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VOL. XII. NO. 110.
ATLANTA, OA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
Copyright, 1906, <) RAT NO
By The Georgian Co. “ ' I-jLN io,
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42-MILE WIND BRINGS COLD WAVE
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Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of
Winter When the Mercury
Goes to 24 Degrees.
Official figures on wind and
temperature for Sunday night
are as follows:
Highest wind ve'ocity, 42 miles
an hour at 1 o’clock Monday
morning.
Wind velocity at 9 o’clock Mon
day morning, 28 miles an hour.
Lowest temperature, 24 degrees
above zero, at 7 o’clock Monday
morning.
Temperature at 10 o’clock, 27
degrees.
A large red sun crept slowly up in
a steel blue sky Monday morning.
Old Sol got up at the usual time, but
he didn’t cheer up very much. He
looked shivery, and his rays failed to
hit the earth with much'of a wal
lop, for the thermometer at 9: # 30
o’clock registered four degrees below
freezing.
The late attack of Indian summer
was over all at once, and winter had
touched Atlanta with an icy hand.
The temperature in the early morn
ing was five or six degrees under the
freezing mark, and the sharp wind
len* point tr the chill and poked it
around through the crevices of over
coats and tugged at hats and caused
exposed ears and noses to blush vig
orously.
Wind 50 Miles an Hour.
The switch in the weather ar
rangements was presaged Sunday
night when a 50-mile-an-hour wind
began to sweep bare the streets of
Atlanta and whoop Joyously around
the skyscrapers.
Pedestrians’ hats came to grief, and
there was even a smash of plate
glass along Peachtree and Whitehall
streets.
The wind came up as the sun went
down, and whooped about under the
stars, which looked a good deal less
like "forget-me-nots of the angels'*
when set in a sky that looked like the
roof of a frozen lake.
And all night long the snugly
housed citizens of Atlanta burrowed
deeper and deeper under the cover
lets, and heard at waking intervals
the dull thunder of the wind, and
regretted, dozily, the approaching
time for getting up.
Winter Fires Started.
In the morning there were furnace
fires to build, which is a peculiarly
unhappy task to be performed in
slippers and pajamas even with an
unfeeling overcoat to boot.
The blaze eddied and swirled in
op*n grates, and the stoves roared
a&ain. with a doleful sound of good
heat flying up the chimney.
Then breakfast—and it was a prop
er juncture for the good old warming
sausage-and-buckwheat type of food,
while the vegetarians and the anti-
caffein warriors must have suffered
a Qualm or two at the prospect.
Downtown in the early morning
you could tell It was chilly, even if
you didn’t feel it. The town looked
chilly.
Make Atlanta “Get a Move On.”
Chunks of ice that a few days ago
AT 8prea d water abroad on the side
walks while waiting to be shaved
p P for the soda fountains now' stood
j* 1 the solemn majesty of conserva
tion, without the faintest suspicion of
a wasteful trickle.
There was no loitering on the street
corners. Everybody seemed to have
somewhere to go and not very much
time to get there.
It was not a dreary scene. Rather,
; sparkled with a brisk life and ac-
•yHy, as if Atlantans far from de-
n:ng to take the proffered hand of
•Pter had grasped the chill glove
^artily and were squeezing some
armth and life into the old boy who
frwv, 8 * n * or a visit when the last
otball games are over and Christ-
mas is drawing near.
Carnegie’s Fortune
Has ‘Dwindled’ to
Only $15,000,000
;Pankhurst, Freed
; By Hunger Strike,
Taken to Hospital
BOSTON, Dec. 8.—Andrew Carne
gie has given away all his fortune
with the exception of 815,000,000, ac
cording to a Wall street correspond
ent for a Boston news bureau.
The story is that Carnegie had
planned to save $25,000,000, but found
that as some of the trustees of his
various funds differed with him on
some of his ideas, he was forced to
take $10,000,000 from his private for
tune In order to have his own way
about certain bequests.
