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PLAN TO REGRADE
IVY STREET IS
REJECTED
Aiderman McClelland Takes
Lead in Killing Project—He
Brands Owners Fakers.
Th? project to regrade Ivy street
with $30,000 to be advanced the city
by the property owners has been turned
down. It was frowned upon by the
aldermanic board yesterday afternoon.
As the project was approved by a
large majority of the council, a con
ference committee from the tw’o
branches of the general council will be
appointed at the next joint meeting
to try, to adjust the matter.
The aldermanic board approved the
resolution to take $3,000 from each of
the funds to repave Fair street and
South Boulevard to regrade Georgia
avenue. It was said the work on
Georgia avenue and Fair street could
not possibly be begun this year, while
the money was needed for Georgia
avenue.
Aiderman McClelland gave notice of
a reconsideration of the Georgia ave
nue matter, which prevents final action
until the next meeting of the,board.
Aiderman John E. McClelland, of the
second ward, took the lead in killing
tlie Ivy street project. He declared
that he was convinced that the $30,000
offer of the citizens to pay the cost of
the work was a fake.
Calls it Inspired by Politicians.
Aiderman James R. Nutting replied
that the aiderman did not know what
he was talking about. Aiderman Mc-
Clelland replied to him that the whole
present plan of street improvements
was inspired by politicians.
"No real plan of improvement is at
tempted." he declared. “Every effort is
to pacify someone with a semblance of
a public improvement.”
He then turned to Aiderman Spratling
and declared that the aiderman had
“about-faced” on the Ivy street propo
sition.
"Alderman Spratling stood up at a
south side meeting and declared that
he was not in favor of the Ivy street
project until Georgia avenue was im
proved. He comes here now and dis
plays a friendly attitude to the
scheme.” said Mr. McClelland.
Aiderman Spratling protested that he
was misunderstood. He said he sim
ply favored postponing work on Ivy
street until Peachtree was finished.
He. said that Ivy street and Georgia
avenue should be improved simulta
neously.
Alderman Van Dyke declared that
no provision had been made for the
repaving of Peachtree street where it
now’ is being regraded. He said there
did not seem to be a chance to get
this street repaved this year and he
warned his colleagues that there would
be an awful howl about this condi
tion from the citizens.
Hurt Flays McClelland.
"It would be a most foolish policy
to tear up the two most used thor
oughfares from the north side to the
center of the city at the same time,"
he said.
When Joel Hurt, one of the citizens
promoting the Ivy street improvement
plan, was told of the action of the
meeting he said:
"Aiderman McClelland is the most
bombastic politician within my knowl
edge. His charge that the $30,000 offer
is a fake is fraudulent and untrue. He
took advantage of the absence of some
of the advocates of the Ivy street mat
ter at the meeting of the aldermanic
board to misrepresent the true situa
tion and help cause the defeat of the
measure.
"I am surprised at the opposition of
some of the friends of the Peachtree
plan. I have always been eager in my
support of Peachtree developments.
Also, Ivy street is a connecting street
with the principal arteries of the south
side. Both sections ought to support
it.”
When the matter came up to take
$6,000 from Fair street and Boulevard
for the Georgia avenue work. Aiderman
McClelland again protested, and took a
shot at Aiderman James E Warren, of
the Third ward.
Warren Accused of Bad Faith.
He said that Aiderman Warren was
not representing the sentiment express
ed at the mass meeting of south side
citizens. That sentiment, he said, was
that the south side should not give up
any improvement that had been prom
ised. He said the people wanted Geor
gia avenue improved, but that they did
not wish to sacrifice everything else.
He said they had got little enough
promised, in the first place.
Aiderman Warren declared that he
was representing the sentiment of his
section, and that Councilman Orville
Hall, not he, was the father of the
resolution.
Aiderman McClelland declared that
< 'ouncilman Hall had called him up
that day and told him to fight the res
olution. He said that Councilman Hall
who started the Georgia avenue fight,
was now out of it.
Aiderman Warren said that if Coun
■ ilman Hall would tell him he was not
in favor of the resolution he would
vote against it.
Aiderman Maddox sought to be face
tious by saying to Aiderman McClel
land that he would take all the blame
for the wholesale charges of politics
that Aiderman McClelland had made.
“I have already branded you as a
member of the political 'ring.'” de
clared Aiderman McClelland.
