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THE ATLANTA GEOROT AN AND NEWS, The Georgian-American Pony Contest VOTE COUPON Committee Reaches Compromise With Destructor Company, but Mayor Must Be “Shown," of the Destructor j oklyn and th»* Ki- j of the Uity Council j a tentative agree- j 00 crematory, con- has been halted b> ? obtained for $260,- Representatives * Company of Bn nance Committee Monday reached ment. The $276, struct ion *>f whir injunctions, will I 000. The Destructor Company represen tatives and the city attorney of At- ' Janta left the committee meeting to draw up a formal contract to he pre sented to the City Council Monday afternoon. Although the latest contract offers a big saving, Mayor James (1. Wood ward declined to announce his ap proval. saying he would wait to see the actual contract and assure him self it provided for the disposition of garbage at 25 cents a ton. Big Saving Effected. W. G. Humphrew, chairman of the Finance Committee, said the contract would save more than $60,000. The sum of $16,800 is saved over the orig inal contract price; $11,000 in inter est; $400 in deferred interest; $4,500 on extra excavations, and an esti mated $30,000 on extra and finer ma terial demanded by the City Engineer, the additional cost of which the De structor Company agrees to bear Ail questions are included in a blanket compromise settlement. Of the $260,000, the sum of $125,000 is to be paid ns soon as it can bfc put through the City Council. It al ready has been provided in tin- bud get. The remaining $135,000 is to bt paid on completion of the plant. A committee comprising Messrs. Humphrey; Colcord and Harwell ac quainted Mayor James <1. Woodward with the terms of the agreement. The Mayor desired to convince himself the contract was advantageous from a business standpoint, also that it was in harmony with the court decisions. Members of the Finance Committee * believe he will approve the contract. Won’t Attend Conferences. Mayor Woodward announced la-fore the Finance Committee meeting that he would not participate In the con ferences. "The Comptroller has been enjoined from issuing the warrants. 1 have been enjoined from signing them, and the Treasurer has been enjoined from . paying them. The Destructor Com* pany has been enjoined from building the crematory, and tlie city could go out there and tear it down If they wanted to. How can they settle it?" « Mayor Woodward continued: "1 don't see the use of all this hurry, unless they Just want to give them $276,000. The Finance Committee (-an only submit a plan. That plan would have to be adopted. Then they would have to advertise before work began, and then it would take several weeks to do the work Yet they are talking like they can get a crematory this afternoon, it •dll take time, and I want to say again this crematory does not solve the problem." Mayor Woodward still favors his \ riginal plan of five crematories- w iur plants of 25 tons capacity and ne of 100 tons. This plan, he insists, the only one offering a satisfactory ^solution of the transportation prob lem, the problem of transporting gar bage to the crematory. If the one central plant is built, he said, many auto trucks would be necessary, else the outlying parts of the city would not he benefited. Rut with the same number of auto trucks, he points out. Atlanta can take ( are of the garbage problem, hauling refuse away. “Atlantan Will Not Suffer.” “Just say I am having no trouble at all over anything that has come up during my administration,’’ Mayor "Woodward said. "All this trouble has come up on account of what they put over on the Council last year, before 1 came in. "There’s no use for anybody to got * scared, and there's no use to get frightened Atlanta will not suffer." VOTING ON INCORPORATION. CHATTANOOGA. TENN., June 2. North Chattanooga, an unincorporat ed suburb, is voting to-day to decide whether it will incorporate as a sep- * arate municipality. The election is held under the incorporation hill re cently passed by the Legislature. CHK SEEN III TWAS EVER THUS Copyright, 101.1, In*err*tlon«l Newt Service. Sir Long Shot Sends 11 is Armor to I I is Majesty’s Steam Laundry. 1SK FRANCHISE TO HUD I III, [ P0ETLAUREATE, DEAD IT 78 Succeeded Tennyson as Official National Bard—He Penned Much Worthy Verse. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, June 2.~ Alfred Austin, poet laureate of England, died at bin i home, Swinford Old Manor, in Ash ford, Kent, to-day. Mr. Austin, who succeeded Lord Al fred Tennyson as poet # ‘laureate of | England, was 78 years of age on May j 30, just two days before his death. He wa.