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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

multi OF Twenty-third street, with ITS
indolent or hurrying shoppers and
their restless humors of the cbeant.ck
toys along the sidewalk, easily reaches
the ear. On the Twenty-fourth street
side the eye sees only an everyday
row of monotonous looking houses. no
uglier or shabbier than a hundred
rows exactly like them from which the
bright tide of fashion has drifted away
forever. II an artist wished to nor.
tray thoroughly COMMONPLACE
street, without hint OF romance or
a touch to fire the imagination. he
could find no better scene. And IL was
just this setting of almost ostentatious
respectability. of the staidest and least
inviting propriety, that Stanford
White chose to use as curtain be-
hind which he could set his private
stage as he willed, could intoxicate
himself with riotous luxury of SEN
sual beauty and extravagant display
and teach their sorry parts to the pup-
pets he introduced there without fear
of interruption or discovery. There
vice, decked in her bravest purple and
crimson, Knocked at the prim gray form
of virtues gray gown that sheltered
her and let her live. 1t was as II a
dancing hall from Paris should be
found hidden among the elms in the
churchyard of some little New Eng
land village.
Entrance to the Gilded Den.
Here is Evelyn Thaw's description
of her first visit to the place:
I'VE stopped at dingy lodging
house and, as we passed inside. the
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
STUDY OF THE NEGRO
AS SLAVE AND FREEMAN

A N important investigation of the
IA negro in slavery and freedom is
now being made by the department of
economics and sociology of the Car
negie Institution of Washington, which
was founded by Andrew Carnegie
This investigation will be of great i'm
portance to the negro as well as the
white race, as it will show what the
negro has done and what he is capable
of doing. The work is being con-
Quoted by Alfred Holt Stone, an edu-
Gated business man from Mississippi
who is a thorough, impartial and can
did student of the economic develop
ment growing out of negro slavery
and the work of the negro under con-
ditions of freedom.
Mr.. Stone has outlined a treatment,
which is reasonably exhaustive, relat-
ing to the economic life of the Ameri-
can negro, without trespassing on
either the political or social aspects of
the topics. He recognizes the diff
Guilty of treating the one as separated
from the other two topics, but the de-
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STABILITY of such method is believed
to more than outweigh the difficulties
involved in its execution.
Mr.. Stone will treat of the condition
of laboring classes during the Amer
ican colonial period-the introduction
of negro slavery into America as IN
economic factor. He will also investi-
gate the efforts to utilize slave labor
in manufacturing and other industrial
enterprises. His work will constitute
an exceedingly important and novel
feature in American economic history.
He will also treat of the negro as u
free man, the result and development
of the negro industrial school, their
effect with reference to local economic
conditions, the negro land owner and
all such topics as will bring out clearly
and fully the whole industrial relation
of the negro to economic conditions
This investigation will be compre-
hensive in its scope, and it will be at
least year before such progress has
been made as will justify report on
this important subject.
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exquisitely furnished little bedroom
where, they tell, champagne was
poured for those whom the king of this
with ruin.
Few Knew of the Place.
Very few persons ever dreamed of
the existence of this Twenty-fourth
street Studio" Some of these wero
workmen, who constructed it unde,
the architects own direction; others.
those in his service, who from time to
time would carry there his choicest
art treasures. One at least, we'll
known fire insurance man, must have
known it-for the house and its con-
tents were insured for thousands OF
dollars.
Others who entered there were club
men, like himself, Apostles of the Tn,
usual ever seeking a new sensation;
young women of pleasure flattered by
the notice of one in the front ranks OF
wealth and fashion; little country
MICE" like 16-year-old Evelyn Nesbit,
whose fresh beauty gratified him In
the splendid setting provided and
whose senses were Immediately dazed
by the unwonted, oriental luxury. Most
of the visits there were made at night.
Many of the guests would have been
unable afterward to find their way
there. Enough, it was Stanford
Whites domain. held beneath the spell
of his genius. How he first conceived
1t, bought it, built 1t, threw his thick
mantle of secrecy over IL nobody
knew.
Just why the house came to be dis
mantled, and when, remains a mys-
terry. Dinners were given there up to
within very few weeks before the
night OF June %. Perhaps some rumor
reached the owner-who knows? Sc
crecy is ever on its guard; to be "in-
vestigatei" most trying to the artistic
nature. Whatever the motives, dis
mantled It now is. The great mirrors
rudely torn from their fixtures, the
priceless Bokhara rugs bundled up in
a hurry and smuggled away. The oc-
cupants of the adjoining houses con-
tinue to go and come on their daily
rounds, with little thought of the grew
some house in their rear. What is
likely to become of it is hard to pre-
dict. Stanford White is dead; and the
veil of secrecy he drew over this, his
end. But the house is still there and
still his. No other occupant seems
likely to hold it. 1t remains a mcnu.
ment to the Genius, Art and Ruthless.
ness of one man.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

