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VOL. XII. NO. 113.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY DECEMBER 11. 1913.
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By The Georgian Co.
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Smashes Phone Pole Averting Auto Crash
Richmond Man, Believed tc Have
Perished in Room. Appears,
"Reformed.”
MACON, Dec. 11.—J. R. Thurmond,
"f Richmond, Va.. who was believed
to have perished in the Hotel Wil-
( ams fire, which caused a loss of
10.000. made his appearance at noon
■o-day. and indignantly denied the re
ports of his death.
"This affair has converted me." he
*aid, "for I’ll never take another
drink."
The porter put Thurmond to bed
in an Intoxicated condition, and it
was believed that the man failed to
escape from his room. However, he
.iumpejl to the roof of a two-story
uilding and reached the ground
without mishap. He then went to
r-ed at another hotel, awakening at
noon to learn that he was given up as
ead.
Only the walls of the hotel, a. four-
story building, are standing, and they
nre expected to fall any minute.
Atlantans’ Narrow Escape.
Sixty-seven guests were in the ho-
ol, and for a tirpe it was impossible
’o tell how many of them had es-
aped. The register and other rec
ords of the hotel were burned.
A Jewelry salesman named Levy,
from Chicago, claims that his stock
of diamonds, appraised at $10,000. was
lost in the fire
Mrs. R. Miller and .Miss Alice Mill
er, of Atlanta, came down a fire es- j
ape from the third floor in their night’
iothing - just as the. ceiling of their
room fell In. All of their clothes and
possessions were destroyed. Brady
Knight, of Eatonton, found the stair-
way and fire escapes cut off by sheets
of flames, and so he tied quilts and
«heets together and reached th •
ground with the use of this impro
vised rope.
Honeymooners Hit.
A honeymoon c_uple, Mr. and Mrs.
S. M. Lorig. of Macon, the bride for
merly being Miss Martha Cohn, of Al
bany, had an exceedingly narrow es-
ape, and were rescued by firemen,
being taken out of a window, almost
suffocated., They lost diamonds and
other Jewelry, mostly wedding pres
ents, valued at $4,000.
The lire was discovered by a po
liceman at 4:45 a. m., and at that time
i he roof was blazing. Defective wir-
ng was supposed to have started the
fire.
Two Southern Women
Hurt in St. Louis Fire.
ST. LOUIS Dec. 11.—A score* of
ests at the LaSalle Hotel, Broad
way and Chestnut streets, were in-
ired and the lives of 100 saved by
he moat daring kind of work by fire
men in a blaze early this morning.
'1 remen carried a score of frantic
- omen down fire escape^ and ladders,
t he guests had no time to get th^ir
othes.
The screams of Mrs. Archie M«
ann, who awakened to find her room
filled with smoke, probably saved
many lives
Among those injured were Miss
Mary Walker, of Memphis Tenn., and
Miss Bertha Cambron. of Owensboro
Ky.
L. C. Langford, of Adams. Texas,
nd J. K. Dobbs, of Birmingham, were
arried from thei- rooms: almost sui*
’ocated.
Miss Hazel Chambers, who had a
com on the fifth floor, saved about
00 guests. The ejevator man. for
■'ome reason, could not be found, and
Miss Chambers made trip after trip
bringing down guests.
p Al R PAYS 40 PER CENT PROFIT.
GADSDEN, ALA.. Dec 11.—W. R
Bradford has been elected president o'
he Marshall County Fan Association,
succeeding Thomas E. Orr A 40 per
ent dividend ^ - vear -
Wilson, Threatened
With Grip, Cancels
All Engagements
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Threat
ened again with an attack of grip,
President Wilson canceled his en
gagements to-day and suspended all
executive business. He is suffering
from a bad cold in the head and from,
a mild attack of ’aryngitSs
Dr. Grayson is determined not to
take any chances with his patient,
and probably will Insist upon his
throwing aside all work and out-of-
door exercise until the grip is en
tirely eliminated from his system.
The President will remain within
his room to-day and probably until
Monday.
A delegation of temperance work
ers was much disappointed at not
being able to see the President.
Vaccine Perpetuates
Smallpox, Is Charge
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—-With
practically every civilized nation urg
ing its invitation upon the Interna
tional Anti-Vivisection and Animal
Protection Congress, now in session
here, Belgium to-day appeared to he
the delegates’ choice for the next
gathering three years hence.
