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VOL. XII. NO. 123.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1913.
Copyright. 1906.
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1FE SPURNS FREEDOM WHILE HUSBAND IS IN PRISON
FINE WATCH GIVEN TO
MAYOR BY HIS FRIENDS
■Captain English
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Currency Bill Passes Senate by Vote of 43 to 25
ABOLISH OBEAR’S OFFICE, GEN. NASH URGES
"Treasury of Atlanta Safe With
Woodward Guarding,” Says In
scription on Timepiece.
The < Tty Hall was filled with the
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 if
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
T he corner of his mouth, and, leaning
i A gainst a chair, crossed his legs In
ease, then turned to Captain James
W. English, the spokesman for the
«ommittee.
“I know I have not been selected to
speak to you because of my ability to
express the meaning of this act,” Cap
tain English said. “I suppose it is be
cause I have known you so long
Mayor 'Woodward, my acquaintance
and association with you dates back
to the sixties. We have differed on
issues and clashed in official bodies,
but I want to say that during all those
V p ars there has never been any doubt
of your honesty of purpose.
Unique Inscription.
“In recognition of your service to
the city, prompted by that element of
onesty in your character, I want to
present to you, on behalf of your
friends, this beautiful gold watch.”
Mayor Woodward took the watch
in silence and slowly read the inscrip-
4 i on.
On the back a safe was engraved,
under which were the words, "Treas
ury of Atlanta.” In a circle around
the top was the inscription, ‘‘It Is
Safe With Woodward Guarding.”
Those gathered around saw Mayor
Woodward more moved in a senti
mental way than usual.
“I don’t know how to begin to
thank you,” he slowly began. ‘‘That
inscription on that watch is worth
more to me than all I possess. I will
carry the memory of this occasion to
m\ grave, and when I ain gone I am |
prouder to be able to leave it to my ;
1 miiy than all else I possess.
m Sorry Because of Friction.
The hardest thing in the world is
v x C" other regie's money. In inj 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.
‘T hope that we can have a year of
harmony next year. Without wishing
to criticise anyone, I will state that
when I came into office I found $700,-
000 of Illegal debts. When my two-
vear 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. f’ubliQity 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 tills juncture
something appears to have 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.
‘Tiger’ Out on Bond
Again Given Limit
For the second time within two
weeks Will Peek, a negro, accused as
a professional blind tiger, Tuesday
was given the limit of the law by
Recorder Broyles. He was fined
$200.75 and* 30 days in the stockade,
and was bound over to the State
courts in bond of $1,500.
It was but a few days ago that
Peek was/fined $200.75 and 30 days
and was bound over in bond of $1,000.
He was under bond pending an appeal
in that ease at the time of his latest
arrest.
Forced to Sleep in
Bathtub, Wife Sues
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Because her
husband forced her to sleep in a bath
tub. Mrs. Hattie K. Steward sued for
divorce.
U. S, Ship May Try
Canal on Wednesday
NEW YORK, Dec 23.—Panama ad
vices received here to-day state that
consideration has been quietly given to
a proposition to put the United States
Steamship Buffalo or some other Gov
ernment vessel through the Panama
Canal Wednesday, as Colonel Goethal’s
Christmas gift to me American people.
Eggs Accepted as
Tickets to Movies
FORT SMITH. ARK., Dec. 23.—
Eggs have become so scarce in Fort
Smith that operators of moving pic
ture shows are accepting one egg for
admission of a child and two eggs for
the admission of an adult. They are
sold easily for 50 cents a dozen.
Bank Clearings Gain
$20,221,059 Over T2;
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 dealings
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 thev were $1,143,237.38, an
increase of $122,573.37.
Club Will Give Poor
Xmas Toys andCandy
The annual Christmas partv of the
Metropolitan Club will be held Wed*
nesday afternoon in the clubrooms,
corner of Forsyth and Mitchell streets,
when many poor children will he j
treated as “honor guests” and given [
sacks of toys, candy and nuts by j
the Santa Claus of the club.
The club officers, headed by W. M. i
Stephenson, president, and T. P
Goodwin, chairman of the board of I
trustees, have spent a great deal of
time making preparations. Their lit - ;
tie guests are expected any lime after
1 o’clock.
