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What Will Happen In 1914
Noted Prophets of the World
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VOL. XII. NO. 127.
ATLANTA, GA.,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27,
1913.
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Mayor and Councilman Ashley
Win Health Board, and Block
Proposed Test.
That Mayor Woodward has gained
complete control of the $260,000 cre
matory contract, and will practically
be able to dictate the terms of set-
ement of the dispute with the De-
ructor Company, of New York, was
generally admitted Saturday follow-
i tlie 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 c ontract with
the Okonite Company, of New York,
already has been In such shape as to
b' completely in the control of the
Major. Council seems willing to
waive all its rights to override in
irse matters. The attitude of the
members of the majority party, at
limes so belligerent, now is to allow
Mayor Woodw'ard 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 official test made
of the crematory was absurd. Coun
cilman Claude L. Ashley, chairman
of the Council Sanitary Committee,
has, in co-operation with the Mayor,
been making a daily test of the plant
ever since It was first put in opera
tion. He is now engaged in prepar-
ng 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-
;al test shall be made on 45 per cent
garbage. Sanitary Chief Jentzen says
there are so much leaves and paper
U this season that of the trash
hauled only about 10 per cent is pure
garbage. The Board of Health agreed
Itli me that we 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
iating very badly. It was after talks
by him and Mayor Woodward that
Te 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
said the breakdowns suffered were
■ he usual imperfections .countered
•n erecting a large plant of any kind.
Re declared that one of the principal
causes of the trouble was that there
'as so much sand and dirt in Atlan
ta’s garbage and hat the plant was
not built to handle sand and dirt.
Exhibition Ship From
Austria to S. America
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A larpe
Austrian merchant ship 1. preparing
10 start on a trip around South
America, bearing . floating exhibition
of Austrian gold, silver, bronze, china
a nd glassware.
The Austrian Government, It 1« un
derstood, is actively assisting the
manufacturers.
Politicians Flock
In on President at
Dixie ‘White House’
PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS., Dec. 27.
Though President Wilson has mapped
out a plan for complete rest during
his three weeks’ vacation here, a
stream of Democratic politicians
promises to flow during the rest of
his stay. The rush began to-day with
the arrival of Colonel Robert Ewing,
National Committeeman from Louis
iana.
“Bill” Forsyth, for many years se
cret guard to Presidents, met Presi
dent Wilson for the first time to-day.
The President went golfing again
this morning, and then turned his at
tention to business. He spent some
time in looking over an accumulation
of dispatches and letters which de
manded attention.
‘Santa’ To Be Tried
For Shooting Child
S. G. Rutledge, No. 51 Eades 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, while 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.
QUIT STATE
250 Tots Get Gifts
At Owls’ Xmas Tree
Two hundred and fifty children
were made happy by a Christmas
tree at the Owls' Club Friday after
noon, and each child drew an armful
from the 2,000 toys that graced the
huge tree.
When Santa Claus arrived he found
the great room of the club taxed to
its capacity with the crowd of chil
dren and grown-ups. The older per
sons also were remembered. Holly
and cedar boughs were iised to dec
orate the clubrooms, and the walls
were completely hidden by the masses
of foliage on every side.
U.S. Walker Nearing
End of World Tramp
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Joseph B. Mo-
Kulec, the American long-distance
walker, now in London, says he is
nearing the end of his tramp around
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.
Russia Orders 24
AirboatsFromU. S.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Twenty-four more
Curtiss flying 1 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."
Monks Lose Statue
Guarded 300 Years
! Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME. Dec. 27.—A priceless bronze j
statue by Benvenuto Celinl is missing !
from the monastery of San Settig- !
nano, Florence, where It has been I
constantly guarded by monks for 300
years. A marble worker who was
recently repairing the altar ha* dis
appeared, and is suspected.
Quartermaster Has Conference
With Governor and Important
Result Is Expected.
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 he 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 Politic*.
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. Tf 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 the Governor is
perplexed. He will 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 two 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.”
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III PANIC
Women Scream as Police Give
Chase—Fugitive Finally
Retaken.
Recorder Broyles’ Court Saturday
was thrown into great excitement,
women among the spectators scream
ed, and one was carried from the
room hysterical, when Walter Vinson,
Just convicted of selling liquor ille
gally, broke away from the officers
and made a spectacular dash for lib
erty.
Court officers had difficulty in quiet
ing the hysterical outbreak of the
young woman, whose screams added
to the confusion. It was said that
she is the sweetheart of Vinson, and
that she hadv been listening to the
testimony with an appearance of
being hardly able to restrain herself
All semblance of order in the court
room was lost.
Breaks for Liberty.
Vinson had been led away from
the dock. The door of the prisoners’
room was swinging open to permit
him to enter. The morbidly curiotrs
were turning their attention from the
spectacle of the young man to the
next case before the court.
They were Ptartled by the shout.
"Stop him!" and looked about in time
to see the prisoner wrench himself
free from his guards, and, threaten
ing any who might bar his way, run
swiftly through the crowded court
room to the main exit and disappear.
All appeared too stupefied by the
unexpected turn of events to make
any attempt to stop the fugitive as he
dashed past them, although It would
have been a simple matter to check
his flight and return him to the court
attaches.
Vinson leaped down the stairs,
taking three or four of the steps at
once. The officers were in close pur
suit. He dodged through the crowd
on Decatur street, turned into Pied
mont avenue and was crossing the
bridge over the railroad tracks when
he finally was overtaken, breathless
and exhausted, but still in a fighting
mood.
