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MAIN SHEET-Part II.
NO ‘HOLIDAY
PARDONS TO
Diogenes’OwnTown,
Cordele, Halves Its
Cotton Crop Claims
Refuses Vo Brag of 200,000 Bales
When It Has 100,000, Even
Though It Was Misprint.
Editor Hearst’s Sunday American,
Atlanta:
Executive Declares Any Clemency
He Extends Will Be on Merits
of Cases, and Not Just Because
of the Nearness of Christmas.
Scores Practice as Fallacy, and
Declares It Shall Not Prevail
While He Is Governor of Geor-
‘ gia—Deluged With Petitions.
Governor Slaton let It be known in
emphatic language Saturday that no
body is to have a pardon during this
Christmas season, merely because it
is the holiday time of the year.
The Governor returned from his trip
Cast Friday, to find that a veritable
avalanche of applications for clemen
cy had descended upon the Executive
offices during his absence, and a very
large percentage of them based their
arguments upon the ground that “it
is nearly Christmas” and that, there
fore, for some reason or other, the
Governor is* supposed to view' these
clemency matters a little more len
iently than ordinarily.
”1 do not understand why someone
should expect a pardon at Christmas
* rime any more than at some other
time. These matters must stand or
fall upon their merits entirely,” said
the Governor.
Will Not. Overstep Prerogative.
Here is a man convicted of mur
der. He thinks I should send him
home Christmas ‘to be with his wife
and children.’ I should like to do that
—if it can be shown that he is enti
tled to it. When, however, I am
asked to do thus and so for the per
petrator of some frightful crime 1
never hear anybody suggesting how 1
am to make up things to the family of
the victim.
* ‘‘The prerogative of clemency is not
at all personal to the Governor—it is
an Executive function that should be
exercised with great care and dis-
rimination. and absolutely as exact
justice shall seem to suggest.
“I am not going to pardon or parole
anybody simply and solely because it
is Christmas, and parties who are
oming before me limping heavily on
that crutch may well save themselves
time by not coming.
Will Decide on Merit*.
•‘This business of swamping the
Governor's office every Christmas with
clemency petitions, based upon the
more or less maudlin plea that ‘it is
Christmas’ and that the Governor may
lay aside his conscience for the time
being, is something of a nuisance—
a*id it is not going to produce results
while I am Governor.
•‘[ am glad to hear petitions for
'lemency when there is real merit in
them, but not otherwise.. If there is
merit -in them they are welcomed on
Christmas or the Fourth of July, or
at any other time. The time of peti
tioning makes no difference whatever,
so far as my action is concerned.”
Farmer Saves Rain;
Gets Excellent Crop
DODGE CITY, KANS., Dec. 13.—T.
/. Crist, a Hamilton County farmer,
is now .harvesting a good crop as the
result of a cheap irrigation experi
ment. Mr. Crist has a large hillside
field. He irrigated by conserving the
storm water on the pasture land.
He plowed furrows across the pas
ture land, ending at a point at the
■ enter of the upper border of the cul
tivated field. From here he fed the
water during each rain to the furrows
planted to silo maize by means of a
ditch which Intersected the furrows.
Ancient Pirate
* Junk Goes Down
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.—Alas!
that ancient pirate ship, the Ning Po,
with all her odors, scars and stains,
with her bulging log of devil-may-
'<are farings along the turbulent seas,
lies wrecked In the harbor.
For 160 years the Ning Po was a
terrorist, and she dashed in and out
cfr Chinese ports, taking prizes, sink-
: r sr, boarding, burning.
\Y. M. Milne, owner of the Ning Po.
fliks he may raise the old Junk. He
i many of the relics.
We wish to thank you very much
for the excellent write-up of our city
in yesterday’s Sunday American.
We wish, however, to call attention
to one error, which 1 am sure was
accidental.
In your article you stated that Cor-
dele had 200,000 bales of cotton this
year, where you should ha\e stated
that Cordele had 100,000 bales.
