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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
DR.. Parkhurst Holly Answers New York Mayor
GAYNOR Is GIVEN THE LIE

NEW YORK, Dee 3.-In a burning
reply to charges of cruelty to unfortu-
nate women, DR.. c. II. Parkhurst, the
eminent New York clergyman. gives
the lie direct to Mayor Gaynor OF that
city. The letter says
To His Honor, Mayor William J. Cay
nor, Mayor of the City of New
York:
sir-Your mind. which may be sup
posed to incline graciously and sympa-
lthetically toward whatever concerns the
interest Of this municipality, desire to
inform by brief recital Of facts. May
l solicit. therefore, your patient and in
terested attention?
Some twenty years ago q number of
citizens Of this city, being convinced of
the existence Of a certain amount Of
collision between the police and the
criminal classes set about to investi-
gate the situation with a view to bring
ing the facts to the knowledge Of the
public and politically dislodging the
nefarious organization that was thirty
| ing upon commercial vice.
Considerable thought and time were
devoted to determining the wisest and
most promising mode of procedure. We
acted upon the assumption, subsequent
ly demonstrated to be a valid one that
gambling, bawdy~ house managers and
saloon keepers were all doing a thriv-
| ing but illegitimate business and giving
up to the police part of the profits as
compensation for protection.
Cunning For Larger Game.
We were not trying to close either
gambling houses. disorderly houses or
saloons, We had our opinion of them
OF course, but were not motived in our
action by the purpose OF the immediate
desire to see them wiped out. We were
cunning for larger game and for re-
suits that were more fundamental.
TO be more specific, we were en-
gagged in no crusade against vice but
| against city officials who encouraged
| the development of vice as means OF
revenue. You are credited with being
clever minded and l trust you will
bring that cleverness TO bear in an in
| telligent grasp of the distinction be-
tween fighting vice and fighting the
propagation of vice with view to
pocketing It's emoluments.
In pursuit of our purpose we labored
along the line Of disordely houses rath-
er than along that Of gambling or vio-
lation Of excise only for the reason that
we concluded that it was by that means
we could more readily attain the OBJ
iect that we had in view.
Now, Your Honor, the statement of
our policy as just made and the reason
for ADOPTING that policy as just indi-
Gated has been declared upon the plat
form and reiterated in the newspapers
a thousand times, and It is only be-
cause am having to deal with stupidi-
ty, voluntary or involuntary, obtuse or
malicious. that I have been led to re-
peat it il my letter to you. You were
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
SENATOR NORRIS TO
BE WITHOUT PARTY
IN COMING SESSION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-senator-
elect Norris. of Nebraska, faces the
possibility Of being a man without a
party when he enters the senate after
March 4, according to his statement
today
Il do not believe" said Representa-
tive Norris, that there will be any ne
cessity Of my joining political party,
am going to vote for such legislation
as ! deem wise, whether it be Demo-
cratic, Republican or Progressive.
There seems to be no need Of declaring
political allegiance"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03

