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VOL. X. NO. 263.
NEW SCHOOL
BUILDINGS
SGANOhL
CHOWS
o’onditions Worse Than Sus
pected Are Revealed by New
and Startling Details.
COST OF REPAIR WILL BE
GREAT. SAYS CONTRACTOR
Ordinance Committee Which
Cut Down Estimates for New
Structures Are Blamed.
New anti startling revelations of ren
ditions in the city's n»w bond issue
schools were made today at a joint
meeting of the hoard of education and
the bond commission. They came after
Mayor Winn. James L. Key. member
of the board of education, and W. H.
Terrell member of the bond commis
sion. had urged that the imperfect con
struction was a mere matter of detail,
that there was no school scandal and
that the whole matter should have
been taken up in a quiet, business-like
way instead of officials giving out dis
turbing statements to the press.
"The walls of the Hill street and the
Ashby street schools leak." declared
Contractor George S. A. Clayton, who
built them. "They leak because the
officials would not provide the money
for ferrying the walls. It will cost
thousands of dollars to repair them.
To have built the sort of schools the
ofty wanted wrffild have cost sloo.o**o
each. Instead of about $50.0.»0 each."
"NONE OF SCHOOLS
UP TO REQUIREMENTS."
Aiderman John S. Candler said that
none of th* schools answered require
ments.
"Ac chairman of one of the commit
tees drafting the bond ordinance. T re
membet that sSfit.oon was provided for
these buildings." he said. “But be
fore the ordinance got through council
this amount was cut to $600,000. So
the schools are short just that much in
efficiency.”
Pan W. Green, member of the board
of education, said that the board had
twice notified F. A. Quillian, chairman
of the bond commission, of these leaks/
and of the crumbling of the insides of
these buildings. He said that this was
the third time, and that, the leaks and
the crumblings still continued.
“In reply to criticisms that the mat
ter was taken up with the papers in a
sensational way, I want to say that 1
intend to continue kicking until these
schools are made right." said W. O.
Stamps.
"I agree with President W. R. Da -
ley of the board of education that un
der the existing conditions these
schools have cost its thousands of dol
lars more than they should have cost.
We have not got what we paid for."
James L. Key wanted the whole mat
ter referred to Ed R. Hayes, his assist
ant and W. D. E. Winburn, engineer
for the schools, and asked that a de
tailed report be made of the condition
of all the bond schools, it was adopted.
When this report is obtained the offi
cials expressed confidence the contrac
tors and architects will make the nec
essary repairs.
LARGE PART OF ASHBY
STREET SCHOOL VACANT.
Aiderman James E. Warren, declar- i
Ing he had been criticised for saying '
that about $50,000 had -been uselessly i
spent on the Ashby Street school, said: )
•J was startled by the report of the i
principal that only *6 pupils now at - I
tended this school, while it has a ca- ,
parity of Hu. When that report was
made practically all the members of
th» board of education expressed sur
prise. Os I's eight rooms three are va-
'sald and -till think that tin money
spent for this school was uselessly
spent. And what is more, it won't be
more than half filled within ten years.
All of its pupils could be put in either
the Walker street or th" Davis street
schools. ’he two nearest, without
nowding either."
\t R. Daley, ptesident of 'lie board
of education, replied that this schoo 1
was built for the future as well as th ■
present and that more pupils would b< 1
provided for It when th- city was r< - ;
districted for next \ car’s (erm
PLAN MORE POWER
FOR SCHOOL BOARD.
\ number of officials fold of '•* hooi
that they had visited. W hile Walk* •
eiiPPt. Ashby and Hill siro<- !
schools «er< i ♦•ported ih»-
leaks and falling plastering wpi> re- j
poi ted in a number of nt '<•■» *•
Members of th* boa d of <!ination
told how this condition had gradumlv |
been grow Ins uois* for months and i
that most of the appeals to the at' hi- j
te« iv and • optrH! t”i? that th* work I
not durp p 'periy uer** in vain.
The Atlanta Georgian
John D/s Pastor Gives
Wives lODon’ts: ‘Wed
For Love, Not a Living*
Woman In Hobble Skirt, Husband
Patched Trousers. Poor Pair,
He Declares.
