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—— THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Tnt'RSDAY, ji nk :s. i»m SOME PERTINENT QUERIES ASKED B Y JUDGE BA TEMAN THE ANNUAL PROBLEM The following card, nuking several pertinent questions of candidates con cerning city politics and affairs, has been received by The Georgian: Editor of The Georgian: The city executive committee' has called the primary for August 21 next, and candidates have been making’ an nouncements. Their friends and the friends 'of good government have brought them; out. Of course, they are not self-constituted. Their valua ble services are sought by others. But upon what principles are these candi dates running? Upon what platform have their friends and these friends of good government put them? Are we still to have the old song. "We are for Atlanta," and when they get tn turn their backs on Atlanta, by attempting to sell our water works and getting them In tha hands of a private cor poration, and do other like damage? Are not tltero many Issues upon which these candidates should be made to declare themselves for or against? If not, with what Intelligence can u citizen cast hts vote? 1. Are these candidates In favor of our present uniform and ad volorem system of taxation, and do they favor and ad vocate a strict. Just and equal assess ment of property for satnrf? Are they opposed to or are they In favor of any Increase In the present rate of taxa tion? 2. la not the license tax for the priv ilege of carrying on business in our city In many instances unequal, un just and oppressive? Will they favoi the regulation of such tax as shall bo just and fair to all business enter prises? 3. Do they recognise that monopolies oppress and hinder others In the pur suit of business enterprises, and that they prevent competition and leave the people at tlielr mercy? Are they In favor of and will they contend for equal justice to all, and special priv ileges to none? I. Do they favor municipal regula tion by appropriate legislation of all street railway and telephone systems, end the electric and gas light plants and all other public utilities, and ab solute ownership when necessary for the protection of the people? 5. Do they recognize that ward pri maries Is “home rule." and will lessen the expenses of holding elections? Are they In favor of such primaries for al dermen and councllmen, and through out the city for mnyor and officers of the heads of departments; or do they favor changing the election of the last named from-the people to the council, and from the council to the people at the will of the officeholder who la scheming for reelectlon? 6. Do they recognize that there ought to be a law enacted by which shall be created for the city a railway and civil service commission to be se lected bV a majority vote of the peo ple In the same manner as that of mnyor and other heads of departments with authority to regulate street rail way and telephone systems and elec tric and gas light plnnts and other pub lic utilities, and with authority to se lect the necessary number of subor dinates for each department, and to determine the fitness and qualification is-. suc , subordinates and remove onl ? for lu’ 1 cause by complaint L,?“® * n d established, and with such other authority for the protection of ususlly delegated to such commissions? -SW "cognize that It would 7*, J“»t and fair to the people to en- ® *? v °rtng a four-year term of ” or I* 1 ® heads of deportments, and *V? t ., non ® of them shall be eligible for election to a third successive term, or are they In favor of continuous suc- cesslon and schemes to keep them In? *• . Do they favor'or are they op- posed to nepotism, that Is, the bestow- al of patronage In consideration of re- latlonshlps. rather than of merit or le gal claim? ,-*• D° *hey recognize for the past twenty years the whiskey traffic In has been better regulated and controlled than In any other city In the United States; and are they op posed to or do they favor a continuation of euch regulation and control, and aro they opposed to any agltatlbn that will disturb the quiet and peace of our city on this subject? 10. Do they recognise that recently a scheme was on foot and an effort was made to dispose of our water works to a private corporation at the expense of the people, and to further fasten cor porate grip upon them by taking their last and only public utility? Are they ln^ favor of such, or are they against 11. Do they recognize that we are In need of a city hall and auditorium that will accommodate the present nnd future growth of our city, and.do they favor, as early as practicable, the pur chase of a lot suitable and convenient ly situated for such purpose? 