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FIGHT ONAGAINST
SHORT-WEIGHT
IGFANDCOAL
City Inspector Buchanan Hot
After Drivers Who Retail
Stolen Remnants.
When you buy a ton of coal, how
much do you get?
How many 50-pound pieceM are in a
300-pound block of ice?
These questions are Riving Atlanta
consumers more brain fag than How
old is Ann'.'" ever did, W T Buchanan,
citv inspector of weights and measures,
is trying to nuke the answer easier to
find by putting wagon drivers in the
stockade at the rate of two or three n
week.
"•I've sent at b ast 100 into the chain
gang for stealing from wagons, and
I've got my eye on more," said Mr.
Buchanan today
Driver Retails Ort Side.
Tt isn't the fault of the coal dealer
that the ton of coal you order and pay
for is short 100 pounds when it lands
tn your cellar. If you had watched It
unloaded Instead of merely signing the
delivery slip, you might have noticed
that the driver left a couple of bushels
tn the wagon, hidden away up undet
the seat with a basket and an old hag
or two thrown over ft. That’s the
driver's rake-off. He drives down Into
a negro settlement or some other place
where he has a steady customer wait
ing and sells that remnant of coal for
about half what it's worth. He puts
the money in his pocket. You lose
coal, the company loses Its reputation
for fair dealing and it’s bad business
Sil round
The ice trade Is almost as bad. An
ice company starts out a wagon with a
full ton of ice, in 300-pound blocks An
expert cutter can saw one of these
blocks Into seven "50-pound” slabs and
the customer couldn't possibly detect
the shortage with the naked eye When
the driver has sold a ton for the com
pany and collected coin and tickets to
be turned into the cashier he has some
thing over 300 pounds to peddle on his
own account, and the crooked drivers
know plenty of customers willing to
pay half price tor stolen ice.
Insist On Seeing It Weighed
The only way to be sure of getting
your full weight from the Ice wagon Is
to insist on seeing it weighed. That
takes trouble, but it is worth It. Last
summer so manv customers began to
betray' suspicion of the theft that the
drive’s got sore and refused to deliver
any more Ice to persons who insisted
on the scales being used. Inspector
Buchanan received complaints that
several families were being boycotted,
and some of those drivers went out to
the stockade for a sojourn. There has
been little trouble of that kind this
year The ice companies are anxious
to have the!’- customers receive full
weight and would be glad If all custo
mers would insist on seeing the scales.
Inspector Buchanan Is a regular
Sherlock Holmes In bls specialty, which
consists of coal, ice and negroes. Sev
eral times a day his buggy drops in
behind a coal wagon and trails that
load to its destination. If the driver
loads one basket and takes it Into a
house Mr. Buchanan makes a mental
memorandum. Then when the driver
goes on to the purchaser's home and
unloads the rest of the coal the inspec
tor picks him up and they go down to
see Judge Broyles It's usually 30 day*
in the stockade for the driver who goes
into the retail business on the side.
"Right now Is the tlmp to buy' coal
and be sure of getting full weight.”
say the dealers. People who buy It
by the basketful from dishonest drivers
don't want coal In the summer They
buy only as they need it. Besides, the
summer prices are on now, yvhlch
makes a big saving for the consumer
who sees a long way ahead.”
COUNCILMEN FOR ACT
TO GIVE CLAYTON AND
GOLDSMITH PENSIONS
If the council adopts the recommen
dation of the charter amendments com
mittee it can retire K M, Clayton, chief
of eonetrttction. and J. H. Goldsmith,
comptroller, on a pension of per
month for lite
The recomendatlon was decided upon
yesterday afternoon without the names
of either of the two officials being men
tioned The recommendation Is for an.
amendment to the city pension law by the
state legislature w hich w ill give the coun
cil the authority to retire any official who
has served more than twenty-five years
at a salary of more than $l5O per month
on a pension of SIOO per month Accord
ing to the present pension law no official
can be retired except upon his own ap
plication and SSO a month is the limit of
any pension
Captain Clay ion ind Mr Goldsmith are
the or. . oftb ials to the amendment
would apply lust now
CHURCH BELL REPLACED
BY A CORNET SOLOIST
NK'.’’ Y< >RK Jun- 13 Residents of
Htirlem living within radi is of a half
mile of St Jamis Methodist Eplscopa
church. wo| , puzzled last evening w hen
they heard a hymn t laved on a cm net.
A large crowd guthced In front of
tne church after they had traced tie
founds to its towet
The pasta: announce.; that hi- had
•akm this method to Rathe: his con
gregation • : th service.
TO VISIT CONVENTION.
Postmaster Mi K. e and I nited States
Marsha .1 i.hn.-on will leave Atlanta to.
a ■ rrnw morning for Chicago, where
h<y go to attend the National repub
,i< an convention Mr. Johnson will re-
In < lose tom h w ith his business
Atlanta, and will have his
r; rrs Mu .pole liofel.
HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY
VOTES IMPEACHMENT
PROBE OF HANFORD
WASHINGTON, June 13 -Representa
tive Berger's resolution proposing an in
vestigation of the conduct of Judge C
H. Hanford, of Beattie, with a view of
Impeachment proceedings, was reported to
the house today by Chairman Clayton, of
the judiciary committee, and was unani
mously adopted.
