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Gliy TAX RUSE IS
NEEDED-GANDLER
Municipality Is in Bad Financial
Way—Revision 4>f Budget
Is Begun.
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Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman
of the council finance committee, was
art work today with Comptroller Gold
smith preparing a tentative revision of
the municipal budget.
Aiderman Candler said the city was
Strained financially. All the depart
ments are crying for more money. He
said the only moans h» saw for the city
to get its finances adjusted was to raise
the tax rate from 1.2$ per cent to 1.50
per cent
Indications are that all the "nest
tags" provided in the budget In Janu
ary will be taken out wjiyn the new
h’ldgid is presented to cftunetl in Oeffn
£ir. The October budget is merely a
Readjustment of the January budget
Funds are running so short that many
of the .appropriations made just to start
improvements will be recalled.
Thousands of dollars was thus dis
tributed. Much of the money is lying
idle without any chance of It being
spent this year. It is very uncertain
which will be recalled. Every council
man will strenuously oppose the recall
of any funds from his pet schemes.
How $3,000,000 Was Spent,
I*'. A. Quillian, chairman of the bond
commission, today completed a state
ment of the expenditures of the $3,-
000,000 bond issue money. The items
Include the premiums from tho sale of
bonds.
f Os the $914,943.54 water bond money
<5758,335.21 has been expended.
,• Os the $101,411.30 of hospital bond
tnoney $97,437.97 has been expended.
'• Os the $50,705.68 crematory bond
money $12,987.50 has been expended.
'Of the $610,202.36 of school bond
money $581,750.53 has been spent.
Os the $1,359,498.06 of sew. r bond
money $«64,901.13 h<is been spent.
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THROWING JAVELIN
IS NOW “COMING IN”
AS WOMAN’S SPORT
’ LONDON. Sept 20.-—Javelin throw
ing Is "corning in" as a. sport sot
women.
.Miss Dora Swinburne Roberts, a
young Oxford girl, is England’s pioneer
lady javelin thrower and she can throw i
the javelin, which Ik eight feet long. ■
•duel-tipped, and weighs over a pound
■and a half, a distance of 78 feet 6
Inches.
The Javelin is held at about the point
<’f balance, and the thrower sprints for
■Jiboiit twenty yards uf> to what may be
Ipalled She "take off” nia-tk'. on the grass,
fivhere the javelin leaves the hand,
v At the mark a sudden stop Is made,
<*nd the thrower—giving it a twist as
3t Ijeaves the hand—hurls the javelin
With left leg thrust forward and the
yest of the body bent backward, to get
7|he greater impetus.
It is against the rules to fall over
the line, as the novice invariably does,
before the javelin touches the ground
at the other end.
t “Javelin throwing is .-no of the best
i£nd most graceful exercises that could
’be devised." said F. A. M. Webster, the
'English champion javelin thrower, who
Is coaching Miss Roberts.
It is especially Useful to women, as
1t develops the muscles of the neck and
back as no other sport does. One must
also be a good sprinter, jumper and
weight thrower before one can succeed
as a javelin thrower. Also it Is en
tirely Inexpensive, and can be practiced
In nearly any place,
LAWYER GIBSON WINS
AND LOSES IN BATTLE
OVER SZABO ESTATE
.’ NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Burton W.
•Gibson, the attorney accused of mur
dering Countess Rosa Menschlk Szabo,
lost and.won a point today in his ef
forts to retain the post of executor of
the dead woman's estate-.
Surrogate Fowler* refused to receive
a secret and confidential statement
stating what disposition Gibson had
made of the estate, but later granted
Charles Goldzier. counsel for Gibson,
until Tuesday to file a brief challeng
ing the right of the consulate of Aus
tria-Hungary to have Gibson removed
as < xeeutor of the estate. ,
The ground upon which counsel for
Gibbon challenges the consulate is that
it Is not Interested in the estate and
has no right, under the treaty between
the Cnited States and Austria-Hungarj
to take the action that is set up.
This international question was
raised at the .outset <tf the fight to have
Gibson removed from the care of money
left by the countess
“I do this." said Surrogate Fowler in
granting the attorney time to question
the jurisdiction of the court to hear the
foreign complaint, “because I am moved
by sympathy for the unfortunate situa
tion of Mr. Gibson. Under our present
system of jurisprudence a man is pre
sumed to be innocent until he is con
victed. and tlun the law takes Its
course. I am not disposed to place any I
unnecessary obstacles in the path of'
this unfortunate man ami I will there- i
fore give him time to present the law -
on thi subject of the jurisdiction of
this court."
L. & N. EXPRESS CAR
LOOTED OF $70,000;
OFFICERS ON TRAIL
NJ-.W ORLEANS Sept. 20. -The all-I
thurifies were notified today that an I
expre-s ■ar of the L. and N. railroad'
was r,,b>...,| ~f j;u non between Pensa
' ’la, !'ia„ etui Flomaton Ala Wednes
day morning
I '' l ",'. ,VI ' S left here today to investi
i lie money was taken l from a
L k.tgc containing $75,000.
