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THE WEATHER
Forecast foi Atlanta and Georgia:
Fan- and somewhat warmer today;
fair tomorrow.
\OL. XL NO.* 113.
PHOM
MIM'S
STREET
FORCE
/
Councilmen in Move to Turn
Down Appointments of the
Construction Chief.
ANGRY TAXPAYERS SHOW
FAULTY PAVING IS LAID
Boulevardier Crumbles Piece of
Macadam Between Fingers
at Committee Meeting.
Because of the incompetent street
Irving supervision by the city con
struetinii department, several leading
..tubers of council planned today to
r ..;. 10 , to confirm the reappointment of
a number of subordinate officials to
. of Construction R. M. Clayton.
Th.r. was a climax of the charges
,f < methods in the department at the
.-. ;iitg of the streets committee of
council yesterday afternoon. A num
>*’■ of North Boulevard citizens were
.■nt to protest about the poor worlt
on their street which has just been
I bj the Southern Bitullthic
I'onnpanx. Councilman Albert Thom
son sui.i that Street Inspector D’Alvig
ny mid him the street was paved ac
cording to specifications.
• Flv • - ambled a lump of the paving
. tids before the committee and
: that looked as if the work was
Ip O >).. l itic.itioiis.
Fails To Find
Inspector on Job.
< 'iii -f of Construction Clayton said
work was not up to specifications.
'.Il i... inspector D’Alvlgny was the
oniy street paving inspector in his de
partment.
"I hove hutned' three times a day for
di :.* three weeks to find an inspec-
i ie job,” said Dr. Robin Adair.
' >i . ' found one, and lam not sur
r tin- contractor has not lived
■ t i ■ specifications.”
■' .me”;nan Charles W. Smith de-
• • ■ re is not a competent
■ ini' Inspector in the depart
ment.
' ptooi ciu.Ton.has informed mem
imncil that he will keep In-
I ‘'Abigny in the department
s he remains chief of con-
■’ t 'l'. flupi-lti- said such city
b paving of North Boulevard
outrage. He said it should be
■ and a contract for new paving
* to another contractor.
Fivtast Until
They Are Worn Out
This the committee decided to rec
ommend to council.
I ni the part of the Boulevard be
a Bonce Del-eon avenue and Eighth
■ '• tlm property owners have pro
’ -!■ (l ui condition of the street
' are exasperated. It is paved
wiiii weed blocks and many of the
blocks have worked loose and are
landing on their edges.
“The people on the other parts of
’ ’’is street have a right to protest,” said
’ivlil Yarbrough, who called on Mayor
inn to complain, "but we have had
pay our assessments and we had
’■".her have no paving than what we
ve They have not been assessed
for their part of the street yet.”
Backed by Harvey Hatcher* chairman
th streets committee. Captain Clay-
1 ii insists that the condition of
ine streets and the progress of the
' ar.- not to be considered seriously.
Hurt Expected To
Get Electric Permit.
I' the meeting of council Monday
pedal committee on reorganiza
;i will offer an ordinance giving
’ ’c’n i] ti le right to approve all of
■ ‘all, Clayton’s appointments.
ibere was no further protest from
Georgia Railway and Power Com
ic Joel Hurt’s application to lay
iri conduits across the streets to
■nimet his several buildings in Edge
'■"/ avenue and Exchange place with
private electric plant.
ihe committee will recommend to
11,11 i! that his permit be granted.
GEORGIAN SHOWS
MISSOURI GIRL HE
CAN TAKE A DARE
•Macon, GA.. Dec. 14.—“1f you'll
r " lne to Missouri for me. I’ll go with
to Macon and marry you," was the
Position made by Miss Ona Lavonia
■ ' ’tt, of Middleboro, Mo., to Otis C.
■’"h<-s, after he had proposed to her in a
■trespondence courtship.
1 n es took the dare, went to Mis-
: »'i. brought her back to Macon, and
Were married here, immediately’
“'ii their arrival, at the parsonage of
h ’a. T. w. Callaway
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit— GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Rich Convict Banker’s
Old Mother Starving
And Father Is Dead
Bank Wrecker, in Tombs. Cursed
Old, Couple When They
Sought His Aid.
. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Mrs. Ellen
Rabinovltch, who claims to be the
mother of Joseph G. Robin, the wrecker
of the Northern Bank of New York,
who is in the Tombs prison, was found
starving today in a room in Brook% n.
