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STREETS REFORM
PLAN TAKEN UP
DE COUNCIL
Reorganization of Construction
, Department Considered at
Meeting Today.
i
Leader s of council met today and
agreed upon a program of reorganiza
tion of the chief of construction depart
ment which they will submit to council
this afternoon. Aidermen John S. Can
dler. James R. Nutting, Councilman Al
dine Chambers and Claude C. Mason
■were among the aggressors in the
movement, and after a conference in
the city attorney's office they were con
fident that the plan would be adopted
by council.
The program is to broaden the quali
fications for the office so that a busi
ness man as well as an engineer will be
eligible and to prescribe that he shall
work under the direction of council.
The chief of construction is still to be
elected by the people, but the number of
assistants he is to have will not be de
termined until next year’s budget is
made up. Other details of reorganiza
tion will be left to whomever is named
chief of construction in the fall elec
tion and tile city council.
To Broaden Qualifications.
The present qualifications are that a
man to hold the office must be an engi
neer of ten years' experience. He is
elected by the people and is practically
independent of council. The charter
specifies that he shall have four assis
tants. This gives the chief of construc
tion an opportunity to make up a ticket
before running before the people, and,
it i.\ charged, is too strong an influence
in favor of political appointments.
While other plans have been suggest
ed, it is believed th n t the one agreed
upon today will be adopted.
Councilman Aldine ('hambc'S said to
day that with the changes made by the
charter amendment bill and the im
provements he was confident the coun
cil would make in the chief of construc
tion department. Atlanta’s street im
provement system would be thoroughly
reorganized for greater efficiency.
Not only are these reforms assured,
but as a result of The Georgian’s cam
paign for better streets, better streets
has become a platform plank of the
numerous candidates for mayor and
council. This plank is sure to stand at
the head of the program of next yea '»
administration.
• The council, through the recent char
ter amendment, has authority to make
any changes except that the head of
i the department still must be elected by
the people.
The other charter amendments af
fecting street improvements, already in
effect, are:
That council and not the property
owners shall have the authority to de
termine the character of paving for a
street, and that council shall have the
authority to condemn any street or
sidewalk or new paving at any time it
sees fit.
The fact that the property owners
pay two-thirds of the cost of the pav
ing and the character of pavement to
be used is left to the property owners
has been one of the principal causes
for delay, it is said.
Wilmor Moore Give* Suggestions.
That the council shall requa-i op
erty owners to make all pipe connec
tions before a street is pavetl. If the
property owners, neglect to make the
connections the city will make them
and assess the property owners for the
cost. This will prevent the past system
of cutting up paved streets.
That guttering shall be put down
along with curbing to prevent the curb
ing from washing away. This cost has
always been assessed against the prop
erty owners, but the guttering was not
put down until the street was paved.
There is ten miles of curbing laid in
the city now which has no guttering
to protect it in times of rains.
Wilmer Moore, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, gave these sug
gestions for reforms today:
By WILMER MOORE.
A spirit of civic awakening is
arousing an interest tn the ques
tion of city planning, or replanning.
This is a fixed plan by which the
city, in all of its municipal im
provements, discontinues the vague
efforts of working along Indefinite
lines. This is not altogether a
question of the development of the
•■City Beautiful." but its purposes
are fundamental It provides fa
cilities that are for common good,
serves everybody, develops all sec
tions, and seeks to save waste in
, both time and money. It elimi
nates the possibility of favoritism,
and the development of certain re
stricted areas or sections for the
benefit of the influential individ
uals It is a practical method of
building the modern progressive
town or city. It is no new thought
or method, but has been adopted
by many of the European oities for
more than 100 years.
• Other Cities Spending Big Sums.
As Atlanta continues to grow and
expand It will be necessary for us
to spend larger sums in order to
correct the mistakes which we have
made In the past, due largely to the
lack of funds in the hands of the
niunicipalllv at the time the origi
nal work was done, and also to lack
of vision as to Atlanta’s greatness
and future growth and Importance
Chicago has a plan which calls
f, r an expenditure of over $250,-
’ mu, <iao, Baltimore $13,000,000, t'leve-
J and 120,0<>0.000, H< iltie 115,000,000,
l s ,<‘lt> 11 J.ooo,‘too, Han Fran
«»< u, Lx Holl and St. Louis «»< h
Dr. Matheson Resents Slurs on Colleges
TRAINED MEN NEEDED IN DIXIE
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the demand for college-trained men far exceeds the supply.