Singer Thinks Atlanta Will Put Wagner on Map Again
LAUDS CITY'S MUSICAL TASTE
Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun To Be
Heard in Sunday Recitai at
Auditorium-Armory.
Grand Opera may some day owe much
to Atlanta if the pet theory of Mrs,
Carthew-Yorstoun, formerly Miss Nel
lie Knight, of Atlanta, and Georgia's
single contribution to the list of world
prima donnas, proves to be correct.
Mrs.' Yorstoun believes it is in Atlanta’s ‘
power to bring America's musical taste
back to him who made modern opera—
Wagner.
In an engaging interview on thlpgs
both musical and personal. Mrs. Yor
stoun, who will sing two Wagnerian
arias and a Gounod selection at the
Auditorium on Sunday, lent credulity to
her theory by her enthusiasm for the
greatest of music dramas and Atlan
ta's keen response to the intellectual
In music.
“Why, they tell me," she said, glow
ing with her subject, “that the per- I
formance of Tannhauser was the flow- i
er of the Metropolitan’s week in At- i
lanta last spring, a marvelous thing in
the face of a week of the most brilliant
of the Italian operas with the array
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Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun, formerly Miss Nellie Knight. Geor
gia’s only representative on the operatic stage. She will be
heard in concert at the Auditorium Sunday.
of Italian singers that came to Atlan
ta.”
Wagner Ruthlessly Slaughtered.
it is her firm conviction that Wag
ner, almost done to death for America
by the screeching of German tenors and
the hammering and yammering of or
chestras in the years of his first vogue
on this side of the Atlantfc, will again
come into his own.
And in Atlanta's appreciation for this
gigantic musical architect, who sought
in undreamed realms for strangely
beautiful, themes to depict the story of
the human soul, she finds more than a
hopeful sign. It is prophetic of the
fact the dreamer of Bayreuth will again
overshadow all composers for Ameri
cans.
Atlanta, she believes, wilF again put
Wagner on the American musical map.
Mrs. Yorstoun, who has just experi
enced four years enforced absence from
the operatic stage because of ill health,
was in high humor at the thought that
she again is able to resume her sing
ing.
To Be Heard in Concert.
Atlanta is to have tile first opportu
nity on Sunday of hearing her after
many years. She sang here before fin
ishing her musical education tn Europe.
The Romeo and Juliet aria of Gounod,
Elizabeth Enteranee aria from Tann
hauser and Isolde's Death Song from
Tristan and Isolde will be her offerings
at the Auditorium.
Opera is her chosen field. After it.
she says, tho concert stage is cold. Ora
torio she finds- brilliant and beautiful,
but too glacile. It is in the warmth of
the trappings and colorings of opera
that the artist loses herself and finds
the role most suited to her genius.
“1 would always sing opera." she said.
"The concert stage is too chill. In op
era 1 lose myself, my identity; I be
come the character I portray. The
whole story of the ptitV t,le anguish
and the joy, becomes mine.
"That is why I would always sing
I Wagner. There is something in thei
i power of his music, the depth of his |
tragedii > and the heights of his ecsta
i i>s that carries you away with him
' into his tonal imaginings."
\s she spoke. Mrs. Yorstoun’s face
| lighted and she might have stepped
' from tlie cozy little sitting room of Mrs.
I ThaddeusHlorton’s home Into some dim .
■ Wagneiian wood, where a goddess
awaited for the twilight of her race.
Appeared in Covent Garden.
i Mrs Yorstoun is perhajrs best re
| rnvinb. red in musical Atlanta as Miss
Nellie Knight, when she appeared here
as i didst and protegee of Madame .
Ancier. she lias always been well
known socially,
ix-aving Atlanta for wider muaUgiil
ticids, she w i nt to N< w York, and later I
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to London, Berlin and Paris. Aside
from engagements in Covent Garden,
her operatic career was staged in Ger
many. In Strassburg, Metis and Co
logne she sang in 25 roles, some of them
the most difficult of Wagner’s. Her
singing in Aida is still remembered.
Among her Wagnerian roles which
will be heard at the Auditorium as the
feature of the fall municipal coaperts
Mrs. Yorstoun numbers Tannhauser,
the RhemgSld, Gotteidatnmerung, Loh
engrin and Die Valkeries.
With her husband. Major Carthew-
Yorstoun, retired from the British army
service, she is stopping w ith Mrs. Thad
deus Horton, in Eighth street. The
Cafthew - Yorstosgis expect to be in At
lanta through the winter.
