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In Tlew York Thousands of Per
sons Vanish Every Year.
MYSTERY OF THE MISSING.
Whst May Be the Fate of the Many
the Police Fail to Find and Whose
Dead Bodies Do Not Arrive at the
Morgue (3 an Unsolvable Enigma.
More than 4.500 i*rsons are reiiorted
to the New York i>olice every year as
missing. Of these about 3.500 sre res
idents of the city, white the remainder
are visitors.
The New Yorkers who vanish) from
their homes are reported to the police
stations in the local precincts, and
those cases are handled by the pre
cinct authorities. But the reports of
missing visitors, regardless >of where
made originally, ultimately :go to the
bureau of missing persons at police
headquarters
Information from official sources
shows that minors constitute approxi
mately two-thirds of the New York
residents stated to be massing annu
ally The remaining oue-Cbird is com
posed chiefly of men.
It is estimated that more than one
half of the 3.500 are located by the po
lice. dead or alive, or return to their
homes soon after disappearance, noti
fication of the return being sent t© the
officials. Of the remainder it is esti
mated that at toast one-half ultimately
arrive back home in safety, hut no no
tification of the fact is sent to the po
lice
This leaves about 850 persons per
year who utterly vanish. What be
comes of then: Is one ef the mysteries
of the metropolis. They disappear as
though they were so many bubbles.
Some of them .doubtless kit! themselves
or are killed, their bodies never being
discovered, ftoroe of tthein, it may be
set down for certain, run away from
their matrimonial mates. But what the
fate is of the great mass of them no
man can say.
Of the targe number of minors who
figure each year as missing, police
officials state that the big majority
are youths and girls between the ages
of fifteen and twenty. They ase often
wage earners, disgmatled with con
ditions at home, either because they
have to give what they consider too
.large a proportion of their wages to
the family exchequer er becuuse they
think their parents too strict with
them in the matter of pleasure seek
ing.
Of the 1.000 residents of other .places
for whom the police are annually ask
ed to look, a considerable percentage
are men who have come to New York
to find relaxation from the workaday
grind in the gayeties of Broadway.
They get into the whirl of things
rather more than they Intended and
are lost to their friends’ view far a
few days. Ultimately most of these
wanderers in the fields of frivolity
iturn up all right, with a bit of head
.acbe. perhaps, and a determination
not to seek relaxation quite so per
sistently on the next New’ York visit.
Other strangers to the city get sepa
rated from their friends in the sub
way or on the elevated or get lost in
the .streets, and then the police .are
Hsked to find the missing ones Immi
grants in transit from European coun
tries to inland points in the United
States frequently wander off from the
parties to which they are attached
and have to be found through the me
dium of the police.
In the course of a year the police
receive scores of letters from foreign
countries inquiring about friends or
relatives of the writers who were last
heard from in New York. From Zan
zibar and from India, from Australia
and from Egypt, from Europe, from
South America, come letters of inquiry
The proportion of these nonresidents
of New York never to be heard of
again as estimated by the police is
about the same as in the ease of New
York citizens. That is. something more
than one-half of the 1.000 are located
by tile {Kiliee or return to their friends,
the police being so notified. About one
half of the remainder finally reach
their friends all right, it is estimated,
the police not being notified. This
leaves approximately 250 visitors to
New York who vanish yearly without
anything whatever being known of
their fate With the 8;0 New Yorkers
who absolutely disappear, there is thus
a total in round figures of 1,100 ppr
ons who every twelve months are lost
to sight as utterly as though they had
stepped behind a magic curtain.
The bureau of unidentified dead has
made a collection of the marks put on
clothing by all laundries in New York.
When u body is found which has no
means of identification except through
laundry marks the marks are com
pared with those on file in the bureau.
If the victim's clothes prove to have
been laundered in New York the laun
dry Is visited, and from examination of
its books it is usually possible to trace
the identity of the dead person.
Names of tailors and of clothing
manufacturers also lead to many iden
tifications. Tattoo marks have in sev
eral instances meant identification- .
Sending Out Thousands of Let*
tars in Fight Against 801 l
Weevil.
_ i
Despite the holiday season, the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
ha fiivd the f :xt big broadside
in the campaign of preparation to
offset Hu* boll weevil. A thou
sand let ers a day have gone out
of the State Chamber headquart
ers for the past week- The ap
peal for active interest and work
Sn this eamp gn lias been made
to 2000 merchants, to over 600
school teachers and school •coru
ixi4sionens. to the ministers of
all churches in a score or more
of southwestern counties. Fve
to ten thousand 'One-.shee?t hang
ers will be jfosted in stores and
publicity campaign calls for full
eight-sheet circus poster on 100
stands in ten air more of life
principal cit-ie*. By means,
and the newspaper stories tile
warn ng will be sounded and
and the appeal made to farmers
to grow their own feedstuff and
foodstuff for 1914. Thousands
jof pamphlet cf containing sum
mary of the methods of fight
ling the 801 l Weevil, as approved
by State and Federal agricultural
authorities w 11 he distributed.
