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Two of the many girls who are dressing Xmas dolls for poor children. They are Miss Myrtle Rabut, on left, and Miss Ella Whichard. OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S net paid circulation [he Notional Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results South Georgia VOL. XII. NO. 105. ATLANTA, (JA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913. B AAT^rATc.. 2 CENTS. '" R "° ICKPOCKETS ROB ENTIRE TRAIN CAPT. WEST BLAMES MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR ARREST ItANGO TEA FOR CHARITY IS A HUGE SUCCESS; BIG AID TO OLD SANTA Promises Sensational Disclosures at Council's Probe of the City Electrician’s Conduct. Political circles are stirred by the declaration of Aldine Chambers, ex- jCouneilman and attorney for the Cot- f° n States Electrical Company, that Sensational disclosures of the official [Conduct of City Electrician R. C. Tur- r er will be made at the probe or dered by Council by the Board of Electrical Control and the Council pectric Lights Committee. Mr. Chambers asserted that he was going j tu P rove that there was a sinister jtnotive behind Electrician Turner’s (unfavorable attitude to his client, the Cotton States Electric Company. _ I c °uneilman Clarence HavertT. chairman of the Board of Electrical or ’rol- said Tuesday that he would Cal1 a meeting of the joint bodies ''Thin a few days and that the in- Ves t*gation of Turner would be be gun. 4 ^ Iecir ician Turner said all hfe had ■ i Mr «Chambers' |,.' k 11 comply with the law in I work. He declared he had I 1 '' t an investigation. IChild Dies Despite Aid of Five Doctors ilt e LBKRT0N ' Dec. 2.— Sarah. the ■ 1 daughter of Mr and Mrs Mhomp S fiy, erm an, wmle playing at her V the ' and injured her skull, dying «rfr, r .A ln Jury after an operation was fnd the skull trepanned |». erton's best phj 'ms attended the Injured child. I ' ‘ T AfM's BROTHER KILLED. I IG. VA., Dec. 2. 1. - lioria ’ billed by a train near \ u " *** buried here to-day. He Y' ■ ■ "f David A. Weatherl- I ■ 11- wife, ill In a Ri a rai, ‘ was unable to attend the fu- Elopers Wed at Union Depot U.S.OFFICEA TRAVELERS L GIVE PAIR ALL NIGHT l Drops Dead as He Wins Whisky Bet SCRANTON, PA., Dec. 2.—Justice Casseti, aged 20, is dead to-day as the result of his boast that he could drink in succession six tumbler glasses full of whiskey. After $10 was offered to him as a prize for performing the feat, Cas- set drank the whisky. The money was handed to him immediately afterward, but when he reached for it he fell dead. Judge Thayer Quits Following Charges WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The State Department to-day received and ac cepted the resignation of Judge Rufus H. Thayer, of the United States Court for China. Recently charges alleging wrong acts were brought by the House Committee on Expenditures. Judge Thayer says his wife’s health forced him to retire. Society Dancers in Happiest Mood as TEiey Swell Empty Stocking Fund. Women Win a Place Beside Swiss Clergy Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. GENEVA, Dec. 2.—Women w-111 now be able to enter the ministry in churches in the Canton of Neuchatel, as a result of a vote of the synod of the Protestant Church, admitting women to the theological faculty. Neuchatel already has women doc tors, dentists and lawyers, as a re sult of the non-militant feminist propaganda. “Wilson Beats Me As Czar/’ Says Cannon CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—“They said I was a Czar when I was Speaker, but Woodrow Wilson can give me cards and spades.” said “Uncle Joe” Cannon to-night at the dinner of the Illinois St. Andrew’s Society. “If he should be mistaken in his ideals and methods and fails to give us protperKy, he will fail In 1216. Many an empty stocking will be filled by the larg^ attendance at The Georgian’s Tango Tea at the Pied mont Hotel Monday afternoon. At lanta’s society women and men gath ered in the ballroom on the ninth floor until the affair had the appear ance of an eventful afternoon at the Piedmont Driving Club. Then when the dancing was well begun a count ing of the receipts was made. There was $162 in all, showing that there were 162 persons present. The orchestra was paid $17 and there were a few other expenses, leaving $136 for Old Santa to buy good things with which to fill the isocKlngs of the poor children on Christmas morning. The tango tea was such a success that the management of the Pied mont is considering giving regular dances in its own behalf. At 4:30 o’clock, as the shopping period of the day was about over, the women be gan to come in. Society editors have had much to say of how the socially elite have become fascinated by the new dances and how they have been devoting evenings