LOW SALARY BLAMED
FOR BANK CLERK'S THEFT
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Sept. 20.—"1
feel safe in saying that he is hero as
the result of a mWtaken policy on the
part of many of our banks in not pay
ing adequate salaries to their employ
ees,” declared counsel for C. L. Mc-
Cracken, who was charged w ith embez
zlement. In making a plea for mercy.
McCracken was a former employee in
a. bank in a Pennsylvania town, and
had pleaded guilty to embezzling $6.-
500. *
Although married, with a family of
four small children. McCracken, the
counsel said, was employed at a salary
of sl2 a week.
STORE will be closed to
morrow until six P. M, ac
count
HOLIDAY
Ulf ILL BE OPEN from six until
"r ten P. M.
Eiseman Bros.
■ 11-13-15-17 Whitehall St.
Up and Dou)n
Peachtree
Absurd Rules at
Terminal Station.
A striking illustration of the absurd
lengths to which a idind adherence to
technical rules may be carried was fur
nished at the Terminal station yester
day to the indignation of a small crowd
of onlookers.
A youth, who had barely missed
death in a motorcycle accident and
was badly crippled, was being wheeled
in a chair by a friend, accompanied by
his aged aunt, who was taking him
back to her home in Alabama. At the
gate leading to the train section the
three were stopped.
The man aiding his injured friend
had no ticket, and there was no time
to get a permit to pass through. It
would be necessary for some one to
help the eripple aboard the train. The
white-haired aunt pleaded with the
Terminal agent that the young man be
allowed to go through "to help her
nephew. The man added his plea. The
invalid added his. They were ail vain.
"Another party waiting behind you,"
said tlie ticket man, not deigning to
answer the appeals.
Tlie aged aunt was ready to weep
with indignation, but the railroad man
remained unmoved. A negro was final
ly summoned and he wheeled the chair
on down to the train while the friend
who had been barred wasted the best
part of a select vocabulary on a deaf
railroad and its deafer servants.
GEORGIAN WANT ADS
FILL ALL WANTS.
BOTH PHONES 8000.
DRIVER DE DEATH
CAR THREATENED
Attorney Asks Protection for
State Witnesses in Rosen
thal Murder Case.
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NEW YORK, Sept, 20.—As a result
of threats made against witnesses for
the state in the Rosenthal case the dis
trict attorney’s office will ask
Goff for a court order to enforce pro
tection of persons whose testimony is
deemed necessary for the conviction of
Lieutenant Chalies Becker.
Louis Shapiro, driver of the gray au
tomobile in which the Rosenthal assas
sins escaped after the killing, has been
threatened with deatn.
Small Results
From Waldo Quiz
NE\V YORK, Sept. 20.—Police Com
missioner Waldo was recalled for the
second time by the aldermanic graft in
vestigating committee today and proved
a fiery witness. Emory R. Buckner, at
torney for'the committee, attempted to
learn from Waldo details of the ad
ministrative policy of the police de
partment and how far this is dictated
by Mayor Gaynor.
In response to the first questions put
to him, the commissioner said that he
had no knowledge of any letters sent
him accusing his secretary, Winfield R.
Sheehan.
The commissioner was then ques
tioned as to his appointment of certain
policemen after they had been refused
by his predecessors.
The commissioner admitted that he
had appointed, to the department men
who afterward proved to be crooks, but
declared that his hands wer<> tied and
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THE ATLANTA
TONIGHT 8:15
Saturday Matinee and Night
FLORENCE WEBBER
In Victor Herbert's Opera.
Night 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to SI.OO.
“NAUGHTY MARIETTA”
THE ATLANTA
Seats Now on Sale
AL G. FIELD
MINSTRELS
Entire Engagement of Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Mat
inee Wednesday
Nights 25c to $1; Matinee 25c
to 75c.
GET IN LINE.
Buy it now—AL G. FIELD’S great
book “WATCH YOURSELF 9 GO
BY, at Lester’s. It’s funny.
GRAND * EITH <"UDcvn.Lt
Matinee Daily 2:30; Night 8:30
OPENING OF SEASON.| NEXT
WILLARD SIMMS &
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CAESAR RIVOLI, DooJ More Sinned
M y axw & ell. S M e a’rt ln F e ° t r t s f A9 ’'7 tha "
Sylvester, Klutlngs En Usual and
tertalners, Pathe Pic- Sl * Other
Features
LYRie ti»? eek
T_TH?_£ , 2_ Thu r ß - and Saturday.
fd?st time here at lyric prices
SEVEN DA Y S
THE GREATEST of ALL COMEDIES
Smiles—Laughter—Screams—No Tears
A $1.50 Show at Popular Prices.
LYRIC
Matinees Tues., Thurs. and Sat.
THE ROMANTIC TRIUMPH
THE GOOSE GIRL
Original Cast and Production
SALE NOW OPEN.