Aiderman McClelland did not have to
make a fight to kill the resolution ap
propriating S3OO to send the mayor and
two members of council to the conven
of the American League of Mu-
Geraldine Farrar’s Operatic Romance Is Shattered
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GIRLS TO SHIIIED
INSCHDDLAGMN
No Attempt Made to improve
System Which Has Been De
nounced Repeatedly.
Girls in the senior class at the Girls
High school will find the same lack of
heating facilities that caused so much
loss of time to the graduating class
last year and that Dr. W. J. Auten
charges caused the death of his daugh
ter. No attempt has been made to re
place the heating system with an ade
quate one and, except for the fact that
the principal, Miss Jessie Muse, has
had the furnace pipes thoroughly clean,
cd. the heating arrangements are the
same as last year.
School opens Monday for nearly 700
pupils who attend the various depart
ments of the Giris High school, and
preparations to receive them are now
being made. The pupils will find fresh
ly oiled floors and newly painted walls,
giving a touch of brightness and san
itation.
The Girls High school is giving the
same two courses of study this year as
formerly—the Latin course and the
French course. Pupils may select
either one on entering, but are required
to follow the course selected.
In the I.atin course the first year
studies are Latin. English, history, al
gebra. botany and spelling, while in the
French course French is substituted for
the dead language.
In order to explain any phase of the
high school work which patrons may
not understand, Miss Muse will be in
her office at the school from noon until
2 o’clock Monday afternoon.
SHOOTS DAUGHTER HE
AMUSES WITH REVOLVER
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Eugene F. La
vin amused his nine-months-old baby
by snapping an “unloaded” revolver in
front of the little one’s face. The gun
went off and shot the baby through the
cheek.
NEGRO TO HANG OCTOBER 25.
FORSYTH, GA., Sept. 6.—Four kill
ing cases were disposed of in Monroe
superior court this week, resulting In
one conviction, one acquittal and two
verdicts of Involuntary manslaughter.
Harrison Ware, represented by a ne
gro lawyer, was found guilty of the
death of Ned Taylor, another negro,
and Judge Daniel sentenced him to be
hanged on October 25.
nicipalities, as he announced he would.
The other members, with the exception
of Aiderman Maddox, agreed with him.
Aiderman McClelland said the city
attorney had held such junkets ille
gal. He said he asked Councilman Al
dine Chambers, the father of the reso
lution appropriating the money, if he
did not know it was illegal. He said
Councilman Chambers said there was a
distinction between it and the other
appropriations to send officials to con
ventions. He said he did not care any
thing about the distinction; he wanted
to know what the difference was.
He said he was willing to personally
contribuate to a fund to send Mayor
Winn to tho convention
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN IND NEWS. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1912.
Antonio Scotti.
• Sudden Departure of Prima
Donna, Supposedly Sick, for
Munich Is Recalled.
LONDON, Sept. 6.—Charlotte Ives,
the American actress, now at the Hotel
Savoy, confirms the report of her en
gagement to Antonio Scotti, baritone
of the Metropolitan opera Company in
New York. She said the marriage
would take place as soon as the ar
ranged mts could be made. It will
probalj be in New York.
The Betrothal has caused a stir, both
here a .1 on the continent, because it
marks the collapse of the long-lived
rumorj that the famous baritone would
marry Geraldine Farrar, the prima
donna.
The announcement has given new
interest to the fact of the sudden de
parture of Miss Farrar for Munich re
cently. ill health was given as the
reason for her trip, but of course there
are now some who surmise, for the
sake of chat, that there may have been
a final understanding between the two
singers, either friendly or otherwise.
Miss Ives has been on the continent
during the summer, and has visited
Signor Scotti’s family. She and her |
friend, Miss Anne Meredith, attracted !
considerable attention when they ac
companied th? airman. Sommer, in
flights at Evian les Baines, Fiance.
Miss Ives sails on the Mauretania to
morrow to appear in “Passers-by” in
New York. Scotti will remain here
for some weeks.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6. -Signor Scot
ti had not taken any of his American
acquaintances into his confidence con
cerning his latest romance. it was
generally supposed he would, some day,
wed Geraldine Farrar.
The first regiort that Scotti and Miss
Farrar were to be married gained cre
dence back in 1906, when they arrived
in the autumn to fill their engage
ment here. Both have busily denied
the report ever since, but Scotti’s at
tentions to the prima donna continued
to feed the fires of rumor.
Even after the opera season was over.
