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MAYSDN HOLDS UP
LOCKER CLUB
CLOSING
Advises Council Not to Enforce
Order Until Court Reaches
Decision.
City Attorney Mayson advised today
that the order of council closing- four
locke ’ clubs be not enforced until a
decision by the supreme court on the
injunctions against the city, preventing
the closing of these clubs under a for
me* act. But as the action of council
> < terday was taken on the authority of
a new act by the legislature, Mr. May
son said he would not wait very long
on the supreme court. He said the or
of council could be enforced under
t i, new charter amendment by an ap
peal to the superior court for amend
ments to the injunctions.
Glooms stalked around the four clubs
today—the Georgia Athletic, the
Knights of the Mystic Ark, the South
ern and the Bees, for only an approval
of th- order of council by the mayor is
needed to make it final, and there is no
doubt that Mayor Winn will approve it.
The members and officers of the Press
club and the Central club are also un
comfortable, for the police committee of
council has delayed action on these for
two weeks.
Nine of the locker clubs were granted
permits at the meeting of the council
yesterday afternoon. The Piedmont
Driving club, the Atlanta Athletic, the
.vi. and M., the Elks, the Standard, the
Terrace, the Eagles, the Moose and the
Beavers clubs did not file their petitions
in time. But Chairman W. G. Hum
phrey. of the police committee, said
these would be investigated and report
ed on at the next meeting of council.
Chambers For Clubs.
In enforcing the new charter amend
ment, Chairman Humphrey and his
committee won out in the council yes
terday, despite a bitter fight for the
clubs led by Aiderman John E. McClel
land and Councilmen Aldine Chambers
and Claude c; Mason. All declared that
the police committee had to fight a
strong combination, for it was the first
time that Councilman Chambers and
Aiderman McClelland have been on the
same side of any question this year.
From the discussions of the various
officials, a spectator would have im
agined that the council was struggling
»dth a deep and weighty problem. But
it was very simple. Before the council
secured additional authority from the
legislature a number of clubs were able
to run despite the objection of the
council. When the authority was se
cured the committee proceeded to try
tn close a number of clubs w hich they
branded as masquerading barrooms. All
the opposition was merely an effort to
keep these clubs from being closed.
'The only objection to the report of
the police committee is that the mem
bers and officers of some of these clubs
have political influence, and they are
exercising it,” declared Alderman Janies
E. Warren.
"Not a Club Meeting Law.”
I You admit that there is not a locker
club in Hie city complying with the
state law,” said Councilman Chambers
to Alderman Warren. "I want to know
how you reconcile your action in grant
ing permits to some of them with your
oath of office.”
"If I could get enough of you politi
cians to agree with me I would move to
close them all,” replied Mr. Warren. "I
can’t do that, so 1 am trying to do the
best I can.”
Alderman McClelland then wanted to
close them all. But he was persuaded
not to make such a motion.
Councilman Mason insisted that the
police committee make public the evi®
dence upon which it closed these clubs.
He said the sessions of the committee
were executive, but that the council
men otight to know w hy the clubs were
being closed. The committee declined
io give this information. The vote on
’he Georgia Athletic club was 14 to 14.
Mayor Pro Tern Candler cast the decid
ing vote to close the club.
HEARS SHOT ON PHONE
THAT KILLED FIANCE
FOND DU LAC. WIS.. Oct. 22.
"Good-bye," dear; something dreadful
is icing to happen." With these -words
•I- E. Herworth. an electrical helper,
fired a shot through his temple as he
fated a telephone while talking to his
sweetheart. Miss Agnes Fromm, of Mil
waukee. Herworth called the girl over
lhe long distance telephone and ques
tioned her for some time relative to her
I"' 1 for him: then lie told her to ex
'rnd his love to his-own mother and
other relatives. He was engaged to the
K’rl and expected to be married in a
few months. He lived but a few’ hours.
