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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. XO. 110.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
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GEORGIA COTTON CROP NETS $139,373,480
MRS. HOUSTON LEADS
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MRS.' DAVID F. HOUSTON.
Mrs. Houston proposed the boycott against the high price of eggs
which was inaugurated by the women of the Cabinet last week, and the
other wives of the Cabinet fell in. Mrs. Garrison was at first quite certain
that the Secretary of War could not do without his eggs at breakfast.
She, too, finally agreed to help the housewives’ movement, which is now
nation-wide, and the embargo on the hen product at the Cabinet tables
o complete.
Baptist Ministers
In Men and Religion
Crusade on Liquor
Plans to support the Men and Re
gion Forward Movement in its cru
de against liquor were formulated
the weekly meeting of the Baptist
Ministers' Association Monday.
Several pastors declared their in
anition to be present at the next
meeting of the Police Commission.
hen near-beer licenses will be con-
■ dered. They will join in the fight
t^en to be started.
Pastors also were urged to do
* rything in their power to make
r '"-to-ehurch Day” a success.
Wilson Comes South
For Yuletide Rest
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President
v ' * ' n is planning to spend his Yule-
t;de holiday at some Southern- resort,
1 w 'as learned to-day, as he believes
: • urrency bill will be passed be-
Christmas.
1 ■ President does not expect to
• his trust address to Congress
1 late in January.
Boarding House Fire
Is Quickly Subdued
fl / re ; r ginating from a defective
F r flight damage to Mrs. Ida
boarding house. No T-7
stn et, Monday aft ei i i
i j; ir ‘ "’as discovered in the roof,
extinguished by chemicals.
Convict in Federal
Prison Here Falls
Heir to Rich Estate
James E. Porter, who is serving a
term in the Federal 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.
Witness to Testify
Turner Took Money
Aldine Chambers said Monday that
he would proceed Monday afternoon
to prove his charges of “graft”
against City Electrician R. C. Tur
ner at the joint meeting of the Board
of Electrical Control and the Council
Electric Lights Committee.
"I have a witness who will con
vince the investigators that Turner
has been receiving money from the
organization of electrical contractors
in Atlanta,” he declared.
T have done my duty as a city of
ficial and 1 am ready for the inves
tigation,” said Turner Monday.
Texas. In several of these places
smallpox and typhoid have been
found in refugee camps. At Kippes
Bridge 80 persons are crowded in an
old ginhouse. Several babes have
been born there. Pit rc ’ and calves be
ing swept past by the flood waters
were seized and eaten raw by the
hungry refugees.
The total known dead to-day was
100. The Commercial Club of Bryan
issued a statement estimating the to
tal dead at 500. ♦
The United States Government this
afternoon sent from Galveston 25,000
rations, plenty of tents, blankets, etc.,
in charge of a company of ten soldiers
and a sergeant, to Bryan, where the
destitution In the flooded district is
greatest. Sunny Side, Wharton and
Eagle Lake are overwhelmed and cry
ing for help.
Women and Children Suffer.
In 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
because neither trains nor boats could
reach them.
In the ginhouses -'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.
50 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 500 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.
Citizens Clean City
When Officials Lag
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.-Men and women
of Pennoek. 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.
Crooks Are Looting
State Postoffices;
Register,Ga..Latest
If the “yegg” migration through
Georgia doesn’t stop, R. E. Barry,
postoffice inspector, is likely to have
the family telephone taken out.
“At 3 o'clock this morning,” Mr.
Barry said Monday, “I was hauled out
of bed to learn that the postoffice at
Register, Ga., had been blown all to
bits. The postmaster was too excited
to mention his name and he didn’t
know the exact amount of the rob
bery. I guess it wasn’t any great
loss.”
Mr. Barry suggests to postmasters
in small towns that they keep eyes
open during the southward journey of
tramps and “yeggs” for the winter.
“Crooks will pick up a little change
as they go along,” he said, “and the
descriptions are always meager. A
couple of ‘yeggs’ will hang around a
town a week and after they blow the
postoffice safe and get away, all we
can find out is that one of them was
a tall, slender man, wearing a slouch
hat, and the other a short, heavy-set
man, which description fits practi
cally all the cases of safe-blowing,
burglary or highway robbery I ever-
heard of.”
School Children to
Sell Xmas Stamps
The Red Cross Christmas seals will
be sold this year through Atlanta’s
thousands of school children, ..he
same as last year, for the benefit of
the open-air school fund.
