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PRESBYTEIIINS,
SOUTH,ON UNION
Question of Basis of Proposed
Amalgamation Postponed 2
Years. 1,706,459 Bibles Dis
tributed.
Kansas City.—When th* general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church In
the United State* (Southern), in ses
sion here, decided last night to sub
mit the proposed basis of union be
tween the Southern Presbyterians and
the United Presbyterian Church of
North America to a referendum vote
of the presbyteries, the final settle
ment of the Question was postponed
at least two years. If three-fourths
of the presbyteries approve the basis
of union the general assembly of S9J j
will direct them to vote directly on
the question next year and the result
will be reported to the general as,-
aembly of 1916.
Rev. L. E. McNair of Nashville,
Tenn., today presented a report which
told of the work of the American Bi
ble Society acting in conjunction with
the various denominations.
Last year 1,706,459 Bibles were dis
tributed through the nine home agen
cies. This was an increase of 280,2-2
volumes over the preceding year. No
account was taken in these figures of
the society’s distribution of Bible*
through the trade. The total Issue for
the year was five and a half million
copies, an increase of more than one
million over the year before. In com
menting on the report. Rev. M. I>. Por
ter of Richmond. Va., asserted that tin*
best way to Americanize immigrants
was through the Bible.
"if we could put the Bible into the
bands of every immigrant who enters
our country the problem would be
solved,” he said.
The remaining business, cbiff of
which is the discussion of the report
of the ;\ Lunatic beneficence commit
tee, will be rushed in the hope of afcl
yaiming Thursday.
Oh Capital Punishment.
Chicago. —A large amount of mis
cellaneous business occupied tho Pres
byterian general assembly today. The
report of the, committee on prison re
form still was before the assembly,
so much time having been devoted to
a clash over capital punishment that
consideration of the subject as a whoU*
whs postponed By a negative vote
the assembly refused to admit religion
sanction f<»r the death penalty.
The report of the committee on home
missions, which, It is said, overshad
ows other questions before this as
sembly, Is on the program for tomor
row and that of the standing commit
tee) on Thursday. The assembly will
adjourn Friday and the last day is i
crowded with Important subjects.
FRANK APPEAL
SIGNED TODAY
Bill of Exceptions Probably
Presented to the Court Late
This Afternoon.
Atltanta. -Indication* were Monday
tint! It will bo lute Tuesday afternoon
before the bill of exceptions on which
the extraordinary motion for a new
trial lor la-o Prank on the ground of
r.ow evidence, will be presented to
Judge Hen II Mill for hi* alKuattire .
Tuesday i« the last day on which
the appeal ran be made hy the 1e
tense The bill of exceptions must
be accompanied by u brief of the ev
idence, and the solicitor objected last
Saturday to the signing of the papers
on the ground that certain affidavits
were not covered In sufficient length.
Monday the solicitor was still
checking tip the brief, and lie will
have to meet the defense and Hgroe
on changes before th court signs the
bill. Judge Mill set Monday at 3
o'clock as the hour for signing the pa
l ets, but they were not ready then.
Judge Mill has not fixed a definite
date for hearing charges of contempt
oT court against William J. Hums
and Man B I a lum The hearing of
the motion to set aside the Frank
verdict on the ground that he was
Pot In court Is still set (or next Krl
day, but It Is probable a further de
lay mac asked because the work on
the bill ot exceptions In the other
motion has required so niitah of th#
solicitor's time.
GRAND JURY 10 PROBE
COUNTY COMMISSION
Atlanta, Ga.—After It lias completed
It* Frank iih tn\ ••nl iki«i ioiih which
tuny put ao i e private detective* amt
alleged perjurer* behind the l>ur*. the
Fulton county grand Jury, It I* report
ed. I* going to take up nnd probe the
county txiard of emnml*«ionera. The
reuucat for u probe of alleged Irregn
lnrltle* eon <t* direct lituii Tull O.
Water*, chairman of the board, and
git* pica will be, backed tip by Tom
Winn another board member.
C'harßei. made In the recent political
campaign ladled right down to their
la*t anal.vai* amounted to an aecuna
tion of graft against some of the board
member*.
