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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1013.
FRIENDS OF CHARTER,
» NEW APPEAL, ASK
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NEXT
—By F. S JACOBS
T HERE was a time when kissing in the good old-fashioned way
Was altogether ruled by what the Indy had to say;
If she said “Yes,” the couple didn’t ask for better right.
Hut fell into a close embrace and smacked with all their might.
Hut times, it seems, are changing; loving couples when euelinehed
Are apt to be disturbed thus wise: “Hey, stop it; you are pinched.”
r^e Hillyer, Chairman of Com-
mttee, Presents PZpitome of Docu
ment, Outlining Proposed Changes.
Asks Careful Reading by Voters.
Leaders In the fight for the new
charter Issued another appeal for
support Saturday night along with
un epitome of the document
The appeal is signed by George
Hillyer. chairman, and A. H. Davis,
secretary of the campaign commit
tee. They urge every voter to study
carefully the changes provided
Here follows the statement in full:
To the Voters of Atlanta:
On September 24 you will be given
an opportunity by your ballot to se
lect for this city a complete, concise,
revised and rearranged charter.
The Legislature haa already passed
this charter, subject to the ratifica
tion of a majority of the voters in this
election. If adopted, Its provisions
hecofne effective January 1, 1914.
This charter Is not essentially dif
ferent from the present charter. The
difference Involves matters of detail,
and does not change the basic prin
ciples of Atlanta’s present form of
government.
It was drafted by the members of
the City Council, aided by a commit
tee of citizens, and was adopted by
the former body before It wa» passed
by the Legislature.
The main Idea In drafting this
charter was to give to Atlanta a char
ter harmonious and consistent all the
way through, to eliminate many ob
solete matters, and to group together
and In logical order the sections bear
ing upon particular subjects.
When it is remembered that At
lanta’s present charter was granted
by the General Assembly In 1874—
nearly 40 years ago—that It has been
amended time and time again, that it
has no logical or systematic arrange
ment of contents, that many of its
provisions are now unnecessary and
obsolete, the necessity of a complete,
revised and up-to-date charter is
made apparent.
No changes from the present char
ter have been made, except such as
have been suggested by the wisdom
und experience of 39 years.
While this 1913 charter is much
shorter than the present one, we shall
not burden you with Its fength, but
ask that you read the explanation be
low, giving briefly all the essential
changes from our present charter.
Sanitary Tax Abolished.
The annual sanitary tax of $3 per
house is abolished. This seems to
be a relic of village days, to be re
moved as soon as the growth of the
city permits, and that time has now
arrived. This will give a very sub
stantial reduction in taxes for all
property owners, especially for the
small home owners, who, in many
cases, now pay almost as much sani
tary tax as all other taxes combined.
However, the tax rate of $1.25 re
mains as at present, and there is no
other change in the present tax sys
tern.
Number of Boards Reduced.
This charter reduces the number *»f
city boards Those provided for are:
Board of Education.
Board of Public Safety
Board of Health, Hospitals and
Charities.
Board of Public Works
Board of Water Commissioners,
Board of Public Recreation.
Board of Trustees of Carnegie Li
brary.
Some of these boards are new and
are the result of consolidating the
work of two or more of the present
boards. They will constat
member from each ward, to be elect
ed by the General Council, whose
t«jrms will be fixed by ordinance.
The same general provisions are es
tAbllshed for all. to wit: There la •
head of each of the several depart
ments, and the boards wi” exercis
supervision over such heads of de
partments and the other officers cf
such departments and the manage
ment thereof, but one board is not
given greater power than the other,
all having the same General authority
with reference to their particular de
partments.
All heads of departments are to he
elected by the boards, instead, as at
present, of having some looted by the
boards, some elected by Council and
some elected by the people.
Health, Hospitals. Charities.
The Grady Hospital Board Is abol
ished. The Grady Hospital, the Bat
tle Hill Anti-Tuberculosis Sanitarium,
the City Warden, the sanitary de
partment and the health department
are all put under one board, to be
known as the Board of Health. Hos
pitals and Charities The head of
each of thes« departments will he
elected by the board.
Board of Public Recreation.
The Cemetery Commission and th3
Park Board are abolished, and the
ci v cemeteries and th*' city parks are
put inder the Board of Public Recre
ation All municipal cemeteries, in
the lapse of time, become public
parks and the reason for grouping
cemeteries with parks is. therefore,
ap. arent.
Board of Public Safety.
This hoard takes the place of the
Police Board and the Board of Fire-
: s era thin < ombinlng, foy more »f
ficient and continuous supervision,
th- se two co-ordinate departments. Of
course, there will be a chief of each
department, as at present, to be elect
ed by the board.