The woman’s husband, whom Robin
repudiated as his father, died last Sun
day. Robin, who is said to have made
another fortune in Wall street dealings
since he was locked up, is a high liver
and daily sends out for rich and costly
meals from the Tombs.
Recently when the aged couple sougnv
to have Robin recognize them as his
parents the banker cursed them.
BACON MUST SHARE
GAVEL IN U.S. SENATE
WITH A REPUBLICAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—The party
leaders of the senate reached an agree
ment today which provides that Sena
tor Bacon, Democrat, of Georgia, and
Senator Gallinger, Republican, New
Hampshire, shall alternate as presiding
officers of the senate.
Senator Gallinger will take the chair
on Monday and hold it until January 4,
inclusive; January 5 to 18 Senator Ba
con will preside; January 19 to Febru
ary 1, Senator Gallinger; February’ 2
to 15. Senator Bacon, and Senator Gal
linger for the remainder of the session.
The arrangement does 'not Interfere
with the previous plan of having Sen
ator Bacon sit as president of the court
during Hie impeachment tri,a! of Judge
Archbold
OXYGEN TREATMENT
RELIEVES CONDITION
OF WHITELAW REID
LONDON, Dec. 14.—The condition of
Whitelaw Reid. American ambassador
at. the court of St. James, was so se
rious today that oxygen was adminis
tered. This relieved the American dip
lomat, and the physicians expect no
Immediate crisis.
The ambassador’s son. Ogden Mills
Reid, has been summoned from New
York. A series of inquiries are being
made by prominent persons at Dor
chester house, but none is allowed to
see the patient.
The foreign office bulletin issued by
the ambassador's order:
’’The American ambassador had a
favorable night. His condition is more
favorable.”
INQUEST BEGUN INTO
DEATH OF ZION CITY
WOMAN FROM BURNS
CHICAGO, Dee. 14.—A inquest into
the death of Mrs. Katherine Mole, aged
21, was begun in Zion City today by
Coroner Taylor, of Libertyville.
The woman’s body was exhumed
when the coroner was informed that
she died after having suffered from
burns for more than a fortnight with
out medical attendance. The death
certificate was signed by Dr. Larose,
the health officer at Zion City, and the
body was buried. Later the coroner
heard of the circumstances surrounding
the woman’s death and ordered the
body exhumed.
It is the intention, if possible, to pre
fer criminal charges against Dr. Larose,
the coroner says.
COLUMBIA STUDENTS
MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT
IN DORMITORY ROOM
NEW YORK, Dee. 14.—Two students
at Columbia university, P. M. Grant
and August C. Smith, Jr., were myste
riously shot early today’ in Hartley
hall. one of the university dormitories.
Four bullets, fired from a rifle from the
outside, entered four rooms of the hall.
If Erie L. Jensen, who has a room on
the fourth floor, had been in bed at the
time he would have been killed or bad
ly wounded, as a bullet skimmed the
pillows on his bed. The police are In
vestigating the shooting. Grant was
struck in the arm. Smith in the leg.
5 TOTS ASPHYXIATED
PLAYING SANTA CLAUS;
PULMOTOR SAVES TWO
CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—The coroner to
day began an Investigation into the
death of three children asphyxiated
while playing Santa Claus.
Mrs. Margaret Ustich left her five
children to go to her work. Three
quarters of an hour later she returned.
The children were unconscious. The
pulmotor rescued two of them. The
dead children are ten months, three
y’ears and five years old.
OUSTED CONGRESSMAN
TO BE CANDIDATE AGAIN
WILKESPARRE, PA.. Dec. 14.—Con
gressman Bowman, who was ousted
from congress for improper use of
money during his campaign, has an
nounced that if Governor Tener orders
a special election to choose n successor
.<> will be a candidate.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1912.
phucnth
sum
FEES BILL
BEHIGHER
Marriage Licenses. Now Sold
for $1.75. Probably Will Cost
$2.50 After January 1.
ALL CHARGES FOR COURT
PAPERS TO BE INCREASED
Occupation Tax Dodgers Will
Have Hard Lines -County
Out After the Coin.
