Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 75, 23 January 1911 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALXADIUM AND SUX-TELEGKAM. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1911.

VERY REMARKADLE IS CHILD EXHIBIT ; . f ' Furnishes Excellent Opportunity for Study of a Vital Question.

DAILY LIFE DEPICTED Home, School and Street Life of East .Side Urchins Is One Feature. New York, Jan. 23. No more Interesting or comprehensive Btudy of the ljfo of a city child has ever been offered than that at the New York Child Welfare Exhibit, which opened at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory in this city on Wednesday last, and will continue until February 12. It Is by far the most remarkable exhibition or Its kind that has ever been shown In this country, and furnishes an excellent opportunity for the study of the vital problem, which confronts everr largo city in the country Its children. . ' Tho dally Incidents in the home, school and street lire of tho miserable little urchins on tho lower East side are strikingly depicted by photographs and other exhibits, as well as tho lives of the little ones, who reside In the more fashionable upper West Bide district. Three hundred people educators, philanthropists and settlement workershave been gathering material for the exhibit for two years, and It has cost approximately $70,000, this amount being raised by voluntary contributions. Hew Work Is Divided. The work was divided among twenty committees, which Included twenty paid investigators. Photographs and statistics of all kinds were collected which will prove of great value. While the exhibit deals frankly and fearlessly with child conditions as they are. Its purpose Is optimistic. For along with the bad It has shown the good, an1 In each case has Indicated either ways of encouraging and spreading good Influences or of remedying existing evil conditions. Especially Interesting are the exhibits gathered by the Committees on 8treets and Recreation and Amusements. There are photographs showing the extremes to which children are forced to resort In order to play at all; street accidents are graphically illustrated; a typical candy shop Is shown and the kind of candy children buy and Its effect upon them Illustrated. The statistics . gathered by theso committees are no less Interesting. and in some cases tragic. They reveal the fact that many children of poor families begin the day without breakfast, and were It not for the free luncheon provided by the. city, they would be compelled to forego a meal at noon. In one school alone there were 200 children, who had no one at borne to get lunch for them at noon. Hundreds of others are compelled to work after school- hours, and many of these have not an adequate amount of rat Some of Questions. Among the questions sent to the public schools to be answered by the chil dren were the following: 1. What do you do when you go home from school? 2. How long do you have for play? 3. How long do you havo to study your lessons? 4. Do you belong to any library? 5. How many books have you read this term? C What newspapers do you read at your home? 7. What time do you get up In the morning? . What time do you go to bed at night? Here are the facts as shown In the replies of seven little girls from one class. Only one of them over 10 years old. 8ix of them worked at tying feathers, that Is. making willow plumes, after school.' One. a twelve-year-old, sewed buttons and made button holes on babies dresses, receiving five cents- a doxen for the work. As for play, three of the seven calmly say that they have no time to play, one has an hour; two have half an hour, and one says "after I have finished one feather I can play on the have half an hour for study: two hsve an hour and one baa "one minute." Not one of the seven belongs to a library. One hasn't read any book at all. The others have read one or two. Only one reads a newspaper Two are In bed from 9 to 6; one from 10 to 5:30; one from 8 to B:SQ; one from 11 to 6; one from 10 to 5.' and one from t to 4:30. Not one of them has therefore an adequato amount of rest The small amount of play room that New York children have Is shown by a map,' which divides the city Into dUtricts. In one of these districts, having nine mills of streets, a population of 33,000. and a school registration of nearly 6.000, there is only one vacant lot. In striking contrast to this there, are 119 saloons. 7S candy shops, and a large number of moving plcturo shows. . Candy Shape Figure. p The randy shops play an Important part In the life of the child. . One of the "worst features of soino of them Is being fought by law, that le the back room where boys and girls have been la the habit of meeting But many of them still depend for their existence on the aale of unwholesome candy and of equally unwholesome dime novels and picture post . cards. . The child crowded eft the street and forced to xtxtltstt 'standing around for good t!lhy play nadi the candy bop an c!r!3 place la which to do that t-3 uvtxi. Am oae oC the child

