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FIGHT HOLDS DP
NEW CITY PLANT
Council Committee to Take Up
Purchase of $446,000 De
structor Again Monday.
Though a majority of the council
finance committee favors the purchase
of the .$446,000 garbage disposal plant
from the Destructor Company, of New
York, new hopes have been aroused by
the prop’osal of the W. H. Sawyer &
Sons Company, of Atlanta, to destroy
all the city’s refuse matter free of cost
in a reduction plant to be operated by
private capital.
Some of'the members say they have
no confident tn the Sawyer offer, be
cause it is Indefinite. But due to the
proposal and the opposition of Alder
man A. J. Johnson to the purchase of
the $440,000 plant, final faction has been
postponed until Monday afternoon. W.
H. Sawyer & Sons Company were in
vited to submit a written statement
then of what they are able to do.
Sawyer Apologizes for Statement.
Something of a stir was caused at the
meeting of the committee yesterday
afternoon when Aiderman John S.
Candler read a letter from F. L. Saw
yer, of W. H. Sawyer & Sons Compa
ny. stating that Dr. Rudolph Hering,
the expert engineer who recommended
the. Destructor Company bid, was an
associate of . the Destructor Company.
Mr. Sawyer, said he had been given
that information by a reliable citizen
of Atlanta. The demand was imme
diately made that he give the name of
that citizen. Mr. Sawyer refused, and
apologized and said in view of the
statements of members of the commit
tee. he had absolute confidence in Dr.
Hering.
Mr Sawyer wanted to sell the city a
reduction plant. He was told that the
reduction system had been investigated
and was not considered practical for
Atlanta. He then, said that if the city
would give him all the garbage for a
period of 20 years, he woujd see that a
plant was built and all the refuse mat
ter destroyed without cost to the city.
If .he can make good in his offer, the
city will not only be saved the tre
mendous cost of building an incinera
tor, but also the SB,OOO a year of main
tenance expense.
Purchase Urged by Mayor.
The bid of the Destructor Company
was explained in detail. Mayor Winn
then took the floor and urged the ac
ceptance of bid as the most rea
sonable means of abolishing the eigh
teen dump piles in the city. He said
the city was threatened on all sides
with injunction suits against the dump
piles. He said that he was willing to
accept the Destructor Company’s bid on
Dn Rudolph Hering’s recommenda
tion. for Dr. Hering had designed At
lanta’s wholes waterworks and sewer
system and they have proved satis
factory.
Alderman Johnson insisted that the
Destructor Company wanted too much
for its: plant. He showed that it had
built a larger plant in Milwaukee for
$200,6M. He said' that he was in
formed that the specifications were
taken principally from the Milwaukee
specifications, and that other manufac
turers had not had an equal chance to
bid. These arguments were denied by-
Dr. W. L. Gilbert, president of the
board of health, and W. E. Dowd, Jr.,
representing the Destructor Company.
W. Z. Smith. genera] manager of the
waterworks, told the committee that
he had not been informed about the
specifications for the proposed water
pump, nor had the water board been
given any information.
Bond To Guarantee Contract,
Aiderman Candler explained that the
Destructor Company would give a
$440,000 bond that all features of the
contract would be carried out, and one
of them was that the pump would sup
ply 20.000,000 gallons of water a day.
It was brought out that if the city
purchased the plant, about SIOO,OOO
would be saved in the purchase of a
pump, and about $35,000 in annual coal
expense would be saved by the electric
plant.
ATLANTA MOTORCYCLE
ENTHUSIASTS ORGANIZE
The Atlanta Motorcycle club is or
ganized with Spencer A. Folsom, presi
dent; J. R Battelle, secretary; C. B.
Hamper, treasurer, and other officers
elected, as a result of the meeting of
motorejdfsts at the Transportation
club last night. Mason T. Burke is
captain of the teams, with C. O. Cocl
<>dge and H. Glenn lieutenants. Another
meeting will be held next week, when a
constitution and set of by-laws will be
adopted.
