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VOL. 1. NO. 36.
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ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER
1911).
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
200 ELKS
IILL'BEBIG
Their Work Will Be to Make the
“Little Brothers” Better and
Happier, Both by Advice and
by More Material Assistance,
Christmas Will See Movement
Well Under Way — Atlanta
Lodge Follows Plan Adopted by
Order All Over the Country.
Twelve hundred men of Atlanta are
enlisted for active work In an altru
istic cause by the decision of the
local lodge of Elks to put into opera
tion the "Big Brother Movement.”
This is a plan by which young boys
who need a helping hand may find it
—boys who have not found the world
a too pleasant place to live in. boys
who lack the right home influences,
who are thrown into evil associations,
who are what is called incorrlgibles,
who have in their heart the growing
spirit of bitterness of the under
dog. that, fully developed, makes the
undesirable citizen, boys who are
merely hopelessly poor.
Every Elk in Atlanta, then, be
comes a Big Brother, and is looking
now for a Little Brother to help. In
deciding to take up the active work
of the Big Brother Movement, the
Atlanta Elks merely ratified a deci
sion of the Grand Lodge. The Elks
as an organization generally have en
tered the movement.
Committee Is Named.
A. L. !3vna. exalted ruler of the
Atlanta Lodge, has named as the cen
tral committee Sam Albright, Dr. B.
Wildauer and John Simmons. With
these men is left the task of organ
izing anc^ directing the work.
The Big Brother Movement is es
sentially a personal welfare work. The
Elks as a lodge do not study the case
of the individual boy. The Big Broth
er into whose care the Little Brother
comes takes care of that. He be
comes the single benefactor, adviser,
protector—in every sense the big
brother—of a single joy.
The first step in the work in At
lanta will be to seek the co-operation
of the officials of the Children’s Court
of Atlanta, which is in charge of
Philip Weltner as judge and W. W.
Tindall as chief probation officer.
These officials already have been in
formed of the plan of the Elks and
have heartily indorsed it.
The plan of the Atlanta Elks fol
lows the plan adopted by the Ham
mond (Ind.) Lodge, one of the first to
foster the movement. The judge of
the Children’s Court, instead of com
mitting or paroling a delinquent boy
lo the custody of an officer, asks a
Big Brother to look after and take
care of him. The boy is not obliged
to report to the court or to an officer,
but the report of his conduct and
Progress is made by the Big Brother
without the knowledge of the boy.
This, it is believed, will eliminate
a probably objectionable feature of
the probation system, the rule requir
ing the boy to report at stated inter
vals.
Leaves Boy at Home.
The Big Brother does not take the
Little Brother to live with him. nor
does he furnish quarters for the boy,
nor in any way interfere* with his
home relations. Under the plan, the
Big Brother, in looking after the boy
necessarily must come in contact with
Blease’s Chauffeur
Arrested Third Time
As Reckless Driver
South Carolina Governor Who Be
fore Protected Negro in Car When
Offense Is Committed.
10 BE ON VISIT
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Deo. R.—Charges
of reckless driving have again been
docketed here against Harrison Nee
ly, negro chauffeur for Governor Cole
L. Blease. Earlier In the year the
same driver was arrested twice on
charges of reckless driving. When
fines were imposed, the Governor be
came angered and ordered the release
of his driver, declaring the fine null
and void. On these occasions the city
authorities refused to honor the Gov.
ernor's pardons for his chauffeur.
The Governor was in the car this
afternoon when the driver is alleged
to have guided the machine within
four feet of a standing street car,
which was unloading passengers. A
member of the police force says the
car was making twelve miles an hour.
There is a city ordinance here against
automobiles passing nearer a standing
street car than ten feet.
Pretty Jessie Dunn Becomes Bride
of G. A. Domeck, Auto
mobile Racer.
PARENTS DUE FOR “SHOCK”
They “Sent” Her to Birmingham,
but She Goes to Jacksonville
on Bridal Trip.