A LTHOUGH nearly 10 years have
~ elapsed since the project for a
statue to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan in
the national capital was proposed by
the Army of the Cumberland, the
statue. is as far away as ever. The
statue committee has rejected the
work of ]. Q. A. Ward, Cancelled its
contract with him and will begin all
over again.
This action was taken by the com
mittee some time ago, but did not be-
come public until recently. Mr.. Ward
has been at work on the statue for
nearly 10 of the 10 years, and has
made models. none of which has been
approved by both the artist and the
committee. A similar fact about it is
that he did make one model which sat
isfied the committee and was approved
by them, but Mr.. Ward himself did
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
QUITTING THE SENATE
NOT A POPULAR HABIT

VIZ yJASHINGTON.-Peoplc do die In
w public office, of course, but resig-
nations are so rare that the retire
ment of Senator John c. Spooner of
Wisconsin continues to be topic of
interest where the politicians gather.
The old-timers have brought to mind
the fact that voluntary leaving the
senate in late years is far more in
frequent than it was in the earlier
history of our country.
The last resignation from the SEN
ate of a member who retired to go
into business was that of George F.
Edmunds of Vermont, who in 1891 re-
signed to practice law. He is still at
1t in the city of Philadelphia. Mr..
Edmunds had served continuously in
the senate for a little over rs years
and retired to seek his fortune at the
age of 63.
Mr.. Spooner retires for the same
reason. declaring that he goes into
private life without engagement as
counsel for any person or corpora
tion. He and Mr.. Edmunds served
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
SCULPTOR'S WORK OF Is
YEARS is REJECTED

not consider it good and destroyed it.
Meanwhile the statues of Hancock
and Logan, provided for in 1891, are
standing here in public squares. Both
were completed years ago. Sheridan
died in 1888. In 1889 congress author
lied statue, appropriated $4,000 and
created commission to take charge.
In March, 1891, congress made a
further appropriation of SIC, 1000 for the
statue, making the total $4,000. The
Army of the Cumberland raised about
$4,000. In April 1892, the commission
contracted with Mr.. Ward to make the
statue for 100000, making an advance
payment of s2,5O0.
Two of Mr.. Wards statues already
ornament the city. They are those of
Garfield and Thomas and are generally
regarded as among the finest of the
many statues of the nations heroe. In
the capital city.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital

long as members of the judiciary
committee of the senate. Both are
great lawyers and both were states
men of the first class.
Statistics applied to present eondi-
tions are not dull. In fact, they are
filled with interest. Out of the 90
congresses to date there have been
but five in which there were no yesig-
nations of senators. These were at
comparatively early age. The rdle OF
these designations was that the sena-
tors needed more money than the
government pays, or that they might
accept some office with a larger sal
airy and greater distinction.
In the first so years of the senate's
history there were 124 designations.
In the next so years but Al re-
signed. Since the end of the 100
years of senate history, emitting the
southern senators retiring to join the
secession movement, there have been
"a senators to lay aside their togas-
OF these Withdrawals Is were to en-
able the resigning senator to accept
other office.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
Carefully Hidden Studio in New York
Where Stanford White Entertained
Men of His Stripe in Ways That
RiDaLed Days of Fabled Eastern
Luxury.
Was House Within House Where
the Light of Day Never Was AL
loUed to Penetrofe---Only by Sc
cret Passages Could Entrance Be
Gained.

