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VOL. X. NO. 250.
till STREET
REFORMS
HE HOW
OMI
Councilmen, Mayor, and City
Attorney Confer and Will
Aid Action,
PRESENT LAX METHODS
GENERALLY CONDEMNED*
Friends nf Improvement Start!
Campaign for $2,000,000
Road Bond Issue,
Following a conference of fourteen
members of council. Mayor Winn and I
City Attorney Mayson. it seemed as-1
sured today that sweeping reforms!
would be made at once in the city’s!
system "f providing street improve-1
men’.'
At the conference, held in the office l
of Councilman Aldine Chambers, The I
Georgian’s campaign disclosing flaws,
in the system, bad conditions and the]
general demand for betterment of |
streets, found a ready response from ,
most of those present.
They agreed that the resolution in-I
trodueed by Councilman Claude C.
Mason at the meeting of the council
' esterday. providing that the chief of
construction’s department should be s
divided into an engineering department!
and a construction department, should
be passed at this session of the legrt- ‘
’ature. It will be considered at an ad- .
Journed meeting of the council Thurs- !
day.
Many of the members were positive I
in their criticisms. They declared that ;
the terrible conditions throughout the:
■ tty applied to sewers almost as much ;
as streets. They called attention to the
small amount of street work that has
been done this year. They’ said there,
wa« a lack of system in the chief of j
■ (instruction's office, especially thatj
there was no filing system providing for j
a clear record of what was being done;
there were too many bosses for the
number of men employed, and that
many sewer" wore failing to carry off
rain water
Passage of Resolution
Now Assured.
No vote was taken on Mr. Meson's
resolution, but all but two present ex
pressed their approval of ft. There
are enough members committed to this
change, who were not present, to in
sure its passage at the meeting of the
■ ouncil.
Mayor Winn said that be had the
highest regard for R. M. Clayton, chief
"f construction, and that there was not
thing personal In his desire for
changes. He said he simply thought
that all the city's sewer and street and
construction work was too much for
'■ne man and that the city had been
suffering.
''ouneilman Harvey Hatcher, chalr
-1 n of the streets committee, made an
imss-ioned speech against all the agi
tation about poor streets and the needs
for reforming the chief of construction's
department. He said it was a shame
ir > try to abolish Captain Clayton’s of
fice while lie was out of the city re
' liberating from an illness. He de
'tounccd newspapers in general and said
a 'ot of new members of council want
ed the earth-and were not satisfied be
■ause the chief of construction could
hot give it to them.
' <>nr htsion. Mi. Het. her declared
'hat he would be at the meeting of
' ’ ''barter amendments committee
” h»n the resolution dividing the chief i
construction's department into two
departments is formally consider-
'I and that he again would deliver his
''P'ninns there
ouneilman George H. Boynton also'
-ri inclined to take Mr Hat"ber's:
Rut th. others, anions litem!
linen Aldine chambers. t'latidej
''-t on s y. Wardlaw. .1 J Greer. I
, 1 II . ,
’" llf - Xlderrnen Janv R. I
1 .J SpratHng. Jam* 3 - R Nut !
' H Vanl’yke. d»-t-lnr» d Hot!
' Hine f r , r q l( ., r j tv rn progress in
■' of Mr. f-t improvements
ijc changes in the svs
i«i« tj upon ( "m pot bp put
’ until January 1. because the
< onstrnrtion was Heited by
‘ l ,p "Pk* until that date. But riu
"ants the broad authority to
• tin <’hanK f ’s. the details to he
( )U t later.
52.000.000 Bond
Issue Planned.
a perfected
r . . /'■ " orr,p of the leaders to hold an I
n foi $2,000.00(1 bond issue for ’
improvements. and a-- a begin-i
■ '■* ' li- movement • il ye'-jer- i
appointment a
Continued on Page Two, I
The Atlanta Georgian
CHILO IM
■IPJSSED
BYHOOSE
111 1011
Virtually No Opposition to tho
Alexander Substitute Raising
Age Limit to 12 Years.
