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Councilmen Declare Revision!
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Engineers Admit Errors.
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•tructlon. admitted that the depart- i
ment needed reorganization. He said i
that Captain Clayton had some Ideas t
as to needed ■changes He requested I
the committee to postpone action un- '
til Captain Clayton returned.
Aiderman James R. Nutting outlined j
a mild reform of the office which would j
leave the system of street Improve- i
ments practically as it is. But Alder- !
■ man Warren. Councilmen Aldine Cham
bers and Charles Smith dissented. They
want a more sweeping revision.
The sentiment of the committee was
that every one- had the highest regard
for Captain Clayton, but that the prog
ress of improvements was wholly un
satisfactory.
In a caucus it was informally agreed '
that the construction department j
should be divided Into a construction '
department and an engineering depart,
ment. Some of those present said they
thought a business man should be tn
charge of the construction department
and that the construction department
should have authority over the engi
neering department.
In the open meeting yesterday there
was a reluctance to take any action to
which there might be serious objection.
Constitution Joins
In Streets Crusade
The Constitution Joined in The Geor
gian’s campaign for better streets to
day. In an editorial it said:
ATLANTA AND HER STREETS.
In the evolution of the growth
of Atlanta the city has reached that
stage where Its policy of building
and of general public improvement
must be directed toward the future
and not alone for the day. • • •
The next imperative step is the
improvement of streets of the city.
We must establish and enforce per
manent building lines and perma
nent grades. Every up-to-date city
pursues this policy, and metropol
itan Atlanta can not afford to bring
up the tail-end of the procession.
Quick; action is the main desider
atum The longer this reform is
delayed the greater will be the
cost to the city.
Main avenues reaching the city
from every compass point should be
brought to a permanent and easi
ly negotiable grade. Remembering
that we are building for tomorrow,
we should not be too chary of ex
pense. The undertaking should be
■worked out by experts and no time
should be lost in beginning work on
this, now the most urgent of all
public improvements.
There is not a business house nor
a man in Atlanta who is not, di
rectly or indirectly, penalized by
the present situation Business
suffers in innumerable ways—from
delay in delivery of goods, from tax
on vehicles and live stock, from
heavy grades, poor pavements and
narrow streets Human life and
limb are at hazard in the restric
tion of traffic.
Safe and easv transportation is
one of the first needs of any large
city. Transportation, as applied to
streets, is not now either safe or
easy in Atlanta, nor has it been for
a long time.
We have piddled and frittered
away time long enough.
Let us go about the solution at
once, and with determination to go
at the work on a broad basis.
Action should be the keynote’
The call is to the old, achieving
'Atlanta spirit" which has ever
been found responsive.
1.000 THIBETANS AND 500
CHINESE DIE IN FIGHT
WASHINGTON. July IS - -A thousand
Thibetan rebels were killed and 100
taken prisoners by Chinese troops near
Ta Tsln. Szcheuan province, according
to advices received here from Chong
To. the capital of the province Five
hundred Chinese were killed during the
fighting
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PETITION .
(If you are desirous of bet- X.
tering the condition of At- X.
lanta's streets, cut out this cou- \
pon, fill out the blanks and send it X.
to the councilman who represents the '
the ward in which you live.)
To Councilman , X<
City Hall. Atlanta. Ga.
realizing the disgraceful condition of At- X,
*anta s streets, I ask you to use every effort in X.
your power to bring about better conditions. X.
Name X.
Address X.
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Another Atlanta street for which money has been apportioned, but which has never been
improved—St. Charles avenue, near Moreland avenue.
STATE IS LOSER
IN OLD TJX CASE
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Federal Court Rules It Can Not
Collect From Lessees of the
Georgia Railroad System.