Porter F. Pope, of Philadelphia^ de
clared that the "continued prevalence
of smallpox in America is solely due
to the continued practice of vaccina
tion.”
Man Kills Negro Who
Shot Brother-in-Law
DARIEN. Dec. il.—When J. P.
Mew. a farmer, went over to Gen
eral Island, opposite Darien, to look
after some hogs, he saw a negro with
one. As Mew hailed him the negro
opened fire, shooting Mew in the face.
Mew’s brother-in-law. who was
with him, fired on the negro, killing
him.
To Save Xmas Poultry
From Warm Weather
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Declaring
the loss of poultry during the Thanks
giving period because of the warm
weather - a I s •almost a calamity of na
tional import,” agricultural specialists
have Issued warnings to poultry deal
ers, and those engaged in dressing, on
how to chill and preserve poultry so
as to prevent loss during the Christ
mas season.
Hose Is No Place
For Xmas Money
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The following ad
vice to women Christmas shoppers was
given to-day by Chief of Police Glea
son:
“Take your husband shopping with
you. Let him carry the money.
“An inside skirt pocket is an excel
lent place to carry money while in a
crowd.” the chief said, "but don’t put
it in your stocking." ^
Hill Finds Ink Blot:
Bank Officers Quit
ST. PAUL.. Dec. 11.—One little Ink
spot is reported to have caused a shake-
up In J. J. Hill's First National Bank
that to-day resulted in the resignation
of W. A. Miller, vice president, and F.
A. Nienhauser, cashier.
As the story goes. L. W. Hill recent
ly received a statement of his account
with a drop of ink upon the figures.
Then the shake-up.
Woman of 116 Made
Shroud 55 Years Ago
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Although
cheerfulness is the recipe by which
Mrs. Hannah Kosokoff says she has at
tained the age of 116 years, she has a
burial shroud beneath her bed.
She made it herself 55 years ago when
she thought her time to die had come.
LILLIAN DEMANDS APOLOGY.
LITTLE ROCK. Dec. 11.—Lillian
Russell forced the management of the
Hotel Marion to apologize publicly
for having advertised that she would
dance with a guest at a cabaret show
in the hotel.
PROSPERITY
$20,000,000 Bank
Fails Because of
Mexican Conflict
All Records for Volume of Busi-J
ness Here Broken by Early j;
Christmas Mail.
Special Cable to The Georgian.
MADRID. Dec. 11.—Great ex
citement waj caused on the Bourse
to-day by the failure of the Banco
Hiepano-Americano, a $20.000,000
institution, to open its doors. The
bank was compelled to suspend
payment of its obligations, due to
a heavy run which began Tuesday
and to depreciation of investments
which the company holds in Mex
ico and the Argentine Republic.
The civil war in Mexico was one
of the chief causes contributing to
the failure.
The wave of prosperity reported in
all lines of business in Georgia and
Atlanta has found an echo in the
business of the Atlanta postoffice.
Postmaster Bolling H. Jones said
Thursday that the volume of mail
that passed through the local post-
office Wednesday night was greater
by many thousand pieces than that of
any previous 24 hours in the history
of the office.
"We broke every record that was
ever heard of around here,” said Mr.
Jones. "We handled 240,000 pieces of
first class mail and fully 300,000
pieces of second, third and fourth
class mail. There were 25,000 parcels
alone, which is about the nujnber
that has passed through the office
every day for the paw two weeks,
and there were thousands of ether
pieces of mail that I have not in
cluded in these figures.
Flood of Calendars,
"One firm alone mailed 15,000 cal
endars Wednesday afternoon, and in
asmuch as they are about two feet
long and difficult to handle, they are
equal to fully three times that amount
of ordinary mail matter.
"The increase In the volume of
business that passes through the At
lanta office has been apparent for sev
eral weeks, but we had no idea it
would reach the tremendous propor
tions of last night. We require be
tween 1,§00 and 1,500 mail sacks—all
of them large ones—to handle the
Atlanta mail now, and this number
probably will be doubled when the
Christmas rush comes.
Mr. Jones declared that in view of
the great increase in the business of
the postoffice those who contemplate
sending away Christmas gifts should
mail,their packages as soon as possi
ble.
Shudders at Prospect.
"If the volume of mail reaches the
stupendous tola! of 600.000 pieces
three weeks before Christmas,” he
said, "think what it will reach when
the Christmas rush begins in earnest.
