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GLM 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, isito 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 comtnen • 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 thet 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. s 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 want 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. Rut the committee rec ommends that council shall approve the appointment of all assistants to over ’ come the temptation with the present 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. J 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 tould 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. “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 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. 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 s 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 let 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. 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 and interment. * The child 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 melodles ln 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 I ME _ Jb HR / / A:.'. ..aN ’LI I i ||i| / / F* . ' v? -3fc'x * vflw/ \\t® Hr 7 'C- IMI /j/7 \\ * F « \\ Om \ iW 7 mBRK| these diminutive fenders will be de ri geur and au fait this season, and every body in "Who’s Who"—every masculine somebody—is doing® it now. They are especialy 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 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 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 tlie 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: "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. “Well do 1 remember,” said Mr. Tay lor, “when to stroll up Peachtree in th" 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 ATLANTA GEORGIAN V’D NEWS. * i iff < a IB 1 ®f IF r///// i. - ~ 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 the upper right is Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey hidden under a pair of inspiring bushes of the kind 0. 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 tlie wind, as the case 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, for the Barbers’ union wields no small pow er at the ballot box and frowns upon whiskers of any variety, from full blown jap.onicas to the small chin whis ker known to the craft as a doo-dad, and which resembles a fragment of newly laid 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 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 fly paper came in. “As I observed, the man in public life does not wear whiskers. And while w< 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 the occasion and at your request. There was a time when 1 would have enjoyed a set of storm curtains, but my hope turneq into despair. They appeared in patches, few’ and far between, and I could not coax the various colonies into terms of intimacy. And besides, they (1 have been red, anyway." TWO DAYS IN 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 gill had been giten whisky as a restorative w hen she was rescued from tlie surf by Lift guard Cowden, and the 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 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 Patrick is assisting the physicians at the prison who are making an inspec tion of the condition of the eyes of more than 1,000 Inmates. Patrick was selected by the physicians to make notes of their observations. BECKER SPRINGS SURPRISE, PLEA IS HELD IIP 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 Recker, 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 Becker should not be arraigned to plead to the indictment charging him with the murder 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 and charges of gtafting. 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 -aid 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, 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 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 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 yvere 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 yvere arrested at a Eonda 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 fectives, blit 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 felt sure the much wanted gunmen had at last been run to earth. Tlie 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. Erom 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 Cumbill. 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. Cumbill 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 3he 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 I ledmont 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 oxer 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 led 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 ffEAIMSELF Columbus Man, Traveling for Atlanta House. May Recover. Woman Likely to Die. COLUMBUS, GA„ Aug. 27.—Insanely jealous of bls wife, A. M. Robarts, traveling representative of the Pitts burg Plate Glass Company, of Atlanta, today*shot his yvife 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 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 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. "Robarts was about 42 years old, a splendid business man. 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 ten years, making headquarters at Columbus. Be fore that he was a conductor on the Atlanta and West Point road, and had thpusands 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 first policeman at the fire found a score of guests struggling in the sec ond floor hall litinded 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. Tlie 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 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. 3he 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 quite 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.” M hen it was decided that a court house was to be 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 hit 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 RAPS 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 falling 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 bls veto. LOYAL TROOPS BALK UPRISING PLOT WHEN BOMB KILLS GENERAL TIEN TSIN, Aug. 27.—A conspiracy to seize and loot the town of Chlng 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 Shlkuei. Vigilance of troops recently sent to Chlngtlng by President Yuan Shal 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 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 Liscom sank in 40 feet of water alongside the wharf where it was lying today. The vessel was undergoing repairs. The captain believes she can be raised easily. The cause of the accident has not been as certained. 3