Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-28
FLASH Pc " DER
HALTS WILSON
HANDSHAKE
President Gets Real Scare and
Photographer Almost Gets
Smash on Jaw.

4 perpIexing Query to-day is agi-
tating the minds of the 400 persons
who caught a glimpse of President
Wilson in the twenty minutes that he
stopped in Atlanta Sunday afternoon
on his way to the Southern CONNER
cial Congress in Mobile.
Some of them quite firmly are set
tied in the opinion that charge Of
fiashlight powder. ignited while the
President was shaking hands with his
admirers in the Terminal Station
train sheds, gave him the worst scare
he has received since changing his
Official residence from Trenton. n. j.,
TO Washington, d. c.
Others say he took the incident
with characteristic calmness.
Two flashes were taken OF the Pres
tdent The first made no more dis
turbance than the muffied football OF
the family cat. There was a mo-
mentery blaze of light that resembled
the harmless playing OF sheet light
ming in the distant skies. The Presl-
dent merely smiled one of his charac-
teristic smiles and kept on shaking
hands with the enthusiastic members
of the crowd gathered about the rear
OF his private car, tho Columbia.
Second Blast Shocks.
But there was another photogra-
of powder. And to make sure OF get
ting a good picture OF the President
he put a double charge in his flash
light machine.
When it explo- d, 400 persons
Jumped in the air. The charge de-
tonated like the explosion of bomb,
or blast OF nitroglycerine, or Al
caliber Colt revolver. No one, proba-
bly,, ever will know what the Pres!-
Ant hnt ht M I'M IA 1DTk a
his hand away from the man to whom
he was saying a pleasant word just as
the explosion came, and quickly
leaped upward a step.
He realized an instant later the
cause of the noise. but there was no
smile on his face this time. He gaze
a few rapid orders, waving his hand
comprehensiVely toward the battery
Of cameras. Instantly came hustling
and showing through the crowd
green hated, ed-featured and stock
fly built individual, who seemed beot
on sweeping the cameras onto the
ground.
In a sudden rush of anger, the
photographer was considering with
some degree OF pleasurable anticipa-
ton what a fine target this aggressive
persons chin would make for q we'll
directed blow when he happened to
recognize III Nun SetIeI SCI NlNe N6cilt
Sloan, who probably holds the long
distance record for elbowing, strong
arming and manhandling away from
Presidential parties the reporters and
other pestiferous individuals who are
always present
Transformation is Marvellous.
The Transformation in the pho
tographer from wrathful man TO
the rnildest hammered person in the
world was miraculous. He cared for
no encounter with Sloan, who he re-
membered as the guard who once had
pushed him from the runningboard
of President Tafts automobile into
an undignified sitting posture under
the heels of a mounted policeman's
horse
While Sloan was attending to the
camera men, President Wilson quickly
went up the steps of his car, entered
the door and did not appear again
until the train was pulling out from
the station. He left fully $50 good
right hands mistaken, but he was not
going 10 take any more chances with
a charge of giant powder masking
as a fiashligfrt.