Daniel Sully’s Wife
Wins in Jewel Suit
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Mrs. Emma
F. Sully, wife of Daniel J. Sully, the
former cotton king, won a point to
day In her Supreme Court battle to
recover $225,000' from Tiffany’s for
alleged conversion of jewels.
The defendant pleaded Mrs. Sully Is
debarred from recovery because she
did not sue until five years after the
gems came Into the possession of the
firm. The court, however, denied the
motion of the defendant for judg
ment.
the
parents, and thus is in a position
to acquaint himself with the causes
the boy’s delinquency, and also to
belp the parents, by advice and sug
gestion, to live right, and to assist
them in many ways to make it eas’?r
tor the Little Brother to be a better
boy.
Work Begins at Once.
Work toward the development of
be plan will begin immediately, and
the central committee members be-
Leve that Christmas will see it well
under way.
1 he movement did not originate
w itn the Elks. It has been in op
eration in the East for many years,
but the Elks are the first to foster the
^’ork as an organization. August
Berrmann, past grand exalted ruler.
Wa J probably the most vigorous work-
er for the adoption of the Big Broth
er Movement by the Elks, and during
r; s term of office as grand exalted
ruler he urged it. Explaining it in
one address, he said:
. A more appropriate name than Big
Brother could not have been devised.
1 ner * is kindliness in it. There is
confidence in it. There is protection
T n if—and there is salvation for the
nittle Brother in it. The Big Broth r
18 not an officer of the law. He is an
officer of Humanity and Charity, of
Lood Citizenship and Kindness.”
Rockefeller to Buy
Second-Hand Brick
CLEVELAND, ’ Dec. 6.—John D.
Rockefeller wants to buy some sec
ond-hand brick. Those who supposed
the Forest Hill estate is a complete
model of its kind are wrong, It seems.
The two-acre court about the barn
must b© paved. So Mr. Rockefetter is
looking for second-hand brick.
His secretary, F. E. Sims, was busy
to-day calling up .contractors who
might have slightly worn brick, al
most as good as new, for sale.
Miss Shenk, Noted
Beauty, Near Death
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Miss Flor
ence Schenk, of Baltimore, whose
beauty and daring as an equestrienne
captivated the horse show set of
several seasons ago, and who came
into the more garish light of publici
ty when she sued Charles H. Wilson,
trainer of Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s
horses, for breach of promise, is re
ported to be dying, following an op
eration for tumor, in a nrivate hos
pital.
Banker-Mayor Is
Convicted as'Slaver’
CHEYENNE, WY'OM., Dec. 6.—Roy
Montgomery, Mayor of Gillette, mem
ber of the State Democratic Commit
tee, banker,, cattle man and hotel
owner, was sentenced to two and
one-half years in the L avenworth
Federal Prison to-day by United
States Judge Reynor.
Montgomery was found guilty on
two counts of white slavery and his
motion for a new trial was overruled
this afternoon.
Forger Escapes by
Picking a Jail Lock
MOBILE, Dec. 6.—Corbet R. Sin
gletary, convicted of forging the name
of B Nedalman to a check for $34,
an who was ip the jail hospital here
recovering from Illness contracted in
the county convict camp, where he
was serving two years, escaped Igie
to-day by picking the lock on a hos
pital door.
The prisoner is from Nothan. The
Sheriff has men In all parte of the
county looking for him.
College Yells Old as
Rome, Says Professor
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 6.—
The ‘‘rah rah” of the college youth
is not an institution original with
the American college roster, but was
a means of giving vent t^ one’s en
thusiasm vocally in the days of an
cient Rome and medieval Byzantl
nium, according to Prof. Ernest von
Dobschutz. occupying the Gei.nan
Exchange Chair at Harvard.
When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O.
