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1 %.# >•; :,tr >*?.. . ^ ■wmm, ^rvm m I ■£* ■.via OVER iOO,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S NET PAID CIRCULATION f he National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results VOL. XH. NO. 106. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1913. 2 CENTS. FAT NO M < * R K UFFRAGISTS TAKE PLEA TO WILSON Minority Leader Urges Prepara tion for War, Despite Fact Strife Is Not Likely Now. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—What was Irons'r ed by Minority Leader Mann others as significant action in of the Mexican situation, was f* ken by the House late to-day when passed on a viva voce vote the |Hay t il! to provide for the raising \{ volunteer forces of the United Hates In time of actual or threaten ed war. Although Chairman Hay of the dilitary Affairs Committee would not ladmit any special reason for hasty ■action, Representative Mann said he [regarded it as significant that the bill I was put through at this time. Mann said he feared conditions to- |day were much the same as those pre- I vailing just before the war with I Fpain, and that he could “see no end | to the road.” ‘It seems to me that is conditions | do not improve In Mexico soon, some- I thing will have to be done. This may | mean intervention or war for this I country" said Mr. Mann in the dis- I mission of the Mexican situation and I the possibility of Intervention. Mr. Mann scored the Wilson policy | of watchful -waiting." LATEST NEWS ffl PERISH IN ■Rebels Sweeping North Mexico. VERA CRUZ, Dec. 3.—Rebels under Eufomio Zapata to-day attacked the Interoceanic Railway near Cuautla, dynamiting the station and water tanks and burning a bridge. Zapatistas have looted Mucio Martinez, State of Puebla, killing the Mayor and seventeen citizens. Near Chletla a band of 26 Federate was ambuscaded and a lieutenant and fif teen soldiers killed. 27 Executed by Victorious Rebels. ; Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.—Twenty- seven federal soldiers and civilians were executed to-day at Jalpam, State of Queretaro, after rebels cap tured the place. The garrison of nine- shot. teen soldiers and eight citizens were ‘‘General’’ Figueroa, former bandit and rebel chief, who has been ne gotiating with the Government, has joined the Constitutionalists. H S, Kidder, an American employ ed by the Waters-Pierce Oil Com pany, who was arrested at San Luis Potosi, charged with being a rebel R py. was released to-day. Villa To Protect Aliens at Chihuahua. EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 3.—Gen- p nU Francisco Villa has postponed his departure for Chihuahua City until to-morrow morning, in the meantime sending assurances to the foreign Consuls in that city that the Consti tutionalists will respect lives and property. L is certain, however, that Villa w.ll force ‘‘rebel currency” issued by tbe Constitutionalists provisional gov ernment upon merchants there as he k fl!d in Juarez. PARIS, Dec. 3.—Francisco de la Barra, Mexican Minister to France and formerly provisional Prosident of the Republic of Mexfco. left here to day for Japan. Hie departure was unexpected by attaches of the Mexi can legation. It was said that he re ceived orders to leave for Tokio from President Huerta. SYDNEY, NEBR., Dec. 3.—Four inches of snow fell here to-day. Re ports from Alliance, Nebr., this after noon said that a heavy snow was falling there. DALLAS, TEXAS. Dec. 3.—Heavy rain9 in this section for the past two days have done a vast amount of property damage. Water wa6 stand ing ten feet deep in the streets of Waco. The Brazos River which over flowed yesterday, had reached a 38- foot stage to-day, the highest ever known. The Fort Worth and Den ver Railroad was forced to abandon train schedules on account of num erous washouts on its lino. There was no interurban service to-day from Dallas to Waco, Cleburne and Fort Worth. TULSA, OKLA., Dec. 3.—Mrs. Al bert T. Patrick, wife of the central figure in one of the most remarkable murder cases in American h-i story, is dyina of an incurable malady in the Tuisa Hospital. Attending phy sicians say she has but a few days to live. Mrs. Patrick is unconscious most of the time. CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 3.—Eigh teen strikers and sympathizers were arrested and two dozen rifles and re volvers were seized to-day by depu ties who stormed a boarding house near the Champion mine. Th® strike ors had barricaded themselves in the house and refused to admit deputies who wished to search the premises. Several of the men arrested to-day are believed to have been guilty of nightly shooting in Raineedale which has terrorized the residents of the town. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 3.