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What Will Happen In 1914
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VOL. XIL. NO. 127.
ATLANTA,
GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1013.
Copyright. 1906.
By Th« Georgian C«i
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MAN FOUND BRUTALLY BEATEN
WOOOW4RD wins control in crematory row
Mayor and Councilman Ashley
Win Health Board, and Block
Proposed Test.
That Mayor Woodward has gained
* omplete control of the $260,000 cre
matory contract, and will practically
be able to dictate the terms of set
tlement of the dispute with the De
tractor Company, of New York, was
generally admitted Saturday follow
ing the action of the Board of Health
in joining the Mayor in refusing to
make an official test of the plant at
this time.
The $106,000 fire alarm contract with
the Okonite Company, of New York,
already has been in such shape as to
be completely in the control of the
Mayor. Council seems willing to
waive all its rights to override in
these matters. The attitude of the
members of the majority party, at
times so belligerent, now is to allow
Mayor Woodward to conclude these
matters In his own way.
“Proposal Test Absurd.”
Mayor Woodward said Saturday
that the proposal of the Destructor
Company to have an offic ial test made
of the crematory was absurd. Coun
cilman Claude L. Ashley, chairman
of the Council Sanitary Committee,
as, in co-operation with the Mayor,
<een making a daily test of the plant
ver since it was first put in opera
tion. He is now engaged in prepar
ing an exhaustive report on defects
of the plant, which will be submit
ted to the Mayor and Council.
“The plant will not do the work the
ontract specifications prescribe it
shall do. Councilman Ashley's in
vestigations prove that," said Mayor
Woodward.
“The contract states that the offi-
ial test shall be made on 45 per cent
garbage. Sanitary Chief Jentzen says
there are so much leaves and paper
at tills season that of the trash
hauled only about 10 per cent Is pure
garbage. The Board of Health agreed
with me that w r e should wait until a
more convenient season, say in the
vegetable period, to make the test.
Engineer Blames Sand.
“We tried to get them to have the
official test made during the water
melon season last summer. They re
fused."
Councilman Ashley reported at the
meeting of the Board of Health Fri
day afternoon that the plant was op
erating very badly. It was after talks
by him and Mayor Woodward that
the board unanimously voted not to
make a test at this time.
P. D. Canham, engineer for the De
structor Company, said that the plant
would prove 100 per cent efficient. He
aid the breakdowns suffered were
ihe usual imperfections .-icountered
in erecting a large plant of any kind.
He declared that one of the principal
causes of the trouble was that there
was so much sand and dirt in Atlan
ta’s garbage and that the plant was
not built to handle sand and dirt.
Cold Due to Continue
Through New Year’s;
Frost Covers State
The chilly wind which made ears
tingle Saturday morning will con
tinue its reign indefinitely, according
to Weather Observer Yon Herrmann,
who, despite the sunshine, can see no
rise in the temperature.
He predicted cold weather for New
Year’s Day three weeks ago and he is
sticking: to his forecast. He declares
there will be no changing of his
mind, as in the case of weather pre
dicted for Christmas.
Jack Frost moved about the State
Friday night, and what little vege
tation had been left after his pre
vious visits is believed to have been
killed by his last onslaught.
’Santa’ To Be Tried
For Shooting Child
S. G. Rutledge, No. 51 Fades street,
will be tried before Recorder Broyles
Saturday afternoon on a charge of
shooting the 4-year-old daughter of
Mrs. William L. Johnston. No. 229
McDaniel street, w'hile impersonating
Santa Claus Christmas Day.
Rutledge was playing with the child
and flourishing a pistol loaded with
blank cartridges. The weapon was
discharged accidentally, the wadding
in the shell striking the child on the
arm. The wound is not serious. Chief
Beavers ordered the arrest of Rut
ledge. He was released on $300 bond.
U.S, Walker Nearing
End of World Tramp
i Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 27—Joseph B. Me-
Kulec, the American long-distance
! walker, now in London, says he is
nearing the end of his tramp around
I the world for a wager of $30,000.
Since May he has toured Belgium.
Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Finland, Russia and Bohe
mia. He wins if he reaches New
York in 1914.
Man Smothered by
Paint When Both Fall
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—George W. Ftiggs.
| president of a large manufacturing con
cern, was found dead in the bathroom of
I his home, smothered to death by the
I contents of a can of enamel paint. He
I had been on a stepladder painting the
! ceiling when the ladder tipped. He fell
1 into the bathtub and the paint can was
1 emptied in his face.
Unconscious, Riggs lay in the tub
until he was smothered by the thick
liquid.
