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VOL. XII. NO. 100.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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WILL IIE WAKE HI* CHRISTMAS MORXIXli IN VAIN?
PURSUES BURGLAR WITH A SHOTGUN
MRS. KEEFER FIRES SET TO
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I Electric Light Button Removed by
Careful Thief, but He
Gets No Loot.
Calvin C, Barber, asleep in his room
Ion the second floor of the house at
[No. 105 West Harris street, was
I awakened at 6 o’clock Saturday morn
ing by a sound not usually heard in
Ithe still watches of the night, or even
|«ar!y in the morning.
Barber heard the gentle clinking of
I money, and, almost intuitively, he
I recognized it aa his money, in his
■ trousers’ pocket. The trousers seemed
[to be shaken gently in the darkness.
‘Who's there?” Barber inquired
I briskly, not being afraid of table-tip-
Iping or pants-flapping spirits. At the
■ same time he shook G. L. Hamrick,
|al8o occupying the room and bad.
The only reply to Barber’s chal-
llengo was a more decided flop and
Iclink as the trousers hit the floor.
■Then came the soft pad-padding
P ,f unshod feet, and the noise of a
(door creaking.
Electric Button* Removed.
Barber and Hamrick, now wide
lawake, jumped out of bed and tum-
Ibled over each other aa they sought
|the electric light key.
They found the socket all right, but
Ithe button had been twisted off.
|*$tumbling out into the hall, they
ound that switch also hors du com-
ibat, while down the steps went the
|pit-a-pat of the shoeless feet.
Hamrick Anally found a button that
|controlled a light, and about the same
time Barber collected a shotgun, and
Ithe two started after the burglar. The
■front door was open, but by the time
■they reached the street the intruder
■had vanished and there was not even
Jthe satisfaction of letting the shotgun
(at anything.
Nothing Missing.
( all Officer Gorman responded to a-
Itelephone message, but no trace of
I the robber could be found. Appar
ently he had attached his shoes to his
I person, as they were nowhere to be
■ seen. He ^ a( j entered the house by
fUlimbing to the veranda roof, and
efore beginning his search for booty
thoughtfully and with much pa-
# Wy‘ Pn, ' e Grooved all the electric switch
Muttons he could And.
Nothing appeared to have been
I taken.
Denver Paralyzed by
4 Feet of Snow; Many
Missing; Food Scarce
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DENVER, Dec. 6.—Paralyzed com
pletely by the snow that covers the
State to a depth of from three to eight
feet, all of Colorado to-day awaited
warmer weather. In Denver, where
the snowfall had stopped, the average
depth was 46 inches.
In Denver no street cars have
moved for nearly 48 hours. Every
hotel is crowded to capacity. School-
houses are filled with refugees who
were caught away from their homes
by the storm. The bread supply in
Denver was exhausted to-day. Be
cause of the strike which has been on
in Southern Colorado for several
weeks a coal famine threatens.
Ten shopgirls have not been heard
from since they started home Thurs
day night. Twenty-four miners are
missing near Canon City. Two stage
coaches are lost near Boulder and one
is missing near Buena Vista, It is
feared that the drivers and occupants
have been frozen to death.
Rich Woman, Working as Dish
washer in Restaurant, Says
She’s Not “Raising Hell.”
Vedrines inTurkeyon
Flight Around World
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 6.—
Pierre Jules Vedrines, the famous
French aviator, arrived here early
to-day in his aeroplane, having trav
eled 405 miles from Sofia without
making a stop.
Vedrines said he would continue in
an effort to fly around the world.
The aviator set out from Nancy,
France, on November 20. He was
shot at by troops while flying over
Austria.
Margaret Wilson Is
Chairman of Spugs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—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 Belmont, of New
York, 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.
[Store Robbed Fourth
I Time in a Year.
| T'or the fourth time during the year
I small store of M. F. Boisclair A
I Son, No. 371 Luckir street, was en-
pered and robbed some time early Sat
urday morning. The glass in ths
I / nt d °° r Was sm ashed and the cash
^Sister rifled, but all the robber
I obtained was 90 cents, ail in pennies,
I £ tnd a few' cigars.
! Persons living in the same neign-
>orhood are complaining at the lack
°f police protection afforded. Besides
r he successive robberies of the Bois-
r lair store, a number of other burgla
ries or attempts have been made in
the vicinity.
Robbers also attempted to ent«r
I Bun woody’s Pharma'y, at No. 814
ITree street, Friday night, but,
lifter breaking the lock on the front
Moor, were frightened away without
| lining an entrance.
I Woman, Cousin of
Carnegie, a Suicide
Darien, WIS., Dsc. 6.—Following
I^Paration from her husband, Mrs.
i-iartha Lindaman, 48, a cousin of
V lrew < 'arnegie, is dead here, a sui
cide
4 1 : ‘g on her ‘‘best dress.” the
man of the steel magnate lay
■ (, n a pile G f bedding and shot
!r self in the head.
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
wmrk an hour overtime for every
minute they sleep on duty.
