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GUYTON ILL BE
CONSULTING
ENGINEER
Qualifications for Construction
Chief To Be Such as to Make
Business Men Eligible.
Ft. M. Clayton, city chief of construc
tion, is to be made Atlanta’s consulting
engineer in the place of Rudolph Her
ing. of New York, and the qualifications
of the office of chief of construction are
to 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 ten of council is at work arranging
virtually 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
chief of construction shall be subject
to council in all matters and that all
of his appointments 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
and discussed the matter yesterday
afternoon and adjourned to meet again
Saturday morning. It will make its re
port to council next Monday afternoon.
There seems to be little doubt that it
will be adopted by council.
See Street Improvement.
The supporters of the plan declare
that there will be great improvements
in street work when it is in operation.
They say Captain Clayton deserves a
relief from the detailed executive work
of chief of construction. They wdnt to
give the people a chance to vote on a
man 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 engineer be removed.
The number of assistants is to be de
termined later. But the committee rec
t ommends that council shall approve the
appointment of all assistants to over
come the temptation with the present
organization, by whifh the chief of
construction appoints any one he sees
fit--to appoint mon for'their political
strength rather than their fitness for
1 the work assigned to them.
The members of the committee land
ed rhe services of Captain Clayton to
the city. They declared that their
desire to make him consulting engi
neer was no desire to pension him, but
that the city could not do without' his
extensive knowledge of sewers and
streets.
“We want to do what is for the
best interest of Atlanta." said Council
man Claude C. Mason. “WfTall realize
that some changes are needed, and I
t don't see why any one considers this
movement to be a fight on Captain
Clayton. I have the highest regard for
him and my only criticism of his de
partment is that it seems to me that
some of his subordinates are ‘laying
down’ on him.”
New York Man Dropped.
Aiderman 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 he thought he was getting a
little too old to handle a department of
so much routine, executive work.
r It was called to the attention of the
committee that Rudolph Hering, of New
York, 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.
Hering. While Dr. Hering is paid out
of bond money, it was the opinion of
the committee that a consulting engi
■ neer would be necessary 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 he could be eligi
ble. Councilman Hatcher said that
many people had told him that At
lanta’s street work was progressing all
right. Councilman J. 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 close 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 lot the
mantle of his office fall upon the shoul
ders of his first assistant, his nephew.
W. A. Hansel.
The members of the committee are
C. W. Smith, chairman; C. <’. Mason,
James E. Warren. F. J. Spratling, Al
bert Thomson. Harvey Hatcher, J. 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 Conyers,
Ga.. today for funeral am! interment.
The child died at the family home, 60
Berean 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! Not
the flowing lambrequins which once
sang aeolian melodies in the breeze; not
the chest protectors which rendered the
wearlng-of a 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 tiie wearer.
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these diminutive fenders will be de ri
gour and au fait this season, and every
body in "Who’s Who"—every masculine
somebody—is doipg it now. They are
especialy a la mode at weddings, teas
and first nights, though as yet they are
hardly accepted as the cornet tiling
for afternoon wear. London set the
fashion when Marie Lohr married Mr.
Prinsep lasi week. Tiie 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,
and 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 bi-ush with a stiff 'bristle or
bristles. Run this carefully through
the lawn mower, reducing tiie 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 required 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 m«n ventured forth in the glory of
side curtains and mutton chops. The
national commission on conservation
overlooltX'd the ravages of the razor.
Lo. in a-decade the forests which once
swayed in the passing breezes and
made gkid 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
but wrinkled parodies of their grand
sons. As the poet sings:
"Each morn a thousand Beardiets
brings, you say?
Yes. but where Blooms the Beard
of Yesterday?
And this keen Barber’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.
“Weil do 1 remember,” said 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.’ There were whis
kers in those days which would have
made an artist weep and a mosquito de
spair. They were worn lengthwise,
THE .AT-LANT X GEORGIAN iWTWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1912.
