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ANOTHER DROWNING AT PIEDMONT
The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. X. NO. 262.
COUNCIL AND
EDUCATION
BOARD AT
mu
Blame for Building Scandal Is
Now Put Up to Men at the
Head of Schools,
Councilman Aldine Chambers put the
school scandal squarely up to the board
of education today and declared council
would take no steps until the board had
washed its own linen.
‘I have no sympathy with the hoard
of education." he said, "and for one
will take no action toward giving them
the authority or the money they say
they must have until President W. R.
Daley, Aiderman James E. Warren and
others explain their unfounded state
ments.”
Councilman Chambers was consider
ing offering a resolution In council pro
viding for a special school tax, some
thing for which the board of education
has been fighting for years, and grant
ing them more authority in the admin
istration. He will withhold action now
until the board of education clears up
the charges "that the city council was
to blame for the poor construction of
the schools; that $50,000 had been
wasted on one school, and that the city
had been robbed in all of its schools on
account of requirements for letting
contracts imposed by council.”
Damage Not Over
SI,OOO, Says Chambers.
•'! believe I hat all the damages to the
schools can be repaired for about sl,-
000,” said Chambers.
Mr. Chambers said that it seemed to
him that much that has been pub
lished was inspired to create prejudice
again.-1 the present form of municipal
government.
All the members of the board of edu
cation have declared that the principal
cause of the trouble with the schools is
the cumbersome system of conducting
them. They said that the board of edu
cation hasn't sufficient authority and
that council is to blame because it has
handicapped the board.
Take Schools Out of
Politics, Says Paxon.
A number of members of council had
decided to put through legislation giv
ing the board more authority until the
scandal of the bond issue schools de
veloped and several of the members of
the board gave out startling statements
for publication.
A number of prominent citizens urge
that the hoard should have more au
thority. F. J. Paxon suggests that the
schools be run by a commission of
twelve men, entirely separated from
politics.
Victor L. Smith, <’. J. Haden and S.
R. Mark.-, president of the Georgia
Federation of Trades, said they thought
the board of education should have full
authority over the schools, with a spe- ,
ciai school lax or a definite amount I
set aside each, year for the board of I
education to apportion. Under the
present system the council finance com
mittee makes up the school budget, the
board of education acting only as an
advisory board.
Mayor Winn and W. R. Daley, presi
dent of the board of education, said to
day some wrong ideas of the school sit
uation had been formed by some of
ficials and that the public had been
given some false impressions.
"There is no school scandal.” said
Mayoi Winn. “I atri informed by F. A.
Quillian, chairman of the bond com
mission, that al! necessary repairs can
be made for a few hundred dollars
When the board of education and the
bond commission meet jointly Monday
1 think the whole matter will be ad
justed.”
Francis E. Mackie, of the Mackie-
Crawford Construction Company, said
his company and Architect E. E.
Dougherty had the contract for build
ing the new Tenth ward school and
that he invited all officials and citizens
Io come out and see that the school was 1
being built properly.
■ Tir re is no complaint that the Crew
Sire. anil the Fair Street schools,
v hi. h w< built, at. not right." he said. |
"Rm I r. <n. the insinuation by some;
of ih members <•■’ the hoard of edit- '
. ~.i, .h . . i .liitec.s and eon- ,
tractors ar< rooks.” |
10,000 GIRLS
IMPERILED
BY EIRE
TRAPS
—CUMMINGS.
Crusade Starts to Protect the
Lives of Helpless Atlanta
Workers and Property.
That 10,000 women and girls, toiling
tn downtown stores, factory lofts and
other buildings are in daily peril of
death by fire, was the startling declara
tion made to The Georgian today by
Fire Chief W. B. Gummings in begin
ning a vigorous crusade for a more
rigid enforcement of local fire laws.
The chief declared that the safety of
the thousands of working women and
girls demands that every possible pre
caution he taken tn prevent an impend
ing disaster. «-
Chief Cummings said he feared that
Atlanta may witness a repetition of the
waist factory horror in New York, in
which hundreds of helpless girls lost
their lives. Atlanta has simply played
in luck, he declared, in escaping such a
tragedy.
The non-enforcement of one of the
most important fire ordinances of the
city, the law requiring automatic fire
sprinklers in the downtown mercantile
and manufacturing buildings, was given
by Chief Cummings as the direct cause
of this alarming situation. Old and
dilapidated structures, poorly con
structed buildings, with rickety, im
properly built stairways, and a lack of
fire escapes, add their quota of peril to
the general menace.
Fire Prevention
City ’s Greatest Need.
The chief .asserted that fire preven
tion is one of the greatest needs of At
lanta today.
