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VOL. X. NO. 272.
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THREATENS
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Successful Bidders for $376,-
000 Job Will Ask for Addi
tional Delay.
UNABLE TO REALIZE ON
“MORAL” OBLIGATION
City Charter Provision Held to
Prevent Council Making
Binding Contract.
A bad legal tangle today threatened
to hold up indefinitely the building of a
garbage disposal plant for which At
lanta has been clamoring for years.
The Destructor Company of New
York, which secured the contract on a
bid of $378,000, agreed to take the
council's moral obligation for all but
$50,000 of the amount, already appro
priated. The company has not yet
been able to negotiate through banks
this obligation. The time limit to be
gin work is up tomorrow. At a special
meeting of council this afternoon an
additional ten days’ time will be re
quested.
Tt was declared today that council
has evaded the charter provision which
specifically states that the council of
one rear can not bind the council of
another year for debt by pledging Itself
in a moral contract. The Destructor
Compa’ of New York wants to dis
i o'int ’he city’s moral notes through a
bank The banks demand that the pa
per* be legal and the dty charter pro
vides that it would be illegal to make
them legal.
Officials Hunt
Solution in Vain.
Whatever the success of the De
structor Company is, however. In dis
counting the city’s moral notes, the city
holds a $35,000 certified check guaran
teeing that the contract will be carried
out
Robert F. Maddox bought the new
city hall and took the city's moral obli
gation for sst\ooo. Hugh T. Inman
purchased a $150,000 pump for Atlanta
when he only had a moral pledge that
he would be repaid. Council made both
of the payments without question The
building of the garbage disposal plant,
however, is on a cold business basis
and city officials were at. a. loss today
for a solution of the problem that has
apparently been ignored thus far.
According to the contract the city is
to pay $50,000 cash and $75,000 each
year until the amount is paid The
deferred payments are to bear interest
of not more than six per cent For any
reason it thought a succeeding council
could legally refuse to make the prom
ised payment.
Gilbert Confident It
Will Be Underwritten.
There is opposition among a few
members of officials to the purchase of
this plant and its erection on the site
of the present crematory. There is
doubt of the outcome if these oppo
nents resort to the courts.
Dr. W. L. Gilbert, president of the
board of health, said today that while
the matter of financing the deal had
not yet been settled, he had no doubt
that a satisfactory agreement would be
reached. He insisted that the building
of the plant would be underwritten.
The plant not only provides for a
garbage disposal plant, but a 1,500-
kilowatt capacity electric power plant.
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[ NERVIEST OF
MEN,” SAYS
DOCTOR OF
GOUGE
His Stoicism as Operation
Neared Astounds Operating
Physicians.
DECLARE HE HAS FINE
CHANCE TO RECOVER
Accused Wife Glad Eugene
I Stood Operation Successfully.
Hopes He’ll Get Well.
Eugene Grace, shot March 5 In At
lanta and pronounced incurably par
alyzed by -prominent surgeons of At
lanta, has a chance for complete re
covery. After operating upon the
wounded man yesterday afternoon at
his home in Newnan, Ga.. Dr. W. M.
Turner stated that there was a chance
of a complete return of sensation in
the lower limbs, which were cut from
the nerve centers by the bullet. His
spinal cord is not severed.
In this statement he is backed up by
Dr. T. S. Bailey, who has attended
Grace ever since he was carried from
Atlanta to Newnan, and Dr. John S.
Derr, of Atlanta.
Nerviest, Man,
I
I Says Physician.
Dr. Derr declared Grace was the
nerviest man he has seen In all his
experience.
Said Dr. Turner:
"The patient is doing well. He has
not yet reached the stage where accu
rate predictions can be made, but I am
oonvinced that he has a chance to re
cover his health and not be crippled in
. any way."
For several days the operation had
been contemplated. The doctors kept
constant watch over their patient’s
physical condition and determined, aft
i er noticing evidence of a returning sen-
I ration near the knee, that the probe
j would be made. Grace himself was
I eager for it.
i Grace Urged
i Doctors to Act.
