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clavton WILL HE
CONSULTING
ENGINEER
Qualifications for Construction
, Chief To Be Such as to Make
Business Men Eligible.
•
R. M. < layton. city chief of construc
tor). is to ze made Atlanta’s consulting
'ngineer in the place of Rudolph Her
ng, of New York, and the qualifications
>f the office of chief of construction are
'o be so changed that a business man
as well as an engineer will be eligible
for the office.
With this general plan of reorganiza
tion decided upon, a special committee
of tne of council is at work arranging
v irtuajly a new plan of street improve
ments. A majority of the members
have voted to recommend to council a
broadening of the qualifications for the
office of chief of construction; that the,
••hit f of construction shall be subject
to council in all matters and that all
of his apopintments to subordinate of
fices shall be approved by council. The
members personally expressed a will
ingness to make Captain Clayton con
sulting engineer at a salary commen
surate with the dignity of the office. He
did not make a positive reply, but in
dicated a willingness to accept such a
proposition.
The committee was appointed at the
meeting of council yesterday, it met
anti discussed the matter yesterday
aft- rnoon and adjourned to/meet again
Saturday morning. It will make its re
port to council next Monday afternoon.
There seems to be little doubt thta it
v 111 be adopted by council.'
See Street Improvement.
The supporters of the plan declare
that there will be great improvement-’
in stre. t work w hen it. is in operation.
They say f'aptaio Clayton deserves a
relief from the detailed exi eutive work
of chief of const rue* lon. They want to
give the people a chance to vote on a
men for his ability to organize and ex
ecute the work of a big department, and
they recommend that the qualification
that only one who has had ten years
experience as an mgineet be removed.
The number of assistants is to be de
termined late . Ri|t the omittee rec
ommends that council shall approve the
appointment of all assistants to over
com- the temptation with the present
ot gan.:.e.; ion. by which the chief of
< or mt re.i .m. any one he .set -
• fit - to men for their politie.il
stia-rgth rather than 'heir fitness for
the work :i ■ - iem'd to them.
Tlie m< •-.« of the committee laud
ed ’lie servlet s of Captain Clayton to
the it; They declared that their
<!■ sire to make him consulting engi
i:-er was no desire to pension him, but
that the city could not do without his
< xtensiv knowledge of sewers and
street s.
“\Vt want to do what is for the
best interest of Atlanta." said Council
man Claude C. Mason. "We all realize
that some changes are needed, and 1
don't see why any one considers this
movement to be a fight on Captain
<'layton. I have the highest regard for
him and my only critcism of his de
partment is that it seems to me that
some of his subordinates are ’laying
dawn' on him."
New York Man Dropped.
Alderman James E. Warren said he
wanted Captain Clayton as consulting
engineer. He said that he had nothing
but praise to say of Captain Clayton,
but that be thought he was getting a
little to old to handle a department of
so much routine, executive work.
It was called to the attention of the
committee that Rudolph Hering, of New
Ytek. was retained as the city’s con
sulting engineer at a salary of $250 per
month and SSO a day and his expenses
when he was in Atlanta.
Councilman Aldine Chambers and
others said they thought Captain Clay
ton better fitted for the place than Dr.
11 :ing. While Dr. Hering is paid out
of bond money, it was the opinion of
the committee that a consulting engi
n< er would be nece.-sary permanently to
look after the sewage disposal plants
and to give advice on general plans.
Councilman Harvey Hatcher led a
stubborn fight against any changes in
the chief of construction department.
He was especially antagonistic to strik
ing out the qualification that a man
must have had ten years’ experience
as an engineer before ho could be eligi
ble. Councilman Hatcher said that
many people had told him that At
lanta's street work was progressing all
tight. Councilman .1. D. Sisson alone
stood by him.
Councilman Hatcher is chairman of
the streets committee of council and all
street work had been done under his
vision. He is very elose to Captain
Clayton.
Clayton Calls Plan Ridiculous.
Captain Clayton, when asked his
opinion about the new plan for the
construction department, characterized
the feature of having a business man
as the head of the department as
“moonshine" and ridiculous.
Mr. Hatcher said Captain ’Clayton
was considering retiring from the city
employment altogether. The general
report has been that Captain Clayton
was anxious to be re-elected this fall
that he might resign later and let the
mantle of his office fall upon the shoul
ders of his first assistant, his nephew.
W A. Hansi I. f
The members of the committee are
C. W. Smith, chairman. <'. C. Mason.
James E. Warren, I-'. .1, Spending. Al
bm t Thomson. Ilrv.-y H 'teher, .1. D
Sisson, S. A. Wardlaw, James R. Nut
ting and A. H. Van Dyke.