In an effort to lessen the danger of
fire and fire tragedy Chief Cummings
and Building Inspector Hayes will at
once serve notice on owners of all fac
tory lofts, mercantile buildings and
other dangerous structures who have
failed to comply with the law. that they
immediately' must install automatic fire
sprinklers. Sixty days is given by the
law in which to complete this work. AH
those failing to obey the mandate will
promptly be haled before Recorder
Broyles.
The penalty for violation of this or
dinance is a fine not exceeding SSOO and
a term of not more than 30 days in the
stockade, either one or both in the dis
cretion of the court.
Atlanta’s wealthiest and most promi
nent citizens are represented among the
owners of these downtown buildings,
and they must comply with the law at
once or face the court. This is the ulti
matum of the two officials.
"I shall insist on cases being made in
every instance where the law’ is vio
lated after the proper notice is given,”
says Chief Cummings.
Chkef Cummings and Inspector Hayes
are of the opinion that most of the
property owners are ignorant of the
existence of the automatic sprinkler or
dinance, a'nd for this reason will give
ample notice before any arrests are
made.
Eighty Per Cent of
Buildings Unsafe.
Dess than ten per cent of the down
town buildings are equipped according
to law, said Chief Cummings. This
means that more than 80 per cent are
unsafe.
Chief Cummings began a crusade a
year ago for fire escapes, and says that
creditable improvement has been made
in this, respect. A total of 200 fire es
capes have been placed on downtown
structures in the last twelve months.
Much work, however, remains to be
done along this line, said Yhe chief.
The law stipulates that small build
ings shall be provided with automatic
sprinklers in the basements, and that
large structures shall be so equipped
throughout. These sprinklers are built
in the ceilings and connect by piping
with water mains or special construct
ed tanks. In case of fire, the heat
causes a valve in the sprinkler to
open, and, through numerous sprays,
the place is drenched.
Chief Cummings said these sprinklers
w ould hold a fire in check and prevent
it from spreading until the fireman
could reach the scene, and in many in
stances extinguish it entirely
Chief Cummings said:
We intend to have this automatic
■ ! inklei mditianie and other fire laws
strictly enforced. The safety of the
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. JUNE 1. 1912.
JOHN D„ EVER THE GREATEST ARTFUL DODGER,
DODGESQUERIESON STAND IN STANDARD PROBE
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Up- —Ml! s
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AAf yjMfe*
Joh» D. Rockefeller, show n on the witness stand in New York last Tuesday, where he was eallled to testify in deposition tak
en for the circuit court of Missouri in the contest between the minority stockholders of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company and the
chief owners of the Standard Oil Company for the control of the Missouri company.
PIEDMONT LAKE CLAIMS SECOND
VICTIM; ELEVEN-YEAR OLD BOY IS
DROWNED WHILE OUT BOATING
Piedmont park lakfe claimed its
second victim of the season this
afternoon when Charles Camell,
11 years old. of North Boulevard
and Ponce DeLeon avenue, was
thrown into the water as a boat
in which he was frolicking with
several companions overturned.
The tragedy was a repetition
of the first fatal accident of the
season, but a week old. and was
by a great crowd of
bathers. The youngsters had tak
en the boat out beyond the res
ervation marke doff for timid
PINION FREED OF
oiommiicE
Justice of the Peace Girardeau utter
ly disregarded the technicalities of the
law and went straight to human mo
tives today when he dismissed the big
amy warrant recently procured against
Clarence E. Pinion, the youth who
married Lula Belle Lowry, divorced his
former wife. Emily Pinion, and then
married Miss Lowry a second time to
be regular—al! in 24 hours.
"The intention of the law," said the
justice, when the evidence in the odd
case had been rehearsed, “is to give
people protection and keep prsons from
doing other persons harm.
"It is plain that no real harm has
been done in this case. It is my opin
ion that real harm would result if this
boy was prosecuted for bigamy, nbt
only to him but to the little girl he
married.”
The evirdence in the ease substan
tially established the fact that Pinion
married Lula Belie Lowry the first time
just twelve hours before he obtained
a divorce decree from Emily Pinion,
it was upon this fact that a warrant
for bigamy was sworn out by his sec
ond wife’s brother. T. T. Lowry.
Young Pinion made a clean breast of
the affair to the court.
“I didn’t think at the time I was
doing wrong," he said. "I wanted to
marry Lula Belle and had wanted to
marry her since I separated from my
first wife. 1 knew I would get the di
vorce all right. I was too eager, I
guess; but I certainly made it all right
when I married her again."
The most damaging evidence against
Pinion was introduced by the Rev. E.
T. Baughn. the preacher who performed
both the first and second ceremonies.
The minister told the court that the
first ceremony had been legal and reg
ular in every way and would be binding
at law.
swimmers. They had been ap
parently getting along splendidly,
when one of the oars got caught
in a crab and slipped from the
youthful rower's hand, and as he
lunged to get it the boat was
overturned.
