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THE WEATHER. Forecast: Showers tonight or to morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m.. 72 degrees; 10 a. m., 80 degrees; 12 noon. 82 degrees; 2 p. m,. 83 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 263. NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS SGANOhL CHOWS o’onditions Worse Than Sus pected Are Revealed by New and Startling Details. COST OF REPAIR WILL BE GREAT. SAYS CONTRACTOR Ordinance Committee Which Cut Down Estimates for New Structures Are Blamed. New anti startling revelations of ren ditions in the city's n»w bond issue schools were made today at a joint meeting of the hoard of education and the bond commission. They came after Mayor Winn. James L. Key. member of the board of education, and W. H. Terrell member of the bond commis sion. had urged that the imperfect con struction was a mere matter of detail, that there was no school scandal and that the whole matter should have been taken up in a quiet, business-like way instead of officials giving out dis turbing statements to the press. "The walls of the Hill street and the Ashby street schools leak." declared Contractor George S. A. Clayton, who built them. "They leak because the officials would not provide the money for ferrying the walls. It will cost thousands of dollars to repair them. To have built the sort of schools the ofty wanted wrffild have cost sloo.o**o each. Instead of about $50.0.»0 each." "NONE OF SCHOOLS UP TO REQUIREMENTS." Aiderman John S. Candler said that none of th* schools answered require ments. "Ac chairman of one of the commit tees drafting the bond ordinance. T re membet that sSfit.oon was provided for these buildings." he said. “But be fore the ordinance got through council this amount was cut to $600,000. So the schools are short just that much in efficiency.” Pan W. Green, member of the board of education, said that the board had twice notified F. A. Quillian, chairman of the bond commission, of these leaks/ and of the crumbling of the insides of these buildings. He said that this was the third time, and that, the leaks and the crumblings still continued. “In reply to criticisms that the mat ter was taken up with the papers in a sensational way, I want to say that 1 intend to continue kicking until these schools are made right." said W. O. Stamps. "I agree with President W. R. Da - ley of the board of education that un der the existing conditions these schools have cost its thousands of dol lars more than they should have cost. We have not got what we paid for." James L. Key wanted the whole mat ter referred to Ed R. Hayes, his assist ant and W. D. E. Winburn, engineer for the schools, and asked that a de tailed report be made of the condition of all the bond schools, it was adopted. When this report is obtained the offi cials expressed confidence the contrac tors and architects will make the nec essary repairs. LARGE PART OF ASHBY STREET SCHOOL VACANT. Aiderman James E. Warren, declar- i Ing he had been criticised for saying ' that about $50,000 had -been uselessly i spent on the Ashby Street school, said: ) •J was startled by the report of the i principal that only *6 pupils now at - I tended this school, while it has a ca- , parity of Hu. When that report was made practically all the members of th» board of education expressed sur prise. Os I's eight rooms three are va- 'sald and -till think that tin money spent for this school was uselessly spent. And what is more, it won't be more than half filled within ten years. All of its pupils could be put in either the Walker street or th" Davis street schools. ’he two nearest, without nowding either." \t R. Daley, ptesident of 'lie board of education, replied that this schoo 1 was built for the future as well as th ■ present and that more pupils would b< 1 provided for It when th- city was r< - ; districted for next \ car’s (erm PLAN MORE POWER FOR SCHOOL BOARD. \ number of officials fold of '•* hooi that they had visited. W hile Walk* • eiiPPt. Ashby and Hill siro<- ! schools «er< i ♦•ported ih»- leaks and falling plastering wpi> re- j poi ted in a number of nt '<•■» *• Members of th* boa d of <!ination told how this condition had gradumlv | been grow Ins uois* for months and i that most of the appeals to the at' hi- j te« iv and • optrH! t”i? that th* work I not durp p 'periy uer** in vain. The Atlanta Georgian John D/s Pastor Gives Wives lODon’ts: ‘Wed For Love, Not a Living* Woman In Hobble Skirt, Husband Patched Trousers. Poor Pair, He Declares. CLEVELAND, OHIO. June J.—"A xxifp's decalogue.” all don’is. has been issued bv Rev. XV. W. Bustard, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church; which John D. Rockefeller attends. Here are the ten: | 1. Don’t marry a man for a living, j bill for love. 2. Don’t overdress. 