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THE ATLANTA CJEOTvGIA'N AND NEWS.
iVlayor in Position to Dictate!
Terms of Settlement; Pro
posed Test Blocked.
Mrs. Cora Harris Asserts Pink
Teas Will Give Way to
Uplift Meetings,
That Mayor Woodward has gained
complete control of the $260,000 cre
matory contract, and will practically
e able to dictate the terms of set-
ement of the dispute with the De
structor Company, of New York, was
generally admitted Saturday follow
ing the action of the Board of Health
m joining the Mayor in refusing to
make an official test of the plant at
his time.
The $106,000 fire alarm contract with
the Okonite Company, of New York,
a ready has been in such shape as to
■e completely in the control of the
Mayor. Council seems filling to
waive all its rights to override in
•hese 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
t hat the proposal of the Destructor
■ 'ompany to have an official test made
f the crematory was absurd. Coun-
ilman 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-
lion. 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
cial test shall be made on 45 per cent
garbage. Sanitary Chief Jentzen says
there are so much leaves and paper
<t 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
. egetable 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-
f used.”
Councilman Ashley reported at the
meeting of the Board of Health Fri
day afternoon that the plant was op-
■ rating 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
lie usual imperfections icountered
'• erecting a large plant of any kind.
He declared that one of the principal
auses of the trouble was that there
was so much sand and dirt in Atlan
ta’s garbage and .hat the plant was
not built to handle sand and dirt.
To Decide on Railway
Extension January 10
WAYCROSS, Dec. 2 7.—January 10
was to-dav agreed upon for the final
conference at Kingsland regarding the
extension of the Atlantic, Waycross
and Northern, a new railroad charter
ed from St. Marys to Atlanta via
Waycross and Fort Valley.
The road has been completed 11
tiles. Tt is reported here that flnan-
ial arrangements, which have been
pending for some time, have about
been completed.
Suspicious Waycross
Blazes To Be Probed
WAYCROSS, Dec. 27.—Four fires
so similar in nature that suspicions
were aroused, to-day resulted in a
onference between Fire Chief E. r\
Hall, Mayor H. D. Reed and Chair
man H. Hengeveld, of the fire com
mittee. at which it was decided to get
the services of State Inspector W. R.
Joyner, of Atlanta.
The fires caused losses estimated at
$7,000.
Boys Find Man Dead
On Top of Mountain
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 27.—Either
frozen to death or the victim of heart
failure, the lifeless body of J. W. Car
eer, residing at No. 1320 Mulberry
avenue, this city, was found on the
top of Cold water Mountain, southwest
of here, this morning by two boy
hunters.
Carter left home last Monday and
was believed to be visiting h’s sister
n Clay County.
2 Families Poisoned
By Souse Meat Meal
DURHAM, N. C., Dec. 27.—Joseph
Kelley and the families of D. and J.
Eubanks are to-day in a serious con
dition from ptomaine poison contract
ed from sousemeat.
The meat was purchased from a
farmer, and after both families and
Mr. Kelley had partaken freely they
became violently 111. Mr. Kelley’s con
dition is considered critical.
Col. W, A, Huff Rallies
From Severe Illness
MACON Dec. 27.—Colonel W. A.
Huff, who has been desperately ill for
mote than a week, has passed the crisis,
and will recover. On acocunt of his 82
.'ears his relatives were apprehensive.
Colonel Huff declared he would be in
his usual health before January 19, when
he expects to testify at the hearing of
the charges against Judge Speer
JAILER IS STILL WAITING
GADSDEN, ALA , Dec. 27.—Major
M ilks, a negro, to-day was sent from
bis cell iri the jail to get a bucket of
oal. The jailer is still waiting for
‘he coal He was convicted of violat-
ng the prohibition law.
Society—in the opinion of Mrs.
Corra Harris, noted Southern author
of “The Recording Angel,” “in Search !
of a Husband” and other successful ,
books—is destined to experience a
revolution that eventually will result
in it becoming the most potent agen
cy in the world for the advancement
of duty, morality and right, when
pink teas and receptions, which Mrs.
Harris characterizes as “foolish,” will
be superseded by meetings to fur
ther some worthy cause.
