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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

women conviets wash the soiled clothes Of the male convicts and a special wash room and drying room for this purpose is provided connecting with the negro women cells.-A complete change Of cloth ing is given each convict ence a week, clean suit being. given to each one every satuEday night. They are given shoes just as often as they wear out pair.
 One large room is fitted up especially for the shackle room and here each morning all working convicts gather and seat themselves on a bench while the shacxles are riveted about their ankles. Street Commissioner Frank Gafford states this is the only way they can be han dled. the shaekles being cut off each night when the convict returns from work No other system has been found as satisfactory as the rivets. which in sure the shackle staying where 1t is put until the days work is done. After they are shaclled each morning the foremen of each gang appears, his men are check ed off to him and they leave for the days work.
 This jail was first occupied by the city September l. 1912, the old jail at Avenue D and Nineteenth street being abandoned at that time for the new one. This old Jail at Avenue D and Nineteenth street is now used as the automobile repair shop for the fire department and all city automobiles The new jail cost $4o,o0o as 1t stands. The 1s acres of ground upon which the jail and other buildings now stand cost the city ss9,ooo. Tn all the city now has invested in this municipal plant probably well over $15o.000. The new concrete warehouse. which is 50 by 100 feet. cost $750o.
 Saving Much Money
 In this warehouse the city commission CTS believe they are saving much money annually. The new office of city pur- chasing agent was created by the com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

An average dinner is 60 gallons of greens, corn bread, onions and radishes Two sacks of corn meal are consumed daily, three or four sacks of flour, 125 These are the staples, such other foods as radishes, onions. potatoes and so forth being varied from time to time When peas are cooked 1t takes 100 pounds for a single meal. Separate dining xoep1s are provided for the wome9 and for the white and negrYmsif Both are cleanry and well kepf The white mems dining room iS on the second floor and also c9ehifains an organ which is used when the place is turned into chapel on Sun days.
 conspicuous attachment to such an institution is hospital room that looks as white and cleanly and airy as any hospital in the city. There is a room for negro and one for white patients. but neither is very often occupied, it Is
 
 operating room, equipped with an op- erating table, sterilizers instruments and all accoutrements by which an opera tion Is performed as well as at a hospital The jail throughout Is equipped with baths and sanitary closets. The baths are both shower and tub and the con victs are compelled to take a sood bath at least once a week, both sexes and colors. The sanitary closets are so ar ranged that there is no plumbing what ever In the cell rooms. The closet is op- erated through a small iron bar that sticks out of the wall an inch or two and all of the plumbing and equipment is back of the wall in another room away from the harm of the convicts and where a plumber can get at 1t at any time for repair work without entering the prison proper. The shower baths are supplied with both hot and cold water from the jail boilers.
 Between meals the cooks and other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Presented Poem to World

Rudyard Kipling's famous Recess sional'' was sung as a hymn, this week, at fashionable Mayfair wedding This reminds me that I had not known until recently-and you may possibly be equal ly ignorant-that Kiplfng gave this poem as a free gift to the empire and the world. When it was published in the Times at the Diamond Jubilee check for $500 in payment was sent to Kipling. He re- turned it, saying that he would not ac- cept payment for his patriotic poem. Lest we forget" is noncopyright, and is open for all the world to print or use. It is a huge sum that Kipling has thus foregone in royalties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

out just ike a cook washes out 2 eravv
 "lsn' about once Week. The kitchen except for one thing-is T model for any housewife in Birmingham The execution Is flies. The doors and windows are mi only barred but they ure equipped with fly screens, but for soi.e reason the little pest which mankind sn general is sup- posed to be fighting is swarming in inc room and m the larger part of the eehs Street Commissioner Frank Gaf- lord states he is not allowed 10 place fly screens on the cell windows on .c- count ot the stoppage or air circulation and it is probable the flies come into the cells and from there spread to tbe Kitchen. No matter now they get in, they should be done away with. It was real disappointment 10 visit and in- spect a building and institution as well built as well kept and as well managed as that big concrete -ail and then find that the insignificant little househy had hutted in as the only opening for crit icism
 The male conviets were all out at work except few sick men, but the negro women cooks and farm hands were sit ting about in the negro women's cell and they were covered with flies. The odor and appearance of the big cell would probably put to shame 95 per cent of the negro homes in Birmingham but the flies were there by the thousands and the women were flaming and striking and fighting them off constantly. This fly enr1nnn is side from the si1laiect hnu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Saving Much Money