Th? »tat« has not th? right to col
lect an ad valorem tax on the $12,000,-
000 worth of property owned by the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany. was the opinion handed down by
Judge W. T. Newman, of the United
States court, today. On the terminals,
in Atlanta, of the Georgia railroad,
which were built by co-operation of
several railroads after the leasing of the
Georgia road by the Louisville and
Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Line
railroads. Judge Newman holds that
the state can collect an ad valorem
tax
Under Its charter granted by the state
In 1533, the Georgia railroad is to be
taxed one-half of 1 per cent on Its
net earning*. When the road passed
into the hands of other parties on a
99-year lease. William A. Wright, state
comptroller general, attempted to col
lect the usual ad valorem taxes, as upon
other railroads. The lessees, the Louis
ville and Nashville and the Atlantic
Coast Line, brought suit to enjoin him
from collecting these taxes and the ease
was finally appealed to the United
States court.
Judge John C. Hart, one of the at
torneys for the state, said today that
the case will go before the United
States court of appeals and perhaps M
the supreme court of the United States.
Judge S. H Sibley and T S. Felder,
state attorney general, and Judge Hart
represented the state. The attorneys
for the railroads were Joseph B. and
Bryan Cummings, and King, Spalding
A- Underwood.
SHOOTING SHOW-GIRL,
SHORT ON PUBLICITY,
FOUNDGAGGED IN LOT
NEW YORK. July 18.—Ethel Con
rad, the young actress who with Lil
lian Graham, was accused of having
shot Millionaire W E. P. Stokes when
he called on them in their apartment
on June 7. 1911, was found In a vacant
lot at 181st street and Port Washing
ton avenue, bound and gagged. Near
her lava bottle labeled "chloroform.’
"1 left my friend Lillian Graham at
110th street early this morning," said
Miss Conrad, and entered the sub
way to go straight home. When I left
the subway I noticed that a man was
following me The next thing I knew
something was placed over my mouth,
and that is all I can remember"
If anyone was plotting against Miss
Conrad the motive for it was not ap
parent to the police or physicians at
tl > hospital When she was found she
had money and jewelry in her posses
sion No attempt had been made to
harm her <nd the only sign of violence
was a handkerchief tied over her mouth
" ith a piece of clothesline.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1919.
Steward Isn't Only Rich One in Case
PANTRY GIRLAN HEIRESS
Louis Dupin. steward, isn’t the only
one in an Atlanta case kitchen to come
into a w indfall of money. Ida Duncan,
the pantry girl there, is 'an heiress.
She’s got a letter from a real estate
firm in Knoxville. Tenn., telling her
that the ticket she drew in a suburban
lot contest over there has won her a
corner lot appraised by a real estate
firm at S3OO, at the least. Ida Dun
can. like Louis Dupin. is not going to
quit working in the restaurant. He’s
going to continue on as stew-ard and
spend part of the $30,00<1 he Will get
from his grandfather’s estate tn an ad
dition on his house and a part more of
it In taking a trip with his family of
six to New York. Miss Duncan is go
ing to keep right on working In the
pantry at $5 a week and she’s al
ready commissioned a lawyer to see
for how much he can sell her lot, so
she can bank the money against a rainy
day.
Comes of Royal Blood.
Louis Dupin. as The Georgian told
yesterday, came into hls windfall from
the estate of Jean Marie Dupin, late
head of a great French parking con
cern in Havre. Louis Dupin, though a
steward now comes of noble French
blood, for in the reifn of Louis XIV
his forebears were court favorites, both
on the side of Dupin and his mother’s
ancestors, the Cruedelles. His family
fought in all the wars and he had an
uncle shot against a wall alongside
Maxmillian. in Mexico. Just the same,
Louis Dupin isn’t going to use his
ISu.OOO to translate him out of the res
taurant into the aristocracy, and Ida
Duncan isn’t going to use her S3OO cor
ner lot in Knoxville for any such snob
bish purpose, either.
When the Knoxville real estate firm
wrote her that she was owner of one
of their choicest suburban lots in one
ATLANTAN, CAUGHT IN
WRECK OF BURLINGTON
TRAINS, RETURNS HOME
John H Owen, Fulton county deputy
sheriff, who was in the wreck of two
fast passenger trains on the Burling
ton road in the Chicago suburbs Sun
>!ay, returned to Atlanta today. Mr.
