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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
Mrs. Thorpe, Police MatrOn,Says
immortality Is Due to Neglect.
Every Girl Would Be Saved by
Proper Influence.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
FOrty-TwO Girls Taken to In
dustrial School Cited,
All But Two Children of Di-
vOrced or Quarreling Parents.

Holton, Kan, Nov. 12.-Dealing with
the underworld and sounding a note for
the betterment of social conditions
everywhere, Mrs. Laura E. Thorpe, po-
lice matron at Topeka, addressed the
w. C. T. U. convention here today
tracing causes of dissipation, and Of
fering a remedy in many cases. She
said in part:
II once attended a woman's meeting
in an easter city where a police matron
was to give an address, and the earnest
ladies in waiting were entertained by
her with discourse on 'Sunshine'-but
it is the shadows with which / will deal.
for believe we should know something
about the dark side of life-that we
MAJ have more concern for the children
in our homes and the school.
There are always indolent people to
say: oh. well, these evils have always
been, and always will be- and just so
they said of slavery in the fifties-and
slavery is dead; just so they have SAID
of intemperance, and intemperance is
dying. If the commonsense men and
of the law under the root of the evil
and lift together, this curse also will
be annihilated.
immortality Due to Neglect.
Here are two facts to be written
down. indelibly. in your memory:
'1-More than half of the immortality
is due to the ignorance Of neglected
youth.
2-Every normal child in whom you
take a personal interest, can be saved
from these vices.
THE extent of the social evil in the
United States, is said to be, numerical
ly, more than 100000 girls-whose lives
years. Some $4,000 recruits enter the
ranks of sorrow and shame every year
From whence do they come? From
every city and village. and neighbor-
hood-one here and another there
sinking continually. The youth flock to
the cities to get employment and in
their ignorance are easy victims. Thou
sands of girls from foreign countries
seeking employment, are enticed or
forced into white slavery by those en-
gagged in that traffic.
United States District Attorney
Sims of Chicago. in ferreting out this
abo1nination, learned that the traders
receive from $3.50 to $500 for each girl
according to her personal beauty Be
fore the publicity was given the traffic
the trade was as regular as that of
farm products-or of cattle and sheep.
In the year before the interference
OF the law, Q90S) not less than 5000
girls were imported for this awful life.
and that was said to be a mere frac-
ton as compared with the number Sc
cured from the home fields.
Disease, insanity. murder, suicide,
remorse. and bitterness incurable, are
the results. and these facts are we'll
known. The children of dissipated par
erts seem helpless against this evil
rot so much because of heredity as be-
cause of environment and lack of coun-
Sc and courage.
"Of AZ girls taken by me to the state
industrial school, during the past 10 or
10 years. 40 of them had divorced, or
parents. And scarcely a
child ever comes into .he Juvenile court
but has been almost criminally neglect
Ell at home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
"HE IS JUST MEAN"
Father of Boy Bandit Says His Son
Is Not Insane.

Louisville, KY, Nov. 1.-THE con-
dition of John K. Woodward, presi-
dent of the Merchants National bank
of New Albany and James Tucker,
the negro chauffeur who were wound
ed yesterday by Thomas Jefferson
Hall, the boy bandit, was practically
unchanged today. President Wood
ward is in serious condition. The
negro is not expected to live.
Hall, who will have to answer later
for the murder of Cashier J. Hungary
Fawcett, takes his arrest cool1y. His
stepmother, who visited him early to-
day, was asked what sort of novels
the boy read.
ooh, I don't know their names, -
was the reply, "but he always kept
three or four new ones in the house.
The boys father says the lad is not
insane.
HE is just mean
Henry Alexander, the janitor of the
bank, was arrested last night on the
charge of completely in the robbery,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
BANKERS REPORT PROSPERITY.
Group -Four of Kansas Association
Meets Mt Junction City.