this uceroy is filled with water" There is a touch of humor in the remark of another scholar: When people have no money to have drink they go to the tap and have drop of water"
 These "howlers" are from a recent re- port by c. F. Daniell, chief examiner to the London school board, who adds:
 An invitation to write the 'adven- lures of library book produced several fine imaginative efforts. Thus spoke one book through the thoughts of a child: "I was born in printers and my mother was a machine" Another book "cried tears of paper' when kicked'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

sides at the city hall. But few people ever go further than that. The city hall offices of the heads or the municipal government and the department heads are in reality only the executive and clerical offices of the biggest corporation in the state of Aabama-the corpora tion of the city of Birmingham where every one of it's 155ool citizens is q stoek- holder
 Like private corporations, the city, un- der the commission form of government, has undertaken 10 c.ntralize and sys- tematize it's activities in the hope of in- creasing efficiency and decreasing ex- penses. Where this has been done and in general how this has been done by central municipal plant on Avenue r and Seventh street. just across the Louisville and Nashville tracks, on the southside, is the object here
 There on q triangular plot of ground of 19 acres, is the n.w city jail, the home of the man with the shaolxle; the central city crematory, which consumes S5 wagon loads of garbage a day; the city farm of about II acres, which in the summer time practically feeds the convicts kept in the jail: the central city pound for stray animals and the death house with it's electrocution box for stray dogs; the city warehouse. con nected directly with rne Louisville and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

Other Buildings
 Cost sheet showing comparative cost of supplies purchased before and after warehouse was put in operation. The comparison is for six months of last year (when we had no supply house) against six months of this year since warehouse has been established.
 Cost for six months last year s79, ,439 IS Cost for six months this year . s2,Oo5. s7 Reduction ......................... ST. 437 Al The other buildings on the lot are a blacksmith shop, where all of the city animals are shod and all repairs to city machinery outside of automobile repairs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Peculiar Spelling

In how many different ways can you spell the word reservoir" Offhand, one would not say that many ways were pos sible. but the London child has, 1t seems, found at least S7 variant spellings of the word and put them in his examinatIon papers. The list includes: rasavoy, reg zervaues, resavaurs. resavaw, reserve wars, resevours. resavoier. reseuviers. resourvores. reservoirs. resourvourers and viceroy.
 Reservoirs and other matters of water supply by the way. appear to have pug zled lot of children. One wrote: The water comes from a system which is called a 'feudal system;" another that ''ths pipes lead to what ws call viceroy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

are done. Connected with the blacksmith shop is fully equipped carpenters shop and the two together not only do repair work, but manufacture much new ma terial. All the shackles for the convicts are made here, and in the carpenter shop all pauper collins are manufactured. In making wagons for the street gangs about all that is bought outright arc the four wheels and these two shops build the rest of the wagon themselves. The machine shop in connection with these two shops is fully equipped, and all of the lathes, saws and other machines are operated by electric motors.
 Adjacent to the warehouse and in the rear are the mule barns and sheds with 1l4 stalls each. The open sheds are used in the summer time exclusively. They ere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Doyle in Public Eve