Owen was largely responsible for sav
ing Miss Elizabeth Vonßlebenthal, of
Salt Lake City, the only person rescued
from the ear she was in.
Accompanied by his wife and their I
baby, Mr. Owen was going from Den
ver to Chicago on the train that was
run into by the Omaha Fast Mail, kill-,,
ing thirteen persons and dangerously
wounding others
’ 1 was dressing my baby when the
crash came, and as I felt it. ran to my
wife, who was in the dressing room."
said Mr. Owen today.
"Neither of us was hurt, though oth
ers in the car were I rushed to the
rear entrance and saw Miss Vnnßieben
tha! crawling out of a burning pile of
wreckage and assisted her to an ambu
lance She show ed remarkable heroism 1
and resisted being carried from the
wreck until efforts to recover others I
had been made."
SMOTHERS TO DEATH
IN LAKE SHORE SAND
CHICAGO. July 18 John Mowen. an
elevator operator employed at the Met- I
cy hospital, was found dead by John j
Hayes. 689 South State street, on the
lake shore south of East Twenty-fifth
street, and is believed to have srhother
ed to death in the loose sand aft« r suf
fermg from an epileptic fit. He was
> .’J years es age.
of their choicest Suburban reservations,
she took her winning ticket to Louis
Dupin. who had Just received his no
tification about his $30,000.
What They Plan To Do. ,
Miss Duncan shook Mr. Dupin’s hand
with the cordial comaraderie befitting
two persons whom the gods love and
have smiled upon simultaneously and
she said to Louis Dupin:
"What you’re going to do with
yours?”
"There’s fifteen feet of vacant lot out
to one side of my place at 87 Summit*
street that would look fine with an L’
built on it. Then I’d like to take the
kids and the missus up to New York,
for a w ; eek when it comes time for my
regular vacation.”
“Ain’t you going back to France to
claim your fortune to the great Dupin
estate?" asked the heiress of the cor
ner lot.
"I am not,", said Louis. "This job
here in the kitchen suits me fine. I
may put a fan over the table where I
eat on duty, byt I don’t want any cas
tles. whatsoever. J know this job and
I don’t know castles. Besides you're
surer of a steady Mving. What're you
going to do with yours?"
"I’ve got no plans," said Miss Dun
can, "except to keep on refrigerating
those salads in the pantry. I’ve been
here a month and I like it. too. and I
like my room out on Edgewood avenue.
So I don’t see any use in throwing up
the job for a Knoxville corner lot. I’m
going to keep an Tasslin’ the dishes,
as the fellow says, and sell the lot.
Probably I'll celebrate by treating my
self to a broad-brimmed panama,
which I haven't been able to get me
ns I should of. But it’s nice to fall
heir to money Just to feel independ
ent. isn’t it?" asked Ida Duncan, and
Louis Dupin said yes, it was.
STATE REFUNDS SSOO
LOCKER CLUB TAX TO
FREUNDSCHAFTB U N D
The house of representatives, by an
aye and nay vote of 133 to 0, today
passed the resolution of Dr. Brown, of
Fulton, refunding to the Freundschafts
bund of Atlanta SSOO locker club tax.
paid by that society into the state
treasury under a misapprehension.
Dr. Brown explained that the club
had never maintained a locker club and
did not intend either to upon 0 “ operate
I such a club. He said that the members
did. at occasional meetings, open a keg
of beer, but that was all. He stated
that the club had paid its tax under a
misapprehension of the law, and that
the state should refund it.
Representative Alexander, of DeKalb,
voted for the refund, and said he did so
with peculiar pleasure, because, for
once, he believed the concerted wisdom
of the Fulton delegation was not at
fault.
ENGINEER SPEEDING PAST
BALL PARK CATCHES FLY
LOUISVILLE. KY., July 18 —While
' speeding past the ball grounds tn his
locomotive at the rate of 50 miles an
|houi. William T. Madden caught on tin?
