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VOL. XII. NO. 128.
ATLANTA, UA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By Tn« Georgian Cm.
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Michigan Governor Repels U. S. Agent
Inquest Begun Into Death of
Seventy-two—Moyer Still
Very III of Wounds.
BIG RAPIDS, MICH., D*c. 29.—In
scholarly language, Governor Ferris
of Michigan to-day told the United
slates Government, as represented
b Special Investigator John B.
r*ensmore, to mind its own- business.
Mr. Densmore stopped here between
trains for a conference with the
Michigan executive before going to
the copper country to investigate the
strike for Secretary of Labor Wil
son.
The Federal Government has no
business in the copper country,” said
Governor Ferris. “If Michigan were
not doing its duty, it would be the
Government’s duty to step in. But
Michigan is doing its duty. There is
grand jury in Houghton right now
from which Mr. Moyer or anybody
rise can get fair play.”
Mr. Densmore left immediately
after the conference for the North.
G-overnor Promises
To Sift Deportation.
BIG RAPIDS, MICH., Dec. 29.—
John B. Desmore, Solicitor for the
United States Department of Labor,
ame to Big Rapids to-day to con
fer with Governor Ferris on the
strike situation in the copper re
gion about Calumet. They had a
telephone conversation early to-day.
The Governor issued a statement
to-day in which he guaranteed that
the Grand Jury of Houghton County
will sift the deportation of Moyer.
“Everyone will be given an im
partial hearing,” said Governor Fer
ns. “Mr. Moyer and his friends may
rest assured that they will receive
absolutely fair treatment.”
Moyer Still in
Critical Condition.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Charles H.
Moyer, president of the Western
Federation of Miners, who fled to
Chicago from Calumet, Mich., where
he said he was set upon by a mob
°f angry citizens and fired upon
from the darkness, was still in a
serious condition to-day with a re
volver bullet a half-inch froiji his
»pine. Physicians at St. Luke's Hos
pital said they might remove the bul
let later to-day.
In spite of the conflicting stories of
how Moyer came by his wounds,
Charles H. Tanner, a Los Angeles la
bor agent, convinced the Chicago
Federation of Labor that Moyer was
the victim of an attack by citizens
the Calumet copper region, and
resolutions w*»re adopted by the fed-
f ration calling upon Congress for an
nvestigation of the incident and for
the punishment of the men responsi
ve for the attack on Moyer.
Baroness Sole Heir
By Cardinal's Will
Made 24 Years Ago
Special Cible to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 29.—Hope of finding
the latest will of Cardinal Rampolla
has virtually been given up, and to
day a testament made and signed by
the Cardinal 24 years ago was pub
licly read In the presence of the late
Prelate’s sister. Baroness Perana, and
her husband.
This will named Baroness Perana
the sole heir, with the exception of a
few unimportant legacies.
The police are still trying to solve
the mystery of the missing docu
ment, and detectives are making a
thorough search of quarters where it
is believed that the testament may
have been secreted. The authorities
hold the theory that the will has not
been destroyed, but has been hidden.
On account of opposition from the
family of the dead Prelate and from
Pope Pius X, it is probable that the
exhumation of the body will be defi
nitely abandoned.
$11,000 Thief Caught
After 2-Year Chase
HARRISBURG. ILL., Dec. 29 —
After eluding the officers for two
years, George F. Wilson is believed to
be under arrest at Spokane, Wash.
Wilson was secretary-treasurer ot
the United Mine Workers of America
local at Herrin, Ill., and disappeared
with $11,000 of the miners’ money.
Bonding companies made good part
of this, and his shortage now
amounts to about $8,000.
Congressman Metz
Tired of Washington
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 —“Well, I
don’t think I’ll go back to Congress
again. I won’t be a rubber stamp
for anyone, and I don’t think you
have much of a show in Washington
unless you are a Southerner.”
Ex-Comptroller Herman A. Metz
thus expressed himself when asked
how he liked Washington. He is now
Congressman from the Tenth Dis
trict, but wants to retire.
