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* Clir CLUBWOMEN ILL DEMAND CREMfITORIf 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 $449."0'1 crematory. The meeting begins at in 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- A 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 bv 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 w ill 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 heal’h 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. k • Mayor Winn said “The more I hear and talk of this matter, the less 1 am impressed with t “—-. —-what those about me know about it, and the less I know about ft myself." /Aiderman James \V. 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 somew here." Dr J. H. Bradfield interrupted here. "I resent for Dr. Hering any of these insinuations," he declared. “He is not here to defend himself, and 1 believe the statement that he was connected with the Destructor Company, of New- York. is a lie." To Consider Forsyth Rid. “If I were sure that the Destructor Company, of New York, could do all it claims it will do with this plant, gene rating l.fton 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. Spratllng came back at him: “If I knew the Fbrsyth 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 it must file a $5,000 certified check to show good faith. Dr. W. L. Gilbert. G. H Bran don and Dee Hagan were appointed a committee to employ an engineer and - consider the Forsyth bid. , Hard and Soft Corns Bunions and French Heel Cramp "Knob-Joint” | Remarkable Home Treatment . s&F \ For All Foot Troubles I / A Vai / This information will be welcomed by •* ■ 1 W/J ’he ; housands of victims of daily foot tor- 7 \ .’f tu ,- e. Don’t waste time (let it at once / ‘ \ ’A N" matter how manj patent medicine- 4 I H you have tried in vain, this treatment. / 'JL 1. »J which was formerly known only to doc- /A > / tors, will do the work. "Dissolve two / <. |\ / tablespoonfuls of Caloclde compound in a t \ | 1 1\ I basin of warm water. Soak the feet for /* I full fifteen minutes, gently rubbing the Ly /r * / L / -ore parts.” The effects are marvelous J J Vy / Ml pain goes instantly and the feet feel J | simply delightful Corns and callouses can he peeled right off; bunions, aching B < feet, sweaty smelling feet, gei immediate 1 Ccmoou n d relief Iso this treatment a week and Ingrown 1 : Callouses \ our foot troubles will he a thing of the Nal’g 1 " pas’ Caloeide works through the pores SWEATY and removes the < aus* Get a 25c box TENDER \ OFFENSIVE from any drugg’-t, uauallj enough to cure ACHING PEET the worst fee, FEET 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 speech 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 indifference 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 of 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 signa! 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. "We 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 tn 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, "he, walked the deck of his majestic struc ture as master of hfs 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 tn 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 tn heed the official repeated warnings of his 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 bls 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 would 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, wore 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 fioe, 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 s>-> 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 the mysterious telegram to Representative Hughes of West Virginia, telling of the rescue of passengers and that they were 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 Ixtrd of 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," eaid 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 Rostmm 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 everv pas senger and every member of the crew. Thar the importance of this feature is recognized by steamship lines is mdfiated by the fact that on many lines steps are being taken to provide lifeboat • apaeftv for every person on board, including the crew, and the fact of such equipment is being widely advertised. The president of th" International Mercantile Marine Com pany. Mr Ismay, definitely staled to the committee: " 'We have issued instructions that none of the ships of our lines shall leave any nort carrying more passengers and crew than they have capacity for in the life boats,’ “Not less than four members of the crew, skilled itt handling boats, should be assigned to everv boat All members of the crew assigned to lifeboats should ho drilled in lowering and rowing the boats not. less than twice each month, and the fact of such drill or practice should he noted in the log. Assignment of Boats Recommended. "The committee recommends the as- I signment of passengers and crew to life- I 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 | question; that assignments of boats and the shortest route from state room to' boat he posted in every stateroom "The committee recommends that every ocean steamship t arrying 100 or more pas sengers he required to carry two electric searchlights “The committee finds that this catastro phe makes glaringly apparent the neces sitv for regulation of radio-telegraph' There mus’ he an operator on due at a! 1 dm»s, day and