Signor Scotti used to follow’ Miss Far
rar to Paris, and he war her devoted
cavalier dining several summer en
gagements. Some of Miss Farrar’s
friends say she believed no artist
should marry, and they attribute her
refusal to her devotion to her art.
The baritone will remain abroad for
several weeks longer, it is understood.
In 1903 Signor Scotti was reported
engaged to Miss Mary Britton Leavy, a
New York heiress.
BANK OF HAWKINSVILLE
CAPITALIZED AT $50,000
The secretary of state today issued a
charter to the Bank of Hawkinsville, to
be capitalized at $50,000.
J. Pope Brown, former state treas
urer, is the first man named in the
charier. The bank will commence busi
ness immediately.
MACON SCOUTS TO HIKE.
FORSYTH. GA., Sept. 6.—On next
Tuesday, the boy smuts of Macon are
to hike to Forsyth, under command of
Scout Master Kingsbury. About 25
Macon scouts are to join a like num
ber from this place and they will en
camp near Forsyth for the night, re
turning the next day I
f MIN MR OSER
MS TIMER
j 100 Followers of Colonel Hear
Speeches and Outline Active
Campaign in Georgia.
The bull moose campaign in Geor
gia is well under way today, with a
party paper planned and a number of
Progressives pledged to work and vote
for the Colonel in November. Increased
enthusiasm followed the meeting last
night at the Piedmont hotel, where
about 100 moose, including two women,
were present.
Mrs. Sam Jones, of Cartersville, wid
ow of the famous evangeliSt, was one
of the two, and the other was Mrs.
Margaret McWhorter, of Gainesville,
who holds a degree of law, but can not
practice within the state. Mrs. Mc-
Whorter announced her plans to pub
lish the first Progressive Republican
paper in Georgia. It will be called The
Georgia Patriot, and will be started
■soon. A number of subscriptions were
given by loyal Bull Moose at the meet
ing.
John M. Parker, of New Orleans, a
great plantation owner, one of the men
who have done most for building up
his city and state, and an intimate
friend of Colonel Roosevelt, was the
principal speaker, C W. McClure of
Atlanta, presided. James L. Sibley,
postmaster at Milledgeville and a Taft
appointee, made a short talk in which
he swore fealty to the colonel. It was
announced that another, rallv would he
held soon.
POINTER DOG PREVENTS
JAIL DELIVERY; SHERIFF
AND WIFE RECAPTURE 10
OCILI.A, GA., Sept. 6.—But for a
pointer dog, eleven prisoners would
have succeeded in escaping from the
Irwin county jail. A.s it was, only one
got away, the other ten being recap
tured in the jail yard, after three of
them had been shot by the sheriff. The
one who escaped is supposed to hav.
been wounded. He was serving a mis
demeanor sentence. Os those recap
tured, one is charged with assault to
kill, two with arson, and seven with
rnlsdempa nors.
The eleven negroes had pried the
bolts from the cage door with a piece
of iron pipe, went through a scuttle
hole to the roof, and descended to the
jail yard by a rope of blankets. When
they reached the ground, a pointer dog
began barking, arousing SiutrffT W. A.
Tucker, who was sleeping in the jail
residence on the first floor.
The sheriff rushed to the yard with
his pistol and tired every chamber at
the escaping prisoners. Mrs. Tucket
followed him with another pistol. To- |
gather they succeeded in corralling ten
of the negroes and marched them back
to their cells. The county physician is
attending the three wounded.
NATIONAL BANK CALL.
\\ ASHINGTriN, Sept The comp, i
troller of the currency today issued a
call for a refiort of the condition of
national banks at the close of business
on September 4.
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MARIETTA STREET. I
510.000 TO SB
DE DIS CHILDREN
Doctor Offers Fortune to Any
One Wiio Can Conquer Dis
ease Ravaging Family.
Si IjH is. Sep! 6.—-Following the
death of his daughter. Virginia. 7 years
old, from infantile paralysis. Dr. Robert
l.dward Wilson, of 4295 Lindell boulevard,
|in his grief declared he would give a
fortune to any physician who would save
Mhe lives of the other three Wilson chil
' 'lren, who are all ill of the same disease,
al the Wilson country home. “The Oaks,”
Pattonville. Mo.
‘I will give SIO,OOO to the man who can
save my children.” was Dr./ Wilson's cry
after his daughter’s death The s<* n ne in
the little girl’s room was so touching just
before her death. Saturday night, that
Dr. Wilson was frantic and two other
physicians who had been in attendance
were so touched that they had to go out
of the rdbm.