Dunn, of No. 143 Logan street, awake
this morning believing their pretty
daughter, Mies Jessie Irene Dunn, is
safe in Birmingham with relatives
and satisfied that they have thwarted
her matrimonial aspirations. the
daughter will be speeding toward
Jacksonville as the bride of G. A.
Domeck, a noted automobile racer of
the East.
Miss Dunn left her home Saturday
afternoon presumably to go to the
Terminal Station to board a train for
Birmingham. Instead of doing this,
she met Mr. Domeck, as per well laid
elopement plans, and, in company
with Mrs. H. K. Minor, a friend, has
tened to the home of the Rev. B. F.
Eraser, pastor of St. Paul Methodist
Church, No. 330 Grant street. There
the ceremony was performed.
Shortly before midnight Mr. and
Mrs. Domeck boarded a train in the
Terminal for Florida, where the
young bridegroom is to take part in
the big Daytona races.
They’ll Find Her Clothes Gone.
When the surprised parents inves
tigate in the room of the eloping girl,
they will find that all of her clothing
and belongings are gone.
Every night for the past ten nights
Mr. Domeck has visited the Dunn
home, and each night he took away a
bundle of his pretty fiance’s effect*,
storing them downtown.
Miss Dunn would place the bundle
under the front door steps, and Do
meck would get it as he left the
house.
The elopement came as the climax
to a romance of little more than two
months’ duration. Mr. Domeck first
met Miss Dunn in California, while
she was visiting there.
Five months ago he was injured
while testing his racing car on the
track at Brighton Beach, N. Y.
Meet Second Time.
A few weeks ago he started South
to recuperate, to get in condition for
the Daytona races. It chanced that
he stoped in Atlanta, and again he
met Miss Dunn. Love then asserted
itself in the old-fashioned, undaunted
style, and for two months a steady
courtship has been on.
Because of the hazardous occupa
tion of the young wooer the parents
of the girl objected to the match.
“I’m willing to take chances on
his dangers, because he’s the only
man I ever loved, and I’m going to
keep on loving him, even if he does
risk his neck on the race track,” smil-
ingly exclaimed the bride as she
boarded the train for Florida.
“I feel just like I’ll win all of the
race® now,” chimed in the other happy
runaway.
Stead’s 'Spirit’ Says
'Other World’ Is Far
Beyond Conception
Daughter of Titanic Victim Asserts
She Has Received ‘Direct Wire’
From Parent.
BOSTON. Dec. 6.—Spirit messages
from the late William T. Stead, lost
in the Titanic disaster, received by
his daughter, Miss Estelle Wilson
Stead, now In Boston, were given out
by Miss Stead to-night, as follows:
“Never fear death; it means more
than anyone has discovered. The full
ness of life is here. It is a struggle
to get the right union with those who
have been left. If I had only one
message to give, It is love.
“Love and God are the same here.
“Give more time and patience to
thought transference—it will unite us.
It will make It possible for us to com
municate with each other more accu
rately.
“The reality of this other world !■
much greater than imagined. This is
a new life. Go to America and try to
take up my work.”
Atlanta Society Girl Plays Beau Brummel
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Miss Tracy VEngle Scores at Wellesley IS PROVED
Miss Tracy L’Engle, a charming Atlanta society maid who wins stage honors in the east.
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First Woman Lawyer
Is Dead, a Pauper
Miss Phoebe Couzens Also U. S.
Marshal and Once Was a
Suffragist.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 6.—Miss Phoebe
Couzens, who was the first woman
lawyer, the first United States mar
shal of her sex, the first co-ed grad
uate of Washington University and a
pioneer suffragist, who in later years
turned against woman suffrage, died
here to-day in abject poverty. She
was 73 years old.
Mias Couzens came back to her old
home from Washington. D. C., several
months ago to press her claims for
$100,000 which she declared certain
brewers owed her for making anti
prohibition speeches. The claims
were denied. She was forced, through
poverty, to poorer and poorer quar
ters. For the last several weeks she
had ; been living In squalid rooms in
a tenement section.
