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The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Goes Home and Stays There
| VOL. XJ11. NO. 213.
ATLANTA. LA., 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 w-ould sign the ordinance
passed by Council Friday night. J.
Coy Pearce, secretary of the Jitney
Bus Club, declared it would be impos
sible for the jitneys to make expenses
under the charges and restrictions im
posed by the ordinance.
Mr. Pearce said the jitney owners
thought the license too high, that the
$5.01)0 bond required is excessive, and
tb.at 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 court*..
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 regulations, 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 Tor some two
hours more. Council passed the ordi
nance Friday night without dissent.
The ordinance was taken up section
bv 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
$5,000 brought forth most protest. It
was claimed by the jitney people that
such a bond w’ould cost them $200 a
year. 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 sevens passeAger $100 and ten-
passenger and larger cars $125.
Each car must give a surety Dond
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
ficient 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 change 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
and his place of residence must be
filed with the CP'- Clerk. If owned
by a corporation, the corporation must
give the
imount of its stock.
The Mayor and Council reserve the
right to cancel a license at any time
on the return of the unexpired part r.f
the license. Licenses shall not be
granted for a shorter period than six
months. This would mean an ex
penditure of $37.50 for each of the
type of jitneys now running.
Negro Murderer Is
Hung at Monticello
MONTICELLO.. GA.. Apr! 10.—Will
Byrd, colored, murderer of Sable
Brunson, a negro woman, a year ago,
was hanged in the county jail in Mon
ticello yesterday by Sheriff J. R. Ezell.
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, s^pore
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 his
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 when a 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 thi*ee
miles to a still to get whisky for a sick
daughter-in-law. When the agents
arrived he invited them to have some
of the “medicine." which he said he
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.
Peacktree St.
J Drugstore
Robbed
Karl Bitter, Famed
Sculptor,Dies From
Injury by an Auto
Mrs. W; White, a beautiful young
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 wapted to live
and began a brave battle against the
deadly drug. Physicians could give
her but slight hope for recovery.
Mrs. White, immediately after :aK-
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.
A IT night Friday rH^hT aff murTore -
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.
Tourist Hotel Season
At Augusta Closing
For the fourth consecutive time
burglars early Saturday broke int«>
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.
The 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.
Court Reporter Made
Judge for One Day
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.. April 10.
Charles Wilbur is one of the prophets
who has honor in his own country. Wil
bur is a veteran of the Civil War and
a veteran of Poughkeepsie journalism.
He letired to-day from active work,
and to honor the occasion City Judge
Overoc-ker bestowed on Wilbur the priv
ilege of acting as city»judge for the day.
Wilbur “covered’’ the city court here
for thirty years.
Joe Cannon to Make
Journey to Honolulu
(WASHINGTON. April lO.—Unfcle 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 su;l from San Francisco
about April 25.
Say, Fellers, How About
Having a Straw Hat Day?
NEW YORK. April 10.—Karl Bit
ter. well-known sculptor, died in the
New York Hospital to-day from in
juries he received when 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, when an automobile
driven by Edgar James, an electrical
contractor, swerved to avoid a colli
sion with a taxicab, and felled them.
The accident was unavoidable.
Bitter, whose works had w r on 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.
Woman With Pistol
Captures a Robber
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
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 tmi
military forces of Wyoming by Gov
ernor Kendrick.
General Cody takes his new honors
modestly.
Award ’Wet’ Medals;
Govt. Seeks Senders
Millionaire’s Son
Works as Laborer
NEW YORK. April 10.—-Numerous
prominent persons are receiving from
an anonymous source, medals “Dedicat
ed to the Citizens of the Kumsoaked
City of New York."
On the medals is the inscription:
“Sortie of the effects of rum: Revelry,
rowdyism. ribaldry, riot, remorse,
roquery. ruin.’’
Postal authorities are making efforts
to find the sender.
DULUTH, MINN., April 10.—For more
than a year Charlemagne Tower, Jr.,
son of the multi-millionaire financier
and diplomat, has been working as a
common laborer in Duluth, living in a
$3 a week room at the Y. M. C. A., eat
ing at lunch counters and going to the
movies as an amusement.
