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ANOTHER DROWNING AT PIEDMONT The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results 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 r " ~ , _ —> r i mu*"') Up- —Ml! s ■HF 4 I n 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