Board of Public Works.
The repair and construction of
streets, sewers and bridges is put un
der a new board, called the Board cf
Public Works The likens from ea^h
ward are given representation on this
as on all other boards, and a hearing
Is assured on any and all complaints
that they may desire to make, as well
as on all protes’s against proposed
improvements which they think tha
city should hear. The Board of Pub
lic Works is intended to systematise
the street and sewer work under a
< "ntinuoug line of enueavor. such »*
t board should work out from year
*xj year, instead of following changes
in views of the Committee on Streets
and Committee on Sewers annualh
appointed
Pay for Board Members.
A new feature is here adopted, to
wit: Bach board member will receive
$5 for attending the monthly meeting
of his board. This la an effort to ap
ply the wisdom of bank* and other
large business corporations in secur
ing full attendance of board mem
bers If every board member is pres
ent at the regular monthly meeting of
hi* board, good work is certain to be
done.
Sinking Fund Commiaaion.
The Sinking Fund Commission i*
continued ns at present.
Waterworks Not Salable.
This charter provides that our
waterworks shall never he sold, trans.
ferred, leased or in any way aliened
or Incumbered, and further provides
that any action that would look to any
sale, transfer, ease or Incumbrance
shall be absolutely void, and, further,
that any official voting for such sale,
transfer, lease or Incumbrance shall
be subject to Impeachment.
City Purchasing Agent.
This charter authorize*) the Mayor
and General Council, in their discre
tion. to create the position of city
purchasing agent.
Civil Service Retained.
Civil service, as adopted a few
years ago, and which now seems to
he working well, is retained In Its
present form.
Officers Elected by People.
It Is provided that the following of
ficials shall be elected, as at present,
by the people: Mayor, Aldermen,
Councilman, City Clerk. Marshal, Re
corder. City Attorney, Treasurer. Tax
Collector, Comptroller, City Electri
cian and Building Inspector
Representative Government.
This charter retain* the principle of
representative government. The Gen
eral Council will still be made up of
members from the various wards, and
each of the boards will have a mem
ber from each of the wards of the
citv. Thus Is retained to YOTT, Mr.
Voter, the right to confer with, to
suggest, to commend or to complain
to your direct representatives when
ever occasion demands.
Two Separate Proposition*.
Two features of the charter are to
be voted upon separately. One Is the
section reducing the Recorder's au
thority of a fine of $500 and 60 days’
sentence of labor or Imprisonment
(the present law’) to a fine of not
exceeding $200, with a 30-day sen
tence.
The other section is the one pro
viding for initiative, referendum and
recall.
This charter proposes nn Initiative
on the basis of 10 per cent of the
registered voters, a referendum on
the basis of 15 per cent of the regis
tered voters, and a recall on the basis
of 25 per cent of the registered vot
ers, the recall applying not only to
the Mayor, Aldermen, Councllmen
and other officers elected by the peo
ple, but also to all board members
and all heads of departments The
figures given show the proportion of
voters required on petitions calling
elections for the purposes named.
Chance for Fair Trial,
These percentages seem neither too
■mull nor too large, and will give the
cltlxens an opportunity to give these
provisions a fair trial whenever de
sired. Both these provisions, how
ever, are subject to separate vote, and
may be ratified or rejected without
reference to the balance of the char
ter.
The above should give you a clear
and concise idea of the proposed re
vised charter which you are asked to
accept or reject on September 24.
A number of good citizens have
given much of their time, In con
junction with Council members, in
the preparation of this charter. They
have no more interest in its passage
than you should have. They know the
need of a better revised and up-to-
date charter for this city. They sub
mit to you this brief outline, giving
the general changes from the old
charter, so that you can the more in
telligently vote upon It.
If you are interested In doing what
seems best for the city, in giving to
Atlanta a modem and up-to-date
charter, yet preserving to the people
the right to govern themselves, come
out on September 24 and VOTE FOR
THIS (’HARTER
GEORGE HILLYER. Chairman.
A. H. DAVIS, Secretary.
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Ban on Kissing Doomed—Van
Dyke Wants ‘September Morn’
in Bronze to Honor Wooers.
1 N olden days, the moonlight always played a goodly part
In scenery befitting demonstrations of the heart;
Dan Cupid made a throneroom out of every cozy nook,
And lovers came there wooing and defied the world to look;
Hut now, when couples wander out to sit beneath the moon,
They’re apt to be admonished thus: “This ain’t no place to spoon.’
