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THE WEATHER. Pair tonight and tomorrow. Tem peratures: 3 a. m. ( 66 degrees: 10 a. m„ 73 degrees: 12 noon. 79 de grees: 2 p. m , 79 degrees. VOL, X. NO. 253. END DELAY ON CITY PLANT OFFICIALS DEMAND Mayor, Board of Health and Councilmen Join in Effort to Bring About Action. Mayor Winn, the entire board of health and a number of members of council joined today in a demand that the finance committee of council de lay no longer but act at once and rec ommend some system of garbage dis posal. They said Atlanta faces one of the most menacing conditions In her his tory; that not another day should be lost in beginning work to put an end to the increasing filth which threatens a terrible disease epidemic. Back of them are thousands of At lantans daily threatening to enjoin the city from further increasing the col lections of waste the city. Time and again the courts have held that these collections of refuse are horri ble nuisances, and the sanitary depart ment heft- been forced to change its ft.aces for depositing filth. In the hope that the council would provide a sys tem of garbage disposal many citi zens have withheld suits. City officials have been warned that they are tired of waiting and will act to exterminate the millions of germs, flies, mosquitoes and rats that are swarming out in ever.’, direction from the dump,. piles. "We’re Afraid to Real Truth,’’ Says Gil be “I don’t see how the peopj.- have stood it a~ long as they have.” said Dr. W. L Gilbert, president of the board of health. “We have been afraid to whisper the real truth of the situa tion. The board of health has finally agreed on a solution. But while we have resorted to every means known, we have been unable to get the council to art.' John Jentzen. sanitary chief, said to day if the council does not act at once he feared a much ffiore horrible situa tion. He lias beyi forced to move his dump piles from place to place until he is almost at the end of possible place - . He meets protests on every side from citizens. The,' are growing very impatient. .' few injunction suits would mean that the department would have no place left to dump garbage it would be left in people's yards and on their back porches. And a pestilence would result such as Atlanta never dreamed. 'Atlanta'.' health is one of the most remarkable things I have ever heard of when 1 consider this sanitary situa tion," said Aiderman A, H. Van Dyke. ‘lt I a. wonder that we do not have the highest death rate of any city in the country, and if it were not for the < it’ high elevation and fine air we would have." Danger Apparent Last, Five Years. I'he conni il Im- be“n aware of this rapidly increasing danger for five ’ r.o lor the past three years the problem ba- been acute. But it wa* not until a few weeks ago that, the mat'er found its wax through the va rlou. 1 - ommissions and 1 mimittees to the < ■ uncjl fm final action. Without devoting more than a few moments tone to it coiisideratlop the council lias t i. i 1 i red tlic matter to the finance (ommittew. The finance committee has twice postponed action without, ap proaching a final decision. Ini' m the -pring the board of health asked for bids from all manu faci nr'-1 e of garbage disposal plants. I'hec received a number. Then SSOO va- appropriated to employ Dr. Ru dolph Hering, the engineer who had planned Atlanta's waterworks and sew er system, for expert advice on the hid He came to Atlanta and made a n commendation. The board of health unanimously adopted it. The bond commission approved it. Mayor Winn urged it. And in that form it went to th' council. The successful bid provides for an expenditure of Situ,ooo. of this amount t;,ii,'inn to be paid cash and the re mainder in annual installments. So -. council referred it to the finance eonrn itt.ee. The plant provides sot more than a higi' temperature garbage disposal plant The purchase pip ' includes a i>ump sufficient to pump all the, city's rate: from ri\ei ■ the <-it}'- frj. rwir and sufficient electricity to -e.wra.ts it. