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The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Goes Home and Stays There
VOL. XIII. NO. 213.
ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915.
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.Jitney busses may cease to operate
on the streets of Atlanta because of
regulations to be imposed upon them
by the Mayor and General Council.
Mayor Woodward indicated Satur
day that he would sign the ordinance
passed by Council Friday night. J.
Coy Pearce, secretar. of the Jitney
Bus Club, declared it would be impos
sible for the jitneys to make expenses
under the charges and restrictions im-
po;-ed by the ordinance.
Mr. Pearce said the jitney owners
thought the license too high, that the
$.>,<'00 bond required is excessive, and
that the prohibition of the riding of
passengers on the running boards of
the cars is preposterous. He declared
that if no alternative is left, they
would attack the ordinance through
the courts.
Mayor for the Ordinance.
“I have not yet seen the ordinance,
and don’t know except, in a superficial
way, what it contains,” said Mayor
Woodward. “It seems to have been a
sort of (compromise measure. It may
not prove to be what*we need, but
these jitneys are running wild with
out any regulation, and we must
make a start toward protecting the
public. If this ordinance is not fair
we can change it.”
After a public hearing that lasted
for some three hours, and a discussion
among themselves for some two
hours more. Council passed the ordi
nance Friday night without dissent.
The ordinance was taken up section
by section, and there was much differ
ence of opinion in various sections,
Councilman W. H. Johnson, of the
Fifth Ward, making a particular fight
for liberality toward the jitneys.
The question of a surety bond of
55,000 brought forth most protest. It
was claimed by the jitney people that
such a bond would cost them $200 a
a ear. Alderman Albert Thomson of
fered an amendment to strike this
provision of the ordinance and the
grounds that he did not believe the
Council has the right to impose it.
His amendment was voted down.
Provisions of the Act.
The ordinance as it will go to the
Mayor makes these provisions:
Five-passenger and smaller cars
must pay a,license of $75 a year, cars
up to seven-passenger $100 and ten-
pas.sengcr and larger cars $125.
Each car must give a surety bond
of $5,000.
No person shall be allowed to ride
on the running board or the fenders
of a car.
All cars must be equipped with suf-
fi ,fnt light to permit passengers to
distinguish the features of their fel
lows.
Applicants shall state the routes
they propose to run and a notice to
the City Clerk shall be required for
a ,hange of route.
No “Picking Up” Passengers.
Passengers shall be taken on and
put off only at the curb.
All drivers must wear a license
number to be furnished by the City
Clerk.
The name of the owner of each car
ar.d his place of residence must be
bled with the Ci*v Clerk. If owned
by a corporation, the corporation must
give the amount of its stock.
The Mayor and Council reserve the
r _ t to cancel a license at any time
( o the return of the unexpired part of
the license. Licenses shall not be
granted for a .-horter period than six
month- This would mean an ex
penditure of $37.50 for each of the
type
Left Pari of
Face Behind
as Clew
Esau Hicks, a negro farmer of
Spalding County, left Atlanta Friday
determined never again to go within
a mile of an illicit distillery. While
he claims that he never frequents
such places at all, he had a hard time
Friday convincing a jury in the United
States District Court.
J. T. Robinson, a posseman, swore
that Esau fell on his stomach as the
raiders arrived and then lost himself
in the gathering darkness, stopping
long enough to leave a part of Ms
countenance on a barbed-wire fence.
‘ There's the scar on him now,” Rob
inson told the jury.
Esau said he believed in the Bibli
cal injunction to keep out of harm s
way, and that he surely had not been
near any still. He said he got his
scar w hen y'chip flew up from a wood
block and hit him. The jury gave him
the benefit of the doubt, and also freed
E. O. Waldrop, charged with helping
to keep the same still. Waldrop is
about 30 years old. He swore that
when the sprint started he was left
far behind by his uncle, Jim Head,
aged 50. Head was acquitted Thurs
day, but Charley E. Beasley, another
farmer, was convicted.
