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ivPTEMBER 1915.-
-THK ATLANTA GEORGIAN- -
-ATLANTA, OA'. 3
Atlantan Declares British May
Wake When German Fleet
Enters the Thames.
Robert G. Paterson, who went from
Atlanta early in July for a visit to
his uncle. United States Ambassador
Sharpe, at Paris, has just returned to
the United States and in New York
gave out an interesting interview on
conditions as he saw them in the war
zone, in which he charged the British
people with indifference. He said that
the presence of a Germ An fleet in the
River Thames would perhaps break
the self-satisfled lethargy of the Eng
lish, who, he thought, had so far seen
no necessity for fighting, because the
blow had not fallen close enough to
home. When aroused, he believes,
they will follow the example of the
Scotch and the Colonials, who, ac
cording to Mr. Paterson, have so far
done the fighting. He believes In the
ultimate success of the Allies, but he
nees eighteen months or two years of
fighting ahead.
Paterson Saw Fighting.
Mr. Paterson saw something of the
fighting line at Soissons and Arras.
He made the trip under the guidance
of a courier supplied by Theophlle
Delcasse, the French Minister of For
eign Affairs.
At present all along the French and
Belgian front, he said, the men were
preparing for the great German drive
that all expected to come just as soon
as the Germans had finished their
Russian campaign. The French, ac
cording to his information, are now
holding 300 miles of front, and the
British 70. It was in a discussion of
this fact that led Mr. Paterson to
speak of the attitude of the English
toward the war.
The capture of Calais by the
Germans and the threatened in
vasion of the British Isles might
arouse the British, but at present
tneir attitude is simply if the
French can’t whip the Germans,
then “we” will give them a hand.
In France they say that the Brit
ish officers stop fighting for 4
o’clock tea, and that the great
recreation of the officers is cross
ing the Channel for the week-end.
Perhaps, if a German fleet got
within sight of the Parliament
Buildings the people would wake
up to the gravity of the present
situation. Mnd, this is not a crit
icism of the fighting qualities of
the English. They can fight and
fight with the best in the world,
but as long as they maintain their
present attitude they have simply
only the necessary enthusiasm
that comes of lending a helping
hand.
Recruiting Hard Work.
In London this feeling of the
people is reflected, perhaps, as no
where else in England. When the
traveler goes into Regent street,
Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly or
Hyde Park he sees crowds sur
rounding men in uniform. He
finds that the men in uniform are t
busy trying to persuade men to
join the army. The speakers
dwell upon the advantages to be
gained in fighting and will offer
free medical inspection or some
other inducement. The recruiting
officer will point out three or four
men and ask them pointedly what
thev are doing and follow it up
with: “Will you fight for your
country?”
Perhaps by this method three
or four men will be persuaded to
join the army. There Is much
cheering on the part of those who
have not joined. The three or
four recruits are placed in line,
and then the band strikes up
“God Save the King,” and they
are marched away. So the army
is being recruited in London, not
by a popular movement, but by
persuading the threes and fours
to respond to the call to fight.
Turkish Cobbler
' Seeks Citizenship
There is at least one thing Morano
Benbenisty, cobbler, of No. 234 Cen
tral avenue, would rather possess than
a fat shoe commission to the Sultan
of Turkey. And that thing is Ameri
can citizenship. Mr. Benbenisty re
cites in naturalization ‘ papers filed
■with Clerk Fuller in the United States
District Court that, although he was
born in Rhodes, Turkey, in the good
year 1888, and takes a peculiar pride
in that fact, he has a wife and two
children to support with his handi
work, and has no desire to help the
Sultan whip the Allies.
Mr. Benbenisty shipped in the steer
age of the steamship Sicula, and ar
rived in New York in 1909. He sailed
from Naples, and has no particular
desire to go back there.
For 40 Years
SVIontevailo
Has Been the Standard
Bituminous Coal
of the South
It is the best known coal,
for grates. stoves and
ranges.
It burns from the out
side down to the coal.
It is a clean, lump coal,
free from refuse and slack.
It keeps a fire over night.
RANDALL BROS.
Exclusive Distributors
S Yards One Near You
Dihnlsy • Glass*
T he city of East Point, which
merges Imperceptibly Into
the outer edges of Atlanta,
showed its independence of
Southern tradition a few days
ago by electing a Republican
Mayor, who was running against
a rock-ribbed Democrat of the
Jeffersonian variety.
