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2 An Artist's Idea of How the Streets of Atlanta May Look if Conditions Are Not Improved THE CRYING SHAME OF THE GREATEST CITY OF THE SOUTH ■ 'I ' : L ■- • ' ' ~A n ''L»sr- F» Snr ■ ? ' ' -fl HR Ml nl II K 99 - J < i* JEII ■IWm w I L&H HL oh K IJi • yra * lift \-y <K IBL< .. A Vl // \'■ xWmjnTT * > Mr i v Imi* :1 Hh <tAAY*%Sy*£^ :a *aMßTnM>wW *?•>,> HftwPftiftEwL «^ z 1 * i\3o ■ x^ J: --- !w ffiy dv&KsSHVBRwKFi&A vSSft x M</n\x J * \ ■- ~ fk w : wKy Maaf s*%&■>■ y t .:». j^ z .■• i?ir ‘>» -*u ,■ ;' / *‘. w .-■*. a - U -•-- --■ A'N — . - ‘ > ’'***'s& *. YS^4^' : .-.'.J■*■ 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 REED RM PLANS ADOPTED City Council Committee Rec ommends That the Building Department Be Divided. * Continued From Page, One. the election for the office comes up this fall and the people can decide." Captain Clayton said that the state ment that there had been discrimina tions in levying sewer assessments was unjust. He 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 that he had not been able to work more than half the time. He said if any one was to blame for it "he must be the Lord.” Captain Clayton said that last year $1,430,000 worth of wmk was done by nls 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 j n charge of streets and one in charge of : ewers 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- i mittee showing that the average num ber of workmen to a boss in the chis f of construction department is S 11-17. This average has been slightl- in creased since July -I by an increase in convicts It does not include engineers and inspectors. The number of workmen is 20 fore men, It guards. 91 drivers. 09 convicts and 104 free laboreis. These additional charl-’r 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 ow ner w henever a stre< t is to be paved. This is intended to stop the tearing up of streets to lay sewers a\ PETITION i (If you are desirous of bet- X. taring 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 X. the ward in which you live.) X, To Councilman , X. City Hall, Atlanta. Ga. X \ Realizing the disgraceful condition of At- X. lanta’s streets, I ask you to use every effort in X. your power to bring about better conditions. X. Name Address X. To give the mayor and council the authority to pave any street at any time with the sort ot pavement agreed upon without a petition fiom the prop erty owners. The object of the amend ment is to prevent the delays required in obtaining petitions specifying the , kind of pavement from the property I owners. The amendment also provides tlm' 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 ent 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. Spratllng were invited tn take part in the discussions, as was'Captaiu' Clayton. The Georgian's exposure of the miles of sewets laid without assessment be ing levied against property owners has created a sensation in city hall circles. Many explanations are given as to how 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 pom- 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 hud been laid at least fifteen years. Many blocks are crumbling, there are holes and ridges 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 way. Citizens of West End point to about two 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 j tracks there and also repairs are now being made in the street. There is al most Impassable congestion. The peo i pie are exasperated. They declare that If only the small section of Peters street w. re in passible condition there would be little inconvenience to the : thousands ..f residents of the south- • ' -I -.. tlen of the city. i A list of sewers which fail to drain THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND XEWg. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1312. 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 servers and make them tvhat they were intended to be. Here is the list: Tlie Loyd-Ormond streets sewer; Gordon and Lee streets sewer; Oa,k and Ashby streets sewer; Peeples and Culberson streets sewer: Lawton street sewer; Holderness 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 Pea’htree 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 inches, 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 caits. 