Daily Life Scenes of New York's Little Ones

Scenes In the dally lives of New York's little ones. At the top Is a typical street scene in the tenement district on the lower East Side. A crowded, narrow street of this kind Is the only sort of a playground in many sections of the city and here tho little ones romp and play, breathing In the germ-laden atmosphere. Directly beneath It Is a scene In one of the luncheon rooms provided by the city, showing a number of school children getting their noon-day meal. To the left are two little girls seated on the cold flagging in the tenement district, and amusing themselves with a game of jacks. Below Is Mr. Charles F. Powlison, General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the New York Child Welfare Exhibit. ' ' welface investigators put it, "It's lollypbps against baseballs." Another, resource of the city child Is the moving picture shows. These have been made the subject of a careful Investigation in connection with the coming exhibit. Probably more than half of these film shows are dependent on the patronage of children. The committee on churches has revealed the astonishing fact that of one million school children in Greater New York, only 350.000 (less than one-half) attend any kind of a Sunday schoolProtestant, Catholic, or Jewish. An Interesting exhibit Is supplied by the Committee on Homes. There is a three-room flat, furnished at a retall cost of $100; also a child's room and a home living room furnished for the child's comfort, happiness and education. Child Labor Problem. The subject of Child Labor has been given careful attention by the committee on Work and Wages, and the Investigators have discovered that the law supposed to regulate this problem Is to be systematically evaded, especially in homes where many children work. The committee on Health has attempted to show practical methods of reducing the 16,000 infant deafhs a year in New York City, how to help the 70 per cent of public school children who have physical defects, how to deal with the problem of pure milk, supply, how to prevent tuberculosis among the children and so on. The committee on Public and Private Philanthropy has charge of such work as the care of special classes of children, such as the feeble minded, epileptic, crippled, blind, and deaf. Thus all the phases of the city child's life has been thoroughly investigated by separate committees,' and the results placed before the public. In some sections of the exhibition are groups of real children at play numbering up to 1,000. A series of conferences are being conducted by the various committees In connection with - the exhibit, at which speeches are delivered by prominent educators and social workers, who are competent to discuss the aspects of child life. This list of speakers include June Adams, of the Hull House, Chicago; Lillian D. Wald. of Henry Street Settlement: Mrs. Florence Ke'.ley. a vigorous supporter of the movement for more stringent child labor laws: Homer Folks.' secretary of the State Charities association; Judge Franklin p. Hoyt of the Children's Court; and several others. Among the prominent people connected with the exhibit are Mrs. J. Borden. Harriman, Miss Helen M. Gould, President Butler, of Columbia university; Chancellor Mac Cracken. Robert W. de Forrest, William G. McAdoo, 'Jacob Riis, and John Sherman Hoyt The exhibition occupies all of the 45,000 square feet of floor space In the armory. It is open on week days from 10 a. m. to 10 p. ni., and on Sundays from 2 to 10 p. ni., and is free to all with the exception of Monday and Thursdays when an admission of 25 cents is charged. Why He Lft. "I tell you." said a recently returned traveler who wa clad after the fashIon of Mr. Richard Swlveller "I tell you. Argentina's the place to go! Everything i d!rt cheap there. Why, yon can get a splendid fat turkey for SO cents!" "Whewr said one of the Interested bystanders. "If I'd been In your place I should have stayed there." "Woukl you. now?" remarked the traveler, eying his friend meditatively. "Well. then, since you'd bare stayed, probably you can tell me how I was to get the 23 .cents la Argentina." ArgoMBW.

