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Prevent Death'Rate From Running High
By Having Proper Sewerage and Water
Mains Ru?> ii Southern Portion ot City
Dr. E. E. Murphey, President of Board of Health, Will So
Recommend in Annual Report---Death Rate For Whites,
14.6 Per 1,000 Against 21.5 For Negroes
Dr, Fluprcn* TC. Murphey, president of
the Board of Health, announced yester
day that the city health department had
about completed Jib vital statistics for
the year ending December Ist, 15)14.
At The Herald'* request Dr. Murphey
makes some Interebtlng statements
which will he horne out by bis annual
report to be submitted by him to tbs
Board of Health and then to city coun
cil to be passed upon at Its next regu
lar meeting The body of his report,
however, can not at this time be made
public.
The general ten*** of the report Is
found In what Murphey said yester
day. of which the most striking fe -
ture Is the large disparity between the
white and negro death rate from varl*
on* diseases, as reported to the Hoard
of Health. Deaths have occurred from
pneumonlA, nephritis, pulmonary tu
berculosis, apoplexy, heart diseases, pel*
lngra. str . named heio in the order of
their Importance
The deaths among the negro popula
tion run Augusta’s death rate up com
paratively high, nnd it Is learned that
In* cumber of d*«*tbe !•■}...» D.l r*:i»c
city’s now territory, south of the town
proper the section acquired when the
city a few years ago extended her
boundaries an* greater than from any
other part of the town. This. It Is un
derstood, Is due to the fact that it has
as yet been Impossible to run adequate
sfwersgc, get the proper drainage, and,
In some cases, even to Install water
mains As soon as this part of the city
is tmproved, Augusta's death rate, It
1s said, will be lowered, snd It will com
pare favorably with cities of the North,
whereas, at present, it does not. It
does compare favorably, however, with
Southern cities.
Dr. Murphey state* that this Is by
po mean* n local problem. Jt has to
be contended with, he say*, in most
•very other city in the South.
The Death Rate.
The T 914 death rate in Augusta is 14 6
per 1 .<‘oo population among the whites
an against 21. R per 1,000 among the ne
(pros* During the year deaths have been
reported as follows IVom typhoid fever,
f, white. 1(1 colored; from malarial fever,
no whites, 22 colored, snd so on. It)
every instance the majority of the negro
deaths over the white deaths from the
■ame causes being conspicuously large
Railroad Men Enthusiastically
Endorse Movement to Use Kahki
Unitorms on Railway Trainmen
Joint Session of Members of Board of Governors of American
Cotton Manufacturers Association With Representatives of
Railways, Steam and Electric, Held Last Night at Bon Air
Hotel, President T. I. Hickman in the Chair.
White no pledßei* w*ro tnndr—for the
Imtinf '\ AM not • lUtd 1“!' t fiat pui
post thoHo present at the Hon Ait
laftt night at t tie Joint aoairfon of tin*
board «»f govornorH of tho American
Cotton Manufacturer*’ Aaaociation find
of the principal rail
wtyi( meant and electric) i»f thesouth
eaat, called to dtaciiMH the vital prob
lem of increasing the conmimption of
thin year's rotion crop heartily en
doraed the movement, It in hoped
that some definite action will be taken
shortly.
The concensus of opinion was thnt
there must bt some way of Increasing
the consumption and every railroad
man present was heartily in favor \
adopting the khaki uniform, which ia
e of cotton goods, In the pla<'i> of
the blue serge or worsted that Is now
being worn Home of the railway rep
resentatives present had authority to
state whether or not the«lr respective
roads would adopt the khukl (cotton)
uniform for its employes, while there
were others present who did not.
Among Those Present.
The president. Mr. T. I. Illckman, ol
this city, presided over the session.
Mr. ('. 11. Hryan of Charlotte, N. C„
the secretary and treasurer, was also
present Other members of the board
of governor* present were Messrs.
Heott Maxwell, Cordova, Ala., vice
president; John A. Ijiw, Spartanburg,
8 C. chairman, and C. It Armstrong.
Oaatunta. N. C.; Fuller K. T. Calloway,
Oa.; J. T Gossett, William
■ton. S. C.; Juutes Maynard, Knox
ville. Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs l.eroy
Springs, 8 C. It. M Miller.
Jr.. Charlotte, and T. H, Hennie, Fell
mu COTTON
MEETING COES
TO MEMPHIS
Business Session of Board of
Governors of American Cot
ton Manufacturers Associa
tion Held Yesterday After
noon at Bon Air Hotel.
