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The Giants, champions of the National League, in the batting order in which they will oppose the Boston Red Sox at Polo grounds this afternoon in the first game of the annual series for the world's baseball championship.
STREETNUISIINCE
SCORED IN SUIT
AGNNST CITY
Administration’s Lax Methods
Shown Up in Injunction Ac
tion Brought by Residents.
Property owners living in North
Boulevard between Ponce DeLeon and
Lost avenues today filed a suit in the
superior court charging that the terri
ble condition of that street constitutes
a nuisance, alleging that the delay in
th' paving work and the tearing up of
t e- street is in keeping with the meth
'"f ’be present city government, and
'“king an injunction forcing the city to
abate the nuisance. The petition goes
■ ngthy details, showing the meth
or ack of methods in city con
'’’on work and the unnecessary
‘ * ays, and is an unusually Interesting
document.
''bout a year ago. says the petition,
tens of the street secured an ordl
provlding for a new pavement.
1 ’as finally adopted, but the city
lai in charge negligently inserted
1 ■'ertisement on Sunday, which was
■gal. and the entire process had to
1 ' repeated.
Show Up Negligence
Os City Officials.
May 31, 1912, the Southern Bltu
’ ompany entered into a contract
’he city to pave this street and
loot, the work within five months,
ng bond. The work, therefore, is to
npleted by October 3-. The street
ompany began shifting its single
I' for the purpose of laying a dou
" k there. This company, being a
<’■ corporation, put its adequate
at work for 24 hours a day and
he work quickly. It left a gulch
r eight feet in width and a foot
and then ceased its work. Mov
"ast track destroyed the eastern
”f the street. To lay additional
would have destroyed the west
o,! rt and the entire street would
' be,-n blocked.
dirt and old crossties, building
• 1 ;| iid other refuse were deposit
’d' street, and traffic was ren-
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
Beer Club Members
File Suit to Force
Manager to Reopen
Metropolitan, of Rome. Shut
Down When Seaborn Wright
Started Crusade. ‘
ROME, GA., Oct. B.—Claiming that
the Metropolitan club was closed
against the orders of the directors, the
members of the organization, a beer
drinking club, have brought a suit of
equity against Manager George Tram
mell and Steward Wiley Trammell to
reopen the place.
The suit is unusual. There is no real
feeling against the manager and stew
ard manifested in the petition, but
the suit was brought simply as a test
It is alleged that the directors should
have given their consent to the closing
of the club. In the papers a full de
scription of how the members arc
served is given. It is claimed that no
law has been violated.
The Metropolitan club closed follow
ing the action of Seaborn Wright in
bringing an injunction against the Elks
club and vrill remain closed until the
settlement of the Elks suit, on October
25, unless Judge Maddox grants its pe
tition next Saturday.
FAMILY POISONED BY
CANNED ROAST BEEF,
HE SUES FOR $50,000.00
Asserting that the entre family had
been poisoned by eating canned roast
beef, Thomas W. Dobbs, a grocer, 233
Chapel street; his wife, children, son-in
law and grandchildren tiled seven damage
suits aggregating $50,000 in superior
court today against Libby, McNeill &
Libby, the packers.
The can of meat Dobbs alleges was
purchased from a broker named Brannon
and had not been properly packed. Mem
bers of his family he maintains suffered
from ptomaine poisoning shortly after
eating the meat and two of his children
hovered between life and death for two
days.
The suits were filed as follows: Mrs.
Carrie DObbs, $10,000: Thomas W Dobbs.
Jr., $5,000; Thelma Dobbs, $5,000; Thom
as W. Dobbs, $10,000; Margery Hall,
$5,000; Mrs. Julia Hall, SIO,OOO and G. A
Hall. $5,000,
ESTRANGED HUSBAND IS
FREE. IS COURT DECISION
<*Hl<’AG<». Oct 8. If a man is living
away from hi- wife and paying her ali
mony, ft is none of h* busin - who lv
hives with or how’he earns hi- mom,'
I wee tile decision of Judge Gemini!
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1912.
BM ASKED 10
END STRIKE; NO
thiim
Governor Requested by Union
Men to Urge Road to Take
Back Terminal Employees.
