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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-10-31

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
The Little Green Door of Death

We pass door on our right 1t is next
to the big door 10y which had entered It
Is low door-so low. 1t seems to me, that
man can scarcely enter 1t without stoop-
ting. From Its sides extends a framework
about foot deep and as thick. Il seems
to me In my first glimpse as thick as the
length OF my finger. 1t is not as wide as
the door by which I have entered. 1t Is
painted dull. dIngy green!
stop before it. stare with a fascina.
tion o. horror upon 1t. The guard stands
silently beside me. 1t comes to me that T
am looking at that Infamous exit-The
Little Green Door!
Three. strides beyond It know is the
Chair-a little heavier than an ordinary
office chair that stands before roitop
desk. but men who sit In it take their leave
OF life and are ushered into eternity.
The Little Green Door overwhelms me
[ sink sobbing to my knees. my hands
clasped over my face. before it.
Sh! Sh!" whispers the guard. aIis
heavy nand on my shoulder brings me to
myself. BE quiet can't take You TO
your husband unless you are"
That quiets me. and follow him silently
past the door OF horror. past the cell where
Harry Horowitz mods to me. to spot two
feet In front OF another cell.
In it stands my husband,
And. 10! we are as far apart almost as
though he is already dead There is an
open grave between us. and the death that
Is to be stretches out its hands and says:
Thus far shalt thou go and no further"
seat myself In front of high iron
screen like ~ lattice in an oldfashioned
garden. II. too, is painted green. Through
this iron veil j look al my husband and
talk to him. stretch out my hands
toward him and they meet only the green
iron screen. ] press my face toward him.
1t Is against the metal cold as the fingers
OF the dead.
wonder IL this man can be Louie!
His voice is like q groan. IL seem TO
be starving. Lily. a man was taken out
OF here last week and killed. They sent
him to the chair hungry Yes he begged
for food and they wouldn't give him any.
Wouldn't yosi think they would feed man
before he died?"
He dwelt upon that story. He re-
peated it to me over and over. He talked
much about food.
Il mover have anything fit TO cat ha said.
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drained by expenses OF paying the lawyers
time have no doubt that If had not had
home and If my parents had not helped
me would have had to become a bad girl.
AS look at the lives of girls OF the under.
world and consider their temptation hon.
estly and unashamed make this confession.
could not long have kept any place where
] worked, because my visits to prison In,
terrupted my work. l had to pawn my
rings and clothes for the expenses have
mentioned. Had been homeless and
alone l would have had to sin to continue
to be true wife to Louie Rosenberg. 1t
sounds strange, does 1t not? Yet It was
terribly true.
We had all hoped that the Court OF APP
peals would grant the boys a new trial.
When the word came that there would be
no other. trial carried the news to my
husband. I was as wretched in climbing
the hill that day with my disheartening
news as l had been the year before when
Louie and walked up that hill together.
Yet when told him the news babe him
hope.
He looked at me through the screen and
there fitted over his face Jan odd look.
1t was the ghost or shadow of smile. He
said:
Lilly. It's all over!'
"But will ask the Governor for re-
prieve." said. HE will give you some
time to prove your innocence"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
A Protest Against Execution

MY husband ought not 10 have been
killed He should have been given four
years TO begin anew. He was young, and
could have been made into q useful citizen.
He could have had chance 70 learn
trade by which be could have honestly
earned q living. but what would have been
of more Importance still to him would be
that he could have readjusted his life and
his attitude toward life. Ho could have
learned a great deal In the silence about
the right and wrong way to live. There
would have been time to 20 back to the
point where the road Of life forked, one
half turning to the right and the other to
the wrong side. Those four years. would
have given him time to retrace his steps
from the wrong path and set them anew
In the right.
SAP goodby to ruy husband at the
prison door. / cannot speak as we part.
Only the tears run down my cheeks. Louie
weeps We were looking at each other
through tears. ! watch as the iron door
closes slowly upon him. Sobbing. turn
and walk down hill to the station alone.
II Is my first visit to him. must go into
the Death alouse-see the Little Green
Door that Is the mouth Of the Chair.
am admitted through the gate and pass
Through the iron door into a corridor
Walking the length of the corridor. pass
through another door into what ] shall al.
ways remember as the Lane of Torment
On either side are shallow cells. only large
enough TO permit man to stand He may
zot sit down. lie may no. lie down He
IS as stationary as though nailed to the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
Chapter IV-The Penalty-Sing Sinq,s Death
House Through the Eyes of,a Wife
of the Condemned.
BY Mrs. Lillian Rosenberg
(The Widow of Lefty Louie".)