Desiring that our city have no mis
leading figures placed before the pos
sible home-seeker, we desire to make
this correction.
The bare facts regarding Cordele
and Crisp County are marvelous
enough and almost beyond belief.
We are receiving a great many new
citizens through correct publicity,
and wish to keep “oti the square” as
well as “on the firing line.”
Thanking you, I am, very sincerely
yours,
LOUIS SPENCER DANIEL.
Secretary Cordele Chamber of Com
merce, Cordele, Ga.
English Lords Sell
Autos to Earn Living
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Dec. 13.—One of the In
teresting and unusual features of the
Olympia Motor Show was the active
part taken by noble lords in acting
as salesmen and advertising men. Of
these Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
stands first. He has ben for some
years editor of the “Car Illustrated,”
and runs a bookshop in fashionable
Pall Mall.
At Olympia, during the show, he
earned by his activity and readiness
to be useful the soubriquet of “His
hurricane lordship,” and he never
seemed to tire of selling guidebooks
and maps and explaining the quali
ties of various types of cars.
Wants Babies’ Finger
Prints on Certificates
SPOKANE, Dec. 13.—To require the
finger prints of even,- child to be
taken soon after birth is the object
of a movement started by W. Hoyt
Turner, Chief of the Bureau of Iden
tification of the Spokane Police De
partment.
A bill covering the proposal will be
introduced at the next session of the
Washington Legislature, but Turner
favors also a Federal provision re
quiring the child’s finger prints on
the birth certificate.
Investors Plan to
Drain Great Swamp
NEWBERN, N. C., Dec. 13.—That
the 83,000 acres of swamp land lo
cated in Jones and Onslow Coqnties,
which Northern capitalists are think
ing of purchasing, can be drained, Is
the opinion of the owners of the land
who reside here. They are awaiting
with interest the report of an expert.
The object the Northern men have
in desiring to purchase the land is to
cut from it the millions of feet of
timber and then divide the tract up
into small farms and form a colony.
Boy Reads at Three,
And He Never Cries
LO£J> ANGELES, Dec. 13.—Marshall
Gretmore is 3 years old and can re id.
Oij his second birthday his mother
bought him a set of blocks with raised
letters.
The child reads these cards fluent
ly and with interest. His education is
being‘carried out along the line of de
veloping personality and self-control.
As a result of the latter object, ho
is never allowed to cry, and will even
receive chastisement without tears.
Water Injunction Is
Dissolved by Court
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 13.—Judge
T. W. Coleman, of the City Court,
has rendered a/lecision dissolving the
temporary injunction granted tn.e
Profile Mills of Jacksonville against
the Calhoun Water Company of this
city, as a result of which the mills’
water may again be cut off by the
water company unless settlement is
effected.
The mills will appeal from the de
cision.
Girls Say Aunt Uses
Hot Iron on Tongues
KANSAS CITY, MO., Dec. 13.—
Three little girls, the oldest 13, told
Judge Porterfield in the Juvenile
Court that their aunt. Mrs. George
Stinagle. had burned their tongues:
with a red-hoi stovelid lifter ind
beaten them \vhil° they were tied to
a post.
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ATLANTA, (IA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1913.
THIS SECTION CONTAINS
SPORTING and AUTOMOBILE NEWS
,
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outlook conn
Fairfax Harrison, New President
of Southern, Pleased With Con
ditions in His Territory.
MILL REPORTS NOTEWORTHY
Manufacturers in Most L ines Have
Demand for Products—Run
on Full Time.
TV ASHINGTON, Dec. 1,V.—Fairfax
Harrison, the new president of the
Southern Railway Company, speaking
to-day of the business outlook in the
South, said: *
“Conditions throughout the terri
tory traversed by Southern Railway
lines are generally favorable. The
farmers of the Southeast, except in
restricted localities where they suf
fered from drouth, have had! a highly
prosperous year. The ginning reports
of the United States Census Bureau
indicate that the cotton crop of the
States east of the Mississippi River
will exceed that of last year, and cur
rent. prices are above those of a year
ago.
