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THE WEATHER. Forecast: Ditto. Temperatures: 8 a . m., 75: 10 a. m., 80: 12 noon. 81; 2 p. m.. 83. VOL. X. NO. 249, 14-IKfflU is mu io 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 ’ ■ wIP I War? \ t'JSKF 1 iHmmS 1 \ \~ » MBHi' *■ 1 \\ IKBK\\ K . *A V “’IBBIfejHSHMPBe /C R i \\ JMWN 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