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MAYOR APPROVES
NEW BOULEVARD
CONTRACT
Supervision of Work Is Taken
From the City's Department
of Construction.
Mayor Winn today approved the n< v. ;
contract for the repaving of North I
Boulevard, from Edge wood avenue to j
North avenue, which literally takes the'
supervision of the work out of the hands ;
of th- city construction department. 1
Th- asphaltic macadam that the citi- ,
zen" ha\< protested against as bring so'
poor is to be torn up ami bituHthn pa\ - j
Ing put down, and an inspector out-ide .
the construction department is to be
employed, at the expens*- of the proper-’
ty owners and the Georgia Railway and I
Power (’oinpany, t • ip» vise the work, i
. The Southern Bitulithic < '"inp-iny. oj i
Nashville, the company that contract-|
cd to put down th" fust pavement at a i
cost of st..T' p r square yard, is to pul !
down tin m w pavement at a cost of I
$1.73 p i squaie yard. The propertj |
o\\ne.- and the.trolley company are t»!
pay for tin paving. They ibsolutely
icfu'vd to pay for the first pavement,
which was . • worthless that it could b<
kicked up with one's to .
inspi < io; Chains D’Alvigi.;, aid that
the first pavement was up to speeifica
-lio:is. < 'hi< f of ('cmsti uct ion Clayton
said it v. a> not The property owners
a-ked Captain g .ivton to secure a new
inspector, with their approval, to have
charge of this woi k.
The new contract has a furl her pro
vision that fa" company shall forfeit
$23 for each day over 90 days that is
required to < ompletc the job.
It i- probably the mo-t binding con
tract the city council has ever adopted.
HE COMMITS SUICIDE
RATHER THAN SERVE
SIX YEARS SENTENCE
NASHVILLE. GA . D< c. 26. —Batey
Gaskins committed suicide here by
•hooting himself in the head with a
rifle, rather than serve a six years
penitentiary sentence.
Gaskins came here several months
ago and shot into Albritton's store,
Judge Buie’s office and other places.
He was tried and convicted of assault
with intent to murder and sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary. The ease
was carried to the supreme court and
sent back to another trial. In the sec
ond trial Gaskins was agjjiin convicted,
the jury recommending that he be pun
ished for a misdemeanbr. Judge Thom
as refused to act on the jury's recom
mendation and again sentenced Gas
kins to six years in the penitentiary.
The cast was again carried to the su
preme court and was affirmed.
Gaskins had said that he would not
serve the sentence. When lie learned
that the decision of the lower court
had been affirmed he shot himself.
HEARING JAN. 3 4 ON
$400,000 MEASURE FOR
ERADICATION OF TICK
MONTGOMERY. ALA., De. 26. -Con
gressman Lamb, chairman of the house
committee on agriculture, has advised
Dr. C. A. Carey, of Auburn, state vet
erinarian and chairman of the commit
tee on tick eradication of the Southern
Association of Agricultural Commis
sioners and Workers, that the associa
tion's committee will be given a. hear
ing . before the agricultural committee
January 3 on the bill that has been pre
sented in congress appropriating $400,-
VOO for tiio extermination of the cattle
tick in the South.
A similar hearing will be given by
the senate- committee on agriculture
January 4. .Every commissioner of ag
riculture in the South is a member of
the association tick committee. and it
is presumed that all of the commis
sioners will be in Washington for the
hearing. Commissioner It. F. Kolb, of
Alabama, will leave on January I for
Washington.
TWO STUDENTS EXPELLED
FOR CIGARETTE SMOKING
BVCKHANNt)N, W. V A . Dee. 26. -
Two students of the West Virginia
Wesleyan college Were expelled for
smoking cigarettes and the same pun
ishment is to be meted out to others
who broke the college rule.
KILLED WHILE HUNTING.
