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VOL. XII. NO. 126.
ATLANTA, UA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By Th« Georgian Co
2 CENTS.
EVENING
EDITION
SION STAYS BULLET AS WOMAN AIMS AT INTRUDER
'SNOW BABY,’ DAUGHTER OF FINDER
OF NORTH POLE, WILL MAKE DEBUT
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Peace in Stride to Follow Calumet Tragedy
FORTY-MILE WIND BRINGS COLD WAVE
SLEET OPENS
Marie Peary to Have Her “Com
ing Out” at National Capital
on January 22.
WASHINGTON. Deo. 2G.—Interest
to-day centers in the coming: recep
tion on January 22 to be given by
Admiral Robert Peary, discoverer of
ihe North Pole, and Mrs. Peary, at,
■which their daughter, Marie* known
the world over as “Anighito,” the
"Snow Baby,” will make her debut.
Coupled with news, of the coming-
cut party of the young: woman, whd
recently graduated from Western
High School, in Georgetown, was the
i f port that announcement of her en
gagement would shortly be made by
her parents.
Her engagement to Donald B. Mc
Millan, leader of the Crocker Island
expedition and intimate friend of her
father, was made last summer, but
promptly denied by both Miss Peary
and McMillan.
"Anighito” was the name given by
the Eskimos to Miss Peary following
her birth on September 12, 1893, at
her father's winter quarters at Bow-
doin Bay, in the Arctic, She was the
first white child in history to be born
in the frozen North.
'Snow Baby’s” parents kept her in
the Northland until she was 2 years
©hi, the terrible cold and long spells
©f darkness not in the least deter
ring her growth. She has returned
thrice to the Arctic, and has many
/ recollections of the stirring episodes
|j which marked her early life in that
section of the world.
When her father returned from his
iast and which proved to be his suc
cessful quest for the pole ‘‘Snow Ba
by” journeyed to Cape Breton with
”her mother to greet him, and returned
"1th him to this city.
Monday Date Set, but
" They Wed Christmas
Hrs. Ida G. Little and John L. Mc
Gregor changed their plans and were
Carried Thursday instead of next
Monday. The ceremony was per
formed by Dr. A. A. Little at his
home. The couple will be at the Ho-
>! Ansley until Saturday when they
"ill leave to visit friends at Hous-
l0n - Texas. They will reside at Mc-
) Gregor.
r he bridegroom is a prominent
manufacturer of McGregor, and the
' '^le is the widow of the late Dr.
L B- Little.
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ADMIRAL PEARY AND HRS DAUGHTER.
TO-DAY’S RACE ENTRIES
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Purse, $300, 2-year-old
maidens, 5 1-2 furlongs: Peacock, lit;
Veilchen, 111; High Class, 111: Boly
Hill, 114; A1 Jones, 114; Jezail, 114;
Banjo Jim, 111; Massenet, 111.
SECOND—Purse, $300; all ages,
selling, 6 furlongs: Malik, 107; Tom
Hancock, Otranto, 103; Beverstein.
127; Camel, 125; Protogras, 118; In
cision, 127; BataWa, 127; Old Jordan,
112; Silas Grump, 127.
THIRD—Purse, $500; 3-year-olds
and up, selling, 1- 1-2 miles: Napier,
103: Dr. Waildro Briggs, 113; Tay
Pay. 98; Over the Sands, 104; Billy
Baker, 98.
FOURTH—Purse, $500; all ages,
selling, handicap, mile and 20 yards:
Cracker Box, 94; Eloro, 105; Your.g
Embles, 94; Star Actress, 102; Bob
R.. 110; Joe Diebold, 115.
FIFTH—Purse, $300; all ages, sell
ing, 6 furlongs: Frog, 122; Behes;
104; Rye Straw, 125; Chuckles. 126
Helen M , 104; Buzz Around, 109;.Cliff
Maid, 109; An:on, 115.
SIXTH—Purse, $300; 2-vear-olds
and up, selling, mile and 70 yards:
Union Jack, 106; Monkey, 111; Yora-
shire Boy, 115; Fiel, 105; Schaller,
108; Port Arlington, 106; Reno, 106;
Bernadotte, 108; Lasainrella, 100;
Ragman, 111.
JUAREZ ENTRIES.
