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ELI HU ROOT,
Tempo-ary Chairman.
VOL. X. NO. 276.
CHILO SEEKS
MOTHER IN
DEBRIS OF
FLIES
Three Dead, One Missing and
Two Injured in Disastrous
Fire at Waycross. Ga.
BOARDING HOUSE OVER
GARAGE IS DEATH TRAP
WAY-CROSS. GA.. June 19. The
bodies of three victims burned in the
Sje.OOO tir e which destroyed the English
l>t hding. a moving picture theater and
several smaller structures here last
tight were recovered this morning.
The dead are:
.'IRS. I>. B. ENGLISH. widow of Dan
ft-omlv. ay English.
MRS. JOHN D. (IAMBI.E, wife of a
inolyue operator.
I’AII. GAM*BLE, nine-year-old sun
>f Mrs. John D. Gamble
H i'. Lee and Alvin Johnson, who
v ere badly hurt by jumping from the
-owmd floor, are in a serious condition,
it is feared they may not survive.
A fourth body, that of a missing
. iti man. is believed to be under the
'll ilny long today, while the tiremen
■ lied among the ruins of the Eng-
I -h building and the garage, where the
l laze was started by a workmans
’ .fated match thrown into gasoline, lit-
Margaret English, whose mother
was burned to death, clung about the
pot weeping hysterically and begging
to enter the charred debris. Shi had
seen her mother's body taken from the
wreckage of the boarding house upon
the second floor, but the seven-year
old child could not believe she was
d/ad.
Before the body was recovered the
child sought frantically to break away
from those who detained her to run
back into the flaming building and
bring out her mother. It is feared that
the child will not survive the horror of
the tragedy.
Investigation today proves that a
workman, smoking in the garage on
the first floor of the building, against
all rules, tossed the match he lit Into a
corner of. the room where several gal
lons of kerosene were stored. Flames
fairly hurst from the building. In less
than a minute the garage was a raging
furnace and tongues bf fire shot, up
ward and encompassed the whole porch
of the boarding house on the second
floor, where several men. women and
children were sitting.
RESCUE WORK
DONE IN DARKNESS.
The firemen reached the scene to find
that the blaze had already doomed the
house, though less than half of the oc
cupants had escaped. At the same mo
ment the electric light connections were
burned out and all the rescue work was
done In darkness, except w her the fire
men carried lanterns into the smoke
filled rooms of the building. So swift
was the progress of the flames that
John Gamble and bis little son escaped
from the porch by the narrowest mar
gin. while Mrs. Gamble, fully dressed
in a room within, was burned to death
before she could find an exit.
(n the same way Mrs. English and
the other Gamble boy lost tlieir lives.
Firemen fought desperately to reach
them, and several men just missed
death beneath the falling walls.
The moving picture theatei caught
fire ten minutes after the fiaihes first
broke forth, but the audience had suffi
cient warning to rush to the street in
safety. A Chinese laundry next door
also burned.
Many automobiles were burned in the
ga rage.
The firemen succeeded in confining
the flames to one side of the street, and,
after a four hours fight, succeeded tn
saving the handsome Logan LaGramie
building.
How much bf the lor* i covered by
Insurance is not know yet.
T. R. FORCES PLAN BOLT TODAY
June 19—-Refusal to recognize Elihu Root as the legally elected temporary chairman of the convention,
and threat to hold another convention unless the roll is purged of the delegates fraudulently appearing upon it,
was the war platform announced by the Roosevelt forces prior to the opening of the second day’s session.
“Either the roll will be purgedr or there will be a double convention held,” was the ultimatum of the Colonel’s
lieutenants, undaunted by defeat in the opening skirmish.
The struggle was to be resumed as soon as the convention opened, and Herbert S. Hadley, the Colonel’s floor leader,
was ordered to start the battle, every move of which had been carefully planned.
Atlanta Georgian EXTRA
Aead For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
M BEGINS
ON TANGLED
charter
CHANGES
Fight Centered on Proposition
to Make Retirement From
Office Compulsory.
REVISION COMMITTEE
DRAFTS AMENDMENTS
Atlanta's already twisted and tangled
city charter will be doctored and
patched again when the charter re
vision committee meets this afternoon
and recommends to council a number
of amendments to be put through by
tile coming legislature.
The compulsory retirement of any
lily official or employee who has been
twenty years continuously in sei'. ice.
provided council and board of aidermen
cast a two-thirds vote for such retire
ment. is likely to precipitate a fight
when it reaches the council for adop
tion. It prot ides that upon a resolu
tion any such official may be ousted oY
given light employment upon half pay
until the end of his term, this pay in
no case to exceed SIOO per mtrtith.
