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Passing of the Gulf Storm Without
Damage Caused Break in Cotton
Lower Cables, English Labor
Troubles and Favorable
Weekly Weather Reports
Inspired Liquidaton and
Sh&rt Selling
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—The cotton mar
ket opened barely steady at 15 points ad
vance to 6 points decline. From tue fact
that the south was a heavy seller, traders
Sained the impression that the tropical storm
Which hit the Louisiana coast last night,
Was less serious than expected. Fine wcaf
•r li eastern sections of the belt, poor ca
bles, tne English labor troub.ees, and pros
pects for a favorable we-.kiy weather re
port at noon all contributed to the/easier
feeling which prevailed. October advanced
15 points, to 28.90. at the start on cov
ering, but offerings immediately increased
pnd January was 5 poln s 'lower at 24.50.
Bui.seqtietitly, the yhole list broke 35 to 40
points under the previous 'lose, October
teaching 28.40 and January 24.47.
More reassuring news regardbig the prog
ress of ,tc* storm and a weekly r<>p and
weather summary that has sel-iun k >
exceeded -for optimism at tins season if
the veat caused a renewal of her y s-.ilmg
pressure a* midday under winch Hie mar
re broke from 00 to 75 irits, letober
reacaiur 28 cents and January 21.23. July
•old a.t 21 ! 5, represenliu;- a new low record
for the season.
The arrival of southern advices noting
declines of I to 2 cents in spot quotations,
and a Liverpool cable to the effect that the
coal strike prospects were becoming more
gloomy, and that the cotton mill strike is
likely to spread further, caused heavy sell
ing pressure in the early afternoon that
drove October down 145 points under last
night to 27.30 c, and other months 93 to 110
points lower, January touching 23.92 c.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in .th.
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 30.50 c, quiet.
Last . Prey.
Open High. Low. Sale. Close.‘Close.
Jan. .. 24.85 24.55 23.92 24.25 24.20 24.85
Meh. .. 24.00 24.00 23.20 23.70 23.62 24.05
May .. 23.30 23.34 22.60 22.93 22.90 23.38
July .. ..... i.' 22.00 22.46
Sept. 28.30 29.20
* Oct. . . 28.95 28.95 27.35 27.85 27.80 28 75
Dec. ~ 26120 2(W20 25.00 25.3625~.33 26. i0'
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW RLEANS, Sept. 22.—After advanc
ing on the first call to the extent -at 1 to
19 points on the more active months. on_
buying stimulated by the movements of rhe
hurricane, the cotton market today• fell off
because of the absence of any news snow
ing that the disturbance uad worked any
great damage in the belt. Al the end of the
first hour or business prices were-. 30 '•> 3.1
points under the close of yesterday. October
Worked up to 27.45 and fell off - io I'7. tip.
The forecast of fair weather for practi
cally the entire western half of tiie cotton
legion and private cablegrams from Liver
pool, reporting a serious labor and trade
situation, ineeased the selling pressure
against the market to such an extent that
late in the-morning the active months were
70 to 102 L points under the emse of yester
day, with Octqber down to 26.28 and March
down to 22.65. Distant months were stead
ier than the nears.
The weekly crop reports from the govern
ment were considered highly favorable and
they increased offerings materially. At the
lowest of the day October touched 26.00 c
•nd the trading months were at net de
clines of 81 to 130 points. Toward the
elose there were, recoveries of 35 to 40
points from the lowes ton realizing by
•horts and reports of a somewhat better
feeling in the English coal strike situation.
Market closed steady, at net declines of 49
to 100 points.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 28c, steady.
Last Prev.
Open High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.'
Jan. .. 24.25 24.25 23.10 23.55 23.52 24.18
Meh. . 23.35 23.35 22.54 22.86 22.86 23.35'
May .. 22.80 22.80 22.50 22.38 22.38 22.15
July ' 5... 21.80 22.12
Sept. 27.05
Oct. .. 27.05 27.45,26.06 26.30 26.30 27.30
Dec. .. 24.50 25.40 24.03'24.49 24;47 25.21
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22.—. spot cotton,
Quiet and unchanged. Sales on the spot, 51
bales; to arrive, 100. Low middling, 19.00 c;
middling, 28.00 c; good middling, 30.75 c. Re
ceipts, 2,652; stock, 200,869.