Becomes Insane on His W edding Day
ASKS TO BE LOCKED UP
Almost prostrated with anxiety and
fears as to the fate of A. Hurst, of
Griffin, whom she married last Thurs
day afternoon and who has been strange
ly missing since the ceremony was per
formed, a girlish bride today learned
that he is a prisoner in the police station,
held as a lunatic. It is thought that ex
citement over the wedding may have tem
porarily unbalanced his mind.
Within a few hours after he and the
girl, whose home is in a fashionable
suburb, had been married by Dr. Virgil
Norcross, Hurst approached Policeman
Hardy at Broad and Marietta streets, and
calmly remarked:
“Officer, I wish you would lock me up.
I’m crazy, and I'm afraid to be at large.”
Officer Hardy, who had noticed that
the man was acting queerly and had been
watching him. told him he was just think
ing of locking him up anyway. He then
sent Hurst to the police station, where
he has since been held in a cell while the
police were seeking information concern
ing him.
It developed today that Hurst and his
bride, immediately following the wedding,
left the home of the minister and boarded
a trolley car. When they arrived down-
Johnson Off on
Campaign Tour
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 26. Governor
Hiram W. Johnson left here today to
begin his campaign as vice presidential
candidate of the Bull Moose party. The
governor will speak tonight in Los An
geles. At midnight he will take a train
for the East. His first stop will be
Salt Lake City. Utah, where the second
address of the trip will be delivered. He
is accompanied by A. L. McCabe, his
private secretary.
James Cordell.
James Cordell, 90 years old. died at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs. Josie At
kinson, 65 Alamo avenue, just before noon
today. Mr. Cordell resided with his
daughter. The funeral arrangements have
not been made.
and so on down to as
small place as Roanoke, Va.
We have an illustration of the
piecemeal work done and now be
ing done in Atlanta in Spring and
Luckie streets, and the proposed
work on Ivy street and West
Peachtree, also on Peachtree. If
the city would, at an expenditure
of $2,000 to $5,000, have an able
and experienced man. such as Olm
stead or Burnham, visit the city
and make a general survey and
then employ them for complete
plans and specifications In the
couise of 10 to 25 years Atlanta
would be made on* of the most
beautiful cities In the country and
that, too. possible at a smillei ex
p*ndl.tute than «■ m* now wasting
1 on pkcenivul work. ,
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1912.
town. Hurst gave his bride a transfer,
put another car. and told her
to return to her home; that he would
join her there at “6 o’clock.” That was
the last seen by the girl of him.
Instead of joining his bride, Hurst took
up his stand in the entrance to a drug
store near Broad and Marietta streets.
His actions soon aroused the suspicions
of the druggist, who notified Officer
Hardy and asked him to watch the
stranger. Hardy at once determined that
something was wrong with the man, and
had just decided to take him into cus
tody when Hurst announced that he was
crazy and requested that he be confined.
Hurst's father, George 1> Hurst, arrived
in Atlanta today and immediately called
at the. police station. He said he would
take his son back to Griffin during the
day to have his sanity investigated.
Hurst could not be tried here for lunacy,
as he is a citizen of another county.
The tragic turn of the romance is such
a severe blow to the girl that she is hys
terical. Members of the family and close
friends are using every effort to console
and comfort her. She and Hurst, it is
understood, had been sweethearts fnr a
long time. Both she and Hurst are prom
inently connected.
LYMAN ABBOTT AND
STAFF (T. R. ISON IT)
BRANDED HERETICS
WINONA LAKE. IND.. Aug. 26
charges interpolated in a sermon by
Rev. Mark A. Matthews, moderator of
the Presbyterian general assembly, that
Rev. Lyman Abbott and his associate
editors of The Outlook are heretics, har
created wide discussion here today.
Rev. Mr. Matthews’ charge was drop
ped into a sermon on the fruits of the
resurrection of Christ. Theodore Roose
velt is an associate editor of The Out
look.
“Perhaps some of you young minis
ters study The Outlook." he said, "and
think yourselves very wise. If ever
there was a publication by a heretic,
The Outlook is that sheet. It is edited
by a bunch of heretics. If you con
tinue to read it you will have theologi
cal meningitis, sociological neuritis and
political gastritis.
"The publication is under the ban of
the pure food law because it never had
a baked article in It nor an unadulter
ated one.” •
M, S. HUIE NOMINATED
FOR THE STATE SENATE
M S Huie, of Clayton, formally was
nominated for senator to succeed John
M. Slaton as member from the Thirty
fifth district by the regular district sen
atorial convention, assembled In room
401, Kimball house, at noon today.