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS~-Use For Results T. R. WINS IN OHIO Gets 32 Delegates; Taft 10 VJHO SAID TH£Y\ • mevet? come BACK ? I Pretty Blondes and Soft-Drink Fondness Make Atlanta Famous Atlanta consumes more soft drinks to the square inch than any other town in the universe, says Joseph Schmall, of baredo, Texas, who . represents a syrup house. Also, in the opinion of Mr. Schmall, there are more pretty blondes in Atlanta than, can be found anywhere else. "Perhaps the two facts have a con nection," said Mr. Schmall. "Maybe the blondes are responsible for the heavy consumption of soda water. In any event, a slough of it is drunk here, which accounts, I suppose, for the fact that Atlanta is a prohibition town. “And as for blondes—l never saw so many in my life. Out in Dallas I be lieve there are just as many good look ing brunettes as here, but your blondes can’t be matched." Tax Returns of Roads Decreased: State Will Ask for Arbitration Tax returns for 1912 of two of the largest railroads in Georgia, the Sea board Air bine and the Atlantic. Coast Line, will go to arbitration, according to the statement made by Comptroller General W. A. Wright today. Dne corporation ha- made return to the state something like $1,000,000 less than the returns for 1911 and tlie other nearly SIOO,OOO less, but have made no explanation of the decrease in taxable property. The returns" made bv the Seaboard for 1912 are $10,842,349 as against sll,- 834,359 for 1911, a decrease of $992,010. notwithstanding the fact that the rail road admits new property of taxable valuation of $173,253. The Atlantic Coast lane has made returns for $13.- 562,200 as against $1 4,257,221 last year, a decrease of approximately $695,000 with new property worth for taxing purposes $165,000. * HEIR TO MILLIONS WORKS AS STOKER BOSTON, May 22. -One of the coal passers of the Bucknall bine steamer Katuna. arrived from Calcutta, is M. A. Shah, son of a millionaire horse dealer of Lahore, India Shah has Just finished a four years course at Oxford university, paying for his tuition from his own earnings. He started to work his way hack home, and got as far as Port Said, when he met. the Katuna, on which he expects eventually to reach Calcutta. His present pay is $4 a month: He carries an order for $2,500, which was sent him by his father, but has thus far refused to have it cashed, de pending entirely upon his own re sources. OLD CONVICTS' HOME TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION The commissioners of roads and rev enues will sell the old Humphries street barracks property, owned by Fulton county for a quarter of a century, at auction,, Saturday afternoon. For many years the block facing Humphries street south of Stephens street was the home of the county convicts. Several years ago the building was torn down, and last year the county commission ers decided to sell the lot in small sub divisions. Thompson & Lynes Realty Co. will have charge of the sale. IT'S CLOUDY, BUT RAIN IS NOT ON THE PROGRAM Another fair day with no particular change in temperature is the predic tion for Atlanta, according to Fore caster VonHerrmann of the United States weather bureau. The skies have been overcast during the past 24 hours, but no rain has fallen, and this ap pears to h* the state of affairs that will remain for a time. STILL NO CHOICE FOR METHODIST BISHOP MINNEAPOLIS. May 22 The twelfth ballot for bishop at the Meth odist general conference announced earl? today resulted in no choice. N. Lucock, Kansas Ci;: : O. .1 Cooke. New Y*ork, and F. D. Leete, Detroit, were the high men. Woodrow Wilson Defeated by Governor Harmon by Over 40,000 Votes. THE RESULT. Roosevelt 32 Taft 10 LaFollette 0 COLUMBUS. OHIO, May 22.—Theo dore Roosevelt has defeated President Taft by 25,000 to 35.000 votes and has captured 31 of the 32 district delegates. Governoi Harmon has defeated Wood row Wilson by a majority of at least 411,000. These facts stood out prominently to day as the returns from the Republican and Democratic presidential preference primaries trickled in. The returns were complete enough to show that Ohio, "the mother of presidents." had rejected her 'fuitive son. William Howard Taft. ,and had decided to support his prede cessor for the Republican nomination. Taft people were still fighting today and State Manager Lewis C. Laylin claimed that the six delegates at large to be chosen by the state convention will be for the president. In reply to this the Roosevelt manager, Walter F. Brown, said; "The tail will go w ith the hide.” Majority of State Delegates For T. R. Brown was apparently confident that the state convention will abide with the will of the voters as expressed in the primaries. Delegates to the state convention were elected from only about one-third of the counties, the remainder to be se lected at count} conventions. Roose velt has a large majority of those elected. On the Democratic side Governor Harmon probably will have the solid vote of the Ohio delegation in the Bal timore convention. Though several Wilson delegates were elected, the unit rule will be follow ed as a result of an agreement made by the Harmon and Wilson followers at a state committee meeting. Latest returns indicate that Harman delegates were elected in the. First, Second, Fifth. Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth. Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six teenth and Eighteenth districts, giving him twenty delegates, exclusive of the six delegates-at-large. Wilson ap peared to be the winner in the Third. Fourth. Eighth. Ninth. Tenth. Seven teenth. Nineteenth. Twentieth and Twenty-first, giving him a total of eighteen delegates. Both sides are claiming the Sixth and Seventh with returns slightly fa voring Harmon. The returns were very slow in com ing in. owing to the large number of candidates for local offices in the coun ties. \\ ilson's best showing was made in the cities, while Harmon swept the rural districts. Harmon managed to carry Cincinnati by only a small mar gin Wilson captured Cleveland and Toledo When the city returns, the first to be reported, came in the Wilson people were jubilant, but when the rural districts came along the victory of Harmon was soon made clear. The ballots show ed that William Jen nings Bryan has numerous adherents in Ohio, his name being written in by ad miring voters in all parts of the state. LaFollette Vote Very Small. The vote cast for Senator LaFollette was a negligible quantity in the state, though his strength in the Twentieth and Twenty-first districts, comprising Cleveland, was one of the surprises of the primaries. In the former he forced Taft Into third place, and In the latter he ran a close third. Roosevelt's vote in Cleveland mote than doubled that of Taft. The victory of the ex-president in the districts which he carried was over whelming and his popularity was shown particularly in the rural districts, in numerous places the vote recorded in his favor being .as high as $ to 1 and 1« to 1 Taft was victor in hi.-, home city, Cin cinnati. winning both the First and Sec ond districts (Hamilton county). The vote was close in the Third and Thirteenth districts, but both went to Taft. Tlie Taft leaders this afternoon con ceded on'- of the Seventh district dele gates to Roosevelt. The Taft headquarters here this aft ernoon conceded Roosevelt an addi tional delegate from the Seventeenth district, making his total 32. The Fifth and Fifteenth districts gave one each to Taft and Roosevelt. This was undoubtedly due to confusion among the Republican voters over the form of the ballot. The names of the delegates were printed in alphabetical order with no indication of whom they represented. “Ohio Settles Contest/’ Says T. R. OYSTER BAY, N Y.. May 22—" The victor' in Ohio settles the contest.” declared Theodore Rooseve?s today. "I C -afttwread mi Bftaa T« - ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. MAY 22, 1912. SGARED?JUST WAIT’TILWE MEET, SAYS THUS. E, McDuffie Man Says He’ll Sure Be Delegate to Both Con ventions. Thomas E. Watson,; called bv some the "red-headed person" from McDuf fie. talked frankly and interestingly to The Georgian, over the long distance telephone today, from his .home in Thomson, and what he sAid about some meh and some things was more than ordinarily entertaining. To certain specific ' inquiries put by The Georgian Mr. Watson mane reply as follows: REPORTER—WiI) you sit in the state convention, Mr. Watson ? WATSON—I sure will. REPORTER —Will you be named as a delegate-at-large to Balti more ? WATSON—There is' no doubt whatever about it. REPORTER—WiII you and your friends control the convention? WATSON—Er— well. I'd rather not discuss that over the phone Come to my big meeting in the Kimball house ball room the night before the state convention. REPORTER —So you are going to hold that meeting : WATSON —It is going to be held, and it Is going to be some meeting, too. REPORTER—Do you .think the Underwood leaders sincere in their backing of you? WATSON—A bsolu tel y. How could thfiy-be-otherwise? REPORTER—Do you believe any prominent Underwood leader will fight you in the convention" WATSON—No; thf few that might, do not seem to be down as delegates. REPORTER-Do you know any thing of an uprising of national leaders, in protest against,your go ing, to Baltimore"; WATSON—Haw-haw-haw! Also ho-ho! Nothing to it; it's a Joke. REPORTER—Do you believe the Underwood men suspect you may be any sort of an. embarrassment to them tn Baltimore" WATSON-—Certainly not: the idea is absurd, isn't your Uncle Thomas a-s "smart" ae most city politicians, anyway" REPORTER—Do you *hfnk Bry an is seeking the Democratic nom ination? WATSON —There is not the slight est doubt about that He is cold ly. selfishly, adroitly and under handed!