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VOL. XII. NO. 12G.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913.
Copyright. im.
By Th# Georgian C*.
2 CENTS. 'mcTre°
NIGHT
EDITION
RESERVE BANK HERE ASKED BY SMITH
|Board to Make Tour of Cities in
Race to View Claims at
First Hand.
FOB THIEF
Neighbor Getting Into Wrong
House Almost Shot by Mrs.
Barnett, the Detective.
WOMAN DETECTIVE
IN A NEAR-TRAGEDY
Mrs. Hattie Barnett, who nearly shot for a burglar a neighbor
entering her home by mistake. She declares a strange vision stayed
her finger as she started to pull the trigger of the pistol.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.—Atlanta
|*as proposed to Secretary of the
■ Treasury McAdoo to-day by Senator
[Hoke Smith as a regional reserve
| bank city in the South. The indorse-
[ment was placed on file for further
I consideration.
■ Atlanta’s claim as a reserve city,”
I said Senator Smith, “should meet
[with instant approval. It dominates
I the entire country along the eastern
(seaboard up to North Carolina; west
:o Tennessee, and along the gulf to
Ithe West Alabama boundary line. Its
|growing ocean trade with New Eng
land and with the South American
"untries makes it a desirable locality
|: >r a regional reserve city.”
With the intention of completing its
[work before President Wilson returns
| the Capital, the organization com-
|mittee of the new currency system,
omprising Secretary of the Treasury
I McAdoo and Secretary of Agriculture
[Houston, began work in earnest to-
[day.
It is planned to hurry the organi
sation of the new system, that the
hief Executive can name the mem-
I hers of the Federal Reserve Board
land have their duties ready for them
f as soon as they are confirmed by the
Senate.
The Secretaries are considering a
plan to visit personally the cities
which present their claims for selec
tion for the regional reserve banks
and make an investigation of these
Haims before deciding where the
banks shall be located.
Applications of banks to enter the
new system are reaching the Treas
ury by the score daily. Most of them
re from smaller cities.
I RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
I'lRST—Five and a half furlongs:
High ('lass. 111 (Martin). 10, 4, 2,
won; A1 Jones, 114 (Glass), 6-5, 1-2,
1-4, second; Peacock, 111 (Pickett),
lj, 6, 2, third. Time, 1:11 2-5. Also
ran: Marsanet, Vellchen, Jezall,
Bank Jim, Boly Hill.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Batwa, 127
(Pickett), 4, 8-5, 7-10, won; Camel,
125 (Neander), 4, 8-5, 7-10, second;
old Jordan, 112 (Davis), 12, 6, 2, third.
Time, 1:18 2-5. Also ran: Silas
Grump, Incision, Malik, Ontranto,
Tom Hancpck.
THIRD—Mile and a half: Over
■’o Sands, 104 (McTaggart), 11-5,
-2, out, won; Billie Baker, 98 (Mar
tin), 7-2, even, 1-4, second; Tay Pay,
08 (Sumter), 10, 4, 7-5, third. Time,
; 43. Also ran: Dr. Waldo Briggs,
-''"apier.
FOURTH—Mile and twenty yards:
Joe Diebold, 115 (Goose), 9-20, out,
"on, Young Emblem, 98 (McTag-
sart), 12, 2, 3-5, second; El Oro, 107
1 Pair brother), 20, 8, 8-5, third. Time,
P45 3-4. Also ran: Bob R„ Cracker
Box.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Ancon, 123
(.McIntyre), 5-2, even, 1-2, won; Rye
Straw, 125 (McTaggart), S, 3, 8-5,
see »nd; Chuckles, 126 (Doyle), 9-5,
eVf m, i-2, third. Time, 1:17. Also
mn: Maid, Buzz Around, Behest,
Helen M., Frog.
JUAREZ SUMMARY.