At a business meeting of the board
of governors of the Amor loan Man
ufacturers' Association, held at three
O’clock yesterday afternoon at the lton
Air Hotel. Memphis was the city de
cided upon tn which to hold the an*
nual meeting of the association the
middle of next April The date has
not yet been fixed The meeting was
held yesterday for this and other
reasons, and unlike the night meeting,
was not open to the public
Many Cities Wanted It.
Among the cities who were after the
Ift 16 meeting of the association were:
Denver. Saginaw. Asheville. Atlan
ta. Galveston. Nashville, San Francis
co, Cincinnati, New Orleans. Mont
real, Buffalo, Charlotte Memphis.
Norfolk. Augusta, Richmond Saratoga
Springs Charleston and Birmingham
It was announced after the meeting
b.v Secretary Bryant of the board that
delegates to the National Foreign
Trades Council, which meets January
Slat and 32nd, In St Isrula, Mo, will
be appointed by Mr. Hickman to rep.
resent the American Cotton Manufac
turers’ Association at that time.
Those Present.
Those present at yesterday after-
Dr. Murphey stntes that the in
the mgro death rate over that of the
white* is almost entirely contrlbutable
to preventable diseases.
The city of Augusta, as Dr. Murphey s
report will show Is now practically free
from smallpox. All cases that have be»*n
discovered have been traced to Infec
tions acquired out of the city.
In pulmonary tubercij’osiH the same
ratio In the death rate between the
white and blacks exists as from any of
the other disease*. For the present
year rate wan 25 whites against 60
blacks, and this estimate does not In
clude the unrecognized deaths in the ne
gro element.
Pellagra, which ranks sixth among tbs
causes of death In Augusta, shows a
similar condition between the wdiites nnd
the negroes, 15 deaths having occurred
among the former and 25 among the lat
ter race.
His Recommendation.
The president, In bis report, will rec
ommend first of all. that attention be
directed to that terrltr**y in the southern
part of the city, Which needs to be put
Ivi ii more s«ntt*irv condition imme
diately. When tms ts done, says in.
Murphey, there will be some hope of de
creasing Augusta’s death rate, but not
until this has been properly attended to.
He says that at present It is the great
est fact**- In bolding up Augusta’s death
rate. N
The school inspection, ns carried on
under the supervision of the Board of
Health, Is very satisfactory, and It will
he recommended to continue this work
In the same rwvhner. The work of com
pulsory vaccination In the schools will
continue as unremittingly as
And It will also he enforced among
convicts ns in the past.
CJreater attention than ever will he
pnld to the common house fly and mos
quito in Augusta during the coming
year. During the heated ’erm the hoard
expert* to put on one or more special
Inspectors to attend to these particular
phases of the public health work.
The meat, market, dairy and food in
spection will he carried on ns before, If
the presldnet’s recommendations are fob
lowed, nnd doubtless they will be. Dr.
Murphey stilted that this year the
amount of condemnation of food, meat,
etc.. Is far in excess of any jAovlous
year.
City, Ala., were also present as ex-of
flelo members of the board.
Among the rallwuy men present
were General Manager W. N. For
aker of the Southern, Washington, 1).
C. Commercial Agent F. F. Powers
of tin' Central of Georgia, Augusta.
General Manager A. W. Anderson of
(he Charleston and Western Carolina
Hallway, Augusta; I’urohuslng Agent
Hurclicr of the Pennsylvania; Super
intendent J A. White of Hie Augusta
Southern, Augusta; General Manager
Kirkland of the Georgia and Florida;
General Manager R. W. Hpofford of
the Augusta-Atken Hallway and Elec
tric Corporation, and others.
Th« Speakers.
President lllckmun called on the fol
lowing to speak briefly on the subject
before the meeting; Mr. Rennie, Mr.
Calloway, Mr. Horcher and Mr. Spot
ford. In the order named. It was Im
possible to hear from everyone there,
but before adjournment the oppor
tunity was offered any others who
wished to speak.
The meeting was opened by a splen
did talk made by the president, Mr.
Hickman, in which he explained - the
klutkl uniform Idea, enumerating the
numerous advantages It has over any
other, After this samples of khaki
uniforms were displayed in a novel and
unique manner. Ten young men were
presented before the spectators, each
wearing a different stylo klmkl uni
form. The exhlMtlon seemed to deep
ly Interest every gentleman In the
room and It afforded them the chance
to see for themselves what the cot
ton uniforms looked like after being
made up and put on.living models.
noon's mestlng wers:
T. 1. Hickman, president, Augusta.
Ga.