"While I do not helleve nny graft
will be found,” *ald Mr Winn till*
morning. "I think. It I* due the public
and llic board that an tnvcatlgatlon be
mad«.”
Charge* against member* of the
board were placed In Solicitor Ikir
eey'a hand* aonte month* ago. but he
tietrr did anything about It. Ills ex
cu*e for nol presenting them to th«
grand jury t* that he was too busy
with the Frank caae.
MR E. S ORMNE AND MR
H M RYAN IN AUGUSTA
Announcement I* made that a sub
agent will soon he selected In Augus
ta to sell lots on the Isle of Palm*
for Mr. 8 »1 Hatenel Messrs K.B
Oraene and H. M Ryan, of Charles
ton. are in the city stopping at the
Albion. They are nutting on the mar
ket the Isle of Palma lot*.
You’ve tried the rest, now
buy Ihe best —SENSATION is
the brand.
LOW PRICE FOR
GEORGIA BEEF
$4.50 Paid for State Cattle
Per Hundred as Compared
With $8.50 in Rhode Island.
Washington, D. C. -Farm prices for
beef cattle advancer! • »a <• than three
per cent but average quotations for hogs
and sheep were lower on April 15th than
on that dale in 1913, figures prepared by
the Department of Agriculture stated to
day. Cattle prices last month were
$5.29 a hundred, an advance of twenty
one cents. State averages of prices f (ft
beef cattle showed great variat on. Low- j
est averages were In Alabama. Georgia i
nnd Mississippi- $4.30, $4.50 and $4.40,
respectively, compared with $8.50 In
Rhode Island, the highest; $7.60 In New
Hampshire and $7.50 in New Jersey.
The average hog price to producers on
April 15th was $7.80 a hundred, 14 cents
less than on that date last year. The
lowest state average was $6.10 in Florida
and the highest $9.60 in Rhode Island
and Connecticut.
The average farm price for sheep was
$4.96, compared with $5.16 a year ago.
LIMITATIONS IN
Time LOSSES
Att’y for 200 American Claim
ants Discusses Decision of
U. S. Supreme Court.
New York. —A L. Brougham, attor
ney for about 200 Titanic claimants,
made the following statement regard
ing Iho supremo court’s decision yes
terday:
"The supreme court’s decision as
announced tn Washington dispatches
does not go further than to hold that
the case is to he judged in accordance
with the provisions of the American
statute. These provisions are to the
tho effect that If the steamship com
pany can show that the disaster se
cured without Is knowledge or privity
then it will lm entitled to a limitation
of liability to $91,000.
"The claimants will still contend
that even under the American law the
steamship company is not entitled to
this limitation because the accident
was due largely to the failure of the
steamship company ItHelf, In the de
signing and equipment of the ship,
especially in the failure to furnish
sufficient life boats. The English
courts tiave already held that Ihe
steamship company was responsible
for tho disaster.
TENTH DISTRICT
SCHOOL CLOSES
Fourteen Graduated From the
Tenth District Agricultural
College. Splendid Year En
joyed by School.
Granite Hill, Ga. —The annual com
mencement of the Tenth District Ag
ricultural College was held Mondny
anil there wUh a largo crowd present.
The school has just closed a most
successful year and under the able
leadership of Prof. McGee It Is des
lined to make an even better suc
cess next year. All of the teachers
were re-elected with one exception.
At the commencement exercises were
members of the board of trustees and
a meeting of the board was held yes
torda.v morning when the teachers
were chosen There were 14 grad
uates. The following program was
rendered
Tenth District Agricultural School
Commencement Day, Monday,
May 25th, 10 O'clock a. M.
Program.
l'lano Solo, “Falling Heaves, Miss
Velma Walker.
Invocation, Rev W. O. Young
Chorus, "Pretty Primrose Flower,"
Graduating Class.
President's Address, Marshall Guilt.
Salutatory. Miss Hesste Hauler.
Cliss Hegaev. Wilbur Franklin
Class Poem, Miss ltosa Gibson
Plano Solo. "Hungarian Fantasy,"
Mia Et fie Walker.