'•HE moonlight hasn’t changed a bit; its beams are still of gold;
And ways of kissing are the same as in the days of old;
The eager Rwain still has to how before his lady’s will,
And even parents’ wishes are respected by them still;
Hut, to kiss or not to kiss, it seems, now hinges on the law
Regardless of the say-so of the lady or her ma.
E
TO ‘TIM’ SULLIVAN
Adjournment Mark of Respect to
Memory of New York Leader
Killed by Train.
WASHINGTON, Sept 13.—An-
nouncement of the tragic fate of
Representative Timothy (Big Tim)
Sullivan was made In the House to
night by Representative Glttins, of
New York, and the House adjourned
as a mark of respect. A committee
was appointed by Speaker Clark to
attend the funeral.
Representative Sullivan had not
taken the oath of office or served In
the present Congress. His salary was
paid to the committee of his estate.
No mileage or secretary hire was al
lowed. A special election to fill the
vacancy will be held under the su
pervision of the State of New’ York.
All Liverpool Honors New York
Mayor's Memory—Remains
in State on Ship.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—News of
“Big Tim’s” death became public
thirteen days after it occurred, when
the former East Side politician was
struck and almost instantly killed by
a train on the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad at Pelham
Parkway on August 31.
When he disappeared from the
home of hi* brother. Patrick H. Sul
livan, in New’ York, it was said that
he was visiting a friend out of the
city. Larry Mulligan, stepbrother of
Sulltvan. Identified his body to-day
A policeman who knew the boa* had
seen the body in the Twenty-sixth
street morgue and notified the family
"Big Tim” was 50 year* old and
left a fortune estimated at about
$2,000,000. About a year ago he be
came mentally unbalanced and claim
ed that he was being persecuted by
member* of his family He had been
under the guard of a private detective
for some time, but managed to escape j
him on the day of the tragedy.
Special Cable to The American.
LIVERPOOL. Sept. 13—With flags
at half-mast the Lusitania sailed for
New York at 5 o’clock this after
noon. Mayor Gaynor’a body lies in
a stateroom amidships, covered with
the Stars and Stripes and a union
jack.
Half an hour before sailing Rufus
Gaynor, the Moyor’s son, stepped
aboard.
“I thank all classes of Liverpool
people for their kindness and cour
tesy,” he said. "They have done
magnificent honor to my father’s body.
Our family will never forget it.”
The principal stores in Liverpool
put up their shutters this moring as
a mark of respect to the dead Mayor.
Every flag in the city was flown at
half-mast.
Before Rufus Gaynor sailed the
American Consul made an official call
at the Adelphl Hotel and conveyed
tc him the assurance of sympathy
from Liverpool’s American colony.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.—The va
cancy at the head of the Gaynor
ticket will not be filled. Representa
tives of 63 of the 64 Gaynor organi
zations are to meet on Monday to de
clare In favor of John Purroy Mitch
ell, the fusion candidate for Mayor.
Brandishing a razor, Ernest Thom
as, a negro prisoner, attacked Police
Officer J. H. Hooten while the two
were riding in a patrol wagon to the
police station Saturday night. Only
the quick interference of Horace Tan
ner. another negro prisoner in the
w’agon, prevented serious injury td
the officer.
Tanner was released as a reward
for his work. Both negroes had been
arrested for disorderly conduct.
ATLANTA MAN WEDS.
BIRMINGHAM. Sept. 13—G. H.
Akers, of Atlanta, and Miss Amy S. '
Underwood were married here this
afternoon by Judge H R Abernethy. >
The couple returned to Atlanta to
live.
Preparatory School for Higher Education of Girls
164 Ponce DeLeon Ace.
Primary Intermediate. College Preparatory. Music Art, Elocution.
Mrs. C. P. Crawley and Mrs. J. W. Cherry, Principals.
Phone Ivy 7148-J.
SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
SESSION 1S1S-14.
The Southern College of Medicine ar>4 kurgery will begin Ha eee*-
■lon Monday September I l*'.l with a full staff of paid Professor* We have
added a Pharmacy. Poat graduate and literary School to tha MedlcaJ Depart- I
merit thus making th# college cbmple's tn every sens* for the matriculate
In Medicine Vast improvements have been made in the college budding, j
Including the enlargement of the amphitheater. Chemical. Anatomical, Path
ological. Bacteriological and Hletok.gie.il laboratories, with the addftloa of 1
jut new Hospital the student will receive bedside training and have an ep-
portunity of studying different cases In their several ehaaes
POST QRADUAT1 SCHOOL COUAbl
Our Poet-Graduate School Course t sti weeks) Is for the bwey praetl-
tloner who wishes to porfect h.meelf In certain line# of work
PHARMACY flCNOOL.
