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CHITON WILL BE CONSULTING ENGINEER Qualifications for Construction Chief To Be Such as to Make Business Men Eligible. R. 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 wdll 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 ail 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 dieiusaed 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 wfU be adopted by council. See Street Improvement. The supported of the plan .declare ’that there will be great Improvements tin street work when it' Is in operation. They say Captain Clayton deserves a 'relief from the detailed executive work >«f chief of construction. They want to give the people a chance to vote on a man for his ability to organize and ex leoute 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 Jo be de termined later. But the committee rec ommends that council shall approve the appointment of all assistants to over come the temptation with the organization, by which the chief of .construction appoints any one he sees fit—to appoint men for their political strength rather than their fitness for the work assigned to them. The members of the committee laud ed the 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 beet interest of Atlanta." said Council man Claude C. Mason. "We all realize that some changes are needed, and I 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 .Tames E. Warren said he wanted Captain Clayton as consulting engineer. He said that he had nothing hut praise to say of Captain Clayton, hut that he thought he was getting a little too 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 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. Hiring. While Dr. Hering is paid out of bond money, it was the opinion of the committee that a consulting engi n-er 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. « < ouncilman 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 ns 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 bhe mantle of his office fall upon the shoul (ifi-s of his first assistant, his nephew. W A- Hansel. The members of the committee are c \V. Smith, chairman; C. C. Mason, James E. Warren. F. J. Spratling. Al bert Thomson. Harvey Hatcher, .1 D Si-son. S A. Wardlaw. James R. Nut ting and A. H. Van Dyke George W. Cardin, Jr. The body of George W. Cardin. Jr., p\f months old. was taken to Conyers, today f"r funeral and interment. Th,. , hilrl died at the family home, 60 Berean avenue, late yesterday after noon. It’s a Wise Child That Knows Pap a--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 wearing of a necktie a useless extrava gance—merely the sedate sideburns, burnsides, or mudguards, as 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 Aft? /Z' la\ «// - ■ W/ \v -W Rd/ E-k V \vfv2L * \ I JI ; / \\W\* -rtf ( 77 >- ° W > ZWSfcM. _ ./ '• {( /zz ’wfe. ’A <^ /i Sj I Jk . these diminutive fenders will be de rl geur and au fait this season, and every body in "Who’s Who”—every masculine •somebody—is doing it now. They are especlaly a la mode at weddings, teas and first nights, though as yet they are hardly accepted as the 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 tw ice-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 tiie 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 with 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 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 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 but wrinkled parodies of their grand sons. As the poet sings: t "Each morn a thousand Beardiets brings, you say? Yes. but where Blooms the Beard of Yesterday? And this keen Bather'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 do I 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 w ith a y.’ There were w his kers in those days which would have made an artist weep and a mosquito de spair. They were worn lengthwise, THE AT-LAXTA GEORGIAy 'VNDNEVVS. TI’ESDAY. AUGI Sl’ 27. 1912. f/ w R //// ‘ w //// ’ *Rr : I t- Jib . ; lSnj|yHb Mr Z- w \ \\ Lest any one should think she 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 the upper right is Solicitor General 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 Waller 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 w ind, as the case might be. Ah those were happj' days. "No. 1 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, 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 w'hich a fragment of newly 'aid asphalt. Exit Whiskers, Enter Fly Paper. "But why the plain and fancy popu lace should have abandoned their fly 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 human system through the luxuriant growth of beard known to the case trade as soup strain ers. And I have also observed that whiskers went out at about the same period that tly paper came in. "As I observed, the man in public life does not weat whiskers. And while we are under that head I wish you’d say in the papers that the somber mudguards I am wearing in the picture are not mine own. but donned merely for tiie occasion and at your request. There was a time when 1 would have enjoyed a set of storm curtains, but my' hop turned into despair. They appeared in patches, few and fat between, and 1 could not coax the various colonies into terms of intimacy. And besides, they’d have been red, anyway.” TWO DAYS IN BATH ROBE; GIRL RESCUED FROM SURF A 1 LANTIC 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 Boost. waitress at a ho tel. entered a novel defense to a charge of intoxication. According to het story, the girl had been given whisky as' a restorative when she was rescued from the surf bv Lifeguard Cowden, and the effects of the intoxicant were suyh 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 AI.BANY, 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 (Tptometry. Colonel Joseph I’’. Scott. superin tendent of state prisons, said today that Patrick is assisting the physicians at the prison who are making an inspec tion of the condition of the eyes of more than l.lMltl