CLEVELAND, OHIO. June J.—"A
xxifp's decalogue.” all don’is. has been
issued bv Rev. XV. W. Bustard, pastor
of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church;
which John D. Rockefeller attends.
Here are the ten:
| 1. Don’t marry a man for a living,
j bill for love.
2. Don’t overdress.
3. A wife with a hobble skirt and
husband with patched trousers make a
poor pair
4. Don’t gn around lecturing other
women nn how to bring up their chil
dren.
a. Don’t tell your troubles to yoyt
neighbors.
G. Don’t nag.
7. Don’t try to get more out of a mir
ror than you put into it.
R. Don’t make gamblers and drunk
ards out of your children by running
whjst parties for prizes and serving
punch with a •’stick” in it.
9. Don’t forget to tell the truth
10. Don’t forget that home is a worn
an’s kingdom.
JUDGE BROYLES URGES
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
IN PLACE OF NOOSE
An electric chair for Fulton county—
to supplant the gallows with its hang
man's noose, the fatal seven-foot drop,
and other grewsome features—is being
strongly advocated by Recorder
Broyles, who is a student of the best,
methods of dealing with crime and
criminals.
Judge Broyles says Atlanta should be
up to date in the execution of slayers,
as well as in other respects. This is
one thing, he says, in which Atlanta
and Fulton county are lagging behind.
"The chair is up to date and more
humane than hanging." he says. "A
chair could be installed easily In the
Tower, In the death chamber now oc
cupied by the gallows, and would serve
to do away with a lot of the grewsome
details connected with an execution on
tlie gallows. The gallows is a crude,
bunglesome affair and is beyond Its
time."
LUPO THE WOLF SAID
TO BE HATCHING PLOT
HERE TO KILL SLEUTH
Rumors have been going the rounds
In New York to the effect that Ignazio
Lupo, known as Lupo the Wolf, who Is
now in the Atlanta Federal prison, has
hatched up with several of his con
federates in the prison a plot to kill
William J. Flynn, of the New York de
tective force.
It is said thal news of the plot reach
ed New York through friends of Lupo,
who visited him in Atlanta. Neither
Warden Moyer nor any of the police
officials place any credence In the ru
mors. It is thought that they may have
arisen from the fact that Lupo made
several efforts to have his ca«e re
heard. and for that purpose sen* for
several friends who came Io Atlanta to
see him.
Captain Flynn told New York re
porters that he had no doubt Lupo
would bring about his death if he could.
CONDUCTOR SUDDERTH
DIES FROM INJURIES
Th» body of H. P. Sudderth. the
Southern railway conductor who died
in Atlanta of injuries received at Eas
ley. S. C.. were carried to Buford. Ga„
foi interment today. following funeral
services at the chapel of Patterson £•
Son.
Mr Sudderth was injured more than
a week ago while leaning from the
side of a freight train, in which position
a rock from a precipice cut him in th“
back. He was rushed to Atlanta and
i di*’d yesterday.
RAIN DUE TO RETURN TO
I ATLANTA BY TOMORROW
Clear skies and about the same tem
perature are forecast for today by the
local weather authorities.
Weather conditions stand unchanged
and more rain is in sight for Atlanta.
It will probably come tomorrow after
noon as local showers, which will not
be as much of a downpour as was the
rain of Sunday afternoon, which fell in
torrents.
T NEW WEEK?
A diant-p t<> make good
or better yourself.
•Jobs! Plenty of them.
Look for them in the
Help Wanted Col
umn of The <leorgian
today and every day.
If vou don't see ex
actly what yon want.
i Iry a Sil nal ion W ant -
ed ,\d yourself.
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result?
A TLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JUNE 3. 1912.
ho®, a
RECONCILED
Iffl WIFE'S
“GRANNY”
Rich Mrs. Lawrence's Apology
Is Published at Her Own
Request.
ADMITS SHE WAS WHOLLY
WRONG IN RECENT SUIT
Pleads She Was Depressed at
Time, and Declares
Owes Money Involved.
