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INSLEYCHKS moss limn TO CLAYTON Real Estate Operator Accuses City Construction Chief of Nepotism in Office. ■. in P Ansley, real estate operator promote’ of Ansley Park, ad .r.ssed today an open letter to R. M. i ,-on. chief of construction, in which pul; charges of glaring incompe ;pon the part of the construction , irtment of the city, growing out of o'k in Ansley Park. He charges W. A. Hansell, employed as a expert” and who is a nephew of ,in r ayton. was . "sponsible for a • ■ •■ .he inefficient work, and goes til regarding the "misfit sewer „<;• " laid out by Captain Clayton Rv ; ”ipn Hering, an engineering engaged by the city several Gross Overcharge Claimed. Pi, ; of Mr. Ansley’s ie’te” follows: \department has rendered me a r, 51.200 for laying a sewer from < -m . street to Peachtree Circle, would be Eighteenth street). ;-■ ar least twice the reasonable same. 1 have laid nearly 15,000 ~f trunk and over 25.000 feet of ■-• v.cr- ’ll Ansley Parr, and this ; tan twice the cost of any sim- ■ , , i e that J have laid. ■•" reason this pipe was re-laid was a property owner that was • m ’iis o on Piachtree street ■ Dimer lor. with this pipe and connection up within a • >f his <>!.«•, and before it was r.l a hr. . tin washed shav •nd pic. 's of serai timber (one : lour, I into it and . ; • it to be, i rue choked up where arc. tion was made, and naturally :i to break. Another property put a heavy wall ajid a large ■ t ovf i. without reinforcing it. , .dso .-a used it to break. Nephew’s Work Criticised. Vo . and your nephew, the city sewer . • ■ <?), had complained that be- i ■ i.. s pipe was laid at the natural ■, -g point In this section, and had .ome ■•■ light immaterial in it. therefore it did not ■■. < ''ity specifications and should ■.'l. Was the trunk sewer in ' ■ of his home curve I in order to ‘avoid -r-wer assessment .r. that block? ■•lf al the sewers are c,,sting double : ri-a.souable cost of same, it is no that the bond money is nearly s- i And still there are miles of open ,!< sewers in the city limits. When you and your friend, Rudolph Ib.-it.g. planned the misfit sewer sys hat you have put off on the city ' M'anta. that you now admit will not :■”■«’■• successfully until another or ■ i bl. system is laid, I had Civil En- ■ S. Z. Ruff and Major Bolton, the ■ stunt city engine r of Richmond, ;o make a survey tnd plan, show ling that the plan made by you and Ru i' Herring for the extension of the IB.'(• r street sewer was wrong and not take care of the sewage with in u t present city limits, not to speak ' • ■■. .ttershed immediately adjoin ,'tr, t <m the east and north that will ikt-n into the city limits, probably n 'h, next five years and certainly WjfJ] l! f j], Developers Antagonized. ■ i.' sooner the engineering depart ment ;ins to co-operate with the de '■ in place of antagonizing every ,1. ii .’■■■• the improvement and beautif’ - ns of our city, as you have done with ■v. ry development 1 have undertaken, !• sooner we will have a modern city ’’■■ get rid of the dissatisfaction of the o yers at the way your department - ••• ng -iu. The property owners, and contractors, should be taken The city has paved only two blocks \:o < ' Park in three years, and done ■ pairing but unless it comes in and ns up the streets and repairs them I'.in the next thirty davs. I shall be " • rtl to do so at my own expense. Il !’• n I told you 1 expected to devel- ■ " a, res of land immediately north : nth street that would likely be -in into the city limits within five did you not answer that you only ■ i.’d to take care of tile present ami ■ future take care of itself? Is ' is policy of yours the cause of nt condition of our city? A\ by has the Jackson street bridge ■i down for six years, and why did ■ dump the pile of refuse paving ■ op the present end of Jackson sire,'i and cause it to do my property ■i-ands of dollars of damage? Is the wood block paving material l>> you up to the cits* specifiea- Tom Wilson says it is not. i« the matter with the pavement 1 North Boulevard? Who are the experts in your office. 