“While the estimate of the 1 otal corn
crop of the United States, recently
issued by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, shows a. falling
off. compared with last yean, of 661,-
729,000 bushels, the crop in the nine
Southeastern States traversal by the
Southern Railway is within 21,000,000
bushels as large as last year, the only
Southeastern States showing de
creased yields on account of the
drouth being Kentucky and Tennes
see.
“Other crops, Including forage,
have turned out well, and. taking the
territory as a w'hole, I doubt whether
the farmers of the Southeas t have
ever had a more favorable y* ar.
“Largely growing out of thio pros
perous condition of the limners,
wholesale and retail trade thr oughout
the Southeast is generally ibfi good
condition.
“Manufacturers in most lliiies are
enjoying a good demand fo.ij their
products, and their establi shim aits aro
running on full time, though} some
slackening of production is to Be ex
pected during the holiday season . Tha
reports of cotton mill and knitting
mill v development are particularly
noteworthy.”
Dautridge Refuses
Blease Requisition
CHARLOTTE. X, C.. Dec. IB.—A
requisition from Governor Colk L.
Blease, of South Carolina, for 3. S.
Hare, was declined to-day by Atevlng
Governor Dautridge, of North Cnro-
lina.
Hare is charged with securi ng
money to open a business in Chlir-
lotte and disappearing with it. His
counsel claims Hare was not in eri’or
and that the requisition has bemi
issued to collect money for Harr’s
business backers in South Carolina.
The sum involved is a|?out $350.
Alabama Court to
Pass on Webb Law
Island Colony Hires
Community Doctor;
Salary Paid by Tax
Physician Keeps 200 Citizens in Good
Health and Each Family Pays
Fixed Amount.
NEWBERN. N. C.. Dec. 13.—Knotts
Island, Currituck County, which is In
habited by about 200 persons, employs
one physician to minister to the ills and
ailments of every citizen.
This physician Is paid a salary of
something more than $1,000 and every
family is assessed according to the
number In the household to pay the
salary. There are seasons during the
year when the lone physician has little
to do, but at other times, when some
epidemic strikes the town, he Is kept
busy from morning until far into the
night.
Occasionally, when there are several
members of a family ill at one time, a
trained nurse is employed, but this is a
rarity and to the credit of the doctor It
can be said that he has remarkable
success In keeping the members of that
community free from all disease.
Boys Rescue Girls
As Dormitory Burns
RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 13.—Fire
which destroyed the girls’ dormitory
of the Industrial Christian College
at Dawson, N. C., injured several pu
pils and prompted several heroic res
cues by young men.
Miss Bessie Koonce, of Stateline,
Pa., and Earl Hooks, of Havelock, N.
C.. leaped from the second story of
the wooden building and were unin
jured. Miss Mattie Bone, of Spring
Hope, fell down a flight of stairs and
Sustained a broken collar bone.
Municipal Christmas
Tree for Asheville
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 13.—Ashe
ville is to have a municipal Christmas
tree this year by decision of the
Board of Aldermen. The tree is to be
a giant cedar erected on Pack Square
and will be ablaze with myriad col
ored electric bulbs. All of the city
churches will participate in the mid
winter carnival that is planned.
All of the present^ placed
tree will be tuYried over io
sociated Charitels and the Salvation
Army for distribution.
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 13.—Judgj)
Thomas W. Coleman, of the City
Court, has been called upon to inter
pret the Webb anti-shipping law as U
affects the Fuller liquor law in Ala
bama.
Judge Coleman has asked for briefs?
and his decision will test the liability
of shipments of liquor from points
outside the State to seizure by State
authorities before they are delivered
to consignees.
Farmers to Reclaim
Inundated Property
DURHAM, N. C., Dec. 13.—A move
ment started here to-day to organize
a drainage association among farm
ers to reclaim thousands of acres of
farming property. Lowlands in past
years have been useless owing to
large overflow's. The association ex
pects to drain lowlands and dig ca
nals.
Many farmers and prominent fin
anciers are backing the project.
