Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 24, 1915, Page 2

Committee’s Report On The Condition of the Industrial School School For Boys at Marianna/ Tallahassee, Fla., May 24 The following is the majrity re- port of the committce appointed to at Marianna: Tallahassee, Fla., May Hon. C. E. Davis, President of the Senate, and Hon. Cary A. Hardee, Speaker of the House 20, 1915. quired to keep clean. They good clean comfortable beds. | tented. the and are most!v They cultivate taught farre: being Buildings The main building at School No. 1 have They are supplied with a sufficient quan- vigit the Industrial School for Boys, tity of plain food, and have the ap- pearance of being healthy and con- agriculture burned and will have to be replaced, | the school can be moved with very llittle extra cost at this time. The| | State owns other lands, and some communities will be glad of an op- portunity to donate lands for this school . We further recommend that the | | Florida Industrial School for boys at | | Marianna be placed under the man-| {agement of the Board of State In-| stitutions, and that the law creat- {ing a Board of Managers be amended | making this charge. Fire Investigation Your Committee made as diligent | and thorough inquiry as possible in- to the burning of Bceilding No. 1, which building was occupied by MAN PROPOSES, BUT.. This One Had tfl Be Forced Into By H. M. EGBERT. “Why, yes, anbody could open those machines,” said Frank Meath to Mar- jorie. “You see, you take a piece of ordinary picture wire and bend it; then you insert the loop in the lock and feel for the wards, and then—" “Frank, you haven't been pilfering from automatic slot machines!” de- clared Marjorie, looking at him se- verely. “Of course not, Marjorie. I mean is, anybody could. the principle of the lock is—" Marjorie turned away to hide the But what You see, Frank’s tongue broke loose. “I wonder—" he stammered— “1 wonder—" “Yes?” inquired Marjorie. | “Did you ever put a penny in any of| these machines? I mean just for amusement, Marjorie.” “No, but I'll try,” she answered, and | placed a penny in the ladies’ side. The | machine promptly delivered a photo- graph of a young man with a curled mustache, staring dark eyes and a| tle that, from its intensity of shadow-| ing, must have been very conspicuous in the original. And he did not look in the least like Frank. “You try.” she said. Frank Meath obeyed, put in his colin, turned the crank, and found himself staring at a photograph of—Marjorie. Better Business ent business reports reflect a decidedly letyer Foresighted business men zr¢ All tone in bu timistic over the near future. rec siness circles. = ther times be lean or prosperous, a good hank- ssential to the modern, progressive .. Dit whe ing connection is e ness man. Periods like the recent depression and the present o “imism strongly emphasize our ability to understand 4 care for the needs of business men in Lakeland. | of Repre-| sentatives. ) Gentlemen: We, the undersigned | Joint Legislative Committee ap-| He stared at it; he stared at her. That was the identical dress with the chiffon; that was the hat; and— trembling of her lips. It was not all mirth, either, that she was trying to conceal, for a very little might have was burned last November, and the only buildings at this school are are any good is the house that was buiit white boys, and from our investiga. tion we do not believe that there is FIRST NATIONALBANK pointed to visit the Florida Indus- tral School for Boys, beg leave to re- port that we visited the said school, inspected it as carefully as possible, and submit the following report: The Farm The farm comprises six hundred (600) acres of land of fair quality, about four hundred cleared and two hundred in timber. There are now planted and being cultivated three hundred acres in corn, twenty-five acres in cotton, fifteen acres in pea- nuts, ten acres in cane and twenty acres in truck. The stock consists of seventeen mules, four horses, ten milch cows, and about one hundred lizer, costing $1,446.50, will be used on the crop this season. The farm last year lost money. It not self-sustaining. No complete record- ord of farm expenses or yields kept. We recommend that a com- plete record of expenses and yields be kept. We believe that this farm, properly operated, should not only be self-sustaining, but should pay at least half the expenses of maintain- ing School No. 2. Brick Plant The Brick Plant seems to be good condition. There are only small quantity of brick on hand, from the best figures we could ob- tain. Brick should be made at this place at a cost of not over $4.00 per thousand. School No. 1—White The White School is composed of sixty-three boys, ranging in age from seven years to eighteen, with one middle-aged lady as