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ALIENS IN TURK
CAPITAL ARMING
FOR CRISIS
Government Fears It Can Not
Protect Foreigners as Situa
tion Grows Worse.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 9 Af
fairs are rapidly moving to a climax in
Constantinople. The vanguard of the
retreating Turkish army reached the
capital, leaving behind It a swath of
death and destruction. In the suburb'
unprotected Christians are being killed
News of the fall of Salonika reached
the populace today for the first time, '
and this, added to the repeated exhor
tations of the Mohammedan priests for
a holy war, has worked the fanatic
Mussulmans Into a frenzy.
A mob burned several buildings out
side of the city today Followers of .
Islam marched through the streets cry
ing for the blood of Christians. Panic
reigns even in official circles.
With all the principal cities of Euro
pean Turkey, save Monastfer, Janina.
Scutari and Constantinople, in the
hands of the allies, and with the fate
of Adrianople In doubt, the government
faces annihilation north of the Bos
phorus
To Arm Foreigners.
There was an all-night meeting of
foreign government representatives on
board the French cruiser Leon Gam
betta. It was decided to furnish arms
to all foreign residents for self-protec
tion and to offer the ships of the Inter
national fleet In the Goldin Horn as
places of refuge for foreigners
Rear Admiral Louis Barllge Du Four
net, of the French navy, has been
chosen senior officer of the interna
tional fleet.
A segregated district has been set
aside for the cholera patients among
the Turkish soldiers. The medical au
thorities on board the war ships are co
operating with the Turkish authorities
in an attempt to check the spread of
the pestilence. The cholera quarter has
been removed as far as possible from
the foreign section.
Executions of Turkish soldiers and
officers go forward dally.
It is estimated that at least 300 men
have been shot to death In the past
•even days.
Capital Defense
Reported Fallen
VIENNA. Nov. 9—A large section of
the Chatalja forts outside of Constan
tinople are reported to have been cap
tured today by a desperate assault by
the Bulgarian troops. The Turkish de
fenders are said to be rushing in terror
back to Constantinople.
STATE’S SOCIALISTS
START RIGHT AWAY
ON 1916 CAMPAIGN
Socialists of Georgia will be organ
ized immediate! for their 1916 campaign
by Miss Mae Beals, a national officer
of the party. Miss Beals will speak
tn Atlanta tomorrow afternoon at 8
o'clock at the Labor tempi#. It is
planned to have an aggressive organ
ization in practically every county of
Georgia.
The Socialists will follow up this
speech with a lyceum lecture course by
noted speakers of the party, including
Thomas N. Freeman. Max Wilk. Harry
M. McKee and Clyde Berry. Motion
pictures oil the work of Socialism will
be shown during the latter part of this
month by Kenneth Lawson.
NOTED TRAVELER WILL
GIVE ALKAHEST LECTURE
Dr. Thomas E. Green, the noted trav
eler, author and lecturer, will be in At
lanta next week and will lecture at the
Baptist Tabnernacle on Monday even
ing. the 11th. as the third number on
the Alkahest Lyceum course. Dr Green
has just returned to America from a
tour around the world. His trip cov
ered a period of two years and he comes
back to the homeland brimfull of in
formation concerning the people and
the conditions In the orient
Dr. Green is not a stranger to Atlanta
people, having been a frequent visitor
to our city on the lecture platform.
There probably is no stronger platform
lecturer before the American people to
day.
Y. M. C. A. OPENS WEEK
OF PRAYER TOMORROW
The “week of prayer” observed the
world over by the Young Men's Chris
tian associations wilj begin at the Rail
road Toung Men's Christian association
tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock,
when Dr. Hughlett, of St. Mark church,
addresses the members at the associa
tion room# on Alabama street
Meetings will be held daily through
the week at places to be announced by
the association and a large attendance
la expected at each of them.
ATLANTA CHOIR SINGERS
TO PUT ON BLACK FACE
Choir singers of Atlanta will don
black face for the third minstrel show
of the West End Bible class to be
held November 22 at the parish hall of
the Church of Incarnation. Promli. nt
•oloiwts of every church will appear in
the show, while the chorus work will
be a feature iu. Indicated by the re
hearsals
DEMOCRATS TO CUT
NICE. JUICY PIE FOR
SAVANNAH FAITHFUL
SAVANNAH, GA., Nov. 9.—Locally,
there are several most desirable Federal
places which will be anxiously sought
after when Woodrow Wilson becomes
president next March, but some will
not be available for a while.