BARONESS ROTHSCHILD DEAD.
PARIS. Oct. 22.—The Baroness Gus
tave Rothschild died here today.
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Atlanta’s Mosquito Hatchery Flourishes at City Hall
BACTERIOLOGIST POINTS OUT PERILS
*•*-- Here is a microscopic photograph of a “mosquito hatchery.” prepared by Dr. Claude
Smith, City bacteriologist, who has waged war so successfully this season that comparatively
tew mosquitos liave flourished in Atlanta. At the extreme right is shown the beginning of the
Mac« ‘V'riHh growth of a mosquito from the egg. and its subsequent career is shown from right to left. At
fcw A' S ll,, ’ s< l”' ,n •'merging from his shell, and ready to w forth and bite. Notice tin
' - |\ 1 H iWwHMBIWf breathing tube always at the surface of the water. A thin film of kerosene prevents hatehine.
Dr. Smith Shoe's th’. Danger
Lurking in r --;c': Yards.
Score? Yiy? Exhibit.
Hundreds of city hall visitors stopped
at the east entrance today to view Dr.
Claude Smith’s mosquito farm. The
city bacteriologist is hatching out
hjealthy specimens of the insect pest at
the rate of several hundred a day. Just
to show Atlantans how easy it would
tie to get rid of them if everybody
vusould work together.
The exhibit is simply an old tin can
k«alf full of rainwater, just like those
ill your own back yard. Over this is
a. tall glass globe to keep the mosqui
toes from flying away when they hatch
chit. As the average female lays about
140 eggs at once, and the old can seem
ed to be headquarters for quite a col
ony. Dr. Smith's exhibit does not lack
animation. There are mosquitoes to
burn.
■‘Swatting” Campaign Works.
Atlanta has swatted the skeeter so
effectually and efficaciously this sea
son that lotions have been a drug on
the market, and mosquito bars have
been converted into shirtwaists for the
Peachtree parade. But it was not al
wtay thus. Time was when porch par
ties were held in the basements, and
even the policemen complained they
could not sleep on their beats. They
have raged clear into November in pasl
years.
Dr. Smith is the man who put the
sJxeet in mosquitoes. He began it in
tthie summer of 1905, when New Orleans
caught the yellow fever. Memphis quar
antined, farmers along Southern rail
roads patrolled the tracks with shot
guns to keep refugees from leaving
trains. and Atlanta, after considerable
discussion, threw open her gates and
welcomed everybody who had the price
of a ticket and a board bill. “Jim”
Woodward was mayor then, by the way,
and he was one of the first to declare
Atlanta an immune city.
Not that Atlanta ever had the well
known stegomyia, the mosquito which
ex-tracts a yellow fever germ from one
sufferer, flies next door and inserts it
carefully in another slumberer. Neither
does Atlanta harbor the noted ano
pheles, whose specialty is malaria
transportation.
The culex was Atlanta's pest, and
though he bears no fatal disease, he
is hungrier than a poor man's dog and
amuses himself by eating large chunks
out of a sleeper’s cheek and leaving a
burning welt to pay for his meal. The
cu’iex is the sweet singer of insectdom,
the. second story worker, the house
brtiaker. He is the boy who hums op
eratic arias in a minor key half the
nUght. sidesteps all the swats aimed at
him and then settles softly down and
rams his stinger under your epidermis
about a foot.
An the old days, when the mosquito
flourished and the prohibition law was
not, the favorite method of combatting
hini was to imbibe several large, un
watered drinks early in the evening.
The imbiber was too intoxicated to feel
pain up to midnight, and after that the
mosquitoes too drunk to bite. Even now
thane ate those who still sigh for the old
days
Oil Stops Ravages.
Bru Dr. Smith had an idea that mos
quitoes could be chased out of the com
munity, and persuaded council to give
him $4,000 for the first year's work.
