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Two Great Bargains for the Price of One await the readers of Next Sunday’s American And Us Free Fiction Magazine 1 [he Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 108. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913. By «lZ'c, 2 CENTS. p mork: 0 | EXTRA ODCT HOME nivji edition OFFICIAL DEMAND MADE FOR PRISON PROBE C*3 C*0 C*3 C*3 C*3 d?<j \4rs. Crawford Attacked Letter 600 GIRLS TO WRITE ON CHILD-WELFARE SHOW Cr' & £S3 & ■LID’ ON TO STAY, SAYS F mil SB Missive Sent to Aged Capitalist Denounced as Work of Illit erate, Jealous Person. An unexpected sensation was sprung in the bitter fight over the $250,000 will of “Uncle Josh” R. Crawford Friday morn ing when an anonymous letter containing wild and startling charges against Mrs. Relle Craw ford, battling to uphold the will in her favor, was admitted in evidence after a long legal wran gle. The letter produced by the wom an’s conns*; rr of Attorney J. S. James, who represents the 48 ielrs contesting the document before Auditor James L. Anderson, was de nounced by Attorney Reuben Arnold, for Mrs Crawford, as the venomous work of an illiterate, Jealous,, igno rant woman full of vile lies and wild - harges. There was no dispute about the il literacy. Most of the words were mis spelled, the writing was extremely poor and looked as if it might have been the work of a wholly unschooled person. Letter Poorly Written. Here it is, with many of the words corrected: St. Augustine. Fla., February 20, 1909. Mr. Croffard: Dear Friend—I will write to you to inform you of the plot that Is laid for you in regard to Mrs. Savage, the fictitious name that she is going under in this town. Her right name is Mrs. Me. Kin ney, from Pittsburg. Pa. She is a married woman and has a man living, and she is had woman and a thief, and there is a warrant in Plttsburg^for her arre.\t for false pretenses, and as she has told you her name is Savage, that was her name by her first husband. fcShe has been married two times and she don’t live with her second man, so if there is any wedlock between you and her you better cut it out, for she will give you lots of trouble. You are a too good a man to be swindled out of your money in that away. Well, as I thought that I would take this on myself as I thought it my duty, you ask J Lashby. He will tell you, for I told him all about It to-dav. So he is some surprised to hear about it. This is all. FROM A FRIEND. Second Letter Mentioned. A further sensation was suggested *n Attorney James’ demand for a sec ond letter, said to have been written to Mrs. Crawford, then Mrs. Savage, by “Uncle Josh.” Attorney Arnold denied any knowledge of the exist ence of this letter, but Attorney James insisted he had proved it ex isted. The auditor asked for proof ■f James’ contentions. The contestants also introduced Friday the interrogatories of Dr.’ laude Griffin, a young physician of arrollton, Ga., who saw the autopsy performed by Dr. Harris. Dr. Grif fin said that in his opinion Crawtord did not die of pneumonia, but was not •cry explicit in his testimony as to whether there was evidence of poi soning. Doctors Testify for Widow. Dr. E. C. Thrash and Dr. Bates Rlock were placed on the stand by •Mrs. Crawford’s attorneys following he announcement bv Attorney James , he had nothing further to off<-r Continued on Page 5, Column 4^ 8 Die in Blizzard in West; Business in Denver at Standstill DENVER, Dec. 5.—The great-snow storm which to-day is sweeping Colorado already has cost eight lives. A report from Central City, in the mountains, says eight miners who formed a rescue party to find two lo«t men perished in the blizzard. The snow in Denver reaches a depth of from two to five feet. Auto mobile and w’agon traffic is impossi ble and street car service has been abandoned for sixteen hours. Passenger and freight service on all railroads entering Denver has been annulled until the storm abates. All schools in Denver are closed. The large department stores have taken entire hotels for housing their help until the situation improves. Thinking Cannibals Had .Eaten Fiance, Girl Weds Another MIAMI, FLA., Dec. 5.— Believing that John Mills, to whom she was engaged, had been eaten by canni bals in the South Sea Islands, where he went last July with a party of sci entists from Carnegie Institution, a report to this effect having been pub lished in American papers. Miss Lyn wood Watters yesterday married R. C. .Tester, of Woodruff, S. (\. who won her affections by sympathizing with her in the supposed death of the explorer. To-day a cablegram was received from Mills that he escaped from the cannibals and is on his way home to claim his bride. Gil! CLEAN GIF “The Law and Noble Policemen My Weapons in Fight,” He Writes in Magazine. Dixie Man, Famed In Canal Work, Dies BALTIMORE. Dec. 5.