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A I LAX 1 A UhUlUiiAN AM) M-.WS.
DEATH LIFTS MYSTERY
ERMIT IN HEART OF CITY
v mystery which has puzzled many at Mercer. No matter what Ills views
Ulantans was somewhat cleared
J. C. Lewis Again
Heads Masons of
Buckliead District
Thursday by the death of Charles FT.
daskill. the eccentric and wealthy old
bachelor who lived a hermit in the
heart of busy’ Atlanta, and who was
Mjuml dead in the bathroom of his
solitary little home at No. 126 South
Forsyth street Wednesday afternoon.
The Coroner’s Jury returned a ver-
1( t of death from heart failure and
complications. His death was sim
ple and not unexpected by those who
knew him; but his ways of life had
be* n >ne of the city’s strangest mys
teries for many years.
Alone h<* had lived in his little
Mouse until the steps had decayed and
the ever closed green blinds at the
front began to rot and fall apart.
people saw him walk out to the gro-
,ery store and, with a few packages
under his arm return. Sometimes he
v, on Id • xtend his journeys to a stroll
about town, but the secret of the in
side of that silent house and the cause
fo-, his queer ways he Kept a mys
tery.
Death Lifts Veil.
Some knew him well enough to
know that he was quite sane, but that
was all. It took death to draw back
•he veil. He was found dead on the
>1 I s home by Mr. Derrafcote
jp was fully dressed. That was cause
for the few who knew his history to
talk and for the curious to look into
the house.
Around the eaves of the little house
a huge flock of pigeons hovered and
moaned—one would vow—in sorrow.
In a corner of the living room of the
house sat several cats in uncanny
slierce, their green eyes gleaming at
the empty fireplace. They were the
mourners. The people there were
obeying curiosity.
An acquaintance explained that
those birds and the cats had been
Mr. Cask ill’s only intimate associates.
They, he added—thev could reveal
hi« confidences—could recite a poem
.if sorrow and cynicism. And • they
did tell a story. Between the cooing
of the pigeons and the sinister tr< ad
of the cats in the half light of the
use one felt that there must have
been some tragedv to drive a man to
endure such loneliness.
It was well known that Gasktll was
rh Besides his home, which is a
valuable location, he had other cen
tral property. He was a lawyer, but
h.id ierred a number of years ago.
Did His Own Cooking.
He did not have to worry about his
needs, but it was unusual that he did
not surround himself with more com
fort?? and a better home. He even
cooked for himself, which is not so
bad on a trail in the woods, but rather
monotonous in a city like Atlanta,
especially when one has money.
One of his acquaintances revealed
why he lived this life.
As a young man he had gone to old
Oglethorpe College. He was a class-
mute of ex-Governor Joseph M.
Brown His instincts there were so
cial and toward good fellowship.
He was a charter member of the
tutor of the Phi Delta Theta Fra
ternity ihere, and founded the chap
ters at the University of Georgia an-*
J. C. Lewis, clerk in the court of
Judge Kills, is to head Sardis Lodge,
No. 107. of Masons < Buckhead District!,
another year. Mr. Lewis was re-elected
worshipful master Wednesday night at
tiie regular communication and annual
meeting In Donaldson Hall at Buckhead
Pour hundred members and their wives
attended the Insial'Ation exercises,
which were conducted by Virlyn B.
Moore, worshipful master of Fulton
Lodge. Kdgar Watkins was Lhe princi
pal speaker.
A barbecue supper prepared by George
B. Howell. George Donaldson and others
followed the exercises. 'Hie Gate City
Quartei sang
, Frank a. Plaster vraa rs-elected se-
of tl\e world became later, he held to nior warden: J. Kvans. secretary;
thnf Unrwi r.r , .... , George I'. Donaldson, treasurer: T. T.
• at bond of brotherhood. When he Thomason, tyler: \V. P. Burden, chap-
avoided almost all mankind his Inter- i lain. New ejections were J. L Denson,
in h,u. .... ,, , ..Junior warden; Freeman Salter, senior
it. fraternity still lived, and deacon: C C. House, junior deacon: J.
probably the only true human asso- L. Austin, senior steward; Ernest
elation* he knew in later years tvas Cres3e - Jlinlor 8te " ar<i
to attend a banquet of his young fra
ternity mates in Atlanta occasionally.
To one of these he told why he led
such a lonely existence.
Once he had fallen in love—desper- *■
ately in love—and the woman had dis
appointed him. /
So he with drew from the world, and
the world forgot him—until he became
a mystery.
