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THE PITTS BURGE PlZETTB -TI3IES, MOKDA PEBRULlR t2, iOOO. MYSTERY IS CLEARED FROM RIVERS VICTIM Body Found in the Allegheny Positively Identified by Relatives of the Woman. ared 1 or i.3 tf $1 'm k- KDBUC" HOHET. WISELY SPENT Appropriations Committee Visits Polk, Warren and Danville institutions. i '-r The body of Dora Parker Myers, agsd 23, of Jennuette, found floating "in the Allegheny river on Friday morning, was taken to the home of her parents, Jeannctte, yesterday afternoon, and the last chapter of the Christmas river mystery has been written.

Tester Jay morning a sister- of the woman completed the iiiiiiiwa tei pmmfii ifeeistefete8affli OlD ABUSES AP.c CORRECTED: Woodward and Associates Praise Work of Drs. Meredith, Guth and Murdoch. "Walter J. OxrUiy, 6taC, HAKRISBURQ. Feb.

21. Sometimes In the tast in the heat of poetical warfare In Pennsylvania much has been said. hich reflected on the state, concerning the care of the insane. If provocation for this crltic'sm existed at other times, it la fast disappearing. la known to he true of the managem of tL IanviUP and Warren Insane asylums 0.

nd the Polk Institution for feeble-minded i3 concerned. For the last three days have been risidly bj' the house apprcpriatton3 coniaiittec. They have beer. Inspected Ji.m cellar to garret. The -unfortunate wards of tli3 commonwealth are receiving ti.e care to wnich they are entitled and ti.c corDmoriWtaith's mcny i3 being expended -wisely and eeonomtcally.

Uitder the cadrphip of Chairman James Woodward, the appropriatloiiB committee ile voted a day to the inspection of nh institution. Never in the history of the -stave has the hiquiry been so thorough. Ohalrnian. "Wood -vard's long tratn-ii'i iiperlntendent or! the SIcKetsport other has given him a keen 'insight iruo the management of public institutions. Like the man from Missouri, he has to lie shown, Two years ago the legislature, in response to the reccm-lijf-ndactons of Gov.

Edwin B. Sttiart, ap-projiri itftd liberally to the insane asylums of tile state. Mr. Woodward was then a member of the appropriations committee and visited these asylums. He saw the bad conditions and desired to know what had been done toward bettering tcese conditions.

In the past sub-comrnlt-H3 of the appropriations commit tee were Ftiit to the Institutions. Chairman ur-eided that the entire membership should make the investigation this Every member of the committee I a worker ard the inspection which t-lored yesterday at Polk was not a 1. -iri VrUhiW: information was erleaneu. which will be a guide to the committee ia making- Its Appropriations. It was found that the money appropriated in T'-fi has been well spent and a great step forward lias been taken by the state ia caring for its army of insane.

lust it uiion Tilling Up. Pennsylvania has over Io.OOj insane in the institutions of the state. Each y-ir adds another 700 men and wmtn'lo the roll. Some, die, but the r.w psitionts exceed tlose whose mffer-irtx havt been terminated by neath. Th task of caring for these unfortunates is a gigantic one.

The man or woman, sound mind and body, occasion ally read? c-J an insane or a iowe for the feeble-minded, haa no ap-M(4a'i. tiis worfe -Khidi is betns flor.e at these If coulo spend a day with Ir. II. B. Jlcrtdith at Danville, Dr.

Morris S. Guth at Vvarren or Dr. J. M. Murdoch at Polk wo" id leavo with a.

keen appreciation of the services of these men and an ndmlratia for what the tate is doing for htmianity. men liave dedicated their lives to the work. Dr. Meredith celebrated the tbirtk-th -anniversary of his connection with Dan villi? on Thursday by show-ins the members of the appropriations committee through the institution. Dr.

Outh has been at Warren since about 150, and Dr. Murdoch opened the Polk 1S97, and today has the l.i-n?r to preside over the best appointed ar.d best managed institution of its kind In the world. Commissions, the world c.ver nsve visiieu iruif. ij siujj u. is uow 23 years of age.

Drs. Meredith and Outh are older men, but years have not diminished thoir energy. i'nfortuRately for them, what might termed their plants, are more antiquated than th one at Poik, but they are hard to modernise thern. Wjrh legis-laiors at last awake to the necessity of first rivir.p consideration to the insane pari reble-roinded in th distribution of mony, the work of modernization hc ppt-edy. Ciiti lluilciinjft Being Tin-placed.

