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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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STOPS PISTOL TOTERS:
is of the Police Court Friday
g showed that Chief of Police
rs' edict against Christmas
i ; i i\ had effectively curbed the
totcrs. 'The •‘morning after"
: look like it has in former years,
re were about 150 cases in all,
true, but that wouldn’t make ra
l illy large grist for a Monday
i rning; in fact, Monday morning
• rtainments in the Recorder’s
: frequently snow a heavier at-
fiance than that.
: <> arrests for ‘'pistol toting"
•ered only fifteen—a distinct rec.
for the day after Christmas, and
ribute to the edicts of Chief Beav-
against the practice, and t*> ihe
- .re manner in which Judge
It es has been dealing with offend
ers.
I believe this cowardly and clan
gs rout habit of 'gun toting’ is effoc-
i illy controlled in Atlanta,” the
'of said FTiday morning. "This
ng isn’t perfect yet, but we are
k ng to keept at it, and never let up.
Recorder Is backing our work in
fine shape, and the public sentiment
a so is responding to our efforts. I am
«!• ply gratified."
There were a jgood many cases in
rt commonly registered as "plain
(Trunks," but even that list was far
shorter than in previous years on the
day after Christmas.
Of the hospital calls, not one call
ached Grady Hospital for an in
ured boy or girl who had been play-»
rg with fireworks. Also, there were
n > calls for any injured persons ex-
;>t a few negroes who had been
* ngaged in fights.
The single fatality was that of a
cgro. Charlie Page, who lived in the
Kar of No. 420 West North avenue.
He was shot and killed by a negro,
who escaped.
Being a gray day, much doused with
■ o in the early hours, the Christmas
f 1913 was a home Christmas. There
‘ asn't so much of the highways and
v ways element The clubs were well
ttended, and there were well-filled
hurchcs at the special services.
A Real “Home" Christmas.
But it was essentially a “home
hristmas,’’ which is by' all odds the
uppiest and most satisfactory kind
a Christmas.
1 hief Beavers noted this fact in the
and peaceful atmosphere of the
streets?.
I never saw a Christmas celebra-
"n attended by less noise and
roughness,” said the Chief the morn
ing after. "As for arrests. I believe
ie record falls far below anything
u the last ten years. Everybody
^•■'*med to be in a good humor, with-
>ut being too much so, which is some-
mes a cause of trouble.”
Governor Slaton, speaking for the
State of Georgia, said he believed
this Christmas was the happiest and
most prosperous the State ever had
enjoyed.
"Financially and commercially,
Georgia is strictly on the top of the
heap,” the Governor said, "and the
relation of that condition to the fam
ily feeling is marked All records
show that it is in times of financial
and commercial depression that most
of the domestic troubles occur. Con
versely, when times are good, people
are good, too. It was. indeed, a hap
py Christmas."
Mayor Highly Pleased.
Mayor Woodward had much the
same opinion to offer concerning the
quiet and pleasant celebration in the
city.
“I don’t remember ever having seen
a finer and prettier celebration than
that by the crowds on Atlanta’s
streets Christmas Eve,” said the
Mayor. “Everybody seemed happy
and well-disposed."
And as to the size of the Christmas
—well, the postoffice and the express
companies supply the measure for
that.
It is hardly a matter reducible to
cold figures, but an idea may be
gained of the extent of Atlanta’s gifts
by noting that the postoffice deliv
ered more than a million letters and
Christmas cards, and 225,000 parcel
post Christmas packages In the five
days preceding Christmas. Divided
among Atlanta’s population, that
would give at least one package
apiece and five letters and cards to
every man,‘woman and child in the
city.
Which doesn't include the express
deliveries. The Southern Express
Company kept 75 wagons and five big
motor trucks busy all the time, de
livering Christmas parcels.
Record Mail Delivery Work.
It is pertfaps a record that at noon
on Christmas Day. in spite of the
enormous flood of gifts and letters, not
One remained undelivered, either by
the postofljce or the express compa
nies.
The Christmas service was won
derful.
The fact that it was a “home
Christmas,” and that the out-of-door
celebration by fireworks was much
modified from that if former years,
probably accounted for the scarcity
of fire alarms and the almost blank
hospital records of Christmas in
juries. Grady Hospital, in fact, went
through the day without a single
emergency call—a record in itself.
At the hotels the guests were’made
to feel that they were as 1 much at
home as possible, at that distance
from their own firesides. One big ho
tel had a gorgeous Christmas tree in
the dining room. There were special
dinners, of course, and the atmos
phere was one of Christmas ^ayety
and good cheer.