Miss Knight to Ring
Out Year for Middies
NEWPORT, Dec. 29.—Miss Kath
erine Knight, the handsome 19-year-
old daughter of Rear Admiral Aus
tin M. Knight, has gone to Annapo
lis as the choice of the middies to
ring out the old and ring in the new
year at the Naval Academy New
Year’s Eve.
She was selected by the graduating
class of cadets.
To Dance at Xmas
Tree for Turnverein
The Christmas tree to be given by
the Atlanta Turnverein to the chil
dren of its members on the night of
E>ecember 31 will be the largest ever,
in the opinion of the officers. The
boughs of the big green tree are now
bending under its load of gifts for the
children less than 15.
Dancing will begin at 9 o’clock.
Cow Wreck Victim
Given Wooden Leg
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—James Gal
way, veterinary surgeon of Kirkin-
>ch, Scotland, arrived here ffom
uasgow with photos of a cow with a
;v ooden leg. Dr. Galloway attached
^ stamp after a locomotive had re
moved the original.
Girl Gen. LaFayette
Kissed Is Dead at 100
Melrose^ MASS., Dec. 29,-Mrs. Em
^amberiain. aged 100. grandaughter
Thomas Cutler, one of the original
' lln ute men” of Lexington, is dead
When she was 12 years old, Gen-
Tafayette visited Lexington, and
p d her when she presented him with
a bouquet.
Richmond Sister of
Macon Woman Buried
RICHMOND, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Wil
liam F. Rhea, whose husband is a
member of the Virginia Corporation
Commission and was formerly a
member of Congress from the Ninth
Virginia District, w'as hurled to-day.
Mrs. Rhea was a sister of Mrs C.
L. Bunting, of Macon. She died Sun
day.
Corset Raids’ New
Crusade in Berlin
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Local police are
making “corset raids” as the result
of protests against shopkeepers who
display corsets on life size wax fe
male figures. The shopkeepers made
9 concession by putting flimsy petti
coats on the figures.
SCIENCE TO PROSPERITY
BURE SKY'S TO
SECRETS
Foremost Astronomers of Nation
Will Lecture During Great
Convention Here.
New discoveries in astronomy are
expected to furnish the principal in
terest at he opening sessijn of the
sixty-4fifth meetine of the American
Association for the Advancement of.
Science, which convenes in Atlanta
Monday, with more than 500 dele
gates In attendance. Each of the men
attending the convention is of note
in some branch of scientific develop
ment.
An address expected to prove of
unusual interest as regards the sci
ence of the stars wl’i be given Mon
day night by retiring President Dr
Edward Charles Pickering, director it
the astronomical observatory ot Har
vard University who will speak on
“The Study of the ^tahs.’ 1 Dr. Pick
ering is a world-famed authority on
astronomy.
At 9 o’clock Monday morning D.\
L. O. Howard, of Washington, who is
permanent secretary of the associa
tion, opened his “office” in the Pied
mont Hotel, where he will be busy
registering theidelegatvs to the con
vention and assigning them to their
different halls. The c invention will
be divided into six different bodies,
meeting individually during the day
and gathering at the Auditoi+um in
mass session in the evenings.
Reception for Delegates.
The first general assemblage wifi
be held at the Auditorium Monday
night at 7:30 o'clock. The first half
hour will be devoted to a musical re
view by Organist Charles A. Sheldon.
AJ 8 o'clock retiring President Dr.
Pickering will speak, being followed
by Dr. Edmund Beecher Wilson, pro
fessor of zoology at Columbia Uni
versity. and the new president of the
association. Governor Slaton and
Mayor Woodward will make ad
dresses of welcome.
A 9 o'clock the meeting will ad
journ to the University Club, where
the first public reception will be held.
All visitors connected with the asso
ciation or affiliated with the socie
ties composing it have been invited to
attend this reception, which will be
informal.
Many other social affairs have
been arranged for the visitors. Tues
day evening they will be the guests
of Governor and Mrs. Slaton at a re
ception at the Governor’s Mansion.
Other receptions and tours to points
of interest about Atlanta are plan
ned. The visiting ladies will be
given a reception by the College
Women's Association of Atlanta.
