charge* againe*
Warden William H. Moyer, was told
to The Georgian Saturday morning
by J. H. Archer, of Sumter, Ga., for
two years a guard at the Institution
who says he quit because "It was
like sending men's souls to hell!**
Mr. Archer’s story of the things ho
saw and the things he did during hi*
two years' service under Warden
Moyer is like a page ripped from some
inquisition record. It is a picture
of tortures and punishments hardly
conceivable in this enlightened age.
He bared the secrets of the "ho‘e," a
place of torture that he says changed
strong men Into white-faced maniacs:
he tells the details of how men were
chained and shackled to the walls
of a dungeon for days at a time, with
a slice of bread and a glass of water
their only fare; of men who were
thrust into the blackness of the "soli
tary" and came out insane with the
desire to kill; of the man who, his
mind wrecked by the terrible silence
of the "hole," and the strain of hi*
punishment, tore a great hole In Me
side with a rusty nail and ground
fine particles of glass into hi» own
flesh; of the consumptive who was
locked in his cell and kept there until
he died, and there is in his mind the
remembrance of the young prisoner
who lay for twenty days on the stone
floor bf his cell without a morsel t»
eat.
Moyer Began Use of '‘Hole.**
“It’s been several years since I
worked as guard at the Federal Pri*4
on,’’ said Mr. Archer, "and thing*
may have changed, but in ths light
of recent revelations I do not believe
they have. I was one of the first
guards who worked at the prison. I
went there while Warden Hawke wan
in charge, and later Warden Moyer
came. The ‘hole’ was there when
Mr. Hawke was there, but I do not
remember that he ever placed a pris
oner in it. But when Warden Moyer
came and took charge of the prison
there were always half a dozen poor
devils chained to the walls, their legs
shackled and their faces pressed
against the solid brick—slowly going
insane in the inky blackness and the
terrible silence.
"There is but one word to use
speaking of the ‘hole’ out there at
the prison. That word is helL If there
Is a hell on earth, it is the dungeor-*
where prisoners are thrown for the
slightest infraction of the prison
rules; where men’s souls are shrivel
ed and their bodies destroyed. The
men who are paying their debt to
society out there fear the terrors of
the ’hole’ more than they fear the
terrors of eternal damnation.
“I can’t describe the ‘hole.* No man
could do that; no man could describe
the agony of men who are forced to
stand for fifteen hours a day for days
at a time with their arms outstretch
ed, their noses flattened against solid
brick; their feet shackled together—
standing all those hours in one posi
tion, in a cell that has never known
a ray of sunlight, in a darkness so
thick that it is suffocating, and in a
place where the air i.*> so foul as to be
almost nauseating.
Visitors Never Hear of It.
“You never hear f the ‘hole’ when
you visit the prison. The first in*
struction a guar 1 gets is that ha
must not talk of the hole,’ and ths
prisoners can’t t dk until they are re -
leased—and then nobody believeii
them. And I believe every word ut
tered by the rner who have been tell •
ii.g these almost unbelievable tales ill
i true, for I’ve been there and I've help •
ed chain the ooor ’evils to the wsJJ:' 4
I I’ve unlocked the shackles and
thsnfi fall o ue floor Lke * pi