’SEEN AS FORERUNNER OF
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
jNew Law Applies to Factories,
Mills, Laundries and Public
Service Corporations.
By a vote of 111 io I<> the hxuse thi'
j morning, virtually without debate.
' passed the Alexander anti-child labor
j bill, ending peacefully an agitation of j
I many years and much bitterness.
I Mr. Alexander, in presenting his sub- ,
1 stitute for his original bill, reviewed
I the fight for this legislation.
Upon motion of Mr. Westmoreland,
j of Pulton, the words "other mercantile
I establishments." in the list of places
| prohibited, were eliminated from the
: substitute as something unnecessary
! and likely to create confusion and pos
sible discrimination in the enforcement
of the law.
The present law prohibits the em
i ployment of child labor under twelve
years, but by excepting certain cases
I to a limit of ten years, its practical I
; operation has been to make the lower
I limit, the rule rather than the excep
; tion,
I Sliding Scale Puts
I Limit at 14 in 1915.
! Under the substitute adopted today
; the age limit is. set in all cases at
I twelve years for the year 191.3. at thir
teen years for the year 1914 and at
fourteen years for the year 1915 and
i thereafter.
The places of business specifically pro-
I Hibited from employing child labor are
i mills, factories, workshops, laundries
and public service corporations.
Mr. Alexander's substitute was the
outcome of a series of conferences be
tween friends of his original bill and
th® heads of various mills and factories
affected by it.
It differs from the original bill only
in so - : particulars touching its con
venience of operation and its gradual
rather than immediate enactment in
detail and to its final purpose.
It is the general impression that the
passage of this act foreshadowed the
adoption of a compulsory education
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LATHAM. FAMOUS
AVIATOR, IS KILLED
HUNTING IN AFRICA
PARIS. July 16. A dispatch re
ceived by the family of R. Hubert ba
tham. the famous French aviator, to
day says he has been killed while rhi
noeerous hunting near Rrazaville in the
Congo.
Latham was killed on June 7 by a
bull rhinoceros. Owing to the location
of the hunting party at the time, they
being in the midst of an almost impen
etrable Jungle, a long delay ensued be
fore the message could be gotten to a
cable station. Latham was out with a
number of natives at the time. He shot
the animal at close range. Enraged by
the pain, the rhino.eios charged and
Latham was unable to get out of the
way in time. He was gored and tram
pled to death.
Latham was "tie of the lu-.-t
I known aviators in the field and was
present al the international contests i
held in Xmerlca and England.
ATLANTAN HELPS PLANT
ESTATE RECOVER SIO,OOO i
SAVANNAH. GA July 16- T> |
j death of william v Havre" mm • t a.> a I
| two years tijn m a sanitarium in ''
tlo \ i Miss, and com "t ion of in -1 r im e
j |,y ;1 Mo-nrt ha- finally '• ojit-d in th*
,‘onrii hmmt of th" K H P' 'nt * stat" !>• [
$ 1 ti.iiiin
Hugh M. Willet. Os Atlanta im ' ' i
paid up policy on lite lif" of Haij . . ,
wh"' had been an "ffieial in one of Ih i
late Mr Plant's Macon banks. Ml |
Willet proved death, and the claim was 1
; paid. Thi n Malted a search of the ree- I
ords of tin Equitable Life Assurani'o j
society , in which the polii y had be* n I
taken up. and it was finally discovered;
'that Mr. Plant had ten paid up policies'l
ion the life of Harpet for SI,OOO each.
BEEF TRUST INQUIRY
DELAYED TILL WINTER!
| W ASHINGTON July 16. The beef |
It’-u ' iny>- tigatmn Im-' linen not off tin- I
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ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. .ILLY Ki. 1912.
Atlanta Foregoes Sunrise Nap to See Soldier Boys Off
DANDY FIFTH LEAVES FOR WAR SCHOOL!
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Lieutenant Bruckner, of the
j German-American Guards, kissing
■lds little daughter, Hilda, good-'
I) ye.
