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VOL. XII. NO. 110.
ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
Copyright, 1906, o PU'XT'T'CJ PAY NO
By The Georgian Co. ^ Vv-CUN I O. MORE.
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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 velocity, 42 mile*
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’clook, 27
degrees.
Forecast—Clear and cold Tues
day.
A large red sun crept slowly up in
a steel bine sky Monday morning.
Ob' Sol got up at the usual time, but
he didn’t cbeecr 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
lent point to 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 40 Miles an Hour.
The switch in the weather ar
rangements was presaged Sunday
night when a 40-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 artd Whitehall
streets.
The wind came up as the sun went
down, and whooped about under the
star^, which looked a good deal less
like forget-me-nots of the angels”
*hen set in a sky that looked like the
roof of a frozen lake.
And all night long the snugly I
boused citizens of Atlanta burrowed J
deeper and deeper under the cover-
fets, and heard at waking intervals
the dull thunder of the wind, and
regretted, dozily, the approaching
; ime for getting up.
Winter Fires Started,
in the morning there were furnace
Hres to build, which is a peculiarly
unhappy task to be performed in
slippers and pajamas, even with art
unfeeling overcoat to boot.
The blaze eddied and swirled in
open grates, and the stoves roared
again, with a doleful sound of good
beat flying up the chimney.
Then breakfast—and It was a prop-
er juncture for the good old warming
*ausage-and-buckwheat type of food,
while? the vegetarians and the anti-
4 warriors must have suffered
a Qualm or two at the prospect,
downtown in the early morning
| -on could tell it was chilly, even if
Qu didn’t feel it. The town looked
Chilly.
M ake Atlanta “Get a Move On.”
1 unks of ice that a few days ago
,;d d spread water abroad on the side
walks while waiting to be shaved
•P for the soda fountains now stood
he solemn majesty of conserva-
. v ’ hout the faintest suspicion of
a wasteful trickle.
corr erP Was no louring on the street
Sc J lers - Everybody seemed to have
, ‘ &w here to go and not very much
: ai y e to get there.
1 u * not a dreary scene. Rather.
t! ;:!-kled with a brisk life and ac-
liTr V ^ ^ Atlantans, far from de-
[V- 8 t&ke the proffered hand of
* ‘ iad grasped the chill glove
*a***mw in( ^ vv ®re squeezing some
r - a nd life into the old boy who
1 Tor a visit when the last
IT,.. - unes are over and Christ-
1 -wing near.
Crawford Defense
To Close Tuesday
With Widow's Story
Mrs. Mary Bell Crawford will not
take the stand Monday as expected,
but Attorney Reuben Arnold stated
that she will probably testify Tues
day, and with the conclusion of her
statement the defense will close its
case in the famous fight over the
estate of Joshua B. Crawford.
Dr. W. A. Jarnigan was called Mon
day morning by the defense to cor
roborate Dr. J. W. Hurt and other
physicians, to the effect that Mr.
Crawford did not die of poisoning
Following his testimony, Mrs. M. J.
Johnson, of Tucker, Ga„ a close
friend o%, Mrs. Crawford, will take
the stand to refute the charges that
Mrs. Crawford ensnared the aged
farmer into marrying her. It is un
derstood that her testimony will show
that Mr. Crawford was anxious to
marry and insisted upon it.
A number fo other physicians will
be called during the day, among them
Dr. Marion Hull.
Convict in Federal
Prison Here Falls
Heir to Rich Estate
James E. Porter, w<ho is serving a
term in the P'ederal Penitentiary
here for selling liquor in violation of
the Government laws, has, through
the death of a relative at Batesville,
Ark., where Porter was convicted,
fallen heir to $20,000.
The news of Porter’s good fortune
was received by The Georgian Mon
day morning. At the penitentiary of
ficials said that Porter had not as
yet been notified of the legacy.
The county judge at Batesville has
ruled that Porter’s wife shall have
the income from the fortune until the
man is released.
Montgomery Ward Is
Dead of Pneumonia
CHICAGO, Deo. 8,—A. Montgomery
Ward, founder of an enormous mall or
der house, is dead to-day of pneumonia,
which followed an accident in which his
hip was fractured.
He spent a large fortune in the
courts to prevent the erection of build
ings along Chicago's lake front and lost
only one battle, which resulted in the
erection of the Art Institute.
U. S.to Prosecute
Nine Labor Leaders
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The Unit
ed States Government will prosecute
labor leaders connected with the
Western Federation of Miners accused
of violating the Sherman anti-trust
act in their activities!
President Wilson to-day took the
stand that there is nothing in tho
sundry civil bill which prohibits su- h
prosecutions.
Ugly Hands Spoil U.S.
Girls, Says Sculptor
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—If it were
not for her hands and feet, there
would be no more beautiful wttman
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.