Valedictory Kcliel Thompson
Duet, 'Sliver Spray,” Misses Klsle
Hrndley and Velma Walker.
Literary Vddress. lion R P Mavis
Presentation of Diplomas fcv Hon
W W. Hamilton, chairman of Hoard
of Trustees
GROCERS 10 SIOP
SOLICITING ORDERS
The grocers who solicit order* daily
on The Hill section of the city, null.'
bertng seven, will, begftintfig June let,
discontinue the practice, agreeing wit'll
the Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation that time and money I* h«•
In this way. Alter till* lime grocery
orders will be taken over the tele
phone.
The M. A. M. aome fen wei k» ago
started a campaign to get all local
grocers to co-operate tn a plan to stop
the house-to-tuni** soliciting with a
wagon or other vehicle, aud the cam
paign will lie wug<at. tt Is learned, till
the chanae in custom is unanimous
The seven grocers who have agreed
with the M ai M are exerting their
Influence to have their fellow grocery
men In all parts of the city take simi
tar action.
A meeting of the retail grocers will
he held tonight tn the room* of the
Merchant* and Manufacturer* Associ
ation, when every grocer In Augusta
will be urged to co-operate tn the re
form.
Those who have agreed to discon
tinue soliciting for orders after June
Ist ure J 1. Janes \ i'«y, Castle
\ \\ tlcox. T v Mahoney, Marks
Grocery Company, The HIIT Grocery.
John K. tankman. J U. Whit. A Co,
and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company.
DISMISS CASTS
BOHNS, LEHON
Judge Hill Says Detectives
Have Purged Themselves.
Actions Not Intended to be
Contemptuous.
Atlanta, Ga- —The contempt cases
against W. J. Burns, the detective and
ban his employee, were dis
missed here today by Superior Court
Judge Ben H. Hill. In dismissing the
cases, Judge Hill said that while the
detectives were technically in con
tempt for having sent a witness con
nected with the Frank case outside the
Jurisdiction of the court, they had
purged themselves by returning the
witness and by their assurances to
the court that their action was not
intended to be contemptuous. The de
fendants thereupon were dismissed.
It has been charged that the detec
tives after securing an affidavit from
a negress, which was introduced as
evidence in connection with Leo M.
Frank's motion for a new trial had
sent the woman outside the state and
that this action had been in contempt
of court. The woman later was brought
back to Atlanta by the detectives.
NO RAIN IN SIGHT
SAYS WEATHER MAN
Forecast for Partly Cloudy
Tonight and Tomorrow. Very
Slight Drizzle Today.
Augustans may have thought at one
time today when the rain clouds hov
ered over the city that the long drouth
—the longest on record for this sea
son of the year—would be broken, but
no such good luck. A mist that was
not easily noticeable fell for a few
mtnutCH before noon.
To be on the safe side about the
weather, the most uncertain thing
known, the forecaster was called up
over the phone and, replying to the
question, said that he did not antici
pate any, nor was any in sight in
this section.
Reports from the southern part of
the Htate indicate that rain is looked
for there probably within the next 21
hours. This doesn’t alter the situa
tion here, however.
The temperature around here w«.s
somewhat on the blink today. Short
ly after noon the mercury registered
75 degrees, when at the same time
yesterday it was eight degrees warme-
Last Saturday and Sunday it wa£
sultry. The temperature went to 94
both days, and the heat was all the
more oppressive on account of a puf
fy. dry, hot wind from the west, the
average velocity of which was about
six miles per hour. The cooler tem
perature today was a relief, although
the need of rain continues to be felt.
American Unitarian Ass’n
Thinks Name Inadequate
Boston.—ncciiiesls amounting to
$168,000 wore announced in the annual
report of Henry M. Williams, treas
urer, submitted to the 89th annual
meeting of the American Unitarian
Association today.
The name "Unitarian” was charac
terized ns Inadrqunte in the report of
the secretary, Rev. Hew is G, Wilson.
