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COUNCIL PROBES LAGGING WORK ON STREETS Members of the Committee Are Amazed at Condition of At lanta’s Thoroughfares. Informed that the citizens of many sections of Atlanta are ready to hold Indignation meetings on account of the bad condition of- streets and the poor progress of the work of improvement, the council’s finance committee yester day afternoon began a probe to find out the trouble. The fleeting was adjourned until Saturday morning at 11 o’clock to get information from the meeting of the streets committee this afternoon and to give the department of chief of construction time to prepare a detailed report 'on the work done with the 130,000 streets or dinary fund, which is exhausted. Members of the committee declared' they were amazed at the conditions. They, were confronted with the propo sition that the streets ordinary fund, the fund to grade sidewalks, make re pairs and do numerous other work, was exhausted and that it must be replen ished by taking money from other ap propriations. When the cutting of other appropriations was begun the officials interested in the various projects be gan to protest and to vigorously de nounce the street improvement system. They declared that less work would be done this year than in many years and that more than twice as piuch money had been provided than heretofore. Immediate Action Necessary. Council has planned a sweeping in vestigation of the whole system as soon as Governor Brown has signed the charter amendment bill granting the authority to make reforms, which plan is the result of The Georgian's cam paign for better streets. Bift the finance committee discovered that im mediate financial adjustments must be made. It was learned today that there were 27 unfinished pieces of work in the city and fourteen different quads of work men in different sections. So far the finance committee has been unable to find out just what has been done and the amount of money it wdll take to run the chief of construction department the remainder of the year. The data on which the annual budget was based Is upset. When Chief of Construction Clayton recommended that SI,OOO be taken from the $4,500 appropriation for the repair of South Pryor street Councilman C D. Knight was bitter in his protest. "The department was six months getting the brick to make the repairs on that street.” he declared. "The old brick were laid in pitch. The new brick are being put down in sand, and if persons should get in a fight on that street they could pick up the pavement and throw it at one another. No work is being done between the car tracks at all, which is the worst part of the street. The street will be little better than it was before when the construc tion department has completed its work. ‘‘Should Have Been Finished." "That work should have been com pleted months ago. But every time I have been to Captain Clayton it has seemed to me that he was offended be cause I protested. Gentlemen, the peo ple of that section won’t stand for any money being taken from that appro priation when the street is not being half fixed.” The streets ordinary fund was divid ed among the ten wards. Aiderman Ragsdale and others thought they still had a considerable amount of the money unexpended. But it Is all gone and Captain Clayton explained that his department had not been able to regard the ward apportionments because of the many washouts caused by the heavy rains The committee seemed to think that the streets committee was respon sible for this unsystematic expenditure, but the members decided to hear from the streets committee before going into a discussion of it. Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman of the finance committee, said that he had taken up this matter simply as a financial proposition, but since the members had begun a discussion of the work done in their respective sections, he could say that his ward (the Ninth) was in as bad fix as any. Lake ave nue is the only street on which work has been begun and, according to the present rate of progress, it won’t be finished before November, he said. Gas Company Delays Work. "I live in half a mile of my church, the Druid Hills Methodist church, on Highland avenue, but I had to travel fourteen miles to go to and from serv ices Sunday in an automobile,” he said. “My speedometer registerd that dis tance and the cross streets were so bad that I could not have gone any shorter way. "The property owners on St. Charles avenue donated twenty feet of land to widen the street wto years ago. Two thousand dollars was appropriated to' pay the city's part of the cost ol* the pavement. Work has not .yet begun on the street.” Captain Clayton explained that the Atlanta Gas Light Company was de laying the work now by putting down pipes in the street. He said that a charter provision gave the company authority over the city in this matter. "Our fathers gave that company more right than the council has got,” de