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2 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. ___ * • Dying Man's Last Work His Masterpiece MAKES. A MARVELOUS VIOLIN Little Ruth Kimbrell and violin ' / her dying father made for her. / 1 ™ ■Ttv jv’-Jk it, ■ ■ I wsaPt? * - .SWsr, V. JiiHHI ” ■ w®*/ VtilwF l ii v x xE® ■ / / r. MM . - W” aw y z B * AA_.- > ■’ W-B MMih ~ i' S' : - MOjaaHß -j * sL T 'S- 7 / w 9 --1 iiIUM 1 W ' \ $ It \ fly* StWV ’ \ Qv\w -W Wk/ Doomed Electrician Builds In 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 SPECIAL PARTY Ons»K3a9snMaaHffiEK»BB9HnnMHfIBafIaBfIBHMBBBnBH9nnNBHBanBHBMBnnnBi Leaves for WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH Queen of South Atlantic Resorts Saturday, 20th, 7 P. M. From Old Depot via Seahoard SPECIAL LOW RATES Including all expenses for week or ten days. 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.