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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 SCOTTI IS TO WED MISS IVES kSKKs w® lx WaSF HR O WMMF / i JU.. I ■<**? »:. ' / J r •' ' m/ 4* "gal\ i / w / ■'H\\ ' V / /w Ww \FA \ < If tfe ~ . Geraldine Fail ar i.'harlottt- Ives. 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. SCHOOLBOOKS. MIL LER’S BOOK STORE, 39 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. 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MEMPHIS, TENN. 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. 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