Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

----- • EXCELSIOR WINS SOO-M1LE SAVANNAH CYCLE RACE What Will Happen In 1914 Noted Prophets of the World predict dire things for the coming year. Read of them in The Sunday American The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. XO. 127. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913. By Copyright, isofl. The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. P ^ R ”° FINALS MOYER COLLAPSES AFTER BEATING D*3 C*3 C*3 C*3 C*3 GW GW GW GW GW SALESWOMAN HELPS TRAP MANAGER AS THIEF Mysterious Man, Whose Card Was Found in Victim’s Pocket, Hunted by Police. Following: the identification of the young man who was found Saturday morning beaten and battered Into un- onsciousnese, in an alley a block fr in Decatur street, between Bell and Gilmer, as Jayson A. Rosier, 31 years Id. of West Tenth and Curran •Greets, owner of a cigar store at Pryor street and Auburn avenue, the police have begun a search for E. B. ••tor>, whose card, with the address, Ira street,” was found in Hosier’s p-cketn, in the belief that he may be to shed some light on the mys terious slugging. The search for Layton followed a story told the police by Stewart Al len, a fifteen-year-old boy, who tvorks for Rosier and who identified the un- onscious victim as h1s employer. Allen made the identification of his employer through a dimple in the lat ter’s chin, and later was corrobo rated by the wounded man’s brother, Frank Rosier, who is a partner in the cigar stand. Reading the story of the assault in the first edition of The Georgian, young Allen was struck by the similarity of the wounded man’s clothing as described in the paper with that worn by Ro sier when last seen. Didn’t Go Home. Rosier had failed to appear at his home last night, after leaving the store at 7 o’clock, and had also failed to appear at his store Saturday morn ing. It was though, however, that he had spent the night with friends, as he sometimes does. Frank Rosier, the wounded man’s brother, was notified and came to the hospital, completing the identifica tion after some of the bandages had been taken off the man’s face. The wounded man struggled to epeak. His lips moved. Frank Rosier, bending closely, heard faintly words that sounded like “beat! au tomobile! die!” Then the |ips closed and the wounded man lapsed into inronscionsness. His brother tried f* r half an hour to get an explana- 1 ion from the man who lay on the cot. but in vain. Rosier ordered that his brother be placed in a private ward, with a spe cial nurse, and given every care. An examination of the wounded man’s clothing by his brother and oung Allen increased the air of mys tery that surrounds the assault. In the heel of one of the shoes was found $2 in cash. Hold Robbery Theory. The wounded man’s brother could ‘ Ter nothing that would aid in solv ing the mystery. He said his brother left the store at 7 o’clock Friday night, without telling anyone where he was going. Detectives Bosser and Wylie have been assigned to the case by Chief f Detectives Lanford. The police are working on the theory that it was ^jmething more than robbery that 1 red the young man to the lonely al- and led to the terrible beating. It was stated at Grady HospPsl hat Rosier is still in a precarious • ondition, and that his recovery is doubtful. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Saturday increasing cloudiness and wanner at night. Sunday unsettled and wanner, probably rain. AT CHARLESTON. FIRST—Six furlongs: Steal Away, j 106 (Sumter), 50, 20, 10, won; Moi- sant, 111 (Nathan), 9-2, 2, even, sec ond; Henotic, 111 (Frasch), 5, 5-2, 4- 5, third. Time, 1:17 1-5. Judge Monck, Eaton, Auto Maid, Terra Blanco, I.ady Orimar, Bertis, Gag- r.ant, Theo Cook also ran. SECOND—Five and one-half fur longs: Miss Gayle, 108 (Obert), 4, 8-5, 9-10, won; Bulgarian, 106 (Tur ner), 16, 5, 3, second; Harebell. 103 (McTaggart), 9, 8-5, 3-5, third. Time, 1:10. Laura, Trade Mark, Lady In nocence Squealer, Ruby Hyams also ran. THIRD—Six furlongs: Viley 106 (Neander), 10, 4, 2, won; Hearthstone, 109 (Deronde), 15, 6, 5-2, second; Pre mier, 111 (Turner), 4, 8-5, 4-5, third. Time, 1:16 3-5. Daddy Gip, Sylves- tris, John Marrs, Pluvious, Bat Mas- terson also ran. FOURTH—Mile and 20 yards: Feather Duster, 107 (Buxton), 2, 7-10, out, won: Linbrook, 100 (McCahec), 20, 10, 2, second: Colonel Ashmeade, 108 (Turner), 2, 1, 2-5, third. Time, 1:48 2-5. Crackerbox, Duquesne, Mer ry Lad also ran. FIFTH—Six furlongs: Monocacy, 112 (Buxton), 1-2. 