The money was spent in putting kero
senci and crude petroleum, mixed, on
the surface of stagnant pools. Inspec
tors looked up such places and then the
oiletn oiled them. Things ran smooth
ly after that. Each year there has
been a mosquito apropriation. and
though it ran only to $2,600 this season,
effectual work has been done.
“The old idea that mosquitoes breed
in vines and weeds Is wrong.” said Dr.
Smith today. "They breed only in wa
ter. A tin can or an old beer bottle
full of water will hatch out thousands
of them. And they are hatched full
grown and ready to bite. too. There’s
no suich thing as a Tittle, young mos
quito?
"If we had a rain every two weeks,
| I here, wouldn't be any mosquitoes. It
j takes that long for the eggs to hatch,
l and tveiy fresh rain washes the eggs
'away;, it is a dry season which brings
1 mosquitoes. <>ur rainy summer has
j helped in that particular”
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1912
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City Bacterialogist Smith, at work in his laboratory.
Demon Decatur Street Rock Thrower Enlists
TIGE TO TAME MEXICO
“Uncle Sam doesn’t need any troops
on the Mexican border.” said Claude
Ashley today. "I see they’ve enlisted
Tige in the Tenth cavalry. If they'll
put him on the border with a wagon
load of rocks, he’ll drive every greaser
in Mexico into the gulf in thirty days.”
“Who’s Tige?” asked one of the
bunch at the city hall entrance. Mr.
Ashley, council man-elect from the
Fourth ward, turned a look of disdain
on the questioner.
"Tige is the terror of Darktown,” he
explained "He figures in the police
records as Will Mason, which may be
his real name, but all Darktown knows
him as Tige. And he is the champion
rock thrower of the world. I’d match
him against David and his sling, and
put up a side bet that he’d put out Go
liath in one throw at fifty yards. I've
seen him gather up a handful of bricks
and send four negroes to the hospital in
eleven seconds. I heard today he had
jdtned the army and gone to the negro
regiment, the Tenth. I’m sorry for the
rest of the troops if Tige ever gets
started.”
Real Darktown Authority.
Mr. Ashley, who directs operations at
the brewery, is Atlanta's leading au
thority on its colored citizenry and chief
chronicler of Darktown, her people and
her events. To hear him sing the songs
of Darktown is a liberal education in
darky dialect. He knows Decatur street
and its denizens as Alfred Henry Lewis
knows the East Side and its gangsters.
He relates the legends of Crappy Chute
and Lundys Lane with the local color
of an O. Henry.
“Did you ever hear of Son Jones?”
he asked the ignorant questioner, to
whom Darktown was an unknown land
"Son Jones is the official Happy Hooli
gan of our colored set. He has had
more hard luck in a minute than hap
pened to Happy in a year.
"Son heard a knock on his door one
night, and hastened Io greet the visi
tor. As he opened the door he was sa
luted with a double-barreled load of
birdshot, which nearly sent him to his
grave When he got out of the hospital
and investigated, be found it was sim
ply a mistake. The man with the shot
gun «as looking for another negio. and
had happened to knock on the wrong
door. Os course, Son couldn't harbor
any resentment over an error like that.
“When Son Jones was well enough to
hobble about a bit. he strolled into the
Boulevard. Some white boys were gath
ered under a tree, and Son stopped to
investigate.
“ ‘We’ve kicked our football up that
tree and can’t get it down,’ said the
boys. 'We’ll give you a quarter to get
it.’
Son Hits the Hornets.
"Son climbed the tree, crept out on
the branch and hit a mighty lick at
what he thought was the football. It
was a hornet's nest, with a dense pop
ulation which resented interference.
When Son showed up next day. both his
eyes were closed and his head was as
big as a beer keg.