One was told to serve sixty hours
for an hour’s sleep and another ten
horn i for ten minutes.
Hazel Dean Goes
To a Home on Farm
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Friends of
Hazel Dean, the Atlanta artists' f
model, took her to their home, on a
farm, yesterday. Magistrate Levy
acquiesced. Mrs. Stanlaws, wife of
Penrhyn Stanlaws, artist, who shel
tered the girl at their studio home,
after her recovery from an attempt
at suicide, did not object.
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 reportj that 100 per
sons had been killed and wounded In
a wreck on the Orient Railway near
Coleshtl, Roumanla.
Paris Dressmakers
Protest U. S. 'Spies’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—The dressmakers’
syndicate has asked the police to ex
clude photographers from race
courses, asserting they are “American
spies” w’ho obtain pictures of the
latest fashions.
Having worked for four days as
dish washer in a Broad street restau
rant, the first campaign of a strenu
ous and extended warfare designed to
expose the inner workings of the cul
inary departments of local eating
houses and hospital kitchens, Mrs.
Grace Macey-Keefer, the wealthy di
vorced wife of David H. Keefer, whose
matrimonial troubles brought her
sharply before the public eye recent
ly, is overcome with horror at pre
vailing conditions.
“I have been told,” she said Satur
day morning, as she balanced a plate
on her forearm and deftly wiped it
with a clean towel, ‘‘that I’m down
here in this place raising hell. But
I’m not. I’m elevating It, for in my
humble opinion that’s the proper
name for the average Atlanta res
taurant.”
Such being the case. Mrs. Keefer
advances a number of reformative
measures which she says will curb
the activities of the microbe and
thwart the purposes of the advancing
army of cockroaches, which have a
finger, speaking figuratively, in every
pie cut in an Atlanta restaurant.
Her Remedy for Evil.
Here are a few things she says
ought to be done:
1. Have a public restaurant inspec
tor.
2. Put the men in jail who rent
buildings for restaurant purposes
that are not fit to be used as barns
and start with the man who owns
the place where I wash dishes.
3. Legislate sanitation and hygiene
into every restaurant.
4 Make people quit preparing food
with their hands.
*‘I make no secret of the fact that
I’m an uplifter,” she said, ‘‘but I’m
not the ordinary uplifter. I’m trying
to strike at the root of human happ!- j
ness and ambition, and it lies in the
stomach. If you’re going to uplift a
man, you’ve got to uplift his stomach
first, and you elevate his mind only
when you elevate his stomach, for
that is the source of all our emo
tions.
May 8tir Up Trouble.
‘‘I don’t kno wwhether I’m going to
accomplish anything by working in
these restaurants, but if I can ac
complish what I’m after I’ll stir up a
lot of trouble for the men who own
these restaurant buildings. They ar rt
the first people we must get after in
the campaign for better kitchens.
They rent buildings for restaurant*
purposes that are not fit to be rented
as stables. The walls are filled with
nesting places for microbes ~nd in
sects, and ideas of cleanliness appear
to be almost unknown. There ought
to be a law putting any man in Jail
who rents such a building for eating
purposes.
“The right kind of a restaurant
should have concrete walls and a con
crete floor and concrete tables, where
no insects and microbes can breeu.
The floors should be divided into sec
tions, with drains running through
each section, so that portions of il
can be thoroughly cleaned at any timi
without interfering with the other
sections.
For Restaurant Inspector.
‘‘And afier all the property owner*
are put in jail and the restaurant
buildings are fitted properly for res
taurants. we should have a public res
taurant inspector to see that they are
kent clean. We have a Smoke In
spector—though he doesn’t se^m to do
much inspecting; and a Fire Inspector
and a Building Inspector, and an in
spector for everything under the sun
except the very thing that needs one.”
Mrs. Keefer says she has not for
saken the ease and comfort of her
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
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 fire was an abusive let
ter addressed to Premier Asquith.
At Liverpool ‘‘arsonettes” set fire to
the scenic railway in the Liverpool
Exposition Grounds, partly destroy
ing it. There also was a letter abus
ing the Premier left by the incen
diaries.
Militants tried to burn the grand
stand of the famous Aintree race
course near Liverpool, but were pre-
wented 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.
Mrs. Pankhurst Too Ill
For Force Feeding.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
EXELTER, ENGLAND, Dec. 6.—
The condition of Mrs. 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. Pankhurst’s
release within the next 48 hours.
Dupuy to Attempt to
Form French Cabinet
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—The French Cabi
net deadlock was unbroken to-day.
ejCJicLLOl O txlll LUjIUJ cLC LUUU b u,c <•*,
ueiinite answer to President Poincare
accepting the commission to form a
new Cabinet, succeeding the Barthou
ministry, but there were no indica
tions that he would be successful.
Chicago to Stop
Tickling Plumes
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-—Mayor Harrison
has started a popular crusade in behalf
of meek and long-suffering man. The
Mayor issued an edict against hori
zontal plumes, aigrettes, pompons and
other devices which tickle or scratch
eyes, ears or noses of men who are
obliged to be near the beplumed wom
an.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Cloudy Saturday;
rain Sunday.