NEW YORK. June 3. Complete
reconciliation has been effected be
tween Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, widow
of a ricin patent medicine manufac
turer, and Russell Hopkins, of Atlanta,
who married het granddaughter, and
against whom she recently began suit
to recover part of more than $250,000
he was alleged to have obtained from
her by playing on her affection for Mrs.
Hopkins and little Josephine Lawrence
Hopkins. her great-granddaughter
Mrs. Lawrence has sent the following
letter to Mr. Hopkins:
"My Dear Russell—So many
statements have, been made in the
newspapers concerning our affairs
that I must insist on your publish
ing this letter to correct any harm
J may have unintentionally done
you. 1 deeply regret the suit be
gun against you. and withdraw
every statement contained in the
complaint which reflects on yon in
Admit Charges
Wholly Unfounded.
"The suit was begun at a time
when I was much depressed, and
T realize that my charges against
you were wholly unfounded. The
contracts under which I gave you
the notes were made at my own
request, and every statement ob
tained in them is true and correct,
and the money was and is fully
and properly due to you.
"At my request you willingly
have returned the notes, so as to
readjust the payments to suit my
convenience, but I still owe you
the money, and when you returned
my notes on Saturday last I gave
you a written agreement to pay
you the full amount In certain
specified installments. The state
ment in my complaint that you al
tered the notes without my consent
was a mistake.
"Regretting my hasty action and
trusting that we may all forget the
unfortunate affair, 1 am.
“Lovingly yours,
"JOSEPHINE LA WHENCE."
GOVERNOR TO DECIDE
FUTURE OF TALLULAH
FALLS CASE TUESDAY
Governor Brown has announced that he
will reach final decision in the Tallulah
Balls controversy tprnorrow
The chief executive said today, follow
ing a conference with the attorneys for
the Tallulah Kails Conservation associa
tion that the matter was now closed to
all but state officials. A conference with
the attorney general tomorrow will deter
mine the advisability of the state’s bring
ing suit.
The Tallulah F’alls association was rep
resented bv the following attorneys:
Spencer Atkinson, George Napier. R. C.
Kilis. Judge Fred Foster and Charles G.
Reynolds.
CAPT. POOLE CATCHES TWO
BURGLARS IN ONE HUNT
Police Captain Lamar Poole established
a new record for policing early today
when he arrested one burglar and re
covered booty from another in two dif
ferent places within the space of a few
minutes.
Captain Poole was riding his horse.
High Ball, when he discovered a burglar
emerging from a drug store at Piedmont
avenue and Baker streets. He chased :
the burglar for some distance, and the ;
latter dropped a sack of valuables.
Shortly afterwards, the captain arrested '
Fred Williams, a negro, with four dozen 1
bottles of beer in a sack, which he had
stolen from Louis Silverman s saloon. ‘
at Edge wood avenue and Courtland street. ,
TWO ALABAMA DELEGATES
FLOP TO COL. ROOSEVELT
BIRMINGHAM, AI.A Jun.' 3. The
odora Roosevelt this morning secured
two more umuntested delegates to the
national convention J. B. Daughtry
and B\ion Trammell, the uncontented 1
deleg,,tes from the Third Alabama dis I
trht, although c|i<,s»n at a Taft con
vention, have officially notified National
Committeeman Barker that, yielding t<>
sentiment of !*t> per cent <>f their <-op
.tituern- they will vote for Hoosewlt <
a* tile Clijiag" i onventlou.
Two Dead After Dispute Over Child
KILLS WIFE ANDSELF
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Bare-footed children, nude-eyed with
excitement, are hanging over the fence
and running through the halls of the
little house at 261 East Hunwr street
today, for the quiet boarding house has
become the stage of a tragedy more
intense to the neighborhood than an*
melodrama heralded from the ragged
billboards across the way. In a dark
ened room lies the body of Mrs. Maude
F'owler Storey, shot dead last night by
her husband. Benjamin Howell Storey,
who died, a half hour later a few blocks
clown the .Ktre*is. He had crouched ’m
the curbstone anti swallowed two
ounces of the fie’ y poison. His body
lies at the undertaking establishmenl
of Harry G. Poole, where an inquest is
to be held today.