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6 '& - pfz RAID RESULTS III SEVERAICHARGES Arrest of Several Negroes at House Gives a Varied Assortment. In a raid on an alleged negro house of 111 fame, at 61S South Tenth street Saturday night by Patrolmen Cully and Remmert, five negroes wereN arrested. Those against whom charges have been filed are Ferrist Hayden, grand larceny In the circuit court,

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also prostitution, in police court; Boehne represents an Ohio river disCharles Long, association; Fred and Wctf and hIg con8titUents are clamorClara Jones. - keeping house of illloua for river improvements. The profame, and Howard "Kentuck" Harris. vonA 8hlp canal to connect Lake Erie assault and battery. The negroes wltn Michigan. via Fort Wayne, were arraigned in police court this ! would througn tne heart Qf Cline's morning and bonds fixed at $50, the di8trlct. The indications are that it cases being set for Tuesday morning, j w be aDout 1000,000 years before

Attorney Henry u. jonnson, appearing for the defendants, entered pleas of not guilty. The grand larceny charge against ifTfiled later In the Hayden woman, wa: circuit court by Prosecutor Ladd. it is alleged that the woman, who has been mixed up in 6hooting affrays and other police troubles, went to the Jones house with Long. When they started to leave. It is claimed. Long found he had lost $69 which he carried In an inside pocket. He accused the Hayden girl of the robbery. At this juncture "Kentuck" Harris leaped into the room and with a terrific "right," floored Long. The latter fled from the house amid a shower of kicks and blows, but afterwards returned to be arrested. The "joint" is said to be a bad one and has been under the suspicion of the police for months according to Chief Gormon. It is probable the Hayden girl will be tried in police court first. Later she may be tried on the more serious charge in circuit court. Its Groat Fault. Wilson Eyre, Jr., the noted Philadelphia architect, can criticise with delicate wit architecture which he disapproves. A brother architect Induced Mr. Eyre the ' other day to go to see one of his latest constructions, n Caring edifice not. far froq-. the city hall. Mr. Eyre looked over the new building gravely and silently, and at the end of the Inspection the host said in rather anxious tones: -Well, how do you like It? It's pretty good, don't you think r -Excellent T' said Mr. Eyre. "It ha oniy one fault." "What's that?" the other asked. "It's fireproof." wthe reply. Exchange. s ShnnKin wt..tara ciaHs. As' Ivory dries It shrinks, and expert ence has taught the Ivory billiard bai turner that a tusk shrinks more i width than in length. To meet thl peculiarity the best balls are mad from tusks little thicker than the bal. The tasks of cow elephants are be for billiard balls. They are not s carved as bull tusks, and the fine nerv passage Is not so plainly seen. ' The billiard ball Is turned la the rough and kept In a warm room for two years. It to then, after hriaktng, turned again 4to tmsvXew Ytork

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w dJ ft A SCRAMBLE FOR PIEJSSTARTEO Indiana Democratic Delega tion at "Washington, Asserts Its Rights. Washington, Jan. 23. Now that the Indiana members have unitedly put Lincoln Dixon on the ways and means committee, some, of them are showing a disposition to take on Ohio ways and there is a fuss in the delegation over the state's indorsement for a place on the committee on rivers and harbors Representative Boehne of the First district, and Representative Cline of the Tenth, are the contestants, and neither is willing to yield an inch. that canal is constructed, and even that prophecy seems to be rushing the season, hut. Cline'R friends have reason to h0pe he can stay in congress I his natural life if he can get a place on the rivers and harbors committee where he can whoop it up for the canal. Where Hoosiers Agree. On all other committee assignments the Indiana members are sub stantially agreed. The list of what what Indiana wants is convincing proof that Indiana, like Kentucky, does not hang back when there is pie in sight. It is as follows: Boehne Committee on rivers and harbors. Cullop Committee on judiciary and chairmanship of one of the commit tees on expenditures. Cox Committee on appropriations. Moss Committee on agriculture and chairmanship of one of the com mittees on expenditures. KorMey Committee on banking and currency. Adair Chairmanship or tne com mittee on invalid pensions. Morrison Chairmanship of the committee on patents. Kauch Chairmanship or tne com mittee on public lands. ' Cline Committee on rivers and harbors (contested with Boehne). Barnhart Committee on printing. Finly Gray, the only new Democratic member of the Indiana delegation for the Sixty-second congress, has not yet indicated his committee preference. He comes from the "Old Burnt" district, long represented by James E. Watson. The deadlock between Boehne and Cline over the rivers and harbors assignment will be broken before long by a caucus of the delegation, when the one receiving the most votes by secret ballot will be put forward as the state's candidate for a position on the rivers and h armors committee. From indications the caucus will be lively and the sparks will fly, as each aspirant has warm friends on the delegation. twwwnmwidatun. , - "Didn't your old employers reconi mend your Ofa,yesr Tbeir word should bare been enough." "It was. They announced me as the beat ansa they ever turned