"If we are to take advantage of the
world wide opportunities awaiting us,"
the report said, “we should have for
our practical use, or at least as an
alternative, a new and more adequate
name. We hold no attitude of hostil
ity towards any religious body. Jt Is
our mission to instruct, enlighten and
harmonize the churches of Christen
dom but the name we bear often pre
vents ue from carrying out our pur
pose."
BRIDE AND GROOM TO
CROSS THE CONTINENT
ON A MOTORCYCLE
Atlanta, Ga —Romance and the wan
derlust arc not dead In Atlanta. This
morning's bright May dawn saw (wo
adventuresome souls, w. H. Flahefty
and his pretty girl-wife, on a motor
cycle built for two, set out blithely to
cross the continent awheel, with At
lanta as their starting poin t and
Frisco ns their destination.
Many a weary office worker who
knew of their going followed them
along the road with his thoughts,
through the green valleys and over the
wooded hills and far away.
Neither of them have very much
money. They are Just every-day folks,
both former employes of a telegraph
company, who got married, and sud
denly decided that life was so full of
so many beautiful things that they
couldn't stand it any longer to be
cooped up in an office with the dead
ening routine of office grind.
Whatever betide them on their long
journey, they were two gloriously
bappv and carefree people a# they
waved Atlanta goodbye tills morning.
You’ve tried the rest, now
buv the best—SENSATION is
the brand.
Good News About
Ladies’ Suits
Just think of taking a whole lot of
lovely Spring Suits, all up to dule and
New York styles, and saying to the
women of this city and vicinity;
Here's a suit, supreme In style, qual
ity and workmanship the price is $35;
you can have It for just $25, and pay
In small weekly amounts.
That'* Just what The Menter Co are
doing with all Ijeltra' .Suits, Twenty
five dollar suits are now S2O; S2i.JO
suits, now $18; S2O suits, now $16.50,
and sls suits are sls.
Never before have The Menter Co
shown such a large and superb stock
of ladles smart wearing apparel.
If any woman w ants a spring suit or
coat, a silk or wash dreas. a silk or
"ash waist, or a fascinating trimmed
bat don't let lack of money prevent
you geettng It. The Menter Co, at Sid
Broad Street, Augusta. Ga, extend the
most liberal of generous credit to all
andbeln gth e largest credit clothiers
In the world can and do sell on tta>
payments at cash store prices.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
J. G. GELDING ELECTED HEAD
GEORGIA BARAGA ASSOCIATION
Succeeds Mr. Mclntosh of
Albany. 'Convention Meeting
at St. John Sunday School
Adjourned at 2 P. M.
NEXT CONVENTION CITY
LEFT TO COMMITTEE
Delegates to National Conven
tion Chosen. Barbecue and
Reception Last Night at
Lake View Park.
With the benediction pronounced by
Rev. A. D. Echols of this city, the
convention of the State Baraca Asso
ciation, which has been in session in
Augusta since Sunday, adjourned. The
place for the 1915 convention, by vote
of the convention, was left to the de
cision of the executive committee. A
special meeting of this committee was
expected to be called for the pur
pose.
Officer*.
The officers of the association elect
ed this afternoon for tho coming year
are:
President—J. G. Belding, Augusta.
Ist Vice President—O. A. Love, Ma
con.
2nd Vice President—N. F. William
son. Rome.
3rd Vice President—H. S. Langsford,
Monroe./
4th Vice President—J. L. Wilson,
Cordele.
Treasurer—J. J. Williamson, Macon
(re-elected).
Secretary—J. J. West, Albany (re
elected).
Delegate* to National Convention.
Delegates from the state associa
tion to the national convention, which
will he held at Waco, Texas, June 6-10,
were elected as follows: J. G. Belding,
Augusta.; (C. Teague, Columbus and
G. G. Singleton, Cuthbert. Alternates:
O. A. Love, Macon, first; T. L. Camp,
Atlanta, second, and G. H. Baldow
ski, Augusta, third.
Some interesting Facts.
Interesting points of the convention
Just adjourned in this city follow:
Two hundred and forty-six classes
in Georgia.
Total membership in state, 19,680.
