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VOL. X. NO. 246.
IEEHD EITS
UPEWDENCE;
MIS COL
ENGLISH
Had Forged H. S. Collier’s
Name to a Flattering
Recommendation.
BATTLES WITH BOTH
TILL OFFICER COMES
As a Result of His Strange
Meal. Recorder Has to Sen
tence Him for Fighting.
Because the man had eaten up the
fvidetr ® r>f his forgery Recorder
c - torlp.y w unabl® tn find R»nr
p n n negro. guilty of forging a rec
ommendation for chauffeur in the name
H i, Collier. Jr.. manager of Collier
Brm'.t'-rs garage, and he got off with
p p n - • 3'.'.75„ for creatine a dis-
tll ,-h ar . n the office of Colon®! Jam's
v F.ng'tsh, Jr. well known clubman
-. • ,•» nreriden* of the Chatta
jmn, .-e Brick Company.
t Triine I® Mr Collier and Colonel
Fnpr-c. F’l'u e had been to- a long time
, r , s .,- a job as chauffeur, bit:
„ , q v« refused because he did not
have nmtgh experience. So yesterday
].p - n r ; a most elaborate and
f ■ ing -commendation and signed
! <v i> Mi. Collier's name. This forged
,in, irnr . r he took tn Colonel English's
office in :he fourth National bank,
and iciiin made application to be the
cn'n r . , hauffeu ■.
It Praised Him Highly.
1 r-' English was in the act of
r-.int th-’ recommendation which
’a ' urn o the skies when Collier
t crif sn ered the office.
S®-ing that bis game was up. the
riu n grabbed the paper from Colonel
Eneli-'i's hands and made a bolt for the
door, folonel English and Collier
■angle him Rut before they could
i his hand the negro had awal
lowed tiie forged paper and the evi
of his crime. Then he began to
fight for escape. Ho fought both the
white men for fully ten minutes, and
a" th-ee ver® pretty well manhandled
nhrn Policeman Roberts, who had
t'een summoned by a bystander, hurried
upon the scene.
Even with this reinforcement the. ne
gro continued to fight until the officer's
billy aimed him. He was hurried to
the pollen station. In court this morn
ing Mr. Collier and Colonel English
tf'i ll iheir story but of course they
O"il.i not produce the forged paper.
Th»v tried him therefore upon th®
flglt h' had made and the recorder
><'nteni ■ d hint for disorderly conduct.
MISS GETZ IS NOT TO
RE HEAD OF DRAWING
DEPARTMENT AGAIN
- F'zabeth Getz, head of the de-
P.it'ment of drawing in the public
•'hen that department was
»h hah'T’ by the board of education,
’" imi re-elected when the depart.
rncrl - re-established. This was
Earned definitely today.
v ■ iz was active In the fight «o
■•n 1-partment. Her person
imp one of the issues, for she
arg® measure responsible for
T. r system of drawing and tnan
al" '•<:. Members of the board
! ’ ’n said today they did not.
o apply for the place again.
' ' trter, chairman of the teach-
Ittee. has called a meeting of
"'itec for tomorrow afternoon
a more simple system of
n " ' ’ :1 manual training to be rec-
o the board of education
RENTING is made easy
B Y THE GEORGIAN’S PLAN
' • io find the place you desire
'mut tramping all over the
fltr in •
hot sun or unfavorable
S',
_ ’■ been solved.
what you want to rent or
’lit ,
'ou desire to rent In. you
I ' 'm l the best on the market
~s 'partment®. rooms, office-.
G, hotels, garages in The
nt Bulletin whic h appeal s
"’ant Ad pages of this
M: M t . t,
vr u . ! Renter: Is your ad about
'n :Ids Rent Bulletin '
. Seeker: You can find
apa rt merit o Pome in
" Rent Bu!'®tfn
R t • for you <on \«n i»' n< r
r advantage of it.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
WILY WYLIE
SMITH HIS
■SHEI
Ml
Papers All Ready, But When'
Officers Call for Absconder
at Cell He's “Out.”
AMERICAN CONSUL TRIES
VAINLY TO LOCATE HIM
He MAY Be in Jail at Chihuahua
and Again He May Be Wan
dering Blithely Free.
. <
EL PASO. TEX.. July 12. Wily J. j
Wylie Smith, the absconding Atlanta.!
Ga.. bank wrecker. Is breathing the |
fresh, free air of the Mexican chapar- :
rais one® more.