Junction City, Kan, Nov. 12-
Group 4 of the Kansas Bankers as
ISOLATION held its annual meeting here
In the Commercial club room, with
more than 100 members in attendance
and nearly every county in the west
ern and northwestern part of the
state represented
In addition there were present a
number of Kansas City bankers State
Bank Commissioner Dolley, Senator
Bristow, Congressman Calderhead and
Ex-Governor w. J. Bailey.
The meeting was called to order by
7. B. Kennedy. president. The adj
dress of welcome was made by Major
w. F. Muenzenmayer, and G.. w.
Hanna of Clay Center responded.
There was an invocation by Rev. DR..
A. H. Harshaw and a reading by Miss
Edith Mackey.
The roll call showed prosperity in
every county, indicated by the rapidly
increasing business of the banks
Senator Bristow addressed the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
GRAY TO HEAD FRISCO.
First Vice President Is Elevated to the
Presidency.

st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 12.-Carl r. Gray,
first vice president of the st. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad company, will
succeed A. J. Davidson as president OF
that system. according to the statement
made by one Of the directors.
A. ]. Davidson denied a report that
the inauguration of a policy of re-
trenchment had caused his retirement
from the presidency.
There is nothing in that he said
Nor did the retiring executive attach
any Importance to the fact that he had
not been reelected a member of the
board of directors. His resignation, he
said, was in the hands of B. F.
board, Monday when Vice President
Gray was chosen to succeed him on the
board.
Carl Raymond Gray is AZ years old.
He was graduated at the Arkansas In
dustrial university and entered the rail-
road service in 1882. He has been with
the San Francisco 81 years, rising from
telegraph operator to first vice presi-
dent. He was deciding force in estab-
fishing the supremacy of the Yoakum
interests in the Rock Island Frisco
lines.
Mr. Gray is southwesterner by birth
and experience. After serving as ope-
rator and agent he got into the traffic
department in 1887 as clerk, and ad
vanced to division freight agent. He
entered the operating department iii
1900 as division superintendent In 1904
he was made superintendent of trans
portation; in 1904 general manager, and
in 1904 second vice president, succeed
ing r. r. Hammond in affairs of opera
ton. He has represented the system in
operation and traffic, and has shown
marked ability in directing conferences
with municipal and legislative author
tiles on various subjects from time to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
LEAvENwoRTH TROOPS POSED
Paraded in Review for a Moving Pic
ture Concern.

Leavenworth, Kan. Nov. 12.-A1l
the soldiers in the brigade at Fort
Leavenworth paraded in review for
moving pictures. The officers and
soldiers appeared in full dress cere-
mony uniforms. the second time in
many years they marched in this
manner. The 5000 troops were first
formed in line. massed in battalions
and moving panoramic picture
taken of them. They were then
marched past the reviewing point in
rehearsal.
This was followed by the en-
gineers and infantry. the foot soldiers
marching by in company front double
lines in grand review. The artillery
formed in battery front and came by
in a gallop as though going into ae-
ton.
The cavalry squadron, 400 horse
men, formed in eight platoon lines.
and came by in fast cavalry charge.
Moving pictures will be taken of spar
and pontoon bridge building,
calisthenic and signal drill, wall
scaling and fancy cavalry riding.
These moving pictures are to be
shown in Europe, as well as through
out America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
new CODE OF RULES.
Employees of Chicago Railways Com
pany Must Be Polite.

Chicago, Nov. 12.-Employes of the
Chicago Railways company must be
polite to passengers and seek to Gull
tivate the good will of patrons of the
lines. ga
In a letter addressed to all motor
men and conductors the company has
laid down a new code of rules. If a
passenger offers a conductor trans
fer that is useless and swears because
it is refused, the conductor must smile
sweetly and give the passenger detail
&c reasons for not accepting the slip.
Women with children are supposed
to be special wards of conductors and,
N the new rules, the employees are
required to help such passengers to get
CT and off the cars. Old and inffrm
persons must be given special attention
whenever possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
LYON COUNTY PIONEER DEAD.
John wesley Floyd Has Lived Near
Americas Since War.

