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VOL. X. NO. 256.
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STREETS
City Bearing Expense of Less
Than Half of Improvements
Mow Under Way.
MAIN THOROUGHFARES
ALSO 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 Offlriadls 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 by put
ting its streets’ into condition where
work is most needed.
More than half the work now under
way is being paid for by property own
ers. much of it done by private con
tract, and is not "city 'work” in its
real meaning at all.
The reporters who made the tour
with the city officials found many gangs
of n n at work laying private stewer
connections, putting down sidewalks
and doing other work which must be
paid for by property owners. And to
reach the scenes of activity the auto
party had to bump over holes in the
asphalt of main thoroughfares, drive in
roundabout ways to avoid neglected
streets and crowd between slowly mov
ing vehicles and trolley cars because
bat one way was passable for automo
biles.
J. J. West, one of the city'St leading
lumber dealers, complained bitterly to
The Georgian today that the city was
permitting its main streets to get into
a terrible condition.
Doestn’t Enquire
Big Expenditures.
■ it doesn't require big gangs of men
and large expenditures to remedy this
evil." said Mr. West. "Whitehall street,
Peachtree -in fact, every street where
the travel is heaviest —is full of holes
into which wheels fall with a bump
which strains the axles to the breaking
point. Tt Is almost impossible to make
deliveries in some quarters.
The work most needed is the repair
of these* principal streets. A little
crushed rock and small gangs of work
men could do wonders in just one week
If they were put on the job. 'ld like
to drive you over about twenty of the
streets which business firms must use
evert- day and show you just what the
conditions are.
T'api.iln R M. Clayton, chief of con
st'ig’tion. today continued a detailed
inspection **f all street and sewer work
being done in the city. At his request
the city hall reporters accompanied
him.
A detailed list of all street work in
pr was recently published In The
Goo "j,in a; the beginning of its cam
paign f. better streets. A good part
of tlii- v ,rk was gone over, as well as a
E ■ f the contract sewer work.
- evidence of more effort and
b'-’t- 1 omplishments among the city
...... n -ppjp Georgian's campaign.
I nder - authority granted by coun
h as h result of The Georgian's cam
paign, i ~)*.. f re " p laborers will be em-
' I immediately for street construc
■”U. ' - nearly three-fourths of the
"i'propriation for streets this year still
ls unspent.
Charter Changes
Delayed in Assembly.
"g the council's street reform
‘ ' Ganges are sure to be passed
ite legislature, other charter
bang. io which there is objection
■! a postponement of consid
"f the street matters by the
on municipalities until
afternoon at 5 o'clock.
"e.mittee considered charter
•■nts for Atlanta for about
The propositions debated
annexation of Ormewood and
right to license and regulate
‘Ocker | u t, s
’d" r of the residents of Orme
« r,n '
' opposed to being annexed.
' ntative Hooper Alexander
was opposed to revenue being
f r "m locker clubs "or any
• gal sale of whisky.”
•rter changes affecting the
1 "t improvement system,
by the council as a result of
' "Rian's campaign for better
W' to not reached before the
* to'trnment. Hut there is nu
!i to tho reforms and the local
1 t'< s in the house, Messrs
l r . Brown and Westmoreland.
Muyor Winn and the other
'* s 'hat the bm certainly
■A' Passed.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN VrANT ADS—Use For Results
Old Cruiser ‘Atlanta’
On Way to Scrap Heap;
Its Fighting Days Over
Dutch Shipping Concern Buys
Dismantled Naval Craft That
Helped Dewey Make History.
CHARLESTON, S. C., July 23.—The
old United States steamship Atlanta,
recently bought by a Dutch shipping
concern with an unpronouncable name,
is now on her way to Holland in toyy of
the freak tug Rooderzee, after 26 years
of service in the navy. The bargelike
tug has towed the old cruiser of Span
ish war fame out of the harbor from
the navy yard where the Atlanta has
been doing duty as astation ship in
place of the former Texas.