Cardinal Gibbons in
Doubt of Promotion
BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.—When the
telegram stating that he would be
dean of the Sacred College, due to the
death of Cardinal Oreglia. was shown
to Cardinal Gibbons, he said:
“It is true that I am the oldest
cardinal in point of years, but not in
point of service as a cardinal. The
oldest cardinal is the venerable patri
arch of Lisbon, Cardinal Netto. and I
come next.
“Cardinal Oreglia is the last car
dinal to pass away who was create!
by His Holiness Pope Pius IX. I
knew' Cardinal Oreglia, and I am ex
tremely sorry to learn of his death.”
Hoop Skirt Fails to
Attract Young Rome
ROME, GA.. Dec. 6.—The hoop
skirt and the minuet do not stand
well with Rome’s young men. Last
night the city’s society belles ar
rayed themselves in old-fashioned
garments and posed and danced the
minuet for the delectation of a score
of grandfathers and grandmothers at
the Opera House.
The young men did not turn out
and the girls are furious with their
beaux. A representative young man
explained the situation in the follow
ing words: ‘‘Nix on the hoop skirt
and the minuet—give us instead the
slit skirt, and the tango.”
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Cotton Merchant
To Aid Panama Fair
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 6 —John H. Mc-
Fadden, a well-known cotton mer
chant, who spends a large part of his
time here, sailed to-day on the Mau
retania to spend Christmas at his
home in Philadelphia.
Mr. McFadden declined to discuss
the cotton situation, but expressed
himself as satisfied with the general
outlook of the market. He said he
intended to lend his collections of
gems and pictures to the Panama-
Pacific Exposition.
Attorney General
Of S.C. Kills Negro
COLUMBIA, Dec. 6.—Thomas F
Peeple9, Attorney General of Souti
Carolina, accidentally shot and killed
Robert Marshall, a negro attendant
in the Elks Club rooms about 11
o’clock to-night,
It is said by eyewitnesses that the
Attorney General was passing a re
volver over the bar when it exploded,
the bullet piercing the brain of the ne
gro.
Bryan, Jr., 'Never
To Run for Office’
TUCSON, ARIZ., Dec. 6.—William
Jennings Bryan, Jr , son of the Sec
retary of State, who has just been
admitted to the bar, announced that
he will enter politics, but declares he
never will run for office.
He is scheduled to be a Democratic
committeeman and delegate to take
an active part in the election of a
Governor next year.
Cold Weather Due
After Sunday Rain
For the third successive Sunday
rain is predicted for Atlanta. The
weather man declared the day would
be dark and gloomy and rain proba
bly would fall all day. About night
fall, however, it is due to stop. Then
colder weather will set in, and Mon
day will be clear and colder than
Atlantans have experienced for a
week.
Slaver Sentenced
To Atlanta Prison
MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 6.—Graf
ton Thompson, a chauffeur who
brought 16-year-old Maud Evans
from Little Rock to Memphis, in vio
lation of the Mann act, was to-day
sentenced to one year in the Federal
Prison at Atlanta by Judge McCall,
of the United States Court.
Hammerstein Opera
Barred Until 1920
Father and Son Enjoined by Old
Agreement—‘Hyenas and Wolves
Did It,’ Says Oscar.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Oscar Ham
merstein and his son Arthur were
to-day enjoined from producing grand
opera in New York until 1920 in a
decision handed down by Supreme
Court Justice Pendleton.
The court held the agreement en
tered into between the Hammer-
steins and the Metropolitan by which
the Hammersteins sold their opera
Interest in New' York and agreed not
to produce opera until April 26, 1920,
does not violate the Sherman anti
trust law.
Oscar Hammerstein admitted mak
ing the contract, but said it was made
“by the hyenas of opera and the
wolves of Wall street” during hia ab
sence in Europe.