inmates. Patrick was selected b\ the physicians to make notes of their observations. BECKER SPRINGS SURPRISE; PLEA IS HELD UP High Court Order Delays Ar raignment—Waldo to Expose Owners of Vice Dens. NEW YORK. Aug 27. — Lieutenant Charles A. Becket, 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 slated that Becket should not be arraigned to plead to the indictment charging him with the minder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal until September 3. At that time Su preme Court Justice Goff begins beat ing the "John Doe" proceedings in con nection with the Rosenthal murder and 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 Commission er Waldo. According to police headquarters. Commissioner Waldo has taken pains to acquire the history of each resort, sitowing 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 tied 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 deputations 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 will 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 Bums 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 phonA 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 licehse. The twp 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 teit sure the much wanted gunmen had at last been run to earth. Tile 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 he traveling men. BULLET BOUNCES OFF SPINE OF JERSEY MAN ' ——_ __ .TRENTON, Aug. 27. Michael Grats "bullet-proof backbone" saved his life when lie was shot after a quarrel by Daniel Cumbill. c'hjef 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. Cumbill again took aim, but the police chief knoc'ked 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 ceived 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 the 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. Ixmg 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 d«»wn through the dark shaded hollow led to the hotel Suddenly the hotel, which bad attained considerable popularity, was threatened with a strange pest. From a few martins that began to tly about it in the after noon. the number increased to thousands, then to millions. They camp in such tre mendous flocks that they darkened the sky ami with such a noise that there was no peace at the place. JEALOUS, SHOOTS lEAND HIMSELF —————— • Columbus Man, Traveling for Atlanta Housei May Recover. Woman Likely to Die. ('(JLUMBVS, GA.. Aug. 27. Insanely jealous of his wife, A. M. Robarts, traveling representative 'of Ihc 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 lie intended to kill his wife and then himself. Both Robarts and his wife belong to prominent families and are held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. Physicians think Robarts lias a chance to recover, but Mrs Robarts is not expected to live, although every ef fort is being made to save Iter life. “Andrew Robarts Is one of the finest men I know," said R. S. Wessels, man ager of the Atlanta headquarters >f the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, this afternoon. He had just received t.t-ie phone messages from Columbus telling of -the tragedy, and was greatly per turbed. The whole office force was shot ked and grieved at the news. "Robarts was about 42 years old, a splendid business m tn. and entirely suc cessful." continued Mr. Wessels. "But for several weeks he had been com plaining of horrible pains in his head. He thought they came from neuralgia. A few days ago he asked for a vaca tion, and I told him to take as long a rest as lie needed, and not to go back to work until he felt well again. There 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 ton 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 the first floor of the 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 smoke. The fi st 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 eases against them in recorder's court he discovered that he was trying his own wotkmen. ami immediately dis missed the eaS's and made open apolo gies for their arrests. Thomas Johnson, who has also 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. 'I he martins came in increased num bers, heedless of the danger. When they had 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 (mite a little scandal de veloped because the mayor had granted such a permission But the mayor replied that he did not know Mr Johnson in tended to kill martins with army artil lery. First Contractor "Went Broke.” \\ hen it was decided that a court house was to be erected there Patrick Lyncft, 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 soggt 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 for the new court house, Moise DeLeon bid on the contract work He bld $132,00(1. The next lowest bld was $144,000. Bv had luck he had lost more than $20,000 on flic contract. JUUGE FITE RAPS STATE OFFICIALS Governor Brown. Governor- Elect Slaton and Judges Rus sell and Hill Get Roasts. t'ALHOUN. 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 tiie court of appeals, he declared, be cause both are members of locker clubs "Tiie criminal rich and the criminal poor." he said, “are endangering the countrj'. 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-beet saloon and locker club In the state, an, 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 tlng, 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 Shlkuel. Vigilance of troops recently sent to Chlngting 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 troops 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 z passed through the city at a tremendous speed, fright ening a half dozen teams and almost running over a dozen people. The fine was tiie heaviest ever imposed on an auto speeder In Macon. U. S. TRANSPORT SINKS LYING IN CHINESE DOCK SHANGHAI. CHINA, Aug. 27—The I’nited States transport Liscom sank in fit feet of water alongside the wharf where it was lying today. The Vessel was undergoing repairs. The captain believes site can be raised easily. The eau.-e of the accident has not been as certained. 3