The Atlanta will be broken up into
scrap iron when she reaches Hendrik-
Ido- Ambracht. A price of $21,000 was
paid for the dismantled vessel.
The Atlanta participated in the battle
of Manila bay fourteen yeares ago as
one of Dewey's fleet of fighting craft.
LITTLE JENNIE STILL
CHAMPION SWIMMER;
SHE BEATS VIRGINIA
Little Jennie Perkerson, eleven (years
old, received an ovation when she ap
peared at the Piedmont lake today. She
was acclaimed without doubt the
champion among women swimmers at
the park. In her one-mile race with
Virginia Merker, also eleven years old.
29 Langhorn street, West End. Jennie
won in 47 1-4 minutes—just one-quar
ter of a minute slower than the record
made by J. H. Littlefield when he won
the men's one-mile race on July 4. Vi: -
ginia was only a little bit behind. She
made the distance in 51 1-2 minutes.
"These two little girls are the great
est swimmers for their age I ever have
seen,” says Captain Ben H. Schlom
berg. of the United States Volunteer
Life Saving corps. Captain Schlom
berg 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 thou
sands of people who lined the banks
and cheered their favorite. The little
girls swam up and down the lake fol
lowed by several boats. At the end of
their long swim both appeared as fresh
as if they had gone a few hundred
yards. They shook hands as they came
out of the water, while their friends
cheered. Then all of a sudden tears
welled up in Virginia's blue eyes and
she rushed to her mother and buried
her head in that friendly lap.
A number of races are planned for
next Saturday. Captain Schlomberg
has challenged the field for a 100-yard
race, Arthur Redding wants to race
two miles, and "Tat” Walthour, brother
of Atlanta's old-time favorite, "Bobby"
Walthour, the cyclist, wants to find a
competitor in a mile swim.
PEACE IN ATLANTA’S
BULL MOOSE CAMP;
DELEGATES NAMED
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed its
wrinkled front—almost, anyway—in the
ranks of the Georgia "bull moose" party.
Atlanta bull moosers of various persua
sions—s7 of them—met. at the Aragon
hotel last night, and resolved; first, to quit
rowing among themselves; second, to go
after the common enemy.
To that end a number of gentlemen
present made ringing speeches eulogizing
Theodore Roosevelt, and predicting that
he surely will be elected president in No
vember.
Bernard Sattler called last nights
meeting to order and V. C. Terry was
elected chairman, and A. M. Crosby
secretary. The gathering elected six
delegates to the forthcoming state con
vention of bull moosers in Atlanta, as
follows: C. W. McClure, Robert L.
Rodgers, Victor C. Terry, Samuel J. Jones,
.1. F. Race and Horace Grant.
The meeting resolved many more or
less important things with respect to po
litical conditions, national and state, and
resolved particularly never to fraternize
with the negro.
Samuel J. Jones and A. M. Crosby were
elected from the Fifth district to the na
tional bull moose convention in Chicago
next month.
LIFE OF SULTAN OF
TURKEY THREATENED;
REVOLT IS BREWING
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.—Be
cause of threats against his life, tho
personal body guard of Mehmed V, sul
tan of Turkey, was doubled today.
The situation here is becoming criti
cal as a result of a break In the situa
tion between the sultan and the Young
Turks. The army is threatening .a
revolt.
BOY TRIES TO RIDE COLT;
ITS MOTHER OBJECTS
UTICA, N. Y., July 28. Blinn H. Car
penter. aged 14, is in a critical condition
at his home. Chenango Lake, today as the
result of being kicked in the face by an
enraged horse. The lad attempted to ride
a colt when the mother of the animal
rushed upon and attacked him.
JOHN MITCHELL GETS
NINE MONTHS IN JAIL
WASHINGTON. July 23. —In 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 ,
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1912.
POLICE HUNT
IN VAIN FOR
MISSING
GIRL
Dorcas Snodgrass Disappears
in New York Like Long-Lost
Dorothy Arnold.