Emporia, Kan. Nov. 12.-John Wesley
Floyd, one of the pioneer settlers of
Lyon county, is dead, at the age Of rs
years. Mr.. Floyd was a native of
North Carolina. but moved to Kansas
In 1861, and has since lived in or near
Americas. During the civil war he
served in Company D. Of the Kansas
militia.
Mr.. Floyd had suffered from several
partial strokes of paralysis, and for
considerably more than year had been
practically helpless. He was taken
worse one week ago and gradually grew
weaker and more helpless until the end.
He leaves a wife, one daughter and
three sons, all of whom were with hin,
and helped to care for him during his
last hours. The children are Mrs. Anna
McCaw, John Floyd. George Floyd and
James Floyd. James lived at nome and
had cared for his parents in their de-
Ginning years. The other three children,
with their families. live in Americas.
Three children, a daughter and two
sons, died in childhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
JOHNSON BUYS PROPERTY
Negro Pugilist Invests in Chicago Real
Estate.

Chicago, Nov. 12.-John Arthur John
son, champion heavyweight pugilist. be-
came a taxpayer in Chicago yesterday
when a deed was filed for record max
ing him sole owner of property which
comprises a three story brick dwelling
on lot so by 164 feet.
The house and lot was purchased for
s11 900.
A garage will be built in the rear.
where Johnson will keep his fast au-
tomobiles, and he plans to make room
for at least four machines. Adjacent
to the garage will BIO a gymnasium.
Johnson's brother will leave Monday
for Galveston, Texas. the former home
of the negro heavyweight, and will bring
his mother to- Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
ALL PARALYSIS
NOT HOPELESS
This Man Had Form That Was
Durable and There Are
Hundreds of Gases
Like His.

There are still people who say that no
form of paralysis can be cured.
If you have partial paralysis or some
other severe nervous disorder, do you
think it is better to be treated by some-
one who insists that you are incurable,
or to take a treatment that grateful
patients throughout the United States
testify has cured them?
There are several forms of paralysis
that are durable by the tonic treatment
with DIR. Williams Pink Pills and re-
markable proof of the fact that the dis
ease can be cured is found in the case of
Mr.. Willard P. Creech, of No. S15
Maple street, Kansas City, Mo-, who is
shipping clerk for Bracken q Turpln.
He says:
stAbout twelve years ago, when living
at Appleton, Wis, l was paralyzed from
my hips down. / became in this condi-
ton shortly after fall while playing at
school. There was not a particle Of
feeling in my legs and could not use
them. could not feel electricity from
a battery. had to be lifted out of bed.
had no strength at all and lost great
deal in flesh. There was a steady, dull
pain across my back, which kept me in
misery all of the time. My kidneys
were affected and l was in bed for two
years.
"T was treated by several physicians,
who pronounced my case spinal trouble.
The last physician, that I had, treated
me for about year and finally told me
that he could do nothing more for me.
Through my grandmother decided to
try DR.. Williams Pink Pills. I took
several boxes when noticed decided
change for the better. had confidence
in the pills and took them until cured"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are guaran-
teed by the manufacturers to contain
no opiate or narcotic nor anything that
could injure the most delicate system.
Those who are interested in the treat
ment which cured this case can obtain
further information by writing for the
booklet, Nervous Disorders" which
we send free on request.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid,
on receipt of price, so cents per box; six
boxes for $3.50 by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
HOTELS ARE CROWDED.
Horse Show Brings Many Visitors to
New York.

New York, Nov. 12.-For the first
time in several years, excepting the
period of the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton. every hotel in New York is now
crowded to its capacity. The horse
show is partly responsible for this
condition, but hotel managers declare
that mostly it is a reflection of the
wave of prosperity that is reported
as sweeping over the country.
None of the large hotels is supply
ing suites and no matter how distin-
guished a guest may be he must be
contented with single bedroom.
Beds have been placed in all availa BILE
rooms and every bed is taken. The
Waldorf Astoria alone has 1900
names on it's register
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH.
For Missing Choir Singer by Her
Companions.

