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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 106.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913.
Copyright. 190*.
By The Georgian Co.
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POULTRY SHOW PRIZES
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the 16-ounce Buff Cochin Bantam hen owned by John L. Ryan, of
Atl.mta.
II EXECUTED 81
BE
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 3.—Rebels
under Eufemio Zapata to-day at
tacked the Interoceanic Railway
near Cuautla, dynamiting the sta
tion and water tanks and burning
a bridge.
Zapatistas have looted Mucio
Martinez, State of Puebla, killing
the Mayor and seventeen citizens.
Near Chietla a band of 25 Feder
al was ambuscaded and a lieu
tenant and fifteen soldiers killed.
Sperial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 3.—Twenty-
| SpVp n federal soldiers and civilians
e executed to-day at Jalparn,
State of Queretaro, after rebels cap
tured the place. The garrison of nine
teen soldiers and eight citizens were
shot.
General” Figueroa, former bandit
a nd rebel chief, who has been ne
gotiating with the Government, has
Joined the Constitutionalists.
*T S, Kidder, an American employ-
ed by the Waters-Pierce Oil Com-
Panv, who was arrested at San Luis
Polo «». charged with being a rebel
8 Py. was released to-day.
Villa To Protect
Aliens at Chihuahua.
EL FASO. TEXAS, Dec. t.—Gen-
lI Francisco Villa has postponed his
Parture tor Chihuahua City until
morrow morning, in the meantime
uiin S 'insurances to the foreign
n »uls In that city that the Consti-
ionahsts will respect lives and
>perty.
is certain, however, that Villa
force "rebel currency” issued by
Constitutionalists provisional gov-
ment upon merchants there as he
In Juarez,
he peace commission headed by
lo r Hernandez, which represented
General Villa in Juarez that seven
‘•m! generals Including Orozco,
J/ ,r '’araveo and Lancia, who
e def'-ated in the fight at Tierra
were willing to surrender.
Lion’s Share of First Awards An
nounced Goes to Breeders
of the South.
Prizes were awarded Wednesday at
the annual 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 every- year in the class of poultry
shown. Other States, however, were
largely represented.
"I don’t think this show ever was
excelled in any city in the South,”
was the declaration of T. M. Poole,
secretary of the association, at the
conclusion of the Judging Wednesday.
Here is the list of awards:
Single-comb Buff Orpingtons.
G. V. 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. Bogus®,
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 hen, fifth cockerel: William
Cook & ’Sons. Scratch Plains, N. J.,
first cock, first cockerel, fifth pullet,
third pen: Mrs. L. P. Eberhart, Ei-
berton. Ga., first hen, second pullet,
third pullet, first pen, second pen;
Aldrich Poultry Farm, Columbus.
Ohio, second cock, fourth hen, third
hen, fourth cockerel, third cockerel,
first pullet; H. A. Black, Cartersville,
G a , third cock, fifth cock, second
cockerel, second hen, fourth pen, fifth
pen.
Black Minorcas.
M. L. Babb, Dallas, Ga., third cock
erel: Southern States Duck and Poul
try Farm, College Park, Ga., second
hen , College View Farm, College
Park, fourth pullet, fifth pullet; W. P.
Schoolboys See
Their Playmate Run
Down by Automobile
As scores of his school nfcums
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 >
front of a Ford machine driven by M.
M. Mash burn, a collector for the
Southern Bell Telephone Company.
The car is said to have been going at
about ten miles an hour.
Mashbum picked the little fellow
up, carried him into his home, called
a doctor, and reported the case him
self to the police.
Pastor and Girl Are
Arrested at Rome
ROME, Dec. 2.—The Rev. J. A.
Thacker, pastor of several Congrega
tional churches of this city and vi
cinity, and Miss Emma Hughes, a
young woman of rare beauty, have
been arrested here on complaint of
Harper Wright, a member of one of
Thacker’s churches. They were re
leased on a $100 bond.
Thacker has a wife and several
children. The arrests have created
great excitement here.
Clarence Collins'
Case Goes to Jury
The trial of Clarence Collins for
the killing of Calvin Maddox, a ne
gro employee on the Healey sky
scraper, went to the Jury shortly aft
er 1 o’clock Wednesday, following a
two-hour address by Solicitor Gener
al Dorsey in the final argument be
fore Judge Hill.
John W. Moore made the second
argument for the defense, following
John Y. Smith, who spoke Tuesday.