BRUNSWICK. GA., Dee. 26.—Cyrus
Lyle, son of W. K Lyle, was accident
ally shot while hunting at White-Oak,
Camden county, dying -shortly after
ward. He was a nephew of L. R. Akin,
of BrWnaw ick
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Cure a Cold In One Day.
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Atlanta Postal Officials Are Preparing for Parcels Post
MERCHANTS TO TEST SERVICE
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Beginning Next Wednesday,
the Mails Will Handle Mer
chandise of All Sorts.
Thi- rather orderly appearance of the
mailing room of the Atlanta postotYlce
with its bundles of newspapers, sacks
of letters ami carefully wrapped little
boxes of merchandise will take on a new
a-peet on January 1. when the parcels
post is inaugurated.
Beginning next Wednesday, anything
from a crate of eggs to a burglar jim
my, smoked ham, fresh fish and suits
of clothes will go through the mail for
the toll now taken for a stick pin.
With the smoke of the Christmas
rush scarcely cleared away, Atlanta
postal authorities will begin strenuous
preparations tomorrow for the installa
tion of the parcel post equipment. Ac-,
cording to Postmaster McKee, this may
mean a new delivery system, perhaps
an automobile delivery, if Atlantans
take to the new scheme in the manner
its advocates have asserted they would.
“We are at sea now," admitted the
postmaster. "As soon us the plans for
the new system were definitely an
nounced. we mailed circulars to Atlanta
business houses requesting Information
as to the number that would avail
themselves of the new parcels post. The
replies were, for the most part, vague
and there seemed to be a tendency to
hang back and see how the new system
worked."
That the parcels post law which goes
into effect on New Year's day w ill mean
:t radical change in the delivery sys
tems of many Atlanta business firms,
is predicted freely by those best in
formed.
For instance, under the new postal
law a pair of shoes mailed at noon can
be delivered by an Atlanta store to any
house in Atlanta before dark the same
day for n 6-eent stamp. A box of
candy can be delivered in the same way,
anywhere inside the local zone.
The entire parcels post law is built
on the zone idea. There are eight
zones The first zone h is two divisions
the local and 50-mile line. The sec
ond zone has a radius of 150 ' dies, the
third 300 miles, and so on' The rate
of postage on parcels up to eleven
pounds vary with the different zones.
No parcel over eleven pounds in weight
will bo accepted for mailing, nor will
any parcel with a combined length and
girth exceeding 72 inches be accepted.
Liquor, poisons, pistols, explosives.
Intiamncible material and oils, dead
animals, disease germs and ill-smell
ing materials, such as fertilizer, etc.,
w ill be unmailable.
The table above shows the local rate
in the tlrs't zone. Within 50 miles one
pounds articles may be mailed for 5
cents, and a slightly greater rate up to
eleven pounds. In the second zone or
about the distance from Atlanta to
Knoxville, the one-pound rate is 6 cents,
and the other rates proportionately
higher. In the third zone or the dis
tance to Charlotte or Louisville the
one-pound rate is 7 cents. In the fourth
zone or the distance to Washington,
Chicago or Fort Smith, Ark, the first
rate is eight cents, and so on to the
eighth zone the last zone including Pa
cific coast points, w here the one-pound
ate is 12 cents.
MAN BEST AT 50. SAY
PROFESSIONAL MEN
BERLIN Dec. 2<i. Medical experts,
business men, scientists and other men
in professional life who are contribut
ing to rhe Tageblatt's symposium are
a unit m declaring that man is best at
the age of 50.
VICEROY IMPROVES.
DELHI, Dec. 2t). Lord Hardinge,
I victroy of India, who was injured by a
1 bomb <>n Monday, was greatly hn
; proved today. Al! signs of danger had
, dis; ppcared and his physicians stated
that he would soon be able to walk
'about his room.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1912.
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| The parcels post law was a terrifying bogie to
the express companies, but many fear that its
| teeth have been effectually cut with jokers.
| The limit of weight under the parcels post
law, is 11 pounds, the size of a fine fat baby.