That the inauguration of the salary
act for Fulton county officials on Janu
ary’ 1 will not be all roses for Atlantans
was discovered today’ when Ordinary
John Wilkinson intimated that the
marriage licenses would go up on the
first of the year from 51.75 to 52.50, the
maximum charge allowed by law.
The ordinary said that the county
would expect every cent due it and
court officers would be shorn of their
powers to cut down the fees charged
for court papers for any reason.
"It will become a cold-blooded busi
ness,” said Judge Wilkinson. "There
will be no sentiment In the matter, for
the county’ auditor will expect us to get
the legal limit for everything. I could
charge 32.50 for marriage licenses now
under the statute, but sentiment has
fixed the price at $1.75 and that is the
figure at which they have been going."
Occupation Tax
Dodging Near End.
The bourn nti ma ted that -persons who
have been in The habit of overlooking
their occupation tax and trusting to the
charity of the county officials to keep
them out of the clutches of the grand
Jury also would be up against it.
"Thousands of persons,” said Judge
■Wilkinson, "fail to register in the office
of the ordinary and pay the tax col
lector the required $1 occupation tax.
The law says that each and every one
of them is liable’ to punishment in a
criminal court for misdemeanor, and
they’ can't legally open the doors of
their business until this tax is paid.”
According to Judge Wilkinson,
charges now made for letters of ad
ministration in the matters of probate
will be increased. Now, for small es
tates the charge is but $3. whereas the
legal charge may run as high as sl2.
County’s Revenue
Will Be Greatly Increased.
In the superior and city court clerk’s
offices the same rule will obtain. The
charges for copying, recording and
serving all manner of court papers will
be steeper than heretofore, because the
maximum legal toll will be demanded tn
each case, so the court, can get every
cent coming to it.
Persons who should.pay the occupa
tion tax of $1 aqd who are required to
register with the ordinary on January
1 or be liable for indictment are: Pho
tographers, loan agents, auctioneers,
keepers of pool tables, keepers of flying
horses, owners of bowling alleys and
shooting galleries, patent medicine ven
dets, immigration agents, proprietors
of shows, exhibitions and circuses, liq
uor dealers, officers of social clubs,
dealers in pistols, peddlers of stoves
and clocks, doctors and specialists,
biewing companies, soda manufactur
ers, pawn brokers, commercial agents,
owners of slot machines, detective
agents, cigarette dealers, owners of
playgrounds and parks, fortune tellers,
bicycle dealers, automobile dealers and
domestic and foreign corporations.
What this will mean to the county
can be illustrated by the marriage
licenses. During 1912 some 2,900 cer
tificates were issued by the ordinary
at $1.75, bringing in $4,375. At the legal
maximum of $2.50 the total would have
been $7,250, or a gain of $2,875 for the
county.
DETECTIVES WATCH
PARROT FOR CLEW TO
CAUSE OF TWO DEATHS
DENVER, COLO., Dec. 14.—1 n the
hope that a parrot, long the companion
of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Johnson, may re
peat some phrase that will give a clew
i as to the reason for the death of the
I couple, the bird Is being watched night
, and day by a detail of detectives.
I The Johnsons were found shot to
death iu a hotel room here Tuesday.
The bird was walking along the foot
board of the bed, muttering to the deml
bodies. The police believe there may
have been a quarrel before the trag
edy’. They think the parrot may re
peat some phrase that will strengthen
their theory
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MACON MATRON
ROOTS ACCUSERS
Pretty Mrs. Pringle Acquitted of
Improper Conduct Charges.
Attorney Attacked.
MACON, GA., Dec. 14.—Charges of
improper conduct against Mrs, Addie
May Pringle, a strikingly beautiful
young married woman, were dismissed
by the recorder this afternoon, after a
trial replete with sensational testimony.
Thirteen’male residents of the Mercer
college neighborhood petitioned the
city council to move Mrs. Pringle from
their midst an Tatnall (street, and the
trial today was the result of this peti
tion.
At the hearing eleven of the witnesses
begged the court’s permission to with
draw their charges. The other two and
their respective wives, testified, how
ever.
Mrs. V. 4. Williams said that last
Friday night she heard Mrs. Pringle,
over a party telephone line, make an
engagement with Dr. I’. F. Greene and
also address him in the most endearing
and affectionate terms. Letters alleged
to have been written to James Hunni
cutt, a merchant, by Mrs. Pringle, and
which were said to have caused a sepa
ration between Mr. and Mrs. Hunnicutt,
were introduced in court.
