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LAKES CREATED
ABOVE TALLULAH
Falls Not to Lose All Charm for
the Tourists Even Though
Harnessed.
TALIATLAH FAI/LS, GA., June 13.--
The Tallulah river still is surging over
the rugged steeps which make its series
of falls, and the roar of the cascades
may still be heard from the brink of
the giant gorge. Rut mingled with the
rumble of the waters Is the shrill song
of the compressed air pump, the hoarse
puff of the donkey engine, and now
and then the dull boom of a dynamite
blast.
Capital end enterprise are spending
15.000,000 to turn the river into an un
derground tunnel, divert it from its
ancient bed and send 1t plunging down
Blx enormous pipes to giant turbines
below. It is harnessing the falls to
turn Atlanta’s wheels, and Its 90,000
horsepower will keep the city’s ma
chinery spinning right merrily.
Above the village of Tallulah, a few
hundred yards from the Cliff House, is
rising a great dam of rough stone and
anchored in the solid bedrock
fbf the gorge, Its foot planted In the
stone of the river. It is 90 feet
yhlgh and 20 feet wide at Its crown.
3>Ullt to withstand the pressure of the
wake which It must hold back.
Create* Lake 10 Miles L6no|®|
Above the dam the trees have-UiSpn
.•tripped from. the ravine to the'tine
'Jwhlch will soon be the bank of a Itftg
and narrow, lake, extending from we
dam to Sawtooth falls, a mile and a
ISialf above. Still farther up the river,
®etween eight and ten miles, another
Bam Is being built to store the waters
<or a reserve supply, and above this a
ten miles long will provide a sup
,'jply of power for even the longest
Between the lower dam and the pow
fer plant, more than a mile below, th'
Igorge remains untouched. Not a tree
■'has been felled, not a scar left behind
{the workers. The natural beauty of
-the crags and forests Is undisturbed
■But when the dam Is completed there
■twill be but little water flowing.over the
series of falls during the tourist sea
Bon. The river Is low then, and the
power plant will use the full current of
*the stream When the flow is heavy. In
the spring and winter, there will be
enough water flowing over the dam and
down the. gorge to restore the falls to
their old beauty.
Six Gigantic Penstocks.
Through the solid rock of the moun
tain crews of men are driving a mon-
Bter tunnel from above the dam to the
brink of the gorge helow the falls. The
tunnel passes directly below the houses
which make up the village of Tallulah,
but hundreds of feet beneath the sur
face. It follows the right side of the
gorge, looking down the stream, for a
mile and one-fourth, emptying Into an
enormous pit at the brink of the gorg.
From this pit in turn will lead six
gigatitic penstocks, or pipes, leading
down the side of the gorge, standing
almost vertically. Their bases will b
600 feet beldw their heads. Through
these penstocks the whole Tallulah
river will fall to the turbines below.
The force of that volume of water, fall
ing such a distance, is hardly conceit
Bble, Here, at the bottom of the gorge.
<he power house la to be built, with
electric generators coupled directly to
jthe turbines.
The effect of the development upon
<he falls themselves Is easy to foresee.
JWhen there Is more water In the river
Ahan will fill the tunnel, there will be n
Jlow over the dam and on to the falls
hen the river Is below that volume
the tunnel will take It all.
Lakes to Attract Tourists.
Officials of the cpmpany maintain
<hat the loss of the falls will be repaid
4n part by the new beauty of the two
4akes formed above the dams. These
Bre to be stocked with fish, and boats
(provided for tourists, and the lakes
yvhich will fill the mountain gorges
•they say, w!H be equally as beautiful as
the cascades
From the power house leads a line of
<tall steel towers, 781 of them, streteh-
Jjng 100 miles to Atlanta. On these
tare being strung the six high-tension
popper cables which will bring the cm -
gent into Atlanta. The cables w :
enter through the Davis street plan
the current will be convert' d into low
tension direct current for comm ■
use, and the song of Tallulah will n
sung by spindles and wheels, instead »l
mountain boulders It Is confidently
extracted to have the plant complete
by January 1 next, and a sharp reduc
tion In electric rates is promised i-
Boon a« the new power Is turned on.
NARRATOR TELLS THE
STORY OF HIAWATHA
AS INDIANS ENACT IT
While the voice of the narrator, telling
ti e tale of Hiawatha, floats down from
the mills, the story itself will be enacted
by Indian players beside Springvale lake,
at Inman Park, tonight
The performance will he given under
the auspices of the Uncle Remus Memorial
association and the proceeds will go to
ward the purchase of Wren's Nest as a
permanent memorial to the life and
works of Joel Chandler Harris.
