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VOL. xn. NO. 131. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. 1914. 2 CENTS.
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Photograph of Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission to Mediterranean nations taken in front of home of United States Ambas
sador Herrick in Paris. Those indicated are: By arrow, Walter P. Andrews, of Atlanta; by double arrow, Ambassador Herrick;
circle, United States Commissioner Rees; cross. United States Commissioner Brown.
T
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Scoring the suggestion that the
Municipal Court of Atlanta was ex
pected to he a money maker for the
county, Judge John T. Pendelton. se
nior judge of the Atlanta Superior
Court, drew a mighty cheer from the
400 lawyera who gathered Thursday
morning at the courthouse to formal
ly launch Atlanta's new court.
“There should be no such thing as
a money-making court, and If the re
ceipts are more than needed to run
the court then the fees should be re
duced,” said Judge Pendleton. “The
county could well afford to pay for
having justice administered, and I
trust this suggestion was not really
made in serious thought.”
The courtroom was packed to its
capacity when President Edgar Wat
kins, of the Atlanta Bar Association,
called the meeting to order. It was a
big, jolly New Year’s crowd composed
of every lawyer in Atlanta
Governor Slaton entered the
crowded room as the apex of a
triangular group of pushing lawyers,
amid cries of “Gangway for Jack!"
and “What d’ye mean, Governor of
Georgia?”
t was as plain “Jack” Slaton and
not as the State’s Chief Executive,
that the Governor made his address.
His was a heart to heart talk as a
member of the Atlanta Bar Associa
tion to “another member.
"In the formation of the municipal
court another step has been taken in
the effort to simplify the work of the
courts, and to see that the great ma
jority of the people who have small
disputes may settle their differences
in an honorable and quick way,” he
said.
"Thpugh there has been some
criticsm of some of the justices, the
number to be criticised was few,
and the greater proportion of our
justices are upright and honorable
men. But the tendency is to get
away from fees and the handling of
these smaller cases will be handled
by a court with salaried judges and
salaried attachees. I believe Atlan
ta's Municipal Court will be success
ful.’’
President Watkins declared the
Municipal Court to be a step toward
his dream of onec ourt for the State
of Georgia.
Walter McElreath, chairman of the
rommittee of the Atlanta Bar Asso
ciation which drafted the Municipal
Court bill, related the history of it.
Judge Eugene D. Thomas, chief
justice of the Municipal Court, was
thel ast speaker, and used but 90
second* His talk was an assurance
that the Judges of the Municipal
Court would do all they could to dis
patch business. He made the request
that every member of the Atlanta
Bar co-operate with the court in the
handling of work and offer sugges-
uons as to the handling of the work.
Atlantan, Boomed for Mayor, Successfully Heads
Exposition Commission.
That the mission of Walter P. An
drews, prominent Atlantan, as head of
the Panama-Pacific International Ex
position Commission to the Mediter
ranean and Balkan States, is attract
ing wide attention abroad is plainly
indicated in letters received by The
Georgian from the- Hearst corre
spondents in Europe.
At the same time clippings from
foreign papers show that Mr. An
drews is being received with great
honor at various capitals and that he
is doing much to spread the fame of
the exposition.
Mr. Andrews, who has been boomed
j as a candidate for Mayor In the next
election, has written to The Georgian
expressing gratification with the
progress of his journey.
In Paris Mr. Andrews and the other
members of the commission were
highly honored at a dinner given by
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick.
Eloquently Boosts Canal.
In explaining the objects of the
commission to the prominent French
men assembled at that time, Mr. An
drews said:
“A world dream is upon the point
of glorious realization. The direct
route to the East by wav of the West
has arrived.
“That narrow and rugged isthmus
which stood as a barrier in the way
of Columbus and blasted his dearest
hope has now been conquered and
pierced.
“The Panama Canal takes its place
upon the map of the world as the
greatest and most momentous piece
of engineering ever accomplished by
the brain, the energy, the courage and
the high pumose of man.
“We would not conceal the com
mendable pride that we feel in the
fact that to our own country is due
the honor of having dug the world’s
greatest ditch, divided the American
continent, and wonderfully promoted
and facilitated the intercourse and
commerce of all mankind.