New York. = Ever since Eve.
lyn Nesbit Thaw told her story
on the witness stand SO that
ing were not enough to turn husband
mad-even before that, ever since the
pistol shot that killed Stanford White
last June let loose on the ears of men
countless stories of revel and debauch
until only legions of shameful ghosts
seemed left to guard the memory of
the dead architect, curiosity has been
drawn irresis.ibly to Whites Twenty
fourth street studio. II is the place
which, II half the stories told were
true, White had dedicated to that part
of his life which ultimately led him to
his death-tbe place where he played
Hyde with few depraved companions
while to all the rest of the world he
was distinguished and an envied
Jekyll; place which was heaven of
beauty, and also, according to report,
hell of sin.
No other spot in New York has so
stirred the imaginations of thousands.
No other spot has been at once such
commonplace of gossip and yet so
utterly unknown, such closed mys-
terry to all. And to-day. stripped of
much of its mystery and of all the
glamour and lure of its wonderful
treasures of art, with only the dull
outer walls left to give mute testi-
mony to the reality of the wild scenes
they once sheltered, it remains with
out parallel in the history OF this or
any other modern city.
Truly Well Concealed.
1t is not just suite of rooms or
one or more floors of house cleverly
protected from the observation or in
trusion Of other tenants, Still less is
1t an ordinary house. the windows of
which. however thickly curtained
and screened, must still look down on
passers-by in the street below and be
exposed in turn to the curious gaze
of any and all who cared to raise their
heads.
you may have trouble to find this
place." wrote Harry Thaw when he
nrst appealed to Anthony Comstock
and the Society for the Suppression of
Vice to put stop to the infamous
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

lust off the rotunda of the capitol
y is a little nook that is an espe-
cial object of interest to visiting tour
lists when congress is in session. 1t
is the capitol terminus of the under
ground railway to the congressional
library. Books are constantly arriv-
ing over this subway line for sena-
tors, representatives and supreme
court judges. They are delivered on
their written order.
One would get a rather startling
impression of the class of books the
statesmen on Capitol hill are partial
to from a casual inspection of the list
of books that are drawn out in their
names. For instance, the scholarly
Henry Cabot Lodge of the old bay
state, according to the record, recent
ly took out such instructive and
thrilling productions as Jimmy the
BootblaclS," ''The Boy Captain" and
Little joe" by James Otis. Mr.
Foraker of Ohio is charged with sew
eral volumes by "Old Sleuth" and
The Starry Flag" by Oliver Optic
Mr.. Tillman, if the card tells the
truth, has been perusing Thomas
Bailey Aldrich's STORY of Bad Boy"
and some of w. Clark Russell's thrill
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

} other men he would find no hint to
That gilded temple of the senses
stapds apart, house almost within a
house, inclosed within two rows of
other houses with blank walls on all
sides to shut 1t off from ali view and
observation. 1t was place used only
in che night time and. with no need
for the light of day. ordinary windows
ane their outlook had no place in the
deslgner's plan. Only secret pas
saga, cunningly walled off in the main
house fronting on Twenty fourth
street, could it be reached, and only
through secret door which slid open
at the touch of hidden spring could
fri1nd OF visitor enter that passage.
Belongs to Other Days.
The studio is situated in the small
open court that lies between the rears
of the houses on Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets. AS 1t stands
to-day, dismantled and untenanted, 1t
would make an ideal haunt for kid
napers or counterfeiters, or any of the
othti otopCiatC DlOllClo nnO lBuIt bO
largely in romantic novels, and for
th.s reason, even in its present, Its
most commonplace aspect, 1t seems to
belong to medieval days. an age
younger by centuries than busy, prac-
tical, modern New York. But as it
was when Stanford White was the pre-
siding genius there, lavishing all the
brilliancy of his perverted fancy on
nightly entertainments so bizarre that
no roue was SO jaded that he did not
eagerly seek an invitation to attend,
it belonged to the days of tabled east
ern luxury and splendor. the days OF
the Arabian Nights, with all their wiz
ardyy of imprisoned genii, enchanted
palaces and young girls beautiful as
the dawn
And the site for this lordly pleasure
house. this secret haunt where the
master might hold his visitor prisoner
for hours or days, this dream house of
art and abandon. of refinement and
revelry, was chosen, as If in deliberate
joy in the contrast, in the heart of the
most respectable and commonplace
surroundings.
Il sat up in the bed and started to
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