" Honest, boss, 1 runs a mile and a
half to my house, and two of dem hor
nets was still stickin’ to de race,' he ex
plained. 'But 1 sho did outrun de rnos’
of ’em.' ”
Mr. Ashley paused to light a frosh
cigar,
"After that Son kept out of trouble
for a week.” he resumed. “But the
next pay day he made a break for De
catur street for a drink. Just as he
turned lhe corner, a gun went off and ;■
bullet, intended f.u a negro mixed up in
a street fight, passed clear through its
tangent and struck Son in the leg. Both
victims went down together, the fight
ing man dying and Son yelling that he
was killed. Around the corner came
the ambulance and both of the wounded
were piled into it. The interne, in his
white uniform, swung onto the rear
step, and away it went.
"Five minutes afterward 1 heard a
yell, and here came Son. his eyes start
ing out of his head and his complexion
gray with terror. We had to grab hitn
and sit on him to keep him quiet.
“‘I thought you were dead.' said 1
'Didn't you start to the hospital?'
"'I sho did,’ explained Son. 'But that
dead nigger in de amberlanch he turns
over and rolls his eyes at me. I gits up
and comes right out. I lias to knock de
amberlanch doctor clean oft'n dat step
inter de mud, but 1 ain't lettin' da’
worry me. No sir.'
"We found the bullet inside Son's
. sock. It had raised a knot the size of
an egg on his shin, but he wasn't se-
■ riously hurt.
"But IT you want to know something
about Dprktown. < omc around some day
and I'll tell you about Black Diamond,
champion chicken thit l.? .-aid Mr Ash
ley. ' But it would take half a day. and
I haven't the time now.”
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
The general opinion of the newspaper
men who visit the state capitol seeking
whatever news daily they may devour
Is that the Honor- ——
able Murphey
Candler is some _.Z/wga
railroad eomntis- f ■?.
sioner, all right! ”
The chairman ■ fjali
of the commission W ,
is a human en- ■ WaM|
cyclopedia of rail
road wisdom, and
what he doesn't z
know about what wA "
is going on rail- SER w awH
toad wise in those is|
United States is ?
not going on—
that's all. Illi - J
In digging and WM
delving aro u n d
hither and yon,
Mr. Candler turns
up some significant facts now and then,
and frequently he finds out things not
particularly pleasing to some people.
Not that he is naturally of a mean dis
position. or anything of that sort, but
that in the Candler philosophy, two
and two do not, never did, and never
will, make anything more nor less than
four.
And so the chairman has discovered
that Georgia collects a smaller tax per
mile from the railroads of the state
than any other state in the Union col
lects, with the exception of four—-Ari
zona, Now Mexico, Texas and Smith
Dakota.
“Georgia, only gets $194 per mile,”
said the commissioner today, "and that
is mighty little, compared with some of
the states. Massachusetts, for instance,
collects $2,300 per mile.
"I am not giving these figures with
any particular object in mind, you un
derstand. It merely happens that they
show an interesting state of things.
When the cost of railroad construction
and equipment per mile is taken Into
consideration, it can not be said that
Georgia grinds the railroads to pieces
in the matter of taxation, anyway!”
Commissioner Candler is one of the
most regular officials in the capitol, In
the matter of attending strictly to his
job. One rarely enters the office of the
chairman of the commission that he
isn’t there, generally up to his neck In
work.
The various state house officials are
busy nowadays publishing their sworn
statements of expense incurred in the
last election, and their statements make
interesting reading. particularly be
cause everybody is able to sweat this
time that it cost him nothing whatever
to get himself elected!
The law requires that a .statement of
expense shall be published, in both the
general and the primary elections, but
it is in the primaries, o's course, that
the coin flies in Georgia.
The general election is not at all ex
citing—the nominating election gener
ally Is exciting a-plenty and some ex
pensive!
John M. Slaton does not know yet
that he has been elected—that is, he
doesn’t know it officially—and so ho
will not have to file an expense account
at this time.
Editor Brown, of The Newnan Herald
and Advertiser, -rill is gasping for
breath, things came go swift last week,
and he tried so hard to keep up with
everything going on!