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 VI 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." POLITICS WARMING UP IN TEXAS; ONE IS DEAD, TWO WOUNDED SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. July 20. One man was killed and two others wounded In a political discussion here early today. The victims were Depu'y Sheriff Ora Baird, shot to death: Dep uty Constable Feliciano Flores, Sr., and Manuel Ochoa, of Monterey. Mexico, the latter two being wounded. Baird and Flores were shooting at each other when Ochoa, who was standing near by, was struck. Flores was arrested. FORMER AUSTELL WOMAN SLAYS SELF IN VIRGINIA ROANOKE, VA., July ’2o.—Domestic troubles arc said to have caused Mrs. A. J Chapman, mother of «even soni, to blow out her brains with a pistol at her home near here. Mrs. Chapman was Miss Anna Eason, of near Madison, Ga The family moved to Virginia five years ago from Austell. Ga. Chapman is a brother of Colonel William H. Chapman, of Rich mond, internal revenue agent, who was Mosby's chief lieutenant of Guerrillas. A. J. Chapman. Jr., the woman's son, is now attending a business college in Atlanta and is living with his aunt. Miss Kate Chapman, 62 Fraser street Atlanta. Mrs. Chapman had just re ceived a letter from her husband when she shot herself. He was in a neigh boring county on business at the time. DEATH THREATS IN AUTO SLAW District Attorney Told That He Will Be Killed “Just Like Rosenthal.” NEW YORK, July 20. —The Federal government may be drawn Into the in vestigation of the assassination of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who was shot to death in front of the Hotel Metropole Tuesday morning, as the suit of the death threats sent to District Attorney Charles S. Whitman and As semblyman Aaron J. Levy, counsel for two of the prisoners. Six letters, con taining threats of death, have been re ceived by Mr. Whitman through the mails. Most of them were addressed to the Whitman home at No. 37 Madison avenue, although some of them were sent to the district attorney’s office. While some of the communications were signed, the names attached to them are believd to be fictitious. The balance were unsigned. They warned the official that he must relax his zeal in the Rosenthal case or suffer the pen alty. "Same Fate as Rosenthal” Promised. Mr. Whitman was not alarmed by the threats, but he departed from his usual habits of throwing such letters away. .The present letters were saved and may be used at a future date. Three of the letters promise the district attorney that "he will meet the same fate as Rosenthal,” if he persists in his energetic course of action. The death threats sent to Mr. Levy, who is counsel for Louis Libby and William Shapiro, owners of the auto mobile which the Rosenthal assassins* used, evidently resulted from dis closures of the two men relative to the persons in the motor car on the night of the murder. In addition to the menacing letters to Mr. Levy, there was one of warning. "I am a friend,” said the writer of |ihis communication, “and I warn you that you would better go armed.” Libby and Shapiro Make Complete Confession. A complete confession has been made by one of the men suspected of assas sinating Herman Rosenthal, tile wealthy gambler. Attaches of the dis-, trict attorney's office predicted today that within 24 hours the men who rode in the murder automobile and the men who did the actual killing would be arrested. This prediction was con firmed by Assemblyman Aaron J. Levy, attorney for William Shapiro and Louis Libby, owners of the machine in 'Which the assassins escaped. What Makes a Woman? One hundred and tw’enty pounds, more or less, of bone 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 sands bless them for overcoming faint ing and dizzy spells and for dispelling i weakness, nervousness, backache and ■ tired, listless, worn out feeling. “Elec- ! trie Bitters have done tne a world of | good.” writes Eliza Pool, Depew, Okla., “and I thank you, with all my heart, for making such a good medicine.” Only 50c. Guaranteed by all druggists. “• Dysentery is 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. “• i 