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the weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Generally fair today and tomorrow ' VOL. X. NO. 256. HERS IDE W« FDR im 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. 4' >.:7 'N fIL flgs z^Ktr* 7 '"' U- K > W BIPUwU ' •J’ -<. X* V ■-vY w • Bi Hau - A o -* % mm L • * ■. v-' ' ■ iK i. i « -I® Ifer BKn IWwuy ML *’*’* v SlOrSi JJFz jbg*... If®® / fl/ ‘ . WBy / •» r’*-, W Is ’ ■ Z JU. r " W \/ y I. • .x 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 Uone. im 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.