1TRST—Six furlongs: Fire, 115
•O'Brien), 10, 4, 2, won; Frank Wood-
“P; HO (Dryer), 6, 4, even, second;
'(no Muchacho, 105 (Feeney), 12, 5,
third. Time, 1:14. Also ran:
Brevity, Maud McKee, Florence
Birch, Free Will, Venetian, Frieze,
(“ssamy, Blaze B., Lookout, Prince
inter, Dahlgreen.
Race Entries on Page 2
Mrs. Hattie Barnett's revolver was
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
the 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’s
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
finger was closing on the trigger,
when I had a sort of vision.”
And this Is the story.
About 2 o’clock Thursday morning
Mrs. Barnett was awakened by the
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.
Sl«ms Door in His Face.
The doorbell rang, and rang in
sistently. Mrs. Barnett got up, don
ned slippers and dressing gowr, and
went to the door.
She opened it without hesitation. A
man outside tried to shove his way
past 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 it 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 housebreaker, and
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 w r as al
most touching the man’s face, and 1
was pressing the trigger—that man, I
tell you, w'as 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 the woman as my next-
door neighbor, and t: ■ child as her
baby; I had seen them •■ften.
“But I can’t for the lire of me un
derstand why I associated that man
with the picture. I don’t remember
ever having seen him before.
“I stood ther^. with the gun in the
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LATEST
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SCORE U.S.
Great Mass Meeting Welcomes
Agent of Huerta and Demands
No Exhibit at Exposition.
Continued on Page 11, Column 2.
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 "He'lo Tango” Com
pany. quit after their first perform
ance.
Council Seeks Secret
Caucus to End Fight
For ‘Pro Tern’ Place
i
■ With no settlement of the contest
between Alderman I. N. Ragsdale and
Alderman J. R. Nutting for Mayor
Pro Tern in sight, members of Coun
cil Friday endeavored to get both
candidates to consent to a secret cau
cus. The plan would enable members
who are friendly to both candidates
to avoid the embarrassment of voting
in the open.
The race seems to be a tie, al-
! though both candidates claim suffi-
j cient support for election.
Friends of Alderman Ragsdale as-
I sert they will consent to a caucus
' provided Alderman Nutting w'ill agree
to relieve all members of pledges. A
large majority of the members of
Council are pledged to one or the
other.
Should the* issue come to an open
vote and be a tie Mayor Woodward
would have to cast the deciding bal
lot. He has so far refused to take
any part in the fight.
|Child 2, Badly Burned
As Xmas Tree Falls
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Abraham Gd! •
doses, aged 2, was having the time
of his life, when he tipped over the
Christmas tree in the front room of
the Goldoses home.
His night clothing caught fire and
he was severely burned about the
face and body. His father saved him
in a blanket.
New Crematory Is
Offered Formally
To City for a Test
The City Board of Health has re
ceived a letter from the Destructor
Company of New York formally sub
mitting the new crematory to the city
for an official test. The letter 's
taken to mean that the company
wants the $135,000 due on the plant
included in the new budget w’hich
will be made up In January.
Councilman Claude L. Ashley and
Mayor Woodward held a conference
over th* proposition Friday. It was
the expressed belief of both that the
plant would not come up to .specifi
cations. Councilman Ashley said he
had seen the plant Friday and that
it was working badly.
Unless It does come up to specifi
cations, Mayor Woodward said there
was no chance of his approving any
further payment on it.
Negro, 114 Years Old,
Still Active Farmer
GADSDEN, AHA., Dec. 26.—Al
though he is almost as old as the
United States, Fayette Turner, a ne
gro living in Talladega County, was
able to make one and a Jialf bales
of cotton this year. He is 114 years
old and was born in Virginia. He
has worked on a farm all his life and
has a son ; more than 60 years old.
The aged negro came to Gadsden
for Christmas. He has command of
all of his faculties and can remem
ber many historic occurrences.
