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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
S92,550 Paid for
Vatican Painting

Special Gable TO The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, June 3O.-The Agnews
have paid $32,550 for Watteau's "A
Fete Champetre". This is the record
high price for a Vatican.
The picture shows party of men
and women assembled in a woody
glade. One of the men is seated on
the ground playing a guitar to a
woman by his side. Near by is a
woman in a white silk dress talking
with a man and in the distance is
seen the entrance to palace.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Butcher Kills Self
In Savannah Market

SAVANNAH, June 3O.-J. Fried
man. butcher. shot and instantly
killed himeslf in his stall at the city
market last night Isadore, his 10
.year-old son, was with him.
Friedman had gone 10 the market
ostensibly to make out his monthly
bills. He was 81 years old and ns-
tive of Russia Mrs Friedman ana
the other children had gone to Tybee
for the day.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Postage Stamp Will
Bear Pope's Efgy

srecIai Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, June 3O.-Although the
former Papal States were among the
stamp issuing countries no postage
stamp has as yet borne an efhgy
nj the Pope. The omission will be
made good in a series of stamps which
the Government will issue.
The stamp will have design de-
picting the coronation of the Emperor
Francis Joseph as King Of Hungary,
and will show Plus IL.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
BILL IS OFFERED
s. PROHIBITING
LIQUOR ADS
Halt Dozen Measures Are Read in
Georgia Senate-SoIons Vote
to Visit Athens,

The Senate was in session less than
half an hour Monday morning. Read e.
'nS of half dozen bills and adoption
Of a resolution to visit Athens July 70
made up the business.
zSenator Searcy introduced a biz
prohibiting alcoholic liquor advertise
ments and making violations punish
able as misdemeanors The bill pro-
vides it shall be unlawful for any per
son. firm or corporation owning or
controlling newspapers, magazines or
other public gazettes in Georgia to
advertise either for themselves or for
others, any alcoholic liquors, the sale
OF which is prohibited in Georgia.
Violation is made a misdemeanor pun
ishable under section 1865 of the Code
of 1910. The bill was referred to
the temperance committee.
Senator Tarver, of the Forty-third.
introduced a bill for the appointment
of commission to investigate the
necessity of a State sanitarium for
drug fiends and inebriates, and to as
certain the cost of such an institu-
ton. The bill was referred to the
committee on hygiene and sanitation.
Other Bills Are Offered.
Other bills introduced were:
By Senator Bush-To provide for
teaching agriculture in all grades of
the public schools of Georgia.
BY Senator RiChardson-A local
bill to amend the act creating a pub
lie school system at Oglethorpe.
BY Senator Bush-Providing for the
appointment of stenographic report
ers for grand juries.
BY Senator's diff and POpe-To
change the meetings of the legisla-
ture from annual to biennial sessions.
Under this bill, the next meeting aft
er the present session would begin
on the fourth Wednesday in June,
1914.
The Wimble and Miller House bill
instruCting the Governor to call a
special election for United States
Senator on July Is was read in the
Senate the second time.
Who i sHerbert Myrick7
House resolution No. 20, inviting
Herbert MyTiCk, of Illinois, to address
the Legislature on July 10 was read
anu ldlu on lne ldDle. several Send-
tors rose at the same time and OBJ
jected to its adoption because the
resolution failed to tell who Mr. My
rick was and why the legislators
should listen to him.
Senator r. T. DuBose. of the Thir-
tieth, on behalf of the Mayor Cham
Der of Commerce and other officers
and citizens of Athens, invited the
Legislature to visit Athens all day
June u. In a brief speech he told
!, the Senators Athens would spread
feast of barbecue and watermelon,
and that there would be water, water
everywhere" The Senate unanimous
ly accepted the invitation
The Senate adjourned to meet at
1880 Tuesday morning.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
"Glad to Quit" Says
Henry S. jackson

Collector of Internal Revenue Hen
~ S. Jackson, located in this city
whose term expires June 80. stated
Saturday morning that owing to his
weak physical condition he was glad
to be relieved of his duties Mr.. Jack
son said:
Il intend to take a trip to some
quiet place with my family and there
recuperate. / have not yet decided
where we will go. We did intend to
go abroad, but l fear l am not strong
enough for that"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Orders Macon Depot
Decision in Ten DAYS

