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VOL. X- XO. 256.
WEDS IBE
PUB FOR
WORKON
STREETS
City Bearing Expense of Less
Than Half of Improvements
Mow Under Way.
MAIN thoroughfares
a ? 0 NEED REPAIRING
Business Men Complain of Con
dition of Whitehall, Peach
tree and Other Streets.
While it is true that a tour of At
lanta with officials of the city con
struction department revealed the fact
that 943 men were at work on improve
ments, it did not show that the city was
meeting the demands of traffic hy put
ting its streets into condition where
tvork is most needed.
More than half the work now under
n- 8 y is being paid for by property own
ers, much of it done by private con
tract, and Is not “city work” in its
■eal meaning at all.
The reporters who made the tour
rfth the < i’> officials found many gangs
>f men at work laying private sewer
mrme tinns, putting down sidewalks
md doing other work which must be
laid for by property owners. And to
'each the s enes of activity the auto
>artv hurt to bump over holes in the
isphalt of main thoroughfares, drive in
'oundabout ways to avoid neglected
it.ww and crowd between slowly mov
hg vehicles and trolley cars because
nr rw way was passable for automo
iiles.
I .1 IV -st. one of the city's leading
v . r flea''-' -. complained bitterly to
[ Georgian today that the city was
rrrroting its main streets to get
. ■ rible condition.
doesn’t Require
Expenditures.
- it Hwpiire big gangs of men
- r \ . ndltures to remedy this
said Mr. West. "Whitehall street,
’ ■-in fact, every street where
’r- travel Is In avlest—is full of holes
r a wheels fall with a bump
i h iris rhe axles to the breaking
• Ji I. s'.most impossible to make
■ i ■ r m >me quarters.
T most needed is the repair
‘ e. ’ ineipal streets. A little
r ’ rock mb small gangs of work
ed do onders in just one -week
■ acre put on the job. I’d like
Tri, ou over about twenty of the
tree s • I h business firms must use
• -id show you just what, the
nnUitions® uro.
1 c m r. M, Clayton, chief of con
. ■ .1 ly continued a detailed
‘ln- *' street and sewer work
r - ’ -no in the city. At his request
' reporters accompanied
1 list of all street work in
' r< ( ntly published in The
■ the beginning of its cam
filer streets. A good part
i, was gone over, as well as a
pthe contract sewer work.
> evidence of more effort and
"nr lishments among the city
u' ! .. The Georgian’s campaign.
’ l l' authority granted by coun
' of The Georgian’s cam-
free laborers will be ent
liately for street construe
’ n.-aiiy three-fourths of the
on f or stre e t s this year still
barter Changes
’laved in Assembly.
re council’s street reform
v 1 mges are sure to be passed
■ siatc legislature, other charter
which there is objection
a postponement of consid
the street matters by the
on municipalities until
di'-rnoon at 5 o’clock.
• ' nitte,- considered charter
for Atlanta for about
The propositions debated
» i 1 xation of Ormewood and
to license and regulate
'f the residents *of Orme
opposed to being annexed,
'tivo Hooper Alexander
' ' opposed to revenue being
i ‘in locker clubs “or any
sale of whisky.”
, i; "' r changes affecting the
i "'t improvement system,
the council as a result of
: m's campaign for better
not reached before the
inurnment. Rut there is no
""’he reforms and the local
’ in the house, Messrs
, !1 r ’"n and Westmoreland,
" Winn and the other
a '-’ the bill certainty
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN IF ANT ADS—Use For Results
Girl Brides of Rome
Beset With Troubles
Husband and Father
At War Over Quilts.
ROME, GA., July 23.—Discussion
over the ownership of a few quilts has
brought bad blood between J. S. Cadle
and his son-in-law, Crawford C. Colley.
.Colley says he fears Cadle and has
sworn out a peace warrant so- him.