12. Are they Ip favor of, or are they against Judicial and legislative officers accepting free passes, franks, etc., from corporations? 1>. And last, but not least: Are they In favor of reasonable sal aries for the officers of the heads of departments, that Is. such as will rea sonably compensate them and subor dinates for the services performed, and such as are usually paid for such like services by private Individuals, firms, companies and private corporations; or are they In favor or not of taxing the I*ople to pay such high salaries as they would not pay In their own pri vate buslnea for such like service? These are Issues, live Issues, that the people are Interested In. Let the candidates speak out, or let the people get together In convention and make a platform upon which their candidates shall stand. J. N. BATEMAN. Juy 26, 1606. [at'the"THEATis] At the Casino. Few better vaudeville.offerings have come this way than the fine collection of specialty acts which are holding the boards of the Casino this week at Ponce DeLeon. Mme. Rons, with her beautiful, Intelligent horses; the Broth ers Meers on the tight wire; Water- burg Bros, and Tenny, In as clever a THE HARDE8T CROP TO RAISE, B’aOSH.” CRANK OFFERS TO TEACH JOHN D. TO SPEAK FRENCH By WILLIAM HOSTER. facial (‘able—Copyright. Compelgne, France, June 21.—John D. Rockefeller had hie second experi ence with a crank yesterday elnco he | has been In France. This time It yes an Englishman who had read In Parle that the richest man m I in- uni Id dlil not i «• •. i k Fi cm h. Ik* came all the way to Rockefeller's cha teau to try to persuade the billionaire to- be taught French, assuring him that It could be learned In two weeks. The Englishman met Rockefeller as the latter stopped at the gate of the Chateau to talk with your correspond cnt. Mr. Rockefeller was returning from n visit to the market ami had a number of brown paper parcels con taining raspberries, peaches and flow- ers. . "Can I have a few mtnutee* talk with you, please?" said the crank. .Mr. Rock< feller became alarmed, and sea aid he was here to rest and excui himself, but the crank persisted. ‘I don't want you to give me any thing," said the Englishman, "I want to give you something; I want to teach you French. I can do It so that you 111 he able to speak the language in seemed to be very ] much relieved He thanked the En glishman smilingly and said: < "I'm very sorry, but I really haven’t time. Resides I manage to get Along very well with English. Everybody I seems to speak It. Good day." Then the crank Insisted that It was Mr. Rockefeller’s duty to become ac quainted with the beauties of the French language and left In a huff. Ah a matter of fact. Rockefeller hna been making use of an easy method of learning conversational French. musical act as one would care to see; LeRoy and Woodford, the Chadwick trio, and the t'ainerugraph complete a bill which has created more genulna praise than any other vaudeville at traction that has been brought to At lanta in many seasons. The matinee Thursday afternoon and the remaining performances during the week should draw splendid audiences to the Casino. Max Hoffman's own company of high-class vaudeville carefully selected from the leading musical comedy or ganizations of America will appear at the Casino all next week. The company numbers over thirty people, and Includes n number of great feature acts, known In the ver nacular df the vaudeville stago as "head-liners." Possibly the most fa mous artist on the program Is "Silv ers" «>ukley, Hu* clown, who has Just closed a remarkable engagement at the New York Hippodrome. Ills long en gagement In New Ymk has made him a popular Idol at the Hippodrome, es pecially with the children. He will Introduce his laughable baseball trav esty and his burlesque on "The Dip of Death." the great sensational act of the Rarnurn & Bailey rlrcus. PRI80N FOR SHEPARD FOR KILLING A CHILD Special Cable. London. June 28.—Elliott F. Shep ard, of New York, will have to go to prison for killing a child with his au tomobile. His appeal to a higher court has been decided unfavorable to him. CHARGES OF GRAFT AT SOLDIERS 1 HOME Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga* Tenn., June II.