LIVERPOOL^COTTON ,
Tone, steady; sa.'es, 5,000; good middling,
«5.04 d.
Open. Close. Close.
Prev
Jan 18.23 18.28 13.53
Feb 18.02 18.04 la. 23
March 11.82 17.80 18.03
April - ii. 57 17.70
May 17.00 17.34 17.54
J une 17.16 17, $ o
July a. .. 16:98 17.17
Aug 16.75 16.9.;
Sept. • ••■• .... .... 19.35 19.48 16.69
Oct 19.20 19.16 19.4a
Nov 18.79 18.80 19.06
Dec 18.61 18.63 18.88
i SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, sieauy, u2..>oc.
New York, quiet, 30.50 c. I
New Orleans, steady, 28p._
Philadelphia, steady, 30.75 c.
Montgomery, steady (new), 20.75 c.
Norfolk, steady. 30c.
Sa’.. unah, s.eauy, 30c.
St. Louis, steady. 33c.
Houston, steady, 28.65 c.
Memphis, steady, 31c.
Augusta, steady (new). 29.50 c.
Little Rock, steady, 28.50 c,
Dallas, steady, 27.10 c.
Mobile, steady. 28.50 c.
Charleston, steady, 30c.
Wilmington, steady, 286.
Boston, steady. 31c.
Galveston, steady, 29c.
ATLANTA Sx UT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 32.50 c
Receipts •' _■
Shipments <,'£
Stocks ■■ ■ • 11,4(16
AMERICAN COTTON
AND GRAIN EXCHANGE.
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening liiglnsi
t’.vist. ilcse sm! previous "lose quota
lions on the American Cotton and Grair
llxcbauge of New Yore
Pre,
Upon High Low Close <’:<••<•
Jan 24.82 21.8-1 23.95 24.22 24.83
l'.-h .. 24.05 21.05 23.23 23,6. U.o>
L-a'y . . 23.33 23.23 22.60 22.90 23.35
et ... 28.90 '28.97 27.30 27.80 28.7a
Dec 211.15 2620 25.00 25.33 26.10
COTTON LiA--x~x' OPINIONS
Hubbard Bros. A.Co.: "I nless the storm
does severe damage, the action of the market
in the past few days would hiihate that
prices will probable ease off after the storm
pass.s. It all depends on how much damage
Occurs. ”
Hirsch. Lilienthal A Co.: “The forecast
'for generally unsettled wet'tker over tun'll
of the belt tomorrow will pro ably result tn
a further advance.”
Mayse & Holmes: “We believe tins storm
•care is or- r.”
LrfE A®Iw\XTA TOttnWKEKJA
COTTONSEEQ OIL MARKET
Opening. Closing.
Jan 13.50@13.52 13.54@13.5G
Feb. .. ; 13.50@T3.60 13.58@15.65
Meh 13.64@13.65
April 13.65@13.80
Sept 13.50@14.25 13.75 Bid
Oct 17.79@17.80 13.77@18.80
Nov 13.47@13.55 13.38@18.67
Dec .13.50@13.51 13.25@18.27
Tone, steady; sales. 10,800.
ATLANTA COTTONSEEL PRODUCTS
MARKETS
(Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Exchange)
t rude oil basis prime, tank
lots $10.75 $ll.OO
C. S. meal. 7 per cent am-
monia. 100-ton lots ... .. 51.00 53.00
C. S. meal. . Ga. common
rate point. 100-ton lots .■. 50.00 52.00
Cottonseed hulls, sacked,
car lots (new) 17.00 18.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose, car
lots (new 10.00 12.00
Linters, firs tcut. high-grade lots, 4@6c.
Linters, clean, mill run. 2@3c.
Linters. No. 3. l@l%c.
