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2 STREETFUNDNOT NEW DEPLETION « Only One-third of Apportion- ment for Repair Work This Year Used. Continued From Page Oh®. ISM4S; expended $17,212.63; baunv-p. 521,732.37 Marietta street widening Appor tioned. $25.00iv expanded. $ 1 7.59 . balance. $7.97” 59. While the amount provides for the smaller part of the proposal street im provements this ve r tlie larger part to come from a-«?■'< pm ent *■ on property owners, the sie*: railwax <.' i'piit\ and work done by the enuntv convicts. it is a thie index to the proportion of work done. With im reas ng complaint- < <«ming from citizen that it lmpo->ih • #■ travel In an' direct »n in th<- «-jty for any distant * without encountering tei rible streets, here D an itemized <-i a fo ment from the comptroller's oftb • of ♦he small amount ~f work done: Work Don? and Funds Available. < "her* ami stone fund . Apportioned. expended. sl7.<D9-.9; hiian •. $7 970. '■'> • Marietta stTFot paving. Xpi-ortioned. 1 159,508.77; nothing expnniß'l. Chert repair? 7 ppnrti'ined. M.OO’i; expended -9 b.iiani’p. t.'./.oii, Arpnalt repair? Apportioned. $13.- 000; . \)-tirieil. s9.l.'xx’. balanro. $".- 571.1 S West Mitch-; street '.idenlng \p portioned. »\p. iMd. hal- * anre. $2,575. West End and Grant park boulevard Apportioned. i-,"od. expended, $4.7,7? . balance, ttt.es Spring street improvement- Appor tioned. $5,000; expended. s".x’»x.fi7. Prvor street repairing Apportioned. .$5,000; expended. $113.22. East Mitchell street paving Appor tioned. $5,000; nothing expended. Fair and Hunter street- repairing; Apportioned. $3 000; nothing expended. Money Allowed But. None Expended. South Boulevard repairing Appor tioned. $3,000; nothing expended. Ivy street intpr<ivetn<ytt Apportioned, $5,000. nothing • xpended. Highland arenite repaving; Apppr tinned, $7,000, nothing expended. James street repaving Apportioned, SI,OOO. nothing expended Flat Shoals road paving: Appor tioned. $1,800; nothing expended. Whitefoord avenue underpass. Ap portioned, $2,000; nothing expended. DeKalb avenue paving Apportioned. $2,000; nothing expended North Boulevard paving Appor tioned, SlO.onti; nothing expended. North avenue paving Apportioned. $4,807: nothing expended Grading and repaving West Hunter Street and the regrading of South For syth -tic, Apportioned, $12.1”0; nothing expended. St. Charles avenue paving. Appor tioned. s2.3'in, nothing expended. St. Charles avenue paving (another gection >: Apportioned. s2.mm; expand ed. $140.82; balance. $1.859.15. Streets o'dinarx Apportioned, 5.30. ooa. expended. $21,621 . balance, $5,378. Blame Weather For Delay in Work. On some of these improvement® work has begun. but voucher® for expendi tures have no: yet reached the comp trollers office The cit\ engineers de clare that this is tit*' worst \ ear In his tory for streci work on account of the Incessant rains. They sav h great part of the work done has been repairs of washouts and tin like, citing as evi dence that he streets ordinary fund, the fund sot such repairs, I® nearly ex hausted. Work iy county convivia is'nne of the big Hems this \or Rut all work don*- it the city is under the direction of coun>-i’. < streets committee and the city const r uct ion department. Here I® an outline of the system by which county w ->rk i• done Wheneve? the city officials desire work <lone by the ebunty they make a request The county commissioners or der It done or lyot. as they see fit Citizens desiring any big improve ments .'Appeal to both the streets com mittee of council ami th*’ county mm mission. But the county officials d rm work in ’he city without ih. rip prova' of the city officials II «we\er this co-operative system wu- ,ui-tptc<! lust the fir-t of the y- <! All County Work Done by Convicts. The county d»e- all cork wit- t. convicts and without assessments Pu under the plan adopted the first <>’ »> • ' ear the dty a«se« »»« property ow »$. i ■ and the street railin' • mnpam f<» work done b’ the < «>unty iu«i m c work fforie by the city. It ■«aid th