Russia Orders 24
Airboats FromU. S.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Twenty-four more
Curtiss flying boats have just been
ordered by the Russian Government,
making forty machines of this type
now owned or ordered by Russia.
Samuel Ochs, special representative
at Sebastopol, said: “Within a few
months the Black Sea will be swarm
ing with American flying boats.”
Exhibition Ship From
Austria to S. America
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A large
Austrian merchant ship is preparing
to start on a trip around South
America, bearing a floating exhibition
of Austrian gold, silver, bronze, china
nd glassware.
The Austrian Government, it is un
derstood, is actively assisting the
manufacturers.
BUTTS WANTS FARM EXPERT.
JACKSON. Dec. 27.— Butts is
tnong the counties that will try to
secure a farm demonstrator for 1914.
' his matter will be taken up in a
‘ormal way at the next meeting of
’he Butts County Chamber of Com
merce.
Monks Lose Statue
Guarded 300 Years
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 27.—A priceless bronze
statue by Benvenuto Cellni is missing
from the monastery of San Settig*
nano, Florence, where it has been
constantly guarded by monks for 300
years. A marble worker who was
recently repairing the altar has dis
appeared. and is suspected.
12 Seek Thief Who
Got $52,700 FromP.0.
KEARNEY, NKBR., Dec. 27.—Post-
office authorities to-day admitted that
there was $52,700 In currency in the
seven registered packages stolen from
the local postofTice last night. A dozen
postoffice inspectors were ordered here
to investigate the robbery.
OBEAR L
TRDUBLETOl 15S
ENMITY
Macon Enters Fight
For Regional Bank
MACON. Dec. 27. The Macon Cham
ber of Commerce and the banks of this
city have started a campaign to secure
one of the regional banks. Senator A.
O. Bacon, who is spending the Christ
mas holidays at his home here, was ap
proached on the subject, but he gives
little encouragement, believing that a
regional bank is located in Georgia at
all it will go to Atlanta.
Nevertheless, the Macon bankers are
planning to make a showing in Wash
ington.
OFFERS RADIUM MINES
TOCURE CANCER IN U.S.
MYSTERY
Admits Nash Dislikes Him—Case
Taken to Governor—One Is
Likely to Quit as Result.
General William G. Obear, whose
dismissal from the military service of
Georgia has been urged to the Gov
ernor by Adjutant General Nash, has
conferred with the Governor as to his
(Obear’s) status in the military es
tablishment, but no definite statement
as to the results of the conference
have been given out.
General Nash, while qualifying cer
tain statements credited to him,
“stands pat” on his general recom
mendation that General Obear’s posi
tion be abolished and his salary
stopped on January 1.
The Governor says he is giving the
case his most careful consideration,
and will make known his determina
tion when he has looked into every
legal phase of it.
General Obear is understood to have
taken the position that his office of
quartermaster general is legal, and
that he has every right under the law
to hold It.
Obear Blames Politics.
It is said also that General Obear
lays all of the trouble In the Adju
tant General’s office to political and
personal dislike. He makes no bones
of admitting knowledge of General
Nash's enmity toward him. and says
he has purposely avoided coming in
contact with Nash any more than
possible, because of his realization
that the chief of the department did
not care for him particularly, either
as an officer or as a man. That,
however, he has not permitted to in
terfere with his duty as quartermas
ter.
General Nash has gone so far as to
let it be known that the Governor
must choose between himself and
Obear. If Obear is retained in his
present position, over Nash’s protest,
it will so seriously embarrass the lat
ter that he may resign.
It is whispered that Obear may re
tire gracefully, and thus relieve the
situation, but that is not authorita
tive.
In the meantime tlie Governor is
perplexed. He w ill not make either a
personal or political issue of the
trouble in the Adjutant General’s of
fice, but will take the course the law
plainly lays down.
One of Them Will Go.
At the same time it is evident that
whatever course he takes, that course
likely will mean the elimination of
either Obear or Nash.
In regard to Governor Brown's ap
pointment of Obear to be quartermas
ter general, and the statement cred
ited to Nash that Brown made the
appointment “purely through kind
ness of heart,” General Nash says:
“Governor Brown, in retaining Gen
eral Obear in office, obeyed the man
dates of the State laws, and restored
the tw'o offices which had been con
solidated, or merged into one, by his
predecessor, as he held at all times
the State’s laws supreme.
“At that time there existed no Fed
eral laws conflicting with the State
laws, and Governor Brown was en
tirely right In restoring the two of
fices as prescribed by the State law.
Now', however, the Federal law does
not recognize the office of quarter
master general, and the State laws
are also mandatory that conformity
with Federal laws shall be made.