3. A wife with a hobble skirt and husband with patched trousers make a poor pair 4. Don’t gn around lecturing other women nn how to bring up their chil dren. a. Don’t tell your troubles to yoyt neighbors. G. Don’t nag. 7. Don’t try to get more out of a mir ror than you put into it. R. Don’t make gamblers and drunk ards out of your children by running whjst parties for prizes and serving punch with a •’stick” in it. 9. Don’t forget to tell the truth 10. Don’t forget that home is a worn an’s kingdom. JUDGE BROYLES URGES THE ELECTRIC CHAIR IN PLACE OF NOOSE An electric chair for Fulton county— to supplant the gallows with its hang man's noose, the fatal seven-foot drop, and other grewsome features—is being strongly advocated by Recorder Broyles, who is a student of the best, methods of dealing with crime and criminals. Judge Broyles says Atlanta should be up to date in the execution of slayers, as well as in other respects. This is one thing, he says, in which Atlanta and Fulton county are lagging behind. "The chair is up to date and more humane than hanging." he says. "A chair could be installed easily In the Tower, In the death chamber now oc cupied by the gallows, and would serve to do away with a lot of the grewsome details connected with an execution on tlie gallows. The gallows is a crude, bunglesome affair and is beyond Its time." LUPO THE WOLF SAID TO BE HATCHING PLOT HERE TO KILL SLEUTH Rumors have been going the rounds In New York to the effect that Ignazio Lupo, known as Lupo the Wolf, who Is now in the Atlanta Federal prison, has hatched up with several of his con federates in the prison a plot to kill William J. Flynn, of the New York de tective force. It is said thal news of the plot reach ed New York through friends of Lupo, who visited him in Atlanta. Neither Warden Moyer nor any of the police officials place any credence In the ru mors. It is thought that they may have arisen from the fact that Lupo made several efforts to have his ca«e re heard. and for that purpose sen* for several friends who came Io Atlanta to see him. Captain Flynn told New York re porters that he had no doubt Lupo would bring about his death if he could. CONDUCTOR SUDDERTH DIES FROM INJURIES Th» body of H. P. Sudderth. the Southern railway conductor who died in Atlanta of injuries received at Eas ley. S. C.. were carried to Buford. Ga„ foi interment today. following funeral services at the chapel of Patterson £• Son. Mr Sudderth was injured more than a week ago while leaning from the side of a freight train, in which position a rock from a precipice cut him in th“ back. He was rushed to Atlanta and i di*’d yesterday. RAIN DUE TO RETURN TO I ATLANTA BY TOMORROW Clear skies and about the same tem perature are forecast for today by the local weather authorities. Weather conditions stand unchanged and more rain is in sight for Atlanta. It will probably come tomorrow after noon as local showers, which will not be as much of a downpour as was the rain of Sunday afternoon, which fell in torrents. T NEW WEEK? A diant-p t<> make good or better yourself. •Jobs! Plenty of them. Look for them in the Help Wanted Col umn of The <leorgian today and every day. If vou don't see ex actly what yon want. i Iry a Sil nal ion W ant - ed ,\d yourself. Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result? A TLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JUNE 3. 1912. ho®, a RECONCILED Iffl WIFE'S “GRANNY” Rich Mrs. Lawrence's Apology Is Published at Her Own Request. ADMITS SHE WAS WHOLLY WRONG IN RECENT SUIT Pleads She Was Depressed at Time, and Declares Owes Money Involved. NEW YORK. June 3. Complete reconciliation has been effected be tween Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, widow of a ricin patent medicine manufac turer, and Russell Hopkins, of Atlanta, who married het granddaughter, and against whom she recently began suit to recover part of more than $250,000 he was alleged to have obtained from her by playing on her affection for Mrs. Hopkins and little Josephine Lawrence Hopkins. her great-granddaughter Mrs. Lawrence has sent the following letter to Mr. Hopkins: "My Dear Russell—So many statements have, been made in the newspapers concerning our affairs that I must insist on your publish ing this letter to correct any harm J may have unintentionally done you. 1 deeply regret the suit be gun against you. and withdraw every statement contained in the complaint which reflects on yon in Admit Charges Wholly Unfounded. "The suit was begun at a time when I was much depressed, and T realize that my charges against you were wholly unfounded. The contracts under which I gave you the notes were made at my own request, and every statement ob tained in them is true and correct, and the money was and is fully and properly due to you. "At my request you willingly have returned the notes, so as to readjust the payments to suit my convenience, but I still owe you the money, and when you returned my notes on Saturday last I gave you a written agreement to pay you the full amount In certain specified installments. The state ment in my complaint that you al tered the notes without my consent was a mistake. "Regretting my hasty action and trusting that we may all forget the unfortunate affair, 1 am. “Lovingly yours, "JOSEPHINE LA WHENCE." GOVERNOR TO DECIDE FUTURE OF TALLULAH FALLS CASE TUESDAY Governor Brown has announced