t In this way much more w »rk < *n b done. Most of the work dom by tlu ouinl' forces is guiding. No - mumt I ever made for grading work The < ty furnishes all material f<» work done by the county It Is probable that r»fi>rm- <»f th cit « <»nstruetion <lep.trtn.rnt ami i h V wii'.. street : mpro\etncri t -\-’em wi \ b» cotisitie red at the tnctiug of <oUU \ ton. If 11 1 \ taken i| th» n. council w || b»> mi.murn '/•a until Thu'®day afternoon to ton Fide ~)ip sweeping propovji* s o ■Bk th. IF* t?ny Members of < oun< II favnr post r h t i-m unt’i Thursday In <»rsjr f ' ■’ a ’.iU'.i ma' m- m and unite rctr-d upon informal!' Bt they jeal'Z* that they must -o f at om t* gr-t tiia deri’pr] throng HERE IS THE PUBLIC OPINION WHICH LORIMER SAYS DROVE HIM OUT OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE CAMC ml'fh 1 1 WMjBMBHF// / z /p^ K %v wlv Ma, wx w t' toUs> /n —— ■S—; From Mr. Hearst’s Chicago Examiner During the Second Lorimer Investigation Senator I >l' Illinois, made a farewell speech of two hours in the Cnited States senati'. a pathetic appeal to his fellow senators. He asked them to stand h\ him m his second trial as they had in his first trial. Mr. Lorimer, when a member of Hi, house, was for many years a faithful servant of the big corpora tions seeking privileges or immunities in Washington. He was their “handy man." There was a deadlock three years ago in the Illinois legislature over the senator ship. A bill putting lumber on the free list was pending in Washington. One senate vote might decide it. The Lumber Trust needed that vote. Representative Lorimer was elected senator by the use of a bribery fund of SIOO,OOO. raised pri marily by the Lumber Trust, to which several of the other large trusts contributed. A PETITION i If yoq are desirous of bettering the condition of Atlanta's streets, cut out this coupon, fill <uit the blanks and send it to the councilman who represents the ward in which you live). • To < -ouncilman , < 'ity I Inll, Atlanta, < la. Realizing the ilisgraeefiil eomliti<»n of Atlanta's streets. I ask yon to use every effort in your power to lu’iuti about Letter eomlitions. Name Address GEOMN FALLS TDUHISTS HOME Newspaper’s Guests Loud in Praise of Railway Companies Which Handled Special. Thr < ;eot tfiati s 50 guests who Journryoff <»n Hip outing to Cincinnati. Niagara Falls. Toronto and Detroit returned t<> Atlanta last night \H <*f them declared the trip was the pleasantest <»f their lives 'The railroad officials throughout the length of the route vied in courtesies to the part\ and even I »•' McFarland, who has done world tours as manager of such pxciirsiiiiiH for man' years. he never went upon a finer one ami doesn't think a finer one ’ rt| ' *’*' made When 'The Georgian special arrived <’\- actl> on schedule time at the Louisville and Nushvilh' station the. excursionists streamed from the Pullmans. grefted their hundreds of friends who had gone to tlie station to \vehmne thetn back, and then held an Impromptu meeting. at which they passed unanimously this reso lut ion. Kesolvcd. 'That at an informal meet ing of the Tourists of The Georgian special train returning from Niagara Falls an>i t’anada. on lul.' 11. UHL we do uninimousb extend most stn . ere thanks to The Vtlanta Georgian and News . Mr i F McFarland, man itt’i -'f the tour, and Mr F .1 Par i nialpp T P \ of ’he Cincinnati. Hamilton aud I'ayt-m railr*'ad. for a most pleasant ami profitable tour W r also w ish to extend our thanks i t.i t|u l.ouisvillp iml Nashville. < in- '-innu'i. Hamilton and Davton and Grand Trunk railroad companies, to Liu- Niagara Navigat on Pmupanv. ami Gorge Itoute. ami to the Detroit, ami Divv'iaml Steamship Company, for iii 'st rfiii lent serv iue and courte ous trcatmeni The resolution was offered on the spot •I by ' <»f he touriwu MACON MAN ACCUSES HIS WIFE OF LARCENY . ; Ma <> ( i i,i ■ » ’non 1 11 »rnm tsw ri e plas e<! , I bet -r*‘ Stu * ‘f <’ W Mm .' ini. m -xt'at.ta. I 'Dip *.s*■!!’ • <'<■•»!