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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 of how these well known Georgians
would look if they adopted society's latest fad—sideburns. In
t.he upper right is Solicitor Genera] Hugh Dorsey hidden under
a pair of inspiring bushes of the kind O. K.'d by our very best
English cousins. Below is Governor-Elect •Slaton, similarly
adorned, and to the left 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 Beau Brummels.
sidewise, crosswise and ad libitum. It
seems but yesterday that we small boys,
envious even then of our elders, would
pause in our games of marbles in the
streets to cry ‘Ba-a-a’ and occasionally
‘Bz-z-z-z’ at some particularly fine
specimen as it passed, imitating the
plaintive moan of the William goat or
the soft sighing of the wind, as the case
might be. Ah those were happy days.
"No, I can not attribute the deca
dence of whislws to any cause but
provide nee. We all know, of course,
that politicians and other men in pub
lic life go beardless of necessity, for
the Barbers' union wields no small pow
er at the ballot box and frowns upon
whiskers of any variety, from full
blown japonicas to the small chin whis
ker known to the craft as a doo-dad.
and which resembles a fragment of
newly ’aid asphalt.
Exit Whiskers, Enter Fly Paper.
"But why tiie plain and fancy popu
late should have abandoned their fly
screens 1 can not determine, unless it
was du" to the Greek invasion and the
introduction of spaghetti. One can not
gracefully insert this succulent import
ed vegetable into the human system
through the luxuriant growth of beard
known to the case trade as soup strain
ers. And I have also observed that
whiskers werit out at about the same
period that fly paper came in.
"As I observed, the man in public life
does not wear whiskers And while we
are under that head I wish you’d say in
the papers that the somber mudguards
I am wealing in the picture are not
mine own, but donned merely for the
occasion and at your request. There
was a time 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 I
could not eoax the various colonies
into terms of intimacy. And besides,
they'd have been red, anyway.”
TWO DAYS !N BATH ROBE:
GIRL RESCUED FROM SURF
ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 27.—Ar
raigned before Recorder Keffer | n a
bath robe, her sole attire of apparel
since sb.e was hauled, helpless, from the
surf, Mabel Boose, waitress at a ho
tel, entered a novel defense to a charge
of intoxication.
According to her story, the gin had
been given whisky as a restorative
when she was rescued from the surf by
Lifeguard Cowden, and the effects of
the intoxicant were such that she had
been unable to change her clothing for
two days, living in her batli 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 T.
Patrick, who is serving *a sentence of
life imprisonment at Sing Sing for the
murder of William M. Rice, has taken
up the study of optometry.
Colonel Joseph F. Scott. superin
tendent of state prisons, said today that
Patiick is assisting the physicians at
the prison who are making an inspec
tion of lite condition of the eyes of
more than 1,000 inmates. Patrick was
selected by tiie physicians to make
notes of their observations.
BECKER SPRINGS
SURPRISE; PLEA
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High Court Order Delays Ar
raignment—Waldo to Expose
Owners of Vice Dens.
NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—Lieutenant
Charles A. Becker, through his lawyer,
John F. Mclntyre, sprang a surprise on
Judge Mulqueen and the district attor
ney in general sessions today when, at
the arraignment of Becket, an order
stopping all proceedings until Septem
ber 3. was produced.
The order was signed by Supreme
Court Justice Amend. It was secretly
procured by Mr. Mclntyre yesterday
In substance, it stated that Becket
should not he arraigned to plead to
the indictment charging him with the
mu:tier of Gambler Herman Rosenthal
until September 3. At that time Su
preme Court Justice Goff begins hear
ing the "John Doe” proceedings in con
nection with the Rosenthal murder anti
charges of grafting.
Judge Mulqueen remanded the pris
oner to await the further order of the
court.
Property Owners Tremble.
Rich land owners whose prop
erties lie in the tenderloin were
in a panic today over the threat
of Police Commissioner Waldo to
make a public list of gambling houses,
together with a list of the owners of
the buildings. Later in the week he
said he would probably publish a list of
disorderly houses. He tried to have both
lists ready at the same time, but there
has been a great deal of work verifying
the data. Appeals have been made to
Mayor Gaynor to head off Cotjtmisaion
er Waldo.
According to police headquarters,
Commissioner Waldo has taken pains
to acquire the history of each resort,
showing that after being raided the
places were Invariably reopened. Mr.