worked with the architect for a SOLID
week on the fairy-tale scheme. 1T
cannot be DONE" was his own appalled,
objection when the plan first was un-
folded. I'VE will do It," said Stanford
White; and no conception proved too
novel, no price too high, for his fancy
and genius to overcome. 1t was In
this room that the great white boar
skin was spread on which Evelyn Mes
bit posed for some OF her best known
pictures, and here were gorgeous rose
Du Barry por.ieres, curiously carved
pieces OF teakwood and Japanese
furniture, rare lace curtains, screens
inlaid with ivory. and huge old cedar
chests carved deep with elephants
heads, with ivory tusks set in. Price
less rugs were on the floor. from
Khorassan and Serrebend, from Box
hara and Tabriz. and on the walls
were paintings by Rubens and Gerome
and Millais and Bourgiono.
Whites Most Private Studio.
On the floor above was a smaller
magnificence. This was the room with
the red velvet swing and the big Japa-
nese umbrella In the ceiling through
which the feet of the swinger crashed
when strong arms pushed her high
Here White had his ordinary living
rooms, bedrooms and dressing-rooms
On the floor above, reached by tiny
back stairway. of which few indeed
knew the secret, was studic-almost
a boudoir-smaller and daintier still
Back of this. separated by curtains of
heavy gold-crusted tapestries. was the
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

practices which he said were carried
on within its walls; you may have
trouble to find this place. for it is well
concealed"
Well concealed 1t is. for though a
man knew street and number he might
search all day and never find it, going
on his way at last satisfied the address
he had was wrong. No stranger in
the street ever saw the windows of
Stanford Whites studio; man might
pass through the outer door of the
house and wander all through the
building, and though he would find
easy access to the studios or rooms of
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

door opened No one touched it, but
1t opened of itself. We went through
that door and along passage and up
some steps. and then another door
opened in the same way. We went
up some more steps and when we
We're half way up stopped and asked
where We were going, and voice
called down, but could not see who
1t was. Then another voice called, a
mans and we went on up the stairs
till we came into room magnificently
furnished with velvets and satins,
with all kinds of beautiful things
standing around and paintings on the
walls and interesting cabinets and
bronze and marble statuettes and
shaded lights
There are three floors to the studio,
not including kind of basement,
which was given over entirely to the
kitchens, pantries and servants quar-
ters, and peculiar feature of the
whole building is the fact that instead
of one main staircase running straight
up through the house, the different
floors are reached by an arrangement
of separate staircases, each of which
gives access only to one particular
floor or set of rooms. Thus Whites
friends passed up a staircase which
gave them no hint that there were any
rooms on the basement floor at all,
and by closing a door here and open
ing another there-all the doors being
operated by system of secret springs,
which could be worked from key
boards on each floor known practically
to White alone-the visitor could be
led straight to any part of the house
White wished without being taken
through any other part. But for gen.
eral purposes it was the first floor
the one above the basement-that was
used as the main reception room and
for the big supper parties. like that in
which "the Pie Girl" figured.
Here Luxury Unrestrained.
Here the artist was in his own king
dom; here was luxury unrestrained.
There were glowing antiques in bronze
and marble; tapestries in wonderful,
subdued tones. softened by centuries;
one White had pillaged himself from
an Italian shrine by paying an enor-
nous bribe to the gray-haired priest
who burned candles before It, Jeweled
chandeliers hung from the painted
ceiling-a wild riot of color blended
with consummate art-and electrical
devices that startled and enchanted
and charmed the eye. The electrician
who furnished the house tells how he
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

scream" said Evelyn Thaw before the
court, as she told of her waking in the
room of the mirrors. Then l scream
ed and screamed and screamed, and
he came over and asked me to please
keep quiet Then l began to scream
more than ever" All this between
Broadway and Sixth avenue, within a
stones throw of the humdrum shop
ping district of Twenty-third street!
Commonplace Surroundings.
One wall of the studio backs on the
Eden Musee, the delight of children
and simple country visitor The tu-
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
WITH The PROCESSION
MRS NETTIE O. HALL,
(MoTHHR ENTERPRIsE)
NEWS EDITOR.

