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VOL. X. NO. 249,
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OLYMPIC
KUNNLR
Lazaro, of Portugal. Succumbs
From Effects of Marathon
Event Yesterday.
1.600-METER TEAM RACE
GOES TO UNITED STATES
American Team Adds to Hon
ors by Taking Second in
Swimming Relay.
STOCKHOLM. July 15.—Lazaic.
a I’nttugue-p entrant in yes
trrcla- - marathon race o.' the Olympic
gamer, died today from the effect of his
Jens run. Lazaro did not finish the
ra> «•. but dropped out seven miles from
tnr fin-«h after having run over sevqn
te* u >ndr-
jollooing an official investigation to
death was attributed to heart j
r-.in■ iiidiif d l>. over exertion and
Minmnkr. He l.ari not trained proper
p f.., in- rat*. Lazaro. along with]
th- -tiiri runners, was examined by a
p n-for* the contest began and;
1 '!■■■ ofli' inls indignantly denied ;
chon race imposed cruel-
r. ■ ; i runners taking part. They .
th* death of Lazaro teas
:<> imperfect training. »
. tin r runner tn feel any ill
t t'u grueling contest is,
Lc': r tut, -. >. '. <i is ill. All of
n■■ ■. i. competed were in
, coc? , .a 'I he spent th* day
■ -igh■ ■ of .' t > ck'tmlp).
At a ricji.s Ccvthnie
V : imir ■ Hresk.
: ’ :1 H■ • ’ l l » d hl j
st big
i:■ ’• !. *’■ ' ' n'.pic g j in r :
r: : p . ' c ht >. bringi tg 1
~f , »in;.« f:>r a ' games Up
I I'li i’ St<V ‘- captured the
i ’ ■. lint,l and took sennpl ,
tn i sihi -ipcic. swimming relay I
■f, . I'lrneb. team ran second Io Ihr j
i rue.| Stales in the 1.600-meter land
ci m and (I: eat Britain finished third.
1 V inkees' time for the ],6oit meters
was :: minutes. 16 3-5 seconds.
Tin members of the speedy' American
running team were Melvin W. Shep
pard. of the Irish-American Athletic
club; .lames E. Meredith, of Mercers
burg. Pa. academy; Charles D. Reid
rnth of Syracuse university, and Eii
' nd Lindberg, of the Chicago A. A.
\ustvaiia won the SOO-meter swim
mmg relay race in 10 minutes, II 1-5
-■ .md-t. Perry McGillivray, of Amer
’ ’. finished second and Great Britain
third.
I in' mil and Sweden swept the boa ds
th* S.OOO-meter cross-country run.
• a place went to H. Kohiemainen.
'‘ r Finland, while Anderson and Eke. of
s "e>len. finished, respectively, second
third. H H Hellowell, of the
' ' Yoi|< Athletic club, who finished
'ltr in the 8,000-meter cross-ioun
■•'o.-e. was the first American to
■ ' the tape.
I oi>. s Thorpe, of the Carlisle Indian
1 added three mor points to
’■i s store by winning the decath-
1 th s.tl? points. \\ eislapdet. of
•n was second, with 7.7.1. and
■ ■ i'tw-rg. of Sweden, third, with 7.413
y vi< tmy of the American Indian.
1 cb'ating as it d.id his ttiumph in
pentathlon, was the occasion for
•i wild oulbiust from the Ante
seats. The spectators regardeiT
“ i real American victory, the
' being uni of the aborigines of
! nd of the Stars and Stripes.
ydatps, of the New York Ath
'tii. was the only American who
e’lance ip the final of the hot ,
'"'l jump in the decathlon This
' 1 as won by Lindblom, of Swe
'!><■ iz. of Sweden, was second.
' u. of Sweden, was thiid. Adams
f "it'th. The best that Platt Adam \
■ r|. a. could do in th* hop. skip
lump was 46.22 feet, whereas th
of Lindblom, the Swedish
was 18.12 fr*t.
Americans Feel
Lost of Marathon.
''ii of the. most interesting among
rihletes today was Gaston Strobino.
oung Paterson. N. J., runner, who
led third place in the marathon
a galling run. Strobino ran the
"ales. 1,722 yards in 2 hours, 38 min
-42 2-5 seconds, which was 16 min
better than th< time made by
"miy Hayes, in London, in 19i)8, al
icli it did not break the world's
which wa.s 2:37:42. set by S.
ii'on. in Sweden, last July.
