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VOL. XII. NO. 109.
ATLANTA. CIA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913.
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URGLAR WITH SHOTGUN
SUFFRAGETTES’ TORCHES PUT ENGLAND IN PANiC
Shome for friendless children
ARE CENTER OF INTEREST AT SHOW
Left to right, Miss Marguerite Cantrell, two children of Horae
for Friendless under her charge, and Miss Elizabeth Gregg, head of
Dependent Child Section in Welfare Exhibit.
TOLL IF 53
Scores Still in Peril' Clinging to
Roofs of Marooned Houses
and Tree Tops.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 6—Latest
sports to-day, some of which are not
confirmed, placed the total dead in
the Central Texas flood at 53. Scores
of persons in a dozen communities
"ere still in peril, clinging: to roofs of
mouses and tree tops. Rescuers were
Powerless to aid them because trains
could not carry consigemnnts of boats
to all the inundated towns.
/ Among the dead reported was Hen-
Martin, vice president and general
manager of the International and
Lreat Northern Railroad, who was
drowned attempting to rescue a ma-
ro °ned family at Valley Junction. His
body was not recovered.
but 1,0*‘*0 persons marooned by
|he flood wate*>. along the Brazos had
been taken to safety to-day. The
"eather waB cold and many of the
marooned victims suffered from ex
posure during the night.
Deover Has Lowest
Percentage of Crime
DENVER, Dec. 6.—Denver has the
percentage of crime of any
f v in the United States, according
0 * report submitted to the Mayor
fo-day by the Chief of Police, Felix
* ^ and Commissioner De Lue,
a ler an investigation covering six
ne in New York, Philadelphia
! *Gago, it is declared, is 500 per
1U greater than in Denver. Of the
,5 -tern cities Kansas City is tne
°ughest ”
Experts Praise Work of Atlanta Institutions as
Nearly Ideal.
Most everybody likes to watch little
children at work or play.
And maybe that’s the reason why
the fifteen little boys and girls from
the Home for the Friendless are al
ways the center of a curious throng
at the Child Welfare and Public
Health Exhibit. They are of most
importance in the Dependent Child
Section of the show, which has a room
to the left as you enter the building.
And every one of the fifteen young
sters—what time they are not chat
tering and giggling with the exuber
ance of childhood—are working, al
though It doesn’t appear to be work.
The average child, If It likes the
task given it, can make almost any
work seem like play—and the people
who train the children at the Home
for the Friendless have the knack of
teaching them to love their work—
and therefore it is play.
Panels Show Achievements.
Probably no section of the show
has attracted more attention than
than Dependent Child Section. While,
of course, the children are the center
of attraction: there are other things
in the exhibit which make it worth
while.
There are panels illustrating the
work of five of the well-known At
lanta orphan asylums, two of them
negro institutions. Photographs of
children from the Home for the
Friendless are shown on one panel,
with statements of the work being
done.
On another panel the work of the
Decatur Orphan Home, which makes
a specialty of the cottage plan of
caring for its children, Is shown, and
on still another the Georgia Children’s
Home traces the progress of a rhild
from lowly surroundings through the
various stages of admission to the
home and adoption into a childless
home.
And there are also panels showing
what the Carrie Steele Home and the
Leonard Street Home are doing for
the negro children cast out into the
world.
Atlanta Institutions Praised.
And on the other side of the room
are panels showing conditions in an
ideal orphan home, and a panel show
ing scenes in a girls’ training school.
Then there Is a "How to Help" panel,
vividly- telling the best ways to make
up to the child for the loss of its
home.
And it Is much to the credit of the
Atlanta Institutions to say that the
experts declare they compare very
very favorably with the ideal Institu
tions told of on some of the panels.
There Is no orphan home that is per
fect. the experts say, but the Atlanta
institutions appear to be doing a grea t
deal of the work that is recommended
for the Ideal’ home.
The local part of the dependent
child sections was collected and ar
ranged by Miss Elizabeth Gregg, No.
176 Capitol avenue, chairman of the
committee on that section. She ex
ercises general supervision over the
section, and Is enthusiastic over the
attention it has attracted.