R. V. Miller, 63. of Union County,
principal in a still case from Towns
County, swore he went barefoot three
miles to a still to get whisky for a sick
daughter-in-law. When the agenis
arrived he invited them to have some
of the “medicine,” which he said be
bought from Manse King, Manse
King, he said, jumped off a precipice,
eluded the officers and left the coun
try. Pat and Frank Haralson and
John S. Wood represented most of
the defendants during the day.
BATTLE
FOR LIFE
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Mrs. W. White, a beautiful young
1 widow, was despondent and weary of
life Friday night, so she took bichlo
ride of mercury at her home, No. 26
Capitol place. Saturday morning at
Grady Hospital she wanted to live
and began a brave battle agains*t the
deadly* drug. Physicians could give
her but slight hope for recovery.
Mrs. White, immediately after tak
ing the drug, fell screaming on the
bed in her room and other occupants
of the house, attracted by her cries,
found her in agony. She was rushed
to Grady and first aid given at once,
but the bichloride already had begun
its work.
All night Friday night and all fore
noon Saturday physicians worked
over the young woman, as Mrs. White
implored them to do everything in
their power to save her.
She declared that she took the poi
son in a moment of despondency and
now wanted to live.
Karl Bitter, Famed
Sculptor, Is Struck
And Slain by Auto
NEW YORK. April 10.—Karl Bit
ter, well-known sculptor, died in the
New' York Hospital to-day from in
juries he received w’hen he and his
wife were struck by an automobile in
Broadway, near the Metropolitan
Opera House. Mrs. Bitter’s condition
is not serious.
The Bitters were attempting to
| cross the street, w r hen an automobile
driven by Edgar James, an electrical
contractor, sw’erved to avoid a colli
sion with a taxicab, and felled them.
The accident was unavoidable.
Bitter, whose works had won him a
place among the first sculptors of
America, was born in Austria and
came to the United States in 1889. His
works are to be found in many parts
of The world. He was art director of
the Buffalo and St. Louis expositions.
Among his works are the $200,000
bronze doors of Trinity Church.
• f jitney? now running.
Woman With Pistol
Captures a Robber
Hearing a noise in the basement of
her home early Saturday, Mrs. Willie
Day, No. 149 Spring street, arose from
her bed and. pistol in hand, stole to
the stairs leading into the cellar. She
flashed on the light and as she did so
two men climbed through a window of
the basement and made their escape.
The third, merely a boy, threw up his
hands and submitted to capture.
The prisoner gave his name as John
Gottrell and his address as No. 20
Plum stret. He said the trio had en
tered the basement to rob the gas me
ter. Three w’eeks ago a daughter of
Mrs. Day captured a negro boy trying
to rob the same gas meter.
Sermon Brings $1
To Conscience Fund
DUBLIN, April 10.—Following a
sertnon to that end by the Rev. J. M.
Bass in the big revival meetings now
going on here, a large dry goods firm
of the city has received an anonymous
letter inclosing a $1 “conscience fund”
remittance.
The letter stated that “one of the
store’s clerks made a mistake in a bill
of goods of about $1 that the pur
chaser had never corrected.” From
the .appearance of the handwriting,
t^e sender was a woman.
Tourist Hotel Season
At Augusta Closing
AUGUSTA, April 10.—The Hampton
Terrace Hotel closed yesterday after
noon after a successful season, and C.
A. Wood, the lessee, with his large
force of employees, left immediately for
Toxaway, N. C., where they will get
Toxaway Inn in readiness to open early
in May.
The Bon Air will close next week,
while the Partridge Inn will remain
open until May. There are about 150
guests yet remaining at the Bon Air.
$75,000 Y. M. C. A, to
Be Built at Clemson
COLUMBIA, S. C., April 10.—Ground
has been broken at Clemson College for
the erection of a $75,000 Young Men's
Christian Association building, for
which John D. Rockefeller contributed
$50,000 and $25,000 was raised by the
student body and contributed by the
colelge authorities.
The Rockefeller gift requires that the
building be completed by January 1,
1916.
Peachtree St.
