Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, June 04, 1912, EXTRA, Page 3, Image 3
CITY LIGHT PLANT SEEN IN WAKE OF INCINERATOR Garbage Destroyer Contract Is Expected to Pave Way for Municipal Electricity. City officials today predicted the combination garbage incinerator and electric power plant adopted by council yesterday was the beginning of a mu nicipal plant capable of furnishing light and power to the whole city. The combination plant, which is to cost $376,000, will have a capacity of 1,500 kilowatts. Figured at one-half of one cent per kilowatt hour, the of ficials say that the net annual profit to the city from the plant will be about $55,000. The city already owns the equipment for the White Way lights, and it is proposed that this current be used on these lights and in the munic ipal buildings. "It will give us all opportunity to see how well we can operate a municipal light and power plant,” said Council man Aldine Chambers. McClelland Sees Victory. "It is the beginning of what I have been fighting for for many months —a municipal electric plant," said Aider man John E. McClelland. "We can demonstrate for ourselves how cheaply current can be sold in Atlanta.” City Attorney Mayaon said the fear that this electric plant would cause the city to lose the income tax from the Georgia Railway and Power Company was groundless. An old contract provides that the city shall lose this tax, which from light and power amounts to about $15.- 000 a year, if it goes in competition with the Georgia Railway and Power Company. But Mr. Mayson says the recent agreement with the electric com pany excludes the plant as It is pro posed. The mqst important fact is that council actually has voted to build a garbage disposal plant, a matter that has been juggled and delayed for years. The bid of the Destructor Company of New York. $276,000 for an incinerator and SIOO,OOO for an electric power plant to be operated by the heat from the burning garbage, was recommended to the finance committee yesterday by the board of health on the advice of Dr. Rudolph Hering, the city's expert engi neer. Council Accepts Bid. After a long discussion. Councilman W. G. Humphrey moved that the bid be accepted or. that the committee refer the whole matter to council without any recommendation and let it be fought out there. Councilman D. Knight seconded the motion, and it was adopt, ed. only Aiderman A. .1. Johnson op posing it. Alderman John S. Candler made the motion that the bid be accepted by the council. Only Councilmen Orville Hall and D. J. Baker and Aiderman A. J. Johnson opposed it. Mayor Winn is an ardent advocate of the plan and he will approve the contract at once. The city is to pay $50,000 on it this year and $75,000 each succeeding year until the debt is wiped out. with in terest not exceeding six per cent on the deferred payments. Since one year’s council can not legally contract a debt that continues into another year, the Destructor Company takes merely the city's moral obligation for the deferred payments. The contract provides that the plant shall be completed within 310 days. HIRED TO “CLEAN UP” HOUSE. NEGRO DOES JOB TO PERFECTION The next time .Mrs. C. E. Carroll, proprietor of the Carroll house. 15 Houston street, engages a negro to clean up her house, she will be careful to designate the kind of cleaning she desires him to do. For Walter Jackson, a negro youth hired by Mrs. Carroll, "cleaned up” in a way that gave the landlady ant} het boarders a severe jolt. "I told this negro 1 wanted him to clean up the house, and he certainly did the job to perfection.” smilingly ex plained Mrs. Carroll to Recorder Pio Tern Preston. "He was In the house but a few minutes and carried away neatly everything on the place." Detectives recovered all of the stolen goods from pawnshops. The negro confessed his guilt, and was bound over to the state courts. PEFFER LOSES LEG TO FINISH HISTORY OF POPULIST PARTY TOPEKA. June 4. In a little room in Christ hospital, a thin, gray-haired and whiskered man lies on a couch and dictates for 20 to 30 minutes four times a day, that the real history of Populism may be preserved. At 82 years he has suffered the amputation of a leg that this history may be com pleted. It probably never will be pub lished. but will be kept in the archives of the Kansas State Historical society, where it may be read by historians in the years to come. William A.. Peffer was the first and only Populist senator from Kansas. The guileless, long-whiskered man was the butt of the cartoonists and joke smiths. and his whiskers furnished am. munition for bombardments of ridicule. fine chapter of the book is devoted to the 'Whiskers of Populism.” Peffer has the same whiskers he has always worn. REAL USE FOR CONGRESS: FIND WIFE FOR THIS MAN BELGRADE, SERVIA. June 4.—Be ing unable to find a wife for himself. Peter Maiajltch. of Tarnabara, has pe titioned parliament to find one for him. SOUTHERN GIRL WILL BE DAISY QUEEN AT VASSAR COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT // \\ / / a&gf Mb., A \ igW ■-* \\ \ k t ' I ijlKkJt wwctMHBL Ji \ \ ’Gt 7 ' \ ' Wftw 'll . 