Wife and Little Son
Rescue Injured Man
EUFAULA, ALA., Dec. 13.—West
Blakey, a farmer, living near Louis
ville, Barbour County, was probably
fatally injured to-day w’hen a baie
of cotton toppled upon him. His face
was crushed, skull fractured and
chest badly injured.
Blakey was rescued after heroic
work by bis wife and little son.
Stotts Family Holds
Record for Moving
DIRIGO, KY., Dec. 13.—Last Tues
day Landy Stotts moved into a new
dwelling. Joe Stotts moved Into the
house vacated by Landy; T. B. Wil
liams into the house vacated by Joe;
Eldridgo Stotts into the house vacat
ed by Williams; Claude Stotts Into
the house vacated by Eldridge Stotts;
Tom Janes Into the house vacated by
Claude Stotts; W. A. Janes into the
house vacated by Tom Janes, and J.
E. Claywell Into the house vacated by
W. A. Janes.
This is the biggest change around
that has ever taken place here in one
day.
$1,500 Picture Not
An Tnnes,’ but Fraud
Florence Schenck,Talk of Two Continents, Dying PAYjyp CIlVC
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Set Out at 17 to‘See Life/at 24 She Has, and Quits
Alfred Vanderbilt Said to Have
Forced His Horse Trainer to
Give Up the Woman.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Miss Flor-
ence Rosser Schenck, the Virginia
beauty who In seven years has run
the whole course of the llfo that bub
bles, is dying to-day in Miss Alston’s
Sanitarium, No. 26 West Sixty-first
street.
She has been operated upon for a
tumor under her heart, and the end
of a career that was so rapid that
even Broadway had to breathe in
short gasps in order to keep up with
It is expected at any moment.
Miss Schenck Is now just 24 years
old. Her career began when she was
17.
In Norfolk she lived in the house of
her father, Dr. Powhatan S. Schenck,
Miss Florence
Schenck as she
looked at 17,
when she was
called the ‘ pret
tiest girl in Vir
ginia;’ below,
Miss Schenck
to-day, after
seven years.
PAVING
VITAL
IS
Js Confident, He Declares, That
Smoother Pavements Will Be a
Source of Tremendous Incomo
to City in Business Increase*
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13.—The genuine-
ness of a 20-inch by 30-inch land
scape, signed “George Innes,” and re
cently sold hjere for $1,500, has
aroused the interest of artists and
art dealers.
New York experts pronounce the
picture a fraud.
Charles E. Hussman bought it.
Later he took the picture to New
York, where experts reported that it
was not an Innps.
Hussman then went to R. U. Leon
ard and got his money back.
College Is Forming
1,000 Farmers’ Clubs
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 13.—All ef
forts of the extension division chiefs
of the Minnesota University’s College
of Agriculture are focused this month
on the organization of farmers’ clubs
in every agricultural township in the
State.
H. M. Bush, in charge of the cam
paign at the university farm, says
more than 400 organizations are now
dctive and that before spring the
number will reach 1,000.
In Hurry, He Takes
Gandy and Mails Pay
ALBANY, OREG., Dec. 13.—Taking
a package of mints eighteen days ago
from a confectionery store in this city
without paying for them, W. 'W.
Sell lagel, of Pomeroy, Ohio, sent 6
cents in stamps more than halfway
aciipss the continent to discharge the
debt.
Hk.thlagel said that when in Albany
on 1 Tovember* 5 he entered the store
in a hurry and, finding the clerks
busy . helped himself to a 5-cent pack
age yof mints and walked out.
formerly a surgeon In the United
States navy and one of the foremost
medical men in the Virginia city. Her
grandfather was a Governor of Vir
ginia, and she had many admirers
among the social set of Norfolk. She
was then a perfect blonde, slender of
figure, with clear-cut features, big
blue eyes and a wealth of beautiful
golden hair. She was talked of as
"the most beautiful girl in Virginia,”
and she was.