SHEPARD & GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 22.—The sudden
change of the course of the hurricane from
the direction of Texas to the central por
tion of the cotton belt and the fact that
it wns not as violent a storm as expec.ed
caused wide downward reactions in the
cotton market today. Longs let go freely
and bearish traders replaced short lines
which they covered when the storm was In
th" gulf. On tou of -this, English labor and
•trade reports were extremely unfavorable
•and London caUfil that the coal strike
seemed certain. * For the time being the
market lias few friends,
GRAIN
CHICAGO, Sept. 22. —Fresh declines in the
price of wheat tobk place today owing
to downturns in other commodities, but
subsequently news of big exports of wheat
caused a rally. The opening varied from
unchanged figures to 2 cents lower.
Whet closed strong, 3%c to net
• higher.
New low price levels for the season were
reached in the corn market. After opening
unchanged to 1 eent lower ,th emaraet broke
all around, but'.then recovered somew hat.
Corn closed nervous at the same as yes
'terday s finish to 13%c higher.
Oats, like corn, dropped to lowest quota
tions yet on the crop.
Setbacks in the price of bog* and cor"
had a depressing, effect, qn provj-sluns. s
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
Tbe following were the ruling prices Hi
the exebauge today:
Pre,
_ .. Open. High. Low. Close. Close
wheat—
Dec 2.32 2.37 2.28 2.36& 2.32 '
Mar 2.24% 2.30 2.23 2.30 2.26%
CORN—
Sept 1.23 1.37 . 1.22% 1.85% 1.23%
Dec 1.04 1.06 1.03% 1.05% 1.05%
May ....1.0-1% 1.06%.1104% -.65% 1.05%
OATS—
Sept 55% 57 5.5% 56% 56%
Dec 59 60 58%’ 59% 59%
May .... 63% 63% 62% 63% 63
PORK—
Sept 24.75 25.00
Oct 24.75 24.75 24.25 24.75 25.00
LARD—
Sept 19.95 19.95
Oct 19.80 20.20 1937 19.95 19.97
Jan 18.00 18.32 17.90 18.20 17.90
Sept lßS ~ 17. W 17-20
Oct 17.10 17.30 16.90 17.10 17.20
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 64 cars
Corn ...... 344 cars
Oats 84 cars
Hogs 11,000 head
CHICAGO C/U3.X uuQTATIONS
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Cash 'wheat: No. 1
rod, $2.56; No. 2 red, $2.55; No. 1 hard,
45m 2.50.
Corn—No. 2 mixed, $1.24@1.29%; No. 2
yellow, $1.28@1.31.
Oats—No. 2 white, 58@59c; No. 3 white,
57@55%c.
Eve—No. 2, $1.92@1.95.
Barley—Bo@99c.
Timolhv Seed —$6.00(7?7.50.
Clover Seed —$18.00@25.00.
Pork—Nam inal.
I.'irrl—-119,95.
Ribs—sl7.l2@l7.B7.
“ ' GRAIN MARKET OPINIONS
Bartlett. Frazier & Co.: Commitments in
September corn should be closed up and a
interest is yet to be settled. The oats
market shows little or no buying power ex
cept that cmoing from shorts, who are
•bearish and see nothing to disturb their
position. • ,
Clement-Curtis: Believe all grains should
be sold on the advance.
Harris. Winthrop & Co.:, We look for
lower prices for all grains.
ST. LOUIS - QUOTATIONS
■ ST LOUIS, Sept. 22.—Cash: Wheat—No.
2 red winter. $2.60; No. 3,. $2.59; Decern/
bcr. $2.37% bid: 'March, $2.30% bid.
( >rn- -No. 1 yellow, $1 26; No. 2, $1.26;
December, $1.05%; ’May, $1.05% bid.
Cots —No. 2 white, 60c: No. 3, 59@59%c;
December, 59%'c bid.
NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Sept. 22.—Turpentine
sthatiy. $1.36%; sales none; receipts 695:
shipments 60; stock 14,110,
. Rosin firm; sales 777: receipt! 1.931;
shipments 442;* stock 47.61 Q. tjuote: B, D.
E. F/ G, H, I, K, M, N, WG., $11.60@
11.70; WW.. $11.70, ■
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO. Sept., 22;-r-Cattle —Receipts,
11,000; market very dull; opening sales best
steers and yearlings about steady, $16.00@
17. "0; grassy kinds-weak and uneven, most
ly $9,004, !4.50: bologna bulls, $6,0(>@6.75;
cannera, $4.25@4.75: steady; ' other she
stock, $16.75@17.50; grassy calves draggy,
$6.50(7?J1.50: Stockers, and feeders about
steady; western receipts, 3.000; market
opened .weak.