matron and one man as teacher. The boys are given four hours' daily instruction in books, but the school room is poorly equipped and all the educa- tiona] facilities are of the poorest grade. There is nothing connected with the school that will stimulate any desire or inclination of the boys in the matter of education. The matron has only been connected with the school about two months— not long enough to bring many changes—but has helped to develop and improve the general conditions, and is keeping the food and dining- room in a clean and sanitary condi- tion. There are no bathing facilities. The white boys have to go over to the negro school and bathe in the same place the negroes use. Most of the farm work is done by the negro boys, and the white boys are not kept as busy as they should be, but are allowed too much time for loafing. There should be some ar- rangement made by which the small boys could be separate (especially at night) from the boys of more ma- ture years. The food in School No. 1 is plain, but well cooked ,and is in as sufficient quantity and variety as the funds allowed will permit. School No. 2—Colored The Colored School is composed of one hundred and sixty-three (163 boys. On account of crowded con- ditions of buildings there is no room that can be used as a school room, and no school is being taught at present. The matron, who is a white woman, sems to be very capa- ble and the boys are being tanzht cleanliness, house work, cooking, baking, tailoring, and farm work. This school is in as good condition as the limited space will permit. was in a boys is being looked after in excel- ing and have a capable colored nurse to attend to the sick. They also have a shower bath and are re- $80 JACKSONVILLE AND RETURN To the Great California Expositions Proportionate rates from all intermediate points. Stop-over privileges .50 enroute and free side trip to San 7$89.00 TAMPA AND RETURN AND RETURN for the superintendent, which is not a finished, and a barn built about jvear ago, which is a good structure; |also a temporary | been constructed during | month emergency room. a the for an |crease in the number of boys there. prevails that prevailed two of 1913 v which they stated that ed the school and called attention it and fire of November, been carried out. School No. electricity, and the dangerous oil al fire escapes provided. Management ing at present, one having resizned. on the board. ular meetings as required, are badly hampered by lack funds. been in charze about four months. previous experience, and has op what ability he has. Recommendations, have No. Managers immediately buildings known as School wired for electricity, and gasoline now being used is costing. for pumping the water. white boys be separated from the State that will be more access. ible from all parts of the State, and that will be nearer the markets. school for white boys be placed un der the management of the Board o authorized to purchase or donations of not less than two hun dred acres of land close to good trucking section, and in a rec may be assisted by the moral atmos. phere prevailing. We recommend that this Legisla to carry ot the removal and estab. lishment of the Industrial School for white boys as suggested. make the above after careful investication vailing conditions. now situated and conducted of pre: it land there is great danger of {but will go immediately , criminal practices. As all of the buildings have been back $98.90 MIAMI Diego from Los Angeles. Direst and diverse routes by way of New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago. Go one way and return another. Fast through trains and personally conducted tours. SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO NORTH AND WEST Four trains daily—South Atlantic Limited to Louisville and Cinci nati, Dixie Flyer to Chicago, Montgomery Route Express to Memphis and St. Louis, New Orleans Special to Mobile and New Orleans. Choice of routes, superb steel trains and superior service are L. & N. features. Many others make this road a favorite with travelers. For routes, reservations, literature, etc., 'phone, wire or write to H. C. BRETNEY, Florida Passenger Agent, 134 West Bay Street (Bell Phone 167) Jacksenville, Louisville and Railread building that has last | Jocks which secured the fire escapes dining The buildings at School No. 2 are in 2ood condition, but are beginning to be crowded on account of the in- sent The same condition as to fire years ago, when the Legislative Committee to was inexcusable and criminal carelessness, and should be correctéd. The horrible results of the 1914, might have been avoided had their suggestions The buildings in 2 should be lighted by lamp done away with; also addition- There are but four managers serv- Two of these are @mparatively