T HE trial Is over and my husband and
= the boys have been found guilty Of
murder. They have been sentenced
to die in the Chair
There pass days OF which remember
little. Days filed with vague gray shapes
and dull agony Nightmare.
remember that did not come into full
consciousness or being alive until Louie
and were walking together up the hill TO
the Sing Sing prison Then suddenly
grew acutely aware of tho great building
at the top. 1t seemed to sheer at me. My
heart beat horribly. and suddenly I felt
smallEso small. Idelt that my condemned
husband and were only little moths. and
l realized the power OF the hand that was
against u.s. We were only puny pair. and
against us was all OF organized society
stole look at Louie. He was sad and
silent, and he never took his eyes off the
gates through which he must soon pass.
what are those queer little boxes on
the corners Of the .walls?" ask one OF the
guards who attend us.
"They are sentry boxes" he answers.
"And the men we see popping in and out
of them?"
Guards"
what do they do?" ask again.
They are there to see that no man gets
away"
what IL q man tries to get away?"
"They shoot him-if they have to-" he
tells me-
look at Louie and he looks back ali me
with sombre Dyes. out OF which the smile
had gone forever.
Then for the first time we had glimpse
of the hopeessness OF our situation. At
the trial there had been hope- lad will.
tnsly, as have said. sworn to a falsehood
to save my husbands life. l had sworn
chat had never heard Becker's name men,
toned In our house. I lied. lied to save
my husband ! am not ashamed OF that
lie
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
~ Horowitz mods to me-"

Green Door was the cell occupied by
Charles Becker.
He could at times family descry the
burly form and the heavy dark face OF
the condemned policeman, but they could
not speak to each other The rules of the
prison and the presence of the guards tor
oade that But Louie told me that while
ne could not see Becker from his cell and
could not speak tc him that he had held
communication with him.
But how, Louie?" asked looking down
the long corridor and seeing Mrs. Becker's
trim little figure and dapper hat with It's
pointed trimming like the wings of fight.
ing sparrow. She always made me think
OF a sparrow. SO brisk and quick and ready
Tor combat she was. Does Mrs. Becker
bring you word from anim?"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

we'll get out o. here. I am doing every.
thing can for you
"Have you the notes7 Let me see them,"
! said
~ always tear them up" he answered.
"They might get us all into trouble If the
guards found them"
This was the time that tried every bit of
strength In us all. Our pocketbooks were
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

last. Hope came to us through the notes
written by Becker. have explained that
after entering the Death House, I passed
the Little Green Door to the cell occupied
by my husband. Between the CHASTITY
door and Louie's cell was Harry's. From
Harry's cell one could see to : the other
end OF the corridor and on the left of the
entrance and out of sight of the Little
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