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 Atianta.
That many appeals for help—that many prayers to Old
Santa Claus—came in at the last moment and it will he 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.
WASHINGTON. Dev. 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.
)ur 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-
r.'ignt. He planned to invite members
of the Senate and House Banking
and Currency Committees and a num
ber of newspaper men to witness the
signing.
Exodus of Lawmakers.
Three-fourths of the 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 Currepcy 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 give as
surance to the nation’s business men.
It was said that this would be is
sued at the time the hill 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 Secreta?*y of Agriculture and the
Secretary of the Treasury.
It may he several months before
this committee has concluded its work
and 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 atta. k
on the conference report in the Sena’e
and -declared the organization com
mittee to be a “political committee
pure and simple.” He asserted that
the regional reserve system “will be
organized, of course, along political
lines.” *
Senator Bristow pointed out that
the conferees had so changed the bill
that stock held by the public wouid
not be entitled to representation.
Senator Owen replied that the con
ferees assumed that the ^public would
take little stock and that in any con
tingency the genera! Interest of the
public is to be safeguarded by Class n
directors and the Federal Reserve
Board.
The direct charge that. Senat »r
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.
*T 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. I
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 know.? it.”
Adjutant General Calls Quarter
master Generalship Obsolete
and a Needless Expense. .
Adjutant General Joseph Van Holt
Nash has recommended to Governor
Slaton that the office of Quartermas
ter General 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.
V\ f hile 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
w’ith acute Interest by the military
generally, as an open rupture 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 letter 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 gener^Kiays
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 trhe 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 ac ite 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.
Splendid Weather
Forecast for Great
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 and 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 enmes alone to a
big city were given by Mrs. Nan Sper
ty. Assistant Labor Commissioner of
Missouri:
Don’t come to cities If you can Le.’r It.
If you must come, don’t ask any
stranger for information.
Find a policeman, go to a police sta
tion «>r the V. W. C. A.
Keep vour money in your stocking.
Go hack to the country as soon as
you can.
Mrs. Young Again to
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. 8hoop to the of
fice of First Assistant Superintendent.
President Gets Gift
From'His Only Vice’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—Vice
President .Marshall’s Christmas gif.
to President Wilson is a copy of Kin
Hubbard's “Back Country Folks.”
On the fly leaf Mr. Marsnall wrote:
“To the President ol the United
States from his only Vice.”
Exposition Boosters
Begin Work at Rome
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 23.—Commissioners
Andrew’s, Brown and Rees, w f ho were
sent to Europe to boom the Panama-
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
in 1916, 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.
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 tile interchanges resulted
In an agreement of nonparticipation.
U. S. Battleship Ohio
Hunts a Fumigator
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Because
proper quarantine facilities are not
available at Charleston, S. C.. the bat
tleship 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.
Bail Signed, Mrs. Manley Orders
Trunks Sent to Jail to Stay
Near Mate.
Fifty
Dead in Blaze
Caused by ‘Firebug’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VLADIVOSTOK. RUSSIA, Dec. 23.
Fifty men w’ere trapped bv an incen
diary fire in a colliery near here to-
da> and it Is believed all are dead.
“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 if wuth 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 Ills yiung wife had
smuggled a file and two saws into
his cell, “so he could be at home for
^’hristmas,” and how the Recorder
had tried them both Monday morn
ing and bound 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 lr
Jail—and especially with the 6-
months-old baby girl—all through the
Christmas season.
So Mr. Howell called Judge Broyie*
by telephone and told him if he would
reduce Mrs. Manley's bond he would
sign It.
The Recorder did his part. Re put
the bond down to $200. And Mr.
How’ell signed it.
And about noon Tuesday J. T
Golden, the jailer, conveyed the gla<*
tidings to Mrs. Manley that she and
the baby w-ere free.
At least, It was Mh Golden’s idea
that they were glad tidings.
Mrs. Manley didn’t see It that way.
"Can my husband go. too?” was her
first question.
Mr. Golden said he could not.
Mrs. Manley’s lower Up quivered.
But her decision was swift.
Refuses to Leave Without Him.
"Then I 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 was 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 trunks
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!