This change, however, is not to
come suddenly or spectacularly, but
will be gradual, its arrival contingent
upon the development of woman and
her awakening to a realization of her
powders, capabilities and opportuni- j
ties, and applying the time occupied ,
by the “affairs” of society to move
ments that are worth while.
"Woman,” said Mrs. Harris, "is
just beginning to find herself. Her
development of the past few years
certainly indicates she will become «
power in the world when she has
found her rightful place.
Points Out the Trouble.
“The great trouble with the society
woman of to-day is that she does not
know what to do with herself; she is
like a chicken with its head cut off.
always running around and flopping
vigorously, but not getting anywhere
or doing anything to better her con
dition.
“I regard the indications that wom
an is learning that she has brains
and that they might be of some use
to her as the most hopeful sign of
salvation for what we term modern
society—those people who have noth
ing to do but amuse themselves and
others.
"Society women are only beginning
to realize that with the abundance of
leisure time at their disposal they ran
be of some use in the world, and the
logical development of this realization
eventually will result in society be
coming the greatest agency in the
world for the advancement of right,
duty and morality, for the instincts
of a woman are undeniably good;
and when she directs her mind and
ability toward the accomplishment of
anything, that thing must almost nec-
esarily be something worth while.
Pink Teas to Pass Away.
’’Eventually the foolish receptions
and pink teas will be superseded by
meetings of women for the advance
ment of a cause that is good, and an
aid in the advancement of right and
duty.
"The coming of this condition of af
fairs is wholly dependent upon the
progress of woman; as woman pro
gresses the world grows better, and
when woman has awakened to a full
realization of her powers and capa
bilities and opportunities, she will
naturally be the leader in the ad
vancement of all things that are good.
"Whether woman eventually wifi
be a leader in politics and business is
something that can hardly be fore
told. Certainly woman will influence
politics and business to the extent of
purifying them somewhat, at least.”
“Savage” Dances Taming Down.
Airs. Harris declined to criticise the
turkey trot, the tango and the freak
dances and freak diversions of mod
ern society.
"Jn an article I wrote for The Sat
urday Evening Post last June,” sne
declared, "I endeavored to show that
the turkey tret was not a dance al
all, but a revival of the savage rhyth
mic motions of our primitive an
cestors.
"In that article I predicted that tin
turkey trot would develop until it had
the semblance of a dance. That pre
diction, I think, has come true, for the
turkey trot is fast losing its savage-
ress and becoming a decent dance,
especially in the larger cities, where
it is danced more modestly than In
the small towns.”
Mrs. Harris was asked, in view of
the fact that it is generally conceded
that there is little of beauty or grace
in the freak dances of tnodern times,
why society has taken them up so
enthusiastically.
Why Tango Is Popular.
“The people who make the amuse
ment of themselves and others a vo
cation,” she replied, "have less real
diversion in their lives than any other
class of people. Therefore they seize
eagerly upon anything that is novel
and different.
“And that is the reason for the tur
key trot and the tango; they are a
novelty, and are different from the
old dances; they give society some
thing else other than the waltz and
the schottisehe and the other dances
of our fathers."
Mrs. Harris is spending the holi
days with her daughter, Mrs. H. B.
Leech, at College Park, where she
resided a number of years ago. After
the holidays she probably will return
I to her home, “The Valley,” at Pine
j Ldg, Ga.
i Four Boats Saved as
Fire Wrecks Dry Dock
MOBILE, Dec. 27.—The second doc k
fire on the river front, within the
past month partially destroyed the
plant of the Ollinger Sr Bruce Dry
Dock Company Spectacular fire
fighting from the derke of two tugs
saved the Government steamer Gen
eral Helabird. the American schooner
Henry Crosby, the Mexican steamer
San Cristobal and the tug E. O. Veit.
J. H. Remy. a fire fighter, was bad
Iv injured when a stream from a
hose knocked him through a hole In
the wharf.
The loss is estimated at $15,000.
Admiral Douglas Dies i
On South Sea Cruise;
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dee. 27. Admiral Shol-
to Douglas, retired, died to-day while
on a cruise in the South Seas. He |
was SO years old. Admiral Douglas
entered the English navy in 1847, and
received many medals for brave serv- 1
ice.
