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GITY IS NOT MID
FDR 50 SEINERS
While Many Property Owners
Have Met Assessments, Hun
dreds Escaped Levy.
Continued From Pege One.
Decatur street South Boulevard, Ten
nille to Lucy.
Decatur street. Giltner to Hilliard.
Doan street. South Pryor to Windsor.
East avenue, Howell to Boulevard.
Ellis street, trunk sewer to Hilliard.
Frazier street Fair to Clark.
Forsyth street. Brotherton to Fair
street
Fulton street, Washington to alley.
Foundry street. Vine to Davis.
Forsyth street, Hunter to Alabama.
West Fifteenth street, West Peach
tree to hill top.
Fairley and Walton streets, James to
Poplar.
Fourth street, Ridge to Marietta.
Forrest avenue, trunk sewer to
Boulevard.
Fourth street, West Peachtree to
near Cypress
Gilmer street, Butier to Edgewood.
Gordon street. Alline to Oak.
' Greensferry avenue, Chapel to Law
she.
Glepn street, trunk sewer to Ira.
Hunter street, Loyd to Pryor.
Houston and Sampson streets, Ran
dolph to Southern railroad.
West Hunter street, trunk sewer to
Tattnall.
Irwin street, Houston to Fort.
Ira street, Eads to trunk sewer.
Ivy street, Edgewood to Houston.
. Irwin street, Auburn to Howell.
Jackson street. Edgewood to North
avenue,
Jones avenue, branch to Elliott.
Juniper street. Tenth to Eleventh.
Kelly street. Glennwood to Orleans.
Old Wheat street, Butler to Hilliard.
Orme street, Fifth to Third.
Oglethorpe street. Peeples to Gordon.
Oak street, Ashby to Peeples.
Rawson street, Pryor to Formwait.
Queen street, Gordon street to trunk
sewer
Richardson street, trunk sewer to
Capitol avenue.
Rock street, Mangum to Haynes:
Richardson street. Central to Wind
sor
Rock street, Mangum to Elliott.
Simpson street, alley to Marietta.
Simpson. Hull and Luckie streets,
Orme to Harris.
Tattnall street, Mitchel! to Markham.
Tenth street, Columbia to Peachtree
place
Tenth street, branch to Myrtle street.
Warren place. Edgewood to Pied
mont.
Woodward avenue, Grant to Wood.
Whitehall street. Oak to Park.
West End avenue. Lee to Ashby.
Plans Laid to
Collect Assessments.
Plans already on foot to collect these
assessments, many of them years over
due. present a perplexing problem. Peo
ple have bought property on these
streets, thinking that the sewer assess,
ments were paid. Much of the proper
ty has changed hands many times.
When. the owners are presented with
these old bills, the city officials realize
there will be vigorous protests.
The incredible phase of the situa
tion is that these bills should have run
on from year to year without any ac
tion being taken on them. For two
years the city employed an auditor at
$2,400 per year, yet officials declare that
the city’a construction department has
not been audited in years.
Day by day The Georgian has pub
lished facts about the city’s system of
providing street improvements. Later
Investigations disclose the situation to
be even worse, if possible. Mayor Winn
has sat "steady in the boat," without
an effort to turn the light on the real
cause of the trouble.
Many members of council have de
clared that drastic reforms must be
brought about. Councilman Claude C.
Mason has introduced a resolution pro.
viding for a charter amendment sep
arating the chief of construction de
partment into a construction depart
ment and an engineering department.
It is said that, this If adopted, would
be the beginning of a complete investi
gation and reorganization.
Standpatters Try
To Block Reforms.
Councilman Harvey Hatcher, chair
man of the committee on streets, back
ed by Alderman 1. N. Ragsdale. A. J.
Johnson and Councilman G H Boyn
ton, who make up what is known as
the ‘standpat" quartet of council are
doing all that they can to block this
PETITION
(If you arc desirous of bet- X.
tering the condition of At- X.
lanta’s streets, cut out this cou- '
pen, fill out the blanks and tend it
to the councilman who represents the 'X.
the ward in which you live.) \
To Councilman —— , X.
City Hall. Atlanta, Ga.
Realizing the disgraceful condition of At- X.
lanta s streets, I ask you to use every effort in
your power to bring about better conditions. x.