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 pien 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. "0
Plum street. He said the trio had en
tered the basement to rob the gas me
ter. Three weeks ago a daughter cf
Mrs. Day captured a negro boy trying
to rob the same gas meter.
$75,000 Y. M. C. A. to
Be Built at Clemson
COLUMBIA. S. 0*., April 10.—Ground
has been broken at Clemson College Ra
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
college authorities.
The Rockefeller gift requires that the
building be completed by January 1,
1916.
League of Business
Women to Hold Meet
At a monthly meeting of the Busi
ness Women s Leaguq of the Second
Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the Sunday school auditorium
of the church. Solon Drukenmiller will
sing, and there will be an address by
Miss Cecil Kendrick,
Diphtheria Baccilus
Discoverer Is Dead
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. April 10.—Professor
Friedrich Ix>effler, discoverer of.diph
theria bacillus, died to-day.
By HILAIRE BELLOC.
(Foremost Military Writer in Europe.)
There is all the difference in the
world between saying that the criti
cal moment in this war should ; r*ivo
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 1 am trying to do in these
. JQAtS* U> 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
I —commands a maximum reserve
man-power of perhaps more than
j three millions, and certainly not iess
than two millions and a half.
There is only one other point upon
which we must linger, namely, the
proportion of military efficients kept
back for civilian employment. It is
obvious that great passes 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 Months.
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 thoir
| numbers roughly estimated in *he
I field. The f **st batch came with
| the late autumn of last year. The last
batch have begun to appear with the
more recent operations of the late
j winter—and here let me add that I
jam 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,
j 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
j three months.
((TH.WE been thinking all day
that to-morrow 1 would wear
a straw hat," said a Peachtree
Beau Brummel Saturday.
“It was The Georgian that last au
tumn proclaimed through the mouths
* of our boulevardiers the Fall Hat Day.
and now we are left In all the un
certainty of a Petrograd communique
as to how long we must wear our der
bies and felt hats—pardon me, but it
is apparent that a felt hat Is more
felt in these days of high temperature
than justice demands—so why not add
to the Orange Day and the Olive Day
record a Lemon Day for the hot hard
hat?”
Last Sunday was the occasion when
milliners smiled and husbands
groaned, and Madam vied with her
neighbors across the aisle and eyes
gave equal attention to prayer book
and bonnets de luxe,
But long-suffering Mr. Man. who
pays the bills and has to work over
time in ingenuity if he succeeds in
spending over $5 for his headwear,
still has to go his gait with a hat of
ama and don it. The bromided wits
will then hurl such jeux d esprlts at
him as “rushing the season, eh?" “You
must like belntf talked about," until
j This calculation gives us much the
I same critical date -the early summer
Sermon Brings $1
To Conscience Fund
DUBLIN. April 10.—Following a
sermon 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- 1
chaser bad never corrected." From
the appearance of the handwriting,
the sender was a woman.
NOMINATION BLANK
1,000 VOTES
AMERI
I hereby nominate as a candidate in yonr
AUTOMOBILE CLUB” circulation campaign:
-HOME AND
Name Address ...••
Nominated by Address
Note—Only one nomination blank wi&fee accepted fe
one candidate. .
— which we found in discussing ’he
j first factor. It is upon an examina
tion of the reserve of man-power, as
I upon an examination of wastage, the
i early summer that should provide 'he
I critical moment. After that moment
the man-power of the Germans can
i riot be increased or recouped appre-
| ciably.
Austria Vague Quantity.
For Austria-Hungary we have data
I far less certain Such vague and
J general indices as we have got may
I be put very briefly thus:
j As the dual monarchy trained and
armed originally a smaller proportion
i 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 thr 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
December temperament while July In
trudes into April,
Occasionally a bold, daring spirit
will prompt some fellow brave enough
to enjoy the perils of joshing to pull
out his last season s sun-burned pan-
some other Desperate Desmond joins
him, and then one by one the derbies
fall, and the next thing that startles
the populace Is not only straw hats,
but suits of clothes that look like a
marshmallow sundae that had collided
with a dish of Neapolitan ice cream;
then we know that summer is here,
and that comfott in raiment is safe.