No other Englishman of letters is so much in the public eye. just now, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who, as was an- nounced for the first time in this corre- spondence last week, is soon to visit the United States. So fac as one remem- bers, Sir Arthur thus far has escaped any charge of plagiarism-though "Sher- lock Holmes admittedly owes lot to Poe's Dupin--but now the French critics are remarlSing that French novel, La Force Mysterieuse." by M. Rosny Aine, must have at least Influenced" Sir Ar thurs last book, "The Poison Belt"
 Monsieur Rosny also thinks so; in fact. he seems to think that quite lot of British authors rely upon his work for their plots.
 There are between the theme of his (Conan Doyes) story and that of mine certain important coincidenes," he says, and proceeds to name some. In view of the extraordinary similarity of subjects, M. Rosny adds, he was unable to refrain from certain suspicious, among them that following the English custom" some one had sold the idea of his story to Sir Arthur.
 But a coincidence is always possible. " says the French author, and, for my part. incline to be generous. That is why I have always been persuaded that Wells had never read my xipehuz, my Iegende Sceptique, and my Cataclysme. all of which appeared before his fine stories
 Nevertheless, M. Rosny adds, he thinks it worth while putting these facts on record,
 One should add at once that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle declares he never has read La Force Mysterieuse."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

with it's two doomed pens and the death room"
 The man at the head of this munic- ipal plant is City Commissioner James Weatherly. The next man under Con- missioner Weatherly is Street Com missioner Frank Gafford, who has di- rect charge over the entire plant and to whose ability, energy and manage ment the success of the thing owes a great deal. Under MT. Gafford then come the department heads such as the jail wardens. the purchasing agents. warehouse men and so on, the whole being a complete and system atic organization such as would be found in any industrial corporation in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

The stockholders in this big plant are the people of Birmingham. They should take more interest in what is being done there and do more for what will be done there in the future. There Is no doubt but what little more than beginning has been accomplished. But 1t is beginning with a promise of wonderful future. Commission government with its industrial cor pofation features is systematizing the affairs of the city and conducting them on cold. unsentimental busi- ness platform. The plant on Avenue F is big plank in that platform and the whole thing means more service to and less morfey from the ''maligned. bounded. maltreated and outraged tax payer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

London, May S.-(Special.)-G. K. Ches- terton, whose latest fantastic novel, "The Flying Inn," remains one of the best sellers over here, was, like Arnold Ben nett, for several years a publisher 8 reader and must have been a per- petual source of refresDment while his duties lasted. Chesterton read for T. Fisher Unwin, and a member of that firm recently showed me c. K. C.'s yer dict upon "Ouidas' last novel, which was submitted to him for judgment. It read as follows:
 This is, of course. picturesque, ami mated, poetic, eloquent and supremely nonsensical story; it Is by Ouida and age does not wither nor custom stale her in- finite lack of variety. Here we have the old division of humanity into a vast ma jority of brutal and brainless modern peo- pie and a small minority of beautiful peasants and beautiful patricians. In the gorgeous and symbolic coloring intoxicating to the eyes, we forget the stiffness of the subjects and the absurd ity of the human anatomy
 Eminently ChestertonlAn, isn't it? Won der what Ouida's comment would have been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Compliment From proofreader

There Is no use in trying not to write about Sir Arthur at present. One simply has to- For, this week. besides being practically accused of plagiarism on tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

ful building except by a personal visit. By words no one will be able to convey to another the real conditions that sur round this modern prison with that sat 1sfaction which would result from an actual visit to the institution itself There are many things which go to make 1t q modern and ideal prison.
 Flies Will Get In The jail is clean. It lacks-a startling condition. but reality there-that usual ''jail odor.' The entire building from Foundation to roof is made of reinforced concrete, the floors being so arranged that when water is turned on from garden .hose the walls and ceiling, as well as the floors are washed down and the water runs off through a natural drain. That entire jail is thus washed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

"asn'1ne by spur uac6; the barns story on, inc n and sheds where o city mul and the other burings and m more ian horses t,a., a s,, ~ ,~ss1s - ~ ~ ~ smi wheran ''Wne the pAoN- s"s WI" pc nousea machinery arc vehicles ~ W ~ iNi' the 'ah s ireprool eahn' oe 
 
