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THE WEATHER. Forecast: > Ditto VOL. X. NO. 251. IT MO 10 CUTW MU 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, The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results Child* Aided by Excited Grownups, Swallows a Nickel: Now a Heroine - I 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! Copyright, 1913. by International News Service fMT A MAH . \ -x, i stlou'x; v t rr vroui> never A V? J I bo-roHAKHW,) FWHtIBITIO* ) ’ I / ' -- '7 " ..-J: V // I- (| Kl . Three: 1 kvv Is® ’’T y /A\‘ ' /t? I -.;<e a ... _7® \ I v ' D v— v ** '""yr fieFeT') ? ~ --- ' f WEB. WEfw) x-Wv —ll 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 L 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A o v Rg NO POLICE M WK 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,