Opponents of the measure assert that
this power can be tis*d just before a
primary by fm tionsj politicians to in
jure the reputation of any official who
is offering olr re-election. The mere
fact that a resolution is introduced to
retire such an official, they say. would
be used as an effective argument
against him, whether it were adopted
or not, and thus one enemy might do
serious injury to an official who had in
curred his dislike.
Among the charter amendments to
be recommended are the following:
To give the city the right to lay ad
ditional sanitary sewers uptown, where ,
storm and sanitary sewers, combined,
already exist, the cost to be assessed
against property owners. It is not in
tended to tear up the streets to lay
these sewers, but to do the work as
rapidly as the pavement is taken up
for other purposes.
Citizens To Have
Right of Tax Appeal.
To give citizens the. right of appeal
from tax assessments, by providing a
chief clerk in the tax .office who shall
receive such appeals, these to be passed
on by the tax committee.
The reduction of city boards to five
members each, instead of the present
teui members, will be urged, Council
is virtually pledger! to sinh a reduc
tion since the charter revision fight of
last summer.
To enable the city to provide mu
nicipal license taxes on locker clubs
and regulate such clubs.
Radical Sewer
Changes Planned.
To provide flial when sewers are laid
a. sewer connection shall be run to
the property line abutting; that stone
gutters shall laid whenever curb
ing is put in. and when water mains
an 1 laid, to lay connecting pipes to
abutting property linos. These are
Combined in one amendment, the ob
ject being to avoid tearing up pave
ments to lay private connections. If
possible a provision will be made for
laying gas connections in the same
way. .
The legislature will bo asked to give
the city the right to vest the title to
Lakewood park in a private corpora
tion which shall carry on the proposed
industrial exposition there and deed the
property back to the city when the
exposition closes. Tim object of this Is
to Hvoid the city's liability foi debts
incurred for improvem<-i,‘s.
CEDARTOWN TO PAVE MAIN ST.
CEDARTOWN. GA., June 19. - Main
street will be paved with asphalt, the
contract having just been awarded Io
the West Construction Company, of
Chattanooga. Tenn. The work is to
be completed by September 3<i. The
city recently voted bonds for paving
and other improvements.
ATLANTA, GA„ WKDNKSDAY, JUNE If). 1912.
T. R."MANAGER ANDOXSHIER'I
■
The former nart- /
gari. the man wlm /<
fui n't-ti the Harv- I Aft
ester Trust, is ink- ‘UBR/m
ing an active inie. - ||
esi in the tig 1.1. He I Sml ”
is aidir.ii ;*n«l enm- |
soling with Colonel \\ IKf x* X X.
Roosevelt, and is \\ -
believed to be tl,.< \\
man who haa hokl \\
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(o-orgt' \V. Perkins in two eliarticft-risfie poses. ’ Senator Dixon.
69 POSTAL BANKS I
TO BE OPENED IN
GEORGIA AUGUST 1 1
WASHINGTON, June 19. Addition
al postal savings banks depositories
will be opened at the following Georgia
post offices, effective August 1 :
Auburn. Hogart, Bostwick, Bowdon.
Bowman, Braselton, Brooks, Buchanan. >
Buckhead. Bullocbville, Canon. Carlton.
Carnesville. Colbert. Concord, Craw
ford, Culloden, Dacula, Danielsville,
Dearing. Devereux. Duluth. Ellenwood,
Flovilla, Gay. Gibson. Gray. Grayson,
Haddock, Hampton, Hapeville, Hiram.
Hoschton, Jenkinsburg. Jonesboro, Lex
ington. Lilburn. Lincolnton. Luthers
ville. Mansfield, Maxey* Meansville, .
Milner. Mitchell, Molena. Newborn, f
Norwood. Odeasadale, Palmetto. Pen
dergrass, Riverdale. Roberta. Roswell, 1
Rutledge, Shady Date. Sharon. Sharps
burg, Smyrna. Stephens, Stockbridge. <
Suwanee, Tempi, . Tignall, Turin, j
White Plains. Whitesburg Woodville
Yatesville. Zebulon.
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DIES AT 92 WITHOUT
SINGLE RELATIVE TO
MOURN HER PASSING ,
MM’oN, GA.. .lune 19. Without a sin*
g|p living restive to mourn her passing.
Miss Mary Miller, aged 92 years, and one I
of the most estimable of the elderly worn- J
en of Macon, has yielded to the weak
nesses of ad valued age Miss Miller did
not have even a distant relative living.