Unless parcels are mailed at once
there can be no certainty in their de
livery, because there is 'a limit to
what our force can do. We hai/e
working now all the extra men we
have room for, and though they are
handling the present volume of mail
in fine shape, if it gets much larger it
is going to be''very iiard to handle.
“People seem to be spending more
money than ever before for Christ
mas gifts.”
Mr. Jones also said Thursday he
had about 1,000 "Santa Claus letters”
which children have placed in the
mail, and which he has authority ot
turn over to any charitable institu
tion or responsible person who wishes
them. These letters exceed by sev
eral hundred the number that were
mailed last year, and unless someone
asks for them they will be sent to
the dead letter office to make room
for those yet to come.
Rich South African
Is Shot by Assassin
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI
CA. Dec. 11.—Sir Lionel Phillip®,
South African mining magnate and
multi-millionaire. was shot three
times, but probably not fatally wound
ed by an assassin while in Commis
sioner street to-day. The assailant
was arrested He said he acted in
revenge.
Sir Lionel was one of the group of
five men, including John Hays Ham
mond, of New York, who were sen
tenced to death for instigating the
Jamieson raid in 18$6. whic h brought
on the Boer War. He was formerly
with Cecil Rhodes.
Lee Will Case Goes
To Jury After Trial
Lasting 3 Weeks
The Lee will case went to the jury
at 11 o’clock Thursday morning, aft
er a two hours’ charge by Judge Bell,
and a verdict is expected to-day. The
trial lasted three weeks.
The contestants in the suit are the
daughters of Mrs. Lee. The suit is
styled "Mrs. Annie LaRue Lee Mi-
zell, caveatrlx, against Mrs. Maud Lee
Thompson.” Mrs. MizeJl claims her
sisters were awarded their share of
her mother’s estate prior to her
mother’s death, and that the entire
estate left by her mother was willed
to her. » *. ' ‘
Two wills were introduced, one
which awarded the estate to Mrs. Mi-
zell and the other dividing it among
all the children. Charges of forgery
have beer made in connection with
the signing of the last one. A $40.-
000 estate is involved.
What Does Senate Do
With Fruit Knives?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—"Why did
the Senate buy grapefruit knives?”
This is a my6tery precipitated by pub
lication of expense Items of the United
States Senate in a. report from the sec
retary.
However, the need of grapefruit
knives is not more mysterious than
other items, such as timothy hay, oats,
meal, bran, arnica, mustang liniment,
floes pillows, mineral waters and taxi
cabs.
Attorney Watt Kelly Is Injured.
Three Companions Escape as
He Wrecks Car.
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Uncle Sam Plans to
Aid Farmers' Wives
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—To gain in
formation that would enable the De
partment of Agriculture better to serve
rural women, the Secretary has sent let
ters of inquiry to the women on 56,000
selected farms, covering every county.
Analysis shown that farm women de
sire assistance in all phases of home
management, especially as to labor-sav
ing arrangements and better hygienic
and sanitary conditions.
Primrose's Wife
Denied Separation
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 11.—The
decision of Justice Keogh dismissing the
complaint made by Mrs. Esther Prim
rose, of Mount Vernon, against George
H. •Primrose, the famous minstrel, was
affirmed by the appellate division.
Mrs. Primrose sued for a separation,
charging cruelty, inhuman treatment
and that her husband was a heavy
drinker
Houghton, English
Playwright, Dead
i Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MANCHESTER. ENGLAND, Dec. 11.
—Stanley Houghton, well known English
playwright and author of "The Young
er Generation.’’ one of the comedy hits
of the season in London, died at bis
home here to-day.
Watt Kelly, an attorney with of
fices in the Tetpple Court Building,
was injured, and three other Atlanta
business men, his companions, had
narrow escapes Thursday when an
automobile in which they were riding
crashed into a telephone pole at North
Boulevard and Auburn avenue.
The pole was severed at the base
r*ud fell over into the street, barely
missing the occupants of the machine.
Mr. Kelly was thrown against the
side of the automobile and suffered
severe hurts to his chest and knee
cap. With him were Herbert Ferrell,
manager of the United Building Com
pany; Edward O’Beirne, a partner
with William H. Rhett in an Insur
ance company, with offices in the
Hurt Building, and Rhett. who was
driving the machine.