spirited hoy into whtmpering beast. I
took at the other boys. They have the
same fear in their eyes.
There Is another woman in the Death
House. The open grave between her and
her husband will soon be closed. He Is
an Italian and he dies tomorrow. | can.
not understand her words but her cries
are in the universal language Of Borrowing
women. 1t is the voice of one who would
save her own from death. She raises her
voice In long, terrible wall that echoes
through the dong corridor. 1t is cry OF
despair. the scream of one without hope.
In 1t is animal anger. At the end OF the
corridor can see her beating her brown
hands against the screen, her body sway
Ing back and forth
Don't look at her. Don't listen" Louie
begs me. try TO forget her. but when
the guard leads her out, she faints at my
feet. scream and sob in sympathy.
When she is revived the guard leads US
both not too gently past the Little Green
Door out OF the large one. through the
lane of punishment where men curse and
weep in their shallow cells and out into
the sunshine that seems to mock at a
world where such scenes can happen.
But after a time both Louis and ] be.
and about the Death House We were
young and where youth Is there Is al.
ways assurance that nothing terrible can
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
AWfesStor the ar Und<
a t1h| world By Mr&Li|IianRessnber&

'The stuff they give US isn't dit for dog.
know 1t is the dear The terror Of lfv-
Ing next to the Chair. Of seeing men go
through the Door, Of seeing the lights dim
and fash as they shoot another soul out
into eternity. ] know the fear but still
my husband frightens me. He is unlike
the Louie l have known. The awful daye
and nights have changed him from
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

Stone walls about him These cells 7
learned afterward. are the places of pun.
tshment for insubordinate prisoners The
punishment Is as speedy as 1t Is terrible.
Gaunt. pale faces are pressed against the
bars Large eyes. full OF rage and protest.
stare at me- Some shrek loud curses at
me-unuterable things. Others weep
Some stand silent as though they are dead
men In their collins
II Is like vestibule OF he'll There ia q
terrible aloneness and hopelessness and
utter helplessness about It The curses
and the awful resignation are alike-ter-
rible
Past another door go am at the
threshold Of the Death House
AS the door opens see a long haa of
mingled white and green. Everything In
that dim. silent place seems white or green.
Walls are painted white. The ceiling is
white. but not the pure white OF snow. It
is the gray waiteness Of death 1t Is the
color of sick mans face or Of that face
IN the first hour of death. SILVER as the
door clangs behind me and the guard leads
me TO the right.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
''Becker Helping U.s." He Said

Louie smiled. i was the only time |
ever saw him smile In the Death House.
He said. mo. We win get no help from
her. little one. Becker sends me notes
He puts them in a book and tells the
guard he wants to lend me the book. The
guard doesn't know about the letters"
seized the screen with trembtrno
fingers. Hope was born In my hear,.
"Te'i me what he saId," impior.d.
"HS said, Boys, keep up heart. am
working hard for you and I'll get lou cut
OF here yet Don't let go. Keep quiet and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
Fighting Against the

Fighting Against the
I thanked her, ana she u
and posed for a picture.
The next time l met her
subway station. Her husbaI
Tombs awaiting his second 1!
been down to see him. Sh|
ne and said:
mrs. Rosenberg. Charlie
terrible about the boys not
trial. He feels perfectly terI
2eated-
/ looked steadily at her al
don't you do something? I
husband have more standing
Why don't you do something:
Charlie is doing eyery,hirs:
he can.' she said. Come w
and she gave me her addresa
LILLIAN .Horowitz and I WI
house to SEQ her. She hal
home. She seemed glad d
nervous. She took US into I'd
and gave rs some cake !
talked about the case-that
to be talking about the cas-
recall that conversation V
said was over and over as
had said when I saw her in
Charlie feels perfectly
the boys!"
Nothing more definite cal
meeting.
set to work with the De
about with a woman who wa
the case. a woman older a
myself. worked for four d,
days got 5000 signatures. (
asking the Governor for a re,
learned much that I had
of human nature In that expe
the men kinder than the wd
were inquisitive, but hard. II
sons who signed the petition
did not believe In capital (,
ways. I had to promise Il
of the prominent men ant
signed the petition should nc
They signed it only on that d
The Last Day >of Lift
My next move In the can
my husband was to carry
the Governor. / was bitterl
when he would not see us.
word that Mr.. Potter. his Sc
see us and give us some adv
to do. He asked us to try
evidence. But we could do
money. ! told him there u
but they must have money
none. 1t was the first tim
awful ordeal that / felt real
heart toward anyone. When
last hope OF mine to the groi
in the corridor of the State
curious crowd pressed abou
"He has a heart of stone.
be Governor"
AS the last days crowd
other and the thirteenth of
ed with incredible swiftnes
that something would happ
bow something" that we al
end, that we never reach.
even believed that somethi
pen to save the lives Of thu
Clinging with desperate
green screen as a drowning
at q straw ! said: Louie
anything that will save I'd
For God sake tell It."
But he only looked at mi
said: II don't know anythin
wouldn't tell. will die sir
] won't be squealer."
1t was not until that awfu.
we. the wives and the M
father Of those doomed mer t
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