1-5, out. won; Cop- pertown, 110 (Pickett), 7, 2, 7-10, sec ond; Deduction, 114 (McCahey), 8, 2, 7-10, third. Time, 1:16 2-5. Yenghee, Robert Bradley, Royal Tea also ran. (SIXTH—Mile: Frank Hudson, 110 (McTaggart), 13-10. 3-5, 1-5, won; Toddling. 104 (Ward), 10, 3, even, second; Earl of Savoy, 105 (Deronde), 12-5, 3-5, 1-4, third. Time, 1:43 4-5. Also ran: Mattie L., Harcourt, Jim Gaffney, Queen, Tom Holland. AT JUAREZ. FIRST—Six furlongs: Fool of For tune, 103 (Moore), 15. 6-5, 5-2, won; General Warren, 93 (Neylon), 4-5, 1-4 out, second; Stevesta, 110 (Kirscb- baum), 5, 8-5, 4-5, third. Time, 1:13. Rip VanWinkle, Auntie Curl, Ada Kennedy, Round Up, Tom Knight. Harwood also ran. SECOND—Six furlongs: Ask Ma, 105 (Ford), 8-5, 7-10, 2-5, won; Nifty, 106 (Robbins), 6. 2, even, second; Dadv Rilley, 105 (Riddle), 8, 3, 3-2, third. Time, 1:12 4-5. Also ran: Am ity, Daylight, Zenotek, John Hart. THIRD—F’ive and half furlongs: Herpes, 105 (Feeney). 3, even, 1-2, won; Commendation. 110 (O’Brien), T, 5- 2, even, second; Zulu, 109 (McMar- tin). 4, 6-6, 3-6, third. Time, 1:06. Christmas Daisy, Blaze B, Nila, Ed B and King Elk also ran. Race Entries on Page 2 Runaway Lads Taken By Officers as They Alight From Train Broadus Chandler and Grady Mc Donald, 16-year-old farmer lads, liv ing 9 miles out of Pelzer, S. C„ in making their plans for running away from home and “seeing the world” did not anticipate having their tour cut short by bumping into two detectives the instant they alighted from the train in Atlanta Saturday. But that is exactly what happened to them. The fathers, as fathers have a way of doing, had wired ahead to the Atlanta police and the would-be globe trotters were taken directly to headquarters. Young Chandler admitted that he had taken a fat roil of $125 from the trousers of “Chandler pater” the night before, with which to finance the ex pedition. “Well, I guess we might as well go back home,” said Chandler, “but, gee. I will get some licking when dad gets hold of me.” 700 Power Company Men Meet at Feast CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 27.—To night 706 Southern Power Company em ployees, including officials, among whom was H. C. Duke, met here for the an nual banquet of the company. Monday night there will be a banquet at Greenville, S. C., and Tuesday night in Winston-Salem, for employees of al lied interests. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-—Stock brok ers were given a blow to-day when Supreme Court Justice Page decided that they could not hold customer* for losses sustained in selling out ac counts at a figure beyond that fixed by the customers. A broker won the test case in the city court, but was overruled in the higher tribunal. NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—Henry Knell, secretary for the Philadelphia Steel Forge Company, shot his wife to death to-day, smothered their two children to death with gas and then commit- tde suicide. CAPTURED BYPERRY Illinois Man Maintains Speed of Nearly Mile a Minute for Entire Distance. SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 27—Bob Perry, of Urbana, Ill., Excelsior, rep resenting the manufacturer, won the 300-mile Grand Prize Race over the old Vanderbilt course here to-day. His time was 5:22:8. This was at the rate of nearly a mile a minute for the entire 300 miles. C. H. Sudduth, of Bluffton, Ind., turned a complete somersault in the first lap, but stayed in the race. George Porter, of Savannah, broke a leg in the third lap. G. C. Adams, of Savannah, suffered a broken ankle in the fourth lap. LATEST NEWS Y.W.C.A. Buys Lot for New Home; Plan to Start Building Jan. 1 The first actual step toward the establishment of a new local Y. W. C. A. home was taken Saturday whan the association purchased the south east corner of Baker and William^ streets for $37,000 from Jacob Buch- man. The sale was effected by O. D. Gorman, Jr., of the Smith & Ewing Real Estate Agency. It is understood that the improve ments will be begun about January 1. The site has at present a two^story brick building. It is possible that this building ma> be only partially razed and that additions will be made to it. The lot is 123 feet on Williams street and 100 feet on Baker. The price of $37,000 is a substantial in crease over the last selling price, which was about $32,000. Creditors Attack Big Compress Firm CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 27.