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!! i 1 advertisers USE THE GEORGIAN FOR RESULTS The Atlanta Georgian. If You are an Advertiser and Want Results, Test Us. VOL. 1. NO. 195. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1906. On Trains RTS CENT-* Woman Said That Some Power Would Save Her. CILLEITE TO DIE III ‘CHI’ IN JANUARY Slayer of Sweetheart To Be Electro cuted. sin-; AND LOVER GIVEN A RESPITE Gallows Is Made Ready at Liberty, Mo., for Execu tion of Husband Slayer. MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IS DENIED Mo., I)pe. 10.—Governor folk h«* emitted the jtfqi<*ftl of the tit er* of Mm. Ariiok Moyer* and Julius Hoff tun n. who tvsro to Im» Iinnj;<-<1 today the murder of tho woman** liustinud, postponed the execution until Jnn- All nrrflnjtomcntu were onmplofed early * morning: for the hanging lit the eoiin- J.ill yard nf Liberty todny of Mrs. Mey- Mvernnr Folk \vn* deluged with petl- ii* to commute the sentence of the young mid pretty woman to life Imprisonment. Mr*. Meyers did not give up hope. She iiit her time In her cell milking t’hrlst- n* presents for friends and relatives nnd humming a love song. •Some power will Intervene to save tne out being hanged," sbn said. "1 hui not orrlei! “ Youth Is To Be Taken to Prison at Auburn, N. Y. to Await Execution. Mr*. Me Is * Mary Unger*, Identical was hanged In Vermont fi . .. of her husband. While Iter sweetheart, I rank Hoffman, held the husband, Mrs. Meyers, It is nllegcd. plunged a knife Into him. Joseph L. Andrews. *eph L. Andrews, the 6-months-old of Mr. nnd Mrs. W. M. Andrews, died Monday morning at Che family residence. The funeral services will Ik? conducted Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Church of the Inunacu- • onceptlon. Herkimer, X. Y., Dec. 10.—Chester Gillette, convicted slayer of his sweet heart, Grace Rrown, was brought Into court today and sentenced by Judge Devendorf to be electrocuted at Au burn, during the week beginning Jan uary 28. He will be taken to Auburn within the next ten days.* Judge Devendorf denied the motion of Gillette’s lawyers for a new trial. Dsnied Making Confession. Last week It was announced that Gil lette had confessed to his counsel that he had murdered Grace Brown and had thrown her body from the boat In which they were riding on Big Moose Inke Into the water. When he learned that the story of his alleged confession had been made pub lic, Gillette sent si telegram to his mother denying that ho had confessed. After sentence nf death had been passed on Theater Gillette his mot he sent the following message to the Hearst News Service: /•Sentence given. Death by the elec tric chnlr. but wo are sure of an ap peal. so nre unmoved nnd hopeful. (Signed) "L. M. GILLETTE.*’ "Innocent,” Says Gillette. When asked by Judge Davendorfer If he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, Gillette said: , I have. ) uni Innocent of this crime a* charged in the indictment, and think that sentence should not he passed.” In sentencing Gillette, tho judge made no mention of the crime. HELP GEORGIA TECH! JUST THINK OF A DAY LIKE THIS “ATLANTA SPIRIT” IN DARK, DAMP CELLAR ROOMS IS AGAIN ON TRIAL FOR ATLANTA SCHOOL CHILDREN! Wreck on Southern Results in Three Arrests. TWO OPERATORS ARE OUT ON BOND Fiagmau Now in Hospital May Be Able to Attend tlie Investigation. MAE WOODS IS SEEKING CONFERENCE WITH PLATT; SHE IS IN WASHINGTON Woman Goes Under an Assumed Name at Capital. Washington, I)cc. 10.—Mac Wood*, who ■'in* into notoriety by threatening Senator *’■ *'■ I'lu11 with n lawsuit, arrived in Wash- h --tun a few day* ngo, mid. U wn» leurn- <l last night, I* "topping at tho Arlington '■•'’••l under nu iiMHuniod name. s,, i-Hor Platt ha* apartments lit the Arlington. Mis* Wood* tin* lieen recog ■ I by a nmuher of former acquaintance*. " "limn *ho frankly revealed uer Identity ""I why *he luu visited tin* eupltal. U 'an not he learned whether *he Ini* ■■"fcrr.*l with the MMiit.r acnator from New but It I* known that *he wu* seek ' an Interview with him. • lerk* at the hotel *nld ln*t night *he ’ :i ' u*>t reglwtered there, and they did no: 'I'-'.v *he wu* then*. 'I '* WinnU came Into the public eye " time ngo when *h«» deelared that it'»r Platt Imd In 1902 made her Id* t‘ Sim also charged that Heeretary, '• of the president'* office, hail de ed hep of letter* which could bo U*c*d ■G'bist the aged senator. MISS MAE V/OODS. rhe it in Washington trying to get an interview with 8tnator Platt, who, she says, she marirtd in 1902. BELIEVE MRS. BIRDSONG WILL BE ACQUITTED; ARGUMENT IS BEGUN ; ■ in! to The Georgian, i " kaoth Mian., Dee. id.