NORTH STATE FOLK IN
ATLANTA TO ORGANIZE
An organiirtioft of tljo North Caro
llnans living *n Atlanta will be per
fected at a t inner which will be held
on May 20. There are now about 350
former residents of the Old North State
in Atlanta, and the proposal to fofm a
society has been made several times.
Shepard Bryan, Van Astor Batchelor,
T B. Higdon and others are interested
in the movement.
LOEB'S LAWYERS WON’T
GIVE UP COURT FIGHT
Attorneys for Samuel Loeb, convict
ed-of violating- ttae -prohibitten- law and
given a chaingang sentence, have served
notice on Attorney General Felder that
the ease, recently thrown out of the
United States supreme court, would be
reopened. Motion for reconsideration
wUA be filed ia the high tribunal shortly.
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These three boys are grandsons of two of the South’s great leaders in the Civil war. They
attracted no little attention at the reunion in Macon. The one on the left, in the Confederate uni
form, is Xathan Bedford Forrest. 3d, grandson of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In the cen
ter is Gordon Brown, and on the. right. Wentworth Brown, grandsons of General George W. Gor
don, late commander-in-chief of the I’nited Confederate Veterans. The lads live in Memphis.
KB CONFESSES
OIAMDND THEFT
Carl Roddy’s Wife Says She
Will Stand by Him and Be
. lieves He Is Innocent.
The Atlanta Pinkerton detective
agency today received word from New
York that George Kaul, one of the al
leged diamond robbers now under ar
rest there, has made a complete confes
sion.
Kaul implicates George Wrenn and
Carl Roddy, the two medical students
in jail here, asserting that each of these
men received a share of the loot. Kaul
says that after the two jewel trunks
were stolen from the Atlanta Baggage
and Cab Company’s wagon he and his
associates went to a secluded spot in
the woods near Decatur, where the loot
was divided into three parts. He says
Wrenn picked out the largest and
choicest sparklers.
Kaul’s detailed confession will not be
obtained until he is brought back to
Atlanta by Detective Starnes, who is
now in New York. It is not known
when the detective and his prisoner will
arrive in Atlanta, the start being de
layed by the technicalities of the New
York law’s.
Wife Sticks to Roddy
"I’m Carl Roddy's wife. I’m going
to stand by Mm in this trouble as a wife
should. I have complete confidence in
him atjd I kno\v that I can help to clear
him of the charge. Whatever happens.
I’m not going to desert him, and I think
there will be an entirely new light
thrown on this case when I tell how he
came to have those jewels.”
Mrsi Effie Roddy, wife of the alleged
diamond thief, had only that statement
to make wffien a Georgian -eporter
found her today at the home of her
mother-in-law. Mrs James Roddy, at
56 Wjlilams street, where she has been
staying since, she arrived in Atlanta
yesterday in company with her husband
and the detectives who brought him
from New Orleans.
Roddy’s mother had never seen her
son’s wife before, for even after the
marriage the young wife continued to
room at 328 Whitehall street while he
continued to live with his mother.
Three days before the couple left At
lanta on the New Orleans journey she
had hastily changed her residence to
310 Whitehall street, and she kept her
secret so well that only one or two in
the same house, knew of her marriage
when the arrest of Roddy came.
So the first meeting of Roddy's moth
er and her daughter-in-law was partic
ularly painful, for Roddy himself had
been taken to Jail.
Wife Says She Will Testify.
But In less than ten minutes after she
entered the William street home Mrs.
Roddy had told the older woman that
she intended to stand by her husband
and to the end and she told Mrs. Roddy
that the testimony she would give in
his behalf at the trial would aid him
greatly to win his freedom. What jhis
testimony will be she steadfastly re
fused to tell.