—The arguments In the case of the National Soldiers* Home of Johnson City vs. J. E. Parrish were as sensational os the briefs charge. Chnrges were made In the Federal court that the 2104.000 which was spent on the construction of the home by John O. L’nkefer was much Inrger thAn was necessary and insinuations were made openly that the money was appropriated by aome one rather than on the buildings. The opin ion* of Chnrlea A. Foremen, C. P. HoRsclaw an«l J. D. Weaver, leading architects of the East, in which they said that the work should not have cost over 248,000, were cited In the trial ns good reasons for the charge of "grnft^ng. ,, The attorn eye for the defendant R. B5- L. Mountcastle, of Knoxville, nnd Harr A Rurrow, of Johnson City, charged that the payroll was extravagant nnd fraudulent and 240,000 In exceea of the real payroll, and that many painters, carpenters, etc- were employed who Idled away their time, and that much of the work done by these workmen had to be done over again. Appointed Pastor. Special to The Georgian. Newberry, S. C* June It.—Rev. John H. Graves, for tho past few years pas tor of the West End Methodist church, this city, and student at Vanderbilt University since January, has been ap pointed pastor at Marlon, H. C„ ns successor to Dr. J. A. Clifton, deceased. Nsw Trial Denitd. Hpeclol to Tbt Gsorglnu. Chattanooga. Tenn., June 28.—Judge i ' l).i In i k Inis «l* ill* «1 <' .1 .Mm tin a new* trial In the O’flear small pox pest Iimijhm suit, In which tho plaintiff want ed 210,000 damages because the pelt house was built near his property. JUDSON CLEMENTS Ily Private Leased Wire. Washington. June 28—la administra tion circles It was made known today that tho president has practically de cided on three members whom he will appoint ns new* members of the Inter state commerce commission when the rnllrond rate bill, which provides that the commission shall be composed of seven members, shall have become a law. They are: James H. Harlan, of Illinois; E. E. Clark, of Iowa; Franklin Lane, of Call- forate. The present commissioners, Martin A. Knapp, Now York; Charles A. Prou- ty, Vermont; Judson C. Clements, Georgia, and Francis M. Cockrell, Mis souri. will be renppolnted, it Is stated. The now i oii11111hs11*n will be com posed of four Republicans and three Democrats, the political division being Knapp. Prouty, Harlan nnd Clark. Re publicans; Cockrell, Lane and elem ental Democrats. 0000000000000000000 D O O TERRE HAUTE MAYOR 0 0 REMOVED BY COUNCIL. O By Private Leased Wire. Terre Haute, Ind., June 28.— Under Impeachment proceed ings, tho city council has found Mayor Bondman guilty and has removed him from office. He wan charged with having wil fully neglected to enforce the laws against saloons Hnd gam bling. 000000000000O00OOO0 By UPTON SINCLAIR “THE JII Nfl L E ” I REVELATIONS OF CRIMES OF BEEF PACKERS CHAPTER VII (ContimiBd). They carried him to a dry place and laid him on the floor, and that night two of the men helped him home. The poor old man was put to bed, and, though he tried It every morning until <he end, he never could get up again, lie would lle< there and cough and tough, day and night, waiting away to a mere elcetetqp- There came a time when there was so little flesh on him thut the bones began to poke through —which was a horrible thing to see or even to think of. And one night he had' a choking fit. and a little river of blood came out of hie mouth. The family, wild with terror, sent for a doctor, and paid a half dollar to be told that there -wai nothing to be done. Mercifully the doctor did not say this •o that the old man could hear, for be was still clinging to the faith that tomorrow or next day he would be bet ter, nnd could go back to hie Job. The company had sent word to him that they would keep It for him—or rather Jurgls had bribed one of the men to come one Sunday afternoon and nay they hod. Dede Antanas con tinued to believe It, while three more hemorrhages came; and then at last one morning they found him stiff and cold. Things were not going well with ihem then, and though It nearly broke Teta Elibleta'a heart, they were forced to dispense with nearly all the de- cenciee of a funeral; they hod only « hearse, and one hack for the wom en and children; nnd Jurgls, who wee learning fast, spent all day - Sunday making a bargain for these, and he made It In the presence of witnesses, *o that when tha roan tried to charge him for all eorta of incidentals, he did hot have to pay. For twenty-flve ream old Antanas Rudkus and his son had dwelt In the forest together; and It wan hard to part In this way; per haps. It was Just as well that Jurgls had to give oil hts attention to the i«»k of having a funeral without ba ns bankrupted, and oo had no time to indulge in memories and grief. Now the dreadful winter was come Upon them. In the foreets, all summer Jong, the branches of the trees do bat- U* for light, and some of them lose snd die; and then come the raging "l»»t«. and the storms of enow end hall, and strew the ground with theee Jsaker branches. Just so It —as in JVklngtown; the whole district “raced Itself for the struggle that waa * n agony, and those whose time was “«me dlsd pff In hordes. All the year round they had been serving as cogs — , ( he great packing house machine, and now was the time for the reno- New Minton China. We cordially invite those interested in Artistic China to fall to see our new im portations of English makes. 