Waldo designed by this to show that
the owners of necessity must have
known the character of business car
ried on within their property.
The proposed publication of disor
derly houses aroused more of a com
motion than that of gambling details.
Big Names in List.
Many of the disreputable places are
owned by persons whose reputations
and social positions are above reproach.
Trinity Corporation, a company con
trolling properties owned by’ Trinity
church, and William Waldorf Astor are
holders of considerable property which
is included in the district which Dis
trict Attorney Whitman wants to ask a
few questions about.
There is a possibility that owners or
lawyers representing land-holding cor
porations or estates w ill be called be
fore the grand jury next month to ex
plain why they allowed law violations.
Missing Gunmen
Believed Caught
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Two men sus
pected of being “Gyp the Blood” and
“Lefty Louie,” the missing gunmen un
der indictment for the murder of Gam
bler Herman Rosenthal, are today in
custody at Fonda, Montgomery county,
New York, where they were arrested
last night.
The arrest has brought about a con
troversy between two detectives em
ployed by William Burns and the au
thorities of Fonda, according to a dis
patch today. The two Burns opera
tives arrested the men, after trailing
them from Albany. County Sheriff Er
nest Kulbaum said over the phone that
the suspects were not the missing gun
fighters for whom District Attorney
Whitman has offered a reward of $5,000,
but were two street vendors who were
locked up by Deputy Sheriff McLaugh
lin for violating a village ordinance for
peddling without a license.
The two suspects were arrested at a
Fonda hotel where they had registered
as "L. L. Goldenberg, of Brooklyn," and
“H. H. Kueger, of Paterson, N. J.” Com
plaint had been made against them, the
sheriff said, for selling clothing from
house to house. When arrested, their
baggage was searched by the private de
tectives, but they reported to Burns
that they had found nothing incrimi
nating.
Burns Thinks He Has Them.
Burns admitted without hesitation
that his operatives had made arrests at
Fonda, and from descriptions of the
men he said that he tbit sure the much
wanted gunmen had at last been run to
earth.
The dispatch made a play on the sug
gestiveness in the initials of the two
suspects, pointing out that Goldenberg's
initials stood for "Lefty Louie” and
Kueger's for "Harry Horowitz," which
is "Gyp’s" real name.
Clews fastening suspicion upon the
two men were obtained first in Albany.
From that city the Burns men trailed
the two suspects to Fonda.
In their telephoned report the Burns
detectives said that the two prisoners
were indignant at being arrested. They
claimed to be traveling men.
BULLET BOUNCES OFF
SPINE OF JERSEY MAN
TRENTON, Aug. 27. Michael Grats’
"bullet-proof backbone" saved his life
when he was shot after a quarrel by
Daniel Cumblll. Chief of Police John
J. Cleary saw two men rush out of a
saloon, one chasing the other The pur
suer, Cumbill, shot at the other’s back.
Grats dropped, t'umbill again took
aim, but the police chief knocked him
down. When Grats’ coat was opened
the bullet rolled out. It had struck sol
idly against his backbone and then re
bounded.
DeLeon Case Another Court House Site Mishap
RECALLS OLD MYSTERIES
The mystery of the disappearance of
Moise DeLeon, wealthy contractor was
as far from solution as ever today. No
word of the missing man had been re
ceivefl by his wife who at her home, 744
Piedmont avenue, has been keeping in
close touch with the searchers and no fur
ther progress was reported from Chicago,
where DeLeon is supposed to have van
ished.
DeLeon has a big part of the contract
for ihe new Fulton county court house,
and, according to one story, it was worry
over the low bid he had made and the
certainty of considerable loss that may
have unbalanced his mind and caused his
disappearance. In that connection a
strange story of the tragic web of fate
apparently spun about the court house
was related today.
Old-timers declared that some sinister
influence had hovered over the spot where
the new court house is to be erected since
Atlanta was quite a small town.
Old Mystery About Place.
Long before it was decided that the spot
was to be the seat of a temple of justice
and the temporary abiding place of
thieves and murderers brought there for
trial, there was an atmosphere of mystery
about the place. The lot was a part of a
deep hollow through which ran a creek
on the banks of which stood a number of
large mulberry trees. Frederick Morton,
long dead, built an attractive little hotel
on the rise beyond the creek. A pathway
and a little bridge down through the dark
shaded hollow ltd to the hotel.