Higs—Receipts, 11,000: uneven, 35c to
Yoe lower than yesterday’s average; top
earlv. .<1.7.65;. .bulk light and butchers,
<1(;.'0@17.50: bulk packing sows, $l5.GO@
15.90: pigs.- 25c lower.
Sheep—-Receipts. z 23j000; very slow; pack
ers bidding nneveifljv,. lower;, good native
limbs sold $23.50: medium. sll .<lo@i2.oft:
best range lambs held .around $13.75; feed
ers ’steady: good lambs sold 13.40.
EAST ,<T. lOT’TS. Sept. 22. Cattle: Re
ceipts 7.000: Oklahoma steers 25c. lower.:
top steers. $15.50: bulk. $9.50(7? 13.50- year
ling steers and heifers steady: Conner tows
steady, at $3.75(7?4.25: bulls steady; calves
70c higher: good and choice yealers, $16.75'
@17.50; feeder steers'srtbadj.
Ilogs—Receipts 7.500: 20c to 80c lower;
top. $17.50; bulk light and medium, $17.35@
17.65: bulk heavies. $16.50(7?’17 25.
Sheep—Receipts 3. “00: 50c lower: ton
Iqnibs. $12.00: bulk.
$5.50: bulk. $5.00@5.50.
T.O ISVILLE. Ky.. Sept. 22.—Cattle: Re
prints 350. dull. Heavy steers.. $12.50@
14.00: beef steers, $7.00(7,12.00;- heifers:,
c0.50(7? 11.00: cows. $4.00(7?10.50; feeders,
S7 50(7? 11.00: stoeknrs, $6.00@9.75.
Hogs—Receipts 600. 25c lower; 250 pounds
up. slfi.oo; 105 to 250 pounds. $17.50: 120
to 165 pounds. $17.00: pigs. 120 pounds down,
$11.25(7712.75: throwouts, $12.50, down.
Sheep —Receipts 70, steady. Lambs, $13.00;
sheep,' $6.00, down.
Brutal Turkish Cruelties
Told by Armenian Girl
Flsiting Her Bro th er Here
i MMB
l wir Ww 7 W • ‘ was
MARYAM OURFALYAN, the Armenian girl, whose story of
Turkish brutality, appearing in today’s Journal, is one of the most
terrible ever told. She is in Atlanta now, staying with her brother
at 88 Hood street.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
NEW YORK, -’Sept. 22.—Law sugar,
steady; contrifual, 16.78; sales 7,000 bags
I’erus, 5,000 bags, Cubas and 8,000 bags
Fortn. Bi eqs. Refined, steady; fine granu
lated, 14.50.
Close.
Jan. ......................9.14@9.20
Feb ;..9.05@9.06
April 9.00@9.05
May 9.1ft@9.15
Sept 9.60@9.70
Oet. ... .. .... .... .9.55@9.65
Nov. ........ ... .x ........ ... .9.55@9.67
Dec ... ... 9.50@9.60
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
Jan ..... ...8.07@8.08
Feb 8.25@8.26
Meh 8.44@8.45
April 8.56@8.57
May 8.68(08.70
June 8.76@8.8d
July 8.70@8.80
•Aug; ~ .... .' 8.88@8.90
Sept. ... ...I t.40@7.45
Oct. .A... ... ... ... .-.7.50@7.75
Nov. 7.65@7.70
Nov 7.89@7.90
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Coffee, B%C.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Butter, creamery,
extra, 57,@5J%c; creamery, standards, 53%
@53%c; ■firsts, 48@55%5-; seconds, .43@47c.
Eggs, ordinaries, 48@50c: firsts/ 53%@
64 %e.
Cheese, twins, 24%c; Young Americas,
26c.
Live poultry, fowls, 34c; ducks, 28c;
geese. 23c; springs, 31%c; turkeys, 45c.
Potatoes, 69 cars: Jersey cobblers, $2.25.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Flour dull and
easy. .
