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An Artist's Idea of How the Streets of Atlanta May Look if Conditions Are Not Improved
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THIS PICTURE DOES NOT REPRESENT A SCENE IN ATLANTA. IT IS A COMPOSITE PICTURE OF SEVERAL
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE STREETS RECENTLY BY GEORGIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS.
STREET REFORM I
PLANS ADOPTED'
City Council Committee Rec
ommends That the Building
Department Be Divided.
Continued From Page One.
the election for the office conies up tin- 1
fall and the people can decide.”
Captain Clayton said that the stair- 1
merit that there had been discrimina
tions in levying sewer assessments was
unju.-t tie said under the ruling of
the former city attorney no assess
ments were made where no water con
nections were available.
He said that the delays were due to
the unprecedented weather. John
Nichols, a private contractor, said tlir.t
he had not been able to work more
than half the time. lie said if any
one was to blame for it "he must be
the Lord."
Captain Clayton said that last year
51.430,000 worth of work was done by
his department at an administrative
cost of four per cent.
He said that his idea of organization
of his department would be to have
only two assistants, one in charge of
streets and one in charge of sewers.
The ordinance provides for an assis
tant In charge of sidewalks and an as
sistant in charge of repairs.
Less Than Nine Men
To Each Foreman.
A report was submitted to the com
mittee showing that the average num
ber of workmen to a boss in the chief
of construction department is S 11-17.
This average has been slightlv in
creased since July I by an Increase In
convicts. It does not include enginei rs
and inspectors.
The number of workmen is 20 fore
men. 14 guards, 91 drivers, 99 convicts
and 104 free laborets.
These additional charter amendments
affecting streets were recommended to
the general assembly for adoption:
To give the mayor and council th?
right to condemn any pavement or
sewer when it is considered to be worn
out without giving any notice to prop
erty owners.
To give the mayor and council au
thority to extend sewers from the main
sewer to the property line at the cost
of the property owner whence-e: u stre. ;
is to be paved; This is intended to stop
the tearing up of streets to lay sewers
I
PETITION
(If you are desirous of bet- \
tering the condition of At- X.
lanta’s streets, cut out this oou- X.
pon, fill out the blanks and send it X.
to the councilman who represents the X.
the ward in which you live.)
To Councilman ,
City Hall, Atlanta, Ga. ''X
Realizing the disgraceful conditio, of At- \
lanta s streets, I ash you to us> e v er.K. effort in x.
your power to bring about better conditions.
Name x.
Address X.
COUNCIL SHOULD QUIT
DALLYING AND SERVE
TAXPAYERS-HANCOCK
The following interview was given
to The Georgian today uy W. A. Han
cock, well known business man and
former pouncilman from the Seventh
wa rd:
Tite condition of Atlanta's streets
is worse non than I have ever
known. lam not in position to say
who Is to blame But. take it from
me. some >ne has not been h itJir.g
We have bad rainy a rathe: be-
I fore. I know this bt-caus 1 have
manufactured brick for tventy
years ami n<* one wat< ‘~es t:.e
weather closer than Ido We 1OF“
very little time on account of t’.-
weather a'nd we us« free labr
hi my opinion. Captain Clayton
and his assistants should be able
to handle this proposition. It is
possible that the council has hand
ed him more work than he can
handle and he has. therefore, fallen
down.
“Council Should Get Busy."
But, whatever the trouble is, the
members of the council should put
aside all personal feelings and, re
membering they are the sworn
servants of the people, make the
needed changes and get busy.
They should stop this old see
sawing. lagging, don’t-care kind of
way. of which 1 have heard so
many citizens accuse the present
street department, although I doubt
if the .criticisms were Just in many
instances.