SEARCH OF HOSPITALS
AND MORGUES FRUITLESS
Last Seen Boarding Train at
Station—Engaged To Be
Married Shortly.
NEW YORK. July 23.—A fruitless
search of the morgues and hospitals in
three cities for Miss Dorcas Lymans
Snodgrass, a beautiful Mt. Vernon girl,
whose disappearance without apparent
cause Wednesday morning is almost
identical with the Dorothy Arnold case,
ended today, as far from solving the
mystery as when the detectives en
gaged were called in.
Not. since the Arnold case has such
interest been aroused. Like the Arnold
girl. Miss Snodgrass was of a wealthy
and socially prominent family, popular
and winning. Like Miss Arnold, too,
she was engaged to be married shortly.
On the morning of her disappearance
two friends saw and spoke to her, re
ceiving a nod as the girl hurried by.
This was in the Grand Central station.
Also, Miss Snodgrass declared on leav
ing the house that she intended to do
some shopping.
Boarded Train;
All Trace Lost.
From the packing of her trunks for
a trip to California Miss Snodgrass
stepped to a train, rolled out of the
Grand Central station, and all trace of
her has since been lost.
Since she came from Martinsburg. W.
Va„ five years ago she has made her
home with her sister. Mrs. John L.
Crider, whose husband is chief en
gineer of the newly completed Boston,
Westchester and Mt. Vernon railroad.
On her twenty-fifth birthday last Oc
tober she entered the training school
for nurses in Mt. Vernon. She sought
to become nurse, not for want of
money, for she was comfortably sit
uated. but from sheer love of nursing
and a desire to know something of
medicine. Her success was marked.
EMPEROR OF JAPAN
GROWING STRONGER;
CITIZENS REJOICING
TOKIO, July 23.—Further improve
ment was shown in the condition of
Emperor Mutsuhito today, although a
short sinking spell caused alarm this
afternoon. The royal patient rallied,
however, and his condition was fur
ther strengthened by stimulants.
Though the physicians were optimistic
in bulletins issued during the day, thej
held out no great hope of the emper
or’s recovery. One said:
"He has a chance.” but would add no
more.
The groat fear was that the poison in
the system caused by uremia would af
fect the heart. Efforts we.re made to
combat this. There was an indication
that the poison was gaining a strong
foothold when the first bulletin of the
day announced that the patient had
been “somewhat sleepless during the
night." In the early morning there
was a marked increase In tempera
ture. but the physicians sa d this was
to be expected.
Profound rejoicing was seen on every
hand today as a result of the physi
cians' bulletins.
SWINDLER. HEADING
FOR ATLANTA, JAILED
FOR BIRMINGHAM JOB
The arrest of T. B. Williams by Pink
erton detectives in Birmingham is be
lieved to have saved a number of At
lanta clients of the Jennings-Amos
Company, of St. Louis, from being
duped by a clever swindle, to which
Williams has confessed.
Williams, who is a discharged sales
man for the St. Louis concern, was
working his way to Atlanta with his
game He was taken in Birmingham
within a few hours after he is said to
have swindled the Jefferson County
bank on a check to which he had forged
an indorsement. Williams’ game is
said to have been to collect accounts
due the St. Louis conce rt and forge an
indorsement to the cheeks.
Morgan to Aid in Chase of Men Who Killed Rosenthal
SEARCH FOR SLAYERS FUTILE
Gangster Implicated by Gossip
Surrenders Himself Volun
tarily to Police.
NEW YORK, July 23.—. lust a
week ago today Herman Rosen
thal. a gambler, who had charged
the police with levying tribute
upon lawbreakers, was shot to
death in front of the Metropole
hotel, but his actual slayers are
still at large, though a number of
policemen were only a short dis
tance away at the time. The be
lief is generally growing that the
actual assassins will never be cap
tured unless run down by private
endeavor.
There was another arrest in the case
today, but it was made only when a
man whom the police had confessed
themselves unable to find surrendered
himself. The latest prisoner is Harry
Vallon, who has been frequently men
tioned as a member of the gambling
coterie that Rosenthal had embittered
by his revelations.