Mr. Gaskill is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Cora McKinney, of Chattanooga, j
Tenn., and a brother, Clinton Gas- j
kill, of Houston, Texas.
Mrs. McKinney is expected in At
lanta Thursday. The funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
OBITUARY.
The body of Major Jonathan Jackson
McLendon, soldier and planter, was
buried Wednesday at Oakland Ceme
tery. with Dr. John E. White offi
ciating. The deacons of the Second
Baptist Church acted as the escort
of honor. Major McLendon’s father
was Joseph McLendon, a pioneer of
Coweta County. His grandfather.
Thomas McLendon, came from Ire
land to North Carolina, and thence to
Georgia. Major McLendon is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. John E. Don
aldson. and a son, John T. McLen
don. of Balnbridge. and nine grand
children. Mrs. Earle Donaldson. Mrs.
Walter Thomson, Mrs. Harry Clarke,
Airs. Louise B. Marsh. Miss Mabel
Rigby, Mrs. J. Fowler Richardson,
Mrs. Charles Wilkins. John 'Ferrell and
Orlando McLendon, of Oklahoma.
WOMAN SENATOR FOR
OFFICES FOR WOMEN
SKNATOR HKU’.X KINO ROBINSON.
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The death of Miss Maud E. Brown, aged
24. occurred Wednesday at her home. |
No. 26 South Humphries street. The*
funeral was held Thursday afternoon j
at the residence, followed by inter- |
ment at Greenwood. Miss Brown is
survived by her mother. Mrs. Susan
Brown: four brothers. J. H.. C. B.. W.
R. and J. A. Brown, and two sisters
Miss Mae Brown and Mrs. L.( F.
Shockley
The funeral of Roy Roberts, aged 21.
•who died Wednesday night at a local
sanitarium, was held Thursday after
noon at Bloomfield’s Chapel. He is
survived by his parents, Air. and Mrs.
Jesse Roberts, of Mansfield. Ga. In
terment was at the Mansfield Ceme
tery.
The death of C. E. Brewer, aged 41,
occurred at his home in College Park
Wednesday evening. The body was
sent to West Point, Ga.. for funeral
and interment. He is survived by
his wife and two children. Miss John- j
nie Lee Brewer and W. H. Brewer.
Mrs. Lucy A. Jordan, wife of tiiisha
Jordan, of Scottdale. Ga.. died Wed
nesday at a local sanitarium. The
body was sent to Scottdale. She is
survived by her husband and three
children.
The funeral of Miss Sarah E. Clarke.
aged 70, who died Wednesday night,
will be conducted at the Church of
the Immaculate Conception Friday
morriing at :« o’clock. Interment will
be at Westview.
The funeral of Walter J. Aird, a travel
ing man. who died last Saturday ai a
local sanitarium, was held Thursday
morning at Bloomfield’s Chapel. Inter
ment was at Westview.
The funeral of Jack Cheek, who was
killed Monday near Augusta by ne
groes, was held Thursday mofning.
Interment was in Hollywood.
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Police Refuse to
Arrest Girl Who
Shoots a Masher
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
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Committeemen Will Not Silently
Submit to Reduction of Del
egates in Convention.
WASHINGTON. Dec. IS. —South
ern members of the Republican Na
tional Committee to-day planned to
make a strenuous tight against hav
ing their representation reduced by
79 votes in national convention. The
committee late yesterday made the
reduction.
The action of the national com
mittee in reducing tlie Southern rep
resentation from 40 to 16 per cent
was admittedly illegal. The commit
tee agreed on this point before it
took the action, but the members of
the committee held that they were
"confident that the next convention
would ratify their move” and pass
resolutions which would render an il
legal action legal.
It is on this ground that the South
ern members of tin' committee will
fight the reduction. Before the change
iu representation can be presented
to the national convention as the
official action of the committee it
will have to be ratified by the States
holding a majority of the votes in
the electoral college.
Under the plan agreed upon the
States losing delegates are Alabama,
9; Arkansas, 3; Florida, 4; Georgia,
10; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana. 7; Mis
sissippi. 8; North Carolina, 3; South
Carolina, 7; Tennessee, 3; Texas. 15;
( Virginia. 1); Illinois. 2’; New York. 4;
| Pennsylvania, 1; Hawaii. 4.
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Diamond Said to Surpass Many
Famous Stones for Sale in
New York.
Herr arc the weights of th( world's
most iamouH diamonds:
Name—
Cullinan
Etolle de Sud
Grand Due de Toseane.
Great Mogul
Carats.