TOKIO, Dec. 26.—As the climax of
a popular demonstration over FYan-
cisco De La Barra. Mexico's special
envoy to Japan, resolutions w’ere
adopted at a great mass meeting con
demning the United States for “dis
criminating” against Mexico and de
manding that Japan refuse to par
ticipate in the Panama-Pacific Ex
position.
The demonstrations followed the
opening of the Diet by Emperor
Yoshihito with a speech in which he
announced that friendly relations ex
isted wuth all the powers, but em
phasized the strength of the Anglo-
Japanese alliance.
After the Diet had adjourned a
great torchlight procession was form
ed in the streets by the classes that
have made De La Barra a hero and
marched to the envoy’s hotel. There,
after a serenade, members of Parlia
ment and other leaders of the anti-
American protest personally welcom
ed Senor De La Barra. They pre
sented him with a sword of honor,
r whtdr he accented* briefly, and then
the envoy called for cheers for the
; PImperor and his nation.
Then the procession went to the
Mexican legation, before which the
mass meeting was held.
Torreon Added to
Rebel Victories.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 26.—The city
of Torreon has been captured by the
rebels, according to reports current in
Government circles at noon to-day.
Large forces of Federals and reb
els are fighting a battle a few miles
from Saltillo, according to advices
received here to-day. This is be
lieved to be the opening of the cam
paign against Monterey, as the lat-
j ter city is doomed to capture if Sal-
; tillo falls. One thousand Federal re
inforcements have been sent from San
LuL'.,
A large force of revolutionists near
San Luis Potosi celebrated Christmas
by blowing up a Federal convoy train
and killing 34 soldiers. The railroad
north of San Luis Potosi was de-
; stroyed as the result of the explosion.
! No foreigners were injured. Reports
from other sections of Mexico indi-
| cate that Christmas Day, tot the
most part, was peaceful and unevent-
i fui.
Philip McLaughlon and his mother,
! concerning whom there has been con-
1 siderable anxiety, are reported well
in State Department advices from
! Chihuahua.
Rumors are circulated here daily
| that Venustiano Carranza, the Con
stitutionalist Provisional President,
Is dead, but rebel sympathizers deny
them immediately.
Rebel troops are concentrating on
Tampico for a final attack from three
directions, according to reports re
ceived here this afternoon. Many
Government soldiers at Tuxp&m have
deserted to the rebels. The battle that
recently began at Tepic is still rag
ing to-day, but the Federate thus far
have the better of the conflict.
Train Kills 3 Men
Blinded by Snow
PITTSBURG, Dec. 26—Blinded by
snow, three men, members of a section
gang on the Pennsylvania Railroad, were
struck by a train and killed, near Hays
Station, at an early hour to-day.
The men were walking along the track
on their way to obtain some material
and tools. They were holding their
hands to protect their faces from the
blizzard.
TO CLEAR
Atlanta Whipped by Forty-Mile
Icy Wind—Sleet Adds to
Sting of Wintry Snap.
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. The mercury wras be
low the freezing mark for several
hours in the early morning.
The schedule for Atlanta la con
tinued cold, without reaching the de
gree of a cold wave, and with scanty
prospects of snow practical! v
none at all for rain, although the
clouds will curtain the sky until
some time Saturday.
“I should say tho thermometer
would reach freezing Saturday morn
ing.” said C. F. VonHcrrmann, weath
er director, “That will be a shade
colder than it was this morning; not
much change in temperature. The
wind will modify its gait, but the
clouds will hang on until about noon
Saturday, though the chance of thwiT
spilling anything in the way of rain
or snow practically is negligible.”
Mr, VonHerrmann said the “Christ
mas storm” that came up out of the
gulf just In time to stage a dismal
day for Atlanta had worked Its way
up to the New England States, where
It was malting things gloomy.
No Trouble Ahead for Dixie.
“There’s not much else on the map
to give trouble here,” Mr. VonHerr
mann said. “A few stations along
the Canadian border report zero
weather, but It 1 • co get 20 degrees
colder there before we feel the ef
fects in this clime. Sunday ought to
be a fair day. ar.d net unpleasant'y
cold.”