Contributed for alj purposes, $53.-
947.50. including donations to church
building funds, the building of class
rooms, foreign and homo missions,
banquets, socials, etc.
Socially.
Socially the most enjoyable featu
res of the Barack convention here
was the delightful ’cue and reception
later in Ihe evening yesterday at I.ake
'lew Park. There were five hundred
or more Baracas and Philatheas and
their friends at the barbecue, which
was declared to he one of the most
sumptuous and delicious repasts ever
spread at Lake View. There was
plenty for all. The credit is special
ly duo to Mr. Henry Saxon and his
competent committee for the splendid
preparation of the 'cue.
Yesterday Eveninq.
Yesterday; evening’s session was
held at the Casino beginnig at 8:110
o'clock, when Mr. N Buckner, of Ashe
ville, N. C„ addressed the Barovas
nnd their friends assembled in the
theater on “Individual Duty.” The talk
was very much eiMoyed.
Rev. M. Ashby-'uones, pastor of the
First Baptist church, delivered the
other address of the evening, speaking
on "Service—The Living Use of Uife.”
Tt Is unnecessary to make any com
ment on any address of Dr. Jones, for
they are all good and are always ap
preciated by those who hear them to
the very limit.
Reception,
At 9:30 p. m. the big reception for
the Horaces was held by the Phila
tlleus in the Casino. It was an es
pecially beautiful event and the warm
est congeniality reigned. Everybody
got acquainted, and after all this was
the real purpose of the reception.
Verbal invitations from cities desir
ing the I9U> convention of the State
MaraCa Association were made yester
day atternoon at the business session.
Columbus, deciding that she would
confine her efforts to getting the dou
ble convention of the Baraeas nnd
Philathegs in 1916, dropped from the
contest. Albany nnd Thomasvllle.
which were expected to issue Invita
tions, also dropped out. leaving in the
running only Rome and Dalton. Both
of these cities, had representatives to
take the platform yesterday afternoon
and make strong appeals to the con
vention for their respective towns. The
fight, while very warm, was conduct
ed good-naturedly. Speaking fur Dal
ton W'ns Mr. K. E. Arnett and for Rome
Mr. N. F. Williamson. ..
Dalton or Rome.
l.etters and telegrams were read
from the churches and other institu
tions of the town hy Dalton’s repre
sentative The Dalton man said that
bis town was proud of their sister city
Home and that It was not too fnr away
to Invite the Hannas of that place
over to Dalton to assist at the meeting,
should the convention go to Dalton.
On the other hand the Rome repre
sentative stated that it was Dalton
that w is near to Rome and not Rome
near to Dalton. He then proceeded
to give Rome's good reasons for In
viting the convention to that city next
year. Both Mr. Williamson and Mr.
Arnett seemed to deeply Impress the
convention, and tt was hard to tell
> esterday afternoon which city would
w In.
ATTACK, TALLULAH FALLS
POWER FAILED AGAIN
Atlanta, Ga>—The new- attack mads
oil the men who are developing Tal
| lulah Falls nnd furnishing electric
! power to sections of Georgia which
i have long neded it nnd never before
j could get It. hns proven as groundless
ns were those which went tip In thin
smoke when the Georgia Railway .St
l’owcr Company was first formed.
Lance M. Parsons, the man In whose
, name the Injunction suit was brought.
1 now admits he wns all wrong, that he
I had Keen misinformed, that many al
legations In his bill were Incorrect; In
short, that a great Injustice had been
! done the power company tn bringing
I the suit at all.
Now the entire case is out of court,
! and the company Is free to go on un
! hampered wilh Its big developments
which. Indeed, have never stopped.
Parson when the suit was first filed
i made every effort to get a temporary
injunction against the company, but
| bla petition was denied.
COTTON MFR'S
IN N, T. SESSION
Vive Pres’t of American Asd’n
Is T. I. Hickman of Augusta.
2,000 Delegates on Hand.
New York. —Five hundred delegates,
together with members of their fami
lies, mill superintendents, factory rep_-
resentatives, supply manufacturers and
salesmen—ln all about 2,000 persons,
gathered here today for the annual
convention of the American Cotton
Manufacturers’ Association. The con
vention will continue two days.