Park—Steady; mess, $31.60@32.00.
Lard—Easier; middle west spot, $20.60@
2Q.70.
Sugar—Raw, dull; centrifugal, 96-t'3St,
10.76; refined, dull: granulated, 14.50(013.00.
Coffee:—Rio No. 7, on spot, B@B%c; No. 4
Santos, 13@13%c.
Tallow—Dull: specials, 11c; city, 10c.
Hay—Easy; No. 1, $2.35(02.40; No. 3,
$2.05@2.15: clover, $1.90(32.30.
Dressed Poultry—Quiet; chickens. 37@51c;
fowls, 26@42c; dubks, Long Island. 88c.
Live Poultry—lrregular; geese, 20e; ducks,
35@38c; fowls. 67@43c; turkeys. 40c; roost
ers. '23c; chickens, broilers, 87@40c.
Cheese—Firm; state milk, common to spe
cials, 20@29%c; skims, common to specials,
5@17%c.
Butter, firm; receipts, 8.705; cream try,
extra. 61c.; do. special market, 61%@02c;
state dairy; tubs; imitation creamery, firsts,
46(0600. nominal.-
Eggs, firm: receipts. 17,389; near-by white
fancy, 83@85c; near-by mixed fancy, 54@
56c: fresh firsts, 57065 c; Pacific coast,
60@85c.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Liberty bonds
closed:
3%s .™ ~..590.26
First 4s 85.62
Second 4s ... 85.56
First 4%s 86.82
Second 4%s 85.78
Third 4:%S 88.8(1
Fourth 4’'|S 85.90
Victory 3%s 95 “o
Victory 4%s 95.54
Money and Exchange
NEW YORK. Sept. 22.—Prime mercantile
paper 8. Exchange irregular. Sterling 60-
day bills. 8.42%; commercial 60-day bills on
banks, 3.42%: commercial 60-day bills, 3.42;
demand. .3.47%; cablese, 3.48. Francs, de
mand, 6.68; cables, 6.70. Belgian francs,
demand. 7.05; cables, 7.07. Guilders, de
mand 80.87; cables, 31.00. Llrese, demand,
4.30; cables. 4.32. Marks, demand, 1.63;
cables, 1.64. ,
New York exchange on Montreal 9% per
cent- discount.
Government bonds irregular; railroad bonds
irregular.
Time loans strong; 60 days, 90 days and
six months, B@B% per cent.
BY WARD GREENE
Five of us sat in the front room
of a house on South Gordon street,
listening to a story of the most hor
rible brutalities any of us had ever
heard. Four of us were newspaper
men, the fifth. wa£ an interpreter.
The only other person in the room
was Maryam Ourfalyan.
Maryam Ourfalyan is a little,
brown-eyed woman, in years, but lit
tle older than the average baby
vamp of Peachtree, in experience
about a thousand and two. Her
brown eyes have seen—
All her husband’s finger nails
torn out by the roots; babies left
to die by mothers too weary to carry
them farther; other babies decapi
tated when mothers refused to leave
them; three girls tied together and
killed by a single shot; an old blind
man fastened to a donkey and then,
beginning at his toes and going up
to his eyes, sliced into little bits
the size of sandwiches, a girl of
eighteen stripped; naked, bound to a
stake and split open from skull to
feet by the single blow of a shovel.
These are only a few of the things
she has seen—mere incidents. She
remembers more vividly the twenty
four hours she stayed buried to her
temples in manure, to keep tht
Turks from getting her.
It is one thing to read of Turk
ish atrocities in Armenia, to hear
of them, to become so bored with
the thing that one makes crude
jests about it, and laughs at cruder
tests by the smart paragraphers.
It is another thing to sit in the
parlor of an Atlanta home, such a
happy home as this very girl may
have had once, and hear her tell
with her own lips how four hundred
men were half-buried in a trench at
her front door so the Kurdish marks
r. en might have their sport as you
and I would go out to shoot clay
pigeons.
This girl is in Atlanta now. She
is not the fictitious heroine of a
movie, nor the paid writer for a
magazine. You can find her any
time out at 88 Hood street, the
home of her brother, K. Garabed
yan, a tailor in the Connally build
ing, and, with the aid of an inter
preter, she will tell her story to
you.
