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VOL. 1. NO. 157.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906.
PRICE:
MARIETTA’S PLUCKY FIGHT
FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
SEEMS ASSURED OF SUCCESS
Vigorous Campaign
Comes to Close
Saturday.
much is involved
for growing city
Renew of Agitation and
Expressions From Promt
nent Citizens.—Mass
' Meeting.
Merietta’s pluoky fight for muniei
p ,l ownership eome» to a eloee Satur
ity, when an election will be held to
determine whether the Cobb county
capital shall Issue bonds authoriied by
the list legislature to purohase or build
a waterworks plant and establish
thorough system of sewerage..
There are Involved In the outcome
the vital questions of sanitation and
domestlo economy.
The health of every man, woman
and child In Marietta la Inseparably
connected with the proposition to in
stsll a general sewehage system. With
out s free and Inexpensive water sup
ply, effective sewerage Is Impossible.
To hsve this, the city must own Its
watar plant. In addition, the pocket'
book of every head of a family is af'
feeted 'by the outcome.
The spirit of the pioneers has been
rife during the remarkable campaign
just closed with a mass meeting on
Thursday nig'.L
The fight has bsen watched with In
tsrest by. Atlantans because the issue
Involved is one which concerns this
city In a broader scope.
Many of Atlanta’s business men have
homes in Marietta and this fact has
added te the local Interest in the out'
come of the campaign.
There is every indication that the
citizens of Marietta under the leader
ship of Mayor Dobbs and J. W. Legg
will be entirely successful at the polls.
Bpertal In Tlir Georgian.
Marietta. Ga., Oct. 2d.—Tomorrow
an election will be held in Marietta to
determine whether or not the city shall
float bonds amounting to 2X10,000 for
the purpose of building waterworks and
putting In a system of sewerage,
the proposition carries the bonds are
to be of 21,000 denomination, bearing
6 per cent Interest, and to mature In
1937. The mayor and members of the
council, together with the majority of
the wealthiest and moat prominent peo
pie of the city, are leading tha light,
and It Is believed that tha bond propo'
eltlon will carry.
At present Marietta Is supplied by
water from the waterworks of a pri
vste corporation, the Georgia ManU'
lecturing and Public Service Company,
but the city has never had any sewer
age, except a faw private disconnected
lines, put In ■ by Individuals for their
otvn convenience
The people of Marietta have long
felt that a system of sewerage for the
city was an absolute necessity, and
the question haa been discussed and
egltated at various times for several
years. The last ceneue showed Mariet
ta to have a population of about S,00G
people, and as the town haa been
growing and Increasing In population
very rapidly since then and has also
extended Ita corporate limits, taking In
a much larger area than heretofore, It
Is believed that there are now between
>.non and 10,000 people within the limits
Of the city,
SERIOUS SITUATION.
In addition to having this great num
ber of people huddled together with no
facilities for sewerage, Is the further
fact that the private sewers In use
empty Indiscriminately In and about
the city m »uch a way aa to be a
standing menace to the health of the
\vith this situation staring the peo
ple in the face, about three months ago
(Continued on Page Fifteen.)
MA YOR DOBBS IS A CIIVE
IN MA RIE HA'S BIG FIG HI
Pledged Himself to,
Municipal Own
ership.
Special to The Georgian.
Marietta, Ga. Oct. 20.—Mayor E. P.
Dobbs, with several prominent citizens,
Is leading the light for municipal own
ership In Marietta. He Is deeply In
terested In the outcome of the election
to be held tomorrow to decide whether
the city shall Issue the necessary bonds
to enable It to own and operate its
waterworks and build an adequate sys
tem of sewers. Speaking to a repre
sentative of The Georgian. Mayor
Dobbs said:
“The city of Marietta Is sorely In
need of waterworks and sewerage, and
I pledged myself during my race for
mayor to give the city these much-
needed Improvements If It was possi
ble to do so. Since my election I have
agitated the matter and used every
means at my command as chief execu
tive of the city to bring about this
election. I also pledged myself during
the campaign to the municipal owner
ship of these public utilities, and I still
think that this Is the proper course for
HON. E. P. DOBBS,
Mayor of Marietta.
the city to pursue In the matter. How
ever. the people will now hnve an op
portunity to settle these matters at the
ballot box In the way that they think
best, and whatever they do will be sat
isfactory to me.”