—Newspa pers supporting the Huerta adminis tration directed resentful critioism to day toward Prosident Wilson's mes sage. El Imparcial declared that it had private Information to the effect that the message also displeased cer tain foreign diplomats at Washington. El Pais said President Wilson’s words were “injurious.” WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.--John P. Densmore, solicitor of tne Department of Labor, to-day was appointed a mediator in the teamsters ana chauf feurs’ strike in Indianapolis by Acting Secretary of Labor Post. Mr. Dens more has gone to Indianapolis. FALL RIVER, MASS., Dec. 3.— Members of the State Board of Ar bitration to-day unavailingly urged the textile union officials to defer strike action. More than 35,000 tex tile operatives will vote to-night on the question of an increase in wages. WASHINGTON, Doc. 3.—Represen- I tative Whaley, of the First South ' Carolina District, entered a general denial before the House Elections Committee to-da^ of* charges that he bought his nomination and election. The charges were filed during the ex tra session by John R. Grace, Mayor of Charleston, who alleged that Wha ley and his friends spent $60,000 to obtain Whaley’s election. WINNIPEG, MAN., Dec. 3.—Word ; reached here this afternoon that the ! Plum Coulee in southern Manitoba ! had been heid up by robbers to-day and the manager killed. The robbers j got $10,000. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A Federal up the Mississippi levees and prevent floods was urged on the House Com mittee on Rivers and Harbors to-day at a special meetina by delegates tq j the rivers and harbors congress from the States tributary to the Mississippi. ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Miss Mar garet Wilson, President Wilson’s eld est daughter, to-day was elected chairman of the local branoh of the society for the prevention of useless giving. Miss Wilson, who is an en thusiastic “spug,” attended the meet ing. Motto buttons will be sold under Miss Wilson’s direction. NEW YORK, Dec. 3,—Competition of the parcels post system and the coming reduction in express rates to day forced directors of the American Express Company to reduce their cent dividend basis. A quarterly divi dend of 2 per cent was declared. LONDON, Dec. 3.—King Alfonso arrived here to-day to visit King George. MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 3.—Rev. Dr. Hugh Spencer Williams, widely known in the South as a Presbyterian minister, died suddenly to-day of heart disease. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Former Pres ident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, who has been held in the Tombs, was brought before United States Commissioner Shields to-day and discharged. The condition of his release is that the former President will return to Bar celona, Spain, as soon as he finishes his business in this country and not set foot in Nicaragua. SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 3. Miss Christian Holmberg was yester day elected City Clerk by a good ma jority. She carried practically every precinct in the oity. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 3.—Arthur T. Bagley, special reoresentative of the Department of Justice, received in structions from Washington to-day to begin an investigation of the egg combine. CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Dec. 3.— H. B. Norwood, a lumber merchant of this city, committed suicide to-day. The suicide is attributed to despond ency. He was 62 years of age. WASHINGTON, Deo. 3.—President Wilson's recommendation for a na tional primary was freely discussed in th* Senate to-day. Progressive Re publicans congratulated themselves on the President’s “conversion;” con servative Republicans warned the Democrats that they were in a “run away," and the Democratic majority sat silent. GALVESTON, TEXAS, Dec. 3.— Governor C. B. Colquitt has ordered three companies of State militia to Waco with 1,200 rounds of ammuni tion to be used in the prevention of looting in the flooded district there. East Waoo is under water and the Brazos River continues to rise. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 3.—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to-day arrived at Bahia Blanca on the Argentine coast, after an uneventful trip through the territory of Neuquen. A HOTEL RACING RESULTS % Employe Held For Stockade Attack of P ' 7<5e E. Jackson formerly foreman nf- city public works department. held under $1,000 bond Wedne.i- for assault with intent to kill in ^nnectior with his alleged attac* ,, J ^ Leftwich, an aged man. at th * »tocka<] Jack jthoui several weeks ago. waived bail. Leftwich f ^ imp £ still in a serious condition. Mttrt. Proved aiuJiclently to appear in AT CHARLESTON. FIRST—Six furlongs: Ann Tilly, 104 (MeTaggart), 1-3, 1-8, out, won; Chartier 111 (Obert), 6, 4-6, 1-3. sec ond Pikes Peak, 104 (Randolph), 60, 10 o-2, third. Time, 1:16 1-5. Also ran. Golden Treaure, Monkey, Earl of Savoy. SECOND—Six furlongs: Lace, 109 (Nathan). 