"Child for Ev*>ry Home."
"We hope we are doing a lot of
good by this section,’’ said Miss Gregg
Saturday morning. "Our motto is,
‘For every childess home there is a
homeless child,’ and we hope to show
Atlantans that there Is not only a
child for every home, but that the
children are being trained in sur
roundings that do not cause them to
lose their love for the home.
"Anyone can see from the panels
and photographs ho\y the children are
cared for and they can see the results
of the training In the happy faces
<f the children of the sewing and
basketry’ classes the Home for the
Friendless has sent here to be a part
of the exhibit."
Curtiss Aero Plant
To Move to Europe
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Glenn H.
Curtiss will move his main aeroplane
plant to Europe next spring, accord
ing to a statement made by an offi
cer of the company.
The factory is now in Hammonds-
port, N. Y.
100 Reported Killed
And Hurt in Wreck
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—A news agency
dispatch to a London newspaper from
Bucharest to-day reports that 100 per
sons had been killed and wounded in
a wreck oh the Orient Railw'ay near
Coleshti, Roumania.
J, Pierpont Morgan
Elected Vestryman
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—J. Pierpont
Morgan was elected a vestryman at
St. George's Church In Stuyvesant
square at the election of wardens and
vestrymen.
Mr. Morgan’s father was senior
warden of St. George’s up to the time
of his death.
PROFITABLE FARM SOLD.
MACON. Dec. 6.—J. R. Hicks, Sr.,
believes in Bibb County lands for in
vestment purposes. Fifteen years ago
he bought a farm of 94 acres for
$1,350. After averaging a profit of
$1,000 a year on it ever since, he has
sold it for $7,000 to Oscar Brown,
of Jones County. Only the fact that
he desired to retire from farm man
agement prompted Mr. Hicks in mak
ing the sale.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Cloudy Saturday;
Rain Sunday.
FIRES SET TO TUHNEBONLY
AVENGE
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Nation-Wide Campaign of Arson
Begun by Militants as Mrs.
Pankhurst Is Jailed.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—The suffragettes
began in earnest to-day to carry out
their threat of nation-wide Incen
diarism in revenge for the arrest of
Emmeline Pankhurst.
Rusholmee Exhibition Hall. in
South Manchester, was destroyed,
with a loss of $60,000. Near the
scene of the Are was an abusive let
ter addressed to Premier Asquith,
At Liverpool “areonettes" set Are to
the scenic railway in the Liverpool
Exposition Grounds, portly destroy
ing it. There also was a letter abus
ing the Premier left by the incen
diaries.
Militants tried to burn the grant-
stand of the famous Alntree race
course near Liverpool, but were pre
vented by the police. Several women,
who fled at the approach of the police,
were detected setting fire to a portion
of the stand, which had been soaked
with oil, A large quantity of litera
ture reviling the Government was
found.
Large property owners, fearing the
widespread activity of the arson
squads, are hiring private watchmen
to protect their buildings. Members
of the Cabinet have been advised to
keep an especially strict watch about
their homes, and Premier Asquith
probably will be attended by a body
guard on account of the hostility
aroused by Mrs. Pankhurst's arrest.
"Every Public Man Must Stand
Criticism,’’ Says Electrician,
Replying to Chambers.
Mrs. Pankhurst Too Ill
For Force Feeding.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
EXELTER, ENGLAND, Dec.
The condition of Mr*. Emmeline
Pankhurst, who was brought here and
lodged in jail after her arrest under
the “cat and mouse" act. was serious
to-day, owing to her continued hunger
and thirst strike.
Her heart was weak and the Jail
doctor said the prisoner’s condition
was too low for forcible feeding.
It is probable that the Government
will have to order Mrs. Pankhurat's
release w'ithin the next 48 hours.
Woman, Cousin of
Carnegie, a Suicide
DARIEN, WIS., Dec. 6.—Following
separation from her husband, Mr*
Martha Lindaman, 48, a cousin of
Andrew Carnegie, is dead here, a sui
cide.