ALWAYS ATLANTA'S BUSIEST
theater
FORSYTH DAILY matineesTm'
— l/1101 1 "NIGHT 7:45 AND 9:15
POPULAR vLIHKVILLt.-KCITH KINO
Minnie Vlctorson &‘ Co., ’HeldeTbercT
Four. Wixson &. Connelly. Musical
Vynos, Aldro &. Mitchell—Motion
Pictures.
DON’T MISS A GOOD SHOW
GIRL BATHERS IN
MOBILE BAY GET
COAT OF CREOSOTE
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 20.—Many
young women of Mobile society, as well
as other persons, of both sexes and in
varying walks of life, were uninten
tional blackface comedians last night.
The trouble happened in the waters
of Mobile bay when numerous bathing
parties'went in for an evening dip. A
big lighter, laden with creosote and
beached during the recent storm, had.
capsized and emptied its black contents
into the water.
At Monroe park and elsewhere, how
ever, there was not light enough to see
the floating scum, and it was not until
the first* bathers began emerging that
they found themselves coitted with a
tarry substance that would not wash
off.
thaf he was forced to appoint men cer
tified by the cjvil service commission.
Specific caseo were given by Attorney
Buckner of bad appointments, and the
commissioner each time fell back upon
his defense that he was obliged to ac
cept the men given to him by the civil
service commissioners.
At no time could Mr. Buckner lead
Mr. Waldo to admit that lie should
have investigated the records of the
men appointed.
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To D. W. BOAVIE and the OCTOPUS:
Shall R. C. TURNER, our # brilliant vouiin' "pro- I
gressive” be citv electrician or the' OCTOPUS
(GEORGIA RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY)? I
That $200,000 annual reduction in electricity rates I
to the people of Atlanta beginning Januarv, 1913, in
stigated you, others and the OCTOPUS, diil it not?
Did you know that the public is confident that ■
the OCTOPUS, with its thousands of tentacles over I
Fulton county, had von publish that two-column ad in
the Atlanta papers? The OCTOPUS will pay the
bills, too; now won’t it?
As to your paragraph two—“notoriety” in the
press, for Turner put the public wise, did it not? You
too, seem to be a pastmaster in the art of press "no- I
toriety;” now aren’t-you?
As to your paragraph three—you can not substaii- I
tiate a single charge as to Turner’s violation of duty ■
legally, morally or otherwise; can you?
As to Turner not carrying out his contract with
you, the OCTOPUS does not know that I hold you!
personal receipt and signed by you showing that Tur- ■
ner s contract with you has been carried out: H
OuTOPUS? AA hy do vou embarrass vourself anc ,
OCTOPUS?
As to your “k-a-r-d,” Turner can not afford th
spend his hard earned money to answer ch?rp' s
which specify nothing and say nothing. OCTOPUS' ■
I thought you with all of your journalistic ability all( i *
legal powers around you could do better than y oU ■
have. But you have done vour best. A r ou and dis
OCTOPUS know that, don’t you? I
Pooh, pooh! Whiff! AVhiffle! for the OCTOPUS
and you (the man Friday of the OCTOPUS). The
public knows the truth.
I answer you with the authority of “T"P S . V I
ner. the only city electrician Atlanta has ever 1'"77 I
ed—the old newspiaper route carrier who mice vmi w ■
under me when we were boys together struy'7 "j I
a livelihood. He still, retains a character un>nllicd an ■
untarnished and with a splendid abilitv. dcspil I
efforts of you and the OCTOPUS to cast ayP''’>n»
upon the veritable “young man of the hour. r
lopsy, upon mv solicitation, allowed me t" - I
some “notoriety.” You had some one else m " rI
your notoriety” and you signed it.
CARL HUTCHI>ON’.
September 20, 1912.
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WITH bCt half of ~
his brain man gets
ALON(jFAIRLY Weli
case .r '
who gets along very comfort - T n
only haff ,his train has jus, , T th
to the notice of the surgeons h "^ ht
S.Y-v/?:
At last yeat’s maneuvers a «n> ■
cidentallj’ one of his c ,'„ ac ’
the head. The surgeons im me ,]. a . d '. eK ln
elded to remove the injured ,7 7'’
half—of the brain. In five weeks , h dbvul
was -about again, as usual i, „ * man
that he had forgotten h w S ' J ?
write and cipher. A teacher ' re A
cured for him, and in ' tr °-
could read, write and calculate
ever. • . wen
The military authorities. howev«-
aider that a man with only'i al' // 0 ' 1 '
is exempt from service in the arm n ”
sequenfiy they have allowed him' a 7'
sion, on which he now lives AT
parents. wl,h hu
Besides the pension, a sclentiho
ty allows him $250 a year or " 7
that from time to time he lets its I“*®
bers make experiments with him
Simplify home, apartment, room seek,
ing by saving time, temper and trampin,
by consulting The Georgian Rent Bun..'
tin.