In a swinging bed. under a canopy on
the lawn. Robert Fidward Wilson. Jr., 4
years old. lay critically ill. with two
trained nurses in constant attendance.
Two other nurses were raring for the
baby, 2 years old, and her sister, Ellen
Marie. 11
The older girl apparently Is recovering,
but little tlrace, who was the first to be
stricken by the disease, is in a serious
rendition, her attendants say. Virginia
was 111 only four days.
Dr. John Zahorsky, an expert on infan
tile paralysis, makes two trips daily to
“The Oaks.’’ Another St Ixniis physician
and one from Pattonville have also been
assisting Dr. Wilson in his battle with
’he disease.
GREENVILLE & KNOXVILLE
EXTENSION IS SURVEYED
GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept 6—From
an official source It is learned that the
work of extension on the Greenville
and Knoxville railway will begin with
in the next 30 days. Within the past
week engineers have completed the
survey from Davenport to Gap Creek
Gap, a distance of twelve miles. This
gap is at the top of the Saluda ridge,
and the route laid out by the engineers
is on a grade of 68 feet to the mile.
This is considered a remarkably low
grade for a mountain road, and is an
agreeable surprise to the promoters.
The Gap Creek route Is the low’est
route across the Blue Ridge mountains
between Richmond and Atlanta. Re
cent developments certainly mean that
the Knoxville road will be put through
within the next twelve months.
SOLVES HEAT PROBLEM
BY DISCARDING CLOTHES
NEW HAVEN, .MO., Sept. 6 Nolt
stein brothers, of Beouf Island,'in the
Missouri river, near New Haven, think
they have solved the perplexing prob
lem of how’ to keep cool.
It is very simple and economical —
they wear no clothes, and never get all
"het up."
When these untenifled plowboys go
to the field to split the soil into fur
rows they remove all their artificiality
and proceed to dig up nature in a nat
ural mode.
One day while plowing they got
caught in a heavy rain. They put their
clothes in the furrow and plowed them
under to keep the garments dry
EFFORT MADE TO REMOVE
CORDELECITY ATTORNEY
CORDELE, GA., Sept. 6.—A resolu
tion to oust City Attorney E. F. Stro
zier and employ D. A R. Crum in hfs
stead, introduced at yesterday evening’s
meting of the city council by Aiderman
J. P. Hughes, has become a subject of
considerable comment among local pol
iticians.
Some are of the opinion that the ob
jection to the city attorney is mainly
the result of municipal factional poli
tics, growing out of the creation by
legislative enactment of a permanent
bond commission.
TO HELP INAUGURATE WILSON.
FORSYTH, GA. Sept. 6.—The Quit
man Guards. Forsyth’s crack milltory
company, contemplates taking part in
the inauguration, next March, if
Woodrow Wilson is the next president
of the United States. They are rais
ing funds to defray the expenses of
such a trip.
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SEARCHINGSIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
It is in politics no less than in every
thing else, perhaps, the little and seem
ingly inconsequetial things that count
the heaviest in
hi
the long run.
When young
Mr. Patterson, of
Valdosta, son of
Judge H. L. Pat
terson, at that
time contestant
for the Blue Ridge
judgeship nomi
nation, went to
Ellijay, in Gilmer
county, A few'
days after th?
primary In which
he believed his
old father had
been wronged, he
was cursed for a
"damn spy,” was
told that the
healthiest thing he could do would be
to "get out of town." was refused ad
mission to the room in the court house
where the alleged counting of the vote
was taking place, and otherwise was
Intimidated and mistreated.
That circumstance, within itself, and
from a strictly legal standpoint, was
relatively unimportant. It proved no
wrong in the nomination, and It es
tablished r.o fact directly in point.
But when in calm, gentlemanly, dis
passionate tones it was related before
the committee yesterday, it produced a
powerful effect, and one distinctly un
favorable to the Morris end of the con
troversy
Young Mr. Patterson’s bearing was
evidently that of a clean-cut gentle
man. He was a stranger to the com
mittee, Just as he was a stranger in
Ellijay. He had no credentials with
him other than that he was the son
of the “old man," and the “old man”
being outrageously wronged
No one testified that young Mr. Pat
terson conducted himself in EUlJay
otherwise than as a man of sense and
poise should conduct himself, even un
der aggravating conditions.