'Tiie Minton is especially at tractive with its odd designs a 'id unusual coloring. Maier & Berkele. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS The story of VTbo Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel, which has earned the for- erament Investigation Into tho mothods employed by the beef trust, baa Its orlglo In an actual l'aeklngtown romance. The flrst chapter shows n broad-shouldered hotelier being wedded to a young girl who sees In him s hero. The wedding, In all Its grotewiueness, la ffaeanhod. Practically icuiulleaa, Jurgls tells his bride she shsll not return to work In tho parking house—he wtll work enrly and late. On arrival In Chicago, J. Bzeilrllas, a Lithuanian, who ran a delicatessen store In l'aeklngtown, guided Jurgls, i)nn, MarIJn and the remainder of the party through the stock yards, after he hud given them bulging. The tittle coterie decided to purchase n house. Tlioy were to pay 612 a month .for It. Thev And they hnre been swindled—tbnt the company charges such In terest that they wtll Ih- nnntde to pny. Jurets refused to Join n labor union that would have promoted the Interests of all. Ilo did not understand that the life wss bring worked out of him. Yesterdiy's Instalment of the story recites In part the home tlfe of the little family; tells how, after tho real estate agent had Informed Jurgls ho would have to pay large Interest on the house; HtnnMorm., the little boy. was sent to work, with s certIflcate which lied. In that It gave hts sge ns sixteen. It Is told how Antsnes, working like e slave. Is Anally s victim of snltpetro poisoning, ban, too, has to seek work, flhe pays ten dollars tribute to n fnrrlndy who engages her—end she gets lint eight or ten dollars a week for agonizing labor. Por weeks pains reek her—yet she mnst work. And Jurgls lolls on. sapped from him by the horrible grind of the roerefless ?—■ 11 Copyright, tone, by Upton Hlnclalr. All right- lords ot l’aeklngtown. Published by courtesy of Doubleday. Page A Co.’ voting of It, snd the replacing of dam aged parts. There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seek ing for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down. There came cruel, cold snd biting winds, and blizzards of snow, nil test ing relentlessly for falling muscles and Impoverished blood. Sooner or later came the day when the unlit one did not report for work; and then, with no time In waiting, and no Inquiries or regrets, there wss a chance for a new hand. . . The new hands were here by the thousands. All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by •tarving and penniless men; they came literally by the thousands every ■Ingle morning, lighting with each other for a chance for life. Bllx- ssrds and cold made no difference to them—they were always on hand; they were on hand two hours before the sun roes, an hour before the work be gan. Sometimes their faces froze; sometimes their feet and their bABd*. sometimes they froze sil together-but ■till they came, for they had no other P 'one da** Durham advertised In the paper for 260 men to On Ice; and sff that day the homeless snd »t»rv|ng of the city cams trudging enow from alt over its 200 Jiua" miles. That night forty.scora of them Crowded Into the station hoiue of the stock ywds JWTfe^hey .MM the rooms, sleeping In each otbir'sli toboggan fashion, and they piled top or each other In the COWM®**-— the police shut the doors end left some to freeze outside. On the ntorrow; »e fore daybreak, there were *.000 »* Durham’s, aqd the police i«o*fYSS_hog to be sent for to quell the riot. Then Durham’s bosses picked outtwentyaf the biggest; the "two hundred T>roved to have been a printer’s error Four or live miles lo , * h ® .J^bitrer lav the lake, and over this the hitter winds came raging. Scrnetlmes the thermometer would fall to 10 or I# de- below zero at nl«M, *nd tn the morning the streets would be Plied with snowdrifts up to ths J™'*®??