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Society Leader Points Out Some Sweeping Reforms Needed to Advance the Interests of Atlanta
MRS. WM. L. PEEL'S INDICTMENT OF CONDITIONS HERE
Urges Hiring of a Con-’
suiting Engineer and
Definite Plan for
Building Up the City.
Declares Boss Is Need
ed and Pleads Wider
Peachtree—P oin t s
Peril in Dirt and
Mrs. William Lawson Peel, promi
nent Atlanta society leader and phil
anthropic worker, has written at the
request of The Georgian her views of
conditions in Atlanta, the reforms it
needs and the steps it should take to
eliminate present handicaps to its
growth.
Here are Mrs. Peel's striking views:
By MRS. W. L. PEEL.
The keynote of the situation was
struck by Mr. Wilmer L. Mopre.
president of the Chamber of Com
merce. in a recent interview .when
he said that what Atlanta needs is
scientific engineering. There seems
to be a, want of unity in all our
street business. It looks as if we
hew to this corner or that, without
•fix idea of a consecutive whole.
For instance, many people are ask
ing. why the cut on Peachtree be
tween Harris and Raker, when it
only accentuates the climb from
Harris to Ellis? If the grade was
to be lowered it should have slatt
ed at the Candler building. The
whole of Peachtree is on a ridge;
there' is no other but the Boule
va d.
If it was to be cut down it would
certainly be a great advantage to
tile adjacent streets, but if it. is to
be cut, it ought to bo cut right and
not v rong. Tim.' was. perhaps,
when men could work without a
patten. Now, every worker in any
lire knows that the pattern is the
part that costs, and the pattern ! s
the pa i that tells, ami the patten
'is the part that saves. If ;• woman
cuts out an apron or a pal -of
breeches she has a. pattern, be
cause she know-- it saves (loth; if
she give • a dinner she has a plan
of the '.able—every guest, every
dish. ev-':y appointment—because
she knows that it costs far less
than the old lavish way, and the
effect is more elegant.
Declares City Needs
Consulting Engineer.
If a man works in any kind of
machine he knows that the pattern
is indispensable, and if It pit -
chases an estate the first iii'i; h
secures is a comprehensive plan,
showing every path and tree ami
shrub.
How. then, shall we start out to
build a city without a plan?
Even a city as big and as finished
and is old as New York has a con
sulting i ngineer. That is what we
need —a consulting engineer. He
should be a man of the first qual
ity. with broad views, with suffi
cient experience to give him a good
basis of comparison, and with a
technical, up-to-date knowledge of
his'business in every detail. Af:e'
a full survey of the situation he
should make a plan for the whole
city, giving every grade and nv“r<'
improvement likely to be suggested
for years to come.
Each change suggested should be
numbered according to its impor
tance in the general scheme. 1. 2. 3.
etc, and each improvement then
taken up. not because it was this
side or that side, or because it was
on the property of some man who
had a pull. When litis pan has
been accepted it should be tbided
by and lived up to. each yqir com
pleting what is Imperative. and
next year doing mere and so on as I
fast as it. is possible. Think what
v a. saving to taxpayer!
Think what a satisfaction to the
citizen, to see with his own eyes
that we are not building for a day,
but that we are working up to a
'definite end! As it is now, it fre
quently happens hat a street is no
sooner paved than it is at once
tmn up to lay water or sewer pipe,
and th" wound is never healed.
Take Washington street, for In
stance. How much money would
he saved and how much time if
, things were reversed.
Men Who Stand
In Their Own Light.
Time changes us all and changes
likewise all our methods of pro
cedure. The manner of 1912 Is not
the manner of 1900 even And yet
in manx things we preserve the
manner of IS74>. Look at the num- I
bering of our houses for instance.