Mr. Huie was a member of the last
I house, and was named by Clayton to be
|'■enutor, without opiai'ltioii.
Tech Head Declares There
Always Is Place in Business
for College Graduates.
Demand for college trained men
throughout the South is greater that,
the supply by a tremendous ratio, de
clared Dr. K. G. Matheson, president
of Georgia Tech, before he left Atlanta
for a brief visit to Culver. Ind., prepar.
atory to the opening of the regular ses
sion of his school.
The declaration was made when his
attention was called to a statement
made by Dr. Orison Swett Warden, of
New York, before the Southern Cali
fornia university that the entire pres
ent-day system of college education is
wrong and that the colleges of today
do not fit men for the battle of life.
Dr. Marden said:
"The average college graduate goes
out in the world carrying under his
arm his diploma as an insurance policy
against failure. Instead of being fitted
to fight a man’s battle in a man s
world, he is a weakling. Colleges year
ly turn out graduates who are helpless
citizens —men who, despite their edu
cation. fit into sls a week niches for
years before they are advanced in
stead of producing men who are fitted
upon graduation to do real work and
hold responsible positions.
Scores of Appeals For Men.
"This shows how manifestly unfair
this statement is." and Dr. Matheson
turned to his desk and drew out a
drawer labeled "positions for gradu
ates." A score of letters were con
tained in the package.
“These are applications from business
and industrial firms and institutions,”
said Die Tech president, "asking me to
send them men to fill positions of re
sponsibility. These applications here
were left after every graduate of Tech
of this year had been provided with a
place. I didn’t have enough men to fill
this demand.
“I take it that the same is true of
practically every Southern school and
largely true of the Northern institu
tions.
“The South is making tremendous
progress from an industrial point of
view, and these industries are looking
for trained, college equipped leaders.
The figures -vill prove that, despite the
comparatively few men in this section
who receive college educations, there
are far more college men at the head of
these industries than men who did not
receive college training.
Leaders in Public Life.
“The same is true of the leaders in
public life also. I don’t necessarily
mean the politicians, but a great per
centage of the political leaders are col
lege men. Law. medicine and all the
kindred professions are being led by
graduates of institutions of higher edu
cation.
"Now. I must say that the old system
of education along purely classical lines
has its drawbacks. When a young man
has completed four years in high school
and four years in college and goes out
in the world he ought to be equipped
with something more definite than is
given him by the old system. I do not
decry' its value.
“The foundation it gives is absolute
ly necessary for success in any profes
sion. The point I make, that while this
foundation is being obtained the stu
dent should be getting it with a defi
nite alm. I am glad to see that this is
being done In most of our Southern uni
versities.
"I believe that the time Is coming
when classical and technical education
will march hand in hand. It is doing it
to a degree now. When this system is
perfected there can be no harping on
the uselessness of college education
such as the statement of Dr. Marden."
| DEATHS AND FUNERALS |
E. A. Perry.
E. A. Perry, aged 67 years, died early
today' at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. L. B. Coley, 118 Richardson street.
The funeral will be conducted tomor
row morning at 10:30 o’clock at the res
idence, with interment jn Westview. Mr.
Perry is survived by' two daughters and
three sons.
Miss Huida Walts.
The funeral of Miss Huida Waits, 72
years old, who died yesterday morning,
was held at the residence. 90 Ira street,
shortly after 3 o’clock today. Interment
will he at Oakland cemetry.
Miss Lorena Armstrong.
The body of Miss Lorena Armstrong. 48
years old. who died at Clarkston. Ga Sat
urday. was taken from Barclay <? Bran
don’s chapel today to Norwood, Ga , where
the funeral will be held She is survived
by two sisters and one brother.
Mrs Annie McDade.
Awaiting the arrival of a daughter from
Baltimore, funeral arrangements for Mrs
Annie McDade, who died at a sanitarium
yesterday, have not been completed. Mrs.
Prank Ray, the daughter. Is expected In
Atlanta tomorrow morning
Mrs. Emma J. Reiss.
The body of Mrs. Emma J. Reiss, wife
of W. W. Reiss, of 80 Ira street, who died
late yesterday, is at Barclay & Brandon s
chapel awaiting the arrival of relatives
from Birmingham. Mrs. Reiss is survived
by her husband and three small children.
J. A. Redwine.
J. A. Redwine, 60 years old, of No. 566
Central avenue, is dead at his residence.