OLD AND NEW RATE FOR MAILING LOCAL PACKAGES
FOR DELIVERY IN ATLANTA. .
(New rate goes into effect January L>
Weight. New Rate. Old Rate.
1 pound 5 cent* 16 cents
2 pounds 6 cents 32 cents
3 pounds 7 cents 48 cenu-
4 pounds 8 cents 64 cents
5 pounds 9 cents Not accepted
6 pounds Hl vents Not accepted
7 pounds 11 cents NAt accepted
8 pounds 12 cents Not accepted
9 pounds 13 cents Not accepted
10 pounds 14 cents Not accepted
11 pounds 15 cents Not accepted
MN SOLEMNLY
WARKS CONGRESS
LINCOLN. NEBR., Dec. 26.—Charg
ing that reactionary Democrats in the
senate and house are planning to fasten
themselves on important committees,
W. J. Bryan, in a Commoner editorial
today, warns the new Democratic con
gress against the “blight of seniority,"
saying in part:
“The Democratic party is going to
have another struggle in both senate
and house over tile committee assign
ments, and it is again threatened with
the blight of seniority. That is. it will
be a-ked to put the ambitions and in
terests of individuals above the welfare
of the party and the good of the coun
try. The progressive Democrats will
now be in the majority in the senate
caucus. Will they allow a reactionary
minority to man the ship? Will they
allow length of service to outweigh
sympathy with the progressive cause?
“If it were a personal matter, the new
senators might prefer to yield to the
older ones, hut a. man who acts in a
representative capacity Is not at liberty
to be courteous at the expense of his
constituents. The Democrats of the
senate owe to the party to make the
senate organization represent the pre
vailing sentiment of the party, and
thus enable it to work in harmony with
the administration. To do this, the
rule of seniority should be ignored.
Assignments to committees should be
made upon the basis of fitness ami
with a view to giving faithful ex
pression to the will of the majority. No
Democrat is deserving of preferment
who places sp.-eial interests above the
general welfare. If our party is to earn
a long lease of power, it must regard
tlie rights of the people as paramount, ’’
ONIONS WILL CURE ALL
ILLS. SAYS DR. WALKER
CHICAGO, Dec 26.—Many Chicago
women today began eating onions
stewed, fried and raw, because Dr.
Mary Walker, the famous suffragette,
said they were a cure-all.
Lung Affection Yielded
To This Remedy
Any one interested In the treatment of
consumption should get one of the book
lets telling of recoveries by the use of
Eckman's Alterative. Coughs, stubborn
colds and pneumonia may be the begin
ning of more serious troubles Eckman's
Alterative is the effective remedv Read
Mr. Kanaly's statement:
Saratoga, N. Y.
"Gentlemen: Eor five or six years 1
was troubled with cough and expectora
tion. I also had a high fever. Mv case
was declared consumption by mv physi
cian. 1 was given cod liver oil, creosote
and other medicines, all without benefit
"A< Christmas time. 1906, I was not ex
pected to live Calling Dr R. H. Mc-
Carthy. he advised the use of Eckman's
Alterative, wldch I took with excellent re
sults. and was entirely cured I have
gained in weight Igo out in all weath
ers and have had no cough or cold what
ever. 1 give these facts to encourage
others to use Eckman s Alterative
■ Sworn affidavit) JAS. \V KANALY.
Eckman's Alterative is effective in bron
chitis. asthma, hay fever, throat and lung
troubles and in upbuilding the svstein.
Does not contain poisons, opiates or hab
it forming drugs Eor sale by all Jacobs'
drug stores and other leading druggists.
Ask for booklet telling of recoveries, and
write to Eckman Laboratory. Philadel
phia. I’a . for additional evidence. (Advt.)
HUNGRY CHINESE
TURN CANNIBALS
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FEKIN, Dec. 26.—Thousands of Chi
nese in the famine-stricken districts of
central China have turned cannibals.
Fathers and mothers are devouring
their own children, in order to prolong
their own lives.