New York. Nov. 12.-Twenty-five
young women from the choir of st.
Peters German Lutheran church in
the Bronx are conducting sys-
tematic search to find Emma 1on-
man, IT years old, who was a member
OF the choir and whose strange dis
appearance from her home Monday
morning has been unexplained
Each young woman acquaintance
has been assigned to travel con-
tinuously on a certain street car line,
or to search through a particular dis
trict while others have been in
structed to call at all homes and bust
ness places where Miss Hoffman
might have gone. Other choir
singers are canvassing all institutions
to which the girl might have been
taken If i'll or the victim of an ac-
cident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
$3.50 Discount Saturday and Monday

On small trimmed hats and children's
hats.
We are showing plush, felt, silk and
velvet in small styles for those who can
not wear the large hats.
Ok OF, Off on children's hats. Every
~ ~ thing goes-red, brown, blue,
or white. Caps all colors, all sizes. Chill
dren's trimmed hats.
Children's Beavers $500, now $500. :
$3.50 off Saturday and Monday.
$3.50 off on Hair Goods.
MRS c.. H. MORRISON
COS Kansas Avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12

bankers. His talk was informal
Congressman Calderhead discussed
banking laws and the currency He
said he was not in favor of chang
ing the present banking system to one
providing a central national bank He
explained concisely the action of the
last congress on financial matters and
also touched upon the tariff.
state Bank Commissioner Dolley
made a short talk on the new tax law
as 1t pertains to banks.
During the evening the bankers
were given a banquet at the Bartell
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
vIOLETS IN BLOOM.
Chicago School Children Selling Them
at Is Cents a Bunch.

Chicago, Nov. 12.-vio1ets are in
full bloom in the woods north OF
Evanston. School children of the
suburb are earning candy money by
selling the flowers at Is cents a bunch
Old residents of Evanston cannot
recall time when wild violets could
be picked SO late in the season. G. B.
Atwell, city forester and professor OF
botany at Northwestern university
said he had never known of the Sec
ond bloom appearing later than Oc-
tober.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
Annusennents.

"Lyman's H. Howe's festival of
travel inspires thought and con-
versation for weeks to come" 1t is
more enjoyable than actual travel for
there is no bad weather, fear of ac-
cidents or other disappointments to
mar the pleasure of "Howe's tourists .
Those who will Travel with Lyman
H. Howe" two days and matinee
commencing tonight will see a new
conquest of the world in perfect
photography. The new program is
really a picture gallery of countless
scenes of the worlds wonders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
END IS REACHED.
Big -Four Officials Look for No More
Developments in Warriner Shortage.

Cincinnati, Nov. 12.-Charles L. War
riner, deposed local treasurer, charged
with the shortage of $643,000 in his ac-
counts with the Big Four railroad, is
rearly a physical wreck. his friends
said today.
Big Four railroad officials expressed
the belief that there would be no more
important developments in the big de-
falcation SO far as the Cincinnati offices
were concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
GIVEN TO YOUNG JOHN.
Rockefeller Makes Transfer of Some
More Property.

New York, Nov. 12.-Following his
policy adopted some time ago John
D. Rockefeller has transferred more
of his property to his son. John D.
Rockefeller, jr. The property now
transferred comprises the west side
neighborhood house. Armitage
Chapel, and a model fat house at
Tenth avenue and Fiftieth street. The
settlement house has been run by
Young Mr. Rockefeller's Sunday
school class
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
KiIIed by a Street Car.

Chicago, Nov 12.-George T. Evans,
president of the Acme-Evans Milling
Company of Indianapolis. one of the
most prominent millers of the west,
was struck by a street car at 23rd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12

receiving injuries which caused his
death at st. Lukes hospital early this
morning. Mr.. Evans was in Chicago
with his wife and was guest at the
Congress hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12

Correct forms, reception and visiting
cards, wedding invitations. Adams
Brothers.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-04-15

and about twelve feet thick. These
mattresses are made usually from
live willow brush, thirty feet or
more in length, and from two to five
inches thick at the butt. They are
woven into mattresses 500 to 1900
feet long. The willows used in the
construction grow very thick on the
bars and tovheads that have de-
posit of river mud on top of the
sand. Willows will not grow on
sand alone. Under favorable con-
ditions of soil and moisture, willows
from 4 TO 5 years old are fit for use.
The brush is cut and hauled out on
wagons TO the river bank, and is
there loaded upon barges athwart-
ship. A full load OF brush consists
OF about 400 cords.
When the mattresses have been
woven to the length required they
are covered with stone almost to the
sinking point. Two stone barges
are then brought across the head OF
the mattress, and as the current
takes the barge down stream stone
is thrown on the mat until the entire
mat is at the bottom of the river,
the head of the mat, which has been
kept suspended from the mooring
barges, being gradually lowered
down as the sinking proceeds.
The depth of the water. which, as
has been stated, is often as great as
ninety feet or more being such, it
necessarily follows that when there
is a very strong current the sink
ing of a large mattress becomes a
very critical operation. Until it has
been sunken the mattress is held by
from ten to sixteen large steel cables
800 to $500 feet long, fastened to
anchorsges on shore.
II is now that one of the most
wonderful machines extent, hydraulic
grader, comes into use. After the
mattresses has been sunken this
hydraulic grader, by means of wat
er under high pressure, cuts down
the bank above the shore edge Of
the mat to a fiat slope. after which
the graded bank is covered with rip
rap stone to about eight inches thick
laid from a four-inch foundation Of
quarry spalls.
Such work as has just been des.
cribed cost the government about SIS
per linear foot, or 10 reveal to the
layman a more concise figure, 1000
feet of such work will cost fully
SIS. 900.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-04-15