Name x.
Address X.
APPROVES GRIME
i ID RIGHT WRONG
> Lincoln Steffens, Testifying for
Clarence Darrow, Defends
McNamaras in Murder.
LOS ANGELES, July 19. —Stating his
social theories in response to a search-
• Ing cross-exalnmation by District At
torney John D. Fredericks, Lincoln
Steffens, magazine writer, on the stand
• today in the trial of his friend, Attor
ney Clarence S. Darrow, charged with
. jury bribing, asserted that he saw
nothing wrong in freeing a man whom
r he knew was guilty of murder when the
motive was the result of class resent
ment against Injustice,
Steffens is the most important wtt-
■ ness yet introduced by the defense.
■ Through him the defense hopes to show
that the arrangements for bringing in
’ .pleas of guilty in the McNamara case
had been completed before the bribery
scandal was sprung. If his story stands,
> motive in the alleged bribery will be
obliterated.
> "You are an anarchist, are you not?"
asked Fredericks.
"Worse than that.” said Steffens.
"You believe in the anarchists’ doc
trine and go them one better?"
"Not exactly.”
"Did you not in a speech for Job
Harriman, as Socialist candidate for
mayor, declare that if there was an
anarchist running against him you
i would vote for the anarchist?”
"Something like that.”
Knew McNamaras Were Guilty.
"You represented all through these
negotiations that J. J. McNamara would
have to go free?”
“Yes.”
"You knew he was guilty?*’
"Yes: I knew it.”
"When did you learn he was guilty?”
"About three days after I arrived on
November 10, when I saw the McNama
ras and learned indirectly they were
guilty.”
"You see nothing wrong in trying to
free a man guilty of a murder like
this?”
"No; not for that sort of a crime,
which was not an individual crime, but
a social crime, the result of resentment
of a class against injustice—what I call
a revolutionary crime. In my talks with
the McNamaras it was evident to me
they represented a great mass of
American people who believe they can
’ not get justice except by crime.”
WHERE, OH, WHERE, IS
“WIRELESS” WILSON?
NOT IN PRISON CELL
NEW YORK, July 19.—A new way
of serving a prison sentence while stay,
ing out of jail appears to be the good
fortune of Colonel Christopher Colum
bus Wilson, president of the United
Wireless Telegraph Company. If what
his old acquaintances say is true, the
colonel is around town doing very nice
ly. In May, 1911, the colonel was sen
tenced to three years in the Atlanta
Federal prison for using the malls to
defraud. He was brought to New York
last spring to testify in bankruptcy
proceedings. He lodged at the Tombs,
but the warden says that when the
colonel left there for court July 1, ac
companied by Keeper Shea from At
lanta, he never came back. Neither is
he in the Ludlow street Jail. Warden
Moyer, at Atlanta, says he has not re
turned there, either. He adds that he
knows nothing of the colonel’s being
paroled.
The colonel is reported as spending
the. time pleasantly here and there.
Some say they see him now and then
in Wall Street. His attorney. Arthur
M. King, of 49 Wall street, says all he
knows is that the colonel is in the cus
tody of Keeper Shea.
mild effort at reform. Councilman
Hatcher says there is nothing wrong.
At the meeting of council yesterday
they would not face the real issue, but
they fought vigorously to delay any
action when they knew that delay
meant death to the proposed reforms.
The state legislature’s committee on
municipalities meets next Monday aft
ernoon to hear arguments for Atlanta's
charter amendments. Councilmen Al
dine Chambers, James R. Nutting and
others insisted that a meeting of coun
cil should be held Saturday afternoon
to adopt whatever reforms may be de
sired In time to have them presented
to the committee of the legislature on
Monday afternoon.
Councilman Harvey Hatcher urged
, postponement on the grounds that he
had had to attend too many committee
meetings this week. Aiderman Rags
dale said that more time ought to be
given to some who had not had the
• time or the minds to grasp these big
i reforms Messrs. Boynton and John
son were with them. But the meeting
was adjourned until tomorrow.
Every one knew that the real issue
was legislation affecting the construc
tion department. Yet no one referred
directly to It. It is said Aiderman
Ragsdale was offended because he was
not invited to the recent caucus of
Councilmen.