to lessons. The 1 Tango Tea demonstrated very clever ly that there are many finished danc ers of the tango, the turkey trot and the hesitation waltz. Once when the orchestra started a selection in tango time and the da nep ers were a little slow starting, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. V, Rainwater did some beautiful figuring alone in the center of the floor, and they did them so well that the whole party encored for more. But they refused to dance alone again. The party was wholly informal, though marked by the presence of many of the most beautiful women of whom Atlanta boasts so much. It was a happy gathering of friends and acquaintances, where those who did not wish to dance, and many who did, took tea in an adjoining room and talked of The Georgian’s Empty Stocking FAind and other things in which they were interested. It was quite remarkable how much the company In so light-hearted a mood was interested In the Empty Stocking Fund and the plans for giv ing Atlanta’s poor that kind of Christ mas the real Old Santa would have them have. They were all anxious to know just how much money was re ceived, and declared that because there was a serious purpose behind the affair they had enjoyed it much more. Many have called p.nd taken dolls to dress for poor little girls, but there are still more dolls, and The Georgian will furnish them to persons who will call for them at the following places: The Georgian office, Alabama street; Piedmont Hotel, Georgian Terrace, Hotel Ansley, Wlnecoff Ho tel and Majestic Hotel. Sir Allon Wants The American Cup NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—“If Sir Thomas Lipton had not challenged the America cup I would .hav»i..chal- lenged,” said Sir Charles Allon, who is here to-day. “If Sir Thomas is unsuccessful I shall challenge,’’ he said. Forgot New Time Card; Wreck Kills 1 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Dec. 2.— Two freights were ditched, one man killed and traffic tied up for several hours on the Saginaw Division of the Pere Marquette Railroad early to-day because one crew forgot that a new time card went into effect to-day. Shows New Method Of Reflex Anesthesia HARTFORD, CONN., Dec. 2.—Dr. W. H. Fitzgerald, of.New' York, at a clinic for twenty-four physicians to day demonstrated hifc.new method of ireflex- a*est hesia. By mere pressure upon nerves in the neck, throat or nose, he makes parts of the body insensible to pain. Maria Montessori To Lecture In U. S. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME, Dec. 2.—Crowds of Amer icans gathered to bid farewell U Dr. Maria Montessouri, who sailed for New' York to lecture in the United States on her methods of child teach ing. Denies He Intended Kidnaping Son—Tells of Scene With His Wife’s Mother. “I did not have any intention what soever of kidnaping or trying to kid nap my son Ernest,” declared Captain Ernest West, U. S. Marine Corps, In his cell at police headquarters Tues day. Captain West was arrested Monday at the Capital City Club fol lowing the sensational charges of his mother-in-law. Mrs. John H. Jones, of assault with Intent to kill. A city case of drunk and disorderly conduct also is booked against him. “My wife and her people have been unduly alarmed since I came to At lanta,” continued Captain West. “I did not try to steal my boy and do not Intend trying to steal him. That is all wrong, all a very bad misunder standing. “Yesterday I went out to the Court- land street residence for the sole pur pose of seeing Ernest. T did not want to make a fuss of any kind. Doesn’t Fear Trial. “I am ready to go to trial to-day as I have done no wrong, so I have no fear of the courts. “When I got out of my taxicab and walked up to the front, door yester day my mother-in-law came to the door. ‘I want to see my son,’ I told her. “She told me the boy w'as in the back yard playing, and with her I went through the house to the back yard. The boy was not there. We went through the house again and as we neared the front door Mrs. Jones suddenly grew hysterical. ‘“Y04 shall not have that child,’ she screamed. ‘You shan’t have him,’ and doubling up her fist she struck me. I caught her hand to prevent her striking me again and she jerked loose, falling to the floor. Spends Night in Jail. “Seeing that I was creating a scene, I left the house hurriedly and getting into the cab drove to my club.” The city case against Captain West will be tried before Recorder Broyles Tuesday afternoon. Bond was fixed at $200. No bond has been arranged on the assault and battery charge and no date set for the trial. Cap tain West spent the night in police headquarters. Mrs. Jones lives with her husband and Mrs. West and her aon at No. 486 Courtland street. Willetts, of Harvard Team, to Shift Name SYRACUSE. N. Y., Dec. 2.