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CITY CLUBWOMEN
WILL DEMAND
CREMATORY
City Federation to Petition At
lanta Council to Pass $440.-
000 Measure at Once.
The club women of Atlanta will en
ter the crematory fight.
At the semi-annual meeting of the
City Federation of Women's Clubs
which convenes tomorrow morning, a
committee will be appointed and a pe
tition prepared asking city council to
take immediate action toward obtain
ing for Atlanta the $440,000 crematory.
The meeting begins at 10 o’clock with
Mrs. F. L. Seely presiding. All ses
sions will be held in the Woman’s Club
building.
Long Delay Criticised.
Atlanta's lack of progress in the mat
ter of obtaining a crematory has in
spired criticism on every hand. The
situation stands today as it did this
time last year. A committee of ex
perts reported the need of a crema
tory and recommended a plant that
would cost $440,000. The board of
health attached its "O. K.” and re
turned it to council. Council's commit
tee then rejected the board’s report and
referred the crematory proposition
back to that body, where It is now.
Just how far Atlanta’s club women
propose to carry the fight is not known.
It is assured, however, that the initial
petition will be a document that speaks
■without quibble or cavil.
After Mosquitoes. Too.
The question of placing oil on the
lakes in order to keep down mosqui
toes will be discussed by the federa
tion. and a committee appointed to con
fer with council. The federation will
also ask council to post placards about
the city warning citizens that a fine
will be imposed for expectoration on the
sidewalk.
Muddle on City
Plant Thickens
In a morass of dissenting views the
garbage disposal matter Is further from
solution today than it was a month
ago. The board of health yesterday
acted only to the same extent as the
other official bodies, referring the whole
matter to a subcommittee. As the
weather grows hotter and the disease
breeding dump piles increase, the real
situation is shown by comments of the
officials.
Mayor Winn said:
"The more I hear and talk of this
matter, the less I am impressed with
what those about me know about it,
and the less I know about it myself."
Aiderman James W. Maddox de
clared ;
“It is foolish to send out of town to
get an expert engineer to advise us.
We have engineers right here in At
lanta who are thoroughly competent "
Scoffs Atlanta Engineers.
“I would not give 5 cents for the
opinion of any engineer In Georgia on
this matter,” said Dr. W. L. Gilbert.
“They have not had any experience in
garbage disposal.”
"How do we know that Dr. Rudolph
Hering or any of those Eastern engi
neers are competent ?” asked Dr. J. F.
Freeman. "There is politics in this
somewhere.”
Dr. J. H. Bradfield interrupted here.
**T resent for Dr. Hering any of these
Insinuations,” he declared. "He is not
here to defend himself, and I believe
the statement that he was connected
with the Destructor Company, of New
York, is a lie.”
To Consider Forsyth Bid.
"If I were sure that the Destructor
Company, of New York, could do all it
claims it will do with this plant, gene
rating 1,500 kilowats of electricity be
sides burning the garbage, the city
could afford to spend $440,000 for It,"
asserted Aiderman J. R. Nutting.
Aiderman F. J. Spratling came back
at him:
"If I knevr the Forsyth Crematory
Company, of Atlanta, could do all it
claims it can, I would favor purchas
ing its plant for $50,000.” said he.
The Forsyth company was notified
by the health board that ft must file a
55,n00 certified check to show good
faith. Dr. W. L. Gilbert. G. H. Bran
don and Lee Hagan wore appointed a
committee to employ an engineer and
consider the Forsyth bid.
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BRITISH BOARD BLAMED
FOR "TITANIC” DISASTER
BY U. S. SENATOR SMITH
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Responsi
bility for the Titanic disaster and the
loss of over 1.600 lives was placed upon
the British Board of Trade .today by
Senator William Alden Smith, of Mich
igan, chairman of the committee which
investigated the world’s greatest marine
disaster.
In the most striking sneech heard on
the floor of the senate in a decade, he
scored the "laxity of regulation and
hasty inspection of the British board."
The senator gave as cause contributing
to the disaster:
1. The indiffe-ence to danger
maintained by Captain Smith, who
lost his life in the disaster.