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"CLUSTER" LIGHTS GIVEIIJLACK EYE Supt. Johnson of the Light Plant Says Project Is Too Expensive.

Cluster lights for Main street were given a black eye by the board of works this morning, when a report of Ninirod Johnson, superintendent of the municipal light plant, showed that this system of lighting, as proposed, would cost the city $1,400 more each year than the arc lights, now in use. In his report, Johnson said, that there are at present 9 arc lights be tween Fourth and Eleventh street, for which current costs the city $49 a piece or $405 for the entire number. The board of works proposed to in stall 108 cluster light posts. Tunsen light3 are used on cluster poies, probably 100 k w. light and three 40 k. w. lamps, being on each pole. The average cost for the current in each light would be $6, according to Mr. Johnson's estimate, of $1,620.60 per year for current in the cluster lights. Fully $200 would be spent each year on renewing bulbs,, which burn out easily, Mr. Johfison states, making the total cost of the lights each year $1,820.60. I Committee Surprised. , A committee of merchants interested in the cluster lights project, including Albert Morel, C. C. Allen, William II. Bailey, and Fred Krone, which was before the board, this morning, was frrat'iv .nmri-M iv Mr: .Tnhnsnn'R report. It was suggested that the city Install the lights and the merchants pay for the current, and this will probably be considered by the board, al- j though the expense of installing the . lights will be heavy. ; Johnson said that' installation cost will be about $100 a post, making the total cost over $10,000. Another plant

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amount of current used, in excess of that now consumed by the arc lights. This is estimated, would cost the merchants about 50 cents per foot a year, not including the cost of installation. which will average $50 for each mer chant. According to .Mayor Zimmerman, merchants on the west section of Main street will not pay for installation of lights, because they claim it not worth the money. The matter will be considered at council meeting tonight. LIVELY DIVORCE CASEJOW HEARD Mrs. Florence Mills Recites a Tale of Abuse to Circuit Court Today'. Alleging .that her husband, William Mills, formerly- a city- fireman, was cruel and inhuman in his treatment tnvoril Via an1 flint hA was fn 'tnf habit of becoming intoxicated frcquently, Florence J. Mills went on the stand in the Wayne circuit court on Monday, telling her tale of alleged martial wrongs to Judge Fox. Attired In a black suit, a picture hat and a fine fur collarette and large muff, the camplainant attracted no little attention as she recited how her husband had taken chews of tobacco from his mouth and rubbed them over her face; had, she said, as frequently spit in her face as he did on the floor; had choked and strangled her, cuffed her, and now and then kicked her. She said on one occasion he had picked up a cup of hot coffee and with unerring aim burled cup and contents at her, striking her wrist and severely cutting it. Frequent quarrels were testified to. Accusations by Mills of infidelity' accompanied by a storm of vile language was another charge made to tho court. Street fight between the two on a few occasions disturbed the neighborhood of Eighth and Elm streets, she said. A prominent liveryman and a well known saloon keeper were mentioned by her as the unwarranted causes for Mills's jealousy. An unusual feature of the case is the contest being made. About fifteen witnesses have been summoned. Atorneys Robbins and Robbins are conducting the case for the complainant, while Attorney W. H. Kelley is looking after the interests of Mills who was in the court- Mrs. Mills was on the stand for several hours and it was expected the case would require the remainder of the afternoon. Two" policemen, a former patrolman, and neighbors of the Mills's were among those summoned as witnesses. ,They were married in November, 1893 and they separated after a quarrel on June 5, 1910. They are the parents of two miDor children, both boys. WINTER TENNIS AT PINEHURST STARTED (American News Service) Pinehurst, N. .C, Jan. 23. Play in the first big winter tennis tournament ever held at Pinehurst began today with many well known tennis experts participating. The program extends over the entire week, the events including men's singles and doubles and women's singles and doubles with specials in the form of mixed doubles and women's doubles. "The Government" says Premier Briand, of France, "is detertimed to combat alcoholism. It is a question of national Interest. The very life of the nation Is at stake." On the active list of the Coldstream guards Is Robert J. Brougbton, age ninety-four, who celebrated on New Tear's Day bis forty-ninth anniversarr fas solicitor to the regiment.