—The entii Ming session of the court at Haste wan spent In the lawyers wrau- fth over the Instructions to the Jury. "”ly after noon the instructions to *• jury were completed by Judge Miller. Arguments in the case will begin this afternoon and the case will not g.» to Jury before tomorrow. It is being freely predicted by many at Haxlehum that Mrs. Birdsong will be- acquitted. Danville. Va., Dec. 10—Souther Railroad Operator.* Oleminer and Skln- nell and Flagman O. J. Mull, who fig ured In the fatal wreck here Saturday when two met death and throe Were In- f jured, were arrested late yesterday. ' The warrants against tho men charge then* with murder, and were Issued ut the instigation of Commonwealth At torney Thomas Hamlin. Citmmer and Skinned were arraigned before Mayor Wooding and bailed for their appearance at another hearing, t be held Thursday. Flagman in Hospital. Kiagman Mull, who was injured and Is at tho general hospital, will be able, It Is thought, to be out In time to attend the investigation. The coroner’s Jury viewed the oodles of the dead and ad journed. Jf the evidence shows the men to by guilty of criminal negligence the gran. Jury may bo asked to return indict ments. Tho three men* injured In the wreck are still at tho hospital here, and Indications nre that they will recover, except Ford, the fireman, who Jumped from his post. The body of George (\ Kinney, who waa the engineer of the ill-fated train that crashed into President Spencer’s car. was taken yesterday to hla home, ac ThomaavlUe, N. C. Sisters See the Bedy. Kinney was about 40 years of age and leaves, besides his parents, several brothers and sisters. Among the broth ers Is William A. Kinney, who was the other engineer In the wreck at Law yers. The headless body of W. B. King, the brakentan who was killed, will be buried todRy. The discovery of King's body was pathetic. The sisters of the young mun were at the scene of the wreck shortly after it occurred. They were attracted mciely out of curiosity, and when the trunk of their brother was pulled from the wreck and finally iden tified they were almost prostrated with grief. SAVED FROM DEATH BY FOR THIRD TIME For the third time in less than two weeks W. K. Edwards, a young white man, was saved late Sunday afternoon from death by chloroform. Edwards, whose home is In Colum bus, was found Sunday afternoon In the union depot In a dazed condition, a handkerchief, saturated with chloro form, covering his face. He was hur riedly taken to the Grady hospital, where he was soon revived. A short while later he had recovered sufficient ly to leave the hospital. On November 28 Edwards was found In a room in the Neal house uncon scious from the effects of chloroform, a handkerchief over his face. He was taken to Grady hospital and soon re covered. Since that time Edwards ha* been stopping, at intervals, at the Salvation Army hall. In Marietta street, and Is ; -aid to have been found there lust Fii- j day In a doped slate. Ills condition | was not serious, however, and he was f soon brought around all right by the ! army officials. After his release from i the hospital Sunday uf ter noon Edwards j attended *»*-»•*'«•• in the Salvation Army hall at night It 1* not Deiic-teii the chloroform was Inhaled with suicidal Intent, as Ed wards had stated to the army people he used the poison merely as a *Jltnu- lant and sometimes got too much. Hour of Need For Great Institution Is at Hand. CAMPUS HAS GROWN MUCH TOO SMALL Sum of $7,500 Is Needed to Fight, Off Threatened Stagnation. PICTURES OP CONDITIONS IN SCHOOLS OF AI LAN! A FORMER SCHOOLMA TE TO DEFEND TURN AGE 30,000 PERSONS WITHOUT FOOD When. In the past, public institutions or public causes, or Institutions pri vate In nature but public In their in fluence nnd results, have needed finan cial aid and have asked for it, the “Atlanta Spirit” has Invariably mani fested Itself, and the business men of the city, as well ns others, have placed the money at the feet of those In need. Will this spirit manifest Itself in the interest of the Georgia School of Tech nology? 