on the bench at the time, and you knew
then and I should have supposed that
you would know now that all this talk
about my prosecuting the poor girls
was for the sake Of throwing dust in
the eyes of the public and saving from
defeat at the polls that body Of organ
lied depravity that helped to compass
your election to the mayoralty.
"A DamnabIe Lie"
one cold winter night a lot Of the
unfortunates serving in dsorderly
houses along Thirty-frst street We're
pitched out into the snow by the po-
lice with the information that it was
done at my motion. You are reported
as saying Il few days ago at the ColonS
club: Some years ago a clergyman
in this city induced the public authori
ties to drive them Ghe girlsj and
spread them and club them all over
the city"
Now, what the police said about my
causing the Thirty-f first street girls to
be thrown out into the snow vas a
damnable lie, and if you referred to me
when you said at the Colony club what
have pust quoted, it was just the
same kind OF a lie; or, begging your
pardon for the use Of that discourteous
term, all / mean is, that what you said
was just as far from the truth az hell is
from heaven, and the mayor Of this
great city can be about business more
commensurate with the dignity Of his
exalted position.
OF course, the girls came up to my
house from Thirty-f street boiling
with rage as hot as they could be con-
sidering the fearful inclemency Of the
night. For the first few minutes they
were pretty difficult company to deal
with, but it was not long before they
discovered that even II | was clergy
man and Mrs. Parkhurst a clergyman's
wife, we still had hearts
We fed them and we comforted
them.
We gave them all the facts in the
case, and they went away our friends,
and the friendship Of some of the girls
we kept for years.
Some Pointed Questions.
Your Honor, have you ever taken
such girls into your home and fed them
and comforted them?
Did you do anything of the kind in
that white and negro resort maintained
in one Of your houses in Brooklyn, re-
ported to me by three different detec-
tives, and which l visited myself with
detective of my own, and caused that
secret notification might be conveyed
to you in order that you might be saved
from the contempt OF your constituent
cy?
Perhaps YOU did not know what was
going on there; but the public would
not have excused you. And l, heart
less clergyman that causes poor girls
to be dubbed all over the city, sheltered
you. I am sorry for you, Your Honor
and l am awfully sorry for the city
The Lord wept over Jerusalem. Yours
truly, G. H. PARKHURST.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
CALHOUN PICNIC WRECK
DAMAGE SUIT ON TRIAL

DALTON, GA. Dec 3.-Superior court
has been busy since it convened yester-
day on the case of John Ray ct al. VS..
the Western and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany, the suit being for damages to the
amount OF $4,000 for the death OF Mrs.
Ray, one of the victims in the wreck of
the Calhoun picnic special north OF here
several months ago.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
NEW PASTOR BEGINS wosk

COLUMBUS, GA, Dec 3.-Rev. Thorn
as NJ Fleming, the newly elected pastor
OF Conner Memorial Baptist church, of
this city, has taken charge of his work
and preached his first sermon Sunday as
pastor Of the church He came to Co
lumbus from Collinsville. Ala.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
ENEMY OF VOTES WOULD
SPANK SUFFRAGETTES

PITTSBURG, Dec. S.-Miss Julia
Morgan Harding, member OF wom-
ans organization here opposed to equal
suffrage. declared that women who
make spectacles of themselves should
be spanked.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
MEANEST THIEF STEALS
CHlLD'S CHRISTMAS COIN

PlTTSBURG. Dec. 3.-The police are
searching for the "meanest thief in the
world who stole $201 which Louis
Sample, aged twelve, had saved for
Christmas
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03

residence on Spencer street. Rev G. L. L.
Gordon. rector OF St. Marks Episcopal
church. officiating InJerment was with
Knights of Maccabees honors.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03

1t is the duty of everv ~,
election. city
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
eoIscLAIR BURIED AT DALTON.

DALTON, GA, Dec. 3.-The funeral of
L. v Boisclair, who died of pneumonia in
an Atlanta sanitarium, was held at the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-03
Let Every Child Celebrate
Arbor Day Tomorrow
Wednesday, December 18th
By Planting at Least One Tree to
Make Some Barren Spot Beautiful

THROUGIOUT country, in big cities in little
school children being encouraged to
Day for their In the East and the West
the South will find little children ArbOr Day planting
tie trees which shall to strong and sturdy maturity just
they themselves shall that when they
ruling citizens they will have beautiful cities
of these majestic of which they will be
proud than of vast treasures
In all parts United losing hundreds of
valuable trees every Here have
lost been compelled to destroy of beautiful
And every year will you picture
barren and ugly city would be without That
Arbor Day is given the children
nance the beauty their cities DAYS and their
children
Tomorrow December the Arbor Day that Atlanta
will celebrate All of the schools have the
that make their cities and country beautiful Phar
has donated for the children
trees. two old and averaging height The
Caapa handsome North American shade tree attaining its
maturity about ten when it bears white blossoms
Every child in city may or more of these trees
upon agreeing plant and nourish them for few weeks
School children may procure their teachers on Ar
Dor Day, Wednesday, December 4.
All schools institutions of any kind may procure
Immediately of the trees they need from Jacobs
macy Main Store.
Children and adults may procure individually on Arbo
Day at Jacobs Main Store 6S Marietta Street,
Tomorrow, Arbor Day every child in Atlanta plant a
school yard IN any barren spot that be made beautiful with
fine shade
JACOBS PHARMACY
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Believes EverythInu Father Saws.