The trainmen's strike on the Georgia
road hangs upon but one point today
and the strikers are in hopes that an
adjustment will be reached. That is
the question of whether the 40 striking
employees of the Atlanta joint termi
nals shall be restored to their positions.
Governor Brown has been approached
by a representative of the unions wiih
the request that he take up the matter
with Superintendent Brand at Augusta
and urge him to recognize the joint
terminal employees as a component
part of the trainmen’s organization and
restore them to their places with the
rest of the men. He was not requested
to act in an official capacity, hut merely
to use his friendly offices in showing
Mr. Brand that a mere technical point
should not be permitted to prevent traf
fic on the Georgia road and cause in
convenience and even suffering to citi
zens along the line.
Superintendent Brand takes the po
sition that the joint terminal men are
not actual employees of his road and he
has no jurisdiction over them. He
maintains that they are employees of a
company composed of the Georgia, the
Louisville and Nashville and the At
lanta and West Point systems and that
they had no cause to join the strike, as
they actually wore not involved. Train
men contend that Superintendent Brand
is trying to separate the terminal em
ployees from the ranks of the Georgia
trainmen in order to break up their or
ganization. They insist that the joint
terminal employees are given orders by
Brand and carry out his instructions
and virtually are his employees.
PART OF $5,000 PLATE
STOLEN. SENT TO POLICE
NEW YORK. Oct. 8. Out of $5,000
worth of silverware stolen from George
Gould's private car Dixie, S4OO worth
has been mysteriously returned through
police channels
The Batting Order
Giants. Red Sox.
Devore, If Hooper, rs.
Doyle, 2b Yerkes. 2b.
Snodgrass, of-... Speaker, cf.
Murray, rs _. ...Lewis, If.
Merkle, lb Gardner, 3b.
Herzog, 3b Stahl. Ib.
Meyers, c Wagner, ss.
Fletcher, ss Cady, c.
Mathewson, p. Wood, p.
Fmpires: National League, Klein and Rigler; American
League, O’Loughlin and Evans.
JAIL HOLDING LAD AS
SLAYER OF PARENTS
GUARDED FROM MOB
QUINCY, ILL., Oct. B.—With a spe
cial guard thrown around the jail and a
company of state militia held in readi
ness to protect him from possible mob
vengeance, Ray Pfanschniidt passed a
sleepless night. He was arrested as
the slayer of his father, mother, sister
and a school teacher, boarding at their
home. ,
The feeling against the young man.
who is a graduate of the University of
Illinois, is high and >alk of violence is
heard on every side. Governor Dorieen
has telegraphed Captain W. A. Long,
commander of Company F, Illinois Na
tional Guard, to hold his men ready to
repel any attack on the jail by a mob.
Although suspected of the crime when
the bodies were discovered the young
man was not arrested until a blood
stained khaki suit was found. Pfan
schmidt generally wore such a uniform.
The estate left by the elder Pfan
schmidt amounts to about $50,000 and
all would naturally gto the son, who
is the sole heir.
CITY GETS $2,922 PAVING
TAX FROM SEABOARDR. R.
The city of Atlanta will collect $2,-
922. instead of $7,800, in pavement as
sessments from the Seaboard Air Line
railroad. A compronilw verdict in the
injunction suit brought by the road
against the city was arranged after the
jury had been out six hours yesterday
and the smaller amount was named.
The road said it was not liable for
pavement or sewer assesrm nt because
the railroad property did not require
that.
I'l fa-- were Issued by the elty for
$7 800 for pavement along the right
of-way bordering DeKalb avenue. The
Injunction suit then was filed.
TAX INCREASE PLAN
TO BE DISCUSSED BY
COMMERCE CHAMBER
The proposed increase of one-quarter
per cent in the tax rate of Atlanta will
be discussed at tonight's meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce in Taft hall
and a big crowd is expected to be on
hand.
Judge John S. Candler will speak in
favor of the increase, while Eugene R.
Black will lead the opposition. Anopen
discussion will follow.
The gathering also will /liscuss plans
for a civic revive! to bring various
needed Improvements in Atlanta.