Hundreds Cheer Guardsmen as
They March to Station to
Entrain for Camp.
Five hundred and eighty khaki-clad
officers and men of Atlanta’s crack
Fifth regiment went today in two spe
cial trains to the camp at Anniston,
Ala., to show the national guards of
Kentucky and Tennessee and the regu
lar soldiers there what this town can
send forth in citizen soldiery.
Tt was the first time that the entire
Fifth all of Atlanta guards
men. ever marched away together. Be
fore they wont the twelve splendid com
panies, with Colonel E. E. Pomeroy
marching at their head, paraded
through the streets of Atlanta in the
sunrise of rhe morning, and though It
was not yet 7 o’clock, crowds lined the
streets an<> cheered the long lines of
tramping men and the t’nited• States
flag ami the regimental colors, and the
band played "Dixie" as they deployed
in lite plaza at the Terminal.
Pretty girls waved handkerchiefs and
bright colored scarfs at. the trim,
straight-set troopers; other girls and
many women and little children crowd
ed the pavement all around the com
panies; 200 men threw up their hats
when the band crashed into the strain
“I’ll Live and Die in Dixie.’’ and even
the lethargic negro cabmen in the wait
ing hacks without the line got up on
their seats and yelled, 100.
Not a Hitch in Entraining.
Then Colonel Pomeroy gave Ihe order
that sent the long linos of men tramp
ing through the station to the trains of
twelve cars ouch which waited with
horses, baggage and supplies, all ready
for the six-hour run to Anniston.
Into the first train, with the horses
and baggage in four cars ahead, clam
bered th«> members of Companies A. B,
C. D. Fl and F, one company to a car.
The commanders of each company took
c.harge of the entraining. The itmi with
their knapsack-, blankets and rifles
inarched into their scats aboard their
lines wi i ||ou I a hitch. H was as though
j they wore still on dross parade and hart
never once lost stride.
I Info the second section climbed the
lof he' run p.i nie - 11. 11. I. K, Land M.
I Th' y averaged 70 troopers to a e.ir.
| How few of the regiment Wet, left
I behind in Atlanta is shown from the
fact that every company ansW'"' d (
mole than 9<t per '• nt of If men al the
roll call just before leaving
Put There Was No Weeping.
Tn spite of orde r at It ist half a
| hundred 'wives, sc> net heart s arid kid- ,
jdie pad f, a 1 theii w \ through tin
I gates to the wide of the departing
I trains There weren't any weepings. (
iof course, for the dandy Fifth" Is only (
to he goje ten days, and the troopeis
were taking it altogether as very much ,
*of a holiday. Nevertheless run rotiti 1
j lie seen frequently jumping off the cars.
| as the engine shrieked "let's go.” for a
' kiss and good-bye, and none of the •
wives and sweethearts who bad braved
| the Southern railroad's wrath for a
last farewell was dtsapopfnted, The
bugles struck up Everybrwly’s Doing
If cheerily, ard every departing
guard, loan ar< in hi seat and
. iieoi vt ,■ - the lony train pulled slowly
t from the sheds.
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ALABAMA RATE RAISING
CONFERENCE POSTPONED
MONTGOMERY. AI,A, Julv Hi
After Hie Alabama railroad commie
siou had overruled a profe’-t tib d bv
the railroads concern'd. further hmi
lug has la •tt postponed until Novem
bei t in ihe mattea of tie citation of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and allied lines to show cans*' why
they slimtld not restore a 1-2-cenl
Pa ss. ligei ra I e in Alabn ma
Th* deferment was oidcred on mo
tion of Gregory L Smith, of Mobile,
representing the lailioads, No oppo
sition was eypre-sed by counsel for the
state.
JONATHAN MILLER BURIED.
AI GI’STA, GA . July Hi. Hundreds
of Augustan? attended the funeral of
Jonathan Millet the aged Augustan
who died at the home of hjs son. Judge
A. L. Miller, in Macon on Sunday and
was brought here for burial. Mr. Mill
er wa- 101 year of ag- when tn died.