Time and again the century plan to
which no objection could be made
has been suggested and laid on the
table. Look at our building restric
tions. We have none. It Is thought
beautiful that a man should invest
thousands in a home and have a
little butcher's shop stuck up next
door. Every man in Atlanta has a
right to do exactly as he pleases,
and that Is considered beautiful,
but it is not. sot while a man stands
In his own light he also stands in I
bi“ neighbor's light, and boa lose
out. In a matter of dirt, f<>' in
-icnce, all cities should re
quire that every householder
wash his front premises ev
e y morning to th- middle
of the street. twat with dust,
germs, microbe'- disease, and all
those Ills for which we are taxed to
build and operate hospitals! But In
All t|t ('x -I y mull '• »> in |
his own filth, and the rest of us
MRS. W. L. PEEL
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CABBAGE ON PEACHTREE
Take Peachtree street, for instance. This noted thorough
fare was fo"iib : I.' our most elegant and exclusive residence
streel. It is no longer either elegant or exclusive. What hand
some lawns or houses there are. tire spoiled by their environ
ment. The others are so near the noise and dust of the street
as to be undesirable for residence purposes, and are so near to
gether that you ,• i tell whether your neighbor is boiling cab
bage for dinner or freezing ice cream.-- Mrs. W. L. PeeJ.
i-it! smell, a?: t'rccw it. In the
matter of smoke, ,testimony has
proven that expert stoking is at
least a remedy. We probably have
a law about stoking, but it is not
observed.
Some time ago I arrived in Atlan
ta on the Southern and as we were
being swtiched around in the neigh
borhood of the Terminal I became
interested in the conversation of
two gentlemen in front of me. They
w. re evidently men of the world
and experienced travelers. One
said: "This is Atlanta." The other
replied: "Indeed! The smoko hangs
like a pall—is the town on tire?”
“No." said his companion; “they
breathe this all the time —they don’t
know any better.”
No Economy in Building
And Tearing Down.
Every now and then we road in
the papers that our city fathers
have been sent on a visit to distant
parts to investigate the zoos of dif
ferent towns; but whether they
recommend the ox or the ass or
only monkeys and parrots is not
apparent. They are, of course, rep
resentative citizens of the first
class, widely read and traveled, who
are well aware what it takes to
make a city. They are, of course,
also interested from the standpoint
of the taxpayer, but there is very
little economy in building and tear
ing down.
Many years ago the city of Wash
ington faced a crisis, and there
eame a great upheaval. Alexander
S.iepherd was governor of the Dis
trict of Columbia at the time, by
which authority he was also mayor
of the city. He decided that con
ditions were such as to require a
change. He employed a scientific
engineer and thex made a compre
hensive plan of what the city ought
to be The feeling against him urns
intensi 1 happened to lie spend
ing the winter in Washington and
will never forget It. He was culled
I’o S i. pherd. He m ■» unlver
sad) exex rated. He wa» buried ,n
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1912.
effigy. He was pursued through the
streets by desperate men with shot
guns and broken-hearted women,
tear-stained and disheveled. It was
impossible to carry on work in the
day time, and gangs with hundreds
of laborers in tach would work at
night. The (ffect xvas like magic,
so large was the force engaged. A
man vould go to his front door in
the morning and where his porch
bad been there stretched a splen
did boulevard. Or perhaps they had
Free Tried Packngc
if Cfir* Jacobs Liver Salt
I||KA|JH|T Given Away Every Day
This Week at All Our Stores
It makes a Pleasint. Bubbling. Natural
e.ut&«ittor u Mineral \\ ater that tones the liver and
Constipation,Rhenm.tMHiiuiaGout corrects acid stomach. Eor constina
phXhatKdicm%Jl?hSb tion, sck headache, sour stomach, jjas:
biliousness, indigestion, rheumatism
nothing else is so quick and mild. Take
it before breakfast. In an hour you will
« s P^ en did.
faecffcJncuynaMA Jar 25c
Made in Atlanta
Main Store and Laboratory, 6 and 8 Marietta St.