‘WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT,’’
SAID MRS, CRUTCHFIELD
ALL II SERVE
IERMJN MIL
Toledo Dealers Lose
in Fight in the
Courts. .
J. W. LEGG HAS BEEN POWER
IN CAMPAIGN NOW CLOSING
Health of All Marietta
Is at Stake, He
Declares.
Special to The Georglsn.
Marietta, Ga., Oct. 20.—J, W. Legg,
well-known druggist and on* of the
most active and wide-awake of Ma
rietta's citizens, Is chairman of the
working committee In the fight for mu
nicipal ownership and the establish
ment of a sewerage system.- As such
he has headed the people's cause In the
campaign, which comes to an end to
morrow.
in declaring his position on the mat
ters at Issue In the election, Mr. Legg
said:
“I am for a Greater Marietta and ex
pect to put inyaelf on record that way
by voting for bonds to build a system
of waterworks and sewers for the city.
The health of every man, woman and
child In Marietta Is at stake. The
town can not grow as It should unless
we have municipal ownership of pub
lic utilities. We can not afford to own
the sewers while a private corporation
controls our water supply. Men of
capital In search of healthy locations
are, continually coming to our town,
‘ ' they pass on when they learn the
facts. Our city must have water-
Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 20.—The Ice men
must serve their sentences In tho work
house.
The circuit court has decided that
there was no error before Judge R. R.
Klnkade, In common pleas, and that
the pleas of guilty were not obtained
from the Ice men by promises
leniency.
The following defendants In the cele
brated "Ice truef’elltlgatlon must don
the gray of the workhouse prisoner:
Roland A. Beard, vice-president end
general manager of the Hygenla Ice
Company; Joseph A. Miller, general
manager of the Toledo Ice and Coal
Company; Reuben C. Lemmon, secre
tary of the Hygenla Ice Company.
Each of the ice men will hnve to
serve six months In the workhouse and
pay a line of 22,600. They were origi
nally sentenced to serve one year and
pay a line of 26.000, but this was mod
ified by Judge Klnkade on application
of the Ice trust lawyer.
Sheriff Chambers will take Miller,
Beard and Lemmon into custody as
soon as possible and turn them over
to the workhouse authorities.
RECKLESS AS II
R, D.
J. W. LEGG.
Popular druggist and chairman of
working committee, who. Is lead
ing the fight for municipal owner
ship of waterworks and
In Marietta.
sewerage
works and sewerage, and we can not.
afford to let this opportunity pass.”
MASS MEETING DECLARES
FOR CITY WATERWORKS
At a mass meeting In Marietta
Thursday night, nearly two hundred
citizens declared strongly In favor of
establishing a municipal waterworks
plant. Mayor Richard Dobbs was one
of the leaders In the fight for relief
from the corporation plant.
Not half a dozen men at the meet
ing were opposed to the plan,” said
one Marietta citizen who Is In Atlanta
today. The only people who opposed
It were the officers of the Marietta
Public Service Company, owners of the
waterworks and electric light plant.
That company owns not only the
waterworks and electric plant but a
paper mill which has a number of
employees. The company has about
100 employees and the total registered
vote In Marietta Is only 682. With the
relatives of the employees opposed to
a change and with this solid vote
against It. It will be hard for the ad
vocates of municipal ownership to car
ry the two-thirds vote necessary to
pass the bond election. But I believe
we shell do It.
M. M. Session, president of the com
pany, and D. W. Blair, tha attorney
j IF YOU ARE with the people of At
lanta in their struggle for Cheaper Light
and Power—§ I G N !
for the same corporation, appeared and
opposed the municipal ownership t ‘
In a strenuous way. But Mr. Blal
the same man who drafted the bill In
1005 and Introduced It In the legisla
ture, providing that Marietta purchase
the old waterworks plant. Mr. Ses
sions headed a delegation to aid the
measure. At that time the company
was anxious to durtrp the old plant on
the city but when things took a new
turn not so profitable to them they
turned and opposed municipal owner
ship.