this instamen Mrs Lillian Rosenberg, the wife
of the who expiated in the Death Chair murder
of Rosentha the gambler brings remarkable mar
ratve to close. Written by her in the belief exposure
of the conditions that brought her husband shameful
death might suggest remedy for such conditions ends
her revelations with vivid picture Death House at
Sing Sing For the first time that grim interior is shown
through the of wife of Of these condemned 10
through the Little Green the Electric Chair
1t is chapter that will not be easily forgotten.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

Louie shook HE head and Z
away and repeated what he
LILY, it's all over. The G
grant a reprieve."
But am going to ask hi,
will get up a petition. If h
list OF names he will cons
Louie. can't you do somethin
If you know anything about
It."
| told him OF having 81
District Attorney Moss, and
had said to me most kindly,
tell all he knows he will
serve two and a half years 4
~ wouldn't take two and
he said. ~ don't know anytI
did. do you suppose l woull
friends? / wouldn't go bach
would rather die than squel
Directly after this / met
She had been standing nel
warden's office. and as I was
veil she came to me and sal
photographers waiting outsf
better not go out unless you
be photographed"
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
The CITY Life Puny.

The farm women work from sun
until sun. They 10 their house
work and lull half million bal",-
10 sleep after the chickens 20 %
roost and they get breakfast and
milk the COWS before the lark sings.
The city woman frequently chafes
under hardships that the farm Won
on would consider a blessing. The
CITY people are great takers ana
oftimcs gratlv magnify their
troubles and enlarge their accom-
plishments. This characteristic per
meatcs organized society AZ well as
enters into the individual life Of
cities. There are orphan asylum'
which are doing communicable work
and should he encouraged. that
boast Of their accomplishments hui
I have seen widows in the country
make a crop. drink branch water
and eat corn-brcad and molAs-es
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

N. $. Acuff. Of Austin, was here
this week. He reports southern Tex
IA suffering from the effects OF too
much rain. The people are begin
ming to fear that the crops VIII be
taten by the weeds. OF drowned out
bv the excessive rains
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

and raise more children and setter
children than many Of these city
ornhan a.yluu- The cities need
10 oct back to the soil with their
idoal. They are historical, puny
and feeble in their conception Of
Hfc. it, requirements and IT. oP'
portuniiis.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

Rev. b. s. Dickinson, wife ana
habv spent sunday al Shalowater
where Bro. dickinson pretcheH
They came home on the Monday
morning train and they report heavy
rain In that community Monday a. m.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
THE WOMAN IN THE FIELD
The Farm Woman Needs Relief
More Than Her City Sister.
BY Peter RadfOrd.