.3,025
. 124
. 133,16
. 279 3-16
MINNEAPOLIS. MINN., Dec. 18—The
police to-day refused to arrest Miss
Bertha Trowbridge after she bad ad
mitted that she fired a revolver bullet
into the leg of a young man who ac
costed her on the street last night. The
police had found the young man seri
ously wounded, sitting on the sidewalk.
'The wounded man said he had tried to
attract the notice of a girl walking
a head of him, thinking that he knew
I er. Miss Trowbridge said that lie
whistled at her and then attempted to
f Tee his attention upon her. so she
■hew a small ivory-handled revolver and
tiled at his legs.
School for Explorers
Planned by Sussane
MAY YORK. Dec. 18.—Jacques Su«-
*>'11:0, artist, scientist and Arctic explor-
■ has completed plans for the estab
lishment of a training camp for Arc
tic explorers.
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“The Girl of My Dreams” To-night.
At the Atlanta td-night "The Girl
of My Dreams” will be presented for
the first time. This musical comedy
has been given in the important cities
for two years, but has never before
been South. It is clean and pretty,
with music that is about on a par
with "The Three Twins” and "Madam
Sherry,” both of which were written
by the authors of the present piece.
The comedy remains at the Atlanta
all the week and is certain to attract
big crowds, being the first good mu
sical play in some weeks.
"The Quaker Girl” Is Next.
Following "The Girl of My Dreams,
the Atlanta will offer "The Quaker
Girl" for four perform unco*, opening
Monday night. Seats were placed on
sale Thursday morning for the en
gagement. Practically the same com
pany seen here last year returns with
the play, with VictoY” Morley in the
leading role. The girl is piayed by
Bernice McCabe, who was brought
from London for the role. it is a
pleasing production in every sense
and is certain to please.
"Denver Express” Draws Crowds.
"The Denver Express,” with its
strong dramatic scenes, wholesome
comedy and clever scenic effects, is
drawing large audiences this week to
the Bijou, and with this play the
Jewell Kelley Company is sustaining
its well-earned reputation for putting
on excellent productions at bargain
prices. The management has select
ed for its Christmas play Hal Reid’s
drama. "A Midnight Marriage.’’
Miss Bunting Great as "Flotsam.”
Perhaps no play presented to the
American public in the last twenty
years possesses such wonderful dra
matic force and appeals so strongly
to the human sympathies as doe "The
Girl From Out Yonder.” Miss Emma
Bunting, as Flotsam, a child of the
sea, portrays a difficult character in a
most irresistible manner. She looks
more like a little boy than a jittle
girl, as, dressed in sou’wester, rubber
boots and rubber hat, she makes her
appearance on the stage, and from
then on the audience lives with her
her sorrows and trials until the happy
climax.
Kohinoor (first cutting). 279
Kohinoor (2d culling)... 106 1-16
Orloff 194 3-4
Regent 136 3-4
Hope 44 1-2
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—A magnifi
cent diamond, said to surpass in size
and quality the famous Kohinoor. Re
gent. Star of the South and other
large diamonds, is on exhibition in a
special-.show case at a Fifth Avenue
jewelry store. It weighs 150 karats
and is said to be absolutely free from
imperfections and to possess unsur
passed color and brilliancy.
The stone is valued at more than
$300,000, but the selling price is ex
pected to be considerably more. The
diamond was brought to this country
especially for the Christmas trade,
and scores of women have visited the
shop to inspect the diamond.
Several names have been suggest
ed for the stone, among these being
Columbia, Liberty and America. The
stone was found several months ago
in South Africa.
Centenarian Had But
25 Birthdays; Dead ;
Colorado Suffragist-Legislator
Says Sisters in East Are Too
Timid in Demands.
STATESBORO, Dec. lS.—Prigen
Beasley, one of the oldest men in
Georgia, is dead at his home in this
county. Mr. Heaslev was born in
Bulloch County and lived on the same
farm for more than 100 years. He
was born in a leap year, on February
29, and had but 25 actual birthdays.
On his one hundredth anniversary
Mr. Beasley was given a celebration
which was attended by 1,500 people.
Five Convictions in
Savannah ’Dry' War
SA\ ANNA H, Dec. 18.--— Sealed ver
dicts brought in during the night in the
Superior Court gave a complete victory
for the anti-saloon forces, who got five
convictions out of seven cases tried,
with the Juries still out in the other
two.
These prosecutions are the first grow
ing out of t!’** recent visit to the city
of Seaborn Wright. Others are to fol
low.