that he will reach final decision in the Tallulah Balls controversy tprnorrow The chief executive said today, follow ing a conference with the attorneys for the Tallulah Kails Conservation associa tion that the matter was now closed to all but state officials. A conference with the attorney general tomorrow will deter mine the advisability of the state’s bring ing suit. The Tallulah F’alls association was rep resented bv the following attorneys: Spencer Atkinson, George Napier. R. C. Kilis. Judge Fred Foster and Charles G. Reynolds. CAPT. POOLE CATCHES TWO BURGLARS IN ONE HUNT Police Captain Lamar Poole established a new record for policing early today when he arrested one burglar and re covered booty from another in two dif ferent places within the space of a few minutes. Captain Poole was riding his horse. High Ball, when he discovered a burglar emerging from a drug store at Piedmont avenue and Baker streets. He chased : the burglar for some distance, and the ; latter dropped a sack of valuables. Shortly afterwards, the captain arrested ' Fred Williams, a negro, with four dozen 1 bottles of beer in a sack, which he had stolen from Louis Silverman s saloon. ‘ at Edge wood avenue and Courtland street. , TWO ALABAMA DELEGATES FLOP TO COL. ROOSEVELT BIRMINGHAM, AI.A Jun.' 3. The odora Roosevelt this morning secured two more umuntested delegates to the national convention J. B. Daughtry and B\ion Trammell, the uncontented 1 deleg,,tes from the Third Alabama dis I trht, although c|i<,s»n at a Taft con vention, have officially notified National Committeeman Barker that, yielding t<> sentiment of !*t> per cent <>f their <-op .tituern- they will vote for Hoosewlt < a* tile Clijiag" i onventlou. Two Dead After Dispute Over Child KILLS WIFE ANDSELF —— "A y- ( W I SR 711 C * \\\ i 5 , A - Bare-footed children, nude-eyed with excitement, are hanging over the fence and running through the halls of the little house at 261 East Hunwr street today, for the quiet boarding house has become the stage of a tragedy more intense to the neighborhood than an* melodrama heralded from the ragged billboards across the way. In a dark ened room lies the body of Mrs. Maude F'owler Storey, shot dead last night by her husband. Benjamin Howell Storey, who died, a half hour later a few blocks clown the .Ktre*is. He had crouched ’m the curbstone anti swallowed two ounces of the fie’ y poison. His body lies at the undertaking establishmenl of Harry G. Poole, where an inquest is to be held today. A quarrel, separation, attempts at reconciliation, disputes over his child, whisky and sullen determination to end everything—these led to Storey’s double crime. He purchased a bottle of acid, put his revolver In ills pocket and went to a soda fountain at East Hunter and Hill streets last nignt at 9 o'clock. From the little store he railed up his wife. «ho conducted a ucarding house a block down Hunter street. Ho asked her to meet him al the corner, and when she refused he threatened to force his way into the house. Dreading a turbulent scene, Mrs. Storey went to her front gate —only a few steps from the door —to meet him. A boarder, W. T. Archer, strolled toward the gate just after Storey had joined his wife and asked her to a walk Archer said afterward that' he feared trouble and desired to protect the woman. Kilis Wife, Then Foretells Suicide. “Who is that man, Maude?” asked Storey. His wife remarked that Archer was a boarder. She turned to go back in the house, hut Storey called Iter, and as she turned ho fired three times. One of the bullets entered her heart, and the three were hardly an Inch apart. Archer caught the wounded woman in his arms and Storey walked down the street. Mrs, Storey was carried into the house, whore site died ten minutes later, in the arms of Miss Maud*' Kessler, one of the girl boarders. Storey went to lhe junk shop where he was employed by his brother, Les ter. only a block or two away, and called up hist brother by telephone. He told him what had happened and said his own earthly troubles w ould be over in a few minutes. Then he walked to the corrter of Connally street and Woodward avenue and swallowed the carbolic acid. Morris Rubin, a small boy. found his body there a short time afterward and ran to tell the police, who were searching for the slayer. Dispute Over Child Led to Tragedy. A dispute over the custody r>f baby Lillian Storey, the seventeen - months old daughter of the couple, is said to have been the principal cause of the tragedy. Stores- had repeatedly de manded that the baby lie given to him, declaring th it he did not want his daughter reared by her mother, while Mrs Storey clung to the baby. A bat tle in the courts, a divorce suit and a struggle for the child was to have been begun soon, according to neighbors fa miliar with the troubles of the family. C. C. Tedder, who is connected with the law firm of Gober. Jackson & Smith, says Storey told him last Tues day that he intended to kill his wife in order to prevent her from rearing his baby girl. Storey had previously con sulted this firm with regard to legal stops to obtain possession of the child, but action had been deferred. Tedder was approached by Storey a* Decatur and Ivy streets. He says Sto rey at once began to talk of his wife and child. According to Tedder, Sto rey exclaimed: Threatened to Kill Wife. "I'm almost crazy. I can't stand this. I'm going to kill my wife and get my child.’ And then he added . "I know they'll get me. but I'd ra'her b, dead thin have m> bain raised by het mother." Tedder say- In advised Storev .(gains' ari' such tragi, tiicasureH. and assured Idin le could easily got pos sessioi. of hl“ little girl through law. Store* laugher! and Joked before he lef* Tedder -it?-, and Ids thought of inurdei i I'lll**l I" haio vanished Ted det , ~nstrlei <•■! *1" declar:<l ion -»nly an Cont*fUt' ! d on P»q« Two, I • I G > ”' *■ I Al Al top. the children made or phans by the Storey double trag edy, which was caused by a dis pute over the baby in this pic ture. Below. Mrs. Maude Fowler Storey, shot to death by her hus band. from whom she was sepa rated. DEMOCRATS SHE U.5.J42,8D0,001l WASHINGTON, June 3. I.egislat ing the tariff board out of existence, but continuing the president's efficiency and economy commission and appro priating $75,000 for the continuation of its work, the sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the house today by the appropriations committee. The committee recommends the eys tomary $25,000 for the traveling ex penses of the president. The effect of the Democratic pruning knife is shown all through the hill. The estimates submitted by the executive for the sundry civil bill expenses for the government amounted to $142,008.- 030 and supplemental estimates were submitted amounting to $9,984,803. a total estimate of appioximately $152.- 000,000. Appropriations of only $109,577,414 are carried in the bill, representing the tremendous cut of more than $42,000,- 000 under the estimates submitted by the several departments through the executive. The sundry civil bill carries $33,000,- 000 less than the sundry civil measure tor the present fiscal year. Merely Omits Money For Board. The committee makes no comment on the abolition of the tariff board. It merely says the appropriation of $225.- 000 to enable the president to secure information under section 2 of the last tariff act is omitted. A reorganization within ihe next twelve months of the customs service is demanded in the bill. The president is authorized to reorganize the service before submitting estimates for the fis cal year 1911. and It is stipulated thal the total cost of the customs service so ■ that year shall be $10,150,000 instead of $10,500,000, a cut of $350,000. A total of $8,053,517.92 Is anpropria ~ d foi the construction of public buildings which have heretofore been authorized The committee (ejected the recom mendations of the secretary of the treasury thal a general fund foi puid ■ buildings might be availabl' consist iny of $10,000,1100 heretofore a ppi opria 1 ed. but so I.< * unexpended, and $3.000,(>00 additional. lintnn ■ (pp( "pt lot lon- 1(0 pubil building 1 in< inded n< ■» post,,di' e foi Augusto. <b». to co 1 1 slo*l,oon. ■N UNDER ARREST DEMANDS TRIAL TODAY; WILL FIRM FINISH U. S. Marshal White Serves Warrant at Noon and Will Take Prisoner to Augusta Phis Afternoon—Brother Goes Along to Make Bond. THOMSON. GA.. June 3.—Special United States Marsha) Gk K. White, of Macon, arrived in Thomson today at noon and ar rested Thomas E. Watson, charged with sending obscene matter rhrongh the mails. Marsha) White will eo t.o Augusta late s J afternoon with Mr. Watson, in his auto. Io appear before H. Godwin. United States commissioner, for the purpose of mak ing bond. Mr. Watson wired District Attorney Akerman that he will demand a preliminary trial today, hut Mr. Akerman answered that he has been called to Washington. D. C.. on important busi ness. and that it will he impossible to have the trial today. When Mr. Watson appears before the commissioner, the bond will be fixed by him and a time set for the preliminary hearing. J. F. Watson, brother of T. E. Watson, will go with him to arrange bond. I’ll Fight Government’s Charge to Finish—Watson Thomas E. Watson, a warrant for whose arrest for improper use of the mails has been Issued, has addressed a communication to Th« Georgian, in which he outlines his side of the con troversy with the government. In this communication Mr. Watson scores lite president of the United States unmercifully, characterizing him as a "blundering booby.” He accuses President Taft of sending the late Major Archibald Butt, the president's military aid. on a "treason ous mission” to Rome, and attaches di rect responsibility Io the president, therefore, for the death of Major Butt on the Titanic. For his utterances on these subjects, in his various publications. Mr. Wat son says he is being persecuted by the president and other powerful Influ ences looking to Watson's undoing. Declares He Will Not Take Back a Word. Mr. Watson announces his intention not to "surrender one inch of ground” nor to "take back one word" he has said in the matters leading up to the issuing of the warrant against him Those parts of Mr. Watson's commu nication bearing directly on his arrest read as follows: By THOMAS E WATSON. 