Atlantans in Tampa
Enroute to Havana
TAMPA, Dec. 26.--On their way to
Havana to see the sights, a party of At
lantans passed through Tampa, taking
the Olivette for the Cuban city.
The party includes J. B. Beck and
wife. N. B. Duncan and wife, Miss Bims,
Miss A. Torres, Miss Nolan, Mrs. Nolan,
Mrs. M. L. Pitts, Miss Burson. Miss
Clara Perry, W C. Harter. Mrs. W. A.
Cherry, Price Charter, W. U Elliott,
Miss Louise Wall, Ml is L. Hinson and
John T. North.
Father Shoots Son
Who Defends Mother
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26—Wil
liam Paige, at his home on Enterprise
street, declared that he w’as going to
kill his wife, and cut loose with a re
peating rifle. His son, Loton Paige,
grabbed another gun to defend his
mother.
Paige shot the boy down. He is at
St. Luke’s Hospital in a dangerous
condition.
'HEART WIFE’TELLS OF
HER WEIRD ROMANCE
Miss Adelaide
Branch, the
“heart wife’’ of
a former dis
trict attorney at
Monticello,
N. Y., who lived
a hermit in a
secret room in
his offices for
years.
HOW ASSOCIATED CHARITIES HEAD1
LOOKS ON EMPTY STOCKING FUND
Here is what Joseph C. Logan, Secretary of the Associated Charities, and an expert in the
proper administration of charitable funds, thinks of The Georgian’s Empty Stocking Fund:
“ Again The Georgian Empty Stocking Fund has gladdened the, hearts of hundreds of chil
dren. It has shod their little feet, and warmed their precious little bodies. The Associated Char
ities knows 673 of them by name and age and home. You may know others. But The Georgian
does not publish these facts, because that would humiliate, and add a sting to the pleasure of both
mother and child. ■ .
“In this, and iu other respects, the Empty Stocking Fund deserves high praise. It is dis
tinctive in taking unusual trouble to suit gifts to the sex and age of the children; and in preserv
ing the spirit of Santa Claus, by delivering the gifts through a parent of guardian.
“It treats these children with as much consideration as if some day any one of them might
become editor of the paper, Governor of the State, or other great servant of mankind; and why
not—since a Babe that was born in a manger, became the Light of the World.”
PUCE 111 STRIKE
Twins Born on Xmas,
95 Years Ago, Alive
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—William and
Bamuel Muncy, twins, born Christmas
Day, 1818, near Babylon, L. I., and still
living on farms near where they were
born, are celebrating the ninety-fifth
anniversary of their birthday.
It is a quiet one. Neither of the men
ever has used tobacco or alcohol, and
to this, and the open air lives they
have led, they attribute their long
lives.
Fewer Saloons for
Mobile Next Year
MOBILE, Dec. 26.—Mobile will prob
ably have less than 52 retail liquor
stores in 1914. according to members of
the city excise commission, who state
that applications so far received indicat
ed that a number of those holding li
censes this year will not seek new li
censes.
CONVICTS GET TURKEY DINNER.
GIBSON, Dec. 26.—County Com
missioner H. G. Sammons and Ward
en J. H. Thigpen gave the Glascock
County convicts a holiday and served
them a turkey dinner on Christmas
Day.
MONTICELLO, N. Y., Dec. 26.—
Adelaide M. Branch, “heart mate" of
Attorney Melvin H. Couch, whose
tragic death revealed the fact that she
lived as the slave of the lawyer for
years in a box-like den off his office,
will hide herself in the West. She
soon will leave the jail where she had
found a refuge and go to some little
town where she can fight her grief.
Despite the predicament in which
she finds herself, Miss Branch assert
ed calmly to-day that she had no re
gret for her past life.
“In spite of all that has happened,
in spite of all I have suffered, in
spite of all this scandal and noto
riety, I*have not one regret for what
I have done," she said. “I would do
it all over again to-morrow' if I could.
“I have been rich in love. I have
had full measure, pressed down and
running over, of a perfect love and
companionship, and it was worth the
price I paid.”
Miss Branch to-day told for the
first time with what secrecy she had
to move to conceal her presence in
the little room. Every time that the
lawyer received a client she had to
take special care to hide the fact that
she w-as near by.
