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esb OVER 100,000 the SUNDAY AMERICAN'S NET PAID CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian South Georgia Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 104. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1913. 2 CENTS. *2 i FAT NO OR* LEAP TO SAFETY AS CARS CRASH SOCIETY WOMEN FIGHT NEW TRAFFIC RULES unPDrp I Owners of Autos Want Privilege of Parking Cars in Down town District. The fa;e of the new traffic ordi- Inaive >vrich will be presented to the ICity Council Monday afternoon by a [join committee of the Council and [the Chamber of Commerce ha* be- Icome extremely uncertain on account [of a united opposition to some of its [features by society women who drive I automobiles. Many members of Council declared [Monday that they being subjected to [a pressure that they were powerless [to resist, toughened as they are by [the many conflicting currents of po litical sentiment. Women who drive [their own machines have been visit- [in? ’heir offices and caKtng them by ■ telephone to protest tlrat the new | law against parking automobiles in f downtown districts would abso- [ . ■ spoil their shopping The fight of the women has gained I mpressive support in the persons of the heads of a number of big stores | One of the arguments for the new traffic aw is that it would benefit | the trade of departments stores by ; clearng the entrances of parked au- ; fomobiles and make entrances easier. The attitude of some of the. store heads that they are opposed to dis- urbing the leisurely women shop pers who drive their machines and save them standing in the streets ha« given a number of members of I Council a bewildered feeling, espe- I cially since many of the women have I '-ailed in person and demanded pro- 1 lection. Public Hearing Likely. There seems to be little doubt that | the new law will be referred to a spe- [cial committee of Council for a pub hearing. Whether the provision I prohibiting the parking of machines i any one block within limits in- I eluding the whole downtown shopping I district will be stricken is a matter 1 of doubt but the activities of the Icemen practically assures the elimi nation of the feature making it 11- I egal to leave a machine at all with- I out a chauffeur on Peachtree and I Whitehall and several tributary strets It looks as though any fea- | ture of the law tending to present srrious interference with the shop- I Ping of women is doomed. I'uring the meetings of the joint I committee on traffic law revision of Council and the Chamber of Com- ; rnerc-e it was generally considered that whatever laws proposed would be passed by Council and signed by Mayor Woodward. The lament of doctors and business men who are *n the habit of coming downtown in tneir machines early in the morning and leaving it standing in front of ' U ‘ eir Piaces of business all day •kerned vain. It was proved that personal interests conflict so their Ifor lB ,0r * traf ^ c ^ aw » were needed I Ut ae «niB Monday that the whole * t0 be reviewed again; and I not lhat pains will be taker. I**,, with the convenience of I 10 w o«nen. Dooly County Town Wins Menu Prize of Commerce Chamber Byromville, Dooly County, was award ed the prise offered by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce for the best menu actually served on Georgia Products Day. The prize was a $10 gold piece The similar prize offered for the best liat of Georgia - grow n products suitable for a menu was ,*on by Clarkesvllle, Habersham County. The awards were made by the special committee composed of St. Elmo Mas sengale, Paul P. P«.eese and William F Parkhurst. The menu of the Georgia Products dinner served at Byromville was print ed in red polkberry ink on corn husks. Not only every item on the banquet menu, but the menu toast program and other incidentals, were grown on one farm in Byromville. The menu list furnished by Clarkes vllle contained 204 items and a banquet for a king could have been supplied from this list and nothing would have been lacking In all. more than sixty cities submitted menus which were actually served on Georgia Products Day FREE JAILED DELEGATES Human Derelicts of Poor Farm Worry John D. Rockefeller CARNEGIE’S HAND IS 'Tiv^SrUn AS GOOD AS EVE R AT 79 1913 Game Season Huertf to Show Leniency, Not Caring to Provoke U. S. by Executing Lawmakers. ‘BigTim'ThoughDead Still Bowery Santa NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The shoes and Christmas dinners which Timo thy D. Sulivan was accustomed to give each year to the Bowery poor will be distributed as usual this month. Mitchell F. Friend appeared in the Supreme Court to incorporate the Timothy D. Sullivan Association to "promote fellowship among members for their mutual benefit and advan tage and for the furtherance of their social and political welfare." 13 Candidates Seek 5 Calhoun Offices Specisl Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1.—While General Huerta intends to cling to the Presidency as long as possible, the Mexican Government is taking no chances on foxing intervention In this country by the United States. This was shown to-day when a semi-official announcement was made that acquittal is likely to be ordered for all of the members of Congress who were recently arrested. Huerta Is afraid of finding these members guilty of sedition and sentencing them to death, which would result In prompt action by the American Gov ernment. Foreigners in Mexico are deeply in terested in the visit which Admiral Craddock, of the British navy, will make to General Huerta this after noon. He will be accompanied to the national palace by Sir Lionel Car den. the British Minister. The British officials say this action is only a token of respect for the Mexican Government on the part of the British commander in Mexican waters and has no significance other- NORTH TARRYTOWN, Dec. 1.