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DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 6.—
Reports of additional deaths in
the flooded region of Central
Texas to-day brought the total
to seventy-five. Ten persons to
day were reported drowned at
Ilearne, eight at Bryan and six
at High Bank. A score or more
persons are missing.
The additional deaths reported to-
i day were discovered by rescuers in
i motor boats who have been explor
ing the flooded districts.
Many farmers who sent members
Of their families to places of safety,
but refused to leave their live stock
to the mercy of the rising waters,
have not been heard from for several
days.
The motor boat crews during the
night picked up more than 150 per
sons who had been marooned. Most
of them were suffering from hunger
and exposure.
Scores of persons in a doben com
munities are still in peril, clinging to
roofs of houses and tree tops. Res
cuers were powerless to aid them, be
cause trains could not carry consign
ments of boats to all the inundated
towns.
Among the dead reported was Hen
ry Martin, vice president and general
manager of the International and
Great Northern Railroad, who was
drowned attempting to rescue a ma
rooned family at Valley Junction. His
body was not recovered.
All but 1,000 persons marooned by
the flood waters along the Brazos had
been taken to safety to-day. The
weather was cold and many of the
marooned victims suffered from ex
posure during the night.
Wilson Better; Does
Five Minutes’ Work
Yvette Declares Eagerness to Aid
Empty Stocking Crusade.
U. D. C. Donate.
Yvette—a violin-virtuoso whosft
wonderful work has attracted thfc at
tention of the country—has volun
teered her services for the great all-
star matinee to be given at the At
lanta Theater next Friday afternoon
for the benefit of the Empty Stocking
Fund.
Have you ever heard her play? The
music from her instrument pervades
you and holds you under its delightful
spell.
In a telegram to Manager Hugh
Cardoza, of the Forsyth Theater, from
Richmond, where she is now playing, J
Yvette Saturday morning Joined the j
Christmas plot to surprise Atlanta’s
poor children with a flood of happi- |
ness.
Is Willing and Eager.
Read her message. It is typical of
the big-heartedness of stage folk
whenever they are asked for char- j
Ity:
‘‘Willing and eager to participate j
in the big Empty Stocking Fund ben
efit for the poor children of Atlanta,
prepared by The Hearst Georgian and
Sunday American. It will be one of
the Joys of my life. Heartiest regards
to everyone interested and concerned.”
And what a benefit that is going to ,
be!
Perhaps never has Atlanta had mi*h
an assemblage of theatrical stars on
a stage at one time.
Robert Edeson—Rose Coghlan—
Wilton Lackaye—Max Figman—Lo- j
11 ta Robertson—
That is NOT half of them.
U. D. C. Add to Fund.
Persons famous throughout the
United States and known all over the !
world are going to work for the poor
of Atlanta.
This fact should inspire every cit
izen of Atlanta to come forward with
his contributions.
Many are doing so, y.t many others
are not.
A most gratifying contribution re
ceived Saturday was a substantial
check from the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. These good women
are never backward when the call for
charity goes out.
Every woman's club in the city
should place Its name on the contri
bution list. Their very existence,
which is for betterment of conditions,
demands as much.
Don’t Forget Tan^o Supper.
Women as individuals are asked to
send in contributions as well. It
doesn’t matter what the amount may
be. Little is needed to bring happi
ness to those who are poor.
But enough of sermonizing.
Now about this tango supper whicn
will take place at the Hotel Winec >ff,
beginning after the theater next Mon
day night.
It has been suggested that folks
who are going make up parties,to at
tend this event. Nothing could please
the Christmas Editor better. What
he wants to do Is to GET YOU
THERE.
More Dolls To Be Dressed.
Incidentally, it will bring mire
money Into the Empty Stocking Fund.
And more happiness to those poor lit.
tie ones waiting for Santa Claus.
Then, again, about thos- dolls.
How long has it been since you
dressed a doll?
There are plenty of them left, it
you want to try your hand. Just walk
into the office of The Georgian and
American at No. 20 East Alabama
street and ask for the dolls. You can
Lave as many as you life. And lots
of time in which to dress them.
$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 man or woman
—will be detailed in
Next Sunday’s American
Order from your dealer or by phone to
Main 100.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Presi-
dent Wilson, who is suffering from
grippe, was so much better to-day
that be disregarded the advice of his
physician and family and went to
the excutive offices adjoining the
White House.
He spent five minutes at his desk
signing important papers, and then
returned to his room, where he ex
pected to spend the remainder of the
day. He received no callers.
King’s Son Is Fag
To Little Viscount
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—Prince Henry,
third son of King George, who is com
pleting his 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
usually bright boy. He takes a keen
interest in mechanics and speaks
French and German like a native.
Real Dog Days Now;
City Pound Is Closed
Frost having- driven away dog days,
City Clerk Waiter Taylor has stop
ped the dog wagon and closed up the
pound. These are real dog days now,
and they will frolic in peace until
spring.
Mr. Taylor said he never did And
pleasure in sending the poor canines
to the pound.
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. ,