'lilshaw, the marathon runnel, was
butt of many a good natured joke
After the finish of the long
•i Giisiiaw said that he could have
if McArthur had waited for him to
drink two miles from the finish
"aw was apparently in -urncr-t
it. ioo \Vhrn McArthur was
ibout a Ho lank' South Af'i
i' - i' ■ man only grinned.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Judge Gives Up Office
Rather Than Scramble
For Place in Election
i Nat, E. Harris, Threatened With
j Opposition, Announces From
Bench He Will Not Run.
MACON. GA.. July 15.—Because he
does not believe a superior court judge
should "scramble for election." Judge
Nat E. Harris announced from the
bench today, in a written statement,
that he would not submit his candi
dacy’ to the people in the approaching
primary. He stated that he wanted to
i continue in office, hut he had been
threatened with opposition, and for
, that reason he had decided not to run.
Ho said that he had tried to return
favors done him in a political way. de
claring:
"When a man helps I always try
t" help him. and therefore I feci that
las between the man who fought me in
ia political contest like this and the
| man who supported me. I would find it
difficult to bi Impartial. I might lean
Im or against my political associates
because it would he only human, and
so. because [ must scramble and fight
io hold the office, | have decided not to
be a candidate although I want to con
tinue in office,"
Judge Harris Is one of Georgia's best
known lawyers. When Judge W. H.
I helion resigned four months ago. Gov
ernor Brown appointed Judge Harris
io Hie bench of the superior court of
the Macon circuit for the unexpired
term. He h , hairman of the board of
trustees of Georgia Tech *nd also a
trustee of the I'niversity of Georgia. It
is almost certain I hat Judge Hodges,
of the city court. Solicitor Matthews
and others will lie candidates for the
j judgeship
j COUNCIL EXPECTED
TO ADOPT NEW CITY
PLANT PLAN TODAY
It -aLi todax hy prominent mem
her? of ipp council that ihc contract of
iho Nova V«>ri< 1 ’cst ru<-t« u Company to
hu'M a disposal plant for 527 R
. would bp adopted by council this aft
; ernoon It will be recommended by Mayor
Winn and the finance r»’mmittpe.
The company offers to giyp bond to
! build a 'pn.aoo electric pop or plant in
I conjuncti»in with the crematory if the
I council v ill finance such a proposition.
Othervise I'pp bend provides* tha.l the
.elect’ll- pji.ii . "nn be Luilt on the same
' terms of •■redjt as the garbage plant with
in «»’u \ I- aft.e’ iL.c yaibagp plant is
rnlll pJf 11 <i.
’? t'o Trust foment of Georgia has un
dorvvritten the de<tnict<»r company’s con
i traoi to bulk! thr garbage plant.
CAPITALREMOVAL
BILL COMES UP FOR
PASSAGE JULY 25TH
The house of representatives agreed
| this morning that the proposal to remove
■ the capital from Atlanta to Macon shall
!bp made a special order for legislative
consideration on Thursdax. July 25. at
10:30 a m
'l'he bill introduced by Representatives
Hall. Wimberly anil Before, of Bibb, seek
ing this removal is in the form of a con
stitutional amendment, and will require a
two-thirds vote to pass.
It unquestionably- xvill bring forth a
flood of eloquence pro and con. and may
he depemled to furnish a lively day s do
ings.
Nobody seriously contemplates its pass
age. however.
[ROOSEVELT STARTS
CAMPAIGN TRIP TO
WEST THIS WEEK
DYSTER BAY. N Y„ July 15—Col
onel Roosevelt bus ihcideil lo' make the
campaign trip to Michigiwi, Kansas and
ioYa. w hich he lias had under < onsid
ciation for several days. He said he
had begun work on a numbei of
speeches which he would deliver be
fore the opening of tic national pro
gressive convention in I'hieago. Some
time next week, according to tie pres
ent plat’., lie will start Westward
“WILD MAN FROM
BORNEO"SLEEPS IN
HOUSE, THEN JAIL
The “wild man from Borneo" was
given JU ’lays in the '■lockade today by
Recorder Brovles for sleeping in a
bouse.
Tlie wild man is Hamp Reed, i negro,
who is noted in Atlanta for bis role as
"the wild m iu from Borneo" in various
shows In which pari he wore horns,
ate raw. meats and did other srttnts,
| He was arrested for loitering and
j sleeping in a vacant house in the. out
| skirts of tlie city.
