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t ie weather Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia (- r today and tomorrow. \'OL. XL NO. 56. PLAY BALL! BATTER UP! . - ' f ' ' < - W •-■•■■o.- ><.; aMa • a • « > tBH / , I fiL **l ' W< *•* Z />¥./ AF I *1 w ' ’ <r ■ * Z i*2'*'*"**: I T r J : , {•/’* V'w ' ’ J n A ' n j fl / 4 i h l ! * t diiA • \ V !’ ;4 o■< v\ ' -■ 4 ■ • ' >/■ O « ’ , I , • »Q i * i * \ ■il ■ ' 'i' 1 '■ • X? 1 X| ? ■ j VM ' —! < V t ■ < A W W *W mi ■' WBl' ■ - w w zZ w flMi m > '~ ‘ "■— * (c) X>- yens cttsTO<se_ Devore. Doyle. Snodgrass. Murray. Merkle. Herzog. Meyers. Fletcher. 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- Continued on Page Two. 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 iW 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