—Wil liam Allen Willetts, of Skaneateles, Harvard senior, and substitute on the Crimson eleven, desires to change his name to William Prentiss Willetts. Willetts gave as his reason for de siring a change, the fact that his mother’s name was Prentiss. Little Prince Henry Fails in School Test LONDON, Dec. 2— Prince Henry has made so little progress in his studies at Eton that there is no chance of his being able to pass'his examination. Prince Henry, therefore, will be specially coached during the holi days. Penny to Wife; Rest To His ‘True Friend’ NEW YORK. Dec. 2.—Richard Siegener left one Lincoln penny each to his wife, from whom he was sep arated, and his five children. The rest of his estate was left to his "true Xriend,” Mrs. Mary Willo* 0. C. Enggram and Miss Kay, of Calhoun, Prefer Romantic Way to Church Affair. A desire to inject the spice of ro mance into a love affair that began In childhood, coupled with a natural timidity that made a big church, rice and old shoe wedding an utter im possibility, caused Oscar C. Engram and Miss Ethel Hay to slip quietly from their homes at Calhoun, Ga., fit 4:53 o’clock Tuesday morning, board the Western and Atlantic train and have the nuptial knot tied at 8:15 o’clock in the waiting room of the old Union Station. No one knew anything about the contemplated wedding but the bride groom’s brother, H. E Engram, of No. 38 Orleans street, Atlanta, and he didn't know until Monday night, when he received a wire from his brother. The message bade Mr. Engram en gage a preacher and meet the train, “for," said the wire, "I'm coming to Atlanta and am going to get married in the railway station." Wed in Waiting Room. The wedding was performed by Dr. I. S, Hopkins, a well-known Metho dist minister of Atlanta, directly In front of the news stand 1n the main waiting room. Scores of tourists and ordinary travelers witnessed the tri umph of the little blind god, and after the wedding the travelers gave the newlyweds an impromptu reception. "I never thought I'd get married in a railway station," said the smiling bride, after the ceremony, "but after all It does not seem so bad. We’ve known each other since our child hood days, and have been intending to get married for several months. “Mr. Engram insists that we have been going to get married since we were little children. The more we thought about getting married in a church, with everybody looking at us, the less we felt like getting married. Neither of us, I’m sure, would ever have the nerve to go through a church wedding, with Us resultant showers of old shoes and rice and things. Fooled Their Friends. "East night we decided that our natural timidity would never per mit us to egt married at home, so we decided to come to Atlanta. We sent a telegram to Mr. Engram’s brother, asking him to meet us with a min ister, and then this morning we slipped away from home and caught the train for Atlanta. "Nobody in Calhoun, except our folks, knew anything about It—and we're glad we fooled them. Every body was expecting us to have a church wedding." Mr. Engram smilingly declared that If he had had to go through a church wedding he just knew his knees would have "caved in." "It seems all right to me to be married in a railway station," he said. "I don’t see where it makes any difference where you get married. The main thing is—get married." The newlyweds spent the morning with their brother, seeing the city, and left at 12:30 o’clock for Macon, from whence they will go to Florida for their honeymoon. Honeymoon in Florida, They probably will not return to their home in Calhoun for a month or two Mr. and Mrs. Engram are well-known Georgians. Mr. Engram conducts a large warehouse in Cal houn, and his bride is the daughter of J. M. Kay, a prominent merchant of Calhoun. The wedding attracted considerable attention about the station, and the happy couple were forced to heed the attentions of as large a crowd as they probably would have encountered in a church. A score of tourists bound for Palm Beach hailed the wedding as a welcome diversion in the monot ony of travel, and were almost as Joyous as tire bride and bridegroom. Panic on Whitehall Cars as Negro Dies In Double Collision PANIC ON Whitehall—3L2 —Page 1 Passengers on two Whitehall- Peachtree street cars were *throsvn Into a panic Tuesday by a collision at Forsyth and Brotherton streets, which resulted in the instant death of a negro driving a wagon loaded with whisky. The negro turned from Brotherton street into Forsyth street and drove across the tracks just In time to get in the way of a car coming from each direction. Sounds of crashing glass were mingled with the cries of women when the car, bound for the West End, struck the negro’s wagon. The driver was hurled to the pavement. His head was crushed and he was dead when bystanders picked him up. The northbound car also struck the wagon, but Its speed had been checked considerably and little damage was done by the second accident. The front of the southbound car was bad ly shattered and all of the glass was broken out. Governor of Canton Kills 4 of His Guard Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. HONGKONG. Dec. 2.