1 Georgia School nf Technology is h need of $7,500 In order to enlarge Its •ampUM nnd ward off stagnation and perhaps decay. It Is overcrowded on Its present small campus, and had to turn away many students this year for lack of dormitory facilities. The Georgian, In the Interests of At lanta, the state and the whole South, hlch have derived untold benefit In the past from the skill and knowledge which Georgia Tech, (he South’s great est engineering school, has placed In Its midst, has taken up tho cause of tills grout institution and has appealed to Atlanta's men to respond with the little financial aid asked by I)r. K. G. Matheson. president of the school. Subscription Is Started. F. L. Seely, publisher of The Geor gian, has started "the ball rolling” to help the school by subscribing 1250 to ward the cause. A few others have gladly reached into their purses ^for financial support for rgla TeehT XV*TT question of civic pride, as well as a question of Invest ment for the good of the South, every citizen of Atlanta should Join this band of public-spirited men. None should have it said of him that he failed to re spond to such a worthy cause. Tho subscriptions to this cause up to tho present time ure as follows: Atlanta Georgian 1250.00 D. c\ Barrow 100.00 Martin Amorous 100.00 George Crawford 1 100.00 C. E. Sclple 25.00 Friend of the School 250.00 There is no more room on the present campus of sixteen acres, ns was point ed out In The Georgian Saturday, on which to build much needed buildings. Dr. Matheson has options on the only vacant lots in the vicinity of the school. These options expire January t, how ever, and unless they are secured by that time the opportunity no get them will probably be lost forever, as the owner Intend* building on then* after that time. The Georgia School #of Technology has only 12,325. with which to pay the $7,500 necessary to get the lots. Of the amount already available, $825 has been subscribed and the rest was contrib uted by the state. There are three buildings of which the school Is In absolute need, but which cannot be built unless more ground Is added to the campus. These buildings are the mining and engineer. Ing building, a dormitory and u gym nasium and auditorium. Needs a Gymnasium. A gymnasium Is 11 department which a great school cannot well be without. Georgia Tech Is conducting gymnasium classes now* but for lack of a building they are conducted In a basement, which has hardly any facilities for the pur pose. This basement Is so small that only a part of the freshman class can be taken In It at a time. Outside of the freshman class the students cannot get gymnasium work regularly. Vanderbilt and other great Institu tions of the Houth have each n separate building for a gymnasium. It should not be said of Atlanta that she allow 'd great Institution to compare so un favorably In tills line with schools of ither cities, which have less money than Atlanta. »ne of the crying needs of the Insti tution Is a dormitory building. At tin* fli-st of the present school* year there vere 225 applicants for admission to he school, for whom Dr. Matheson onbl not furnish rooms at the Institu tion. Many of these did not enter hool on this account, a* their parents did not wish them to he at the institu tion unless they could room on the rampu*. Those of this number who did enter had to secure rooms at homes In the city. Matheson slates that he could Former Coal room in basement of Fair Street school now used for a school room. Room formerly used for school purposes in Fair atraat school, but aban doned because it was unhealthy—now used for rubbish storage. It hae a cement floor. Look at These Pictures of Their Surround ings. COMPELLED TO STUDY INOLD RUBBISH ROOMS One Room Pronounced Un healthy Still in Use Be cause of Congestion. BAPTISTS PLAN RE VIVAL WITH TH1R 7 YE VANGEL1STS WORKING A LL 7 OGE 7HER No less than thirty Baptist evange lists will move on Atlanta In April. The Atlanta Baptist conference dq- ided Monday morning to hold a re vival In Atlanta, the like of which has probably never been equalled in tho city before. It Is planned to have one evangelist for every one of the twenty- eight white Baptist churches In the city. In addition, Dr.