Like Mother Hubbard's cupboard,
when American Consul T. D Edwards
went to look In the cell of the Juarez I
jail, after arrangements had been made j
to honor extradition ’papers and th®
Pinkerton® at Atlanta told to come;
ahead, th® cell was bar®.
\A Hi o' the Wisp Wylie was not there. j
It's just barely possible that Mr. Smith
is pondering over old time® in Atlant® j
behind the bars of a jail in < 'hihuahua. |
A host of folks from United States Am
bassador \\ ilson. w ho worked extreme
ly hard to ge: the Madero government
to consent to extradition, on down to
the greaser who had to feed Wylie his
daily gruel—will be mighty glad If
that's so. but—that wouldn't he Wylie's
way.
ONE THING CERTAIN.
HE WAS IN PRISON.
tine thing is certain. Smith was In
prison when the rebels took chihua
hua and was a prisoner during their
regime. He was shown no favors and
was kept under strict guard, according
to American Consul Edwards.
Ambassador Wilson took it for
granted that he was still there and got
the extradition papers all ready.
Rut today Mr. Edwards received
word that all efforts to locate Smith in
the Juarez prison had failed and that I:
was more than likely h® had been freed
when the E®deral regime was resumed.
Mr. Edwards wired ahead to Marion
Letcher. American consul at Chihua
hua, who is now making an investiga
tion.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
AGAIN TRIES TO CLEAR
CITY’S PLANT TANGLE
Fearing that the contract with the
Destructor Company of New- York for a
garbage disposal and electric power
plant is hopelessly entangled, the
finance committee of council met this
afternoon to make another effort at an
adjustment.
After giving every assurance to the
council that the contract would be car
ried out, the company now declines to
sign it unless a number of amendments
are made. The board of health will
submit a unanimous recommendation,
agreed upon at a meeting yesterday. j
that the amendments be granted. Some
of the members of the finance commit
tPP are skeptical, however.
Local financiers have refused to un
derwrite the contract for the $100,066
power plant, but if the city officials will
grant a year additional for the oomph - I
tion of the plant and allow the De- |
structor Company to retain the title of j
it. it Is proposed to begin work at j
once.
ELKS BANISH “GOAT”
FROM INITIATIONS;
SPLIT ON HOME SITE
PORTLAND. < )REG.. Jul' IL —Her®-I
after all "goat riding" will be eliminat- |
ed from Elk initiation. Such was the)
action taken by the grand lodge in se-- ;
sion here. The ritual committee left
the question to the grand lodge fori
consideration and after two hours de-|
bate the vote to abolish “rough house
work" carried.
A tight is expected "n the location:
of the new national Elks home, which
the home commission proposed build-’
ing in Bedford City. Va. The opposi
tion prefers a -ite near the center of|
Elkdorn's population, Upon this point I
the grand lodge is divided.
Robert Biown. managing editor of.
Th® Louis'ill® Tfmes. has been ap-l
pointed to succeed himself a a member
"f the grand forum by Gt tnd Exalted j
Ruler Sullivan and Edward Righto: wit:.!
named to fill th® pl >he grand]
fmtim mid® vmant by th® death "fl
Judge Donovan. I
City Pays a Small Share for Pavina Its Thorouahfares
FACTS ABOUT ATLANTA’S BAD STREETS
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GIANT AUTO ENGINE STALLED IN STREET HOLE WHILE HOME BURNS.
Full Explanation of How the I
Money Is Appropriated and
Work Apportioned.
Complaints againsl the terrible
leondition of Atlanta's streets
have reached such alarming pro
portions that The Georgian, after
a car®ftil investigation, today pre
sents to its readers informing de
tails of the system now in vogue,
which help to throw light on the
reasons for the present exasperat
ing conditions.
A majority of the m®mbers of coun
cil ar® unanimous in expressing the
private opinion that something is vi
tally wrong with the system. Public
ly. they have been declaring for months
that Atlanta's greatest need was better
streets, and many are urging a 32.000,-
OOn bond issue for the purpose.
Daily a long line of callers files into
the chief of construction’s office in the
city hall to inquire as to numerous
street troubles and delays in work. Al
most 31.000.000 worth of improvements
was outlined at the first of the year. .
Each one Is met with the argument that ,
the continuous rains have practically ;
killed the efforts of the department.
Many Botches Made.
Says Wilmer L. Moore.
