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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
PROBE OF ASYLUM
DUE TO GEO. BELL?
Investigation of Conditions and
Management May Follow the
Charges Made by Swainsboro
Man Who Killed Himself.

MILIEDGEVILLE Ga. May 13-The
Investigation of the condition and man
agement of the Georgia state sanitarium
is probably the direct result of the lib
Grafton of George II. Bell, the famous
inmate of the institution, who killed him
self on a train near Tenille last March,
just a month after he was liberated by
the courts. After he obtained his free
dom Bell spent much of his time in Gre
ating dissension everywhere possible,
concerning the sanitarium and he wrote
letter 20 the mother of r. f. Dunning-
ton. one of the parties making the SEN
sationaI allegations against the santa
rum.
Huntington is from Richmond county
and is suffering from delusion, according
10 a statement from the sanitarium au-
thorities, and DR.. L. VI. Jones, superin-
tendent, received a distressing letter
from his mother stating that Bell told
her inconceivable stories Of the asylum
and to convince her that her son was not
in bad hands he was given a ninety day
furlough TO go home on a visit and he
must return to the asylum on June IL,
next, as he has not been freed from the
custody of the institution.
Dr. Jones states that Huntington kept
UP more of an uproar than any patient
ever sent to the sanitarium, as he labors
constantly under petty decisions, always
getting up a row with patients when
ever permitted to come in contact with
them. The men whom Huntington ac-
cuses of harsh treatment are known as
the best attendants at the asylum
Judge T. G. Lawson, of Eatonton, pres
ident of the board of trustees of the SAN
itarium, has been here investigating the
matter and they will insist on a thorough
he has Joined Superintendent l.. NJ. Jones
in asking Governor Hoke Smith to ap-
point a commission to examine into the
matter and they will insist in a thorough
examination. DIR. Jones states emphatical-
ly that not one of the charges made by
Huntington or any one else can be
substituted.
There are over 5000 inmates in the
sanitarium and the public of this city
who are in touch with the management
of the institution are sure that it is prop
erIy handled under the most approved
plans.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
NO BARGAIN RATES
FOR GEORGIA ROAD
President T. X. Scott Declares His
Road Will Not Consent To Bar
gain Proposed by the Commits
sion.

The charge that the Georgia Railroad
company is being Disseminated against
in the matter Of passenger fares because
it will not consent to a bargain of 2cents
straight fares was launched against the
railaroad commission of Georgia, Thurs
day morning, by President T. K. Scott,
of the Georgia Railroad company, dur
ing the hearing of the company's petition
for authority to increase its passenger
rates.
commissioners here from this bench"
said President Scott, Offered US IL
cent rate If we would put into effect
cent mileage rate, knowing perfectly well
that the commission has no authority to
make mileage rates. 1t was a bargain
which 1 have refused on more than one
occasion before and which 1 stand here
today to refuse again.
President Scott had just asked Commits
sioner Hill why the Atlantic Coast Line
rates were raised from , IA cents after
that railway had been originally put in
the same class with the Georgia.
Once more and for the third time the
petition of the Georgia Railroad company
for authority to increase the passenger
rate on the Georgia railway from IA TO
2 IL cents is before the state railroad
commission 1t was argued before the
commission Thursday morning and was
taken under executive consideration by
that body at l o'clock. after half a dozen
sensational little passages-at-arm had
enlivened the session.
Whatever the chances are that the petit
don may again be denied. 1t was apparent
at the hearing. Thursday morning, that
the question was being argued at least
entirely on it's merits, and that previous
denials of it by the commission were not
being looked upon as prejudicing it in
any way.
Only tow viva voce protests against
the granting of the petition were heard
during the session, though in the files
reviewed and read in parts by Secretary
Wallace there were several letters which
expressed the writer's opposition to the
advance. G. H. Kelly, of the Atlanta
wholesale grocery firm of nelly Brothers,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
COMMITTEE TO NAIL BIG HIGHWAY IS
NAMED BY SPARTANBURG CITIZENS