Astor Refits Yacht
NEW YORK, Dec. 18—"In pick
ing persons to hold public offices,
woman, because of her sex, should not
be barred, whether she has the right
to vote or not.” i
This was the declaration to-day of
State Senator Helen Ring Robinson,
of Colorado, the first and only wom
an in the country to hold a public of
fice of this importance.
"The women in the East, although
working hard for the right to cast a
vote,” said Senator Robinson, "seem
to keep the cat in the bag. They say,
might state, something like this:
| " ‘Give us the vote; we do not want
to hold office.’
"Now.” continued the Senator, "I
believe in letting the cat out of the
bag and urging them to state plainly
just what we women do want. Of
course, we want to hold office. Why . .. .. r> 0
shouldn't we? ASHE\ IDLE, .V < Do,' S.-The
"No more reason, the way I look at police here seem unable to < ope with
it, why a woman shouldn’t be slated a hand of thieves that has infested
for a public office than a man. the city. Robberies are reported il-
"To the Just soul sex does not enter mo « ( daily at police headquart
into the discussion oniv justice and The amounts taken range from a few
duty, and until that attitude has be- dollars to more than $100
come the aspect of all out- laws, in- | Dentists here received vvarnin
rstitutions and traditions, the woman | ( . ards f rom an Atlanta supply house t
~ i be on the lookout for a thief who i
making a specialty of dental sur
High Court Mine
Owners, Is Charge
In Copper Strike
W A SHIN G T O N. I )ec. 18T h e
charge that Justices of the Supreme
Court of Michigan are either stock
holders ig copper mines affected by
the Calumet strike or are "keenly in
terested" was made here before the
House Committee on Rules by C. L.
Mahoney, of Denver, vice president of
tne Western Federation of Miners. He
gave tiiis as the reason for his or
ganization's appeal to Congress fr
Federal investigation of the* copper
strike.
He said that no semblance of ju*ti"«
had been secured by the 16,000 m< n
on strike when they appealed to *h •
machinery of Michigan law.
Dentists Warned'to
Look Out for Thief
Building Material
Dealer Is Bankrupt
AUGUSTA, Dec. 18. An involuntary
petition in bankruptcy has been filed
against A. H. McDaniel, a dealer in
building material, wood, coal. etc. It
is said the liabilities will amount to
about $75,000 and the ascsts something
under $50,000.
McDaniel owes a number of local peo
ple and several out-of-town concerns.
Emma Eames Loses
Diamond Bracelet
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.*—Mme. Em
ma Fames, who in private life is Mrs.
Emilio de Gogorz . reported to the
police she. had lost a diamond bra
let while shopping.
The bracelet was worth $2,000.
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121 Peachtree St. Atlanta. Ga.
i— i —m ——a
movement will continue
"But when that has come to pass
the woman movement will cease and
be merged into the great humani
tarian movement."
Mrs. Robinson has taken a promi
nent part in securing the passage of
many important measures, among
them the minimum wage for women
law, which bears her name. She is
now chairman of the only hold-oxer
committee of the Colorado Senate,
that, on State Institutions.
He is said to have worked systemati
cally in several Southern < ities.
Pastors Pray to Save
For His Honeymoon Widows’ Investments
NEWPORT, R T.. Dec. 18.—Vincent
Astor is having his steam yacht Noma
refitted throughout for rise on l.is honey
moon trip with Miss Helen Dinsmore
Hutchinson, of New York.
The wedding is to be a late spring
event.
I BOSTON, Dec. 18. — Baptist ministers.
In their weekly meeting, united in pray
er for the widows and orphans who.-,.'
money is invested in Boston and Maine |
Railroad si o k.
Schwab Host to
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U. C. V. EDITOR STRICKEN.
' NASHVILLE, Dec. 18. A. S. Cun-
] ningnam. editor of The Confederate
j Veteran, and widely known to both
I Union and Confederate veterans, is
f ! critically ill lie was found uiicon-
I fmious in his office from a hemor-
i rhage.
NEW YORK. Doc. 18.—Charles M.
Schwab opened his Riverside Drive
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chums of his "barefoot days” in Cam
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Julian Hawthorne’s
Own Story
Of his experiences and feelings as he entered a
prison cell and J he 1 hings which happened early
in his sojourn at t he
Atlanta Penitentiary
Will be told in i
" letters—who
the met hods in
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;raphie style by this noted man
las made grave charges against
ogue at the institution—in
Next Sunday’s American
The tragedy and grim humor which lurk
wit liin the noted hastile are portravei
way. which
sorbing tale
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