night, to insure the tn-- mediate receipt of all distress warnings or other important calls. TELEPHONESNOW DISPATCH TRAINS Central of Georgia Conductors Can Tap Wires Anywhere Train Stalls. Hereafter ail 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 gets a hot box while passing Experiment. Ga.. and the conductors afraid the express behind will come roar ing along to bump his stalled train to flinders he won’t try to tell his troubles by telegraph any more, hut he’ll get down with a portable telephone apparatus in his hands and hitch it on to the wires strung alongside the tracks and 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 h,tn less than 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 pet 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 ■ f 105 miles and the Western Electric Companj will prob ably continue the improvement until the whole line is equipped with the telephone train dispatch service HAMILTON BIGBYGETS 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 burled in Westview cemetery yester day. and a number of prominent court 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 bis 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.- Tin pub lic schools of Columbus w ill close their spring term Friday, and the , ommene'- ment exercises will follow the next week. The graduating exercises will be held in the high school building. Continental Stay=On Pump We are just in re- ( ceipt of an express shipment of Laird & Schober Shoes. The illustration here depicts one of a number of unusually attrac tive and charming models. It is a “Continental 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 Edwin Clapp Shoes for Men “Fether Wate” Baggage For your summer vacation. MATTING, CANE ami FIBER GRASS SUIT CASES. $1.00,52.50and $3.00 LIEBERMAN’S TRUNK STORE The House of Guaranteed Baggage 92 Whitehall KICKERS’ COLUMN If you are unhappy, have a grouch or a grievance, here’s the place to tell about it. Car Patron Doesn’t Like Seats in New P-a-y-e Coaches. To the Editor: Let me 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 w hen you teach 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 cars have decently cush ioned seats, and one or two of the new style cats have them, but the majority of the new cars are as uncomfortable is I have described. I don’t see why all Atlanta does not rise en masse and demand decent seats. When a man does get a seat in one of these cars he at least ought to have a comfortable one. From a man who pays 20 cents per day to stand on the street ears or 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 takejj 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 ci nmitted. for in the few months us ually intervening between the time of the murden and the slayer'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 COMMON SENSE. WASHINGTON AND RETURN $19.35 VIA SEABOARD On sale June 5,6, 7, limit, June 12t,h, with privilege of extension. City Ticket Office, 88 Peachtree. ASK any business man and tie will tell you The Georgian Want Ad columns teach more people and bring better results that could not he obtained in any other medium in this section. Goldsmith=Acton=Witherspoon Co. SEASONABLE FURNITURE il Special sale of Dining Room Furniture in odd pieces and matched suits. This sale includes the various oak finishes and veneered and solid ma- ! hogany. , ®^ son I IJCS I■ . Refrigerators ' U We arP pxchisive Atlanta a' • 1 J*f 'jW-uiT l' I a £ pn,s Tor this celebrated line $3 I iSU&SSHI /SsSksh&UL of Refrigerators and offer them to yon at no more than others as k or an inferior box. GIBSUN Priced from $7.50 up. REFRISERATURS GOLDSMITH • ACTON • WITHERSPOON CO. We Arrange Terms In Porch Furniture ÜBSa .-Si » Our line is complete in *ither Rustic / iiu" ' - i ''Uidl / Hickory. Fiber Rush or good Mission •,’ .“ J "KlsSa I t' tSI ‘” 4 "W®al i Jp-.• .igs*.-- .' 4 '''J-Msll ’ ar - | jiriiliw a y? a f cost. Call or write for catalogue. DH tj 1 / GOLDSMITHACmWITHLRSPOON CO. Mail Orders Filled i $4.50 Porch Swing $2.08 i a I ■ TrTafe’tS wo off pt this s»olid Oak A 1 porch Swing in choice of f \ B weathered oak nr forest t green -n $4.50 value, $2.98 / & Other Swings in Mission, J ■ | I|HHKKSBHBOHBBRBfiSSn l| Fiber Rush and Rustic / WHi< k«T . all kinds and Pl -i, ■ . ' GOLDSMII’H -A CTON - ‘ WITHERSPOON CO. | \ We arrange terms. fio=Carts and C ar| W es are exclusive Atlanta agents for the celebrated Princess Go-l'arts and have never before offered such values at the /"’U s prices. Priced from $5,00 up UTK / Heywood's Carriages and Perambula- V/| \W tors in all styles and sizes. Priced W.* AJr from SIO.OO up R GOLI’SMITH-ACTON- / WITHERSPOON CO. / Mail orders filled. ,• Special Values ni Lace Curtains 150 Lace Curtains on special sale Wed . nesd*y and Thursday.. . .98c par pair Wednesday and Thursday, at $1.49 per ffO ’ill» fwgL p« i Curtain Nets at 19c. 250, 35c to $1,50 per Jr J® ”l nLWdW W yard. GOL DS M TTH - A CI’ON- W LTHERS P()ON (’(). We arrange terms. $16.50 9x12 Brussels Rugs in Elffl id A y ju sf I new and attractive patterns; ■Si HL. * A special $12.50 | $25.00 9x12 Axminster Rugs. | H floral and Oriental designs; 9peclal $17.75 ift . F-T ini tß’< 0 n 3: n - J f —— Special sale of Bedroom Furniture in white enamel, bird’s-eye maple. (‘ircHSFiian walnut and mah<»ganv, matched suits and odd pieces. —1 11 ■■■• 1,1 1 r- 1 i fioldsmith=Acton=Wiiherspoon Co. 62 Peachtree lifetime Furniture 61 N. Broad 5