Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 1

EDM GULFPORT and Biloxi DAILY AVERAGE CIRCULATION LAST MONTH 2009 SATURDAY JANUARY 101914 FIFTEEN CENTS PER VOLU ME NUMBER 84 3 CHILD LABOR LAWS ARE NOT ENFORCED AT FACTORIES ON MISSISSIPPI COAST PRISON PROBE IN PRESIDENT GREETS Gorgas of Canal Zone Fame Will Be Army Surgeon General Children Under Prescribed Ages Start Work at 4 and 5 In Morning and Work more than Time Allowed by Law Says Child Labor Committee Inspect After Visit to Biloxi Canneries teen and eighteen years of age must be kept on file in the office of the factory where they work Mr Jones declared that many chiL dren under the prescribed ages were starting to woik at 4 or 5 in the morning and working longer than the time allowed PROVISIONS FOR ENFORCEMENT At present the only provisions for enforcing the labor laws in this state are that the sheriff of each county is expected to inspect all factories once each month and the county health officer tw'ce each year as to sanitary conditions The minimum penalty for the violation of the provisions of the law is a fine of $50 Another featuie of the report of Mr Jones is a statement he says was made to him by some of the workers frem Baltimore to the effect that their children are not accepted at the local schools but are told that they are full Captain Lb Bowen a member of the school board declared emphatically when told of the above statement that such children were accepted at the local schools that they would Gulfport January 10 This morning President Wilson played his last game of golf for this vacation at the Mississippi Coast Country Club' Accompanied by Dr Grayson and his customary party he made the double round of the course in splendid form It was rather cloudy when he went on the links but before he had played long the sun broke through the clouds and gave a final ideal day to the closing day of his vacation When he returned to the club he cordially thanked Mrs Phillips for the courtesies which had been extended to him at the club during his daily visit Then Mr Willson returned to the Herndon home stopping only at the home of Ex-Congressman Bowers taken in as long as there was a vac- where inspected the famous orch-ant seat and if there were applies- ard and was presented by Mrs Bowens tions made when rooms were full wftha single limb of grapefruit which Biloxi Jan 10 II II Jones of New York City an inspector fer the National Child Labor Committee will shortly prepare a report following his investigation of- conditions in local cannig factories He stated today before leaving for Gulfport and others points that he nad found improper sanitary conditions in the camps of some of the If cal factories and that the child labor law of the state which regulate minimum ages and maximum hours of work is not enforced and is frequently violated SANITARY CONDITIONS IN FACTORIES conditions in the factories appeared to me to be all said Mr Jones would however recommend day nurseries where women workers can leave their" and children A day nursery has to be more than a building there must be a competent head whose personality will insure its A local packer is reported to have installed a day nursery some time ago and to have found it impracticable because the women with children would not cooperate with him in the plan MENACE TO HEALTH one place I found 31 families using surface closet with no cesspool and no screen With the migration of flies this condition becomes a very real menace to the health of the whole 'community At another place I found 20 families who until recently ured one small A new one not very large was built flat on the ground These become filthy and are not properly Mr Jones These conditions ought to he recll- Jed' lhe ipeaker declared emphaticml- STATE CHILD LABOR LAW The slate child labor law requires that no boy under twelve yearn of age or girl under fourteen years of age shall be permitted to work in any factory mi'l or cannery with the ex- ception of fruit canneries and that no boy under sixteen years of age and no girl under eighteen years cf age may start to work before six in the morning or work after seven o'clock in the evening Boys under sxteen and girls under eighteen years of age must not work more than eight hours a day or forty-eight hours a week Affidavits from the parents as to the age of all boys between twelve and sixteen and girls between four nore seats would be provided CAN ATTEND SCHOOL Supt Linfield could not be reached but Captain Bowen felt sure no children had been turned down certainly that none had been refused admittance because they wore which seemed to be the basis of the complaint of the factory workers The people are residents here and Photo by American Press Association Colonel William Gorgas who made the Panama canal zone habitable for white men la