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the weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Local showers today and probably tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 248. lEHM IM-METER IS SEI Bl MEE Reidpath Starts Day in Olympic Games by Adding to Glory of United States. AMERICANS QUALIFY IN HIGH JUMP FINAL Team From This Side Now Has First Place in the Meet Practically Cinched. STOCKHOLM. July 13.—-The first final of the day wont Io the United States and gave the Yankee spectators a chance to cheer as Old Glory was hoist above the crowded stadium. Charlr - l>. Reidpath. of Syracuse uni versity. non the final in the 400-meter run. breaking the old Olympic record. Reidpath’s lime was 48." seconds. The old record was 49 1-5 seconds, made by Hillman, of America, at the Olympic games at St. Louis in 1904. Braun, of Germany, finished second, and Edward F. Lindberg, of the Chi cago t A.. was third. This event gave the United States four additional points. •With the honors of the Olympic games practically cinched in points, the Yankee athletes did not relax their ef forts a hen the eighth session of the contests of brawn and skill began to daj. The weather continued cool to day. with exceptional brand of atmos phere. Four Yankees Qualify for Jump. The first number on the program nas the standing high jump. In the preliminary the following Americans qualified to compete in the final: Pb tt Adams. New York A. C.; Ben I.Lio-. New York A. C.; R. L. Byrd, Wrian college; Leo Goehring. Mohawk t <• In addition to the Americans. Tsicli :ii r .f Greece. and Taylor, of Eng iand. qualified. The bar in the quali ing preliminary was set at 150 centi meter-. or 1 feet 11 inches. Tie I’nitcd States was regarded as a ortain winner in this event, although Greek jumper. Tsichlitiras, is a man he reckoned with. T’.ic Olympic record for the standing lump is 5 feet 5 inches, made by Eii-. of \merica, at the Olympic r m - in Paris in 1900. BABY, FORGOTTEN IN FIRE PANIC, DROPPED INTO OFFICER’S ARMS NEW YORK.»JuIy 13.—Cut off bx w hieh blocked his exit to the “t'i-i l: <?m the second story of the •ling. Policeman John J. O'Sullivan tned from a window and diopped a •<-months-old baby in the waiting .cm- <>f another officer below. The Im -no had fled to the street in panic ■' c n til l ' fire was discovered, leaving ' child behind. After saving the '''Sullivan fled to the roof of the h; ii ling and made his wax to safety. SUPT. BRITTAIN TO SPEAK. I'ALTON. GA.. July 13.—The officers Whitfield County Sunday School '■ iation have called the annual con 1' for Saturday. August 3. at -ant Grove. Among the prominent ki s win be Prof. M. L. Brittain. ho<H superintendent. 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JULY 13. 1912 The Atlanta Georgian iiXTKA Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results A •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • : Today’s Olympic • : Games Program • • • • There were four important track • • and field events upon the 'Olympic • • program today in which 42 Amer- • • leans were entered. All of the • • events were finals. They were: • • Standing high jump. • • Throwing the discus; right and • • left hands; final. • • 400-meter run (447 yards); • • final. • Team race. 3.000 meters (one • • mile. 1.420 yards, 10 inches); final. • • In addition there were a num- • • ber of gymnastic and w restling • • events scheduled. • • « »••••••••••••••••••••••••• Husband Seeker Gets A Bushel of Answers: Bars Chicagoans, Too Kansas City Widow Prefers New Yorkers and Bostonians to Cornfed Westerners. CHICAGO, July 13.—Mrs. DeForest Brown, otherwise Mrs. Clara L. Brown, of Kansas City, who wrote the mayors of New York and Boston that she warn ed a husband.' and that no "corn-fed Chicagoan need apply," appeared at the Congress hotel, got about a bushel of letters and disappeared. She still is in Chicago, but her exact w hereabouts to day are as secret tis the contents of the bushel of love missives she re ceived. • Mrs. Brown, accompanied by another woman, arrived at the Congress late, registered and went to their room. Later the manager was asked to "come up." At the partially opened door, around which peeped the frilled edge of a boudoir cap. he was told that Mrs. DeForest Brown was Mrs. Clara L. Brown, "and would he please send up her letters.?" He did. It took two trip®. A little later Mrs. Brown and her companion checked out. They entered a taxicab. Bellboys followed, laden with hand baggage and with letters tied in neat bundles. The women went to the North Side and are believed to be in an apartment. 3 ATLANTANS GO TO EXPLORE WILDS OF SMOKY MOUNTAINS Three Atlantans start this afternoon upon a trip of exploration which will take them far from civilization or hu man habitation for at least two weeks. They have undertaken opening to geog raphy the trackless border region of ihe Smoky mountains in North Caro lina and Tennessee. The three who began the trip by train to Bryson. N. C„ are E. M. Boland, of the Young Men's Christian associa tion. and Henry and Albert Bridewell 243 Glennwood avenue. From Bryson they will strike off into the heart of the mountains with nothing but Clingman's Dome and the Chimney Top peaks for guides. Much of the way will have to be literally hewn through trackless vir gin forests. Finally the trio, after hav ing explored more than 100 miles of hitherto unknown country, will emerge at Knoxville, Tenn. airship runs Away WITH PUPIL; SOARS 15 MINUTES SAFELY CHICAGO. July 13.