—General Chi Kuang Lung, Governor of Can ton. for the second time within a fortnight was attacked by an assas sin. who endeavored to plunge a knife into his heart. General Lung personally killed four of his guards, fearing treachery at their hands. Two States Claim Gates Death Tax MINNEAPOUIS, Dec. 2.—A case to determine whether Minnesota or Texas shall collect the inheritance tax on $500,000 of the eetate of Charles G. Gates has begun here. This State asserts his home was Minneapolis. Attorneys for Mrs. Gates and other heirs argued his legal residence is in Fort Worth, Texas. Forbes-Robertson’s Sister Is Released BIRMINGHAM. ENG.. Dec. 2 — Miss Forbes-Robertson, a sister of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. the actor-manager, has been released from prison under the “cat and mouse” act. She w'as sentenced to two weeks on a charge of smashing a window and Immediately went on hunger strike. No Loan for Kieff, Result of Beilis Case Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ODESSA, Dec. 2.—Mayor Diakoff, of Kieff, and two members of the j City Council have returned from l^ngland and announce the failure of their mission to float a municipal loan of $7,000,000. The Mayor ascribes the failure to the evil repute of the city owing to the Beilis trial. Kerns to Give Birds Real Xmas Dinner WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Senator and Mrs. John W. Kern will give a party on Christmas Day for the birds in and around Kern Cliffe, their Vir ginia country home. Mrs. Kern has purchased tiny bas kets to fill with goodies for the birds. These will be suspended from tree brances. Sistine Madonna Is a True Raphael BERLIN, Dec. 2.—“The Sistine Madonna is a genuine Raphael,” was the declaration made in the Saxon Parliament at Dresden by the Saxon Minister of Education, who said that no time must be lost in denying “before the world” a story that the greatest gem In the Dresden gallery x* only a copy* Score of Passengers Lose Wallets on Seaboard Express—Offi cial of Road in Number. Reports of robberies by pick pockets at Atlanta railway sta tions continue to pour into police headquarters, following a whole sale robbery of passengers on a Seaboard train leaving Atlanta Monday afternoon The latest victim reported was City Detective J. W. Hollings worth, who was robbed of $63 Monday evening while helping some relatives on a Birmingham train at the Union Depot. Hollingsworth says he had two small children in his arms and did not feel his money leaving him. That the amazing series of rob beries is the work of experts there is little doubt. It is believed that two well dressed strangers who were "een to Jump off tile Birmingham train as It pulled out of the yards, were the men who worked the pas sengers of this train. A man whose name the police have not given out reported Monday night that he had been robbed of a large amount of money while in the depot waiting for a Western and Atlantic train to Birmingham, The first news of the wholesale robbery on the train came from the officials of the Seaboard Air Line ex press to Washington and New York which left Atlanta at 1:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. A telegram from Roadmaster J. B. Harrlll, who was himself robbed of tickets and $30 in money, announced the depredations on the train. Money, handbags and suitcases were taken from the passengers, who complained of their losses a short time after the train left the station. The theory is that the men pur chased tickets to the first city out of Atlanta, and then after robbing the passengers, left the train. The names of the victims on the Seaboard train have not yet been reported. Many See New Jap Battleship Launched Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. NAGASAKI. JAPAN. Dec. 2.—The Japan battle cruiser Klrishlma was launched to-day In the Mitsubishi yards in the presence of many promi nent naval officers. Her displacement is 27,600 tons, her turbines aggregate 70,000 horsepower. She carries 24 guns and 8 torpedo tubes. Her speed is 28 knots. Superintendent for Hall Schools Named GAINESVILLE Dec. 2. Professor J. D. Underwood, of this city, has been elected by the Board of Education as Hall County School Superintendent, to fill the unexpired term of the Rev. H F. Wood, resigned. He will go into of fice February L and his term expires January 1. 1917. Professor L'noerwood has practiced law for the past three >eara.