said in Washington to be slated for appointment aa surgeon general of the army to Brigadier General George II Toruey who' died recently Dr Gorgns is actively interested In the newly formed life Extension institute recently organized to lengthen human life by educational methods Ex-President Taft Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university Dr Eugene I Flak tbe well known New York physician and Bitten-' house the New York Insurance expert are other prominent men Interested In the movement Governor Brewer Bares in Special Blesasge to the Legislature STATE LOSES MONEY ON THE RANKIN FARM Governor Brewer Recommends That It Be Turned into An Experimental Stock Farm Special Messages As a Surprise to Legislators Jackson Jan 10 An engaging history of the penitentiary investigation together with the incidents of reported graft and mismanagement connected with the conduct of the Mississippi prison system was furnished the legislature yesterday by Gof Brewer in his promised special message The governor went into the details of the investigation from to omitting none of the essential facts and concluded his msssage with some recommendations that will no doubt command the immediate attention of the legislature In explaining that his activity ia making the investigation wia prompted neither by animosity to officials in charge nor by hope of gaining personal advantage Governor Brewer said that the people understand now or not yet in the days to come they will kpow and will He insisted that the investigation had been of great benefit to the state not only because it relieved the people of dishonest -officials but materially increased the earning capacity of the prison farms LAWS WERE IGNORED Governor Brewer in his message said that at 'the beginning of-his investigation tos found that the laws of the state had been ignored Instead cf keeping good records none -he said were kept! But in this -connection' he inveighed against the practice of the board of trustees in selling products and no turning the money immediately into the state treasury is a he said large amounts of corn and other farm products were traded by the board of trustees off the plaice and had been hauled away by other people and the most rigid investigation has failed to disclose what amount of corn was taken frem tbs property this product having been carried away by wagons anT no record left of it tl lives only in memory of the convicts and other people who saw them hauling it away without any idea as to quantity they got? BOYCE CO RAPPED The governor paid his respects to Boyce Co of Memphis Tenn several times during the course of his message This is the firm that bought a great deal of the Mississippi state cotton He went into tbs details of the investigation which traced shipments from the Parchman farm to the cotton mills in Liverpool and Manchester England The state is still unable to get an accurate trail cf the cotton (Continued on Sixth Page) lfifty Plates Set at Banquet Given Visiting Newspaper Men By Gulfport Business Men QUANDARY OF CENSUS BUREAU OVER FIGURES OF BILOXPS STATEMENT Reception at Herndon Home Will Start at 3 County Au-' thorities Called On For Aid a GROUNDS WILL BE CAREFULLY POLICED Wilson Presented With" Wonderful Specimen of Grapefruit and Visited Bowers Orchiird Returns to Washington Tomorrow Night bore fortynine fine specimens of the luscious fruit Mr Bowers was not at home and in leaving the President expressed his regret at not meeting the ex-congressman When he passed through Gulfport a huge rose was seen in the hand which had evidently been presented to him on the return to Pass Christian A few moments later the newspapermen returned in an auto from the FOR INSURANCE Says Aetna Company Did Not Pay For Furniture Destroyed In October Blaze Gulfport January 10 Mrs William Gates of Inda Harrison County has filed suit in the Harrison County Circuit Court for $700 against- the Aetna Insurance Co claiming that that company did not pay her the amount of her policy when destroyed by fire on the third of last had taken out a $700 policy on her furniture which was all destroyed in honor the policy it is claimed and she is suing for the entire amount Parker is her attorney The home which she occupied was the property of the Mississippi Farms Company the blaze The company refused to Classified ads a cant a word a day Classified a cent a word a day Will Be In Session For Ten Days Is Prediction Large Number of Witnesses to Be Called JUDGE FIRST TERM HERE Opened Judgeship With 'Court at Lucedale This Week Had Five Days of Good Court Bob Murphy Appointed Stenographer Gulfport January 10 Monday morning the grand jury convenes and it is predicted that before It adjourns it will hate completed a long probe into Harrison County doings which will take at least ten days and necessitate