Much has been said and more
written about the woman in the
factory and behind the counter, but
how about the. woman who works in
the field want to say a few words
in her behalf. regret neccs
sity that compcls woman to work
for a livelihood and | favor not
only shortening her hours. but free
ing her from manual labor entirely.
I crave for society that high stand
ard of excellence whore the home
is w0mans throne and her life Is
devoted 81 molding the character
and clcyating the thought Of ths
rising generation But so long as
want, greed and misfortune prevail
in this world, women, through choice
or necessity, will work, and per.
haps thcy viii work at one task
or another as many hours per DAY
as they please
We may pity the weak and ad.
mire the strong in their struggle
but the farm woman Is entitled Pc
her share Of sympathy and reward.
Al Must Toll.
The labor problem, As relates to
men. Is most yeNaiious one and
when we apply IL to women u
becomes more seriously complicated.
We will always have 20 work unless
some political genius can put a
law on the statute book that viii
enable ms % 1--we without labor.
SO long as every person must meet
toll face to face. the best We can
do l. 10 equitably distribute the
burdens and reward Of labor. and
j FL there is 90 be- revision OF
wages and % shortening of hours.
want thc farm woman TO get hei
share. She has more reason To- COM
plain than any other class of toilcr.
T She has, ~ a rule. fewer comforts
fewer pleasures. less recreation and
less opportunity FOR enjoyment than
her sister in tbe city, She ha-
not % many conyenicnccs and fewer
+. luxuries and less 10 be thankful
FOR than women who who live 10
the town. bot she tolls IN, mode
Of consistency. patience and WON
mlv devotion Cerinlnlv She shout,
,e the first 10 bc rewarded
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
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Not more than two orders to one
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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

We can make June q ne BIG
GEsr First Monday IL we try
Wm y0U b.lp9 Cello
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

We can make Sane st the BIG
GEST" First Monday n we Try.
Wu YOr helpt (iG-lu
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

Do you want the AvaIauche'
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-11

newspapers, that the side OF the strIk-
ers was suppressed-and that the
public never learned the real facts of
the struggle.
1t is believed that publication of
the whole truth would force the mill
owners to lose their haughtiness and o
would shame theminto treating their
employees as human beings-and it
began its campaign of paid advertise
ments.
Marion Jackson, one of the best
known attorneys of this city, is in
charge of this publicity campaign
and each week bis religious appeals
for support of the strikers reach
those who do not hear the prayers
and sermons with the pews in
open sympathy with the workers, the
pulpit has lifted its voice in denuncia-
ton of conditions which wreck the
bodies and souls of workers.
I'VE believe the Bible-the religion
of Jesus Christ, actually practiced, to
be the solution of all labor problems"
says Jackson. ''In the majority of
the cotton mills of the South condi-
lions are unsatisfactory from the
standpoint of humanity. We believe
it the duty of the church to tell the
whole truth and then apply to the
facts the principles for which the
church stands-love of God and love
of man in Christ's name"
Against this new sort Of battle,
criminal money is aghast. 1t closes
its eyes to the delegations of strik-
ers 1t is blind to the emaciated
bodies of its child workers, to the
hunger in the eyes of men, to the hor-
ror in the hearts Of women, but it
cannot dodge the printed appeals of
Organized Religion which is proving,
by spending it's money, that it be-
lieves men are more important than
profits.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-11

capitalized the labor of little children,
of'the South, that is making the exto
the support of the striking employees
Waged by the Men and Religion ForT
The mills have secured strikebre
show of operating, The owners hat
orado the statement that there is not
the state officials. They have lodged
all the usual weapons of labor. They
laugh at the lines Of men and women
who are eating from the commissar-
les provided by sympathetic labor
bodies, but
They cannot dodge the bullets OF
printers ink which day after day are
unmasking their hypocrisy and are
turning the labor war into a religious
crusade for HUMANITY.
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement excited suspicion on the
part of the workingmen when, few
years ago, it swept the country
through the impetus of dollars given
largely by those who have fought
labor.
But in Atlanta it is directed by men
who believe that the Bible was meant
for seven days a week, not one.
The strike, backed by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, started
when the mountaineers, brought
down to slave in mills at So week
for heads of families and pittances
for the children, first caught the
spirit of organization.
Most of them lived in company
houses so unsanitary that disease
was common. PeIIagra fIourished.
Their meager wages were reduced by
arbitrary fines. They were elected
from these novels by negro sheriffs
when the strike was called.
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement took an interest in the
900 strikers. They asked the en-