T'r-e old idea of insane esyiums appears t. have been a place of incarceration, a etp or two removed from the prison main buduings at Danvil.e were built Jn. J8, while those at Warren were erect- 1 1 inmates at Polk. tags- sceue at I'sdk. 3 The tailor fhoy Rt Polk.

1 Administration at I'olk. 6 James F. Woodward, chairman of the appropriations futnmiitee, whloh visited the charitable institutions. Men's infirmary dora.ttry at Ian-ville. 7 Dr.

K. B. Mer? ditii, supetin- tendMit of the Danville asylum. 8 Tr. M.

lnrdoch, superintendent at PiIk. 8 Administration building at llanvllle. one gathers that the appropriations committee will grant, raest. Chairman Woodward sjestcd at Dan-vtli that women be placed at the head of th male wards. They are in charge in the female and have done much to make the morft homelike.

They a'so seem to have better understanding of the question of vritiIrttion. The legislature is asked to an aoditionai lio acres of farm butd for Dan- thJa mrient tor' erHyAnx land or yje herds and for truck rurposs. i. i ar.u moutn disease it was a serious ois- iocntincaUon. which had been partially made on Saturday night by the father and mother of -the dead, woman.

Heury Myers, the husband of the woman. Who Is thought to be in will be notified of the death of Ids wife and will probably come home for the funeral, which will be held today in Jeannette. Melancholia, following an attack of fever when the woman was an inmate of the Braddock General hospital, is assigned as the cause of suicide. Mrs. John Myers of Camp Braddock, went to the mcrg-ue yesteiday and told of her Isst meeting wdth her daughter-in-law on the evening cf December 21, when her son's wife left the house at 10 o'clock.

saying she was going to jump into thi river. i'rs. A. F. Noah, atred 44, of 2S7 Lom bard street, died suddenly at her home yesterday morning at o'clock of apoplexy.

The coroner reported that she had been subject to these kind of attacks for many years. George Lachmas, asred S5. cf 305 North Wlnebiddle street, was found dead in his bed at his home yesterday morning- at lrt o'clock. Heart disease was assigned as the cause of death. Palling from the rear cf a freigM train on which lie had been riding, William Bates, aed 12, of 5140 Blair street, was run over by a passenger train on th Baltimore Oh-o railroad in Gloucester street and instantly killed at 4 o'clock vesterdav afternoon.

TALKS ON MENTAL HEALING. Paster Preaches on Methods of Curing Familiar Ills. The Kev. Albert C. Djeffenbacher of the Church of the Ascension, Termon avenue, North Sido, delivered the second of hi? series of sermons on Healing in Everyday Life" yesterday His subject was "Method of Curing Familiar Ills." in which he dealt with prayer and scriptural teaching and one's iaith in them as a factor relief and cure.

Many of those in attendance were strangers in the church and at the close of the sermon a score of them remained to meet the pastor in consultation. Mr. Dieft'enbaeher has divided his subject into six sermons, the third of which will be delivered next Sunday. Tim A Measure of Security This Bank has over two dollars in resources for every dollar of deposits. Savings or Checking Accounts, large or small, are welcomed.

4t Compcund Interest on Savings. PAJIAL 31? FOURTH AM-SM-aa DIAMOND ST. Capital Siirplus I'rofits 10 3Iillion Dollars. I 1 When You Use the Bell Jest in Pithhergh end vicinity emit talk to 115.1S4 iubtcTihen, h(9td 21JZ (Hies, lawns ar.d boroughs in Western Pen nsylr.v ta, Laitem Ohio and Northern West Virginia. i Thramgh conneritons the Ameikct Telephone L'Tele graph Company cud Auod-ioted Companies cot rtaoA sttbtcribers ever 1 i I The 0.

0. P. Tel. Commercial Call Gi-art 8000. There Is No Other Pleasure on Earth Kk.7 the pleasure of your bank, account crow It's a combination, of Jndependencfr freedom from financial trouble honorabie wiccsgs and worii well This strong bank pay 4 COMPOUND INTEREST.

wbw fnannkrat. Cpitel and Surplus liullding. Open fJit JETeil.g?. BTjE .1 1 1 4 IS 4 a 2 fgf J-J AS M'KEESPORT TO CELEBRATE. Jubilee Tonight Because of Approaching Eiver Improvement.