Several of the lad’s compan
ions made a desperate effort to
save the drowning bo., but with
out avail.
Leonard Sawyer, 709 North
Boulevard, was in the boat with
the lad who perished. Young
Camel] clung to him frantically
when they were both thrown into
Saturday Half-Holiday
Season On; Shop Girls
Get 14 of 'Em This Year
Atlanta girls-behind-the-counter are
in luck this year. June came in on a
Saturday, and there are fourteen Sat
urdays squeezed into the three summer
months. That means fourteen half
holidays.
The shopping district appears desert
ed today, as compared to the busy aft
ernoons to which Atlantans are ac
customed. Cigar stores and soda foun
tains are doing a rushing business, but
the doors of the department stores and
most of the smaller retail houses ate
closed. The Saturday half-holiday sea
son began today, and for three months
shop girls and salesmen will have an
opportunity to leave at 1 o'clock and
hike to the parks or the ball game for a
bit of fresh air.
The half-holiday movement has been
spreading for several years, until now
the jobbing houses, the factories and
nearly every business house which pos
sibly' can. closes on Saturday after
noons at 1 o'clock. An army of several
thousand employees is given the after
noon off. The public has learned to do
its buying before noon and so nobody
loses —except the doctors.
Today’s Georgian
Main Sheet (1 Section) 16 Pages.
Saturday Magazine 12 Pages.
28 Pages
(Be sure that you get the special
Saturday Magazine with YOUR
copy of today's Georgian.)
■ the water, ami Sawyer escaped
, only after a hard battle.
The tragedy occurred al exact
ly the same spot as the first fatal
accident.
i
U. S. WARBOAT ON REEFS:
BATTLESHIP TO RESCUE
KEY WEST, FLA., June I.—The United
States collier Mars is ashore on the Ba
hama banks. She reported her accident
by wireless today and the battleship Ne
braska and two government tugs were
■ immediately dispatched to her assistance
The collier was bringing coal to this port
for the fleet mobilized to intervene in
Cuba if it becomes necessarv.
ENGLISHJFLHAS
571 Ml 8 ms
James >V. English. Jr., president of
the Palmer Brick < 'ompany, recently de
clared insolvent by officers of the ('hat
ham Brick Company in an Injunction
suit involving the Shaw brick making
process, today tiled with Judge Pendle
ton a schedule of personal assets
amounting to $715,616.01 as answer to
the Chatham company’s allegation.
Mr. English denied every assertion
made by the Chatham company, both
ast o his personal financial standing and
the deal in which he sold the §>ha.w
process to the McDuffie county con
cern.
In his schedule of assets Mr. Eng
lish listed his personal holding unen
cumbered as follows: Stock in the Pal
mer Brick Company, $267,763.59; >
Lookout Mountain Coal and Coke Com
pany, $172,789.19; Peachtree street
property. $225,065.75; rights in the
Shaw process. $50,000; total. $715,616.
The answer, filed to the Chatham
company suit for judgment of $30,000
on the ground that English had mis
represented the Shaw patents, recites
the effort to obtain judgment as a
scheme on the part of the Chatham
company to force English to buy the
McDuffie county plant for $75,000.
DEMOCRATS REPORT
COTTON SCHEDULE
REVISION MEASURE
WASHINGTON. June I.—A bill
revising the cotton schedule will be
reported by the ways and means
committee <>f the house today. At a
special meeting today the Democrats of
the committee decided to attempt a re
vision at this session, and Representa
tive Underwood was instructed to in
troduce h cotton bill.
. The bill will be identi< al with the
1 nderwood cotton hill which passeil
the house last year and which teduced
existing duties on a sliding scale from
25 to 40 per cent.
EXTRA
ISSUED
FORTOMWkTSON
Drawn in Macon and Will Be
Served by United States
Marshal on Monday.
MACON. GA.. June I.—The warrant
for the arrest of Thomas E. Watson
lias been issued. It was sworn out
before Commissioner W. E. Marvin by
A. J. Knight, a postoffice inspector.
The warrant will be forwardeel to
United States Deputy Marshal Mur
ray at Augusta and he will go to Thom
son to take Mr. Watson in custody on
Monday morning.
The warrant charges Mr. Watson
with "Knowingly and feloniously de
positing. or causing to be deposited,
for mailing and delivery to persons un
known. a. certain obscene, lewd, las
civious and filthy publication of an in
decent citaracter, contained in the May
number of Watson’s magazine, on
pages 11. 12. 13, 14 and 15.”
It Is set out that the language used
lit “So improper and offensive to the
court" as to bar its repetition. The
translation of the Latin quotations has
been sworn to by several Macon schol
ars as being correct. The Latin lan
guage is alleged by Mr. Watson to be
instructions given by Catholic priests
to penitents in the confessional and
deals exclusively with sexual matters.