Last year through the sale of the
Red Cross seals school children raised
over $1,000 for the -purpose of estab
lishing an open-air school in Ai’antd.
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 th*
sundry civil bill which prohibits such
prosecutions.
TheBishop’sCarriage
Is Target for Auto
NEWTON. MASS., Dec. 8.—Bishop
Edwin H. Hughes and his wife to
day were recovering from serious
bruises they suffered when their car
riage was struck and overturned by
an automobile.
Bishop Hughes for a number of
years was president of DePauw Uni
versity, in Indiana.
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 val
ued at. between $112,000,000 and $115,-
000,000.
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 woman
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.
Wife to Lose Finley
Estate if She Reweds
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—By the
terms 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 rewed.
NEW RECORD CITY SHIVERS
AT 8 BELOW
FREEZING
SET BY BIG
DOCKET
Judge Hill Rushes Hearing, Sur
prising Lawyers Expecting
Usual “Placing Method.”
One hundred and ninety-one matri
monial craft, derelict on the sea of
suppositious wedded bliss, came to
port Monday morning in Judge Hill’s
court. It is the largest divorce docket
in the history of Fulton County.
And Judge Hill, new to the work,
began it in a manner that upset a lot
of staid and solemn lawyers, accus
tomed to have hearings arranged for
their own convenience.
For Judge Hill started hearing the
cases as they came—“right off the
bat,” one perturbed attorney put it—
the first case being disposed of in
four minutes by the courtroom clock,
and twenty cases out of 25 called be
ing decided by 11 o’clock.
The calendar presented almost ev
ery variation of marital rebellion and
desertion and grief and abuse and in
fidelity and non-support, and all the
rest of it.
Petitioners Mostly Women.
There were sad-eyed women, hesi
tating. and even hoping for some
thing at the eleventh hour; some
thing that was not mentioned in
their petitions. And there were wom
en who lookecj forward to a release
as if from prison; who looked for
ward right joyously to another start
in life; perchance another embarka
tion on the same kind of voyage that
haxl come to grief, but with another
pilot.
It was the usual courtroom crowd
of divorce petitioners, mostly women.
The unusual feature was the atti
tude of the lawyers.
When it was discovered that Judge
Hill, In the effort to clear up the
clogged docket, would not “place” the
cases, the lawyers suddenly and un
expectedly were confronted with the
job of sticking around court all week,
being prepared at any moment for
the calling of their cases.
Record Time Made.
There was a flurry and a hasty use
of telephones, and hurried journeys
to offices, to arrange for the care of
other business, so that the week of
December 8 might be devoted to the
divorce calendar and cleaned up
without delay.
The first case on the list was that
of a negro woman asking divorce, and
it was disposed of in record time. The
attorneys announced “Ready,” and In
less than a minute the case was on.
In four more minutes the judge had
instructed the jury to bring in a ver
dict granting the divorce.
A lljttle later came the case of Mrs.
M. A. Sockwell.
"How many children did your hus
band have when you married him?”
she was asked.
“Well, he had five children with
him and four grown children else
where,” she said, and added that
promptly after their marriage in May,
1911, her husband had turned from
an apparently energetic and able per
son to the "laziest white man” she
ever had seen. She got the verdict.
Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of
Winter When the Mercury
Goes to 24 Degrees.
Killed Best Friend;
Is Held for Murder
VALDOSTA. Dec. 8.—The Coron
er's Jury investigating the killing of
Mills B. Lane. Jr., a nephew of Mills
B. Lane, Sr., a Savannah banker, by
Mason Williams, in Brooks County,
to-day returned a verdict of murder
Williams claims Inane’s hat b’.ew off
while they were riding In a buggy
and that Lane got out to get it. and
when the horse made an attempt to
dash away Lane called out that if
Williams tried to leave him he would
kill him. at the same time throwing
his hand behind him as if to draw a
pistol. It was then, Williams says
he shot Lane.
Official figures on wind * n d
temperature for Sunday night
are a* follows:
Highest wind velocity, 42 milea
an hour at 1 o’clock Monday
morning.
Wind velocity at 9 o’clock Mon
day morning, 28 miles an hour.
Lowtct temperature, 24 degrees
above zero, at 7 o'clock Monday
morning.
Temperature at 10 o’clook, 27
degree*.
Forecast—Clear and cold Tues
day.