The cold snap came with a 40-
mile gale sweeping over the South.
It Is making overcoats and furs on
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 2
o’clock.
36-Mile Wind on Christmas.
Christmas afternoon the wind
raced through Atlanta streets and
around the corners of the skyscrapers
at a 36-mile-an-hour clip, diminishing
somewhat as night came on, only to
exceed Its former speed as midnight
approached.
At 7 o’clock 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 32 and
34.
Snow Flurry Soon.
A snow flurry was seen at 4:10
p. m. Christmas Day, and snow fell
at Memphis, Louisvllte and Little
I ck.
Friday was a hard day to keep
warm. You could keep a house com-
Continuod on Page 11, Column 4.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and colder Fri
day; fair Saturday.
Mrs. C. L. Lozier, of No. 402 White
hall street, was bound over to tho
Grand Jury under a $200 bond Friday
afternoon by Recorder Broyles as an
outoome of th© Christmas joy rid© §ho
took with W. F. Williams, of No. 115
East Ellis street. She was accused
by Williams of taking advantage of
the occasion deftly to remove a wallet
containing $40 from his pocket.
The cases against Mrs. Carrie
Clarke, who lives at the same address
on Whitehall street, and Mrs. J. C.
eMtcalf, whos© address was given as
No. 406 Whitehall street, were dis
missed. They were on th© joy rid©
with Williams and Mrs. Lozier.
PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS., Dec. 26.
Mayor Lana to-day renamed Land
street Woodrow street in honor of
the town’s distinguished guest, Presi
dent Wilson. The principal street in
th© town was several years ago
named in honor of the Mayor, but he
decided to-day to pass up the honor
to the President.
DETROIT, MICH., Dec. 26.—Fire
started in the old Michigan Central
depot at 1:45 this afternoon and in a
short time flames enveloped the en
tire structure. Th© poliece believe
that one man and two scrub women
are trapped in the building. The two
women were reported to have been
seen standing at a window on the
second floor directly over the space
occupied by th© waiting room and the
man is thought to be on the third
floor whore th© fire started. Many
women were in the ladies' waiting
room of the station when the alarm
was given but it is thought they all
escaped.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Bob Fitz
simmons. aged 51, former heavy
weight champion of the world, to-day
was granted his request—a mqtcn
with a “white hope.”. The Atlantio
Garden A. C. signed Fitzsimmons u
for a 10-round bout on January (.
but did not name his opponent. The
selection of Fitzsimmons’ rival will
be made to-morrow. Fitzsimmons an
nounced that he would at once go
into training.
VENICE, CAL., Dec. 26.—With
breakers rolling 50 feet high for miles
along the Pacific coast the city of
Venice to-day was in the grip of one
of the worst storms in recent years.
Heavy damage is being inflicted all
along the coast. The homes of J. M.
Herndon and Harry Donning, each
worth $10,000, are slowly toppling in-
I to the ocean. The sea has been un
dermining them for several hours,
and at noon each giant breaker that
; pounded the shore was tilting the
houses perceptibly toward the ocean.
Until yesterday the two families re
mained in their homes, although even
the breakers were rolling extraordi
narily high. The big bulkhead built
against the sea between Evangeline
and Clark streets was entirely swept
away to-day.
DETROIT, MICH., Dec. 26^—
Charles H. Moore, Sr., who was Chief
United States Marshal at Detroit dur
ing President Cleveland’s administra
tion, died here to-day at the age of 72.
MANA8QUAN, N. J., Deom. 26.—
, Reports received here up to 3 o’clock
this afternoon indicated that ten lives
had been lost in the storm on the
Jersey coast.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—With her
crew clinging to her rigging and her
hulk being pounded to pieces, an un
identified bark was discovered ashore
off Seaside, N. J., by the Forked River
Life-saving Station crew at daybreak
to-day, according to a report to Rev
enue Cutter headquarters. The life-
savers are unable to give assistance.