C. TV Bryant, secretary and treas
urer. Charlotte. N. C.
John A. Law. chairman board of
governors. Spartanburg, S. C.
Scott Maxwell, vice-president, Cor
dova, Ala.
C B. Armstrong, Gastonia. N. C.;
Fuller R. Callaway, LaG range, Ga.;
.1 I\ Gossett, WUllamstnn. S C„;
.lames Maynard. Knoxville, Tenn.;
Leroy Springs, Lancaster, S. C.
ALLEGED CHICKEN
THIEVES CAUGHT
Detectives Roney and Horn
Capture Negroes Supposed to
Have Been Raiding Hen
Houses Near Enterprise.
lAUrls Mcdltn and Dal Jones, two
negroes were arrested by Detectives
Roney and Horn on Saturday and en
tered on the State lloolt under two
charges of larceny.
It is alleged they stole a quantiy of
rubber from T. A. Quarles of 1843
Walker St some days ago, which con
stitutes their first charges and second
ly that the are the chicken thieves who
have been making a clean sweep of the
Enterprise Factory district during the
last week. Seven witnesses from
whom It is claimed they took chickens
or turkeys are entered against them
If, Indeed these twe negroes turn
out to tw the thieve* In question,
which the police believe they will have
tittle trouble in proving. Detectives
Roney and Horn will have added a
large sited feather in their cap. It was
a fine piece of work and these officers
•!P*er\ e great credit for their speedy
and akllful action.
Prize Winners Misspelled Word Contest
Prizes awarded in Herald's Mis
spelled Word Contest Sunday, Decem
ber 13th, 1914, as follows:
Miss Eugenia K. Ellington, 1855
Starnes Street, first prize.
Mis. B. Sunken, 1003 Reynolds St.,
second prize.
Mr*. R. M. Bostick, 465 West Ave.,
North Augusta, S. C., third prize.
RAJ. ARCHIE CRUMP
DIED LAST NIGHT
For More Than Fifty Years He
Was Turnkey at the Rich
mond County Jail. Probably
Turned Key on More Crim
inals Than Any Other Man in
Country.
Major Archibald B. Crump, for more
than f.O years turnkey at the Richmond
county Jail, died at the city hospital at
nine o'clock last night after a linger
iny Illness, MaJ. Crump was 77 years
of age and was a lifelong resident of
Augusta, his mother being one of the
founders of Ht. James church. The
funeral arrangements will be announc
ed later.
iVe the past three years MaJ. Crump
had been unable to work and he lived
with Sheriff Plunkett at the Jail. Mr.
Plunket was very fond of the old gen
tleman and even though his term of
usefulness had expired because of his
advanced age, he was Invited to live
at the Jail, the place which he had
grown to regard with an attachment
horn of long years of association, the
remainder of his life.
MaJ. Crump he secured the entitle
ment of major because he was the ma
jor of a drum corps in Augusta many,
many years ago—turned the keys on
more criminals, probably, than any
other man in this section of the coun
try. One sheriff after another tie serv
ed faithfully until lie was no longer
able to fulfill the duties and then he
remained at the Jail, lie was a kindly
old man and had a great many friends.
He. served in a portion of the Civil
War and recently applied for a pension,
but had not received it up until the
time of his death.
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THOUSANDS OF ATTRACTIVE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
Our store is filled to capacity with new and pretty things for Father, Mother, Brother, Sister
and the Baby. EVERY ARTICLE IN THE HOUSE IS REDUCED from 25 to 40 Per Cent.
Practical Toys
$30.00 Automobile $22..75
$25.00 Isngine $19.75
$12.00 Wagons $9.75
$6.00 Irish Mail $3.75
$2.00 Drums $1.25
SI.OO Drums 79<^
25c Drums 17^
Tool Chests for Boys
from 25c up
Poot Balls from 75C up
U. P. SPETH, Broad Street
We have an exhaustive line of
Brass Goods.
Pocket Knives, Razors, Carving
Sets, Silverware.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Mrs. S. W. Owens, 1017 Calhoun St.,
fourth prize.
Mr. Fred L. Morse, 713 Kollock St.,
fifth prize.
Many hundreds of correct replies
received, but the above were given
preference on account of neatness, ac
cording to rules of the contest, as an
nounced. Orders to merchants have
been mailed successful contestants.