Mother-in-Law Free
From Divorce Blame
CHICAGO, Dee, 27.—The mother-
in-law. butt of a large percentage of
stage wit and subject of many pub- j
fished jokes., is held up as a much-!
maligned person in the report issued I
by Chicago’s Court of Domestic Re
lations to-day. Only 6 per cent of tin*
divorces and other marital cases j
brought before the court in 1913 could
he blamed on her—or Ills—mother. 1
The report blames fathers-In-law
with 1 per cent of the cases.
Drink is the chief cause of unhap- 1
pines* among married folk, accord
ing to the report. Forty-six per cent
of the court’s business resulted from
drunkenness.
Grandmother Is a
College Freshman j
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.—Mrs. Freder
ick \V. Lehman, wife of the former
Solicitor General of the LTnjted States, I
end a grandmother, is a freshman at;
Washington University. The secret
of her enrollment hail baked ©tft
P. O. ROBBERS GET $7,700.
KEARNEY. NEBR.. Dec. 27.—
Thieves looted a registered irfa.it
pouch in the local postofRce last night
and stole $7,700 /in currency and car
ried away several pieces of registered
mail;
OFFERS RADIUM MINES
TOCURE CANCER IN U.S.
58 JAP OFFICERS
SEEK TO ENTER
if
But Applications Are Held Up for
Present—Dictator and Spain
Near Break.
.Mrs. Alfred I. 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 has
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.
FrenehmenPaintHair
To Match Garments
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—Here is a
Paris fashion not likely to be adopt
ed by the gilded youth of America:
The Frenchwomen’s fad of hav
ing the hair match the gown has
been imitated by their brothers, wfiio
put dark blue or violet pastes on their
locks to harmonize with the blue-
black of their evening suits.
Lighter colored pomades are used
to match the cloths worn for the
morning and afternoon “footing.“ as
the Parisian calls a plain walk.
HIT BY TRAIN: MAY DIE.
WAYCROSS, Dec. 27.—Warren
Gardner, of Arcadia, Fla., is a't a local
hospital with a fractured skull and
other serious injuries as the result
of being struck by an Atlantic (’oast
Line train.last night.
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DuPont, Powder Magnate, Urges
President and Congress to Act
for Affected Humanity.
WILMINGTON, DEL., Dec. 27.—Al-
free! I. DuPont, powder magnate, has
offered to turn over to the Govern
ment the radium mines he owiu iw
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 Stales.
“Governmental ownership of rail
roads and telegraph lines,’' said Mr.
DuPont, "is nothing compared to t'ne
necessity of taking over the radium-
producing deposits in this country. It
is almost impossible to believe that
Dr. Kelly has effected such r unes. They
seem too marvelous to believe. Nev
ertheless, they are true.
"This matter is too big for one man.
If Dr. Kelly appeared before a com
mittee in Congress ana showed w!nt
has been accomplished in wiping out
this disease. 1 do not think there
would be any hesitancy in the Gov
ernment taking over all the deposits.
In fact, the Prerident should include
it in a message to Congress.”
"A national institution should be es
tablished. No one cares for raonev
in this matter. Ten or twelve of the
greatest, experts should he procur 'd,
radium will be extracted and an in
calculable amount of good to human
ity will be done. For my part. I shall
do all 1 can to co-operate with Dr.
Kelly and tlie Government.
BOY, POWDER, MATCH—BANG!
GADSDEN, ALA., Dec. 27.—Charles
P. Bales, fourteen years old, living at
Albertville, filled a pop nottle full of
powder and touched a match to it.
He was brought to a hospital here
to-day and an effort is being made to
save his life.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2 7.—■Official .«
of the War Office admitted to-day
that-they had received applications
from 50 Japanese officers for posi
tions in the army of General Huerta,
ft was stated that while the Govern
ment appreciated the proffer of serv
ices, no immediate action would be
taken on the applications.
While the relations between the
Mexican Government and that of Ja
pan are being strengthened in every
way possible, marked tension in the
relations between the Spanish Lega
tion and General Huerta Is develop
ing. This has been increased by the
action of the officers of the Spanish
warship Carlos V, who have declined
an invitation to visit Mexico City un
til instructions have been receive!
from the Government at Madrid.
No confirmation has yet been re
ceived of the report published in ihe
United States that British marines
.have been landed from the British
cruider Hermione at Belize, British
Hondura s.