automobile tour through Spartanburg, ;.
C
This committee has today gone before
the board of county commissioners for
this county and has secured their promise
to put in good condition rne roads of this
county With this end in view the COM
mitee. with the county board. will this
week go over the proposed road and de-
eide what improvements are necessary
Then the county chaingangs will be put
on the roads and kept at work there until
we are sure that we can offer good
roadway.
The enthusiasm over the proposed tour
is very manifest here, and we WANT to as
sure you that we are ready and willing
to do all in our power to get 1t by Spar
tanburg.
We note that the pathfinder party will
leave Atlanta early in June, and we ask
you to give us information as to when
they will arrive in Greenville, S. C.. so
that our committee may meet them at
that point and escort them through Spar
tanburg county. We are today writing
the county commissioners and automobile
clubs of the adjoining counties to secure
their cooperation and we will be glad
for you to suggest any further action we
might take to secure this route for Spar
tanburg. Yours truly,
FRED L. BRYANT.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
BETTER SCHEDULES
FOR PEACH GROWERS

Improved schedules for fruit ship
ments and reports by the growers that
commission men were buying heavily on
the track, were features of the meeting
Wednesday of the executive committee
Of the Georgia Fruit exchange. Con-
tracts were also ratified with commits
sion houses.
The committeeman present said that
the f. o. b. shipment situation had
shown a great improvement, and said
that not less than SIPS net crate on
the track would be accepted, and $3.50
was expected by many others.
Manager L. M. Fleming announced
that as a result of a conference with
traffic men, he had secured a schedule
to Chicago by which fruit may be de-
livered there in sixty hours, or the
same as New York. In the past it has
required four or five days, some times
more. Similar improvement was re-
ported to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Pittsburg and other points.
Meetings will shortly be held with
officials of roads leading to the east
and the west with a view of getting
further improvements in service. Mr..
tIeming will meet with the CentGaI
railroad men at Macon soon.
The new schedule to Chicago is made
possible by a concentration of practt-
cally all the states shipments through
the exchange, permitting peaches to be
shipped in carload lots.
Contracts were ratified with several
commission houses. A supplementary
list will be announced later.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14

Fred L Bryant. a consulting engineer
OF Spartanburg, S. c.. one OF a committee
named at a recent meeting Of the Spar
tanburg chamber OF commerce, writes of
the active work already prosecuted by
that committee, whose sole duty and rea-
son for existence is the securing Of the
New York to Atlanta highway for Spar
tanburg-
Already the county commission. writes
Mr.. Bryan. is lined up. II will go over
the county with the committee, determine
what work is necessary TO put the roads
in first class shape. set the chaingangs
20 work on them and keep them there
TIL the work is finished.
Mr.. Bryant asks when the pathfinders
will arrive at Greenville. The Spartan
burg committee, he says. will meet them
there and escort them through Spartan
bssrg county
Following Is the letter:
May. 10. 1919.
Atlanta Journal. Atlanta, Ca
Dear Sirs:
At a recent meeting OF the chamber OF
commerce Of Spartanburg. committee
Of Mescsrs. Arch B. Calvert. Victor NJ.
Montgomery, Andrew NJ Law, James A.
Chapman. r II. Nesbitt. DR.. Webb Thorn
son and the writer. was appointed to Sc
cure the route OF the New York-Atlanta
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
WHERE HE LOST ALL,
OTHERS WON SUCCESS

NEW YORK, May 13.-Dr. Thomas
Rainey, who spent % years Of his life
and his entire fortune of 100000 in the
vain effort to bridge the East river, yes
terday quietly left his home in Lexing-
ton avenue, clad in house coat, slippers
and skull cap and surveyed the new giant
Greensboro bridge.
From it the white haired man of 50
years saw the crumbling foundations Of
the bridge which he started thirty years
ago. He stopped frequently in walking
acress the bridge and told policemen and
others, most Of whom had never heard OF
him or his bridge, about his undertaking
and how he had lost his fortune.
Before Dr. Rainey had returned to his
home he had been missed, and as he had
not left the house for years except with
a companion, his relatives were searching
for him.
It is now proposed to commemorate
DR.. Rainey's original bridge project with
a tablet on the new bridge to be unveiled
at the official opening ceremonies next
month.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
MAY HAVE BIG FIGHT
OVER SITE FOR SCHOOL

