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VOL. 1. NO. 46.
WHOLE U.S.
MOURNS FOR
BACON; HIGH
TRIBUTE PAID
STATESMAN
Unexpected Death of Georgia
Leader Shocks Entire Nation.
President from Sick Bed,
Lauds His Ability and Loyalty.
Public Funeral in Senate Cham
ber Will Be Held Tuesday.
Body To Be Brought to Old
Home on a Special Train.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Wash
ington to-night Is In mourning for
Senator Augustus O. Bacon, of
Georgia, whose death came unexpect
edly this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Messages of sympathy to relatives
the dead statesman and tributes
• graphed to members of the Senate
fr m all parts of the United States
showed that the entire nation had
been shocked by his sudden end.
The Georgia Senator had been 111 a
month and his condition had been
< on=idered grave, but reports from
bls bedside early In the day cheered
bls friends greatly, and they were the
less prepared for the sad news that
was conveyed to them In the after
noon.
President Pays Tribute.
Fixpressions of the admiration and
respect held for the dead Senator
were made on every hand. From a
sick bed. President Wilson paid his
tribute to the statesmanship, ability
end loyalty of Senator Bacon.
A power In the Democratic party
end particularly In the upper branch
of Congress, of which he had been a
member nearly nineteen years. Sen
ator Bacon's loss will be most keenly
felt and will confront the State of
Georgia with a problem In the selec
tion of a successor comparable to him
In value of service, according to esti
mates of his worth made here to
night. •
Had Senator Hoke Smith been In
lhe city, the duties of looking after
the arrangements for the funeral of
Senator Bacon would have fallen upon
him, on account of his being a col
league of the deceased. To-night he
wired from Atlanta to Senator Lee S.
Overman, of North Carolina, asking
him to take charge of al! arrange
ments, which Senator Overman is do
ing.
While the arrangements have not
been arranged as to minute details.
I* has been decided to hold funeral
services In the Senate Chamber Tues
day afternoon at 1 o'clock, the spe
cial funeral train leaving Tuesday
evening at 5 o’clock for Atlanta,
where it is expected that the body
will lay in state Wednesday. The
funeral at Macon probably will be
h r 1 Thursday afternoon.
Special Funeral Train.
The funeral will be attended by the
members of the Senate, the members
nf the House of Representatives, the
President of the United States, the
members of his Cabinet, the Generals
of the army, the Admirals of the
navy, the Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, his Associate Justices,
and members of the Diplomatic Corps.
The body will be taken to Georgia
after the funeral ceremonies on a
special train, and will be accom
panied by committees of the Senate
and the House.
When the Senator’s Illness began
about a month ago his Indisposition
was ascribed to a broken rib, which
he was believed to have sustained in
a fall, it was not until some time
later that a more thorough diagnosis
and an examination with the X-ray
disclosed that he was suffering from
an affection of the kidneys, the exact
nature of which was difficult to de
termine.
Clot on Heart Fatal.
He was taken to a hospital on
Thursday and was reported to be
progressing favorably. The opera -
‘ion. which had been planned by his
Physicians, was abandoned on his
satisfactory showing
Clot on Heart Fatal.
Folowing so closely on the heels ot
‘hese encouraging reports, the an
nouncement of his death this after
noon was at once a surprise and a
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U. S. OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING THE CLAIMS OF SOUTHERN CITIES FOR A REGIONAL BANK
From left to right behind the table facing the camera are David F. Houston. Secretary of Agriculture; William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, and .
John Skelton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency. On the witness stand with his back to the camera is Colonel Edward Watkins, of Chattanooga.
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BABY GIVEN TO
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Mrs, Huntley and Aunt to Whom
Child Was Willed Agree
on Custody.
Another, unexpected, chapter In the
eventful life of little Lena Swift, “the
J 30.000 baby,” who was willed by her
mother, Jacques Bradley Swift, to her
aunt, was written Saturday when her
grandmother, Mrs. Lena Swift Hunt
ley, one of the richest women In At
lanta. returned to this city from
Washington with the child In her pos
session.
