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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 ***>»-. *sw/"*'* 1 * / V fJL ' I IL A' . '. I ?•< I r ' \\\ <'ft t y WYW - Jt Wi A* c\J t l IF® •SI ? 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, ITTE ATI,A NT \ <T KGRG fA X \YD NEWS. TUESDAY, AUG EST J7. 1912. ' wSt illi Mw- Illi '"JBF - //// » "wiiOi //// - * hoe wBBW il SB - ■// I ; f A V w 'B rMI MV ;: Aw c - - i W \ / SI k\ ! 7 • / '"v v'* ■ < 77 7/ V W\B. g // ■ ''V'y. ‘ E\\ C«|7i ■ \\ - wk / \\«F ; - // isHR - 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. sidewise, crosswise and ad libitum. 11 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 SIOO Reward. 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