“It may be truly proclaimed that
all nations and all men will be drawn
closer together into a more compact
body of neighbors and friends by this
splendid annihilation of distance and
time, resulting in mutual benefits of a
universal character and of infinite ex
tent.
“Therefore, the conclusion is forced
upon us that a new day is dawning
that new opportunities are unfolding
themselves to us all, and that new
hopes are lighting up our skies. Our
thoughts to-day are focused upon 4
world event, and not the meri
achievement of any one nation.
“Hence it is fitting and proper that
a celebration be held by all the as
sembled nations of the earth, that
each country may be given an oppor
tunity to demonstrate its purpose to
keep step with the new and quick
ened march of progress. We are here
to announce that a mammoth expo
sition entirely worthy of the stu
pendous occasion is now three-fourths
completed in the city of San Fran
cisco.
Publicity Highly Essential.
“No country can afford, in its own
interest, to fail in this universal ex
position to adequately show to the
balance of the world what it is doing
for its own people and for mankind.
“No man can live to himself—oth
ers are interested in his life.
“The same is true of nations.
“Publicity has never been so essen
tial as it is to-day, and its necessity
and potency are increasing and in
tensifying all the time.
The Panama-Pacific International
Exposition has never been even ap
proximated, in artistic beauty, rich
ness of variety, or colossal extent, by
any previous exposition, and we may
well go further and assert that the
Panama Exposition is really and truly
the only world’s exposition ever held.
Will Never Be Equaled.
“All others have celebrated local
events and have largely been confined
to local interests, although many of
them have been participated in in a
most splendid manner by a number
of foreign countries; but in this in
stance. the world is going to celebrate
an achievement that the world is in
terested in.
“When the Panama Exposition shall
have closed its doors by the Golden
Gate, and shall have passed into his
tory, we have no fear, or even hope,
that it will be equaled again during
the Twentieth Century.
*In its conception and execution
every detail has been taken care of,
and no exposition has ever before
been thought out so thoroughly.
“We all feel deep appreciation at
the acceptance of our invitation by
France. We shall always cherish, in
grateful remembrance the memory
of that splendid young soldier, the
very flower of French chivalry, who
came to our aid when we 9orely need
ed it, and, laying our cause upon his
gallant heart, took his place by the
side of Washington, the “noblest fig
ure in the tide of time,” and helped
us to win our national liberty.
United States Honors LaFayette.
“There is scarcely a State in our
Union that has not perpetuated the
name of Washington and Lafayette
through towns and cities named for
them.
“In many notable instances has
France proven her real friendship to
the America people, and we want her
to know that we are deeply appre
ciative and love her for it.
“Our commission is fully equipped
with facts and data, and would be
pleased to answer any question per
taining to the Panama Exposition.”
Denver New World
Center for Radium
DENVER, F’OLO., Jan. 1.—Denver
is about to become the center of the
world’s radium industry-
A site for a radium plant, to be con
ducted by the United States Govern
ment, financed by the National Ra
dium Institute and capitalists and
o-prated ”~der the direction of lead
ing scientists, has been chosen.
Mme. Bishop, Noted
Concert Singer to
GiveRecitalTonight
Mme. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop, a
talented oratorio and concert singer,
will give a recital Thursday evening
in the Baptist Tabernacle under the
auspices of the Atlanta Musical As
sociation.
Mme. Bishop has been accorded the
highest praise for her accomplish
ments both in America and abroad.
She will be assisted by Alexander
von Skibinsky, the well known Atlan
ta violinist.
Aside from the brilliant program
furnished by the Kneisel quartet, the
entertainment Thursday evening will
be practically the only high-class
musical attraction enjoyed by At
lantans this season.
‘Soused’ Is a Good
Word, Jurist Holds
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—“Intoxicated?
You mean soused. Soused Is a proper
word and you will find it in Web
ster,” declared Vice Chancellor
Backes during an argument at Jersey
City in a divorce action begun by
Thomas C. Wolverton, an automobile
salesman.
Mrs. Wolverton admitted the wo r d
was proper and also stated that it
properly defined the condition in
which she found herself after a din
ner with a man who it developed was
employed by her husband.