The charming youngster, whose ac
tress mother clung to her in her dark
est days of trouble, even as she lay
dying, will make her home with her
father, Thomas Swift, at Mrs. Hunt
ley’s Peachtree street residence.
Mrs. Huntley last night confirmed
to The Sunday American the report
that the child was with her, and said
that the “reunion had been ac
complished without rancor or trou
dell.
How Child Wat Given Over.
A vouching story of how the hearts
of two women went out to each other
in life’s supreme emotions was re
vealed In dispatches from The Sun
day American’s Washington corre
spondent telling of the surrender of
Lena by her aunt, Mrs. Harry Wen
dall.
When Mrs. Huntley began to tell
In letters to Mrs. Harry Wendell, of
Washington, who had custody of lit
tle three-year-old Lena, her love for
her granddaughter, Mrs. 'Wendell
softened and wrote Mrs. Swift that
she might consider parting with the
child.
Encouraged, Mrs. Swift continued to
write to Mrs. Wendell, with the re
sult that Mrs. Wendell invited her
to Washington. She reached there
Friday, and started last night for At
lanta with the child.
Mother-Love Comes First.
“I could not stand It,” s«id Mrs.
Wendell, in Washington yesterday.
“No sooner had Jacques died (refer
ring to her sister, mother of the
child), “than Mrs. Swift wrote me one
Os the sweetest letters I ever read.
She told me Lena was her flesh and
blood; that she dieamed of the child
and loved her as her own. and be
cause the child bore her name that
she wanted her.
”1 love .Lena, too, but when she
began to tell me about her yearning
and how lonely she was and how
badly she wanted to see little Lena,
it occurred to me that 1 had never
known the love that a mother has
for a child and that perhaps the love
of the grandmother was stronger, if
possible, than the aunt. I told her to
come to Washington to see Lena. She
came, and we sat right here in the
parlor and talked it all over, and I
told her that she had acted so rea
sonable about it, and that I knew
that she was tired and weary of law
suits, so Harry and I told her to take
little Lena with her.”
"Are you ever to see the child?' 1
was asked.
"Yes; it is agreed that I can visit
Lena any time and that I am to visit
them real soon because I love the
child. Mrs. Swift promised me she
would bring I.ena here aoon to visit
me again, and while I cried a lot last
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3 Ships Fight Storm
Off Virginia Coast
One Sinks and Crew Is Missing.
United States Revenue Cutters
Go to Rescue.
NORFOLK, VA„ Feb. 14.—Three
ships are In distress off the coast of
Virginia as a result of to-day’s storm.
The revenue cutter Seminole is hur
rying to-night to the assistance of
the schooner Bayard Hopkins, report
ed in a serious condition 20 miles
southwest of Diamond Shoals Light
ship.
The schooner Luertia Is ashore and
in a sinking condition off the Middle
ton anchorage in Pimlico Sound. The
crew has taken to the rigging, and
the cutter Pimlico has gone to her as
sistance.
Wireless reports from the revenue
cutter Onondaga state that the barge
Don Pedro sank near the entrance to
Virginia Capes. The whereabouts of
her crew is not known,
Houston Not to Quit
For Bank Board Job
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secre
tary Houston, of the Department of
Agriculture, will not leave the Presi
dent's Cabinet to accept a place on
the Federal Reserve Board. This was
learned to-day. It la understood also
that President Wilson does not con
template or desire the slightest
change In his Cabinet, and regards his
selections for each post as peculiarly
fortunate for himself and the country.
Dr. Anna Shaw Has
Fall, Breaking Ankle
NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Na
tional Woman s Suffrage Association,
returning from Ithaca to attend a
celebration of her sixty-seventh
birthday Monday night, slipped while
alighting from a train in Jersey City
to-day and sustained a compound
fracture of her right ankle.
$400,000 Liquor Fire
Visits New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.—Fire
originating from unknown cause
about midnight Saturday, destroyed
half of the plant of the Southern
States Distillery Manufacturing Com
pany, entailing a loss of $400,000. A
series of explosions from combusti
ble liquors retarded the work of the
firemen, endangering their lives.
