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STREETS
Commissioners Not to Lay Any
Asphalt Until the Sewer and
Water Pipes Are In.
MANY THOROUGHFARES
RUINED BY ENGINEERS
Board to Require Cash or Bond
Assurance That Surfacing
Will Be Restored.
Because the city construction de
partment mutilated Howell Mill road
just after it had been paved by the
countv construction department, it was
declared today the county commission
ers would pave no more streets in the
city unless all sewer 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
if construction of the county and the
city superintendent would hold month
ly conferences over proposed work to
prevent any mote 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 mote and more to a realization
‘hat drastic reforms are demanded.
Streets Usually Not
Properly Repaired.
Well paved city streets are contin
ually cut up for the laying of water
and sewer pipe. It has not been long
since the construction department’s
•team 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
the 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
s permit from council. But these per
mits are granted by the city fathers it.
s routine way. Paved streets are con
tinually cut all over the city and sunk
en places are always left. It has given
rise to bitter criticisms against the
construction department, which ha*
charge of outlining the work so there
won’t be any such conflicts.
The worst 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
whit h this work is inspected to see that
'he paving is put back in its original
condition. When a permit to cut a
-'reel is granted the street is left ta
'ake it.- chances of being repaired. An
sphalt street has about the same
1 nance of being repaired as a dirt
feet.
515,000 Increase Mostly
In Salaries of Chiefs.
Tet tiie city comptroller s records
' that the administrative cost of
construction and a engineering de-
■ 'merit has increased practically $15,-
-ince the two departments were
1 "lidated. The increase is practi
‘ l: > .ill in salaries of engineers ana
l'" ; sea.
''' 1910 the cost was: Engineering.
• St'i.ot. comissioner of public works,
•1".-S2.7.'i.
1911, when the departments were
1 " "lidated, the cost was $43,629.89.
in 19J2 t )- le ( . os| was 542,790.
' engineers for bond work are paid
' " of the bond issue money . The rtg
-how that the increase was due
the eonsolidatiop, for there was no
'lease this year, although more work
out lined.
' ouneilman 'I >. Knight -aid today
he was glad the bad condition of
’n ,a - c streets was being agitated. Hr
'he - its would get better results
■ n it was realized juat what the eon-
Three of the roughest places in the
■"<- tiie railroad crossings at Pryor
*' ‘Pt. Central avenue and Decatur
"et. he said. "But the law provides
’■t’ the railroads shall keep these
'Tossings repaired. All that is needed
'hat they be urged to make the nec
xary repairs.
* he streets committee of the council
th'-er-hom session vostreday
Continued on Page Two,
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Child* Aided by Excited
Grownups, Swallows a
Nickel: Now a Heroine
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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 the 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 modestyy deprecating any mention
of them, might have felt the same way.
"I don't know why I did it: I des
wanted it, and stuck it in my mouth.”
she said.
COMPTROLLER TO BE
GIVEN PRIVILEGE OF
A HALF-PAY PENSION
Legislation agreed upon at a private
caucus of the leaders of council will
give Comptroller .1. H. Goldsmith the
privilege to retire on a pension of half
pay. but will disbar three-fourths of
the city officials now eligible for pen
sions.
The changes, which undoubtedly will
be adopted, are that an official must
have served thirty years instead of
twenty continuously in the city's serv
ice: that he must be 65 Instead of 60
years old. and that when an official has
served 35 years, the last ten at a salary
of as much as $l5O per month, he has
the right to retire on half pay. The last
provision applies only to Comptroller
Goldsmith.
The caucus did not accept the amend
ment. urged by some, that the council
should have the right to retire any of
ficial on a pension, even against his
will, officials are tty be retired only on
their own application.
“BIG BOY,” VETERAN
FIRE HORSE, BREAKS
A LEG AND IS SHOT
Gloom has settled thickly over fire
headquarters and the men look as
cheerless as if one of their number were
dead. "Big Bov.” who had pulled the
big truck for nearly three years, fell
and broke his leg In the stable yard at
West End. An examination by the
veterinary surgeon showed that his
case was hopeless and a few minutes
later a kindly shot put an end to his
suffering.
'Big Boy” was regarded as one of
the most valuable horses in the serv
ice. He had been slightly lame for a
week and had been sent out to the
stable to recuperate. The unusual rest
made him feel like prancing and ca
vorting over the yard. Suddenly as he
turned his feet went out from under
him and he fell with a crash.
