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PLfiZfl OVER OLD OEPDT SITE IS PROJECTED ■ \ Removal of Station Farther to the West Provided for in Civic Center Scheme. Plans for a plaza over the railroad tracks from Forsyth street to the Washington street viaduct were practi cally agreed upon today by the civic plans committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Alex W. Smith, chairman of the com mittee and the man who drew up the present bill before the legislature, which was not acted upon last year, will draw the new bill and present it to the chamber for their consideration before it is introduced into Vhe legis lature. The new plans eliminate the propo sition to erect a 25-story office build ing on the site of the present old de pot. and provide for the depot to be njoved and a new one erected over the tracks just west of Forsyth street. Office Building Impracticable. The election of such an office build ing as the one contemplated in the former plan is regarded by a majority of the members of the committee as impracticable, and it is their belief that this kept the first plaza plan from being indorsed by many Atlantans. "From Forsyth street due east to the Washington strep' viaduct." said Pres ident Wilmer L. Moore, a member of the committee, “wil' be a straight sweep of plaza, unbroken in any place by a building, ami affording a resting place for thousands of Atlantans, a breathing place for the mighty lungs of the city, and a relief from the congestion which Is becoming a menace to our people in the down-town districts. Link in Park System. "More than that is the plan incorpo rated in the plazas echeme. It will be but the beginning of a movement on the part of the Chamber of Commerce to establish throughout the city a mag nificent system of parks, with broad bou!< yards leading to them and con necting them w ith each other. When we get -tatted we are going to put the. actual planning in the hands of an ar tist. a man w hose knowledge of how to lay out such parks and boulevards to meet civic conditions has been well proved, and at a later date we intend to ask from the city treasury an ap propriation to keep up these parks and boulevards, to enlarge them and carry out th'-Mwork. "Another matter that is very impor tant to Atlanta." continued Mr. Moore "and one that the new plans for the plaza will Reep intact, is the splendid fire wall which now divides the north and south business parts of the city. The open space through the heart of Atlanta may' not look well to us nor to visitors, with engines running up and down 'he tracks and with volumes of smoke floating up and stinging our nostrils and going into our lungs, but that same space may some day save one-half the down-town section for us. Under the present plan we have drawn up. we keep this space open as it is now In that n<r buildings will be erected upon it and there will be nothing to bridge the flames across. Os course, the *moke nuisance and the noise of trains will be abated by the plaza, too." Business Men Favor Plan. The committee which has tentatively agieed upon the new plans for a plaza is made up of some of the strongest and most influential men of Atlanta, and upon the present plans all of them seem to be thoroughly in accord. That the movement will receive the back ing of the Chamber of Commerce and of all civic bodies in Atlanta is not doubted by them. Ihe chairman of the committee is Alex W. Smith, and Ihe remainder of the membership is as follows: John W. Grant, Wilmer L. Moore. George M. Brown. E. P. Mcßurney, Ed Peters and Walter G. Cooper. All were present at the meeting today in Mr. Smith’s office, with the exception of Mr. Peters, who was kept away by a business engage ment. The committee will meet again next week and make arrangements to handle the mass of detail which will be necessary before the matter can be brought before the legislature with any hope of having it pass. RICH VALDOSTA MAN, WITH A GUN, BLOCKS WIDENING OF STREET VALDOSTA. GA.. June s.