Fred Allen was the postmaster,
having held over from a former
administration until Washington
found it out and appointed J. C.
McKenzie, who always voted the
straight ticket in hi.s place Now
it chanced that Mr. McKenzie
was Mayor of East Point, and
gave up that office for the more
lucrative and scarcely less dis
tinguished postmastership, leav
ing an opening.
Casting all party politics into
the discard, East Point turned in
and elected Mr. Allen to the May
oralty, defeating Charles Livsey,
all of which proves that though
Uncle Sam can fire a postmaster,
he can’t keep a good man down.
T HE wisest observation on holi-
1 days and their honored ob
servance I’ve heard came pun-
gently from the lips of the Father
of a Family, who was hanging on
the step of a park-bound Labor
Day jitney and carrying in his
arms two children, a large basket
and an umbrella.
“A man could have a right good
time in this world if It wasn’t
for his pleasures.” he observed as
the jitney turned the Fourteenth
street edrner.
17D HAFT2R, who has so manv
Masonic titles that he has to
keep them in a book, was back
in Atlanta from a long trip this
week. As usual, he brought a
new stofy.
“There was a man,” explained
Mr. Hafer, “who received a Black
Hand letter.
“ ‘Put twenty thousand dollars
under the old bridge at midnight
or we will abduct your wife,’ was
its message.
“The man pondered a while and
sent an answer.
“ ‘I can’t raise the sum named
just now/ he wrote. ‘But your
proposition Interests me. ’ ”
T OM CONN ALLY is playing
detective this week, and
though he has a clew, it hasn’t
led him anywhere. His contribu
tion to Sherlocklan literature
might be called The Girl With
the Architect’s Eye, or the Mys
terious Monogram.
Mr. Connally has an office on
the sixth floor of the Atlanta Na
tional Bank Building, whence he
can watch day by day the prog
ress of the new Connally Budd
ing across the street. But he
overlooked one detail in the
work The Girl With the Archi
tect's Eye didn't.
A few mornings ago the post
man brought Mr. Connally a note,
unsigned, but written on feminine
note paper and bearing the initial
“K.”
“One of the terra cotta orna
ments on the Connally Building
is upside down,” said the note.
“Better have the architect fix it.”
Mr. Connally and Architect
Kloepfs took another look. Sure
enough, the ornament was stand
ing on its head. It was put right
side up, and Mr. Connally began
a search for the Girl, with a view
to sending her a box of Nunnal-
ly’s best or something like that.
But he couldn’t find her.
Several days afterward Mr.
Connally was conversing over
the phone with a society girl
friend, whose Initial is not “K.”
“Did you ever find the girl who
wrote that note?” she asked.
“How did you know?” demand
ed Tom. “I ve never told a soul
about that.”
“I know, but I’ll never tell,”
said the other girl.
And Mr. Connally is still play
ing Sherlock.
WomeninBand
of Bandits at
East Point
Enter the Lady Highwayman!
Two of them, masked in heavily
draped veils!
Working with two men, unmasked,
they held up E. G. Thompson, of No.
201 Lawton street, shortly after last
midnight and took $3 away from him.
The robbery occurred at East Point,
on the outskirts of Atlanta.
Thompson went to the police sta
tion as soon as he could get there,
and told his story to the early morn
ing watch.
“There were two white men and
two women in the hold-up gang,” he
said. “The men had guns and the two
women had knives, and they looked
like they were ready to use them if
they had to.
“The men were not masked, and one
of them had a scar across his cheek.
He wore a brown suit. The other wore
a dark suit and a light hat.
“1 couldn’t get a look at the wom
en’s faces on account of the heavy
veils they wore. I couldn’t even see
whether they were white or black. But
the men were white, all right, though
they widn’t treat me that way.”
No clew has been found to the
unique holdup quartet.
Rules Fail to End
Hazing by Middies
(By International Nows Service.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Hazing
has been a general practice at the
Annapolis Naval Academy, despite
the rigid rules against it. This, it was
reliably reported to-day, constitutes
In effect the finding of the special
board of inquiry which investigated
the charge that hazing was practiced
by the middies. The board’s report
has been received by Secretary of th«
Navy Daniels. He said to-day that he
had not read the ft/iding and would
not discuss it until ne had.