The Parcel Post
has particularly made
possible the selling by
mail of farm products.
The "Want Ad” pages
of The Daily Georgian
and Hearst’s Sunday
American supply you
with busy little sales
men, who can keep
you and Uncle Sam
busy. Start something.
★★★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1914.
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Infants Substituted
For Pigs by Doctors
In Dread Serum Tests
■ MAY “BLIND” PATIENTS, SAY NOTED DOCTORS j
MRS. SAMUEL McO. HAMILL, Howard Childs Carpenter
and Thomas A. Cope, of Philadelphia, pioneers in the use ,
of the tuberculin test, in a report to the American Association
of Physicians, say:
; < “It (the tuberculin test) has the great disadvantage of
producing a decidedly uncomfortable lesion and it is not in
frequently followed by serious inflammation of the eyes, which
not only produce great physical discomfort and require weeks
lof aetve treatmet, but which may permanently affect the
vision and even lead to its complete destruction.
“In fact we are strongly of the opinion that any diagnostic
procedure which will so frequently result in serious lesions of
the eyeg, irrespective of the way in which it produces them, has
no justification in medicine.”
Dr. Simon Flexner Admits Charges and Justifies
Experiments on 1,000 Children.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Infants are
being used as substitutes for guinea
pigs and rabbits in scientific experi
ments In the Rockefeller Institute and
In New York hospitals.
These helpless children are Inos
culated with Dr. Noguchi's "leutln"
serum, which is the extract of the
germs of the disease most dread by
humanity, or they are subjected to the
tubercular tests applied to 1,000
charity patients in the babies’ hos
pital by Dr. L. Emmett Holt, the fa
mous specialist. '
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the
Rockefeller Institute, whose medical
research work has made him one
of the foremost scientists of the
world, justifies such vivisection. Os
his personal motives, high scientific
knowledge and professional skill
there can be no question. He ad
mitted, however, yesterday every vi
tal point In the charges made by
Michael Joseph Whitty, of the Amer
ican Institute of Social Service. Dr.
Elexner said:
“The charges that 1,000 babies had
been tortured by the tuberculin test
and that Infants have been substi
tuted for guinea pigs in experimental
work and other frightful sounding
charges must give the reader one of
two Impressions, either that hideous
practices are very prevalent In New
York hospitals, or that the author of
the statement printed has deceived
himself and does not know what he
Is talking about.
“The fact is that the tuberculin
test Is used by every good practition
er who has occasion to diagnose a
doubtful case of tuberculosis.
"Xt would bs outrageous to aooly
a curative preparation to a person
who is 'presumably well,’ but a per
son who is 'presumably unwell,’ may
under certain circumstances very
properly be submitted to certain rou
tine diagonistic tests to aid in the
diagnosis of disease. It is quite prop
er to apply such tests as the tuber
culin and leutin tests to such pa
tients.
"It is perhaps sufficient to say that
no patient was worse, but that many
were better for the tests.”
Dr. Flexner admits that such tests
are being made daily in Rockefeller
Institute and hospitals In New York.
Consent of parents Is not obtained be
fore the serums are Injected.
As to the charge that infants were
substituted for guinea pigs in ex
perimental work, Dr. Noguchi in an
article prepared for The Journal of
the American Medical Association
said:
'While I was still working with ani
mals Professor Welch suggested that
I make the tests on human subjects.
Through his encouragement I com
menced the work at once at different
dispensaries and hospitals with the
co-operation of the physicians in
charge."
Daniels Called Most
Pious Cabinet Officer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. —Secretary
of the Navy Daniels has won the
palm in Washington society as the
most pious member of the Cabinet.
He s»ys grace before maale, even at
.stele dßuxera. i
Mrs. Littleton Moves
Legislature to Tears
°lea for Preservation of Jefferson’s
Home by U. S. Stirs Virginia
House to Action.
