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EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 103. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. DECEMBER l, 1913. By c ^T<T, tJOfl By Th«» Georgian Ce 2 CENTS. *1° EX-GUARD TELLS STORY OF CRUELTY C&J C&3 C&J C& C&) C&J c&j Oglethorpe Committee -py BANK CLEARINGS BREAK RECORD SOLICITORS PICKED TD GEE CAS ressWe Start 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. El B 1 will hold memoril Chur Decern er 7. Paul Brown. H de the memory adore#* % m * . 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 f | 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