Patient Leaps
From Grady
Window
The fever which first reduced A. M.
Osborne, a patient at the Grady Hos
pital, to a stupor took a violent turn
Tuesday morning early while Osborne
was in his cot, not attended for the
moment.
He got up, went quickly to a win
dow—it was on the second floor—and
before any of the attendants could get
near him jumped through the win
dow to the ground.
He was picked up by orderlies, ap
parently uninjured.
Osborne seemed to be unaware that,
he had done anything out of the or
dinary. After being put back in bed,
he was asked for an explanation of his
strange action, and appeared not to
know what was referred to.
He is convalescent from the fever,
and this makes his hallucination, or
whatever caused him to leap from the
window, the more inexplicable.
He lives in Western Heights.
Mrs. F. E. Bankston
Found Dead in Bed
Members of her family found Mrs.
F. E. Bankston, of No. 21 Hull street,
dead in bed early Tuesday. The po
lice and Coroner Donehoo were noti
fied and the Coroner prepared to hold
an Inquest. .
The police said Mrs. Bankston’s
death was thought to be from natural
causes.
FIND TRACE OF LOST MAN.
HUNTSVILLE. ALA., Sept. 7.—
John Scott, a well-known florist and
horticulturist, who disappeared from
this city Saturday, has been traced
to Swancott, where he crossed the
Tennessee River on a ferryboat. Of
ficers at Summerville and Hartselle
l^ave been requested to look out for
him. It Is believed Scott has become
demented.
BOND ELECTION NEW VICE PROBE
TO BE FORCED
Alderman Thomson Admits He
Wants It as Excuse for Any
Municipal Failure.
It was the general opinion around
the City Hall Tuesday that the net
result of the action of Council Mon
day afternoon in refusing to postpone
the bond issue election would be the
furnishing of an alibi for a group of
< ouncilmen. These men started the
movement, but are not making any
campaign to arouse the people over its
importance, and now they are predict
ing the defeat of the bonds.
Alderman Albert Thomson, one of
the most active members against th*
proposal to postpone the election, ad
mitted the object was an alibi.
“If the waterworks break down
some night, I want an alibi,” he de
clared. “I want the people to have a
chance to vote bonds and relieve the
situation.”
And all but one member of Council,
Claude L. Ashley, who proposed post
ponement, voted with Alderman
Thomson, thereby forcing an election
for a $3,358,000 issue on September 30.
Council acted upon several other
measures of Interest.
A resolution Yv Alderman Jesse
Armistead was adopted permitting the
Georgia Railway and Power Gompany
to substitute crushed stone for a con
crete trolley car track base on Gor
don street, where a wood block pave
ment Is being laved. The same issue
concerning Grant street ha- been
thrown into the courts on account of
the activities of Councilman George
Freeman, a represetnatlve of the
Third Ward, in which Grant street is
located.
Council killed a resolution by Coun
cilman Sam Freeman to appotn* a
committee to consider the advisabili
ty of building an underpass for the
sj-^ur tracks that are to be run to the
new Candler cotton warehouse on
Glenn street.
The report of a compromise com
mittee to appropriate $750 for an au
tomobile for Police Chief Mayo was
adopted.
Political Camps'
Urge Registration
A call for all eligible voters to reg
ister for the city primary before the
books in Registrar Andy P. Stewart’s
office close on Saturday was issued
from the various city political camps
Tuesday. So far the registration is
unusually light.
Many things are happening to give
new life to the Councllmonic races.
All entrants must be in by Saturday
and a number have already opened
active campaigns.
Tims.' with a sense ^for the inside
politics of the situation are interpret
ing the meeting of a number of poli
ticians in .James L. Key’s office last
week as the occasion for an offer to
take over the management of the
campaigns of such candidates as
might bo sufficiently friendly.
KAISER’S GRANDCHILD DIES.
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 7.—Princess
Adalbert, daughter-in-law of the Kai
ser. gay© birth to a baby girl on Sat
urday. which did not live, it was
learned to-day. The condition of the
Princess was said to be satisfactory.
Judge. Ben Hill Tells Body to
Investigate Disorderly Houses
in Atlanta.
Investigation into the reported ex
igence of disorderly houses In At
lanta was requested by Judge Ben H.