Booze" is an outlaw in Fitz-
gerald.
Only nine wet counties left in
Georgia.
Mrs. B. S. Hill is visiting in
Corde1e.
Mrs. S. C. Passmore, is visit
ing in Mystic.
Miss Cora Pass, returned to
Hatton, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mussell White
went to Cordele, yesterday.
Mrs. A. W. Hobbs, of Wright,
moved to Statewide, yesterday.
Mrs. W. S. Howell, took her
departure for Cordele on Tues
day.
Mrs. J. T. Walker, of Ashton,
patronized Fitzgerald merchants
yesterday.
Mrs J. D. YourE, took her de-
parture f5r Triton, on a business
trip, yesterday.
Mrs. James Simpson is WISH
ting her doaughter, Mrs A.
Kratz, on Magnolia street.
Mrs. Laura McAfee, who with
her daughter, Mrs. Earl Myers,
have been the guests of her son,
Guy Johnson, fer several months
departed for their home in Bluff.
ton, Ind, yesterday.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28

or public indignation against the
drink curse is rising with new
vehemence. Almost daily we
have reports from the National
Temperance Leagues, from the
Prohibition headquarters and
from the watch-;oweos of the
Anti-Saloon forcs at Washington
and from the several states, and
these reports are most inspiring
At this moment half a dozen
states are struggling to mancipate
themselves from the shackles of
the saloon Tennessee, Vermont,
Kentucky, Georgia, Texas and
Indiana are fast moving into that
position of proud preemince that
will place them with Kansas and
Maine.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
A Tornado Blast.

For more than twenty years
conditions have been shaping for
a tornado blast that would dem
dish the rum iniq lity aud efface
from public view the licensed IL
quor shop. There have been To-
cal storms that have accomplish
ed this purpose, and these have
been auguries and harbingers of
that national ard worldwide
movement which will abolish the
saloon as completely as slavery
was abolished over half a centu-
~ ago.
The signs at this moment are
many and multiplying, and show
that the storm of public opinion
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28

Mrs. Helen Griffin, of Neb-
raska, arrived this morning and
is visiting the family of James
Armantrout on Magnolia street.
Mrs. ]. S. Hawkins, of Fawn,
and Miss Victoria Lane, of
Douglas, we're Fitzgerald visi-
tors, yesterday.
The merchants are clamoring
for q street sprinkler wagon.
Something that can be depended
on for regularity.
Col. John R. Cooper, the noted
criminal lawyer, of Macon, who
defended the Rawlings boys was
a Fitzgerald visitor yesterday.
Mrs. B. ]. Owen, who has been
a visitor in Fitzgerald for the
past three months, returned to
her home in Bonair, on Tuesday.
Home grown strawberries,
which have been in the market
sioce February are becoming
more plentiful. If rain comes
soon there will be a pretty good
crop.
G. W. Smith is the owner of a
new Cadillac Auto. He will test
its capacity, next Saturday, by
trip to Jacksonville and will be
accompanied by Henry Burk-
hart.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. J. Norman, of
Coviogton City, who have been
the guests of Mrs. S. O. Cook,
for several days, took their de-
parture for Triton, yesterday,
where they expect to visit frien-
DIS.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
For The Childrens Sake They Voted Out
Saloons In Decatur.
Aud Balm bridge too, as dry as a bone.
We predicted that.

Aud cambridge too, dry bone.
We predicted that.
We ulte Georgia that the of Decatur
has joined the prohibition ma jority.
But what of bright Ben Russell? We hope he the right
side, he always is when he doesn't go wrong.
The FITZGERALD Band they got blow
saloon people, what
voters tOoters
The majority for prohibition in the county The saloon
usual peced all the but it said
that the voted the dry ticket When line
negroes being voted by saloon Judge H. c. Sheffield
Arlington who spectator cried shame try
to defeat the will of the county by such methods"
The prayed and the children marched with
banners which nsc he'd FOR OUR SAKES VOTE
OUT THE SALOONS"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28

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