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VOL. X. NO. 251.
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PASSED
Senate's Vote Removes All
Doubt That It Will Adopt the
Tippins Measure.
LEVY OF 8 CENTS GALLON
ON BEER. 60 ON WHISKY
Act Provides Common Carriers
Must Report Shipments of
Intoxicants Into State.
Pcrhap- the most drastic measure
affecting the consumption of liquor ever
enacted in Georgia passed the state
senate today in the form of a stamp
tax ranging from 8 cents to 60 cents
a gallon on beer, wines and whisky.
The tax move required two bills, one
providing the tax and the other requir
ing all common carriers to report li
juor shipments to county ordinaries.
That the Tippins bill will pass the
senate with votes to spare Is indicated
by rhe passage of the stamp bills by
29 to 11. Senator Sheppard declared
in committee that there were 32 sena
tor:- who were for prohibition, first,
last and all the time, enough even to
pass the Tippins bill over the govern
ur's veto.
The Tippins bill will be considered
by a committee this afternoon and
reach the senate perhaps tomorrow,
recommended for passage. It is believ
ed that the proposed amendment, will
be withdrawn.
Tax of 60 Cents a
Gallon on Whisky.
The measure, pronounced a solution
of the liquor problem in Georgia by its
author. Senator Felker, and branded
an absurdity by its opponents, pro
vides :
Common carriers are to report all li
quor shipments to ordinaries under pain
of misdemeanor.
Lists of shipments are to go to su
perior court clerks who shall have
charge of the sale of revenue stamps.
Every person having liquor in his
possession Is required to buy revenue
stamps of 8 cents a gallon on beer 20
cents a gallon on wine and 60 cents a
gallon on whisky.
The money derived from the stamp
tax is to go to the state treasury.
The vote on the bill gave good evi
dence of the prohibition sentiment of
'he senate. With four senators absent
the vote stood 29 in favor and 11
against the stamp act.
The bill was advanced bn prohibition
lines and it was only after the senate
had assured itself , that it was a pro
hibition bill that it was passed,
JOHN MITCHELL NOT
SENTENCED; COURT
OBJECTS TO ORDER
WASHINGTON, July 17.—Justice
Wright in the district supreme court
today refused io sentence John Mitch
ell. vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, because Mitchell's
agreement to he sentenced in his ab
sence wa not in the form desired by
'he court. Mitchell's lawyers were or
dered to prepare a new statement as
outlined by Justice Wright and present
it within the next week.
Mitchell's statement read:
I hereby authorize and empower the
firm of Ralston. Siddons & Richardson
to consent to the Imposing of sentence
upon me." etc.
This form of agreement was objected
to by the committee of prosecutors on
'he ground it appeared the court had
Mitchell to agree to sentence
m his absence and might cause the
higher court to rule adversely to the
committee
WIDOW OFFERS $1,000.00
FOR BODY OF HUSBAND
WHO LEAPED INTO SEA
NEW YORK, July 17. —A reward of
*I.OOO was toda,' offered by ,\lo Paul
Hathmann, of Grand Rapids, Mich., for
'he recovery of the body of her hus
oand, who leaped overboard Pont the
iner Kaiser Wilhelm fl -hoi' v after
leaving Cherbourg, France, for New
York.
•Mrs. Rathrnann arrived h»ip on the
'ner last night prostrated by the
death of her husband. Mr, Rathrnann
had been ill for a long time and went
’o Bad Naueheim to take treatment lot
heart disease H« »ar 66 vtars of age
J ad his wife was 60.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
ICUK
TO IMPROVE
SWTS
BEGUN
Council Committee Meets To-
day to Carry Out Reforms in
Construction Department.
MANY THOROUGHFARES
RUINED BY ENGINEERS
Commissioners Not to Lay Any
Asphalt Until the Sewer and
Water Pipes Are In.
The Georgian's campaign for better
streets reached results this afternoon
when the charter amendment commit
tee of council met at 2 o'clock to take
up formally the reforms agreed upon
at the recent caucus of council. The
plan is to reorganize the chief of con
struction’s department into a construc
tion department and an engineering de
partment and to provide that no more
temporary pavements shall be put
down
Councilman Harvey Hatcher is lead
ing a small minority against any
change in the construction department.
