Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-08
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Mark Lee, Chinese, PASSAGES only leper
for ten years. died recently in little shack
of the Isolation hospital in the woods on the
outskirts of the city, where he had been con-
fined ten years Lee was 81 years old and ran
laundry on Main avenue and Summit street,
New York, for number of years. Ten years
ago he became i'll and doctors found he had
leprosy The shack was built for him.
Food was served to him through a WIN
dow After he had been confined in the shack
two years Lee escaped, but was caught IN a
few hours. For the last five years he had
been able to walk only few steps. year
ago, Miss Mary F. Bradley, head nurse at
the hospital spent considerable time reading
to Lee and seeking to educate him. She sat
outside the building and she and the Chlnese
discussed religion and books. Lee at that
time expressed desire to become Catno!c
and a priest from the St. Nicholas Catholic
church baptized him.
Comptroller of the Currency John Shelton
Williams is quoted as having made state
ment that he believed there was no occasion
for being alarmed over the present conditions
pertaining to the market value or Liberty
Bonds; that inside of two years they will
command a premium.
Tossing of a wedding ring into the ocean
marked ceremonies recently held at Puck, or
Putzig, to celebrate the reuniting OF Poland
had dreamed for many years. Polish troops
in their northward march on their own soil,
as provided under the treaty of Versailles,
had reached the coast line of the Baltic and
begun to make themselves at home in the
stretch of land northwest of Danzig. This
brought Poland to salt water again, after an
absence of 148 years.
While Polish ships are to have use OF
| wharves at Danzig, which is to be free port
| under the League of Nations, the new re-
public is DESTROYS of a port which it may
call its very own, and it is with this end in
view that the Polish government has settled
upon Puck, as it is spelled in Polish, as a
site for the port where in the future Poland
may have absolutely free commercial access
| to the sea under jurisdiction of it's own off
Gals.
Thousands of dollars worth of cabbage is
spelling in the fields in southern Texas fol-
lack OF railroad facilities to move them tc
the market Notice of this car shortage and
the restriction of the movement were re-
ceived at the North American Fruit exchange
80 West street, New York, from it's agent al
San Benito, Tex
with a shortage in foodstuffs and with
cabbages bringing high prices, we have
situation that should call for remedy, fol
cabbages are going to waste in the fields OF
southern Texas through lack of railroad
equipment to handle Them" said G. A. Cullen
vice president of the exchange. "The out
| standing fact is the railroads are so short o.
proper equipment with which to move per
| ishable foodstuffs that losses will continue
until this equipment is available. The short
| sightedness of whoever is responsible fol
this situation will continue to cost the pub
! lie dearly during the next few years.
cit is quite a graphic picture to see cab
| bages worth $50 ton f. o. b. Texas ship
| ping points going to waste in the fields,
serious Encouragement to the farmers who
are asked to produce food and serious dis
couragement to the consumer, who must pay
| exorbitant prices
During last winter in the northwest thu
! lack of equipment caused the freezing ant
serious damage of more than a Thousand
cars of very high quality box apples. The los
was generally estimated at considerabl!
above million dollars" ,... ,,.....
| According to information received from
| Paris, Germany has delivered to France il
execution of the armistice terms, 1858 loco
motives of which 697 have been coded b!
France to the allied powers.
Of the 1886 locomotives retained b.
France, ISL are in need of extensive repairs
according to an official statement issued re
Gently by Yres LIE Trocquer, minister of pub
lie works.