23 Whitehall Street . pi* c*. 245 Houston Street
102 Whitehall Street 544 * eachtree :,treet 266 Peters Street
70 W r . Mitchell Street 423 Marietta Street 152 Decatur Street
Widen Peachtree,
Mrs* Peel Urges
Peachtree street does not
look like a city street, but
rather like that of a straggling
village. Trade has invaded
this sacred avenue, and in al
most ev, ry square shops are
found. In five years com
merce will hold sway almost
without exception as far as
Fourteenth street. The street
should by all. means be widen
ed while there is yet time, for
traffic may be diverted to some
other part if the property own
ers stand in the way. Let no
one take offense at my re
marks on Peachtree street. 1
have lived on it for forty
years, and I yield to none in
love for it. but I want to see
it fixed light. and that means
sacrifice all along the line.
But what if it does, so long as
we make a splendid and beau
tiful 'eit.x .’ MRS. W. L.
PEEL.
_*
excavated in front and Uft him 30
feet in the air and no wa.v to get
out. Or perhaps there was a fill
of 20 feet and he was buried alive.
Oh. For a Boss,
That's Our Need.
But the boss and his engineer
moved forxvu <l. He was fine old
Virginia stock and was unafraid.
He was not popular, however, and
he went to Me !• o to live, xvben he
-had completed his undertaking.
Now. what xx the result? The
vety poop"- " (• had abused and
nicknamed him were those most
benefited Th" cuts and fills had
enhanced their values millions and
millions of dollars and made the
city of Washington the most beau
tiful city in the world. No capital
In Europe can compare
There is a beautiful sequel to
this story. Several years ago. jo®
before his death. Governor Shep
herd return 1 >o the city of his love
and received such an ovation as
falls to the lot of few living men.
Now, there stands, on the very
spot where he was burned in effigy,
a grand monument to bls memory.
Oh, for a Boss! That's what we
need—a Boss! One with Initiative
to see anead and backbone to exe
cute. We need expansi >n. We have
got to expand or bust. Anything
betxveen is impossible. We can not
groxv while everything is bottled
up. Take Peachtree street, for in
stance. This noted thoroughfare
xvas formerly our most elegant and
exclusive residence street. It is no
longer either elegant or exclusive.
What handsome lawns or houses
there are, are spoiled by their en
vironment. The others are so near
the noise and dust of the street as
to be undesirable for residence pur
poses, and are so near together
that you can tell whether your
neighbor is boiling cabbage for din
ner or freezing ice cream. It does
not look like a city street, but
rather like a straggling village.
Trade has invaded this sacred ave
nue. and in almost every square
shops are found. In five years
commerce will hold sway almost
without exception as far as Four
teenth street. Think of Peachtree
street a year ago. The wildest
guesser would not have predicted
that it could look like it does to
day. It Is progress versus senti
ment. The street should by all
means be xvidened while there Is
yet time, for traffic may be divert
ed to some other part if the prop
erty owners stand in the way.
The celebrated Euclid avenue has
POLICE BATTLE
STIRS 5 POINTS
Terrific Fight for Bluecoat's
Revolver Follows Attack
on Boy.
When Officer Burnett attempted to
arrest Earl Zuber, of Careys, who says
I he is sixteen years old, on the charge
lof attacking a young white box named
. Roy Mauldin at Peachtree and Walton
streets this afternoon about 1:30
o clock. Zuber is said to have attempted
Burnett's life with the officer's own pis
tol. A near-riot followed.
Men and boys rushed to the scene
streets became Jammed When
Zuber xx-as finally subdued and was be
iqg carried to the police station he
gave way to an attack of epilepsy. The
city physician, who examined him upon
his arrival, said that his condition was
extremely dangerous. Zuber was un
able for some time to give his tFame or
speak a word.
The trouble started when the little
Mauldin boy became involved in a dis
pute with another lad about his oxvn
age. Zuber was happening along, it is
j said, and attempted to take sides
j against the Mauldin boy. According
to the letter's statement. Zuber struck
him and knocked him down. Zuber
says the lad cursed him.