\ ed a let •r r ! r*.r> W . X H.H’kq 'I ■■*( inqil *ll a.cni.e. M” ■ i- kn.u that ..i „ i , . ( THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANU NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 15. 1912. SUNMI DANCING GOES UNDER BAN Effort of Grant Park Revelers to Tilt the Lid Is Checked by Policeman. Sumla.' darning in \tlania wa« shoved iimler the ban good ami hard today Recorder Broyles \n effort t<» tilt Atlanta's lid just a wee bit svas made yesterdav afternoon l»v a merry pari.v nf boys ami girls, who went out to Grant park. ami. in the pres em e <»f a rrowd of recreation seekers. ' waltzed ind twoslnpped to the strains of an electric piano in a hall over the rcfTus.immit .stand. Thr startled specta tors looked on in ama>emf-nt. wondering what lia<i happened to \tlanin Public flam ing in the park on S imlav afternoon the Idea was almost inconceivable Hut it was all over in a little while, for vvlien Policeman Norman appeared the 1 <lam»'is ib'si rted the waltz ami scampered avva.' Two young men. Barney Waldrop. 247 .South Moreland avenue, ami Walter Strickland. 338 \\<»odwat<l avenue, were a bit braver than the other darners, ami sought to waltz togeihei They were spied bv officer Norman, who made eases against both of them. In police court fo«ia'. Stricklaml told Recorder Broy les be lad been Informed that the police had tm objection to the dancing De was fined *1.75 Waldrop failed to appear, ami was ordered in con tempt of court Sunday dancing certainly will not be tolerated,' -aid Judge Broyles "Atlanta has not reach•' I the Sunday <lan< *ng stage JOHN MITCHELL TO BE SENTENCED WEDNESDAY W ASH IN( >T< iN. July 15. John ■ Mitchell, vice i>re<i<l.nt of the Ameri can f'Vrieratiun of Labor, adjudged in • ontenii't. will be sentetn • d h\ Justice i Wright on Wednvxla\. Through his» ,! attorney. Mit, hell todax agreed to v.ulve his right to be in the court when I sentence is passed, and the penalty will •be impos ( ,i In hi- absence. FARMERS RALLY IN LOWNDES. V A I.D'IST A. GA July 15 Th ’ h.nivn'lf- I'ountv Fa’i tner- union « After the exposure, which was due to the boasting of Hines, agent of the Lumber Trust. Lorimer was “tried the senate and acquitted {or lack of sufficient evidence of the bribery!. After this acquittal Mr. Hearst's Chicago paper. The Examiner, began a new investigation and got new evidence, forcing a new investigation of the bribery in Illinois. The new evidence thus disclosed a second trial by the senate, and the expulsion of the tainted statesman. Senator Lorimer, in his final appeal, at tributed to Mr. Hearst the “widespread public opinion'' condemning him. Lie ap pealed to his fellow senators “not to pul their own heads under the guillotine” of this public opinion. BLEASE ACCUSED DF GRIME HERE Felder Deciares South Carolina Governor Will Be Indicted in This State. Continued From Page One. some he had already pardoned before. But I ha’ve evidence that Blease of fered pardons to men behind the bars if they would kill me. That’s another of the crimes I can prove against the .degenerate who is still legally entitled to call himself the Chief executive of a great Southern stale. "Detective Reed and I are awaiting further summons from the investigat ing committee at Augusta. Reed has a telegram from Nichols, with whom he bargained for a pardon for the yegg man Dentley. which shows us that Blease accepted the $15,000 bribe the Burns detective pretended to offer him while tlie dictagraph caught then bar gain in the Washington hotel. Awaiting Further Summons. "That telegram tells Reed (known by Nichols as Attorney Porter, of Chi cago) to hurry on South and wind up the dial, and pay his mono, and get bis pardon, just as Nichols said lie would ■fix tlie governor’ when they made the contract That ought to prove to any commission what sort "f man Blease is. "Reed and I are awaiting that com | mittee's further summons. When tlie commit tee gets through, when the peo | pie of South ('arolina know the truth about tlie man who Ims swindled thetn opt of a governorship and when they haw turned him out is they surely will when his term