3-2 1-2, out, won: Right Kasv, 109 (Deronde), 8-5, 2-5, out, sec ond ' Dick Deadwood, 112 (Martin), “n 9 2 third. Time, 1:15 3-5. Also 7a'll ’ Ancon, York Lad. Maina John- son. THIRD—Six and half furlongs: Doctor Kendall. 103 (Buxton), 2, 3-5, mil von. Ruisseau, 129 (J. Hanover) no in 3 second; Harcourt, 129 jBur- ltn’eame , 5-2, 7-10, out, third. Time i*2L Also ran: John Hancock, Ella Curry, Ptein Ann. FOURTH—Five and half furlongs: Winning Witch, 116 (Keogh), 8-5, out, won Lady Lightning. 110 (Deronde), 3-4. out, second: Marshon, 112 tMar- ,(„) 50 10, even, third. Time, 1.09. Also ran: Jack Kellogg. PtFTH—Six and half furlongs: Be- h „ u . q<j (Ml Taggart), 7-2, even, 1-2, ^ Camel. 132 (SWrvin), 10, "r second; ('has. Canne 11 , »6 nvard) 2. 4-5, 2-5, third. Time, 1.24. ( ,.. in No manager, Ben Prior, I ady Innocence. Yankee Pooh. j VTH—Mile: Dr. Waldo Briggs, (Turner), even, 2-5, 1-4, won; Lin- - K 102 (Ward). 13-5. 7-10. 1-3. sec- ; , V r Denrah, 109 (J. MeTaggart), 40 12 5. third. Time, 1:43. Also ran: Napier, Master Jim, Frog, Schuri, Cliff Top. AT JUAREZ. FIRST—Six furlongs: Colonel Marchmont, 112 (Lostus), 4-6, 1-3, out, won; Stanley S., 112 (Vandusen), 10, 4, 8-6, second; Belle of Bryn Mawr, 102 (Woods). 10, 4, 2, third. Time, 1:12 2-5. Also ran: Army Maid, Amity. Alivla, San Bernito, Top Note, Orbicular. SECOND—Five and half furlongs: Dynamo, 100 (Neylon), 7-6, 3-6, 1-3, won; Cordle F, 104 (Dlshmon), 30, 12, 6, second; Baron DeKalb, 106 (Woods), 3, even, 1-2, third. Time, 1:06 1-5. Also ran: Little Birdie, Kid Nelson, AniM Reed, Black Eyed Su san, Nifty Carter. THIRD—Six furlongs: Emerald Isle, 108 (Grath), 6, 6-2, 6-5, won; Zulu, 108 (Hoffman), 8. 3, 3-2, second; Sigurd, 106 (McDonald), 3, even, 1-2, third. Time. 1:13. Also ran: Rock dale, Ormande, Cunningham, Masalo, Zinkand, Lee Harrison, Christmas Daisy, Con Came, Sadie Shapiro. Rroe Entries on Page 10. May Be Wifeless, but He Has the Cook Stove PATERSON, N. J.. Dec. 3.—Andrew Koelin ran away with the family cook stove and sewing machine in revenge for his wife’s act in suing for divorce. Men Cut Off From Outside by Lack of Fire Escapes—Bos ton's Biggest Holocaust. BOSTON. Dec. 3.—Twenty-five men were burned to death early to-day in a fire which destroyed the Arcadia Lodging House, at No. 1202 Washing ton street. This was the heaviest death toll ever recorded in a fire in Boston. Two persons were fatally injured, with more than a score slightly hurt or overcome by smoko. There were 179 asleep in the lodg ing house when the fire broke out. The flames spread swiftly through the flimsy building and a number of men caught on the upper floors leaped from windows. All of the victims were poverty- stricken men, the lodging house being a 15-cent night affair, catering to the poor. Many of them were homeless wanderers, and for this reason the authorities believe that the names of all the victims will never be known. Many Jump Into Nets. The conflagration was attended by many thrilling escapes. Firemen spread nets and into these many of the panic-stricken lodgers leaped. One man wrapped a mattress around his body and Jumped from the fifth floor, the mattress saving his life. Policemen from the East Dedham street station lined along the fire es cape were forced to beat the fugi tives with their clubs to start them on their way to the street and clear the Are escape to make room for oth ers fleeing from the building. The meager fire escapes on the rear of the building offered escape to only a few. Those occupying rooms in the front of the building were cut off by a wall of flame which soared up the stairways and drove them to the windows to escape suffocation. There was no Are escape on the front or side of the building, and most of the dead were found near the win dows. Night Clerk Disappears. Night Clerk Walsh had just fin ished up his books when the fire was discovered. He escaped and disap peared. Medical Examiner Leary, after an examination at the scene of the Are, declared: “I am going at this matter witli an ax. This is one of the greatest crimes ever committed in this city. An in quest will be started to-day. Bos ton has nearly a dozen such fire traps. This building looked like a slaughter house. There is no good excuse for such a condition of affairs.” Candidates Tremble As They Alone Vote In Regular Election Wednesday is the annual city elec tion day, and though there has been no campaigning there is more than one candidate nervous over the re sult. The nominees of the white pri mary fear that some one may surrep titiously oppose them and possibly be elected on account of the extremely small vote that will be cast. City Clerk Walter Taylor is holding the election to-day on all city offices for which candidates were nominated at the recent primary and few besides the candidates will vote. “I don’t like this small vote,’’ said W. Z. Smith, nominated to succeed to himself as general manager of the city waterworks. “Someone is liable to slip to the polls with a few hun dred votes the last hour of the day and carry the election. 