He drove up to police headquarters
at 1 o'clock this morning and gave
his name to the lieutenant and was
escorted to the Mulberry street police
station. There he was booked as "Har
ry Vallon, 35 years old, clerk—suspi
cious person.”
Implicated by Gossip,
Vallon has been mentioned in vari
ous ways in gossip about the erime. He
is said to have been a go between for
the police and gamblers below Four
teenth street. One report is that he
was in the gray automobile when it
stopped in front of the Metropole. An
other is that he was in it earlier in
the evening with Jack Rose. Still
another is that he it was who called
"Boob" Walker and a man nam»d
Hickey from a table at which they
were talking to Rosenthal in the Metro
pole just before the shooting. Rut the
only charge against him now is being a
suspicious person. Vallon is one of
the men. the police announced, they
were very anxious to get. Others are:
Dago Frank, a notorious gunman and
East Side gangster; Harry Hourritz,
alias "Gib The Blood," who has been
a notorious character for several years
and an uptown lieutenant of Jack Selig,
the gang leader.
Today it is said they are also looking
for “Humpty" Jackson, a former gang
leader, released from Sing Sing about
four weeks ago. and “Red" Wagner.
Jackson and Wagner are said to be the
first men Jack Rose picked up after the
murder car left Sharkey’s in Fourteenth
street.
J. P. Morgan to Aid Search.
That private help will be given Dis
trict Attorney Whitman became known
today. J. P. Morvan and other mil
lionaires have pledged aid in running
down the slayers to preserve law.
While the district attorney prepared
to place before the grand jury the
story of Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, widow
of the murdered gambler, H. T. Mar
shall. counsel for Louis Webber and
Sam Paul, two of the men held as ac
complices to the assassination, got
ready for battle this afternoon before
Justice Giegerich of the supreme court.
The attorney seeks to have the men
released upon a writ of habeas corpus.
CRAZED BY CAMORRA
TALES, ITALIAN RUNS
AMUCK, KILLING FOUR
ROME, July 28.—Crazed by reading
accounts of the Camorra trial at Vi
terbo, a young banker’s clerk named
Sabatino ran amuck today in the town
of Rajano and killed four persons be
fore gendarmes finally shot him down.
Sabatino rushed into a room in his
home, where his wife and three children
were, and, shrieking in maniacal fury,
began firing at them with a revolver.
His brother ran into the room and was
immediately shot dead. Then the ma
niac's mother-in-law ran to the rescue
of her daughter and grandchildren and
was in turn shot down. The next vic
tim was the father of the demented
man, who was killed as soon as he en
tered the room. The wife and children
escaped the shots fired at them. Saba
tino reloaded his weapon and rushed
into the street, firing at every person he
saw. Four gendarmes finally sur
rounded him and ordered him to sur
render. His answer was to shoot one of
them dead and seriously wound anoth
er. Thereupon the other two fired at
the maniac with their carbines and
killed him.
CARDINAL GIBBONS IS
78 TODAY;HIS FRIENDS
WIRE GOOD WISHES
BALTIMORE July 23.—Cardinal
Gibbons today celebrated his seventy
eighth birthday quietly in the country.
He will not return to the city until the
early part of next week.
The cardinal received telegrams and
letters of congratulations on his anni
versary from friends in all parts of
the country as well as from abroad. It
is believed that a message was sent the
. ordinal by Pope Pius X, but the aged
prelate would not divulge the names of
the senders.
Th" venerable churchman is enjoy
ing excellent health.
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Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, wife of Herman Rosenthal, the pain
ling king, slain in New York as result of threatened ‘‘squealing
TALLULAH SUIT BILL
IS RECOMMENDED BY
COMMITTEE IN HOUSE
After listening patiently to a large
amount of eloquence pro and i on yes
terday afternoon, the hou-r* <ommiit.i
on special judiciary agreed by a vote
of 7t03 to re< omiiv lei favorably the
resolution authorizing Governor Brown
to institute suit for the recovery of the
state's alleged rights in Tallulah Fall.