“The water company Is now building
a new plant which, It Is promised, will
give a better and purer water supply.
The present plant draws Its supply
from Rottenwood creek and Is con
taminated from the city. It has been
untlltered for years and Is not fit to
drink. If the city builds Its new plant
It will choose nn available pure water
source. It will certainly not buy the
old plant now in use.”
210,000 8ehool Building.
Adrian, On., Oct. 26.—The’eltlsen* of
Adrian are delighted over the prospects
of having a beautiful, up-to-date, brick
school building ready for use In the
near future, tl. L. Adams, contractor,
from Mt. Vernon, Go., has the work In
hand. The building will cost, when
completed, about 210,000.
Fifteen years ago Crutchfield was an
engineer on the old Richmond and Dan.
vllle railroad, now a part of the South
ern system. His uncle, Captain Green,
was general manager of the Air Line
at that, time, and after the, consollda.
lion was made general superintendent
of that division. Another uncle, Joseph
Green, was master mechanic at Colum
bia,'S. C.
Crutchfield acquired a reputation for
carelessness and risky running on the
road. An Incident Is related by an old
engineer who pulled a wrecking crew
to clear up one of Crutchfield's wrecks
near Central, 8. C., about twelve years
| ago.
“From what we heard,” said the old
engineer, "Crutchfield let his engine,
pulling a work train, get away from
him a few miles sbulh of. Central. He
ran down on a bridge where a gang
was doing some repairing. The rails
had been lifted and the engine barely
hung to the edge of the trestle.
"I do not remember that anyone was
killed, but some of the men were In
jured. Crutchfield Jumped down a fill
about 100.feet deep and It was a won
der It didn't kill him. He has had a
number of miraculous escapes, and
usually In- wrecks caused by his care
lessness. He was let off for the Cen
tral wreck, but was put back by hla
uncle's Influence.”
Spanish Bark Not Arrived,
Special to Tbc Georgian.
Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 26.—The Span
ish bark, K. G. Oliver, which left Ha
vana on October 2 bound for Bruns
wick, has not been heard of since she
left that port. It Is feared she was
caught In the hurricane and wrecked.
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O O
O MERCURY DOE8 TURN AS O
O LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTIST.'O
O . O
O Did you think twice before O
O crawling from under the cover O
O this morning? O
O Rather sudden, wasn't It? O
O Such weather os this is the kind O
O the poet sings about and the over- O
O coat dealer welcomes. Fine for O
O golf and football. O
O Forecast: O
O Fair and warmer tonight: Satur- O
O day Increasing cloudiness. O
O The temperatures Friday: O
O O
O 7 o'clock a. m 46 degrees.
O 8 o'clock a. m 55 degrees.
O 8 o'clock a. m.. .. ..60 degrees.
O 10 o'clock a. in.. .. — .64 degrees.
O 11 o'clock a. >67 degrees.
O 12 o'clock noon.. .. ..68 degrees.
O 1 o'clock p. m 68 degrees.
2 o'clock p. m 71 degrees.
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MRS. SALLIE CRUTCHFIELD.
Who Was Shot by Her Husband Thursday Evening.
Tammany Men Put Up
Money,Taking Hearst
End.
Shot By Her Husband, She Lays in Critical
Condition—J. H. Crutchfield Held at
Police Station—In Court Before.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE.
APPLICATION BLANK.
ER8Hlp r *LiEA<3UE"* , * , *' C **' 0n ^° r ' n **'* MUNICIPAL OWN-
I favor tho ownerehip of a gat and eleetrie lighting plant by the city
® f Atlanta.
Remarks:
Dale
Occupation Address
■Vote.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
EX-GEORGIA MAN MAY
SUCCEED EL1HU ROOT
It Is Rumored Thar Oscar Strauss Is Likely
to Be Secretary of State If Change
Is Made.