} after it, with might and main. REPORTER—Do you think he can get it,? WATSON—Never, if Democratic hearts beat true, and Deirrocratic minds do not go, bughouse. REPORTER—What about Pro fessor WoodfOW Wilson? WATSON —Thought he passed In his political checks, on May 1. I am quite sure he did. REPORTER—Do you think the Republican primary in Ohio tneaps that Roosevelt Will be nominated by the G. O. P.? WATSON—I do not. I think it means a dark horse. The Repub lican party has too much sense to nominate Roosevelt. It does want to get rid of Taft, however; and it used Roosevelt as the instrument to put that over. REPORTER—If Roosevelt shbul.d be nominated, nevertheless, can the Democrats beat him? >. WATSON—To an everlasting frazzle. REPORTER—What will be the big issue in the campaign? WATSON—The tariff will be one big issue, but not the only One. The othir issues will develop In good time., REPORTER —Do you think that Wilson delegates will be seated in the state convention, from coun ties that went for Wilson in the primary?. WATSON—l,think they should: but.l do not undertake to say they will be. I favor seating them be cause I believe, with all,my heart, in the theory and the practice of the county unit plan in state poli tics. , . REPORTER—WiII you “head" the delegation to Baltimore? WATSON—The chairman of the delegation will be named by the delegation, after it is elected. I may be named lhat chairman. Even if I am not, however, 1 still might "head" the delegation. Get the point? . . REPORTER—Has anytning said by anybody of late scared or rat tled you particularly? WATSON—lnvite everybody to n;y Kimball hquse meeting on May 28, .at 8 p m . and let's see if any body ha, yet scared or rattled Thomae E. Grood-byel . WIFE’S MOTHER SUES RICH RUSSELL HOPKINS Il I * W \\ \ i' /; - \\ \ // // nk ' \\ 15/7 \\ I \\ V * I !> ’ // / / I | V <r “ \ / / \y 4 r / \W: 'jS "7 —''' \ Vy / ''' SB n\ 's"' - \\ ■ 1 V / y J/ Mrs. Russell Hopkins. HAPEVILLE WILL FIGHT CEMETERY Suburban Board of Trade Ob jects to City of Atlanta's Options on Sites. Hapeville object* to Atlanta establish ing a city cemetery in or near that sub urb At a largely attended meeting of the Hapeville board of trade last night a committee of fifteen was named to fight this preposition The city of Atlanta has options on property near Hapeville for a cemetdry site. The committee was also instructed to secure the co-operation of the adjacent suburbs in opposing the lo cation of a public cemetery on the south side of the city.- The board of trade also decided to pe tition the Georgia Railway and Electric Company to improve the car service on the Hapeville line. Objection Is made to the transfer of passengers at the East Point junction and it Is asked that the same rush hour evening service be given Hapeville as that to College Park. A committee was appointed to confer with those in charge of the Presbyterian university project, with a view of having it located in Hapeville. Baldwin's band was given permission to erect a band stand In the park near the depot, subject to the approval of the town council. CLAYTON TO HAVE WATER. CLAYTON,•GA., May 22.—Clayton is to have a waterworks system. The water will be brought in pipes from springs fn the. nearby mountains. It will be piped to the town by gravity, no jK mps being necessary. HOMES FULL OF LIGHT If it is a question of moving at short notice for any of a dozen good reasons, here is the answer. The Georgian is the recog nized "Rent" medium. No matter what location you de sire to rent in. whether it is a room, apartment, house, hotel, garage, office or wbat, consult The Georgian WANT AD pages and save tyne and money. Let The Georgian be your RENT BULLETIN WON TEN 8 RID ES WITH SET SPEECH At 68 He Is Active in Effort to Renew His Former Ideally Happy State. IMBODEN ARK.. May 22 The mat rimonial lure is so strong for “Uncle Samuel" J. Killow that he has taken his tenth wife. “Uncle Samuel” ac quired the marrying habit fn 1868 “The truth is,” says he, "I have known the joys of being married happily and I purpose to pursue them till I am as happy again.” “Uncle Samuel” has loved and wooed and won ten blushing brides, from five of whom the courts have separated him, and over the graves of four of whom he "has shed rears of bitter bereavement.” The greater part of this remarkable record has been made in Lawrence county since his arrival here in the fall of 1880, and, although he is 68 years of age. he re gards the future as optimistically with his tenth wife as when he led his first bride to the altar, 46 years ago. “Uncle Samuel" has a most taking way with the women and admits that he has a “proposal speech" which has been perfected through practice until it is practically irresistible. Soon aft er he was granted legal separation from his ninth wife, whom he had married in Mammoth Spring, he