George W. Cardin. Jr.
The body of George W. Cardin. Jr.,
five months old. was taken to t’onyers.
i la. today for funeral and interment.
The child died at the family harm . 60
Bert an avenue, late yesterday after
noon.
it s a Wise Child That Knows Papa-- With New Whiskers
CUTE SIDEBURNS NOW AU FAIT
Walter Taylor’s Heart Stirred
to Gladsome Lay by Return
of Poetic Adornment.
Side whiskers are coming back! No.
tiie flowing lambr-ruins which once
sang aeolian melodii s in the hr. eze: n >
the chest protectors which rendered the
weating of i necktie a useless extrava
gance—merely the sedate sideburns,
burnsides, or mudguards, a- you pre
fer; close-cropped patches of beard im
mediately in front of each ear and
trimmed to the shape of a special de
livery stamp and about the size of a
dollar or a dollar thirty-five, according
to the dimensions of the wearer.
The latest hint from London says
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these diminutive femu rs will be de ri
geur and an fait i':i- season, and every
body in "Who’s Who”—every masculine
somebody is doing it now. They are
espeeialy a la mode at weddings, teas
and first nights, though as yet they are
hardly accepted as th correct thing
for afternoon wear London set the
fashion when Marie Lohr married Mr.
Prinsep last week. The bridegroom
wore an old-fashioned stock—one of
those twice-around, half-way back and
double-over affairs—a bell-tailed coat
such as Mr. Micawber made famous,
anti a well-tailored pair of the splatter
dashers now cultivated by the best peo
ple.
Atlanta men down on the' bills to
night as principal victim, ring-holder or
usher at a wedding in the smart set will
be glad to receive this news before it
is everlastingly too late. If they appre
hend difficulty in cultivating the adorn
ments before time to slide into their
open-fronts, an artificial pair will solve
their problem.
Here’s a Recipe.
Daisy Dotty's manual of etiquette and
household hints says:
WHISKERS, side or coachman
type: Procure an ordinary black
ing brush witlt a stiff bristle or
bristles. Run this carefully through
the lawn mower, reducing the bris
tles to three-sixteenths of an inch.
Remove from the back, leaving a
thin slice of the wood to retain the
shape. Trim to requited size with
scissors and affix just prior to the
ears with joiners' glue, applied hot.
Leave them set over night.
it has been a long time since At
lanta men ventured forth in the glory of
side curtains and mutton chops. The
national commission on conservation
overlooked the ravages of the razor.
Lo. in a decade the forests which once
swayed in the passing breezes and
made glad the heart of nature lovers
have fallen before the blade of the de
stroying barber. Youths are but fool
ish imitations of their fathers, old men
bt>t wrinkled parodies of their grand
sons. As the poet sings:
"Each morn a thousand Boardiets
brings, you say?
Yes., but where Blooms the Beard
of Yesterday?
And this keen Bai ber’s Blade that
makes them spring
Shall take each Whisker, newly
born, away.”
Walter Taylor Is Happy.
But let Walter Taylor, city clerk and
veteran observer of the passing throng,
mourn the lost whiskers of his friends
of youth. When’the news was broken
to him today that sideburns were "in"
again, he was exuberant, even enthu
siastic. at the prospects.
"Well <’o I renumber." sai l Mr. Tay
lor, "when to stroll up Peachtree in
the gloaming was to wander through a
sylvan dell, with zephyrs playing sweet
symphonies upon a thousand lyres---
spell that with a ‘y.’ "’here wen whis
kers in those days which would have
made an artist weep and a mosquito de
spair. They were worn lengthwise,
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Lest any one should think the three Atlantans shown here
have gone and done something rash it’s only fair to explain this
is an irreverent artist s idea ot how these well known Georgians
would look if they adopted society s latest fad—sideburns. In
Ihe upper right is Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey hidden under
a pair of inspiring bushes of the kind (). K. d by our verv best
English cousins. Below is Governor-Elect Slaton, similarly
adorned, and to the right Walter Taylor, city clerk, Bard of the
Beard and Sweet Minnesinger of the Gentle Whisker. The Dick
ens neckwear is added because that, too. has the stamp of ap
proval of the Bean Brummels.
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seems but yesterday that we small boys
envious even then of our elders, woulii
pause in our games of marbles in the
streets to cry 'Ba-a-a' and occasionally
Bz-z-z.-z' at some [>artieuiarly fine
specimen as it passed, imitating tin
plaintive moan of the William goat <n
the soft sighing of the wind, as the east
might be. Ah, those were happy days
"No, I can not attribute the deca
dence of whiskers to any cause but
providence. We all know, of course,
that politicians and other men in pub
lic life go beardless of necessity, foi
tlie Barbers' union wields no small pow -
er at the ballot box and frowns upon
whiskers of any variety, from full
blown japonieas to the small chin whis
ker known to tlie craft as a doo-dad,
and which resemble- a fragment ot
newly laid asphalt.