He has provided handsomely for
Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Carnegie.
CAPITAL
Race Between Zapata and Car
ranza for the First Blow at
Mexico City.
Rockefeller Victim
In Alaska Fraud
SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—The late H. H.
Rogers, John D. Rockefeller and
others were caught in the sale of
stock of the Cook Inlet coal fields.
The company', the Government
charges, built the uninhabited town
of Homer, in Alaska, with saloons,
dance halls, hotels and stores and
street cars that pictures might be
taken for the prospectus upon which
stock was'sold. Then the town was
dismantled.
Twenty-one coal claims have been
cancelled because of fraud.
May Yohe Back,Keeps
Next Husband Secret
NEW YORK. Dec. 8,--Elated over
her London success, May Yohe, the
music hall artist, has Just arrived
from England, accompanied by the
Baroness VonStuenkle.
"I am here to spend Christmas with
mother,” Miss Yohe said. “Then 1
shall return to London and marry.”
“Are you going to remarry Lord
Hope?”
“If you say who I am going to mar
ry, it might spoil my plans,” she re
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8—Three
thousand fully equipped rebels, under
the command of Emlliano Zapata, are
almost withi nslght of this city to
day. The revolution waged by Gen
eral Carranza and Zapata has devel-
opd into a race between the latter’*
bandit forces and the Constitution
alists for the honor of taking the
Mexican capital and probabilities are
decidedly in favor of Zapata at the
present time.
There is a growing fear in the city
that a few hours will see looting and
killings in the streets. Every avail
able Federal soldier was dispatched
to Cuernavaca to-day by Minister of
War Blanquet to swell the forces of
General Castro, who is opposing
Zapata’s advance.
The Government claims to have
been victorious in the first skirmishes-
with Zapata’s horde, but foreigners
accept this claim as based on the
same foundation that reports of Fed
eral victories in the north have had.
Ugly Hands Spoil U.S.
Girls, S^ys Sculptor
piled.
Find Bodies of 15
Americans in Cuba
CINCINNATI. Dec. 8.—If it were
not for her hands and feet, there
would be no more beautiful witm-in
than the American 'matron or maid.
So says Professor F. F Triebel, a
sculptor, of Rome, now a visitor here.
Hands are too angular, he declares.
Justice Marshall's
Portrait Nets $1,005
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
HAVANA, Dec. 8.—The lorg-lost
remains of fifteen of Colonel Wii
Ham Crittenden’s Kentuckians whom
the SnaniarcLs shot in 1851 have been
found in a hillside near Atares Fort.
Colonel Crittenden and his men went
to Cuba on a filibustering expedition.
Colonel Crittenden was told to kneel
before the firing squad. His answer
was:
“An American kneels only to his
God.”
9,000 Ask Jobs of
Mayor-Elect of N. Y.
Tango Pedometers
Worn Upon Garters
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—It is reported
that 9,000 applications for positions
under the administration of Mayor-
j elect John Purrov Mitchel have been
i filed at the City Hall.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 8.—Debutantes
here have taken to wearing tango
pedometers as garter ornaments. It
is no longer fashionable to ask one
how long she has danced. The proper
question is, “How many miles did
you make?”
One young woman proudly assert*
that $she went fourteen miles at a
dansant held at a fashionable coun
try club.
‘Morphine Is Making
Monkeydom of U. S,’
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.—“If mor-
' phine using is not checked, the na
tion will degenerate to something
worse than monkeydom,” declared
i Dr, B. C. Keister, a specialist, of
Roanoke, Va.
According to Dr, Keister, the Uni
ted States Is second to China and
ahead of every other country in the
world in the use of opium and nar
cotics derived from it.
Twenty-ninth Child
In Wisconsin Family
STEVENS POINT, WIS„ Dec. 8.—
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kostruck broke
the record for babies when their
twenty -ninth offspring put in its ap
pearance.