POOR CROP PROSPECTS
CAUSE SERIOUS FIGHT
GzM'SDEN. ALA July 15 Poor crop
prospects and abandonment of tlie farm
for public work resulted In a serious tight
here today A .1 liver rented his farm
to Walter Lamb I'iscouraged by the un
favorable seas, it. Lamb abandoned hla
crops. Hyer protested, and while dis
cussing the matter with his tenant a light
started. struck Hyer over the
head with a fence rail, from the results
of which he may die |gtmb is in jail.
: HEAT STILL GRIPS N. Y.:
5 MORE DIE IN BROOKLYN
NEW ¥< 'RK. J’ll.' I• • The number of
deaths h p at xvac inert a«»eri hr H\p to
,je> t x o relief from the prevent torrid
• o*Hl I* opptir*! until Vcdnesda’ All
the deaths recorded xx ere in Brooklyn
ATLANTA. G
BLEASE SAYS
NICHOLS DID
NOTSEEK
PARDON
South Carolina Governor Re
fuses to Discuss Charges
With Any One in Georgia.
PROMISES TO REPLY TO
ACCUSATIONS IN WRITING
. Spartanburg Attorney. After
Conference With Governor,
Won’t Talk Till Thursday.
' I don't care what Eelder says
about me. It is impossible for nie
to talk about this case with any
body in Georgia."
That is what Governor Cole
Blease told The Georgian over
long-distance telephone today.
I when asked for an interview.
Governor Cole L. Blease, at Colum
bia. S. C., today denied that Samuel
J. Nichols, of Spartanburg, had asked
him for a pardon for Gus Deford. He
refused to make a statement in reply' to
charges of Thomas B. Felder, of At
lanta. that he had been guilty of an act
of degeneracy* in Atlanta in March,
1911. He declared Detective William .1.
Burn ■ to he a “cheap hireling, unwor
thy of belief." He refused to say a
word about the dictagraph testimony'
presented late Saturday’ afternoon be
fore the South Carolina dispensary in
vestigating committee at Augusta by
Dele, tit p. E. S- Reed ot the Burns agen
cy. He promised later to answer the
charges made against him by Mr.-Feld
er.
At’orney Nichols, alleged by Detec
tive Recd to have acted as the go-be
tween in the Defovdpardon plot, re
fused to make a statement at Spartan,
burg today. He arranged with Chair
man Carlisle of the investigating com
mittee to give his testimony' at a spe
cial session of the committee in Co
lumbia on Thursday .
Attorney Eelder, in Atlanta, today
declared that Governor Blease would
he indicted by the grand jury in At
lanta for an alleged act of degeneracy
in Atlanta in March, 1911, while the
South Carolina executive was a dele
gate to the Southern Commercial con
gress.
Detective Reed, who came to Atlanta
with Mr. Felder after the sensational
disclosures at Augusta Saturday after
noon and night, is still in the city.
He Offered to Free
Convicts to Kill Me
—THOMAS B. FELDER.
Thom i.- B. Felder declared today that
Governor <'ole Blease. of South Caro
lina. had promised to pardon convicts
in the state prison if they would as
sassinate Felder after Blease had
lirought him into the state on trumped
up requisition papers.
"But lie didn't make good his' plot to
■get mo.' " said Felder, "because the
governor of Georgia wouldn't honor
his requisilion. Now I'm going to live
to see that 'governor of South Carolina
discredited for his graft and thrown out
of bis office. I'm going to live to See
him punished for thievery, imprisoned
| for graft and finally he'll be put be
hind the bars in Georgia for a crime
! that be committed here that no news
paper would print, and which 1 would
not nani”. a- rime involving unsound
depravity.
“I inn prove hy circumstantial evi
dence that since he lias been governor
of South t'ariilitia Blease lias sold 100
| pardons to criminals and I'll show by
that same evidence that he got lhe
money’ in hfs own pocket for making
the salr. He did it in the same way
that Iw started to do ft through Nich
| •>!.« when we caught him in W ishing
; ion through Detective Reed and his
| dictagraph.
Declares They Have Proof.
"That testimony by the dictagraph
I is material evidence of Blease's crook
i edness, because we can prove he sold
I pardons, and we will dovetail into that
evidence the speech Blease made in
! Spartanburg a month ago when he said
that if the people of South Carolina
* expected him to stop the granting of
| pardons as he had been doing since he
I became governor they'd better not elect
1 him governor again because he
i wouldn't stop.
"Ever since Blease tried to extra
dite me on his trumped-up charge I've
I had him shadowed. That's how I came
i to know about bis plot to assassinate
! me. Some of the henchmen h* had in
fliaf ron jiiracy net* not in prison;
| Continued on Patie Two.