—Lieutenant X Colonel David B. Gaillard, member of the Panama (’anal Commission, died at the Phipps clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital this morning. He had been ill for a long time. Colonel Gaillard was one of the three Southerners who have won fame by their work in building the canal, the others being Sibert and Gorgas, of Alabama Gaillard was from Charleston, a member of 6ne of the most prominent families in South Carolina. Arsonettes Avenge Pankhurst’s Arrest Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, Dec. 5.— Militant suffragettes to-day began taking their revenge for the arrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. Kelly House, an untenanted mansion, at Memysfl Bay on the Firth of Clyde, was fired, with $100,000 loss. Upon the lawn a number of cards, bearing suffrage inscriptions, were scattered. One of them said: “No peace or truce until Mrs. Pankhurst is free.” “All the good people of any city have to do is to stand together and the gates of hell will not prevail against them—the good people of At lanta would never tolerate a return to old conditions under any circum stances.” This declaration as to the moral status of Atlanta is made by Police Chief James L. Beavers in a special signed article in The Detective, of Chicago, which has devoted an entire section of its Dec ember number to a history of the Atlanta police depart ment. As to the importance of activity on the part of the good people iri crush ing vice, the chW says: “Our cities of to-day are going through a cleaning and renovating (hat has long been needed, arid‘the officers whose duty it is to- do - this work are going at. this in some way in most every city in the countr\. But c onje of them are more back ward about it than others and 1 think the cause of this is largely due to the attitude of the citizens in the fommunity toward these reforms. Two Kinds of Cowards. “There are very few officers but who will do their duty if they know that the people and the officers over | them will back them up in these re forms. But where there is doubt in the officer’s mind about this, he nat urally will hesitate, especially when he thinks that his job is at stake. It Is hard for him to do a thing that would deprive him of his position — but wiien we fail to do what we know to be our duty on this account, we are nothing less than cowards. “There are two kinds of cowards: the moral and the physical coward. Everybody would say that a coward was not fit for a police officer. The physical coward runs when he sees that he is in danger of being shot. The moral cow aril joins in with and consents to things that his con science tells him am wrong when he sees an opportunit> money and position thereby. “The only trouble with our cities is that the criminal « lass and their sympathizers are always awake to their interests. The\ tr> to make politicians believe that they can not be elected without they get their support, and with decent people in different and taking no interest In their community's welfare, it is about Continued on Page 5, Column 1. U. S. PENAL $250,000 a Year lor One Woman’s Clothes! That’s the startling total of the wardrobe cost for an American millionairess, according to a Parisian editor. The joy or woe of it all— depending on whether you are rrfan or woman —will bo detailed in Next Sunday’s American Order from your dealer or by phone to Main 100. PET KITTEN! FLEAS! OIL! MATCH! CHOMSKY! COURT! ) A. S. Chomsky. a merchant at X). 72 Houston 'street, was bound over under $500 bond by Judge Broyles Friday on a charge of cruelty to ani mals, preferred by Mrs. J. Stansell, who resides above the Chomsky store. Mrs. Stansell charged in court that the merchant had set tire to her pet kitten after she had soaked it in oil it his suggestion to eradicate the fleas. The feline was discovered in the middle of the street late Thursday afternoon, a small ball of fire, doing gyrations in the air and emitting piercing cries. Mrs. Stansell, who saw the sight from her bedroom win dow. recognized the blaze as her pet, and. rushing downstairs, put,it out of it^ misery with the aid of a broom. Then she charged Chomsky with the deed. In court Mrs. Stansell declared she had conferred with the merchant to the best method to rid v her pet of insects, (’liomsky, she said, had ad vised saturating the kitten with k'ero- sene. Mrs. Stansell purchased a quantity of kerosene and gave the kitten a bath. .An hour afterward the litt!