A general criticism is expressed in ,
th® words of Wilmer L. Moore, presi- .
dent of th® Chamber of Commerce. <
"The city is without sufficient money I
and equipment." he said. "An increase 1
in tlie tax rate, unpopular as it is. is ’
needed. Then ther eis no scientific plan '
of improvement. We must have this ,
before we can construct Intelligently. ,
Now Improvements are carried on here ,
and there, according to no real plan,
and many botches are made.
Here is an outline of how and what '
the construction department is doing '
this year.
City Has to Pay
Only Small Part. '
Anticipating assesments to be col- '
leeted from property owners, the Gcor- I
gia Railway and Power Company 's pot- J
tion for pavement between its tracks
and a large amount of work pledged by ,
the county' commissioners, council out- ,
lined almost $1,000,000 yvorth of Im- <
provements for this year. With the
year more than half gone, far less than '
half of it is completed.
The trolley company pays for eleven f
feet of the width of the s'reet paving (
where it has single tracks and for six
teen fe<: where it has double tracks. Os (
the remaining par: the property J»wn- ’
er.® are as : s'®d two-thirds of the cost,
according to the frontage owned. This ,
leaves but a small amount of the total
cod to h® paid from the city treasury,
But lh< e "go- of the work tb-pends
upon th® -ray it Is :• tndled oy tin > it; 1
< mi®: rm t ion d® par I men* and tin ■ t r®*-’ - I
Continued on Paue Two,
ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 11. 1912.
SECRET ADDING
PLANS GO ■
F. V. L. Smith and Bride "Dis
covered” by Friends and
Given Rice Shower.
F. V. Ij. Smith figured out a secret mar
riage last night and a most romantie
runaway honeymoon to New York, but
down at the Terminal station It took the
porters four hours today tn sweep up the
rice and the old leather, that a hundre<l
Elks and Masons threw at the couple as
they ran for the midnight train for New
York
Mr Smith, who is manager of the Elec
trone Company, in the Empire building
had engaged for three months to
Miss May belle Yarbrough. Ihe nineteen
year old daughter of Matthews Yarbrough,
plumbing inspector. All their friends
knew tha* the\ were to be married, since
they had planned that happy event when
they went to the music festival in April
Yesterday Mr. Smith called up Miss
Yarbrough in her office as assistant man
ager of the I nderwood typewriter con
cern and told her that if she could get
away quietly he’d like to be married in
the evening and leave f<»r the Northern
honeymoon without a single person know
ing.
Sneaks Out Her Trunk.
Miss Yarbrough agreed She hurried
home and packed her trunks and put on
a traveling‘costume ami had a little col
ored boy sneak her trunk out of her home
by the hack way. She had been invite*!
to dinner- at half past 7 o'clock, and she
slipped awa\ perfectly confident she had
outwitted all her family and friends.
\t his home at 481 <'herokee avenue.
Mr Smith got his trunk and suitcase out
ami on their way to the train without a
single soul suspecting
The couple met downtown got an au
tomobile. ap«l wen driven to the library
of the Wesley Memorial church where
the pastor, Rew (»r Hendrick, married
them.
But somebody, somehow that parr is a ■
mystery yet heard of the secret marriage 1
in the church library about two minutes
after it occurred, and telephoned the sac t
to Mr. Smith’s friends at the Masonic
lodge, and to more friends of Smith in
the Elks club Said friends got automo
biles, a barrel of rice, bought a great part
of the stock of a second hand shoe store,
and descended upon the Terminal station,
where the bride ami the bridegroom sat
chuckling over their clever deception.
When the train finally came in ami the
newlyweds were permitted to board it.
their marriage had been about as con
clusively and enthusiastically advertised
as though they had had a church wed
ding
Upon their return to Atlanta, Mr. Smith
and his bride will go to live in his p'et
ty bungalow' al 734 North Boulevard
WIFE’S DRESS DIDN'T FIT:
HUSBAND SHOOTS MODISTE)
PARIS .Inly 11 FU < au;c -li.- m.o < i
"if* a drev th,ii did not fit. c nani
nimcd retriet -h»H MHr. F*ii lu Ka-
rn, us.
) Belgian Hare. Fleet
And Latest
’ In Political Arena
Western Senator Declares That
He’s Not a Bull Moose, Nor
Is He a Land Crab.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—" Are you
a Bull Moose?" asked one senator of
a Western progressive with Roosevelt
leaning.
"No." replied the Westerner mourn
fully; "hut I will not join Taft's party
the political land crabs. I never could
progress backward.”