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-
mi^idnur Charier L. Davis,
ft
Men Cut Off From Outside by
Lack of Fire Escapes—Bos
ton’s Biggest Holocaust.
BOSTON, Dec. 3.—Twenty-
Beven men were burned to death
early to-day in a fire which
destroyed the Arcadia lodging
house at No. 1202 Washington
street. This was the heaviest
death toll ever recorded in a fire
in Boston.
Two persons were fatally in
jured with more than a score
slightly hurt or overcome by
smoke.
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 saying his life.
Policemen from the East Dedham
street station lined along the Are es
cape were forced to beat the fugi
tives with their clubs to start them
on their way to the street and clear
the fire escape to make toom 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 fire 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 Are was
discovered. He escaped and disap
peared.
Medical Examiner Leary, after an
examination at the scene of the Are,
declared:
- 1 am going at this matter with 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 flrp traps.
This building looked like a slaughter
house. There Is no good excuse for
such a condition of affairs."
Bryan Will Speak
On‘The People's Rule’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A long list
of prominent Washington officials Is
Included among the speakers on the
official program of the first national
conference on popular government, to
be held In this city December 6.
Secretary of State Bryan will speak
on "The People's Rule; How to Make
u»Face-
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 beside*
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. I wish my
friends would go to the polls.”
The other candidates Join Mr.
Smith in this request.
STATE DEBT
TO BE CUT
Executive Declares Section Is En
joying Its Greatest Period of
Prosperity Since War.
Typhoid Is No Longer
Menace to U. S, Army
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—“Typhoid
fever, the most formidable of all
camp diseases, has apparently practi
cally ceased to be a cause of non
effectiveness In our army,” declared
Surgeon General George H. Torney In
his annual report Issued to-day. This
Is due, he states, to the Immunization
of the arttyy against typhoid.
Only eighteen cases of typhoid were
reported during the year ended June
30, 1913, within the United States
army, and only three deaths.
The total number of deaths from
all causes out of an enlistment of
79,613 was 381.
Mrs, Pankhurst to
Be Arrested To-day
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 3.—Announcement
was made by a member of the Home
Office staff that Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, militant suffragette, would
be arrested upon her arrival at Plym
outh to-day. Mrs. Pankhurst still
has more than half of a three-year
prison term to serve.
A number of militants went to
Plymouth to act as bodyguard for
Mrs. Pankhurst, who is returning
from the United States, where she
earned $20,000 lecturing.
Ministers Removed
From Temptations
Of Baseball Games
President Kept in
His Bed by a Cold
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Owing to
a slight cold in the head, President
Wilson remained in bed to-day on
the orders of his physician.
The President was suffering from
a cold when he made the trip to
the Capitol yesterday to deliver his
address, and his physician told him
to take no chances of Its making fur
ther progress to-day.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 3.—The New
York American prints the following
to-day:
“Georgia Is probably this year the
most prosperous State In the Union,”
declared Governor John M. Slaton, of
Georgia, yesterday at the Waldorf-
Astoria.
"This Is no exaggeration. The vice
president of the National Park Bank
of this city, which has been the cor
respondent for the State of Georgia
for many years, remarked to me to
day that he could assert conserva
tively that Georgia was more pros
perous than any other State.
“The cotton crop has been enor
mous—one bale for every man, woman
and child In the State, black or white.
In other States the production of
cotton has been limited. .In conse
quence, the price Is high, and Geor
gia is getting the benefits of bumper
crops and high prices.
“We have also raised this year more
foodstuff than ever before and do not
have to rely, as heretofore, upon the
Western Ptates. We produced eighty-
million bushels of corn. Just be
fore I came to New York I had am
ple opportunity to learn the situation
by personal observation. I made a
tour of the State, visiting the county
fairs.
“Everybody In Georgia has con
tributed to the year’s prosperity.
While the farmer exhibited his cot
ton and corn and products of the
smokehouse, his wife exhibited her
preserves, pickles, sauces, jellies, etc.,
and the girls In the canning clubs
showed how they make as high as
$150 out of one-tenth of an acre.”
Governor Slaton became enthu
siastic when asked if scientific farm
ing was being Introduced in his State.
“Our agricultural colleges are do
ing great work In that direction,” he
replied
“The results are more than grat
ifying. Should the boll weevil Invade
Georgia as It has Texas, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Alabama, we will >e
prepared to meet the situation by
early planted cotton, by getting the
most resistive cotton and by diver
sification of the crops.