Last year he wa tendered a pi.ihlb i"
< eption hv Judge Henry 1' Hammond
on the 100th anniversary of hit birth.
SLATON’S APPOINTEE ASKS
1 FOR ELECTION BY PEOPLE
< ►RJYELE. GA.. July If*. Judge M.
E. Land, solicitm general of tin; Cor
don etreiiit, has announced his candi
dacy to sin 1i ed himself sot the utu x
. pired term.
Jitdg* Land was appointed solicitor
general ting Governor Slaton last
Itoiernber ami tie now asks the people
of Ihe circuit to elect him for she re
mainder of the term. .1. \V. Denmard,
of this city, may oppose Judge Land.
MINISTERS OF MACON ASK
FOR A VICE COMMISSION
MAHON. GA.. July 16.—The Prot
’ estant ministers of Macon have secured
5.000 signatures to petitions asking the
■ mayor and council to create a vice
I * ommission. similar to the one now at
work in Atlanta These petitions will
l>< formally presented to the mayor this
week l>\ a delegation of mini ■: t :s. ami
i ihr mayor's- decision will !■< made
known at. that tim«
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Captain Theodore Toepel bid
ding farewell at the train to his
little daughter, Lydia.
SWEETHEARTS MEET
IN STREET; WEDDING.
DUE IN FALL, TODAY
Though they were to have been mar
ried in September in “bere-comes-the
hride" fashion, with all the relatives
looking on and touches of Mendelssohn
and Wagner thrown in. S. W. Reeve, of
t’alhoun. Ga.. and Miss Vivian Swayne,
of Adairsville, upon meeting accident
ally in Atlanta, decided that September
was much too far away. Accordingly
they were married today at the home
of ,1. W. Aycock, 21 Whitehall terrace.
Mr. Reeve. 21 years old. is a business
man of Calhoun. He decided yesterday
he would make a few purchases in At
lanta and was taking in Peachtree this
motning. when he met his fi ancee. Miss-
Swayne also was in the city to shop.
Effusive greeting- were exchanged.
Both of them began to think of the
long wait until the time set for the
wedding. They decided that "fuss and
feathers" were all “frumpery” anyhow
and together they began Io search for
a preacher.
The bride and bridegroom are now at
the Majestic hotel.
HOUSE PASSES BILL
TO ABOLISH JUSTICE
COURTS IN BIG CITIES
Walter McElreath’s proposed consti
tutional amendment, providing the ma
chinery whereby justice courts may be
abolished in cities of more than 20,000
population In Georgia, was passed by
the house today, by a vote of 148 to 5.
The ultimate object of this constitu
tional amendment is tn do away with
justice courts in the larger cities of
the state, if those cities so desire, and
to establish In their stead municipal
courts, such as are now in existence in
the larger cities of the East and West.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
’l’hp house <>f representatives, by a
vol* of 135 to 27. today passed the Mc-
Klreath constitutional amendment, es
tablishing in Georgia the office of lieu
tenant gov( rnor
The opposition was neither insistent
nor at all aggressive.
If the hill non passes the senate by
th' necessary two-thirds vote it will
be signed |»\ the governo) and go Io
the people for ratification in the Octo
ber general election
DETECTIVE, PLAYING ROLE
OF “TIGER,” IS SUSPENDED
MONTGOMERY. ALA July Hi Fm
bring in a blind tiger on a Sunday and
failing to arrest the guilty violators of
lip law, City Detective o ( ' Roberts
has been suspended for 30 days by <’ity
''oiumis.slonei•<’. f. Mclntyre Rob< is
was found in a blind tiger raided by
Shmltr Hood about ton days ago.
BULLITT SWORN IN.
WASHINGTON. July Ifi William
K Bullitt, of Louisville. Ky ~ was sworn
in as solicitor general of the I’nited
States today. After taking the oatii
Mr. Bullitt immediately began his
duties, guided by the retiring solicitor.