fell in love with a young woman of Law rence county, and she accepted him, but at the last moment she backed out and “Uncle Samuel" swore he was done with women forever. Time is a great mender of broken hearts, and it was not long before "Uncle Samuel” met another with whom he fell in love at first, sight His love was returned. He proposed. She accepted. So the tenth Mrs. Samuel J. Killow has taken up her abode beneath his roof. WIFE SLAYER, RAVING IN TOWER CELL, GOES ON TRIAL NEXT WEEK Robert L. Clay, the wife-slayer, will go before the bar of justice next week to battle for his life, alone and without legal counsel. Judge Roan, presiding over the criminal court, will have to appoint a lawyer to defend Clay and see that he gets a fair trial. One of Clay’s relatives is reported to have said that no lawyer would be engaged, li the meantime, the slayer remains silent in his cell, glaring at the vails, either wildly insane or show ing splendid ability as an actor, i k HOME 4= EDITION PBIfF- 011 Trains. FIVE CENTS, x XvLV'Tj. ln Anama. TWO CENTS. SAYS HE PLHED DNHERLOVEFOH DAUGHTER Mrs. Lawrence Declares Ha Got $275,000 by Working on Her Affections. ASKS COURT TO MAKE HIM CANCEL HER NOTES Romance of Young Atlantan and Beautiful Vera Seagrist Stirred Two Cities. / Russell Hopkins, formerly of Ata- 1 lanta, but for several years of 1045 FiftH avenue. New York, faces charges today, made by Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, ofl New York, that he took advantage ofll her love for beautiful Vera Seagrist, her granddaughter and the wife of Mr. Hopkins, to obtain $275,000 from her within twenty months. Mrs. Lawrence filed an affidavit in the New York supreme court today, ac cording to dispatches, In which she as serts that young Hopkins misused her trust and confidence to deceive her, playing upon her love for hex- grand daughter and great-granddaughter, the baby girl whose arrival in the Hopkins home caused such a furore in New Yorl» last year, and secured large sums of (money from her. She asks that he be compelled to cancel promissory notes for $125,000 drawn by her fn hfs favor. Declares Hopkins * Frightened Her. Mrs. Lawrence’s affidavit of com plaint declares that soon after her hus band’s death Hopkins, upon fictitious allegation of debt, instituted a suit to recover $150,000 from the executor of Dr. Lawrence's will. His large es-< tate was left in trust for the children of his granddaughter. Vera Lawrenc*. Hopkins, who receives two-fifths and’ Mrs Lawrence, widow of the testator, three-fifths of the income during their, lives, the survivor of those two to re ceive all of the Income. After Instituting the suit for $150,000, Mrs. Lawrence states. Mr. Hopkins, trs, whom she had implicit trust, frighten ed her by predicting great expense in legal fees and costs and embarrassing, notoriety for herself If the action should be permitted to go to trial. He also constantly Importuned her, Mrs. Lawrence asserts, to make a pri vate settlement of that suit with him. Says Wife Helped Make Settlement. * This tvas done and $52,000 was paid by the estate. SIO,OOO by Mrs. Hop kins, who is only 20 years old and the ward of her husband under her grand father’s will, and about $14,000 by Mrs, Lawrence, according to the record. That was not the last of this effort to collect from her millions, the widow declares, and Mr. Hopkins, on the pre tense that they were mere matters of form to verify the previous payments in settlement of the suit, induced her to sign a contract and promissory notes aggregating $74,500 last March. These she seeks to recover. Mrs. Lawrence is 71 years of age. The amount which she accuses her son-in-law of obtaining by misrepre sentation or coercion from her hus band’s estate and herself foot up to about $275,000 Dr. Hopkins Says Russell Is All Right. “Mrs. Lawrence Is getting old and there are too many lawyers with a hand in the stew,” said Dr J. R. Hop kins toda} at his Peachtree street home. The father of Russell Hopkins didn't seem to consider Mrs. Law rence’s suit worth worrying over. "Russell is a good boy,” he contin ued. “He’s a high-roller, but he can afford it. and nobody ever had a wmrd to say against him. Nobody believes Russell has done anything crooked. 1 don't know anything about this suit, but I think it must have arisen over the Fifth avenue home the Lawrences gave the couple when they were mar ried. “Russell has plenty of money and he doesn't have to be working on any body's sympathies or affection to ob tain more. He's the only son I have and I give him everything he wants. His wife has a big fortune in her own right 1 think Mr.-. Lawrence must be getting worried over nothing, or