** named poet laureate In 1896 by Mr Gladstone. In preference to many admittedly abler poets, whose ! claims to this honorable position were, for one reason or another, set aside Mr. Austin became poet laureate at 1'nlverslty of London in 1853, ami j soon thereafter entered upon the prac- | tlce of law. He abandoned that pro fession early in life, however, (or the more congenial one of literature. Edited National Review. After writing much for the periodi cals he became editor of The National Review in 1883 and continued in that position until he was named poet lau reate of the realm. Among Mr. Austin’s better known productions in verse are "The Sea son." a satire (1861); "Havonarola,’ a tragedy (1881); English Lyrics (1890). •‘The ronvervlon of Wlneklemann" ! (1897), Songs of England (1900) and A Tale of True Love" (1892). The latter w (frk was dedicated to Presi- I dent Roosevelt. Although severely lambasted by the critics of the period in which he j worked, particularly after he became poet laureate, Mr. Austin produced I much work well worth while. As a ! critic he was original and Interesting, j If not spectacular. While he was not 1 possessed apparently of a very active imagination, he wrote, nevertheless, ; y-omo very graceful and acceptable i verse. Attacked Lord Tennyson. Much of the always evident hostil ity of Austin in England unquestion ably arose from a production of his pen In 1870. wherein, under the title j of "The Poetry of the Period," he se verely attacked Tennyson, whom later he was to succeed ns poet laureate, and Browning, both then immensely | popular. Mr Austin appeared to fall short of his greatest opportunities ns poet laureate, and his best work was pro duced upon relatively unimportant oc casions and topics. His poem on the ' accession of Edward VII generally is rated mort commonplace, as was his poem upon the death of Queen Vh I toria. Among his better known works of pro«*e am "The Garden That I Love" land In Veronica’s Garden." Both of these are Interspersed with short poems, however Mr. Austin became poet laureate at a time when every one thought that I this honor was about to go to Uud- ; yard Kipling. Few Chairmanships Given North and East—Hardwick, Adamson and Hughes Win. Just Say ZuZu to the grocer man hand him a nickel and get a magic package direct from Ginger Snap Land. So fresh they crack with a snap. To look at them makes you hungry. So tender they melt in your mouth. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Dem ocratic leaders of the House made their long-awaited distribution of committee "plums" and "lemons” to day. The great bulk of the chairman ships went to Southern Congressmen, the Northerners and Westerners only getting an occasional chairmanship. The full list was made public when the Democratic caucus met to-day to ratify the selections made by the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee. The personnel of the Ways and Means Committee, Accounts, Mileage and Enrolled Bills Committees already had been selected and approved. The following members received these chairmanship**: Three Georgians Land. Appropriations, Fitzgerald. New York; Judiciary. Clayton, Alabama; Banking and Currency, Glass, Vir ginia; Coinage, Hardwick, Georgia. Interstate Commerce. Adamson. Geor gia; Rivers and Harbors. Sparkman. Florida Merchant Marine. Alexan der, Missouri; Agriculture, Lever, South Carolina; Foreign Affairs, Flood, Virginia; Military, Hay. Vir ginia; Naval, Padgett, Tennessee; Postoffice. Moon, Tennessee; Public Lands, Ferrl*\ Oklahoma. Indian Affairs. Stephens. Texas; Territories. Houston. Tennessee; In sular Affairs, Jones. Virginia; Rail ways and Canals, Dies, Texas; Mines, Foster, Illinois; Public Building*'. Clark, Florida; Education. Hughes, Georgia; Labor. Lewis, Maryland; Patents, Oldfield. Arkansas. Invalid Pensions. Sherwood, Ohio; Pensions Richardson, Alabama; Claims. Pon North Carolina; War Claims, Gregg, Texas. Two From New York. District of Columbia, Johnson. Ken tucky, Revision of Law**, Watkins. Louisiana; Reform In Civil Service. Godwin. North Carolina; Election of President, Rucker, Missouri; Alcohol ic Liquor Traffic. Sabath. Illinois; Ir rigation of Arid Lands. Smith Texas; Immigration. Burnett, Alabama; Cen sus Helm, Kentucky; Roads, 8hackle ford* Missouri; Industrial Arts, Un derhill. New York. <>thir minor dfalrmanshlps were assigned to the following members: Post of Ohio, Ha mill of New Jer sey, Goldfogle of New York, Hawley of Missouri, Loheck of Nebraska, Adair of Indiana. Hardy of Texas Pepper of Iowa, Graham of Illinois. BrouBPnrd of Louisiana, Doughton of North Carolina. Rothermel of Penn sylvania. Mayer of New York. Knnop of Wisconsin. Slayden of Texas. Barn hart of Indiana and Ashbrook of Ohio. Glass, Virginia, Heads Committee on Currency. WASHINGTON. June 2. The Dem ocratic personnel of the House Bank ing nnd Currency Committee, which will draft a currency reform bill for