—In voluntary' bankruptcy proceedings were filed to-day in United States District Court by small creditors against W. Gordon McCabe & Co., a big cotton compreslsng firm, cf this city. The petition is returnable Jan uary 6. R. G. Rhett and John Maybank, of Charleston, were appointed temporary receivers. Liabilities may exceed $1,000,000. It is reliably stated Now York, Richmond and Charleston banks are the chief creditors. Doctors Nail Broken Arm Bones Together EUFAULA, ALA., Dec. 37.—When all other means failed to hold James Wil son’s broken arm in place a' the shoul der, surgeons to-day nailed the fractureo bones one, of the doctors having wit- nessed the first operation of this kind at Chicago. Wilson, who was one of the seriously injured in the Central of Georgia Rail road wreck near Eufaula last month, now expects his arm to stay set. FIREMEN FIGHT PEANUT BLAZE. GADSDEN, ALA., Dec. 27.—A near- panic was created to-day when a pea nut roaster caught fire on Broad Street. Both fire departments were called and hundreds of people gath ered to t»ee the blaze. The loss was $150. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Repre sentative McDonald, of Michigan, left for that State t ay to obtain first hand information to lay before the House Rules Committee regarding the Calumet strike. Representative Hard wick, of Georgia, a member of the Rules Committee, to-day said that the committee was not inclined at present to order a Congressional in quiry, a6 the Federal Government has no jurisdiction. BOSTON, Dec. 27.—Champ Clark dropped into Boston to-day on his re turn from a speaking trip in Maine. He discussed national topics freely, predicting a tremendous business boom to follow the tariff and cur rency bills, and declared the 5 per cent tax on goods brought in in for eign bottoms would rehabilitate our merchant marine. CANTON, OHIO, Dec. 27.—Motor- man U. N. Spotts rode three blocks on the pilot of a Pennsylvania pas senger engine here to-day while his street car was being strewn along the right of way. At the end of the jour ney Spotts held his grip on the con troller box and one window sash, but a dislocated shoulder caused him much pain. CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—The American Society for Thrift to-day announced a contest by which will determine the most thrifty city in the United States Every city of more than 10,- 000 population will be asked to submit a statement of bank balances to the credit of its citizens. The most thrifty i city will be tne one that has the larg- ; est deposit per capita. i BEIRUT, SYRIA, D.c. 27.—Aviator I Jules Vedrines flew over this city to- ! day, and all business establishments closed down to give their employees an opportunity of seeing the first aerial feat ever performed here. After the flight Verdrines was congratulated by the venerable patriarch. Vedrines arrived at Jaffa this evening on his way to Cairo. CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.—It became known here to-dav that Joseph Ban- son Foraker, Jr., Central States trac tion magnate, and son of former United States Senator Foraker, had been secretly married, last June to | Miss Katherine Pischizah, daughter of a prominent physician of Chicago. The exposure caused a sensation in society circles here. The couple have been living at Butte, Mont. WESTVILLE. OKLA., Dec. 27.—A thousand chickens were burned to day when fire destroyed all the build ings in the Cope chicken ranch near Westville. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—Rebel leaders in the State of Chihuahua, , Mexico, were warned by the State De- ; partment this afternoon that they must respect the lives and property of Japanese subjects or the United States will hold them personally re sponsible. This action was taken by Acting Secretary of State John B. Moore after an extended conference with Viscount Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador. State Department dis patches later to-day reported the fall of Panuco, near Tampico, on Christ- j mas Eve. Consul Miller, at Tampi co, has been instructed to ascertain whether American lives and property are in danger. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Rear Admiral Fletcher reported to the Navy Department to-day that 39 American refugees had sailed tor Galveston from Tampico on the army transport Sumner. Admiral Fletcher says everything is quiet at the Mexi can port. Admiral Mayo has arrived to take command of the second divi- sion of the Atlantic fleet. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 27.—All com- j munication with Tampico was cut off to-day. This indicates that the reb els are drawing a cordon around Mex ico Citv, though communication with Vera Cruz is still open. Zapatistas under Felipe Neri attacked the Fed- j erals at Garcia, on the Inter-Oceanic Railroad, in Morelos, to-day and killed 100. Rebels have captured Pe- rundio ; a town cf 8.000, and looted all | the principal residences. Women Scream as Police Give Chase—Fugitive Finally Retaken. ARSONETTES BUSY. LONDON, Dec. 27.— Hhrigley Hall, one of the most magnificent mansions of County Down, was destroyed by the “arson squad” of the suffragettes to-day. The loss is $175,000. STRASSB JRG, ALSACE LOR RAINE, Dec. 27.—An attempt was made to assassinate a sentry of the French regiment in the court yard of the Castle Barracks early to-day. Two shots were fired at him by a civilian. The Governor of Zibern has offered a reward for the capture of the aseailant. LEXINGTON. KY„ Dec. 27.—The fine residence of Colonel Thomas C- McDowell, the widely known turfman of this city, was damaged $5,000 early to-dav bv fire caused by an over heated furnace. Colonel McDowell was awakened by neighbors and es caped. WATERLOO. IOWA, Dec. 27.—A M. Duke was shorn of all his clothing, but his only injury was a scratch upon the nose, when the William Gal loway factory was partially wrecked at noon to-day by an explosion of gas. Duke was standing near the ga6 tank when it let go. Hi6 overcoat and ; heavy winter clothing were stripped j from him and he was knocked down. } Six men were slightly hurt by fall ing timbers and shattered glass. Sev eral neighboring factories were shaken and windows were broken in a dozen homes near by. 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 ha' 1 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 had 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 curious were turning their attention from the spectacle of the young man to the next case before the court. They were startled 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 tlie main exit and disappear. All appeared too stupefied by the unexpected turn of events to make any attempt Ao 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 1n 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 hi.s 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. Bell wood avenue and Jeffer son street. The place was raided by Detectives Hamby and Vickery ami a considerable quantity of liquor con fiscated. Vi neon is said to have con 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.” Boy Scouts Guests Of Secretary Bryan MIAMI. FLA., Dec. 27.—Secretary of State Bryan entertained the Miami Boy Scouts to-day at Villa Serena, his win ter home, where he and Mrs. Bryan are attending the holidays. Secretary Bryan talked t* the boys briefly, telling them to live up to the teachings of the. boy scout organization and become great men. Magic Lantern, Xmas Gift, Kills Boy, Aged 7 CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Donald Bankert aged 7, died to-day in great agony fol lowing the explosion of gasoline which he had put in a magic lantern instead of alcohol. The lantern was a Christ mas present. Alleges Attack S rameup” to Ex cite Sympathy for Strike, Sheriff Says. CHICAGO, ILL., Dec. 27.— Charles H. Moyer, the labor lead er, who arrived here from C«lu- met, Mich., this afternoon, col lapsed in his room at a hotel to day. He was removed to St. Luke's Hospital, where it is said his condition was Critical. Moyer said he was shot and beaten up in Calumet before he left that town. GREEN BAY, WIS.. Dec. 27.