new They are having reg- and as far as we can judge are striving to better conditions at the school, but of We understand that the manage- ment have changed Superintendents five times during the past two years. The present Superintendent has only He 1s an unmarried man without not been in charge long enough to devel- We recommend that the Board of the 9 connect with current to be supplied by the City of Marianna, which on investi- gation we find can be had for less money per month than the oil and We recommend that the sum of Four Thousand Dollars be appropriated by this Legislature to cost of installing electric lights in building, and motor We recommend that the school for the school for colored at Marianna, and be removed to some other point in larger We recommend that the State Institutions and that they be receive some ognized Christian community where the reformation of delinquent boys | ture provide sufficient appropriations We recommendations As the school is is The general welfare of the coloredgoarcely more than a convict camp, X the lent manner. They have a wing "f:snm» turning out boys from this in- the dormitory for a hospital build-{gtjtution that will not be improved, to even ground to suspicion that this fire was of incendiary origin, but was the result of gross carelessness, negligence and mismanagement. We found from examination that the had never to the knowledze of any- one connected with the institution been examined or even unlocked since they had been installed, and that there had been mno fire drills. In fact, nothing to prevent just such a catastrophe as happened, and these conditions certainly showed very gross carelessness. We found that the Superintend- ent of this institution at the time of the fire was a young man barely in his majority, and that the employ- ees as a whole were men not quali- fied, and incompetent, and should have never been placed in such po- sitions. We found that, on the night of the fire, four of the em- ployees who should have been at their posts of duty, had spent al- most the entire early part of the night in Marianna, which we deem inexcusable negligence and gross carelessness, and possibly had they remained at the school no doubt the lives of the eight boys and two em- ployees who lost their lives in the fire would have been saved. We found that this fire started sometime after midnight, probably in a locker or near the foot of the stairs that led up to the second floor. If proper precaution had been used this fire never would have occurred. Miscellaneous Your Committee find that under the Acts of 1913, Chapter 6446 of the Laws of Florida, the Board of Managers of the Florida Industrial School or Boys made requisition at the end of each quarter the Comptroller, and upon receipt there- of, the Comptroller was required to issue his warrant on the State Treas. urer therefor, and the disbursements were made by the managers. We were unable to find any rec- ords or vouchers upon which to predicate a report of the receipts and disbursements, and judzing from the method pursued in obtaining the money and paying the accounts, the whole system was wrong, and should be discontinued. The original accounts, duly ap- proved by the Board of Managers, should be forwarded to the Comp- troller, and after they are audited by him warrants should be issued direct to the person, firm or corpora. tion in whose favor the account is made out, and there can be no rea- son for not pursuing any other course, as the bills can be sent to the Comptroller as often the Board of Managers meet and approve the same, and the warrants will be issued by the Comptroller without delay. Your Committee, therefore, rec- ommends that in appropriating for the expenses of the Florida Indus- \trial School for Boys that the Act jcontain the same provision as to the payment of these claims, as it does as to all other claims against the State by making the appropriation and authorizing the issue of war- rants upon the receipt by the Comp- troller of bills properly approved by the Board of Managers. Respectfully submitted JOHN W. DAVIS, Chairman. J. J. HANDLEY, N. C. BRYAN, From the House. TERRELL, From the Senate. Chairman Davis, of the Committee, submitted the following minority report: Tallahassee, Fla., May Hon. Cary A. Hardee, Speaker of the Ilouse of Represen- tatives. Sir: 1, as one of your committee appointed to visit the Reform School for Boys at Marianna, Fla, beg to submit the following report: We left Tallahassee on Saturday, May 15th, and arriving at Marianna, we visited the Industrial School at the white school for boys, and I, found sixty white boys in age from nine to seventeen year of age. Your committee ate two meals while there and saw the boys eat. The boys all look well. The food is well cooked, and while there is no great variety, they seem to have plenty. 