Conversation Denied.
Two other women, one being Mrs.
Pringle’s mother-in-law. testified as to
her whereabouts at the time of the al
leged phone conversation. The defend
ant's husband was In court, but took
no part in the proceedings.
A lively Incident took place when At
torney W. D. McNeil, the senator-elect
form this district, called the thirteen
men who signed the petition "no gen
tlemen" and “cowardly curs.” He apol
ogized to the court for his language,
but would not apologize to the men, de
claring that he had expressed his hon
est sentiments
The court's decision acquits Mrs.
Pt ingle and authorizes her to continue
to live in het present home.
Attorney Attacked.
immediately after court, a.-. Itvcorder
Italy City Physician Gibson and At-
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: Don't Forget to Toss :
: A Coin in the Barrel:
• Atlanta fathers and mothers, •
• bachelors and bachelor maids, hur- •
• rying uptown for their Christmas •
• shopping today, tvill find an oppor- •
• lunfty to send gifts and happiness •
• to children not on their private •
• lists if they will pause for a mo- •
• ment at Five Points, Peachtree •
• and Marietta streets, and toss a •
• coin into the barrel there, •
• The barrel is for the Empty •
• Stocking Fund, and the higher •
• rises the flow of coin and currency •
• the more Christmas joy for the •
• hundreds of poor children on The •
• Georgian’s Christmas list. •
• Gus Edwards and his company •
• of pretty girls are at Five Points •
• with a piano, and there will be a •
• long performance of outdoor •
• vaudeville. Some of the girls are •
• selling Georgians to passersby, •
• and as the money will all go into •
• the barrel, dimes will be more ac- •
• ceptable than pennies.
• Don’t forget to visit Five Points •
• and don’t go empty-handed. •
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torney McNeill were leaving the city
hall, the latter was summarily stopped
by Mi. and Mrs. C. D. Lavender and
Mr. ami Mrs. V. A. Williams, who de
manded that the lawyer apologize for
the language used by him in court. Mr.
McNeil refused to do it, and when Mr.
Lavender readied in his pocket he was
knocked down. Dr. Gibson then seized
Mr. Williams, while Mrs. Lavender
grabbed Judge Daly, wffb sought to be a
peacemaker, and literally threw him
into the street. The two married cou
ples followed Attorney McNeil to his of
fice. but he would not retract what he
had said.
The witnesses were admonished by
Judge Daly that if they pursued their
aggressiveness any further he would
hold them in contempt of court.
IDEAL SUNDAY FORECAST:
MONDAY TO BE WARMER
Fair and warm weather is the pie
diction for Sunday, and ft now seems
that for the first time in a month At
lanta is to have a Sunday that is
neither too cold, too wet nor too windy.
No change in atmosphere conditions
is expected fpr at least two days, and
it is probable that Monday will be even
warmer than Sunday. Saturday was
the watmesi day Atlanta •.< had since
December 3.
BERMUDANSBID
WILSONS ADIEU
President-Elect and Family
Bring Vacation to End After
Delightful Rest.
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, Dec. 14.
The departure of President-elect Wood
row Wilson and family for the United
States today was made the occasion for
a holiday in Hamilton.
Before going on board the steamer
Bermudian, upon which he will travel
to New York, the president-elect Issued
a statement thanking the people of
Bermuda for their consideration toward
him and telling them what a good time
he had had.
Mrs. Wilson, as well as the other
members of his family, looked much
benefited by the vacation.
The Bermudian sailed at 10: 30 o’clock.
The dock was crowded with persons
who made a noisy demonstration. Gov
ernor Wilson stood at the rail as the
ship drew out and waved his hat at the
crowd. The weather was dear and the
sea calm.
"I will be glad to get home and buckle
down to owrk,” said Mr. Wilson.
Bermudans have invited the pr««l
--dent-elect to spend his winter vacation
here after he takes the presidential
chair.
Governor Wilson plans to get down
to strenuous work on hts return to the
United States, preparing several
speeches he will make before bls Inau
guration and holding numerous politi
cal conferences.
HOKE SMITH FARMERS
COLLEGE BILL NEAR LAW
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The sen
ate committee on agriculture today fa
vorably reported the bill appropriating
$3,000,000 to colleges for agricultural
work. This bill was introduced last
January by Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia. The measure already has
passed the house.