Thirty Days Added.
Vinson had been sentenced to a
$200 fine and 30 days in the stockade
and* placed under a $1,000 bond to
appear before the State court when
he made his sensational attempt to
escape. When he was brought back
into court Recorder Broyles added 30
days more to the stockade sentence.
The young man Is a clerk In a
store at Bellwood avenue and Jeffer
son street. The place was raided by
Detectives Hamby and Vickery and a
considerable quantity of liquor con
fiscated. Vinson is said to have corv-
fessed to selling the whisky.
“There is no excuse for anyone vio
lating the liquor laws,” said Recorder
Broyles. “You knew that you would
get the limit if you were caught, and
I am not going to disappoint you.”
Earle and Child to
Make Home in Russia
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—Intimate
friends of Ferdinand Pinney Earle
ha've 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
with him under the care of a nurse.
Little girl of First Methodist, Ohureh giving present to small hoy from poor section
HOG WRECKS TRAIN; 2 HURT.
HEAFFER. ARK., Dec. 27.—A 150-
pound hog derailed fourteen freight
cars on the Arkansas Eastern Rail
road to-day. injuring two men, when
the train struck the porker.
‘WHITE’ XMAS FOR
251 FROM MILLS
Poor Children Are Guests of Little
Folks at the First Methodist
Church.
To-day 250 poor children of At
lanta are wondering if the “white
Christmas” given to them Friday by
the children of the First Methodist.
Church was a dream. But then they
have toys and other gifts to testify
to its reality.
The First Methodist children are
correspondingly happy over the suc
cess of their novel entertainment,
w hich was the first of its kind in At
lanta. Each child was a "personal
Santa" to some less fortunate little
brother or sister from the mill dis
trict, and they enjoyed their roles as
much as their guests.
The "white Christmas” is symboli
cal of an ancient legend in which all
the people bring white gifts to the
King or Christ Child. The lecture
room of the church, in which the en
tertainment was given carried out the
Idea, being decorated in cotton, which
gave a snowy effect.
Several Christmas trees were cov
ered with silver tinsel. Incandescent
lights among the decorations made
the scene brilliant.
The children from the Sheltering
Arms, the Atlanta Woolen Mills and
the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills oc
cupied chairs, while the Sunday school
children sat on the floor. All joined
in carols, after which "The Story of
Christ” was read by Dr. W. W. Mem-
minger, pastor of All Saints Church.
The little hosts and hostesses then
distributed well-filled stockings to the
poor children and served them with
refreshments.
The "white Christmas” lasted from
3 o’clock to 5.
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, s according
to Weather Observer Von 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.
Macon Enters Fight
For Regional Bank
MACON. Dec. 27. The Macon Cham
ber of Commerce and the banks of this
city have started » campaign to secure
one of the regfonal banks. Senator A.
O. Bacon, who Is spending the Christ
inas holidays at his home here, was ap
proached on the subject, but he gives
little encouragement, believing that if 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.
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SLAYERS IN MINE
Militia Sent to Kentucky Coal
Shaft to Capture Hendricksons
and Their Followers.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia: Saturday increasing
cloudiness and warmer
night. Sunday unsettled and
wanner, probably rain.
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 in
the last t wo 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. Toni 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 Hendric kson gang, a num
ber having joined them since Wed
nesday evening, and a battle is ex
pected 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.
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 Be!’ end Gilmer
streets, evidently the scene of a
mysterious and terrific struggle.
The young man was well dressed.
He appeared to be about 26 years old
A single card found in a pocket bor>
the name, E. B. Layton, and the ad
dress, No. 25 Ira stre't, but inquiries
at that number developed that lb<
people living there knew nothing o,
anyone by that name.
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning Po
liceman Hanna, on his regular Deca
tur street beat, was sought out by t
frightened negro woman. Alice Jack
son.
Heard Cry of "Mother!”
She told him that she had beer
awakened at 1 o'clock by a noise ir
the alley near her home, followed tn
someone calling weakly, "Mother!
Mother!” She was afraid to go oui
to Investigate, she said, but when
daylight came ahe went to the spot
and found a young man there, moan
ing and badly injured.
The officer followed the woman en 1
found the young man almost uncon
scious. When Hanna touched him
and tried to arouse him, he uttered
only the one word, "Mother!” in a
kind of appeal, and at once became
unconscious.
He had leen terriblv beaten about
the face and head, evidently with a
heavy fence paling, which, covered
with blood, with a long nail protruti
ing from one end, lay on the ground
near by. The victim's head was
gashed and battered. The police said
it looked like the work of a maniac.
Pockets Turned Out.
The pockets of s e..pensive 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 oufT buttons, made
of $2.50 gold pieces remained in place.
Not a scrap of identification was
found except the card.
The young man appeared to be of a
good station in life. He was we;l
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 tt was some
thing more than robbery that brought
the mysterious victim to that secluded
spot near midnight and caused him
to be so terribly loaten. The turned-
out pockets, the police believe, may
easily have been to create the im
pression of an ordinary robbery.
At 10 o’clock the hospital reported
that the injured man still was un
conscious and in a precarious condi*
tion.
Mule on Bridge Puts
Train 2 Hours Late
COLUMBUS. Dec. 27.—A passenger
train on the Mobile and Girard Rail-
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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.
Her One Great Secret
Which Concerned the Happiest
.Moment of Her Life Is Revealed in
The Sunday American, By Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
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