Colley married Cadle’s sixteen-year
old daughter last June. All.went well
w-ith the newly weds until the irate
father of the girl learned that the
young bride had moved some quilts
from his home. He took out a posses
sory warrant for the spreads and so
angered Mr. and Mrs. Colley that they
proceeded to tell all knew about Cadle.
Cadle claims he wants the quilts back
because his wife, before she died, made
them and worked on them in the wee
small hours. Mrs. Colley suspected
that her father would do bodily harm
to her husband and spiked a winchester
gun her father had in the house. Cadle
made a bond.
“Maw Tuk Her Away;’ 1
He Wants Wife Back.
ROME, GA., July 23.—1 n two hours
after he married, Will Carroll reported to
the police that he had lost his wife and
that he wanted a warrant to get her back.
Carroll and Miss Virginia Williamson
were married by Justice of the Peace
Broach. A short time later Call Officer
Huffman, at the police station, received
a call from the husband of two hours
with the request that he "issue a warrant
for my wife.”
“■Why boy, aren't you the youngster
who got married just a while ago?”
“Yes, sir, and maw has tuk her away
from me and I want her back. No war
rant was taken out and the young hus
band is still longing for his youthful
bride.
Says Man Stole Her;
Girl Gets a Divorce.
ROME, GA., July 23.—“ He .stole me
away from my home and married me
against my wishes,” declared pretty Mrs.
Ethel Turman, aged 16, on the stand in
her suit for divorce from Will Turman.
She was granted a 'separation. In addi
tion 21 divorces were granted in the su
perior court in three hours.
Mrs. Turman alleged that Turman was
cruel and Indifferent in his conduct and
repeatedly threatened to knock Her down.
Turman did not appear, in court to fight
the proceedings.
YOUTH ACCUSED OF
GIVING MAN AND CAT
MUSTARD OIL BATH
When Mrs. W. R. Ramsay, 85 Foun
dry street, was awakened last night by
the "meows” of her pet cat, she made
an investigation and found that it had
been given a fiery bath in oil of mus
tard.
About the same time E. Merlin, a
merchant in the neighborhood, was
walking along Foundry street and sud
denly experienced a burning sensation
on his back. He investigated and found
that the back of his coat had been
drenched with oil of mustard. He didn't
make as much noise about, it as did the
frantic eat, but he says he's satisfied
he suffered just about as much.
Albert Sw.ords, a young man living In
the same house with the Ramsay fami
ly, was placed under arrest, accused of
throwing, the liquid. He denied the
charge to Recorder Broyles, but the ev
idence was such that he was held for
the state courts on the charge of as
sault and battery.
WOULD DROP HOUSE
AMENDMENT TO BILL
FOR CHILD WORKERS
Efforts will be made in the state sen
ate to approve the Alexander child la
bor bill in its original form. The house
amendment, exempting mercantile es
tablishments from the provisions of the
measure, will be killed if the bill s ad
vocates have their way.
The. measure vyill go to the senate
with a favorable report for the labor
committee, and will encounter little op
position on the floor of the upper house.
It is practically agreed that the bill
will be approved—the adoption or re
jection of the house amendment being
the only debatable issue.
JOHN MITCHELL GETS
NINE MONTHS IN JAIL
WASHINGTON. July 23.—1 n district
court No. 2 today Judge Wright sen
tenced John Mitchell, vice president of
the American Federation of Labor, to
nine months in the district jail for con
tempt* of court.
Mitchell, with Samuel Gompers and
Frank Morrison, president and secre
i tary, respectively, of the federation, was
found guilty of contempt in violating
an injunction against the boycotting
of the Bucks Stove and Range Com
pany. He was not present to receive
sentence.
Attorney Siddons noted an appeal to
the district court of appeals and en
tered bond in $6,000 for Mitchell. Gom
pers and Morrison have appealed and
are under bond in similar amount.
PREACHER AND OFFICIAL
ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING
MACON, GA., July 23. —Rev J W.