Because the city construction de
partment mutilated Howell Mill road
just after it had been paved by the
county construction department, it was
declared today the county commission
ers would pave no more streets in the
city unless all sewe and water con
nections had been made on them.
For years, newly paved streets have
been cut up by the city in laying water
and sewer pipes. Commissioner Shel
by Smith said today that it must stop,
and that hereafter the superintendent
of construction of the county and the
city superintendent would hold month
ly conferences over proposed work to
prevent any more streets being ruined
ruthlessly.
The commissioners have gone fur
ther and decided on a rule requiring
cash collateral or a bond that any street
dug up by a company or an individual
shall be put back in its original condi
tion
Each day of The Georgian’s cam
paign for better streets arouses city
officials more and more to a realization
'hat drastic reforms are demanded.
Streets Usually Net
Properly Repaired.
Well payed city streets are contin
ually cut up for the laying of water
and sewer pipe. It hOs not been long
since the construction department’s
steam roller had to quit work on Sum
mit avenue, where it was finishing the
paving, because the waterworks de
partment workmen were in the way.
digging up the street to lay a water
pipe.
The waterworks department has no
list of the paved streets, but applies to
ihe construction department for a per
mit when It wants to cut a street. It
is against the rules to allow a perma
nently paved street to be cut without
a permit from council. But these per
mits are granted by the city fathers it,
a routine way. Paved streets are con
tinually cut all over the city and sunk
en places are always left. It has given
rise to bittqr criticisms against the
construction department, which has
charge of outlining the work so there
won't be any such conflicts.
The wot st part of it is that the con
struction department nor any one else
in the city hall has any record of what
streets have been cut up in such away.
There seems to be no real system by
which this work is inspected to see that
the paving is put back in its original
condition. When a permit to cu. a
street is granted the street is left ta
take it.- chances' of being repair ed. An
asphalt street has about the same
chance of being repaired as a dirt
street
$15,000 Increase Mostly
In Salaries of Chiefs.
Yet the city comptroller’s records
show that the administrative cost of
the construction and a engineering de
partment. has increased practically $15,-
1100 since the two departments were
consolidated. The increase is practi
cally all in salaries of engineers and
bosses.
In 1910 the cost was: Engineering,
$18,840.64: comissioner of public works.
$10,282.75.
In 1911, when the departments were
consolidated, the cost was $43,629.89.
In 1912 the cost was $42,790.
All engineers for bond work are paid
out of the bond issue money. The fig
ures show that ihe increase was due
to the consolidation, for there was no
increase this year, although more work
was outlined.
Councilman D. Knigh’ said today
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1912.
MIRE IS HUB DEEP IN HIGHLAND AVENUE
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BURGLAR TRACED
BI FINGER PRINTS
Thief Takes 5,000 Cigarettes
From a Greek Store in East
Harris Street,
Police Captain Poole and Policeman
"Pink" Barker today made a study of
finger prints in an effort to trace a bur
glar who broke into the store of Charlie
Charalambidis, a Greek, at 162 East
Harris street, in the early morning and
stole 5.000 cigarettes.
The finger prints were found on a
window sill and a door iri the rear of
the store, where the burglar tried to
force an entrance. They were so plain
ly outlined in the dust that the officers
determined to make a careful examina
tion. From this study the officers be
came satisfied that the burglar is a ne
gro and that they would be able to
convict him by the finger prints.
Failing to gain entrance in the rear
of the store, the burglar broke "open
the front door. Nothing was molested
but cigarettes. Cigars were untouched.
Only two weeks ago a burglar broke
into the Greek's sleeping apartment,
just above the store, and robbed him.
BIENNIAL SESSIONS
MEASURE IS KILLED
BY POSTPONEMENT
The house of representatives made
short work of the bill of Mr. Christo
pher. of Hail, up as a special order to
day. which sought to provide for bien
nial sessions of the legislature of 60 days
duration, rather than annual sessions
of 60 days duration, as is now the rule.