Although this city markets most of
the world’s cotton, on the floor of the
New York Cotton Exchange, the man
ufacturers’ association has never be
fore met here since Its organization
In 1907. In fact, with the exception
of Washington, D. C., its convention
has never before been held north of
Mason’s and Dixon’s line.
The organization Includes all the
((rear cotton manufacturing Interests
of the South. The product of these
Southern mills is mostly handled in
New York city.
The officers of the association are:
President, Stuart W. Cramer, Char
lotte, North Carolina; Vice President,
T. I. Hickman, Augusta, Georgia; Sec
retary and Treasurer, C. B. Bryant,
Charlotte, North Carolina; Chairman
of the Board of Governors, Scott Max
well, Cordova, Alabama.
The Governors are:
C. B. Armstrong, Gastonia, N. C.;
J. T. Broadbent, New York city, N.
Y.; Fuller E. Callaway, LaGrange, Ga.;
J. P. Gossett, Williamston, N. C.;
William E. Hooper, Baltimore, Md.;
George H. Lanier, West Point, Ga.;
John A. Law, Spartanburg, S. C.; Al
exander Makepeace, Fall River, Mass.;
James Maynard, Knoxville, Tenn.; W.
C. Ruffin, Mayodan, N. C.; Arthur if.
Sharp, Roston. Mass.; A. A. Thomp
son, Raleigh, N. C.; T. L. Wainwright,
Stonewall. Miss.; and John D. Ham
mett, Anderson, S. C.
JACOB RI IS DEAD.
Barre, Mass—Jacob Riis, anthor and
social worker, died at his summer
home today after a long Illness.
Bread is the staff of life.
SENSATION FLOUR makes the
best. ’Nough said.
Daily Pattern
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9896-9898. A SIMPLE COSTUME
FOR HOME OR CALLING.
This attractive combination por
trays a pretty though simple blouse
style, that may be finished with long
or shorter sleeves. It Is joined to a
three-piece skirt Waist paitem 9896
and skirt pattern 9898 famish the
models. Figured ere; e voile in blue
tones was here employed, with tan
ratine for collar and girdle. The
styles are equally e'fective in ging
ham. lawn and other wash fabrics,
and the waist with its unique front
draperj is especially attractive for
slender figures The waist pattern
is cut in 7 sizes: 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42
and 14 inches bust measure. The
skirt in 6 sizes; 22, 24, 26, 28, 3d and
32 Inches \valst measure. It requires
5 1-4 yards of 42 Inch material for a
38-inch size. The skirt measures
1 5-8 yards at the lower edge..
This illustration calls for two sepa
rate patterns which will be mailed to
any address on receipt of 10 cents
for each pattern in silver or stamps.
N*. Big
Ntma ».,
Fttssf «ad Nb.
City Brats
EVERYBODY LIKES IT.
Likes what? SENSATION
FLOUR.
Mid Summer Furnishings
Largest assortment of Silk Shirts, Hosiery,
Underwear, Night Shirts, Pajamas, Wash Ties,
Soft Collars.
Palm Beach Suits that fit and hang well.
MS Creary’s I
.
Can the Giants Turn the “Four Pennants
in a Row” Trick? Pirates Breezing Along
New York. —Will history repeat and
defeat the Giants in their aim to be
the first team In the history of modern
baseball to win four pennants in a
row ? <
From the way the Pirate 9 have been
breezing along so far, and from the
way the Eastern teams have been
drubbing the Giants, it looks just now
as if "Hit From Behind” McGraw is
facing a mighty task in trying to lead
his charges into the next world series
combats.
Of course, the Pirates may “crack."
All things are posible. But just the
same that string of victories they have
gathered up to date are going to count
just* as much in October as those that
may come later on in the season. And,
along the same line of reasoning, the
defeats the Giants have suffered in
this wet and soggy springtime will
count against them just as heavily as
will a walloping later on.
If the Giants cannot turn the “four
pennants in a row" trick this year
it may be ten or fifteen years before
another outfit can place itself in a
position when it can shoot at the tar
get from behind the breastworks of
three in a row.