A quarrel, separation, attempts at
reconciliation, disputes over his child,
whisky and sullen determination to end
everything—these led to Storey’s double
crime. He purchased a bottle of acid,
put his revolver In ills pocket and went
to a soda fountain at East Hunter and
Hill streets last nignt at 9 o'clock. From
the little store he railed up his wife.
«ho conducted a ucarding house a
block down Hunter street. Ho asked
her to meet him al the corner, and
when she refused he threatened to force
his way into the house. Dreading a
turbulent scene, Mrs. Storey went to
her front gate —only a few steps from
the door —to meet him. A boarder, W.
T. Archer, strolled toward the gate just
after Storey had joined his wife and
asked her to a walk Archer said
afterward that' he feared trouble and
desired to protect the woman.
Kilis Wife, Then Foretells Suicide.
“Who is that man, Maude?” asked
Storey. His wife remarked that Archer
was a boarder. She turned to go back
in the house, hut Storey called Iter, and
as she turned ho fired three times. One
of the bullets entered her heart, and the
three were hardly an Inch apart. Archer
caught the wounded woman in his arms
and Storey walked down the street.
Mrs, Storey was carried into the house,
whore site died ten minutes later, in the
arms of Miss Maud*' Kessler, one of
the girl boarders.
Storey went to lhe junk shop where
he was employed by his brother, Les
ter. only a block or two away, and
called up hist brother by telephone. He
told him what had happened and said
his own earthly troubles w ould be over
in a few minutes. Then he walked to
the corrter of Connally street and
Woodward avenue and swallowed the
carbolic acid. Morris Rubin, a small
boy. found his body there a short time
afterward and ran to tell the police,
who were searching for the slayer.
Dispute Over Child Led to Tragedy.
A dispute over the custody r>f baby
Lillian Storey, the seventeen - months
old daughter of the couple, is said to
have been the principal cause of the
tragedy. Stores- had repeatedly de
manded that the baby lie given to him,
declaring th it he did not want his
daughter reared by her mother, while
Mrs Storey clung to the baby. A bat
tle in the courts, a divorce suit and a
struggle for the child was to have been
begun soon, according to neighbors fa
miliar with the troubles of the family.
C. C. Tedder, who is connected with
the law firm of Gober. Jackson &
Smith, says Storey told him last Tues
day that he intended to kill his wife in
order to prevent her from rearing his
baby girl. Storey had previously con
sulted this firm with regard to legal
stops to obtain possession of the child,
but action had been deferred.
Tedder was approached by Storey a*
Decatur and Ivy streets. He says Sto
rey at once began to talk of his wife
and child. According to Tedder, Sto
rey exclaimed:
Threatened to Kill Wife.
"I'm almost crazy. I can't stand this.
I'm going to kill my wife and get my
child.’
And then he added .
"I know they'll get me. but I'd ra'her
b, dead thin have m> bain raised by
het mother."
Tedder say- In advised Storev
.(gains' ari' such tragi, tiicasureH. and
assured Idin le could easily got pos
sessioi. of hl“ little girl through law.
Store* laugher! and Joked before he
lef* Tedder -it?-, and Ids thought of
inurdei i I'lll**l I" haio vanished Ted
det , ~nstrlei <•■! *1" declar:<l ion -»nly an
Cont*fUt' ! d on P»q« Two,
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Al top. the children made or
phans by the Storey double trag
edy, which was caused by a dis
pute over the baby in this pic
ture. Below. Mrs. Maude Fowler
Storey, shot to death by her hus
band. from whom she was sepa
rated.
DEMOCRATS SHE
U.5.J42,8D0,001l
WASHINGTON, June 3. I.egislat
ing the tariff board out of existence,
but continuing the president's efficiency
and economy commission and appro
priating $75,000 for the continuation of
its work, the sundry civil appropriation
bill was reported to the house today by
the appropriations committee.
The committee recommends the eys
tomary $25,000 for the traveling ex
penses of the president.