Farrar’s Voice Not
Impaired,Says Doctor
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Despite the
Insistent denials of the Metropolitan
Opera managers and her physicians,
the rumor persists that Geraldine
Farrar’s retirement from grand opera
may be forced by reason of her ill
health.
Dr. H. Holbrook Curtis, under whose
\personal care Miss Farrar has been,
is among those who declare that the
American soprano’s voice is not per
manently impaired.
“She overtaxed her strength.” said
Dr, Curtis. “She sang too soon after
her recovery from la grippe. Her
voice is not impaired.”
Russian Ambassador
Is Rebuked by Kaiser
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 6.—M.
Sweerbeieff, the Russian Ambassador
to Berlin, recently received the much
coveted great cross and ribbon of the
Red Eagle from Emperor William.
The envo- p* a recent pub’tc function
wore the ribbon when the cross only
should have been worn. The Kaiser
criticised him. Sweerbeieff, explain
ing. said he was so grateful he even
wore the ribbon when sleeping.
“Quite rie'Vit to appreciate the honor
conferred upon you,” ejaculated the
Kaiser, “which, after all, you did
nothing to deserve.”
500 Divorces in 1913
Is Record of Fulton
Five hundred divorces have been
granted in Fulton County to date this
year, and more are coming.
The Superior Court *this week faces
the heaviest divorce calendar in I s
history. Nearly 200 suits have been
listed. Judge Ben H. &ill will hear
them,
Cast of Clyde Fitch Play Is Kept Secret Until
Curtain Rises—Other Southerners in It.
WELLESLEY, MASS., Dec. 6.—
With Miss Tracy L’Engle, of Peach
tree road, Atlanta, in the title role
the Junior class In Wellesley Col
lege last night gave a performance
of Clyde Fitch’s "Beau Brummel.”
The cast was kept secret until the
very rise of the curtain. Not only
were the members of the cast un
identified, but the name of the play
had been carefully guarded, a new
custom at Wellesley, which aroused
a good deal of interest.
The first performance was highly
creditable and the play was repeated
Saturday evening for the benefit of
the freshman class.
Miss L’Engle, who is one of the
most popular girls at Wellesley, was
showered with congratulations and
well wishes by her classmates and
many college friends.
Another Southern girl, Miss Mar
garet Garside, of Tampa, Fla., made
a decided hit as the Duchess of
Leamington. Miss Elma Jaffrion, of
Marksville, La., scored also.
Miss L’Engle is the daughter of
Mrs. C. S. L’Engle, of Peachtree
road, and is the sister of Phil L’En
gle, one of the best-known young
men of Atlanta.
Miss L’Engle is In her third year at
Wellesley, where she has been promi
nent since her freshman days as a
leader in amateur theatricals. When
a student in Washington Seminary,
Miss L’Engle was notable for the
same reason. The young woman’s
friends In Atlanta declare she cher
ishes a more or less secret ambition
to achieve a stage career.
Princess Is Banished
From St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. The
Princess Marie of Sweden, who was
born a Russian Grand Duchess, has
been banished from the Court of St.
Petersburg by the Czarina because
the Princess left her husband and has
refused to return to him.
The Princess fled from her hus
band’s home at Stockholm after he
had struck her during a quarrel. In
the future Princess Marie will make
her home with her father at Paris.
Real Bird Christmas
On J. W. Kern Estate
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 —Senator and
Mrs. John W. Kern will give a unique
party on Christmas Day for the birds
that live In and around Kern Cllffe,
their Virginia country home.
Mrs. Kern has purchased a number
of tiny baskets to fill with goodies dear
to the bird heart. These will be sus
pended from tree branches. Bird houses
will be placed on the grounds for a holi
day shelter.
May Goelet Slated
For Honor by Queen
LONDON, Dec. 6.—The Duchess of
Roxburghe, formerly May Goelet, will
shortly bo offered the position as mis
tress of 'he robes by ^’leen Mary.
