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ATLANTA, (IA., FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913.
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EDITION
Board Reports Conditions at the
Asylum at failledgeville Call for
Many Reforms — Governor Is
Asked to Move for Changes.
Provision for Care of Children of
Feeble Mind Badly Needed, Say
Directors—Protest Against the
Housing of “Lunatic-Convicts.”
Striking new methods of handling
patients in the Georgia State Sani
tarium at Milledgeville are urged in
the annual report of the board of di
rectors, submitted to Governor Brown
Friday. The most important recom
mendations are:
The enactment of a steriliza
tion law, applying to certain
classes of criminals and defec
tives. modeled after recently en
acted laws of New Jersey and
Indiana.
A ban on the commitment of
epileptics (not insarte), feeble
minded children, harmless seniles
and paralytics and persons es
caping trial by pleas of lunacy.
This is a hospital and not a pris
on.
The report declares that poor re
sults have been obtained at the insti
tution in the cure of insanity on .ac
count of the crowded conditions and
the lack of facilities for segregating
and treating the curable cases apart
from the criminal and hopelessly in
sane. A psycophathic hospital is
urged. ...
No Provision for Children.
**Xo provision is made in our State
educational system for the care and
treatment of feeble-minded children,’'
states the report. “Most of them are
capable of training that will aid in
their happiness and fit them for some
usefulness. Only the grosser types
committed to the State Sanita-
while the great majority are
allowed to grow up without care.
"Further commitment with the in
sane should be stopped and some-
adequate provision made by the
State for these children."
The report criticises the present
system of confining epileptics not in
sane in the sanitarium, pointing out
that association with crazy persons
tends to hopelessly depress them and
also has a bad effect on the insane
persons. A. hospital for epileptics is
recommended; \and ^t is suggested
that it should be named for T. O. |
Powell because of the great service ;
he has rendered the State along such j
lines. —
Negro Qua-ters Insanitary.
Alarming insanitary and over
crowded conditions in the negro
building are reported and the need
of $100,000 for an annex to this build
ing is said to be imperative. To.sep
arate the acute insane from the hope,
lessly insane an appropriation of
$135,000 is urged. For a nurses' home
$40,1/00 is asked.
There are 3.429 patients in the in
stitution, 1,108 having been admitted
this year. The daily average during
1912 was 3.424, an increase of 41 over
.1911. The annual average increase
during the last five years has beer.
•S9. Of eleven criminals committed,
three were found to be sane.
. average cost per patient last
was $153.06. The total income
sanitarium was $530,000.
There is an exceedingly high death
rate among the negro patients. Most
deaths in the institution are
tuberculosis and pellagra, re
increases in pellagra deaths be-‘
ing reported as startling.
The report was submitted by John
T. Brantly, president of the board.
Other recommendations for changes
in the laws governing the institution
are:
That
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$35,000,000 For U. S.
Railroads in Alaska
Congress Committee to Recommend
Government Line—Private Roads
* Charged With Extortion.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—A bill j
providing for the construction of.
Government railroads in Alaska to;
cost $35,000,000 or more, will be re- j
ported by the Committee on Terri
tories as soon as official reports from .
the several departments can be eol-
lected to be included in the evidence
with which the committee will de
fend its bill.
O. L. Dickinson, of the White Pass
and Yukon Railroad, testified that pri
vate transportation companies have
exacted prohibitive rates on tonnage
and delayed the development of the
country.
Jeffries Offered Job
As Sparring Partner
Gunboat Smith Wants Immediate
Answer—Ex-Heavyweight Cham
pion Recovers From Shock.
LOS ANGELES. May 9.-—Jim Jef
fries, former heavyweight champion
of the world, is said to be slightly
improved to-day following a fainting
spell in which he succumbed yester
day After he got the following tele
gram from Gunboat Smith, who is to
box Jess Willard in San Francisco
May 20:
“Do you want to come. North and
act as my sparring partner? An
swer immediately.”
It is said that even Jack Johnson’s
knockout punch did not pain Jeff as
much as Smith's offer of a sparring
partner’s job.
are
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New York Gasps at
Garb of C. Murphy
Chicago Baseball Magnate Dazzles
Broadway With Green Hat, Striped j
Suit and Spotted Vest.
OF TIFF BILL
Received From House and Re
ferred—Hearings Are Secret.
Expect Vote in Nine Weeks.
ANTICIPATE MANY CHANGES
Democrats Rejoice as Representa
tives Pass Underwood Measure
by Vote of 281 to 139.*
NEW YORK, May 9.—Gotham is
gasping to-day over the raiment that
decorated the form of C. Webb Mur
phy, owner of the Cubs, when he ap
peared on the streets to-day.