A.. MONDAY. .iIH/Y 15. 1912.
Thief*s Victim Forced
To Lie Quietly in Bed
As Room Is Ransacked
Burglar Threatening Death to
Dweller in Grand Building
Takes S6O and Escapes.
Louis Bettman wes forced to lie
quietly in his bed at room 317 (4r;tnd
Building early today while t burglar
took S6O from bis trousers’ packets and
ransacked the bureau drawers. Mr.
Bettman, who is credit man forth.
Southern Furniture Company. was
awakened by a noise in his room and
reached for the electric light hanging
above his bed. It had been removed
from his customary place. Suddenly he
heard a command: “Lie quiet or I’ll
blow out your brains."
The robber finished his search and
quietly left the room. Mr. Bettman
jumped up and found that the swinging
light had been pulled out of reach of
bis band. He sent in a call for police, i
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SHIES REPUBLIC
Discarded Sweetheart of the
Leader of Portuguese Mon
archists Bares Plot.
LISBON. July 15. A jealousy mad
dened woman brought the latest and
most promising attemjit of the Portu--
guese royalists to the verge of ruin
with heavy loss <>f lite and treasure. A
beautiful girl of noble family he >■ en
amoured of t'aptain <.'nuclei; lb>- roy -
alist leader, recently received inform;:
tion that he was false to her. it became
known today, ami in a frenzy, went io
the government officials and revrah’d
the monarchist plot, every detail of
which is said to have been given lobe
It was then that the republican lead
ers learned that seven r<‘gim*nts in
this city were in constant communica
tion with < 'ouclri and had completed
all plans to revolt and seize the capita'
for the royalists as soon as the latter
reached the border. Measures wee
taken to nullify this plan and when
Couciri crossed the frontier from Spain
at the head of the st longest army the
revolutionists have been able to mu-it-t
he found the government forces wait
ing for him in overwhelming numbers
and his command was dispersi-d with
heavy loss in killed and injured.
The republicans also suffired se
verely and royalist agents are declaring
that thei setback tn the eaus* was
but temporary The government, how
ever, 1° confident that with th- ex
haustive information p '■<• *d tn ,i--
hand 1 by i ;ou, ii i> die, ai-'i'-’i "• ihi-vt
th*r* It nothing lef’ f”r t ” loyaij.f
leader to do but, surrender m light.
CITY HASTHE FUNDS TO
REPAIR THESE STREETS
\C
■- ~ JrHm ii
fe '• T * I
HEIRESS BRIDE'S
LIFE TtaTENED
Miss Jennie Crocker, to Wed
Tomorrow. Stations Police
Guard About Estate.
SAN I’R \\<’lS<9 i. Inlx 15 Alarmed
by anninrnoiis Ipllpfs 11i r<>a ienj n u h»r |Jff>
oti thp eye of he> mairiagp to Malcolm
VVhHin.in, Miss .InnnJp I'rock’T ‘’iHfo»
nia's riches! heiress today placed hor
Hillsboro estate under police sur\<*illaneo
I'nipetj\cs are on Kuard at all ilm g -'o.
which mark entrances to the grounds
Isxon tradesmen are md allowed i<- enter,
but leave their wares ai the gates, to
be carried a half mile to the Crocker
mansion by trusted employees
Miss Crocker's $60,000 wedding takes
place tomorrow Meanwhile »h< voting
heiress is accompanic.; wherevoR 1 >he goes
by plain clothes men \ number of
these will be scatters! nrmigk lue fasn
ionabL- Hpiseop; I 'hutch in San Mateo,
when Bishop \\ ;li<u i F<,»r<l Nicnols per
forms 4lie ceremu'tthat w.d! unite Miss
Crocker ami Mtl »lm Whitman
BABY NAMED FOR MOVING
VAN: WAS BORN IN ONE
NKM Y'iRK, .filly 15.—While being
hurried to a hospital in a moving \an
Mr*» Ma y WtPdonfi ller ga\e birth I”
a danghiei. 'Ebe child 'a ill be named
M.<j \ \ ;<n \Yb’<|pnfe|ir>i
\ xWwjW -I
W )
The large picture shows a yawn
ing abyss in the middle of Colum
bia avenue near Thirteenth street,
only two blocks from Peachtree;
al the bottom is shown a young
woman struggling in the weeds
on what should be the east side
walk of Crescent avenue, one
block from Peachtree. Property
owners sav they were compelled
by lhe eily tn lay a sidewalk on
lip’ west side of this street.