Dr. Montessori Is
Guest of Miss Wilson
Near-Zero Weather
Hits the North.
CHICAGO. Dec. 8.—Long delayed
r ter weather -was fully upon the
* orth and Central Western States to-
' The cold came suddenly sending
m *rcury downward 26 degrees in a
mJi ^ours. Chicago was plunged from
a mi?} 1 umn weather to midwinter with
abovJ llmurn temperature of 18 degrees
1 vei or ,x, zer ,°- A wind that reached a
dtv ,$1$ ^ miles an hour swept the
Girl, 8, Urges U. S. to
Name Younger Santa
Expert Says City
Folk Live as Ants
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—The growth
of cities in America is causing the in
habitants to live like ants, declared
George Hooker, civic secretary of the
Chicago City Club, in aa address
here.
A i * niiiea an ijijur swept me
iffiiV... v,ng a fine snow in excellent
—t*on of a blizzard.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 —“Please
appoint a younger Santa Claus.”
This plea was made by letter to
Postmaster General Burleson by M ss
Lodenia L. Hile, 8 years old, of Al
bion, Ind, who -ays:
•'Santa Claus used to call on grand
pa when grandpa was a little boy.
Santa Claus must be too old now o
get around to see all the children.”
Wife to Lose Finley
Estate if She Reweds
Tolstoi’s Son Tells
Of Real ‘Karenina’
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.—A por
trait of John Marshall, Chief Justice,
brought $1,005 at a sale of effects of
the late J. R. Burton Willing, brother
of Mrs. John Jacob Astor. The por
trait Is a copy of a portrait by Henry
Inman.
NEWCASTLE, IND., Dec. 8.—
Pretty Grace Brenneman, 17, the
telephone operator whose elopement
with Joe Bufkin was nipped in the
bud last Monday night at a local
theater, became his wife Saturday at
Leedy. Okla.
She eluded her mother by prom
ising to go to Crawfordville, Ind., for
a visit with relatives.
Vein Photos May
Oust Finger Prints
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 —The finger
print method of the identification of
cr'minals may some day be supplant
ed by photographing the veins of the
hand, according to Professor Tamaa-
sla, of the Univ.rsit- - Padua, Italy.
IT- ays the merest novice can de
tect variations in the veins of the
hand.
First Indian in U. S.
Named to Priesthood
SUPERIOR, WIS-, Dec. 8.—Phipp
B. Gordon, an Indian and member of
one of the pioneer families of this
country, will be ordained to the Cath
olic priesthood Monday by Bishop
Koudelk. He is the second of his
race to be so ordained and the first in
the United States.
Insure Railroad
for $100,000,000
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Dr. Ma
ria Montessori. the famous educator,
was guest of Miss Margaret Wilson,
eldest daughter of the President, and
Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell.
MONTREAL, Dec 8—An insur
ance policy for $100,000,000, the larg
est In history, has Just been put
through by the Canadian Pacific Rail
way Company.
The property being insured Is val
ued at between $112,000,000 and $115,-
000,000.
The Moral Is-Look
Before You Peep!
CORTON, N Y, D c 8. -Peeping
into what he thought was 1 s sweet
heart’s home, Andrew Law on was
struck on the tv d and fell, breaking
his wrist and ankle.
Wrong house!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—By the
ternls of the will of the late W. W.
Finley, president of the Southern
Railway, the $185,000 left to Mrs. Fin
ley during her life goes to the chil
dren whenever she should revved. J
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia: Fair and much cold
er Monday; fair Tuesday.
ELABORATE PLANS LAID TO MAKE
XMAS FUND-GIVING ATTRACTIVE
Special Cable to Tne Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Mrs Emmeline
Pankhurst, leader of the militant suf
fragettes, who was released from jail
In Exeter because of illness, brought
on by a hunger and thirst strike, was
brought to London to-day.