The Moral Is-Look
Before You Peep!
CORTON, N. Y„ Dec. 8.—Peeping
into what he thought was his sweet
heart’s home, Andrew Lawson was
struck on the head and fell, breaking
his wrist and ankle.
Wrong house!
Wife to Lose Finley
Estate if She Reweds
WASHINGTON, Dee. 8.—By the
terms of the will of the late W. W.
Finley president of the Southern
Rail wav, the $185,000 left to Mrs. Fin
ley during her life goes to the chil
dren whenever she should rewed.
Race Between Zapata and Car
ranza for the First Blow,
With Former Leading,
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Three
thousand fully equipped rebels, under
the command of Emiliano Zapata, are
almost within sight of this city to
day. The revolution waged by Gen
eral Carranza and Zapata has devel
oped into a race between the latter’s
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 ftew 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 (.’astro. 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 based on the
same foundation that reports of Fed
eral victories in the north have had.
Assurances have been given the
Mexican Government that it will be
able to secure a loan in France, ac
cording to reports circulated here to
day by officials close to President
Huerta. It was intimated by them
that before Senor de la Barra, Minister
of Finance, left here he had been told
that he would have no trouble in ar
ranging a loan in Paris.
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One of Atlanta’s leading doctors examining a youngster at the Child Welfare Show.
Border Fight at
Ojinaga Begins.
PRESIDIO, TEXAS (By United
States Army Telephone to Marfa),
Dec. 8.—Mysterious troop movements
just over the International line, indi
cating that another light on the
border is imminent, caused much ac
tivity in United States military cir
cles to-day.
The United States Army outpost
just north of Presidio reported the
presence of more than 100 Mexican
cavalrymen, believed to be Federais,
who were moving upon Ojinaga.
Shortly afterward firing could be
heard.
The housetops in Presidio were
soon filled with people. From these
vantage points it could be seen that
a great commotion existed in Ojinaga.
Troops could be seen rushing through
the streets toward the outskirts.
Boy Burglars Rob
AlversonBros, Store
Another depredation by boy bur
glars was diecovered Monday morn
ing when clerks opened the store ol
Alverson Brothers, at No. 88 South
Forsyth street. The burglars got in
through the transom over the back
door.
They took $3 from the cash reg
ister.
Citizens Clean City
When Officials Lag
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 —Men and women
of Pennock, a suburb. tired of wait
ing for the city street cleaning depart
ment to get busy, dragged out their
garden tools and cleared the thorough
fares of mud and fallen leaves
THE WEATHER,
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and much cold
er Monday; fair Tuesday.
Pankhurst, Freed Jiu Jitsu Conquers
By Hunger Strike, Negro Who Wrecked
Taken to Hospital 3 West Side Houses
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 Ixmdon 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.
Find Bodies of 15
Americans in Cuba
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
HAVANA, Dec. 8.—The long-lost
remains of fifteen of Colonel Wil
liam Crittenden’s Kentuckians whom
e Snanlards shot in 1851 have been
found in a hillside near A tares Fort.
Colonel Crittenden and hn> men went
to Cuba on a filibustering expedition.
Colonel Crittenden was told to kneei
before the firing squad. Mis answer
w r as:
"An American kneels only to his
God."
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Sight Gone, Sub-Dean
Refuses Promotion
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec 8.—Cardinal Zerafinfl
Vanutelli, sub-dean of the Sacred
College, who is entitled to succeed
Cardinal Oreglia as dean, will re
nounce that honor on account of IP
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-
aide in Rome.
A sudden application by policemen of
the jiu jitsu principles of wrestling
served to tame a cocaine-crazed black
who wrecked three houses on Foundry
street Sunday morning and attracted a
mob of several thousand negroes.
. The negro was Jim Davis, of No. 265
Foundry street, who suddenly became
violently insane from the use of the
drug. He ran his wife out of the house
and then wrecked his home. He sent a
washstand crashing through a window,
broke doors and smashed beds. His wife
ran next door to No. 267 Foundry street.
He followed and wrecked that bouse
also. She fled again to No 269 and he
pursued.
Call Officers George Watson and John
West, both of whom are students of jiu
jitsu, answered the call, and it took
them less than half a minute to quell
Davis with jiu jitsu methods.
‘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
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,.
Long Distance Phone
Speech From Wilson
ROCHESTER. N. Y., Dec. 8.—
President Wilson on Wednesday
r.ight will speak by long distance tel
ephone from Washington to a ban
quet of 502 officers and directors of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, who are in convention
here. Each will have an extension
telephone at his elbow while the
President telephones his greetings.
Atlanta Mothers Eager to Take Advantage of
Free Offer of Welfare Show.
For the first time perhaps In the
history of the city, Atlanta mothers
are being given an opportunity to
have their babies examined free of
charge by competent physicians, in
the Health Conference of the Child
Welfare and Public Health Exhibit,
in the old Leyden house on Peachtree
street.