The accident occujy^d when Rhett,
order to avoid a- collision with an
other automobiles swerved his ma
chine to one side. Witnesses declared
that the second machine was driving
on the left side of the street, running
alongside of an Auburn avenue street
car. Rhett, rounding a curve In Au
burn avenue, was confronted with the
other car, which was bearing down
upon him. J
With a quick turn of his wheel, he
sent his car Into the pole. The other
automobile drove on pa.st. paying no
attention to the other, and proceeded
down the street. The identity of its
occupants was not learned.
Mr. Kelly was hurried to his office,
where medical attention was given
him. He then was removed to his
home.
The party had been out on High
land avenue inspecting some building
operations.
Bowen Defeats Wood
For Mayor of Dalton
DALTON, Dec. 11.—In the city
election held here yesterday B. R.
Bowen was elected Mayor over Dr.
W. E. Wood by a majority of 70 votes.
Each carried four wards. Police
Chief A. E. White swept all of the
wards for a majority of 353 over hii
opponent, J C. Fincher, a former
chief.
The fofir Councilmen elected ar^:
Firs; Ward, Will McNally; Fourth
Ward, John Hill; Fifth Ward, Jesso
Holland, and Eighth Ward, Dave
Steward.
Finished Last Book
Week Before Death
PARIS, Dec 11.—A book by Mile.
Favre de Coulevain, wnoie pen name
was Pierre de Coulevain. is about to be
published. Sh» completed it scarcely a
week before her death. Mile, de Coule
vain was t’ne author of "Noblesse
Americalce and of Elve V.eiorieuse
Let the Record
.of Results Be
Your Guide
Every mail brings evidence of
quick am. satisfactory results re
ceived through Hearst’s Daily
Georgian and Sunday American
“Want Ads.” •
THIS “WANT AD”
FOR
SALK—Turkeys
• t 1.7c
por
pound. Write A.
C. Me-
Leod,
Jr., Quitman, Ga.
appeared in three issues
Hearst’s Daily Georgian
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS
similar to the following are on
file in our office:
Quitman Ga
The Georgian Company.
.Dear Sirs. Inclosed find check
in payment for the ad you put in
your paper. I must say that I am
well pleased with the resultf
Yours truly.
\ C. M’LEOD. JK.
Will Be Permanently Associated
With The Atlanta Georgian and
Hearst’s Sunday American.
Colonel John Temple Graves, for
the pa.st six years editor of The New
York American and special writer 'or
the various Hearst publications, has
returned to Atlanta to be permanent
ly associated with Mr. Hearst’s At
lanta newspapers a» that publisher’s
direct personal representative.
Colonel Graves' work in Atlanta and
the South will be wide in scope' and
far-reaching in consequence. He will
stand for Mr. Hearst and his aspira
tions and ambition in Southern jour
nalism. He will project his personal
ity sharply into the Henrst publica
tions in the South, and his work will
be Mr. Hearst’s work.
Needles to say, Colonel Graves Is
being cordially welcomed on all sides.
He numbers his friends in Dixie by
the thousands. He Is attached to the
South by tie# of blood and long as
sociation and acquaintance. The en
tire period of his young manhood was
spent In Dixie, as an editor In Georgia
and Florida, and, although he has had
high honors conferred upon him
abroad, his heari still is, and ever
has been, most at home among Geor
gians.
Colonel Graves has be^-n intimately
associated with Mr. Hearst in New
York and Washington, and has been
sent to Georgia because Mr. Hearst
believes him pre-eminently the man
to bring the Hearst publications close
to the hearts and firesides of the
Southern people.
Of course, Colonel Graves is glad to
be "back home.” As he expresses it,
“Old Brer Rabbit w«» no more de
lighted when thrown into the brlar-
patoh than I am delighted to be in the
South again permanently, and where
I may serve the people of my native
section to the full and final limit of
my ability.
"Mr. Hearst has great, ambitions
for The Georgian and The Sunday
American. I shall strive to help him
realize them completely.”
Mrs. Graves and the children will
not return to Georgia until later n
the winter, and perhaps not until
spring.
Elevator Common
Carrier, Is Ruling
Of Supreme Court
The Georgia Supreme Court io-day
held in the case of Lucy L. Aflen
against Mrs W. D. Grant, owner of
the Grant Eulldlng in Atlanta, that the
owner of a public building in’which a
public elevator is operated Is a common
carrier under the law, in so far as such
owner’s obligation to exercise extraor
dinary diligence In handling passengers
is concerned.