1 have been notified over the telephone from the United States marshal's office In Macon that I will be arrested Monday at noon I have not seen the warrant and do not know what crime is laid at my door According to Northern newspa pers. the prosecution is instituted by President Taft and the Roman Catholic hierarchy, because of an editorial in The Weekly Jefferso nian on the tragic death of Major Butt. * The president was accused by me with being responsible for Archie Butt's untimely end, because he, Mr. Taft, the commander-in-chief of the United States army, had or dered Major Butt on a treason ous mission to the aged Italian gentleman who is called the pope. Colonel George Harvey, in Har per's Weekly, criticised President Taft for his private message to the pope, and was quite as severe in his language as I was in mine. Colonel Harvey based his strictures upon a cablegram which the Mar coni News Agency had sent out from Rome at the time Major Butt arrived there and was presented to the pope. All the press dispatches carried the story, and the presi dent put forth no denial President Taft never did deny it, until after Major Butt's death, and after other papers besides my own wore using the incident to his hurt. Another story is that I am being prosecuted for having sent obscene literature through the malts, it is charged that some Latin quotations in the May number of my maga zine arc obscene If so. why did not the government prosecute the publishers of the book from which 1 quoted? I had a right to as sume thal wiiat the government had tolerated In the publishers of that book, it would tolerate In any one who. with an honest, patriotic purpos* (|(iofcd from that book Me motive in quoting from tip book wa- patriotic and educational This work was issued o* the Jot dan I 'it I'ttshinu Company, of Pltila d< iphia My top? is of the twelfth HOHL IDITION PRICE TWO CENTS edition, which was published in 1895. It was copyrighted In 1892 by Jordan Brothers. Why does the United States gov ernment protect with its copyright a book which is unfit for the malls? The United States mails make no objection to Gibbon’s Rome, al though many of hla notes era far more obscene, and are used for a less praiseworthy purpose than those I quoted. The Federal government ig hounding me. trying Io destroy a. business which has cost me five years of the hardest work I ever did, and about $40,000 of hard cash. East year the Knights of Colum bus. in their annual convention, resolved to make war upon me and put me out of business. Ever since they have been trying to do so. They are using President Taft, just as they used him in the Phil ippines. the Panama canal zone and In the Indian school matter. It is not my purpose to surrender one Inch of ground, or to take back one W’ord I have said, and I don’t ask our blundering booby of a pres ident the least bit of odds. 1 feel I can trust Implicitly to the good sense of Judge Emory Speer, to the good sense of Georgia jurors and to the patriotic, inde pendent spirit of all true American citizens. MYSTERIOUS AUTO, NOT NEGRO, KILLED GUARD, POLICE SAY Detectives are striving today to settle the question whether D A. Smith, the stockade guard mysteriously slain Satur day night at Decatur and Hilliard streets, was murdered or killed by a speeding auto According to detectives, there is some doubt as to the manner In which Smith met death The first theory advanced was that he was stabbed to death by an unknown negro, a lagged wound appear ing hfs eye. Since that time wltnessea have told detectives of a mysterious auto that sped through Decatur street at the time of the tragedy, and this clew, with other bruises found on the body of Smith, have led to the theory that he may have been struck down by this auto. Dr. Robert Gramling, who examined the wound Saturday night, said he was satis fied it was made with a knife. As a re sult of the murder theory, four negro suspects are held In the police station for examination. GEORGIA BANKING LAW REVISION COMMISSION HOLDING SESSION HERE The state commission on the revision of banking laws held a conference with representatives of the Georgia Bankers’ association in the senate chamber of the capitol today to organize preliminary to hearing recommendations No actual business was transacted and the com mission will probably sit for several days. The executive council of the bankers’ association, with two delegates from each of the five groups making up that, organization, will present recommenda tions for certain changes in the existing laws It is probable that the commis sion will recommend to the legislature the creation of a separate banking de partment with an official bank examiner at its head, to replace the present sys tem In which the state treasurer has charge ~f bank examination and regnla tton Th» Atlanta Clearing House associa tion gave a luncheon at the Capital City . uh this ifternoon to members of th* comiuwsion and vtai’.ing bankers.