ADAIRsvILLE. Ca. May 12.-saturday. the
18th the board Of trustees Of the Seventh dis
trict Industrial and agricultural school will hold
meeting at the capitol, in Atlanta, that is Of
importance.
1t is alleged that Cobb county. the successful
bidder for the school. has failed to carry out
her contract 1t is said that Cobb county was
TO erect at the site an academic building and
a boyf' dormitory, according to plans and specifi-
cations furnished them. They have put school
building and laid the foundation for the dormi-
tory, but this work has been stopped for some
time The board Of trustees have held several
meetings and have endeavored to get the people
of Cobb to finish the dormitory, but so far have
been unsuccessful.
Unless an agreement can be reached at the
meeting Saturday it is quite likely that the
trustees will discuss the feasibility of reOpening
the whole matter and receive new BIDS and
proposals for a new location.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
LOST HAT CAUSES
ANARCHISTS ARREST

A hat. lost at the corner of Seventeenth
and Wood streets, Chicago, and traced to
Atlanta, has resulted in the arrest and
return to Chicago of Vincent Karcz, alias
Antoni Wolicki, an alleged anarchist,
charged with the murder of Frank Petit
bone in a recent bakery strike in the IL
linois city. Karcz was returned to Chica-
go Wednesday by Officer Pawlowski, of
the West Chicago avenue police station,
a requisition having been granted by Gov
ernor Smith.
According to officer Pawlowski, Karcz
was one of four alleged anarchists, who
had planned to assault Pettibone, who
was a bakery wagon driver. The four
men are alleged to have waited in am
bush for Pettibone, prepared to slug him.
When Pettibone approached the ambush
he made some resistance, and according
to the reported confessions of his compan-
ions, Karcz fired three times, killing Pet
tibone instantly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
WILL ERECT SHAFT
IN HONOR OF ADAM

BALTIMORE. May 13.-Believing that
It is better late than never, John P.
Brady, a contractor and builder, has had
erected at his country house, Hickory
Grounds, near Gardenville, a monument
to the memory of Adam, the first man.
After spending much thought upon de-
signs for the monument, Mr.. Brady de-
cided that nothing could be more f1t-
ting than a plain square shaft of con-
crete, surmounted by a sun dial.
Mr. Brady wishes the occasion of the
dedication distinctly masculine. He has no
intention at any time to erect me-
mortal TO Eve.
The inscription on the stone reads:
This, the First Shaft
In America
Is Dedicated to Adam, the First Man"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14

Friday morning, early. Atlanta scout
car OF The Journal-Herald contest will
Jump into the road. catch the pace, anG
go whirIing or on its run TO Greenville
over highways and byways.
II win so one way. and come back an
other. The accompanying map. intricate
with routes that are clamortng for recog-
milton. shows the intricate situation
which the scout is going out to get notes
on. The car viii reach Greenville Sat
uriay evening. or Sunday morning. II
viii return to Atlanta probably some time
Tuesday.
Aboard the car will be E. W. Cans.
manager OF the southern branch Of the
White Steamer company; Frank s. We'll
don. president OF the Interstate Highway
association: Ed II. Inman, president Of
the Fulton County Automobile club; John
s Cohen. managing editor OF The Jour
nal; some maps. several notebooks,
camera, and a Journal stan man. When
the car returns IL will bring with it
the data on which the pathhnders, going
out about the first Of the month, will
base their operations.
Wednesday afternoon the first news
was published that the car is going to
take the road. For weeks there has been
a cIamor besieging The Journals ofices
that somebody come out and look over
with his own eyes the superior claims
OF this and the other route. Since fine
Wednesday afternoon issues found their
destinations through the malls. towns and
counties along the possible ways have
again been stirred 10 activity and thu
wires are getting hotter every hour
The Spartanburg Herald jumps into
the thick Of IL with an invitation for
the scout car TO come on farther.
Why not have your scout car come
TO Spartanburg2" is the query that the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
TAFT, RED CROSS AGENT,
HAS STARTED CAMPAIGN
TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS

and of Robert w. DeForest as vice pres
ident.
Under the caption RULES for the Pre-
vention of Railroad Accidents" seven
"nevers" are given, among which are the
following:
Never cross railway at a grade cross
ing before making sure that no trains
are approaching.
Never jump off cars in motion.
lever put head or other part Of per-
son out of a car window.
Never stand on the platform when the
car is in motion.
Never forget that carelessness on your
part in regard to these precautions not
only endangers your life but the happiness
and the welfare of those most dear to
you"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY LEAGUE
MAY TAKE OFFICIAL COGNlZANCE OF
MOVEMENT FOR MAMMOTH ROAD

