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Dan Carey Boomed as Reform
Candidate by Faction New
in Political Game.
Following Mayor Courtland S. Winn's
withdrawal from the contest for re
election there was positive assurance
today that Councilman Aldine Cham
bers would be a candidate for the office.
His formal announcement is expected
within the next few days.
If Aiderman John S. Candler, who
was taken ill at the Baltimore Demo
cratic convention and has just become
able to resume his active duties, suffi
ciently recovers his strength in time
for a campaign he will be a candidate.
A new force in politics took definite
form today in a movement by a number
of young men not hitherto identified
with politics to bring Dan Carey, gen
eral manager of parks, into the contest
as a “reform candidate." For the past
two years Mr. Carey has waged a hot
fight against certain features of the
board system.
Mayor Winn s action in withdrawing
has crystallized sentiment in political
circles. A number of political leaders
and private citizens called on Council
man Chambers today and insisted that
he formally announce at once. Mayor
Winn has even pledged his support to
Mr. Chambers.
Chambers Considers Matter.
"I have the matter under serious
consideration," said Mr. Chambers.
"There are a number of progressive
measures which I think need agitating
and on which a mayor should be elect
ed. As long as Mayor Winn was con
sidered a candidate I was reluctant to
take any position as regards the race
for mayor. I did not want to develop
any undue friction between the mayor
and council.
"The keynote of next year's admin
istration must be better streets for At
lanta. But I am not yet ready to defi
nitely outline any platform."
Aiderman John S. Candler's friends
and supporters are no less active. May
or Winn is much opposed to Judge Can.
filer as a candidate. As mayor pro tern
and chairman of the council finance
committee. Aiderman Candler has had
power in city affairs surpassing the
mayor. There has been a feeling on
the part of Mayor Winn that Judge
Candler's activities have had a ten
dency to minimize his administration.
And in getting out of the race Mayor
Winn has done all he could to throw
bis strength away from Judge Candler
to Mr. Chambers.
Judge Candler said today that his
physician had instructed him to devote
only one hour a day to business until
September 1. and that he could not
consider entering a campaign at pres
ent.
See Simplified Contest.
John E. McClelland, Dr. George
Brown and Steve R. Johnston havl all
announced for the office. James G.
Woodward, a probable candidate, whom
Mayor Winn defeated in the last elec
tion. said today that he was not sur
prised that Mayor Winn had with
drawn. He would make no further com
ment. But the other three candidates
believe that the contest has become
simplified.
Though Mayor Winn has been actu
ally if not formally a candidate for
re-election “ince January 1, he has fre
quently declared that his inclinations
were to return to the practice of law.
Though he ha% a definite break with
tiie council and the "city hall crowd"
when he advocated the "compromise
charter." he has made diligent efforts
to regain their friendship and support.
At least there was apparent good feel
ing between a majority of city officials
and the mayor, it is said.
However, a number of active leaders
Os the council have been vigorous in
their efforts to get Aiderman Candler
in the race for many months. This is
pointed to as a principal reason for
Mayor Winn's unfavorable attitude to
Judge Candler's candidacy. It is said
on good authority that the coldness
certain leading interests displayed to
ward his candidacy induced the mayor
to relinquish any hopes he may have
had.
Finds Salary Too Small.
Mayor Winn said that the salary of
the office, $3,000 a year, was too small.
He said he had served as mayor at a
great personal sacrifice, and that he
felt it an injustice to his family to con
tinue It.
"The office of mayor of Atlanta is
very exacting,” he said. "Only a man
of independent wealth or who is satis
fied with the salary can serve without
a great sacrifice.
“I feel that I have carried out my
pre-election pledges. We have raised
tax assessments on centra! property
$30,000,000. We have provided for the
building of a crematory and power
plant. We have done many other con
structive things. But my inclination is
to return to the practice of law."
ACWORTH ARRANGES BIG
HOME-COMING ON FRIDAY
ACWORTH, GA., Aug. 6.—Friday has
been set by the Acworth board of
trade as home-coming and rally day.
Hundreds of ex-Ac worthans will come
"home" that day
A musical program by the Acworth
concert band, the young ladies' orches
tra of Acworth, and the Terry quartet
has been arranged. A number of fif
leen-minute talks will be made by*
prominent men of the state
The morning will he devoted to ath
|ttl< contests. At the noon hour » bar
basket dinner will be served.
Dandy Fifth's Musicians in Lurch
MILITIA BAND NOT PAID
A tangle which threatens a real rift in
Atlanta's Dandy Fifth regiment has grown
out of the refusal of the government to
pay the regiment's band for its work dur
ing the recent encampment at Anniston.
The government won't pay the band be
cause it took only 17 musicians to Annis
ton instead of the 18, which is its regu
lation complement.
The eighteen members of the band say
they furnished some of the best music
heard at the whole maneuvers, and they
have asked the officers of the regiment
to reimburse them for their time and
travel. Some of the officers arose to the
occasion, chipping in $7, *5 and $4 each.