—With a shotgun. T., S. McKey, one of the wealthiest citizens of Valdosta, stopped a force of city employees from setting back a fence twelve feet along his prop erty on Central avenue, when the city began preparations for paving the street for two blocks north of Hill ave nue. He held his ground until mem bers of the city council arrived on the scene and it was agreed to submit to arbitration and surveys whether he or the city has a right to the twelve-foot strip of land. Central avenue south of Hill avenue is twenty feet wide, but north of that street it is now but twelve feet. Mayor Roberts and other city officials claim that Mr. McKey has encroached on the street, while Mr. McKey is just as posi tive that he owns to where his fence stands. ELOPERS, FLEEING TO WOODS, CAUGHT; BOY IS HELD AS ABDUCTOR LEGRANDE, DREG. June 5 Flo Norris. 17 > eats old. anti her sweet heart T H. Hopson, 22, who took Io the pood win n theit plan io marry was frustrated, hav< been captured by » jKMuu that trailed them through the Blue mountains. The girl was taken home, Hope< n escaped hut re rgptuted afli i . It iolvei light with tin sip i iff t<o|»>on la in jail charged with ■bdu< tion. 0 Real Romances of Sunny Georgia [J] COPY BOY CUPID UNITES SOCIETY EDITRESS AND YOUNG MINISTER Even in a Newspaper Office Romance Sometimes ILurks, as This Story Proves. If anyone were looking about for an unlikely place to stage a romance the chances are, dollars to dingbats, that he rvould choose a newspaper shop. There in a wilderness of waste pa per and worn tempers, nothing short of an icthyosaurus or a city editor would apparently have a chance for life. The unbeliever would sooff loud scoffs if he were told that a romance actually had its genesis mid Che roar of the Hoes and Gosses and the fail ings of reporters who had thair stuff “cut down" to a whisper. "Huh." he would say. And when a man says "Huh" he means much. Ro mance in a newspaper shop would have just about the same chance ae a hollyhock in a cyclone. But in spite of all that—in of worn tempers and waste paper and roaring presses and cub reportetrs and other wild animals that infest the jour nalistic thickets —there stands record ed the marriage of Miss Georgia Hill yer and the Rev. John Roach Straton, who. according to the best of history, met each other in an Atlanta newspaper office. She Was a Society Editress. Mrs. Straton. who was Miss Hillyer, is the niece of Judge George Killyer, one of Atlanta’s nmst proffiinent. citi zens. She had the literary bent; and took it out in describing the costumes worn by Miss De Styles and the kind of decorations which would overhang the heads of Mis- Not at bought and Mr. i rtf !KB\ I J < n<r | J C: •o' Veryrich when their nuptials were cele brated in the spring. in other word:*, she bore the name and responsibilities of society editor. Then there was Rev. John Roach Straton, an honor graduate of Mercer university. They ;?ay that when the dean presented him with his diploma there were enough medals attached to him to salt a first-class Western gold mine, for he was a young Demosthe nes. He could talk on any subject from Maine to Madagascar, and could talk in such a strain that they would ac tually -listen to him, which is some power for a latter day orator. Well, the Rev. John was just out. He was a ministerial sprout, so to speak, but he had the earmarks of greatness already and people began to pay attention to him. As such men would do. he wandered into the news paper office one day and began to talk to his old friend Colonel John Temple Graves, who was also making l good in. the speaking end of the game. He Had a News Item. I Now a newspaper office is Laid off! with an eye to democracy. That is,, everybody is right together. Theunan-t aging editor sits in a vantage vpoinll where he can watch the star reporter* come in a half hour late every morn-i ing. if this were not a fact there might, not have been a romance. But it wasl a fact. So- Rev. Straton met Miss Hillyer— tr give her a.news item. She was small and dark and pretty, and the Rev. John' Roach had an eye for something else 1 than oratory. The memory of Mist-' Hillyer stuck with him and —they were married shortly. As is often the case, their romance didn’t end with marriage. They have been as happy as two birds of spring and they have four children to make them all the happier. Rev. John Roach rose rapidly In his profession and is now pastor of one of the largest Bap tist churches in Baltimore. BUD A PEST”IIN FEA R OF RIOTERS; TROOPS PATROL STREETS BI’DAPEST, June s.