Suddenly the hotel, which had attained
considerable popularity, was threatened
with a strange pest. From a few martins
that began to fly about it in the after
noon, the number increased to thousands,
then to millions. They came In such tre
mendous flocks that they darkened the
sky and with such a noise that there was
no peace at the place.
JEALOUS, SHOOTS
IE ffl HIMSELF
Columbus Man, Traveling for
Atlanta House. May Recover.
Woman Likely to Die.
COLUMBVS, GA.. Aug. 27.—Insanely
jealous of his wife. A. M. Roberts,
traveling representative of the Pitts
burg Plate Glass Company, of Atlanta,
today shot his wife through the right
lung and. while the revolver was still
smoking, turned the weapon upon him
self. firing a bullet into his right tern
pie.
“No one will blame me, when my
side is shown," Robarts said soon after
the shooting, as he was being hurried
in an ambulance to the city hospital.
Relatives of Mrs. Robarts say that
Robarts’ mind became unbalanced
through jealousy of his wife. Mrs. Rob
arts’ sister said that yesterday Robarts
told her he intended to kill his w>fe
and then himself.
Both Robarts and his wife belong to
prominent families and are held in high
esteeln by a large circle of friends.
Physicians think Robarts has a
chance to recover, but Mrs. Robarts is
not expected to live, although every ef
fort is being made to save her life.
"Andrew Robarts is one of the finest
men I know,” said R. S. Wessels, man
ager of the Atlanta headquarters of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, this
afternoon. He had just received tele
phone messages from Columbus telling
of the tragedy, and was greatly per
turbed. The whole office force was
shocked and grieved at the news.
"Rotiarts was about 42 years old, a
splendid business man. and entirely suc
cessful,” continued Mr. Wessels. "But
for several weeks lie had been com
plaining of horrible pains in his head.
He thought they came from neuralgia.
A few days ago lie asked for a vaca
tion, and I told him to take as long a
rest as hp needed, and not to go back
to work until he felt well again. 1 here
must have been something wrong with
Robarts' brain to bring such a tragedy
about."
Robarts and his wife were both of
Columbus families, though they had
many friends in Atlanta. Robarts had
been with his company about ten years,
making headquarters at Columbus. Be
fore that he was a conductor on the
Atlanta and West Point road, and had
thousands of friends among Georgia
travelers.
GUESTS BLINDED BY
HOTEL FIRE SMOKE
HERDED TO SAFETY
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.—-Fire sweeping
tiie first floor of tiie Fifth Avenue hotel,
Fifth avenue and Monroe street, early
today, imperilled the hotel guests and
drove back policemen attempting res
cue Several policemen and one woman
in the hotel were overcome by the
stnoke.
The first policeman at the fire found
a score of guests struggling in the sec
ond floor hall blinded by the smoke.
The police got this group down the
stairway without mishap. The officers
then returned to arouse those who
might be sleeping.
MAYOR'S OWN WORKMEN
GO FREE IN HIS COURT
MACON, GA., Aug. 27.—Macon po
licemen lowered themselves in the esti
mation of Mayor Moore today when
they arrested four white men employed
regularly by him on the charge of va
grancy. The men are skilled workers
at the mayor’s paper mill at Gordon.
They came to Macon for an outing and
had hardly more than alighted from the
train when the policemen arrested
them. When the mayor sounded the
cases against them in recorder's court
he discovered that he was trying his
own workmen, and immediately dis
missed the cases and made open apoio
gieAfor their arrests.
Thomas Johnson. wl*o has alio passed
into the beyond, decided that he would
stop the martin pest. He went to the
mayor and secured a permit to shoot
them. Then he got together a number of
"young men about town" and they gath
ered together a miscellaneous collection
of firearms. On a late summer afternoon
they slipped quietly under the mulberry
trees and around the hotel to shoot the
martins.
Scandal Over Permit.
Ihe martins came in Increased num
bers, heedless of the danger. When they
bad settled to perches the limbs of the
trees swayed low with their weight.
