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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18
"It Happened in Topeka"

Chase's bill next week will be note
worthy for the presentation of the comic
opera comedian, Digby Bell, with his
own company in the Washington pre-
miere of George Hobart's vaudeville
comedy, 1T Happened in Topeka" Next
in prominence will be the military Her
cules. Paul COnchas. in a sensational
ordnance sketch, AT the Bivouac."
Horace Wright and Rene DIETRICH will
offer a mosaic of songs. dances and di-
versions, including their unique Caruso
Interpolation. ALT Grant and Ethel Hoag
appear in THE Troublesome Trunk" a
Thespian escapade. The Berrens intro
duce artistic instrumental music: the
Palace Quartet. tuneful and humorous
song blending, and Polzin brothers, sur
prising springboard aerial flights. The
Kinemacolor subject will be From Bud
to Blossom" showing the growth and
color development of twelve varieties of
flowers. The pipe organ recitals at 1:3O
and 7:3O o'clock and intermission will
continue. Prices will not be increased at
the Christmas day matinee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18
CONFER IN SECRET
Foes Of Saloon Discuss Meth
DDS to Push Kenyon Bill.
HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS
Work to Be Continued Among Mem
beers of Congress.
C0SS0N OF IOWA SPEAKS
Attorney General Tells League There
Can Be No Doubt of Constitu-
tionality of Measure.
C0ss0N OF IOWA SPEAK!

Behind closed doors delegates to the
conference of the Anti-Saloon League Of
America today discussed ways and means
OF influencing senator's and members Of
congress to support the amended Kenyon
bill forbidding the interstate shipment
from wet into dry states Of liquor de-
signed to be disposed of in violation of
the laws of such dry states. Plans were
discussed for enlisting the aid and sup
port of members from all parts Of the
country. and the officers of the Anti
saloon League, as we'll as the delegates
10 the conference. today expressed them
selves as more than hopeful of favorable
action on the part of Congress.
At last nights rally at the First Con-
gregational Church, which was the last Of
the public sessions of the Anti-Saloon
League conference, Attorney General
George Cosson of Iowa, author of the
Cosson law for the adjustment of red
l1ght districts by abatement and in
junction proceedings, discussed the Ken
yon liquor bill, with special reference to
the question of the measures constitu-
| tionality. Mr.. Cosson said there can be
no doubt that in this day the constitu-
tlonality OF any or every law is largely
determined by the known attitude and
status of opinion among the voters in
| regard to moral questions.
Many Delegates Present.
The report of the credentials committee.
read at the meeting showed that go dele
gates. representing thirty-two states. are
present to attend the conference, and that
% OF these delegates had been appointed
by the governors Of eleven states.
Former Representative Miller of Kan
sas, speaking at the conclusion Of the Gre
dentials committees report. declared that
no man can succeed in politics in Kansas
today unless he advocates prohibition,
and in the course of his speech pledged
the solid vote Of the Kansas delegation in
Congress to the support Of the amended
Kenyon bill and similar measures now
pending in one or both branches of Con-
gress.
National Secretary Detrie of the Y. NJ
c. A. told the delegates at last nights
meeting that he had received private
information to the effect that no meeting
OF the House judiciary committee had
been held since the present session began.
He added that he had also received in
formation that the amended Kenyon bill
will not be reported out Of the committee
at this session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18
To Describe Lumber Industry

How timber and lumber are obtained
and made into furniture and materials
for houses. will be described by E. p.
Cowell of the Franklin Institute of
Philadelphia in an illustrated lecture
at the Casino Theater Saturday morn
ing at IL o'clock. The lecture is free
to children. their parents and teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18
the Columbia Theater the afternoon of
Friday Decemher o. The NAV in IFS

L 1Tudy, Dfcef11DeT u: He pay
original form is not suitable to be staged
by college actors on account of the great
number of minor characters it involves.
Therefore Jack r. Crawford of the Yale
University faculty has made version for
use by the dramatic association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18
Yale Dramatic Association.