Our Interpreter was Stephen E.
Phllibosian, head of the Oriental
rug department of the Chamberlin
.Tohnson-Dußose company. For our
benefit he took Maryam Ourfalyan
to his home on South Gordon street
for the Interview. She sat in one
chair, he sat in another, we four
reporters lined up on the couch.
It was just the setting needed to
create the contrast—a phonograph
over In one corner, a rose pillow on
the floor, the hum of street cars in
the distance, the noises of the sum
mer night, children playing “I spy”
in the front yard, a couple strolling
by on their way to the drug store
for ice cream.
Her Story in English
Then Maryam Ourfalyan began to
talk. She spoke quietly, her brown
eyes fixed on us, gesturing every
now and then—as when she illus
trated the method of slitting a
throat —and weeping just a little,
laughing once. This, in English,
was what she said:
“My name in your tongue is Mary.
I am twenty-five years old. All my
life I lived in the town of Pery,
near Harpou, Turkey. I am an Ar
menian, a Christian like all my peo
ple.
“When I was eighteen I married.
My husband was an American citi
zen. He had gone from Armenia
when a boy to the United States,
and worked In New York state for
fourteen years. He came back to.
me. and we were very happy. After
awhile we had a little baby.
“In the year 1914, when the war
broke out. our little town was star
tled by an order from the Turkish
government. They, demanded all
firearms from Armenians, all weap
ons. even swords. The failure to
comnly was the death penalty.
“The arms were seized, but that
did not satisfy them. A few days
later orders were issued for the Im
prisonment of every Armenian man.
My husband, my two brothers-in-law,
my father-in-law, my first cousins,
all my male relatives, were taken
with the rest. Some of the men
were old and bed-ridden. They were
dragged from their couches to the
bastile.
“After eight days in prison, my
husband came home. Rather, we
brought him home. He was so weak
he had to be carried on a mule. All
his finger nails had been torn out
by the roots. The soles of his feet
were burned off. Thus had the Turks
tortured every man, yelling at
them, ’Where is your God? Where
is your Christ? Why doesn’t He
save you?’ Some of them died in
prison.
“One month later, every man was
seized again. We were told they
were needed to build roads for the
Turkish government. They were
dragged away, beaten by the Turks
as they went. Every day we sent
meals to the men. One day the meals
were sent back to me. I was told
my husband was not at the prison
any longer.
Her Husband Shot
“Twenty-four hours later I heard
what had happened. The men were
taken to the banks of a river, lined
up and shot, every one. My hus
band was among them. A young
Turk who had worked in our house
hold was there, and saw him die.
He told me about it. He recognized
my husband, he said, after the shoot
ing, and went to him. My husband
raised up on one elbow. He was
about to speak his last words. At
that moment a Turk passed down the
line armed with a sword. He hacked
every body as he passed, dead or
not. My husband’s head was sliced
off as he was about to speak. His
body was thrown in the river.
“Another month passed. Then or
ders were issued for deportation of
all women. We went to the gov
ernor, we begged and cried on our
knees to be allowed to remain. We
tore our clothes, we told him he
had taken our men, to let us stay
or we die.
“It was useless. We were told
that if we refused to go we would
be killed. When we knew that, I
dressed my three brothers-in-law,
young boys of fifteen or sixteen, in
girls’ clothes. Orders were issued
for the wealthiest and most influ
ential women to be taken first. I
was one of these.
“The soldiers came to my door.
I was on the step. ‘Come,’ they
said, ‘You must go first!’ I pro
tested. I asked them to let me get
some clothes, at least to go and
get my baby. They would not wait.
They seized me and dragged me
away. My little baby was lying on
the bed in the back room. I could
not see him. I could not even tell
him good-bye.
“I struggled to be free. I tried
to escape. They slapped me and
beat me and said, ’Why not come?
You are all going to die, anyway!
Not a single Armenian is to be left
alive! It is the orders of the Ger
man kaiser!' All I could do was to
cry to a woman who was not taken
to go back and ask my next-door
neighbor, a Turkish woman to whom
I had been kind, to look after my
little baby. I did not know then
whether the message was ever de
livered.