He had been in bad health for several
weeks and died last night. Three chil
dren, A J.. L. J. and Miss Elizabeth Red
wine. survive him.
Z. T. Haley.
The funeral of Z. T. Haley, who lived at
Cross Roads, near Atlanta, was held at
the Sardis church at 1 o'clock this after
noon Interment was in the church yard.
Mr Haley died Saturday.
Mrs. Caroline Werber.
Mrs Caroline Werber. 75 years old. of
42 York avenue, died there today. She
was a widow with two sons, A. <’. and
C. A. Werber The latter is purchasing
agent of the Atlanta Gas company. The
funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock in Patterson’s chapel Inter
ment will be in Westview cemetery
S. J. Butler.
S .1 Butler, who resided on the Brown s
.Mill road near \tlania. died at his home
ilils morning He It survived hy a son.
three daiigliteis and his widow The twaly
will he carried to Roewell. Ga tomorrow
morning at 7 u'cliak for interment.
BROYLES-POTTLE
TIETODEADLDGK
CONVENTION
Should the Popular Vote De
cide the Winner. Atlanta
Man Would Lose.
With the certainty of a deadlock in
the state convention at Macon Wednes
day in the matter of the court of ap
peals nomination, politicians already
are beginning to speculate as to the
final outcome.
Broyles and Pottle each will go into
the convention with exactly 184 unit
votes to his credit.
Pottle has 1,762 the advantage over
Broyles in the popular vote, however,
and in four the number of counties car
ried.
Pinal and complete returns were not
received from all counties until late
Saturday night.
The commissionership of agriculture
also goes to the convention, neither
Brown. Price nor Blalock having a ma
jority, which is necessary to nominate.
Popular Vote May Decide.
Tn the court of appeals race, both
candidates. Broyles and Pottle, will go
into the convention backed by delega
tions composed of their known friends
in the various counties carried bt each.
There is no established rule or prece
dent to fall back upon in deadlocks of
this kind, but the executive committee
of tile state did provide that in certain
cases a plurality of the popular vote
should decide the winner of a nomina
tion. porvided a majority of the unit
vote was not shown for any candidate
in these races.
If that test should be applied in the
Broyles-Pottle contest. Pottle would
win, for he received 84,25 7 popular
votes, as against 82,495 for his adver
sary.
Pottle also overlapped Broyles in the
number of counties carried, winning 76
against the Atlanta man’s 71.
It is further pointed out by Pottle’s
friends that the nomination of Judge
Pottle, in the circumstances, would
leave things as they have been —Judge
Broyles safe and snug in his position
of city recorder of Atlanta and Judge
Pottle safe and snug in his position of
appeals court judge. Curiously enough,
too. both positions pay the same sala
ry, $4,000 per annum.
Believe Pottle Has Shade.
Judge Pottle's friends also call at
tention to the fact that had the electoral
vote been counted under the present
apportionment, rather than under the
new apportionment yet to go into ef
fect. Judge Pottle would have won out
over Judge Broyles by ten convention
or unit, votes.
On the surface of things, therefore,
the politicians are figuring today that
Pottle has a shade the better of it, al
though they admit, without question,
that there is nothing binding upon the
convention in any of these suggestions.
The convention may, in its final wis
dom. reject, if it likes, both Broyles and
Pottle, but the trend of talk is decidedly
unfavorable to the suggestion of a
"dark horse." The convention alone
has authority over the nomination now.
Judge Broyles is not in the city' to
day, and Judge Pottle did not care to
discuss the status of affairs, further
than to express his satisfaction that a
definite result seemed to have been
arrived at, in so far as the primary out
come is concerned.
Georgian Gave Pottle Hope.
Had it not been for The Georgian’s
failure ever to admit unequivocally the
nomination of Broyles over him, Judge
Pottle likely would have conceded his
defeat to Judge Broyles Saturday.
"The other papers insisted so posi
tively, and upon such good authority,
apparently, that Judge Broyles had
won,” said Judge Pottie today, “that I
had about concluded to send my con
gratulations and best wishes to my At
lanta adversary, and let it at that.
”1 believed I had a chance either to
win by a narrow margin or tie the race,
but the newspapers of Atlanta stood
two to one against that idea, and it
looked, by the rule of preponderating
evidence, as If I were out of the run
ning.
"The Georgian, however, persistently
refused—or failed—to admit my defeat.
It stuck to it that 1 might tie the race,
anyway, although it did say that if two
unofficially returned counties went
against me 1 was defeated.