President Taft a few weeks ago ap
pointed Marcus S. Baker, Jr., postmas
ter for a term of four years.
As collector of the port at Savannah,
William R. Leaken was appointed three
years ago, for a term of four years.
By the time the new president is inau
gurated, his term will almost have
expired.
Then there is the office of United
States district attorney- and his two as
sistants. It is understood that District
Attorney Alexander Akerman, of Ma
con, will tender his resignation as soon
as President Wilson announces the ap
pointment of the Democratic attorney
general. This would also necessitate a
change In the assistant district attor
neys, positions now held by Mr. Aker
man's brother and Arthur H. Coding
ton, both of Macon. It is very likely
that Savannah will furnish the new
district attorney.
The office of marshal, with several
deputies, is also to be filled.
CLEMENCY SOUGHT FOR
OFFICER WHO SLEW BOY
The prison c.ommislson has conclud
ed its hearing for clemency In the case
of Policeman Van Lewellen, of Dal
ton, convicted of involuntary man
slaughter In the Whitfield superior
court some six months ago and sen
tenced to two years.
Lewellen killed a little son of for
mer Representative George Glenn, and
his petition was bitterly opposed. The
commission, it is understood, will not
recommend Lewellen to Governor
Brown for clemency In any degree.
MORE OF ATLANTA’S “EXPERT” WORK:
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This is not a rock quarry. It is merely a view of Jackson street lookina south from fallen hrlrlne Thi« a
mam THOROUGHFARE to Piedmont park from the eastern section of the city bridge. This is a
To Captain R. M. Clayton, Chief of
Construction, Atlanta, Ga.:
Is it not true that the Loyd street re
lief sewer was laid at a cost of SBO,OOO
and paid out of the bond money, and
that the property owners through
whose property the sewer extended
were assessed In every instance where
they had not previously paid for a sew
er?
Is it not true that the sewer Is to
tally inadequate and it has been ad
mitted by Captain Clayton and Mr.
Hansell that it will not do the work it
was designed to do? Did not Mr. Han
sell suggest to the bond commission
that the other $20,000 appropriated for
this ss wer be turned over to them to
be used in trying to find where the
trouble is and remedy it?
Is it not true that the Highland ave
nue sewer was laid up the ravine from
the DeLoach mill to Washita avenue
and then deflected west on Washita
avenue to Highland avenue and thence
up Highland avenue two blocks, passing
In front of W. A Hansell's property,
where he owns 2"0 feet front” Was
one ee.nt of assessment made against
the prop-rty owners on Highland ave
nue for said sewer?
Is it not true that when the Butler
street intersecting sewer was laid in
the rear of E. R. Dußose's property on
Peachtree road the location was given
for the ditch by Mr. W. A. Hansell and
tile ditch was dug some four or the
hundred feet long, ten feet wfde and
ten feet deep, and when the contrac
tor asked for gr.ohs he was informed
that the sewer location had teen
changed and shifted down the h'll?
Did not the city hav< to pay the e.st
of excavating and refilling this dip h
which amounted to $1.u51, and was not
a voucher for tills amount made pay-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1912.
LISTENING PDLICy
■ FOR GUI. WILSON
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Just Reading and Hearing All
He Can on Extra Session
Proposition.
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 9.—“ The
editorials that are being printed on the
subject of an extra session of congress
are very interesting and important,”
said President-elect Wilson today.
When asked if he would comment on an
extra session, he said:
"No; I am still maintaining my lis
tening policy. I shall try to read
every thing and hear everything that is
said on any subject that will come be
fore the president before March 4.”
Asked if he proposed to take news
paper clippings and other form of sug
gestions with him on his vacation, the
governor said:
"Not at all. I propose to rest. I
shall neither read politics nor discuss
politics.”
The governor added that he did not
Intend to be visited by any political ad
visers. "Not even Mr. McCombs or Mr.
McAdoo will come to see me,” he said.
‘‘l have asked to be left absolutely
alone. If anybody comes he will not
see me; that's all.”
The governor was greatly amused at
an editorial which said that Inasmuch
as he had not received a majority of
the popular vote in the United States
it was plain the people of the country
were not in favor of tariff revision. The
governor said this was an absurd
statement in view of the fact that the
Democratic majority in the house had
What Tom Wilson Swears To:
GEORGIA—FuIton County.