XTaZ ATLANTA (iEOKG!AS AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JULY 1», 1912.
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Dying Man's Last Work His Masterpiece
MAKES. A MARVELOUS VIOLIN
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strument in Hope Daughter
Will Be Famous Musician.
. After laboring many months with
the lurking fear that "the pain” in his
chest might beat him to the end, John
Kimbrell, the violin maker of Battle
Hill Sanitarium for Consumptives, has
at last completed from an ancient piece
of wood the instrument of his heart.
Upon this violin, which Atlanta ex
perts say has a tone equal to any Ital
ian malte, his little daughter, Ruth,
will learn her scales.
John Kimbrell is only 27 years old.
Only a year ago he committed himself
to Battle Hill in the hope that he might
check in some measure the deadly thing
which lay upon his lungs. The days
brought little change, though.
Finds Beautifully Grained Wood.
He had been an electrician and later,
just before entering the sanitarium,
worked as a violin maker. One day,
while rummaging through an antique
shop he found on old bedstead that
caught his attention because of the un
usual delicacy of the grain. The pro
prietor Informed him that the bed had
a history—that it had belonged to an
old South Carolina family. The wood
was at least 150 years old. Kimbrell
purchased the bedstead.
To make a violin requires about ten
days steady working. But Kimbrell was
weak and unsteady. A few hours work
and his whole body would be exhaust
ed to the point of prostration. "The
pain" seemed like some dreadful Neme
sis. It toyed with him, seemed to lead
him to hope and then tore his hands
away from his love’s labor.
It was like a holiday at the sanita
rium when the first tone of the com
pleted violin was heard. Resonant and
sweet-singing, it seemed to bring the
echoes from every nook and cranny of
the place; from every somber cock
loft; from the hollowed trunks of trees
—and from the hearts of all who heard
it.
One by one they went to congratulate
Kimbrell upon his victory and to look
upon the wonder which his hand had
wrought. He held it up for them ic
see. it had been stained a cherry
color. The sun struck it and brought
out every detail of the minute inlaid
wooden pieces and the tiny grain all
running one way,
“It’s my last violin,” he said, “but
look at it.”
Second in importance only to the day
when the violin was completed was the
day the "Music Master” from Atlanta
came out to examine the violin. It was
Professor Kurt Mueller. To the friends
of John Kimbrell he seemed the epit
ome of precision and inexorable im-
“Ho!" cried the poet with delight,
“They taste like sun and autumn blended.’’
Then penned a toast—straightway to Post,
“Here's to your Toasties—they are splendid."
Written by C M. SNYDER
460 Riverside Drive, New York City
One of the 50 jingles for which the Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich., paid JiOOO 00 in May.
S. GUYTON M’LENDON
ENTERS CONTEST FOR
R. R. COMMISSIONER
Former Railroad Commissioned S.
Guyton McLendon, whose summary dis
charge from office by Governor Hoke
Smith. ■ a few years ago, was one of
the political sensations of the day, has
announced himself a candidate for his
former office, and will enter at once
upon a vigorous campaign for election.
He will oppose specifically Judge
George Hillyer.
Mr. McLendon announced several
months ago against Senator Bacon, and
many of his friends will be surprised to
learn that he has abandoned his sena
torial campaign utterly, in favor of the
railroad commissionership contest. <■
Mr. McLendon will be warmly and
aggressively supported by Hon. Thom
as E. Watson, the “red-headed one,"
w hich means, of course, that he will be
a factor to be reckoned with in the
fight.
MAD CAf’RUNTPOijCE
SERGEANT FROM JAIL
CHICAGO, July 19.—A black cat. be
lieved to have been suffering from
rabies, entered the Fiftieth street sta
tion and put Desk Sergeant Charles
Azone to flight w hen it leaped upon his
desk. Azone fled to the yard, followed
by the cat, which was shot by Police
Operator Ecbvard Marsh.
partiality. But Kimbrell was never
fearful of the decision.
Expert Praises Instrument.
This professor had played upon a
Stradivarius and was himself the pos
sessor of a costly Italian instrument.