Yale Will Appeal in
$700,000 Legacy Loss
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 1 —
Yale University was adjudged not
entitled to a legacy of $700,000 by
Judge Gilson in the Probate Court,
ruling in favor of Mrs. Louise Thorn-
dyke Goodno, of Pasadena, Cal.
The money was devised by Mrs.
Henry O. Hotchkiss, who died last
year in Madison. Most of it had been
accumulated by Mrs. Hotchkiss in
fortunate investments, for she start
ed in 1883 with $270,000. The univer
sity will appeal.
Arrests for ‘Drunk’
Greater Last Year
According to Police Chief Beavers'
annual report made Thursday, there
were 113 more drunks in Atlanta in
1913 than in 1912. The number of
arrests for drunks in 1913 was 3,134.
The total number of arrests by the
city police during the year was 17,022.
The number for 1912 was 17,239.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Partly cloudy
Thursday; cloudy and wanner
Friday.
New Fifth Ward Councilman
Plans Early Move for More
Liberal Police Policy.
Promise of a vote by the new City
Council at its very first meeting on
the issue of a tight or liberal police
policy was given Thursday by Coun
cilman-elect Jesse B. I^ee, of the
Fiftli Ward. He announced that he
would introduce a resolution request
ing the Police Commission to return
the 30 members ’ the ‘Vice squad”
who have been operating In plain
clothes to uniforms.
Mr. Lee admitted that the act of
introducing such an ordinance as his
first official act was somewhat bold,
in view' of the controversy that has
been raging for the past several days
between a, group of well-known busi
ness men led by Colonel Frederic J.
Paxon and Forrest Adair on one side,
and the Men and Religion Forward
Movement and Police Chief Beavers
on the other.
But he said he was heartily in
sympathy with Colonel Paxon and
Mr. Adair, and he felt it his duty to
bring out an official expression from
the Council.
Indorsed by Mayor.
The resolution already has been in
dorsed by Mayor Woodward and a
number of Councilmen. There is as
surance that the new Council Po
lice Committee to be appointed by
the Mayor “will be liberal. A ma
jority of the Police Commission is
openly out of sympathy with the
propaganda of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement and the radical
view's of Chief Beavers. While the
other officials are holding back in
diffidence from definite action, Coun
cilman-elect Lee declares he is un
afraid to start the movement to
crystallize the sentiment among of
ficials as has recently been done
among business men.
Many declare ihat the majority of
the Council will have switched from
Beavers’ sympathizers to an opposing
point of view when the body is re
organized. Many slates have been
made by would-be experts, and the
majority is given to the advocates of
a more liberal police policy.
Whether the members can be made
to publicly declare their positions is
another question. Most of the mem
bers have done all in their power to
avoid taking sides even when it was
known that a majority would sup
port Chief Beavers if the matter
came to* an acute issue.
It is probable that the sentiment
to remain in silence will be equally
strong Monday, and C’oum ilman-
elect Lee’s resolution may suffer the
ignominious fate of being referred to
the Police Commission without com
ment.
Counoil Vote Would Be Important.
The new official might suffer the
blunt snub of having his resolution
tabled without the expression of a
single opinion on it—a majority of
Council can shut off all debate.
Nevertheless, “The Lone Citizen” de
clares he is game to test the issue.
Though Council has no direct con
trol over the Police Department, an
official voicing of its opinion on this
issue would be very important. Re-
elections to the Police Commission,
which does control the department,
are to be made by Council. Strong
efforts are being made to reorganize
the commission along more liberal
lines.
if Council should vote on the Lee
resolution, all doubt as to how the
elections for the new terms begin
ning next March would be removed.
Mass Meeting Plan
Likely Will Be Dropped
With Colonel Frederic J. Paxon
opposed to the idea of a mass meet-
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
UPHELD
| U. S. Expert Gives Details of
Dr. Kelly’s Tests and Urges
National Institute.
Atlanta received first hand Thurs
day the stories of the marvelous
cures of cancer that have been ef
fected by the Gamma rays of the
precious metal, radium.
Astounding as the reports have
been by Dr. How’ard A. Kelly, of
Baltimore, of the mysterious way the
dreaded cancerous growths have
sloughed away under the potency of
the rays, the corroboration by Dr.