— John D. Rockefeller and his million aire neighbors started a movement to get the Westchester County Alms house. which menaces their estates, out of East View. They are consid ering providing the county with a new site. They are to take the matter up with V. Everit Macy, multi-million aire of Ossining, recently elected su perintendent of the poor, when he takes charge of the institution Jan uary 1. The estates of Rockefeller. Alexan der Smith Cochran and James Butler are overrun during the cold weather by derelicts from the poorhouse. Su perintendent-elect Macy favors re moving the institution. Farmer Near Death From Knife Wound CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—One hundred and thirty-five lives were sacrificed to the sport of hunting In the United States and 140 men were seriously wounded, ac cording to figures compiled to-day. The hunting season ended last midnight. The largest death toll was reported from Wisconsin, where 29 men were killed and 27 hurt. Michigan was sec ond, with 28 killed and 16 wounded. In New York State 19 were killed and 1 hurt and in Maine 12 deaths and 60 injuries were reported. Thirty-seven hunters lost their lives at their own hands through the careless handling of their guns, and 24 wounded themselves. Sixteen men were drowned while In quest of game. It was estimated that 60.000 hunters visited the woods of Wisconsin and Michigan and fully 40,000 went hunting in the other States during the open sea son. ELBERTON, Dec. l.—In a fight with J. T. Powers, at the Elbert County convict camp in Gaines Dis trict, H. T. Turner, a well known farmer, received a stab wound that may prove fatal It is feared the lungs were pierced. Powers i a in the county jail charged with assault with intent to kill. He was refused bond pending the outcome of Turner’s wound. CALHOUN. Dec. 1.—An election is be ing held here to-day to name a Mayor, two Aldermen and two members of the School Board. Thirteen candidates are in the fiel^ as follows: For Mayo. T. C. Cantrell. G. A. Hal! and W. M. Hughey; for Aldermen, T Q. Brewer, H. C. Hall, M. Moss. J. M. Murphey, J W. Parrott. G. F. Robinson, and for School Board, J. G. B. Erwin. B. M. Harlan, H. P. Owen and W S. Pritchett. Dr. Poteat Here to Talk on Happiness Dr Edwin M. Poteat will lecture Mon day night at the Second Baptist Church Dr Poteat is president of Furman Uni versity, of Greenville, fe. C., and well known here. The subject of the lecture is "The Philosophy of Happiness." The lecture Is given under the auspices of the Young Men's Bible class The admission fee is 25 cents and the ad vance sale has been good. Dr. Hale Back and Read to Report. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Dr. Wil liam Bayard Hale, th Envoy sent by President Wilson to General Carran za, leader of the Mexican Constitu tionalists. returned to Washington to-day. He at once notified the Pres ident that he was prepared to make a complete report to him on the nego tiations with the Constiutionalists «t any time it was desired. Dr. Hale refused to discuss his mis sion in advance of his conference with the President. Two New Members in Georgia Sphinx Club ATHENS, Dec. 3.—Two new mem bers of the "Sphinx" have been ini tiated by that club of the University of Georgia. They are A. B. Bernd, of Macon, and Rucker Ginn, of Royston. This is the greatest honor that a student of the universitv can attain, and the records of these two seniors have been brilliant. Ginn is captain of the 1914 baseball team. Gets Longer Term At Second Trial 300-Pound Lump of Coal Crushes Man FORT SMITH, ARK., Dec. 1.—A. negro backed his team and wagon against a coal chute on a Frisco Railroad switch track and jostled a 300-pound lump of coal. It fell on the head of C. A. Snyder, foreman of the yard, and crushed him to death. Snyder recently came here from Shreveport. With Eggs at$lDoz., Brazilians ‘Eat One' CINCINNATI, Dec. 1.—"We don’t eat eggs in Brazil; we eat AN egg." said Captain J. F. Ellison, head of the Amazon River Steam Navigation Company. • Eggs in Brazil cost one dollar a dozen," he concluded. VALDOSTA, Dec. 1.— Jule Gary, a negro convicted of &ssautt with Intent to murder, for putting ground glass in Lucius Ziegler’s dinner, has been sen tenced by Judge Thomas to ten years in the penitentiary after a second trial. I^ary was given an eight-year sen tence the first time, but the case was carried to the Court of Appeals and that tribunal reversed the lower court. He was convicted again and now has two years longer to serve sharply with the general public good that they mu»t be legislated against snd ordered to move their cars oft 'he princtjHU streets. Women’s Work Fruitful. The action of the women is a Godsend to this class of men. Their complaints have caught the ear of '-ouncil in a way that the business Won could never hope to do. ^ Some traffic law revision is bound o come from the recommendations of the Council and Chamber of Com- ™* rc * committee. Councilman Albert " oinaon, who is leading the opposi- • cr - and haa announced that he & motion to refer the ole matter to a Council committee Scientist Tells What Ghosts Are Made Of Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BERLIN, Dec. 1.