A large red sun crept slowly up in
a steel blue sky Monday morning.
Old Hoi 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
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 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 Fire* 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
open grates, and the stoves roared
again, 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
had spread water abroad on the side
walks while waiting to be shaved
up for the soda fountains now stood
in 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,
it sparkled with a brisk life and ac
tivity. as if Atlantans, far from de
clining to take the proffered hand of
winter, had grasped the chill glove
heartily and were squeezing some
warmth and life into the old boy who
drops in for a visit when the last
football games are over and Christ
mas is drawing near.
Crawford Defense
To Close Tuesday
With Widow’s Story
Mrs. Mary Bell Crawford will not
take the stand Monday aj* 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 of Mrs. Crawford, will take
the stand to refute the charges that
Mrs. Crawford ensnared the aged
farmer into marrying her. It is un- i
derstood that her testimony will show i
that Mr. Crawford wss anxious to ;
marry and insisted upon it.
A number of other physicians will
be called during the day, among them
Dr. Marion Hull.
Long Distance Phone
Speech From Wilson
ROCH BISTER, N. Y., Dec. 8.—-
President Wilson on Wednesday
night 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.
Montgomery Ward Is
Dead of Pneumonia
CHICAGO, r>ec. 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.
Boy Burglars Rob
Alverson Bros. Store
Another depredation by boy bur
glars wss discovered Monday morn
ing when clerks opened the store of
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.
College Girls War
On Women’s Hats
WELI.ESI,BY, MASS., Der. S —A
movement has been started here to
compel the removal of hats worn by
women. The “ostrich farms" and
"flower gardens" were denounced at
a mass meeting of Wellesley College
girls
The Moral Is-Look
Before You Peep!
GORTON, 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!
Grade This Year Is Much Higher
Than From Any Other Sec
tion of Dixie.
Georgia has collected from a
world whioh. must be clothed
$139,373,460 this season.
This is $33,750,000 more than
came into Georgia last fall.
The Government ginners’ report’
Issued Monday shows that 2.064.791
bales of cotton have been ginned In
Georgia since the cotton crop began
to move. Bales ginned, as a general
proposition, may be regarded as bales
sold. Particularly Is this true for the
present season. Few farmers are
holding their crop, for prices have
been thoroughly satisfactory'.
Georgia, then, has sold more than
2,000,000 bales of cotton. The price
has ranged from 13 cents upward for
middling, with an unusual premium
for white, fine grades. The Georgia
crop has classed much higher than
usual, better than the crop of Texas
or any of the river States. It is con
servative to say that an average of
13 1-2 cents was paid for the Georgia
crop.
This makes $139,373,460 received for
the crop to date.
I^ast year only 1,564,428 bales had
been ginned to this date. The in
crease this year is 500,000 bales.
Girl, 8. Urges U. S. to
Name Younger Santa
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 .—“Please
appoint a younger Santa Claus.”
This plea was made by letter to
Postmaster General Burleson by Miss
Lodenia L. Hile, 8 years old, of Al
bion, Ind., who says:
“Santa Claus used to call on grand
pa when grandpa vras a little boy.
Santa Claus must be too old now
get around to see all the children.”
Chief Tells Roccoa
Of Vice War Here
A clean-up movement of some kind Is
r.ot unlikely in Roecoa following an
address on the reform movement In At
lanta by Chief of Police Beavers Sun
day.
The chief said time had proved that
there was no fanaticism In the anti-
tenderloin war here which doomed rec
ognized evil. He said it also demon
strated that the man who called him “a
Miss Nancy” was mistaken.
Dr. Montessori Is
Guest of Miss Wilson
WASHINGTON, Dec 8.--T)r. Ma
ria Montessori, the famous educator,
was guest of Miss Margaret Wilson,
eldest daughter of the President, and
i Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell.
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Loses Finger in Door
Grabbing for His Hat
CHICAGO, Dec 8.—Alfred R. Bates
made a grab for his hat as it bTpw off.
The heavy church door which he had
opened blew shut. Bates’ hand was
caught and one finger was crushed, off.
Judges He Appointed
Kept Taft From Law
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—Ex-Presi
dent Taft told for the first rime why
he was prompted to give up Cincin
nati as his home and accept a pro
fessorship at Yale.
He said it was because he would
have been compelled to practice law-
before judges he had appointed.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and much cold
er Monday ; fair Tuesday.