Atlanta, Ga., .lan. 14.—“ The
day is near at hand when the
people of Georgia and this sect on
of the south will manufacture
what they eat and what they
wear,’’ declares Pres dint. C. J.
Bladen of tin* Georgia <Chamber
of Commerce, in a leading art:-
cle in Frost’s Magazine, the
'Call of ffee &outh, which. Idee
other publications throughout, tlie
state is cooperating to the ex
tent of its ability in the State
Chamber w ork.
While 'Frost s' Magazine has no
official connect on with tlie Btate
‘Chamber of Commerce, a coining
issue of the magazine is going to
'hr (devoted to the Stan* Cham
ber Movement, and other inter
est ng articles in addition to
that by President Hadeaa will .ap
pear in it.
Th e State Chamber of Com
merce s receiving in all parts of
the estate the -splendid cooperation
and aid of various weekly and
other publicaS .ons which are in- ;
tere.-tod in the commerced and ag
ricultural prosperity of the sec- j
tion.
A series of cartoons by ‘Frank
Stanton. Jr., son of tin* Georg a
poet, devoted to State Chamber
of Commerce interests, will from
time to time appear in “ The
Call of the South.”
Wonderful Cough Remedy.
Dr. King’s New Discovery is
known everywhere as the remedy
which will surely stop a cough or
cold. D. P. Lawson of Eid son,
Tenn, writes: “Dr. King’s New
Discovery is the most wonderful
oough, cold and throat and Jung
med cine I ever sold in my store.
It can’t he beat. It sells without
any trouble at all. It needs no
guarantee.” This is true, lib
cause Dr. King’s New Discovery
w ll relieve the most obstinate of
All Druggists or by mail. H. E.
Buck Ten &| Cos.. Ph ladelphia or
St. Louis.
majority of tht* unidentified dead are
found in the water Most of them are
doubtless suicides Others of the uni
deirtified cases are due to street car ac
cidents. suicide by eras and sudden
death in the street from natural causes
Photographs are taken of all bodies
and prove of much aid In making iden
tification In occasional instances iden
tification from photographs hns result
ed even after burial iu potter's field.—
New York Times.
Labor is preferable to Idleness as
brightness to rust.—Plato.
rVieTici s winning ways ifi a e"* X
game.
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31S W. Washington St., CHICAGO
LAUNDRY AGENCY
I represent the Athens Empire
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state- Everything in their place is
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Page G. Gregory.
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Woodruff Hardware Cos.
WINDER, GEORGIA.
I have a sausage mill run by gas
oluip engine. Can grind sausage
as fine as you want it. Let nie
turn your meat into sausage fpr
you. Termsi reasonable. I). 0. Ca -
nngton.
Ijlj (2net jffic
This ©ommunity is favored by having scientific
physicians who know how to diagnose their cases.
WE KNOW HOW to fill their prescriptions; and we
use only pure, fresh drugs.
We always have everything for the sick and
the sick room—antiseptic cotton and bandages,
disinfectants, syringes, rubber hot water bags, ice
bags.
Send to us for your medicines. We never
substitute,
Come to OUR Drug Store.
Dr. J. T. Wages Drug Cos.
THE REXALL STORE WINDER, GA.
Resolve To buy all hardware from
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
“ Barb wire, Poultry wire and Fencing from
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
“ All Fanning and plows from
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
“ Distributors, Planters, Harrows and Bicycles from
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“ Hoes, Cultivators, Buggies and Harness form
Woodruff Hardware Cc.
“ Scrapes, Plows, Freezers, and Enamel ware from
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“ Fruit cans, Cooking utensils and Fishing seines from
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“ To spend all the cash all this year I can spare with
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“ Steelyards, Baskets; Pick sacks and Pocket knives from
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To pay for what I have bought on a credit from
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
“ Wagons, Disc plows, Turners and Guns from
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
“ Christmas presents —live sober and help to
make the world better.
Tli e real ?suSTe ' urTH — r La
nier, Ross &| Cos., have dissolved
by mutual consent. Other bus
iness caused the withdrawal of
Mr. Lan'er, and the company de
cided to retire.
Lanier, Koss & Cos.
1914