The Yale University Dramatic Associa-
ton will give a performance of Count Leo
Tolstois comedy, Fruits of Culture" at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-18

Plans have been completed for the cree
ton Of an electric light. ice and laundry
plant in Mount Airy. Nd, to cost $4,000.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
Singer Thinks Atlanta VIII Put Wagner on Map Again
LAUDS C|TYS MUSICAL TASTE
Mrs. CartheW-Y orstoun To Be
Heard in Sunday Recital at
Auditorium-Armor

Grand opera may some day owe much
to Atlanta if the pet theory of Mrs.
Carthew- Yorstoun, formerly Miss Nell
lie knight. Of Atlanta, and Georgia's
single contribution to the list of world
prima donnas, proves to be correct.
Mrs. Yorstoun believes it is in Atlanta's
power to bring Americas musical taste
back to him who made modern opera
Wagner.
In an engaging interview on things
both musical and personal, Mrs. Yor-
stoun, who will sing two Wagnerian
arias and a Gounod selection at the
Auditorium on Sunday, lent credulity to
her theory by her enthusiasm for the
greatest Of music dramas and Atlan-
ta's keen response to the intellectual
in music.
why, they tell me-" she said, glow
ing with her subject that the per-
Torrance of Tannhauser was the flow
er Of the MetropOlitan's week in At
lanta last spring, a marvellous thing in
the face Of week Of the most brilliant
of the Italian operas with the array
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
Small Results
From w aldo Quiz

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Police Com
missioner Waldo was recalled for the
second time by the aldermanic graft in
vestigating committee today and proved
a fiery witness. Emory R. Buckner at
torney for the committee, attempted to
learn from Waldo details of the adj
ministrative policy of the police de-
partment and how far this is dictated
by Mayor Gaynor.
In response to the first questions put
to him, the commissioner said that he
had no knowledge of any letters sent
him accusing his secretary, Winfield R.
Sheehan.
The commissioner was then ques-
toned as to his appointment of certain
policemen after they had been refused
by his predecessors
The commissioner admitted that he
had appointed to the department men
who after@ard proved to be crooks, but
declared that his hands were tied and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
WITH BUT HALF OF y,
HIS BRAIN MAN GETS
ALONG FAIRLY WI !

LONDON, Sept. 2O.-A case Of
who gets along very confor+a u q nan
only hah his brain has lust bas ,1'Is with
to the notice of the surgeons rs9 ~, oroSsht
eral of whom have a Euroneo ,''e' Sew
ton. v-H pan Feputa-
AT last years maneuvers cola.
cidentally shot one of mis- co To.oier &C
the head. The surgeons imme5 t.'a Ies in
cided to remove the injured ngr. ,s'y de-
half-of the brain. In five weeks -, ABOUT
was va about again, as usual II u, ,ue man
evident that he had forgotten how. 90 10 soon
write and cipher. A teacher W., ~ read
cured for him, and in, five mon ra4 Pro
could read write and calculate as e''a no, he
ever e.-sE..' dc We'll as
Inc military authorities, bowev.,.
slder that man with only ba1r a. Con-
is exempt from service in the arm, praln
sequently they have allowed hin, Con
sion' on which he now lives wiz, men en-
parents. "''A MS
Besides the pension, a scientia,
ty allows him $3.50 year on r'', ~ soele'
that from time to time he let's it s''ul|lon
bers make experiments with hin, '"etn'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
CITY TAX RAISE IS
NEEDED-CANDLER
Municipality Is in Bad Financial
Way-ReviSiOn of Budget
Is Begun.


Alderman John S. Gambler, chairman
of the council finance committee was
al work today with Comptroller Gold
the municipal budget.
Alderman Gambler said the city was
strained financially All the depart
ments are crying for more money. He
said the only means he saw for the city
to getits finances adjusted was to raise
the tax rate from 1.2s per cent to $50
per cent.
Indications are that all the nest
eggs" provided in the budget in Janu-
airy will be taken out when the new.
budget is presented TO council in Octo-
Der The October budget is merely
reimbursement of the January budget.
Funds are. running so short that many
Of the appropriations made just to start
improvements will be recalled.
Thousands of dollars was thus dis
tributed Much of the money is lying
idle without any chance of it being
spent this year 1t is very uncertain
which will be recalled. Every council
man will strenuously oppose the recall
of any funds from his pet schemes.
How 100000 Was Spent.
r. A. Quillian, chairman of the bond
commission, today completed a state
ment of the expenditures Of the 49,
100000 bond issue money The items
include the premiums from the sale of
bonds.
{ OF the $914,94S.54 water bond money
$758,335.21 has been expended.
OF the $1O1,41.36 of hospital bond
money 1897 has been expended.
8 OF the $50, 705.6S crematory bond
money $12,98750 has been expended.
OF the $6l0,2023G Of school bond
money $5S1,75O,5 has been spent
OF the $1,359, 49SOG Of sewer bond
money S764,90113 has been spent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
Up d1ndDown
Peachtree
Absurd Rules at
Terminal Station.