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

N vague way most people know
 that ill the conduct of a big city's affairs thore is some place where something is goine on be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

ways are concrete and steel, the banister and railings are concrete and steel, the roof is concrete and steel. There simply is nothing to burn.
 There is not dark corner in the place In every cell there are outside windows with an outside exposure and in the hall ways a skylight and a series of openings from the ground floor to the roof let fin a flood of light and provide an ideal circula ton of air -from the top of the building to the bottom. These windows not only provide ample light. but they provide a sweeping circualtion of air into every niche and corner of each cell
 The chance of any convict breaking jail at the Southside prison is reduced to a minimum. Of course as long as
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
MILLIONAIRE POST
COMMITS. SUICIDE

Santa Barbara. Cal. May 1l.-With "A
bullet from Il rifle he had previously
concealed in his apartment. Charles w.
Post. millionaire manufacturer of
cereal foods II national propaganda
against union labor. killed himself at
his winter home Ec:.. today. EvadinR
q trained nurse, who mad beer attend
ing him since he returned from the
east a few weeks ago. he went TO his
apartments. placed the muzzlc Of the
rife in his mouth INC pulled the ,trig-
ger with a toe.
Mr.. Post was convalcscent from an
GRAFTON some months e at Rochester,
MINI. AT that time he was hurried
to Rochester. Mimi. in a special train
so that he might, arrive in time for
surgeons to save his life.
Returning here Il few weeks ago, he
seemed to be exceedingly nervous and
Mrs. Post, who ca;.s 10 their winter
horne with him, engaged trained nurses
to attend him.
MIR. Post arose at his usua hour this
morning, rea!Hfasted n lounged
about until 10 c'clack, when he excused
himself. telling the nurse on duty at
the t:ne that n" wished To go to his
apartment to lie down. What happened
was heard. Mrs. Post and n nurse
rushed to the apartments upstairs and
found the millionaire stretched on the
Hoo dead.
Both Mrs. Post and the nurse said
they did not know how Mr.. Post had
procured The rifle. It's presence in the
room Was taken by them to indicate
tina: he rad planned his death some
time in advance.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
OPERATION SUPPOSED TO
HAVE CURED MILLIONAIRE

Chicago. May 1.-Two months ago
Mr.. Post was hurried across haIt tho
continent to Rochester, Mimi, for
treatment for an attack OF Appendix
citis which was believed to threaten
his life. The operation. which was
performed March 10, was considered
successful and he departed for his
western home apparently cured.
The illness from which MIR. Pos. suf-
fercd was first manifested last Deccm-
Der. At first it was considered a re-
c%urrence of a stomach trouble from
which he formerly suffered.
The trip from Santa Barbara, the
winter home of Mr.. Post. to the hos
pital at Rochester, Mimi, was made
with all the speed possible. As an
extra p%recaution against delay. the
special train which carried the invalid
was followed over the different roads
by an extra engine prepared to take
UP the trip should accident i:aserfsre
with the train.
The arrival at Rochester. March 6.
was three and a half hours ahead Of
time. A crowd at the station hampered
the removal Of the patient to the hos
pital and nc was examined by special
lists III the car before being taken -
the hospital. where the operation was
pc:icrmcd -~..- days later.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
HUGE sum NEEDED TO
RESTORE ROCK ISLAND
Expert Says It Will Require
$65, 900, 900 to Make the
Property Pay.