No sooner had Zuber done this when
two other mon rushed in and eaught
Zuber's arms. Officer Burnett then
came up and attempted to take Zuber
in custody. Zuber snarled, struck at
him and by a quick motion of the arm
drexx Burnett's pistol from the holster.
The officer was quick enough in
wrenching it away to prevent its being
tired.
By this time an enormous crowd had
gathered. Traffic was blocked and the
officer had a hard time in getting his
prisoner into the patrol xvagon.
A long scar xvas found on Zuber's
head. He said it was from an operation
for epilepsy.
COUPLE IN
NASHVILLE’S COURTS
IN EIGHT OVER CHILD
NASH VIELE. TENN.. Aug. 23 - The
case of disorderly conduct and destroy
ing property of others against Mrs. Roy
H. Craig, in the city court, this morning
I was dismissed Mrs. Craig was held to
I ihe state court to answer peace war
-1 rant proceedings instituted by her hus-
I band in the magistrate court
The assault case in the city court
against Craig also xvas dismissed, and he
i was turned over to the state to answer
the charge of assault with intent to com
mit murder.
i Further complications are promised this
afternoon, as the lawyers for Mrs. Craig
are preparing to apply for a habeas cor
pus writ in the move of the mother to
gain possession of her child.
The Craigs say they are from Atlanta
and that a divorce action is pending.
been given over to commerce. Fifth
avenue has been widened, and now
some of the smartest shops are to
be found between Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth streets. Even In
Paris the same thing prevails. The
Rue de la Paix. having been over
run, trade has come Into the aris
tocratic Champs Elysees, and the
old homes of the nobility are
turned into business houses.
Let no one imagine that this is
meant as a criticism of any one—
only of our system. Things ate so
much in need of readjustment that
even a woman can see it.
And let no one take offense at my
remarks on Peachtree street. I
have lived on it for 40 years, and I
yield to none in love of it, but I
want to see It fixed right, and that
means sacrifice all along the line.
But what if It does, so long as xve
make a splendid and beautiful city?
"All success proves partial failure,
AU progress something crushed at
the chariot wheel.”
Nabbed for Not Using
Depot Gates, Misses
Train: Sues for SIO,OOO
Phil W. Davis, Jr., Tries To Go
Under Station to Tracks,
Arrested by Guard.
Arrested as he made his way under the
Terminal station to catch a train, Phil
\V. Davis, Jr., an Atlanta attorney, has
sued the Central of Georgia railway and
the Terminal Company for SIO,OOO.
In an action begun in superior court to
day. Mr. Davis asserts he was arrested
by an employee of the Terminal Company
Monday as he rushed from the Madison
avenue entrance to the Terminal tracks
to catch a Central of Georgia train.
Ho says tlip employee refused to allow
him to pass to the train even though it
was due to leave at that time, but forci
bly escorted him from the place and or
dered to seek an entrance through the
gates.
Because of this delay, he says, he
missed his train.
ERROR FROND IN
INSURANCE Li
Fidelity Companies Are Not In
cluded in Act Which Governs
Risk Business.
Officials of fidelity Insurance compa
nies operating in Georgia made known
to the secretary of state today that
they had played in luck through an
apparent error of the legislative enroll
ing clerk who made the copy of the
general insurance bill which now is the
law.
The enrolled copy on file with the
secretary of state and approved by the
governor does not include fidelity com
panies in section 27 of the bill, as was
originally intended.
Comptroller General Wright, who
drew this section of the act at the be
hest of the inter-session commission
which designed the bill, is authority
for the statement no amendment was
made to this section in either house.
The legislature, he said, hadUfttended
to include fidelity companies in section
27, which requires all form of bonding
companies to deposit $25,000 with the
state treasurer to protect the state on
bonds written for public officials.