For more than three months he had
lain upon his back unable to do more
than lift a glass of water to his mouth.
Often he had cried out against it and
urged his physician to do something.
When told that the operation would be
performed he seemed very glad.
At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon he
was put under the anesthetic.
An entrance was made at the ninth
dorsal vertebra. In tlie course of the
operation it was discovered that the
spinal cord was not severed, hut that the
paralysis had resulted from an extreme
pressure. The bullet was also located,
but owing to its inaccessibility it was
not removed. The pressure was relieved
considerably, however.
The first thing Grace asked after re
turning to consciousness was: "Is it
coming out all right, doc?" He re
ceived very encouraging assurance.
Before and after the operation he
was calm and collected, despite the
fact that but a small margin stood
between him and death.
"I never saw as cool a man." said
Dr. Derr this morning. “He never once
lost his nerve. He never once looked
as if he was in the least frightened.
In all my medical experience I have
never seen a man go under the knife
with such splendid control over him
self and such absolute fearlessness.”
This morning Grace was resting
easy and was unusually cheerful. To
his stepfather, S. 1,. Hill, be confided
the belief that he would be riding about
In a buggy very soon.
Mrs. Grace Glad
Operation Was Success.
"I’m so glad Gene stood the operation
so well. I always said the doctors
should operate," said Mrs. Daisy Grace
today when told how her husband had
I come successfully from the anesthetic.
1 "I'm .'•ure Gene will get well now.
I You remember, I said it would not sur
prise me if he walked into the court
room at my trial. Perhaps if they had
I operated a long time ago he would be
i well ami walking about now."
Mrs. Grace was at the home of Mrs.
Louise Wilson in West End. where she
has remained quietly since her release
from the Tower on bond several weeks
ago. She spends most of her time in
the home of Mis. Wilson, rarely leav-
I ing the house or the yard, but she has
1 made several visits to the offices of
Moore & Branch, her attorneys, and
|My« she has apparently not been r< • ■
i ogmzed b> anybody on th- street. Her
old dread of facing curious people is
; rapidly pasting.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1912.
Death Hovers Over Wreck Victims' Home
GEORGIA_ TOWNS_ IN GRIEF
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This shows one of the overturned cars and other wreckage of the Calhoun excursion train
disaster, which cost three lives near Dalton yesterday. Only one of the six cars of the train re
mained on the track, the other five going over the embankment with the engine. Four of the
ears were turned completely over at the foot of the bank.
Aft.SPENDS
551D.M
Permission of Court Asked to
I
Issue Receiver’s Certificates
for Improvements.
The Atianta. Birmingham and Atlan
tic Railroad Company asked permission
of th® United States district court to
day to issue $5,000,000 worth of re
ceiver’s certificates to raise money on
which to carry out extensive improve
ments planned. Included in the appli
cation was the Georgia Terminal Com
pany and the Alabama Terminal Com
pany, branches of the railroad. Judge
Pardee set the hearing of the petition
for Saturday morning.
The company's receive?*, who have
been in charge for four years, already
have issued $3,250,000 worth of notes,
authority for which was granted in
June, 1909.
If the court agrees, the notes will be
given at five per cent interest, and ex
tensive improvements will be begun in
the Atlanta section as soon hs they can
be disposed of. It is said a large New
York firm has contracted for the entire
amount.
ATHEIST’SLEGACY
GOES TO GOSHEN’S
WOMAN OF MERIT
ROME. GA. June 13 —ln accordance
with » provision of a will died in 1863 by
John Bale, grandfather of John W. Bate,
solicitor general of the Rome judicial dis
trict, the contents of which documents
have not hitherto been published, the
most meritorious woman in Goshen dis
trict. Alabama, has been receiving the
dividends from seven shares of Georgia
railroad stock.