MACON. June 3O.-Chairman Muir
phey Gambler, of the State Railroad
Commission, has given the Southern
Railway ten days in which to decide
definitely whether II will enter with
the Central of Georgia Railroad into
a contract for the erection Of a union
station in Macon.
Copies of the letetr have been re-
Ceived by Mayor Moore and the
Chamber of Commerce, and a local
delegation will go to Atlanta Tues
day to confer with Chairman Can
der
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Weltner DenOunCes
Prison Conditions

AN iniquity of the basest sort" Is
the way in which Philip Weltner, sec
rotary of the Prison Association of
Georgia, described conditions in Geor-
gia prisons in an address at the AS
sembly day exercises of the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer Sunday.
We need better prison laws; the
ones we have now handicap the Pris-
on Commission. 1t is impossible to
segregate the whites from the blacks.
,or the youths from the hardened Grim
inals"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30

July Pre- Inventory Sales fit into our plan
of bookkeeping When we take Inventory,
August Ist, stocks must be at their Lowest
point To get them there we prune prices
to Sprout sales. We would rather count
money than merchandise; rather shaUe
profits to the vanishing point than have
stocks cIuttered up with odds and ends,
broken lines and surplus merchandise
By the very nature of the case, these Pre-
Inventory Sales bring the very best bargains
of the year. Share and SaUe
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
500 Have Hair ShOrn
To Avoid Brushing

NEW YORK. June 3O.-Rather than
be reminded to brush their hair
before coming to school, 500 boys of
Public School No 90, Bridge and
RrDorne Streets. have had their locks
clipped close to their heads.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30

with that pen the Governor said:
"Oh. by far the most important doc
uments l signed with that pen we're
the love letters / wrote Miss Cora
McCord. before she became Mrs.
Brown-not that have not written
her many love letters with 1t since.
for that matter!
Il am not particularly superstitiOus
and l certainly am not a fatalist, bu;
somehow l thought that per might be
bringing me good luck, and with re-
spect to Miss Cora McCOrd, good luck
was what | was looking for. | al
ways wrote her with that pen, and
wrote her quite frequently, moreover.
You think my political cards in
teresting, and perhaps convincing.
Well, you should have read some of
those love letters. They were pic
turesque enough, and-convincing?
"All | have to say about that is
that the once Miss McCord is now
Mrs. Brown!"
This pen has signed many docu-
ments famous in Georgia history
1t signed the famous letter to Gov
ernor Hoke Smith that never was and
never has been opened. and the con-
,tents of which nobody on earth other
than Governor Brown knows.
1t signed the notable paper refusing
a pardon to STRIPPING
1t signed the commission that made
Joseph NJ. Terrell a United States
Senator, and it signed that remark
able PRONUNCIATION. The Supremacy
of the Law
And the curious thing about it all
is that not until he had departed from
the govecnOrship did Joseph NJ. Brown
mention the matter of this Jen to "A
living soul!
1t is quite like HIM that he should
have used 1t, methodically and regu-
larly, all these years, ind yet never
thought to mention it to somebody.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Clearing So and $3.50
Neckwear at CSC

Women s neckwear-all the pretty styles
that have been so popular this season. In
cluded are collars, yokes, jabots, waists and
coat sets, hand-embroidered and hand
crochet collar, handkerchief stocks, etc All
new. this spring; some pieces may show
signs of handling.
main Floor, Right
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
SHOWN IN
FLOOD RELIEF WORK
Reports From Major NormoyIe
Indicate That the Situation
Is Clearing Rapidly.

Reports today from Major Normoyle.
in charge of flood relief work in the
South and Middle West, show the situa-
tion as improving and well in hand.
The major should be at Hickman, KY.
during the day and at Memphis Mon
day or Tuesday
|Ihe War Department has been in
cfined to give Memphis attention at the
latest possible moment, but Major Nor
moyle's reports today indicate that he
feels 1t is time to look after that situa-
tion. Officers are in close touch with
Memphis and will be able to handle any
situation which arises there in advance
OF the majors arrival. The Nokomis
has arrived at Cairo en- route to Hick-
man. Ky. and today is awaiting orders
from Major Normoyle before proceed
ing further with its distribution of sup
plies and food.
In the absence of reports from Day
ton, 1t is assumed at the department to-
day the policy of conservation of sup
plies and food as much as possible is
meeting with proper results. Hamilton
is receiving attention. and all its imme-
diate needs will be supplied fully.
With the floods moving southwark,
the army and navy officials in charge
are likewise moving southwark this
week, and are well equipped to handle
all emergencies. although they are hope
ful that early reinforcement work on
levees will avert the dangers met In the
Ohio floods.
Catlettsburg, KY, where the floods
have left serious sanitary situation, II
is believed will be handled satisfac-
tor1ly. The damage Is extensive. but
the needs of residents in SO far as food
and medical supplies are concerned will
be met as the demands arise
Mai Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of
stan. found the situation today so we'll
In hand that he remained only a short
time at the War Department and then
departed for a short horseback ride.
Secretary of War Garrison left the
city today for New York. He expects
to be gone only a day or two. His
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
WORK TO PREVENT
DISEASE EPIDEMIC
Situation in the Mississippi and
Ohio Valleys Reported to Be
Well in Hand.