The different bodies composing the
association began organizing in their
respective halls at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning, and at 2 o'clock will
take up their respective programs.
Each body will be addressed by its
respective vice president in the form
al openings.
Foreign Experts Here.
Every branch of scientific research
will he discussed in these meetings.
Two distinguished foreigners who
are scheduled for addresses are Dr.
Paul Otlet, of Brussels, who will read
a paper at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday aft
ernoon on “The International Organ
ization of Scientific Activities." Dr.
Otlet is general secretary of the
Union of International Congresses.
Dr. Eduardo Braga, of Rio Janeiro,
who is connected with the Brazilian
Department of Agriculture, also is
expected to attend. He is extending
himself in the effort to get all South
American countries to join in the
work of the association.
Two public lectures, complimeptary
to the citizens of Atlanta, will be
given at 8 o’clock Tuesday night by
Dr. Charles Waddell Stiles, of the
hygienic laboratory of the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service, on “The Health of the
Mother in the South,” and one «n
“The Explosive Resources of the
Confederacy During the War and
Now,” by Dr. Charles E. Munroe, of
George Washington University. He
will exhibit samples of the work of
Professor Mallet, of the University
of Virginia, who during the war was
in charge of the manufacture of ex
plosives for the Confederacy,
Farmers Freed of Debt by Cotton
Crop—Heavy Trade Coming,
Says Expert,
Thai the new year will be the
biggest in the history of the South
is * the confident prediction made
Monday by J. E. C. Pedder, division
superintendent for Bradstreet’s and
an expert on business conditions in
this section.
Mr. Pedder declares that with the
tariff and currency bills disposed of
and the banks full of money, nothing
stands in the way of 1914 breaking
all records.
“The year 1913. just closing, has
been one of the most complex that
the Southeastern States have experi
enced in years,” said Mr. Pedder,
“and although crop conditions and
prices in this territory have been
good, owing to the disturbing factors
of the tariff bugaboo and the cur
rency bill, general conditions during
the past summer were not entirely
satisfactory, although there was no
reasonable explanation.
Free From Load of Debt.
“The marketing of the cotton crop
this fall brought the farmers, who
had planted, worked and harvested
it themselves at a minimum cost,
practically free from the load of
debt that had accumulated the past
two years, which will give them a
good start for 1914.
“The general trade throughout the
Southeast has been restricted and
repressed, and more in the line of
filling in than normal buying, with
the result that merchandise stocks
at the present time are depleted.
“This indicates that the early
spring months must show a decided
increase in orders and sales. In fact,
numerous local wholesalers and job
bers have already felt this trade im
petus in largely increased orders for
spring shipment.
1914 To Be Best.
“With the tariff and currency bills
disposed of; with our banks full of
money; with our farmers In better
financial condition than for years;
with the faith in ourselves that we
have gained by the magnificent for
ward strides we have made in the
past few years, we can all look for
ward with confidence born of our
past successful achievements that
1914 will be the best year ever known
in the South. /
“I might tell you of the wonderful
record we have made here in At
lanta, but the world knows that, and
statistics are dry reading, anyway;
but if we all attend to our own
knitting, each one striving to make
his individual efforts the best, we of
the Southland will lead the nation in
comparative results.”
Record Scarcity of
Police Court Cases
It may be due to the strained con
dition of Atlanta’s pocketbook so soon
after the holidays, or it may be due to
the remnant of Christmas spirit that
fills the civic heart—but there were
only 39 cases docketed at police head
quarters Monday for both sessions of
Recorder’s Court
It is the smallest number in the his
tory of the court, and has occasioned
considerable comment among police
and court officials. Usually on Mon
day the cases number all the way
from 150 to 250.
Madman Shoots Wife
And Baby for Having
‘Devil’ in Their Eyes
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29. “I killed
her because I saw the devil in her
eyes. The baby would also have the
devil in her eyes, so I killed it, too.”