FIRST—Selling, all ages, six fur
longs: Brevity 93, Maud McKeon
100, Florence Birch 105. Nino Mu-
chacho 105, Free Will 105, Holberg
108, Venetian 110, Frank Wooden 110,
Frieze 110, Jessmay 110, Blaze B.
110, Lookout 110, Prince Winter 113,
Fire 113. Dahlgren 115.
SECOND — Purse, two-year-olds,
maidens, five furlongs: Society Bird
108. Renwar 108. Temple Foeht 108,
Summer Hill 108, Hattie Me. 108,
Kick 108, Little Will 108, Christmas
Eve 108. J. B. Maylow 108, Rodondo
HI, John Marshall 111, Claribel 112,
Aunt Elsie 112, Decell 112, Superior
ity 112.
THIRD—Selling, all ages, 6 fur
longs: Ooma. 88p; Hyki, 91; Trojan
Belle, 100; Swift Sure, 105; Vireo,
105; Senator James, 105; Pretty Dale,
105; Ferrona, 110; Martin Chavis.
110; Compton, 113; John R. Clray,
113; Palatable, 113; Helen Hawkins,
115; Lee Harrison II, 115; Hannis,
115.
FOURTH—Selling, 3-year-old up, 7
furlongs: Belle of Bryn-Mawr, 100;
No Quarter, 105; Sister Florence. 105;
Mandadero, 105; Husky Lad, 105;
Ocean Queen, 105; Collnet, 108; Wise
Mason, 110; The Monk. 110; Bob
Lynch. 110; Acumen, 110; Dutch
Rock, 113; Sigurad, 112.
FIFTH—Purse, 2-year-old maidens,
5 1-2 furlongs: Wild Horse, 105;
Princess Janice, 105; May L., 110;
Florin. 109; Superl, 110; Bob Hensley,
113; Red Path, 113.
SIXTH—Selling, 3-vear-old and
upward, 1 mile: Melts, 110; Cantem,
102; Nannie McDee, 105; Swish, 107;
Henry Walbank, 110.
Clear and fast.
$25,000 Enough for
Judges, Says Haldane
Ipecial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—Lord Haldane,
:vhose salary as Lord Chancellor
amounts to $50,000 a year, in giving
evidence regarding the proper sala
ries for judges before the Royal Com
mission on Legal Delays, said:
”1 am inclined to think no judge
is worth |more than $25,000, not even
the Lord Chancellor.”
Drear Weather to Continue, With
Promise of Snow or Rain on
Friday.
Following a Christmas Day that
started out with rain and wound up
with a snow flurry, a whooping wind
descended on Atlanta and vicinity
Friday morning and kept the mercury
hovering around not far above the
freezing mark, under a leaden sky
that promised rain, sleet or snow im
partially, depending on the further
disposition of the temperature. The
mercury was below the freezing mark
for several hours in the early morn
ing
The cold snap came with a 40-
mile gale sweeping over the South.
It Is making overcoats and furs oi.
Peachtree street as common as snow-
shoes in the frozen North. The wind
reached Its maximum velocity early
Friday morning, blowing steadily at
about 40 miles from midnight until <j
o'clock.
36-Mile Wind en Christmas.
Christmas afternoon the wine
raced through Atlanta streets and
around the corners of the skyscrapers
at a 36-mile-an-hour clip, diminishing
somewhat as night .-'■.me on, only to
exceed Its former speed as midnight
approached.
At 7 o’fclock Friday morning the
official thermometers at the Weath
er Bureau registered 33 degrees, and
indications are that this probably
will be lowered before to-morrow
morning.
Th cold snap started directly aft
er the rain ceased falling Christmas
Day, and reached its climax after the
sweeping gale. The highest tempera
ture during the day"ght hours yes
terday was 48 degrees, and at times
the thermometer got down to freez
ing. At 7 o’clock Christmas night
the temperature was 34 degrees, and
during the. remainder of the night
the mercury ranged between 33 and
34.
6now Flurry Seen.
A snow flurry was seen at 4:10
p. m. Christmas Day, and snow 'eh
at Memphis, Louisville and Little
F.jcl:.
Friday was a hard day to keep
warm. Tou could keep a house com
fortable, unless the searching wind
found crannies and cracks on an ex
posed side. But out on the street for
any length of time a penetrating chill
was carried through overcoats and
wraps, and the wind had a pecliarly
nipping quality usually associated
with the clear, bright days of climes
farther North.