1 wish my friends would go to the polls.” The other candidates Join Air. Smith in this request. GEORGIA FANCIERS WIN POULTRY SHOW PRIZES Patterson Quits as General Head of Panama Railroad Dispatches from Washington Wed nesday brought the information that John D. Patterson, of this city, has resigned his position as superinten dent of the Panama Railroad. He was appointed to the place In March, following the Inauguration of Presi dent Wilson. Youthful chicken fancier with aristocratic bird. The young man is Charles Lynch, 295 E. Hunter street, and his companion is the 16-ounce Buff Cochin Bantam hen owned by John L. Ryan, of Atlanta. Workman's Toes Are Cut Off When Shaft Of Lift Collapses In a collapse of a portion of eleva tor shaft in the building occupied by the McCori-Stewart wholesale gro cery company, No. 211 Decatur street, late Wednesday, B. H. Dunn, 43 years old, a repairman, was seriously in jured by falling timber. One of Dunn's toes was amputated; his left hand was lascerated, and he suffered scalp wounds. He was rush ed to the Grady Hospital. Dunn was repairing the top of the elevator cage when the accident oc curred. It is believed the hammering jarred the framework of the shaft and loosened a portion of it, which fell on him. Boy Slayer Given To Mother's Care Frank Barton, 13 years old, is back with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Taylor, of No. 24 Mildred avenue, Wednes day, after spending five months locked up in the juvenile detention home on Central avenue, where he was taken after being arrested for the killing of his young playmate, Johnnie Edgar, last July. Attorney <’arl N. Guess appeared before Judge Benjamin Hill, of the , criminal divis'on of the Superior Court, late Tuesday afternoon and se cured the release of the boy. He will be placed in the custody of his mother until he is tried on the murder charge. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia Generally cloudy to-night and Thursday. Prizes were awarded Wednesday at the annua! show of the Southern In ternational Poultry Association in the Auditorium. It was the unanimous statement of the judges that they never had viewed a better class of birds at any show in the South. The lion’s share of the awards went to Georgia fanciers, who are improv ing everv year in the class of poultry shown. Other States, however, were largely represented. Here is the list of awards: Single-comb Buff Orpingtons. G. Y. Clark, Louisville, Ga., first cockerel, second cock, third cock; Mrs. L, L. Upson, Athens, Ga., fourth pen, fourth cock, second hen, fifth cockerel, second pullet; William Cook & Sons, Scratch Plains, N. J., first cock, third hen, second cockerel, fourth pullet, third pen; L. T. Boguss, Oxford, Ga., first hen, fifth hen; W. J. McDonald, Monroe, Ga., third cock erel, first pullet, second pen; A. V. Clifton, Atlanta, fourth cockerel; M. G. Turner, Covington, Ga., fourth hen; Morris & Bass, Atlanta, fourth pullet; Jordan Poultry' Farm, Royston, Ga., fifth pullet; College View Farm, College Park, fifth pen; Mrs. J. M. Hart, College Park, first pen, fifth cock. Single Comb White Orpingtons. E. L. Allison, Columbia, S. C., fourth cock; Frank Riddle, Birmingham, Ala., fifth nen, fifth cockerel; William Cook & Sons, Scratch Plains, N. J., first cock, first cockerel, fifth pullet, third pen; Mrs. L. P. Eberhart, Ki- berton, Ga., first hen, second pulldt, third puliet, first pen, second pen, Aldrich Poultry Farm. Columbus, I Ohio, second cock, fourth hen. third hen, fourth cockerel, third cockerel, first pullet. H. A. Black, Cartersville, Ga., third cock, fifth cock, second cockerel, second hen, fourth pen, fifth pen. M. L, Babb, Dallas, Ga.. third cock erel; Southern Htates Duck and Poul- I try Farm, College Park, Ga., e* cond hen; College View Farm, College Park, fourth pullet, fifth pullet; W. P. McElroy, Newnan, Ga., second cock- ‘ Continued on Pago 12, Column 6. Schoolboys See Their Playmate Run Down by Automobile As scores of his school chums looked on, Jack Turner, 6 years old, son of Mrs. Lela Turner, No. 139 Nelson street, was run over by an automobile in front of his home shortly after* 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and had one leg broken. The Nelson home is right in the back of the Walker Street School, which Jack attends as a pupil In the first grade. According to eyewit nesses, the youngster