clared Aiderman Candler, "and I doubt if we have the power to correct the mistake.” Aiderman James E. Warren, of the Third ward, said there was a large pond of water in front of his home on Grant •treet. He said that the car tracks SCHOOLROOM REFORMS PROMISED A S RES ULT OF GIRL STUDENT'S DEA TH Physicians of Atlanta will be enlisted in the fight started by Dr. W. J. Auten, 334 Hemphill avenue, to remedy the conditions at the Girls High school, which he blames for the death of his daughter, Edith Marian Auten. At the same time some promise of action came in statements from W. R Daley, president of the board of educa tion, and Aiderman James E. Warren, chairman of the council committee on schools, both of whom declare public sentiment would Jtot tolerate the exist ing conditions. Dr. Auten charges that the death of his daughter, Miss Edith Marian Auten, a 1912 graduate of the Girls High school, is directly traceable to the lack of heating facilities and the fact that she lost so much time at the school last winter and had to study late at night to catch up. with her classes. To Ask Aid of Doctors. "I am going to see Dr. L. C. Fisher, who was associated with me in treat ing my daughter during her last illness, and ask him to join me in putting the matter before the physicians. I dislike to take the part I am taking in this af fair, but some one has to, and to no one else has it been brought so forcibly as to me and my family. "Edith was a splendid student. When a fifteen-year-old girl she won the es say prize in a contest in which the school children of the entire state were competing. She went through the full grammar school grades and never missed promotion, and she kept that record when she entered the high school. "Particularly in her last year at the high school she suffered from the add ed work on account of having to lose so much time when the class would be dismissed on cold days. "Edith lost more time from school during her graduating year,” added Dr. Auten, “than she had done in her en tire school course. Her Constitution Weakened. “When she graduated her mother was forced to keep her in bed all day so that she might appear on the stage to receive her diploma. She did not im prove her run-down condition this summer, and when typhoid fever took her, she had no vitality left to fight. All her vitality had been expended, a sacrifice to the blind idiocy and dis graceful lack of care which character izes the treatment Atlanta gives its girl pupils. "There is talk today of building a new school house for the Boys High school and of building the new house for the English-commercial depart ment of the Girls High school. Well, these are both good plans; Atlanta cer tainly needs them, but I want to ask are they going to be built after the fashion of the building that killed my child? "The conditions under which the pu pils at the Girls High School have to study are absolutely unbelievable and in no other city but Atlanta would they be tolerated. Day after day Edith would come home with her feet as cold as blocks of Young Atlantans Like Fiction Best CHILDREN BOOK LOVERS "O-oh, look, Frank’s got a love sto ry I ” The exclamation came from a group of little boys and girls coming out of the Carnegie library. One mischievous boy of eight had spied the book under his playmate's arm and instantly cried out its signifi cance to his companions. Frank turned red and struggled to get off to himself while the other lads crowded around him, and in true boyish manner guyed one of their number who would deign to read one of those “silly love sto ries.” The little girls—there were three in the party—stood off at a distance. They giggled at Frank's visible discomfiture. Secretly they approved of his choice of a book. Th? little incident started an inquiry as to just what the youngsters of At lanta are reading these days and de veloped the fact that the old-fashioned thriller has been put on the shelf —or rather taken off. Fiction Is Best Liked. The Hbrarj’ is divided into two parts —the adult and the juvenile depart were six inches above the street In his ward on Woodward avenue, Glenn stree, Kelly street, Glennwood avenue and Grant street, and that he had ex hausted his patience trying to get these streets fixed. He said the citizens were ready to hold Indignation meetings. Can't Force Car Company. Captain Clayton said the city law provides that the Georgia Railway and Power Company should put streets in their original condition when they were torn up for new tracks, but that he had no authority to force the company to fix the streets. A committee of Aider men Warren. Ragsdale and Councilman Vaughan was appointed to take up this matter with the trolley company and get the streets fixed. Councilman J. J. Greer declared that no work had been done in his ward and that not one-fifth of what had been passed up by council and which was expected to be done this year would be done. “We're in the hole." he declared, "and we've got to take some real action to get out.” Aiderman Candler said some people wanted to hung him because he had said the city was in a hole several days ago. It was brought out that two miles of sidewalks are being laid on both sides of Greenwood avenue, and that there are not a dozen houses the whole dis tance. while no work is being done on many bad streets in thickly populated sections. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912. ice. The senior class had to be dis missed for as much as a week at a time on account of the terrible cold hi the room, and then these girls had to study twice as hard to make up this lost time. Fears For Other Child. "What has happened to my daughter who graduated this year may happen to Esther, my younger daughter, who will be in the third grade this fall, or it may happen to the daughters of any one of my neighbors. None of them can real ize it as I can, for it has been forced upon me. "Now, what I want to ask the physi cians of Atlanta to do is to go before the public in a body and tell them just exactly what such deplorable conditions in the Girls High school ’are going to lead to; tell the public something, that every father and mother ought to know already, of the physical make-up of girls of high school age: tell them the certain result of weakening them if they are forced to stay all day in rooms where they can not keep warm.” President Daley of the school board declared that the sanitary condition of the school was good, but that the poor heating system and the general con struction of the building endangered the lives of the young women by bad colds, pneumonia and similar diseases. "I am very sorry to learn of the death of the young woman,” he said. "Without regard to the merit of the father’s charge, it dramatically calls the council’s attention to a need that has been neglected.” Board Asked For Heating Plant. Mr. Daley told how the board of edu cation had requested the council for funds for a new heating system as an immediate necessity, and urged an en tirely new Girls High school building. Funds have not been provided for either. He said he denounced the con dition of the school at the graduation exercises. "An investigating committee from the board found that there are fourteen separate heating systems and' four stoves in the building," he said. “Liist year it was necessary to dismiss school on a number of days on account of inadequate heat. The whole building, made up of several separate buildings, is an old trap and should be torn down.” No appropriation has been made for a new heating system, and similar con ditions will obtain next year unless something is done soon. Aiderman Warren said that there was no doubt that the condition of the building is very bad. He recalled a statement made by Miss Nettie Sar gent. former principal, that one of the young women contracted pneumonia while attending school there last wir»- ter. "But I don’t think there was the slightest chance for any one to contract typhoid fever as a result of conditions at the school,” he said. "A person in the finest physical condition would have a hard fight with malignant typhoid fever.” ments. All boys and girls under four teen years of age get their books from the latter department. Fiction, of course, is the favorite reading matter among the children. Last year they took 3,212 volumes out of the library. The boys took the sto ries of adventure; the girls, those of romance. Folklore tales come next, but only 309 volumes were in use dur ing that time. Children at the same time took out 142 history books. “We encourage the children to read fiction.” said Miss Katherine Wooten, the librarian. "You see, we only put the very best stories and tales for chil dren In the library. The old-fashioned thrillers have been discarded. "We can choose what the children shall read and we are just as careful about tvhat Is placed on the shelves as we can be: unfortunately things are not that way in the adult division, and when the public demands a new novel, if it's at all decent, we have to put it in circulation. Library Used More. “Nowadays so many educational Ideas are brought Into the childish mind in the form of fiction that every child ought to be encouraged to read fiction, when It can be carefully chosen for him. “What do the little tots read, the really tiny ones, who can just spell out a few' lines? Oh. they read stories about trains and chickens; they will call for something about t'alns and chlt’ns when they first come in hero, and every time after that. It keeps us busy hunting children’s stories of their two favorites.” Children are using the Carnegie li brary twice as much today as they were six years ago. The official report of the librarian shows that in 1911 45,159 volumes were “borrowed” from the juvenile department. In 1905 the total number of books taken out was 24.666. * ■ CALLED A DAVID HARUM. SLAYS AHORSE TRADER WINNSBORO. LA.. Aug 16.