"Red " and “Jess.” the other two of
the three who have pulled with "Big
Boy," stand as subdued in their stalls
as If they realized that their mate never
again would dash with them over the
rough streets.
DRUG-CRAZED NEGRO
KILLS THREE. WOUNDS
TWO; THEN HE’S SLAIN
TAMPA. ELA., July 17. —Starting out
on a rampage here today. Bob Harris,
a negro, killed three persons, wounded
two others, one of whom was white,
and himself was slain by policemen
after a siege in which gasoline was
used to burn him out of a house. He
was insane from drugs
He first went, to the house of a wom
an and killed her and a man he found
there. He then went to another house
and fired on a woman with a baby. The
former was slain. On his,way out he
shot another negress. who is expected
to die. and a white policeman named
Riggs.
He took refuge In the Simpkins worn,
an's house, where he lived, and barri
caded the doors and windows. Being
plentifully supplied with cartridges, he
kept a large force of policemen at hay
and wae dislodged only after being
i smoked out of one room. The house
was then set afire with gasoline. When
! tie made a dash for liberty he was shot
I and killed
POSTCARD ASTRAY FOUR
YEARS IS DELIVERED
PHILADELPHIA. July 17 A postal
card which was mailed in this city four
I years ago has just reached its destina
tion. It was sent at that time to Ed-
I ward St George Joyce, a stenographer
> in the city solicitor's office, and after the
long lapse of years it turned up in the
first mail and was delivered to Joyce at
his home.
The card was a message of congratula
tion from Joyces sister, Mrs Mae Mr
, Goldrfck. upon his birthday !' w be
lieved that it got lost In the mails.
ATLANTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1912.
TIPPINS BILL
WILLPASS
SENATE
EASILY
Sheppard Says 32 Senators
Are for Measure, Enough to
Override Governor’s Veto.
IT WILL PROBABLY REACH
UPPER HOUSE THURSDAY
Felker Stamp Tax Bill, if It Is
Classed as Prohibition Act
Also Will Pass.
The Tippins anti-near-beer bill will
pass the senate With votes to spare if
Senator Sheppard’s statement that 32
senators stand tor prohibition first, la-t
and always, is bo'ne out. Thirty-two
votes would even insure the passa° of
the bill over the veto of Governor
Brown.
This declaration, which was made in
the course of a debate on the Eelker
stamp tax bill, will be put on trial when
this same bill comes from the general
Judiciary committee for passage.
The passage of the bill, as a prohibi
tion measure, is assured. The only thing
that can cause its defeat is a commit
tee report showing it to be a reve
nue and not a prohibition bill.
Tippins Bill in Senate Committee.
The Tippins bill may get to the sen
ate tomorrow. The temperance com
mittee of the senate will take up the
measure this afternoon, and there is
little chance that the opponents of the
bill will be able to delay it a second
time. The regulation amendments —
referendum, package house substitutes
and the like—will be submitted, but will
hardly receive consideration until the
fight gets to the floor cf the upper
house.
The new county of Barrow. created
from portions of Gwinnett, Jackson and
Walton counties, has been authorized
by the senate. Winder was made the
county seat. Indications are that the
house will follow the senate's action in
the case of Barrow county, but several
of the other new county projects are
doomed to defeat in both houses.
The galleries of the house were
packed today with residents of Pulaski
county to protest against the forma
tion of Bleckley county, to be taken
from some of Pulaski county’s best ter
ritory. *
Education Bill Expected.
The action of the house in passing
the child labor bill with an overwhelm
ing vote indicates that a compulsory
education bill will have another go
with the Georgia legislature. H. M.
Stanley, commissioner of commerce
and labor, in his report to the governor,
recommends that such a bill be passed.
While School Superintendent Brittain
ha« reiterated his opposition to com
pulsory education at this time, it is be
lieved that, the cause has gained favor
in the legislature.
Atlanta is promised a new seaboard
railroad if the bill now before the leg
islature, allowing the Atlanta. Way
cross and Northern to condemn the
Southern tracks frotn Fort Valley to
Atlanta, is passed. The new line Is an
extension of the St. Marys and Kings
land, with a tidewater terminus at St.
Marys. The company proposes to build
into Waycross, use the tracks of the
Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic to
Nichols, build from Nichols to Fort
Valley and then use the tracks of the
Southern into Atlanta.
FIRE IN EXCHANGE,
PHONE GIRLS STICK
TO SWITCHBOARDS
A shout, follow ed by a flash of flame,
went through the operators’ room in the
Atlanta Telephone exchange early to
day. but not a girl stirred. As if noth
ing had happened, the operators con
tinued to pull plugs.