“I would suggest,” concluded T he
Peachtree Beau Brummel, as he had
listened amiably and with well-af-
feeffed interest to the digressions
above recorded, "that on consultation
with other authorities and a collating
of precedents, The Georgian arrive at
a judicial determination of the rights
of the straw hat, and let a bedewed-
browed and uncomfortable w^rld of
manly fashion know what to do and
when to do’lt.
“Our wise old friend Mr. Alexander
Pope penned a couplet once which,
with slight change, meets this condi
tion which confronts our heads:
“ ‘Behold the Man by Fashion’s kind
ly law.
Pleased with the Summer, tickled
with a Straw.' "
we allow- a. reserve yet to appear pro
portionate to the German reserve, and
if we admit a further 600,000 as avail
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 as 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 that if a further million can
be provided thence by the early 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 upin
before in connection with the Ice
bound ports uf 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 news
officially passed has just Informed as
that it is In progress, provided with
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 turn.
Police Accused of
Mistreating a Man
Held in Minor Case
Paris to Ban Tango
And Other Dances
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, April 10.—A'decree prohib
iting the tango apd other American
dances in Paris is eing prepared by
the Municipal Council.
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 !n 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 chaige 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 (o pay a profes
sional bondsman $1 to get into com
munication with me and allow me to
furnish bail. I am going to take this
matter before the police board.”
Seven Men Rescued
From Ship Ashore
SANDY HOOK, April 10.—The
steamer Flora Kimball, from Morgan
City. La., for New York, with a cargo
of lumber, struck on Barnegat Bar
this morning. Seven members of the
crew w'ere brought ashore in a surf
boat.
The vessel is not in a dangerous po
sition.
American Schooner
Abandoned at Sea
ST.
WEDGEOF
ST JOHNS. NEWFOUNDLAND,
April 10.—The American schooner Wil
liam R. Huston has been abandoned at
sea.
The schooner Ada Peard reported by
wireless to the Cape Race station to
day that she has on board seven mem
bers of the Huston’s crew.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. April 10.—The biggest
French army that has yet been con
centrated at any given point on the
battle front Is massed In the Ar-
gonne Forest and the Woevre dis
trict * (between the Meuse and the
Moselje Rivers), where, despite ex
tremely heavy losses, the French are
driving against the German positions
In repeated assaults.
These furious onslaughts, which are
being carried out under the personal
direction of General Joffre, the Freoch
commander-in-chief, are expected to
cut off the German forces at St. Ml-
hlel.
The capture of Epargea, about ten
miles southeast of Verdun, by French
forces Is the hardest blow yet struck
at the St. Mihiel-Metz line of commu
nications.
Tt Is impossible to estimate exact
ly the German losses. In the fight
ing of the past two days and nights in
the Woevre the Germans must have
lost 30,oho in killed and w'ounded, not
counting prisoners.
In addition to Infantry and artil
lery attacks against the Germans, the
French have sent a whole fleet of
aeroplanes from the Belfort aviation
camp to bombard the German posi
tions from the sky. The work of rhe
French troops In storming the Ger
man positions and In repulsing Ger
man counter attacks is described a*
"brilliant.” In one night, near Flir-
ry. fifteen German attacks were re
pulsed.
The German claims that the French
assaults in the Woevre broke down
are flatly denied here.
Fighting has again developed In
Belgium and In the La Basse sector.
These cumulative strong attacks by
the Allies in various districts indi
cate that the much talked of “spring
offensive” of the allied armies is at
last under way in real earnest.
Reinforcements Aid
Drive of Russians
\
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PETROGRAD. April 10.—With all
the important heights of the Beskld
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 Austro-German attempts to
assume a counter offensive in the
Carpathians between Uezok 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
Hindenburg, 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.
iA 11 the seasoned German veterans
that could be spared from Poland
w'ere sent into the Carpathians and
the bulk of the troops now fighting
under the German standard in North
ern Poland are reserves.
High Officers Killed.
The capture of two German avia
tors near the Vistula, in Poland, the
death of several high German army
officers In the wreck of a military
train and the destruction of an air
ship In Bukowina In a military fire,
are all contained In a statement given
out by the W T ar Office to-day. It fol
lows:
“On the west bank of the a
German airship was shot to earth and
two aviators were made prisoneai by,