—After dickering all day on a horse trade, E. R. Shepherd and Jim McLemmore quar reled. Shepherd called McLemmore a David Harum. and McLemmore killed Shepherd with a club. MAN SCARED TO DEATH. BALTIMORE. MD„ Aug. 16—Joseph Brown literally was scared to death when two policemen began to question him about a woman he was in company with. He dropped dead from sheer fright. PRICE RUNNING SS REAL TURMER The Commissioner of Agricul ture Surely Ought To Be One. Says Busy Candidate. "Jim” Price, of Oconee county, who is a candidate for commissioner of ag riculture, is about the busiest man in Georgia nowadays, but he took time from his campaigning to run into At lanta for a day or so to look over the legislature in its dying hours, and to give it a few suggestions on how to talk to the folks back home about com missioners of agriculture, particularly prospective commissioners. “I have been out among the country people, frankly talking my lace over with them. lam a plain farmer—never was anything else, and don't know how to be anything else,” said Mr. Price. "I find the people acutely interested in the forthcoming primary, and the farmers are looking well to the ques tion of who shall be the next commis sioner of agriculture. I believe I shall be elected, for I am the only real farm er running, and if there is any place at all for a farmer in our scheme of things political, the commissionership of agriculture would seem to be the place.” "Jim” Price lives in Oconee county, and has served in both the house and senate of the state legislature. He has hosts of warm friends all over Geor gia, particularly among the farmers. He was "born and raised” on a farm, knows how to conduct a farm suc cessfully, and does conduct one that way, and possesses every qualification necessary in the high position to which he aspires. He doesn’t spend much time in the cities, although he is well‘known in most of them, for, as he says, “the job I am after is not a city job pri marily, although upon a wise adminis tration of the agricultural department depends much of the cities’ prosperity.” CONVICTED OF PERJURY. MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 16. Otto T, Barr, one of the best known automobile men of Montgomery, has been sentenced to three years’ impris onment for perjury. Officials say that this is the first conviction of a white man for perjury ever obtained in ’Mont gomery county. Barr has appealed to the supreme court. DON’T MISS BIG SHOW AT THE COOL BONITA THEATER THIS WEEK One of the most amusing comedies seen in a popular priced theater in many months is "The Misfit Pressing Club," which is being presented at the Bonita, 32 Peachtree street, each after noon and evening this week by the King-Murray-Jones Musical Comedy company, composed of a strong cast of twelve talented artists, including the celebrated "pretty gin chorus,” which is said to be the best of its kind on the road. Continuous performances, with mo tion pictures in addition, make it a winner at the price. Children 5c adults 10c. »*» CARE OF THE TEETH IMPORTANT TO HEALTH Without perfect teeth one can not enjoy perfect health. Decayed or im perfect teeth are not only painful and continuously annoying, but a positive menace to health and even life. Do not neglect your teeth. Upon the first sign of decay have them treated and save suffering. Or, if the teeth are already in bad condition, have them at. tended to at once. The scientific painless meth ods in use by the Atlanta Dental Par lors rob dentistry of its former terrors, and the most difficult operations are performed quickly and without pain. This handsome establishment is lo cated at the corner of Peachtree and Decatur streets, entrance at 19 1-2 Peachtree. *•> EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS AND DECORATIONS. ATLANTA FLORAL CO., Call Main 1130. FUNERAL NOTICE. HA WES—Relatives and friends of Mr Walter E. Hawes, Mr. and Mrs J s Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edwards, Miss Pearl Edwards. Mr and Mrs W. L. Hawes and family. Mrs. W H Rose and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Raoul and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. R Walker are invited to attend the fu neral of Mr. Walter E. Hawes tomor row (Saturday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Baptist Tabernacle. Interment at Westview. The follow ing gentlemen will act as pallbearers and please meet at chapel of P. J. Bloomfield Co., 84 and Bt> S. Pryor st. at 1:30 p. nt.: Messrs. Charles H. . Lehman, C. V. Holly, .1. T. Kirkpat rick. Jr., R. M. Mitchell, .1. H. Lati mer and Joe Stanfield. Guaranteed Fresh Country EGGS 20c ° 15 Dozen Lots ... 19 1-2 c 30 Dozen Lots .... 19c 5 and 10-Case Lots . . 18 1-2 c CASH GROCERY COMPANY. 118-120 Whitehall Street PAROLE REFUSED TO C. L. WARRINER, WHO EMBEZZLED $640,000 COLUMBUS, OHIO, Aug. 16.