EJECTED PASSENGER SUES.
SAVANNAH, GA.. Dec. 14.—Claim
ing that he was ejected In the woods
near Burrovgh station last March, while
lie was critically ill, Charles Barber has
filed suit in the city court agalnat the
Atlantic Coast Line railway for $2,500.
HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
10,000 VIEW
CORPSE OF
SLAYER
GUY
Throngs of Curious File Past
Body as It Lies on Slab in
Undertaker’s Chapel.
TO BE BURIED IN OBSCURE
CORNER OF WESTVIEW
Father of Slain Wife Denies
Pastors’ Pleas That Tragedy
Victims Rest Together.
Lying on a slab in an undertaking
establishment in South Pryor street to
day is the body of Robert L. Clay, wife
slayer, who was hanged yesterday in
the Fulton Tower. It has lain there
since it was cut down from the gal
lows, and since that hour there has
been an almost unbroken line of people
passing in and out of the mortuary
chapel to gaze curiously upon the
corpse of a man hanged by the law.
P. J. Bloomfield, the funeral director
tn charge, said today he believed 10,000
persons had viewed the body in his
chapel. They began coming shortly
after the execution, and not until late
In the night was the long line broken.
They began again early today, and
they will keep on until the hour of the
funeral, tomorrow afternoon.
Grave To Be in
Isolated Spot.
Clay had been but an ordinary work
ing man in life; in death he became
the center of notoriety. The most die
tlnguiefied citizen In Atlanta, dead by a
natural end, would not have attracted
one-tenth such a concourse to his bier.
Not a governor nor a senator whose
body has lain in state in the capitol
corridor has drawn such an outpouring
of the public to gaze upon a corpse.
The body’ of Robert Clay will be
buried tomorrow afternoon in a single
grave in Westview cemetery’, purchased
privately y’esterday. and in a spot iso
lated from the main avenues of the city
of the dead. Clay's last words on earth
were a plea that he might be buried
beside the wife he had slain.
But the father of the murdered wom
an had been Inflexible In his refusal
to grant this boon. Her body lies in
Marvin cemetery, a country burial
ground, far out from the city. That of
her husband will rest alone in the out
skirts of Westview.
Pastors Promised
To Plead for Him.
Funeral services will be conducted at
2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon in the
mor* nary chapel, 84 South Pryor street,
by Rev. B. F. Fraser, of St. Paul Meth
odist church, and Rev. Hugh Wallace,
of the Jones Avenue Baptist church,
who, with Rev. Chauncey Foote, a Bap
tist city missionary, were on the scaf
fold with the condemned man. Clay
had turned to them just before he step
ped on the trap, and had kissed them on
the lips, ns he kissed Sheriff Mangum
and Deputy Wiley Roberts.
Mr. Fraser and Mr. Wallace promised
Clay they would make every effort to
persuade his wife’s relatives to permit
him to be buried by her side in Marvin
church yard, and they kept their prom
ise by* calling yesterday afternoon at tiie
home of Mr. and Mrs. James W
Hughes, the murdered woman's parents,
at 218 Berean avenue.
They found that Mrs. Hughes ha
spent the hours before Clay's executlor
on her knees in her room, praying ear
nestly that the soul of the man who
had killed her daughter might be saved
Sheriff Mangum
Unnerved by Ordeal.
The mother consented readily’ to per
mltting Clay's body to rest beside his
wife’s, but the old father, though h<
declared he had froglven his son-ln
law, would not waver In his refusal. At
last the two ministers abandoned their
pleadings and returned to their homes
Sheriff Wheeler Mangum showed to
day the effects of the strain he had un
dergone yesterday in sending Clay to
his death. It developed today that the
sheriff had been peculiarly affected in
the execution of the onlv two whita
men he has hanged, In that both ol
them had been his former employ-ees
and personal acquaintances. George
Burge, hanged for slaying his wife
a year or more ago, and Robert
Clay, executed yesterday, had been
switchmen for the 'Western and Atlan ■
tic railway’ when Mr. Mangum was
yardinaster, and he knew both well.
Wlieeler Mangum was famous fn
leading religious meetings and son:’,
services among the yard employees, >u 1
Clay reminded him yesterday of tiles
Sunday meetings among the freigi
cars.