There is little danger of disease cpl
demic in the food regions OF the Ohio
and Mississippi valleys, according to
the latest dispatches received by Sur
eeon General Blue of the Public Health
Service.
Surgeon Gassoway reported that when
twenty feet Of water at Catlettsburg.
KY, subsided. it left the town in a
very bad sanitary condition. The work
of sanitation has been turned over to
the Public Health Service. however.
and immediate steps to remedy con-
ditions will be. taken From $500 to
500 will be needed for the work.
Reports from other cities say that
there are no bad sanitary conditions
and no suffering. Surgeon Gassoway
reported that conditions were improving
at Cairo, and that business was being
resumed. More than one-half the in
habitants have left the city, however.
he said.
Reports to the Postoffice Department
indicate general improvement.
The carload of mail marooped near
Washington, Ind, when the floods start
ed, is still tied up. Several times IL
has been moved in an effort to get it
cut. Yesterday IL was taken as far as
Edinburg, where another washout tied
IL up again. .... 49,.
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
Government Reserves
Supplies at Dayton
For Use in Other Cities

The Government is outstanding its
food supplies at Dayton. Government
rations will be issued only as last re-
sort there, and arriving trains will be
held at Dayton subject to needs else
where. Major Rhoads. in charge of
Governmental work at Dayton. reported
Of stan To-Day. F..
temporary camps. and food is dealt out
sparingiy only to exc out the ANAL
quantities in the relief stations.
Three cases of typhoid fever have sent
fear into the hearts of Dayton citizens.
but Major Rhoads reports that while
there is no cause for a panic. West
Carrolton is in bad condition with
sewers blocked, so Government officials
are rushing there To-Day to take charge
of the sanitation. 80
Dayton is feeling the touch of hehabil-
iation work rapidly. Stores are opening,
and the mammoth National Cash Reg
lister Company factory opens Monday.
Twelve thousand destitute people are
being cared for by the Hamilton relief
committee.
Lieutenant Baker at Hickman has re-
ported four breaks in the levee on the
west bank OF his district just north Of
Belmont and another Just across from
Wickliffe. :,
One thousand destitute families are
receiving aid today At New Albany,
Ind. from the naval base at Louisville.
A vessel has been sent today from
Hawesville to Cannellton and Tell City.
Ind.
Navy officials today are taking care
Of points between Louisville and Carlo
with 5000 rations. blankets and some
clothes. The situation between Cincin-
natti and Lawrenceburg is being
cleaned up today.
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
RAILROADS REDUCE
THt|RFRE|GHT RATES
Chicago Expert Figures Out
How Much Companies Have
Lost During Recent Years.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. April s-Railroads
throughout the United States obtained
in 1872 the lowest relative net income
IN Twenty-Five 3ears, according to Sla.
son Thompson, head Of the Bureau OF
Railway News and Statistics in mis-
annual review of American railways.
the history of all rail carriers in the
United States for 1312. he says. also
discioscs the following facts:
Lowest average freight receipts sine.
I.V.
Payment of the highest wages in their
history.
Multiplication of costly regulations.
Heaviest loss and damage claims on
record
Highest taxes yet levied ...
Largest gross revenues received.
Largest expenses of operation.
In discussing the regulation of rail-
road rates, Mr.. Thompson says:
Under regulation, as interpreted to-
the views Of rival shippers and COM
rnunities and suspending all advances
except an insignificant few, the average
receipts per freight ton mile has been
reduced to IA mills from 7.57 mills m
1911
This may not appear to be a back
breaking drop, but applied to a move
inent of over 5000, 10000 tons Of
freight moved one mile, 1t amounts up
TO over So ,00o.0o0. or enough to have re-
moved the reproach OF insufficient net
income from year of unprecedented
The real cause foi
this condition is not TO be found in
the statistics Of the railways. but in
the statistics of the Interstate Com
nerce Commission
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
De Ia Barra to Argue
Stability Of Mexico