—W. C. Robinson, pupil in flying, learned how to make a landing without any aid from his in structo". The lesson was completed aft er fifteen minutes in the air in an un expected flight when the aeroplane he was driving ran away. Max Lillie, in structor, asked Robinson to drive the machine from one end of the field to the other as one would drive an automobile Robinson started the engine at the speed used when he and Lillie were in the seat. The machine was caught by a gust of wind, and with its load less ened it shot into the air. After fifteen minutes managed to get back tn earth. He was ready today to con tinue his lessons ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. JULY 13, 1912. BURNS TELLS OF GRAFT IN CAROLINA CAPITOL Detective Declares His Records Trace the Responsibility to Governor Cole Blease. EXISTENCE OF ‘SYNDICATE’ CHARGED BY T. B. FELDER I Legislation. Whisky Orders and; Pardons Marketed for the Price, He Alleges. AUGUSTA. GA.. July 13. —With De tective William J. Burns continuing his testimony of alleged grafting on the part of Governor Cole 1.. Blease and others in high station at ihe South Carolina state capital. the hearing of the special legislative committee prob- | ing South ('arolina dispensary affairs was resumed at 10 o'clock this morn ing. Detective Burns was on the stand' when the session adjourned last night and created a sensation when he charg ed that Governor Blease. both as state senator and as governor, had grafted and that he had dictagraph evidence to substantiate the charge. Represen tative Cary, one of the investigating committee, asked. "Will your records (referring to the dictagraph evidence) show that Cole L. Blease has grafted as senator and as governor under the liquor laws of South Carolina?" " Yes, they will." replied Burns. But Detective Burns’ testimony is no more startling than that of Th,omas B. Felder, the Atlanta lawyer, who rep resented the commission that wound up the old rispensary system, and for whose especial benefit the hearing tv as called in Augusta, in order that he might not have to go to South Carolina to testify and subject himself to arrest at the instance of Governor Blease. /. Felder Makes Bold Charges Against Blease. Following his charge yesterday after noon. that "Hub" Evans, accompanied by Blease. then his lawyer, had been paid $4,000 by an Atlanta whisky deal er as rebates on whisky orders while Evans was a dispensary commissioner. Mr. Felder charged that Blease con trolled a legislative "syndicate” while state senator; that the "syndicate" de manded money to block legislation: that money was collected from rail- Toads for killing anti-railroad bills, and that while governor, Blease has grant ed pardons for which the "syndicate” has been paid large sums, one from Charleston having cost $2,000. Bluen thal & Bickert was the former Atlanta whisky house named by Felder as hav ing paid Evans the $4,000 rebates. 40 HURT AS TORNADO HITS GRAND RAPIDS; MANY HORSES KILLED GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.. July 13 - Forty persons were injured today in a tornado that did heavy damage in Grand Rapids and the surrounding neighborhood. The storm struck about 4 o'clock this morning. it swept' in from the southwest, tearing the roof from the grandstand of the Centra! league baseball park and striking the city market where farmers with xvagon lods of produce had gathered for the dy's trading. A number of horses were killed. Trio of Americas Fastest Long-Distance Runners U.S. IS EXPECTED TO WIN MARATHON The long’-disL'ince classic _______________ of the Stockholm Olympiad RsgT,- '’ will he ruii tomorrow. These t N joryp. \ "■ ■"'i" I $$ VT BMBBWak ' Io corry Old Glory across the \| M line in front. \ \ ' - • .IMPWb i * • & HTCram •WWw?' % j ■■ B \ Ba! 1-I# wWhriJSSS V Or- a . W JF t a«8 T; jt ANDREW SOCK ALEXIS. LOUIS TEWANIMA. V DIES TRYING TO SAVE HER BABY Victim of Oil Explosion Disre garded Own Peril in At tempt to Rescue Son. Mrs. Joseph Head, who was burned to death by the explosion of kerosene at her East Point home yesterday, was buried today in East Point cemetery. She died six hours after the accident. If mother love had not prompted her to save her four-year old son, perhaps Mrs. Head might have extinguished the flames which wrapped her clothing and thus saved het own life, but iter first thought was of her baby. Mrs. Head was pouring coat oil into her stove to kindle the fire, when it caught from smouldering coals. Mrs. Head's clothing, splashed wijJi burning oil, burst into flame, and the little home began to burn rapidly. Fearing the baby would be caught, the mother ran to him and tried to carry him from the house, but poon realized that her own burning clothing was a greater menace to the child than the fire in the home She was forced to put him down and persuade him to run out into the street J. H. Stepltens. an aged neighbor, was badly burned about the hands In trying to save Mrs. Head. BOY