THIRD TRIAL STARTS

Oklahoma Murder Case Is Notorious. (American Xevs Srvlce Oklahoma City, Jan. 23. -The third trial of Rudolph Tegeler, accused of the murder of James R. Meadows, was begun in the district court today. The case is the most notorious of its kind in the history of Oklahoma and has attracted wide attention because or the long legal battle to save the accused man. Meadows was murdered in this city on the night of June 4. 1907. It was alleged that Tegeler slipped to the door of the Meadows cabin, fired the fatal shot, took the body from the house to a corn field two miles away and burled it. Mrs. Meadows, wife of the slain man and alleged paramour of Tegeler was tried on the charge of complicity in the murder. Her trial resulted in acquittal The first trial of Tegeler took place nearly three years ago and resulted in his conviction. Pending an appeal to the supreme court he spent about two years in the penitentiary. A new trial was granted because the trial judge died before he Bigned the record in the case. The second trial wfs ended last October and resulted in a jury disagreement. Ten members of tne 1" are 6aId to have favored Conku aim iwo ere ior .-quiiuu. OJUte ,utJ ua8 Deeu at lib.erty under $25,000 bond. What Is regarded as the strongest evidenco against him is the fact that after the murder was discovered he led the offi?ers to the place where the body was buried. TO FIGHT A REPEAL ly Alarmed. (American News Service) Nashville. Tenn., Jan. 23. Believing that the "dry" laws are in danger of being repealed by the legislature now in session, the Tennessee Anti-Sa loon League began a two days' conference here today to decide upon such steps as may be necessary to prevent the repeal of the State-wide prohibi tion 'law and the law prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating liquors In Tennessee. The laws are regarded as among the roost -drastic of, their kind adopted in any of the states and were placed on the statute books only after a long and bitter contest. ANCIENT. EMBALMEH3. Motives Which Impelled the Egyp. tians to Preserve the Dead. To appreciate the motives which Impelled the ancient Egyptians to Invent the art of embnlming it is necessary to throw our minds back nearly sixty centuries. Then Egyptians were 1c the habit of burying their dead in shallow holes scraped "in the soil Im mediately beyond the limits of tho i frow J "l1? J nd ' fcA? the result of placing the body in hot dry sand it frequently happened that, instead of undergoing a process of decay, it became desiccated and preserved in an incorruptible form for an indefinite time. The burial of valuable and useful objects with the dead naturally led to grave robbing, which was already common in the earliest known prehistoric times In Egypt This plundering of graves must bare taught the - people at large that the forces of nature were often sufficient to preserve a dead body. In this way it became a part of the religion of the Egyptians to regard the preservation of the body as the condition of the attainment of immortality. The early Egyptians learned that the body when placed in a coffin or buried in a rpek tomb usually underwent decomposition. It was a widespread belief that the stone "ate the flesh" hence the word 'sarcophagus.' Artificial mummification, therefore, had its origin in an attempt to deprive the ! grave of its victory. British Medical Journal. Girl messengers in the London post office are now on the job. They wear their ordinary dresses, Jut later may have uniforms. Their work Is 'about the same as that of an indoor errand boy.

