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WIFE SPURNS FREEDOM WHILE HUSBAND IS IN PRISON
FINE WATCH GIVEN TO
MAYOR BY HIS FRIENDS
Captain English
I highly praised
the Mayor in
II the presentation
speech.
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Currency Bill Will Be Made Into Law To-day
ABOLISH OBEAR’S OFFICE, GEN. NASH URGES
Captain James
W. English, pre
senting watch
to the Mayor
from admirers.
PRESIDENTIS MILITIA ROW
ES
SION BILL SLATON
Senate Votes on Measure and Adjutant General Calls Quarter-
Wilson Plans Ceremony as
He Attaches Signature.
WASHINGTON', Dec. 23.—By a
vote of 43 to 25 the Senate to-day
approved the conference report on the
currency bill and sent the measure to
President Wilson for his signature.
The President planned to sign the
bill this evening as his Cnristmas
present to the American people
Four Republicans voted with the
Democrats. They were Jones, Nor
ris, Poindexter and Weeks.
President Wilson decided to affix
his signature about 8 or 9 o’clock to
night. He planned to invite members
of the Senate and House Banking
and Currency Committees and a num
ber of newspaper men to witness the
signin,
master Generalship Obsolete
and a Needless Expense.
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"Treasury of Atlanta Safe With
Woodward Guarding,” Says In
scription on Timepiece.
The City Hall was filled with the
I'hristmas spirit Tuesday when a
committee representing friends of
Mayor Woodward called at his offi e
and presented him with a 'handsome
gold watch as a token of their regard
for his services as Chief Executive cf
the city of Atlanta.
' Friends of the Mayor who had been
informed of what was to take place
gathered in the outer office. Mayor
Woodward walked out with a cigar in
' ie corner of his mouth, and, leaning
against a chair, crossed his legs in
f then turned to Captain James
W. English, the spokesman for the
committee.
I know I have not been selected to
•speak to you because of my ability to
♦xpress the meaning of this act,” Cap
tain English said. “I suppose it is be
muse 1 have known you so long.
Mayor oWodward, my acqualntanbe
an <3 association with you dates back
J* the sixties. We have differed on
f^ues and clashed in official bodies,
* ,ut * want to say that during all those
•' p ars there has never been any doubt
Your honesty of purpose.
Unique Inscription.
In recognition of your service to
e city, prompted by that element of
nesty in your character. I want to
present to you, on behalf of your
hiends, this beautiful gold watch.”
1 Mayor Woodward took the watch
,n silence and slowly read the inscrip
tion.
the back a safe was engraved,
Pnder which were the words. ‘‘Treas-
^ r - v of Atlanta.” ki a circle around
e top was the inscription, “It Is
£afp With Woodward Guarding.”
Those gathered around saw Mayor
oodward more moved in a senti
mental way than usual.
don t know how to begin to
a ‘ k you,” he slowly began. ‘'That
ns Option on that watch is worth
tmote to me than all I possess, i will
Jrr > the memory of this occasion to j
^ srave, and when I am gone I am
••louder to be able to leave it to my {
n all else I possess.
Sorry Because of Friction.
‘he hardest thing in the world is
“ n ‘ in 6 other people’s money. In my I
life I have been most careful with it
—far more than with my own.
"I am sorry there has been friction
during this year of my administra
tion. Council should be as zealous of
the people’s welfare in expending
money as the Mayor, if I have been
firm and seemingly severe, it was
necessary.
“I hope that we can have a year of
harmony next year. Without wishing
to criticise anyone, 1 will state that
when I came into office I found $700,-
000 of Illegal debts. When my two-
year term is up I hope to have it
wiped out.
“I promise you I will continue to
guard your treasury. If any money
should be spent wrongly over my pro
test, I will let you know where and
how it is going. Publicity is the
greatest thing in the world.”
The other members of the presen
tation committee were John E. Mc
Clelland, J, Y. Smith and Samuel
Venable.
Grocery Burglars
Go to Great Pains to
Blow Unlocked Safe
The grocery and meat shop of E. R.
Cox, at No. 488 Gordon st.t in West End.
was entered early Tuesday through a
side window and the cash register
taped to the extent of 25 pennies.
Then the safe was carefully and
thoroughly ‘soaped,” and made ready
with great pains to receive the charge
of nitroglycerine. At this juncture
something appears to haver scared the
robber or robbers away.
The safe was not blown. And here’s
the joke: Had the cautious cracksmen
taken the trouble to twist the handle
the safe door would have come upon
without the least resistance. It wasn’t
locked. There was $5 in the unlocked
safe.