submission to Congress at an early date, was announced at the Demo cratic caucus this afternoon. Only five of the fourteen old members re mained on It, anil of the nine new members all but one are from the West and South The Democratic members are as follows: Glass. Virginia, chairman; Korbly of Indiana. Brown of West Virginia. Bulk ley of Ohio, Neeley of Kansas. Patten of New York. Stone of Illinois. Phelan of Massachusetts. Eagle of Texas. Wingo of Arkansas. Seldom- ridge of Colorado. Wilson of Florida. Weaver of Oklahoma and Ragsdale of South Carolina. (»■« j England Threatened By National Strike Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. June 2—Labor unrest throughout England is becoming acute. Leaders of various trades unions are denouncing the Govern ment for no; passing a minimum wage bill affecting all industries, and a national walk-out may be th“ outcome. Between 30,000 and 40.000 workmen ate idle. On Wednesday representa tives of shipyard workers will meet and a strike may be ordered. W. J. Nolan, of Paris. Tenn.. is the I guest of his daughter. Mrs *1. T. •Brooks. 274 Whitehall Street. Air. : Nolan is a stone and marble dealer | and has been inspecting the Georgia u names. j Convict-Author, Writing in “Good | Words,” Designates New Order as “Criminals by Accident." Julian Hawthorne, son of the noted author, and himself a writer of note, reveils, in a fine analysis of present day legal punishment, the result of his observations after two months’ im prisonment in the Atlanta Federal Prison. Mr. Hawthorne's opinions on prison ers and prison usages appear in the June number of the Federal institu tion’s monthly periodical, "Good Words," under his prison register number, 4435. In an editorial captioned, "1 Sen tence You,” Hawthorne divided the prisoners Into two classes, and ana lyzes the methods of punishment for them. "Though prisons remain, an alter ation has come to pass in prisoners,' the editorial roads. “It is obvious that modern industrial development has generated many new laws, and has brought under the scrutiny Sof the law whole classes of people who had been hitherto fearless of it. These men include many persons of good education, gentle breeding, and high intelligence; and hundreds of this type are now going to Jail for of fenses which have been in a manner created by the new-born scruples of lawmakers and the subtle discrimi nations of public prosecutors. New Order of Prisoners. “A new order of prisoners has con sequently come into existence; they are criminals not by innate tendency but by accident and stress of circum stances; by novel conditions not as yet fully digested into the moral sense; and such an irruption into our jails of an unprecedented element could not fail to bring about modifi cations in the handling of prisoners of all kinds. "An ignorant and brutal thug, or a depraved and hopeless degenerate, needs one sort of handling, and men of brains and refinement another. For though men of education who com mit crimes merit severer punishment than do men who never had a chance to know better, yet their skin Is far the more sensitive, and a tap of the finger hurts them more than a blow of the ‘paddler’ does the hardened malefactor. But the tendency seems to be to lean to the former principle in the treatment of all. It is judged more expedient for the common good to be lenient to a savage than sav age to the man w’ho responds to len iency. “Meanwhile our Jails are becom ing more instead of less populous; the notable Increase of Federal courts. an<1 the tendency to concentration of power in the national government over the States, enables convictions to be more easily obtained. Whether or not this Increased facility keeps even pace with impartial justice is question to be solved by experience. Sees Grea*t Spy System. “A great body of ‘inspectors’ and other officials of courts has been created, and they are naturally eager to justify their salaries. A system of espionage has been established so widespread as to breed uneasiness in all walks of civic life. But all evils are accompanied by compensa tions; and ff the processes used to obtain convictions occasionally re mind us of Russia, yet if they unex pectedly prove the means of admitting the angel of reform into prisons, they may be worth the price.” Again, in an article headed "Pris oners of Their Own Will," Hawthorne contrasts tin* self-isolation of the ex plorer Amundsen find his crew in the Arctic with the confinement of the offender against the law. "They will be surrounded by mid night darkness and terror,” the article reads, "they will be crowded into a space tenfold more narrow than any prison cell; they will he constantly called on to put forth the utmost powers of mind and body to avoid tor ture and destruction; any attempt to escape would be visited with certain death, and yet there are few who, were the choice offerd them, would not elect to go with Amundson to the Polar region. "It is an ancient truth that bodily imprisonment is Fin insignificant cir cumstance If the soul be free. Our real hardship consists in the fact that we were placed here by force, and as a punishment.” Americans. Study Egypt's Progress Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME. June 2.