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' WEATHER. Forecast: Ditto Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 73: 10 a. m., 76: 12 noon. 78: 2 p. m„ 81. VOL. X. NO. 251. SILL pm STIMPTII oil won 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 It is believ ed that the proposed amendment, will be withdrawn.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 W* -ig J* . I HF*. ■ • ' r . ,J? | * ■ ~ ' _ 3 Z 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