Covers 11,000 Miles
Of 20,000-Mile Tour
WAYCROSS, Dec. 23.—On the re
turn trip from the Atlantic to the
Pacific coast, W. E. Macarton, of San
Diego, Cal., reached Waycross to-day
from New York en route to Florida.
He has traveled 11,000 miles and will
have made at least 20,000 by the time
he reaches the Pacific. He left San
Diego for New York in the summer.
Talking of good roads, Macarton
declared Georgia holds her own with
all States he has been in.
Forced to Sleep in
Bathtub, Wife Sues
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Because her
husband forced her to sleep in a bath
tub. Mrs. Hattie F. Steward sued for
divorce.
Rears Sons Abroad,
But for U. S. Career
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Mrs. Maid win
Drummond, of England, formerly Mrs.
Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, may
be an English wife, but she is still
an American mother.
She made this statement to-day on
her arrival from New York for her
Christmas holiday visit to Chicago.
With her were Captain Drummond,
her sons. Marshall Field. Ill, and
Henry Field, and Gwendolyn Drum
mond, 11 years old.
“You may say that the two grand
sons of Marshall Field will come to
Chicago after finishing their school
ing at Cambridge,” she said. “They
are to be Chicago business men.”
Bank Clearings Gain
$20,221,059 Over ’12;
P, 0. Receipts Jump
A striking evidence of Atlanta’s
prosperity was contained in the an
nouncement Tuesday by W. H. Leahy,
secretary of tne Industrial and Sta
tistical Bureau of the Chamber of
Commerce, that the bank clearings
for eleven months in 1913 are $20,-
221,059 in excess of the clearings for
the corresponding period in 1912.
The clearings in the first eleven
months of 1913 were $641,006,804. For
the same period last year they were
$620,785,745. A similar increase is
noted in the postal receipts. They
were $1,265,810.75 for this year, ex
cluding December. In the same pe
riod of 1912 they were $1,143,237.38, an
increase of $122,573.37.
Relatives of Missing
Man Fear Foul Play
WAYCROSS, Dec. 23.—H. R. Ells
worth, last heard of while at Way-
cross in May, it is feared by relatives
at Kanawha, Iowa, after a vain
search of months to find the missing
man, mav have met with foul play
while in this section.
Ellsworth was a brothtf* oA B. C.
Ellsworth, editor of The Kanawha
Record, and his family is prominent.
When in Waycross he was interested
in the sale of securities and met a
number of people here and through
this section. He apparently had a
generous supply of money.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Rain Tuesday; clear
ing and cooler Wednesday.
$500 NEEDED NOW TO
AVERT XMASTRAGEDIES
The Christmas Editor Tuesday faced the sad realization that
$500 more is needed for the Empty Stocking Fund if Christmas
» tragedies are to be averted in two hundred homes in Atlanta.
That many appeals for help—that many prayers to Old
Santa Claus—came in at the last moment and it will be ab
solutely impossible to fill them unless you who have not helped
respond immediately.
Don’t wait. Don’t let this Christmas see any misery in
Atlanta if we can help it. Send your mite in to the Christmas
Editor at once.
Exodus of Lawmakers.
Tliree-fourths of tlie time allowed
for debate on the conferees’ report
was given up to the Republicans, the
Democrats granting this favor to the
minority, led by Senator Norris,
ranking Republican member of the
Banking and Currency Committee
The exodus of national legislators
for the holidays was on in full force
to-day. The Senators were obliged to
remain, but the Representatives, their
task completed, hurried from the city,
happy to return home after the long
session that began last April.
The main interest in the currency
bill centered to-day about a state
ment which President Wilson was re
ported to have prepared to gi^ as
surance to the nation’s business men.
It was aid that this would be is
sued at the time the bill was signed.
Must Wait on Committee.
The signature of the President will
make the bill a law, but it will not
become operative until an organiza
tion committee draws up a plan of
procedure. This committee consists
of the Comptroller of the Currency,
the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of the Treasury.
It may be several months before
this committee has concluded its work
nnd put the law into operation. The
Aldrich-Vreeland emergency measure
has been extended until June 30, 1915,
but will be superseded as soon as the
Owen-Glass measure becomes opera
tive.
Bristow Opens Attack.
Senator Bristow opened the attack
on the conference report in the Senate
and declared the organization com
mittee to be a “political committ?e
pure and simple.” He asserted that
the regional reserve system “will bo
organized, of course, along political
lines.”
Senator Bristow pointed out that
the conferees had so changed the bil’
that stock held by the public would
not be entitled to representation.
Senator Owen replied that the con
ferees assumed that the public would
take little stock and Chat in any con
tingency the general interest of the
public is to be safeguarded by Class C
directors and the Federal Reserve
Board.