The effect of the Democratic pruning
knife is shown all through the hill. The
estimates submitted by the executive
for the sundry civil bill expenses for
the government amounted to $142,008.-
030 and supplemental estimates were
submitted amounting to $9,984,803. a
total estimate of appioximately $152.-
000,000.
Appropriations of only $109,577,414
are carried in the bill, representing the
tremendous cut of more than $42,000,-
000 under the estimates submitted by
the several departments through the
executive.
The sundry civil bill carries $33,000,-
000 less than the sundry civil measure
tor the present fiscal year.
Merely Omits Money For Board.
The committee makes no comment
on the abolition of the tariff board. It
merely says the appropriation of $225.-
000 to enable the president to secure
information under section 2 of the last
tariff act is omitted.
A reorganization within ihe next
twelve months of the customs service
is demanded in the bill. The president
is authorized to reorganize the service
before submitting estimates for the fis
cal year 1911. and It is stipulated thal
the total cost of the customs service so ■
that year shall be $10,150,000 instead
of $10,500,000, a cut of $350,000.
A total of $8,053,517.92 Is anpropria ~ d
foi the construction of public buildings
which have heretofore been authorized
The committee (ejected the recom
mendations of the secretary of the
treasury thal a general fund foi puid ■
buildings might be availabl' consist iny
of $10,000,1100 heretofore a ppi opria 1 ed.
but so I.< * unexpended, and $3.000,(>00
additional.
lintnn ■ (pp( "pt lot lon- 1(0 pubil
building 1 in< inded n< ■» post,,di' e
foi Augusto. <b». to co 1 1 slo*l,oon.
■N UNDER ARREST
DEMANDS TRIAL TODAY;
WILL FIRM FINISH
U. S. Marshal White Serves Warrant
at Noon and Will Take Prisoner to
Augusta Phis Afternoon—Brother
Goes Along to Make Bond.
THOMSON. GA.. June 3.—Special United States Marsha) Gk
K. White, of Macon, arrived in Thomson today at noon and ar
rested Thomas E. Watson, charged with sending obscene matter
rhrongh the mails. Marsha) White will eo t.o Augusta late s J
afternoon with Mr. Watson, in his auto. Io appear before
H. Godwin. United States commissioner, for the purpose of mak
ing bond.
Mr. Watson wired District Attorney Akerman that he will
demand a preliminary trial today, hut Mr. Akerman answered
that he has been called to Washington. D. C.. on important busi
ness. and that it will he impossible to have the trial today.
When Mr. Watson appears before the commissioner, the
bond will be fixed by him and a time set for the preliminary
hearing. J. F. Watson, brother of T. E. Watson, will go with
him to arrange bond.
I’ll Fight Government’s
Charge to Finish—Watson
Thomas E. Watson, a warrant for
whose arrest for improper use of the
mails has been Issued, has addressed a
communication to Th« Georgian, in
which he outlines his side of the con
troversy with the government.
In this communication Mr. Watson
scores lite president of the United
States unmercifully, characterizing him
as a "blundering booby.”
He accuses President Taft of sending
the late Major Archibald Butt, the
president's military aid. on a "treason
ous mission” to Rome, and attaches di
rect responsibility Io the president,
therefore, for the death of Major Butt
on the Titanic.
For his utterances on these subjects,
in his various publications. Mr. Wat
son says he is being persecuted by the
president and other powerful Influ
ences looking to Watson's undoing.
Declares He Will Not
Take Back a Word.
Mr. Watson announces his intention
not to "surrender one inch of ground”
nor to "take back one word" he has
said in the matters leading up to the
issuing of the warrant against him
Those parts of Mr. Watson's commu
nication bearing directly on his arrest
read as follows:
By THOMAS E WATSON.
1 have been notified over the
telephone from the United States
marshal's office In Macon that I will
be arrested Monday at noon I
have not seen the warrant and do
not know what crime is laid at my
door
According to Northern newspa
pers. the prosecution is instituted
by President Taft and the Roman
Catholic hierarchy, because of an
editorial in The Weekly Jefferso
nian on the tragic death of Major
Butt. *
The president was accused by me
with being responsible for Archie
Butt's untimely end, because he,
Mr. Taft, the commander-in-chief
of the United States army, had or
dered Major Butt on a treason
ous mission to the aged Italian
gentleman who is called the pope.
