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? BOARD CONDEMNS HOME It American Rescue Workers, Orangeburg, Lose License. The American Rescue Workers' home, located at Orangeburg, has been investigated by G. Croft Williams, secretary, and LeRoy M. "Salvo, fiscal agent for .the state board of public welfare, and condemned. Mr. / Williams says in his report that he does not believe that this institution is serving any worthy purpose and that it should not have the support of either the citizens of Orangeburg or those of the other parts of the state, from the results of this investigation, this board has withdrawn the license of the Kescue worKers 01 Orangeburg. Sanitary Conditions Bad. Mr. Williams says in his report that sanitary conditions of the home are so bad as to be a menace to health I in the city of Orangeburg. He also says that some of the former inmates were diseased and did not receive medical attention, especially was this the case among women inmates. "The plant of the Rescue home is a two and a half story frame dwelling house, which is old and.unpainted, 3 * -L - ? r TTTJIli ??. Ti. I according 10 -\ir. wmiamss re^un. it has a drab and forbidding appearance. There is no running water. Oil lamps are used. Heating is done by Stoves. "The first floor contains a dining toom, kitchen, bedroom for children, and an office. The walls are soiled and smoke stained. The second floor contains four bedrooms. The walls of these rooms were lately calcimined. They are furnished with double beds, several dressers and other odd pieces of furniture. The third floor contains two bedrooms. The furniture of the house consists of 16 double beds, a few chairs, two dining tables and other pieces of various types and patterns. Cleanliness, cheerfulness and comfort, conditions that should contain in all rescue homes, are lacking. "The front and back yards and garden were clean^ but there was a lack of flowers. Indeed, the whole lacked color. A spigot in the side yard furnishes water for .the institution. ' <(The Rescue Workers' home is not for the permanent care of inmates, it only takes emergency cases. Its occupants therefore are transient. This must be borne in mind in judging of the plant and its facilities. We were informed that the inmates came not only from the city of Orangeburg but also from different parts of South ? ? ' * I Carolina ana iruxu aajumiug sia^o. Staff Workers. "The staff workers consist of Major Griggs, Mrs. Griggs, Captain Griggs, the major's 16 year old boy, and Captain Holland. The inmates consist of a feebleminded woman and her. four months' old child. We were informed that religious exercises consisted of a blessing before and after meals and prayer meetings when emergencies arise. Major Griggs reported that he had placed out 12 children in the last year. We found no records of these children's foster homes, nor how they were progressing in them. As far as we could ascertain there is practically no supervision given to them, nor is there any one on the staff competent to do this work. "Only one record book is kept. This is an account in a weekly report book. It is impossble to audit the accounts of the American Rescue Workers of Orangeburg from the meager facts now in their possession. The report sworn to by Major Griggs is evidently only a general approximation when it comes to the spiritual treatment and the reports of the relief department and rescue department. The major was evidently enamored of the decimal system of notation when he made out this report, as most of the items are in tens or multiples thereof. Recently the mayor of Orangeburg forbade the American Rescue Workers of America to solicit funds on the streets of that city. This action was taken because 5t " the mayor believed that the Rescue Workers' home was not properly conducted. We commend the mayor for this action, as it was done in the best interests of the citizens of Orangeburg and of the social agencies there that are endeavoring to help those who are dependent or delinquent. Km "For the reasons set forth in the preceding paragraphs we do not believe that the institution is serving j any worthy purpose, nor should it | have the support of either the citizens of Orangeburg or those of the rtfhoi. narts nf fhitj stfltp On these grounds the state board of public welfare has withdrawn the license of the Rescue Workers of Orangeburg." A Lower Pitch. She rang and she rang: "I will hang mv ham on a willow tre-e-e. I will hang my harp on a willow tree-e." each time breaking on the high note. Finally rhe patient father from the next room ventured: "Better hang it on a lower branch, Liz." \ ' ' ..:V M WELL REVEALS TRAGEDY. Former Columbian Estranged From Wife Nearly 27 Years Ago. The filing of the will of Richard Lloyd Clarke, international lawyer and author, in New York recently revealed a domestic tragedy that has has been kept secret 27 years. Mr. Clarke was a native of Columbia while Mrs. Felicite F. Clarke, the woman in the tragedy, was the daughter of John Fox, a former resident of Charleston. The New York World tells the story as follows: "The will bequeathing the greater part of the estate to Miss A. Coralie Hallett, whose address is given as the Hotel Richmond, Atlantic City, makes no reference to a wife, but the