“Therefore, it is now entirely proper
that the office of quartermaster gen
eral be discontinued or vacated, and
the State statute repealed at the next
session of the General Assembly.”
Militia Sent tc Kentucky Coal
Shaft to Capture Hendricksons
and Their Followers.
Mule on Bridge Puts
Train 2 Hours Late
LEXINGTON. KY., Dec. 27.—Forty
members of the Pineville Company
of Kentucky National Guard to-day
started to the abandoned coal shaft
at Ely, Knox County, to follow' Gov
ernor McCreary’s orders to take
three Hendrickson brothers and their
twelve henchmen from the abandoned
mine.
The Hendricksons are charged with
killing two men a wounding several
more in two battles they fought ini
the last two days with officers’ posses.
A number of deputy sheriffs have
surronuded the place. Colonel Tandy
Ellis, acting adjutant general, is in
conference with the officials, having
been sent by Governor McCreary.
Press Hendrickson is shot in an
arm and through the cheek, and two
other members of the party are
wounded. Tom Horn, who was killed
in Wednesday’s battle with the Sher
iff’s posse, was buried at Four Mile
to-day.
According to the reports which
have reached here, there are fifteen
now' in the Hendrickson gang, a num
ber having J61rted them since Wed- j
nesday evening, and a battle Is ex- j
peeted when an effort is made to cap- »
ture the men to-day. There were only
seven in the party when the Hen
dricksons left Four Mile, all heavily
armed.
COLUMBUS, Dec. 27.—A passenger
train on the Mobile and Girard Rail
road was delayed more than two hours
because a mule ran onto a trestle as
the train approached and compelled
the engineer to stop until the animal
was removed.
It took the train crew and several
passengers to get the mule from be
tween the crossties and back to solid
ground.
Troops Guard Plant
Of Missing Company
JAMESTOWN, ARK.. Dec. 27.—
Following a general row at ihe
Jamestown Mining Company’s plant,
in which two were killed and eight
seriously injured, a company of State
croops was to-day sent to guard the
mining property.
There is no strike, but the rowdy-
ipm had got beyond control of local
officers.
To Prohibit Hunters
From Baiting Fields
The Game Wardens of the State j
have, been instructed by Commission - ]
er Charles S. Davis to enforce rigidly ]
that section of the law which prohib- 1
its the baiting#of hunting fields and |
the shooting of doves on or near such
fields.
He states that such practices have
been called to his attention and that
he proposes to break them up.
Old and New Years
In Church Talks
Services commemorative of the
“dying year” will be conducted Sun
day morning by the Central Presby
terian Sunday school. The Rev. G. R.
Buford will speak on “1913“ and Dr.
Dunbar Ogden will speak on “1914."
Marion Jackson will make an ad
dress on “To-day.”
Grandmother Is a
College Freshman
Mrs. Alfred T. DuPont, who, attired as nurse, cares for em
ployees injured in her husband’s powder mills, and who makes the
largest private donations to charity in Delaware. Her influence lias
led Mr. DuPont, below, to offer his Colorado radium mines to the
government. A portrait of Dr. Howard A. Kelly, who cures cancer
with radium, is also shown.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.—Mrs. Freder
ick W. Lehman, Wife of the former;
Solicitor General oif the. United States,
and a grandmother, i.sja freshman at
Washington University. The secret
of her enrollment has leaked out.
Earle and Child to
Make Home in Russia
NEW YORK. I>ec. 27.—Intimate
friends of Ferdinand Pinney Earle
have heard that he had rented a
house in Moscow and had expressed
an intention to become a Russian cit
izen.
The report says Earle had his child
j with him under the care of a nurse.
Preacher Shoots at
Man Beating Woman
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Seeing ft man
beating a Woman beneath his win
dow, the Rev. Elmer Williams, fight
ing Methodist minister, fired a re
volver at the man, but the bullet
missed .and the man and woman fled
j in opposite directions.
l HOG WRECKS TRAIN: 2 HURT.
HEAFFER. ARK., Dec. 27.—A 150f*
pound hog derailed fourteen freight
cars on the Arkansas Eastern Rail
road to-day, Ihjuring two men, when
the train struck the porker.
WILMINGTON, DEL., Dec. 27. Al
fred I. DuPont, powder magnate, has
offered to turn over to the Govern
ment the radium mines he owns In
Gilpin County, Colorado.
He Is co-operating with Dr How
ard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, to pro
vide radium for the cure of cancer.
Cancer kills 400,000 persons every
year, 50,000 in the United States.
“Governmental ownership of rail
roads and telegraph lines," said Mr.
DuPont, “is nothing compared to the
necessity of taking over the radium-
producing deposits In this country. It
Is almost impossible to believe that
Dr. Kelly has effected such cures. They
seem too marvelous to believe. Nev
ertheless, they ar^ true.