Reverting to the prosperity of the
farmers, Governor Slaton said that
his only fear was that they might
become extravagant in the prodigality
of their resources.
“I come from an atmosphere of
optimism and good cheer,” he as
serted.
“The Atlanta Georgian, Mr. Hearst’s
paper in our State, is popular and
prospering,” he said. “It knows the
ideals of the people and their aspi
rations. It has always been prompt I
in rendering assistance to the needy I
of Atlanta and the State of Georgia, j
purely from a patriotic standpoint, j
and I am glad to pay this tribute to
It.”
When asked the object of his visit
to New York Governor Slaton said it
related to legislation to be passed to
refund $3,679,0000 of the State Indebt
edness which falls due In the sum
mer of 1915.
Confidence in State.
“Our Constitution does not permit
the creation of any State debt at all,”
he said, “nor does it permit the in
crease of the bonded indebtedness We
have reduced the bonds from $11,000-
000 to $6,000,000; and we have a rail
road running from Atlanta to Chat
tanooga that Is pledged by the Con
stitution for anv debt of the Sta*e.
So you will perceive that we respect
our obligations and have ample se
curity.
“But what Is equal to It all is the |
product In the form of manhood. Last i
summer when 1 wished to borrow half
a million dollars for the State until
the taxes came in, the bankers were
paying 6 per cent in New York. The
bankers in Georgia loaned the money
to me for 3 per cent, indicating their
patriotism and absolute confidence in
the Stat*”
MACON, Dec. 3.—Their regular at
tendance upon baseball games was
the principal cause controlling the
transfer from Macon of Rev. Guyton
Fisher and Rev. B. E. Whittington,
two of the best known ministers of
the South Georgia Methodist Confer
ence. The former goes to Montezuma
and the other to Blakely.
It has developed that members of
their congregations made complaints
which reached Bishop Candler.
Patterson Quits as
General Head of
Panama Railroad
Dispatches from Washington Wed
nesday brough the Information that
John D. Patterson, of this city, has
resigned hla position as superinten
dent of the Panama Railroad. He
was appointed to the place In March,
following the Inauguration of Presi
dent Wilson.
Mr. Patterson quit because doc
tors advised him against the climate
of Panama on account of his health.
He will take up his work as general
superintendent of the Atlanta Joint
Terminals, a position he formerly oc
cupied.
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
hlk young playmate. Johnnie Edgar,
last July.
Attorney Carl N. Guess appeared
before Judge Benjamin Hill, of the
criminal division 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.
Miss Farrar's Voice
Saved, Says Doctor
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Friends of
Miss Geraldine Farrar were gTeat*ly
alarmed last week at her difficulty in
singing her usual roles.
“Miss Farrar is suffering from ner
vous depletion,” said her physician to
day. “Her vocal cord* are unim
paired, and she will soon be able to
sing as well as ever.”
Husband Unruly?
It's the Weather
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—On® hundred
and fifteen warrants have been sworn
out by women against men in the
Court of Domestic Relations in the
last ten days—twice the usual num
ber.
Court attaches say gloomy weather
is the cause of domestic troubles.
Turner Faces Charge
Before Council Board
City Electrician Turner Thursday
will take up the charges of unjust
discrimination made against him by
the Cotton States Electric Company,
when the Board of Electrical Control
and the Electric Committee of the
City Council meet in joint session.
Woman Made Mayor
Of Village in Oregon
TROUTDALE, OREG., Dec. 3.—
Mrs. Clara LaTourelle Lars son/
daughter of an Oregon pioneer, was
elected Mayor of this place by five
votes.
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
fur his wife's act in suing for divorce.
Jane Addams Recites Interview
With Georgia Congressman in
Addressing Committee.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—
Nearly 2,000 suffragists and
anti-suffragists crowded into the
great caucus room in the House
office building to-day and massed
in the corridors primed for their
fight before the House Rules
Committee for and against a
House Committee on Woman
Suffrage. Two hours were al
lotted the suffragists to present
their claims, and two hours to
the “antis” to answer the argu
ments of their opponents.
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 th«
question of woman suffrage be pub
lic and that all records be published.
Cites Suffrage Pared®.
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 win 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 any 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 paid: ‘Give me
liberty or give me death,’ and he
meant what he said. The women of
this country mean the same tiling
to-day.”
For Closed Sessions.
Mrs. Ida Ilusted Harper, of New
York, pleaded earnestly with the
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 realized
what the mothers, daughters and
wives of this country are subjected