Chamberlin=Johnson=Dußose Co.
Atlanta New York Paris
Skirts of New and Distinctive
Style Have Just Arrived and
Some Are UnderJ’riced
A group of unusually attractive skirts have their
first showing tomorrow—and the attractiveness is not
confined to the styles alone. Low prices as measured
by materials and tailoring lend their part—so much so
that the display assumes the proportions of an event
that women should hurry to. It is a showing wherein
the best is grouped, wherein the commonplace and
the ordinary have no part. Every skirt has about it
some merit that warrants its presence in this company.
The woman who needs another skirt may come
with the full confidence that now and here she will find
the choicest styles of all skirtdom.
And as evidence of the completeness of things you
will find that there are plenty of extra sizes, not only
in the staple bluesand blacks, but in the novelty weaves.
At StZ.OO THERE ARE SKIRTS WORTH $6.00
O AND $6.50. These are in tan and grey
striped worsteds, mannish mixtures,
whipcords and navy and black serges.
Some six styles that show the new ten
dencies of fashion. One that vacationers
will like, has a side pocket.
At THERE ARE SKIRTS WORTH $8.75.
J Judge by the tailoring and by the qual
ity of the materials. French Serges in
navy and blue, Whipcords and Worsteds
in grey and tan. The line stripes are
particulaily smart. The graceful raised
waist line is prominent, and panels and
slashed tunic effects.
At SIH 00 THERE ARE TAFFETA SKIRTS in
lO* black and colors The taffeta is a light,
dust-shedding quality that recommends
itself as practica for hot weather service.
At SIO.OO and $12.50 arc some very
smart Aeolian skirts in navy and black.
You will realize at once how grace
fully this soft material “hangs.”
Hundreds of Attractive Wash Skirts
At Prices From ? 1 to ? !0""
We believe this is the most complete showing
of wash skirts that Atlanta has seen.
It leaves out nothing that is worthy.
Here are the Bedford cords, the piques, the
linens, white, natural, the crashes and the ratines—
all tailored and made by the same experts that make
the woolen skirts—the result—no skimpiness, no
unevenness. Every skirt a smart style, a well-fitting
model. And this applies equally to those at $1.19
as to those at SIO.OO.
Chamberlin = Johnson = Dußose Co.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1912.
SON BORN TO FRED BEERS,
CLERK OF FEDERAL COURT
Ar Judge W T. Newman began the
session of the Federal district court today
he announced the birth of a 9-pound son
to Fred Beers, clerk of the court. The
youngster arrived at Mr Beers’ home in
College Park last night.
WOMEN JOIN MEN IN RIOT
OF N.J. FACTORY STRIKERS
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.. June 13.—The
authorities here today threatened to call
out the militia as the result of strike
riots at the local plant of the American
Smelting and Refining Company yester
day. when eight persons were shot. A
mob of 3.000 men and women attacked
the plant. The women fought as gavagely
as the men.
Chamberlirr Johnson=Dußose Co.
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS
A Day of Marvelous
Waist Values
With chiffon and lace waists such as these marked
at such prices as these are for tomorrow’s selling, it is
hard to imagine that any woman who could use
just one more waist could let this sale pass unnoticed.
It brings what the most fastidious tastes might
require and that at prices that actually fall short of
the cost of materials.
There is no room for argument about the
VALUES. You will know this the moment vou clap
eves on the waists. YOU WOULD WANT JUST
THESE WAISTS EVEN IF PRICES WERE OF
NO CONCERN WHATEVER TO YOU.
5 3 .95
For Chiffon Waists Actually Worth
$5.00 to $7.50
There are one hundred of these and entirely too
many different styles to accurately tell you what
splendid models they are. The great majority were
formerly marked for $5.75 to $7.50. White, navy
and black chiffons over lace and soft white materials;
white Crepe de Chine Waists, black and navy taffeta , •
and navy messaline Waists. And you may choose
from models with low round and sailor collars with >
three-quarter length sleeves or from high neck and
long sleeve models. Made by master-makers, the
trimmings lend the charm that trimmings should.
$4-95
I
For Chiffon Waists Actually Worth
$7.50 to SIO.OO
Not more than thirty of these. Novel styles,
several of them copied after imported models. Navy,
Copenhagen, tan, grey, black and white chiffon over
soft silks. Notice the touches of trimmings—you do
not see such work on every waist that sells at $7.50,
$8.75 and SIO.OO, and yet in this sale they are $4.95.
As many with Dutch necks and sailor collars and three
, quarter sleeves as with high neck and long sleeves.
Half Price
>
For Lace Waists Actually Worth
$2.25 to $3.50
One hundred of these. They were yesterday
$2.25, 52.50 and 53.50, now Si. 13, $1.50 and Si. 75—the
priceswill mean more to you when you see the waists.
White and ecru laces—filet, Valenciennes and Cluny
--fashioned very elaborately with variations of the pep
lums.
ChamberliirJolinsoirDiißose Co;