Drugstore
Robbed
For the fourth consecutive time
burglars early Saturday broke into
the Marshall Pharmacy at No. 329
Peachtree street, and looted the store.
The cash register was robbed of $16
and a quantity of goods taken.
hTe burglars made their entrance to
the store by forcing the front door.
Asked Saturday if they knew' any
thing about this burglary, the police
said no report had been made by the
policeman on that beat of the robbery.
Police Accused of
Mistreating a Man
Held in Minor Case
The methods of the police in effect
ing arrests and holding prisoners in
communicado were caustically criti
cised Friday afternoon before Re
corder Johnson by O. J. Tiffany, man
ager of the American Tobacco Com
pany, who appeared in court in behalf
of one of his employees. E. W. Bell,
who was arrested early in the day by
Officer F. A. Newport on a charge of
“posting signs without a license. ' Bell
was fined $1.75 by the Recorder,
which was paid by the tobacco com
pany.
‘ I don’t mind the fine.'' Mr Tiffany
told the judge, "but we do object to
having our employees treated in an
almost cruel fashion by the officers.
Our representative was brought to the
police station in the patrol, thrown In
a cell and not allowed to communi
cate with the head offices for several
hours.
“Finally he had to pay a profes
sional bondsman $1 to get into com
munication with me amt allow me to
furnish bail. I am going to take this
matter before the police board.”
Award 'Wet 1 Medals;
Govt. Seeks Senders
NEW YORK. April 10.—Numerous
prominent persons are receiving from
an anonymous source, medals “Dedicat
ed to the Citizens of the Rumsoaked
City of New York.’’
On the medals is rhe inscription:
“Some of the effects of rum. Revelry,
rowdyism. ribaldry, riot, remorse,
roquery, ruin."
Postal authorities are. making efforts
to find the sender.
Joe Cannon to Make
Journey to Honolulu
(WASHINGTON, April 10 —Uncle Joe
Cannon, Representative-elect, will be
one of the party of 200 Congressional
junketers who will go to Hawaii in
May. In the party are a Senator and
three Congressmen from every State in
the Union.
They will sail from San Francisco
about April 25.
Buffalo Bill Now
Has General’s Title
DENVER. April 10.-Buffalo Bill has
relinquished the title of Colonel and
from now on will be known as General
William B. Cody. He has been ap
pointed judge advocate general of tn*;
military forces of Wyoming by Gov
ernor Kendrick.
General Cody takes his new honors
modestly.
TIDE IN WAR
Millionaire’s Son
Works as Laborer
DULUTH, MINN., April 10.—For more
than a year Charlemagne Tower, Jr., j
son of the multi-millionaire financier !
and diplomat, has been working as a j
common laborer in Duluth, living in a I
$3 a week room at the Y. M. O. A., eat
ing at lunch counters and going to the
movies as an amusement.
Self-Electrocution
New Form of Suicide
i<NIGHT'S FERRY, CAL.. April 10.—
Edward Searles. 40 years old, electro
cuted himself here.
jjp wound a wire around his arm and
threw the loose end over a high-power
w ire.
Negro Murderer Is
Hung at Monticello
MONTICELLO. GA.. Apri 10.—Will
Byrd, colored, murderer of Sadie
Brunson, a negro woman, a year ago.
was hanged in the county jail in Mon
ticello yesterday by Sheriff J. R. EzeL.
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BELLOC
By HILAIRE BELLOC.
(Foremost Military Writer in Europe.)
There is all the difference in the
wprld between saying that the criti
cal moment in this war should arrive
near such and such a period and nam
ing that period as "the end ’ of hos
tilities. There has been In every mil
itary operation in history a point, not
always exactly defined, but lying
within fairly narrow limits, after
which the end was in sight: but how'
long the journey would take before
that end was actually reached de
pends upon many factors.
All that I am trying to do In these
notea is to gauge the critical moment
which, if it is successfully passed,
will put the end of the war in sight.