PROF. AND MRS. DERRY
CELEBRATING GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
MACON. GA., Aug. 6. —More than 500
friends attended the barbecue given at
the home of T. C. Parker, near Macon,
yesterday afternoon, in honor of Pro
fessor and Mrs. J. T. Derry, of Atlanta,
who are this week celebrating their
fiftieth wedding anniversary. Last
night a reception was held at the
homes of their two sons, Dr. H. B. and
George Derry, on Orange street, and
this was attended by about 150 close
friends and relatives. Prof, and Mrs.
friends and relatives. Prof, and Mrs.
Derry went today to Atlanta and this
week they w’ill be at home at the resi
dence of D. B. Osborne, 811 Piedmont
avenue. Mis. T. C. Parker is the other
surviving child of this venerable couple
Professor Derry is assistant commis
sioner of commerce and labor.
CLOTHESTHIIEF WORKS
“PRESSING CLUB’’ PLAN
ROME, GA., Au&. 6.—Several Rome
society and club men are minus suits
of clothes as the result of the opera
tions of a clever marauder during the
las' few weeks, who represented him
self as an employee of a pressing club.
Henry Brown is in the custody of the
police and is not only charged with
stealing almost enough of wearing ap
parel to start a clothing store, but is
accused of forging two orders for mon
ey and of stealing a $75 watch from H.
J. Bradshaw.
CONTEST IS THREATENED
IF LATE CANDIDATE WINS
DOUGLAS, GA., Aug 6.—Jeff Kirk
land. one of the candidates for the
legislature from Coffee, failed to pay
in his assessment and register his name
until about 3 o'clock on August 1. The
rules seemed to have the time limit
fixed at noon. The county executive
committee, however, entered his name.
The other candidates. Rev A. B. Fin
ley, Dennis Vickers and C. E. Stewart,
a'e talking of a contest in the event lie
is nominated. State Chairman W. C.
Wright wired County Chairman Frier
that he construed the rules to mean
that entries closed at noon The four
cornered fight promises to be lively.
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But some of the officers refused to join
in the band fund because, they said, the
regiment ran a canteen at Anniston on
its own fund and to its own profit They
say the profits of this canteen ought to be
diverted to the payment of the band.
They say that is the only proper way to
make up the musical deficit and that it
would be shameful to make them pay out
of their pockets a deficit that the gov
ernment has evaded through a mere tech
nicality.
The regiment has not taken definite
action in the controversy
So far no musician of the Dandy Fifth's
band has received a cent for his ten days'
work at Anniston.
MILEAGE ROW WILL
BE SETTLED BY R. R.
BOARD WEDNESDAY
Final decision on the traveling men's
petition asking for an abridgement of
the present mileage rule used on Geor
gia railroads will be reached by the
state railroad commission on Wednes
day.
Chairman Candler said today that the
commission hoped to dispose of the
mileage case and also of the request of
the Atlanta and Macon railroad for ap
proval of a $7,200,0001 stock and bond
Issue.
The traveling men's organizations,
which have urged that the mileage rule
be changed, have taken no chances. A
bill requiring railroads selling inter
changeable mileage to pull the coupons
on trains has already passed the senate
and been reported favorable in the
house.
EIGHT CANDIDATES SEEK
FLOYD LEGISLATIVE SEATS
ROME. GA., Aug. 6.—The entries for
the Floyd county primary on August 21
closed ■ with eight candidates for the
legislature, among them Barryl Wright,
a son of Seaborn Wright; seventeen
aspirants for the board of county com
missioners. two for solicitor general
from tiie Home circuit, and one for con
gress from the Seventh congressional
district.
The candidates for the three seats in
the legislature are W. R. Mebane. Bar
ry Wright, W. M. Martin, R. H. Wick
er. John C. Foster. C. D. Meadows. W.
J. Nunnally and M. N. Griffin.
The aspirants for the county board
are J. G. Pollock, C. M. Young. J. Scott
Davis, J. M. Yarbrough, W. N. Hor
ton, R. S. Hamrick, W. M. Gammon.
Thomas H. Smith, T. E. Bridges, John
W. Salmon, M. L. Shell. A W. Bobo.
J. Ed Camp. J. M. Jones. W. O. Con
nor, W. J. Walker and W. C. Lovell.
For solicitor general are John W.
Bale and W. H. Ennis.
Gordon Lee is unopposed for con
gress.
AGED AUGUSTAN DEAD.
AUGUSTA, GA.. Aug. 6.—George A.
Bailie, aged 78 years, one of the most
prominent citizens of Augusta, is dead
here. Mr. Bailie was a native of Ire
land. He engaged in the grocery busi
ness when he came here as a young
man. He amassed a fortune and in
late years lived quietly on his income.
MRS. GRACE NOT
TO GO ON STAGE
Fortune Drained by Trial. She
May Be Forced to Enter
Business World.
Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace, In Savannah
today en route from the scene of het
recent trial aipr acquittal to take up
a new life with her mother and her
blind son in Philadelphia, may dis
cover when she reaches her destination
that she will be forced to go out and
earn a livelihood.