This was the explanation given by
a man registering in the Hotel Wai-
ton as—D. R. Willard, but who later
said he was Robert Munroe Maroney,
aged 26, of Ban Antonio, Texas, for
U.S.Put Next to China
In Cheapness of Life
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Human life is
cheaper in industrial America than any
where else in the world except China,
according to Episcopal Bishop Charles
I). Williams, of Michigan, who lectured
here.
Miss Portia Willis Is Preparing
Accouterments for New York-
Albany March.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Miss Portia
Willis, one of the prettiest of the
suffragists, is making one of the fa
mous Pilgrim cloaks worn by General
Rosalie Jones and her followers on
the “hikes” of the Jones army. Miss
Willis is one of the latest of Miss
Jones' followers and is to go with the
“general” on a new “hike” to Al
bany.
Friends of the little “general" have
praised her tact and her diplomacy,
on the occasions of the Albany and
Washington “hikes,” and now they
point again to its exercise. For Miss
Willis is a beauty! And 30 is Miss
Jones! And yet Miss Jones unhesita
tingly enlists Miss Willis! Was such
a thing ever known before? One
woman asks another.
And what i; more marvelous, say
the women friends and admirers of
the “general” and the “recruit,” is
that in all human probability the two
will still be firm friends when they
finally march up to the Capitol to give
to Governor Glynn their message.
Immediately after enlisting Miss
Willis, “General” Jones redoubled her
efforts to recruit her army, and soon
“signed” Mrs. Ora Cecil-Bell, of No.
37 Madison avenue, a former captain
of the Twenty-seventh Assembly Dis
trict of the Woman Suffrage party.
Mrs. Cecil-Bell also declares she ex
pects to be with the “general” at tne
finish, and will do all she can to have
other suffragists join in the march.
Mrs. Cecil-Bell is also well known as
an enthusiastic horsewoman, and once
rode from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
This will be the second hike the
suffragists, under the leadership of
“General” Jones, have made to Al
bany. One year ago a band of 37
women, clad in sweaters, mkekinaws,
short skirts and square-toed shoes,
started on their 140-mile walk.
Though they all started with the
declaration that they would “stick” tj
the end, most of them found the or
deal too much, and left a handful to
present their petition in the interests
of the cause to the Governor.
Those who faltered by the wayside
all insisted that they were heart
broken because they could not finish
the hike, but gave excellent reasons
for dropping out. Many became foot
sore and exhausted, and others found
that their duties at home were so
pressing that they were regretfully
compelled to return to New York.
“General” Jones also engineered a
suffragist march to Washington sev
eral weeks after the Albany hike and
presented a suffragist petition to
President Wilson.
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New York.
Police Seek Youth for
Kicking Glass Doors
The police Monday are searching
for a young man, well dressed and
supposed to be Insane, who kicked in
the glass doors of the Oronheim Phar
macy at Pryor street a»:d Georgia
avenue, and the Melton Pharmacy at
Pryor and Garnett streets early Mon
day morning, walked in, turned
around and walked right out again.
In neither store was anything missing
when the owners of the place ca ne to
work. *
Neighbors who saw the strange an*
ties telephoned the police, and Cap
tain Poole answered with a squad of
men.
Mme. Nordica on Ship
Aground in Antipodes
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BRISBANE. AUSTRALIA. Dec. 29.
Ships which went to aid of the Dutch
steamer Tasman that went ashore on
Bramble Bay, Gulf of Papua, report
ed by wireless to-day that the
stranded steamer is not in grave
danger. They reported that several
vessels were standing by to take
o ffthe passengers, who include Mme.
Nordica, the singer, and ex-Govemor
Alva Adams, of Colorado, and T. C.
Stallsmith, of California, Panama
Exposition commissioner.
Bank Cashier to Help
Untangle Its Affairs
AUGUSTA. Dec. 29.—It is under
stood that J. P. Armstrong, cashier of
the Irish-American Bank, will go to
work to-morrow to assist in straight,
ening out the tangled affairs of the
institution which was closed two
W’eeks ago bv the State Bank Exam-
iner at the instance of the hoard of
directors.