Reynolds, pastor of< the Christian
church, and R. S. Thorpe, a member of
count'd!. must appear before, the record
er this afternoon on the'charge of rac
ing their autos through the streets.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JLTLY 23. 1912.
GRICE MUST
BEIT ML
SUMMONED
BYSTATE
Court Rules Wounded Husband
Can Not Testify Against Ac
cused Wife, However.
ATLANTANS PROMINENT
SOCIALLY SUBPOENAED
Many Relatives of the Princi
pals in the Case Called by
the Prosecution.
Eugene H. Grace today was sum
moned to appear against Mrs. Daisey
Opie Grace when her trial is called in
superior court next. Monday morning.
The subpoena, issued by Attorney-Gen
eral Hugh M. Dorsey, was given to a
deputy sheriff to be served. Grace still
is confined to his home at Newnan,
where he will be served with the paper
tomorrow.
The official summons ends specula
tion as to whether Grace would be pres
ent at the trial of his wife, accused
of shooting him at their home on
Twelfth street, last March. Several
weeks ago Grace announced that he
positively would come to Atlanta for
the trial, if he had to be brought on a
cot. This was followed by a statement
from relatives that it might be impos
sible on account of his weakened con
dition. Now it seems assured that he
will be in court. Grace will not be al
lowed to testify. That has been settled
definitely. Lawyers for the defense and
the state have carefully studied the
criminal code of Georgia, and even car
ried the matter to Judge L. S. Roan,
who is to preside at the hearing. He
announced most positively that though
Grace may be in the court room he will
not be allowed to open his mouth to the
jury or offer any evidence whatever.
The reason for his being summoned
is not clear, except, that he figures, with
the state, as a prosecutor.
Grace is but one of a number of
persons, some of them prominent so
cially, summoned by the state. Many
relatives have been ordered to come,
others are neighbors. Servants, the
policemen and detectives who answered
the call for aid made by Grace when
he crawled from bed and caught up the
telephone, are included. The list fol
lows; Mrs. S. L. Hill. Grace’s mother;
Hamilton Hill, Lewis Hill, Preston Hill,
step-brothers; Morris Prioleau, a cous
in; Luther Williford, another relative;
Jim Dorset and R. A, Wood, policemen;
Colquitt Carter, J. W. Goldsmith and
John S. Owens, who live near where
Grace was shot; Dr. Willis Jones and
Dr. W. S. Goldsmith, Grace’s physi
cians; Chief of Detectives N. A. Lan
ford. Detectives Bullard and Doyal, O.
Van Wyck, E. E. Lawrence, Grace’s
business partner; Effie Jackson and J.
C. Ruffin and his wife, the latter ser-'
vants of the Grace family when the
shooting occurred.
'Phe witnesses for the defense have
not been announced. A. number of per
sons prominent in Atlanta and Phila
delphia are known to be ready to
testify.
Mrs. Grace Worries
Over Loss of Dog
Mrs. Daisy Grace, summoned to
court next 'Monday to face a charge
of attempt to kill, is more worried over
the loss of her pet dog. Nig, than the
ordeal before her. she said today. Nig
has been missing for several days and
she can not find him.
Nig. a big black Newfoundland, was
adopted by Attorney James A. Branch
when Mrs: Grace "as arrested and her
husbank taken to the hospital, but
when Mrs. Grace gave bond and made
a home with Mrs. Louise Wilson in
West End. Nig once mote became the
companion of the accused woman and
proved that a. dog is just as faithful in
adversity as in prosperity. But ho
I strayed away a I'"" days ago. anil
I though former neighbors of the Graces
1 saw him in the yard of the West Ehv-
I enth street home where the shooting
occurred, he disappeared from the
I street and has not been seen since.