expires if they do not do it before then we will begin our crim inal prosecutions. I will not detail now the crimes we will prove against this man because it would forewarn him amt his clique, but if justice is done in South Carolina and here, as It surely will. Bl»ase will go behind tin bars for all the years he lives., And that sen tence will be no more than he de- "When Blease came to Atlanta for that comnieri ial congress." continued Mr. Feldei 1 hud him shadowed every moment of bis stay And my detec tives saw the felony he committed. That can be proved and if I live I'm going to prove it. and If I don't live there still will lie witnesses w ho will be able to convict him of that crime." Reed Not Through Yet. \s l-'elder (Hiked Detective Reed, tlie Burns sleuth of the dictagraph, came into the interview. Reed looks for all tlie world the double of the late Paul Morton. se< letai > of the navy under Roosevelt, railtoad magnate and insur ance chief Reed opened the dictagraph which had received the i• ■ •■ rsat ion I'indiug the- alleged pardon sale in Washington "That s tlu- same little machine that trapped th» McNamaras in the dyna mic- tilot." hr said. "It's the same one I used t" convict the grafting i ouneil men at Atlantic ('IR and ihe legisla tors at Colutnhus. it's been a pretty |ov,.| ni.u ton® to tli» Burns detsc’he scon- i and it may do som- more work i ■ undo Bleu n I'm not through w (th Ute case jet I'm goiiHr to be here fur HOMES BURN WITHIN SIGHT OF FIREHOUSE; BADSTREET BLAMED To the Editor of The Georgian: Won't yon help us before, it is ton late? Our homes, though humble, are going, one by one. being burned to the ground in sight of a tire house' Three homes burned to tlu ground in less'than two months. Why .’ Because the city will not pave one of the most important streets in this section (South Moreland avenue •. The city offi cers will tell you that they are waiting to put in a sewer. Why don't they in a sewer and run the house connections to the curb, and not let the people connect until the lower end of the sewer is finished? Then lite city can pave the street. Wednes day night the best tire engine' in the eitv was compelled to spend nine hours in the street, because it could not move, on ac count of the street. EAST ATLANTA I M PR(»VEMEXT GLI B. A1 lanta. Ga.. -Itilv 15. 1912. several days, waitlug upon the call of the committee. VVe had proof even while tlie committee was in session that Nichols was coming along nicelv in his negotiations with the governor to sell us Dentley's pardon. •>f course the telegram telling me to come and wind it up meant, that the governor had ac cepted $5,11(1(1 for the pardon and was ready to issue it. But the dictagraph may do still more elever work in this ease if it's needed any more." Nichols to Tell Os Pardon Deal II II ■ < ■—•——• SPA IfTA NBI'RG. S. C.. July 15.- At the request of Samuel J. Nichols, the Spartanburg attorney trapped by 17. S. Reed, the Burns detective, into talk ing about Governor Blease anil a cer tain pardon. State Senator Howard B Uarlisle. chairman, wilt call a meeting of the dispensary investigating com mittee to lie held in Columbia next Thursday at nofin. at which time Mr. Nichols will appear and tell Ills side of the alleged conversations. Today Mr. Nichols said: "It would be useless for me to make a statement at till.- time, as it could only amount to a statement. What I have to say I want to sav on tlie wit ness stand and have it put into .