The Pharmacy School consists of two sessions, of six month# each, a art
will continue throughout the year the «ame as the Poet-Graduate School
For catalogue an4 Information app v to WM BERNARD LINOO, M. D..
Dean 52 54 McDaniel street. Atlanta Ga
ATLANTA COLLEGE OF FBARMACY
Twenty-two years of remarkably sue oeasful work Greater damans for our
R raduate* than we can supply Be attendance south #f Philadelphia
egirs October 4th Address
GEORGS F, faynb, PH. a, PrM.dint, 2SS Courtiand *«., Ati.«u, «W|.a.
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J. 1. McCammon as he appear
ed on Peachtree street in pair
of slit trousers.
SLEUTHS HIT CRUELTIES TO
A 'ipnvass of the Police Commis
sion Saturday Indicates that friends
of Cupid will win In their fight
against the police ban on spooning
and kissing.
The patrons of the little God of
Love not only will be given the lib
erty of the moonlit parks and the
deep shadow* around Georgia’s State
Capitol building, but Alderman A. H.
VanDyke would erect a monument to
them in the little park that adjoins
the City Hall. He would have it a
fountain with a bronze figure of
Chabas’ "September Morn” in the
center.
Alderman VanDyke’s position is
extreme, of course, but Mayor James
G. Woodward. Carlos H. Mason,
chairman of the Police Commission,
a majority of both the Police Com
mission and the City Council are no
less eager to give lover* all the lib
erty possible w’ithin the limits of de
cency. There is not one of them but
who declares that sitting on a park
bench or the Capitol steps and per
haps taking an occasional kiss 19 en
tirely within the rights of every
young man and young woman.
Spooning Beoomos Big Issue.
Since tw’o plainclothes officers ar
rested two couples on the Capitol
grounds for spooning the right of
people to yield to the lure of moonlight
nights and Cupid has been the one
issue in Atlanta politics. It has
eclipsed the sordid contests for the
adoption of a new cnarter and the
election of a new Council.
Officials have expressed their views
in most positive terms. Eminent
Judges have expatiated upon it. Park
officials have announced that there
were no such rigid restrictions over
their domains, and the custodian of
the Capitol grounds has declared that
he would protect the lovers.
In response to the outcry the Po
lice Commission has called a special
meeting to consider the whole matter
for Wednesday night. It promises to
be the most largely attended meeting
of that body ever held.
Three Fear Entering Wedge.
Only three members of the com
mission have allowed their positions
to remain*doubtful. They are B. Lee
Smith, W. A. Vernoy and J. N. Mc-
Eachern. So intense are they In their
support of Police Chief Beavers’ strict
law enforcement policy that they fear
the granting of what have been
termed the natural liberties of tha
Indian summer might be an entering
wedge to crush Chief Beavers. Bo
they have remained silent, except in
the executive session of the Police
Commission.
Eloquent pleas from Carlos Mason
and Robert Clark, the bachelor mem
bers of the commission, are expected-
to restrain their opposition. Anyway,
nine of the twelve members are open
ly In favor of restraining the over-
zealous police officers.
Chairman Mason tersely expressed
what is regarded as the attitude of
these nine.
Won’t Allow Persecution.
"The uniformed policemen are not
the ones who have caused this trou
ble,” he said. “It is the work of the
‘vice squad’ and the plainclothes offi
cers. If the stories of the young cou
ples arrested prove to be true, the
officers have gone too far, and the
commission will act accordingly.
"The situation has brought up the
issue of individual rights. Whatever
action is taken on these specific cases
the Police Commission will not toler
ate persecution of anyone. I am con
fident that action will be taken to
insunt the people of Atlanta that the
police will not be permitted to molest
innocent recreoUon.”
ATTACKS POLICEMAN WITH
RAZOR IN PATROL WAGON
BtfFLES THEM
Scene of Activity in Search for
$71,000 Shifts to Principal
Transfer Points.
SAVANNAH. Sept. 13.—The scene
of the sensational $71,000 express rob
bery has shifted from Savannah to
Florence, S. C., Richmond, Washing
ton, Jersey City and New’ York, the
principal transfer points
The clew’ that the detectives
brought General Manager Heckaday
yesterday that led him to state that
an arrest would be made in a few’
hours turned out to be a wild-goose
chase. The officials frankly admit
they are up against the most baffling
robbery in the history of the com
pany.