—The application of Charles L. Warriner. serving six years in the penitentiary from Cincinnati for embezzling $640,- 000 from the Big Four railroad while he was its treasurer, was rejected by the state board of administration, meeting as the state parole board, to day. Warriner, who has already served nearly three years of his term, can not come before the parole board again for six months. Paroles were granted to four prison ers out of 25 applications. Among them was John Fellner, a Cleveland editor, who began serving three years for blackmail May 29, 1911. He will be re leased at once. CONVICT GUARD GOES FREE, COLUMBUS, GA., Aug. 16.—County Officer C. A. Ellison, who shot and killed Warner Young, a convict, who was attempting to escape while being transferred from the county jail to a convict camp, is free to resume his duties as an officer, as the grand jury after investigating the killing returned a no bill in his ease. TO BUILD EXPRESS WAREHOUSE. COLUMBUS, GA., Aug. 16.—The Southern Express Company announces that it will erect a large warehouse and storage room in this city to accommo date its rapidly increasing business in Columbus and this section. The old quarters of the company have become too small. SOMETHING NEW This is the new The price is “LOOKOUT” within the ALARM reach of all CLOCK JMaiSK. €1 ftft Case is made si A 'fcMj of solid brass, f i Every one of a nice newlv/ r . lA > „ . . 4 them fully design, sure to please. GUARANTEED See them in our window King Hardware Co. st. SIO.OO egular price I $1.50 our saving $8.50 he price at which you can buy an absolutely good and guaranteed suit case LIEBERMAN'S The House of Guaranteed Baggage 92 Whitehall gEVERYTiME You See a Pair of Gia Think of ATLANTA OPTICAL CO., 142 Peachtree St. I They Originate. ' Others Imitate. Perfect Glasses I jp? g Tllß South Greatest Engineering School aH A ■ 15 Free Scholarships allotted to each I ra K 9i county in Georgia. Many of these now Ki tS fIfJS 73® H SB SfM Six open. Full courses. Instruction practi- ; MS* e aS vK P if Pas cal and thorough. New hospital and ma- j ■■ chine shops. New Y. M. C. A. costing -ee- Sag of technology Atlanta. Gi, H. W. CAMPBELL, State Agent ATLANTA, GA. Liberal Contracts to Producing Agents SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For the six months ending June 30. 1912, of the condition of the International Life Insurance Company OF ST. LOUIS. Organized under the laws of the state of Missouri, made to the governor of the state of Georgia, in pursuance to the laws of said state. Principal office, twelfth floor Syndicate Trust building. I. CAPITAL STOCK. Amount of capital 5t0ck5620,350.09 Amount of capital stock paid up in cash 620,350.06 11. ASSETS. Total assets $1,440,083.25 111, LIABILITIES. Total liabilitiessl,l64,ssß.62 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912. Total income $364,714.83 V. DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912. Total disbursements $269,395.56 Greatest amount insured in any one risk .•$ 62,500.00 Total amount of insurance outstanding 16,467,375.00 A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified, is of file in the office of the insurance commissioner. STATE OF MISSOURI—City of St. Louis Personally appeared before the undersigned. W. F. Grantges. who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the secretary of the International Life Insurance Company, and that the foregoing statement is correct and true. W. F. GRANTGES. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 22d dav of July, 1912 LILLIE B. BEATY. Notary Public. BETTER COTTON PRICES PLANNED Farmers Union to Hold Impor tant Meeting Here August 27 and 28. The Farmers unioft Is to hold one of its most important meetings at Red Men’s wigwam, 86 Central avenue. Au gust 27 and 28, when plans for insuring a satsifactory price for cotton will be discussed. The stockholders of the Union Phos phate Company and the stockholders of the Carmichael Implement Company hold their annual meeting at this time. The National Warehouse Company has been thoroughly organized In states and the work of organization is now in progress in other Southern states. This company is preparing to finance and market the South's crop this year. V. Otis Robertson, of Jack son, Miss., general counsel for the Na tional Warehouse Company, will ad dress the farmers. He will take up the plans in detail. Special rates have been arranged. It is expected that this will be the largest meeting held by the Farmers union In several years. HOOSIER POET GIVES HIS NEPHEW $50,000 FORTUNE INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 16. Edmund H. Eitel, who Is now traveling with his bride, will receive a present of $50,000 from James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, on his return to this city. Young Eitel is a nephew of ths poet and for several years has been his secretary and confidential adviser. "Madam, we save you BBS 10 to 50 per cent.” B| ISEWELI’S I 113=115 Whitehall St . w e ar# Wholesale Commit- Slop Merchants, and in our re tail store sell you everything at wholesale prices. We buy • n immense quantities. 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