Exit Whiskers, Enter Fly Paper.
"But why the plain and fancy popu
lace should have abandoned their 1!
screens I can not determine, unless it
was due to the Greek invasion and the
introduction of spaghetti. One can not
gracefully insert this succulent import
ed vegetable into the limnan sj -tent
through the luxuriant growth of beard
known to the case trade as soup strain
er- And I have also observed that
whiskers went out at about tin same
period that fly paper came in.
"As 1 observed, tlie man in public life
does not weai whiskers. And while wt
are under that head I wish you'd say in
the papers that tlie somber mudguards
I am wea ing in tlie picture arc not
mine own, liut donned merely for the
occasion and at your request. There
was a lime when I would have enjoyed
a set of storm curtains, but my hope
turned into despair. They appeared in
patches, few and far between, and J
could not coax lite various colonies
Into terms of intimacy. Anti besides,
they’d have been red, anyway."
TWO DAYS LN BATH ROBE;
GIRL RESCUED FROM SURF
ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 27.-Ar
raigned before Recorder Keffer in a
bath robe, her sole attire of apparel
since she was hauled, helpless, from the
surf, Mabel Boese, waitress at a ho
tel, entered a novel defense to a charge
of intoxication.
According to her story, the girl had
in < n given w aisky as a restorative
when she was res, ued from the surf by
Lifeguard Cowdt n, and tlie effects of
the intoxicant were such that she had
been unable to change her clothing for
two days. living in her bath robe. She
was sent to the county jail, wearing the
same apparel, for a period of five days.
PATRICK, IN PRISON CELL,
TAKES UP A NEW STUDY
ALBANY. N Y.. Aug. 27. Albert 'l'.
Patrick, who is serving a sentence of
lif< imprisonment at Sing Sing for the
murder of William M. Rice, lias taken
up the study of optometry.
Colonel Joseph F. Scott, superin
tendent of state prisons, said today that
Patric k is assisting tlie pile slciaiis at
tlie prison who are making an inspec
tion of the condition of tile eyes of
more than l.oo'i inmates. Patriek wa.-
selected b> the physicians to make
notes of their oliservations.
SIOELIGRTS BN
STATE POLITICS
Gossip About the Men Who
Are in the Public Eye at
Present.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
There was something grimly humot-
I ous in the way the Broyles-Pottle race
mixed things tip in the various news
paper offices in Atlanta, and the out
come thereof sc ins especially 40 have
been designed be a kind and watchful
Providence, to the end that no particu
lar engine of journalistic uplift locally
might suffer a crushing preponderance
of embarrassment, and every precinct
heard from!
Ihe race was a dead heat, a dog
iall. an even break! Designations are
matters of taste.
Gloom.- and Joys scatter impartially
and divide like gentlemen and real
sports should.
To begin at the beginning, the pre
election campaign “dope" ran to Pot
tle.
Pottle was expected to win. and the
first reports, wired tn as a rule front
noon to 2:30 o’clock on election day, in
dicated a Pottle victory sure.
A Jumble of Reports.
The Wednesday night extras, without
exception, gave the race to Pottle.
riiui.-dav morning The Constitution
printed Pottle's picture and declared
him a winner. •
I hursday afternoon The Georgian
■aid it looked like Pottle and The Jour
nal said it looked like Broyles.
F’ridtty morning The Constitution said
it looked mightily like Broyles.
Friday afternoon The Georgian said
it was Pottle and ’J'he Journal said it
was Broyles.
Saturday morning The Constitution
said it was Broyles by a scratch, and
a' noon Saturday The Georgian said it
was beginning to look mightily like a
tie!
Broyles Thanked His Friends.
Saturday afternoon The Journal said
it was Broyles by 190 to 178, and The
Georgian said it either was Broyles 2>y
IS2 to LSti, or it was a tie.
The Georgian quoted Judge Pottle as
saying he thought it might be a tie.
while The Journal carried a card of
thanks from Broyles to his friends, in
which he claimed victory sure.
Sunday morning both The Consti
tution and The Journal admitted that
rhe race was a tie—but The Constitu
tion carried on its editorial page, nev
ertheless, an illuminating promulgation
analyzing the meaning of Broyles'
election!
Somebody certainly had mixed those
babies up, all right!