The work is being done by mem
bers of the Fulton County Medical
Society, which numbers among its
members the most prominent doctors
of Atlanta. They have donated their
services to the management of the
show, and are working in relays, half
a dozen of the physicians being on
hand each day to examine the chil
dren.
The health conference is attracting
more attention than any other de
partment of the show. More than a
hundred children have been exam
ined since the show opened, and the
number Is increasing every day.
Do Not Give Treatment.
The physicians do not give or sug
gest any treatment—they merely tell
the mother what is the matter with
the child, and then it Is up to the
parent to remedy the condition or not,
as she sees fit. ., Each child is exam
ined carefully and thoroughly, and a
report, covering 32 points, is given to
the mother.
This report embodies the result of a
careful examination of the pulse,
bones, muscle, skin, head, glands,
mouth, teeth, tonsils, adenoids, eyes,
ears, nose, chest. abdomen, liver,
spleen, heart, lungs, spine and other
portions of the child’s body.
It is expected that greater and more
permanent good will come from this
health conference than from any of
the other departments of the show.
• With the aid of the report of the
physician who examined her child,
the mother knows exactly what ails
her baby, and then the curing of these
ills is comparatively simple, if done in
time.
Should Be Examined Often.
•‘The greatest trouble with the
average mother," said one of the doc
tors Monday, “is that she never learns
what is the matter with her child
until it 18 too late Babies should be
examined often, because there are
many diseases that get a foothold in
a child’s body and are not apparent
to any but the trained eye and mind
until it is too late to cure them
“Many of the ilia that ruin the
lives of men and women could be
prevented by proper treatment of the
child, at an age when the cure is easy
and simple."
The conference will continue each
day until the close of the show, and
the general committee in charge of
the show invites every mother in At
lanta to bring her child and have It
examined
Special Program For
“City Officials’ Day.”
Monday being “City Officials' Day”
at the Child Welfare Show, No. 198
Peachtree street, a special program
has been arranged, to Y>egin at 6:30
o’clock in the evening.
There will be college girls and boys
from the various institutions of the
city, and members of the Tech Glee
Club will give a concert of varied
numbers. The Rev. L. O. Brlcker, of
the First Christian Church, in to
speak at 7:80 o'clock on “The Larger
Education and the Smaller Details of
Life.”
Another feature of the entertain
ment is the work of night school girls
of Atlanta—the foreigners striving to
learn our language after working
hours and to make of themselves
good citizens in a new country.
Thousands Marooned in Tops ot
Trees — Hunger and Cold
Increase Suffering.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec-. 8.—
Horrible conditions were report
ed to-day from the flood-swept
area of Otneral Texas. In sev
eral of these places smallpox and
typhoid have been found in refu
gee eamps. At Kippes Bridge 80
persons are crowded in an old
ginhouse. Several babes hava
been born there. Pigs and calves
] being swept past by the flood wa
ters were seized and eaten raw
by the hungry refugees.
The total known dead to-day wag
100. The Commercial Club of Bryan
Issued a statement estimating the to«
| tal dead at 500.
Women and Children Suffer.
ic many stricken towns women
and children to-day were without
shelter and hundreds are almost
without clothing. Appeals for aid for
these places went unheeded to-day
i because neither trains nor boats could
1 reach them.
In the glnhouses near Wellborn
more than 1,000 persons are marooned
In the upper stories. In Wellborn
alone more than 2,000 persons are be
ing cared for in the public buildings
and homes located on high ground.
Two white men and four negroes
were rescued from a treetop there to
day, after 32 hours’ exposure.
500 Negroes Drown.
The latest reports received here told
of the drowning of 50 persons, most
of them negroes, at Sunnyside on the
Brazos River. No news was to be
had to-day of 600 families who were
last seen marooned in tree tops and
on the roofs of houses.
There are 20,000 persons being
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*
Insure Railroad
for $100,000,000
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 va!w
ued at between $112,000,000 and $115,-
000,000.
Justice Marshall's
Portrait Nets $1,005
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
I of Mrs. John Jacob Astor. The por-
j trait is a copy of a portrait by Henry
I Inman.
Loses Finger in Door
Grabbing for His Hat
CHICAGO. Dec 8—Alfred R. Bates
made a grab for his hat as It bTew off.
The heavy church door which he had
opened blew shut. Bates' hand was
caught and one finger was crushed off.
Dr. Montessori Is
Guest of Miss Wilson
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.
No Protectorate by
U. S. for Nicaragua
WASHINGTON. Dec. i— President
Wilson took particular painB to-day to
contradict reports that the United States
is planning to establish a protectorate
over Nicaragua.
He said tnat the treaty being nego
tiated between the two countries wag
planned by Nicaragua.