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BUILD FOR HAT
GIH. ADVISES
E. P. ANSLEY
‘Makeshift” Municipal Policy
Blamed for Bad Condition of
Streets and Sewers.
Continued From Page One.
sewer and repair work and not
build streets in the city. Street I
work should all be done ->y con
tract by the lowest best bidder. Al!
contractors should be forced to
furnish the material called for by the
specifications. The city should em
ploy mon laborers and fewer bo-s
--es for its work.
Employ the best business man ob
tainable to be chief of construction. I
and let all plans and specifications
for work to be done be drawn by
expert engineers, and contract for
all work strictly under these plans
and specifications.
In addition to aldermen and coun
cilmen. let eich ward select by
written private ballot the best bust- :
ness men In their ward to form an i
advisory board that will be nun
politlcal and hear ail requests for
public improvements to tie made
anywhere in the city, and let this
board recommend to the city coun
cil such work as It approves, after
all necessary estimates of the cost
of same have been obtained.
Makeshift System Now.
In my opinion, the fault with the
present system, if It may lie called
a system, is that It Is only a "make
shift,'' and public improvements,
where undertaken at all are done
by "piecemeal,” which is not only
unsatisfactory, but very much more
expensive- than if these matters
were handled on a business basis.
The city should adopt a definite
progressive- policy and work to that
end. The streets located in the
center of the city should be brought
to their proper grades at .the ear
liest possible moment, and this
could be done at u comparatively
moderate expense.
Building limits should also be es
tablished on streets where it is
deemed advisable to widen the
present street and an agreement
obtained from the property owners
to conform to this building limit
in the erection of all future struc
tures.
As an illustration of the present
"piecemeal" method. 1 will mention
tile following cases:
1. .Mitchell street was regraded
three times before it was brought to
its present level.
2. Edgewood avenue was regrad
ed at a large expense to both the
city and county on two different oc
casions before it was brought to its
present grade.
3. Hunter and Forsyth streets
have been regraded twice, and the
new grade now being established on
Forsyth street Is from three to five
feet ton low.
1 Whitehall street was widened
and regraded at a very large- ex
pense to the city and county a few
years ago, and by reason of im
proper grade being placed on the
street, the residents of that section
of the city are clamoring to have
the street regraded.
The Peachtree Example.
5. The city and county are now
engaged in grading and widening
one block on Peachtree from Har
ris to Baker, and grading Baker
street and West Feacntree street to
conform to this new grade. While
this is a much needed improve
ment. It is a very small part of
what should have been done.
Peachtree street should be graded
from the Grand opera house to
Harris street, and the- street wid
ened. as is being done on the next
block. This can be- done now at a
very much less cost than it ever
can be done in the future, because
it is only a mutter of a short time
until permanent structures will be
erected on this part of the street.
The only building in the way now
is the Aragon hotel, and it will be
a comparatively easy matter to ar
cade the front of that for the side
walk
Atlanta is one of the easiest
drained cities in the Unite.l States,
being located on a high ride with
creeks and branches running in all
directions away from it. and yet in
spite of this fa. t, its sew er sy stem
is now in a deplorable condition.
Years ago. before Atlanta had
reached anything like its p cent
size, a :■ *i’ was nloptcd
which would : «’babl\ hav» been
adequate foi a \i hut which
can be with a
large city, that is the singb «ew • r
s\st«ni. where surfa«« water and
> initaty sewag* all go t<>u- th.•*.
The difficulty is that with . up-\
paved the volume of surfa« p water
which flow ** into the i* I
largely Increased, and as a con«<»-
«iuenee sewers have to be . >n
fctrueted of such magnitude f-at it
..- veiy expensive to extend hem
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Kteiy trunk s<w<r in Atlanta I ,•
a blanch tinning through It. at.'
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York.
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111 cases of heavy rains those sew
ers art taxed to their utmost ca
pacity to carry surface water. Sev
eral of these ’large trunk sewers •
now empty Inside the city limits,
an<i when the bond issue was
passed some three years ago it
was stated that one of the main
purposes of this bond Issue was to
relieve that situation and dispose
of this sewage. In an effort to do
this a plan was adopted to estab
lish sewage disposal plants near
the city to take care of all the sew -
age, and to carry the sanitary sew
age from the ends of The present
large trunk sewers to 'these dis
posai plants in reduction pipes, in
locating these disposal plants they
were located so near the city that
they will not only interfere with
the extension of the city, but in or
der to convey the sewage to these
plants at the proper level the re
duction pipes were placed at such a
high level that a Inigo part of the
sewage can not flow into these re
duction pipes.