The Georgian knew nothing whatever
of the figures in The Constitution and
Journal offices. It was figuring—as
best it could—from its own returns.
It went wrong on its Friday story,
claiming victory for Pottle, on returns
subsequently corrected.
Then Looked Like Broyles.
It based its two Saturday stories on
complete returns from all but two
counties—Lincoln and Union.
With those two counties unofficially
but seemingly reliably returned, it
looked like Broyles by 186 to 182.
The Georgian stated Saturday after
noon that a swing of either Union or
Lincoln from Broyles to Pottle would
tie the score.
Curiously enough, and with that per
sistent perversity of fate that seems to
have followed the Broyles-Pottle fig
ures, one of them DID swing in the
final and concluding lap—and the race
was a tie, with a convention fight the
answer!
Saturday about 9:30 o'clock a well
known Atlanta politician came to The
Georgian office and demanded to know
why The Georgian did not "admit the
nomination of Broyles.”
“All the other newspapers admit it.
and it looks like bull-headedness in you
not to fall in line!”
Trying to Get Correct Figures.
Rut it wasn’t "pure bull-headedness."
The Georgian had no personal inter
est in the race. Broyles and Pottle
were simply Mr. X and Mr. Y to The
Georgian, and it was looking for the
correct figures to attach to each exhib
it —nothing more.
The Georgian couldn't make two and
two equal five, when two and two
didn’t seem to do anything of the sort—
< ven to please prominent Atlanta poli
ticians.
Besides, The Gtorgian knew what
was biting the prominent Atlanta pol
itician. He had a candidate for city
recorder up his sleeve, and he wanted
the election of Broyles conceded.
Tim Georgian didn't have a candi
date for city recorder, and all candi
dates for the court of appeals looked
alike to The Georgian.
Upon the official landing of Union and
Lincoln depended The Georgian’s fig
ures for final accuracy in the court of
appeals race.
Giving them both to Broyles—where
they seemed to belong—Saturday aft
ernoon. his election was indicated by
186 to 182.
When in the finish, however, one
landed in the Broyles and one in the
Pottle column, two votes came off of
Broyles and went onto Pottle.
Result -to stay put Broyles 184 and
Pottle 184!
Georgian Foresaw a Tie.
The Georgia was the first newspaper
to suggest the likelihood of a tie be-’
tween the lw» candidates it suggested
a tie as probable Saturday at noon, and
reiterated the suggestion in it- home
edition.
COOLER IN CHICAGO.
<’Hl<’AG<'. Aug. 27. —A hot wave
w hich hm- kept t'hicago sweltering fol
the pas; few days disappeared today
befote u cool lake breeze. Two persons
died yesterday as a result of the heat.
"REGULARITY" IS DUE TO
BOSS SYSTEM, ASSERTS
SENATOR JOS, M. DIXON
By U. S. SENATOR JOS. M. DIXON,
Chairman of Progressive National
Committee.
NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—1 n his classic
"American Comfnonwealth,” Mr. Bryce
speaks of our subservience as a people
io patty authority as greater than ex
ists in any other democratic country
and as altogether inexplicable. It has
been pointed out by other learned and
friendly .'■indents of our institutions
that this slavish obedience to party is
the root of many of our most persistent
national ills.
From it has grown the “boss" sys
tem and the whole extra-constitutional
method of nominating candidates for
elective office. As a result, we have
drifted far away from the constitution
in this regard and have substituted
methods and practices not contem
plated by the constitution and directly
contrary to its provisions.
The idea of party loyalty has become
a dogma preached with a fervor and
stupidity that amount to bigotry. The
party may steal a presidential nomina
tion from the people and bestow it upon
a candidate repudiated by the rank and
file of the party, but it is still "the
Grand Old Party.” Its leaders may be
shown tn corrupt alliance w ith crooked
business, working in defense of abuses
and against the redress of crying evils;
but look at its long record of honorable
achievement in the past and the great
names which adorn its history and get
into line.
Regularity a “Consolation."
Obedience to party may involve sup
porting men and practices which you
detest, but you will have the consola
tion that you are “regular.”
This idea is as degrading as all su
perstitions, and until its hold upon the
members of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties Is broken we can hardly
consider ourselves a self-governing peo
ple and worthy of free Institutions.
The Progressive party submits Its
prpgram to the conscience and the pa
triotism of the independent voters. It
bids them step clear from the ancient
and rusty shackles of party, which, in
fact, are broken, and only intimidate
without being strong enough to bind or
hold.
It should no longer be true, as was
once said of the American people, that
they fear the dead lions of secession
and slavery more than the live dogs of
political corruption.
Spoils System Bred "Regularity.”
Party regularity as a creed came into
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