Francisco de Ia Barrs, former MeXi-
can ambassador to the United States
and provisional president OF the repub-
lie. will try the subtle influence Of his
diplomatic art and grace in Washing
ton next week to gain recognition for
the Huerta government.
He sails from Vera Cruz Friday He
comes to attempt to convince President
Wilson and Secretary Of State Bryan
that the present administration 10
sta ble and able to maintain order. and
that IL should have recognition from
the United States.
TIE Huerta administration is emhar-
raised because Ii finds the present atti-
tude Of the United States Is preventing
IL from floating loan in Europe. the
proceeds OF which are needed for the re-
habiiitation of Mexico.
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
POLICE SEARCH IN
Vain FOR "SPOOKS"
Pennsylvania Town SoreIy Puz-
zIed by Antics of Inanimate
Things.

WILKESBARRE, April S.-Since eggs
began to turkey-trotting in the home of
David J. Thomas last week, the place
has become a veritable dance han for
things inanimate. So. .--.s -s-gH- ..s..s -
Loaves of bread are hopping around
the cellar like toads and getting soused
in Oil cans. Tables. bureaus. and chairs
are waltzing merrily and dollar bills
are eloping with pennies.
Anybody in Edwardsville will swear
to this: they are truthful folk, too.
Why. things got so frisky in the
Thomas home the other day that a
squad of State police from Troop B
was hustled out to quell the disturb
ance. The arrival of the troopers pu.
dampsr on the trotting eggs, beds.
and tables, but the orgy was resumed
as soon as the police departed. The
troopers suspect that a spook Is caus-
ing all the mysterious doings. but Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas and their children de-
clare there is no such thing as a spook.
The dwelling occupied by the Thomas
family is a double house. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sterling Devons. who occupied one size
Of the house. became SO badly frightened
by things they saw and heard that they
Packed up their belongings and moved
away. Mr.. and Mrs. Devons say that
a spirit Visited their sleeping apartment
and closed their mouths and stopped
their nostrils. They declare they saw
something flying about their bedroom
and then went to the Thomas apart
Thomas 3wears that losves of bread
jump from their places OH the shelves
and soaked themselves in the oil can
He has found oranges. apples. and
{ ther fruit fastened to the spout of the
oil can.
Dozens of curious people nock to the
home and some of the mystifying things
happen while they are there.
Many people in the neIghborhood are
to n owe. They are sorely
puzzled and frightened
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
Sylvester Honored by !
Argentine Association

Major Richard Sylvester. Superintend-
ent of Police, has been elected an hon
orary member of the Association Dactil-
oscopica Argentina. an association
which deals with police Identification in
the Argentine. Notification of his cleo
ton has just been received.
The International ASSOCIATE of Po-
lice Chiefs will meet in Washington in
June. Major Sylvester, president of the
association. is arranging for the enter
tainment of visiting delegates. The
exact date has not yet been set. This
will be left to the majors discretion,
the acceptance Of an invitation to visit
Washington extended at the last an
nual meeting providing that the con-
vention call for Washington be issued
by the president.
The Association of Police Chiefs was
formed for the general advancement of
police work along all lines. particularly
those dealing with description and iden
tication.
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
FLOOD At CAIRO
NOW PAST CRISIS
Rivers Stationary, and City
Is Thought to Be Out Of
Immediate Danger.