A trunk sewer has been laid on (
Central avenue at a cost of approx
imately JRB.OOO, which, It Is stated. I
is of practically no value to the
city, because It has been Improp
erly laid.
Remedy in Double System.
All of this means that before the
cltx of Atlanta can get a satisfac
tory sewer system It will be forced
to adopt the modern double sys
tem. separating the sanitary sewage
from the surface water.
" Ith these groat problems before
it, the city should employ an expert
engineer, capable of handling the
Situation, to direct the work, and,
if a proper selection is made, the
vitt will he saved many times the
< 1 -st of bls services.
The present oflicials seem to he
unable to cope with the situation,
and, in my judgment, it is time
some action is taken along the lines
suggested.
EDWIN P ANSLEY.
Amorous Not Ready
To Run; Hits Charter
Complaints about the bad condition of;
Atlanta streets continue to come into The I
Georgian office from all t>arts of the city. '
Cit> officials arc charged with neglect I
and dilly dallying while many thorough- !
tares remain torn up or badly in need of
repairs
Dr Robin \dalr, In a letter received
today ixdnts out the unfit condition of
North Boulevard and the utter inability
of protesting residents to get action.
Hero is his letter.
Editor Georgian As you have sev
eral times championed the cause of
g ■<! streets in Atlanta. I wish to cull
tour attention to what Is probably
”• wore- abused street in the city of 1
i I reset to North Boulevard, which
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. 1912.
Mrs. J. B. Harriman, of New
York’s “400.” Real Booster
for Governor.
T. R.’s Bull Moose party has no mo
nopoly on the fall’ feminine support.
Since the notification of Governo l
Wilson, several of the nation’s most
prominent women have come to the
front with a rush in support of the
Democratic party. Further than that,
they propose to take the stump and
keep it throughout the campaign.
In New York, the New Jersey gov
ernor has no more ardent supporter
than Mrs. ,1. Borden Harriman, presi
dent of the fashionable Colony club and
member of the "406." Mis. Harriman
thinks Wilson and talks the same doc
trine.
Nor is she averse to getting up in a
crowd of men and going to it in good
old campaign fashion. This was pi overt
I only a few days ago w hen she ad
dressed a big noon day meeting in
| Union square. New York.
I Another New York woman who is a
warm supporter of the Democratic par
ty is Mi’s J. B. Eustiee. In the West
Governor Wilson is being sponsored by
Gertrude Atherton, the novelist In
Georgia Mrs W 11. Kelton and Mrs.
Helen D. Longstreet are among Teddy’s
most valiant supporters.
has been torn up for three months,
from .North avenue to Highland.
While other sections of the city are
suffering, from personal investigation
and In hearing others talk. I do not
think that there is any section in At
lanta undergoing the inconveniences
that the residents of this street have
been subjected to. and that without
any real excuse
Practically Impassable.
If you will lake the trouble to ride
in a machine over the so-called street,
, you would find it practically impassa
ble I approached our councilman on
this se.bjeet. who informed me that it
did not make any difference to him
what the people out there thought
about it The street railway claims
it can not get the brick to tinisii the
street with. This seems to be a re
flection on our street authorities, that
they would let the trucks be torn up
without some assurance that mate
rial could be procured with which to
finish the job
They certainly should find out about
the brick before tearing up the street
On the other hand, the citizens out
there have petitioner! the street rail
way for other than brick, ami it would
be an easy matter to put down as
phalt. wood blocks, or stone cubes
Not one single lick of work has been
struck on this street for throe weeks,
thus greatly inconveniencing not only
the residents on this street, but pre
venting traffic from other parts of the
city which would come this way were
the street passable
The citizens of our street have been
beating tins burden up to this time
, quietly, but w« must have some relief. |
and w lii appreciate any tiling you can
do for us along this line \\ e ver
t.iinlv think in the future, tin men
; who luv e the matter tn charge w uhl
se< b. fen tint street Is lorn up t .it
there would b< a certain hngi'i a I
time g|v> ■ in wlm II t - rei’l.o - bricks
and tix it m a passable . mdttion
Thankli g mu tot any publicity you
m«' give thß situation, and hoping
•I- it S me sentt-1 . nt may be at. u.-< I,
, 1 am, I'll If 'BIN ADAIR
LaFollette Asks
WhereT.R.GetsCoini
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Senator R.
M. LaFollette xjn an editorial in his
weekly today again scores Roosevelt.
This time it is in connection with the
publicity campaign contributions. In
• felling to Roosevelt's speech of Au
gust 6 delivered in Chicago LaFollette
"Ho called his speech his 'Confes
sion of Faith,’ Much interest would
have been added by making It also a
confession of FACTS, pertaining to the
contributions to his campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination.