>ft|i i,il records. Until that time t have nettling whatever to say of (he matter." Mr. Nichols returned from Columbia todaj. He was at the governor's man sion when tlie Sunday morning papers came out and front these lie learned for the first time that a d' te< live had been ,m Ills path Mi. Nichols and Mr. (,'Brlisle held a conference here today, and it was decided to hold the next meeting of tlie committee in <'olumbin on Thursday to tear Nichols' testi mony Blease Refuses to Talk of Dictagraph COLUMBIA. S. <’ . July 15 Denying that Samuel J NicboD. -»f Spartanburg, asked in to pardon Gin Defin'd, anc refusing at this time to rep|\ n$ rhe of Thoma« B Felder, of Atlanta, that h® bad been guih' • f an a< t nf ripgenprac' nhil® in .Atlanta in Alar f, b UMi, and that b< would b* IndU )>•. an -'»ianta grand iurv for bi« alleged mUconduet in the Oeorgia city, Governor f Dole L. Blease today said that in the , near future he would answer this and , other charges made against him by Fel der in written statements. But the governor did dictate a brief 1 statement today in which he cbaracter ’ izofl Felder as a "cowardly character, I thief and <lehauchee.'‘ and < ailed William J Burns, the detective employed by Mr. . Felder. « "cheap hireling unworthy of belief." Blease denied that Nichols had sought the pardon for-Gus Deford, as indicated in dictagraph testimony presented the dispensary investigating committee at Augusta late Saturday afternoon by De tective F. S. Reed, of the Burns agency. The governor's dictated statement fol lows: “The entire transactions as brought out pn Augusta have been done at this time I in the campaign for the purpose of in juring me. thinking, as we had passed i over a half of the state, that it would he • impossible for me to reach the people ■ again That whole thing is a tissue of misrepresentations and willful lies, which I will show the people of the state al . the proper time with the proofs. I have received numbers of telegrams, letters and telephone messages from my friends 1 throughout the state ami from parties • who have heretofore never been my ■ friends. e in which the.' denounce the coni mittee for ’he action if has taken and I assuring me of their undivided support. ■I am -utisfied the.' have'done me no in ! 1 J’trx. hut have materially strengthened me I wTtli my friends ami all other South (,’aro -1 i Imans, who love their state and who will • | resen’ the manner in which this eowar<lh I < hara<'ter. thief ind debauchee has at , tempted to injure the chief magistrate of this state with the assistance of this committee " 1 Referring tn \\ .1 Burns, the detective, tlie governor said: ■ "In my opinion Burns proved himself i unworth'- of belief ami a <’heap hireling. I as he lias in oth< r of his transactions " The governor said he did not care t<» make any mention of the incident of • ■ yesterda.' when Up ordered .1. N. King and O. W. Watson out of his residence. He <moted <>ne of these men as using in his home words of ver> "ungi ntlemanlv character " Xttorney Nichols. wh.» was connected with the alleged pardon bribery scheme as related by Detective Reed, left yester day afternoon for his home in Spartan burg. Governor Blease said toda> : “Nichols never mentioned anything to tine about a panion for <»us Deford, and i no such pardon has been issued." Nichols and other friends of Governor Blease wore in conference at the execu tive mansion hours yesterday. A CORRECTION. . In a letter to The Georgian, the Ros. ‘ Hugh Wallace corrects th? statement made in this paper that the Baptist m<n f isters of Atlanta had at one tim* oe : ( lined to ordain him '-e- au-e of h’ig | views on immersion Irpmer?!' ! 1 w as? not I the point o? faith on nhwh Mr Wallace ■ i and the other ministers differed, LORIMEH TO KEEP OP SENATE FIGHT May Ask Voters of State fnr Vindication, or May Ask ths Senate to Reopen Case. WASntrNi ITON. July I - M’lf'i-n Lorimer, who on Saturday na.» ed as United States senator from : . nois. will keep up his senate figh', ; will go back to his home In r - h .