The whole responsibility for city
improvements reverts back to the
council City Attorney Jim May
son says the council can do any
thing "most " Let them look to
the streets
Good men in the council who can
cast aside politics and tight for the
rights of the people, demanding re
sults in street improvement work
as in other matters, will cause
To give the mayor and council the
authority to pave any street at any
time with the sort of pavement agreed
upon without a petition from the prop
erty owners. The object of the amend
inent is to prevent the delays required
in obtaining petitions specifying the
kind of pavement from the property
owners.
The amendment also provides tha*
hereafter all pavements shall be per
manent pavements.
The recommendation of the commit
tee. adopted unanimously, was taken
up at the adjourned meeting of council
this afternoon.
The members of the committee pres-
• ■ nt were Charles W. Smith. James E.
■ Warren, James R. Nutting, Claude C.
: Mason and I N. Ragsdale. Mayor
• Winn, Harvey Hatcher, C. J. Vaughan
and F. J. Spratling were invited to take
.■art in the discussions, as was Captain
II 'layton.
Tiw Georgian’s exposure of tin- miles
■ , is i a |(j without assessment be-
ne levied against property owner* has
p..ate.l a sensation in city hall circles.
1 d.uiy . xi lunations ire given as to how
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1912.
things to work out O K. We’ve
got good men in the council. Let
the citizens and taxpayers see to it
that w<e don’t have the sort there
about whom Jim Key used to speak
as having cotton strings running
down their backs Instead of back
bones.
Has Studied Street Work.
Th, people of Atlanta have been
satisfied with street conditions and
the rieht sort of work wiM make
them so again.
I have studied thoroughly street
work. I was a member of the
council for five years and served as
a member of the streets committee
f-t three years, being chairman for
one year. When I left the council
a little over a year ago we had had
complaints, of course, but nothing
like what confronts council at pres
ent.
We had one man on the commit
tee from each ward and the street
work was done by a commissioner
of public works. The committee, at
the first of the year, would visit in
a body all streets outlined for pave
ments and repairs. We then would
divide up the apportionment among
the ten wards and notify the com
missioner of public works what tc
do. Each member of the commit
tee then would go out with the
commissioner and inspect the pro
posed work in his ward.
The commissioner made a report
every two weeks, to the committee
of the work he had done and the
work he was doing. If emergencies
arose we changed our program so as
to give relief. The work outlined
at the first of the year was com
pleted in the fall.
It is simply a matter of’ common
sense and work A member of the
council must give a large portion
of his time and efforts to the city
to get results
it happened, but the fact that the con
dition is rank discrimination between
Atlanta property owners is the fact.
Officers of the construction department
and members of council are making a
thorough investigation with a view,
legally, to levy and collect assessments
for all of these sewers.
Since the complaints from citizens all
over the city about the bad streets and
the poor progress of work was voiced
in The Georgian, the city construction
department has done more work than
in any week of the year, though it has
rained almost every day. With the ex
ception of Councilman Harvey Hatcher,
chairman of the council committee on
streets, and a small minority of coun
cil, all officials connected with street
work have been aroused to a realiza
tion that something must be done, and
done at once
Edgewood Avenue
In Bad Condition.
The long list of specific complaints
can not be exhausted. Citizens of the
Fourth ward are exasperated at the
condition of Edgewood avenue, a street
paved with wood blocks only a few
years ago. The paving looks as though
it had been laid at lea-t fifteen years.
Many blocks are crumbling, there are
holes and lidges in the streets and be
tween the trolley car tracks the street
is almost impassable for automobiles
or any light vehicles.
The citizens have been complaining
for months about this street without
getting it repaired. They declare they
paid a big price for the pavement, but
that it was put down in the wrong
w ay.
Citizens of West End point to about
’wo blocks of Peters street, which is
in exceedingly bad condition, as an evi
dence of general neglect. Peters street,
between Park and Gordon streets, is a
series of Impassable holes, and all the
traffic to and from West End and Oak
land City must pass through the nar
row throat at the junction of Lee and
Park streets. There are two trolley
tracks there and also repairs are now
being made in the street. There is al
most impassable congestion. The peo
ple are exasperated. They declare that
If only the small section of Peters
street were in passible condition there
would be little inconvenience to the
thousands of residents of the south
west section of the city.