Hill In his charge to the new Fulton
County Grand Jury when Criminal
Ccurt convene^ Tuesday.
Judge Hill pointed out that though
the city officials of Atlanta claimed
no disorderly houses were permitted
to exist, reports of a contrary nature
had been heard. He declared it t|»e
duty of the Grand Jury to make a
rigid inquiry into this matter and en
deavor to learn what conditions ac
tually prevailed.
The subject of gaining was fully
discussed in the charge. The judge
declared the •gentlemanly gambler”
in his own home was guilty of gaming
equally as is the professional card
sharper making his living in “a gam
bling hell.” The nature of the offense*
he said, was always considered be
fore Imposing sentence, and the play
er of poker in his home would be less
severely punished.
The judge declared the crime of
gaming consisted in playing any game
in which the winner secured any arti
cle of value.
Full investigation Into cxises of al
leged illegal selling of whisky and of
carrying concealed weapons also was
asked. These crimes are being com
mitted far too frequently in Fulton
County, the court said.
R. L. O’Donnelly, of the Keely Com
pany, was elected foreman of the
Grand Jury, which Immediately took
up its work.
Fair Buildings Are
Progressing Finely
An inspection of the fair buildings
at Lakewood Park, now in process of
construction, waa made Monday by
the executive council and the building
committee of the Southeastern Fair
Association and the corresponding
committee froffi the general council,
and the finding was “excellent.”
The Inspecting party enjoyed a
luncheon at the Chamoer of Com
merce before going to the ground. It
was reported that the building was
keeping pace with the schedule
mapped out by the supervising archi
tect.
Sunday School to
Have Home-Coming
The Sunday school of the First
Christian Church. South Pryor street
and Trinity avenue, is to hold its an
nual “home-coming’’ day next Sun
day, to welcome those members who
have been away from the city on
summer vacation trips.
There is to be a special program,
with orchestra music, and a number
of solos and duets. The Sunday school
has an enrollment of 900 members
and last year had on average attend
ance of 627.
BAPTIST WOMEN TO MEET.
DALTON, Sept. 7.—The Woman’s
Missionarv Union of the Middle Cher
okee Baptist Association, embracing
the women's societies of 30 or more
Baptist churches, meets Thursday
and Friday at Salem, Gordon County,
and will attract about 100 delegates.
Thief of Suit Cases
Begs Court's Mercy
Confessing that he had stolen nu
merous suitcases, one of which con
tained securities amounting to 115,000
belonging to a Canadian visitor, Hal
Loope, a Knoxville (Tenn.) youth,
Tuesday begged for mercy when ar
raigned before Judge Hill In the
Criminal Court.
Loope told the judge he had been
driven to theft through his inability
to obtain work. He said he had been
unable to “got along" with his step
father in Knoxville and for this rea
son had “gone out into the world to
make a living.”
Judge Hill postponed sentence until
Saturday in order that a more thor
ough investigation of the case might
be made.
Insurance Officer's
Home Catches Fire
The home of Joseph 8. Raine. secre
tary of the Southeastern Underwrit
ers’ • Association, at No. 783 West
Peachtree, caught fire Monday night
about dusk, and the firemen from en
gine houses Nog. 15 and 11 had a hard
fight for a time to prevent a disas
trous spread.
The fire caught in a closet, and
Captain Jordan, of No. 16, thought the
trouble, was defective wiring. A good
deal of water was spilt thereabouts.
Suffragists to Talk
About the Recall
All the local suffrage a.vsoclatlons
are Invited to Join the Young People’s
Suffrage Association Wednesday aft
ernoon in the meeting of the body at
the Hotel Ansley, at which time the
proposed recall of Mayor Woodward
and the other Police Commissioners
will be discussed.
An animated debate is expected, as
some of the suffragists advocate the
recall and others oppose It, or, at
least, favor a “hands off" policy.
Wants to Leave Here:
Tries to End Own Life
Frank Banet, 4 r ., a salesman, wr»
recovering Tuesday from the effects
of on attempt Monday night at sui
cide by asphyxiation after he had
angered his wife, father and mother
by his determination to move from
Atlanta.
He was taken to Grady Hospital,
revived and returned to his home.