John Bale was an atheist. He was pos
sessed of a brilliant education and was a
man considerable influence His will Is a
remarkable document. A striking feat
ure of it is the provision setting aside the
dividends of seven shares of Georgia rail
road stock for the most meritorious w’o
man In Goshen district. Alabama. One
of t he requirements he makes is that the
woman with the most merit must not use
snuff She must possess a sweet dlsposi
| lion and economical.
Two magistrates of the Goshen dis
; trict and a prominent citizen decide the
| winner and award the prize Christmas of
I each year.
I VEN USES IN BATH ING
SUITS NOT WANTED
■ AT CHICAGO BEACHES
i „. ■■
t'HIt'AGO. June 13.—N0 "Venus and
Adonis, or Psyche and Apollo in bath
ing suits for Chicago" Is the edict, of
Police Chief McWeeney, In making as
signments to his men who are to see
the laws enforced at the bathing
beaches along bake Michigan. Chief
McWeeney has issued an order in
which be declarts that “princess" bath
ing suits may he permitted when they
are not "too clinging." but he does not
define just how < linging they may be.
In general the'order bars the fash
j lonable bathing suits now in vogue at
th, famous bathing resorts of Europe,
I also flesh-colored apparel.
ARREST FOLLOWS KILLING.
GADSDEN. ADA., June 13. Wiley
Harding, one of the white men who was
I wounded in a fight with negroes at a
I camp meeting near Guntersville, Mar
shall county, is under arrest and‘ln jail
lat Gunte> sville. Harding was bad!)
I wounded. I* is charged that he killed
' a negro w oman and he was arrested
| for that
List of Injured Mounts, and
Several Are in Danger—Res
idences Are Hospitals.
CALHOUN, GA., June 18. With half
a hundred residences in Calhoun con
verted into temporary hospitals, where
the injured are being given medical at
tention, this city today has had brought
home to It a more vivid realization of
the seriousness of the wreck of the
Calhoun exrGrxton train near Dalton
oh yesterday. The injured, who were
brought here on special trains late yes
terday afternt'on, are being cered for
by physiclane and r la fives in their
homes here, there being no hospital to
which they could be ’.aken.
Mrs. John Rf,y, the most t*>r|«jsly
injured, has but a Might chance to re
cover. Her back was broken. Dr. Mc-
Afee, the railroad surgeon, has set the
spine and hopes that she may recover.
He doe® not believe the spinal cord was
injured. She was brought here on one
of the hospital trains.
Prominent Men Hurt.
Fonr of the seriously injured were
too badly hml to be brought home, and
they are being cared for in Dalton.
They include two of the most promi
nent men of this elt.y—H. F. Ross,
clerk of the superior court, and G. A.
Anderson, representative in the legis
lature from Gordon county. Mrs. John
Neal and Mrs. Kate Littlefield are the
other two left m Dalton. These four
are internally injured and badly
bruised about the bodies. It is not
thought Representative Anderson can
recover
Others now here who are regarded as
being in serious condition include Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Gardner. Miss Blanche
Gardner, Mr. anad Mrs. L. Moss and
Miss Jeannette Reeves.
List of Injured
Reaches Seventy Five
DALTON. GA., June 13.—Cots scat
tered throughout several parks, con
taining those who were seriously in
jured in the wreck of the Knights of
Pythias special from Calhoun to Chat
tanooga yesterday, was the unique
sight here throughout the afternoon.
The wreck resulted In three being killed
and 75 injured, eight seriously.
The injured were placed beneath the
trees in the open air. as the day was
excessively hot, and there the physi
cians went among them, ministering to
them and alleviating the suffering.
List of Injured.
A complete list of the injured fol
lows:
Coley Cay, Annie Champion. Allie
Rankin. Mrs. Fred McDaniel, Mary
Norton. George Ray, Will Littlefield
Vernon Ray, C. C. West, T. 11. House,
S. A. Borders, Mrs. S. A. Borders, Miss
Annie Lou Borders, Beulah Owens, H.