Babies Left to Die
“So we began our march —400 wom
en, many of them burdened with
children, walking barefoot beside 400
Turkish soldiers, the jandarma, who
rode horseback. As day after day
passed, many women were worn out.
The children were worn out, too. A
mother would carry her child until
the burden was too great. She would
kiss it good-bye and leave it to die.
Some mothers had three or four chil
dren. They would carry one a block,
then run back for another. But it
was too much for them.
“The jandarma were cruel. They
took all our clothes except one long
garment for every woman, like a
nightshirt They took our shoes,
they tore the jewels from our Angers,
the rings from our ears. They
would slap the women, and when they
refused to leave the children, they
would cut off the babies’
“So we went over heavy mountain
paths, rocky and hard. On every
side we passed corpses—here a
trunkless head and there just a leg
or a foot. Many dead babies strewed
the roadside. We were never out of
sight of them.
“Finally a halt was called. Twen
ty of the best looking women among
the four hundred were singled out
by the jandarma. We were told we
were going to be taken to Turkish
harems. Another girl, the daughter'
of a minister, and myself, ran back
into the crowd to hide oursel es. We
preferred death to the Turks.
“Among the jandarma was a Turk
we had known, a man who had been
a guest frequently at our house, who
had eaten our bread and salt. He
sought us out. Hp told us that un
less we went with the Turks, he
would reveal the identity of the
three boys, my brothers-in-law, we
had dressed in women’s clothes and
who was with us.
“To save the boys, we agreed to
go. There were twenty of us all
under eighteen and the’boys. The
jandarma put us all on horses, and
we set out. We knew it meant we
were to become the wives of Turks
and embrace the Mohammedan re
ligion, but we went for the sake of
the boys.
“One day we came to a river.
There they refused to let the boys
go further. They were going to
shoot them, they said. We begged
and pleaded. The captain said he
?L oUld , , the two youngest go on:
the third would have to die or go
back, he said. The Turk who had
been our friend i n the past agreed
to take him back. I consented to go
on, but my eyes were turned t 0 the
rear.
Saw the Sword Fall
“Up a mountain trail we went. I
looked bavk. At the river’s edge, I
saw the boy with his hands clasped
about the Turk’s waist, evidently
begging for life. I saw the Turk's
arm raised, I saw the sword fall, I
saw my brother-in-law slain. 1
screamed and fell from the horse.
“They put me back, and swore to
kill the other boys, too, if I did not
get quiet and go on with them.
There was nothing else to do. I
went.
“Well, the boys finally were sold
TtfVßktiAY, 2&, 1920.
into slavery, and we, the girls, were
scattered among different Turkish
We were told the German
government had issued orders tj
spare no Armenians, and they
should kill us, only they wanted us
for wives and were coming back
after us later.
"I was in a town with four other
girls. The minister’s daughter and
I were put with a Kurdish family.
Before long the women were ordered
deported. There was weeping and
wailing. All over the town, you
could hear nothing but that—the
weeping and wailing of women and
children.
; “1 did not know what to do. I
told the Kurdish woman at this
home I would give her all my money
and jewels I had secreted in my
own home, if she would hide me.
She agreed to do it. But the Bev
of the town heard we five girls were
in the town. He ordered us brought
to him for himself.
“The bey, the governor and sol
diers began to search the town. The
Kurdish woman took the minister’s
daughter and me to the cellar, where
they kept the cows. It was yards
deep in manure. She dug two holes
put us in them, covered us up over
our heads with manure, except for
two holes to breathe through. When
the soldiers came, we were invisible.
We stayed in the manure twenty
four hours, and when wh were re
leased, we were safe for he time
being. We found that all the men
had been killed and their heads cut
off, and all the women deported.
Her Baby Restored
'I lived in the town for months,
the slave of the Kurdish familv
During this time, I managed to send
word to my own town by a Turkish
boy, found my baby had been cared
tor by my neighbor, the Turkish
w °J” an -. an d had him brought to me.