The direct charge that Senator;
Owen in voting for a 6 per cent divi
dend on regional reserve bank stock
increased his own fortune was made
by Senator Bristow.
Charge Against Owen.
• 1 charge that this bill has been
drawn in the interest of banks,” he
said “that the Senator from Okla
homa is interested in banks; that ne
has voted to increase his personal for
tune, and that he has voted to give
the banks control of this system.”
Senator Bristow read from the rules ,
of the Senate the provision that a
Senator shall not vote on a matter :n
which he is directly interested.
Senator Owen replied that the
charge was a violation of the rules
of the Senate and said that Senator
Bristow’s statement was “not only
ridiculous, but false, and the Senator
from Kansas knows it.”
Adjutant General Joseph Van Holt
Nash has recommended to Governor
Slaton that the office of Quartermas
ter Genera 1 of State Troops, now held
by Brigadier General William G.
Obear, be abolished and that his sal
ary be discontinued after January 1.
The Governor has taken no action
upon the recommendations of General
Nash, but has the matter under se
rious consideration.
While this matter is not acknowl
edged to have any bearing upon the
known differences existing inside the
State military establishment, in
which General Obear has figured
prominently, the fact of General
Nash's rather sensational recommen
dations to the Governor will be read
wdth acute interest by the military
generally, as an open rupturrf be
tween Nash and Obear has been an
ticipated by many observers on the
inside for some time.
Useless Expense, He Says.
General Nash in his lettet* to the
Governor recommends that the office
now held by Obear be abolished for
two reasons:
First, that it is entirely useless un
der the present organization of the
State troops, is a sinecure and car
ries a salary of $2,750 that may as
well be saved to the State.
Second, the adjutant general says
that the office must be abolished in
Georgia, as it already has been in
many States, because the State troops
can not otherwise be organized to
conform to the present provisions of
the Dick law, which does not recog
nize the office of quartermaster gen
eral in any way.
The adjutant general cites circular
No. 8, issued by the National War
Department in August, which specifi
cally fails to provide for State quar
termaster generals, and holds that
no such office can exist in Georgia
under the law. The duties formerly
falling to the quartermaster general
will be performed by staff officers
named by the department, under au
thority of the Governor.
Calls Office Obsolete.
The adjutant general, in his let-
ter to the Governor, says
“The office of quartermaster gen
eral is obsolete, the rank excessive,
and it does not comport with the
organization and strength of the
State troops as recognized by the
Federal Government. The duties must
e pberformed by certain officers dele
gated by the State adjutant general,
to whom they are responsible under
bond.
“Business expedience and conform
ity to the law call for the abrogation
of this office, and a saving of the
$2,750 per annum it costs the State.”
Unless the State troops are orga
nized as the National War, Depart
ment under the Dick bill requires,
the Federal Government will with
draw its support to the State troops.
The action of Adjutant General
Nash, as indicated in his letter to
the Governor, brings to an acjte crisis
the differences inside the adjutant
general’s office, and it will now be
squarely up to the Governor to take
action in line with the adjutant gen
eral’s recommendations or embarrass
that officer emphatically in the fu
ture discharge of his duty.
It is known that the Governor is
not a little worried by the breach in
the adjutant general’s office.
President Gets Gift
From‘His Only Vice’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Vice
President Marshall’s Christmas gift
to President Wilson is a copy of Kin
Hubbard’s “Back Country Folks.”
On the fly leaf Mr. Marshall wrote:
“To the President of the United
States from his only Vice.”
Splendid Weather
Forecast for Great
i Xmas Tree Festival
Ideal weather for the big Empty
Stocking Christmas Festival at the
City Hall plaza to-morrow!
Weather Man VonHerrmann says:
Wednesday will be a great day for
final shopping, clear and crisp, and
Christmas Day will be gloriously
bright ahd the temperature Just above
freezing—just snappy enough to build
up a healthy appetite for Christmas
turkey.
The sudden descent of rain Monday
night hurt shopping to a great ex
tent. The continued showers Tues
day morning dampened spirits for a
short while, but by 8:30 o’clock the
streets were alive with a merry
throng of shoppers laughing at the
threatening clouds.
The temperature Tuesday ranged
around 45 degrees, and but for the
dampness the day would have been
ideal. A slight rise was expected
during the afternoon and a drop of
a few degrees Tuesday night.
Don’ts to Girls From
Country Visiting City
CHICAGO. Dec. 23.—These instruc
tions for the girl who comes alone to a
big city were given by Mrs. Nan Sper
ty. Assistant Labor Commissioner of
MissQuri:
Don’t come to cities if you can help it.