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 summer's sun. 42 N. Broad St. ••• -1 "tw- - t'. - • RACING ENTRIES AT MONTREAL. FIRST—Six furlongs: Hoss 106, St. Avage 111, Thesieres 114, W. T. Buck ner ill. Pass On j. 14, Casanova 99, Mike Rice 102, Gibbons 111. SECOND—Selling, 5 1-2 furlongs: Tyne 113, St. Agathe 111, Booby 111, Incision 111, Manheimer 111, Watch Me 111, Double F. 111, Helen Gow 109. Planutess 109, Myrtle Marlon 109, Af rican 109, Jim O. 106. THIRD —Selling, 6 furlongs:. Galley Slave 121. Gift 103, Stickpin 114, Jes supburn 114, ‘Silas Grump 701, ‘Otilo 114. FOURTH—Selling, 6 1-2 furlongs: Evelyn Dorris 112, Rinda 112, Western Belle 112, Kauffmann 114, Chess 107, Sir Edward 118, Von Lear 118, Wilfred Gerdes 117, Sea Kitty 112. FlFTH—Selling. 5 furlongs: Smirk 114, Haymarket 109, Johnny Wise 111, 6Sabo Blend 116, Jim Milton 111, Pawn 101, ‘Bodkin 116, Ben Sand 116, Veno Von 114, La Sa ,1a 116, Susan 114, Calypte 114. SIXTH —Mile and a sixteenth, sell ing: Dolly Bultman 95. ‘Rose O’Neill 99, ‘Edna Collins 99, Haldeman 114, R. M. Sabath 104, Bertis 109/Dr. Young 102, ’Howard Shean 110. ‘Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather fine; track fast. PAINTERS FALL 50 FEET. NEW YORK, July 20.- —Two painters were killed today when a swinging scaffold on a new factory building in Brooklyn plunged 50 feet to the earth. SUCCESS AND THE REASON WHY p VER since I began the practice of B 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 dr. wm. m. baird. of serv j ce w jH be welcome to caH Brown• Randolph Building r « • 56 Atlanta* oV." 1 ' ‘° r COn SUltatlOn. AT SALT LAKE CITY. FlßST—Maiden 2 year olds. 4 1-2 furlongs: Sierra 106. Kamtchatke 106, Conneaught 103, Nifty 103, Pretty Dale 103, Flackney 103. Kailua 103. SECOND —Selling, 5 furlongs, 3 year olds and up: Hawley 112, Ray Egan 109, Burning Bush 109. Ramsey 109, Descendant 109. Tube Rose 107( Mona Lisa 107, Dr. Neufers 101, Idun 99, --u --togirl 99, Evelina 99. ‘Virmur 94. THIRD —Selling, 5 furlongs. 3 year olds and up: Sixteen 109. Cool 109, On Parole 109, Tillinghast 109, Pajoro ita 109, Salvage 109. Fore 107, Deerfoot 107, Pickaninny 1.7, Joe Knight 101, Chas. Goetz 101, Orimar Lad 101. FOURTH —Six furlongs, handicap, 3 year olds and up: CaughhiH 118, Koot enay 107, Seth 98, Lady Panchita 95, Dr. Dougherty 95. FIFTH—MiIe, selling, 3 year olds and up: Jack Laxon 114, Montgomery 112, Ben Uncas 110, The Monk 109, Gene Russell 109, Cabin 109, Aftermath 109, Dorothy Ann 107, Jack Stryker 107, Fair Louise 107, Albert Jones ioo, Error 100. SlXTH—Futurity course, selling, 3 year olds and up: J. F. Crowley 114, Shooting Spray 114, Sidney Peters 114, Oxer 114, Frank G. Hogan 111, Gold Finn 109, Great Friar 106, ’Thistle Belle 104, Nello- 101. ♦Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather clear; track fast. A WHOLESOME SUMMER DRINK Horsford’s Acid Phosphate Better than lemons or limes —more healthful and satisfying. Refreshes and Invigorates. ... STATE TRACES FATAL OIL EXPLOSIONS TO IMPERFECT KEROSENE The sale of kerosene oil tn which gas oline had been mixed is believed by of ficials of the state department of agri culture to have been responsible for at least two or three of trie fdur deaths and several serious accidents causer by the explosion of kerosene in Atlanta within the past week. An oil inspector who investigated several of the acci dents traced them by the purchase of oil from retailers to one wholesale company. An investigation was made by In spector VV. T. Tilley, and he found th.it oil received by this company in a large consignment contained n certain pei centage of gasoline. Commission' 1 ? Connors condemned about 15,000 me lons of the oil as imperfect. It will be shipped back to the plant from whence it came. Explosions Set State to Looking. While the use of kerosene for kind ling fires is always attended by dangii'. kerosene passing the state test shmii'l not explode when reached by fire, but merely burst into flame. It was th? fact that it exploded which led to tin investigation. PRIVATE FULTON WINS SHOOT. BISLEY, ENGLAND. July 2" Pri vate Fulton, of the Queen’s Westmin ster regiment. >von the king’s priz? at the shoot of the National Rifle as- 'i ia tion here today, with 335 points.