petition accompanying it discloses that Clarke left one in Mrs. Felicite F. Clarke, who is living at the Rutledge Hotel for Women, Thirtieth street and Lexington avenue. "At the hotel last evening a reporter for The World found a brighteyed woman, who married Richard Floyd Clarke, then a young attorney, In 1888. "She and Miss Hallett, she said, were schoolmates more than 40 years ago in the Sacred Heart convent in IVIftUliaLUill M11C. IUIO. uiainc n?u then Miss Felicite Fox, daughter of Goes Straigh Our toll lines reach a] low STATION TO Sr service a real economy, SOUTHERN BELL T AND TELEGRAPH # ^l" I In the Intere: We take this opportui trons our sincere appreci Y ronage during the past ; best to serve you, but owii Y our business in the face c Y we are forced to make son Y system in order that a t n p ? _ _ _ i iL . 1 % cesi service ai ine j a To do this we need y X your orders before 10 o'cl X delivery,' and before 4 o'i X delivery. Buy where ev X guaranteed or money refu I Guess f Phone 18 Prices I 3 CHOICE STEAK! 3 ROAST I STEWS 13 PORK HAMS II PORK CHOPS ^ T*/\TiTr T> A * a m Iruna. huaoi CHICKENS (Fry. CHICKENS (Dres HENS HENS (Dressed). Meats of. ! ?? Phone 32 if eambe: if / \ '**" sir--- r . John Fox "of the ship firm of Living-! stan, Fox & Co. Her father came j from Charleston, S. C., her mother! i from New Orleans. Clarke, whom she j married at the age of 23, was born i in Columbia, S. C., in 1859. "A year after their marriage, according to Mrs. Clarke, Miss Hallett j came to New York and lived in their home off and on for five years. In 1894 Mrs. Clarke and her husband separated. Of recent years Mr. | Clarke has had bachelor quarters at j 353 West Fifty-seventh street and j in Stony Creek, Conn., where he died j on September 16 last. "Meanwhile, Mrs. Clarke's attitude' (-Vin 07 vaorc clip ViQrl livpH UU1 Ills L il C u I ?? t^u.1 K> m?u .. . .. ? alone is best described in words which she herself used last night. 4< 'It was up to me to throw the first stone and I never cast .it,' she said. Her husband told her, she said, that he cared for Miss Hallett, but Mrs. Clarke never took legal steps against him. She had preferred, she said, to live apart on money inherited from her parents in silence. Her own life since then, she described, as 27 years of starved existence. Yet her chief concern last night was that people would not say unkind things about Mr. Clarke. " 'He was my husband and I loved him dearly and 1 wouldn't want to have people say anything that would ^ Pninl 1 IU U1C 1 UliU p A long distance tele^ phone call, whether it brings a business or so^ cialmessage,hasthefaculty of going straight to the point?admitting no chance of delay or misunderstanding, [most everywhere and the rATION rates make the ELEPHONE (f Aj COMPANY / n stot Service t odty to express to our pa- y ation of their liberal pat- v j pear. We are doing our y lg to the steady growth of y >f adverse circumstances, y le changes in our delivery y ?re can render you the y % .owes Possible Cost f our cooperation. Phone X ock a. m. for the morning X clock p. m. for afternoon X ery article is absolutely X nded. X z Utsey | Bamberg, S. C. HHHHi 3 25 c lb. I 20c lb. I 15c lb. B 20c lb. H 20c lb.' K 20c lb. I ers) .. -27% C lb. sed) 40c lb. M 20C lb. I 37C lb. I 411 Kinds P Opposite'Southern Depot 1 RG, S. C. reflect against him even now,' she said. "Miss Hallett is made the beneficiary by Clarke of two trust funds totalling $50,000. In addition she re-1 ceives his stock in the Atala Land corporation, his house furnishings, his boats, including the launch Atala and four-tenths of the residue. The remaining six-tenths, after bequests to friends and employees, is divided among seven women described either in the will nr hv Mrs. Clarke as cous ins or distant relatives. "Household silver and plate which Clarke says was owned by his father Chilly rooms ! madecomfor And you don't h | "With delightful autumn days tl i come chilly nights and frosty ; You dislike to start up the steam heater until it is actually Nerct to the great convenience fcction Oil Heater is its unusus ? It burns for about 10 hours ' /-alien of kerosene which cost: half what it ?!iu Inst yar. j I: ; > a-- expensive luxur'toke * used rooms and hallways hei time. Hundreds of thousands ; s I- PFI 0' Mm II rl fe-1 ?> ' <1 f # you've S ?TP Wlltfil I Yc have perfe mild. Ai TAS W. Cam; and 1 cigar Wimtoa-ialtLi, N. C. j "V, ? - ' . ' -* " V " "w UMr ^ . rBhran'r mr .1 _ Jz?*Z , ..,C -;.-*>hL-v-iC - .>*> tv-. i: I and mother and buried during Sher-| man's march to the sea in the Con- j federate war, is left to a cousin, Mrs.i Charles F. Jones, of Daytona, Fla. j Henry S. Fleming of 2 East Sixty- i fifth street is appointed executor. "Clarke was the attorney retained by the father of Porter Charlton in : 1910 to fight his extradition to Italy i on the charge of murdering his wife at Lake Como. He was a member of the New York-Southern Italy soci-j ety, University, New York Yacht,! Larchmont Yacht, Atlantic Yacht and Manhattan chess clubs and Downtown Arion." / L jb N - vv^i table in a few mi ave to "drive"yoar coal h< here always will cut down their coal bill; ' mornings. winter by using the F'erfectii furnace or iliary heater. 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