“This matter Is too big for one man.
If Dr. Kelly appeared before a com
mittee in Congress and showed what
has been accomplished in wiping out
this disease, I do not think there
would be any hesitancy In the Gov
ernment taking over all the deposits.
In fact, the Pre. ident should include
It in a message to Congress.”
“A national Institution should be es
tablished. No one cares for money
in this matter. Ten or twelve of »he
greatest experts should be procured,
radium will be extracted and an In
calculable amount of good to human
ity will be done. For my part, I shall
do all I can to co-operate with Dr.
Kelly and the Government.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Saturday; in
creasing cloudiness and prob
ably rain Sunday.
123-MILE GALE
mis COAST
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—With thir
teen lives lost and millions of dollars
of damage done to property, the ter
rific wind, hail, rain and snow storm
which began Christmas night anl
swept over five States abated to-day,
leaving a cold snap in its wake. In
this city the thermometer dropped 16
degrees to 27 degrees. Colder weath
er is expected before night.
The storm was one of the fiercest
that ever swept over this section of
the country.
The masters of the A. C. Ropes and
Undaunted, coal barges, with eight
seamen, lost their lives when the
barges foundered off Forked River,
N. f.
Two men died of exposure and were
found on roads near Trenton, N. J.
A workman was drowned In the
East River when his rowboat was
swamped.
The full force of the storm fell
upon that stretch of the Jersey coast
which reaches out Into the Atlantic
Ocean like an elbow. Records at
Long Brancn showed that the wind
attained a velocity of 122 miles an
hour, the highest ever recorded in the
Weather Bureau.
Seabrlght, N. J.. was the plaything
of the ocean. Waves, whipped by the
gale, tore away supposedly (loon-
proof bulkheads, smashed bathhouses,
washed away or undermined fisher
men’s cottages, tore away portions of
two big summer hotels, inundated the
main streets and buried railroad
tracks under 18 inches of sand, brick
and rock,
Card Found on Unconscious Vic
tim Fails to Aid in Effort to
Identify.
An unknown young man, bat
tered into unconsciousness and
dangerously injured, was taken
to Grady Hospital early Satur
day morning, being found in an
alley a block from Decatur
street, between Bell and Gilmer
streets, evidently the scene of a
mysterious and teriffc struggle.
Thg young man was well dress°J.
He appeared to be about 25 years old
A single card found in a pocket bore
the name, K. B. Layton, and the ad
dress, No. 23 Ira stre't, but inquiries
at that number developed (bat Die
| people living there knew nothing of
| anyone by that name.
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning Po
liceman Hanna, on' his regular Deca
tur street beat, was sought out he a
frightened negro woman, Alice Jack-
son.
Heard Cry of "Mother!"
She told him that she had been
awakened at 1 o'clock by a noise in
the alley near her home, followed by
someone calling weakly. ".VTother:
Mother!" She was afraid to go out
to investigate, she said, but when
daylight came she went to the s pu;
and found a young man there, moan
ing and badly Injured.
The officer followed the woman m I
| found the young man almost uncon-
| -clous. When Hanna touched him
j and tried to arouse him, he, uttered
j only the one word, "Mother!" in a
j kind of appeal, and at once became
unconscious.
He had teen terrible beaten about
Hie face and head, evidently with a
heavy fence paling, which, covered
j with blood, with a long nail protrud
ing from one end, Jay on the ground
1 near by. The victim's head ,v ,s
gashed and battered. The police saul
it looked like the work of a maniac.
Pockets Turned Out.
The pockets of’'s expensive brown
suit were turned out. A dime and a
nickel lay on the ground beside him
If he had possessed a watch, it was
missing, but his cuff buttons, made
of $2.50 gold pieces, remained In place
Not a scrap of identification w s
found except the card.
The young man appeared to be of a
good station in life. He was well
dressed and groomed, clean shaven,
with thick dark hair.
The case was at once turned ove"
to the city detectives, who are work
ing with the idea that It was some
thing more than robbery that brought
the mysterious victim to that secluded
spot near midnight and caused him
to be so terribly l eaten. The turned-
out pockets, the police believe, may
j easily have been to create the im-
i pression of an ordinary- robbery.
At lfl o’clock the hospital reportr 1
that the injured man still was un
conscious and in a precarious condi
tion.
Stork Brings Storks
Another Little Stork
■WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—The stork
presented Mr. and Mrs. Edgar \V. Stork
with a little Stork.
Her One Great Secret
Which Concerned the Happiest
Moment of Her Life Is Revealed in
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