—Chas H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, who passed through Green Bay early this morn ing, claims that he was forcibly placed aboard the train after he had been beaten. Mr. Moye head was band aged “Several men attacked me In the dark,” explained Moyer aj# he.dayman his berth. “They fired on me from the dark, beat me terribly, dragged me more than a mile through the streets of Houghton, threatened to hang me, and then put me on board a train for Chicago. “I had jurt been in conference with a committee of fifteen men who called with Attorney Pederman, who repre sented the Calumet and Hecla Min ing Company. The committee had not been gone from my hotel more than four or five minutes and I had just stepped outside the building when a mob of men surrounded me. I was rushed across the bridge into Houghton. “After I had been beaten and threatened with death and wounded by a bullet fired from somewhere in the dark, my two chief tormentors dragged me aboard the train and re mained with me until we reached Channing, Mich., about 2 o’clock this morning.” Moyer declared he would return to the Calumet district in a few days and that he would not be intimidated by the actions of the men who ejected him from the mine region. “The strike is practically won in the Calumet district,” said Moyer. “I have been doing my utmost to settle it. The Governor and Attorney Gen eral of the State have, acknowledged that I was doing my best to end the trouble there” “Attack Frameup,” Asserts Sheriff. CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 27.—Sher iff (.’ruse denied emphatically to-day that Charles H, Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, had been subjected to any rough treatment in Hancock or Houghton last night, and supplemented this by an assertion that the whole alleged kidnaping affair looked like a “frame- up” by Moyer to excite sympathy and secure aid for his organization. Sheriff Cruse said that so fat as he had been able to learn, the men who accompanied Moyer to the train in Houghton were agents of the West ern Federation of Miners and that the mob of which Moyer told in Green Bay, where he stopped to have his wounds dressed, was composed entirely of Moyer’s friends. Everyone who was known to have visited Moyer In his rooms in the ho tel was questioned by Sheriff Cruse to-day. The official said he could not obtain a detailed description of the men who were said to have at tacked arid fired upon the miners’ president, but that he found many persons who related similar accounts of the alleged attack, and obtained minute descriptions of Moyer and John Tanner, a federation agent of Los Angeles, who accompanied Moyer on his trip. It was charged by the miners that Moyer was “railroaded” by the Citi zens’ Alliance, who expected to force a settlement of the strike with Moyer out of the way, taking advantage of the feelings of the miners following the Christmas Eve tragedy in which 72 were killed. MOYER TELLS HEARST PAPERS OF ATTACK The following telegram by Charles H. Moyer was sent from Green Bay, W'*., to the He«rst newspapers to-day; “Charles H. Tanner and myself were brutally assaulted in my room in the Scott Hotel at Hancock last night. I was shot in the back and dragged more than one and one half miles through the streets of Hancock by a mob of WadeH- Mahon thugs and City Alliance men, put on a Milwaukee train and threatened with death if I re turned. Please say for me that the cause I represent is well worth the suffering I have undergone. “The strike has just begun. The cause of the strike is just, and the men will win, “CHARLES H. MOYER.” 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, ^atiojuU Committeeman Horn 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. Record Coal Cargo Arrives at Mobile MOBILE, Dec. 27.