Murphy wore a green velvet hat
with a fancy bow, a tan overcoat
with a velvet collar, a sassy looking
black nd white striped suit, green
vest with cream colored spots, a
green tie with black stripes, white
silk stockings, very light colored tan
shoes and charfiois gloves.
Pope Again Giving
Official Audiences
Aged Pontiff Still Very Thin and
Colorless, but Shows Unex
pected Strength.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, May 9.—Pope Pius X to.- I
day gave his first official audience j
since his recent illness, receiving the I
apostolic mission which attended the
Eucharistic Congress at Malta.
The members of the mission con
gratulated the Pontiff upon his re
covery and in turn received the Pa
pal blessing.
The Pontiff still is very thin and
his usually ruddy face is colorless,
but he shows unexpected strength. %
Hobble Blamed for
Arson Trust's Origin
Merchants. Unable to Sell Old
Styles, Called on Firebugs to
Destroy Worthless Stocks.
CHICAGO, May 9.—Changes in
styles which rendered worthless thou
sands of dollars’ worth of stock in
women's clothes was one of the fac
tors that fostered the arson trust, ac
cording to Assistant State’s Attorney
Frank Johnson.
Dealers, finding themselves stocked
with clothing that could not be sold
when women decided to wear tight
skirts, called the torch men into help,
Johnson asserted.
WASHINGTON. May 9.--- Shortly
after the Senate convened to-day the
Underwood tariff bill was brought
over from the House, read and re
ferred to the Finance Committee.
Tn the Finance Committee the
schedule was assigned to sub-com
mittee No. 1, composed of Senators
Stone, Thomas. James and Simmons,
and the wool schedule to No. 2—
Senators Williams, Shively, Gore and
Simmons. The remaining schedules
were divided equally between sub
committees 1, 2 and 3.
Hearings on the bill will be behind
closed doors, the Democrats having
decided that public hearings would
consume too much time. It is ex
pected that three weeks will be used
by the committee in considering the
measures, and six w r eeks more in de
bate on the floor.
It also if considered certain that
a number of changes will* be made in
the measure, necessitating its refer
ence to the conference of the House
and Senate members.
On the final test in the House last
night the vote was 281 to 139, five
Democrats voting against the bill and
two Republicans voting for it. Pour
Progressives supporlecl the Uni and
tourteen opposed it, while one Inde
pendent Progressive joined with the
majority.
When Speaker Clark announced the
vole in loud tones that revealed his
satisfaction exhuberant Democrats
hoisted a stuffed Democratic donkey
over the heads of their colleagues
in the rear of the chamber, a ripple of
applause followed and the gavel fell
on the first chapter in the history of
President Wilson’s extra ^session of
Congress.
With the bill on its way to the Sen
ate, there w r as a rush of Representa
tives for their homes. In the House
adjournment will be taken three days
at a time beginning next week until
June 1.
Wiley, 'Cow Center,'
Loses Depot Fight
Mathis Is Given Station by State
Railroad Commission—Victor
Cited Its Beauty.
Wiley, the “natural center of the
cow movement,” and the most popu
lous town of the vicinity, with twen
ty-three persons, loses its fight for
an agency station on the Tallulah
Falls Railroad.
By order of the Georgia Railroad
Commission, Mathis is the victor.
The Tallulah Falls Railroad has been
instructed to build a station there
and put an agent in charge.
Both towns are in Rabun County.
They engaged in excited strife ovei*
the location of the station. Mathis
built fts plea on its natural beauty.
‘Children Sold Like
Animals in Illinois’
Conditions at ‘Baby Farms’ Scored by
Head of Legislative Investi
gating Committee/
the three nearest adult rela-
can. with the consent of the
Ordinary, waive the ten days’ notice
of trial for lunacy. This i? to prevent
victims being held in jail during the
ten days.
CHILD BURNS TO DEATH
PLAYING- WITH MATCHES
MACON. GA., May 9.—Emmett El
lis, ten-year-old son of A. J. Eilis, a j
Macon contractor, was burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
home of D. B. Ellis, at Roberta,
Crawford County, late yesterday aft
ernoon.
The boy had been playing with
matches in the garret of the house
and it is supposed that the fire start
ed that way. — «
PEORIA, ILL., May 9.—Acting
Chairman S. E. Lloyd of the Illinois
House committee investigating "baby
farms” to-day bitterly denounced
conditions which the committee has
found.
“They think more of hay and horse*
in Illinois than they do of children,”
he said. “We found that babies have
been bartered and sold like animals;
that they have been sent out of the
State without any chatice that their
parents, if they are known, eve: will
find them again.’’
Winkles, Arrested,
Pleads Self-Defense
Contractor Who Stabbed Architect
Hal Hentz Under $300 Bond.
Victim in Hospital.