"The public knows that he spent an
enormous amount et money in that
campaign. In some states, as in Ohio,
for example, it has been estimated that
not less than $300,000 was expended to
secure delegates for him. Go where
you would through this country in that
campaign, it was common talk that
'there was all kinds of Roosevelt money
every w hei e.’
"It is generally believed that his
money was in large part the unlawful
spoils of trusts, which thrived by spe
cial favor at the- expense of the people
under the Roosevelt administration.
Campaign contributions of such magni
tude are made by those who have big
interests to serve. They are ‘practical’
business men and expect big favors in
return.
"When the presence of money in the
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Mrs. J. 15. Eustice listening to speakers in Union Square,
New York.
Roosevelt campaign for the Republican
nomination became so glaringly sus
picious there was a general Impression
that -to quote the words of his recent
convention speech—'there should be
publicity of campaign contributions
luring the campaign.
"He was accordingly invited to make
such a statement. He did not tespond
to that invitation
"Interest in the matter has In no de
gree abated. Until he makes a clean
breast of th financing of his last cam
paign his Chicago declaration for pub
lication of contributions in this cam
paign is an insult to public intelli
gence."
Boost for T. R.,
Says Dixon
CHICAGO. Aug. 21.—A boost for the
i au.se of Theodore Roosevelt was seen
by his campaign manager. Senator Jo
seph M. Dixon, in the Penrose-Archbold
disclosures concerning the Republican
campaign fund of 1904. Dixon read the
testimony ear- fully as it was conveyed
in news dispatches hero and said it all
pleased him.
"The testimony demonstrates the ne
cesslty of div ucing big business from
politics." said Dixon "Colonel Roose
velt's letter- show conclusively that he
had nothing to do with the contribu
tions that may have hen made by tlie
Standard Oil Company Penrose and
his crowd are destroying themselves by
their statements."
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MED DUE TO
EICK OF POTASH
Disease Caused by Methods of
Preparing Foods, Declares
Physician.
LONDON, Aug. 24.—“ The treatment
for cancer is easy for any doctor who
is qualified to administer castor oil and
to perform a surgical operation.’’ sdid
Dr. Forbes Ross, lecturing at the Eus
tace Miles Restaurant on "Cancer —Is
the Problem Solved?”
He argued that the disease was due
to the deficiency of potassium salts in
the body, owing to the popular cus
tom of pouring away the Juices of cook
ed vegetables which contain potash and
other valuable natural salts.
“While lime, magnesium and sodium.”
he said, "are to be found in practically
every form of food, potassium was often
absent, and the English fashion of cook
ing results in people eating ’muck
minus minerals.’
"Fifty years ago 500 women and 200
men per million died of cancer, and to
day the figures are 1,000 and 800 re
spectively.
"The savage never suffers from the
disease, nor did the negro and other
native rgees, until they began to cook
in ’white man' fashion. Food ought to
be cooked conservatively and eaten
with the natural juices.
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SUEZ CANAL’S RATES
WILL BE REDUCED TO
EQUAL PANAMA TOLL
WASHINGTON, -Aug. 24. —A rate
war, which might involve all the mari
time nations of the world and which
would revolve about the Suez and Pan
ama canals, is predicted in Washington
by officials who have watched the de
velopment of world interest in the Pan
ama canal bill now awaiting approval
of President Taft.
According to the report that reached
the state department, the directorate of
the Suez canal has decided to reduce
rates through the canal.
In official circles this notice was re
garded as the first retaliatory step
against the free tolls provision for
American ships through the Panama
canal.
The announcement of the proposed
I reductions through Suez appeared in
inconspicuous notices in American
newspapers. The notice which aroused
so much interi st was to the effect that,
after the first of next year, the transit
dues in the Suez canal will be reduced
50 centimes, bringing the toll for load
ed ships down to 6.25 frahes.
This is the precise equivalent to the
$1.25 maximum tolls which the Panama
canal act prescribes for vessels passing
through that waterway.
Flying Men Fall
victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles just like other people, with
like results in loss of appetite, back
ache, nervousness, headache, and tired,
listless, run down feeling. But there's
no need to feel like that, as T. D. Pee
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MAILFLIRTATIONS
DNTHEDECREASE
New General Delivery Rule
Causes Many Girls to Drop
Secret Love Affairs.
Flirtations by mail have taken an
awful slump in Atlanta since the in
troduction of a series of questions
which are asked every person who calls
at the general delivery for mail.
For a number of years the postoffice
corridors in Atlanta and in other cities
have been thronged with girls who were
carrying on clandestine correspondence
and who had their letters directed to
general delivery in order to evade the
watchful care of their parents. Post
masters all over the country com
plained of the matter, and among the
first to take up its correction with the
postmaster general was Postmaster H.