—One group of the American Commission on Agricultu ral Co-operation which has been in this city Investigating system** of ag ricultural credit and co-operative pro duction and marketing, headed by Col. J. Shelby Williams and Clarence Ousley, of Ft. Worth. Texas, has gon to Egypt to study methods of financ ing and marketing the Egyptian cot ton crop. The Egyptian bale of cotton has been accepted as the world’s standard, and it is a well-known fact that . American cotton growers are losing ! large euros of money as a result of their failure to bale and grade their cotton properly. It is even claimed that in the United States one-half of the real value of the eotton crop is lost to the farmer* through poor selling methods, and lack of financial facilities. Dying from Poison In Drink of Whisky ABBEVILLE. CA . June 2.—Post master L. P. Wimberly, of this place, has been at the point of death since yesterday afternoon from the effects of a drink of supposedly poisoned whisky, mysteriously placed in the postoffice Saturday night. He is not expected to recover. Wimberly McLeod was also poison ed bv the whisky, but has recovered. No explanation of the mystery has Traction Officials Would Relieve Congestion by Extending the Service to Edgewood Ave. Application to the City Council for ' !i franchise to double-track Ivy Street from Auburn Avenue to Edgewood Avenue will be read in Council Mon- | day afternoon. The Georgia Railway and Power j Company Intends to extend the pres ent Ivy Street trolley service to Edge- wood Avenue and thence into Mariet ta and Broad, as at present. Official® of the company said Mon day morning this change was pro posed in order to men rhe many new improvements in progress in Edge- wood Avt-nuc and also to relieve the congestion of traffic on Peachtree Street where the Ivy' Street lines now traverse it. The company has been studying Iilans to Improve trolley service from the north side of Atlanta to the Audi torium-Armory Grand Opera Week end at other times. The extension of the Ivy Street lines to Edgewood Ave nue will enable it to run cars direct from the North Side to the Audito rium-Armory without transferring passengers. Track* will be extended as soon as Council will permit. $5,000 JEWEL ROBBERY. NEW YORK, June 2.—Four men entered a jeweler's shop on the lower East Side to-day, bound and gagged the proprietor, collected $5,000 worth of diamonds, watches and bracelets and escaped. LAW STUDENTS 10 DEBATE FORPRIZE Contest Monday Night for Medal Opens Commencement Exer cises at Atlanta School. Wine Merchant’s Romance Began When He Was in America as Racing Aeronaut. Explorers Stranded Off Georgia Coast PHILADELPHIA, June 2.-—The University of Pennsylvania expedi tion to South America, which * left here two months ago on a trip which was to last two years, has become stranded off the coast of Georgia and the yacht Pennsylvania, which was outfitted at a cost $110,000, has been abandoned. It is tied up at Brunswick. Headquarters for Wedding Gifts WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. You will probably require one or more wedding gifts for the June bride. We offer you the greatest variety of suitable gifts to be found in the South. The val ues cannot be excelled any where. The recipients will be doubly pleased if your gifts come from us, for they will know you wanted them to have the best. • See our three window dis plays. A postal request will promptly bring you a copy of our 160-page illustrated cata logue. This catalogue brings your shopping to you. Mail Orders shipped prepaid. Safe delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. Special attention given to orders for gifts. Write for this catalogue to day. It will save you time, money and trouble. . Call Tuesday or Wednesday to see a wonderful exhibition of Menton English China. The entire line of new samples are on display in our China Room. MAIER & BERKELE, Inc. Gold and Silversmiths 31-33 Whitehall Street Established 1887 V* J I i he»*M fit .1 A prize debate for the Hamilton Douglas medal Monday night will open the Atlanta Law School com mencement week. The question will be, "Resolved, That Capital Punish ment Should Be Abolished." Judges will be Mrs. Hamilton Douglas. Justice Joseph H. Lumpkin of the Supreme Court, and Thomas Uonnally John M. Owens, of the se