"The Georgian had been so accurate
in its forecasts on the governorship race
that I concluded it surely must know
what it was talking about in the court
of appeals race, and that my chance for
either a nomination or a tie, however
seemingly slim, was worth waiting for
and hoping for.
No Feeling, He Sayi.
"Besides, the Georgian’s attitude,
while utterly impersonal, as I realized,
coincided with some information of my
own. not in accord with the statements
of other papers.
"Therefore. 1 reversed my original
notion to concede my defeat, and held
my peace.
"I have no feeling in the matter, and
have had none. I merely thought the
truth should be established.
Closest R»ce in State History.
The Georgian, upon its own figures
and rejecting all others, In its noon and
home editions of Saturday, suggested
the likelihood of a tie in the court of
appeals race.
Seemingly. Broyles had it by four
unit votes, provided the two counties
unofficially returned to The Georgian as
having gone for Broyles really went to
Broyles.
Saturday night, however, one of these
counties was found not to have gone to
Broyles. The result then was a tie. or a
narrow margin of victory for Pottle,
When finally the other county was
reported officially as having gone to
Broyles, the result —a tie—became ab
solutely definite.
Never before in Georgia has a race
been sn closely contested us was this
one. and nwei before was the exact
apd precise result so difficult to deter,
mine.
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You will be surprised at the rapid
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GANGER DOE TO ~
LACK OF POTASH
Disease Caused by Methods of
Preparing Foods, Declares
Physician.
LONDON. Aug. 26. —"The treatment
for cancer is easy for any doctor who
is qualified to administer castor oil and
to perform a surgical operation," said
Dr. Forbes Ross, lecturing at the Eus
tace Miles Restaurant on "Cancer—ls
, the Problem Solved?"
He argued that the disease was due
i 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.
i "While lime, magnesium and sqdium.’’
• he said, "are to he 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
I 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 races until they began to cook
in ’white man’ fashion. Food ought to
I be cooked conservatively and eaten
■ with the natural Juices.
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; OHIO CAPITAL’S BIRTH
TO BE REPRODUCED IN
SERIES OF PAGEANTS
COLUMBUS, OHIO. Aug. 26.—The
most spectacular and imposing series
of pageants ever staged in the mid-
I die West will be witnessed during the
Ohio-Columbus centennial celebration.
, which opened today to mark the 100th
anniversary of the establishment of a
, permanent capital in Ohio.
What is said to be the greatest his
torical tableaux ever attempted will be
seen on the second, third and fourth
days of the centennial entitled "The
Story of the State.” It will depict
scenes of the old northwest territory
and Ohio from the day of the mound
builders to the present
Thursday will be "Federal day," with
President Taft as the guest of honor.
Chief Justice White, of the United
States supreme court; Justices Hughes
and Day, former Judge Alton B. Par
ker, of New York; former Vice Presi
dent Fairbanks and the governors of
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon
sin also are scheduled to be present.
CARUSO IS INDIGNANT AT
POSTPONEMENT OF SUIT
MILAN, Aug. 26.—Caruso is thor
oughly indignant over the postpone
ment until next winter of the trial of
the defamation of character suit he is
pressing against Signorita Giachettl, the
contralto: his ex-chauffeur, Rotnati,
and Achille Loria, the New York
theatrical agent. Signorita Giachetti
cabled from Buenos Ayres she could not
be in Italy before October or November.
AUGUSTA COMPLAINS OF
NEW VEGETABLE RATES
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—The Cham
ber of Commerce of Augusta, Ga., today
, complained to the Interstate commerce
commission of rates over the 8., R and
P. railroad on cabbages, apples, onions
and potatoes. It is charged a new
schedule advanced the old rates on these
commodities from New' York city to
, Augusta three cents a hundred pounds.
TO PROBE HOOKWORM.
BRUNSWICK, GA.. Aug 26.—Dr. T.
. T. Abercrombie has been detailed from
the field department of the state board
of health to hold a five weeks investi
gation of the hookworm problem in
. Camden county. Dr. Abercrombie will
begin his campaign on October 15 and
will direct his work principally to the
’ children In the rural schools.
TO TRY PLAINVILLE RIOTERS.
CALHOUN. GA.. Aug, 26.—A heavy
criminal docket awaited the opening of
the Gordon county superior court to
day. Besides a large number of civil
cases. Including five divorce suits, there
are 24 blind tiger cases and the eleven
negroes implicated in the recent race
riot at Plainville to be tried.