RICHMOND. VA., Feb. 14—Mem
bers of the House of the Virginia
Legislature were moved to tears to
day as Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, of
New York, appealed for the acquisi
tion by the national Government of
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jef
ferson,
At the conclusion of the talk the
House unanimously adopted a reso
lution calling upon Congress to take
steps to acquire the property either by
purchase or condemnation. If neces
sary.
The Senate Is expected to concur In
the action Monday.
Bill Frees Banks of
Income Tax Burden
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Repre
sentative J. Hampton Moore, of Penn
sylvania. presented to the House to
day a resolution requesting the Ways
and Means Committee to change the
income tax law to require only "In
formation of the tax on Incomes at
the source,” and not “collection of
the tax on incomes at the source.”
The resolution states that the law
places a heavy burden on banks, cor
porations and financial Institutions
by requiring them without compensa
tion to act as collecting agencies for
the Government.
13 Food Staples Up,
Only 2 Drop, in 1913
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Accord
ing to statistics issued to-day by the
Bureau of Labor, retail prices ad
vanced from 1 to 2 per cent on thir
teen staple articles of food during
191.2 and declined on but two.
The percentage of Increases: Pota
toes, 12.3; eggs, 14.2; round steak,
12.9; ham, 10.6; rib roast, 8.8; sirloin,
8.3; bacon, 8.2; hens, 7.5; pork chops,
6.8; butter, 3.7; milk, 2.7; corn meal,
1.7, and lard, 1.
The decreases were sugar 8.8 per
cent and flour 2.6.
Gives S2O to U. S. to
Buy Wire Systems
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Twenty
dollars In gold with which to found a
fund to purchase the telephone and
telegraph lines of the United States
for the people was received by Pres
ident Wilson to-day from a s6oo-a
-year stenographer In San Francisco.
Steps have been taken to locate the
sender and return the money.
Wilson Expected to
Be at Desk Monday
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Uneasi
ness in official circles that President
Wilson’s Illness was more serious
than at fl supposed was responsible
for a statement to-day by Dr. Cary
Grayson, the President's physician,
that he would be able to return to hie
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CHOIHS MARRY
CHUMS; UNIQUE
DOUBLEWODING
God of Coincidence Aids Dan
Cupid in Bringing About Sim
ultaneous Marriages.
At all times Daniel Cupid Is a game
little fighter, a dead shot and a fairly
successful worker with astonishing
perseverance, but when he Is aided
and abetted in his labors by the God
of Coincidence, the little blind archery
expert can’t lose.
And then we have the “Coincidental
Romance."
For Instance—
There was Miss Mary Pugh Elliott
and her chum, Miss Eulalia Taylor,
and Fred T. Kyle and his chum, Harry
1,. Farr, all principals In a double
wedding at the home of Mrs. S. P.
Elliott, of No. 380 Capitol avenue,
when Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, of the
Centra! Presbyterian Church, made
Miss Elliott Mrs. Kyle and Miss Tay
lor Mrs. Farr.
All Sorts of Coincidences.
Now. of course, Cupid fired the
first shot and deserves lots of the
credit, but the God of Coincidence In
jected into the proceedings a remark
able series of coincidences and hap
penings that transformed the budding
romance from a "regular” romance
into a unique "coincidental romance."
Here are a few of the things that
might properly be credited to the God
I of Coincidence, or, at least, to some
i body besides Cupid:
The brides have been chum* and
roommates for five years.
The grooms have been chums and
roomates for five years.
The brides are the same age.
The grooms are the same age.
The four lived on the same street.
The grooms work In the same de
partment in the L. W. Rogers Com
pany’s wholesale house.
The four became acquainted on the
same day, at the same reception, In
i the same house.
All trips to the theaters and other
places of amusement were made to
■ gether.
Proposed at Same Time.
Both proposals were made the same
day, at the same time, tn practically
the same language.
The grooms bought rings at the
same store at the same time, and
slipped them on the fingers of their
! sweethearts at the same time.
They were al! married the same
day, in the same house, with the same
sort of service, by the same minis
ter.
The brides are from the same State
—Alabama.
They all live In the same house.
“We can't be separated." said Mrs.