nior class, wijl preside over the de bate. Contesting speakers will be Pierce Burns, R. E. Lee ('one, Samuel Cas- lleton. \Y. A. Hassell, J. R. McClel land, J. Samuel Highsmith. Franklin S. Chalmers. Brooks B. Patterson and Leonard J. Grossman. Names of successful candidates for graduation will be announced before the beginning of the debate. The com petition for the Robert Elston medals v. ill close at 6 o’clock The law school orators will contest for the faculty prize in oratory Tues day night. They will speak in the following order: R. E. Lee Cone, Du Pont Hood. Samuel M. Castleton, George F. Northen, M. J. Wood. Pierce Burns. Harry B. Terrell, • Allen A. Dowds, Leonard J. Grossman. J. v B. King. Richard H. Gordon and Wil helm Hassell. Graduation will be Saturday evening in the Grand Opera House. Ambassador Page At King's Derby Fete Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, June 2—W. H. Page, new United States Ambassador to! England, accompanied by his private secretary. Harold Fowler, and I. B. La ughlin, secretary of the United States Embassy, to-day attended King George's derby levee at .Buck ingham Palace. Eats 10 Pounds of Eels in Hour on Bet NEW YORK. June 2. Simon Stein- gut. "Mayor of Second Avenue," bet a friend $25 that he Could eat ten pounds of eels in one hour. At the end of an hour the "Mayor” had eaten ten pounds of eels, two pounds of bread and a quantity of beer. LONDON, June 2.—Dressed in one of the most gorgeous bridal costumes that ever came out of the Rue de la Paix. Miss Frances Scoville, of Sene- * a. Kan., was married here to-day to Walter deMumm. The ceremony took place at St. George’s, Hanover Square. The bride is the daughter of Court- , ney Kennedy Scoville, one of the (richest bankers of Kansas. In addi tion to the magnificent wedding gown, Mrs. DeMumm has a trous seau said to have cost $25,000. Her bridal outfit consists of 100 gowns. The marriage to-day is the culmi nation of a romance which began in 1910 when DeMumm visited Ameri ca and took part in the international balloon race at St. Louis, which ended for DeMumm In the Canadian wilds. The bridegroom is a member of the famous wine family. In December of last year he was shot twice and se verely wounded in a room in Paris by Mrs. Marie VanRensimer Barnes, a divorced American woman. The shooting was the outcome of De- Mumm’s announcement that he was going to terminate his relations with her. We have Beautiful Bedding Plants 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 L. Fair Street. White City Park Now Open (RICHMOND AND RETURN) $16.70 VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Tickets on sale June 7 and; !8. Through Pullman Sleeping Car leaving Atlanta 2:45 p. m. > daily, arriving Richmond 8:40 - | a. m. Dining car. City Ticket j Office, No. 1 Peachtree Street, f Guaranteed Fresh Country M Doz. Gaslt Grocery Go, 118 Whitehall Mother Stanislaus Tells of Recovery Any person who m«y doubt the merits of Krkman s Alterative, a remedy for the Throat and Lungs, which lias brought about many complete recoveries, should Investigate the case i of Mother Stanislaus of St. Anne’s Convent, Sanford. Fla. She writes: Convent of St. Anne, 800 Oak Ave . Sar.ford, Fla. ’•Gentlemen: In February, 1911, four doc tors examined my throat and pronounced the i necessity of an operaUon. Having heard at Peeksklll. N. Y . Motherhouae of the Sisters of t St. Francis, where I was visiting, of Eckman's , Alterative. I determine,! as a last resort to try It. After taking four or five bottles large pieces j of diseased tissue came away. I continued the J Alterative, to my grateful and daily relief. In i ! ten months I was restored to perfect health. I would be glad to write or talk to any person i who may have a doubt about It. I would like , them to see and hear front my own lips, if \ i they so desire, all I Would say of It.” (Signed) MOTHER M. STANISLAVS. ] (Above abbreviated; more on request.) > Kckraan’s Alterative baa barn proven by many ) years ust to !*e moat efficacious in cases of 1 f sever* Throet and Lung Affections. Bronchitis. ’ ( Bronchial Asthma. Stubborn Colds and in up- ' ( bulletins the system. Does not contain narcotics. , ) poison* or be.bit-forming drugs. For sale i»y all , ' Jacobs’ Drug Stores and other leading druggists. , ) Write the llekman Laboratory . Philadelphia. i ; Fa., for booklet telling of recoveries and addl- ' ) tbwval evidence. There’s Only One Way To save, and that is to make a plan and stick to it—let it grow into a habit. A good way to start is to make a deposit and add to it a certain specified sum every week. Begin by selecting a STRONG institution that pays 4 PER CENT COMPOUNDED SEMI-ANNUALLY like the Trust Company of Georgia Capital and Surplus $1,800,000 Equitable Bldg. Pryor Street