1 The fire which occurred on No-! vember 18th was a deplorable affair and I think a piece of gross negli- gence. The fire caught about two or three o'clock in the morning, so I learned. The Superintendent was away at the time. 1 learned that he was in New York and was absent about two weeks. The man that was in charge at the time was Mr. Bell,' the man who had robbed the bank at Pensacola. I also learned that he was away on the nisht of the fire. Also two of the guards, but they had returned to the school and | (Continued on Page 4. on d f as 1 GLLENN n 19, 1915. brought tears into her eyes just then. You see, they were standing before an automatic machine at Coney Island, and by inserting a penny—only a sin- gle penny—it was possible to obtain a photograph of your future husband or wife, according to which slot you made use of. with Frank for nearly two years. And only the week before his salary had been raised to twenty-five by the Ex-| celslor Safe Company. Had she known it, however, Frank Meath’s apparent preoccupation in the mechanism of the automatic slot ma- chine was due to intense timidity. For he had taken Marjorie to Coney with | the firm determination to ask her the question which he had been wanting to ask ever since their first meeting. And he had almost screwed his deter- mination up to the point of doing so when—well, it went out of his finger tips and he began talking about locks instead. For when he looked at her, in her neatly fitting blue gown and her hat framing a pretty face set in an aureole of fair hair, he just felt like a worm. He was sure nobody could have the courage to ask Marjorie. In his mind They Walked by the Sad Sea Waves. he had almost consigned her to eter- nal spinsterhood, simply because the days when archangels came down to wed the daughters of men were over. “I'm, glad you never have pilfered from those machines,” said Marjorie, as they turned homeward. *Because I could never lo— I mean think any- thing of you if I thought you could.” Franit left her at the door of the apartmert in which she lived with her mother, feeling utterly crushed. Mar- Jjorfe had been strangely silent all dur- ing the return journey. He was quite sure he had offended her; he almost feared that in some manner he had betrayed himself and that she had guessed his secret. If she had—well, he knew that meant the end ofsall fur- ther acquaintance. He did not know that Marjorie was crying her heart out in the bathroom of the tiny flat. A week of gloom ensued. By Tues- day Frank Meath had resigned him- self to the inevitable. On Wedneeday the years did not seem quite so lonely after all. Perhaps Marjorie would go with him to the Island once in a while and there, when they were old people, he would some day tell her the story of his hopeless love. On Thursday he had recovered suf- ficiently to invite her to accompany him on the Saturday. On Friday he bought a new straw hat and a tie. On Saturday her answer sent him into a transport of rapture. This time he would put his courage to the test. Saturday came. Marjorie wore a pink dress with chiffon which made her seem quite ethereal. His heart went down to the tops of his shoes again. Again he felt the old terror obsess him. “Mother thinks Coney’s much quie- ter this year,” said Marjorie. “She wouldn’t go for years, you know, but now that she's seen it—" She stopped, tongue-tied. A few words more and she would have be- trayed the fact that she had been there during the week. And for very definite reasons she did not want Frauk to know that—as will be seen. They walked by the sad waves— tongue-tied; they ate “hot dogs"— tongue-tied; they shot the chutes and went on the aerial flight — more {tongue-tied than ever. And at last, toward nightfall, they found them- selves, by some accident, standing in Button Hints. To fasten buttons tightly begin to sew on the right side and sew back and forth several times before you be- gin to sew through the button. The knot will be under the button and not on the wrong side, to be rubbed off in laundering. In sewing buttons on coats sew over a match or toothpick and wrap thread for a “shank.” Optimistic Thought. A ragged colt may make a handsome horse And Marjorie had gone out | % Nobody was in sight. “Marjorie!” he exclaimed; and that was all that he could ever remember. For when he felt Marjorie’s lips on his everything else became the merest shadow of a dream. “Marjorie,” he sald presently, “how did it happen? Do you suppose there’s really anything in the thing? How could your photograph have got there? I'm going to try again?” “Don't!” said Marjorie. She was too late, for the machine had already delivered another photo- graph of Marjorie, and then it deliv- ered another, and then one