HENLTH
The new Countv Board of Health
for Fulton County, as created at ihe
recent session of the State Legisla
ture. will be organized formally at a
special session to be called within the
next week by Chairman H. B. Turman,
of the County Commission, who. un
der the law, also is a member of the
health board.
The other two members are Profes
sor E. C. Merry, Superintendent of
County Schools, and Dr. W. E. Bar
ber, who was named by the Grand
Jury.
The new’ board. It waa announced
Tuesday, would adopt, without any
material changes, the sanitary and
health rules now In vogue in Fulton
County. The present county health
officer, Lieutenant Thomas E. Lock
hart. and his assistant, Captain John
W. Ball, will he reappointed by the
board and w ill continue their duties as
at present. Instructions from the
board to the health officers will be
conveyed through Chief of County Po
lice George Mathieson.
The new' hoard also will act in con
junction with Dr. W. L. Gilbert, of the
County Commission, who is head of
the Committee on Health and Sanita
tion.
POLICEMAN WATSON BACK.
Policeman George C. Watson, one
of the most popular members of the
force, returned to duty Tuesday after
having undergone a siege from pto
maine poisoning at his home, No. 99
Berne street.
Women Here
To Be Ready
for War
Woman members of the Uncle Re*
mus Memorial Association were mak
ing plans Tuesday toward getting on
a war footing, in readiness for what
ever may come, though they don't ex
pect trouble soon.
Their attitude of preparedness fol
lowed thoir affiliation with the Ade
quate National Defense and Special
Relief Society of New York, recently
organized to enlist women m the “b«
prepared" movement which is attract
ing such wide attention. The Uncle
Remus Memorial Association was the
first Southern body to join the move
ment, though letters of invitation by
the society have been sent to every
Important woman’s organization in
the country.
The duties of members will be to
offer their homes for hospital use In
case of war, to make hospital sup
plies, to form sewing classes to learn
the manufacture of bandages and
other things needed, to provide field
workers and nurses, and otherwise to
equip themselves for “eventualities”
Several of the members in Atlanta
might be called veterans in this work,
for they labored faithfully in the Civil
War, but found the.mselves untrained
then. They purpose being not only
willing, but well-trained when the
next difficulty breaks out.
Mrs. A. McD. Wilson is president of
the Uncle Remus Memorial Associa
tion and is enthusiastic over the new-
work. Mrs. William Alexander, of
New York, Is president of the national
body, anl Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rhine
lander the treasurer.
/ UST forWholesome Goodness’ safe
Try Stone’s 1 GoldenSimbeam’ Cafe.
Beats those Mother used to mafe.
Ten Cents at your Grocer’s.
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Fall
Hat Day Is
Next Saturday, September 11
By next Saturday alUthe rusty straw hats
are to be discarded. The New Hats of Felt
a*ill be unanimously adopted and generally
worn. 1
All Hat Stores will display in their windows
and otherwise about their premiums their new
styles. They will also make their announce
ments Friday in 'The Georgian.
Such an edict has been considered necessary
for the general appearance and comfort of men.
Therefore this day has been set aside. Other
wise some men would wear their old hats till
the seams opened and their hair grew through
the brims.
Let such men be prepared for next Sat
urday. Upon the firing of the sunset gun
next Saturday night a price will be placed
upon their heads.
Remember !
Next Saturday
Is Fall Hat Day
$0.50 BIRMINGHAM
AND RETURN
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
FRIDAY, SEPT. 10
SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Terminal Station 8:30 a. m.,
and tickets GOOD TWO DAYS will allow you to return on
any train (except No. 30), up to and including No. 24, 4:00
p. m., Sunday, September 12, 1915.
Children’s Wash Dresses
LIKE OTHER STORES
59c TO 75c KINDS
G RASP this—finished, ready
to wear dresses, at a price
less than the first cost of the ma
terials and trimmings.
—Dresses for school, for
play and general service.
15 Dozen to Go on
Sale Wednesday
Morning at 8:30
—No phone orders, none
sent C. O. D. A limit of
three dresses to each pur
chaser.
6 to 14 Year Sizes
—New styles, splendidly
made, and smartly trim
med. Variously of ging
ham, percales and cham-
bray — showing every
wanted colors, in scores of
attractive patterns.
—Every dress in per
fect condition. Splen
did, regular 59c to 75c
kinds—so long as the
15 dozen last. Each,
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