He devotes over a column—mostly
filled with adjectives—in the current
issue of his paper, discussing the big
news editorially, and lie finds that with
the Fite case, the shooting of T. R., and
the election of Woodward in Atlanta,
there was more jammed into one little
week than a country editor should be
required to keep track’of!
Editor Blown makes an even break
in bis comment, however. He approves
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MOVIES AID IN WAH
ON WHITE PLAGUE
Free Exhibition of Tuberculosis
Prevention Method Will Be
Displayed Tonight.
Tuberculosis and its prevention,
shown in illustration and moving pic
ture. is to be the order of this week,
leading up to Tuberculosis day, Sunday,
October 27.
Beginning tonight arrangements have
been made by the Anti-Tuberculosis as
sociation to have lantern pictures
thrown on a screen at Five Points
every night this week from B to 9
o'clock. These pictures, dealing with
the disease, methods of prevention and
eradication, will be interspersed with
humorous and comic features. The as
sociation hopes in this way to reach
and impress many with the importance
of individual effort in the work.
Films will be shown at many of the
moving picture theaters, treating the
subject. Special arrangements have
been made for showing all of the new
films relating to tuberculosis to the
delegates here this week in attendance
on the convention of the Georgia Fed
eration of Women's Chibs.
The Anti-Tuberculosis association
announces that all Sunday schools in
Atlanta which were overlooked and not
provided with the story for the chil
dren and the Red Cross pins will be
taken care of next Sunday, October 27.
The association is also arranging for a
distribution of the pins among the chil
dren of the public and private schools
of the city, with the view to enlisting
them all in the crusade. ,
. NEVIN.
By JAMES B
the Fite finding, disapproves the T. R.
shooting, and neither points with pride
nor views with alarm in the Woodward
matter.
Governor Brown is getting more or
less sore on one feature of his guber
natorial job—sore physically on less
than mentally—and that is the law re
quiring that he sign in person all the
commissions that go out from his de
partment.
Recently he has been busy signing up
some 2,000 certificates of authority to
county commissioners throughout the
state, and there is another little batch
of 1.500 justice of the peace warrants
awaiting his attention as soon as he
can get to them.
Having to sign one’s name 3,500 times
hand running Is going some in the
name signing business, and the govern
or has rather a large and Imposing
signature, at that!
It takes him quite an appreciable
fraction of a second to fashion in ap
proved form the big ”J” with which he
starts his signature on Its way to sat
isfactory existence.
Besides these commissions and things
that are forever demanding of the gov
ernor a part of his time and energy,
there are hundreds of letters that he
feels it a duty to look over carefully
before personally attaching his signa
ture thereto.
Frequently he goes home In the aft
ernoon wishing with'all his heart that
his hand were a rubber stamp, and that
the law permitted him to give official
sanction to legal documents merely by
using it as rubber stamps usually are
handled.
Hardly a day passes that one does
not hear in Atlanta of a boom having
been started for this, that or the other
patriotic and liberty loving Georgian
possessed of a rampant desire here and
there to be postmaster of his home
town, in the event of Wilson’s election
to the presidency—and no would-be
postmaster in Georgia can see anything
but Wilson rainbows in the skies polit
ical, no matter the direction in which
at the moment he may be squinting.
Already the.re are under-the-cover
movements on for the postmasterships
of Atlanta, Savannah, Rome, Augusta
and Valdosta—and doubtless there are
other booms. In cold storage as yet, that
will appear in time.
It isn’t fair to name names yet, of
course, for there is no use running the
risk this early in the game of getting
Democratic wires crossed in Georgia;
but it may be accepted as a fact that
nevertheless, the would-be Democratic
postmasters of Georgia already are sit
ting up and taking notice—some of
them very carefully and discriminat
ingly.
Chairman William J. Harris, of the
state Democratic executive committee,
received a wire from a county chairman
today reading as follows:
“Every man in this county is for
Wilson except two, and even Old
Satan could not change them.”