If you must come, don’t ask any
stranger for information.
Kind a policeman, go to a police sta
tion or the Y. W, C. A.
Keep your money in your stocking.
Go back to the country as soon as
you car:
Mrs. Young Again tb
Head Chicago Schools
CHICAGO. Dec. 23.—Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young will be reinstated as
Superintendent of the Chicago Public
Schools, according to a prediction to
day by Peter Reinberg, president of
the Board of Education.
Mayor Harrison at this afternoon s
session of the board will recommend
the election of Mrs. Young and the
demotion of John D. Shoop to the of
fice of First Assistant Superintendent.
Exposition Boosters
Begin Work at Rofne
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 23.—Commissioners
Andrews, Brown and Rees, who were
sent to Europe to boom the Panama-
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
in 1915, arrived here to-day, having
been preceded by Ira Nelson Morris,
of Chicago.
Mr. Morris’ task lies with the Gov
ernment while the other commission
ers are working to stimulate interest
among the people.
S1SI MS
4 European Nations
In Anti-Fair Pact
Special Canlc to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 23.—That the question
of participation in the Panama Ex
position was made the subject of dip
lomatic representations between Eng
land, Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Italy was learned from an official
source here to-day. According to this
information the interchanges resulted
in an agreement of nonparticipation.
U. S. Battleship Ohio
Hunts a Fumigator
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Because
proper quarantine facilities are not
available at Charleston, S. C. t the bat-
-UesMp Ohio sailed to-day for Dela
ware breakwater, where she will be
thoroughly fumigated and quaran
tined, so as to prevent a recurrence
of the recent epidemic of smallpox
among her crew.
Fifty Dead in Blaze
Caused by ‘Firebug’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA. Dec. 23.
Fifty men were trapped bv an incen
diary fire in a colliery near here to
day and it is believed all are dead.
Bail Signed, Mrs. Manley Order!
Trunks Sent to Jail to Stay
Near Mate.
“Stone walls do not a prison
make’’—that is. when they hold
your husband, too, at Christmas
time.
Anyway, that’s .Mrs. M. E.
Manley’s idea of it.
And so, with her bond signed, and
at liberty at any moment to walk out
with her baby girl to freedom, the
wife of the young man accused of
check forging has sent for two trunks
and a suitcase, and she and the baby
are Just going to stay in that old jail
until the husband and father can
leave it with them. And if her hus
band goes to the chaingang she will
go. too.
That was the situation Tuesday.
Clark Howell, deputy clerk of the
Superior Court, had read in the pa
pers about the imprisonment of Man-
ley, charged with passing a bad
check, and how’ his young wife had
smuggled a file and two saws into
his cell, “so he could he at home for
Christmas,” and how the Recorder
had tried them both Monday morn
ing and hound them over to the high
er court under a $500 bond apiece.
Howell’s Heart Touched.
Mr. Howell's heart was touched by
the young wife's devotion. He thought
it was a pity that she should be ir
Jail—and especially with the 6-
months-old baby girl—all through tne
Christmas season.
So Mr. Howell called Judge Broyles
by telephone and told him if he w’ould
reduce Mrs. Manley’s bond he would
sign It.
The Recorder did his part. He put
the bond down to $200. And Mr
Howell signed it.
And about noon Tuesday J. T
Golden, the jailer, conveyed the glad
tidings to Mrs. Manley that she and
the baby were free.
At least, it was Mr. Golden’s idea
that they were glad tidings.
Mrs. Manley didn’t see It that wav
“Can my husband go, too?” was her
first question.
Mr. Golden said he could not.
Mrs. Manley’s lower lip quivered.
But her decision was swift.
Refuses to Leave Without Him.
“Then J won’t go, either!” she said.
“You’ve got me in a different ward,
on another floor, and I don’t suppose
I can see him—I haven’t seen him
since the trial yesterday. But as long
as he’s in this place I’m going to stay,
too. Freedom, and Christmas, and —
and everything else doesn’t mean
anything to me as long as he's In
Jail.”
Well, w'hat to do?
Mr. Golden for the first time in his
varied career as jailer w r as confront
ed with a prisoner who declined ab
solutely to be released. There was
no precedent to go by. He couldn't
very well eject Mrs. Manley ungal-
lantly. Mr. Golden essentially is a
man of warm hospitality, though his
guests don’t always appreciate it
properly.
Brings Trunks to Jail.
Anyway, Mr. Golden, at the wish of
Mrs. Manley, sent for her two trunws
and a suitcase.
And by noon Mrs. Manley was pre
paring to make her stay as com
fortable as possible.
But she did wish she could see her
husband!