Armstrong has returned to the city,
furnished bond of $10,000 and is re
ported lo be ready for business. _
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the murder of his wife and 3-year-old
daughter this morning. The mother
and child were riddled with bullets as
they slept in a room.
After the shooting. Maroney. flour
ishing a revolver, ran, halfcald, from
the hotel and was pursued by a crowd
to the river, where he was caught on
the bridge. He told the police he was
a magician, a son of James Willard,
and was known as “Willard, the Wiz
ard.” Coroner Foertmeyer pronounced
the man violently insane.
63 in Augusta Seek
$1,000 Beer License
AUGUSTA, Dec. 29 -Already there
have been sixty-three applications for
near-beer licenses for 1914 in the city of
Augusta at $1,900 per license. The num
ber of near-beer saloons this year is
between 96 and 100 and it is believed
that, despite the license increase from
$600 to $1,000, the number will be prac
tically the same.
The near-beer dealers are to pay $500
on January 1, $250 on April L and $260
on July 1.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Rain Monday;
cloudy and colder Tuesday.
City Stirred by Controversy Fol
lowing Attacks of Colonel
Paxon on “Bulletins.” f
Vigorously backing Colonel
Frederic J. Paxon in his attack
on the propaganda of the Men
and Religion Movement, Forrest
Adair, prominent real estate
man, Monday made the sensa
tional charge that the “vice
war” which resulted in the clos
ing of the restricted district ha*
scattered the evil it sought to ex
terminate all over town.
Mr. Adair asserted that places the
police should know' of can now be
found on Whitehall, Pryor and other
prominent Sodth Side streets; and
even to a greater extent on the North
Side. He declares that he notoriety
of the “vice war” has very nearly
ruined a “good-natured” Chief, who,
“w'hile not the best Atlanta has had,
was doing fairly well.”
Mr. Adair expresses the opinion
that if the matter were put to a vole
an overwhelming majority of the citi
zens of Atlanta would say that it
lime to call a halt.
Business Men Back Paxon.
The controversy started by Colonel
Paxon’s comprehensive statement of
the attlude of a large numbet,of web.
known business men as printed ex
clusively in Sunday’s American has
aroused the keenest interest all over
the city. It is known that other lead
ing men are preparing to back him,
but the sentiment he stands for is not
unanimous by any means.
Wilmer Moore, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, declares the
Men and Religion Bulletins have ac
complished much good and believes
the attacks on them are a. mistake.
He said the movement deserved en
couragement. but expressed the hot*
that no attempt would ba made t<*
force a prohibition campaign.
The Men and Religion Committ**
was expected Monday to take some
action on Colonel Paxon’s statement.
Marion Jackson, leader in th • move
ment, said the bulletins would con
tinue despite attacks.
Mr. Adair, in supporting Mr. Paxon,
said:
“I thoroughly agree with Mr. Paxou
in ihs views with reference to the
bulletins of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement, as far as he
goes; but I don’t think he goes far
enough. In my opinion, not only the
recent ones have been Inclined to
ward an evil influence, but from the
very beginning they have been
harmful.
Denounces “Bulletin*.”
“I agree with Mr. Paxon that them
was absolutely no excuse for pub
lishing the fact that the death of th*
late matron of the Martha's Home
was caused by a disease contracted
from one of the inmates; and I fur
thermore think that; one of threir first,
bulletins wa* an unwarranted libel
upon every woman who has ever been
sent to a hospital for an operation.
This bulletin stated that a very large
proportion—if i remember correctly,
it was seven out of ten—of the oper
ations performed by surgeons on
women were the fault of the hus
band.
“There are thousands of good citi
zens in Atlanta who failed to see the
good accomplished by this ridiculous
ly false statement, which cast a sus
picion upon every woman placed
upon the operating table.
“These bulletins and the general
wave that is going over the country
resulted in closing The houses.’ but it
has scattered the women all over*
town.
Tells of Vice Resort*.
“They can now be found on White
hall, Pryor and other prominent
South Side streets, and they are even
thicker on the North Side.
"To the right and left of Peachtree
street, south of Pine, there are doson%