—Parliament square and adjacent streets were tnronged with soldiers and police to uay to prevent members of the Hun- I garian chamber of deputies from car rying into effect their threats to pre cipitate a riot over the passage of the army reform bill. Count Karolyi and other leaders had threatened to renew the outbreak which occurred in the chamber yesterday, when Count Tlssea, preaident of that body, forced the second and third read- I ing of the b|ll. Count Karolyi was one of the states men dragged through the chapibet and I hurled Into the yiprl because of vlo- i pent scents in which he participated. j THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JtTNE 5, 1912. * * >... V . A, > \\ / ZhBT \ / ''Wf \ \ / M \\ A fc- ' \\ Z’ ’ Wf ' •i ‘ « Ifc,. : ' ’• { Bte" i I Hk * I Igr ‘ y L: {• # FASHIONABLE AIKEN NOT SURPRISED AT BEACH INDICTMENT AIKEN. S. C., June 5.-’-Fashionable Aiken is expressing no surprise today over the indictment of Frederick O. Beach. New York millionaire and mem ber of the Aiken winter colony, for as sault and battery with intent to kill his wife. The bill of indictment, re turned late yesterday afternoon by the Aiken county grand jury, had been ex pected, as it was believed here that the state had a sufficiently strong case against Beach to warrant a true bill. The indictment was returned without the testimony of Detective M. S. Baughn, of Atlanta, who had worked up much of the evidence and whose ex pected appearance before the grand jury had been considered one of the strongest features of the solicitor’s case. No further developments are ex pected here until the time of the trial at the fall term of court. Pearl Hampton, a negro laundress, who was attacked the same night Mrs. Beach's throat was slashed in Febru ary, and seven prominent residents of Aiken, including Dr. Marion H. Wyman and Dr. Hastings, appeared before the grand jury. NEW SIOO,OOO BANK AT VALDOSTA ORGANIZES VALDOSTA, GA., June 5. A prelim inary organization of the new bank to .be established here has been formed. 'The new institution will be known as I‘.he Exchange Bank of Valdosta, w ith a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, practically all of which has been taken. A. C. Mizell will be president and Dr. F. R Parra ttnore vice president. The bank will begin business about S«»p«tember 1, It will occupy the McKey building on Central avenue and Ashley st rent TAR*POT OVERTURNS GN ROOF; FIRE LADDIES OUT An overturned pot of molten tar in the rear of 90 Whitehall street caused a fire alarm at 10 o’clock today. No damage was done, as the fire was quenched by the workmen before the fire department arrived. Some repair work is being done on the roof of one of the huHldings, and the tar was being used for this. TELFAIR OFFICIAL DIES. HELENA, GA . June 5 Joseph W. Cameron, clerk of the superior court of "rlfalr county, died suddenly last nigh* after » short Illness He had been in PUSH UWMUU Iv, eem lilt— Mrs. Georgia Ilillyer Straton, who was the bride in .a romance which had its origin in an At lanta newspaper office. MAYOR TO FORGE SCHOOL JEPIIHS If Contractors Refuse to Rem edy the Defects City Will Sue, Says Winn. Mayor Winn and a committee of five officials today inspected Ashby Street school, and the mayor renewed his declaration that the contractors will be forced to better the condition of the buildings or answer in the courts. The visitors found that practically the entire top floor of the building will have to he replastered and that rain blows through the window casings and ruins the maple floors. Defects were found in the general method of con struction. The finding will be brought to the attention of the council and Mayor Winn will recommend that the contrac tors be ordered to bring the buildings to the contract standard. If they fail to comply, he will ask the city attorney to institute legal proceedings against the builders. Besides Mayor Winn, Frank A. Quil lian, chairman of the bond commission, A P. Morgan, of the board of educa tion: Aiderman A. J. Johnson and W. O. Stamps, of the board of education, visited the school. Other schools will be inspected during the next few days. Testimony Is Conflicting. The investigators have a mass of conflicting testimony to consider. W. R. Daley and W. O. Stamps, members of the board of education, said