RAIDED ALLEGED
GAMING JOINTS
Do Drop In and Wig Warn Soda
Founts Pulled For Running
So-Called “Candy Game.’’
Saturday night the Po Prop In and
the Wigwam, two local soft drink
stands stands, were* raided on a
gambling charge. At the former place
four alleged participants of a crap
game, it is claimed, were arrested and
a gambling charge lodged against
each. At the latter place eight young
men were coraled and sent to the bar
racks with the same , charge lodged
against them. Their bonds were fixed
at $l5O each.
It is claimed by the proprietors of
both houses, and also by the young
men engaged that only a “candy game”
was in progress.
However, the police charge gamb
ling.
Up until a late hour Saturday night
the majority of the "players" had met
their bond ami had been released. It is
claimed by several of the arrested that
they were merely passing through
when taken in charge. But this re
mains to he seen when the cases will
come up at the next session of the
city court.
Pice used in the alleged gambling
ess seized, together with the'dice
cup.
GAVE MONEY SAVED ON A
WINELESS SUPPER TO POOR
Chicago. One hundred officials the
Illinois Steel Company attended a wine
less banquet tonight and gave to char
ity the money usually spent for cham
pagne. Instead of a dinner at $5 a
plate at a downtown hotel the officials
gathered in the elubrooms of the works
where the dinner cost a dollar, and the
four dollars was given to the needy.
Look for Santa Claus
——— AT ———
L. P. SPETH’S
Christmas Store
Mrs . Desha Breckenridge Makes
Splendid Suffrage Address
Mrs. Pesha Breckenridge, of Lexing
ton, Ky., speaking in the Interest ol
Woman’s Equal Suffrage, charmed a
most representative audience of Au
gusta women for one hour and twenty
seven minutes Friday afternoon at the
Albion parlor, an audience that found
every word of her address filled with
comprehensive interest. Mrs. Breck
enridge was introduced in u bright lit
tle speech by Rev. G, Sherwood Whit
ney, one of the few men in the audi
ence, who prefaced his remarks by
saying that his presence and intro
duction should not be taken as an ad
mission that he was for woman’s suf
frage but that he was there as ha
would ever be at the call of woman,
the president of the Augusta Equal
Suffrage League had asked him to pre
sent. Mrs. Breckenridge, who had spent
years in the study of the question and
who was in a position to tell them all
about it. Mrs. Breckenridge greeted
her audience and at the same time re
sponded to Mr. Whitney’s remarks by
saying that the women did not want
to dispense with the men but that one
of their grievances was that the men
were trying to dispense with the wo
men.
Mrs. Breckenridge is a delightful
speaker and her pleasant, well modu
lated voice rang through her audi
ence Just as fresh at the conclusion
as it did at the beginning of her splen
did address. Her English is perfect,
her sentences well rounded and force
ful, clean-cut and to the point, w r ith
never a superfluous word. Her ad
dress was a magnificent stating of the
suffrage question and carried enlight
enment to her most appreciative audi
ence as to why women should be given
the ballot.
She made only a few attacks on the
arguments that have been presented
by the organizations of women who
are opposed to equal suffrage, but de
voted most o sher time to presenting
the logical reasons for woman’s suf
frage and citing the many instances
in which the voting of the women has
proven a boon to the community in
which it is allowed.
"I think I am perfectly safe in say
ing that the granting of the ballot to
women generally in this country will
come within the next quarter or half
century,” said Mrs. Breckenridge. "We
now have eleven states in which whole
or partial suffrage has been given. The
very biggest statesmen in the country
have said that they believe woman’s
suffrage Is coming |tnd I believe that
anyone who is not totally blind can
see now that it is coming just as surely
as the sun rises and sets.
Be Over-Confident.
"Speaker CSark in an interview with
FAMILY GIFT
Caloric Fireless Cooker.
$30.00 Model, Aluminum Lined,
reduced to. . . $21.25
$25.00 Model, Aluminum Lined,
reduced to.. .. $17.25
SIO.OO Chafing Dishes at . . $6.79
SIO.OO Ccffee Machines .. ..$6.75
Brass Kettles, very special . .$3.75
SB.OO Steak Plates for .. .. $5.75
$2.00 Casseroles 85^*
EXTRA SPECIAL
$2.50 Casseroles .. . 79C
-> \ IP*
a delegation of women advocates of
equal suffrage said that he believed
equal suffrage was inevitable. I think
this is one of our greatest weaknesses.