ran directly in front of a Ford machine driven by M. M. Mashburn, a collector for the Southern Bell Telephone Company. The car is said to have been going at about ten miles an hour. Maahbum picked the little fellow up, carried him into his home, called a doctor, and reported the case him self to the police. Clarence Collins Found Not Guilty Clarence Collins was found not guilty of thre urder of Calvin Maddox, a negor, after the Jury was out an hour Wednesday' afternoon. The case went to the Jury at 1 o’clock, after a two-hour address by Solicitor Gen eral Dorsey In the final argument be fore Judge Hill. The case wrs the outgrowth of an alleged quarrel between Collins and the negro during the construction of the Healy Building, on which the two men were employed. Ask County Police To Protect Game A plea for the assistance of the county police in the enforcement of game laws, and asking permission to appoint the members of the county force as deputy' game wardens, was made before the Board of County Commissioners Wednesday by Com missioner Charles L. Davis, Hardwick, of Goergia, Quoted by Jane Addams in Speech Before House Committee. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The suf fragist convention late to-day unani mously decided to carry Its fight for an amendment to the Constitution, enfranchising women, direct to the White House and demand of Presi dent Wilson that he make the ques tion a party measure and give is precedence over other legislation. A resolution presented by Mrs. Medlll McCormick, of Chicago, askc the President to send a special mes sage to Congress at this session urg ing Congress to get immediate action on the proposed amendment. Mrs. Medlll McCormick and Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, of Lexington Ky., were designated a committee to Immediately present the resolution to President Wilson. As the two women left the auditorium with the resolu tion the cry was raised: “4,000.000 Make Plea” “The President must heed the de mand of 4,000,000 women voters.” Nearly 2,000 suffragists and antl- suffragirts crowded into the great caucus room in the House office building to-day and massed 1n the corridors primed for their flght before the House Rules Committee for and against a House Committee on Wom an Suffrage. Two hours were allot ted the suffragists to present their claims, and two hours to the “antis" to answer the arguments of their op ponents. As soon as Chairman Henry had called the meeting to order Represen tative Clyde Kelly, a Pennsylvania Progressive, offered a resolution that all meetings of the committee on the question of woman suffrage be pub lic and that all records be published. Cites Suffrage Parade. Representative Lenroot, of Wiscon sin, offered an amendment, which was accepted, giving the committee right to hold executive sessions when it saw fit, but making the record votes of the committee public at all times. Representative Kelly’s original mo tion was lost by a vote of 6 to 1. When Mr. Kelly voted a number of women tried to vote with him, and this called forth a reprimand from Chairman Henry. “If there is any disorder, I will or der the room cleared,” he said. Chairman Henry then turned the session over to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who Introduced the various speakers, and cautioning her women friends to restrain their enthusiasm. Indians Treated Better. Dr. Shaw told how unsuccessful the suffragettes have been in procuring recognition at the hands of Congres sional committees, and then intro duced Mrs. Helen Gardiner, of Wash ington, as the first speaker. Mrs. Gardiner argued that Congress had treated the Indians better than the women of the country’. “At one time," she said, “there was no Indian Committee in this House. One was created and since then the Indians have been geting schools and other things they deserved. Are these Indians anv more important to you legislators than your wives, sis ters and mothers? We want a com mittee of our own to which we can go at any time with absolute free dom ” She concluded by saying: “Patrick Henry once said: ‘Give me liberty or give* me death,’ and he meant what he said. The women of this country mean the same thing to-day.” For Closed Sessions. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of New York, pleaded earnestly with tb© committee for a favorable report on the suffrage committee resolution. "You have not forgotten the woman suffrage parade in Washington last spring," she said, “when troops from Fort Myer had to be summoned to protect the women from the mob whch closed in on them. If you could have been in that procession and could have looked into the faces of that Jeering, insulting, half drunken line of men. you would have reaJlsed what the mothers, daughters and wives of this country are subjected