She was taken in an ambulance to
the headquarters of the Woman’s So
cial and Political Union in Kingsway.
These quarters have been tempo
rarily fixed up as a hospital.
The famous militant was haggard
and so weak she could not stand. She
had suffered a general breakdown.
Bandit Lopez Still
Alive in Utah Mine
BINGHAM, UTAH, Dec. 8.—Raphael
Lopez, the Mexican bandit who already
has taken six Ives, is alive in the Utah
Apex mine, and is closely pressed by a
searching party of twelve men.
Evidence that Lopez is alive and close
by were found by his pursuers early
this morning On the floor of the slope
was a quilt, a crash towel covered with
soot and some pieces of burlap with
which the Mexican had bound his feet.
These articles were not there Saturday.
Yvette,
violin artist,
who will take
notable part in
Empty Stock
ing Fund All-
Star Matinee.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 8.—That the suicide
of Anna Karenina was based on an
incident in real l fe was revealed here
by Count Elie Tolstoi, son of the
novelist.
“In January, 1872.” said Count Tol
stoi, “In a fit of jealousy, Anna Step-
hanovna threw herself under a train.
My father ada~‘ed the details in de
scribing the death of Karenina.”
Second Elopement
Attempt Succeeds
All-Star Matinee Big Inducement
to Atlantans to Insure Santa's
Visit to the Poor.
It might be a pretty good thing to
begin the week with a little reminder
of the Empty Stocking Fund of The
Georgian and Sunday American, and
of what it means.
For a whole week now you have
heard every day about the ambitious
plans arranged to make it attractive
to give. You have heard of the tango
party that will be held at the Wine-
coff Hotel after the theater Monday
night. You have heard of the all-
star matinee Friday. You have heard
of the dolls to be dressed.
You have heard these things until
you are about to fall into the danger
of forgetting what it is all about.
What do you think of a word Just
now of the spirit behind it all?
Suppose we talk to-day of little
Johnny Merritt, who never dreamed
of a tango party, and whose theatri
cal experience has been limited to a
wistful Inspection of the bright-col
ored lithogranhs that stand on the
outside of all moving picture shows,
and who thinks of Santa Claus only
to feel .a little dull ache In his heart,
an ache that has a whole lot of envy
in it because he hears the other boys
and girls talk happily of the Christ
mas that will be here soon.
Dreads Day Others Welcome.
Johnny can’t conceive of Christmas
and happiness together. Christmas,
he thinks, will be a day like last Sun
day—a cold, wet, gray day, with no
fire inside the house, and no sun out
side, a day made miserable by a
lingering hunger for goodies to eat,
and by his child whimper for some
thing that he wants, without know
ing what, it is.
A stocking with just the toe full of
candy and a single orange would sat
isfy that hunger. A horn or a wood
en gun, or—oh, no, it could never be
—a cowboy suit, would quiet that
pitiful whimper.
And a whole pair of shoes and
warm stockings probably would have
the effect of brightening the whole
winter for him.
That’s a moral effect, you know,
because contentment makes a good
boy, where discontentment would
make even a 6-year-old person surly
and cross, and a fruitful field for the
germ of bitterness.
Johnny, ragged little fellow, can’t
arouse much cheerfulness by his
thoughts of Christmas. But the
Christmas Editor is here to tell you—
that is. if you won’t tell Johnny—that
the little boy is in for a great sur
prise.
Atlanta People Responding.
Atlanta people, giving heartily tc
the Empty Stocking Fund, are go
ing to see to it that Santa Claus
becomes a wealthy person this year,
wealthy enough to lay by a stock of
goodies and toys and useful presents
that will be enough not only for
Johnny Merritt, but for the hundreds
of other little boys and girls and
work-stooped women and helpless
men of Atlanta, who are In the same
plight that Johnny Is, and who are
thinking of Christmas with the same
thoughts as Johnny’s.