Personally appeared W. T Wilson, who on oath, makes
the following deposition:
That he was in the employ of the City of Atlanta in the
City Engineer Department from 1892 to 1912, and his du
ties weie to inspect curbing and give lines and gTades for
the same. That about the year 1901 or 1902 the contract
was let for granite curbing and that the price bid was about
24 1-2 or 24 3-4 cents per lineal foot, which price was some 6or 8
cents lower than in previous years. The contractor began the
delivery oi the curb, which said Wilson did not consider up to
the specifications prepared by the City Engineer and upon
which bid was awarded. Upon inspection ‘ of this curbing,
the said Wilson stated to R. M. Clayton, City Engineer, in the
presence of a witness that the curb did not comply with speci
fications and that upon said report the said R. M. Clayton
told deponent to ‘ let the contractor alone as he was furnish
ing as good curb as was possible under the price lie had bid.”
o W. T. WILSON.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Bth dav of No
vember 1912.
J H. OWEN.
Notary Public, Fulton County, Ga.
able to the contractor for same? An
other of Mr. Hansell's mistakes?
Is it hot true that on West Tenth
street near the head of Orme street a
sewer was put down under Mr. Han
sell's directions along the gutter line
Instead of the middle of the street; that
the ditch was dug about ten feet d« ep
and very close to the water pipe; that
it rained and the bank caved in and
about three or four hundred feet of
water main broke and fell in? Anoth
er one of Mr Hansell's mistakes”
Is It not true that on English avenue
Mr. Hansell built a sewer anti instead
of being in the middle of th< street It
was right along the east curb line; that ■
Ute property owners on the west side!
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: Woman Elector to
• Cast Washington's •
Vote for Roosevelt •
• SEATTLE, Nov 9—Mrs. Helen •
• R. Scott, of Tacoma,’ the first •
• woman ever elected as a preslden- •
• tial elector, will b- made chairman •
• of the Progressive electoral dele- •
• gation, it was said today, and will •
• cast tjje state'.- seven votes for •
• Colonel Roosevelt. •
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been increased and the senate had been
won by the Democrats.
He referred also to an editorial
statement printed the day after elec
tion that the vote in Idaho, which then
appeared to have gone Republican, was
indicative of the temper of the country
on the tariff. "All of which is very
amusing,” he said.
Mrs. Wilson, it was learned today,
has had a secretary, Miss Marie Bay
less, for a week or ten days.
Airs. Wilson lias been flooded with
letters, Just as 1 have,” said the gov
ernor, "and she has had to get a secre
tary. Miss Bayless is an extremely
competent young woman. She lias had
a lot of experience in this kind of work.
A good deal of her employment has
been with literary men.”
Miss Bayless is from West Union,
Ohio. She has had several years ex
perience as stenographer and secretary
to literary people. She was once*a
clerk in the Ohio legislature and there
got a comparative grasp of politics,
which is extremely valuable to her in
her.new position.
lowa to Have
G. O. P. Governor
DES MOINES, IOWA, Nov. 9.—The
election of George W. Clarke, Republi
can, for governor was made certain by
verified returns from all but five coun
ties.
of the street protested against paying
the bill because it cost them more to
make connections where they had to
run from the middle of the street over
to the east side of the street to g[et into
the sewer? Is this expert engineering?
Is it not true that an eight-inch sewer
pipe was laid on Longley avenue out
near tile stock yards, in which a brick
tel. down a man hole and stopped up
the sewer; that the engineer in charge
of construction of the sewer condemned
the same and refused to accept it on
the part of the city, and that Mr. Han
sell afterward went out to this point
land, without getting out of his auto
mobile to look to see whether the brick
I was in thv sewe. or not, accepted tile
! Heavy Socialist
Vote in Washington
SEATTLE, WASH., Nov. 9.—-The So
cialist vote in the state of Washington,
to which but little attention was paid in
the earlier counting of the ballots, Is
astonishingly- large. Complete returns
will probably give Debs in excess of
40,000. Anna L. Maley, the Socialist
woman candidate for governor, has re
ceived in the neighborhood of 30,000.
King county, the largest in the state,
gave Debs nearly 7,000 votes.
With 71 precincts missing, Ernest
Lister, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, has 839 plurality over Governor
Hay.
Special Senatorial
Session in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Nov. 9.—A spe
cial session of the present legislature
will be called to meet about November
20. according to Information given out
here today. The session will elect a
United States senator to fill the vacan
cy caused by the ousting of William
Lorimer. Albert B. Hopkins, who was
primary candidate for the senatorship
before the election of Lorimer, will de
mand the election. Lawrence Y. Sher
man will also be a candidate.