they were convinced that the school build ings had cost from SIO,OOO to $15,000 more than they should have cost. Ar chitect E. E. Dougherty declared that the buildings in Atlanta cost far less per cubic foot than similar buildings in other cities. Alderman John S. Candler declared when the bond ordinance was adopted the sum for new schools was cut from the original estimate of $864,000 to $600,000, but an effort was made to build the schools as originally planned. He declared the schools are cheap, but good work, considering the money Spent. Contractor George A. Clayton assert ed when the officials were cutting down the expense of the buildings they cut out ferrying of the walls of the Hili Street and the Ashby Street school, anti that the inside plastering would have to be torn down to make proper repairs at a cost of thousands of dollars. “POWER CITY” TO ADVERTISE. JACKSON, GA . June s.—"Jackson— the Power City” will be flashed from a large electric sign at the Southern rail way depot, if the plans started by (be city and the Central Georgia Power Uumpany are canted out. PROMISE BROKEN MARRIAGE IS VOID Court Annuls Union Where the Husband Inveigled Catholic Into Protestant Ceremony. KINGSTON. N. Y., June 5. —Justice Alden Chester, presiding in one of the most remarkable cases ever tried be fore the supreme court, has granted an interlocutory' decree of annulment to Mrs. Mary Light Davis. The court holds that her husband, James E. Davis, obtained her hand by fraud and deceit, in that he refused to have a ceremony performed by a Cath olic priest, after promising his bride to do so. Although they were married by a Protestant clergyman in New Balti more. N. Y„ on December 18, 1911, the Davises parted soon after the cere mony. Her marriage, unrecognized by her church, resulted in the excommuni cation of Mrs. Davis, and she finally annealed to the courts to have the union declared void. Judge Chester finds that while the plaintiff was away from home and her parents, and while she was sick and ill, Davis, urging her beyond her power of resistance, under the false, deceitful and fraudulent representations of his Intentions to marry her according to the forms of her church, inveigled and tricked her into a marriage ceremony performed by a Protestant clergyman. FAMOUS SURGEON WILL TALK TO GA. DENTISTS The forty-fourth annual session of the Georgia State Dental society will be held at Americus, Ga., Tuesday, June 11. The committee has arranged ex cellent clinics. Dr. G. V. I. Brown, of Milwaukee. Wis., one of the world's foremost oral surgeons, will give a lec ture on ora! surgery, also a surgical clinic. WOUNDED IN LEG, FUGITIVE ELUDES POSSE IN A SWAMP OWENSBORO. KY„ June s.—The posse which has sought George Black burn. the alleged horse thief who killed Policeman Dawson, has had a futile I quest through the swamps of Spencer county. Indiana. Though wounded in one leg. Blackburn has keut ahead of the posse. The Owensboro council of fered a reward of S2OO for Blackburn, dead or alive. » FIRE SALE! We are determined to close out this stock by Saturday night, and if utter/ disregard of cost or value will accomplish this stupendous task, after this week/ our fire sale will be a thing of the past. A limited number of Extraordinary Specials will be offered every day at such ridiculously low prices that an early call will be absolutely imperative. The store opens promptly at 9a. m. Be on / hand to share in this wonderful Bargain Harvest. Watch this paper for thesei daily announcements. r i Eight Sensational Thursday Specials Ladies’ 25c Short Kimonos Lovely $1 and $1.50 Shirt at waists, choice 9c 67c Ladies’ 69c Pure Thread Balance of the Tailored Suits, Silfa Hose at Values to S3O, choice 33c $3.95 Misses’ Norfolk Wash Suits, $1.25 and $1.50 Muslin Values to $6, at Uunderwear, at $2.69 79c Untrimmed Shapes, Values 500 Mens 50c Silk Ties to $7.50, choice at 25c 15c Tiie above are only a few of the scores of wonderful Fire Sale Bargains for Thursday. Everything must go regardless of any former pricing. Sfr/e Quality 49 Whitehall Street Death Sentence of Woman Commuted Boston. June s.—The execu tive council this afternoon voted unanimously for commu tation of Mrs. Cusumano’s sen tence of death. She was sen tenced to the electric chair for slaving her husband. 