Miss Allen brought suit for $25,000
damages against Mrs. Grant, setting
forth that she was seriously hurt and
permanently disabled by a falling ele
vator in which she was a passenger, and
that the accident was due to negligence
of the defendant. Mrs. Grant demurred
on th^toncpund the owner of the building
was not a common carrier, and hence
not subject to damages.
$985,000 of Pabst
Estate to Germany
MILWAUKEE. AVIS.. Dec. 11.—More
than $985,000 in United States money wll;
leave America within a few days for
the land of the Kaiser.
According to the Pabst will, the estate
was left in trust for Mrs. Emma Sohen-
lein. Captain Fred Pabst’s daughter, to
revert to her when her daughter Edith
should attain the age of 10 years Tne
child reached her tenth birthday Octo
ber 13
Mercer Junior Head
Acquitted by Class
MACON, Dec. 11 -The president of
the junior law class at Mercer Uni
versity underwent an impeachment trial
last night and was acquitted
The president was charged with high
crimes and misdemeanors In that he had
"bootlicked" and that he had "insulted"
the class and demeaned himself In a
manner unbecoming his official position.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Generally fair
Thursday and Friday.
FINAL LIFE
MULE
Trial Judge Termed “Vacillating”
by Defense Attorneys—Hear
ing Likely to Start Monday.
Severe criticism is made of
Judge L. S. Roan for certain
phases of his conduct of the trial
of Leo M. Frank and for bis re
fusal to grant a new trial, even
though he himself had doubt as
to the defendant’s guilt, in the
brief argument prepared by
Frank's lawyers to be presented
to the Supreme Court of Georgia
next Monday.
The document was received from
the printers Thursday. The brief of
evidence, another bulky document,
will be completed Thursday afternoon
The attorneys for the defense will
exchange briefs with Solicitor Hugh
M. Dorsey later in the day and all of
the. lawyers concerned in the famous
caae will Le ready to re-engage, in s..
hitter legal battle which ha*d Its be
ginning on July 26 when Frank's trial
was started.
Judge Roan Criticised.
Judge Roan Is characterised in the
printed arguments of the attorneys as
"vacillating" In his conduct of th-
trial at many times, and hts action in
refusing a new trial is described as
Irtiefensible, in view of his openly
expressed doubt of Frank's guilt.
The argument on this particular
phase of the appeal to the Supreme
Court concludes with numerous legal
citations designed to show' that Judge
Roan was shirking a plain duty when
he refused to take- the burden of a
decision in the matter. Several of
the Citations quote the Supreme Court
as saying that when the trial judge is
assailed with doubts as to the justice
cf the verdict there is no course open
to him but to grant a new trial.
The documents which are to be
submitted to the Supreme Court are
said by lawyers to be the most vol
uminous ever filed in Georgia in an
appealed case
600 Pages in Brief.
The brief of evidence alone constat*
o,’ about 600 large pages wfth type of
ordina.ry size.
The arguments and narration of
the facts of the case consume an
ether 3S9 pages, and the original mo
tion for a new trial, the amended mo
t on and the judge’s charge make up
another book of 159 pages The total
is approximately 1.100 printed page.
The case of Frank vs. the State 1,
listed eighteenth on the calendar of
the Supreme Court and will be reach
ed Monday, in all probability, the
others being mostly cases from other
parts of the State, which will not he
ergued except through the briefssub.
n.itted.
Sues Wife, Who Made
Odd Bed Regulations
Charging that hie wlf© made life mis
erable for him by many strange acts
of cruelty, one of them being the re
quirement that he lie at a certain angle
In bed while sleeping. Ludweli J. fiacrev
has brought suit for divorce from Mrs.
Anna Sacrej.
He further charges that she would not
lei him read a* much as he wanted to:
thaf she kept the house In a disordered
condition; that she kept picture# of
strange men in the house. To prevent
him from taking the child for a walk
on Sunday*, he charges that she wouk<
am ear the child with dirt so that it
would not ba presentable.
250 Reported Dead;
Tornado Hits Canoes
Special Cable te The Atlanta Georgian-
FREETOWN. SIERRA LBOKE,
WEST AFRICA. Dec. 11.—More than
260 natives are believed to have pm
ished to-day when a tornado blew*
twenty passenger-carrying canoes rmK
to sea Many upturned cano**
later found.