'oi W* .4 / \ \ ’B' sal? JH \\ < -r \v ' 1 - i ( \A O AV. -o SSifill' ; ’W. J® Sr 4-* 38 ,<tf ■zWa? Hjaa A 4 Az'A ■ Afw RJ 1-I.jfAiMffiL ass vXJ • \ JO Ufa. jJS&f ACT AIMED TO WT sn PROMOTERS Senator W. J. Harris Would Drive Sellers of Fake Stocks From Georgia. Senator \V. J. Harris, of Cedartown, is going gunning foi Georgia's "blue sky artists” at the coining session of the state legislature. Senator Harris has announced that he will introduce a measure similar to , the "blue sky law” of Kansas calculated to make illegitimate stock selling ex tremely difficult. His plan is to require the secretary of state to examine the assets of corporations and" furnish : agents certificates of authority to sell , stock. Th® absence of such p law in Georgia , has caused Georgians to invest large sums yearlv in fake enterprises. Stock . salesmen have long considered Georgia , the proper place to unload most any old ( thing. Recent developments in the system of | state printing has led Senator Harris t ■ . believe that the state can save consid erable money if a printing expert is , employed to see that all contracts are , eat ried out to the letter. He expects to provide for the em ployment of such an expert who shall work directly under the printing com mission of state house officers. The actual printing awards will be made by tne present commission composed of the comptroller general, the state treas urer and the secretary of state, but all : state printing will be under the direct 1 supervision of the printing expert. i SAYS MANY ENGINEERS HAVE PSYCHIC EPILEPSY PHLIADELPHIA, June 4—Dr. Irv ing Spear, of Baltimore, told the medi cal examiners of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in convention here that innumerable engineers in charge of trains were suffering from “psychic epilepsy." an ailment which some day may be the Indirect cause of a terrible railroad accident. He said the disease caused loss of memory or a practical state of coma for perhaps ten seconds or even less and that many of the railroad accidents of the country probably had been caused by it. ATLANTA LAW GRADUATES TO HEAR_COLUMBUS MAN Charlton E. Battle, of Columbus, Ga., one of the best known members of the Muscogee county bar. will deliver the commencement address to the grad uates of the Atlanta Law school at the Grand opera house on the evening of June 17. The faculty will give a recep tion to Mr. Charlton and the graduates at the University club after the com mencement exercises. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 1912. MISS MARTHA LOUISE TIPI Miss Martha Tipton. of Ken tucky, Has Chief Place in Time-Honored Ceremony. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June 4. Official announcement that the time honored Daisy Chain Procession as a part of the Vassar college class day ex ercises will not be abandoned this year, ..s was expected, has brought unbound ed happiness to students of Vassar. Because of the many requests to eon. tinue the pretty and unique ceremony the college authorities have decided to have the Daisy Chain Procession this year as usual. Class day will be ob served June 11. The Daisy Chain P>o cession will start at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and 24 of the prettiest girls in the sophomore class will bear th" floral chain Miss Martha Louise Tipton. of Ken tucky. will be this year’s daisy queen. She is or»e of the prettiest girls at Vas sar. The first of the commencement exer cises at Vassar will be held June S, when the tree ceremonies will be held. June 9 Dr. James Monroe Taylor, presi dent of the college, will deliver the bac calaureate sermon to the graduates. On June 10 Mrs. Taylor, wife of the presi dent. will hold her annual “at home” and the May dance; will be held. June 11 will be class day. Commencement ex ercises will be held on the following day. T. R. DENOUNCED BY GEORGIA WOMAN FOR CRITICISM OF DAVIS MACON. GA., June 4—Mrs. W. D. Lamar's denunciation of Theodore Roosevelt for his designation of Jeffer son Davis as a “traitor” featured the Davis birthday memorial exercises here yesterday afternoon. She said, among other things, that Roosevelt was ignor ant of American history. PERFECT TIMEKEEPER MADE WHOLLY OF GLASS MUNICH, June 4. —Josef Baler, a Bavarian glass cutter, after many years of patient toll, has succeeded in put ting together a watch whose every wheel and screw, with the frame and each of the three covers, is made of glass. No other material has been used in Its construction, except for the springs, which are of the ordinary make. As a timekeeper. Baier's masterpiece is absolutely accurate. Its dimensions are twenty inches by eight and a half. SCHOOL HIRES A HALL FOR BUT ONE GRADUATE PLATTEVILLE, COLO., June 4. Although Miss Josephine Long, daugh ter of W. M. Long, a contractor, is the only graduate of the Platteville High school this year, the school board has hired a hall and regular commencement exercises will be held, i 800 SEE OPENING OF PHOTO SHOW ' Most Complete and Varied Pic ture Collection Exhibited in Dixie Is Displayed. , The Southern Photographic show ; opened at the Auditorium at 9:30 a. m. today and nearly 800 persons saw the exhibition of the most artistic work . of American photographers. ; R. A. Hemphill, president of the , Southern Photo Material Company, of Atlanta, is chairman of the meeting, and introduced City Attorney Jomes L. Mayson.Nvho gave the address’of wel come. One of the most complete and varied collections of photographs ever shown in the South is on display and the work of some of the nation’s most widely known picture men is represented. A color