AGED 11 HAS BEEN DRUNKARD TWO YEARS NEW Y(.)RK, July 13. William Finn, aged eleven, h is been detained by the Children's society on complaint of It is, mother, who says he has been an hab itual drunkard for two years. CITS GUESTS OF HDhORATPARTY Little West End Girls Entertain in Celebration of Their Pets’ Birthday. Miss Mary Hancock, of the much younger set of Wist find, entertained at a party yesterday afternoon at hi'' home. 61 Queen street, assisted by Miss Rosalind Foster. The guests of honor were Mary's two kittens, who have just turned the" first year and are rapidly budding into cathood, and Ihe other guests were nineteen of Mary and Ro salind's set—eighteen cats and one puppy The invitations were tasteful, unique and unusually free from that artifici ality which marks so many social forms. They were written individually, in lead pencil, as follows: You are cordially invited to at tend the birthday patty of Mary and Rosalind’s cats at the home of Mary, 61 Queen street, at 5 o'clock. Please bring presents, if you have none, do not come. Refreshments will be served. If it rains, don’t come Re sure and bring your cat MARY AND ROSALIND. Refreshments were served on the lawn and consisted of sweet milk, candy, cake and a bone, tactfully dis tributed among the varied classes of guests by the young hostesses And (as It is customary to w'ite in re cording social events) a pleasant tim« was had. i F MIKE RYAIv OS MER Os GIRLARRESTED Ruth Bnbe. Taken to Face Suitor. Declares That She Will Wecl Him. Ruth Bol>e. the sixteen-year-olr] Mo bile girl who carne to Atlanta to wed M. H. Avery, an actor, and didn't find him. was taken io Birmi ng ha tn today by her stepfather. J. W. Bailey, to face the recreant vaudeville player, who was arrested there last night. Atlanta po ll, p received a telegram from Mobile today announcing the arrest of Avery in Birmingham and directing that the gir! be taken there to face him. Mar riage or - imprisonment may face the actor when the girl arrives. The git I met the vaudeville perform er ala Mobile theater and fell in love with him. She says he told her to come to Atlanta, where he would meet her. hut her stepfather pul the police on her trail and they found her in a board, ing house, still waiting for her suitor. She was taken to ihe police station and her stepparent arrived last night to take her home The girl insisted she was going to marry the actor in spite of objections from anybody, and it max be that a wedding will result. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE 30 MILES OF PAVEMENT ORDERED IN VAIN Not a Stroke of Work Done on Them, Is the Startling Fact Just Bared. CONFERENCE SHOWS UP LACK OF SYSTEM Street Committee Plans Grad ing of Ivy Street and Other Big Improvements. That not one foot of the 30 miles of sidewalk pavement authorized by! council this year has been laid was the startling condition bared today. The reason is that the construction depart-' ment has not done the necessary grad ing for the paving contractors to be gin work. The situation Is made even worse by the fact that eight miles of curbing has been laid on the streets designated for paving. But without the sidewalk paving every rain washes a great part of the paving down. The construction department has laid 21.2 miles of curbing and sidewalks. But all of the sidewalk paving was work passed up by council last year. Owens Declares System Not Followed. Commenting on the condition before the streets committee, John S. Owens, Atlanta capitalist, who has a part of the street paving jontract, said: “There is no system by which this work is taken up. The city code spec ifies that it shall be done in the order authorized by council. This is not done. Neither contractors nor proper ty owners know when a street provided for pavement will be paved. "I offer this suggestion: When a street is started, lay the curb, grade it and pave it before taking up another niece of xvork. The grading crews pump from one point to another now whether the wm|< is finished or not." Councilman J. H. Andrews, a mem ber of the streets committee, declared that it xx.i.-i not. 'equitable to follow the code and do the work in the order in which it xxas passed up because there was no system by which council pass ed up work He said the plan of the committee was to try and distribute the work among the wards. Plan Grading Os Ivy Street. s "I don't think we ought to try to do all • f ihis sidewalk work." said Coun cilman C. J. Vaughan. "We have had no street work done this year and there . is certainly a need for sonte." A more progressive spirit than usual was displayed by members of the com mittee, however, when they practically committed themselves to a plan for grading Ivy street from Decatur to Peachtree streets in conjunction with the lowering of the grade at the junc tion of the Peachtrees and Baker street. Led by Joel Hurt. Martin Amorous and George M. Hope, the property owners on this street agreed to advance the city the necessary money to adjust the buildings on this street to the new grade, and the county commissioners are ready to have their convict# do the xvork. Captain Tom Donaldson, superintend ent of construction for the county, told the committee that it was a short-