Then Alfred Vanderbilt’s private
car, the Wayfarer, arrived in Norfolk
for the horse show. With it came
Charles S. Wilson, trainer for the
Vanderbilt stable of equine aristo
crats. The pair met.
When the Wayfarer left Norfolk,
according to the story told by the
beauty at the time, she went with It.
She wanted to see life, and she said
Wilson promised to show It to her.
Whether he did or not is another
question. At any rate, she has seen It
now, and, having seen it all, she is
about to give it up.
After her arrival In New York the
news of the day began to sizzle with
the doings of the little Virginia beau
ty. The reports of her extravagances,
her late suppers and her entertain
ments were sensational reading.
Marriage Rumor Denied.
Then she and Wilson went abroad,
and about the same time it was an
nounced that she and the Vanderbilt
trainer had been secretly married be
fore she left Norfolk. This rumor
was denied by the wife of Wilson,
who was living in Orange, N. J. The
reports from London of the beauty's
doings also created a stir In New
York. Then Wilson and the girl came
back on the same boat, and the city
was treated to a fresh sensation every
hour for several days. The girl said
Wilson had married her in England,
and that he deserted her at the steam
ship dock here when she had but a
half dollar in her purse. She said he
baa oeaten ner ana she exhibited
bruises. Then newspaper men came
to her rescue and provided her with
money with which to take a room in
an uptown hotel. About the same time
the father and mother of the girl dis
owned her ana refused positively to
come to her aid. Then Wilson went
to Newport, and the woman who said
she was his wife entered the chorus of
a Broaaway musical eomeay.
Once Miss Schenck entered suit
against Wilson for breach of prom
ise. Then she announced she would
sue him for a divorce, and then she
went abroad again.
“What’s the Use?”
She was next heard of in Paris,
where her excesses brought her into
the limcdight once more. Twice she
was arrested for disputes with cab
men, and then she began to crave
those things w’hlch follow in the wake
of a woman who has lived with her
emotions always in the high gear.
Friends tried to make her reform and
sent her to sanitariums, but she did
not appreciate the attention, escap
ing from each of the hospitals where
she was sent. She always reverted to
her old ways, r<nd, when asked why
she didn't behave, would reply?
“What’s the use, anyway? My
family doesn’t want me, though God
knows I would crawl back to my
mother and father on my hands and
knees if they would receive me. No
body cares for me. Ill just go on the
.best I can, and the finish—well, it’ll
be the finish, that’s all.”
Ill in Paris.
While she was In Paris penniless,
she became desperately 111, and It was
believed she might die. She asked
that her mother and father be noti
fied. She wanted to be forgiven. But
tho parents, still living In the quiet
Virginia city, refused to even ask If
there was anything they could do to
case her pain. She had brought dis
grace to their name, they said, and
they were done with her forever. She
was as one dead to them.
Again she met Wilson In Paris, and
again there was a disagreement, and
they parted. It was said at the time
that Vanderbilt told Wilson he would
have to rid himself of Miss Schenck
It was believed, however, he came to
her aid financially.
Being left alone In London, friend
less and practically without money,
again she attempted to kill herself
with chloral, after writing a letter to
Wilson, In which she said that In all
the world he was for her the one ob
ject of her life.
She was in HI health from the ex
cesses she had committed when some
new friends assisted her to get trans
portation back to New York In the
second cabin. That was last year.
Seven Rapid Years.
During the Madison Square Horse
Show Just over another chapter in the
tangled romance was written when
Wilson, who was exhibiting Vander
bilt’s horses, was served with papers
In an action begun in the Supreme
Court here for $50,000 damages. Her
attorneys made it clear that she was
not suing for breach of promise, but
for breach of contract, fraud and de
ceit.
She set forth In the papers that at
the time she married the Vanderbilt
trainer she believed he had divorced
his first wife, who was Elizabeth
AInge, but she later learned that the
decree had not been made final, so the
horseman might have been arrested
for bigamy. Attached to the com
plaint was a certified copy of a cer
tificate of marriage. As Wilson has
denied the marriage many times, this
paper, the lawyers decided, was to
play a leading part in the suit.