READING OF A SUICIDE,
SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH
RIVERDALE, GA.. July 23.—Thomas
Simpson, 20 years old. killed himself
today by sending a bullet through the
roof of his mouth and out the top of
his head. The suicide occurred in his
i home, a mile from the village. In
Simpson's hand was found an Atlanta
l newspaper which told of a suicide. It
is believed that this gave him the
thought of ending his life. He had been
•m ill health and was very despondent.
Simpson was a sun of W. Simpson,
a farmer, and was unmarried.
Girl, 11, Swims Mile in Lakein474Nlinutes
JENNIE. PERKERSON WINNER
I.ittle Jennie Perkerson, eleven
.\ years old. received an ovation " hen
f- she appeared at the Piedmont lake '
' today. She was acclaimed, with- I 'VLUMM
out doubt, the champion among " l *' l Kk
women swimmers at the park. In
.-gr Sffii her one-mile race with Virginia
IT' J BMgWal
/s * a
5 i'pz" Z -lennm Perkerson. ori the loft. W»:.
‘ hands with Viroinia Mer 1
• '' Pr n,tpr ’heir race in the lake. fL "
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STATE EDUCATION
BOARD FIGHT ON
.., ——
Hoke Smith Adherents in Sen
ate Oppose Confirmation of
Governor’s Appointees.
1 1
I
1 Governor Brown’s appointments to
the state board of education, sent to
the senate for confirmation today, prob.
. ably will cause a stiff political battle. ,
The name of Dr. Jere M. Pound, pres. (
ident of the Athens Normal school, as (
predicted exclusively in The Georgian, 1
was not sent to the senate by the chief 1
executive. G. R. Glenn, president of 1
the North Georgia Agricultural college '
at Dahlonega, it is understood, has been
' named by Governor Brown in his stead, j
The other members of the present <
board, two named by Hoke Shnlth—T.
F. Woof ter. of Athens, and J. C. Lang-
; ston, of Sylvania—were renominated,
and Walter Steed, an appointee of Gov- (
ernor Brown, was renamed.
Fight by Smith Men Seen. ]
| Deferring consideration of the nom- ,
inations lends color to the rumors cur- 1
rent that a fight is to be made by Hoke
Smith adherents in the senate to keep 1
the former governor's appointees in ’
their places.
' This is to be made on the legal point ]
that the Smith appointments were real j
vacancies, and not ad interim appoint- '
. ments under the meaning of \he word ■
vacancy as defined by the state su
preme court in deciding the West- ,
Shackleford controversy over the city
• judgeship in Athens.
It will be held that Governor Brown
I is required by law to furnish the sen- 1
ate wish a transcript of the minutes of
the executive office, so that the Smith
II appointments may be affirmed or dis-
■ approved. This will be met with seri
ous opposition from the Brow n forces. 1
Other Appointments In.
This law on the subject, is found in
• the first section of the educational ;
statutes:
Should a vacancy occur at any
time on the board it shall be filled
by the governor, provided that the
nomination of the governor for
membership of the board shall be 1
subject to confirmation by the sen
ate. and provided, further, that an
: appointment made when the senate '
is not in session shall be effective
1 until the legislature convenes and
1 acts on the appointment.
Several other appointments in which
then are no contests went to the sen-
1 ate. but members of the upper house
and the governor declined to make the
nominations public.
Merker, also eleven years old, 29
Langhorn street, West End, Jennie
won in 47 1-4 minutes—just one
quarter of a minute slower than the
record made by J. H. Littlefield
when he won the men’s one-mile
race on July 4. Virginia was only
1 a little bit behind. She made the
distance in 51 1-2 minutes.
“These two little girls are the
greatest swimmers for their age I
ever have seen," says Baptain Ben
H. Schlomberg, of the United
States Volunteer Life-Saving corps.
Captain Schlomberg has been a
life-saver for more than ten years
and has seen the best that the
East produces.