1 where did they get their experi ls your nephew a sewer expert, where did he get his experience? ‘ doing work for the city, has he red to be an expert? Is not your getting a ‘little heavy’ for you un i resent conditions? The above are a few questions which citizens of Atlanta would like to ■ answered. "Yours truly. "EDWIN P. ANSLEY' Deafness Cannot Be Cured ' local applications, as they enn not ‘oS'li the diseased portion of tin- ear. is only one way to cure deafness, and '■’t Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness ”<s,"l by an Inflamed condition of the , '>'is lining of the Eustachian Tube. ‘ this tube Is Inflamed you hare a ml: tig sound or imperfect hearing, and 1 it is entirely closed deafness is the '. and unless the Inflammation can lie ’■ “," n out and this tube restored to Its nor ’■l condition hearing will be destroyed for -r; nine cases out of ten are caused by ■ ; arrU, which is nothing but an inflamed .I’tion of the mucous surfaces. will give One Hundred Dollars for ”■ ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Send for circulars free. I- .1. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. .* '<l by druggists, 75c. 1 Te Hall's Family Pills for constipation (Advt J Little Daughters of German Charge True Americans TOTS SPEAK TWO TONGUES WifMijP *>' A ' ■ - < w e, • •<c’«-.y ua F • -“-t fckp t? A\ \l ' W\ ‘.nri i \ z s 11 \\ ■■ ? ’lb ■ \ KMMh-Ak. it-*■*s£■ c V (jHmMel w. I \ \ JI \ \v IB \\ \ ■ t. y f I \ \ \ iw : V- g -J —* x-mIWb ** ans Stollberg. with lit 11*' Tita in her arms and Ella V\ 'tanding by. caught bt Georgian photographer. ATLANTA’S NEAT PRICE ill SOAR Stewards Believe Paucity in Cattle Supply Will Cause 20 Per Cent Increase. Meat prices are going up another 20 per cent, according to predictions made today by Atlanta men who ought to know. These mon claim that the scarc ity of cattle is sure to send the price up, and this is additional to a 20 per cent raise 1n 1912 over 1911. ■ The tariff on meats, and particularly meats from the Argentine Republic, is responsible for this condition. 11 is de clared. The International Stewards associa tion had a convention recently in Niag ara Falls, attended by various Atlanta hotel men. and it appointed a legisla tive committee to inquire into the sit uation. This committee will seek to enlist the aid of the public In having a "duty-free’’ meat bill passed by con gress. The stewards claim that by the passage of such a bill and the estab lishment of United States inspection service in the foreign slaughter houses, the price would be cut in half, and the committee claims to have discovered a "false shortage of meat in this coun try. which seems to be responsible for the present high prices." JOHN D. ONCE REFUSED RAISE—NOT WORTH IT NEW YORK Oct. 24.—The newest John D. Rockefeller story is that when a young man. acting as bookkeeper for the uncle of Henry Clews, the banker, the present oil king asked for an in crease over his sls weekly salary’ "Can’t have it; you arejt’t worth It,” was the reply. TOM CAT “FIGHTS” AND DESTROYS RICH FURS NEW YORK. Oet. 24.—A big tom eat got into the show window of a Broadway furrier store last night, and before policemen could break in and stop him, he had torn to shreds a number of valuable pelts, which he mis took for enemies, WILD DUCKS DYING OF SCOURGE BY THOUSANDS SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 24.—An un known scourge is killing thousands of wild duck”. The same disease killed about a. million ducks near Salt Lake a short time ago. SIR ARTHUR PEEL DIES LONDON. Oct. 24. Viscount Arthur Wellesley I’eei. former speaker of the house of commons, died today*, aged 8". He held a number of high office” in the British government and was speaker from 1884 to 1896 He was a liberal In poll- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1912 DIAZ INSURGENTS LAF DOWN ARMS Three Hundred Captive Rebels Sent to Capital—Their Com mander Is Paroled. VERA CRUZ. Oct. 24.—The last ves tige of the revolt of Geneva) Felix Diaz was removed early today when 300 in surgents, who had refused to surrender when their leader was captured yester day, laid down their arms. They were marched Jo the city'a outskirts to be put on a train for Mexico City. General Diaz has given his parole to General Beltram, the federal command er, und he Is allowed to go about with out guard until taken to the capital for trial. Business was resumed here today and the Americans who had sought refuge on the Des Moines returned to their homes. Diaz Likely To Be Pardoned MEXICO CITY. Oct. 24. —The un popularity of the Madero government was strongly evidenced today by the failure of the republic to show any en thusiasm over the defeat and capture of Felix Diaz at Vera Cruz. The city is tranquil. Neither loyalists nor rev olutionary sympathizers are making any demonstration. General Diaz will be tried by courtmartial and then sen tenced to death. It is probable, how ever, that