- W. W. Hamilton, the head evangelist of the Southern Bap tist convention, appointed by the home mission board, will-be here in charge of tin* work. Dr. Hamilton Is considered the leading evangelist of the South, and It was this recognition of his merit that brought him the appointment as the evangelistic leader of the Southern Baptists. The revival will last a full month, beginning the first of April. Each church will provide its own evangelist. Meetings will be held every day and every night, anti each day at noon the isistors of all the churches, the evungeliste, and all interested ones. will gather at a central meeting place, there/toTiold conferences and to ho til reeled by Dr. Hamilton. Dr. John E. White, pastor of the Sec ond Baptist church, delivered an ad dress on the subject at the conference Monday morning. He was followed by Dr. Isindrum. Dr. Mott ley. Dr. Briggs and others. The motion to hold the re vival was passed unanimously. Tho following committee was ap pointed to arrange plans: I>r. \V. \V Landrum, Dr. John K. White. Dr. J W./Millard, Dr. I.en G. Broughton, Dr. J. F. Purser, Dr. Jordan and Dr, ffrlggs. The members of the Atlanta Baptist conference Monday morning voted t offer to the family of Dr. Weaver, the minister now In the Howell Park Hanl- tarlum, their assistance, both Individ ually and as a body. The conference pledged Itself tc for hln* Just what the family thought wisest and best. Dr. Weaver’s mind has been wandering, snub it Is stated that he may be sent to the state sani tarium ut A!IIledger!lie. The ministers want to prevent this, if possible nnd practicable. R OOSE VELT A WARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE j have had an enrollment of loo more alz. KllWiian Poland. !)»•»*. 10.— ‘students easily this year If he hud had He ll.rie E. Tuning**, the young 1 • u**«*d of hrntnlly I setting Al ' ..1 of 30 Month lltimpbrieH street, ■I ntti>mptlug to ntotuult her la Id* own • at Jones arenne and Edwards »tr»*et. ' *11 !*•» defended by an old xcbool mate ■I friend of his childhood, lion. Mu.lUon il. one of Fulton lonnty’k representative* 1 hi* legislature. the young prisoner express**! a whh hi* old schoolmate defend him. ami I a cordial greeting 1**1 ween the which the «****• wu* dhwiisMsI. far 1, *ri*l la* l* entirely innocent. Mr. Hell Monday declined to ti statement *ou«i*inlug the ease. Removed to Tower. , warrant rimiiial as on* Justh id I "• ‘turn age, the father, promptly eu- J Friday iiluht. •I tin* services of tin* attorney »'•* attorney ami hi* client , "* bn* several -» P'tMIe school. IdayT’antl |MM.|f|vd tinge w n* removed Sunday morning | man they *iw wl to the Tower on • barging attempt* to commit a wait, which »vn* sworn out I*#*. of tin* Pence Landrum by •lark. who. with Detective <’..n- •olleeinan Itosscr. arrested Tur- nre with* e n«*ar tin* crime was prl«oiier Mun- client were *ch.H»l j bJUv the‘time the' « In the MariatU j ™SStted. rt |,„.lc at the pr i day and iwsdllvelv ideutln***! lout »» me Sunday Itcit' they ^:tw riiaitlim from the hou*,- As ,"••• Mill— ataltno tic* TWIT. *nU - 1 * 1 " J/' B" Ihiv r ^v i ^i ,::’ w '£ Ih-nrl.y Mr. II.-ll Hui.-hj i.ft-r- «J" ... L .hTrtJh, r.1* im nm m.u Ir.Tl n». > 1 _ * ;,,r u im.--'. i, ,il.i ... > ■ ■ otl . r tor • Uuc Willi,., aud tU. rv «»• umn. <>».' "I U* *• ‘ "* t.irics h.*r». .'((1,000 penults itre I without fowl: (li-nionstratioux l.v lawless persons are in.Teasing', and | the fend between the Nationalist. and Socialist laborers is heitii; re-j newed. Laborers during the past two days killed live Nationalists and wounded fifteen. Turuuao ,i Mrs >u*l«ii'raMe t.l.*l.Uar.l Mmi.lar •t ns th- .. . .. .. Timm-c wit, tnk-n .J TaU-nutrl, [iiflnn.'tiy. —tier- Mr». •I.» k lies III fiMiii Hi.- . iTis-t, Hi. lack, i.y a cHinly olflccl-. Mrs. .‘..m.I.M-k I- liner... la.- tram la Juries, but It will lifiSKlbijr la* «* •la,a l'« , i'.i'c ,1a- Itsws Iks iuUrmar,'. secure,* tl>e Rri.uu.l on which to tmt it. Atlkntk Should Subscribe. These 100 alu.lents wouhl have spenl a lai-Ke amount of money In the city and Atlanta would have been much the Rainer. Hut larger numbers still will have to he turned away next year if tills property Is not secured. Atlanta should prevent till*, by subscribing the money. She should Ret the land and then reap Hie hlR profits rcsultlnR. At the present time tlie classes t'hristluna. Itec. 10. —Frest.lent Itoosa* veil has been awarded the Nobel peace pt lre for JSOO. The tv were a number of candidates with recommendations front various putts of the world. Amf.D( the closest ilvals of President Itoosevelt was the originator of Ivs|M*ranto. the new* uni versal latlRUaRc. Tlie Nobel |.r!jte was to build It. Georjfta Sellord ,»r Tee linohsty la one of Atlanta's educational children and tills Rt eat city, which Is taking millrons of dollars Into Its coffers annually und the ndnltiR and enRlnrerinit department | which Is Increasing In .prosperity bv nre scatiere.l In itiree or four buiidfns.. 