Tlte comptroller general recently au
thorized the printing of 200 copies of
the insurance act from amended copies
of the act as approved by both houses
of the legislature. In the comptroller's
printed copies the fidelity companies
are included, but they do not appear in
the enrolled act, which really is the
law.
Officials of local fidelity companies
jumped into the state capitol today
with copies of the printed act. but left
the state house greatly relieved when
they found, upon looking over the en
rolled act, that they sx;ere not included.
This is the first error that has been
discovered in the enrollment of acts of
the 1912 legislature.
Every day is a good day to read the
Want Ad Pages of The Georgian. New
opportunities are there today that did not
exist yesterday.
Oar SHOES
REPAIRED
FREE!
Friday and Saturday, the
Broad St., will repair every tenth pair of Shoes
free of charge, brought to us for half-soling and
heeling. We make this lively bid for your Shoe
Repair work in order to demonstrate the fact
That We Do BETTER WORK
In Less Time
For a SMALLER Charge
Than any other Shoe Repair Shop in Atlanta. Get
your sporting spirit up to the proper pitch now,
and take a throw at the Free Repair game.
- The Shoe Renury -
78 N. Broad St. Bell Phone, Ivy 2310.
Next Door To Cable Hall.
POTTLE-WLES
RACE HERE CLOSE
With Practically Complete Re
turns, Only Four Votes Sepa
rate Judgeship Candidates.
( .Judge Robert Pottle, in practically
complete returns, wins the court of ap-
i peals fight against N. R. Broyles.
I he commissioner of agriculture race
goes to the convention, as no-candi
date has received a majority.
With three counties missing in com-
■ plete form and one missing entirely,
the results seem finally definite.
Completed primary election returns
from 14n counties in a total of 146 give
.John M. Slaton for governor 136 coun
ties, with 344 unit votes In the conven
tion.
The one incompleted county un
i doubtedly has gone to Slaton, making
I his total 137 counties and 346 conven
tion votes.
Joe Hill Hall carried eight counties,
with 20 unit votes, and ha's no chance
in the Incompletefi counties.
Hooper Alexander carried one coun
ty —Ware —with two unit votes, and is
running awa.v bp hi nd in the incom
pleted returns.
The popular vote accorded Slaton is
approximately 99,000; Hall, 23.500, and
Alexander. 36,500. Total, 159.000.
Hall carried Bibb, Dougherty. Dooly,
Baker, Houston. <’rawford, Jones and
Macon, with 20 convention votes.
Completed returfts in 145 counties
give Price for commissioner of agri
culture 53 counties, with 13R conven
tion votes; Blalock 34 counties, with 36
ventiontion votes, and Brown, 58 coun
ties, with 142 convention votes.
This race unquestionably goes to the
’ convention to make a nomination, as
no candidate can possibly ho|>e for a
> majority on the primary returns.
Completed returns from 144 counties
i give Broyles 68 counties, xvith 180 con
t vention votes; Pottle 76 counties, with
s 184 convention votes.
There are 368 votes in the conven-
1 tion, 185 being required to nominate.
i Pottle is leading slightly in the pop
? ular vote.
e The missing counties in the court of
i appeals race are Cfcarleton and Echols.
These counties are unofficially reported
- to have gone for Pottle.
f In the commissioner of agriculture
s rat e, the missing county is Charleton.
» In the Sixth congressional district,
s Bartlett has won out over, Wise by a
t margin of less than 100 votes.
1 In the Third, Crisp has won; in the
? Eleventh. Walker; in the Ninth, Bell,
and in the Tenth. Hardwick.
t The state convention will meet in
' Macon next Wednesday, there to de-'
t dare results, adopt a platform, elect a
i nexx state executive committee and solve I
at least one knotty problem—the nom
inee for commissioner of agriculture.
i Never in the history of the state
I official returns been so tediously slow !
coming in. This is due to the extreme
length of the ticket, and the legal ne->
“ cessity of counting it as a whole and
i as the names appear upon it consecu
tively.
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