Park s. Florea, national secretary ot the Adscript club, has a little son, Ed ward, who believes everything his fla ther says, whether it is said seriously or jokingly. Once when warning his son to keep away from the heels of COW, MT. F1orea told the boy a COW can kick mile, at least that is what Edwards says.
 The boy is visiting relatives near Harrisburg, Ind. While at play he saw a COW, fully a mile away, and he ran and hid in the haymow, according to a story told at Connersville. The boy said his, papa, who was reared on a farm, had told him there was no limit to the reach of cows kick, and that he thought it would be safer to hide while one was in sight. It was with difficulty the boy was convinced that his father merely wanted him to keep out of the cows reach.-Indianapol News.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
z0QKOL7TS SEzzIQW

signal. Three rings gives warning oi something dead ahead.
 The crows nest is much higher than the bridge and often in foggy weather an officer will mount to. the nest, be cause sometimes the fog is low lying and those in the nest can see over the fog and so distinguish other vessels.
 Report by Telephone.
 On the German lines one man is used in the crows nest and men are stationed on the forecastle head and others on the wings of the, bridge. The reports are made from the crows nest by telephone or gong. These men are on duty for two hours in fair weather and have four hours of. but in severe weather the changes are made more frequently. They give the usual cry each half hour as the bell sounds, calling out "All's welli" and other men echo it from stem to stern of the vessel.
 Each line has it's oYn night signal It Is a coston signal which throws different colored balls or stars when burning
 These signals are used to signal an approaching vessel, the name of the line to which the vessel signaling be- longs, and after the interchange of signals the officers make an entry in the logs telling the hour and place of meeting. In case of distress or in an accident when help is wanted the night signals are the firing of guns at regular intervals and three rockets which explode in the air, sending out a shower of sparks and balls of col ored fire. These are ordinary rockets. but of higher power, and attract at- tention at a considerable distance. A captain on seeing these rockets knows at once that some vessel is in distress and needs assistance and acts accord ingly.
 In the modern vessels improvements have been made in instruments used for safety. The submarine telephone is a modern invention and is carried and used on every passenger ocean steamer. The telephone has grown in it's uses at sea, and telephones lead from the bridge to all parts of the vessel Before the telephone was per fected speaking tubes were used, and often messengers ran from the bridge to the engine room or to some other part of the ship.
 The man in the crows nest used to call the attention of those on the bridge by blowing a horn and then pointing toward a sail. smoke, wreck age or ice that he might have seen, after which those on the bridge would have to search to find what the look out had seen. Things are simpler now and much time is saved when a yes sel is in a really dangerous position.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
The Net Results.

When Ollie James, new junior Uni ted States senator from Kentucky, first broke into politics in his native county of Crittenden he had occasion to try case before rural magistrate When the trial was ended the magis- trate invited the young lawyer to go home to dinner with him. As they sat down at the table the old man said:
 "Ollie, it pains me nightly to see you messin' in with politics.
 "Why so?" inquired James.
 "Ollie, my son." said the magistrate, politics ain't fittin' pursuit for any young man. Look at me! I started in politics when I was young and hopeful, just like you are now. have held all the positions of trust in the gift of the people of my home district-I have been school trustee, road super visor and constable and justice of the peace. But now, an old man, all I've got to show for my years of cease less political activities is a lot of warm enemies and cold friends. Sat urday Evening Post.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
ENJOY WHIRL OF LIFE
STRANGE, FASCINATION ExER
 cIsED BY GREAT CITY.
Aowery Lodging House DweIIers Find the Excitement There That Pre- ViousIy Has Been Denied
 Them-The Situation.