On the pre-season dope, it looked
like a cinch for the Giants to accom
plish the seemingly impossible. All
the best little dopesters in the land
gave the National League field the up
and down during the winter and then
Passed the bunting to the New York
aggregation. And now the Pirates
come along and threaten to put the
dope on the blink.
Clark and his Pittsburgh crowd had
a chance hack in 1904 to make them
selves famous by grabbing four in a
row. But the Giants barred the way.
Flushed by their pennant victories in
1901, 1902, and 1903, the Pirates, still
a wonderful aggregation, started out
for a fourth triumph. They looked
like sure winners, looked to outclass
Mme. Caillaux is Incarcerated ij
Famous Paris Prison, St. Lazare
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Undoubtedly the Most Dreary and Ancient of Correction
Houses in That City—Women Who Have Made the
Tongues of the World Wag, Have Been Jailed There.
Paris. —Most famous of all Paris
prisons, undoubtedly the most dreary
and ancient of all this city’s houses of
correction, is the great St. Lazare.
Women whose crimes have made the
tongues of the world wag, have been
incarcerated here, and this is where
Mme. Caillaux is now located, treated
with all the homage due to a great
society leader.
Her crime, the murder of M. Cal
mette—is not considered by the
prison authorities, for France as
sumes innocence in her prisoners
until guilt is established at the pub
lic trial. Mme. Caillaux is the ten
ant of “Pistole" No. 12 —a cell of
tragic memories—but strangely
enough, now the envy of every wo
man prisoner in St. Lazare, for Mme.
Caillaux has all the luxuries that
money can provide for her.
One of the women prisoners just
released has been telling the newspa
pers some of the inner history of St.
Lazare in so far as It concerns Mme.
Caillaux.
Poor Girl.
“I occupied the next cell to her,”
she said, “but I had seven fellow
prisoners, while Mme. Caillaux was
alone with Jeanne, her servant.”
“Jeanne is a poor girl. She stab
bed her husband, who maltreated her.
“Although Mme. Caillaux, in her
cell next door, had everything she
wanted. I was deprived of the most
elementary necessities. The other
day when I had to appear before the
judge, I had not even a looking glass
to see if my hair was tidy and my hat
on straight.
It has been said that the other pris
oners benefitted Indirectly by the spe
cial regime of Mme. Caillaux. That
is not so. Bread, soup, vegetables,
and once a week meat —that was all
we had. I met M. Caillaux once in
the passage. He came to have a lit
tle meal with his wife in the director’s
parlor.
“They say there will be a mutiny
of the women prisoners if this goes
on. Mothers complain bitterly that
Mme. Caillaux sees her daughter
every day in a private room. When
there is a visitor for Mme. Caillaux
the bell rings three times.
In “Pistoie."
“It was In 'PLtole' No. 12 that
Mme. Steinbeil, the heroine of one of
the most extraordinary murder sys
teries of recent years, was incarce
rated pending her trial. It was
within that grimy apartment that
Mme Bloch awaited her triumphant
acquittal—Mme. Bloch, who shot her
husband's mistress after considerable
provocation and since her release has
been living peacefully with her spouse
again.
"I had the pleasure of an interview
with Mme. Bloch, who is a very quiet
and rather pretty woman, formerly
well known In literary and feminist
circles, and she told me much about
the famous cell that has never before
j been published
“ remember It," she said "only too
well, as 1 remember every detail of
my stay In that mournful, humiliating
place of memories. It was In 'Pis
tole' No. 12 that 1 lived whilst my
fate was being decided—far from my
children and all I loved, alone, alone
with my sad thoughts. It was a mel
ancholy enough room this ‘Pistole’
No. 12 Sufficiently big enough to
accommodate half a dozen or more
beds, its walls were painted black
“Home of Good Clothes.”
the field. But they didn’t outclass the
Giants, who won 106 out of 153 games
and ambled under the wire miles ahead
of the field.
Parallel conditions have existed in
the American League.