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LATE MARKET HEWS

INDIANAPOLIS LIVE STOCK Indianapolis, Jan. SS,Hogs Receipts 3,000; top $S.15. Cattle Receipts 500; best $5.75, Sheep Receipts 50; prime $5.75. Lambs $5.75. PITtSBURG LIVESTOCK Pittsburg. Jan. 23. Cattle Receipts 105 car loads; best butchers $6.10; choice $6.75$? 7.00; prime $6.50(r$.?5. Veal calves $7.50 10.00. Sheep Receipts SO double decks; wethers $3.85 4.35. Hogs Receipts. 50 double decks; heavies $8.00; yorkers $8.358.40; plges $8.50. Lambs $5.00&6.25. B. BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, Jan. 23. Cattle Receipts 3,800 head; steady; prime steers $6.50gf6.75; butchers $5,756? 6.25. Hogs Receipts 17,000; heavies $7.90 $18.00; yorkers $S.208.30; pigs $8.40. Sheep Receipts 28,000; .prime $4.35. Calves Receipts 800 bead; choice $11.00. Lambs $6.00(36.15. CI NCI N N ATI LIVESTOCK Cincinnati, Jan. 23. Cattle Receipts 2.100; shippers $6.30. Hogs Receipts 3,700; choice $8.00. Sheep Receipts C00; 15$?25c lower. Lambs $6.40. TOLEDO GRAIN Toledo, Jan. 23. Wheat OSc Corn 48e Oats 35c Clover seed ......$8.8$ INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN Indianapolis, Jan. 23. Wheat .98o Corn 46o Oats ............ ...... ........34o Clover seed ...S.U nimiiintin v mrrTfi HIUIIU wHMo PROVISION MARKET (Paid By J. M.jfcggemeyer & Sons) Apples, per bbl. ...... ..$3.75 $6. Parsley, curley. per doz. bunches. ,$1 Leaf lettuce, hothouse, per lb..... 10c, Celery, golden heart, extra fancy, per doz bunches ,.,2540c. Spinach, fancy, per bu. ............91 Carrots, fancy, per bu. ....$1 Turnips, fancy, per bu. .......... 75c. Radishes, red and white, fancy, per dozen bunches ................ 40c. Cabbages, homegt own, per ton.... $14 Potatoes, per bu. ........ ....5075o xeuuw, icu, wuiie, uiiiuud, yet uufi PRODUCE. Old Hens, per lb. ................. to Turkey on foot, per lb. .......... 18o Old roosters, per lb. .8c. Butter, country, per lb 204J25O Young chickens, 2 to 3 lbs. per lb. 10c Ducks, per lb. ......... ........ ..10c Eggs .,250 GRAIN MARKET. ......... .( . . Prices paid per bushel for grains by the Richmond Roller Mills. Second and North C streets, are as follows: No. 2 wheat, 95 cents; No. 3 wheat, 90 cents; oats, 30 cents; old corn,48c; new corn 40 cents; rye, 65 cents; clov er seed, $6$7. WAGON MARKET. Wagon market quotations furnlsb ed by Omer G. Whelan. South Sixth street are: Oats, 32 cents per bu.; new corn, per bushel 40c; rye, 70 cents per bu; hay, loose.good timothy $15016 per ton: mixed $1314 per ton; clover, $10 per ton;. straw, $6 per ton. SEED MARKET, Quotations as rurnisned by J. Runge and company for seeds per bushel, are. Timothy, $4.00 to $4.35; clover, $7.50 to $8.00; rye. 70 ceuts; oats. SO