2. The increase of speed despite
warning signals and messages of
danger.
Though pointing out the rashness Os
Captain Smith’s actions, the senator
praised him as a dauntless hero of the
sea. whose “willingness to die was the
expiating evidence of his fitness to
live.”
Smith first mentioned the purpose for
which the Titanic Investigators had
been appointed, and reviewed the scope
of their work. Then describing the con
struction of the giant liner, he de
clared that so confident were both
owner and builder that the ship repre
sented the last word in ship-building
that they were eager to go upon her
maiden trip. Continuing, he said:
No Tests of Ship or
Live Saving Devices.
“No sufficient tests were made of
boilers or bulkheads or gearing or
equipment and no life-saving or signal
devices were tested; officers and crews
were strangers to one another, and the
passengers to both: neither was famil
iar with the vessel or with Its Imple
ments or tools. No drills or station
practice or helpful discipline disturbed
the tranquility of that voyage and when
the crisis came a state of absolute un
preparedness stupefied both passengers
and crew and in their despair the ship
went down, carrying as needless a sac
rifice of noble women and brave men as
ever clustered about the Judgment seat
in any single moment of passing time.
"W» shall leave to the honest
judgment of England its painstak
ing chastisement of the British
board of trade, to whose laxity of
regulation and hasty inspection the
world is largely indebted for this
awful fatality. Os contributing
causes, there were very many. In
the face of warning signals, speed
was increased and messages of
danger seemed to stimulate her to
action rather than to persuade her
to fear.”
Captain Smith Brave
and Dauntless Sailor.
In discussing Captain Smith, the
Michigan senator mingled tribute to his
knowledge and bravery with criticism
for his indifference to the warnings
which had been given him of the pres
ence of Ice.
"Pure of character, dauntless as a
sailor should be.” said the senator, "be
walked the deck of his majestic struc
ture as master of his keel. Titanic
though she was. his Indifference to
danger was one of the direct and con
tributing causes of this unnecessary
tragedy, while his own willingness to
die was the expiating evidence of his
own fitness to live.
"Those of us who knew him well—
not In anger, but in sorrow'—file one
specific charge against him, over-con
fidence and neglect to heed the official
repeated warnings of hie friends; but,
in his terrible dismay, when his brain
was afire with honest retribution, we
can still see. In his manly bearing and
his tender solicitude for the safety of
women and little children, some traces
of his lofty spirit when dark clouds
lowered all about him and angry ele
ments stripped him of his command.
"The mystery of his indifference
to danger, when other and less pre
tentious vessels doubled their look
out or stopped their engines, finds
no reasonable hypothesis in conjec
ture or speculation.”
No Equipment
For Lifeboats.
Vividly describing the disaster as re
ported by the survivors. Senator Smith
pointed out that at the Instant of con
tact with the ice the navigator turned
the nose of the ship aside to avoid a
collision, with the result that the blow
was struck at a point less capable of
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY. MAY 28. 1912.
resisting the Impact than the prow of
the vessel wrnuld have been.
Telling of the scene which followed,
he said:
"Life belts were finally adjusted to
all and the lifeboats were cleared away,
and although strangely insufficient in
number, were only partially loaded and
in all Instances unprovided with com
passes, and only three of them had
lamps.
"They were manned so badly that
in the absence of prompt relief they
would have fallen easy victims to
the advancing ice floe, nearly 30
miles in width and rising 100 feet
above the surface of the water.
Their danger would have been as
great as if they had remained on
the deck of the broken hull, and if
the sea had risen these toy targets
with over 700 exhausted people
would have been helplessly tossed
about upon the waves without food
or water.
"The lifeboats were filled so indif
ferently and lowered so quickly that,
according to uncontradicted evidence,
nearly 500 people were needlessly sac
rificed to want of orderly discipline in
loading the few that were provided.
"There were 1,324 passengers on the
ship. The lifeboats would have easily
cared for 1,176 and only contained 704,
12 of whom were taken into the boats
from the water while the weather con
ditions were favorable and the sea per
fectly calm. And yet it Is said by' some
well meaning persons that the best of
discipline prevailed. If this is disci
pline, what would have been disorder?”