3-GUINEA PIG POWER IS LATEST ROOSEVELT PHRASE FOR CRITICS When the term "bonehead” was ap plied to Fred Merkle, first baseman of the New York Giants, on his failure to touch second base in the deciding game of a pennant race, it was thought that the last word In expression of feeble mentality had been said. But In his speech at Gettysburg a few days ago Theodore Roosevelt coined a new phrase which will take its place along with "our patient of Bedlanj.” “dee lighted." “My hat Is in the ring” and other famous sayings of the Oyster Bay citizen. The new phrase was elicited from Mr. Roosevelt when he was asked to reply to the charge of Representative John J. Fitzgerald, of New York, that Roosevelt in 1902 wanted to make per petual his job as president. "Mr. Fitzgerald's accusation, or the implied accusation, is too preposterous to need any serious discussion,” said the colonel. “Just as machinery can be expressed in terms of horsepower, so some In tellects can be expressed In terms of guinea-pig power. This kind of accusa tion can only be heeded by men with brains of about three-gulnea-pig pow er.” ONLY ONE STUDENT RECEIVES DIPLOMA AT CONVENT SCHOOL Numbers of parents of children and friends of the school will gather at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the commence ment exercises of the Imamcula-te Concep tion convent. The exercises will be held in the auditorium of the building at 149 Washington street. Miss Io Regis Cheves Is the only stu dent who will receive a diploma for the completion of the academy course and she will deliver a valedictory. Recitation of Southern poems and speeches will be a feature of the program. An allegory, “The Journey of Life,” in which the part of the graduate will be taken by Miss Cheves, will be an Inter esting feature In the auditorium where the exercises are to be held Is an exhibition of the art work done by the students under Sis ter Regis and some fine examples of water color work and of hand-painted china Is shown. MISS BARNWELL \ JEALOUS, SATS ' MISS M Applicant Opposed by the Play Parks Head Wins, and the Latter May Resign. Dan Carey, general manager of parks, said today that Miss Mary Barnwell, supervisor of playgrounds, would quit as a result of the action of the park board yesterday in naming Miss Fannie Spahr supervisor of playgrounds. “The. park board has broken its con-, , tract with Miss Barnwell,” he said. "She did not seek the position and ac cepted It on condition that she be al lowed to appoint her own assistants. The hoard overrode her recommenda tion In electing Miss Fannie Spahr,” Miss Barnwell is In Cleveland, Ohio, attending a meeting of the American Playground association. Mr. Carey ex plained that her objection to Miss Spahr was that Miss Spahr was not amenable to authority. The park board Is in a fever over the three-cornerea contest between Miss Barnwell, Miss Spahr and Mrs, Adele Carter Ulm, the two latter being aspi rants to the place of director of play grounds Miss Barnwell recommended Mrs. Ulm. • The park board yesterday ejected' Miss Spahr. Miss Spahr said to The Georgian to» day: Mrs. Ulm Withdrew. "The explanation I have received of Miss Barnwell's objection to me was that she said I was cleverer than she.” Mrs. Ulm withdrew from the content as soon as opposition to her developed in the nark board. Mr. Carey with drew her name at her request The nark board does not wish to lose. Miss Barnwell, and yet a majority of seven to three voted for Miss Spahr. The vote was: For Miss Spahr—Wllby, Puckett, Burnett, Bond, Pitts. Young and Coch ran. Against her —Van Houten, Anderson and Thomson. All the other playground directors recommended by Miss Barnwell and ; Mr. Carey were elected. Commissioner M. B. Young making a vigorous speech urging the members of the board to sunport the officials they had placed<Jr>- charge of such matters, and not to play • politics. The new regulations. as published tn The Georgian, for swimming and hoax ing in Piedmont park lake so as to lessen danger of drownfngs. wwr<* adopted. The one exception was to al low women In boats when accompanied by men. The board also provided for a telephone at the park, an Improvement The Georgian has urged, that anxious parents might learn the names of vic tims, If more drowning* occur. 3