A number of small skirmishes be
tween Zapatistas and Federal troops
in the Federal district were reported
to-day.
Two Spaniards
Executed by Villa.
EL PASO TEXAS, Dec 27.--Two
foreigners and eight Mexicans have
been summarily executed by General
Yfilla, the Constitutionalist leader,
since his occupation of Chihuahua,
according to dispatches received here
to-day. Jose Gonzales and Augustin
Gonzales. Spanish merchants, were
the foreigners shot to death. They
and the Mexicans, who were promi
nent. business men, were accused of
having aided Huerta.
The jails in Chihuahua are filled
with political prisoners, while a num
ber of. prominent sympathizers with
the Rlierta regime are missing, and
it is believed they also have been put
to death.
Negotiations were opened here to
day between General Luts Terrazas
and a representative of General
Francisco Villa for the release of
Luis Terrazas, Jr., held prisoner at I
Chihuahua by Villa for ransom of
$500,000.
ONLY ONE “Bromo Quinine" that is!
Laxative Rromo Quinine
Cures a Cold in I Day, Grip in 2 Days ’
on
box.
Art and Religion in
Lecture of Pastor
A hundred reproductions of fa
mous paintings illustrating the Na
tivity will be displayed by the Rev.
Arthur M. Gordon, pastor of the
Pone*. DeLeon Baptist Church, at the
evening service Sunday.
Dr. Gordon will speak on the con
tribution of painting to the advance
ment of Christianity.
ST. LOUIS BLOCK BURNS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.—Fire early to
day In the heart of the business dis
trict caused a loss of nearly $100,000.
Nearly all ihe business block bounded
by Broady, Locust. St. Charles and
Sixth streets was destroyed.
To Discuss Atlanta's
New Sewage System
I’hief of Gobstruction R. M. Clay
ton and his first assistant, W. A
Hansel, have accepted invitations to
address the engineering branch of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement. of Science, which meets in
Atlanta Monday, on Atlanta’s new
sewage disposal system.
The system, first used in this coun
try in Atlanta,, has attracted interna
tional attention, and both Captain
Clayton and Mr. Hansel have become
experts on it. Hundreds of city offi
cials from other American cities have
beep here to look it over. Friday the
Mayor of Montclair. N. J., visited tee
plants, and was very much pleased
with them.
For Tax Receiver
6WA
W. F. WESLDY,
Who announces his candidacy for Tax Receiver of Fulton County
To the Voters of Fulton County—I hereby announce as a can
didate for Tax Receiver of Fulton County. Subject to the Demo
cratic Primary. I will announce my assistant later.
Respectfully,
W. F. WESLEY.
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What Will Happen In 1914
Forecasts of events which we may look for during the next year made by the
best known prophets of Europe and America, including Raphael and Zadkiel, of Lon
don; Mine. DeThebes, of Paris, and Professor Sotlmos Lotiller, this newspaper’s
own special forecaster, will appear in
To-morrow’s Sunday American
Incidentally that newspaper will, in the coming year, double its already great
irculation and advertising power. And it does not take a prophet to forecast this.
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I’ll ere will be other great features in the coming issue. Look at these
What Is a Broken Heart Worth?
The Baroness l Tsui a demands .$2,500,000 from St. Louis millionaire for hers,
but the record price fora heart is$250,000, which Daisy Markham got. and the high
est price ever paid fora whole life is only $60,000. /
What Probably Happened to Dorothy Arnold
Why the police believe that in the ease of pretty little Susie Ferraro, who was
seized by four men and hurried off into shameful bondage, they have an exact du
plicate of the mysterious disappearance of the New York heiress—except that Miss
Arnold, less fortunate than the Ferraro girl, was probably killed by her captors to
avoid discovery.
Where Bunyan Got His “Pilgrim's Progress”
A very curious literary discovery which shows that Bunnya culled the ideas for
what is, next, to the Bible, the best selling book in the world, from a curious old
French work.
Outcault's Page of Fun for Old and Young
Fverybody who remembers the famous “Buster Brown” will welcome the new
comic pictures which are presented in this newspaper by Buster Brown’s creator
every Sunday.
There Are Dozens of Other Interesting Things In It
()rder from your dealer, or bv phone 1 o Main 100.
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