Invitations have gone out broadcast to
good roads workers in all sections of the
country, to a conference of the national
executive committee Of the international
League for Highway Improvement. which
will be held on May Il and Is in the audi
torium OF the Hotel Jefferson. Richmond.
Va The international League for High
way Improvement Eas known until re-
Gently as the National Roads association.
under which name IL was incorporated at
St Augustine. Fla. last February.
The proceedings Of this conference COM
prehend a general discussion of highway
Improvement by men who have thor
ough knowledge Of the subject
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
THREE KILLED; 90 HURT
IN WRECK IN TEXAS

DENISON, Tex, May 12.-Three persons
were killed, twenty-five injured, and one
badly scalded in a wreck of a Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger train near
Bonita late last night. The train was run
ming at a high speed when the engine
left the track. All of the coaches except
the rear one were ditched.
The wreck occurred at a point where
a freight train was wrecked yesterday.
The dead:
ENGINEER FRASER.
Two f1agmen killed while standing on
the side of the track.
Injured:
Conductor Littlefeld.
Express Messenger Wilder.
Fireman, name not given; badly scald-
ed.
Twenty passengers.
The passengers were badly shaken up,
and a number Of them were brought to
Denison on hand cars.
Messenger Wilder declares that the
crew of the passenger train had positive
orders to run slowly at the point where
the wreck occurred, because of the pre-
vious wreck, but he alleges the orders
were not obeyed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
CHICAGO HAS STARTED
CRUSADE AGAINST FLIES

CHICAGO, May 1O.-It is time to be-
gin the fight on flies. Health Commission
err Evans has sounded the warning in
his weekly bulletin on Chicago's health.
In the war on the fly, the report pre-
scribes the best death for the insects. 1t
gives the formula for poison that will
kill the flies and not endanger human
life. s
A dram of bichromate of potash, dis
solved in two ounces OF water and sweet
ened, is the cheap and effective method Of
encouraging the flies to kill themselves.
There are other sanitary regulations,
though, that the health report says ought
to be exercised. Here are some of the
ways suggested:
Screen your windows and doors before
fly time.
Screen all food, especially milk.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
ENDS LIFE WHEN HE
FAILED TO GET JOB

MOBILE, Ala, May u.-Despondency
over failure to obtain employment. and his
family in want, Peter ]. Matthias, we'll
known here. committed suicide at his
home this morning shortly after o'clock
by shooting himself through the head
with a 3S calibre revolver.
The man, a few minutes before the
shooting. had drunk a cup of coffee alone.
Going into his wifes room and kissed her
and then stepped into a hall and fired
the bullet into his head. The dead man
leaves a wife and three children.
His wife begged the city officials to give
him a job. even at sweeping the streets
but was unsuccessful
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
TWENTY-FIVE MEN
KILLED. BY BLAST

ALBANY, N. Y, May 12-Twenty-
workmen are reported killed in a pre-
mature blast of dynamite in a stone
quarry operated by the Callahan Road
Improvement company, about ten miles
from Albany this afternoon.
Two gangs of men were at work in the
quarry. 1t was the intention to fire
blast at o'clock this afternoon, and
about IA holes had been drilled and sew
en- or eight of them had been filled when
there was a terrific explosion. OF the
thirty men who were working near the
drills % are believed to have been killed.
Another gang of twenty men was at
work further down in the quarry, and
it is said some of them have also been
killed. About 1000 pounds of dynamite ex
ploded
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14

A number of men Of national promi-
hence have been invited to attend the
conference. and many have accepted
President Taft and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson are among those invited es-
pecially, and Secretary Wilson has al
ready signified his intention Of attending
II possible.
1t is entirely probable that The Journal
and Herald's project for the New York
to Atlanta highway will be one Of the
most important matters considered at the
conference. as this is generally looked up
on all over the country as a significant
step in the good roads movement-one OF
the most striking applications so far re-
corded OF the spirit for better highways.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
ARREST OF BOYS
TOLD SAD STORY