I tl\ a ball which had been knocked over
I the fence.
PHONOGRAPH ALL NIGHT
DROWNS BABIES' CRIES
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SOUTH NORWALK, CONN, July
IS.— Miss Sarah Davenport, a wealth'
resident of this cits, has hirer) a man
to play the phonograph on her front
porch, every nieht f-om 1? to 3 '''.dock
to drow n the cries of a neighbor's baby.
WYLIE SMITH IN !l
' JAIL AT JUAREZ
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Atlanta Fugitive Declares the
United States Can’t Get Him
on Embezzling Charge.
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possession of Smith and bring him
across the Rio Grande.
It has cost the creditors of J. Wylie I
Smith several thousand dollars, trying I
to land him, and whether they will -■•et
any satisfaction beyond seeing Smith in
court is problematical. For it was
pretty iv'eJL assured that he was "broke”
whpn he .and wunT have any
thing to divide among thojse who were
atdng. But still, some of them will be
glad to have him. back. .Others won’t, I
for it Is alleged that several Atlantans
were mixed up in his transactions, and
at the time his disappearance came to
light they were by- no means enthusi
astic over chasing him.
The story of Mr. Wylie Smith, or
wily Mr. Smith, ae the case may be,
gave-Atlanta a taste of high finance of .
which J. Rufus Wallingford might have
been -proud. Mr. Smith was a loan
agent, but the rates he charged were
benevolent and philanthropic compared
to the interest he gave the small capi
talists who furnished him coin. He
promised—and paid-—anywhere from 25
to IN! per cent a year for money bor
rowed from his frier s and the $150,000 I
of principal he'was said to owe when
he left so unceremoniously had been
more than half repaid by the interest
already drawn by his'creditors. Some
of those who yelled the loudest over
their losses admitted that Smith had
paid then ten per cent a month for six
months, whereby they had received 60
per cent of their money back, and only I
had a 40 per cent kick coming.
He Got a Good Start
On the Officers,
Smith had his offices at 29 1-’ White
hall street, right in the heart of the re- I
tail section, and his clients were nu
merous. Money 'came his way in
bunches, for ten per cent a month in
vestments are hard to find these days.
The fact-that the'security tvas often a
note with a bogus Indorsement didn’t
seem to worry the -investors— until j
Smith went away. The .'day after the
papers told of his disappearance his. of. I
flee was filled to the door with men i
and women who had been stung, and I
some of the names on.his "sucker list"
were those of business men believed to I
be shrewd and far-sighted. One worn- ’
an was so excited over the going of Mr. I
Smith -that she picked one of his former t
associates as a victim and pummeled ;
him black and blJe before sh^was per- |
suaded he’'wasn’t guilty.'
i’ But Smith had failed. They fraced
him to Fairburn, Gs., the home of rela
tives, but no’farther. He : disappeared
on Tuesday. June 12, a<d nobody, re
ported it to the police for several days
afterward; so he got a g<jod start.
, "Languishes” in Aobe Jail.
Warrants charging embezzlement
were sworn out and Atlanta detectives !
put m £he trail. Soon afterward the I
Pi- aertor.s were retained by ...certain |
c; ’itora, and after a \VKlle they found 1
th. Smith had crossed the Mexicar
line. They obtained extradition papers ■
and an officer went after the fugitive. |
But he didn’t get. him. Mexico was I
having troubles of its own Just then. I
There was a new revolution every day. i
or two, and the government in power |
didn’t have time to bother with Atlan- I
ta’s criminals, having bad men of its !
own to stick up against a church and |
shoot. But they found room for Mr.
Smith in the old jail at Chihuahua and
said he might stay there until some
body had time to look into the matter
and see whether or not they could use
him in their own business. That was
last August, and there Mr. Smith so
journed on through the heated term
into the Winter and another Mexican
summer. A .short time ago they moved
him to Juarez. And yesterday the gov
ernment derided he had been there long
enough.
