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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. GRANDSONS OF NOTED GENERALS • ATTRACT ATTENTION OF VETERANS ( FwMl b ■ y/ "ilm i''< t\ BWfl w & hi Wil \ z"’' I z -W RRSti < RURs ' * IFW f f \ S WS / ■* b * \ JwK ri sRgR/ Photo by Staff Photographer 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. 3