Washington, Oct. 26.—There Is gos
sip here today Indicating that Oecar
S. Straus, who Is shortly to become
secretary of commerce and labor, may
eventually succeed Eilhu Root as sec
retary of state. It would not be entire
ly unexpected should Mr. Root find It
convenient to leave the state depart
ment within a comparatively short
time.
The training of Mr. Straus would, It
thought, admirably fit him for tha
It Is recalled that President McKinley
at one time had him under considera
tion for the post.
Mr. Straus Is a Georgia man. He
was born and reared In Talbotton. His
father was L. Straus. Mr. Straus re
sided In Columbus, Ga., for some years
before he went to New York. -His two
brothers are Isador and Nathan, both
well known In financial circles.
Dr. James N. Ellis announced
Friday afternoon that the condition
of Mrs. Crutchfield is eritieal. He
said she had gotten over the shook
and appeared dome better than on
Thursday night. Mre. Crutchfield
wee shot in both legs, between ths
ankle and knee, and ths right lag
may have tp be amputated. Thors
is one wound on tho head.
On returning from the matinee and
while In.the act of entering her home
at 300 South Pryor street, corner of
Atlco street, Thursday evening about 6
o'clock, Mrs. J. H. Crutchfield, a strik
ingly pretty young woman, was shot
with a double-barreled shotgun and
then severely Injured In the head with
the butt end of the weapon In the
hands of her husband, a well-known
machinery broker with offices In the
People’s building, at Marietta and For:
syth streets, from whom she Is now
seeking a divorce.
The shot penetrated Mrs. Crutch
field's legs about the knees, badly lac
erating the llesh. The blows on the
head produced ugly wounds.
Mrs. Crutchfield was later removed
to the Grady Hospital, where she Is
being treated by Dr. James N. Ellis.
It Is announced Friday that her condi
tion Is serious, but It Is not believed
the wounds will result fatally.
Crutchfield was arrested by Police
man Iitinan several blocks from the
scene of the shooting, while he was
holding back a crowd of men and boys,
who sought to effect his capture.
Crutchfield advised that no one bother
him, threatening to shoot the first man
who laid hands on him.
At Police Station.
He was taken to the police station
by Officer Pitman, where a charge of
assault with Intint to murder was
docketed against him. The time for
the preliminary hearing has not yet
been determined.
The stories of Crutchfield and his
wife In regard to the shooting vary
widely. Mr*. Crutchfield declares her
husband, from whom she has been sep
arated for the past three months, at
tacked her In the dark without provo
cation. shooting her with his shotgun
and then brutally beating her In the
head with the butt end of the gun.
The husband, on the other hand, pro
tests that the w hole affair was an acci
dent. He asserts he had. no Idea of
harming hla wife, but had gone to her
house armed and with the Intention of
"getting” another man, who. he de
clares, has been trying to ruin his
home and caused his wife to leave him.
He says that when hla wife saw the
gun she tried to take It away from him,
and caused It to, be accidentally die*
charged. He states that after she was
shot she continued to scuffle with him
and In this way received the wounds on
■lie head.
Mr. and Mra. Crutchfield have two
children, both boys, Paul and Ludette,
aged 12 and 8, respectively, and Paul
was the first person to reach his
wounded mother. He corroborates the
story of his mother, asserting that his
father beat her In the head with the
gun. In nn effort to aave the prostrate
woman little Paul attacked his father,
seising him about the neck and trying
to prevent him from again lining the
gun.
Mrs. Crutchfield says she In satis
fied the Interference of her son saved
her life.
Since the separation of Mrs. Crutch
field from her husband she has been
conducting a boarding house at 200
South Pryor street and It wan on the
front porch Af this house that the
shooting occurred. Mrs. Crutchfield
alighted from a trolley car directly In
front of her home a ml had Just ste
onto the porch when hailed by
husband, who ia said to have been
waiting In the dark armed with the
shotgun.
Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield hsve been
married for fourteen years, and, ac.
cording to statements of both husband
and wife, their married life lias been
•tormy. The suit for divorce, now
pending In the superior court, Is the
third one filed by Mi*. Crutchfield. The
other two suits, she explains, were
withdrawn by her on promises of
Crutchfield to ctase his alleged mis
treatment.