The cost of her trial and the pre
liminary- expenses exceeded SIO,OOO and
she is so short of cash that she has
given her lawyer. John W. Moore, a
judgment lien upon her Philadelphia
property- to secure a part of her attor
neys' fees. This note for $3,500 prob
ably is only one of several that Mrs.
Grace was forced to give, and she ad
mits that her resources have been
drained by the trial.
Nevertheless, when she left Atlanta
with her mother last night on the 9:10
train for Savannah, Mrs. Grace vigor
ously denied the report that she is to
go upon the stage to recoup her for
tunes and pay for the education and
treatment of her blind son. She said
she had had offers from theatrical man
agers.
May Enter Business Field.
Mrs Grace did not deny that she
might enter some business. What this
business will be she has not yet even
attempted to determine. She has no
professional training, nor any particu
lar accomplishment which might be
turned into an income. She believes
that after all the obligations of the
trial are settled she will still have
enough left so that she and her mother
may- live in fairly comfortable circum
stances. The income from her proper
ty would not also provide for her blind
son's education and care and she said
she was determined to give him every
opportunity in life if she had to "work
her hands off” to do it.
With her mother last night she avoid
ed the curious crowd at the depot by
hurrying to her state room through the
freight elevator. There she bade good
bye to Detective Burke and Captain and
Mrs. H. J. Weaver in the privacy of
the compartment that she had taken
under an assumed name. When she
sails for Philadelphia from Savannah
today it will be also under a name that
is not her own.
"I am very grateful to you all who
have been my friends,” she said, as the
train moved out, "but 1 am glad to be
leaving this city of my sorrows—for
ever.”
BROWN CAN'T GO TO SEAGIRT.
Because the legislature is in ses
sion. Governor Brown has been forced
to abandon his plan to attend the noti
fication ceremonies at Seagirt, N J.,
on August 7.
OFFICER DIVES INTO
RIVER AND RECOVERS
STOLEN STRONG BOX
MACON. GA.. Aug 6. A small iron
box containing indorsed checks foi
SI,OOO, several hundred dollars in ea.-u,
four gold medals and a number of im-,
portant papers, has been recovered
from the muddy waters of the Ocmui
gee river by Wiise Birdsong, a deputy
sheriff, who dived at the place pointed
out by thefthieves who stole the strong
box and threw it into the river wht*n
they could not open it.
The owner of the box. C. F Strobeig
agreed not to prosecute if the two
young men who stole it from his safe
would tell What they did with it. They
took the deputies down the river sev
eral miles and pointed out the place
where they had thrown it in The
deputy found the box after diving 40
times.
CHARGES AGAINST
PRISON COMMISSION
WILL BE QUASHED
The charges against the. prison com
mission. brought recently before the re
formatory committee of the house by
former Superintendent Bethune, have
been turned down by the committee,
with a recommendation to the house
that the prison commission be exoner
ated
This report will be accepted by the
house, and the charges formally
quashed.
HAIL FORCES FARMERS TO
SELL THEIR_LIVE STOCK
PENNSBURG. PA., Aug. 6. Because
of the terrific hail and wind storm
which destroyed their corn and oats
crop and devastated their gardens,
farmers between Hereford and Milford,
Square, near here, are obliged to sell
their cattle. They will be unable to
feed them over winter. .
In a strip of territory 20 miles long
and three wide, hail as big as shell
barks fell to a depth of six Inches, de
stroying all vegetation.
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. n
“The Houses in Our Midst”
Sunday In The Sewer
In the next block to Atlanta’s Police Headquarters is a house.
Within is a ball room.
In it, near a slot piano, lies a man with a bullet through his lungs.
By him is the pistol.
Crumpled at the other end of the room is one created for mother- 7
hood, the day of dolls forgotten, the hope of children gone, with life
slipping away through wounds in her forehead, cheek and breast. s
About are gaping women. if
The time is last Sunday afternoon, the place a part of our so- T
called sewer. z r #
Disinfectants a thousand fold stronger than carbolic acid are pow- f
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erless here. r
Waste them not, even after our wash basins, sinks and yards have f
been disinfected! >' J
None may hope to cleanse Atlanta while the drains, instead of JF
carrying off their frightful burden, are forcing it back into the city’s * /
heart and homes! ' i
Victor Hugo said that Paris lost over twenty-five millions of
francs annually by her sewers of concrete and stone. *
You may estimate the cost of ours—built of the flesh and blood "F
of women—which every five to seven years must be replaced with
new material.
As happened Sunday, occasionally one may not endure so long,
but sinks weltering with others in the hideous mire beneath the stream.
Physicians declare the system deadly and unnecessary.
Scientists say that from it come bacteria blinding and blighting
babies, maiming and killing wives.
Sociologists pronounce it the greatest source of social impurity.
The law forbids it as a menace to morals and health.
This man and woman, so lately killed in it, would be living today
had the law been enforced by city officers.
Those in authority should not wait until our city is overrun with
sewer rats, men like those now making New York a by word, before
remembering their oaths of office and the ordinances of Atlanta.'
They should and will close the Houses in our Midst!
The Executive Committee of
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