—After fighting low water and fog since December 13, the big steel barge No. 2 of the Alabama and New Orleans Transpor tation Company arrived from Tusca loosa to-day with 800 tons of coal In transit to New Orleans. According to the officers there, was no trouble experienced In navigating the barge, and the sharpest turns in the river were negotiated with ease. The cargo brought down by the barge is the largest ever reaching this port from Tuscaloosa by water. Shoot Out Quarrel About Xmas Gifts W. C. Watkins, Who Had Accused: Woman Bound Over to State Court. WAYOROSS, Dec. 27— At a. turpen- tine still south of Waycross and on the edge of Okefenookee Swamp, in Charlton County, to-day, two negroes engaged in a pistol duel over a fuss started by Christmas gifts they hail sent to a woman. Henry Johnson was killed and George Mason fatally shot. One negro was probably fatally cut in a fight flit a still at Fort Mudge, 14 miles south of this city. Missing Bank Cashier Returns to Augusta AUGUSTA, Dec. 27. —Cashier James P. Armstrong, of the Irish-Amerlcan Bank, for whose arrest a warrant was issued charging Forgery, has returned to the. city, and given $10,000 bond before Sheriff John W. Clark. It 1h stated that Armstrong has not been more than ten miles from Augusta and that at no time did he Intend to try to escape. Mrs. Hearst Is Named On Exposition Board ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 27 — Governor Glynn announced the appointment of Mrs. Milllcent V. Hearst, wife of Wil liam Randolph Hearst, as a member of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission from New York Btate. PARIS, Dec. 27.—The German Em bassy to-day officially denied the re port that Princes* Eitel Friederick, wife of the Kaiser's son, has left her husband. It was stated that she it now with the Prince at Potsdam. Obtaining a bogus confession cf theft from a saleswoman to allay any alarm on the part of the real sus pect. J. J. Flowers, ow’ner of a de partment store at No. 234 Edgewood avenue, quietly watched W. C. Wat kins, employed as manager of the store, and Saturday afternoon had Watkins arrested on a charge of lar ceny. Watkins stoutly denied Flowers’ ac cusations that he had been engaged in systematic thievery, and that to shift suspicion from himself he had charged one of the saleswomen with the offense. Recorder Broyles bound the prisoner over to the State court# under bend of $200. .Figwerfc-Upslifted, that he fcaci missed sums from the cash register repeated ly for the last two or three months. He said that Watkins had accused a saleswoman and that, appearing r.o believe Watkins’ story, he (Flower?) had the woman sign a confession of theft and led Watkins to believe that he had dropped the investigation. The saleswoman was one of the witnesses against Watkins. Her tes timony was strengthened by corrobo rative evidence of other witnesses. Morris Macks, attorney for the ac cused man, said that Watkins was *n pitiable circumstances, having to sup port a wife and six children, one of which is only a month old. He ex pressed his belief in the man’s inno cence, County Board Head Defied by Mayor in Fight Over a Fence Mayor Woodward ordered Saturday that the barrier around the new courthouse at Pryor and Hunter streets be torn down instanter, a proclamation that brought him into immediate conflict with the oounty authorities. County Commissioner Shelby Smith protested that a great hardship would be worked on the county by the execution of this order, because thousands of dollars’ worth of build ing materials would be exposed and because of billboard advertising con tracts which do not expire until Jan uary 1. All of this was of no interest to the Mayor. He issued orders to the City Marshal, and the latter was instruct ed to call upon the Chief of Con struction for enough men to raze the barrier, if this was thought the best way of dealing with the problem. French Aviator Up 20,668 Feet: Record Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Dec. 27.—A new' altitude record in aviation was set to-day by M. Legagneux. He rose 20,668 feet. When he descended he was almost unconscious from the cold he encoun tered aloft. Physicians said he had had a narrow escape from being frozen to death. Rampolla’s Body to be Exhumed for Inquest Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Dec. 27.—A Central News dispatch from Rome says the news paper Message announces that the exhumation of Cardinal Rampolla’s body has been ordered so a potF- mortem may be performed to deter mine the cause of the i relate^ death.