Upon the side of the Germans we
have three elements to consider—al
ways excluding the unknown chances
of neutrals joining in. These three
elements are what Germany has to
put forward of trained and equipped
men and when; what Austria-Hunga
ry and what Turkey,
Germany, over and above the men
she trained and equipped for the first
efforts of the war—her regular forces
—commands a maximum reserve
man-power of perhaps more than
three millions, and certainly not less
than two millions and a half.
There is only one other point upon
which we must linger, namely, the
proportion of military efficients k$pt
back for civilian employment. It is
obvious that great masses of the nec
essary work, both agricultural and
industrial, can be done by men who
would not pass the doctor. But a
very considerable amount of absolute
ly necessary work can only be done
by men who certainly would pass the
military doctor.
800,000 Every Three Month*.
How many of this reserve has Ger
many already put into the field?
To judge that, let us note that two
considerable bodies of newly trained
men. whether drafted into existing
formations or forming new units
have already been noted, and their
numbers roughly estimated In the
field. The first batch came n» with
the late autumn of last year. The last
batch have begun to appear with the
more recent operations or the late
winter—and here let me add that I
am revising and somewhat changing
here upon later information earlier
estimates of my own, which were
based upon insufficient data.
We know’, again, that the number
of men Germany can train at any one
time is limited to a certain maximum.
Her machinery of instructions, n-
cluding ground accommodation and
instructors, permits her to produce, in
successive relays, batches of no more
than 800.000 new soldiers, say every
three* months.
This calculation gives us much the
same critical date—the early summer
— which we found in discussing the
first factor. It is upon an examina
tion of the reserve of man-power, as
upon an examination of wastage, the
early summer that should provide the
critical moment. After that moment
the man-power of the Germans can
not be increased or recouped appre
ciably.
Austria Vague Quantity.
For Austria-Hungary w r e have data
far less certain. Such vague and
general indices as we have got may
be put very briefly thus
As the dual monarchy trained and
armed originally a smaller proportion
of Its total population, a larger mar
gin remained, theoretically available.
On the other hand, the dual mon
archy had nothing like the organiza
tion for the rapid training of large
masses of men in rotation that the
German Empire had. and we are put
ting the figures very high, indeed, if
we allow a reserve yet to appear pro
portionate to the German reserve, ami
if we admit a further 600,000 as avaii-
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able for Austria-Hungary at the same
date.
Of Turkey, all we can say, know
ing the difficulties in equipment and
the total different social conditions
one has to deal with, as well a3 the
hopeless variety in recruitment, is
that this branch of the Germanic al
liance will hardly put forward in the
near future any considerable bodies
beyond those already in the field.
We may sum up and say that the
key to the understanding of all this
factor is the German recruitment, that
this has been studied fairly careful
ly, and lhal if a further million can
be provided thence by the earl> sum
mer we have in that figure the limit.
The Allied Recruitment.
Against these figures we know that
the allied recruitment is of three
kinds. There is the training of the
French new class already completed.
We have next the new British armies,
and we have lastly the enormous Rus
sian reserve of men, whose presence
in the field demands one thing only
—equipment.
Now, the problem of Russian equip
ment, which we have touched upon
before In connection with the Ice
bound ports of that power, Is affected
by two efforts now in progress. The
first is the forcing of the openings to
the Black Sea, the fortune of which is
not yet decided. The second is the
completion of the broad-gauge line to
Archangel, on which the Russian new s
officially passed has just informed us
that it is In progress, provided w-ith
rolling stock.
To put the matter in the most, gen
eral terms, it would seem that by the
beginning of May, at the earliest; by
the end of June, at the latest, and
with increasing force in the interval
between, the crisis of the war. so far
as reserves of power are concerned,
should be reached. In that period
something like a balance in men
might well be established and the
tide begin to tu$n.
The first week of the sale of tick
ets to single performances of grand
opera ended Saturday with an excel
lent record made, according to the di
rectors of the Music Festival Associa
tion. The sale will be continued next
week, and, although many of the real
ly choice seats are gone, there are still
a plenty left for several of the per
formances. The rush for seats for
“Carmen” was one of the surprises
of the single performance sale, and it
appears that this opera is to be one
of the most popular of the week.