FRISCO FAIR ENVOY IS
HERE TO URGE STATE
ARRANGE AN EXHIBIT
Timmaa M Moorp, representing the
Panama-Pacific International exposition,
which is to be held in San Francisco In
191.5 to celebrate the opening of the Pan
ama canal, is in Atlanta today for the
purpose of conferring with Governor
Brown In regard to a Georgia exhibit
“Georgia is the leading manufacturing
state of the South." said Mr Moore, "and
it is absolutely necessary that it be xx ell
advertised at the exposition hy a proper
display The matter of state pride is a
sentimental one and might serve to cause
the appropriation of a sum for a stale
exhibit., hut in the matter of dollars and
• cuts, the state must ho represented ably
Trade with 2.ooo.nnn.fwwt people will be
opened up by the <anal. and this section
xx ill bp drawn 4,000 ni»!p . doser tn ihe
c.akentng East. \i the exposition Geor
gia can advertise what it has to selL"
HOMT
tPITICT
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y RE NO
DIVISION DE
BULGING
DEPT.
Engineers to Plan Street World
and Executive Forces Do
It, His Aim. . <
- * 4
BIG FUND FOR REPAIRS
IS NOT NEAR DEPLETION
Only One-third of Money Ap-<
portioned Has Been Spent
on Thoroughfares, '*■
The campaign to better Atlanta’s
street conditions took new Impetus to-j
day with the deo.lwa.ttrwi of MayoW
Winn that th* chief of ''onstruetion’M
department shituld be divided Into twqj|
depanments—an engineer-inc depart*
merit and n construction department.
"The department Is too big for one
man." said the mayor. "An engineer-*
ing corps to plan th* work and an ex
ecutive department to do It wouM be
more systematic and would give better
results I think ft was a mistake that
the departments were »v*r consoli
dated "
As a result of The Georgian’s publi
cation of the terrible street conditions
and the city-wide demand for better
ment. the meeting of council wifi ba
adjourned until Thursday afternoon,
when charter amendments reorganiz
ing the system of Improvements at’s
expected to be introduced.
Immediate Action
Urged in Council.
Leading members of council are
agreed that action should be taken at
once in order to get the charter amend
ments through this session of the leg
islature
Among them Is being urged the plan
of separating the departments. Some
want the construction officials elected
by- council instead of by the people.
Councilmen Charles W. Smith. Clar
ence Haverty and others are advocat
ing a $2,000,000 bond Issue for street
Improvements. A special committee
will recomfftend an election for the
bond Issue at the meeting of council
this afternoon.
Streets of Other
Cities Shame Atlanta’s.
A striking view of Atlanta’s streets
was given in an Interview to The Geor
gian today by Charles J. Haden, promi
nent real estate developer and lawyer.
“I have just returned from a visit to
Cleveland, St. Louts and Gfifcago. and
in comparison with the streets of those
cities the condition of Atlanta’s is
shameful," he said.
"1 had the pleasure of going over
large sections of these cities and I
could not help but think of our streets
as a blot on our city.
"The Georgian has taken up a great
campaign in urging that the streets bs
made better.
"The greatest cause of the troubi*
here seems to me to he that our aide
streets are so poorly paved that the
traffic is forced onto Peachtree and
Whitehall streets The traffic is there
fore so heavy on these streets that no
sort of pavement could last long under
it. Traffic avoids the rough blocks and
our side streets are idle while th«
principal thoroughfare is congested. ’’
Complaints Made
Os Sidewalk Inactivity.
Dr. Horace Grant communicated ts
The Georgian today a complaint that Is
general. No sidewalks were put down
when curbing was recently' laid on
Park and Atwood streets in West End
Nearly all the curbing is now washed
down. Dr Grant also said that pri
vate property had been encroached
upon In the grading work.
At the meeting of council this after
noon .a resolution will be introduced
by the streets committee authorizing
the construction department to hire
free labor and to let contracts to eati •_!
up with the sidewalk grading work.
The city eonvli-ts have been depended
upon for this work. Not a single tile
has been laid on the 30 miles of side
walks which council authorized this
year.
Only a Third of
Street Fund Spent
The amazing information was se
cured from the city comptroller's office
today that, despite the city-wide pro
tests against the awful condition of At
lanta's streets, not as much as one
tltird of the i ouni-il's appropriation for
street improvements in 1912 has been
spent by th* streets committee and Hu
fonwirurti'm department so far this
year more than six months.
Th* comptroller's books show that