"It isn’t time yet to give away- our
side." she said to the reporter, “and I
don’t SVe.n care to discuss the case any
further, except to say that the officers
who came with us from New Orleans
were courteous and considerate.” ,
Chief Lanford said, however, that
Roddy has not only been willing to talk,
but has made a 16,000-word statement
of his connection with the $30,000 gem
robbery that sounds decidedly fishy.
TOE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 11. 1912.
Grandson of General Forrest
Will Lead Famous Cavalry
When He Grows Up.
When Nathan Bedford Forrest 111 ar
rives at his maturity he will be placed
in charge of Forrest's famous cavalry
or such remnants as shall be in exist
ence then.
Little Nathan Bedford Is only seven
years old now, but he has already man
ifested a decided ability as a cavalry
leader. His horsemanship is consid
ered as good as many an old-timer.
While in Macon at the Confederate re
union he rode at the head of the For
rest cavalry whenever this troop ap
pealed.
Nathan Bedford lives at Memphis
ano is a fast friend of the late Gen
eral George W. Gordon's two sons He
was seen with them frequently in Ma
con.
HIT BY TIMBER IN
DOWNWARD PLUNGE;
WIRES SAVE HER LIFE
Mrs. Annie Fagan, of 42 Capitol ave
nue,’narrowly escaped being'crushed to
death today by a heavy timber that fell
from the Owls club roof garden on top
of the Thrower building, at Pryor and
Mitchell streets.
The big timber landed on the wires,
swayed for a moment, and then fell to
the sidewalk, striking Mrs. Fagan, who
tell unconscious to the pavement. So
great was its force that the timber was
broken on the wiles.
Mrs. Fagan was taken into the mil
linery establishment of M. Kutz, where
she was given temporary attention. She
was then removed to her home in an
automobile. Her condition is not
thought to be serious.
BANKRUPTCY ASKED FOR
UNION CITY DRUG FIRM
An involuntary petition in bankrupt
cy was filed today against J. Lee Bar
ron, of Union City. Ga., by the Lamar-
Rankin Drug Company, the Hirsehberg
Paper Company and the Marett Gro
cery Company. The petition alleges
that Barron has at various times been
in the drug business at Union City, un
der the firm name of the Union City
Drug Company and the Miles Phar
macy, and that he is now insolvent.
The first of the petitioners claims a
debt of $629.95, the second $159, and
the third $193. The case will be heard
by Judge Newman on May 20.
POLICEMEN FLASH LIGHTS
ON NEGRO AT CASH TILL
When Policemen Hannah and Lowe
flashed their lights into the store of I.
Berger, 358 Decatur street, early today
they saw a negro behind a counter try
ing to pry open the cash register. He
made no attempt to resist arrest. He
ga<e his name as Ed Wright.
Investigation showed that some one
had also broken into the meat market
of O. I. Starnes, a few doors away.
Wright was held by Recorder Broyles
in bond of $2,000 in two charges of bur-
VETERAN SINGS
TO NIRS. GRACE
Fellow Prisoner Helps Lighten
Sadness of Her Wedding
Day Anniversary.
Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace spent the
evening of her wedding anniversary lis
tening to Southern ballads sung by an
old Confederate veteran held in jail on
the same charge as herself—assault
with intent to murder. The old sol
dier’s bond has been fixed at $200; Mrs.
Grace’s at $5,000. They will both prob
ably leave jail today.
When a Georgian reporter entered
the jail last night in company with one
of Mrs. Grace’s attorneys,-the accused
woman was sitting in the rotunda of
the fifth floor, beside a white-haired
Confederate veteran who carried an
empty right sleeve as a reminder of the
battle of Sharpsburg.
For hours the ex-soldier had enter
tained Mrs. Grace with songs of the
South and stories of the war. He was
living in the sixties again.
Mrs. Grace was informed that her
bond was fixed at $5,000 and the amount
seemed to displease her, but she re
frained from commenting on the
amount in a positive manner.
“I have no business in.this jail at
all,” she said, as her eyes filled with
tears.
