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ORDER NOW YOUR SUNDAY AMERICAN BOTH PHONES MAIN 8,000 nr* 1 he Atlanta Georgian Read for troru---GEQRGlAiS \frANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 238. WEATHER: FAIR. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 10,1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE r «° EXTRA Board Reports Conditions at the Asylum at Milledgeville 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 insane) feeble minded children, harmlose seniles and paralytics and persons es caping trial by pleas of lunacy. This i» 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 psycophathlc hospital is urged. $35,000,000 For U. S. Railroads in Alaska Congress Committee to Recommend Government Line—Private Roads ' Charged With Extortion. WASHINGTON. May 9 —A hill j providing for 'he construction of Government •railroads in Alaska to} cost $35,000,000 or more, will be re- | ported by the Committee on Terri- j tories as soon a? official reports from j the several departments can be col lected to be Included in the evidence | with *which the committee will de- j fend its bill. (3. 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 ANGE1.ES, 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. IF TARIFF 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 Gasps at Garb of C. Murphy Chicago Baseball Magnate Dazzles Broadway With Green Hat., Striped Suit and Spotted Vest. 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 chamois gloves. No Provision for Children. "No 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 are committed to the State Sanita rium. 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 oion has a bad effect on the insane persons' A hospital for epileptics Is gratulated the Pontiff upon his re- recommended; and it is suggested 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 day gave his first official audience since his recent illness, receiving the apostolic mission which attended the Eucharistic Congress at Malta. The members of tile mission con- 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. In 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 X, 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 weeks more in de bate on the floor. It also is 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. Four Progressives supported the bill and fourteen opposed it, while one Inde pendent Progressive joined with the majority. When Speaker Clark announced the vote In loud tones that revea’ed 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 was a rush of Representa tives for their homes. In the House adjournment will be taken three days at a t,ime beginning next week 'until June 1. j Winkles, Arrested, Pleads Self-Defense i Contractor Who Stabbed Architect , Hal Hentz Under $300 Bond. Victim in Hospital. J. A. Winkles, the East Point con tractor who stabbel Hal Hentz, well- known architect, Wednesday after noon in Ponce deLeon 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. that it should be named for T. O Powell because of the great service he haa rendered the’State along such lines. Negro Quarters 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 $40,000 is asked. There are 3.429 patients in the in stitution, 1,108 having been admitted this year. The’ dally average during 1912 was 3,424, an increase of 41 over 1911. The annual average increase during the last five years has beer. 89. Of eleven criminals committed, three were found to he sane. The average cost per patient last year was $153.06. The total income of the sanitarium was $530,000, There is an exceedingly high death rate among the negro patients Most of the deaths in the institution are from tuberculosis and pellagra, re cent increases in pellagra deaths be ing reported as startling. The report was submitted by John r. Brantly, president of the board. Other recommendations for changes In 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. CHILD BURNS TO DEATH PLAYING WITH MATCHES MACON. GA., May 9.—Emmett El lis, ten-vear-old son of A. J. Ellis, a Macon contractor, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the the laws governing the institution i home of D. B. Ellis, at Roberta, Crawford County, late yesterday aft- That the three nearest adult rela-j emoon. tives can. with the consent of the: The boy had been playing with Ordinary, waive the ten days notice j matc ), e9 | n {p e garret of the house victims f Se r ing n h C Jd ! ™ d " 18 opposed that the fire start- ten days. i that way. i 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 mbvement,” 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 over the location of the station. Mathis built its plea on its natural beauty. ‘Children Sold Like Animals in Illinois’ Conditions at ‘Baby Farms’ Scored by Head cf Legislative Investi gating Committee. 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 horses 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 chance that their parents, if they are known, ever will find them again." SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AT MACON. MACON, GA„ May 9,—S. D. Walk er, an East Macon blacksmith, to day ended his life with carbolic acid. Thli? was the ninth suicide here this year. Miss Nellie Pettis, at top. who testified against Frank at the inquest. Lillie Pettis ,her sister-in-law, former employee at the pencil factory. At file bottom, Mrs. JAPANESE ME DEFINITLSTM 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 Stare 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 could ^ive 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.—Homer Mearchum, a member of the A] 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 to commit suicide. His wife Florence, also a member of the company, would 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 Union. W. Va . and C. D. Martin, a business part ner, on a charge of embezzling $23,- 000 of the bank’s funds. Slayer of 8 Killed 2 Women in South Prisoner in Chicago Tells of Numer ous Crimes He Has Commit ted in Last Year. CHAMPAIGN, ILL., May 9. How ard Randolph, held here in connection with a local murder and w r ho con fessed he had killed eight persons, to-day made a statement to the po lice in which he named his victims. Randolph, according to the police, said he killed Captain Bates at Sto- nega. Va., in 1912; killed Miss Mamie Williams at Milksburg, Miss., May 10, 1912; shot and killed Carrie Connell, Vicksburg, Miss.; later killed a man in a quarrel over a girl at a theater in St. Louis; killed another man over a girl in St. Louis, and killed three other persons whose names he has forgotten. 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 Socialist Labor Star to-day, arresting Editor W. J. Thompson and W. 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. If you have anything to sell, adver tise in The Sunday American. Larg est circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. BrU.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 w’hich has been in spired by tvell-meant publicity." This is the crux of an official state ment from the board of examiners 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 been 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 conslderab e infiltrate at all and have not suffered from abscess formations. This would indicate that they must be under treatment a long time to effect a cure, as Dr. Friedmann stated that infii rate and abscess formations \ru dic&t-id more or less rapid progress toward cure. THE WEATHER. Forecase for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Friday and Sat urday. 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 lliijfli M. Dorsey said Friday afternoon that he had the best detective in America working on the mystery of the Mary Phagan strangling. important developments had ensued already, he declared, and he was confident that an early solution of the case would be reached by the new expert of national reputation who had been placed at work on the dews. The solicit or is understood to have ihe 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. The 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 |he matter to the authorities. Solicitor Dorsey, as his first action afn r 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 suopenas were issued for the witnesses to appear in his of fice to give testimony in the case of "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 house 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 the 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 oral testimony. However, it will be necessary 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 discussing the action of the Coroner’s jury. "We were confident we had presented sufftci- 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 io the full truth of the mys tery. We have a strongly supported theory as to who committed the crime, but we are ready at any time to change our opinions as soon as the 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 their possession. Even if nothing new should develop, we have enough leads to keep half a dozen detectives busy fpr a week.” Detectives Rosser. Campbell, Black, Starnes end 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- ‘Tliaw 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 Xev York, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, wife cf Hur ry Thaw, declared emphatically and positively that her husband h. the fa ther of bar baby, a fact w hich be de- nies*. •One has only to look at the little darling to know who its father i»,“ she -aid, hs she cuddled the infant. “Har ry is my husband ahd the father of my child. I love my \>aby and am go ing to see 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 ween In vaude ville in the United States. “I must live, and 1 think that 1 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 "1 love horses and I am sure that I can lake just as good care of them as any man. The city work would kill me in the summer time. I can beat some men at their own jobs at that. If I can get as good wages In the country as I can get here i 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 28 before he thinks of marriage,” «*sld President Lowell. “It is bette** that he launch his efforts into the world w'hile young. Bend a man to college at 40 and he will go to the dogs.” RELIEF FOR THE HOBBLED. MUNCIK. INI).. May 9.— Because the new' tight skirts makes it impos sible for women to step on the cars, the traction company here has or dered the steps lowered. M TV j J rr ft EXCLUSIVE FEATURE IN THE The Tom Watson 1 Know Sunday American