The new legislature will be Demo
cratic. The Democrats will contend
that calling the present legislature,
which is Republican, to fill the vacancy,
Is illegal.
T. R. Leads by 809
In California
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.—Thirty
three votes were taken from Roosevelt’s
plurality in California today by a re
vised count of the vote in Los Angeles
county. With this revision he stood 809
votes ahead of Wilson.
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This shows some NEW wood block pavement on North Boulevard.
same on the part of the city?
Is it not true that Mr. John DeFoor
was rendered a bill for six or seven
hundred dollars for a sewer laid on
Highland avenue in front of his proper,
ty for which he paid the city; that he
called up Mr. Belcher, the plumber, and
gave him a contract to connect five or
six houses with the sewer, that Mr.
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• New President •
• Would Be Known
: Just as Ml Wilson-
• PRINCETON, Nov. 9.—Wood, •
• row \\ ilson's mail since his recent •
• election has just awakened him to •
• the fact that he is a man of many •
• titles, viz: President-elect Wilson, •
• Governor Wilson, Professor Wil- •
• son, Dr. Wilson, because of the •
• many degrees conferred on him. •
• as well as plain Mr. Wilson. The •
• high office which he soon will take •
• entitles him to be called “your ex- •
• cellency,” rfls wife calls him •
• "Woodrow,” his daughters "fath- •
• er,” and his brother "Tommy,” the •
• present-elect’s first name, which •
• he Wrapped some years ago. •
• "I wish my friends would call •
• me Mr. XV ilson,” said the presi- •
• dent-elect today. "Prefixing any •
• other title makes it too bis a •
• mouthful.” s ,
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28 States
Chose Governors
Following are the governors chosen by
28 states, according to the latest returns:
SiS'e 'i T?, lias M - Ammons, D.
Connecticut Simeon E. Baldwin, D
Flodda re P h °v ??' Mona Khan, D.
f‘°™ la Park Erammel, I>
Jf!?* 10 . John M. Haines. R.
Edward F. Dunne, D.
Indiana Samuel M. Ralston, D
19 wa George W. Clark, R
Kansas Arthur Capper, R
"Massachusetts ■•■■ Eugene Noble Foss, D.
Michigan W. N. Ferris, D.
M nnesota Adolph O. Eberhart, R.
Missouri Elliot w Major , D
Montana Samuel V. Stewart, D
NoL ra A ka "u- i ohn H - Morehead, D.
New Hampshire...F. Worcester R
William Sulzer, D.
North Carolina Locke Craig, D.
j James M. Cox. D.
c ho .t e Island Aram J. Pothier, R.
South Carolina... Cole L. Blease. D.
r couth Dakota Frank Bvrne, it
Tennessee Ben W. Hooper. R
, £?xas Oscar B. Colquitt, D.
wl - ”. John F - Tolton. D.
1 <7, as !” I JK to n Ernest Lister, D.
West VirginiaH. D. Hatfield, R.
Wisconsin F. E. McGovern, R.&P.
Here is a view of broken reduction pipe south of Tenth street.
Belcher went to the engineer’s office and
■ got the location of the openings in the
( sewer, but when he went to dig for these
( openings he failed to find the sewer:
that after searching for considerable
time he went back to the city engineer's
■ office and found that no sewer had ever
I been laid on the afreet, although Mr.
■ Del-Mor had paid for the sewer? Does
this look like very expert engineering'.'
RIOT RENEWED IN
JACKSONVILLE CAR
STRIKE; MANY HURT
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Nov. 9.—Ar
outbust of rioting late last night while
troops sent here for the street cat
strike were being withdrawn led to ar.
appeal being made to the governor to
day that several companies be allowed
to remain.
Two Phoenix avenue cars were de
railed and a number of persons injured.
Elbert Ansley, of Company B. First in
fantry. who was hit with a bottle, wai
the most seriously hurt. Lieutenam
Terrell, of the militia, had a narrow es
cape.
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Is it not true that when Mr. Hans- 1
went into the. city engineer’s office h
-1 sold to the city of Atlanta an old tran
sit which he owned for about sls mor
than the city paid for a brand net
transit of the same make the next
week? !>.. s not this look like graft
The voucher can bo fottnd in the city
comptrollers ollie Respectfully.
(Advt.) EDWIN P. ANSLEY.