This report was made’ to President
Yuan Shi Kai today by three conymis
sioners appointed to visit the starva
tion distiicts and investigate. He took
this action because of his fear that lo
cal officials were exaggerating reports
of the conditions, in order that they
might have an opportunity to graft
from any . fund that might be appro
priated.
Loss of appetiteT!
the first sign of a tor-g
pid liver. It is followed I
by coated tongue, bad|
taste in the mouth, sick
headache and constipation.
Tutt’s Pills
restore the appetite, by
gently regulating your liver.
Sugar coated or plain— at
your druggist.
The Friend You Forgot Will Believe
His The Chosen Remembrance Os All
|F you select promptly from our
J New Year’s Stocks. We still
i have, not picked-over leavings,
but some articles in lines which
proved immensely popular
right up to this last minute.
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Selection is easy and instantly satis
factory in price, quality and choice of
something really desirable.
Parks-Chambers-Hardwick
37-39 Peachtree Street CO. Atlanta, Georgia
1912 XMAS SETS
II 'SINE' RECORD
IN ATLANTA
Lawlessness This Year Is 50
Per Cent Below That of the
Same Day in 1911.
A compilation of police and hospital
statistics on “the morning after the
night (and day) before” shows that yes
terday was by 50 per cent a “saner"
Christmas than the same day of 1911.
Yesterday there was but one fatality,
as compared witli four on Christmas
day, 1911. Wednesday’s tragedy was
tiio shooting and killing of Robert Hen
derson, a negro, by John Henry Per
kins. another negro, in the Crew street
alley, back of the Atlanta hospital. Per
kins was arrested, and will plead guilty,
claiming self-defense.
The total number of arrests yesterday
was 202, as compared with about 350 in
1911. White persons constituted only
about 25 per cent of this year’s total.
This year’s number of Christmas
drunks fell way short of last year.
Only about 15 per cent of the cases or>
docket at police headquarters are
“drunk" charges.
Even the "pistol toters" fell short.
However, about fifty- were arrested yes
, terday on that charge.
Chief Beavers this morning had as
his guests for breakfast 150 men and
women. The remainder of the 202 ar
rested were released on bond.
Fireworks Record Cut in Half.
According to the police, qnly about
half as much fireworks was in evidence
yesterday as on the same date last
year. Yet there was too much, as is evi
denced by the charges on the desk ser
geant's slate.
A blind tiger transaction between a
negro and a white man yesterday aft
ernoon at Glenn and McDaniel streets
resulted in the serious wounding of the
principal participants anti a score of
cut and bruised negroes. Emmett
Howe, a tinsmith of 390 Cooper street,
and Ed Tumlin, a young boilermaker,
were the whites most severely injured.
They were cut about the face, hands
and body, but will recover.
J. K. Minton, of 58 Milledge avenue,
was the chief offender with a toy pis
tol William Prather, the young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Prather, of 188 Wiley
street, was the victim of Minton's pis
tol. The boy was seriously injured.
Minton and the boy were in Fowler's
store, on Edgewood avenue, at 1 o’clock
in the afternoon. Some one brought in
a .38-caliber toy pistol, which was load
ed with a blank cartridge.
Minton, according to his own state
ment. pointed the gun in the boy's face
and tired. A gaping wound was inflict
ed in his cheek and he was rushed to
the Grady hospital. Toxemia poisoning
is feared.
Emergency Work For Hospitals.
The hospitals were kept busy all day
answering emergency calls. At the
Grady hospital alone. 23 emergency
cases were brought in by ambulances,
while a large number walked in to have
burned members treated.
Recorder Broyles issued the following
“scale” of fines to be handed out today,
according to the nature and extent of
the offense:
Plain drunk. $5.75.
Drunk, with "trimmings." $10.75 to
$100.75.
Shooting flreworks in streets. $1.75 to
$5.75.
Shooting pistols—blanks. $10.75 to
$50.75.
Shooting pistols bullets, $100.75
straight.