A wireless message was sent to the
revenue cutter Itasca, which ie be
lieved to be near the imperiled ves
sel, to go to her aid.
LEXINGTON, KY„ Dec. 26—Rev.
J. W. Farris, of Atlanta, a Sunday
school evangelist, to-day was chosen
head of the department of religious
education of th© Broadway Christian
Church here. He will being work
January 1.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 26.—The runs
on th© Bank of London and Mexico
and the Central Bank were extended
to-day to the Banco Nacional. No
payments in excess of $100 were made
and many business houses are un
able to carry on their regular busi
ness.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Four men
who had hidden under the seats at
the conclusion of the Christmas night
performance suddenly pounced upon
the watohman in the Orpheum The
ater to-day, beat him unconscious
and then looted the safe of its con
tents, over $2,000.
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, Dec. 26.—
Henry W. Woodrow, an uncle of
President Wilson, died h\re to-day
after a short illness. He was a prom
inent lawyer.
Three Hendricksons and Dozen
Followers. Heavily Armed, Take
to Shaft After Killing.
LEXINGTON, December 26. —
Strong guard to-day surrounded the
ahandoned mine shaft at Ely, Ky.,
in the hope of capturing George, John
and Pressley Hendrickson, with a
dozen followers, who took refuge
there yesterday following a battle
with officers In which George Holmes,
an uncle of Hendrickson, was killed
by officers who fired into a barri
caded house in answer to the fire of
the Hendricksons.
It is believed a child was shot, as
the Hendricksons were seen carrying
a body away with them as they ran
into the hills. Militia has been asked
for.
Trouble began when an attempt
was made to arrest John Hendrick
son for shooting. He had shot one
man and killed another.
It is alleged the men in the mine
are all heavily armed. All three
Hendricksons were wounded.
Capt. V. G. Mulllkln, who was sum
moned from Lexington with his
bloodhounds, returned here to-day
with the story of the battle* and the
trailing of the men to the abandoned
mine.
Asks To Be Locked
In Cell to Escape
ImaginaryEnemies
Almost frozen by his night's ex
posure in the woods near Ponoe De
Leon Pork, where he had taken ref
uge from an Imaginary mob, L Ivey,
staggered into police headquarters
Friday and asked Chief Beavers to
protect him from his enemies.
Ivey is the man who startled room
ers In the Williams House at No.
15 1-2 Marietta by his sensational at
tempt several days ago to leap from
a window on the third floor to the
pavement below. He was prevented
from carrying out his rash intention
by the strips of iron fastened on the
outside of the window. He said then
he w'as trying to escape his enemies.
Chief Beavers complied with the
man’s request to be locked up and
will later have an examination made.
Ivey Is a picture framer at No. 113 1-2
Whitehall street.
President Turns
Fireman at Blaze
GULFPORT, MISS., Dec. 26.—Pres
ident Wilson and his golfing party
were to-day recruited into service as
firemen when a blaze broke out in one
of the leading residences of the city
as his motor car passed by.
When srpoke issued from the home
belonging to “Cyclone Jim” Neville, a
leading attorney of Gulfport, the
President ordered his car to stop, and
two secret service men and tw;»
chauffeurs were pressed into service
in a bucket brigade, while the Presi
dent directed their efforts. The lire
was quickly extinguished.
Atlanta Tourists
In Auto Accident
I
GREENVILLE, S. C., Dec. 26.—
When a touring car from Atlanta, oc
cupied by Aiken W. Logan and oth
ers, turned over near Greenville, the
occupants escaped uninjured. Th*
car skidded on a muddy road and fell
against an embankment.
After several hours' work tho car
w*as put on its wheels and the pa*ty
resumed the journey to Woodruff.
Her One Great Secret
Which Concer ed the Happiest
in ment of Her Lih Is Revealed in
Next Sunday’s American, By Evelyn Nesbit Thaw