The Tigers won in 1907, 1908 and
1909. They started the 1910 season
w ith a club that seemed even stronger
than the ones that had won in the
three years before. It looked like a
cinch for the Detroit gang. And what
happened? The Athletics—that’s all.
The Quaker City crowd that had
been figured as outsiders started off
at a terrific clip, “a spurt that won’t
last,” v/as the general opinion. But
it lasted long enough for the Athletics
to win 102 out of 150 games and long
enough to enable them to defeat the
Giants in the world series.
And then the Athletics decided to
take a little shot at that “four-in-a
row” mark themselves.
They repeated their 1910 success by
winning again in 1911 but their
chances for a pennant seemingly
brighter than ever before, they foozled
long enough during the early part of
the 1912 season to enable the Boston
Red Sox to get a lead that even a
terrific spurt in the last month could
not cut down.
Of course, the Athletics by winning
last season can by winning this year
and in 1915 and 1916 turn the trick in
three years’ time, but, with all due
respect to Connie Mack's wonderful
outfit, we don’t think it pan beat the
field this year and the next and
the next.
Taking it from Hugh Jennings, the
auburn-haired grass eater and mas
ter of many strange languages, “the
Athletics have a pretty big job carved
out for them this year if they are
planning to horn into the world se
ries.”
three-quarters of the way up, and the
rest was daubed a dirty white. Great
beams crossed the ceiling, trim which
hung enormous spiders’ webs that
fluttered in the puffs of air that pass
ed through the barred windows. And
the furniture so considerately allowed
to prisoners not yet condemned!
for convicted persons are not allow
ed the ‘comfortable accommodation
of the ‘pistole.’ There was a rusty
iron bedstead covered with a bFown
coverlet, on which were inscribed in
big letters the word ‘prison.’ Near
by stood a little wooden table, and
for the chest of drawers and war
drobe a single shelf served.
Peephole.
Just behind the bed was a peep
hole—a ‘Judas' —so that every move
ment could be watched. But the at
tendant knew that I was a ‘lady,’ and
that although the giving of money is
forbidden she might come in for a
share of the delicacies I could pur
chase. So she had put a nail in the
wall above the hole and I hung
clothes onto it at once, of course.
Three windows looked out to the ex
ercise ground, ad by pressing one’s
face against the bars one could watch
the prisoners taking the air twice a
day.
That, indeed, was the one great dis
traction. For the great courtyard
was picturesque, and the old build
ings that overlooked it had a certain
charm and antiquity. Moving scenes
during the Terror had been enacted
there. It was thence that the carts
rolled away to the guillotin with the
condemned aristocra’s. Most of the
prisoners walk round, gesticulating,
chatting, even singihg.
“Pisto iere.”
If they see a 'pistoliere' at the win
dow. they either jeer or beg impor
tunely their more luxurious sister to
throw them down pieces of chocolate
or biscuts. Some of them in silence
wash their linen at the washing place
in the middle of the yard, but most
of them are engaged in talk or sing
too loudly sometimes. A”d in that
case the nun in charge interposes
severely and the ditties cease. Per
haps, however, the prisoners are re
bellious, and then they shout at her
and scream insults with the foulest
language. When that happens -Jho
terrible Sister Leonide appears on the
scene, and, as if by enchantment, the
uproar ceases. Without a word she
fixes her stern gaze on the prisoners
—the ranks form up in silence, and
with the nun at their head, they
march back into the prison in silence.
For thirty years Sister I/eonlde has
presided over this hell, but still be
neath he r rough severity one can see
a deep pity and kindness.
WHITE SUCCEEDS BRADLEY.
Washington.—Senator Frank S.
White, the new senator from Alabama,
today was selected chairman of the
committee on revolutionary claims, to
succeed the late Senator Bradley, of
Kentucky.
FOR A TWO BI T S COIN.
Washington.—A bill to authorize Is
suance during 1915 of a twenty-flvi
cent coin bearing designs commemor
ative of tlie Panama Canal openlm
and of the century of peace betweel
America and other countries was In
troduced toda- by lUpreaentaUw
| Metz of New York. —1
UESDAY, MAY 26