Kyle Saturday. "We’ll probably live
in the same house always. We were
chums before we were married, and
we are going to keep right on being
chums."
All of t'ne young people are well
known In Atlanta. Nirs. Kyle is a
granddaughter of former United
States Senator James L. Pugh, of Ala
bama. and Is also a distant relative
of Senator Tillman, of South Caro
lina. Her uncle Is judge of the City
■Court at
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BANQUET ID
BANKBUARU
SETSRECURU
FBRATLANTA
HOSPITALITY
Brilliant Affair Brings Forth Both
Light and Serious Talks by
Distinguished Guests; Sec.
McAdoo Praises Money Act.
Calls Measure Protection to Both
Business and People; Lauds
President and His Principles;
Williams Sees Boom for South
After a strenuous two days of seri
ous argument, there was relaxation
a-plenty for President Wilson s re
gional hank commission In the bril
liant banquet at the Capital City club
Saturday night, tendered the three
distinguished visitors by the Clear
ing House Association and the Cham
ber of Commerce.
For a gathering associated with so
serious a matter as a reserve bunk,
the banquet was singularly unevent
ful. The Atlanta business men who
played the hosts to the President's
Cabinet members Intended that It
should be a social gathering alto
gether, and so It proved. There was
good music and good gpeec.hea—from
a standpoint of entertainment —and
an excellent cuisine—and that was all.
Best of all was the speech of Sec
retary of the Treasury McAdoo, a
masterly epitome of the Democratic
administration, and a warning to all
Atlanta and to other contenders for
the regional banks to be reconciled If
their appeals are not rewarded.
Be Good, He Says.
If Atlanta does not win, he Bald, the
city’s loss must be accepted philoso
phically, and It must be regarded that
the Commission members acted, as
they saw, for the best Interest of all
the nation.
That warning and the exposition
of the Wilson principles by the other
speakers. Secretary of Agriculture
Houston and John Skelton Williams,
Comptroller of the Currency, were the
only serious notes of the evening.
Otherwise there wrag only pure en
joyment of the repast, and a sports
man's concern regarding Atlanta's
chances for the bank.
Early tn the evening a small party
of women came to the balcony over
looking the banquet hall. Among
them were Mrs. John K. Ottley, Mrs.
Robert F. Maddox end Miss Isma
Dooley. The centra! table, where sat
the guests of the evening, was elab
orately arranged.
A number of prominent Atlanta
men sat there. They were; Bolling
H. Jones. John Temple Graves, W. J.
Blalock, J. R. Gray, J. K. Ottley, Mell
R. Wilkinson, J. K. Orr, Colonel Rob
ert J. Lowry. Robert F. Maddox,
Joseph A. McCord, W. L. Peel, Judge
W. T. Newman, Frank Hawkins, J. S.
Floyd, General R. K. Evans and A. P.
Coles
Distinguished Assembly.
From the expectant moment when
Colonel Bob Lowry announced In his
flexible baritone a toast "to the Pres
ident," standing, to the rather hazy
moment when the dark brown taste
of the bill o' fare's Mocha had been
allayed by the strains of “Too Much
Mustard,” from a delectable orches
tra, it was an occasion to be re
membered.
It was a distinguished assembly.
Even the versatile ballroom of the
Capital City Club was distinguished
by the red, white and blue of the fes
toons over the window, and post and
pillow; by the red, white and green
of the carnations and the narcissus
decorations; by an eminent, an ex
ceptionally eminent, gathering of ev
erybody In Atlanta worth while.
When the canvasback duck and
the French endive had been elimi
nated, speeches began under ths
sponsorship of Colonel Lowry.
Tribute to Ssnstor Bacon.
There was a solemn hall whee
Robert F. Maddox read a letter fro*
Governor Slaton explaining that Ms
absence was due to the death of Sen
ator Bacon. Governor Slaton paid
high tribute to the dead Senator and
proposed a silent tuast to his mem
ory.
Mr. Maddox declared that the weak
banking and currency system of for
mer years needed reUet, but no psm
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