L. McKee of the Atlanta office, who
finally Received authority to compile a
series of questions to ask each appli
cant for mail.
This plan recently was started and
the series of questions included the age,
occupation, street address, name of
parents, in case of minors, and a spe
cific reason for using this window.
"That last question, a specific reason
for using this window, has proved a
■feazer’ to many girls, and especially to
the younger and more innocent ones.”
says D, C. Cole, assistant postmaster,
who Is In charge in the absence of
Postmaster McKee.
"Many of the girls have succeeded in
giving answers so that we are com
pelled binder the postal laws to deliver
their mail, but the clerks tell me that
numbers of familiar faces have dropped
from sight. This is especially true of
the younger ones, and that is the kind
we want to reach. We want to stop
them before they get too far from out
of their parents' influence.”
INSANE MOTHER AND BABES
LIVE FIVE DAYS IN A TREE
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Robert Walu
nick, six years old, and his six-months
old baby sister, whose home for five
days had been a hollow tree, are being
tenderly cared to: at a West Pullman
orphanage today. Their clothing
drenched by recent rah s, almost fam
ished, and their only guardian a mother
whose insanity transformed her into a
wild woman of the forest, the children
were discovered late last night by the
police, much in the same manner as
were the children whose discovery by
revolutionary bands is told in Victor
Hugo's "Ninety-Three.”
The mother and her children had
been missing for five days. When the
babes in the wood were discovered by
the police their mother fought with the
ferocity of an animal to prevent their
being taken from her.
HAMMER~STEIN ISOFFERED
MILLION FOR A THEATER
LONDON, Aug. 24.—An English syn
dicate’headed by Max Rasinoff has
cabled Oscar Kammerstein an offer of
$1,000,000 for his London opera house.
The syndicate made a deposit of $410,-
000 as an evidence of good faith.
GIRL HIT BY BULLET AS
CAR RUNS OVER A SHELL
PITTSBURG, Aug. 24.—Walking
along the strict. Ethel Levine, seven
years old, was struck by a bullet from
a cartridge exploded when a trolley car
passed over it.
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TO DE GALLED AS •
WITK
Wants to Answer Archbold’s
Statement Before Campaign
Probing Committee.
Continued From Page One, ~
Mr. Archbold never brought up any
statement of this kind.
Wicked Assault
On Dead Man.
“He now says that Mr. Bliss warned
him that he was making a serious mis- <
take in not . contributing the extra
amount of money and that later on
when the administration began to deal
with the Standard Oil people, Mr. Bliss ’
said it would have been different if they
had clone as he asked him. r
"This is an assertion that Mr. Bliss
was deliberately trying to blackmail
the Standard Oil Company into con
tributing by scarcely veiled threats as
to what would happen If they did not
contribute, and that Mr. Bliss, In ef
fect, told them afterward that If they
had contributed the administration
would not have proceeded against
them for violating the law—for this
was all the administration did. >
"This is a wicked assault on a dead
man whose high standing and probity
was such that no human being who was
himself honest would ever impute evil
motives to him. Mr. Bliss was incapa
ble of conduct such as Mr. Archbold
imputes to him. And I can not too
strongly denounce the baseness of mak
ing such an attack upon an honorable
man who is now dead and whom Mr
Archbold never ventured to assail while
living. |
"Moreover, Mr. Archbold shows per- f
fectly clearly, as published reports say
that his corporation had contributed in
order to get value for its gift and that
the gift was made with the expectation
of receiving improper consideration.
"I do not for one moment believe
that Mr. Bliss made any such remarks
to Mr. Archbold, as Mr. Archbold says
For example. Mr. Archbold states that
he and the late H. H. Rogers visited me
at the white house and that I then re
marked to them that there had been
some criticism about campaign contri
butions. This Is a falsehood. Neither f
on that occasion nor on any other occa
sion was one word said, either by me to
Mr. Archbold or by Mr. Archbold to me
about campaign contributions.
Archbold Tried to
Stop Prosecutions. /•
"Mr. Rogers and Mr. Archbold called
on that occasion to protest against any
government action being taken against
tlie Standard Oil Company. This was
one of a number of calls which Mr.
Archbold made on me to try to prevent
acting against the Standard Oil Com
pany by the bureau of corporations un
der the department of the interior and
by the department of Justice. If Mr -
Archbold had really believed that Mr.
Bliss had told him that I knew of any
contribution by Standard Oil or had
felt that he was jeopardized by having
refused to make a contribution, or was z
entitled to immunity’ for having made
one, he would certainly in one of those
calls have said as much. He never
bioached the subject.
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