The “rough house" handling of PaJ
terson in Ellijay reacted heavily upon
his father’s enemies In the finish.
Without in any way seeking to em
phasize the humiliation to which the
committee’s finding subjects some par
ties to the controversy concluded on
yesterday, It may be said tn perfect
truth and candor that the committee’s
finding Is generally approved.
Comment about the hotel lobbies last
night and today was distinctly of a
kind commendatory of the verdict.
The Morris defense was almost w’hol
ly technical. It was founded upon the
theory that, even 1f fraud did char
acterize the election in Gilmer, the re
sult would not have been reversed had
it not been committed—that Morris
must have won in the final count by
a margaln of some 64 votes, wherever
the fraud may have fallen. Indeed,
fraud was not denied so much by the
defense as its operation was sought to
be technically arrested merely.
The theory of the contestant was that
gross fraud was practiced and of such
a charter that the entire judgeship
election in Gilmer must have been in
valid, and that the fraud was funda
mental —and particularly so In that it
began in that which is a prerequisite to
all elections in Georgia—the registra
tion list.
It waa alleged and maintained that
names were both Illegally to and
taken from rhe registration lists used
in Gilmer, and that this was done by
a committee composed entirely of Mor
ris partisans.
It also was alleged and maintained
that Patterson not only was denied all
representation at the polls tn Gilmer,
but that every manager and clerk par
ticipating in the holding of the elec
tion was a Morris partisan.
The compilation of the returns fol
lowing the so-called primary seems to
have been a grim joke—w r lth a decided
back kick in it, as events finally made
evident.
The point in the entire proceeding
that seems to have impressed itself
most emphatically upon the commit
tee was that Gilmer county, by its
fraudulent elections, v?as making im
possible the fair nomination of any
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
man to office in the Blue Ridge cir
cuit unless Gilmer agreed.
“It would be bad enough," said one
committeeman, “for Gilmer county to
practice its methods within its own
boundary. It would be a deplorable
state of affairs if Gilmer’s venal elec
tions were confined exclusively to 10-.
But when an entire
judicial circuit is subjected to victo
rious fraud through the acts of a
vicious electorate In one county, and
when that county undertakes to dom
inate unrighteously all outside but
equally interested territory, it is high
time to call a halt.”
Chairman William J. Harris has
been universally complimented upon
the fairness of his rulings and his al
ways evident purpose to give both sides
to the unfortunate Gilmer county fight
the widest latitude in setting forth its
case.
Mr. Harris, appealed to early in the
proceedings to rule out this or that
evidence, informed the committee that,
he proposed to rule out nothing what
ever.
"This committee is composed of in
telligent men. It is sitting as both
judge and Jury. Jt is able to discrim
inate between the relevant and the ir
relevant. I am not a lawyer, and do
not understand the Intricate rules of
evidence Invoked in court house pro
ceedings lam presiding here to see
that justice obtains—l do know that.
Wltnesses may testify as this commit
tee in Its wisdom sees fit to permit
them,” said Mr. Harris.
This ruling undoubtedly prolonged
the hearing, but It helped mftfhttly to
bring about a result founded upon truth
and the facts, as they were developed ,
on the stand.
Attorneys on both sides of the Gil
mer contest are to be Tobgratalated
upon their oondtict of the hearing.
Necessarily loose, and unmindful oil
the usual nioektes and distinction th
sisted upon in the court room, the
hearing nevertheless was, particulwrly
in Its finish, admirably carried along.
Representing Judge Morris were Lu
ther Rosser, of Atlanta, and Robert
Hardeman, of Jefferson J. Z. Foster,
of Marietta, and D. W. Blair, of Ma
rietta.
Representing Judge Patterson were
H. H. Dean, of Gainesville; J. D. KXi
patrtek, Car! Hwtcbeeon and Sent Hew
lett, of Atlanta, Thomas A. Est-own,
Sam Allen and A. Q. Dupree, «f Blue
P-ldge; C. L. Harris, of Cumming, and
A. H. Burts, of Ellijay.
The published statement that J.
Randolph Anderson, of Savannah, was
one of the Morris attorneys was a mie
take. Mr. Anderson had no connec
tion with the case whatever
It is questionable taste to assert that
J. D. Kilpatrick’s concluding argument
for the contestant was the very best
speech delivered in the hearing?
Anyway, It was—decidedly!
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