We will not be executed, as Madero’s advisers are urging him to pardon the revolutionary leader »s a diplomatic stroke. Mexico Ordered to Free Correspondent WASHINGTON. Oct. 24 —The I nited States embassy in Mexico City in formed the state department today that notice had been served on the govern ment officials that they must release H H. Dunn, the American newspaper cor respondent seized by them on Monday, or the United States will take other and more direct means of securing his liberty. Dunn has been one of the rep resentatives of the National News as sociation in Mexico since the Madero revolution began. COMMANDER OF CZAR’S YACHT ENDS OWN LIFE ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 24.—Rear Admiral Tschagin. commander of the czar's yacht. Standart. committed sui cide today by shooting. No reason for bis act h 1 ” been given out. Their Loyalty Is Divided Be tween Stars and Stripes and Black Eagle. Here are two young German-Ameri cans whose loyalty Is of perforce di- vided between two flags—the Stars and Stripes and the Black Eagle. They are Elia and Tita, the little daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Hans Stollberg, and they have just come back to Atlanta after a visit to Chicago Dr. Stollberg is secretary of the Ger man consulate in Atlanta, and has been in charge of the offices in the Atlanta National Bank building, with the kai ser’s crest on the doors, since Dr. Zoep fel-Quellensteln was transferred to Ha vana. He is German, through and through, and so is Mrs. Stollberg, but Ella and little Tita are true Americans. How could they- help it, when they’ play with other Inman Park children every day a.nd absorb American ideas and customs? They’ speak English and Ger man with equal facility—little Tita’s facility is not great in either language y*t—and are splendid specimens of healthy- childhood. The, photographer caught Mrs. Stoll berg and her children just as they were leaving the station after their return to Atlanta from Chicago. MEDIATORS fAIL TO SETTLE CAR STRIKE ISSUES IN COLUMBIA COLUMBIA. S C, Oct. 24. The street car strike is not yet settled, though last night representatives of the. striking carmen and of the car com pany met with a committee from the Cliamberof Commerce, actingasa board of mediation, in an effort to settle the differences Involved. The mediators ac complished nothing. The carmen are sticking to their demand that the Amal gamated Association of Street Railway Employees be recognized. This the car company determinedly’ refuses to do. President F. S. Terry, of the Cham ber of Commerce, stated at the media tion meeting that the ear company had already granted the earmen everything; that gentlemen could ask, and he de manded that the strikers take some steps toward ending the strike. How ever, nothing is done yet. The car com pany’s franchise requires that cars must not be idle for more than three months. The company declares it will keep its cars in the barns that long, if necessary. HUSBAND DECLARES WIFE PREFERS LOBBIES TO HOME F. F. Landers told superior court to day that his wife, Mrs. Jettie Landers, preferred the lobbies of various At lanta hotels to her hearthstone, and the company of “drummers” to ills own. He agked the court for a. divorce decree. Landers further maintained that his wife would come home intoxicated, and brag of her conquests, just to make hint mad. HOTEL GUESTS PANIC STRICKEN BY BLAZE CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Fire in the Mor rison hotel early this morning created a I panic among the guests. Tin hotel is I at Madison and Clark streets in the heart of the Loop district. Hundreds of guests, wakened by the blaze, which broke out after G a. m.. rushed to the fire esiapts and th< olevato s. The clerks and at -r.i.ints liad difficulty in calming them. No one was seriously hurt. GEORGIA ‘CHICKS’ HEADY FOR SHOW Work of Classifying and List ing Entries for Exhibition Completed by Managers. The work of listing and classifying the entries for the Georgia Poultry as sociation’s show, which begins next week, has been completed, and all mat ter for the catalogue is in the hands of the printer. Nothing remains ahead of the show committee now but to get the pens in place and to clear the decks at the Au ditorium for the tremendous work of receiving and placing the birds. It has been arranged to deliver birds received by express on Sunday, and they will come in by the carload. Lo cal birds will be received Monday morn ing. and every bird will be In place by 1 