Charles L. Parsons, chief of the Di
vision of Mineralogy in the Bureau
of Mines, eclipses anything yet pub
lished concerning the discovery which
has stirred the medical and surgical
worlds.
Great, unsightly growths vanishing
as if by magic; hideous discolorations
fading away in the same mysterious
manner; improvements in patients*
condition almost overnight and cures
in a few r days or weeks—these are
the things of which Dr. Parsons told.
Urges National .Institute.
Dr. Parsons has followed every step
In the experiments of Dr. Kelly with
the keenest interest. In his govern
ment position he set on foot the
movement for the founding of the
National Radium Institute in Denver,
Colo > as soon as he appreciated the
won/oerful possibilities of radium.
And he. with his associates, is
largely responsible for the movement
which is expected to result In the
United States withdrawing from pub
lic entry its lands where the rare
metal Is found.
To a Georgiafi reporter Dr. Par
sons said that Dr. Kelly in his public
utterances had not disclosed a frac
tion of the wonderful successes he
had accomplished by the use of the
radium rays.
Dr. Parsons was on the program
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Thursday
for a paper on “The Possibilities of
Georgia Clays,” but he was expect
ed to show his audience a series of
remarkable photographs of the out
come of operations- made by Dr.
Kelly.
Picture of Cure Shown.
One of the unusual pictures Dr
Kelly regards as important is that of
a man about 55 years old who was
suffering from a cancer which had
swollen the side of his neck to nearly
twice its normal size.
The patient went to one of the
most distinguished cancer specialists
in the United States. The surgeon
took one look at him and said: “There
is just one thing for you to do, and
that is to go home and make your
will.”
The surgeon was right, inasmuch
as an operation would have been
fatal.
The man returned home, where he
heaid of the wronders that were be
ing accomplished by the radium rays.
The radium treatment was given
him. Some of the surgeons at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, with w'hich Dr.
Kelly Is connected, did not believe
that the disintegrated matter from
the cancer could be sloukhed out of
the man’s system without poisoning
him. But in less than two weeks the
cancer disappeared entirely, and the
neck resumed its natural size.
Very Little Obtainable.
”1 had not expected to make any
statement for the public in respect to
radium w'hen I came to Atlanta,”
said Dr. Parsons. “I had merely in
tended possibly to tell of the prog
ress of the experiments to a few of
the scientists who would be interest
ed.
“It really is too early to speak
definitely in regard to Just w'hat
radium will accomplish, because we
Probationers in ’13
Pay Families $6,548;
36 Reconcilations
In his annus 1 report to Recorder
Nash Broyles Thursday. City Proba
tion Officer S. J. Coogler showed that
during 1913 he paid to women and
children from men on probation
$6,547.98.
Mr. Coogler also showed himself to
be a rival of Cupid. He effected 36 |
reconciliations between husbands and 1
wives. He reported that he had 44
women on probation and that through
the co-operation of Martha’s Home i
he had been able to accomplish much
In the work of redeeming women
The probation w'ork has proved so
successful in Atlanta that the new
year sees a county adult probation
officer installed. Philip Weltner, now
in charge of the office, has opened an
office in the old city hall at the cor
ner of Pryor and Hunter street*.
LAID 10
Science Finds Way to
Tell What Ails Baby
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-—What
ails the baby may now be scien
tifically determined. This was the
announcement made by Dr J. R.
Murlin, of Cornell, at the dosing sea-
sion of tiie Federation of American
Societies for Experimentation in
Biology.
The baby Is placed In a new kind
of incubator case and the Inhalation
and expiration measured. When this
is determined, the attending physician
may tell why it cried all night.
Outlaw Clansmen
Escape From Mine
HOU1SVILLE, KY.. Jan. 1.—The
State militia and officers who be
sieged the coal mine near Pinevllle
for days found out to-day that “Hap
py Jack” Hendrickson and his band
of outlaws had escaped early In the
action.
Deeply chagrined over the way
they were outwitted, the officers have
started a vigorous search of the sur
rounding country in the hope of
rounding up the band.