There was a sense of chill dampness
In the wind, and it sought out the
spot—and generally found it.
Toward noon there was a lighten
ing of the cloud blanket, but the
chill remained, ahd threats of snow
continued, with a lessened prospect of
that most dismal and distressing of
all maladies of the weather—a cold
rain
Every Variety of
Holiday Weather.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Weather
of every variety except that desired
was distributed among the various
sections of the United States to-day.
It was warm and rainy on the
Eastern coast, snowy in the South
and upper New York, unsettled in
New England and the West reported
all temperatures from 14 below zero
at Devils Lake, N. Dak., to spring
weather in Kansas.
Florida was the only area running
true to form. There it was warm, the
weather bureau reporting the warm
est in the country. A 24-hour rain
and gale In Washington were like
spring weather. The telegrams from
meteorlogical observers show holi
day weather to be more varied and
unsettled over the country than for
many years previous.
Italian Blackmailer
Trapped by American
Girl Detained as Spy
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TARANTO, ITALY, Dec. 26 —Dorothy
MoVane, the American opera singer,
who was recently under surveillance by
the Italian Government on suspicion of
being a spy, to-day invoked the aid of
Government officials and trapped a man
who sought to blackmail her.
The man. who gave the name of In-
nocenio Cicala and said he was a news
paper correspondent, called on the sin
ger and informed her that he had b^en
ordered by his editor to send in a story
attacking the character of the young
woman. He demanded money In return
for suppressing the story'. Miss Mar-
Vane consulted with the officials after
Inviting Cicala to return, and when he
came back the blackmailer was trapped
with marked money and arrested.
Miss MacVane is also to-day without
her costumes. Jewels and furs, which
were seised by an Impresario because
the singer failed to perform her con
tract.
250 Men Rest After
Setting P.0. Records
There is the calm that comes after
a storm in the interior of the Atlanta
postoffice Friday. Where 250 men
were whirling and turning in the big
mailing room handling Christmas
mail less than a dozen are now pur
suing the even tenor of .their ways.
Since last Friday the office han
dled 1.120,791 pieces of mail and 260,-
000 parcel post packages. To accom
modate the rush, 64 additional clerks
were employed, 137 additional car
riers and 27 extra wagons.
Busch Jewels Go to
Children for Xmas i
Oysters, Fish and
Sick Yankees ‘Food’
For Wilson’s Town
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 26;—The jewels
owned by Adolphus Busch, who died
October 10 at his home oa the Rhine,
in Germany, and some of those own
ed by his widow' were Christmas gifts
from Mrs. Busch to her children. The [
value of the rare stones and set pieces
is several hundred thousand dollars.
The presentation was made to the
St. Louis sons and daughters of Mrs.
Busch at the Busch mansion. To the
out-of-town children the gifts were
sent by express.
Convict Wounded by
Bartow Sheriff Dies
Authorities at Cartersville, Ga..
have been notified that Be 1 Kel’v,
the convict shot three weeks ago by
the Sheriff of Bartcw County, died
j at the Grady Hospital Christmas
Day.
According to the information at the
Grady, Kelly snapped a pistol at "it
Sheriff and dashed for liberty while
with a squad of convicts at work on'
a road. The Sheriff fired with deadly
aim.
‘Bill Posters’ Trust’
Plans to Dissolve
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—The so-called
“Bill Fosters' Trust” is negotiating
with the Government to follow the
example of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company and dis
solve.
Suit was begun here recently, but
the association is said to be willing
to conform to every wish of the
Government without further court
procedure.
White House Gifts of
Gold Pieces Missing
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. - White
House employees with salaries of more
than $1,200 a year, who have received
$5 gold pieces from Presidents on each
Christmas since 1901, yesterday learned
that President Wilson has discontinued
the custom
It Is said that the sum set aside by
President Wilson for gifts was exhaust
ed In the purchase of presents which
were distributed among the poor of
Washington.
Town Agitated Over Who Will
Bury Bodies, but Strife
Seems Ended.
CALUMET, MICH., Dect 26.—While
four separate investigations of Calu
met's Christmas tree disaster, in
which 72 persons, most of them chlD
dren, were killed, were being mad©
to-day and a dispute was being waged
as to whom should bury the dead,
peacemakers ware at work in a ru-
preme effort to bring an end to th©
copper mine strike in this region.