Upwn motion of Mr. White, of Scre
ven. the bill was indefinitely postponed,
thus killing it absolutely for the ses
sion. The vote stood 116 to 28.
Mr. Hall, of Bibb, and Mr. Alexander,
of DeKalb, both spoke earnestly against
the bill, while Mr. Christopher, of Hall,
addressed himself quite as earnestly
to the house in favor of it.
Mr. Foster, of Floyd, moved that the
house adjourn over tomorrow in order
that the invitation of the .Merchants
and Manufacturers association of Rome
to attend its annual barbecue might be
accepted by the house as a whole. The
motion, after some discussion, was lost
by a rather close vote.
HOUSE VOTES 131 TO 27
TO APPROVE CREATION
OF BLECKLEY COUNTY
The house of representaives, by a
vote of 131 to 27. today agreed to sanc
tion the proposed constituitonal amend
ment of <Mr. Deese, of Pulaski, pro
viding for the creation of the county
of Bleckley, to be made up of a large
slice off the north end of the county
of Pulaski.
.Much eloquence was let loose in the
argument of the measure, and consider,
able bitterness was shown.
REBELS PREPARING
TO EVACUATE JUAREZ
EL PASO, TEXAS. July 17. Before
the end of the week Juarez will be in
the hands of a citizens government.
The.rebels are preparing today to leave
for <-'asas Grandes As «non as th' v
leave the town will be put under a
government selected by th" merchants
of the border city between the time the
rebels and the arrival of the federate.
Highland avenue, near Glenwood, is a morass, with mud up
to the hubs of a wagon in some places, though there is no work
under way which would make the street muddier than usual.
The city votefl funds six months ago for improving this street,
but it has not been touched.
“NO COMPROMISE” S 11“
DYSTER BAY. N. Y.. July 17
I reiterate, there is to be no compro
mise.”
This was Colonel Roosevelt's reply
today to a query on the likelihood of
his yielding to the plan of some of
his Maryland and Pennsylvania lead
ers to have the same electors placed
upon the straight Republican and
third party ballots in November.
Roosevelt believes that such would
give tacit acknowledgment that Taft
was regularly nominated at Chicago
and entitled to as many of the elec
toral votes as he can manage to con
trol.
Roosevelt has the support of many
of his leaders in th" stand he has
la ken.
Child. Aided by Excited
Grownups, Swallows a
Nickel; Now a Heroine
South Pryor Street Kidland
Proud of Little Miss Whom
Coin Doesn’t Harm
Little Mary Shelton, just six years
old. Is the heroine of kidland around
92 South Pryor street today. She
swallowed a nickel. At least she got
the coin started on its way. It took
her mother, Mrs. Annie Shelton, and
two or three excited neighbors to fin
ish the job. Two surgeons from the
Grady hospital were rushed to the
scene, but they got there too late, as
the coin was past recovery and Mary
seem satisfied.
. The little girl and several playmates
were making sand piles in the yard
when a reporter reached the house. All
the excitement was over. He asked for
the little girl who swallowed the coin.
"Here she is." came back a childish
voice, as a little boy of four dragged
.Mary unwillingly to tfie front. Little
.Mary crossed one bare toe over the
other and made efforts to swallow a
finger. She was abashed. A conquer
or, conscious of great deeds, but with
true modesty deprecating any mention
of th"tn. might have felt the same way.
"I don't know why 1 did it; I des
wanted il. and stuck It in mv mouth.”
she said.
BILL FOR EXPERT TO
SUPERVISE STATE’S
PRINTING IS PASSED
As a result of the allegation that the
state had been overcharged for print
ing, Senator Harris' bill to provide a
printing expeit at a salary of $2,1)00 a
year, to work in conjunction with the
printing commission, was passed by
the senate today by a vote of 29 to 5.
The printing squabble grew out of
charges made by Luther H. Still, of the
Atlanta Typographical union, that the
Byrd Printing Company had not fol
lowed specifications In the state’s print
ing.
The printing commission, composed
of the secretary of state, comptroller
general and state treasurer. re< om
mended the passage of the bill which
will place further contract:-: unde, the
supervision of an expert.
WASHINGTON. July 17.—"N0
compromise."