Colonel George Harvey, in Har
per's Weekly, criticised President
Taft for his private message to the
pope, and was quite as severe in
his language as I was in mine.
Colonel Harvey based his strictures
upon a cablegram which the Mar
coni News Agency had sent out
from Rome at the time Major Butt
arrived there and was presented to
the pope. All the press dispatches
carried the story, and the presi
dent put forth no denial
President Taft never did deny it,
until after Major Butt's death, and
after other papers besides my own
wore using the incident to his hurt.
Another story is that I am being
prosecuted for having sent obscene
literature through the malts, it is
charged that some Latin quotations
in the May number of my maga
zine arc obscene If so. why did
not the government prosecute the
publishers of the book from which
1 quoted? I had a right to as
sume thal wiiat the government
had tolerated In the publishers of
that book, it would tolerate In any
one who. with an honest, patriotic
purpos* (|(iofcd from that book
Me motive in quoting from tip
book wa- patriotic and educational
This work was issued o* the Jot
dan I 'it I'ttshinu Company, of Pltila
d< iphia My top? is of the twelfth
HOHL
IDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
edition, which was published in
1895. It was copyrighted In 1892
by Jordan Brothers.
Why does the United States gov
ernment protect with its copyright
a book which is unfit for the malls?
The United States mails make no
objection to Gibbon’s Rome, al
though many of hla notes era
far more obscene, and are used for
a less praiseworthy purpose than
those I quoted.
The Federal government ig
hounding me. trying Io destroy a.
business which has cost me five
years of the hardest work I ever
did, and about $40,000 of hard cash.
East year the Knights of Colum
bus. in their annual convention,
resolved to make war upon me and
put me out of business.
Ever since they have been trying
to do so.
They are using President Taft,
just as they used him in the Phil
ippines. the Panama canal zone and
In the Indian school matter.
It is not my purpose to surrender
one Inch of ground, or to take back
one W’ord I have said, and I don’t
ask our blundering booby of a pres
ident the least bit of odds.
1 feel I can trust Implicitly to
the good sense of Judge Emory
Speer, to the good sense of Georgia
jurors and to the patriotic, inde
pendent spirit of all true American
citizens.
MYSTERIOUS AUTO,
NOT NEGRO, KILLED
GUARD, POLICE SAY
Detectives are striving today to settle
the question whether D A. Smith, the
stockade guard mysteriously slain Satur
day night at Decatur and Hilliard streets,
was murdered or killed by a speeding
auto
According to detectives, there is some
doubt as to the manner In which Smith
met death The first theory advanced
was that he was stabbed to death by an
unknown negro, a lagged wound appear
ing hfs eye. Since that time wltnessea
have told detectives of a mysterious auto
that sped through Decatur street at the
time of the tragedy, and this clew, with
other bruises found on the body of Smith,
have led to the theory that he may have
been struck down by this auto.
Dr. Robert Gramling, who examined the
wound Saturday night, said he was satis
fied it was made with a knife. As a re
sult of the murder theory, four negro
suspects are held In the police station
for examination.
GEORGIA BANKING LAW
REVISION COMMISSION
HOLDING SESSION HERE
The state commission on the revision
of banking laws held a conference with
representatives of the Georgia Bankers’
association in the senate chamber of
the capitol today to organize preliminary
to hearing recommendations No actual
business was transacted and the com
mission will probably sit for several days.
The executive council of the bankers’
association, with two delegates from
each of the five groups making up that,
organization, will present recommenda
tions for certain changes in the existing
laws It is probable that the commis
sion will recommend to the legislature
the creation of a separate banking de
partment with an official bank examiner
at its head, to replace the present sys
tem In which the state treasurer has
charge ~f bank examination and regnla
tton
Th» Atlanta Clearing House associa
tion gave a luncheon at the Capital City
. uh this ifternoon to members of th*
comiuwsion and vtai’.ing bankers.