P. Owens, Siddie Butler, Willie B.
Ovens. Addie Belle Stewart, Minnie
Kay, S. G. King. E E. Noland, S. Z.
Moore. J. M. Ballew. Miss Blanche
Gardner, H. B. Legg, Lillian Thompson,
.Mis. J. T. Thompson. Captain A. H. Is.
bill, Mrs. Will Smith, Loucile Gaines,
Mrs. John Ray, Dr. V. Langford, W. H.
Smith. H. G. Smith, J V. MeEntyre.
Fate MeEntyre, G. L. Carpenter, .1. W.
Tate, H. W. Tate, J. F. Allison, B F.
Silks, T. c. Jolly, Mrs B. C. Young.
H. C. Hall, Cobb MeEntyre. Willie
Smith, c. Everett, S. H. Chitwood,
M E. Ellis. Mrs. Boaz I.egg. E. O.
Shellhouse. T. .1. Champion, William
Curtis. Mrs. T. .1. Champion. Marvin
Moore. Dwight MeEntyre, Miss Maude
Byrum, .1. B Watts, Mrs. .1. B. Watts,
R. K. Haney, Di G. A. Anderson, Mrs.
Maude Neal. Miss Jeanette Reeves. Will
Richards. John Shuman. Mrs. Kate Lit
tlefield. Henry Ross. Miss Ethel Tliomp
on. B. G Legg. Mr. and Mrs. L. Moss.
Jaek Frix,. Willis Wylie and Charley
Butler, the last three being negroes.
HR FELDER TO
‘TELLDN’BLEASE
South Carolina Committee to
Summon Atlanta Attorney in
Alleged Graft Prohe,
CObUMBIA, S. C. June 13.—Thomta
B Felder, of Atlanta, will be sum
moned by the state senate committee,
Investigating the late state dispensary
system, to tell wliat he knows of the
acts of Governor Cole L. Blease and
others In connection with dispensary
matters. Mr. Felder is quoted as hav
ing expressed a willingness to pome
here, and thee ommlttee will summon
him at an early date
Governor Blease is seeking the arrest
of Mr. Felder on warrants sworn out,
charging him with offering bribes while
employed as attorney in connection
with dispensary litigation. The senate
committee will give the Atlanta lawyer
an opportunity to tell anything he may
know concerning any misconduct on
the part of the governor, and he is
quoted herea s saying he does know of
such misconduct.
Senator H. B. Carlisle, chairman of
the senate committee, has stated that
the committee will meet again next
Tuesday and at some future session
will summon Mayor John P. Grace, of
Charleston, to tell what he knows of
charges that the governor has received
graft from blind tigers in Charleston.
Grace, through his Charleston paper,
recently made the assertion that graft
had been received in the Capitol, and
that some of it had reached Governor
Blease.
DESPONDENCY OVER
HARD LOT OF POOR
LEADS TO SUICIDE
BROOKSVILI-E. GA.. June 13.
"Poor men have a hard time," remark
ed Richard Wilson to his brother-in
law here, just before he committed sui
cide. Wilson had Just returned to the
home of his brother-in-law from a |
plantation commissary nearby. As he
passed through the house to a back
room he made his comment on the hard
lot of the poor man. A few minutes
later pistol shots were heard. When
relatives reached him Wilson was dead.
Despondency over money matters l«
supposed to have been the cause,
BABY DIES IN LESS THAN
MONTH AFTER MOTHER
Little Elizabeth Dallas, daughter of
Park A Dallas, left motherless less than
a month ago. died at the family resi
dence. 52 East Caln street, late today.
Mrs. Dallas died several weeks ago. and
since her death the baby, barely a
month old. has never been well. The
remains will be taken to McDonough.
Ga.. this afternoon at 5 o'clock, and
buried beside the mother tomorrow.
POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS IN
ATLANTA SHOW BIG GAIN
The close of the fiscal year in govern- I
ment offices throughout the country is I
June 30 Officials of the Federal depart
ments in Atlanta are preparing their an
nual reports. Though official figures have
not been given out, it was announced to
day the receipts of the postoffice depart
ment will exceed the amount taken in last
year by a large margin, other offices
allow a similar increase.
T. R. WIIS FIRST REAL
vicioms hissouri
OELEGATIDN IS SEATED
I aft Steam Roller, However, Earlier in
Day Invades Mississippi and Adds 12
Contested Delegates to President’s
Support—Penrose Moves to Seat the
Roosevelt Men—Heney Scores Again.
• HK’AGO. .lune 13.- the Roosevelt delegates at large from
Missouri were seated by the national Republican committee to
day.
The eiirht men named as delegates at large were seated.
Four will bo delegates and four alternates. The alternates
elected wore not seated.
This victory for Roosevelt, the second since the committee
sessions started, gives the colonel a total of five seated by the
committee.
The Roosevelt men were given their
seats on motion of Senator Boise Pen
rose. of Pennsylvania, nations! commit
teeman. and head of the Taft steam
roller crew. His motion provided that
four of the men be seated as delegates,
and the other four as alternates.
The victory came after Governor
Herbert S. Hadley appeared before the
committee to argue the cases of the
Roosevelt men and showed conclusively
that the convention held in St. Louis
had been "regular." Charges that the
Roosevelt men had agreed to split the
delegation at large to the Chicago con
vention, giving Taft and Roosevelt men
equal representation without instruc
tion. was the basis of the contest filed
by the Taft men. Hadley asserted that
no such agreement ha 1 b»en made
Taft’s Victories
Tol . 153.
The Taft steam roller crushed on
ward today and seated twelve more del
egates from Mississippi, giving the
president a total of 153 victories. The
only time the engineers of the roller
hesitated was when a sensational at
tempt was made to unseat Francis J.
Heney, the fiery Roosevelt leader. The
motion was tabled, and Heney was al
lowed to continue his opposition to the
Taft operations.
Then the factional fight In the com
mittee was brought to a crisis. The
Missouri cases, involving four dele
gates-at-large and ten district dele
gates, and regarded as the pivotal con
test of the Roosevelt and Taft men.
wereb rought up. There were rumors
that only enough of the Taft would br
seated to give the president a majority
of the state's 36 delegates.
Effort Made to
Revoke Heney’s Proxy.
The committee met at 9 10 o’clock
and began hearing arguments on the
contests from the Second. Fourth,
Sixth and Seventh Mississippi districts,
which were consolidated, the evidence
being heard in all eases at the same
time. This left the Fifth and Eighth
districts to be heard separately.
While debate over the Mississippi del
egates was proceeding, National t’om
miteeman W. S. Sturgis moved that the
proxy of Francis J. Heney, <ff San
Francisco, be revoked Heney has been
sitting in the committee sessions, hold
ing the proxy of Sidney Bieber, of the
District of Columbia. His charges of
fraud against the committee have stir
red angry protests since he has taken
his place In these sessions. The motion
was laid on the table.
Heney Fights
His Own Battle.
The move to unseat Heney was made
on the ground that he had been a can
didate for prosecutor on the Demo
cratic ticket, and therefore was not a
Republican. Heney fought back, and
tlie motion was temporarily disposed of.
The attack on Heney was a sensation
sprung on the committee by Sturgess,
who Is committeeman from Arizona.
"Is this the Republican national com.
mittee?” he asked.
There was an audible silence for fully
a minute.
"If it is." he finally went on. “1
move that the proxy held by F .1 He
ney, a Democrat, of California, be not
accepted by this committee, because he
was a candidate for district attorney on
the Democpatic ticket."
Senator Weber arose and protested
when a second to the motion wa;- heard.
"Mi Heney Is here on a proxy ”
he said. At this point Heney was on
his feet.
“Guess They's Afraid,"
Said Victorious Heney
"inasmuch as I am in here." he said.