o’clock Monday, at which time the judging will begin. Interest this year in the famous util ity breeds promises to be higher than ever before. And as usual the hottest competition will be in the Red and Orpington classes Great Showing of Orpingtons. Some of the country's breeders of Orpingtons will show. Athens, the "Orpington City," will show a tremen dous number of the birds. Mrs. L. L. Upson and Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin, of the Classic City, will be on hand with strong strings. The Clifton Orpington yard will be another that will make a strong exhibit. Another city famous for its poultry industry that will come strong with Orpingtons is Clarkston. Ga. The Southland Poultry Farm. Muse A Wright, proprietors, and the Sutton Orpington Yards, both of that town, have entered a number of high-class birds. A good showing of Whites will be made by O. L. Chandler, of Newnan. Ga. South Carolina will be represented In the Orpington alleys by the Abbeville Orpington Yards, a regular exhibitor at the Georgia Poultry association show, which ■will show Buffs Whites and Blacks. ; Hal Riviere, of Kirkwood, will maki a showing of Black Orpingtons. So will the Southern States Duck and Poultry Yard, of College Park. H. O. Keferstein, of Hilliard. Fla., will exhibit one pen of White Orping tons, but it is reputed to be one of ex ceptional class, and a probable winner E. E. Drewery. of Brooks, Ga.. will show White Orpingtons. So will the Aldrich Poultry Farm, of Columbus. < >hio. a new exhibitor at the Georgia Poultry Association shows Announcements of the other breed ers of note who will show in the other classes will be made later, and it will be possible to judge from the list the close of show that will be given next week by the Georgia Poultry association. Same Old Officials. Tile show officials will be the same as last year. C. O. Harwell will, as usual serve as secretary. Except for one short Interruption, he has served in this ca pacity Since the organization of the as sociation. and this will be the eighth show in Atlanta of which he has had charge. F. J. Coll will again serve as superintendent, with J. H. Reynolds at his assistant. These men occupied the same positions last year, and are vet erans at the poultry show business. They have never failed to keep all birds in good condition throughout the shows, and to return them in good or der when it was over. Mr. Reynolds will be in especial charge of the ducks. The show this year will be a better balanced one than last year’s excellent exhibit. There will be more ducks this year, more turkeys and more pigeons. Every popular breed will be represented and in some of the varieties the show ing will be tremendous. The Rhode Is land Red class will, as usual, be par ticularly strong. It is doubtful if ever before there has been one that even remotely approached it. Another tre mendous showing will be in ducks, and particularly of the White Indian Run ner variety. Last year the local show set a world's record in this respect, and this year it will no doubt top last year's mark. PRESENT WATER TAX IS ROUNDLY SCORED BY MANUFACTURERS I hat Atlanta water rates are exces sive and tend to cripple industry is the contention of Oscar Elsas, vice presi dent of a local cotton mill, and James C. Gentry, representing an ice manu factory, who appeared yesterday after noon before the water commission. These men claim that if the city water works were operated by a. private con cern. a reduction of at least 47 per cent would be effected, and this would great ly encourage the installation of new in dustries. A comparative statement of cost and expenditures one bajted on the figures taken from the annual re port of Superintendent Smith and the other taken from figures compiled by the manufacturers- show* a difference of 1147,8.?8. One item that the manu facturers find objection to is an al leged tax cost of $77,107. whereas the city pays no taxes. The manufacturers and certain other I consumers are contending for a return I to the minimum seven-cent water rate, I and they claim that the cost should tie about $49 a million gallons. The pres ent rate Is said to be an advance of fifteen per cent over 1910. The city, on the other hand, claims that ft costs $75.94 to deliver a million gallon* but a commission is to be ap pointed to investigate. SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. County officers throughout Georgia are contemplating with more or less alarm that section of the newly printed JAMS-S B >WvT>r