<?n and go to work for the present. He will probably re-enter po’itii . . seek a vindication at the ham = of Illinois electorate, hut that has nw been decided. Mr. Lorimer is far from bein; ia careAvorn and crushed man he mig imagined. Since the fight for his • became-most active, Mr. Lorim i >- been living at a downtown hots;. •-.,... ing given up his quarters in the V Men’s Christian association. H» ■ remain there until probably the end ■' the w eek, when he will, leave for Chi cago. Lorimer takes the view that he orc ask to have his case reopened on :ho ground of newly discovered °videi>> « it any time he wishes. He feels that r, senate in reopening his ease after had once declared his title valid e-'a lished a precedent It can not jgn,.r - Since be walked out of rhe senate chamber Saturday he has barelt men. tioned his case. Lorimer Tale One of Bossism and 7 rusts \ - • There is a significant ' oinclderr ' the fact that the expulsion "f I,'" from the senate came on the eve f the .victory for popular election ■’ ■United States senators, for which r " 'Hearst newspapers have bat: - through almost a soore of year= \A the people selecting their own -rm'- tors, Lm inter eases will be Impo-siT- It is the general belief that the 1.0 ’met* scandal, and the use which ! Hearst newspapers have made of " •point to tlie necessity of populat eh - tions. were most powerful factor- "i assuring the success of the propo- 2 constitutional amendment. All of inordinate ambition, ■■'■iinin'd greed, reckless wealth and drunken power are illustrated in the Lnrtrm ;■ shame. It is the perfect embodinr nt of bossism. Betrayal Begins It. It began in a betrayal of the ex pressed wishes of the people I i" c a Republicans, at the primary of 19"\ explicitly declared a preference for A - Hopkins to. succeed himself in fl’’ •senate. When the legislature cm vened the mandate was disregarded deadlock ensued, and aftei sev. : I months of fruitless balloting Lorinv-r ■was suddenly elected tn succeed H": - kins. largely through Democratic 'm- The explosion canto when fore ■■■ Representative Charles T. White " f the Illinois legislature, confessed mat Ire had been paid SI,OOO to vote fnr Lorimer, and gave the names of otic ’ that had received similar 'ornpeii-i --tion. Lorimer at first tried tn ignore •■!» issue. But at length a demand ' made- In the senate for an investsg; tion. A committee was - appointed ar an exhaustive investigation was mam-. But powerful influences were work. Edward Hines, one of lite 1 tent factors of the lumber trust, s ’ busy, as did the agents of big bnsin- - The senate committee reported in r <- vor of Lorimer. By such methods Lorimer's do' " • fall was temporarily staved "ff R' ’ scant eight votes Lorimer wa- 'h ’-- washed. But the blow was only tempormT' stated. The popular storm in■ ea-r in fury. The election of 1916 ■ .i.v along and the Republican pint,' "■ ’ had made Lorimer's cause its ow n. ' • buried beneath an avalanche of Ic ■> 1 - Aldrich was forced tn quit. Hale r - lowed, and half a dozen more -all 1 ■' - inter men went down to defeat Illinois Itgislature began an in' - gation of the charges against I." Funk Accuses Hin*s. Claience S. Funk, general tti.c '-" of the International Harvi-ter 1 pany. swore that Edwaid Hines approached him. and with the r< m■■ that he "had put Lorimer over, the :c it cost $100,000." requested I'mtl help make up that sum from th> r ■ of the llarvosto Company. Edward Tilden, president of ’he tional Packing Compani■-beef tre who was said to have acted t° urer of the SIOO,OOO fund, refits'" produce his books before th'’ H■ ■' legislature, and was upheld In stand by the courts. After a sharp fight the -enat' derO'l another investigation. Hm r pearod. but only to moke a 11 while Tilden declared that i"“ r kept any memorandum of bis ■ xi- ’ tures outside of his business blocked the effort to get at th’ that be had acted as treasurci •b’ihery fund. Hines let loose the fact that 5 rtnd Taft both favored Loriitwr 'Lorimer himself again entered 1 i-ral denial. There was a ma-- donee tendb ■ to corroborate I i! story, and the other testimon> bad been Inttod.ueed at the first ing. * But again the senate commit' 1 elded in favor of Lorimer Ihi Um final effort of the miiihim ever. A change has come ovei an 'in the senate. it had been d‘ 'strated conelttsively that this tm in hllow ashing ' ommltiee w ould t.“ 'upheld Wherefore. Vice P' • 'Shei ma n. "t tuning th" gavel of i> qtp nyp| to iinoitio'. rushed m-m cblc.igo 'e' eni't to bi‘-ai< t' l ' "■ it primer and beg- him to cCgo Lorimer would no* quit and so '9 hl:- ejection by the senate.