Bond for Mrs. Grace probably will be
fixed this afternoon and the accused
woman is expected to go back to West
End, to the home of Mrs. Louise Wil
son. her trained nurse. Her bond is
made returnable to the court by May
27.
MRS. WINDSOR, DEAD AT
74. TO BE BURIED TODAY
The funeral of Mrs. N. A. Windsor,
who died Friday morning, will be held
at her residence, 635 North Boulevard,
this afternoon, and interment will be in
Westview.
Mrs. Windsor was a prominent mem
ber of the Jackson Hill Baptist church.
She is survived by her husband, N. A.
Windsor, and by seven children, Mrs.
W. L Baldwin, of Dawson. Ga.; Misses
Elizabeth, Martha, Georgia and Lucy
Windsor, of Atlanta; Alex Windsor and
.1. P. Windsor, assistant cashier of
American National Bank. Colonel W.
L. Peel, president of this bank, is her
brother.
Prior to her marriage Mrs. Windsor,
who was Miss Martha Peel, lived in
Webster county, but for the past six
years she had made her home in At
lanta and had a host of friends here.
She was 74 years old and had been ill
for six months.
Mrs. E, M. Jones.
The funeral of Mrs. E. M Jones, 67
years of age. who died at her home in
Clarkston, was held today at Indian
Creek church, and interment was in the
churchyard.
MERMAIDA, the diving Venus,
will be the feature on next week’s
bill at the Bijou.
HOBSON COMING
IN JOINT DEBATE
Alabaman to Argue World
Peace Question With Ex-
Gov. Hanley in Atlanta.
Congressman Richmond P. Hobson
and ex-Governor Frank Hanley, of In
diana. will meet in debate in Atlanta on
May 30 on the subject. “Shall We Ever
Have Universal Peace?"
The definite form of the debate will
be “Resolved That the’ I’nited States
Should Control the Sea. Both in the
Atlantic arid in the Pacific Oceans."
Captain Hobson will take the affirma
tive and Mr. Hanley will defend the
negative.
Both men have been active in pre
senting their arguments to the public,
and Captain Hobson’s challenge to Mr.
Hanley grew out of a newspaper and
magazine controversy in the North.
Hobson holds that a greater army
and a greater navy are the best means
to insure universal peace, and Mr.
Hanley stands out for universal dis
armament to bring about the same end.
Both have been heard in Atlanta, but
they have never before met in joint
debate. Mr. Hanley spoke here in De
cember on “The World Disarmed." and
Captain Hobson on “A Greater Army
and a Greater Navy."
After the debate in Atlanta, Captain
Hobson and Mr. Hanley will thrash out
their differences before a number of
Lyceum audiences throughout the
state, and in the fall and winter will
be heard in the North and West.
Ex-Governor John M. Slaton and
Thomas G. Hudson, the two prominent
candidates for governor in Georgia,
have been invited to introduce the
Speakers at the Auditorium.
The debate will be given under the
direction of the Alkahest Lyceum sys
tem.
80 YEARS OLD, HE SAVES
NEIGHBOR OF SAME AGE
ST. LOUIS. May 11.—Jacob Lip
pert. 80 years old. was pulled from a
cistern Into which he had fallen at
his home in Millstadt by Jacob Mus
kopf, who also is 80.
Muskopf heard Lippert’s cries from
his home across the street. He grab
bed Lippert’s outstretched hands, draw
ing him to the surface.
The water in the cistern is about five
feet deep and reached to Lippert’s
mouth. There is no pump, water being
drawn with a bucket.
Lippert, who Is feeble, was drawing
water when he fell in.
In falling he struck his head, suffer
ing a serious scalp wound. He is In a
dangerous condition.
Fire Sale
Begins 9 A, M, Monday
Our entire stock will
be cleared out at once
at Fire Sale prices,
which means that cost
or former prices will
not be considered.
Sale begins Monday
morning and nothing
will be reserved.