The Duch^**«* has been a frequent
visitor in the royal household during
the past few months, and she has been
marked for especial favors by Queen
Mary.
The Duchess of Devonshire, the
present occupant of the position, will
resign on account of ill health.
RY ATLANTA;
113036 TO
OGLETHORPE
University Fund Jumps From
$54,182 in One Day, Leaving
$111,064 To Be Secured to
Complete Quarter Million.
Success of Campaign for Great
Educational Institution Is As
sured at End of First Week
of Canvass for Subscriptions.
Son of Harriman
Ends Shop Schooling
OMAHA, Dec. 6.—W. Averill Har
riman, son of the late E. H. Harri
man, finished his education to-day
and left for New York City, where he
will arrive Monday.
For the last two weeks he has been
working in the Union Pacific head
quarters and shops In thi6 city learn
ing railroading at first hand. While
here he put in a short time in every
department of the big railroad of
which he is a director.
Atlanta, giving freely to the fund
for the new Oglethorpe University,
had a glorious joke Saturday on the
glooms who talk of tight money.
With a spurt that startled the en
thusiastic committee workers them
selves, the figures leaped In the one
day from $54,182, which amount was
announced by the committeemen at
luncheon, to $138,936, leaving but
$111,064 of the desired quarter of a
million yet to be subscribed.
It was an exuberant occasion, that
luncheon, when the workers spoke
happily of their assurance that with
in the next week the greater part, if
not all, of the balance will have been
obtained.
“There is money enough in Atlanta
—ready money—evidence of the city’s
prosperity—that is to be had for our
asking,” said Ivan E. Allen, general
chairman of the soliciting commit
tees, in his speech at the noonday
luncheon Saturday. “We have seen
only a small proportion of the city's
population, and have only scratched
the surface. Oglethorpe University
will be a reality Just as sure as we
are sitting here, and in ample time to
be a Christmas present for Atlanta
and the South.”
It was a joyful yell that went up
when he had finished—not a yell so
much as a dynamic whoop, expres
sive of the spirit of the luncheon par
ty. The attendance at the luncheon
table was the largest of the week's
midday meetings, and everybody
wanted to talk. A great many did.
Big Gifts Announced,
First of all, there was an analysis
of the financial report, and a state
ment by Individual committees. C.
P. Glover, a committee chairman, an
nounced subscriptions aggregating
$1,010 for the day. This was the
largest amount, and Its announce
ment was the signal for applause.
There was applause also when the
largest single contribution of the
morning, $1,000 given by W. Woods
White, was announced. When the
totals were checked for the forenoon’s
canvass. $6,033 was announced as the
amount and $54,333 as the aggregate
for the week. At .the first of the
week a goal of $50,000 had been set.
After luncheon the following sub
scriptions were made: S. M Inman,
$5,000; real estate subscriptions, $10,-
500; Georgia Railway and Power
Company, $5,000; Atlanta Gas Com
pany, $400. Revelation was made also
that the $2,500 previously donated
anonymously was the gift of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company.
In addition to these amounts there
are subscriptions of between $60,000
and $70,000 made by Atlantans In
sums of $1,000 before the committees
were appointed for the detailed can
vass.
At Saturday's luncheon It was given
out that few large subscriptions have
been made, the bulk of the money
raised coming from subscribers who
are relatively not rich.
Going After Big Money.
“This next week the committees are
going after Atlanta men who can and
will give big money,” announced
Chairman Allen, in analyzing the fig
ures. “We have done more than
raise $54,000 this week. We have con
verted the city of Atlanta to a belief
in the Oglethorpe movement, ant** - '
provided we all keep working hard,
the battle is won.”
O. T. Camp, one of the enthusiaa-
tlc workers, made a talk.
"All we have to do is to keep ham
mering another week,” he said, “and
we shall come out easy winners. An*
movement of sufficient importance
and appeal to cause Atlanta business
men to give their time to It at this
season of the year is foreordained tq
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