Interest in the race for the
woman’s championship was shown
by the thousands of people who
lined the banks and cheered their
• favorite. The little girls swam up
and down the lake followed by
several boats. At the end of their
long swim both appeared as fresh
as if they had gone a few hun
dred yards. They shook hands as
they came out of the water, while
their friends cheered. Then all of
a sudden tears welled up in Vir
ginia's blue eyes and she rushed
to her mother and buried her head
in that friendly lap.
PARK ROWDIES TO BE
TAMED; YOUTH FINED
SIOO FOR DISTURBANCE
“Rowdyilm in the parks must cease,”
is the mandate issued today by Record
er Broyles, Chairman Carlos Mason of
the police commission. Police Chief
Beavers and President Cochran of the
park commission, following the trial in
police court of J. H. Leathers, the rail
road clerk, who created a scene at
Piedmont yesterday morning.
Judge Broyles made an example of
Leathers by fining him $100.75 or 30
days. The fine was paid.
Policeman J. H. Davis, who arrested
Leathers and who was forced to club
him, was commended by the officials as
having done nothing more than his
duty. Police Commissioner Smith, who
witnessed the disturbance, testified as
to the unruly conduct of Leathers and
complimented the officer on his cool
ness.
President Cochran made a statement
to the court, urging that disorder in the
parks be stamped out and suggesting
stockade sentences for all offenders.
NEGRO WASHERWOMAN
PAWNS $400.00 STOLEN
DIAMONDS FOR $4.25
“I don't no nothin bout diamonds,”
said Nora Akers, a negro washerwoman
today, when asked by Detectives
Starnes and Campbell why she had
pawned S4OO worth of diamond rings
for $4.25, Two rings, valued at $l5O
each, were pawned by the woman for
SI.SO each, and the third ring, worth
SIOO, was put in for $1.25.
The negress confessed that she stole
the diamonds from Mrs. J. Wyatt in
East End. The woman Ilves in the rear
of the Wyatt home. The stolen rings
have been recovered.
ALABAMA BUSINESS
MAN,NEAR ARREST AS
FORGER,FOUND DEAD
Death foiled Atlanta detectives just
as they were about to lay hands on a
man wanted for a bank swindle in
Alabama, according to information re
ceived today by the local Pinkerton
office. E. A Key, a business man of
New Decatur, Ala., with a Pinkerton
man hot on his trail, was found dead
in the woods a short distance from his
home. He is believed to have commit
ted suicide, an empty phial being found
by his body.
Key was accused of having swindled
banks in New Decatur and Hartselle,
i Ala., through forged checks.
HOUSE KILLS HILL
TO EXTEND WA.
Alexander and Anderson in Ver
bal Clash as They Explain
Their Votes.
The house of representatives today
defeated, by a vote of 98 to 55, the bill
to provide by constitutional amendment
the extension of the Western and At
lantic railroad from Atlanta to the sea.
This bill has been under considera
tion by the house since Friday last and
has been debated more at length and
more generally than any other bill up
this session, not even excepting the
Tippins hill.
Mr. Alexander, of DeKalb, led the
fight for extension, and Mr. Hall, of
Bibb, the fight against. The bill did
not seek to extend. It merely author
ized future extensions, in the wisdom
of future legislatures.
In explaining his vote against the
bill, Mr. Anderson, of Chatham, cre
ated; something of a mild sensation by
stating that Mr. Alexander, in discuss
ing the bill, had Indulged in a "tirade
of abuse” and made statement he must
have know to be “deliberately untrue.”
Mr. Alexander, In explaining his vote
later, said he would not “undlgnify”
himself by replying to "the improper
remarks of the gentleman from Chat
ham,” and that*the house could judge
of their relative truthfulness.
“I am responsible for all I say, any
where.” shouted Mr. Anderson.
Mr. Alexander merely smiled, and the
incident passed,
SENATE BILL BARS
PAY TUBERCULOSIS
PATIENTS AT ALTO
That the state tuberculosis sanita
rium at Alto is In grave danger of be
coming commerctalized through the
tendency to accept pay patients, was
the intimation made in the senate to
day by Senator J. C. Beauchamp, of the
Twenty-second district.