FRENCH ARMY FLYERS
ARE KILLED IN FALL
PARIS, June 19.- Lieutenant F’eig- j
nian and Captain Dubois, of the French ’
aviation corps, were both killed in an •
aeroplane c eident a* Brayelk todav,
when their machine clashed Into a
hangar at the military aerodrome there. •
Both were crushed to death. t
M.SJWS
Cuban Author of “Death-to-
Whilcs” Edict Threatens
Trouble at El Cobre.
• •
SAX ri.\<;<>. Cl’BA. Jun»* 19. Gpdpt
al A iiiiHiuirrhi. most desperate of the
negro Insurgent leader* and the author
of tin proclamation calling for death to
ail whit< s, is reported to he tparching
on Ki t’ohre today with 1,50(1 black* at
his back.
lh< «<• ar* Ijx I'nited States marines'
at Hl (’obro under command of (’aptain
K B. Manwaring, guarding American
and other foreign property then*. Th«*
rebels are destroying all property along
their line of march and arc threatening
to give battle to the United States
tro >ps.
JUDGE HODGES TO SEEK
SUPERIOR COURT BENCH
MACON. GA.. Jtine 'll. Judge Rob
ert Hodges, for nine years judge of the
city court, which office lie now holds,
and formerly solicitor of the superior
court, has declared ho will run for the
judgeship of tjie superior court of the
Macon circuit. Ho will oppose Judge
Nat E. ifarrls?, who. however, has not.
formally ■•■ announced. Solicitor H. A.
Matthews, of Houston county, will also
enter the race.
ATLANTAN IN A VERBAL
BOUT WITH TRAVELERS
ASSOCIATION OFFICIAL
PEORIA, ILL., June 19 -Frank W.
Crandall, of St Louis, chairman of the
national railway committee, and R. A.
Broyles, of Atlanta. Ga.. member of the
nat-tbnal board of directors of the Trav
elers Protective association, clashed
yesterday in the convention of that or
ganization here.
Chairman Crandall, in his annual re
port, declared that the national board
last year acted in direct opposition to
the will of the T. P. A. as expressed at
the 1911 convention.
Director Broyles accused Mr. Cran
dall of being lax in his duty and al
leged the board of directors, learning
that the chairman of the national rail
way committee had been too dose to
certain railway traffic t managers, de
cided to check him. After two hours of
exchange of personalities, all asper
sions and remarks reflecting on the
character of either Mr. Broyles or Mr.
Crandall were ordered expunged from
the records
BRIDEGROOM 72,8R1DE
65, ASSERT IT’S NEVER
TOO LATE TO MARRY
MACftN. GA.. June 19.—‘Rev How
ard McGhee. 72 years of age, a well
known Georgia Methodist minister, last
night married Mrs. Emma M. Daniel,
a widow 6?> years of age. It was his
third wedding and her second The
Ig ids'gt oom's brother. Rev. John Mc-
Ghee. officiated. "It is never too late
Io marry." said the happy couple to
da- as they loft for Shellman. Ga.,
whet they will make their future
houit.
IMEMM
SECOmDUNDIMDTj
ffIISSM’W
('OLFSEI M. CHICAGO, .Tune 19.—The second
of the greatest political battle in many years was opened onK
schedule time an hour before noon today when Elihu Root. vie-K
loriotis Taft contestant in the bitter fight between the presi-B
dent s forces and those of Roosevelt for the temporary rhair-B|
manship of the Republican national convention, called that
Io order. That the session today would he a critical one in t,heH
fortunes ol the ex-president, and would be more riotous
than the stormy battle over the chairmanship which lasted fiveM
hours yesterday, was evident from the programs which had
mapped out by the opposing forces and the determined
which the cohorts of tin- Oysfer Bay candidate showed in Iheß
face of what looked like certain defeat. The Roosevelt
say they will not recognize Root as the legally chosen
That the Taft forces were not 1
; too confident of nominating the
i president, however, was indicated
Iby an uneasiness that was unrnis
[ takable, coupled with rumors that
would not down that Taft leaders
! had been in conference by wire
this morning with Taft. an*d had
imparted the information to him
that his nomination was impossi
ble, and the hope of the party lay
only in the nomination of a third
candidate.
From the inside of the Taft personal
following there came the exact esti
mate of I lie president’s strength on the
first ballot. His immediate family cir
cle of political advisers say that he has
eight majority with the possibility of
losing two from the Brooklyn delega
tion. who are said to he wavering on
the brink of a flop to Roosevelt.
Fight To Be Made
Again on Root.