Suddenly a terrific explosion startled
the town. Every policeman on duty
rushed to Fred Morton's hotel. They
found martins scattered all over the
ground and they rushed to arrest the
armed men. But Mr. Johnson produced
a permit from the mayor.
It is said that quite a little scandal de
veloped because the mayor had granted
such a permission. But the mayor replied
that be did not know Mr. Johnson in
tended to kill martins with army artil
lery.
First Contractor “Went Broke.”
When it was decided that a court house
was to he erected there Patrick Lynch,
a wealthy contractor, secured the con
tract. He had to dig so deep for a solid
foundation that he "went broke” on the
contract. The ground was so soft and
soggy that he had to excavate far more
than he expected. A few years after the
building was completed he died without
having regained even a small part of his
fortune.
When the contract was recently let foi
the new court house, Moise DeLeon bld
on the contract work. He bid $122,000.
The next lowest bid was $144,000. By
bad luck he had lost more than $20,000 on
the contract.
JUDGE FITE HAPS
STATE OFFICIALS
Governor Brown, Governor-
Elect Slaton and Judges Rus
sell and Hill Get Roasts.
CALHOUN, GA.. Aug. 27.—Referring
to the nomination of John M. Slaton for
governor in his charge to the Gordon
county grand jury, Judge A. W. Fite
declared him to be a “nice, clever fel
low, but "not fit to be governor be
cause he is president of a locker club
which violates the law." He said he be
lieved every officer, if not every mem
ber, of a locker club should be indict
ed as a blind tiger. Judges R. B. Rus
sell and Ben Hill should not serve on
the court of appeals, he declared, be
cause both are members of locker clubs.
"The criminal rich and the criminal
poor," he said, “are endangering the
country. The present deplorable state
of lawlessness in Georgia is due to the
courts and the chief executive.”
Governor Brown, he said, had the
power to close every brewery, near-beer
saloon and locker club in the state, and
was failing to do his duty because he
considered himself “as helpless as a
baby.” He scored the governor for ve
toing the Tippins bill, and said that he
could see “the Italian hand of the whis
ky intrests” in the governor’s explana
tion of his veto.
LOYAL TROOPS BALK
UPRISING PLOT WHEN
BOMB KILLS GENERAL
TIEN TSIN, Aug. 27.—A conspiracy
to seize and loot the town of Ching
ting, 160 miles southwest of Pekin, on
the Pekin railway, by mutinous sol
diers, has been frustrated, according to
advices received here today.
The plot, which was purely local, was
revealed through the arrest and execu
tion of five ring leaders of the muti
neers who had assassinated a Banner
man general, Chang Shikuei.
Vigilance of ‘‘troops recently sent to
Chingting by President Yuan Shai Kai
prevented the looting of the town. Gen
eral Chang was killed by a bomb while
being carried through the streets in a
palanquin by coolies. Two of the cool
ies were killed at the same time. This
was to have been the signal for the up
rising. However, the loyal troop* im
mediately took possession of the streets
and so formidable were their numbers
that the mutineers were awed into sub
mission.
A small escort of troops who were
following the palanquin seized the
bomb thrower and his companions.
ATLANTA CHAUFFEUR GETS
FINE FOR MACON SPEEDING
MACON, GA., Aug. 27.—John Da
venport, an Atlanta negro chauffeur,
who passed through Macon at the rate
of 50 miles an hour while on his way to
Montezuma to deliver an automobile to
Attorney Jules Felton, of that town,
was fined $61.50 by the Macon recorder
for breaking the speed limit.
The testimony of witnesses showed
that the negro simply regarded Macon
as a flag station and passed through
the city at a tremendous speed, fright
ening a half dozen teams and almost
running over a dozen people. The fine
was the heaviest ever imposed on an
auto speeder in Macon.
U. S. TRANSPORT SINKS
LYING IN CHINESE DOCK
SHANGHAI, CHINA, Aug. 27. The
United States transport Llscom sank
in 40 feet of water alongside the wharf
where it was lying The vessel
was undergoing repairs. The captain
believes she can be raised easily. The
cause of the accident has not been as
certained.
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