Dr. Beauchamp introduced a bill to
amend the act establishing the hospital,
limiting the institution to receiving in
. digent patients.
Senator Beauchamp's argument was
that "ith state appropriations the Alto
; hospital was, by- receiving pay pa
tients, competing "ith private hospi
tals in Georgia, and excluding to a eer
i tain extent indigent patients—th" very
, sufferers for whom the hospital was
established.
HOML
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE & A o v Re NO
HEMPHILL TO
FIGHT; HE
WILL NOT
RESIGN
“Charley” Recalled to Atlanta*
to “Talk Things Over”
With the Boss.
ALPERMAN IS IN CHARGE ?
OF TEAM TEMPORARILY*
“Hemp” Had Been Warned to
Make Team Play Ball or
Give Up Reins. /
r
Charley Hemphill, who Is to be
posed as manager of the Atlantatbase*
ball team, sent>a telegram to
Ing editor of The Georgian this-afterJ
noon declaring that he is coming bacK
to Atlanta to put up a battle before,ha
is officially ousted. Following is/the.
wire:
“I will not resign and will notfquit
until ordered to; will try my hardest to
prove that I am right.”
Hemphill verily believes thatthe has
done nothing which should cost him
his position. And as he Is some “scrap
per” on the hall field, he is likely to .put
up a hot fight before he allows the
board of directors of the Atlanta Base
ball association to "tie the can toihim,”
which Is the baseball term for/being
discharged.
Last night Hemphill was ondered to
turn over his club to Whitey Alperman
and to return at once from Montgom
ery. Jfe did so, and will arrive here
tomorrow morning. The directors of
the club will call him into session at
once. It is then that they will officially
announce his disposal.
That Alperman will be made perma
nent manager is not so certain. It is
felt that the Cracker club needs a firm
hand to guide it. Whether Alperman
can hold the trury great team In line
and make it play hall is the question
that the Atlanta Baseball association
must decide in a few days. In the
meantime, ’Whitey” will nave absolute,
ly free rein with the club, and perhaps
can demonstrate his fitness to make the
Crackers play ball.
Couldn’t Keep ' ! \
Players in Line.
The “recall" of Charley Hemphill has
come because the former big league
star could not keep his players In line.
An unquestioned marvel at playing
ball, a great tactician, a man who un
derstands the game as few living men
do, he still was unable to make his club
play ball. And that finished him.
At the end of the last road trip Man
ager Hemphill had a session with the
directors, at which ttme the law was
laid down. They told him that he
would have to keep himself and the
Club In line or drop out for somebody
who could.
His efforts on this trip were as dis
astrous as on the previous one. In
Montgomery the situation became in
tolerable. The team ran entirely wild
and something had to be done. This
something was the wire to Hemphill to
report in Atlanta at once.
It is a certainty that Hemphill will
not be retained with the club as a play,
er. Grand performer though he is, he
has not exerted an influence that was
for the best, and he will unquestionably
be disposed of.
Services Will Be
Wanted Elsewhere.
Getting rid of the local manager will
be an easy matter. His wonderful bat
ting this year and his known ability
will make the demand for him strong,
and he can unquestionably be placed in
the American association or the East
ern league. In this case it will not be
necessary to waive him out of the
league—a thing that could hardly be
done —but he can be sold direct without
offering him to any Southern league
club. A player of Hemphill’s ability
should be worth $2,000 on any baseball
market.
It,’of course, will be necessary to se
cure an outfielder in Hemphill’s place.
"Chug” Coombs, who was secured from
Spartanburg, has just been turned back
to that club and is not available. How
ever. there probably will be no trouble
in picking up a fair outfielder from the
big leagues somewhere.
MONTGOMERY, ALA.. July 23.
"Kid" Howard, who was with Atlanta
early this spring, will rejoin the Crack,
ers when they return home. Howard
is now at his home in Washington.