Again orders came to find Ar
menian girls hiding the town and de
port them. Again I did not know
what to do. Before there was only
one of me. Now, with the baby, there
were two. I appealed to the Kurdish
woman again. This time she hid the
minister’s daughter and me in a pile
of hay in front of the house, and
kept the baby, telling the soldiers it
was hers. They searched high and
low for us. They ran their swords
and their bayonets through the hay
stack. If we had not hidden near
the top, we would have been killed.
But again we were saved.
“On this occasion, the Turks de
ported every one from the town but
one blind man, the richest Armenian
in the town, and three of the best
looking women. With my own eyes,
from the top of this house, I saw
the three women tied together and
killed with one shot, and I saw the
blind man, who was very old, tied
! to a donkey and cut into little pieces,
beginning as his toes and going up.
“During the eight months I was
I in the town, I preserved my safety
and my life by being kind to every
body, sewing for them, washing for
them, slaving for them. I was so
useful to the town that nobody re
vealed my whereabouts to the gov
ernor, not even the Bey.
“From the housetop I saw many
terrible sights'. I. saw two women,
a mother and daughter, brought into
the town. The mother was hanged.
I saw it. The girl was stripped, tied
to a stake and cleft open from skull
to feet by a Turk with a shovel.
I saw that, too. I suppose she would
not become a Mohammedan wife.
“I saw a mother and her two chil
dren shot at the same time. I saw
this —an Armenian girl, good-looking,
had become the wife of a Turk, • one
of his many wives. One day he told
her to go into the front yard and
pick Cantaloupes. As she stooped
down, her husband shot her from
the doorway and then went out and
hacked her to pieces. I was passing
by and satf it. But God struck him
down for his crime. He went crazy
and died six months later. So it
often happened.
Used Boys for Targets
“I saw 400 boys brought in front
of our house one day and placed
in a shallow trench. The trench was
half filled with dirt, so they could
not move. The Turks shot at them
as targets. The Turks killed them
all. ‘Hurrah for Turkey!’ they yell
ed, and I was told it was the orders
of the German government.”
That is only one year of Maryam
Ourfalyan’s story. She told it all,
but that is enough to show you what
the rest was—three more years of
horror. She almost starved to death
at one time. Finally she returned
to her old home, to find it laid in
ashes and her people gone. The only
Armenians in the town were 300, lit
tle children, and while she was th'ere,
they were driven out by Turkish sol
diers on horseback.
“I saw with my own eyes the
Turks gathering little children anl
putting three or five of them into
a big sack, and tieing the top to
gether and dragging them to the
river, where the sacks were thrown
in,” she sa'id. “I saw another Turk
take three children, saying, ‘I am
• going to have a good time with them.’
The Tiext day he took them down to
the river and killed them in three
different ways.”
Maryam was spared often because
she was supposed to have embraced
the Mohammedan religion. But al
ways, she said, she had her Bible
and hymn book secreted with her.
Her baby, which she was carrying
around with her, died from lack of
f °She finally went to Harpoot, where
the American consul helped her, she
said. For three years she lived on
his charity. On her way to Harpoot,
she said, she crossed the River Eu
phrates twice, and both times it ran
red with the blood of Armenians.
Her description of life in Harpoot,
the people skeletons, typhus-ridden,
dying on every street corner, was
terrible. , . . „
She finally escaped by crossing
the Turkish boundary into Arabia,
where she and another woman man
aged to get passage for America. She
had not heard from her brother in |
America for eight years, but she ,
located him through Armenian
friends, and reached Atlanta about
a month ago.
Maryan Ourfalyan concluded her
story with the following appeal to
the 'American people:
“Today there are hundreds of Ar
menian woAen and thousands of
children in the possesion of Turks.
I appeal to you, the American public,
will you not help us m getting our
freedom and liberty like you pos
tress? We need your help like you
did years back. You, the mighty na
tion, there was a time when you
had to fight for your freedom, and
you received it, but you were help
ed by a bigger nation. Will you
not help us to get these young wom
en and children away from the cruel
Turks? They are nothing but slaves
for them. You can help them in
many ways. There are today hun
dreds of Armenians that are fight
ing to maintain their recogi ized na
tion. If you wish to help you may
get In touch with me at 88 Hood
street.”
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