"The Roosevelt forces will not reeog
i nize Senator Elihu Root, of New York.
I as the legally elected temporary chair
man of the Republican national con
vention.
"Either the roll of the Republican na
tional convention will be purged of
the delegates fraudulently appearing
upon it or there will be a double con
vention held."
This outline of the Roosevelt plan
of campaign was given prior to the
opening of the second day’s session of
the convention today by a leader of
the Roosevelt forces. It was a program
of fight.
The mines were laid early for the
first engagement. At the very opening
of the session today, according to the
plans that were made in a long con
ference between • 'olonel- Roosevelt and
his chiefs, the struggle was to begin,
Herbert S. Hadley, floor leader for
the colonel’s forces, was ordered to
start the battle. He had wheeled his
war engines into line just as the first
day's session of the convention came to
a close.
The contest hinges on the unseating
of 7S delegates put on the temporary
roll of the convention by the national
commit tee's’steam t oller. They ate the
cases that made Colonel Roosevelt cry
"naked theft." In order to put them on
the roll, the Oyster Bay candidate is
determined that the delegates seated
from one state shall not he permitted
to vote on the contests in any other
state. The eases are to bo taken up en
bloc if the Roosevelt forces can bring
it about.
T. R. Men Expect
Defeat at First.
Every step of the tight had been
planned by the Roosevelt men before
they entered the Coliseum today. Their
plans included the probability of de
feat In the first fight. But that will
not end the campaign. If they ate voted
down in their effort to have all the
contested delegates' cases taken up by
the convention as a whole, they will
make another fight, this time before the
committee on credentials. If this fight
fails, there will be two conventions.
The foundation for today's fight was
laid when, after seven hours of fighting.
Senator Root had been elected tem-
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JOSEPH M. DIXON,
Roosevelt Manager.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
porary chairman and had delivered thß|
keynote speech. Governor Hadley ofß|
sered a motion that the temporary roH|
lie altered by striking out the names
the lielegates to whom the.
forces objected and adding the
that they approved. The motion
substitute for a motion offered
James E. Watson, of Indiana. direcds|B
that various slate delegations as It&jB
up by the temporary roll caucus
to tlte (hairman the names of
candidates for the credentials.
lions and tales and order of
committees. The convention was
once adjourned. H|
The substitute motion, bringing üBI
I’m the second time the fight for a
on all the contests together, was madM
the unfinished business of the eonvetH
iion. to he taken up as soon as the
fen pl c limina t ies an dispensed of toBI
da,\. HE
Hope for Victory B|
Against Taft Weak. 9
The main hope of vietorv was siakeW
on this light. If the Roosevelt m'jß
could force a vote ami if the
delegates could he excluded from thH
voting they would be abb- to seat
men. I’lie fact that they had
plans for the subsequent moles showeßl
that thc-it own hop" of victory was
very strong.
But the battle will continue until rhß
minority report that will he brought
by th" Roosevelt members of the eotoßl
mitten. Then the whole affair will
directli in the hands of the
himself. From that minute on,
there is to be n bolt and when It is
'■onto, will he determined by
Throughout the convention he
keep in constant touch with
He may go to the convention hall
socially. He may stay In the presldenß|
tial suite at the Congress and keeß|
watch through the eyes of his
anfs. H|
The colonel mai order the split w
the credentials tight is lost, if ft is
He may wait until rhe roll call on thß|
presidential nomination Itself begins. B|
Il is to he a ease of fine political
crimination, Onlv when the last
of a chance for a nomination before lhfl|
present convention has vanished
the colonel's delegates he given
signal to leave their seats. In
Instead of being called front the huijßl
tile colonel’s forces mac strive to
organize their own convention on
floor of the Coliseum, B
May Block Taft H
On First Ballot. B
A careful canvass of the vote Oh thflM
temporary chairmanship fight has n«BI
Utterly discouraged the Roosevelt tnefß
Tlhw assert that twenty delegates
vote,l for Root were pledged to Roose'jjß
volt, and that they will not under
elrcumstances vote for Taft. Root wa.|B
elected by 5">H votes, eighteen vote ]B|
moi, than was required. Taking awaJH
the twenty and supposing Taft
rc-ceii e all the others east for Root h
would be iwo short of enough to notnC|B
min If Taft's nomination on the firjgß
balloi can be blocked the Rooseitßßl
men believe they can win. When
-billing of delegates on the second voaßl
begins ihey believe th'"- can sweep ft* Ma
coni epi ion. If necessary Roosevelt t’«
pei son will visit the hall, depending; i»HB