"Then what is your zoological elassl,
ficatlon?" persisted the questioner.
[ "Politically speaking." replied th®
Westerner, "I think I'll join Woodrow
Wilson. The Belgian hare runs like
h—II and multiplies rapidly."
U. S. WILL NOT WAIT
FOR BRITISH PANAMA
CANAL BILL PROTEST
WASHINGTON. July 11. S-crdary
of State Knox today Informed Great
Britain, through Xlfroci Mitchell Innes,
counsellor of the British embassy, that
the United States must decline to de
fer action on the canal bill,
now pending in the senate, until the
receipt of the formal British protest
against the passage of the bill
Great Britain, in her objection to rhe
measure, claimed Ihe pi efei <nt ial treat
ment given to American coastwise* ships
over foreign ships is a violation of the
Hay - Paunreforte treaty insuring the
free and equal us« of th*- canal u» the
vessels <-f commerce and of war of all
the world 'l’he state derailment will
decline t<» discus.- th* protest, cithei
formally or informally, until the sen
ate ads on the bill,
THAW WOULD NOT BE
UNSAFE IF AT LARGE.
NOTED EXPERT SAYS
WHITE PLAINS. N Y„ July 11. Dr.
Charles K. Milla, considered on® of th®
most expert alienists in this country
and instructor in several large medical
colleg''®. resumed the F t.md in the Tha v,
®anity hearing when court was called
here today before Judge Martin J.
Keogh.
The alienist reaffirmed his belief thal
Harry K. Than is sane, suffering from
no delusion and that his release from
j Matteawan would not prove unsafe to
the public weal.
AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE
NO CONSCIENCE. SHE SAYS
< HIUAG<’. luiy 11. Mrs Edmund
| Trowbridge Dana. English woman who
married the grandson of the p O et Long
fellow. - th' American woman has
nn cons* ien» r. and Kpi husband ag’re
\y ir h her.
SENATE TO PROBE
STILL-BIRD ROW
Police Make Cases Against the
Four Principals Haled
Before Recorder.
The state senate will investigate the
fracas between •' P. Bvrd Tom Lyons
and Luther Still, which took place yes
terday afternoon In the senate cham
ber.
According to the notion of this body
the ''scrap" can not b® judged by the
police court.
Senatoi J A. Sheppard introduced
i resolution this morning providing for
an inquiry and it was adopted without
comment. John M. Slaton, president,
will act as chairman ex-officio of the
investigating committee, and the fol
lowing senators will serve with him:
.1. E. Sheppard, J. W. Mayson, W. D.
<'rawford and .1. B Douglass. The
committee is empowered to summon
witnesses and Itjjg. ® stenographer.
Tin inina*'" ® not yet been no
tified when/ will take place.
Says Three en Attacked Him.
"I got the worst of the fight,” said
Mr. Still. "But I wish the public to
know that I was fighting three per
son® and that I was not the aggressor.
Byrd catne up to me in the senate
■•hamher and told tn® that if I contin
ued to sax he had padded the state'.*
printing accounts he would thrash me.
H' used a hard word. Just about that
time Lyons walked up and- cursed me
vilely. Frank <'often was w ith him. I
con®id®red tint th® thrashing might as
well be done then as any time so I
struck at Bvrd. Lyons closed in on me
then anil I went for him. < 'often also
tried t<> strike me, but I frightened
him off. I started to chase Lyons, but
he ran and as I stopped to look back
at Byrd he struck me in th® right eye.
It was a severe blow and dazed me.
"If the trio is proud of what it did
it can have the credit foe having won
the fight. I wish to reiterate, however,
that Bt t(l did pad the state's accounts
and he knows it."
Mr. Byrd could not be located this
morning.
t.’haiges of disorderly <onduct were
preferred against the principals of the
Still-Byrd-Lyons-Cohen fight in the
senate b> the police department this
afternoon Officer Ed Arthur rttade the
charges at the direction of Assistant
t'hief Jett.
Ail foui principals wen served with
eopb s and notified to appear before the
recorder Saturday morning.
DROWNS IN FOOT OF WATER.
DUBUQUE, K»\VA. Jui.s IL—While
-looping 'oct i cistern box. Mr®. Ilen
rCtPt Pfeffer lost imi balance and fell
tep feet to the bottont. drowning in
twelve inches of wot* r. Sh“ wa? St*
years "Id.
riott
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O Y RE NO
DEFEATS PUT
NEW SPEED
IN YANKEE
RUNNERS
I
• Craig, of Detroit, Wins the 200-
Meter Race—Many Qualify
for Hurdles.
jr
•CANADIAN SETS RECORD
FOR 10.000-METER WALK
Ralph Rose Redeems Himself
by Winning First in Shot-
Put for Both Hands.