the calling of innumerable witnesses It was declared this morning by persons in position to know that it is planned to clean house in two or three parts of the county which have not been sufficiently law abiding recently Blind tigers will come in for their share of trouble and if all plans carry the whole of Harrison County will be as free from the illegal sale of liquor as are the larger cities along the Coast Judge Ballenger will convene his first term of court in Harrison County Monday He has already broken into the harness with a successful five day term at Lucedale in George County No big cases were on trial but an interesting docket was rapidly disposed of The criminal term here will last four weeks and will be followed by the February term of Chancery Court so Gulfport citizens will have plenty of court news for the coming weeks Last Monday Robert Murphy better known in Gulfport as plain began his thirteenth year as court stenographer in this district lie has served under five judges Neville McDonald Hardy Barrett and Bal-- lcnger nd has proven himsclf'ofie uuT the best His re-appointment was a Iopular choice STEWARDS HOLD A CONFERENCE Methodist Laymcn Gather to Transact Business-1-Apprrlionment of the Assessment Is Made Biloxi Jan 10 Methodist stewards gathered in a district conference Thursday at the now Methodist Church at to which Farish was the Biloxi delegate Rev II Huntley presiding cider presided at the meeting and Judge Farish reports that the following churches were" represented: Amcricus Escatawpa Hub Men-torum Bay St Louis Garriere Coalville Howison McHenry Pascagoula Wiggins Brooklyn Long Beach Log-town Foplarville Biloxi Columbia Lumberton Moss Point Darby MississipA City Vancleave Wolf Rive- Each church was represented by one delegate The apportionment 'of assessments of the churches for the various funds which have to le kept up wag made Rev Linfield was a visitor at the conference from BiloxL FAIRLY HEAVY VOTE BEING CAST EWlicn Today For Chancery Clerk With Murphy and Sidney O'Neal as Candidates Biloxi Jan 10 -A fairly heavy vete is being cast in the election for chancery clerk today John Murphy of Gulfport and Sidney of Nugent are the opposing candidates The vote is up to what it -sometimes reaches in much mere exciting races There were 110 votes cast up to eleven today Burke I Ellis and Martin Hass are acting as r3m-missioners Champlin and Pascal Meaut are acting as clerks Department Is Compiling Figures On Wealth of Wants Copy of Biloxi's Annual Statement Herald Writes That It Was Not Published the city expects to offer their rhildrcn Country Club and they too werethe the benefits of an education declared guests of Mrs Bowers on a tour of Captain jthe moHt famous- fruit -orchard in Mr Jcnes said that states1 south Mississippi have laws providing that children I This afternoon at 3 Mr and shall not work more than eight hours! Mrs Wilson will meet the people of a day What Mississippi chiefly need jthe Coast at! a reception to be given ed was a new law providing a four-' in the Herndon home Elaborate plans year age limit for boys and girls have been made to handle the crowds alike and more than all a com- expected and it js hoped to give pulsory education law There is lit- everybody a chance to meet the Pre-tie use keeping ycung children The secret service men have from work unless they are going on Sheriff Elmer for deputies be kept in school As long as the and Deputies Ewing and Randolph of work does not harm them physically i5iloxi and Duckworth and Chief of they might as well be earning money police Corbett of Gulfport will be stationed different places in the grounds to help handle the crowds Sheriff Elmer and Deputy will also bo on hand The roport that the President had kissed some Pass Christian youngster yesterday met with a warm denial at the Winter White House and that story was discredited Tomorrow the President will attend church somewhere on the Coast Sunday afternoon will find him motoring or reading and tomorrow evening he and his party will leave for Washington refreshed in mind and body and ready for the arduous labor which will await him as chief executive of the United States ASPHALT SHIP HELD AT QUARANTINE BECAUSE OF YELLOW FEVER SCARE Biloxi Jan 10 The following correspondence will be cf interest to Biloxians particularly to members of the city Council: Editor The Daily Herald Biloxi Miss Sir: Pursuant to an Act of Ccngrcss the Bureau of the Census is engaged in taking a eensus-of the wealth debt and taxation of the United States states counties and It is planned to compile much of he required information from reports of county and municipal offiesrs as officially printed in local newspapers I beg to request therefore that you favor me with a copy of the issue of your paper or that portion of the paper showing the