It will be contended that not only
the Latin quotations are within the
purview of the law, but that Mr. Wat
son’s references to the three newly
appointed American cardinals and
other dignitaries of the Catholic
church in this country are obscene,
lewd and indecent and in violation of
law and good morals. This is charged
In the warrant.
RAIN BELATED, BUT
SUNDAY BATHING ON
LAND IS SCHEDULED
R-tln sticks and rain coats will be
much in evidence tomorrow afternoon
and bathers at Piedmont may stand on
the banks around the lake and get all
the moisture they want, according to
the weather man.
Local showers, due here today for the
week-end, are reported late by their
advance agent at the weather bureau,
and w’ill probably ”et in some time Sun
day.
In the meantime the temperature is
attracting all attention locally. Today
the mercury climbed perilously near the
96-degrees mark and Atlanta’s streets
held a sweltering mass of people. A
steady breeze during the greater part
of the day prevented the heat becom
ing unbearable.
Slightly cooler weather is due by
Monday or Tuesday.
THE WEATHER
Forecast: Showers tonight or
Sunday. Temperatures: 8 a. m.,
80 degrees; 10 a. m, 84 degrees;
12 noon, 86 degrees; 2 p, m., 88
degrees.
PRICE TWO CENTS
FELDER AND
WATSON IN
HOI DUEL
AGAIN
T. E. Says Atlantan Packed
Convention With Hoodlums
and Quaked at Challenge.
Thomas E. Watson, tn the current
issue of his Progressive Democrat, out
today, says for the first time what he
thinks of the doings in the Democratic
state convention Wednesday.
He concerns himself almost entirely
with Thomas B. Felder's connection
with the convention, and vigorously
lambasts the Atlanta man. alleging nu
merous sensational and red-hot things
about Felder, Felder’s friends and Feld
er’s attitude generally, politically, per
sonally and professionally.
Felder, shown a copy of Watson’s
article, comes back at the "red-headed
one" in language not only picturesque
and emphatic, but equally sensational
as that employed by Watson.
The statements of both make highly
interesting reading.
In his newspaper, Mr. Watson says:
Thomas B. Felder.
Hot Shot For
In the interest of a certain shady
lawyer and lobbyist, there was a meet
ing of the Fifth district delegates, prior
to the meeting of the convention. This
was Irregular and illegal. There was
no one clothed with authority to call
such a meeting.
You can readily perceive what an
advantage it gives to the city dele
gates when they take to themselves the
authority to summon the country dele
gates to in advance of the con
vention. The expense and loss of time
involved in the taking of this extra trip
to the city would naturally tend to dis
courage the country delegate from go
ing to this preliminary meeting, and
would naturally tend to place control
in the hands of the city politician. In
the language which was perfectly par
liamentary', I pointed this out last
week.
Immediately upon the appearance ot
my card, one Thomas B. Felder, who
rides about the earth’s surface on free
passes and who does for such rich cli
ents as Charles W. Morse dirty work
which no other lawyer would do, be
came very indignant. He rushed into
the Atlanta papers with the statement
that he meant to beat me to a frazzle,
in the Atlanta convention. He said he
meant to skin me like an eel. He pre
vailed upon another gas-bag, of about
the same proportions as himself, to
publish a statement in the papers to
the effect that I was a rank quitter, who
eould not dare come to Atlanta at all.
They also intimated that they would
“fix" the credentials committee in such
a manner that I would not be admitted
to a seat on the floor of the convention,
and would not be heard of at all.
“Had City Crowd
At Our Mercy.”
We arrived in Atlanta tn due tim«
and were given a tremendous ovatior
at the depot. At the Kimball the
cheering was loud and hearty. Every
train bringing in the country delega
tions added to our strength. Feldei
and his crowd began to quake. By
supper time everybody saw that we had
the city crowd at our mercy.
While I was taking supper with J. J
Brown in the Kimball restaurant a
young man came up to me, introduced
himself and after a preliminary re
mark or two, told me that Mr. Feldet
wanted to know if I would ■ meet him
and have a private conversation with
him.
My answer to the young man was:
“No; I won’t. You tell Felder that
I said I understood he had a fight com
ing my way and I am waiting for it.
Tell him to bring that fight right
along." The young man, as the niggers
would say, "banished from view.”
The remainder of the night princi
pally was spent by Felder and his al
lies in drumming up hoodlums to in
vade the convention hail and take pos
session of it. In this they succeeded.
Before a single delegate presented him
self into the Grand theater the Boot
and the galleries were full of Atlants
hoodlums.
Chairman Hutchens did his leve
best to have them ejected, but not on<
of them was put out. On every prop