By MICHAEL J. MURPHY,
(Trainer of the American Olympia
Team.)
STOCKHOLM. July 11.—Ralph C.
Craig, of the Detroit Y. M. C. A., today
won the final heat of the 20n-meter
flat race in th® international Olympic
I games A great cheer went up from
the American contingent when the Star
Spangled Banner wa« hoisted, showing
that the Fnitcd States had gained re-
I venge for its defeats of yesterday.
By < 'ralg's victory today- America has
won th® 200-meter race, three times out
of the four it has been in th® Olympic
program.
Donald F. Lippincott, of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, finished second,
but. third went to VA’. R. Applegarth,
the English star. Craig got a good
start and led all the way. but was close
ly pressed by Lippincott. The Michi
gan speed king breasted the tan® only
a fool ahead of his American rival,
who was a Ilk® distance ahead of the
Englishman.
The time, 21 7-10 seconds, was only
one-tenth of a second rmhind the rec
ord, <
American athletes announced five
more points in the shot put for both
hands. Ralph Rose was first and Pat
rick McDonald, th® New York police
man. second. Nicklander, of Finland,
was third. The American victory in
the first two events of the afternoon
gave them tdn additional points In the
total score and England and Finland
got one each.
Rose redeemed his defeat of yester
day by winning the shot put with two
hands, although McDonald put up a
stiff fight. The score was: Rose, right,
15.23; left 12.4,,' total, 27.70 meters.
McDonald, right. 15.08: left, 12.45: to
tal. 27.53. Nlcklander, right, 14 71'
left. 12.43: total. 27.14.
Yankee Breaks
Pole Vault Record.
Harry S. Babcock won the pole vault
for the United States and beat the Olym
pic record. Babcock's leap was 12 feet
11.6 inches. The old record was 12
feet 2 inches, made by Gilbert, of Amer
ica.
Frank T. Nelson, of Yale, and M. S.
VVright. of Dartmouth, were tied for
second place at a height of 12.64 feet
each.
F. J Foyle, of the University of Chi
cago. had a narrow escape. Coyle had
failed to make this 12 feet 3-8 inch.
Finally, setting his Jaws hard, he made
a long run and flung himself upward
with all his force. Just as he reach
ed midair the pole broke, hurling the
Chicagoan to the ground with terrific
force. He was only badly shaken up.
Hapenny. of Canada, fell a distance
of nearly 12 feet, sustaining possible
internal injuries.
Americans again came to the front
with a rush in the semi-finals of the
1 Id-meter hurdle®. Martin W Haw
kins. of the .Multonomah Athletic club,
of Portland. Oregon, took the second
heat of th® semi-final away from Cql
pachinl. of Italy, and John G. Nichol
son. of the University of Missouri!
qualified for the final by winning the
third.
James VV endell. of New York, won
the fourth heat in 151-2 .seconds, and
F. AV. Kelly, of Seattle, took the fifth
heat.
Arouse.d by their defeats yesterday,
the American athletes went into the
contests today with determination to
get back to their earlier form. Having
been taught a lesson, the American®
vowed to contest every event to th
limit of human prowess. They admitted
they had been caught off their guard I"'
overconfidence In the 1.500-ineter race
yesterday and were roundly lectured
for it by their trainer-in-chief.
Carrying out their program of per
sistency, the Americans went into th®
110-meter hurdle trials, the first event
to be run off. prepared for a terrific
struggle. From a viewpoint based on
form, this event was a joke, as the
United States athletes apparently had
the race cinched. However, they were
taking no chances. A large number of
the Americans who qualified in the
’rials are school boys.
The only real contest in the race over
the jumps came in the eleventh heat,
with James I. Wendell, of Wesleyan
university: Powell, of Great Britain,
ami Lukeman, of Canada, fighting it out
for places. The Englishman was elim
inated. Wendell winning in the fas: V
time of 15 3-5 seconds. The Olympic
: ecord for this event is 15 seconds flat,
made by Smithson, of America, at Lon
don in IPOS.
George Goulding, of Ontario. Can
ada, won the 10.00(1-meter walk, shox -
ing himself to b® one of th® greatest
pedestrians in the history of iport