Over the bodies of the little ones the
leaders of the peace movement hoped
to see an end to the labor strife which
has torn the Galumet copper district
for several months.
United in grief " over the snuffing
out of so many young lives, the war
ring factions—mine operators, guards
and strikebreakers, and the stricken
union miners and their friends- gave
no thought to the big labor battle
that indirectly is blamed for the most
grewsome horror in the history of
Calumet.
Hostility Less Marked.
There was still a dispute over
whether the offpr Of the Citizens' Al
liance, an organization that has been
considered hostile to the strikers, to
defray all the burial expenses should
be accepted. Officials of the Western
Federation of Miners declared that
the offer should be spurned.
“We will care for our own dead."
was the defiant response to the al
liance.
The feeling of hostility was not so
marked to-day when it was seen that
the citizens of Calumet and other
cities in the mine district were in
earnest in their efforts to raise funds
for the stricken families. Almost
unlimited amounts of money were
pledged by min© owners and mer
chants who have been opposing the
strikers The committees represent
ing the operators went from house to
house to-day comforting the surviv
ing members of families whose dear
ones were taken from them in the
unnecessary panic.
Following these committees went
others, and suggestions that peace be
declared between the forces repre
senting capital and labor were diplo
matically expressed
Peace Suggestions Please.
It was suggested that the man who
thrust his head into the door of
Italian Hall while the Christmas tree
celebration was at its height and
shouted fire was inspired to the
malicious deed by some things that
th© miners have done to promote
their strike. The peace suggestions
were apparently well received. The
miners seemed not to blame the mine
operators, but they felt that the dis
aster would not have occurred had
there not been a strike and It appear
ed that they felt more remorse than
resentment.
After the funeral of all the victims,
which w r ill be arranged for later to
day, it Is expected that the spirit of
fight will have been interred with the
bodies of the innocent little children
and wives of the strikers and that
peace will prevail where, had not the
disaster occurred, a labor war
have continued indefinitely.
PASS CHRISTIAN. MISS., Dec 26.-
Doee President Wilson like oysters and
Spanish mackerel 0
This question is agitating the inhab
itants of this little burg, where th©
Chief Flxecfltlve is spending his Christ
mas holidays. So far the riddle Is un
solved.
Bushels of the finest oysters and doz
ens of the choicest fish ever caught in
the Gulf of Mexico are finding their way
to the President's vacation home, and
the townfolks are anxious to know if
he cares for them.
The natives also are showering the
President with other gifts oranges,
mangoes and other gulf products are
finding their way to the "winter white
house.”
When the President visited the post
office he met an okl resident who told
him:
“We live off of oysters, fish and sick
Yankees, Mr President, but you are the
first sick President that ever came to
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1 Dead, 3 Dying, From
Devils Greek Battle
BRISTOL, TENN., Dec. 26.—In a
battle at Oevilp Creek, in Unicoi
County, a remote section of East Ten
nessee, Jack Edwards was killed, E.
E. GlBls, Deputy RheYlff, was
stabbed; Harris Tilson was shot
through the head, and Sam Grind -
stuff jshpt through the breast. The
three wlh probably die.
Edwards was under ftrrest and in
the custody of Deputy Sheriff Gill is
when Tilson and Grind staff, two
friends, attempted to rescue him. The
officer opened fire on the three men,
one of whom stabbed him.
Co-Eds Unite Against
Men's Bad Manners
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 26.—An or
ganization "for the suppression of
atrocious manners of men” has been
organised by young women at Butler
College. Men of the college are re
ferred to as “rude, ungentlemanly,
careless and thoughtless.” A letter in
the college paper says:
“The insults of having a man
smoke without asking permission, th©
ugly familiarity of having him blow
smoke in the girl's face, are sights
that we see too often."
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and colder Fri
day; fair Saturday.
U,S. Comedians Fail
To Amuse Londoners
LONDON, Dec. 26—Because they
couldn't make Britishers laugh, George
Monroe and Harry Fisher. American
members of the “Hello Tango” Com
pany, quit after their first perform
ance.
CANTATA TO BE REPEATED.
Upon urgent requests, the cantata.
"The Christ Child.” which was given-
last Sunday at the First Methodist
Church, will be repeated Sunday even
ing at 7:30. Miss Mamie Lee Bear
den will again direct the music.