Mr, Lehmann Mr. Bullitt is said to
have told friends he would resign nut
late, than March 4, 1913. and return to
law practice at Louisville. i
HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ a o v r E no
M[« Il 1111 l
SUM
GAMBLING
KING
Herman Rosenthal Called tc
Door of Hotel Metropole, in
New York, and Slain,
VICTIM HAD "REVEALED”
SECRETS TO PROSECUTOR
Charges Involved Police Lieu
tenant Becker Had Ex
pected To Be Killed,
NEW YORK. .Toly 16.—Within ten
hours after the assassination of Her
man Rosenthal, a. wealthy gambler, in
front of the Hotel Metropole, in West
F'orty-thlrd street early today, because
of revelations he had made concerning
gamblers' tribute for police protection,
the authorities had two men under ar
rest and two others were being detain
ed as material witnesses. Louis Lib
bey, owner and driver of the car in
which the assassins escaped, was un
der arrest charged with murder; Lib
bey's partner, William Shapiro, was
also held. "Jack" Clark, a professional
gambler, and Charles Gallagher, a hotel
singer, were detained as material wit
nesses.
Inspector Hughes, in charge of the
detectives, said there was doubt in the
minds of the police about Ltbbey being
tiie man who drove the murderers away
from the scene of the crime in a high
’ power gray bodied motor car. Just
before noon George S. Dougherty, sec
ond deputy commissioner of police.’look
Libbey with him to rhe office of Coro
ner Feinberg, where an inquest into
the death of Rosenthal was held. He
was remanded. Lefote this the auto
mobile owner had been subjected to
the "third degree."
Four Men in
Auto Do Shooting
Rosenthal, who maintained a palatial
home at 14 West Forty-ninth street,
was assassinated in front of the Ho
tel Metropole at 3 o'clock
morning. Four men who escaped from
the scene in a slate colored auto fired
the shots which killed the well-known
gambler in New York’s white light dis
trict.
The assassination of Rosenthal fol
lowed revelations which he had mad--
tn District Attorney Whitman of a full
scale of prices charged by the police
for the operation of all kinds of gam
bling in New York. Rosenthal had fur
ther charged that Charles Becker, a
police lieutenant, in charge of what, is
generally known as the "strong arm”
squad, was a partner with Rosenthal
in the conduct of his gambling house.
Car Traced By Number;
Chauffeur Soon Found.
’['he prompt finding of the automobile
which was used for the murder w as due
to the fact that several persons read
the number. "41,133 New York," on the
plate as it stood in the full glare of
the electric light in front of the hotel.
The police, after finding Libbey's name
in the records as the owner, learned
that the car was kept in a Madison
Square garage. This garage was the
same used to house the taxicab which
figured in the $25,n00 bank messenger
robbery several months ago.
Libbey was soon found. He admitted
having the car out early in the even
ing, but. denied having any part in the
murder. Despite his protestations the
police locked him up and declared that
ills identification as the chauffeur in
the case had been made clear.
District Attorney Whitman, who had
hurried to the scene of the assassina
tion within two hours of the shooting,
was making a personal investigation at
the Hotel Metropole. He questioned
persons who had seen the automobile
land tb>> otirti shooting. The story of
the shooting was given to Mr. Whit-
I man as follows
The entire shooting took place tn
twinkling of an eve. As Rosenthal
I reached the street a man approached
him A s the gambler drew close the
stronger suddenly flashed a revolver
and fired. Rosenthal staggered toward
the doorway. As he did so a gray au
lonioblle which had been crossing the
street, drew up. The men jumped to
the running hoard, fired a volley, then
tumbled back into their seats. Rosen
thal sank to the pavement with the
blood streaming from a number of
wound" The man who had fired the
first -hot sprang into the ear and it
dashed aw ax. A number of pedestrians,
attracted by the shooting, ran up.
"There were two bullets in one of
Rosenthal's cheeks. One had torn away
the bridge of bis nose and one, svi-
I dently the first shot, had entered the