Putting on her “best dress,” the
kinswoman of the steel magnate lay
down on a pile of bedding and shot
herself In the head.
City Eiectrican R. C. Turner took
Aldine Chambers' bitter attack on him
Saturday In a spirit of levity. He did
not sent to be worried in the least
because he had been called a liar,
blackguard and grafter, but smilingly
found solace In a quotation from Wil
liam Jennings Bryan.
"I seem to have drawn Chambers'
flre at last,” he said. “I am very
well satisfied with the situation.
"William Jennings Bryan says that
every man in public life must stand
a certain amount of criticism. I am
willing to stand my share.
"Mr. Chambers is unwilling, or un
able to stand his, as he retired from
public life at the last election.”
Makes Direct Chargee,
Since Electrician Turner's personal
attack on him, Mr, Chambers, ex-
Councilman and attorney for the Cot
ton States Electric Company, ha*
dropped ail mere Intimation* of
wrongdoing on the part of the City
Blectrlcan and boldly accused him of
being a "blackguard, deliberate liar,
slanderer and a grafter.”
"I charge that he got $110 from the
association of electrical contractors
In November, 1812,” said Mr. Cham
bers. "That was after hi* election,
and could not have been a campaign
contribution.
"What did he get it for?
‘ He admit* having received a gold
watch from the contractors
"What did he get that for?
"As to Mr. Turner’s charge that
I received campaign contributions
from the Georgia Railway and Power
Company, In answered that during an
investigation by the General Council
last year, which body denounced Tur
ner as a deliberate liar and slanderer.
“As to his Intimation that a repre-
“Knowi It Is Fslse.”
sentative of the Barber Asphalt Com
pany paid to me and two officials of
Atlanta a sum of money in New Tork
In the summer of 1912, he knows that
It Is utterly false, and that he is a
common blackguard and liar as well
as a grafter.”
Mr. Chambers promised more sen
sational accusations and disclosures
when the Board of Electrical Control
and the Council electric lights com
mittee meets Monday to resume the
investigation of Turner's official con
duct. The cause of his present out
burst was that Turner declared he
believed Chambers needed investigat
ing, and gave out two questions he
said he would ask him.
Mayor Woodward has approved the
resolutions of Council ordering the
probe of Turner and authorising the
subpoenaing of witnesses. Mr. Cham
bers eald he would have about six
witnesses called.
$250,000 a Year for
One Woman’s Golhes!
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 man or woman
—will be detailed in
Next Sunday’s American
Order from your dealer or by phone to
Main 100.
Troops Fire Upon
Vedrines in Plane
BELGRADE, Dec. 6—Jules Ved
rines, the French aviator who is at
tempting to fly around the world,
arrived here and told how he had
been made a target of by soldiers at
an Austrian fortress
"When I reached the fortified town
of Vajadine on the Danube," eald
Vedrinee, ‘"I was flying at an altitude
of about 4,000 feet. Several guns
were fired at me. The concussion
created by the shots was so great
my monoplane was nearly over
turned."
Margaret Wilson Is
Chairman of Spugs
WASHINGTON, D*c. 8.—Miss Mar
garet Wilson, eldest daughter of the
President, was elected chairman of
the Washington Spugs at a meet
ing of the followers of the Christmas
movement. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins
presided. The meeting was addressed
by Mrs. August Balmont, of New
Tork, founder of the Spugs; Mrs.
Champ Clark and Miss Anne Morgan.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has accepted
the post of honorary chairman of the
national organization.
Marshalls Dine With
Mr. and Mrs. Hearst
WASHINGTON, Dec. Mr. and
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst en
tertained at dinner this week in the
New Willard.
Their guests included Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Marshall, Speaker and
Mrs. Champ Clark, Miss Genevieve
Champ Clark, Mr. and Mrs Lewis
Nixon, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Mrs.
Inez Mllholland Bolssevaln, Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Hamilton and Miss Ham
ilton.