Another which drew a heavy de
mand for scats was "The Magic
Flute,” which is to be heard on Sat
urday afternoon, May 1. This is one
of the finest operas of the week. It is
to be sung in German, and the,princi
pals will be Frieda Hempel, Melanie
Kurt, Basil Ruysdael, Vera Curtis and
Rita Fornia—a brilliant array of stars.
“Madame Sans-Gene,” the new op
era Atlanta is to hear, also is having a
big advance sale. It will be the clos
ing performance of the Atlanta en
gagement, with Geraldine Farrar in
the leading role.
Of course, the sale for the opening
night, "Lea Hugenots,” is heavy. The
success of the first night of opera here
always is assured. All Atlanta strives
to attend the performance which ush
ers in the gala week.
Paris to Ban Tango
And Other Dances
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. April 10. A decree prohib
iting the imgo agd other Ameri an
dances in Paris is eing prepared by
the Municipal Council.
1BY
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PETROGRAD. April 10.—With all
t*he important heights of the Beskid
ranges in their possession, except one,
the Russian army is being heavily re
inforced for the final stages of Its
drive toward the plains of Hungary.
Feeble A ustro-German attempts to
assume a counter offensive in the
Carpathian?? between Llszok and Lup-
kow Passes broke down under the se
vere Russian fire. The dominating
height in the Beskids, which the Aus
trians still hold, Is known on the mili
tary maps as Hill No. 909, and it lies
a few miles south of Lupkow Pass.
In Poland another fight has devel
oped on the northern edge of the Su-
walki region, and there Is every rea
son to believe that Field Marshal von
Hir.denburg, the German commander-
in-chief, has massed a heavy force
there for an offensive movement, by
which he hopes to weaken the Rus
sian pressure against the Austro-Ger-
man armies in Galicia.
lA 11 the seasoned German veterans
that could be spared from Poland
were sent into the Carpathians and
the bulk of the troops now fighting
undef the German standard in North
ern Poland are reserves.
High Officers Killed.
The capture of tw r o German avia
tors near the Vistula. In Poland, the
death of several high German army
officers in the wreck of a militaiw
train and the destruction of an air
ship in Bukowlna in a military fire,
are all contained in a statement given
out by the War Office to-day. It fol
lows:
“On the west bank of the Vistula a
German airship was shot to earth and
two aviators were made prisoners by
Cossacks. A German train carrying
the staff of "a German army corps was
derailed in Poland and several supe
rior officers were killed and others
were wounded.
“Czernowitz (the chief city of Buk
owlna) has been almost completely
destroyed by£the fire of the A ustro-
German artillery. The city was swept
by fire. \ military hospital was
burned and about twenty helpless
wounded soldiers perished."
Nicholas’ Strategy Brilliant.
The Carpathian campaign, which
is being waged by Grand Duke Nich
olas, will go down as one of the most
brilliant, in the military annals of
Russia. The Russians are carrying
on their operations under almost in
surmountable difficulties. Plunging
through snow -filled valleys and clam
bering up the Ice-coated mountain
heights under the deadly fire of the
Austrian artillery, the Russian troops
are fighting against the forces of na
ture, as well as against the armies of
Austria and Germany. The Slavs are
relying upon their mountain guns and
upon the bayonet for victory in the
Carpathians, and the bravery with
which the troops have fought can be
measured by the steady gains they
have made against mighty obstacles.
General W. A. Soukhomlinoff, the
Russian MinisWr of War and adju
tant to Czar Nicholas, in an author
ized 8ta*ement to the press declared
that the morale of the Austrian army
has been broken down. He pointed
out that the Austro-German armies
in the Carpathians have retreated
nearly twenty miles from their first
positions and that the entrance into
the Hungarian plains is now only a
matter of time, as the German armies
have suffered such enormous looses
that the German Government fear? to
reveal them. It is said.
Vienna Says Russian
Attacks Are Failing
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georq;?n.
VIENNA April 1<> P at
tacks in the valley of the Laoorez
and against Bartfeld have been re
pulsed by the Austro-German armies,