49 Whitehall Street
IL S* Chief Defies
Woman Accuser
In Probe of Meat
WASHINGTON. May IL—With Con
gressman Nelson holding other wit
nesses in abeyance, Mrs. Caroline Bart
lett Crane began the fourth day of her
testimony before the Moss committee
of the house today and was again posi
tive in declaring that if the committee
orders a general investigation of the
meat inspection service of the depart
ment of agriculture, it will find pu
merous instances of lax administration
of the laws. Mrs. Crane continued the
reading of departmental bulletins,
which, she insists, have twisted the
meat inspection laws and resulted in a
gradual lowering of the standard of in
spection, to the detriment of the public
health.
Mr. Nelson promises to put on the
witness stand inspectors who will tell
of the passing of tainted meats.
Following the charges made by Mrs.
Crane and Congressman Nelson. Dr. A.
D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of ani
mal Industry and one of the officials
under fire in the Nelson resolution, is
sued a statement today, in which he
declares the bureau has nothing to fear
from a fair and impartial inquiry. On
the other hand. Congressman Nelson
says it is "most remarkable that the de
partment of agriculture is putting in
defense before the full charges are
heard.
TICKETS TO BENEFIT
FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
SELL LIKE HOT CAKES
The sale of tickets for the Atlanta
Turnverein benefit concert for the flood
victims in the Mississippi valley is rap
idly increasing.
The concert will be given in the At
lanta theater next Thursday night at
8:15 o’clock, and will be one of the most
remarkable musical events of the sea
son. The cause has induced the entire
body of German singers, composed of
the male choruses of the Turnverein
and Freundsehaftsbund, to give an
evening of their part songs. Assisting
will be several well known soloists and
the entire Atlanta Symphony orchestra.
The whole of the receipts will be for
warded to the victims of the flood, as
in addition to the theater, donated for
this occasion by its management, the
singers, soloists and orchestra have
volunteered their services. Tickets are
on sale in all music stores throughout
the city.
Mrs. Mary Gavin.
Mrs. Mary E. Gavin. 70 years old.
died today at her residence, 404 Cen
tral avenue. She is survived by four
children—Mrs. W. E. Jones and Misses
Katie, Annie and Jennie Gavin, all of
Atlanta. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock ffom
the Church of the Immaculate Concep
tion, and interment will be in West
view.
iR ON FLIES
DNINMEST
Health Officers Also Hope to
Wipe Out Mosquitoes if Citi
zens Lend Their Aid,
Atlanta health officers said today
that they have begun the hardest fight
In the history of the city against flies
and mosquitoes. But they added that
they must have the co-operation of cit
izens generally to win a real battle.
Here are some instructions- from Dr.
J. P. Kennedy, who says they will'meafi
billions less flies and mosquitoes in
July and August if carried out now;
Inform the health department of
all stagnant pools, manure pits and
other breeding places for flies and'
mosquitoes.
Allow no water to stand in ves
sels around yards for more than a
day.
Collect all tin cans and other re
ceptacles that will hold water from,
yards and place them where the
sanitary wagons .can get them. ~
Screen your houses. ' .
The health department is spending
more money this year than ever be
fore in its crusade against these pests.
The ordinances requiring ail restau
rants and food stores to bd screened
and a strict sanitary regulation of
stables, at the expense of the owner,
are being rigidly enforced. A number
of cases have been made in the re
corder’s court against offenders, and ail
dump piles, catch basins, sewer mua
holes and branches are being well
oiled. '
“As The Georgian’s editorial said, the
other day. the killing of one fly -dr
mosquito now means the killing of mil
lions in August and Septemebr,” said
Dr. Kennedy today.
THEY’RE WEARING STRAWS
IN LITTLE OLD MANHATTAN
NEW YORK. May 11.—Straw hats
are already being worn by a few brave
spirits throughout Gotham.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Gives the system the best prepa
ration for the hot waves of sum
mer which are so enervating to
the weak and rundown. Take it
this spring.
Get It today in usual liquid form or
■ hocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
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