The payment check system that has
made It Impossible for any one em
ployee to make away with the com
pany’s funds and cover up his tracks
has failed, according to Special Agent
Weaver. The arrest will probably be
made, if it is ever jnade, at the other
end of the line.
When the strong box supposed to
have contained the large shipment of
money arrived at Savannah the agent
here opened the box in the presence
of two employees. The seals were
intact; there were waybills for $250
and envelopes containing that
amount. There was some litter in
the bottom of the trunk afterward
found to be the torn envelopes of the
larger shipment.
The fact that the money had been
stolen or was missing did not become
known until the banks here called
upon the agent for the money and the
search w’as started. The waybills
covering the large shipment of money
were made out in New York. The
messenger w’ho brought the trunk
from Jersey City to Florence never
saw the waybills. This makes it al
most an impossibility for him or any
messenger who handled the trunk
after he did to know anything of the
robbery.
Shake-up in Police Department
of Zone Predicted as Result
of Accusations.
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 13.—News
has been received here in letters from
Colon, Panama, that revelations re
cently made of the treatment of pris
oners in the Canal Zone penitentiary
at Gamboa have created a sensation
among Americans there.
Considerable criticism of the po
lice department is heard, not only in
regard to the penitentiary but in con
nection with other matters.
The present indications are that a
big shake-up soon will take place.
It w r as claimed that there were 72
men, whites and blacks, crowded into
each of two cells 30 feet square.
There was one drinking cup in a cell
for the 72 men, It was charged.
The prisoners work upon the roads,
under the fierce rays of the tropical
sun, and return at night covered with
dust and perspiration. It was charged
that notwithstanding these conditions
they were allowed a bath but tw’ice a
week, on Sundays and Wednesdays.
It was claimed that there was no
sewage facilities in the building. It
was charged, furthermore, that some
of the prisoners were subjected to tor
tures w’orthy of the medieval ages.
A door was placed across one corner
of a room, leaving barely sufficient
space in which to place a man. In
the tropics any closed room soon be
comes stifling, and this manner >f
punishment is said to have been al
most unbearable.
Rings were used to hold the arms
of prisoners above their heads for
hours at a time when the wardt n
thought that the punishment was not
sufficient, it is said.
CONFESSES MAIL THEFTS.
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 18 — Edw’ard
Beverly, driver of a transfer mail
wagon, confessed here to-day to rob
bing a parcel post pouch of valuable
packages.
Slit Trousers Give
Peachtree St. Shock
Being possessed of as neat an ankle
as you would care to look at, J. I.
McCammons, a Peachtree street mer
chant, objects not a bit to display
the charms of the latest design in
trousers that fashion has decreed.
And so he donned the slit trousers,
blood brother of the slit skirt of
feminine styles.
The effect as revealed on Peach
tree Saturday was startling, to say
the least. The outer seam of the
trousers, which were of a vivid check
pattern, was slit six inches or more
from the bottom. The slit w’as flank
ed by rows of buttons. And through
the gaping opening gleamed Mr. Mc
Cammons’ red silk socks.
All Peachtree looked and wondered,
in some degree, but the excitement
created was rather short-lived, as the
daring wearer of the slit trousers es
caped within doors before the verdict
of the street assumed a material form.
FEEL HEiDICm DEI, BUS?
CLEfH IBB LIVER! i DM 1 BBS
Sick headaches! Always trace them
to lazy liver; delayed, fermenting
food in the bowels or a sick stom
ach. Poisonous, constipated matter,
gases and bile generated in the bow
els, instead of being carried out of
the system, is reabsorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate *brain tissue, it causes con
gestion and that dull, sickening head
ache. Caecarets will remove the
cause by stimulating the liver, mak
ing the bile and constipation poison
move on and out of the bowels. One
taken to-night straightens you out
morning—a 10-cent box will keep
your head clear, stomach sweet, liver
and bowels regular, and make you
feel bright and cheerful for month-#.
Children need Cascarets, too.
CANDY CATHARTIC
Is possible in many instances; in fact, in the majority of dental
operations pain is both unnecessary and cruel. We make no
false claims; we encourage no false hopes. But in all such
cases where it is possible to avoid it—and they are in the large
majority—we give our patients absolute assurance that they
need fear no pain, for we use the best and most effective meth
ods to prevent it.
DR. E. G. GRIFFIN’S
Gate City Dental Rooms
24 1-2 Whitehall St. Over Brown & Allen’s
Telephone M. 1708. Hours: 8-6; Sundays 9-1
OUR PRICES WITH GUARANTEE:
Tel sf "eeth
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Hours 8 to 6
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Several shades of Brown-—Blue Gray—Graphite
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