The narrator is Stewart Piggot, a for
mer Atlanta man and a close Ir nd of
the beloved Uncle Remus. Ills clear, r<
Sonant voice tells the story of Hiawatha
in a convincing manner and the intcrpre
taion by the Indians is such as to make
it seem like the actual unfolding of the
B’-'-ry.
The Indian players are all college grad
uaic The entire performance takes
place in the open air.
To Drive Out Maiarts
„ and Build up the System
Takr the < .)<j Standard GKOVE’S TASI E
LES:- I'HUJ, TUNIC You know what
yen are taking. The formula is plainly
primed ri every bottle, showing it is
; '<’• In .1 las'ele -
'* , an,J « r effvim'l form, For
-u people and children, 50c. I
• e
• Statistics on Falls •
: Development Work:
• - ,
• For those who Insist on stalls- •
• tics with their news, here are the •
• principal figures on the Tallulah •
• Falls development. •
• Investment represented in plant •
• and transmission lines, $5,000,000. •
• Horsepower to be produced, 90,- •
• 000. •
• Fall of water through penstocks •
• to turbines, 600 feet. •
• Water tunnel from dam to pow- •
• er house, 12 feet wide, 14 feet •
• high, 11-4 miles long. •
• Length of power transmission •
• line to
• Electric rates In effect in Atlan •
• ta when new power is turned on. •
• minimum, 3-4 cent per kilowatt •
• hour; maximum. 4 1-2 cents. •
• Plant to be completed January •
• 1, 1913. «
• a
AT THE THEATER"
FORSYTH BILL CONTINUES
TO DRAW BIG CROWDS
An unusually clever bill of vaudeville
is the offering at the Forsyth this week.
Lillian Shaw has eclipsed every success
she has scored in Atlanta and absolutely
demonstrated that she is the peer of all
vocal dialect comediennes. To CUff Gor
don much credit Is duo for the success of
this week. The Garman comedian has
never been heard in Atlanta, before this
week, and he has scored a hit. Lulu Mc-
Connell, with the assistance of Grant
Simpson, scores strong In a comedy sketch
and the rest of the hill is of that quality
that wins the attention and applause of
every audience.
There Is a bill of tremendous Interest
for the coming week. There has not been
an offering In all the history of the For
syth that cost more or has been made of
better material It is a remarkable
vaudeville combination for any city out
side of New York or Chicago, but the
Forsyth s promise to keep the theater
going with the host material possible to
secure Is going to be kept. The show will
have two headliners: Joe Welch, the
great Hebrew comedian, and Trixl Fri
ganza Is well enough known locally to
place her in the drawing ranks. There
wtl be other features of sterling worth
including the famous Asahi troupe of
Japanese wizards.
Mrs. J, E. Langford.
Mrs. J. H. Langford, 37 years old.
died at a private sanitarium today.
She Is survived by two sisters the
Misses Shipley, of Atlanta. The re
mains will be taken to Conyers, Ga.,
for interment tomorrow, following fu
neral services at the residence, 37
Woodward avenue.
Clarence Ireland.
The funeral of Clarence Ireland, one
year old, who died at Bolton late yes
terday, was held at Bethel church this
afternoon. Interment was In the
churchyard The little boy was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Ireland.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THTRSDAY, JUNE 13. 1912.
51 HYDE BEGS
TO DIE IN CHAIR
“I Am Not Insane and Don’t
Want Them to Commute My
Sentence,” Says Slayer.
COLUMBIA, S. C., June 13.—"1 am
not Insane and I don’t want them to
commute my sentence,” Is the expres
sion of Sam Hyde, the Anderson man
under sentence of death for killing his
wife and father-in-law and for whom a
commission of alienists has been named
by Governor Blease.
Hyde will be examined today. He
was locked in the state prison yester
day afternoon. This afternoon his only
child, four years old, was taken to the
penitentiary for a farewell look at the
father.
Hyde is sentenced to be electrocuted
on July 5. He is the most jovial pris
oner under the death sentence that has
ever been known In this state. His
nerve Is puzzling experts. He begs to
be given the honor of being the first
electrocuted In the South Carolina
chair. *
UNIVERSITY CLUB
MOURNS DEATH OF
U. S. ARMY AVIATOR
At a meeting of the council of the
University club Wednesday night res
olutions were passed expressing the re
gret of the members at the untimely
death of Lieutenant L. W. Hazlehurst,
who was dashed to death in an army
aeroplane near Washington, D. C., on
June 11. Lieutenant Hazlehurst was a
member of the University club.
The following new members were
elected:
Robert Toombs Dußose, A. 8., Uni
versity of Georgia, 1879, chairman of
the committee on the University of
Georgia of the Georgia house of rep
resentatives; DeWitt Payne, A. B„ Uni
versity of Georgia, 1907, M. D., Atlanta
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
1911; Samuel Screven Goulden, A. Its„
Mercer, 1879; M. D„ University of
Maryland, 1886, and J. H. Dozier, B. E.,
University of Georgia, 1890.