« animal strolled into Chomsky's store, its fur still wet with the oil. A few minutes later pedestrians saw the cat rushing madly out of the store, its coat a mass of fire. Chomsky explained the origin of the blaze in this manner: He said he was lighting a cigar as the kitten came strolling in; that as he threw 7 the flaming match to the floor the playful cot pounced upon it, and its oily fur caught the flames. The merchant denied emphatically that he set the cat on rire for the sport of seeing it burn, as was charged. Mrs. Pankhurst on Atlanta Mailing Its Hunger-Thirst Strike Xmas Gifts Early Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian, EXETER. ENGLAND, Dec. 5.— Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, famous. militant suffragette leader, who was arrested yesterday under the “cat and mouse act,’’ has gone on a hunger and thirst strike. The jail authori ties said to-day that Mrs. Pankhurst has refused to eat or drink any liquid since she was placed in jail. The militant leader plans to force her own liberation in a week by means of the “strike.” Christmas packages continue to pour into the postoffice and Postmas ter Jones Friday said he believed the mailing room would be able to handle all the Christmas work without the usual “swamp" a day or two before Christmas. Next week four more weighing ma chines will bp placed in the lobby to assist in expediting the mailing’ of packages. Blalock Returning With Sack of‘Plums’ With a pocket full of income tax deputy appointments. A. O Blalock. Collector of Internal Revenue, is ex pected to return from Washington Friday night. There are nearly 1.000 applications for the .seven positions. President Wilson Still on Sick List WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—President Wilson still was on the sick list to day. All his engagements and his regular Cabinet meeting were can celed. It develtfped to-day that President Wilson is suffering from a slight touch of fever due to an attack of the grip, lodged in Lis nose and ihroa.. Six hundred Atlanta school girls are busy Friday arranging their notes on the Child Welfare exhibit and Public Health exhibit which they visited Thursday an guests of the show, knd preparing to write essays on the features of the exhibit that made the greatest impression upon them. Walter H. Rich, of the firm of M. Rich & Brothers Company, has of fered $25 in prizes for the best writ ten essay, by high school girls and girls from the seventh and eighth grades. It is hardly probable that the essays will be completed and the awards made before the holidays The interest w T hioh the school au thorities are taking in the exhibit is gratifying to the committee in charge of the show, and it is expected that the visit of the High School and grade school girls will be of great benefit to them. The girls were in charge of Miss Jessie Muse, principal *>f the High School, and were shown every department and feature of the ex hibit. Boys to Visit Show. The schoolboys of the city also will be shown through the show'. The pupils of the four high schools of the city are to be guests of the show Mon day, and on a later day the boys of the seventh and eighth grades will be there. In addition to the panels that form the greater portion of the show, an excellent program has been arranged for each day by Miss Emily Coye, who. with Miss Ellen S. Bab bitt. superintended the setting up of the show and are in charge of its operation. Lectures are given daily by promi nent physicians and others, and in the basement are educational moving pic ture shows that are attracting much attention. Classes of little girls and boys from various Atlanta orphan ages and schools are shown at their work in the various departments of the exhibit. Friday's program promises to be one of the jnost interesting of the show. From 10 to 12 o’clock the kin dergarten class from the School for the Deaf and the classes in l>asketry and sewing from the Home for the Friendless were the principal attrac tions. and at noon Colonel W. R. Da ley. head of the Board of Education, spoke on the benefits that school boys and girls can derive from the ex hibit. At 2 o’clock Friday afternoon pu pils from the Hapevilie Orphans’ lome will give an exhibition drill, and at 2:30 the first of the day’s mov ing pictures will be shown. At 3 o’clock story tellers from the Carnegie Library will entertain the little folks, and at 3:30 a public school music class will give a program under the direction of Miss Harralson. A model class* from the Normal School will have their exercises and game at 4 o’clock, and from then until 8 o’clock moving pictu r es will be the feature. At 8 the Caup Fire Girls w'ill give “Scenes from. Hiawatha.’’ The regular kindergarten elas*es, with a demonstration by the home makers’ class, will occupy the morn ing hours on Saturday, and in the afternoon tw r o addresses of unusual Interest will be heard. Dr. Claude Smith will speak on "How to Select Your Milk.” and Mrs. Spiker. presi dent of the Drama League, will tell the story of the “Blue Bird.” Southern Officials to Greet Harrison Here I^ocal officials of the Southern Rail way are preparing for the visit of Fairfax Harrison, the new president of the road, when he comes to At lanta soon after Christmas on a tout of inspection. While Mr. Harrison will spend only a short time in Atlanta, it is expected a number of social events will be given in his honor. Sisters Elope With Brothers at 3 A. M. LAVONfA, Dec. .*».—A double elope ment, in which two brothers stole two sisters from their home in the dead hours of night and were married at 3 o’i lock in the morning to overcome parental objections, |ook place here this week. Miss Annie Blanche Smith became #he bride «•» 1 ’harles Sheriff and Miss Rosa May Smith was married to Mat thew' Sheriff. The brides are daugh ters of D. B, Smith, a prominent mer chant of Lavonia. Congressman, on Request of De partment of Justice. Starts Compilation of Data. ^ WASHINGTON'. D .C.. D<v. Demanding a prompt investiga tion of the affairs at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Con gressman William Schley How ard held a long conference this afternoon with Assistant Attor ney General Graham, under whose department comes the Federal penal institutions. The Assistant Attorney Gen eral requested - Congressman Howard to present the Depart ment immediately with all the evidence in his possession regard ing conditions at the peniten tiary. - Mr. Howard began a compilation of this data to-day. He is willing to give the Department of Justice an op portunity to take the initiative in an investigation, but unless It acts will seek a Congressional probe. United States Wants Facts. Although It is known that the de partment hue done lltle toward in vestigating the prison, and seems dis inclined to do so, Mr. Graham told Congressman Howard to-day that tho department wanted the facts, and would institute an Inquiry if it 1s warranted. He suggested that tt is unnecpssnry for the House to act in the premises, as the Department of* Justice stands ready to consider any evidence laid before It. and to give it genuine and impartial considera tion. Under this promise Mr. Howard will withhold for the present his res olution to have Congress look into prison affairs aa administered under Warden Moyer. Mr. Howard said to-day: To Let Department Proceed. “I have had a long talk with As sistant Attorney General Graham, and am to supply him with all the data in. my possession. He assures me that if there is anything w-rong at the At lanta prison the Department of Jus tice wants to know tt and is capable* of handling the situation. In view of such a statement, I regard It as fair to give the department a chance and shall soon present the chargee for mally to Mr. Graham. “In the event the department should decide not to go into the matter, i should deem It my duty finally to ask action from Congress, as there un doubtedly should be a probe.** r r 11 e ANNOl NCE- M E N T OF T IIE w INN ERS IN THE w A N T AD CON- T i*: s r i 1 \Y 1 L L BE R U X SATURDAY, I) EC. « i. 1913. Atlanta Parks Are Worth $1,200,000 In preparing his annual report, Dan Carey, General Manager of Parks, has compiled interesting figures. There are 32 parks, totaling 840 acres. Their cost to the city was $188,654 and their present value is approxi mately $1,200,000. The most valuable is the Ersklne Triangle, at the corner of Peachtree and West Peachtree streets. It Is .009 of an acre. It coat the city $35<> in 1891, and a recent cash offer of $13,000 for it was refused. TO CHANGE ROAD’S NAME. SPARTANBURG, S. C., Deo. 6.— Many changes are planned by the in- terurban railway, effective January 1, most important of which will be changing the name from the Green ville. Spartanburg and Andereon Railway Company to the Piedmont and Northern, the name by which ll is known in North Carolina. VALE BASEBALL SCHEDULE NEW HAVEN CONN.. Dec. J.—The Yal* University Baseball schedule, an nounced yesterday, provides for twen ty six games, not including the dates re served in case of ties This Is five games less than last year. New teams on the list are the Norfolk baseball club, of Virginia Mount SL Joseph’! Ocdleg** and Lafayette.