“I w'ore rubber-heeled shoes, so that
I could move about without making
any noise,” she saiji, “but mostly I
sat very still, listening to the snatches
of conversation that floated over the
wall, which did not extend to the
ceiling, learning to know by their
voices people that I never saw’. Clients
came and went, politicians and, occa
sionally, I heard the voice of a wom
an—Mr. Couch’s wife.
“I made his life happy, but I suf
fered. Oh, yes, I suffered. I paid
the price. I suffered when I thought
of his wife. 1 did not w’ant to hurt
her, but I could not help it. I don’t
believe two women can love the same
man and not have their hearts torn
with miserable Jealousy and envy of
each other. I knew Mr. Couch loved
me as few women have ever been
loved in the w’orld—and yet I was
jealous of the woman who bore his
name and was his wife in the eyes of
society.
“And I w ill tell you a strange thing.
Awake, my mind was filled with hard
and bitter thoughts of her, but in my
sleep I loved her better than any one
woman on earth. I dreamed of her
constantly, and always in my dreams
I was going to see her, and she was
meeting me with outstretched arms
of welcome and with affection in her
eyes and smiles.
“What does that mean? What can
it mean except that we do not really
hate each other at all In our hearts,
and that as soon as we strip off this
little fleshly veil we are all love for
every human soul?”
DENI OF 11
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 26.- While
four separate investigations of Calu
met’s' Christmas tree disaster, in
which 72 persons, most of them chil
dren, were killed, were being made
to-day and a dispute was being waged
as to whom should bury the dead,
peacemakers were at work in a su
preme effort to bring an end to the
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 Calumet 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
unipn miners and their friepds—gave
no thought to the big laftor 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 offer 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 w^s 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 mine 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 ITall while the Christmas tree
celebration was at its height and
shouted fire was inspired to the
malicious deed by some things that
the 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 wii) 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.
$150,000 Skyscraper
Will Rise From Fire
SAVANNAH, Dec. 26—Construction
will start before January 15 on a new
building to take the place of the one
destroyed by fire last week. H. C.
Brlnckman, the owner, stated to-day
that he was considering the advisa
bility of erecting a fine office building
costing $150,000 with stores in the
lower floors.
He will start at once clearing the
debris from the old site.
Xmas Seal Sale in
Savannah Doubled
SAVANNAH, Dec. 26 —The sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals in Savannah
this year doubled that of any previous
year with a sale of 76,000.
Added to the sum thus raised pretty
girls crowded the shopping district of
fering the finest candies for sale Fif
ty per cent of the money thus raised al
so was appropriated to the cause.
T HE lesson of "Good
Teeth- Good Health’’
is being taught in
thousands of schools all
over the country—it is
to be hoped that children
of your family have re
ceived instructions in tha
care of the teeth.
In many homes parents
are teaching their children
that care of the teeth
means relief from pain,
besides better health for
work and play. Help your
children form this habit
by setting them an ex
ample, twice-a-day.
But cirooea your dentifric.
catefully—It is important. You
want on* that is eafe, without
harmful grit—one that is aitfi-
isplic, to check decay-germs
—on# that is delicious, so that
its use is a pleasure instead of
a task.
Every member of yout famliy
should have a lube of
COLGATE'S
RIBBON —«
Dental cream
Consult your dentist about it —
ask him to give you a copy of
tha “Oral Hygiene" booklet,
published by Colgate C& Co.
,. n "Correct Dress for Men"
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Essig Bros. Co.—December Reduction Sale
331-3 Per Cent Discount—For Cash
On Our Entire Stock of Men’s and Young Men’s
SUITS and OVERCOATS
All Suits and Overcoats That Were
$15.00 Reduced to $10.00
18.50 “ “ 12,35
20.00 “ “ 13.35
22.50 “ “ 15.00
25.00 “ “ 16.65
$27,50 Reduced to $18.35
30.00 “ “ 20.00
32.50 “ “ 21.65
35.00 “ “ 23.35
40.00 “ “ 26.65
25 per cent Discount
===ON===
All Odd Trousers
$5.00 Trousers $3.75
$6.00 “ $4.50
$7.00 “ $5.25
$8.00 “ $6.00
$9.00 “ $6.75
This sale includes all Black, Blue and Fancy Suits, all Light, Medium and Heavy Weight Overcoats,
in the newest patterns and latest models. Our clothing is manufactured for us by America’s best
tailors and we use only the best foreign and domestic woolens in all our Suits and Overcoats.
This is Positively a
ESSIG BROS. C
0.
This is Positively a
Cash Sale
“Correct Dress for Men"
Cash Sale
26 Whitehall Street
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