New York Said Now
To Be Biggest City
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Greater New
York now leads the world In point of
population, according to statistics
completed to-day by Dr. W. H. Guil-
fov, of the Board of Health. Hl»
figures give Greater New York a pop
ulation of 5,476,966 at the present
time.
The population of London County
and city on July 1, 1913, was 4,518,191.
The London suburbs have a popula
tion estimated at 800,000 making the
total population of London 5,318,191.
He Plays inN. Y.for
Augusta Wedding
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—■-Wedding music
for u marriage several hundred miles
away was played last night In the First
Presbyterian Church. Fifth avenue and
Twelfth street, by the organist. Dr. Wil
liam C. Carl.
In Augusta. Ga.. Miss Mary Virginia
Saxon, of that city, and John D. Hash-
agen. of Holland, were being married.
First 1914 Wedding
In Chicago at 12:01
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—The first wed
ding of the new year in Chicago was
that of Miss Gertrude Elchenbaum,
of Chicago, to Harry S. Deutsch, of
New York. The ceremony was per
formed in the Hotel LaSalle at one
minute after midnight.
Continued on Page 3, Column 4.
Parents Sell Girls
In Japanese Famine
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TOKIO, Jan. 1.—As a result of
famine in the provinces of Aomori
and Nekkaido, many parents are sell
ing their daughters to keepers of re
sorts in Tokio. Others have been
sold for shipment abroad.
Tn the arrest of Klrirh C. Hart
mann, of Savannah and Chicago,
in New Orleans Wednesday aft
ernoon, the Pinkertons aDnonno-
ed Thursday that they had run
to earth one of the slickest forg
ers in the country, and one whose
operations in Atlanta and other
Southern cities rival the bizarre
careers of David A. Lajnar, some
years ago. and Valentine Lee,
the battleship robber now in the
Atlanta penitentiary, who car
ried $7)0,000 in a grip up and
down Peachtree street and spent
money so lavishly as to startle
all the natives.
Few crcoks ever have attempted so
bold a game and carried It througn
so successfully as the activities as
cribed to Hartmann. The actual
money he la said to have secured, all
on checks signed by John J. Slater, a
retired capitalist of New York and
Savannah, does not amount to a
great figure.
But the first Criminal act charged
to him was only on May 24, 1913, and
he has secured enough funds to live
most comfortably since.
He 1s 25 years old, of rood ap
pearance and had a good time, but
is not dissipated.
Made Friends Easily.
The ease with which he made
friends with prominent and wealthy
men and lifted money from leading
banks is what makes his career so
interesting. Then it took a spectacu
lar turn when he was arrested 1n
New Orleans, according to a tele
gram received Thursday by the At
lanta branch of the Pinkerton Detec
tive Agency.
Hartmann went to Savannah in
January, 1913, with an attractive
young wife and baby. He produced
credentials to show that he had been
secretary of the International Con
gress of Refrigeration. He said he
had been forced to come South on
accdfent of weak lungs.
Shortly after his arrival he made
friends with E. A. Sulver, a produce
dealer, and with his family was taken
to the Silver home to live. Accord
ing to the disclosures of the inves
tigation he not only used this friend
ship to broaden his acquaintanceship,
but on leaving Savannah some months
later failed to pay $175 board bill.
Told of Royal Ancestors.
Cautiously Hartmann dropped the
secret among Savannah friends that
he was the descendant of a Hohen-
zollern prince by a morganatic mar
riage, that he had come to this coun
try at 18 and attended the University
of Wisconsin.
Arousing sympathy my \this atmos
phere of romance he ambitiously*
sought the place of secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, and, it is said,
was bitterly disappointed when he
failed to land it.
About this time he made the ac
quaintance of John J. Slater and pro
ceeded to organize the Savannah
Specialty Company, to do a brokerage
business, with himself as vice presi
dent and Mr. Slater as financial back
er
On April 18 his wife wrote Mr. Sla
ter that her husband'had had to re
turn to Germany to ree his father.
The account of the detectives shows
that he was just beginning his real
career.
Introduced through J. A. Raspbury,
of the Southern Trade Publishing
Company, at a leading Atlanta bank,
he cashed a check l^v John A Slater
on the Knickerbocker Trust Company
of New York City for $150.
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