in-foimation containing the latest published annual report of this character for the city of BiloxL An official envelope and frank requiring no postage are inclosed for your use in this connection Tranking you in advance for your hearty cooperation in this important work I am very truly yours WM HARRIS The following reply was of course the on'y one that could -be made: Wm Harris Director Washington Cf Sir: We would be glad to comply with your request for a copy of our paper containing the last annual statement of the city of Biloxi but for the fact that at the time the last annual Btrcement was compiled the council decided to nail the statement to teleajhone posts instead of printing it in the local newspapers Had we known that you wished such a copy we would have advised you a few days before the posting so that you might have sent a representative We could not have informed him which were the official representing the mayor and board of al dermen and it would have entailed additional labor to discover them before he could have copied the statement Again permit us to express our regret that the annual statement did not appear in our pfaper last October which makes it impossible for us to serve you DAILY Carrie A Lane Comes From Infected Port-Held Up For Several Days By Quarantine Doctor Danger From Disease Believed to Be Past and Order from Washington For Release Sought Gulfport January 10 Because she sailed from Brighton Trinidad the American schooner Car rie A Lane bringing asphalt to Gulfport has been at the Ship Island quarantine station- since Thursday noon and is likely to be held until the middle of next week At Brighton there is yellow fever and despite the fact that the fever is supposed to develops within five days after exposure and that the schooner had been twenty-one days at sea the quarantine doctor refused to her until six days have passed: It is reported that an attempt is being made to secure an order from Washington which will CARNIVAL GEETING READY FOR BIG MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION SOON permit the schooner to enter port at once The Carrie A Lane has 1100 'tons of refined asphalt on board making a total of about 5000 barrels It is consigned to the Barber Asphalt Company and will be stored in the new warehouse on the pier until spring The Malwa is a total wreck and there is no hope of salvaging any of her cargo it is claimed It is not known here yet whether or not the Barber people will send -another cargo at once to take the place of that lost on the Malwa However the company ex- pects to continue its regular imparta- splendidly During December there were r4v-' eral arrests for fishing on closed bot- toms and for not gulling oysters the average fines being about ten dollars for each boat Since the first of the present month no arrests' have beeiTj reported at the Oyster Commission offices in Gulfport Well Attended Meeting Last Night at City Hall Parade Committee Will Meet Shortly Committee Will Get Busy at Once On Solicitation of Funds to Defray xpenses of Celebration OPENING OF REEFS GIVE OYSTERMEN PLENTY OF FISHING GROUND have ceased and the three now reefs seem to supply the present demand Gulfport January 10 The opening of the three oyster Gulfport January 10 The banquet given by the business men of Gulfport in honor of the visiting newspapermen at the Great Southern Hotel last night was a decided success Fifty Gulfport and Biloxi business men and guests were present and every une reported a splendid time' After Landlord Driver had served one of his splendid dinners Toastmaster Eaton took the floor aad started things in fine style the solicitation of funds was authonz- George Edmunds of the New York ed to prcrecute a vigorous campaign Sun was the first victim for money to defray the expenses of i the carnivaL I and he interspersed levity with some A committee to give a joint ball serious suggestions concerning the was named as follows: Hunt value of Kood roads co-operation and Glennan McIntyre Frank advertisings He earnestly advocated Suter Keller and Thomas three easenUal to the future of The secretary request local fra- th Coast Following him was David (Continued on Eighth Page) (Continuedon Fourth Page) reifs near Pass Mariam channel Monday resulted in the taking out of 20 more schooner- licenses and as many more skiff permits representing in the schooner business at least a third increase In the oyster industry on the Mississippi Coast All complaints to the effect that it was difficult to get oysters because of the dosed reefs Biloxi Jan 10 Association held a wei attended meeting at the city jast night Tho determination was expressed to make Carnival this ymr more attractive than -aver before Frank Suter Keller and Hunt were appointed as a committee to select the king The committee' which has charge of.