CAIRO. ILL.,. April 6.-Cairo has passed
the crisis Of the flood While prac-
tically stationary the river has a fall
ing tendency. The stage Of the river
now Is H7 feet. There is grave danger
still from the seepase through the
levees or from q high wind, which
would dash the waters against the al
ready strained levee.
The local weather observer said the
passing Of the Ohio waters into the Mis-
sissippi through Cache creek and the
breaking of levees in Missouri had re-
lieved the pressure here and kept the
water from going higher:
Col. Daniel Moriarty Is in Mounds
City to investigate the conduct of
suardsmen stationed there. 1t. is said
that intoxicated soldiers went about the
village, breaking in doors and arresting
citizens promiscuously. Mayor Fletcher,
of Mounds City, finally found q captain,
who drove the disturbers to Villa Ridge,
-. ore they had no chance to obtain
uqusr.
-, Big Four railroad took 800 la
borers to Mounds City and put them at
work on levees. 1t is now thought the
place is safe.
A great amount of driftwood is pass
ing in the Ohio river, making the oper-
alton of boats by the naval reserves
precarious. Roofs and entire houses
were seen floating along
Several companies Of soldiers armed
with brooms went to work at cleaning
up the streets. The sanitary conditions
are to be carefully watched from now
on to prevent the breaking out OF
disease.
Adjutant General Dickson arrived on
the steamer Illinois this noon, bringing
eighty-five tons OF supplies. Rations
Will be distributed whenever needed
Offers OF relief made by the Chicago
Of Commerce and the city Of
Peoria for the benefit of Cairo would
be accepted, II was said today. Howard
Elting, president Of the Chicago Or
offered eighty boats and
sixty men to man them. From Peoria
came word that a steamboat equipped
for Iife-saving purposes was waiting
for a call to Cairo. The same message
said that a carload of food and cloth
ing had already started from that city.
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
SAYS FAMILY SLEPT
IN VIRGINIA WOODS
Woman Whose Husband Is
Missing Tells Shocking Story
Of Poverty at Mission.

Stating that she, with her husband
and two small children, had spent each
night the last month sleeping in the
woods on the Virginia side of the Po-
tomac, and that her husband had left
her yesterday and not returned, Mrs.
Edward Darcy appealed to the Gospel
Mission. and r-and-a-Half street,
last night for assistance. The woman
and her two children were given shelter
and food. while the husband is being
sought by the Georgetown police.
When she arrived at the mission house
at s o'clock last night, Mrs. Darcy
said that q kindly policeman had found
her on the bridge. and giving her 5
cents for car fare. told her TO go to
the Gospel Mission. She Immediately
took car and appealed for aid.
Mrs. Darcy said that her husband is
q carpenter, but has been out of work
for some time. She could not remember
any Of The contractors for whom he
had worked. In the latter part OF
February they had no money. sno went
to live with a Mrs. Smith on the vir-
sinia side Of the river. A month ago,
however, Mrt. Smith moved to Michi-
gan. and they were turned out of the
house. Since then she states she has
been sleeping in the Virginia woods with
her. husband and children.
Yesterday morning her husband left
her on the GEORGETOWN bridge at II
O'Clock, saying that he had a job at
Fl Myer which would begin on Mon
day and he would see IL ne could ar
range sleeping quarters for them. He
had not returned at o'clock when the
policeman found her.
This afternoon Mrs Darcy will go to
Ft- Myer with Mrs. Kline, matron Of
the mission. and see IL her husband can
be found and IL there is any carpentry
that her husband would not leave her
and fears that some accident has hap
pened which has kent him away
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
Royal Arcanum to
Meet Here Tomorrow

The annual session of the Grand
Council. Royal Arcanum, Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, will be held on Mon
day and Tuesday nights at the National
Hotel.
On Monday evening the various re-
ports will be read and approved, and
then will follow the election of Of
fcers. Besides the regular officers, two
representatives to the Supreme Council
will be chosen.
The following evening the newly elect
ed officers will be installed By Deputy
Supreme Regent j. B. McKillop. After
the ceremonies there will be a BAN
ouet In the hotel. to which every MEM
ber of the order In invited Charles J.
Lee will be toastmaster. NJ. Barlow
Mercer is chairman of the entertain
rncnt committee and S. J. Besselieyre
is Grand Regent
The Washington times., 1913-04-06
Patterson Asks That
Rivers Be Strengthened
To Prevent Future Floods

John H Patterson. head of the Ma
tional Cash Register Company, of Day
ton, has appealed to the Secretary OF
War to send an army engineer to Day
ton. He wants plans made for straight
ening the channel Of Miami and Mad
rivers to prevent a recurrence of
floods.
Contributions to the Red Cross relief
fund have reached 81, 281. .752
Congressman Langley of Kentucky
tells Catlettsburg story of a peculiar
house deal. One mans home was swept
away. Another man lost four houses,
but one landed in the first mans yard
They at once closed deal whereby
the second mans house was left where
II landed