photography display of VV. S. Lively, of McMinnville, Tenn., open ed the practical work of the conven • tion and brought approval from the spectators. Elias Goldensky, of Philadelphia, will ■ talk this afternoon on posing. His lec ture will be In connection with illustra tions given by living models. Many photographers, known nation ally by their excellent work, are at tending the convention, and will ex plain their processes. i Social events have been arranged for the visitors. Among them will be a dance to be given at Taft hall tomor ' row night. BOY FALL DISCHARGES GUN; BROTHER IS DYING MACON, GA., June 4 —Baxter Tid well. thirteen years old, is dying in the Macon hospital, with a load of birdshot in his body. John Tidwell, his nine-year-old brother, accidentally wounded him. The boys went spar row hunting on their mother's farm, a few miles from Macon, yesterday, when John, walking behind Baxter, stumbled, his finger pulling the trigger of his gun The shot penetrated the lad's in testines and his death Is regarded as inevitable. The mother is prostrated. STOLEN PIE AND BISCUITS PROVE_FATAL TO DEER POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y June 4. - Biscuits and pumpkin pie are fatal to deer. A young buck poked its head through the kitchen window of Mrs. Lawrence Dutcher, in Ollvnea. Ulster county, today, and after devouring a dozen biscuits and a steaming pie scampered back into the woods. Several hours later the animal was found dead by a party of picnickers, and all the village thinks it was killed by acute indigestion AUSTRIA ON HE OF CIVIL STRIFE Magyars Ready to Revolt as Soon as Emperor Francis Joseph Dies. BERLIN, June 4—ln Austria it is now an almost absolute certainty that civil war will break out the very mo ment the aged Emperor Francis Joseph dies, an event w hich as he himself said when he heard of the death of the king of Denninrk. can not now be many months off. Personally. Francis Jo seph has forgiven and forgotten the unspeakable indignities hurled at his head in the lower house at Budapest, hut his successor is firmly decided to show the treacherous Magyars that they must either keep faith with Aus tria and contribute her share of the national expenses, o. their present independence, and become a mere province. That the Magyars can not be crushed except by force of arms is a foregone conclusion, but it is equally certain that they will be speedily defeated, for not even in Hungary are they popular because of their constant tyrannizing of all other nationalities within the kingdom, and these down-trodden peo ple number 14,000,000 out of the 20,000,- 000 people in the kingdom. Backed By Political Machine. The rest of the population of Hun gary is made up of Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Roumanians or rather Transyl vanians, Ruthenlans, Germans, etc., and since all the franchise and all the polit ical power are by dint of political gerrymandering monopolized in the hands of certain corrupt Magyar ma chines. parliament and the political element at Budapest, in no sense of the word represent the people of Hungary as a whole. When the emperor dies, should the Magyars put into execution their long and loudly promised project of pro claiming Hungary's complete sepata tion from Austria—a separation as thorough as that of Norway from Swe den, or should they attempt to stir up any trouble against Vienna, they would find themselves overwhelmed by the 14.000,000 people of non-Magyar race in Hungary, people who abhor everything that is Magyar, and who will be only too glad to fight for the empire no longer dual, but unified. Magyars Hated at Vienna. Nor will the Magyars receive sympathy from the remainder of the dual empire. For the aversion in w hich the Magyar politicians are held at Vienna as public nuisances, and as frothy-mouthed demagogues, is beyond all conception. The Magyars are even still more hated by the Bohemians who in the first place resent the idea that Hungary should have complete auton omy, whereas the ancient kingdom of Bohemia should be administered as a mere province. It would be useless for Hungary to look for any sympathy outside. Ger many might be relied upon to accord to Austria all the moral and material sup port that might be needed Between Russia and Hungary there exists the most intense hatred, which has lasted ever since Muscovite Cossacks were employed to crush the Hungarian revo lution in 1849. MAN WHO BUNKED ON RAILROAD TRACKNOW SLEEPS AT STOCKADE That railroad beds are not built for sleeping purposes is a fact now indeli bly impressed on the mind of C. E. Huggins, a young man living in Car roll street. Recorder Pro Tern Preston made the impression when he gave Huggins a term yt ten days in the stockade for disrobing and attempting to enjoy a snooze in the bed of the Georgia railroad. Huggins was discovered lying on a railroad track and was yanked out of his new found “bunk” just a few mo ments before a Georgia railroad train sped over the spot. Huggins told Judge Preston that liquor befuddled his mind and caused him to make the mistake in beds. It was shown that Huggins had created a scene in his home shortly be fore going to bed on the railroad track. He will be placed on probation when his term expires. LOSS oFeYE INSURES WAGESJIFTEEN YEARS SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. — In the first decision of the