® widows. The streets through which rS«. had to go to their work were all unpavsd and full of deep 5" and gullies; In summer, whan U^raliid hSd. a‘man mlght have to wade to his waist to ^‘““s house and now In winter It WM no Joke get ting through these places, before light In the morning and after dark at night. They would wrap up In all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man, gave out In theso battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell asleep. And If It was bad for the men, one may Imagine how the women and chil dren fared. Some would ride In the cart. If the cars were running; but when you are making only 8 cents an hour, as was little Btanlslovas, you do not like to spend that much to tide 2 miles. The children would come to the yards with great shawls about their ears, and so tied up that you could hardly And them—and still there would be accidents. One bitter morn ing In February, the little boy who worked ,a* the lard machine - with Htanlslovns came about an hour late, and screaming with pain. They Un wrapped him, and a man began vig orously rubbing his ears; and as they were froxen stiff It took only two or three rubs to break them short oft. As a result of this, little Stanlalovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania. Every morning when It came time to start for the yards, he would begin to cry and protest. Nobody knew quite how to manage him. for threats did no good—it seemed to be some thing that he could not eo-.trol, and they feared sometimes that he would go Into convulsions. In the end. It had to be arranged that he always went with Jurgls. and came home with him again; and often, when the snow was deep, the man would carry him the whole way on his shoulders. Sometimes Jurgls would be working until late at night, nnd then It was pltlfui. for there was no place for the little fellow to wait, save In the door ways or In a corner of the killing beds, and he would all but fall asleep there, and freeze to death. There was no heat upon the killing beds; the men might exactly as well have worked out of doors all win ter. For that matter, there was very little heat anywhere Ip the building, except In the cooking rooms and such places—and It was the jnen who work ed In these p’aree who ran the most risk of all, because whenever they had to pas# to another room they had to go through Ice cold corridors, and , sometimes with nothing on above the waist except a sleeveless undershirt On tho killing beds you were npt to bo covered with blood, and It would freexo solid; if you lamb'd against a pillar, you Would furze* to that, and If you put your band upon tin* blade of your knife, you would run a chance of leav ing your skin upon it. Tho men would tie up their feet In newspapers nnd old sacks, and these would bo soaked In blood and frozon, and then soaked again, and so on until by night time a man would bo walk ing on great lumps the slz»* of tho* feet of an elephant. Now® nnd then, when the bosses wero not looking, you would see them plunging their feet and an kles Into the steaming hot carcass of the steer or darting across the room to th»* hot Witter j**ts. The cniHest thing of all was that nearly all of them- those who used knives—were unable to wear gloves, and their arms would be white with frost nnd their hands would grow numb, nnd th*n of «our.*.<* th**n* would be accidents. Also the air would be full of steam from the hot water and the hot blood, so that you could not see Are feet before you; and with men rushing about nt tho speed they k'*pt up on th<- killing beds, and all with butcher knives, like razors. In their hands—well. It was to be counted as a wonder that there wero not more men slaughtered than cattle. And yet all this Inconvenience they might have put up with. If ohly It had cnt. Jurgls hi ner amid the stench in which he had wotk-d, or 6*1*0* ’ , rush, as did all Ills companions, to any one of the hun dreds of liquor stores which stretched out their arms to him. To the west of the yards ran Ashland avenue, and here was an unbroken line of saloons— \vhM<v Row,** they called It; to the north wan Fbrty-seventh street, where jthere were half a dozen to tho block, and at the angle of tho two was "Whisky Point," a space of Afteen or twenty acres, and containing one glue factory and about two hundred saloons. One might walk among these and tak<* his ih'jl'6-: "H<»t p»*ii Moijp and boiled cabbage today;** "Sauerkraut of frunkfur!* r*. walk In." "Jb-ari and stewed lamb, welcome.