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VOL. XII. NO. 110.
ATLANTA, UA„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
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GEORGIA COTTON CROP NETS $139,373,480
MRS. HOUSTON LEADS
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Crooks Are Looting
State Postoffices;
Register ,6a.,Latest
If the “yegg” migration through
Georgia doesn’t stop, R. E. Barry,
postoffioe 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 postofflce 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, “ahd the
descriptions are always meager. A
couple of ‘yeggs’ will hang around a
town a week and after they blow the
postofflce 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 Gross Christmas seals will
be sold this year through Atlanta’s
thousand* of school children, the
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 At'anta.
U. S. to Prosecute
Nine Labor Leaders
MRS. DAVID F. HOUSTON
Mrs. Houston proposed the boyco
which was inaugurated by the wome
o’.her wives of the Cabinet fell in. M
that the Secretary of War could no
ie. too, finally agreed to help the h
nation-wide, and the embargo on th
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tt against the high price of eggs
n of the Cabinet last week, and the
rs. Garrison was at first quite certain
t do without his eggs at breakfast,
ousewives’ movement, which is now
e hen product at the Cabinet tables
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Baptist Pastors in
Men and Religion
Crusade on Liquor
Plans to support the Men and Re
gion Forward Movement in its cru
sade against liquor were formulated
at the weekly meeting of the Baptist
Ministers’ Association Monday.
Several pastors declared their in
tention to be present at the next
meeting of the Police Commission,
when near-beer licenses will be con
sidered. They will join in the fight
'hen to be started.
Pastors also were urged to do
everything in their power to make
Go-to-Church Day” a success.
Wilson Comes South
For Yuletide Rest
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President
M ilson is planning to spend his Yule-
tide holiday at some Southern resort,
it was learned to-day, as he believes
’he currency bill will be passed be-
We Christmas.
The President does not expect to
make his trust address to Congress
u ntil late in January.
Boarding House Fire
,1s Quickly Subdued
Eire, originating from a defective
did slight damage to Mrs. Ida
Hester’s hoarding house, No. 227
VJ ella 11 street. Monday afternoon,
he fire was discovered in the roof.
,Vas extinguished by chemicals.
Convict in Federal
Prison Here Falls
Heir to Rich Estate
James E. Portgr, 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.
"I have done my duty as a city of
ficial anil I 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. Pir ( ' 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 th£
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 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.
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 the
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.
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Judge Hill Rushes Hearing, Sur
prising Lawyers Expecting
Usual “Placing Method,”
Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of
Winter When the Mercury
Goes to 24 Degrees.
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 maul.
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 tlie 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 re wed.
One hundred ami 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.
Judge’s Views on Divorce Cases.
Judge Hill holds that a judge’s or
juror’s personal opinion does not en
ter into the trying of a divorce case;
that certain statutes have been laid
down by the Legislature, and that it
Is simply the jury’s business to de
termine whether the 'charges agree
with those named in the statutes.
"So far as handling the work of
the court,” he said, “I do not think it
is necessary for me to give long
charges to the Jury in divorce cases,
or to enter into long statements on
the evidence, unless It is shown, that
the parties have been guilty of col
lusion to obtain a divorce. I think
the jurv can determine very readily
as to whether the complaining party
Is deserving of freedom.”
That both parties should be re
lieved of their disabilities unless the
evidence showed one or both to be
of such character that they should
not be allowed to remarry was the
opinion expressed by the judge in one
case.
All Records Broken.
All records for divorce hearings in
Fulton County were broken at Mon
day’s session. It was the first time
Judge Hill had ever officiated in a
divorce hearing, but his work was
rapid. From 9:30 o'clock until 1:30 a
total of 55 divorces had been granted,
most of them' being second verdicts.
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 wa^4 not mentioned in
their petitions. And there were wom
en who looked 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
had 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 ^lear 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 fof
the calling of their cases.
Record Time Made.
There was a flurry and a hasty use
of telephones, and hurried journeys
LO offices. Lo arrange for the care of
6ther 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 little later came the case of Mrs.
M. A. Sock well.
“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 apparenUv energetic and able per
son to the “laziest white man” she
ever had seen. She got the verdict.
Official figures on wind and
temperature for Sunday night
are as follows:
Highest wind velocity, 42 mile®
a n 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.
Forecast—Clear and cold Tues
day.
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 wa.s fiv$ 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 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
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-
caff ein 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 acr
tivity, as if Atlantans, far from de
clining to take the proffered hand of
winter, had grasped the chill glove
heartily and were squeezing s6me
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 Letter
Defending Widow
Produced at Trial
A letter written by Joshua B.
Crawford to Mrs. Mary Belle Craw
ford (at that time Mrs. Savag’e) urg
ing Mrs. Crawford to hasten to At
lanta, was Introduced by the attor
neys for Mrs. Crawford Monday
morning. It was filed as a counter to
the charge that Mr. Crawford wrote
her telling her not to come to At
lanta. The letter reads:
“Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 22, 15109.
“Mrs. Savage: I received my
trunks. I was so glad to get them.
And you say my house is vacant?
Before coming up to Mr. Barens
and have him to rent it for me. Come
up as soon as you can, for I need
you. We want to get our house fixed
up. so I can live once again. You
promised to come soon. Don’t make
it too long. I will close for this time.
“Hoping to see you soon,
“Your intended,
“J. B. CRAWFORD.**
Th* attorneys for the 48 heirs ob
jected to the introduction of the let
ter, charging it was not genuine.
Mrs. M. J. Johnson, of Tucker, Ga,
a friend of Mr. Crawford, testified as
to his marriage and Illness. She told
of seedng the trained nurse give him
a cough syrup under the doctor's in
structions.
Dr. W. A. Jarnigan and Dr. Marlon
Hull corroborated the testimony of
Dr. J. W. Hurt and others that the
amount of poison in Crawford’s stom
ach was not enough to cause death.
Grade This Year Is Much Higher
Than From Any Other Sec
tion of Dixie,
Long Distance Phone
Speech From Wilson
ROCHESTER. 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, Deo. 8.—A. Montgomery
Ward, founder of an enormous mail 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
AlversonBros. Store
Another depredation by boy bur
glars was discovered Monday morn
ing when clerks opened the store of
A Iverson 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
WELLESLEY, MASS., Dec. 8 —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.
Georgia has collected from a
world which 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 IS 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 $139,378,460 received for
the crop to date.
Last year only 1,564,438 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
Lodenla L. Hlle, 8 years old, of Al
bion, Ind., who says:
“Hanta Claus used to rail on grand
pa when grandpa was a little boy*
Santa Claus must be too old now
get around to see all the children.”
Chief Tells Toccoa
Of Vice War Here
A clean-up movement of some kind Is
not unlikely in Toccoa 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 whd called him “a
Miss Nancy” was mistaken.
The Moral Is-Look
Before You Peep!
(’ORTON, 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!
Six-Day Riders One
Mile Ahead Record
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—At the end of
the fourteenth hour, 2 o'clock, in the
six-day bicycle race all the seventeen
teams were one mile ahead of the rec
ord, having covered 320 miles flat.
Judges He Appointed
Kept Taft From Law
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—Ex-Presi
dent Taft told for the first ;im# why
he was prompted to give up Cinc!n-<
nati as his home and accept a pro
fessorship at Yale.
He said it was because he wou'd
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.