The fire started from cable friction
and was over In a few moments, but the
young women didn't know this. For a
long time after the blaze had been ex
tinguished smoke continued to pour
intd the exchange room, but the work
of making connections never stopped.
The damage will not be heavy. More
than 200 phones were put out of com
mission temporarily.
When the smoke wax thickest. Miss
Myrta Gay, chief operator, ordered the
girls from the switchboard so that they
might get fresh air They continued to
run back to the board and make con
nections. even then.
FALLS OUT OF WINDOW;
HAIR SAVES HER LIFE
NEW YORK, July 17.—Mrs. Josephine
Zierzensk' . 24 years old. of No. 2493 Third
avenue, the Bronx, fell out of the window
of her apartment on the third floor and
dunged head first to the sidewalk The
women would have been killed except
for ths protection of her luxuriant hair.
OVERBOARD!
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Prohibitionists fast Donion Rum into the briny deep at Atlantic City while
casting about for a presidential candidate.
NICHOLS CALLS
OETECTIVELIAR
SPARTANBURG. S. C„ July 17.
New sensations are expected at Colum
bia tomorrow, when the legislative dis
pensary investigating committee re
convenes to hear the testimony of Sam
uel J. Nichols, the Spartanburg attor
ney. whom Detective E. S. Reed, of the
Burns agency, accused in Augusta, on
Saturday, of entering into a plot to
buy a pardon from Governor Cole
L. Blease for a notorious safe robber,
a convict in the South Carolina peni
tentiary.
Following the conference here on
Monday between Chairman Carlisle, of
the investigating committee, and At
torney Nichols, it was announced that
the session would be held at Columbia
to give Nichols an opportunity to give
his version of his negotiations with
R e o ( j But Nichols has not waited for
the committee hearing to give part of
his story. He has Issued a statement
in which he calls Reed a "dirty liar.”
Nichols says:
"1 notice in a local paper that Mr.
Reed says he has a telegram which
shows that Governor Blease accepted
the $15,000 bribe which they say was
offered. They say further that the
telegram tells Reed, alias Porter, to
hurry on South and w ind up the deal
and pay his money and get hi-s par
don
”1 wish to say that this is one of the
dirtiest lies that has ben published In
connection with this outrageous re
flection on the governor and myself
and I can not allow it to go unnoticed
even until the. committer meets again.
"Mr. Reed has been summoned by-
Senator Carlisle at my request to ap
pear before the committee when 1 ap
year and it is up tn him to produce
such a telegram from me or admit
that he has lied in this as well as In
other parts of the transaction
"I have In my possession the only
telegram which Porter received from
me after I left Spartanburgg, which
telegram will be Introduced by me at
rhe hearing before the committee.”
The telegram. Nichols says, was as
follows:
"Things do not look good. Come to
Spartanburg at once.”
MRS. MORROW DENIES
ON WITNESS STAND
SHE KILLED HUSBAND
CHICAGO. July 17. —Mrs Rene B
Morrow today faced a further ordeal
In the witness chair in Judge Kersten's
court, where she is on trial for the
murder of her husband, Charles B. Mor
ro w.
Mrs. Morrow began her story of
events that led up to the death of her
husband late yesterday afternoon. It
was expected that it would require the
entire day to complete the cross-ex
amination.
"Did you kill your husband'”' a«ked
Attorney Erbstein.
"I did not,” Mrs. Morrow replied.
“Did you ever pull the trigger of a
revolver In your life?"
"Never.”
This denial is the foundation of the
evidence the state's attorney will at
tempt to overthrow on erose-examina
tion.
FATHER AND UNCLE
AT LAW TO DECIDE
CUSTODY OF A BOY
ROME, GA., July 17 —R. W. McCol
lum and Will Weems married sisters.
McCollum and his wife separated. Mrs.
McCollum later died. A six-year-old
son was left In the care of Mrs Weems.
Weems claims this was requested by
Mrs. Met'ollum. Now McCollum i laims
this was prejudicial to the interests of
the other members of the family and
wants the custody of the boy decided
before attachments become so strong
that a breaking of the ties would cause
hard feelings. He has brought habeas
corpus proceedings and an interesting
fight Is to be waged in the city court
for the custody of the child.