** All of these things were printed in many languages, as were also the names of the resorts, which were InAnlte In their variety and appeal. There was the ’Home Circle" and the "Cosey Cor ner;" there were "Firesides" and the Hearthstones" and "Pleasure Pal aces" and "Wonderlands” and "Dream CostJes" and "Love’s Delights." What ever else t^ey were cglled they were sure to be called "Union Headquar ters’* and to hold out a welcome to wondngmen; end there was always a warm stove and a chair near It, and some friends to laugh and talk with. There was only one condition attach ed—you must drink. If you went In not Intending to drink you would get your head split open with a beer bot tle In the bargain. Rut all of the men underntiMid t. 6* - — riM-.n *n<! drank; they believed that bv It they were get ting something for nothing—for they did not n*ed to take more than one drink, and upon the strength of U they might All themselves up with a- good hot dinner. This did not always work out in practice, however, for there was pretty sure to be a friend who would treat you, and then you would have to treat him. Then some one else would come In—snd, anyhow, a few drinks were good for a man who worked hard. An UPTON 8INCLAIR. Author of "Ths Jungls." he went back he did not shiver so, he had more courage for hie task; the deadly brutalising monotony of It did not afflict him so—hs had Ideas while hs worked, snd took a more cheerful view of his ttrcumntsncee. On ths way home, however, the shivering was apt to come on him again; and so hs would have to stop once or twice to warm up against ths cruel cold. As there were hot tblngs to eat In this saloon, too, he might get home late to his supper, or he might not get home at all* And then his wife might set out te look for him, and she, too, . would feel the cold; and perhaps she would have some of the children with her—snd so a whole family would drift Into drinking as the current of a river drifts down stream. And If to com plete the chain, tha packers all paid thslr men In checks, refusing all re quests to pay In coin; and where in Packtngtown could a man go to have hts check cashed but to a saloon, here he could pay for the favor by *rt of the money? these things Jurgls was d because of Ona. He never Id tak«* but the ©no drink at noon- 1 time; and so he got the reputation of being a surly fellow, and was not quite welcome at the saloons, and had to drift shout from one to another. Then at night he would go straight home, helping Ona snd Btanlslovss. or often putting the former on a car. And when he got homo perhaps he would havo to trudgo several blocks, and come staggering back through the snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon his shoulder. Home was not n very at tractive place—at least not this win ter. They had only been able to buy ono stove, and this was a small om*, and pn.wd ri"f big enough f<» warm even tho kitchen In the bitterest weather. This made it hard for Teta Bltbteta all day, und f«»r th«* children when they could not get to school. At .night they would sit huddled around this stove, while they ate thslr supper oft tholr laps; und then Jurgls nnd Jonas would smoke a pipe, after which they would crawl Into their beds to get warm, after putting out the lire t" hn \ !■ 11,6 * Ii.nl Then th«*\ would have some frightful experiences with the cold. They wnuld sleep with sll their clothes on, !n< hiding their over coats, nnd put over them all the bed ding and spare clothing they owned; the children would sleep all crowded Into ..ot- Im iI. ;i ud \ t*t ‘even so they • '"lid not keep Will-in 'Hie outside ones would ho shivering and sobbing, crawling over the others and trying to get down Into the center, and causing n fight. This old house with the leaky weatherboards was n . very different thing from their plastered cabins at home, with great thick anal walls plas tered Inside und outside with mud. and tho cold which came upon them was a living thing, a demon-presence in the room. They would waken In the mid night hours, when everything was black; perhaps they would hear k yelling outside, or perhaps there would bo deathlike stlllncsN -and that would would be worse yet. They . ..lid f6*6*I 1116• cohl as It crept In through the cracks, reaching out for them with its Icy, death-deullng Angers; and they would crouch and cower nnd try to hide from U, all in vain. It would come, and It would come; n grisly thing, a spectre born in the black caverns of terror; a power primeval, cosmic, shadowing the tor tures of the lost souls Aung out to and destruction. It wus cruel. Iron-hard; and hour after boor they would cringe tn Us grasp, alone, alone. rould be no one to bear them If they cried out; there would he no help, mercy. And so on until nmrnlng— w'hen they would go out to another lay <>f toll, n little weaker, a little nearer to tho time when It wouhl be their turn to be shaken from the tree. (Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.) Removed to Larger Quarters - WHERE WF. ARE NOW PREPARED TO DO THE HIGHEST CLASS OP Commercial Printing at Reasonable Price*. Gate City Printing Company Bell Phone 2026. 23 F» Mitchell Street, Near Pryor.