In the meantime, Atlantans were re
galed with numermis anecdotes regard
-1 ing the elusive loan agent. Once it was
reported that he had become a colonel
in the revolutionary army. Then he
was promoted and'became a general. It
was reported shortly afterward that he
had been killed at the head of his
troops. If he had employed a press
agent, he could hardly 1 have obtained
more publicity in the press dispatches.
But whenever the Atlanta officers nib
bled at one bf these stories and wired
for the facts they found that Mr. !
Smith was still resting in the old adobe |
jail at Chihuahua. Just as much a pris- ,
oner as any creditor cbtild Mesire.
Smith will have several charges to I
face when he returns. But there are;
those who predict that he will either go |
scot free or escape with a very short I
term. Several of his creditors said a ‘
year ago that they would take their '
losses in silence rather than admit in I
open court that they had played "suck- j
er" in a ten per cent loan game.
I THIS ICE CREAM EATER
ISSUES OPEN CHALLENGE 1
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PRINCETON. MICH. July IR. Or- j
mond Rogers, of the Iron Range, is on’ |
with a challenge to all .those who. be-I
lleve they are “some" ice cream eaters.
Rogers holds what is asserted to be a
number of eating records, having de
voured as much as a gallon and one
half of ice creaVi without stopping and
four watermelons In two hours.' He
made one record by eating 51 popcorn
balls at one sitting, but the making of
the record almost unmade him. as he I
was confined to his bed two months.
FOR PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION
Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Especially recommended foi physical I
an I mental • xhaustion, nervousness and
weak digestion. •••
Friday and Saturday
Specials at Rogers’
Where Where
High Prices
Quality Are
Prevails Lowest
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Extra Large, Fine, Smooth Irish
Potatoes, 34c Peck
These Are the Best of the Year
Canned Foods and
Other Extra Specials
Piedmont Hotel Brand Sugar Corn; 1 i
regular 15c cans at, only 11C
Piedmont Hotel Brand Tomatoes, in No. 2 sani
tary tins; extra quality; " 1 /'|
this sale, only * VC
Dunkley’s Kalamazoo Celery, extra fine, white and
tender; regular 25c cans; 1 n
in this sale at * "C
Extra quality Beets, cooked ready’for 1 Q
pickling; No. 3 size cans * “C
Dixie Brand Blackberries in i o
full pack No. 3 cans, only * "**
Maple Corn Flakes:
Per package 9c
3 packages for 25c
Maple Wheat Flakes:
Per package 9c
3 packages for 25c
Post Toasties:
Per package 9c
3 packages for 25c
Sauer’s Pure Extract of Vanilla or Lemon:
Small bottle 9c
3 bottles for 25c
Downey’s Cocoa, 1-2-pound tin 21c
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Friday and Saturday Only—Cele
brated Swift’s Premium
Hams 164 C pound
Order These Early
—They Are Bargains
Burnham's Fish Flakes; small Q
3 cans for 25c
Large cans, each 13c
2 cans for 25c
.Johnson’s Pure Fruit Preserves, in 5-
pound stone crocks, at only
Extra fine California Evajiorated
Beaches; very special at, pound
Lowney's Chocolate, 1-2-pound cakes 17c
Sapolio, per cake 7c
Horsford's Bread Preparation, 15c size packages. 11c
Regal Brand Toilet Paper:
10-cent rolls at 3 for 20c
5-cent rolls at 3 for 11c
Extra Fine Graded and Candled
Fresh Eggs, 19c Doz.
Not more than 2 dozen to a buyer
Armour’s Cleanser, 5c
The newest and best cleaning preparation is Ar
mour's Cleanser, and we are introducing it in the full
size 10-eent cans at only sc.
If you buy 2 cans of this Cleanser and sign a cou
pon at anv of our stores, \ <>u will receive a cake of
“Miladv"'Toilet Soap FREE.
ROGERS’
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