The other day ruddy-faced, clear. eyed man was discovered at the cor ner of Twenty-third street and Broad way, carrying the banner of cheap restaurant, according to a New York letter to the Cincinnati Times-Star. There was nothing of the downtrodden and forlorn about him. He watched the panorama which unfolded before him with wide eyes, interested in ev- cry detail as a child might be in a new toy.
 'I can get you a better job than this" said a man who was interested in him, at first sight. q can find you place where you can make SIP a week, and the work is not hard"
 T don't want it," said the old man, promptly. 'T'm having the best time of my life right now"
 He had been a farmer all his life. For years he had struggled with a hillside farm in Vermont. His one recreation was to read a city paper. By and by his four sons grew up, lef: the farm, and have been modestly sue. cessful.
 When my wife died I came to the city" said he. My boys send me S5 a week and make enough more by odd jobs of this sort to keep me. And, sayi I'm living for the first time in my life! I'm enjoying myself, I tell you. There's a man living down at the lodging house where I get a 25- cent room every night who used to be bank burglar, and he tells me the stories of his life. And there's a fel low who says he's a count-he talks like one, anyhow-and there's major in the English army, and sea captain and a professor who got fired by his university-they say for cheating at eards-and man they say used to be a minister and killed a man. Every night fellows like that come in and there's always something happening. It's exciting-and I spent all my life hard at work on a hill farm. I'm twen- ty years younger than was when came to town and as long as. get a couple of meals a day and a place to sleep, I'm happy. What do I want with a $12-a-week job, Mister? wouldn't change places with the ma yor."
 A city missionary heard the story.
 "That is why you cannot reform a man who has tasted life in a lodging house." said he Excitement is in the air. Every newcomer has a life history that is more interesting than fiction. Little wonder they will not come back" # .af'fF
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Painless plslolntment.

MT. Little, in his book on Mada- gascar, tells an amusing story of a friend, who, on journey from the coast to the interior, was much trou- bled by the curiosity of the natives. Being a fine looking man with a flow ing beard, he excited the admiration and amazement of all. Natives crowd. ed the doors of his hut and jostled one another to get a peek through convenient chinks, giving him all the time their opinion of his eyes, nose, and general appearance. In vain did he shut the door of his hut. They crowded back again, and at last sat down in rings outside the hut to dis cuss his want of good manners in sending them away At last the stranger could stand it no longer.
 It was a bright moonlight night. He suddenly rushed to the door of his hut, threw 1t open, and with loud shout sprang toward the natives. At the same time he drew from his mouth two rows of false teeth and waved them in the air. The natives took one look at the dreadful sight, and then fled in horror from the presence of "a man who could. take himself to pieces"
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Very Cautious.

Little Ethel had been very naughty. It was certainly wrong of her to tie the cats tail to the chair leg and pour ink into her fathers slippers. She deserved to be punished. So her mother sent her from the room with out any dinner, but when the pudding came on the scene her consciousness smote her, and she determined to give Ethel another chance.
 Tell Ethel if she will be very, very good for the rest of the afternoon she may have some pudding" she said to the servant.
 The servant delivered the message, and returned in a few minutes with the reply:
 Please. mum. Miss Ethel wants to know what kind of pudding it is be fore she makes any promise"
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
AT ~LoST AND FOUND" DESK
Absent-Minded Women Make Much Trouble for Clerks of Big New
 York Hotels.