A list of sewers which fail to drain
storm water properly and are causing
filth and disease to be bred by backing
water into yards and basements was
obtained today. Citizens have vigor
ously protested, but without relief so
far. it will cost thousands of dollars
to correct these sewers and make them
what they were intended to be. Here
is the list:
The Loyd-Ormond streets sewer;
Gordon and Lee streets sewer; Oak
and Ashby streets sewer; Peeples and
Culberson streets sewer; Lawton street
sewer; Holdernesij street sewer, near
Greenwich avenue; Auburn avenue
sewer, and Ormond street sewer, near
Cherokee avenue.
A Sample of How
Repairs Are Not Made
The city’s delay in repairing its sew
er pipes is shown in no clearer way
than by an investigation of conditions
in the alley between Peachtree and
Courtland streets and adjoining Peach
tree Inn.
Here, on last Monday, the sewer pipe
was broken by the wheels of wagons
used to haul dirt away from the ex
cavation which is being made at the
corner of Peachtree street and the al
ley. For four days, or from Monday
until Thursday, the pipe remained
broken while the sewage from Peach
tree Inn bubbled above ground and
flowed down the alley toward Court
land street, filling the backyards of
residences on the street and overflow
ing into the street for over a block.
In some places in the alley the pois
onous mass of sewage stood at a depth
of 22 incites, and boards had to be
placed on the ground so that the load
ed wagons could be hauled through the
alley.
Requests Brought No Relief.
Requests to the city sanitary office
brought no aid other than an occa
sional cleaning up of the street by the
sanitary carts, say the residents of the
section on Courtland street, and by
Thursday the women of the neighbor
hood were preparing a petition to
council asking that something be done
to relieve them.
One of the women, whose home is in
Courtland street, directly back of the
broken sewer pipe, is now ill with a
fever which her physician says is de
veloping into typhoid.
"Not the breaking of the pipe, but
the failure to repair it. is what has
aroused our ire," said one woman in
discussing the situation. “For four
days we could not leave our windows
open, and we thought every day that
we would all be down with typhoid.”
What Makes a Woman?
One hundred and twenty pounds,
more or less, of hone and muscle don’t
make a woman. It's a good foundation.
Put into it health and strength and she
may rule a kingdom. But that’s just
what Electric Bitters give her. Thou
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ing and dizzy spells and for dispelling
weakness, nervousness, backache, and
tired, listless, worn out feeling. ’'Elec
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good." w: ‘es Eliza Pool, Depew, Okla .
"and I tla. r k you, with all my heart,
for making such a good medicine." Only
50c. Guaranteed by all druggists. •••
Dysentery ts always serious and oft
en a dangerous disease, but it can be
cured. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy has cured it
even when malignant and epidemic. For
sale by all dealers. •••
VACATION GLASSES
For the mountains or seashore. Jno.
L. Moore & Sons make them In several
tints —amber, smoked and others. They
protect your eyes from the glare of the
summers sun. 42 N. Broad st. •••
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City Tears Up Paving;
County Board Angry
i The county commissioners, at their
meeting today, learned with consterna-
1 tion that the city construction depart
-1 ment had torn up a half-mile of new
1 paving on South Boulevard, from the
■ city limits to Intrenchment creek, in
order to lay a sewer.
The commissioners declared that the
: city had not asked the county's per
l mission before doing this work, and
! they were Incensed at the action taken.
' The county bore the expense of this
' paving and must spend thousands of
’ dollars in doing it again unless the city
“makes good.”
500 CHURCH REVELERS
CAUGHT ON SAND BAR
TARRYTOWN, N. Y.« July 20.—After
passing a night stranded on a sand
’ bar in the Hudson river off here, 500
i church excursionists were taken off the
I steamer Isabel! today.