Carrying weapons without license,
held to grand jury under bond in the
sum of S2QO.
£ tEfe 9 I BEGINNING MONDAY
f | | I SEATS NOW SELLING I
One Week Only. Matinees Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Saturday.
SPECIAL MATINEE NEW YEARS DAY. First Time at Lyric Prices ■
WILLIAM A. BRADY. Ltd., PRESENTS .
BABY MINE!
By Margaret Mayo. The Funniest Play In the English Language, With
WALTER. JONES I
In His Original Character of Jimmy as Played by Him in New York City Over B
450 Times.
ALL ATLANTA HAS REAL
MERRY CHRISTMAS; O\
ITS GOOD BEHA VIOR, TOO
The man who said December 21 was
the shortest day in the year joined the
Ananias club by acclamation today.
When Atlanta woke up, shuddered and
groped through its respective trousers
for the elusive earfare and found noth
ing but an expired transfer, it knew
that December 26 marks the most ex
aggerated shortness in the ealqpdar.
But we had a high old time, anyway!
Didn’t we ? Sure!
Statistics carefully prepared by a
leading actuary today and based on his
observations up to midnight indicate
that the average male person in Atlanta
celebrated Christmas with the follow
ing ingredients:
Eggnog, 2-3 pint.
Toddies. 1 2-5.
Tom and Jerry, 3-4 ounce.
Candy. 3-4 pound.
Cake, 11 ounces.
Turkey, 2-3 pound.
Cigars, 2-5 cigar.
Firecrackers, 1-4 package.
A trace each of Jamaica rum, lemon
peel, champagne, liniment, burn oint
ment. apollinaris, medicated gauze and
liver pills.
A sharp advance in demand for head
ache remedies, ice water and short
time loans was observed early today.
Those Revolving Pavements Again.
The figures show the average, and if
you didn’t get your share of everything
on the list, maybe you made it up on
something else. For instance, the tee
totaler’s non-consumption of eggnog
was balanced by some fellows who
used enough for two. Some experts
took enough to make up fox- the whole
Anti-Saloon league. There was quite a
deal of complaint last night about the
narrowness of the streets and the dis
advantages of revolving pavements, and
a petition to council was contemplated.
Rut. as the lamented Milton sang, it
is no time for nlirth or laughter in the
cold, gray dawn of the morning after
the Twenty-fifth of December. The
words of Omar to the effect that 'twas
the day after Christmas, when all in
the town are busted and grouchy from
batting around, and the coin we have
spent for toys, eats and booze will be
missed when we have to cough up for
new shoes.
This is the day when one hunts up
his last year’s resolutions, patches them
together with the gluepot. and makes up
his mind that all this kind of thing
doesn't pay and this time next year will
tell a different story.
And the Society for the Prevention of
Useless Giving will find a heavy mail
this week. Everybody is a Spug to
day.
Atlanta Unusually Good.
Atlanta’s Christmas was a fast day
and a revival compared to some noted
holidays in past years, however. Not a
death from Christmas cause's was reg
istered up to midnight, and only one
participant in a too exuberant celebra
tion was so badly carved up.that the
undertakers felt any hopes. Only one
boy reached Grady hospital via the toy
pistol route, and the physicians say the
supply of detached fingers is far below
the Christmas average.
Even the list of those who had drunk
not wisely, but too frequently, was I
shorter than the average on the police
docket, and the cells at the station did
not overflow into the corridors, as in
the past. Almost everybody got home
before the owl cars ran. bearing the
last of the Christinas packages and the
hardest to untie.
The fact that no sudden cases of in
ternal lead poisoning developed during
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! the day is especially remarkable j
■ that revolvers appeared to be plentlf-"
. The police removed 50 of these Chris-"
. mas expressions of good will tow 7'j
men from 150 prisoners hauled Jr ,
’ falling to carry their refreshrue-",
quietly, an average of one gun to thrL
’ men.