The Georgia 'Railway anil Bowel
Company, through counsel, undertook
to convince the committal' that the res
olution was useless and that the suit
would be worse than folly, hut re: n
sentatives of the conservationists over
whelmed them, and the resolution will
come up for passage soon, with excel
lent chances of going through the
house.
WRITER OF INSULTING
NOTE IS HORSEWHIPPED
MACON. GA., July 23. Horace Jones,
of Yatesville, was given a horsewhip
ping by infuriated men of Lee Pope, in
Crawford county, bcause he wrote an
insulting note to a young woman, the
daughter of a prominent farmer of that
section.
The young man has been in charge of
the Armour line's refrigerating estab
lishment and shipping point for the
Crawford county’ peach growers near
Lee Pope for several weeks. IL sent
tho letter to the young woman, who
turned it over to her relatives.
The eroyvd of mon took Jones out on
a lonely road and severely lashed him,
cutting his clothes to shrills with tin
whips. He was then given an hour in
yvhieh to leave town. Ho passed through
Mavun un his way to Yatesville.
75 YEAR-OLD PREACHER
INTENDS TO PUT GINGER
IN POLITICS OF COFFEE
DOUGLAS, GA.. July 23. Ri v. A. B.
I'inlioe, a well knoyvn citizen of Coffee
county, promises to inject some life
into what has been a very quiet race
for represent itite of Coffee county. He
is mat 75 years old. but is a very ac
tive man for his age. He has long been
in politics, having been sheriff of
Clinch county and having held several
offices In this and other places. He
an interesting speaker and p:omises to
atvakin the slumbering political spirit
in Coffee.
Rev. Mr. Finley takes a whack at rhe
eleventh district <■• ngressionai race and
promises to ja- his respects to it on
August 3. He invites the i andiilates
t**r i -ongre..and ld< opponents for rep
t'sentative to hr present in Douglas on
that date and listen to him lambast
their records. ,
PLURALITY VOTE GOVERNS
SIXTH DISTRICT PRIMARY
MACON. GA., July 23.—The i xccu
live committee of the Sixth congres
sional district has decided that the
present race for congress slinil be de
cided on the plurality basis, rather than
tile county un’t system. The .Sixth dis
trict eongrik 1 >nal convention has been
called to nu i t at Barnesville August 30.
2CC MOORS KILLED IN BATTLE.
PARIS, July l’3. -Dispatches from
Fez report serious lighting on July 20,
northwest ~f Fefrtt. A number of
French soldiers were killed an ' wound
• d. yy hile the .Moors lost 200 in killed
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE V R « NO
HEMPHILL IS
DEPOSED AS
CRACKERS’
MANAGER
“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.
Taking advantage of its inalienable
right—the recall—the Atlanta Baseball
association has temporarily deposed
Charles J. Hemphill as manager of the
Atlanta ball club, and has temporarily
made Charles A. Alperman manager of
the club.
Last night Hemphill was ordered to
turn his club over to Alperman and to
return to Atlanta. He did so and will
be in town today. As soon as he ar
rives he will be called into session with
the directors of the local association.
That thia session will mean his dis
missal is virtually a certainty.
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 truly great team in line
and make it play ball Is the question
that the Atlanta Baseball association
must decide in a few days. In the
meantime, “Whitey" will have 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 time 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.
»*rs when they return home. Howard
is now at his home in Washington.
“BLUES”JUST A FORM
OF INSANITY, IT’S HELD
BALTIMORE. July 23. —The Rhipns
Psychiatric clinic of Johns Hopkins
hospital will treat "blues" as a mental
affection, holding it to be a mild form
of insanity,
DUNBAR VISITS AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA, GA., July 23.—Judge W.
M. Dunbar, postmaster of the house of
representatives, has arrived in the city
for a month's stay at home. Judge Dun
ba is enthusiastic over the Democratic
prospects.