Launches and rowboats brought all
who desired to land ashore, but as ther ■
. was. no danger many preferred to spend
. the night on the boat rather than risk
a transfer to small boats. The vessel
is not injured and is expected to float
> at high tide.
A WHOLESOME SUMMER DRINK
I Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
Better than lemons or limes—more
healthful and satisfying. Refreshes and
I invigorates. •*»
SUCCESS AND THE REASON WHY
p VER since I began the practice of
medicine in Atlanta years ago, I
have insisted upon honest, conscien
tious service. That is why my office
has been a success.
First of all we have thought of
the patients’ needs. We have stud
ied what would be best for the
patient— -not try to find the size of
his bank account. We have en
deavored to give a little more than
we promised and have never prom
ised that which could not be made
good.
With such standards and with
the best of laboratory methods and
equipment, I have good reason to be
lieve that my office is superior to
any in the South.
AH ordinary examinations and
consultation are free.
Those who appreciate this kind
q wm. m baird. of Ber vice will be welcome to call
Brown Randolph Building r , .
56 Marietta Street. tor consultation.
Atlanta, Ga,
KNOWLES AND SCOTT
MEET IN GOLF FINAL
AT ATHLETIC CLUB
Following are the scores of the morn
ing matches of the invitation golf tour
nament at the Atlanta Athletic club’s
course at East Lake:
Semi-Final Rounds.
FIRST FLIGHT.
Clarence Knowles defeated S. Probasco,
2-1.
H. G. Scott defeated G. H. Atkisson,
4-
SECOND FLIGHT.
A. Davidson defeated E. B. Crawford,
1 up.
W. P. Ward defeated E. M. Martin, 6-5.
THIRD FLIGHT.
E. F. Mayberry defeated J. L. Graves,
5-
G. M. Blanton defeated H. B. Moore,
1 up.
FOURTH FLIGHT.
J. D. Osborne defeated H. D. Lowndes,
2-1. /
L. D. Scott defeated T. P. Hinman, 3-2.
FIFTH FLIGHT.
H. D. Harman, Jr., defeated J. C.
Thompson, 1 up (nineteen holes).
T. A. Hammond defeated W. W. Cun
ningham, 6-4.
Defeated Eights.
FIRST FLIGHT.
G. W. Adair defeated E. W. Daley, 4-3.
T. B. Fay defeated Dr. Frank Holland,
2-1.
SECOND FLIGHT.
C. V. Rainwater defeated E. G. Brown,
7-5.
C. J. Holditch defeated E. H. Barnett,
2-1.
THIRD FLIGHT.
C. Angier defeated C. M. Sciple, 6-5.
J. B. Eby defeated H. P. Thorne, 2-1.
FOURTH FLIGHT.
W. M. Richards defeated H. E. Bussey,
6-5.
D. R. Henry defeated W. O. Marshburn,
2-1.
FIFTH FLIGHT.
F. L. Fleming defeated J. J. Hastings,
3 2.
F. L. Ingram defeated W. C Warren,
6-5.
EMPEROR OfIaPAN
DYING OF TYPHOID;
KINGDOM IN GLOOM
TOKIO, July 20.—Emperor Mutsu
hito is slowly sinking tonight and one
of the physicians in constant attend
ance at the bedside expressed the fear
that his majesty could not survive
many more hours.
The ministers of state have been in
almost continuous session today, pre
paring plans to meet the emergency
that would be caused by the mikado’s
death. The imperial princes were all
hurriedly summoned from their sum
mer homes and arrived here today to
join in the vigil about the royal bed
side.
The empress is in constant attend
ance on the dying monarch. The crown
prince, Yoshito,' who is recovering from
an attack of chickenpox, is still con
fined to his bed, where he receives con
stant bulletins on his father’s condition.
The stomach and brain diseases from
which the emperor has been suffering
since July 14 today became complicated
with uremia. When symptoms of this
appeared, the physicians practicajly
abandoned ali hope. The emperor
been unconscious since yesterday.