a striking illustration of the absurd
lengths to which blind adherence to
technical rules may be carried was fur
nished at the Terminal station yester-
day to the Indignation of a small crowd
Of onlOokers -
A youth, who had barely missed
death in a motorcycle accident and
was badly crippled, was being wheeled
in chair by a friend, accompanied by
his aged aunt, who was taking him
back to her home in Alabama. At the
gate leading to the train section the
three were stopped.
The man aiding his injured friend
had no ticket, and there was no time
to get a permit to pass through 1t
would be necessary for some one to
help the cripple aboard the train. The
White-haired aunt pleaded with the
Terminal agent that the young man be
allowed to go through TO help her
nephew. The man added his plea. The
invalid added his. They were all vain
Another party waiting behind YOU"
said the ticket man, not deigning to
answer the appeals.
The aged aunt was ready to weep
with Indignation. but the railroad man
remained unmoved. A negro was final
ly summoned and he wheeled the chair
on down to the train while the friend
who had been barred wasted the best
part Of a select vocabulary on a deaf
railroad and its deafer servants.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
LOW SALARY BLAMED
FOR BANK CLERKS THEFT

PHILADELPHIA. PA Sept. Pei
feel safe in saying that he is here as
the result of a mistaken policy on the
part of many of our banks in not pay
ing adequate salaries to their employ
ees,' declared counsel for c. l.. Nc
Cracker, who was charged with embez-
Element in making a plea for mercy
McCracken was a former employee in
a bank in Pennsylvania town, and
500
Although married, with a family Of
four small children, MCCraC5en the
counsel said, was employed at a salary
of So a week
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
GIRL BATHERS IN !.
MOBILE BAY GET
COAT OF CREOSOTE

MOBILE, ALA, Sept. 20.-Many
young women of Mobile society, as well
as other persons. of both sexes and in
varying walks of life, were uninten-
tional blackface comedians last night
The trouble happened in the waters
of Mobile bay when numerous bathing
parties went in for an evening dip. A
big lighter, laden with creosote and
beached during the recent storm, had
capsized and emptied its black contents
into the water.
AT Monroe park and elsewhere. how
ever there was not light enough to see
the fioating scum, and it was not until
the firsts bathers began emerging that
they found themselves coated with a
tarry substance that would not wash
off
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21


1t is her firm conviction that Wag-
ner, almost done to death for America
by the screeching of German tenors and
the hammering and yammering of or
Chestras in the years of his first vogue
on this side of the Atlantic, will again
come into his own.
And in Atlanta's appreciation for this
gigantic musical architect, who sought
in undreamed realms for strangely
beautiful themes 10 depict the story of
the human soul, she finds more than a
hopeful sign. 1t is prophetic Of the
fact the dreamer of Bayreuth will again
overshadow all composers for Ameri-
cans,
Atlanta, she believes, will again put
Wagner ON the American musical map.
Mrs Yorstoun, who has just expert
enced four years enforced absence from
the operatic stage because of i'll health.
was in high humor at the thought that
she again is able to resume her sing
ing.
To Be Heard in Concert.
Atlanta is to have the first opportu-
nifty on Sunday Of hearing her after
many years. She sang here before fin
ishing her musical education In Europe.
The Romeo and Juliet aria of Gounod.
Elizabeth Enterance aria from Tam
hauser and Isolde's Death Song from
Tristan and Isolde will be her offerings
at the Auditorium.
Opera is her chosen field. After it.
she says. the concert stage is cold. Ora
torio she finds brilliant and beautiful
but too glacile. 1t is in the warmth of
the trappings and colorings of opera
that the artist loses herself and finds
the role most suited to her genius.
81 would always sing opera" she said.
THE concert stage is too chill, In OPP
era l lose myself, my Identity I be-
come the character l portray The
whole story of the part, the anguish
and the joy, becomes mine
"That is why I would always sing
Wagner. There is something in the
power of his music, the depth Of his
tragedies and the heights Of his costa
cies that carries you away with him
into his tonal imaginngs"
As she spoke. Mrs Yorstoun's face
lighted and she might have stepped
from the cozy little sitting room Of Mrs.
ThaddeuSHorton's home into some dim
Wagnerian wood. where goddess
awaited for the twilight OF her race.
Appeared in Covent Garden.
Mrs Norstoun is perhaps best re-
memhgred in musical Atlanta as Miss
Nellie knight, when she appeared here
/ as soloist and protegee Of Madame
Angler She has always been Wen
1 known socially.
/ Leaving Atlanta for wider musical
fields, she went to New York, and later
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
THROWING JAVELIN
is NOW COMING IN"
: AS WOMAN'S SPORT