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You have the proper ring,
In the morning give me Toasties,
And I’ll breakfast like a King.
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911 Fairfield Ave.. Bridgeport. Conn
1 On* of the 50 Jlnirleß for which tha Poatum Co.,
Rattle ('reck, Mich . paid >IOOO,OO in June.
MRS. DE LEON IS
SURE HUSBAND
ISN'TDEM
Chicago Police Attempt to
Identify Body of Drowned
Man as Contractor.
"My h’usband will return. He is alive
somewhere, and will come back to me.
I am confident of that. I can not tell
what has happened to him, but I have
faith in his safety."
That expresses the unwavering hope
today of Mrs. Moise DeLeon, whose
husband, the wealthy contractor, left
Atlanta on August 6 for a fishing ex
cursion and has not been seen since he
left a Chicago suburb a few days later.
Mrs. DeLeon has had no word from
the missing man nor have any of his
business associates received a clew to
his present but they all
feel confident that he will return.
"We have no theory,” said Ronald
Ransome, one of the receivers, today.
"We just don't know, that’s all. But
we shall go ahead with the work he
left unfinished, stepping into his shoes
as well as we can, and wait for news
from him."
Discredit Theory of
Court House Worry.
Mr. Ransome was inclined to dis
credit the published report that Mr.
DeLeon was worried about his court
house contract, fearing he had submit
ted a bld so low that he would lose.
"We have gone over the papers,” ha
said, “and while It is true that Mr. De-
Leon's bld was the lowest by $22,000,
he had been careful In his contracts
for material, had bought at low figures
and there Is no reason to believe that hs
would not have cleared the profits he
expected.
“Whether we shaJl go ahead toward
the completion of the court house work
we can not say Just now. We are in
structed to report next Thursday to the
court, and the matter will be determined
then. Mr. H. L. Fraser, the other re
ceiver. is one of Mr. DeLeon’s office
men and the work Is being carried on
through the direction of the old office
and hy the same force of men. About
one-third of the work has been done.
We shall engage experts to make esti
mates on that and submit them to the
court.”
That Mr. DeLeon could have been
involved financially seems impossible to
Aie receivers, who have carefully gone
over his accounts. They are confident
that if any previously unknown credi
tor existed he would have come forward
since the wide publicity given Mr. De-
Leon’s disappearance and filed his
claim with the courts. But no such
creditor has appeared, no unexpected
debts have been discovered, absolutely
nothing to account for DeLeon’s volun.
tary absence has been found.
Friends Fear
Aphasia Attack.
That the contractor, broken undet
the strain of his several large under
takings, is mentally unbalanced and
wandering among strangers, Is a theory
advanced by several of his friends. It
may be that he has been attacked by
aphasia, a mental shock which leaves
one without memory, without knowl
edge of one’s own name or residence
But this is hardly likely, when it is
remembered that DeLeon carried ample
means of identification. He had a num
ber of Masonic emblems, always car
ried a quantity of papers bearing his
name, and should easily be Identified in
case of accident.
The court house was the only piece
of actual contract work Mr. DeLeon
has under way. His men are at work
on a number of other buildings, but
these are being done for the owners on
a percentage basis, and the owners will
be permitted to complete them, reliev
ing the DeLeon office of this responsi
bility. As to the court house work, Mr.
DeLeon is under bond for $244,060,
twice the amount of his contract. In
case the court decides not to permit the
receivers to complete the work, the
county commissioners will announce
the default of the contract and the
bonding company will then either com.
plete the work or pay an Indemnity.
Dispatches from Chicago state that
P. A. DeLeon, a nephew who lives in
New York, has arrived to assist in the
search for the lost contractor. Young
DeLeon visited the Chicago morgue to
views the remains of a man killed by
an automobile, but was positive that
the victim was not his uncle. He stated
that Moise DeLeon ha 4 about $2,600 in
cash, several Masonic emblems and an
expensive watch when he disappeared.
The Chicago police are continuing the
search, but have no real clew to lead
them.
CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—Police today at.
tempted to identify the body of a man
recovered from the river near Morton
Grove as that of Moise DeLeon, of At
lanta, Ga., who ■ mysteriously disap
peared in Chicago. The description of
the drowned man tallies in some par
ticulars with that of the missing man.
There were no marks of violence dis
cernible on the body recovered from the
river. Several boys saw it floating and
summoned the'police. Nothing wa c
found in the pockets that would estab
lish identity. The body is thought to
have been in the w ates for several days.
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