become recognized as one of the
mafvels Of our latter day civiliIa-
ton.
The Mississippi river from Cairo
down is succession Of deep pools
and shadows. The pools are in the
bends OF the river, and the shadows
connect the pools. The concave side
of the bend is the caving side, and
here II is that the deep water lies.
Sometimes this water a,tsins a depth
OF over ninety feet.
DANGER OF GAZING BANKS.
The opposite or convex side is al.
ways long fiat bar, and as this bar
makes UPSTREAM, the bank opposite
caves. This caving so nett m es
amounts TO recession OF the bank
line OF 500 feet annually; but about
two hundred feet may be considered
as a normal amount Of caving in the
bend annually.
Now, il the banks of these bends
we're held 10 fixed line, the path
of the current of the Mississippi
river across the shoals would also
remain fixed, and also. as there
would be no increment from bank
erosion to the amount Of sediment
that the river carries, there would
be none to drop on the shoal and
serve 10 build II up.
Uncle Sans idea is TO prevent the
caving of the banks. This is the
whole object OF the revetment works
The strong current Of the river bed
will continually undermine an UNI
protected bank. which, because OF
tremendous pressure brought TO bear
will cave off in huge pieces. The
mattresses and stone pavings adopt
ed by the government as an efficient
remedJ for the contingency, are non
erodable, and by their fortified
character. which renders the strong
est current harmless, they overcome
conditions otherwise deplorable.
WEAVING WILLOW MATTRESSES.
The revetment. or bank protec-
ton work, as II is sometimes called
consists. first. Of the making Of a
! mattress from $50 TO 800 feet wide
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Costly work certainly, but to the
present writing no cheaper substitute
has been found.
ORIGIN OF SYSTEM.
The present system of revetment
work had its origin in Germany.
Probably as early as the twelfth
century the golden-haired Saxons
piled their brawny mucles to the
cause herein described, and lived to
proudly view the adoption of the
system. in time, by nearly every
other county in the universe.
The first river so far as known,
to undergo the system of revetment
was the River Rine. Later the
Egyptians altered, but did not sue
coed in improving upon the system
in effect upon the Nile, whose mud
dy banks echoed many yell from
tbs threats of the slaves at work
there as the foreman's lash cut the
weak or unwilling flesh OF the work
err.
From time 10 time the original sys-
TEN has been improved upon until it
has reached its present almost per-
feet state.
The present system has been in
vogue since 1881, and during the
past few years has been materially
improved by Major Walker. presi-
dent in charge at Memphis. and Mr.
August J. Nolty, assistant engineer.
DURABILITY OF THE WORK.
The revetment work described in
this article will hold river banks eff
fectively for a period, more or less,
OF thirty years after which time re-
pairs will more than likely be need
full to render il continually effective.
While bank revetment is primarily
placed for the improvement of low
water navigation, other functions
have also to be performed, as for in
stance, the protection of a town
front from caving or the protection
of levees extending along a caving
TEND. Columbus and Hickman,
KY. New Madrid and Caruthers-
vile. Mo. y. Luxora and helena. Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, Greenville and
Matches. Miss. and Lake Providence
and New Orleans, La, are all pro.
tected from the encroachment OF the
river by revetments.
To close chutes for the purpose Of
contracting the river when it is alb
normally wide. a system OF open