. LONDON, Sept 20.--Javelin throw
ing is coming in as a. sport for
women.
Miss Dora Swinburne Roberts, a
young Oxford girl, is Englaud's pioneer
lady javelln thrower. ana she can throw
CHE javelin, which is eight feet long,
steel-tipped. and weighs over pound
and half, q distance of rs feet G
inches.
The javelin is held at about the point
of balance, and the thrower spirits for
about twenty yards up TO what may be
palled the take off" marx. on the grass.
where the iayein leaves the hand
At the mark a sudden stop is made,
and the thrower-giving it a twist as
q leaves the hand--hurls the javelin
with left leg thrust forward and the
Fest Of the body bent backward, to get
che greater impetus
n 1t is against the rules to fall over
the line, as the novice invariably does
before the iavelin touches the ground
at the other end.
'Javelin throwing is one Of the best
and most graceful exercises that could
lbe devised said r. A. M. Webster, the
English champion javelin thrower. who
Is coaching Miss Roberts.
1T is especially useful to women. as
1t develops the muscles of the neck and
back as no other sport does. One must
also be a good Splinter, jumper and
weight thrower before one can succeed
as jayelin thrower Also it is en-
tirely inexpensive, and can be practiced
in nearly any place
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21

to London, Berlin and Paris. Aside
from engagements in Covent Garden,
her operate career was staged in Ger
many. In Strassburg, Metz and CO.
logne she sang in 25 roles some of them
the most difficult of Wagners, Her
singing in Aida is still remembered
Among her Wagnerian roles which
will be heard at the Auditorium as the
feature of the fall municipal concerts
Mrs, Yorstoun numbers Tannhauser,
the Rheing6ld, otterdammerung, Lob
engrin and Die Valkeries
With her husband Major Carthew-
Yorstoun, retired from the British army
service she is stopping with. Mrs. Thad-
deus Horton, in Eighth street. The
CartheW- Horstouns expect to be in At
lanta through the winter
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
LAWYER GIBSON WINS
AND LOSES IN BATTLE
. OVER SZABO ESTATE

4 NEW YORK, Sept 2o.-Burton w.
Gibson, the attorney accused OF mur-
dering Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo
lost and won point today in his ef-
forts to retain the post of executor of
the dead woman's estate.
Surrogate Fowler refused to receive
a secret and confidential statement
stating what disposition Gibson had
made of the estate but later granted
Charles Godzier. counsel for Gibson.
until Tuesday to file a brief challeng-
ing the right of the consulate of Aus
tria- Hungary to have Gibson removed
as executor of the estate
The ground upon which counsel for
Gibson challenges the consulate is that
1t is not interested in the estate and
has no right, under the treaty between
the United States and Austria Hungary
TO take the action that is set up
This international question was
raised at the outset of the fight to have
Gibson removed from the care Of money
left by the countess
Il do this" said Surrogate Fowler in
granting the attorney time to question
the jurisdiction Of the court 10 hear the
foreign complaint, because am moved
by sympathy for the unfortunate situa-
ton OF Mr. Gibson Under our present
system Of jurisprudence "a man is pre-
sumed TO be innocent until ne is con-
yiCted, and then the law takes its
course. ! am not disposed to place any
unnecessary obstacles in the path Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21

Simplify home, apartment, room Coal.
ing by saving time. temper and trs,,,,.
by consulting The Georgian Rent Bunsl
tin.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
DRIVER OF DEATH
CAR THREATENED
Attorney Asks Protection for
State Witnesses in Rosen-
thai Murder Case.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-As a result
of threats made against witnesses for
the state in the Rosenthal case the dis
trict attorneys office will ask Judge
Golf for court order to enforce pro-
lection of persons whose testimony is
deemed necessary for the conviction of
Lieutenant Charles Becker
Louis Shapiro, driver of the gray au-
tomonile In which the Rosenthal assas-
sins escaped after the killing, has been
threatened with death.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21

that he was forced to appoint men GER
titled by the civil service commission.
Specific cases were given by Attorney
Buckner of bad appointments, and the
commissioner each time fell back upon
his defense that he was obliged, to ac-
cept the men given to him by the civil
service commissioners.
At no time could Mr.. Buckner lead
Mr. Waldo to admit that he should
have investigated the records of the
men appointed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
Wagner Ruthlessly Slaughtered.

of Italian singers that came to Allan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
|. & N, EXPRESS CAR
LOOTED OF $4,000;
OFFICERS ON TRAIL