New York. May 1l.--Approximately
$65. 900. 0G0 vii! he required to effect
such economies and general improve
:nents as are necessary to place the
ChicaEo. Rock Island Il Pacific railroad
system on a proper physical and f1nan-
cial basis. according 10 y. w. McKenna,
q railroad expert engaged by The bond
holders protective committee OF the
made last night.
Mr.. Mckenna's report. which has
been awaited with much interest by
holders of Rock Island securities. is
more exhaustive thSn that made some
weeks ago by T. M. Schumacher, the
chairman of the Rock Island com pany,
who estimated the systems needs at
$40 OO, 900.
Regarding the roads physical con-
dition. the Mckenna report SAYS about
10000 cars ought to be retired. He
recommends an investment of about
SIS. 900, 900 i'm new cars. which would
increase efficiency by at least SO per
cent. he estimates.
Capital requirements, as contem-
plated by Mr.. Mckenna. call for about
he says. would result in increased rev.
clnes ovor existing conditions of at
least So. 600. 900.
Construction of n short line from
Chicago to Kansas City by way of
Peoria. III. and Keoliuls. Ia, would also
have y potent effect, says Mr.. Nc
Kenna, in reducing transportation X
penses. These and other improve
ments, he believes. would go far to-
ward restoring the stock of the rail-
way company to at least it's par value.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
FOUND GREAT FORTUNE
IN SEARCH FOR HEALTH

Battle Creek, Mich, May 1l.-Charles
w. Post was one of the founders of
the so-called health food industry. His
business interests here for the manu-
featuring Of breakfast foods repre-
sen,ed millions of dollars. Although
Mr.. Posts office address was in his
city. he also maintained a residence IL:
Washington, d. c., for several years.
MIR. Post vas borp in Springfield. ILL.,,
in 1864. He engaged in the hardware
and other lines OF business there until
1884, when his health broke down. He
travelled extensively in search OF treat
ment for some time and arrived here
in 1891. His search for health was re-
sponsible, 1t is said. for his iEvestiga-
ton into the health food subject and
when his health had heen regained he
turned all Of his Attertic. &c that line
Of endeavor.
Employing thousands Of workmen.
Mr.. Post took an active part in local
civic affairs. In 1908 he was made
president Of the National Citizens In
dustrial association Of America and for
several years be attracted wide atten-
ton because Of hts attacks against la
Dor unions. He wa an ardent support
er of the "ope:s chop"
MI. Post Travelled abroad a large
part OF the tine during recent yenrs
and his SRI: collections in this cts. ia
regarded as one OF the most valuable
IN the country.
The news O. his death as a great
shock 20 his f::ends and relatives here
wto troug.. he had practically .ecov.
cred tom his recent illness.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
Those Wiley Babies.
From the Los Angeles Tribuna

FROM the Los Angeles Tribune.
That DR.. Wiley is the father az two
boys there is no reason to doubt. Col
umns of print have heralded the fact.
There is no excuse for. being in iR-
concerning it.
That they are fine BOYS seems to
be a proposition upheld by masses of
evidence. Each time either of them
gains an ounce or cuts a tooth, the
news Is flashed to the ends of the
earth. and while the ends of the earth
make no particular sign that they ARE
a Whoop, the next ounce and the next
tooth mean another message.
When a man has been a bachelor
to a point beyond the time when his
children's children should be playing
about MS knees. and then gets mar
rled. fatherhoOd sWells him with an
especial pride. Naturally. he thinks
that the babies come to bless his do
nestle circle are The only real kids that
ever happened.
Possibly it is wrong to d~isillusion
mature papa, but the fact Is that the
land teens with youngsters lust al
tiful as his own.
1t would be a sorry sort Of a world
If its replenishment had to depend
upon men who marry late in life. What
then OF The joys Of grandparentage?
They would exist for about one per-
son in a million.
Many, oh very many, blessed babies
cheer the households of the land.
Some are reared by faddists and some
without fads. but, given light and air
and wholesome food. the chances of
n are about as good as those Of an
other. Few, however. arrive to such
a circle that every dimple is a world
wide episode. and every case of collie
bruited abroad.
What is being attempted here IL the
statement. bald. perhaps impolite. that
thep public has babies Of It's own, deems
them 10 good az any ever born, and
10 getting tired Of the Wiley young
stage for a long time. on the apparent
theory that the world 10 q baby show
and the Judge had awarded them all
the blue ribbons.