—"Teleplasma." a cross between smoke and spider web, 1s what ghosts ’are made of, accord ing to Professor Schrenk Notxing, the famous expert in psychical research. Daylight Bandit Robs R.R, Agent in Chicago Needs $500,000 to 'Cut Kingly Figure Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS. Dec. 1.—A half million dol lars is the minimum salary demanded by the Prince of Wled as King of Al bania. His present income is $30,000. and he thinks that even a poor country like Albania can afford to add $500,000 a year to enable him to cut a kingly figure. CHICAGO, Dec. 3 —A lone bandit, braving daylight and the chance of en countering a dozen railroad men. to day entered the station of the Lake Shore in South Chicago, tied am: gagged the agent and escaped with $700. BankHead'sDaughter Chooses Job as Cook Skunk Tumbles Town From Water Wagon Pencils Blamed for Diphtheria Epidemic APPLE TON, WIS.. Dec. 1.—Eliz abeth Erb, daughter of the president of the First National Bank, w'ho dis appeared suddenly last spring, has written from Montreal that she went away because she w-aa tired of teach ing school and is living in the home of a family of consequence In Mon treal as cook and upper housemaid. SUFFIELD CONN., Dec. 1.—Lead pencils, distributed and collected each day in a school here, are blamed for an epidemic of diphtheria among the pupils. a public hearing, said that much NE'WILLE. VA„ Dec. 1.—Residents , refused to use water here when a skunk J established itself in the base of a spring ■ which constitutes the town’s main sup- j ply. It was two months before the animal j could be coaxed forth and killed. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Local rains Monday; probably fair Tuesday. Laurens Leads State In Ginning of Cotton F TROLLEY Motormen and Conductors See Peril in Time to Jump From Platforms. In a smash of street ears early Monday morning at the comer of Auburn and Piedmont ave nues, both cars were derailed and the crews had to leap to safety. The collision crushed the framework and shattered the windows of the cars, and severely fchook up a couple of dozen street car employees, on an early morning ride to their work. No one was dangerously injured, however. The collision took place at 4 o’clock, in the midst of a hard do pour of rain. • A car of the Was . ton street line, loaded with motor- men and conductors from the west ern part of the city, was* proceeding along Auburn avenue in the direc tion of the car bam. At the Junction with Piedmont avenue, the switch was covered with water, and either was not turned properly, or was ’split’’ by the car, which it diverted on to the Piedmont tracks, just at the right time to tear into a Capitol avenue car. empty pave for the motorman and conductor, on its way to the end of the line to start the day’s run. The motormen of both cars leaped to the street as they saw a crash was inevitable. The Capitol avenue car was knocked from the rails and ran on over the pavement to the curbing J. M. Sorrell, motormsn of the load ed car, was severely jolted and was struck by flying glass but was not injured. Nearly two hours were required to get the cars back on the track and haul them to the bam*. Wm. RusselFs Death Reopens Will Case BOSTON. Dec 3—William C. Russell one of the three centra! fig ures in the famous Russell will con test, died suddenly from shock at hi# home in Melrose. His death, follow ing the long battle between D&koia Dan and PYesno Dan Russell for a share In the Russel! estate, means the reopening of the contest. Counsel for Dakota Dan announced to-day that he will at once file ad ministration papers in the case as the first move in a new struggle to win a portion of the $500,000 Russell fortune for Dakota Dan. ■AMDREW CARNEGIE’S AUTOGRAPH. As l.glb!« as it ev-r was. th» signature of the J.aird oh Skibo is admirably reproduced In the above photograph. Though he has celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday but recently, the steel magnate Is en joying the best of health and spirits, and looks forward to passing ma ny more millstones. Prince of Wales to Aid in Opening Canal DUBLIN, Dec. 1.—Laurens County has taken the lead in cotton production for the present year, outstripping Burke, her nearest competitor, by 506 bales, ac cording to the glnners’ report up to November 14. This report gives Laurens 42.876 bales and Burke 41.$70. Burk# led in the two preceding re port*. with Laurens a close second Rich Man’s Ashes Scattered in River Octogenarian Keeps Hat On in Church Jersey Man Takes Third Wife at 76 NEW YORK Dec. 1.—The ashes of Charles W. Pre*ley...a wealthy con tractor. were scattered to the wind* from the Brooklyn bridge Presley had requested this action. PATCHOGEE, N Y.. Dec. 1.—John Roe Smith, aged 85, reputed to be wealthy, wore his hat during services at the Congregational Church, despite re peated requests of the usher that Smith remove it HACKENSACK, N. J., Dec 1 — Rich ard P. Paulson. 76 years old, has just taken his third wife. Mrs. Armenia Wy- bom, aged 59. | Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Dec. 1.—A suggestion I that the Prince of Wales should at tend the official opening of the Pan ama Canal is under consideration by King George, it is reported, to offset | the ill feeling caused by the refusal ! of England to participate In the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. “AT BAY 99 A Thrilling Story ol Society Blackmailers Begins To-day on the Magazine Page Read It! I ^ 1 *