We think it is inevitable and we are
apt to underestimate the difficulties
and the opposition that undoubtedly
confronts us in our fight for the bal
lot. *
“Woman’s cause is not won until it
is won throughout the entire nation,
and one of the greatest forces with
which we must reckon is the force of
inertia. This exists among a largo
percentage of women all over the
country. The women are too prone
to sit idly by and say that it can’t be
done or that their time is so taken
up with their duties at home that they
are unable to get out and work for
the cause, even though they feel down
deep in their hearts that in asking for
a voice in the affairs of their states
and their nation they are but asking
for that which is Justly due them.
"Other forces opposed to granting
suffrage to the women are the liquor
and vice interests and the interests
who know that child labor will be
speedily abolished after equal suffrage
goes into effect."
Work in Kentucky.
Mrs. Breckenridge told of the ex
periences of those who had fought for
suffrage in Kentucky and gained a
partial victory. She«said that as a
result of the limited power given the
women of her state some very good
and successful laws had been enacted
in Kentucky; that commissions on
schools and illiteracy have been es
tablished and that the laws provided
that on all of the commissions ap
pointed for educational purposes wom
en must be appointed as well as men.
The result, she said, had been that a
far greater percentage of the state
funds have been spent for educational
purposes, the conditions in the schools
have shown marked improvement and
the percentage of adult illiteracy in
the state has been cut down to almost
nothing.
The part women have played in the
wars of the world was one of Mrs.
Mreckenridge’s most forceful argu
ments. "If there were no better argu
ment in favor of giving the ballot to
women,” she said, "war would be an
entirely sufficient one.
Women’s Part in War.
“When we think of patriotism we
think of war and when we think of
war we think of men who march off
to war ’mid the playing of patriotic
airs, the beating of drums and the
waving of flags. We forget the hun
dreds of thousands of women who have
been and are being made widows,
whose sons are taken away from them
Bicycles and Supplies
$50.00 Tribune $37.75
$40.00 Crescent $27.75
$40.00 Double Frame Princeton .. $27.75
$35.00 Princetons $22.75
SIO.OO Puncture Proof Tires $7.75
$7.00 Oxfords $5.25
$4.00 Motorcycle Saddles .. ..... $2.75
$2.00 Motorcycle Saddles $1.25
$1.75 Shop Pumps $1.25
Everything in stoves from toy
ranges to our handsome $75.00
Monitor Radiator—all at im
mense Reductions.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20.
Modjeska Monday
"FORTUNES OF WAR,”
A Kay Bee Future in two parts.
"BUSTER BROWN AND GERMAN
BAND,”
An Edison play.
"THE SHERIFF’S REWARD,”
A Selig play.
"HIS PREHISTORIC PAST,”
Another one of those laughable Key
stone comedies in two parts.
"AMBROSES’S FIRST
FALSEHOOD,”
Another Keystone comedy.
THREE REELS OF KEYSTONE
LAUGHS MONDAY.
in the cru°l, bloody game of war—a
war which was precipitated by an act
of their nation in which they had no
voice.
“But the mere fact that war is all
wrong, that.it is harbarous and crimi
nal and awful and terrible to think of
in this stage of civilization is not the
only argument in favor of woman s
suffrage that war gives us. Has not
woman, since the very earliest days
when nations took up arms against
each other, made sacrifices that make
this plea of hers for the right to help
conduct tf.e affairs of her nation but
a request for but a portion of that
which has been her right?”
Mrs. Breckenridge dwelt stronger
upon the great need of new laws and
the enforcement of existing laws >n
the South and explained that the giv
ing of the right to vote to women
would help ereatly/to accomplish those
things which the South needs most.
Christmas Gifts
SI.OO Down, SI.OO Week
For Everybody
How about a set of furs for mother,
wife, sister, daughter? We have love
ly furs at $5 to sls, our terms, SI.OO
down, SI.OO a week. Other fur sets up
to $35 on very easy terms.
A coat for the Girl at $3 to $6, or a
skirt or waist or hat for any woman,
or a nice warm sweater coat at $2.50
to $4.50. On any bill up to sls, our
terms SI.OO down and SI.OO a week.
Then of course we have very pretty
silk, and cieth dresses at $8 to sls for
SI.OO down and SI.OO a week and coats
and suits on the same terms. Yes, in
deed, a dollar down will go a long way
at the Menter Co., 940 Broad. St.
Will be open late all next week.