Senator Smith paid a tribute to the
actions of the wireless operators for the
faithful performance of their duty, and
made a passing criticism upon the
White Star line for having sent rhe
mysterious telegram to Representative
Hughes of West Virginia, telling of the
rescue of passengers and that they
en route to Halifax, when, he
insisted, they were aware many hours
before of the probability that the ship
had gone to the bottom.
Senator Smith reviewed the testi
mony of Captain Lord pt the Califor
nian, who was within twenty miles of
the sinking Titanic, yet, according to
the senator, did not do his full duty.
“The failure of Captain Lord,”
said Sentaor Smith, "to arouse the
wireless operator on his ship, who
could have easily ascertained the
name of the vessel in distress and
reached her in time to avert loss of
life, places a tremendous responsi
bility upon this officer, from which
it will be very difficult for him to
escape.
Californian Could
Have Saved All.
"Had he been as vigilant In the
movement of his vessel as he was active
In displaying his own signal lamp, there
is a very strong probability' that every
human life that was sacrificed through
this disaster could have been saved.
The dictates of humanity should have
prompted vigilance under such condi
tions.”
Comparing Captain Lord’s conduct
with that of Captain Rostrom of the
Carpathia, he said of the latter.
"He should be made to realize the
debt of gratitude this nation owes
to him, while the book of good
deeds which had so often been fa
miliar with his unaffected valor
should henceforth carry the name
of Captain Rostrom to the remotest
period of time.
"It falls to the lot of few men to
perform a service so unselfish, and the
American congress can honor itself no
more by any single act than by writing
into Its laws the gratitude we feel to
ward this modest and kindly man. The
lessons of this hour are, indeed, fruit
less and Its precepts ill-conceived if
rules of action do not follow hard upon
the day of reckoning. Obsolete and
antiquated shipping laws should no
longer encumber the parliamentary rec
ords of any government and overripe
administrative boards should be pruned
of dead branches and less sterile pre
cept taught and applied.”
Laws Recommended
For Marine Safety
WASHINGTON, May 28. The Report of
the sub-committee of the committee on
commerce to whom was referred the reso
lution of inquiry' into the loss of the
British steamship Titanic was presented
to the senate today by the chairman of
the sub-committee. Senator William Al
den Smith.
The report says, in part:
Asks Lifeboats For AU.
“The committee recommends that sec
tions 4481 and 4488. revised statutes, be
so amended as definitely to require suffi
cient lifeboats to accommodate every pas
senger and every member of the crew.
That the importance of this feature Is
recognized by steamship lines is indicated
by the fact that on many- lines steps are
being taken to provide lifeboat capacity
for every person on board, including the
crew, and the fact of such equipment Is
being widely advertised. The president of
the International Mercantile Marine Com
pany, Mr. Ismay, definitely stated to the
committee:
" We have issued Instructions that none
of the ships of our lines shall leave any
port carrying more passengers and crew
than they have capacity for in the life
boats.’
“Not less than four members of the
crew, skilled in handling boats, should be
assigned to every boat All members of
the crew assigned to lifeboats should be
drilled in lowering and rowing the boats
not less than twice each month, and the
fact of such drill or practice should be
noted in the log
Assignment of Boats Recommended.
"The committee recommends the as
signment of passengers and crew io lifr
boats before sailing: so that occupants of
certain groups of state rooms and the
stewards of such groups of rooms be as- i
signed to certain boats most conveniently
located with reference to the rooms in j
question; that assignments of boats and
the shortest route from state room to i
boat be posted in every stateroom
"The committee recommends that every
ocean steamship carrying 100 or more pas
sengers be required to carry tw-o electric
searchlights.
"The committee finds that this catastro- i
phe. makes glaringly apparent the neces
sity for regulation of radio-telegraph.'-
There must be an operator on duty at all
<imes, day and night, to Insure the Im
mediate receipt of al! distress warnings
or other important calls."
TELEPHONES NOW
DISPATCH TRAINS
Central of Georgia Conductors
Can Tap Wires Anywhere
Train Stalls.