NATIONAL GUARD TO
MEET IN MACON TO
DISCUSS PAY BILL
The National Guard association of
Georgia has been called to meet in Ma
con at noon October 19. The armory
of the Macon Volunteers is the place
named for the meeting, and the na
tional guard pay bill will be the chief
subject of discussion. Brigadier Gen
eral R. E. Evans, of the Department of
the Gulf: General Clifford L. Anderson
and Congressman Dudley M. Hughes
will be among the speakers.
The association will urge that all
national guard officers will aid in the
effort to have the pay bill passed at
the next term of congress. Reduced
rates will be given by all roads to Ma
con because of the state fair.
8 SPELLBINDERS’ WIVES
•‘DESERTED,” GO CAMPING
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.. Oct. B.
The wives of eight spellbinding politi
cians, including the mayor, senatorial
candidate and others, temporarily “rie
-1 sorted" by their husbands, have gone
camping
100,000 IN STRUGGLE 10
SEE FIRST GREAT SME
NEW YORK. October B.—This is the great day! When old
Sol pushed his way over the Bronx hills and showed his cheery
countenance to a multitude of fans his rays fell on hundreds of
women who had stood in line at the Polo grounds all night in
order to buy admission tickets to the first game of the world’s
series between the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox this
aft ernoon.
That the weather man is fl
fan was evident. He dished up
the made-to-order brand of
weather for the first game. It
was a trifle hazy in the morning
and some of the men in the ticket
line who had neglected to wear
overcoats shivered, but the sun
promised to wipe out the mist
long before noon.
More than 3,009 fans were in line
along Brogjdway and Eighth avenue
when the sale of admission tickets went
on at 8 o’clock.
The first two tickets were sold to two
girls—-twins. They were the Misses
Doris and Aileen Wood, of 526 West
One Hundred and Twelfth street. They
are English girls who have been in
this country only five months, but they
are dyed-in-the-wool New York root
ers.
"We got here at 2 o'clock. We won’t
get much sleep, but we intend to see
every game played here, and we don't
care If we don't sleep a wink.”
Ten thousand sets were on sale for
this afternoon's game, and from the
way the cars disgorged their crowds of
fans It was evident that the ticket sell
ers would be busy. Judged by the speed
with which the crowd was increasing at
8 o'clock it was expected there would
be 10,000 persons on hand before noon.
Each purchaser was compelled to en
ter the park as soon as he bought a
ticket, thus the bleachers and unre
served seats In the stadium began tn fill
as soon as the ticket boots were open.
With a swoop the first male fans who
entered the park broke for the stand
with a cheer. Many carried pillows,
overcoats and lunch boxes for com-
I hut ami magazines and newspapers for
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
entertainment, for they faced a long,
tedious wait.
Brsh Stadium seats 38.000 persons,
but arrangements were made to handle
a crowd of at least 50,000.
Mathewson and
Wood Will Pitch.
It had been reported that Christy
Mathewson would pitch for New York
and Joe Wood, of Boston, would per
form for the Red Sox.
The Red Sox arrived late yesterday
and are quartered at Bretton Hall. All
were in good condition, and the confi
dence around Bretton Hall could have
been cut with a knife. The Sox were
favorites in the betting, 10 to 8. There
was considerable wagering, especially
in Wall Street. New’ York brokers
stuck loyally to the Giants, while the
Bostonians were just as loyal to the
Sox.
Despite the efforts of the baseball of
ficials to keep the tickets from falling
into the hands of speculators, they were
only partially successfpul. Scalpers
were abroad today offering choice seats
In the grand stand for sale at $25 to
$35. By Thursday they said the price
would be much higher.
Both Managers
Are Confident.
McGraw said this morning that if he
did decide at the last minute not to
pitch Mathewson, he would probably
choose Tesreau.
Stahl declared himself thus: "My
team is ready for the battle. The play
ers do not expect an easy series, and
neither do 1. We all know that the
Giants have a good team and their
game Is going to be a tough one.”
First Fans Enter
Park at 8:23.
I There was a little delay in opening
the gates and it was 8:23 o’clock be
fore the Misses Wood tripped through