SEVEN YEAR OLD ROY
VICTIM OF OIL; LAMP
EXPLOSION IS FATAL
The death of Clarence Watson, seven
years old. 96 Wheeler street, was add
ed to the inflammable oil toll yesterday
when he succumbed to burns received
when an oil lamp exploded at the fam
ily home Monday afternoon.
The boy died at a private infirmary.
He will he buried in Westvieyv ceme
tery late today.
HOT FIGHT OVER
PINK IN STREET
•
Bitter Contest in Council Com
ing on Plan to Abandon
Plot in North Avenue.
A bitim fight will l»*‘ wagpd in tho
council tomorrow the petition of
North avenue property owners to have
tin* park plot in the renter of North
avenue, between the two Peaehtrees.
abolished and paved with the remainder
of the street.
A majoHty of the eouncll streets com
mittee and the park boaid voted that
the park should b»- abandoned. Rut
(’ounclhnan Aldine I'hambers declared
today that he would lead a fight to
.save this breathing space.
<’ T Ladson ind others were at the
meeting of. the streets committee and
the park board yesterday urging that
North avenue should bp widened be
cause it was developing into a busi
ness district and that there was no
nec<l for the park It was evident that
a majority of the officials agreed with
him Dan t’arey general manager of
parks/* then asked the privilege of the
floor.
‘The < ity on» e owmed the block
bounded by Pryor street. Wall street
Decatur street and t’pntral avenue, but
It w'as sacrificed to business develop
ment,” he said. The young men to
day point w ith srorn to that poll' \ In
rhe fntnr*’ they will point with pain tn
\<»nt action her*-’ today
<)thet cities are saving their park
plots and breathing spaces We cer
tainly ought to begin.”
Councilman Charles W. Smith said
he had beep noticing that North ave
nue plat for 20 years and that it was
always a thing of beauty to him
The joint bodies finally agreed to
postpone final action until ionic row* at
noon, when another hearing on the
’•natter will be given
IIXTRA
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A o v Rg NO
POLICE M
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6IMW,
CHARGED
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.—With five men
either under arre«t In connection with
the assassination of Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler, or detained as material
witnesses, District Attorney Charles S.
Whitman, after flatly declaring, his be
lief that the killing was the work of
the police department through certain
members of it. took steps today to
make one of the most searching grand
Jury investigations in the annals of
New York county.
*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
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.
The fifth man arrested was locked up
In the Mulberry police station at mid
night by Detective James Shevlin. The
prisoner is an east side character
named Louis Weber, but better known
on the Bowery as “Bridgie” Weber. De.
tectlves from the central office work
ed all night on the case, while detec
tives from the district attorney’s of
fice continued their inquiry along a
line showing that the police were un
der strong suspicion. Thus the two
currents of search were counter, and
the two forces were working along en
tirely separate lines.
Police Directly
Charged With Crime.
District Attorney Whitman early to
day made the direct charge that the
police "system” w«s, connected with
the murder of Rosenthal because of
revelations w ImiTi the gambler had
made concerning protestion tribute. Mr.
Whitman said that if Rosenthal had
lived six hours longer the district at
torney's office today probably would
he in possession of absolutep roof that
money was paid to the police in various
amounts for "protection” in the con
duet of their illegal resorts.
"I accuse the police department of
the city, through certain member'-- of
it. wilh 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 tie a lesson to any
one who might have thought of ex
posing the alliance between the police
and crime.
“Rosenthal had given me valuable
information and was on the point of
giving me more arid supplying further
corroboration of what, he had already
told. He had sought unsuccessfully to
be allowed to talk to other city offi
cials in whose hands his complaint had
more right to be lodged than in mine.
He had never been allowed access to
them. o
"Just as he was about tn give im
portant additional evidence and to give
the names of eight or ten men who
could and would Support his statement:
just as he was pieparing to come to my
house with these matters, so as to avail
himself of privacy: just as the situation
shaped up most dangerously for the po
j lit e involved he L- killed and hi-s ey|.
denee with him
j Police Near When
: Shooting Occurred.
There "ere fi'e t tth'n
: tnu feet of the shooting when It took
■ place Two were within !00 feet of it,
■ "tie was within 50 feet of it Yet five
j men were able to shoot to pieces the
I head of a. grand jury witness, get Into
lan automobile and escape vyithout even
being seriously inconvenienced, and this
at 2 o'clock in the morning On a blight
h lighted street io feet off Broadwax
and in front of a place that was filled
with peon'e. From where, the farthest
i policeman stood on Broadway, just
I around the cornet from the Metropole,