1 ntpl.l strides, should show Its pride In tin eantpus. the ImlldltiRs hcloiiR- its Rteat production by aldhiR It In! pea. . ' | “ "* Riven to Ptvsiflenr House tel t for tils successful etTorts in brinRing the Itus- so-Japanese war to an end. Tho sjHinsors of President Roosevelt wen* AethiR President Hurry Piatt Judson. of t'liici.Ro t'ltiverslty: Presl- ilent Baldwin, of Yale; Professor llar- bemer, of Munich, and the faculty of the ileo.R. town t'nlverslty, Washing ton. This Is the tifth award of the Nobel prize, which was established by a he- uueat of Ur. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, a tantotis chemist nf Sweden. 1*6 left $40,000 to be divided Into annual prizes for various lines of endeavor, one of then lielng the so-called -peace prize,' or "for the best effort lou'.tnl the fra ternity of nations, and the promotion of Ing to other departments. This Is a : time of n* e.l. Atlanta should not stint great department of the Institution and {the small sum nf S5.t«r> to tieorglaj J. H. Spurlin. should have a building of lls own. B*n. 1 itchool of Technology, her* greatest ert- 1 The body of J. H. Spurlin. who died as In the cases of the other buddings, I r< nor and her greatest advertiser In nt 3* White stri*ct Sunday, will be sent Ur. MaliteSon cannot start the erection I tar-nw ay ton Ulrica, as well as In tjw J to l.owrv Station, tJa„ Monday after- »f it until he gets the ground on which I ottc.i Slates. 1 n ,.n. Tlip.se pictures ilon't look lik». those of modern, up-to-date school rooms, do they? Well, they are not. Two of them represent that basement room in the Fair street selittol that they formerly used to put eottl in instead of children. That .was lie- fore tho sehools became so con gested. The other picture, the one show- ini' ell that old rubbish, used to he u school room, too. Tlnit’s the one the doetnrs snitl was unhealthy. The ehiltlren became ill, nnd so the room hnd to be nhnudoned. with two others just like it. A fourth room—the one with the old-fash ioned stove shown in one of the ac- eiujipnnyinif pictures, whs to hnvo been abandoned also, but tho at tendance increased so rapidly tho school authorities couldn’t take the doctors’ advicte in that case, and so the children were compell ed to study there this year. It lias been rafninj; hard all day Monday, nnd this kind of weather makes it hard for thfe children in those basement rooms. The board floor is just above another of ce ment, and the .cement floor is on the ground. Rainy weather makes the floors dnmp. For there is no way for the water to get away from tho ground under neath. It soaks in, nnd then things get damp. Are Badly Lighted. This rainy weather is bad, too, on the eyes, and those basement rooms nre not lighted as well ns those in the Pryor Ktreet school. In fact any comparison of those old frame schools—they were built thirty years ago—with that new Pryor street school is odious. Tho Pryor street school is every thing that could he wished for in the modern school line, fl'liere is * plenty of light and ventilation. And they don’t use those old- fashioned stoves shown in the pic tures. Architects say stores won’t do for heating school rooms. The Pryor street school is ventilated with pure hot air in winter anil cool air in summer. It’s a modern way of heating schools, and it is more healthy, too. Tlie children nre not so liable to sickness. Everything about the Pryor street school is built on the same plan. Every -convenience known to modern school architecture is there. It is the school that was built to relieve the congestion in the Fraser street school, and the Frn- is one of the Nchools where they have to use those hasement- eellar-rooms because they haven’t anywhere to put the little chil dren. These new schools, too, like {be Pryor street school, do not bum asil.v. There are no old stoves to : set them on fire, and they are not ! rambling frame structures which ? would be rapidly consumed if a fire got any headway. Beit They Could Do. Hilt all these old frame school^ with their cellar rooms and their congested conditions, are not the result of anybody's neglect or evil designs. They just happened be cause the authorities who deal out the money for public purpoa< s didn’t realize how rapidly Atlauta was growing i:i the school children line, as in the paved streets and sewer line. They built new schools, but tbev ' J did not build enough of them - lidn't know how congested things hail become. Because the Board Continuzd on Page Fifteen.