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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
5
State host Clark Howell delivers a broad welcome at the Georgia educators conference in Athens praising the center of Georgia’s educational system. He urges an inclusive effort for white and black education and envisions a national educational trust uniting all children as stockholders to advance industry, prosperity, and peace.
Athens hosts a distinguished educational conference invited by the Georgia legislature. President Eugene C Branson leads the entertaining committee with Hii Hodgson and others. Delegations from Georgia colleges and southern states attend, along with New York philanthropist George Foster Peabody. The event features tours of historic Athens sites and a university chapel gathering.
A visiting party led by Mr Ogden attended talks at Athens University Chapel as the conference opened. Hon Clark Howell delivered the welcome, with Ogden and Chancellor Hill delivering remarks. Proceedings focused on education policy, fundraising by the General Education Board, and the schedule outlined for the following day with notable speakers from Tulane Hampton and Tuskegee universities. The program includes addresses on education finance, voluntary taxes, and the role of education in the South, plus handicraft and child welfare topics. Confederate Memorial Day exercises are planned Saturday afternoon, with travel to Calhoun, Auburn, Tuskegee, Chattanooga and Knoxville following.
A fragment asserts that common salts and castor oil damage digestion and health while praising a modern laxative, liver regulator and bowel tonic named Bent for the Revete or ciccor. It claims a guaranteed cure or money back and mentions selling in Chicago and New York.
President Robert C. Ogden of New York addresses the fifth annual southern education conference. He urges universal good English education, broad philanthropy, and eight months of schooling, stressing the nation’s duty to educate every child and modernizing support from wealth and authorities.
The Carnegie library awarded Booker Washington's school will be dedicated. Officers of the conference include Robert Ogden of New York as president and Walter H Page of New York as vice president. The Southern Educational board, chaired by Ogden, seeks to educate both whites and blacks and to inform the public through southern speakers about southern conditions with a plea for better schools.
Utah senator Rawlins denounces General Chaffee as a dastard villain for orders in the Philippines, accusing officers of inhuman conduct and bringing dishonor on the nation. He cites General MacArthur and war department orders to argue that troops practiced impunity in a campaign to create a wilderness.
Athens April 24 Special Among visitors at the conference is Judge Logan E Bleckley of Clarkesville Ga a devoted education advocate who says he may return to complete his studies at the University of Georgia Palmer Leaves for Athens Tuscaloosa April 24 Special Professor Thomas W Palmer mathematics instructor at the University of Alabama travels to Athens to represent his institution at the southern education conference with sermons by city pastors on Sunday about education
General Frederick Funston declares he will say no more on the Philippine issue and notes he has had his say. He explains that prior remarks at a banquet and year of pressure from supporters led to his stance, and he declines to discuss any orders or criticisms further.
Senator Clark of Montana is cited by bicycle policemen for allegedly exceeding the speed limit as he arrived at the senate annex. He contends he had not been going more than 10 miles per hour and promises to have the chauffeur appear in police court tomorrow. He vows to fight the case and defy unnecessary regulations.
Norfolk woman Julia Anderson accuses P J Morris a city attorney candidate of giving her a bogus state divorce decree after he was retained to secure a divorce from her husband. Police will fully investigate, with the bar association set to address his status at an internal meeting.
New York April 24 Archibishop Michael Augustine Corrigan lies at the archiepiscopal palace with a high fever and signs of pneumonia. Doctors Delafield and Keyes report a congestion of the right lung, serious but not dangerous, with a bulletin to follow at 9 tomorrow morning. The 18 year old archbishop’s condition remains closely watched.
Paterson New Jersey April 24 police ordered to exercise great care in using revolvers amid a dyers strike. Operators refuse 20 cents an hour for fearners and a five year contract but show willingness to discuss general wage scale. Strikers tried to pull Jordan Sons velvet plant workers into action. no violence occurred as authorities stay ready to protect safety.
The Third battery of field artillery, relieved from Havana, is ordered to Fort Meyer Virginia until new quarters are provided, instead of being sent to Chickamauga Park. The move reflects reassignment due to housing arrangements and local postings.
Cairo April 24. Fourteen more bodies were pulled from the river near the wreck, bringing recovered total to twenty five. Identified white victims include Thomas Smith cub pilot of Memphis Leslie Carter of Deansville Ky Glenn Bowman of Portsmouth Ohio Fred Jones Newport Ky and I B Evans Jeffersonville Ind. Mrs Sbillen Fennimore Louisville Ky remains hospitalized badly burned but improving. Colored victims were buried near the wreck while white victims were brought to Cairo.
Washington April 24 Republican members of the committee on relations with Cuba favor an inquiry into who holds Cuban sugar. They back the part directing an inquiry into current sugar holdings but oppose extending it to reciprocity with Cuba. Senator Platt announced a committee meeting for tomorrow to consider the Teller proposal.
The Nationality Bank of New York plans to raise capital from 10 million to 25.6 million dollars, offering new stock at 160 to shareholders to create a 7.69 million dollar additional surplus and raise total surplus to 15 million dollars. Educational aims of the Daughter of the American Revolution focus on youth work over monument preservation, while Wisconsin GOP renomination fields a marching club. Chattanooga Democrats form a county club to march on Nashville for J B Frazier at the state convention.
W W Sliver aged seventy two father of Squire Silver of Sherman Heights died in the city jail early this morning after arriving yesterday and becoming intoxicated He grew violently ill during the night and passed away today.
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