Mra. Crutchfield, asserts her husband
has abused her almost ever since their
marriage and gives this as the reason
she left him. Crutchfield makes the
counter charge that another man,
whose name he declines to divulge, but
who; be says, resides below Atlanta on-
the Atlanta and West Point railroad,
persuaded his wife to leave him and
hss caused the trouble between them.
MRS. CRUTCHFIELD'S OWN
STORY OF 8HOOTING.
When seen by a Georgian reporter
Continued .r ,'sqs Three.
New York, Oct. 20.—Betting on the
election has begun In real earnest on
the curb and the odds on Hughes forced
down from 8 1-2 and 3 to 1, to 2 to 1.
The latter is the prevailing flguro to
day.
More than 2100,000 Hearst money
was bet to 2200,000 of Hughes money.
The Hearst money came to light in
big rolls at noon In the hands of bro
kers who,are known to handle accounts
for Tammany men. They asked tor 3
to 1, but were unable to get It. Re
publican offers of 2 to 1. were refused
for about half on hour, and then Hearst
bettors began to nab everything In
sight.
Two freakish offers to bet on the re
sult of the election were announced to
day by G. B. Buchanan, a member of
the stock exchange, who says he has a
very large sum of money on commis
sion to be on the election.
One of the propositions Is 22,500 to
27,600 that Mr. Hughes will win by
100,000 plurality. No one has taken
this bet. The other la 21,000 to 116,000
that Mr. Hearst will win by 100,000 plu
rality.
This has not been taken.
fugm¥mfices
LIFE TO RESCUE AGED
COUPLE FROM DEATH
Special to Tho Georgian.
Spartanburg, S. C. f Oct. 28.—XtWtoo Til-
I lotaon. In the employ of the Southern rail*
way for twenty-two yeara as flagman, wn«
I htruck by a Southern paasengor trnlu
TMNnr nt noon at the Mngnoltn street
| rroMlng, and received Injuries which re*
suited In bis death this morning.
lie met with the accident while Having
nn aged inn n and woman from being
erntbed by the Incoming train. The couple
were In n baggy and did not heed tin*
warning of Mr. TllloUon, but nttempte«!
to drive across the track In front of the
train.
Mr. Tlllotaon caught hold of the reins
and dragged the mule, buggy and occu
pants across ths track. Jn saving the
life of the old man and woman. Flagman
Tlllotaon was struck by tho engine.
FEARING THAT DECREE
T
London, Oct. 26.—It Is learned today
that ths Duchess of Marlborough, who
was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Is to forsake
her plan for a divorce from her hus
band.
This change In position with refer
ence to the duke Is said to have been
brought about by the personal plead
ings of her friends and those of her
husband, whom she greatly respects,
who told the duchees that It would
mean the ruin of his political career If
she applied for a divorce. No place In
the cabinet would then be open to him.
The duke and duchess have agreed
OOERUN Losmooo
IN II MIDNIGHT FIRE
Special to The Georgian.
Doerun, Ga. Oct. 26.—Wednesday
night about 12 o'clock fire was dis
covered In the two-story wood build
ing on East Broad street, occupied by
J. B. Powers & Company, general mer
chandise, and the Masons and other
secret orders.
The building, with Its contents, was
consumed, also the etore of W. T. Fu»-
sell & Sons; the barber shop of W. P.
McGraw and the feed and livery stable
of J. D. Harrell.
The loss will be about 210,000, part
ly covered by Insurance. The build
ings will be replaced with substantial
brick.
STRANGELY MISSING
Cleveland, Ohio. Oct. 26.—The police
are searching diligently for Alexander
Berkman, the well-known anarchist,
who served a term In a Pennsylvania
prison for hi* attempt to kill Henry
C. Frick. Berkman delivered a speech
here Tuesday night and was to appear
last night, but failed to show up. The
Cleveland anarchists claim that he ha*
been spirited away by detecllvoa in
tbc employ of U. C. Frick.