J. A. Winkles, the Hast Point con
tractor who stabbel Hal Hentz, well-
known architect. Wednesday after
noon in Ponce dcLeon Avenue, has
been arrested and his bond fixed at
$300. The case has not been set for
trial, as the wounded man still is in
the hospital.
Winkles asserted that he acted in
self-defense. Hentz having attacked
him. The trouble grew out of a dis
pute over work on a new home for
Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Ponce de-
Leon Avenue.
Bryan Sets Record
For Low Expenses
Trip of Cabinet Member and His
Secretary to California Cost
U. S. Only $187.
WASHINGTON. May 9 —An econ
omy record in official Cabinet ex
pense accounts has .been made by
Secretary of State Bryan.
He turned in an account of but
$187 for Pullman fares, hotel accom
modations and incidental expenses in
curred upon his recent trip to Cali
fornia by himself and his private sec
retary, Robert Rose.
Railroad mileage was not included.
ESI DETECTIVE IN IE
SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AT MACON.
MACON, GA., May 9.—S. D. Walk
er, an East Macon blacksmith, to
day ended his life with carbolic acid.
This was the ninth suicide here this
year.
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Lillie Pettis ,her sister-in-law, former employee at the pencil factory.
JAPANESE UHL
Bryan, After a Conference With
Ambassador Chinda, Presents
Views at Cabinet Meeting.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—Viscount
Chinda, Japanese Ambassador, had a
conference with Secretary of Sta
Bryan to-day. which lasted 27 min
utes. and at which the Japanese dip
lomat presented Japan’s views on the
California anti-alien land law.
At the close of the conference Am
bassador Chinda said: “I can say
nothing about the results of the con
ference.”
Secretary Bryan declared he couii
give no intimation of the result of the
conference, and left immediately for
the White House to attend the Cabi
net meeting, where the Japanese sit
uation was discussed at length.
ALMOST DIES BECAUSE OF
WIFE’S MISCHIEVOUS EYES
SAVANNAH, GA., May 9.—Horn i
Mearchum. a member of the A I Shaf
fer Company, playing at the Princess
Theater, to-day is in a hospital suf
fering from the effects of wood al
cohol taken last night with intent t >
commit suicide. His wife Florence,
also a member of »lie company, wduid
not make her eyes behave.
HELD FOR $28 000 SHORTAGE.
WHEELING, W. VA.. May 9.—The
Grand Jury to-day indicted M. S.
Summers, cashier of the First Na
tional Bank of West I’nion. VV. Va ,
any C. I). Martin, a business part
ner. on a charge of embezzling $23.-
000 of the bank’s funds.
Militia Raids Office
Of W. Va. Newspaper
Editor and Assistants Arrested on
Order of Governor Who Was
Attacked in Publication.
HUNTINGTON. W. VA.. May 9. —
National Guardsmen, headed by Ma
jor Thomas B. Davis, raided the
newspaper plant of The Social:M
Labor Star to-day, arresting Editor
W. J. Thompson and VV. H. Gillespie
and Elmer Rumble, assistants. The
trio were placed in jail.
The raid was inspired by Governor
H. D. Hatfield, who recently was at
tacked by the paper in connection
with the West Virginia coal strike.
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BY 11. S. EXPERTS
Results of Friedmann Treatment
Do Not Justify Confidence,
Health Board Reports.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—“Effects
of the Friedmann cure thus far ob
served do not justify the confidence
in the remedy which has been in
spired by well-meant publicity.”
This is the crux of an official state
ment from the board of examiners .if
the public health service, delivered
by Dr. John F. Anderson before the
American Congress of Physicians and
Surgeons in Washington to-day.
Dr. Anderson said harm may have
born done by undue publicity in less
ening the confidence of tuberculosis
victims in well-recognized methods >f
treatment.
With respect to the patients under
examination in New York, he said
many have developed no considerable
infiltrate at all and have not suffered
from abscess formations. This would
indicate that they must be under
treatment a long time to effect 1
cure, as Dr. Friedmann stated that
infiltrate and abscess formations ir>-
dicated more or less rapid progress
toward cure.
THE WEATHER.
Forecase for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Friday and Sat
urday.
SAYS DORSEY
Solicitor Dorsey Says He Has Se-
. cured Powerful Aid in Search for
Slayer of Girl—Woman Says She
Heard Screams in Pencil Factory.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey said Friday afternoon that
lie had the best detective in America working on the mystery of the
Mary Phagan strangling.
Important developments had ensued already, he declared, and
lm was confident that an early solution of the ease would be reached
fly the new expert of national reputation who had been placed at
work on the clews.
The solicitor is understood to have the affidavit of a woman
who swears that she heard a girl 's screams as she was passing the
factory at 4:30 o’clock the afternoon of the tragedy. The cries
were shrill and piercing, she says, and died away as she stopped
an instant to listen.