This was the slogan issued by
President Taft today to a committee
of South Dakota Republicans who
called to obtain the presidents opin
ion relative to the efforts of the third
party men to corral Taft electors in
doubtful states, particularly Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
The president made it plain he de
sired nothing more than a “square
deal" issue with nothing to confuse
the voters in November; that there
must be no sacrifice of Republican
principles and absolutely no doubt as
to the wav Republican electors will
vote if elected.
Atlanta Postmaster
Asks ILS* Aid in Fight
Against Mail Mashers
Wants Federal Ruling to Curb
General Delivery Evil, Men
ace to Young Girls.
Postmaster Hugh L. McKee an
nounced today he will ask the postoffice
department at Washington to formulate
some rule for curbing the “mash-mail"
evil in Atlanta.
"I believe that hundreds of young
girls are going the way to ruin through
the promiscuous use of the general de
livery window of the postoffice as a
medium of secret correspondence with
men." he said. •
“At present we have no chance of
stopping this practice, though we ate
morally sure that dozens of girls who
have homes and parents in the city
come to the general delivery window to
receive letters they would not dare to
have sent to their homes We know,
too. that men an renting boxes in th<
postoffice and turning the keys ovl to
girls who are not only under sixteen,
but who ought not to be allowed by
their parents to meet these men or to
receive any mail that they can not re
ceive under their mothers' eyes In their
homes."
The postmaster's tatement curin' at
the end of a long investigation which
he and his assistants have been mak
ing. Girls have been detected on
numerous occasions taking letters ad
dressed to themselves from lock box. s
rented in the names of men,
FALLS OUT OF WINDOW:
HAIR SAVES HER LIFE
NEW YORK. July 17. Mrs. Josephine
Zierzensky, 24 .rears old, of No. 2492 Third
avenue, the Bronx, fell out of the window
of her apartment on the third floor and
plunged head first to the sidewalk. The
woman would have been killeel except
for the protection of her luxuriant hair.
250 RELATIVES AT REUNION.
ROME, GA. July 17.—Two hundred
and fifty people, representing four gen
erations of the Morris family, gathered
at a family reunion held at the home
of J. P. Morris at Seney. In the shade
of massive oak trees a genuine Geor
gia barbecue was served. G. B Holder
'and Joe W. Dtmp ey made addrts;.ea.
CAFE STEWARD IS
HEIR TO 530,000
Louis Dupm, Employed at Du
rand's. Gets Estate of Rela
tive in France.
MACON. GA., July 17. —Louis Dupin,
a steward at Durand’s case in Atlanta,
is heir to $30,000.
The estate was left him by a relative
who recently died in France. The in
formation was received in Macon to
day by Harry Griggs, the owner of a
hotel here, who was asked by Dr. Eu
gene Dupin. of New York, to help him
locate Louis Dupin, last heard of in
Macon.
Mr. Griggs knows Dupin and at once
telegraphed the New York physician
that the young man was in Atlanta.
Dr. Eugene Dupin is well known by
Drs. Moses and Cheatham, of Macon,
and they say that he is wealthy and
reliable, and that if be says Dupin is
heir to, $30,000 the information un
doubtedly is correct.
Dr. Dupin said he was the trustee for
the young man and would deliver the
bequest to him as soon as he was lo
cated.
ALEXANDER BILL TO
EXTEND RAILROAD
SURE OF HOT FIGHT
Representative Alexander's bill to pro
vide for the extension of the Western and
Atlantic railroad to the sea is the first
bill on the house calendar for tomorrow.
This bill is sure to precipitate a hot
fight, but. the Impression is that it will
receive the two-thirijs vote necessary to
the adoption of constitutional amend
ments.
The bill does not seek directly to ex
tend the road, but it. does undertake to
empower the legislature to extend it, if,
in its future wisdom, such extension
seems desirable
FREE MEAT HIS PLAN
TO FIGHT BEEF TRUST
WASHINGTON. July 17.—Congress
man Kinkead. of New Jersey, tomor
row will ask the house to strike direct
at the beef trust by removing all duty
from importations of cattle and meat.