Minute Naps to Cost
Policeman Hour Each
DETROIT, MICH., Dec. 6.—Similar
to the Recorder’s fining peddlers $1
a quart for every quart their meas
ures are short, Police Commissioner
Gillespie to-day ordered patrolmen
found to have slept on their beats to
work an hour overtime for every
minute they sleep on duty.
On# was told to serve sixty hours
for an hour's slesp and another ten
home for ten minutes.
Hazel Dean Goes
To a Home on Farm
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Friends of
Has«1 Dean, the Atlanta artists’
model, took her to their home, on a
farm, yesterday. Magistrate Levy
acquiesced. Mrs. Stanlaws, wife of
Penrhyn 8tanlaw», artist, who shel
tered the girl at their studio home,
after her recovery from an attempt
at suicide, did not object.
Hazel had been "going to see the
park squirrels"—and posing secretly.
Earth’s Radium 1-2 oz;
1,000,000 Tons in Sea
BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.—"There is
in the hands of man all over the world
only one half ounce of radium, but on
the floor of the ocean, out of reach
of man, there are 1,000,000 tons of
that precious chemical element which,
It Is now believed, counts among its
attributes the power to cure cancer."
This statement was made by Dr.
Harry C. Jones, professor of chemis
try at Johns Hopkins University.
King’s Son Is Fag
To Little Viscount
Electric Light Button Removed by
Careful Intruder, but He
Gets No Loot.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—Prlnoe Henry,
third son of King George, who Is com
pleting hie third term at Eaton, Is
acting as fag to Viscount Gage, who
came into his title last year.
The Prince is said to be an un-
usuail- bright boy. He takes a keen
inter - -<i in mechanics and speaks
French and German like a native.
Calvin C. Barber, asleep in his
room on the second floor of the
house at 105 West Harris street,
was awakened at 5 o’clock Sat
urday morning by a sound not
usually heard in the still watches
of the night, or even early in the
morning.
Barber heard the gentle clinking of
money, and, almost Intuitively, he
recognised It as his money, in his
trousers' pocket. The trousers seemed
to be shaken gently in the darkness
"Who’s there?” Barber inquired
briskly, not being afraid of table-tip
ping or pants-flapping splrita At the
same time he shook G. L. Hamrick,
also occupying the room and bed.
The only reply to Barber’s chal
lenge was a mora decided flop and
clink as the trousers hit the floor
TThen came the soft pad-padding
of unshod feet, and the noiee of a
door creaking.
Elsetrlo Buttons Removed,
Barber and Hamrick, now wide
awake, jumped out of bed and tum
bled over each other as they sought
the electric light key.
They found the socket all right, but
the button had been twisted off.
Stumbling out into the hall, they
found that switch also hors du com
bat, while down the steps went the
pit-a-pat of the shoeless feet.
Hamrick finally found a button that
controlled a light, and about the same
time Barber collected a shotgun, and
the two started after the burglar. The
front door was open, but by the time
they reached the street the Intruder
had vanished and there w - as not even
the satisfaction of lptting the shotgun
at anything.
Nothing Missing.
Call Officer Gorman responded to a
telephone message, but no trace of
the robber could be found. Appar
ently he had attached his shoes to his
person, as they were nowhere to be
seen. He had entered the house by
climbing to the veranda roof, and
before beginnig his search for booty
had thoughtfully and with much pa
tience removed all the electric switch
buttons he could find.
Nothing appeared to have
taken.
been
Store Robbed Fourth
Time in a Year.
For the fourth time in the last year
the small store of M. F, Boisclair *
Son, No. 371 Lucklc street, was en
tered and robbed some time early Sat
urday morning. The glass in the
front door was samshed and the cash
register rifled, but all the robber
obtained was 90 cents, all In pennies,
and a few cigars.
Persons living In the same neigh
borhood are complaining at the lack
of police protection afforded. Besides
the successive robberies of the Bois-
clair store, a number of other burgla
ries or attempts have been made in
the vicinity.
Robbers also attempted to enter
Dunwoody’s Pharmacy, at No. 811
Peachtree street, Friday night, but.
after breaking the lock on the front
door, were frightened away without
gaining an entrance,