CHARTER AMENDMENT SOUGHT.
ROME, GA., June 13. Seeking to abol
ish the right to apes! police cases to city
council a resolution has been presented to
the city fathers asking the legislature to
amend the city charter.
Up and Down
Peachtree
How Bobby Walthour
Got His Speech Twisted.
Walter Taylor, city clerk, Is about
the busiest man around city hall, but
he is never too rushed to tell a yarn
and never expects to be. Somebody
mentioned a speech of acceptance some
recipient of an honor had made, and
Taylor sprung this one:
“Ever hear about the time we gave
Bobby Walthour a loving cup? You
didn’t? Well, Bobby made some speech.
"You see, Walthour had been clean
ing up prizes riding a bicycle all over
Europe, and when he came home tri
umphant Henry Durand and some of
the rest of us thought it would be a
nice thing to give him a loving cup
from his Atlanta admirers. So we
raised the money, framed up to present
it between the acts at the old Bijou
theater, and told Bobby about it so he
could make a graceful ’impromptu’
speech.
"Bobby got his address all ready and
learned it by heart. He’d stop on the
corner and rehearse it, and they say
he used to get out in the back yard be
fore breakfast and deliver it to the
chickens. He was all trimmed up for
an oratorical effort.
"Lowry Arnold made the presenta
tion speech, with Bobby sitting in a
box next the stage. Then he signalled
to the bicyclist to come up and make
hie speech of acceptance.
"Walthour climbed onto the stage,
took the big cup in his hands, opened
his mouth, and got stuck. He stood
there in agony for a moment, and then
turned toward Lowry Arnold.
" ‘Mr. Arnold,’ he said, ‘I thank—l
thank—l thank you for your conversa
tion.’ ’’
JUDGE’S BOYHOOD PAL
FACES HIM IN COURT;
GETS “REDUCED” FINE
When Lon Paris, a painter, walked
out before Recorder Broyles in police
court today the recorder immediately
recognized the prisoner as an old
schoolmate.
Paris was garbed in a suit of old
working clothes and bore evidence of
having indulged in hard labor. He was
up for being drunk and pleaded guilty.
"Lon, I'm sorry to see you here in
this plight,” said the judge.
"Well, Nash, you don’t hate it any
more than I do,” said Paris.
As the recorder lifted his pen to
write the judgment of the court he hes
itated a moment. He could see two
boy chums in school. »
The pen wrote a fine of $3.75 in the
book. The customary fine is $5.75.
“Thank you, Nash,” said Paris as
he left the room.
BIGGER IW FOR
STATE'S EWER
\
Carl Hutcheson Drafting Bill to
Increase Attorney-General’s
Salary to $5,000.
Carl Hutcheson, a well known At
lanta attorney, will request some one
or all of Fulton county’s representa
tives in the legislature to introduce a
bill, to be prepared by Mr. Hutcheson,
calling for a raise in the salary of the
attorney general of the state from the
present salary of $3,000 per annum to
at least $5,000.
Mr. Hutcheson has conferred, in per
son and by letter, with hundreds of
lawyers throughout the state, and he
says they are practically a unit in sup
port cf his proposed measure.
Discussing 'his matter today, Mr.
Hutcheson said:
"The attorney who accepts this re
sponsible office must Indeed make a
sacrifice. The attorney to the railroad
commission obtains more salary than
the attorney general. This is unfair
for many reasons. One reason, for in
stance, is that the office of attorney
general is the highest attorneyship
within the gift, of the state. Another
reason is that this higher and highest
office is overburdened with work.
"The governor of the state never
makes a legal move without calling
upon the attorney' general for advice.
In fact, the word of the attorney gen
eral is superior to that of the governor,
if the governor recognizes strictly the
office of attorney general. If a legal
error Is made by the chief executive,
the attorney general, in fact, is respon
sible. At least, more than the gov
ern or.”.
Mr. Hutcheson says he already has
the promise of large and influential
support inside the legislature for his
proposed increase in the attorney gen
eral’s salary.
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DOCTOR, DISCIPLE OF
CLEANLINESS FOR 40
YEARS, RESISTS A FINE
ROME, GA., June 13.—“1 am a man of
yesterday and not today. I have mingled
with the brave and fearless and have for
40 years stood for cleanliness.”
Thus spake Dr. J. T. McCall, when,
with two of the best known attorneys in
Rom© and a number of witnesses, he ap
peared before city’ council and asked that
a fine of $2.50, imposed upon him by Re
corder Kelly for maintaining an insani
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fathers found the doctor not guilty.
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