NEW YORK. May 13.-William and AL
bert Papke, IL and Is years of age,
were studying their school lessons under
an electric street lamp in South Orange,
n. j., before daybreak yesterday when
they were interrupted by a policeman
who considered It so strange that he took
them to the station house.
The boys explained that they had got
ten behind with lessons because of the
time they had to spend in nursing their
mother, who has been i'll in her bed for a
long time. They had been up with her
most Of the night and when she finally
dropped off to sleep at 8 o'clock yester-
day morning they silently slipped out Of
the house to study their boks by a street
lamp rather than risk the danger Of
awakening their mother by having a light
in the house. They were discharged.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
SAYS LAWMAKERS HAVE
ACCEPTED PASSES

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 12.-Charges
that many persons of prominence in Flor
ida have accepted state passes on the
railroads contrary to law were submitted
to the house today by committee ap-
pointed to investigate the pass files Of
the state railroad commission. The re-
dietary
The report contains the names of sew
eral men who have held high offices and
one or two who have been United States
senators or congressman. 1t also contains
the names the wives of several state
officials.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
Especial Dispatch TO The Journal.)

NOpSSldA OiSpAeSA ~ AAAO "NNAAAe@4'(
CHICAGO, May 12.-President Taft in
his capacity as head of the American Red
Cross, has become interested in the prob
lem of reduction of accidents on Ameri-
can railways.
The society is trying to get the rail-
road to cooperate with 1t along certain
lines, which 1t Is thought, will tend to
reduce the number of accidents caused
largely by the carelessness Of travellers.
Several roads have consented to break
their rules against posting Of plscards
in railway stations for the purpose of per-
hitting the hanging of a large card pre-
pared by the Red Cross.
The card in question is series of red
lettered Movers and they bear the sig
natures of William H. Taft as president
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
CIGARETTES MUST GO,
SO BOYS DECLARE

CHICAGO. May 12.-"The cigarette
must CO." was the unanimous decision of
Isl boys. inmates of the John Worthy
Reformatory school, who attended an
"anti-cigarette meeting at the institu-
ton. and all but five of their number
raised their right hands to acknowledge
that cigarettes had been the original
cause of their wrong-doing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14

spartanburg newspaper fires in to Tho
Journal.
spartanburg county. It will be remem-
bered. has been actively working for the
highway The Spartanburg Chamber or
Commerce, also, has within the last three
DAYS named a committee Of seven TO nail
for that town a place on the big high
way.
Comes another wire from Lavonia,
whose board of trade sent special ennis
sary to Atlanta in the person of Ruch
Burton. editor of the Lavonia Times, to
advance Franklin county's and Lavonia's
claims for place just after the contest
was announced.
when will scouting car reach Com
merce, Gainesville, Davonia? asks the
hoard of trade of the last named town.
Frank Weldon received the following
telegram Thursday from Toccoa:
Route via Seneca, Westminster, Fort
Madison. Toccoa. Currahee, Mr.. Airy.
Cornelia, Alto, Yonah, and Gainesville
IS through a country full Of interest to
pleasure tourists, business men and their
families.
Two hundred thousand horse unde-
veloped water power within ten miles OF
this route. Beautiful and inspiring noun
tain scenery always in sight on one side
or the other; also rich fields OF cotton,
corn. wheat. oats, potatoes and other
agricultural products; a shady, beauu-
full road through a country destined to
become the greatest manufacturing sec
ton Of the United States. w care now
making the road. The bridges are ready.
Come"
(Signed) CLAUDE BOND,
Secretary Toccoa Board Of Trade.
- -.----
Cornell Widow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
MRS. MARTHA CRAWFORD
DIES AT YATESVILLE

YATEsVIIIE Ga. MAY 12.-After an i'll
ness of some time. Mrs. Martha Crawford
wife of T. T Crawford. prominent buEi-
ness man Of this place. died Tuesday about
O'Clock
Mrs Crawford was almost sixty years OF
age She is survived bv a husband and six
children: Mr.. Z. T. Crawford Jr- and Mrs
c T.. IGpsey, OF Cordele: Messrs- George
Marvin and Luther and Miss Ollie CRAWFORD
all Of YatesvileF
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
ROOSEVELT FINDS
UNKNOWN ANIMAL

LONDON. May 1.-THE Globes Naples
correspondent says RoOsevelt's relatives
have received news that the colonel, be-
sides shooting lions. antelOpes. rhinoce-
ros and hippopotamus. has captured
alive a remarkable animal hitherto I'M
known.
1t is described as being something be-
tween q zebra and giraffe.