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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. r’ i J' JL a? rJ yJ < Hard and Soft Corns Bunions and French Heel Crams “Knob-Joint” j Remarkable Home Treatment > . 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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 MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY FILLED 35 Whitehall St. Sole Atlanta Agents for Laird & Schober Shoes for Women Sole Atlanta Agents for Edvoin Clapp Shoes for Men “Fether Wate” Baggage For your summer vacation., MATTING, CANE and FIBER GRASS SUIT CASES. SI.OO, $2.50 and $3.00 LIEBERMAN’S TRUNK STORE The House of Guaranteed Baggage 92 Whitehall I I KICKERS’ I 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. 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