more, and then—" “O Marjorie, what an ass I've been,” sald Frank humbly. “To think I made you put them there—" “How dare you!” sald Marjorie, stamping her foot angrily. “But-—* “But T had a photograph too, and he doesn’t look in the least like you.” “0 well, I don't believe in that part of it.” said Frank, as he tore the florid young man’s likeness into fragments. “And now I remember telling you how—"" “All you've got to remember,” an- swered Marjorie, “is that this is 1912.” \ (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.) TURKS ADOPT MODERN IDEAS Scientific and Literary Interests Are Being Promoted by Ottoman Schools and Press. An interesting guide to the ten- dency of modern Turkish ideas and thought may be had from a perusal of the lists of new publications in the Turkish language. One will at once | observe the large number of transla- | tions and adaptations of European sci- entific and literary work and books of a popular nature. There are treatises on medicine, surgery, law, chemistry, physics, military science and even ae- ronautics. There are also a large number of independent publications by Turkish authors on these and oth- | er modern toplcs. Text books for | use in Turkish schools are prepared to meet the needs of a modernized cur- riculum. Instead of merely reading the fables and historical stories the modern Turkish schoolboy uses graded reading books prepared in ac- cordance with the latest pedagogic | ideas. Standard works of European litera- ture are being translated into Turkish, and modern popular novels, principally French, have a large scale. Of purely American literature little has been translated, but the American de- tective stories are finding great fa-; vor among Turkish youth, There is also a growing modern Turkish literature which aims to fos- | ter Turkish patriotism and love for the Osmanli language. Several fllus- trated magazines are published regu- larly. Excellent new editions, well illustrated, of some of the Turkish classics are also published to retain the interest in these works. Inside Information. Various doctors, among them many specialists, were called as witnesses in a case in a San Francisco court, with a view to ascertaining what killed a woman whose death was in question in an insurance litigation. They all testified they had examined the woman professionally, and the con- sensus of opinion was that the dead woman had suffered from an affection of the liver which caused that organ to shrink materially. The last doctor on the witness stand was a young hospital interne. He testifled that instead of shrunken liver the dead woman had an abnormally enlarged liver. “Do you mean to sit there on the stand and swear that this woman had an enlarged liver when all these emi- nent authorities have sworn her liver was wasted and shrunken?” demanded a lawyer. “I do,” replied the young doctor. “How comes it you set yourself up against these eminent practitioners. i C. W. DEEN, President C. M. CLAYTON, Cashier, THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. h@ i /et AT HE Summer Season is comingon and youneed a COOL SUIT to wear. 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In order to enable the creches of Paris to carry out their work more effectively the municipal council pro- poses to subsidize thom in a more gen- erous manner than heretofore. The creches—numbering 60—have done a great deal toward lessening infant mortality. They now propose to hold medical consultations, increase the sup- ply of milk to mothers and bables, and also to establish special “salles,” where working mothers can look after their own infants.—Frederick Morris, Secre- tary of the Marylebone Branch of the Charity Organization Society. Famous South American Falls. The falls of Tequendama are situ- ated near the city of Bogota, United States of Colombia, where the River Bogota rushes through a cleft 36 feet wide and falls about six hundred feet into a rocky chasm. Near the falls is the natural bridge of Inconongo, which is something more than thszee tundred feet high. Satisfaction. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up at night and think of your work with sat- isfaction. —Thoreau. opURomomononoaunononun ELECTRIC IT WILL PAY YOI CONSULT US ON THE ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STORE We Are Electrical Experts FLORIDA ELECTRICSMACHINERY THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel B mELECTRIC' On the Job. Safety in Dampness. m‘ljhar;n are two kinds of clock watch- A scientist declares that in nu;z vo:l.r how much longer he d¢r storm the safest course ¥ ety fore he can go home— Mman being is to get thorous ® other sees how much longer he He declared that he could ki :nmw;:-; before he must go home~ ¥hen dry by means of &8 es. dirsharge, but never =has it