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‘Thaw Is Father of
Child/ Wife Repeats
•‘And I’m Going to See Our Baby Is
Treated Justly by Harry’s
Relatives,’ She Adds.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PLYMOUTH. ENGLAND, May 9.—
Upon her arrival here to-day on
board the liner Olympic from New
York, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, wife of Har
ry Thaw, declared emphatically and
positively that her husband iy the fa
ther of her baby, a fact which he de
nier.
“One has only to look at the little
darling; to know who its father is,” she
said, as she cuddled the infant. “Har
ry is my husband and the father of
my child. 1 love my baby and am go
ing to sec that it is justly treated by
relatives of my husband.”
Mrs. Thaw said she was going to
return to the stage at once. She has
signed contracts, she said, to appear
in music halls in London at $5,000 a
week, and later will be .«een in vaude
ville in the United States.
“I must live, and I think that I will
be able to make a success,” she ex
plained.
This Maud Muller
Wants to Rake Hay
She’s Also Anxious to Plow. She De
clares, in Application for
Farm Job.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 9.—“I want
to plough, clean house, make hay and
drive binders in the field,” says Grace
Simpson in her application to the
Devils Lake Commercial Club for a
chance to do the same work on a
farm as a man would.
“The day is past when it is out of
the ordinary for a girl to labor at
men’s work.” Miss Simpson asserted
“I love horses and I am sure that
I can take just as good care of them
as any man. The city work would
kill me in the summer time. I can
heat some men at their own jobs at
that. If I can get as good wages in
the country as I can get here 1 shall
leave immediately.”
Marry Young, Urges
Harvard President
‘Send Man of 40 to College and He’ll
Go to Dogs,’ Declares
Lowell.
CHICAGO, May 9.—President A.
Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Uni
versity, to-day advised the bachelors
of the Harvard Club of Chicago to
marry early.
“It is neither well for a man nor
his community that he wait until he
is 2S before he thinks of marriage,”
President Lowell. “It is bette r
that he launch his efforts into the
world while young. Send a man to
college at 40 and he will go to the
dogs."
RELIEF FOR THE HOBBLED.
MUNCIE. IND., May 9.—Because
the new fight skirts makes it impos
sible for women to step on the cars,
the traction company here lias or
dered the steps lowered.
woman was sure they
came from inside the factory, but
she gave little attention to her
startling experience until she
read of the strangling of Mary
Phagan. Then it occurred to her
that she very likely had heard
the dying cries of the little girl
and she reported the matter to
the authorities.
Solicitor Dorses, as his first action
after the holding of Leo M. Frank and
Newt Lee to the Grand Jury for the
murder of Mary Phagan, put out the
dragnet for witnesses.
A batch of s’ubpcnas were issued
for the witnesses to appear in his of
fice to give testimony in the case >f
“The State vs. John Doe.”
After a long conference with De
tectives Starnes and Campbell, Solici
tor Dorsey asserted that action on
the part of the Grand Jury might be
expected any time after Friday. He
plainly intimated that a special ses
sion of the jury might be convened
Saturday to consider the Phagan
murder.
The Solicitor declared as he left the
court huu-o with a private detective
whose name he refused to divulge
that he anticipated the development
of startling evidence before night,
which, he said, would clear matters
materially.
Dorsey Questions Newt Lee.
With the private detective the So
licitor went to tlie Tower and was
closeted with Newt Lee, the night
watchman, for more than an hour.
The form of the subpena is taken
to mean that many of the witnesses
will submit their sworn testimony
before the Solicitor General, who will
thus have it in documentary form, in-
stead of going before the Grand Jury
to give ora! testimony. However, it
will be nece»?«ry for the material or
indicting witnesses to go before the
Grand Jurors in person.
“The investigation has just be
gun.” said Chief of Detectives Lan-
ford Friday, in dis< ussing the action
of the Coroner’s jury. "We were
confident we had presented suffici
ent evidence to warrant the holding
of the two suspects in the case, but
we will have much more when the
case gets into the courts.
Have -Strong Theory Already.
“We are going to continue right on
with the investigation and try to dig
down to the full truth of the mys
tery. We have a. strongly supported
theory as to who committed the
crime, but we a.re ready at any lime
to change our opinions as soon as
th* evidence points in another direc
tion.
“It will be possible, with the rush
and hurry of the Coroner’s jury
passed, for my men to work with
more deliberation and care and to
sift with a greater thoroughness
every bit of evidence that comes into
theii possession. Even if nothing
new should develop, w'e have enough
leads to keep half a dozen detectives
busy for a week.”
Detectives Rosser. Campbell. Black.
Starnes and Bullard are still work
ing with the chief on the case and
probably will continue until the mys
tery is cleared.
Lemmie Quinn, foreman in the tip-
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