He caught the violin of John Kimbrell
in his left hand and then, with one
sweeping stroke, brought the bow
across the strings. He stopped a mo
ment and seemed to listen to the
echoes. Then he touched the strings
once more, bringing double tones and
weird harmonies. Then he played a
short selection and the children gath
ered outside to hear. His verdict was
short but eloquent. The instrument,
he told Kimbrell, had a tone that was
almost matchless. It was an instru
ment which he would dearly love to
have.
ATLANTA IS NOT A
TUBERCULOSIS CITY,
DECLARE EXPERTS
Tuberculosis prevention day will be
observed Sunday In all the churches
and Sunday schools of Atlanta, .Every
minister and Sundays school teacher has
been asked to -sAy.a few WPrfls about
the pravtic.al prevention of the dis
ease. ■ y -•
The fight to. “clean. i>-p", .Atlanta is
being, waged... w-ith,, ?eal, by, the ’ Anti-
Tuberculosis society. The association
stresses the fact that Atlanta is "riot a
tuberculosis city, and the climate is
such that the disease could be stamped
entirely out.’
OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY ’TIL 9 P. M.
NOTABLE BARGAINS IN ALL DEPART
MENTS FOR TOMORROW
This list of characteristic Simon offerings for Saturday's
selling demonstrates again this store's position as the logical
economy center of Atlanta.
Fetching new Lingerie, Voile and Linen Frocks;
charming Tailored Skirts of Serge and Linen; Styl
ish Suits of Linen and Pique; Dainty Lingerie and
Voile Blouses; Cool, Summery Kimonos and House
Dresses; Fine Silk Messaline and Tqffeta Petti
coats; Lovely New Undermuslins, Corsets, Neck
wear, Hosiery, Knit Underwear; Men’s Underwear,
Hosiery and Ties; Children’s Dresses, Hosiery, etc.,
all at prices much lower than usual for Saturday’s
selling. Remember, we will be open until 9 p. m.
Style i Quality
49 Whitehall Street
UNION OF 1 RIG
■CHES NEAR
Rev. Dr. S. L. Morris, secretary of
the Presbyterian home mission board,
announced today that plans are well
under way to bring about a union of
the Southern Presbyterian and the
United Presbyterian churches when all
three of the great assemblies of the
Calvinist church hold . simultaneous
conclaves in Atlanta next May. No
effort is being made to effect a union
with the Northern Presbyterian church,
but if the ..plan? do not fall through,
the 300,000 members of the Southern
and the 150,000 members of the United
church will combine under one gov
erning body and a modification of serv
ice regulations.
Dr. Morris is a member of the South
ern Presbyterian commissioners ap
pointed to form the organic unton.
With him, representing the Southern
church, are Dr. R. C. Reed, of Charles
ton; Dr. John T. Cannon, of St. Louis;
Dr. W. F. Stephenson and Dr. Allen G.
Hall, of Nashville.
25% REDUCTION
On Our Entire Stock
of Hammocks
Regular pi-ices $1.25 to SB.OO.
Now 94c to $6,00
Bed Hammocks SB.OO and SIO.OO values
Now $6.00 and $7.50
ANDERSON HARDWARE CO.
32-34 S. Pryor Street
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For full information call on J. C. GLORE, 88
Peachtree. Phones 100.
POLICE BELIEVE NEGRO
NOW HELD AS PRISONER
IS ELUSIVE AUTO THIEF
John Harper, a negro, is in a police
station cell today, bellevd to be the
elusive automobile thief who has stolen
a number of cars in the downtown
business district in recent weeks
Harper was arrested at an early hour
today by Plain Clothes Officers Clack
and Sturdivant after he had stolen • >
car of Dr. W. B. Shallenberger from i n
front of the Candler building. Poijc e .
man Dan Cook saw the negro driving
through Decatur street and, recogn’/.
ing the number as that of the missing
auto, telephoned the police station, ("all
Officers Anderson and McWilliams
started out to head off the machine and
discovered it coming at a furlou. clip
near Butler street.
At sight of the officers, the neg- 8
drove the car into the alley of the Mc-
Cord-Stewart Company, leaped out and
ran. closely pursued by the officers
Clack and Sturdivant were in Pratt
street, and, seeing the fleeing negro
headed toward them, waited in the
shadows until he reached there. They
then landed him.
Pawn tickets for seven auto coats
were found in his pockets. He refused
to make a statement to the police.