kind of California industrial accident board has ruled that Harry Christ, an employee of the Paci fic Telephone and Telegraph Company, who lost an eye while at work, shall receive SIOO for medical and surgical expenses, full wages for hospital time, 65 per cent of his wages for the fol lowing eight weeks, 65 per cent of his estimated loss in earning capacity thereafter for a maximum period of fifteen years. The board finds that, although the loss of an eye does not necessarily im pair a man's earning capacity, it in creases the difficulty of finding work. philly"w6menl(eiep dogs FROM PEEVISH MEDICOS PHILADELPHIA. June 4. —Heads of •the medical department of the State university have complained to Mayor Blankenburg that they are unable to get dogs for vivisection purposes, due to the influence of women NO CHICAGO WIFE FOR REGGY: HE’S BOSTONIAN BOSTON. June 4.—Miss Wilhelmina Minniere. daughter of a wealthy Chi cago real estate man. has broken her engagement with Reginald Kennard, nf this city. She says Boston society is “too slow and poky " LAWYERS’ SNUBBING OFT ] WOMEN’S CLAIMS GETS RAPFROM MRS.DOUGLAS I "Tho laarnwd latvvora at fhp flAnrtria PAfiP. Thpfp arm cnpcialiafc in law* no S The learned lawyers at the ueorgia bau- convention discussed the topic of women's admission to the bar from a facetious standpoint because they were too brilliant and intellectual to en deavor to speak in any other than a facetious way against the right of women to practice law. There are many groat lawyers who know there Is no valid reason why women should not practice.” Mrs. Hamilton Douglas. In the breeze-swept living room in her East Caln street apartments, was speaking. Mrs. Douglas Is herself qualified to practice law. having been given her degree at the University of Michigan. And though she is content to remain at home and let her husband, a prominent member of the Atlanta bar, earn the fees for the family, she has not been slow to take up the defense of women less fortunate, who might prefer home life but who must earn their living for themselves. The Georgia Bar association, at its meeting at Atlantic Beach, had chosen for its principal topic, "Shall Women Be Admitted to Practice in Georgia Courts?” Several of the most brilliant lawyers of the state had been assigned to speak on the question, though no formal debate was arranged. But the speakers did not approach the subject seriously; they seemed to think It of fered excellent opportunity for witti cisms and little ground for opposition to the appeal of women graduates in law; so thej’ took refuge in fun and avoided the real issue. Judge Favors Women. Only Judge John L. Hopkins, one of the oldest and ablest lawyers of Atlan ta, treated the topic with the dignity it deserved. He sent to the association a brief and dignified paper defending the right of women to practice law, which was read by the secretary. No formal action was taken by the asso ciation. But while it was fun for the lawyers, the women who hold now useless dlplo. mas from law colleges have so far failed to humor of the subject, and believe the question. If discussed at all. should have been«lven due consideration and decided upon its merits. The Indorsement of the bar association would have gone a long way toward bringing about a change in the statute admitting women to the bar. “Rut the time Is coming," continued Mrs. Douglas, "when there is a serious call from the women—even a very few women —I have not a particle of doubt that the law will be changed. As Hoop er Alexander told the legislature last summer, it may not come this year or next, but It is Inevitable. Law Alone Bars Women. "1 have often wondered how it hap pens that the law is the only profession which excludes women. In Atlanta we have woman doctors, woman dentists, a woman minister (of the Christian Science church) and women In nearly every profession. Why, the law would not permit a woman to be state libra rian a few years ago, but one woman made up her mind to hold the place, and the law was changed. The law barring women from legal practice will be changed In Georgia, as It has been in other states, when a vigorous effort is made. "In the Western and Northwestern states there has never been a discus sion of this question, for from the very beginning women have stood shoulder to shoulder with the pioneer men. But in the older states, where social condi tions have been more cut-and-dried, there had to be these realignments. Georgia seems to be in a kind of back water —but 1 am too good a Georgian to believe she will stay in the back water long. Not Homes For All Women. “Every woman would rather be at home and give her life to her husband and children, but there are a great many more women now than there are sheltered homes for them. In the old en days there was plenty of work for women at home. There was weaving and spinning and other occupations whffh have passed from the home into the factory. Women have had to fol low the work out of the home itno fac tory or office. There has never been a question of a woman’s right to do man ual labor —she has only been barred from the use of certain Intellectual at tainments. “Some people who argue against women practicing law say the courts have many cases which would be em barrassing to women and, therefore, the law is no place for them. 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