A woman hurried up to the lost anG found section of the office desk of the Waldorf-Astoria. She held up a gold mesh handbag.
 T saw a woman who had this bag in her hand sit down in the corridor" |" she said. "She got up a few minutes later and went away, leaving it. I thought she might return, so I kept my eyes on it for a while; but now have got to go, and as she has not come back I thought I had better turn the bag in to you"
 A few minutes later another wom- an came up to the same place and asked whether anything had beer sure somebody had stolen. After a search the clerk produced the boa and she went out of the hotel.
 Fifteen minutes afterward-a taxicab driver entered and turned in at the office a feather boa which he said a fare from the hotel had left in the cab. To the clerk it looked familiar. He examined it carefully. It was the same boa that had been claimed only quarter of an hour before.
 Only a few minutes had passed when third woman rushed up. She asked the clerk please to tell the hotel detectives or the police CT the news papers, or somebody, to find valu. able fur huff which had been stolen from her. She was positive she had left it in her room. The clerk listened attentively to her description. Then he tucked under the counter and sol emnly handed her the muff.
 "Why, where did you get this?" she demanded.
 'It was picked up in the corridor, madam" was the reply.
 She signed her name in the receipt book and then went away in the same haste she had come. When the clerk looked up from the book he found she had left her pocketbook on the counter.-New York Sun.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Mats Made From Straw MattInq.

In days gone by nearly every one used straw mating on their sleeping room floors, but this is the age of bare floors and mats. I have made some nice mats from some mating that had once used on a floor. I se- lected the best parts and cut them in lengths varying from one yard and three-quarters to two yards. travelled the ends about four inches and tied them in a double knot; that keeps them from fraying any more and makes a kind of fringe which I think is much nicer than hemmed ends. l wash mine with salt and water, which freshens them up wonderfully. These mats are especially suitable for sleep ing rooms or for a strip for a hall. They are very easy to handle they are so light, and they are easy to sweep. They look well on a hardwood floor. The parts of my carpet that showed signs of wear I converted into piazza mats, so nothing was wasted. Mat ting makes excellent doormats for the outside doorstep or outside entrance and you will be surprised how much less sand gets tracked in.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
The chlIdIess Apartment.

Blihkins and his wife live in one of these fashionable, childless apartment houses. The visiting friend speaks.
 Say, what became of that pretty bull terrier you used to have around to keep Mrs. Bliffkins company during the day?"
 "The management wouldn't stand for it, so we gave him away. We ven tured a canary, but they kicked on that I suggested some goldfish, but Mrs. Blifkins said they reminded he- of swimming snakes"
 How'd you finally agree?"
 'Excellently. I bought her one of these Mexican jumping beans. It's cute as it can be. Say, Clara get our little Pedro and make him do some of hia atNnts."
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Billiards.

The French ascribe the invention oi the game of billiards to one Hendique Devigne, an artist, about the year 1571. The game is mentioned by Spencer about 1891, and by Shakes peare in 1907. Cotton, in his Com plete Gamester," 1874, gives a very full account of the game. It will not do, however, to be too emphatic in asserting the modern origin of the popular game, for there are fairly good reasons for thinking that it was known as far back as the age of the Pharaohs of old Egypt. It is claim@ by good authorities that the men of old Pompeii played a game very sim liar to our modern billiards. Many of our modern inventions" are merely revivals.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Certainty a Gamble.

q thought you said Mrs Gribbel didn't gambler"
 She doesn't gamble. The idea of such a thing!"
 "Umphl She's been married three times"
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
The Final Audience.

Why" exclaimed MT. Growcher, "are some women such industrious gossips?"
 q don't know" replied Miss Cay enne; "but I have sometimes suspect ed the poor things were trying to get together enough news to make home entertaining for their husbands"
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30
Sure Sian.
reviVaIs.

"Old Titewad is a mighty sick man, but the doctor says that if he can just keep him from giving up he hal a chance of winning out"
 Then he'll win. Old Titewad never gave up anything since I have known him."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19
so LITTLE CHILDREN
FED AFTER DINNER OF
COMMERCE CHAMBER

Half hundred little children, clam
oring at windows and doors of Taft
hall during the Chamber of Commerce
dinner last night We're given a real
treat in the way of good things to eat
ard enjoyed for once the hospitality
of the commerce body
After the several courses had been
served to the members assembled in the
hall. Assistant Secretary Robinson.
finding that many plates ready to be
served had been untouched gathered
the little people at side door of the
great building and turned them loose
on the surplus. Nearly 40 boys and ten
little girls graped the plates and scat
tered about the great building Ice
cream with two kinds of cake, follow
ed the heavier courses.