The suit has not come up for trial
yet, and it is probable that It never
will, now that the complainant is
hovering at the door of death—a young
woman about to end her life In Its
prime because of seven years of rapid
living.
Taxable Values Higher as a Result
of Present Improvements, anil
Possible 20 Per Cent Gain He
Regards as Likely by the Plan*
Waves Cripple Ship
Bound for Savannah
NEWBERN, N. C., Dec. 13.—With
the cabins flooded, the deck washed
away and the engine room almost
filled with water, the steamer Doro
thy, bound for Savannah, is at Capu
Lookout Cove for repairs, after hav
ing washed for 27 hours from the Dia
mond Shoals to Cape l^ookout.
The vessel will remain at the cove
for several days.
By DR. GEORGE F. PAYNE.
Atlailta should have more viaductm
over the railroads, better paid school-
teachers, better paid policemen, hot
ter paid firemen, more schools, wide*
streets, better kept parks; but last,
and most important, to enable hear to
keep up these things she need* to
provide for an Improved income.
As a business proposition, Atlanta?*
greatest need Is better graded street^
with smoother pavement*. The mat
ter of regrading and repaving many
of her streets is the most. buslneseHlte
proposition which now confronts us.
It can be handled in such a maimer
as to be the source of a tremendous
Income to the city and enable us to
secure many other things which are
much needed. We should Invest, as
far as practicable, in In come-produc
ing Improvements, that we can have
other improvements that do not pro
duce incomes supported by such re
turns.
If we should put a large amount
into any proposition which does not
produce an income, but requires funds
to support It, It can not well be sup
ported in any way, except by an in
crease In taxation, unless by Invest
ing money in better graded streets,
with smoother pavements, we In
crease the taxpaying capacity of the
property along such streets.
Many Object Lessons.
We have had so many splendid ob
ject lessons along this line that it
would seem every business man must,
feel deeply Impressed with the im
portance of such work. It has been
said that the city spent $2,500 In re
grading Forsyth street and the ad
jacent property, and that the county
bore the balance of the expense, and
that on account of these Improve
ments the taxable values have been
raised in that section $1,400,000.
bringing to the city of Atlanta a year
ly income of over $14,000.
This illustrates what a sptendW
business proposition regrading and
smoothly paving our streets is to the
city. Of course, we can not vouch for
the accuracy of the above statement*
as we have seen none of the city's fig
ures. Its part of the work may hare
been considerably more than this, but*
it was certainly a profitable proposi
tion, The doubling of values on It7
street by the recent regrading is an
other illustration of the value to ths
city of such work. We heard one
capitalist remark, in a speech befom;
Council in favor of the Whitehall •
street regrading, that “he would un
dertake to do the work himself If the
city would agree to give him half of
its increased Income resulting from
the work.” Of course, such a thing
would be Impracticable, but it empha
sizes the business side of such a de
velopment.
Would Bring Business.
There are many small businesses
which would come to Atlanta, but
have not the capital to rent stores on
Peachtree or on Whitehall streets,
and if they attempt to rent on most of
our other streets they are confronted
with rough, poorly-graded and poor
ly-paved streets. Think of the con
dition of West Peachtree and Spring
streets west of Peachtree and east of
it, and, as an illustration, take Court-
land street, between Ponce DeLeon
avenue and the Washington street
viaduct. It is just a succession of
hills and hollows, the whole length
of it, and the belgian blocks have
been taken up and replaced again so
many, many times that there is prob
ably not a rougher street in the whole
city. Yet this street is 60 feet wide
and extends, with its prolongation of
Juniper street, on one end, and Wash
ington street on the other, from Pied
mont Park to Washington Heights,
and should be a smooth, fine drive
way, which a very large number of
people would be quick to use, if it
were available. »
Besides relieving unnecessary con
gestion on Peach tree street, they
would add to Peachtree values, as
natural feeders in the northwestern
portion of the city, which is building
up faster with homes than any other-
part of Atlanta. The whole popula-