Education Tolls on Negro
Tixirty-tive of these modem weapon
were extracted from negroes, an indi
cation that the cause of education
among the colored race is relegating
the once favorite razor to the rear. Tij„
■ 50 artillerymen will explain to Judge
Broyles today that they were on the
way to the pawn shop to pledge their
family heirlooms for the price of
rooking horse for the babies. yi ayi) ‘
he’ll believe it—and maybe he won't
Expressmen and postoffice employees
feel better than the average man to
day, having had slight opportunity to
celebrate on their own account, ny (!
express wagons were on the jump f ro , n
a week before Christmas until after
midnight of''Christmas eve, but evert .
. thing in tlie office was cleared away
> before noon yesterday and delivered at
its destination.
The postoffice workers kept busy with
late packages, but they didn't have ha’!
the trouble they’ll And next year when
the parcels post will be working fine
and everything from Shetland ponies -j
pet alligators will travel by mail. The
| express companies very considerately
persuaded congress to let the parcels
, post law go into effect on January 1,
' thereby relieving the postofflee work
ers of the Christmas rush this year
Good Eating For All.
If any family xvent without a Christ
mas dinner it was because the head of
it was too proud to accept charity.
There were basket dinners and uptown
dinners, good things sent out by Sun
day schools and individuals, feasts
spread by the Salvation Army, the res
cue mission, by half a dozen other or
ganizations.
The Georgian’s Empty Stocking fun!
1 supplied toys and clothing for 600 chil
-1 dren and the money for a good dinner
and a bushel or two of coal for all the
‘ mothers it could reach. Most of the
! organizations worked with the Asso
' ciated Charities, and the Christmas dis
tribution was more sanely and wisely
handled than in past seasons.
Convicts at the Federal prison had a
i real turkey dinner with an orchestra to
■ play while the stuffing went round, a la
cabaret. Unfortunates who spent their
Christmas in the city stockade were
’ permitted to receive anything sent in
by friends except bottled goods, and
the’prisoners in the Tower had a royal
feast.
The children in the orphanages, the
old ladies in their home. every*class of
shut-in ones, had a bit of something to
prove it was Christmas.
If anybody was overlooked in the dis
tribution of holiday cheer it was be
; cause he didn’t let anybody know
WOMAN IN CANADA IS
HELD AS MRS. GUNNESS
LA PORTE, IND.. D^”2b’.-Chief of Po
lice Meinke. who has always contended
that Mrs. Bell Gunness was alive, said
he considered the description furnished b>
detectives of Lethbridge, Alberta, the best
which has been received of a woman an
swering to the printed likeness of the
murderess. a more complete descrip
tion has been sent to the authorities at
Lethbridge, where the woman is under
surveillance.
[ the ATLANTA
Fri., Sat.fNlat., Sat. Night.
IDA ST. LEON
In a New Comedy Drama.
‘‘FINISHING FANNY"
Nights. 25c to $1.50. Mat., 25c to »1
I o r. SEA J S ON SALE FRIDAY,
z Days 2—December 31. January 1.
Matinees Both Days.
MIZZI HAJOS
In the Artistic Operetta.
The Spring Maid
Prices: Orchestra. $2 and $1.50: Bal-
I cony. ooc, 75c, SI.OO
OHtAND KEITH • Mai. Today 2:32
VAUMviut Tonjqht . g :sl
DINKELSPIEL’S CHRISTMAS
SY GEORGE V. HOBART
Empire Comedy Four—Lew Hawkins
Miss Robbie Gordone and Others.
FORSYTH week
Little Emma Bunting
And FORSYTH PLAYERS
“The Little Gray Lady."
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Matinees Thurs. and Saturday
THE BIG MUSICAL REVUE.
THEFROLICS 0F1912
NEXT WEEK—“BABY MINE
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Cornell University
Glee. Banjo and Mandolin Clubs.
WESLEY MEMORIAL HALL
DECEMBER 26th.
SEAT SALE
CABLE PIANO CO.
Prices. $1.50. SI.OO. .