Atlanta people are listening to the
appeal of the Christmas Editor, that
person is proud to inform you. And,
as this story has told you once before,
a number of arrangements have been
made so that It will be attractive to
give There is the tango party, now.
for instance.
It will be a glorious affair. It will
be epoch-making, because, if all the
plans work out, Atlanta will see
something of an after-theater party
that ought to become an institution.
There is too little of bright, enjoy-
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OGLETHORPE TO
IE GIVEN CITY
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Rested ftnd invigorated by their lit
tle vacation Sunday and cheered by
the treemndous success of their first
week’s labor for Oglethorpe Univer
sity, the various committees started
out briskly Monday morning to cut
down the $1 11,064 of the $250,000 fund
which remains to be raised.
Another encouraging piece of news
received Monday morning was that
the Atlanta Typographical Union had
led the way for the other labor unions
in the city by subscribing $100 to the
fund, In addition to substantial
amounts already given by individual
members. This official evidence of
friendship and good will was ex
tremely gratifying to the Oglethorpe
leaders.
The rush of subscriptions In ^he
first week of the campaign has en
couraged the workers to believe firm
ly that every dollar of the $260,000
will be subscribed by Christmas Eve,
whereas it was at first thought the
fund could not be completed before
the first of the coming year.
“The way it looks this morning,”
said the Rev. Thornwell Jacobs, “At
lanta is "olng to find In Its Christmas
.-Mocking one of the finest Christmas
gifts her people have yet bestowed
on her. The campaign is progressing
beyond all predictions,”
LASTSEEN
Fifty Drown at One Point on the
Brazos — Refugees Suffer
From Hunger and Cold.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 8.—
Five hundred persons are be
lieved dead in Central and
Southern Texas as the result of
the disastrous floods that have
swept these sections of the coun
try. As the water recedes and
communication is restored every
hour brings tidings increasing
the death list. Fully one hun
dred persons are known to have
pc-'ished.
TL* latest reports received here told
of the drowning of 50 persons, moat
of them negroes, at Sunnyside on the
Brazos River. No news was to be
had to-day of 500 families who were
last seen marooned In tree tops and
on the roofs of houses.
There are 20,000 persons betas
cared for by the municipal authori
ties of Bryan, Hearne, Temple, Aus
tin, Waco and a dozen other cities In
the path of the flood. All are suffer
ing on account of the lack of food and
the cold wave that followed the flood.
At Bryan more than 1,000 homes
were destroyed. Near Navasota 50t*
dwellings were swept away. With
out food and suffering greatly from
cold, 200 Italians are marooned in
the upper stories of a few houses at
Bryan. Great masses of debris are
being swept against the houses by
the swollen stream, and the houses
are In danger of being washed from
their foundations.
Sight Gone, Sub-Dean
Refuses Promotion
Special Cabla to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 8.—Cardinal Zerafln«»
Vanutelli, sub-dean of the Sacred
College, who Is entitled to succeed
Cardinal Oreglia as dean, will re
nounce that honor on account of ill
health and partial blindness.
Cardinal Rampolla in that case
would become dean, since Cardinal
Gibbons, who is the senior Cardinal,
is excluded because he does not re
side in Rome.
John D. Breaks Rule;
Helps Catholic Fund
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 8.—John
D Rockefeller to-day contributed
$25,000 to the fund of $250,000 being
raised for St. Vincent's Hospital, a
Catholic institution which is more
generally known as Charity Hospi
tal.
Mr. Rockefeller ordered that the
rules of his benevolence board, which
prohibited such a gift, be broken in
this instance.
Brain Displaced, Girl
Writes Backwards
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Examination <rf
a girl who insists upon doing every
thing backward has revealed a pe
culiar case of abnormality.
The girl’s heart is on the right aid*.
Her brain is displaced. She write*
from right to left in a manner stmi-
lar to that used by the boy with th«%
“camera eyes” recently discovered*
who sees everything upside down.
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