Tolman Pardon Offer,
Usury on $500,000
ALBANY, Dec. 26.—Application for
th© pardon of Daniel H. Tolman, a
convicted money lender, has been
made to Governor Glynn by the con
vict’s counsel, Charles E. Towne, for
merly a United States Senator.
It was promised in his behalf that
In consideration of his pardon Tol
man would surrender usurious notes
amounting to $500,000, reserving the
right to sue for the amounts due with
only lawful interest added.
German Bishops Call
Fashions Immodest
Special Cable to Tne Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 26.—The German
Uathollc bishops In conference at
Fulda passed a resolution censuring
the present women's fashions as "de
void of any sense of modesty.”
The bishops urged the Catholic
women of Germany to Join a crusade
against the impropriety in dress,
which they term “a disgraceful aber
ration."
Orville Harrold's
Uncle Drops Dead
MUNCffE, IND., Dec. 26.—Benjamin
F. Harrold, aged 69, uncle of Orville
Harrold, the famous opera singer, fell
dead while sorting a bundle of mall
preparatory to making his deliveries as
a mall carrier He had been In poor
health recently and the excitement Inci
dental to Christmas is supposed to have
affected his heart.
GIRL " SANTA” DIES OF BURNS.
KNOXVILLE. Dec. 26.-Miss Sophia
Preston, aged 15. is dead from burns
received while essaying the rolq^ of
Santa Claus. Her clothes caught^fire
from a sparKer in the hand** «£ a
Neighbor Getting Into Wrong
House Almost Shot by Mrs.
Barnett, the Detective.
Mrs. Hattie Barnett's revolver waa
squarely In the face of S. P. Sims
her finger was closing on the trig
ger; the death of the supposed bur
glar was hanging on a hairline in
th© early hours of Christmas morn
ing. when a vision stopped the trig
ger finger of Atlanta’s woman detec
tive.
She told about It In the Recorder a
Court Friday morning.
"It Just wasn't that man's time to
die.” Mrs. Barnett said. "I had the
revolver fairly In his face and my
Anger was closing on the trigger,
when I had a sort, of vision.”
And this is th© story.
About 2 o’clock Thursday morning
Mrs. Barnett was awakened by th©
ringing of her door bell. It was Sims
at the door, but Mrs. Barnett did not
know that. Sims Is Mrs. Barnett's
next door neighbor, living at No. 9
Woodward avenue, while Mrs. Bar
nett’s home, where she lives with a
sister and a young couple who board
there, is at No. 15 Woodward ave
nue.
Slams Door in His Face.
The doorbell rang, and rang In
siatently. Mrs. Barnett got up, don
ned slippers and dressing gown, and
went to th© door.
She opened It without hesitation. A
man outside tried to shove his way
paat her into the house. She did not
recognize Sims
Mrs. Barnett is robust of physique
and her vocation requires and de
velops determination. She shoved the
intruder outside and slammed and
locked the door.
Then she went to the telephone and
called the police. As she finished her
message she heard a smash of glass
from her bedroom window. Mrs
Barnett knew Just what is was. She
ran to her bed and from under the.
pillow she drew a revolver It was
not a feminine sort of revolver. It
was long and rakish as to barrel, blue
in color, heavy in caliber—a business
like weapon.
As the woman detective grasped
the revolver, a man swung through
the shattered window into the room.
Fails to Recognize Neighbor.
They were* face to face, the woman
detective and the house-breaker, anti
still there was no thought in Mrs.
Barnett’s mind that this wild-eyed
intruder advancing on her was Sims,
her next-door neighbor, with whom
she wasn’t acquainted.
"My arm came up automatically.”
Mrs. Barnett continued the story.
"The muzzle of the revolver was al
most touching the man’s face, and 1
was pressing (he trigger—that man. I
tell you, was the same as a dead man.
right then. And then there flashed
into my mind a picture, like a frag
ment from some motion picture
drama.
“I saw the picture of a mother—a
mother and a little child. It was fa
miliar, and in the same instant I
recognized th© woman as my next-
door neighbor, and the child as her
baby; I had seen them often.
“But I can't for the life of me un
derstand why I associated that man
with the picture. 1 don’t remember
ever having seen him before.
"I stood there, with the gun in tii©
man’s face, and that picture in my
mind's eye. and my finger half closed
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