Mr. Harris is wondering if the infer
ence here is that Satan is a Democrat.
ENGINEER OF DENVER
IS HEIR TO $400,000,000
DENVER. COLO., Oct. 22.—Charles
S. Price, a locomotive engineer of Den
ver. has received word which estab
lishes his claim as heir to the famous
$400,000,000 Price estate of Baltimore.
The estate consists of 300 acres of land
tn the heart of Baltimore.
Through his brother. Francis S.
Price, of Chicago, he learned that the
original title to the land conveyed from
Lord Baltimore to Mordeeai Price, his
great-great-grandfather, In the year
1750, for eleven pounds sterling, had
recently been found at New Philadel
phia, Ohio.
FINE FOWLS EDR
POmEMIT
Impressive List of Entries for
Ninth Annual Show of Geor
gia Poultry Association.
C. O. Harwell, secretary of the Geor
gia Poultry association, and his band of
assistants are working two shifts and
all sorts of overtime now in getting the
entries listed for the ninth annual Great
Central Poultry Show of the South,
which will start next Monday at the
Auditorium-Armory.
It is probable that Mr. Harwell and
his assistants know more about the
technical end of giving poultry shows
than any other men in the South. They
have been at it steadily for almost nine
years-. They have given eight success
ful shows.
This fact is of interest to breeders,
exhibitors and the poultry breeding and
poultry- loving public. It means that
the coming show will be put on expert
ly and well; that the detail work will be
handled intelligently and efficiently;
that the birds entered will be well
handled; that the show will be ready to
open on time, with all the birds cooped
and ready; that the judges will be pro
vided with efficient assistants, and that
when it is all over all birds entered will
be returned In good order to those who
entered them.
Only Best Birds Shown.
There will be no buncombe, no circus
side lines, no illustrated lectures, no
hocus-pocus, no packing of coops with
barnyard fowls for the purpose of mak
ing a showing. It will be merely an
exhibit of the best birds that can be bred
in America. It will represent not only
the best products of the yards of the
South's best breeders, but the best of
those of other sections as well.
Different poultry shows are given for
different reasons. The Georgia Poultry
association’s show is given by public
spirited citizens of Georgia, who are
willing to give their time and their
money for the good of the breed in the
South. Nobody makes anything out of
it. For years and years the show was a
dead loss. And in those lean years the
men of the Georgia Poultry association
dug into their pockets without grum
bling and paid their losses. Now the
Georgia Poultry association owns lt»
own coops, it owes no man a cent, it
has underwritten the coming show, and
every debt contracted will be. paid right
off the reel, as every debt contracted by
the association in the past has been
paid when due.
A glance over the list of entries is
impressive. It isn't the largest number
of entries ever gathered for a Southern
show. That honor goes each year to
Augusta. It does not number any vast
lot of freak breeds. But it does number
birds from the farms of the country's
best breeders of the real standard va
rieties, the varieties that psople ac
tually keep.
Some Fancy Breeds Entered.
There is always a mild curiosity in
the latest thing in WaJHklkls, Coucou
de Malines, Guelders, Cuckoo Cochin
Bantams and LaFlechee; but what
prospective buyers want to see is the
best that Is to be had in Plymouth
Rocks, Reds, Leghorns, Orpingtons,
Wyandottes and the like.
That is what the coming show will
offer. The country has been fine
combed for entries from the really
high-class breeders and the result will
be a showing which, for real quality,
has never before been equalled in
Dixie. Very shortly the association
will announce some of the famous
breeders who will show in Atlanta and
the list will be one that will create a
sensation. For never before have so
many high-class farms been represent
ed in a Dixie show.
Indications now are that there will be
several shows in the South this year
that will top the coming one in number
of entries, but that there will not be
one this year and that there has never
been one which has equalled this one
in class.
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