"I presume I have a right to make a
statement. I refused to accept the
Democratic nomination for district at
torney. But my name was written in
on the ticket and I was put in nomina
tion,
"And by the way. 5.000 Republicans
w rote my name on the Republican tick
et. 1 was defeated, if you please, by
[HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE a o y re °
means of the corrupt money of Pat Cal
houn.”
"I would suggest." said Committee
man H. S. Chubb, of Florida, "that he
be permitted to stay and continue to
enlighten the country on this matter of
Abe Rues. t
Thomas H. Devine, on a proxy from
Charles Cavender, of Colorado, then
moved to lay the Sturgis motion on the
table, and this was carried. Heney re
sumed his seat smiling.
Heney Back at
‘ ‘ Bulldoze ’ ’ Sbouter.
Senator Borah moved to seat both the
Taft and Roosevelt delegates in the
Fifth Missisfppl district, giving each
half a vote. ''ommltteeman Chubb, of
Florida, moved to seat the Taft dele
gates. Boran asked a roll ckli. but It
whs not ordered. Borah’s motion
voted down, and Chubb's carried
When the Fifth Mississippi district
contest came up. Arthur D. Hill pre
sented the Roosevelt side.
A negro was being questioned by He
ney when a new row broke out.
"You don't know, of your own knowl
edge," said Heney. "whether an officer
stopped the Roosevelt man?”
"I know of my own knowledge that I
did not -ee It." was the answer.
"That’s right.” shouted Chubb, of
Florida; "you can't bulldoze him”
"Bulldoze!” shouted Heney. in dis
gust. "I would like to get you on the
stand just a moment.”
The delegates from the Eighth dls
trict were also awarded to Taft, giving
him twelve for the day. The entire
delegation from Mississippi, or a total
and fourteen district delegates,
of four delegates at large and fourteen
district delegates, have been added to
the temporary roll call.
Missouri Contest
Tough Political Problem.
After the Mississippi contests had
been disposed of. the committee took
up the Missouri cases, involving four
delegates-at-large and ten district del
egates. The cases, particularly the
contest over the delegates-at-large.
presented one of the t.Apghest problems,
from a purely political point of view,
that the committee had been called op
to handie The Roosevelt supporters In
the state arc headed by Governor Her
bert S. Hadley President Taft carried
Missouri four years ago by a plurality
of 700 over Bryan. Governor Hadley,
an eneregtic, progressive politician has
managed to hold It in line. With the
elections coming on and with a strong
chance that the Democratic presidential
nominee may come from Missouri, the
national committeemen were anxious
to handle the situation in such away
that chances of keeping Missouri in
the Republican column would not be
endangered Governor Hadley is a
Roosevelt delegate-at-large, and war
the principal figure in the convention
at St. I amis. The delegation he headed
was contested by Taft men, who held a
convention in a bed room of the Plant
ers hotel and named their delegation to
Chicago.
Among other things. Thomas K. NietJ
rlngliaus, a Roosevelt man. was elected
national committeeman by the state
convention, f'harles Nagel, secretary
of commerce and labor, and a staunch
supporter of Taft is the present com
mitteeman. Ry upholding the Roose
velt faction, the committee would be
forced to decide against Nagel, Nagel,
who was In Chicago yesterday, left for
St. Louis last night, and Otto F. Stelfel,
head of the bolting Taftitea, held his
proxy.
Taft Men Charged
Violation of Pledge.
The Roosevelt delegates-at-large
from Missouri, each with half a vote,
wete Governor Herbert S. Hadley, Jesse
A Tolerton, Walter 8. Dickey. John
D McNeely, Hugh Mdndoe, Frederick
Essen. A. A. Speer John W. Tippin.
The four Taft contestants were Jo
seph E. Black, John A Duncan, John
J. Lahlv, Harry D Train.
The contest as presented by the Had
ley faction showed that the MUiour.
state convention was held on April 21,