legislative acts of 1912 which re quires of all coun ty officials com pensated. in whole or in part, under a fee system to tile with the comp troller general of the state from time to time sworn statements of all amounts collected by them, in detail This act is Ed Wohlwender’s fa mous 'senate bill 88." and it Is the first step in the direction of get- ting Georgia officials off a fee basis and onto a reasonable, fair and equitable salary basis instead. Up to this time, these officials have been accountable to nobody save them selves as to the amount of compensa tion attaching to their offices. There never has been any way whereby the public might obtain even an approxi mate idea, of what they were getting. The new law becomes effective on January 1 -of next year. It requires the officers to keep daily accounts with themselves, and to render quarterly re ports to the comptroller. These reports will be open to public inspection at ail times and must be sworn to by the of ficials making them. Besides these reports, the officials are required to list the amount of insolvent costs earned and collected by them, to gether with the number of men em ployed in their offices and the total clerk hire. A lot of fee-compensated officials are dissatisfied with the new law, but the demand of the public for more specific information along the line of fees has been so great that, for a time at least, the law is sure to be popular with the people. It gives everybody a chance to poke his nose Into a few particular persons' business, anyway! All sorts of people taka all sorts of troubles, trials and tribulations to the governor of this state for settlement, or. at least, alleviation. Hardly a week passes that the gov ernor’s private secretary is not called upon to decipher numerous appeals all but beyond him, and usually from more or less illiterate persons. Not long ago one. sighing swain pe titioned the governor to help him out In a. distressing love affair, tile course of which had declined to run smooth, and recently another correspondent, called upon the executive to lend him aid in the matter of getlng his broken leg back in shape on<Je more. ’ Today there came a letter from a vic tim of some "blue sky" life insurance endeavor, and while It was funny, in a way, it was pathetic after a fashion, nevertheless. It concerned itself with one of the companies recently put out of business by the insurance department, and there was much of Indignation in it. In part, It read: "I want to know if there is no help for a man who put a lot of his hard saved up money In then satlti cates, and then have the company hollow broke just about the time you think you going to get some money back. This company sold me some satificats, and then I asked CLAPP COMMITTEE HAVING TROUBLETO REACH BEVERIDGE WASHINGTON, Del. 24 The Clapp committee investigating campaign funds met today and immediately re cessed until tomorrow. No witnesses were present. A hitch has occurred over tlie summoning of Senator Bev el idge. He desires to testify on Satur day. Thus far the committee has re fused to hold sessions on that day, and it is not expected that Senator Bever idge’s wishes in the matter will be re spected. H. C. Pettit former speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, and Henry C. Starr, who was a member of the Republican national committee in 1904, will be called tomorrow. FELL 3 FEET FROM POLE. DIES OF MALARIAL FEVER Amos Croker, aged 23 years, died yesterday afternoon from the combined effects of a fall of three feet and ma laria fever. He fell three feet from a telephone pole and thought he had sus tained internal injuries. The next day malaria fever attacked him and he died at the home of his aunt, at 38 Ella street. The body will be taken to Lithia Springs, Ga.. tomorrow for fu neral and interment. TRAIN HITS STREET CAR IN FOG:_SEVEN INJURED CHICAGO. Oct. 24.