NEW ORLEANS. Sept 20.-The au-
thoutles were notified today that an
express car of the l.. and ~ railroad
was robbed Of $4,000 between Pensa-
cola, t'la. and Flomaton Ala. Wedpes-
Gay morning.
detectives left here today to iuyesu-
sHte The money was taken from "a
package containing $4,000
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-21
To D. W. BOWIE and the OCTOPUS:


Shall r. c. TURNER, our brilliant young "pro.
gressIyen be city electrician the OCTOPUS
GEORGIA RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY?
That 100000 annual reduction in electricity rates
TO the people OF Atlanta beginning January, 1913 4
Sugated you, others and the OCTOPUS, did it not!
Did you know that the public is confident that
the OCTOPUS, with its thousands of tentaces over
fulton county, had you publish that tWo-column ad III
the Atlanta papers? The OCTOPUS will pay the
DllS, tO0 now won't it?
AS to your paragraph two-''noto1ietv" in the
press, for Turner put the public WISE did it not? You
TOO, seem to be postmaster in the art of press mo
torety; now aren' t. you?
e AS to your paragraph three-yOu can not subsar
tiate single charge to Turner's violation of duty
legally, morally or otherwise; can you?
AS to Turner not carrying out his contract with
you, the OCTOPUS does not know that | hold yom
personal receipt and signed by you showing that ur
nerS contract with you has been carried out; does
OCIOPUS? Why do you embarrass yourself and
OCTOPUS?
AS to your ''k-a-r-d" Turner can not afford to
spend his hard earned money to answer ch2Lgs
winch specify nothing and say nothing OCTOPUS
thought you with all Of your Journalistic ability al"
legal powers around you could do better than you
n2vG But you have done your best You and 'I'
oCToPUS know that, DOM you?
Pooh, pooh! Wifi Whiffle! for the OCTOPUS
ana you (the man Friday Of the OCTOPUS lT
public knows the truth
answer you with the authority of "[Iopsy lW.
ner the only city electrician Atlanta has ever possess
ed-tho old newspaper route carrier who once workte
under me when we were boys together struggling 10
livelihood He still retains character unsu-led alo
mtarnlShed and with splendid ability despite l
efforts OF you and the OCTOPUS to cast aspeIs""
upon Ine Velltable young man of the hour. +
'Iopsy," upon my solicitation, allowed me to sts
some hotorety' You had some else 10 WI,
your 'notorety'' and you signed it.
CARL HUTcHEs0N'
September 20, 1912.
(AdversementE
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-26
BURGLAR IN BEDROOM
Is ROUTED By GIRL.
Daughter of Charles l.. Brown
Feigns Sleep, Then Screams
For Help.

Atlantic City, June 26.-Awak-
ened by a prempniuon that some
one was near her, Hazel Brown,
the eighteen year old daughter Of
former Senator Charles L. Brown
of Philadelphia, discovered a ne
gro burglar bending over her bed
about 1850 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
With great presence of mind the
girl pretended to sleep until the
man, certain that he was undis-
lowered. turned away. She then
aroused her mother, who was sleep
ing with her, screaming for help
at the same time, Mrs. Brown
grappled with the intruder but
was easily shaken off by the ne
gro. who made his escape, pur-
sued by Mrs. Brown and several
neighbors who had been aroused
by Miss Browns cries.
Senator Brown and family, who
reside in Philadelphia at 1926
Mount Vernon avenue have a
cottage at 1902 Vermont avenue,
Chelsea into which they moved
recently for the summer months.
| The burglar gained access to the
house through a cellar window, CO.
ing Immediately TO Miss Brown s
room, evidently in hope of obtain
ing jewelry He carried his shoes
in one hand, and in the other had
/ fl ~, diGpnv-
cred he dropped both his bag and
shoes, escaping through the win
dow which he gained entrance.
At his daughters first cry for
assistance Senator Brown leaped
frbm his bed in the next room, and
attired in pajamas, chased the in
truder through the streets He
was unable TO catch him, but OBJ
tanned description which leads
the police to believe they will ar
rest the man in a few days.
Mrs. Brown is said to be I'M
strung from her encounter with
the burglar. Miss Brown. how
ever. is little the worse from heI
experience and was able to discuss
4 the affair that afternoon. She said
the negro was at her pillow when
she awakened, peering into her
face in an effort to discover wheth
err he had been heard. She knew
that if she screamed then she
would probably suffer at his hands
and determined to pretend to sleer
until he was off guard.