Hereafter all train dispatching between
Macon and Atlant on the Central of
Georgia railroad will be done by the "se
lector" system of telephones. So that If
your train gels a hot box while passing
Experiment, Ga.. and the conductors
afraid the express behind will come roar
ing along to hump his stalled train to
flinders he won t try to tell his troubles
by telegraph any more, but he'll get down
with a portable telephone apparatus In
his hands and hitch it on to the wires
strung alongside the tracks ami get the
next station in the rear by telephone, us
ing the ’ selector” that connects him with
that place and no other.
Just Takes Half Minute.
It will take him less titan 30 seconds
to warn the man at the station behind to
stop the express as it reaches there and
the chances of an accident will be dimin
ished by about 50 per cent of danger and
about five minutes of time
The same sort of system will connect
all the stations between the two big
towns and Morse code dots and dashes
will go almost completely out of use
The Central of Georgia is already fin-’
ishing the installation of fifteen tele
phones over the distance of 105 miles and
the Western Electric Company will prob
ably continue the improvement until the
whole line is equipped with the telephone
train dispatch service.
HAMILTON BIGBY GETS
CAPT. GREEN’S JOB AS
CITY COURT BAILIFF
Hamilton Bigby has been appointed
by Judge Calhoun to succeed Captain
Daniel A Green as special bailiff of
the city court. His duties begin at
once.
Captain Green, who died Sunday, was
buried in Westview cemetery yester
day. and a number of prominent court
I officials and citizens of Atlanta attend
ed the funeral. For more than twenty
years Captain Green was bailiff of the
city- court, his term of service being
broken only by illness several
months ago.
He came from a distinguished Eman
uel county family and was the fifth
Daniel Green in direct lineal descent.
He came to Atlanta to live in 1875 and
remained here until his death.
COLUMBUS SCHOOLS TO CLOSE.
COLUMBUS GA. May 28. - Tur pub
lic schools of Columbus will close their
spring term Friday, and the i ommenee
ment exercises # ill follow the next
week. The graduating exercises will
be held in the high school building.
Continental yH
Stay=On Pump
We are just in re- /
ceipt of an express
ship m ent of Laird & Schober
Shoes.
The illustration here depicts one
of a number of unusually attrac
tive and charming models.
It is a“Con ti n ent al Stay-On
Pump,” and we have in white linen,
Russia Calf, Gun-Metal, Patent and
tin.
Price $5.00 to 7.00
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Sole Atlanta Agents for Laird & Schober Shoes for Women
Sole Atlanta Agents for Edvoin Clapp Shoes for Men
“Fether Wate” Baggage
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COLUMN
If you are unhappy, '
have a grouch or a ;
grievance, here's the
place to tell about it.
Car Patron Doesn't Like
Scats in New P-a-y-e Coaches.
To the Editor:
Let nte take advantage of your col
umn in The Georgian to register one
hefty kick against the seats in the new
Pay-As-You-Enter street cars in At
lanta. To all appearances, these seats
are comfortable, and you start to sink
down on the inviting-looking rattan
bottoms, but when you reach them you
find that It is all a snare and a delu
sion. The rattan is tightly stretched
over a wooden bottom and is as hard
•and uncomfortable as anything you can
imagine.
All the old ears have decently cush
ioned seats, and one or two of the new
style ears have,them, bur the majority
of the new cars are as uncomfortable
as 1 have described. I don't see why
all Atlanta does not rise en masse and
> demand decent seats. W hen a man does
get a seat in one of these cars he at
least ought to have a comfortable one.
t-lom a man who pays 20 cents per
day to stand on the street ears oi to
sit on the wooden seats.
Pity for Doomed Slayer
Compromises His Deed.
To the Editor:
Why do the people so readily sym
pathize with murderers about to be
hanged? Men who have taken the life
of a fellow man should have death
meted to them, vet any number of peo
ple may be found who will sign a pe
tition for pardon. They will do so even
though they were horrified at the atro
cious manner in which the deed was
committed, for in the few months us
ually intervening between the time of
the murden ajtd the slaver’s sentence
they seem to forget all about the crime
itself When a murderer is turned
loose the way, for another crime is
being paved
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