Mr. Kinkead intends to score the beef
barons for the manipulations which
have h'ought about the high prices
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
TAKEN UP BY SENATE
WASHINGTON. July 17.—8 y a vote
of 35 to 28, the senate took up the sun
dry civil bill today. This measure car
ries appropriations of about $130,000,-
000. Senator Simmons made an inef
fectual attempt to have the wool bill
substituted for this measure.
HILLES TO CABINET
IF TAFT IS ELECTED
WASHINGTON, July 17.—Carmi
Thompson. President Taft's new secre
tary, today assumed his duties
The white house denied the new sec
retary’s position is temporary. If the
president be re-elected a cabinet port
folio probably w ill be offered Hilles. If
his chief b" defeated Hilles w ill retire
110 private life.
rtOMt
IPITIOH
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O V RE NO
GAMBLERS'
KINGSHOT
IBM
POLICE
New York Prosecutor Says De
partment Is Responsible for
Rosenthal Assassination.
TALE OF OFFICIAL GRAFT,
UNFINISHED. IS BLOCKED
Five Patrolmen Nearby When
Killing Took Place. But They
Made No Interference.
NEW YORK. July 17. Police Com
missioner Waldo and District Attor
ney Charles S. Whitman were at direct
issue this afternoon as the result of
charges and counter charges following
the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the
gambler who was shot to death in front
of the Hotel Metropole after accusing
the police of partnership in gambling.
District Attorney Whitman declared
that the police "perifatted the murder
to be done and made ti> effort to arrest
the murderers.”
Commissioner Waldo, in a letter to
Whitman, which he made public,
strongly defended the police depart
ment and declared that the whole gam
bling situation in New York was di
rectly chargeable to failure of the
courts and the district attorney to up
hold the work of the police and send
convicted gamblers tn jail.
This bitterness between the two de
partments of public safety came after
District Attorney Whitman had started
an official probe of the Rosenthal mur
der. It followed the declaration of In
spector Hughes that both Louis Libbey
and William Shapiro, owners of the
auto used by the assassins, would be
charged as principals in the crime and
that Louis (Bridgey > Weber and “Jack"
Clark, two gamblers, would be held as
witnesses.
Owners of Auto
Held as Slayers.
Libbey and Shapiro, both charged
with killing Rosenthal, were held this
afternoon without bail when arraigned
before Coroner Feinberg. Both men
were committed to the Tombs and they
will be examined Monday.
Mrs. Herman Rosenthal, widow of
the. slain gambler, was summoned as
the first witness to appear before the
grand jury to tell what she knew of
a conspiracy against the life of her
husband. Mrs. Rosenthal had stated
her positive belief that the New' York
police were responsible for the killing
of her husband, who was shot down in
the glare of New York’s white light
district, in front of the Hotel Metro
pole early yesterday She based her
conclusion, she said, upon information
given her by her husband. Rosenthal
had been warned, she said, but refused
to heed the warning
Police Directly
Charged With Crime.
District Attorney Whitman early to
day made the direct charge that the
police "system" was connected with
the murder of Rosenthal because of
revelations which the gambler had
made concerning protection tribute. Mr.
Whitman said that if Rosenthal had
lived six hours longer the district at
torney's office today probably would
be in possession of absolute proof that
money was paid to the police in various
amounts for "protection ' in the con
duct of their illegal resorts.
"I accuse the police department of
the city, through certain members of
it, with having murdered Herman Ros
enthal." said Mr. Whitman. "Either
directly or Indirectly It was because of
them that he was slain in cold blood
with never a chance for his life. It
was intended to be a lesson to any
one who might have thought of ex
posing the alliance between the pqjic«
and crime.
"Rosenthal had given me valuably
information and was on the point of
giving me more and supplying further
corroboration of what he had already
told. He had sought unsuccessfully t<»
be allowed to talk to other city offi
cials in whose bands his complaint had
more right to be lodged than in mine.
He had never been allowed access to
them.
.lust as he was about to give Im
portant additional evidence and to gtv®
the names of eight or ten men who
could and would support his statement;
just as he was preparing to come to my
house tilth these matters, so as to avail
Himself of privacy. just as the situation