—Seven persons were injured, one fatally, today when a Pennsylvania suburban train crashed through a street car at 106th street and Avenue C. The accident was the re sult of a heavy fog. which engulfed Chicago today and caused a number of other minor accidents, in which railroad trains, teams, street ears and elevated trains figured. INSANE FROM STARVING TO BRING SISTER TO U. S. NEW YORK. Oct. 24 —Michael ITan altis, seventeen, has gone insane from starvation as the result of trying to live on 75 cents worth of food a week, so h‘ rrmld brine bls biste: from Greece for some money, and It hollow broke. Aint the nothing I can do when a company takes iny money, and then hollow broke'? "Anser and obiig." These letters rarely get to the gov ernor. They stay right with Secretary Perry, and he answers them, by and by, as best he may. Prison Commissioner R. E. Davison Is immensely pleased with the fine show ing the big 4,000-acre prison farm, near Milledgeville, is making—particularly with respect to the crop gathered this year. “We have on the farm today double the number of prisoners we had a year ago. Notwithstanding that fact, how ever, we have not bought a peck of meal nor a. bushel of corn since the be ginning of the. year. This is a. remark able showing "We have made the biggest and the best cotton crop we ever made, and we are going to make an even bigger and better one next year. We shall produce all the syrup the farm requires, which is a very great deal; and in many other respects we shall make a gratifying ex hibit this year." Mr. Davison visits the farm two or three times every month, sometimes more frequently than that. The pres ent prison commission has left nothing undone that 1t thought might make ths farm better or more useful to the state. The fine result speaks eloquently of the hard work done, moreover. People who like to tease themselves with How-old-fs-Ann'.' and Why-is-a hen ? puzzles axe invited to wrestle with the following, propounded in the cur rent Issue of The LaGrange Graphio: If Joseph M. Brown should, by death or resignation, vacate the of fice of governor of Georgia, a pecu liar situation would arise. Govern or-elect John M. Slaton, as presi dent of the senate, would succeed to the office of governor, would call a special election to fill Governor Brown’s unexpired term, and might himself become a candidate for the short term. Should he enter such a contest and be defeated, could it be said when he takes the office at the beginning of the regular term that he was the people’s choice for governor? Recalling those 137 counties he car ried in the late primary, Slaton prob ably will not lose much sleep over this problem, no matter what disposition more nervous and excitable folks make of It. Rome doubtless looks toward Atlanta nowadays, and contemplates with little, if any, particular Interest the Gate City's little old locker chib row. Because of some recent activities of the Law and Order league, under the leadership of its president, former Rep resentative Seaborn Wright, here are some of the things you arc not permit ted to do in the Hill City of northwest Georgia : You can not patronize a near-beer saJoon, for there are no near-beer sa loons In town; you can not join a lock er olub, for they have been put under the lid tight; you can not buy a glass of soda "water on Sunday, nor a cigar, for the sheriff will pull the place if you do; you can not play a game of pool on the loser-pa.y-for-the-game plan, for the grand jury will indict you for that; you can not purchase a basket of grapes from a fruit dealer on Sunday, for the dealer no taka de riska to sella da sains. They are figuring on putting in a "Great While Way” along Broadway in Rome, however! JOCKEY CLUB TO SUE OFFICERS OF INDIANA FOR CLOSING TRACK MINERAL SPRINGS. IND., Oct. 24. Hearing of injunction proceedings brought against state officials to en join them in stopping racing at the Mineral Springs track was to t&ke place today. Following a decision in the in junction suit, promoters of the race course will file suit against the state of Indiana for SIOO,OOO damages Those to be named In the suit are Governor Thomas R. Marshall, Mark Thistlewait, his secretary; Adjutant General Mc- Coy. Brigadier Genera! Garrard, of In dinapolis; Major George W. Freyer muth and Captain Guy Kimball, of South Bend, and Captain Georg” Heal ey, of Rensselaer. “MOVIES” WANT TO SNAP GIRL WHO KISSED WILSON NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Miss Mae Me. Ellen, stenographer, who kissed Gov ernor Wilson, may have to shut herself up at home. At Democratic headquar ters. where she is employed, she gets 100 telephone calls a day. "Movies" ate after her, too. HEART ON RIGHT SAVES LIFE OF INJURED LAD NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—When an iron picket pierced the left side of Davy Kranish, aged 11, and he did not die, puzzled doctors applied the X-ray and found hi« heart on the right side. HOW EMBARRASSING Nothing is more em barrassing than to be constantly throwing off gas. Tutt’s Pills will stop it and at the same time make your breath sweet and your skin clear. At your druggist ■ug a r coated or plain. 5