The McKeesport chamber of commerce will hold a jubilee tonight in celebration of the recommendation of 'the-board of I nv5Vt I liiMnuauii uas lo puicioise uiniv i.na log toe recent epidemic of the "foot twl vantage. A dairyrrian froT) which the attention is also given to the moial train-fv afyl' was purchasing a iarg.j amount ing. of milk each day had to kill his entire i One of the great needs of tiie institution a X-x---dC an.iriJ tour' with ill? tha sn--f Cliairman vVoodward. Stwaksr Cox the committee at Warren and -visited the asylum tiieie and the Pork -institute. tin! ill Hell grief to tV "others.

Feeble-minded 1 John Burgess of Erie. a boy from Erie. n. wpo ij ue mat.uui uauii--e iccbie-niinaeu tots or a vears wnf tnev i Urd ia not their turmto of the and I 1 c. int Sneaker Cox were entertaincl in Fi r.nK- 1 4 suttlccnt appropriation and trie rnem- -5 a T.C.

-i 8 j.6rs of tb apr.rnpriatidn comnunee fee! Hesentative S. fw.tr of Ft an- I llL Whu i ir-m -m" yl hn. Many of tt. -citizv-mj of and present to Cold after cold cough after cough Troubled with this taking-cold habit? Better break it up. We have great confidence in Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for this work.

No medicine like it for weak throats and weak luxigs. Ask your doctor for his opinion. He knows all about it" His approval is valuable. No alcohol in this cough medicine. C.A yer CcLcxtll.Afcss.

herd. The institution wants to he in com- piete control of its milk a-, can- not do so unless tt increases tiie size of its fnrm. yew Sewage Disposal Plant. Danville has probably the tr.est -pig- departtnenL has Tdeied Danville to erect a sewage Gispcsai plant. Chaii-man Woodwarrt believes that the state should set the example in -the erection of disposal plan's provision will be made in every bill for state institutions for the money needed for the erection of these ctipancy about July 1 and will enre for the patients now quartered In the cor- w- yrt.

rren oas some p. a awsc? -over i tt.e Wsrren Institution. Vh hnlSdinc is rated about a mile from tiie main asy-j him. It is furnished witli -tii" rmn- forts of a well regulated Immei When a female patient shows evidence of improvement sue Is removed to the -hygeia gf-ry in the state. It has just been com- eted at a cost of J.

tie bigs have i -i-u The piggery is equipped with electricity for nnrts r.vvast is dumped into the Susquehanna river S.000 feet the. intakr Pipe of the I A .1 i iiif. -i atut i' U( i ileal .11 I reat advantages cnto to cv tne i I i used in the wards at Warren, the legs cf which are hollow. The other dayDr. Guth received a letter from one of th patients.

He was advised to search the b-id leg of an inmate in the same ward. He made the investigation and found a file and two home-made saws. The tools were in possession of a man who 'had been convicted of forgery and later transferred from the penitentiary to tiie insane asylum. The owner of the" saws and file was angry about te discovery. The iejrislators wore greatly interested in the Polk institulionr The inmates range from Lahics to gray-haired men and women.

There are many interesting children in the institution and every ef fort is being made to restore their minds. Many of them are taught readirg, writ- ing and aritlmic'ic. while ott ers are employed in the carpenter. broom, mattress, knitting and mat Great a new educational hali or auoifonum. There are inmates in the home and the presort hall will scat 3Xl.

At the daily cxercines r.nu entertainments h'dd for tiie benefit of the Inmates hut a limited number can be ac Thi is a source of great to wed. lr. Murdoch was mooned or. evey hand for the excclh-nt condition of the institution. Tiie satdtary arrans aie perfect and the system of cn iUition is so much better than in any other slate institution that it is ail the more notice- able.

There is plenty of -iight and air in Biff Waiting List, at Polk. The institution constantly growing1. 11 -j ivrvtL NEW In calling the attention. ci the'phb- -lic to thia new discovery i- uttst he that iu" phenomenal reputation -aJready roade for It tuany. riiends in "th'j.

city. It is a hum's cascarcval -v bU i' 11 1 Jluu jiei" ot wonrerful I 1 jpieuis. vi.tii every part ot- the institution. The in-i -v 'f I the institutioa not -particular about ma u.s are kept neat and tidy and there Vnd" "Ch les "'nW'" M'- 1 p-itieo War- I tr rv eS'e F.daar.R. Kiess.

l.ycing;" James I rh a week uUwbeihd t0Drf h.uevl,' l' 1 hospital will be opened It ha, capae- pientyf The'aH yol ar2 ity cf patients. Additional qit iters clvetl tovs and when the weathef and lii-A'AJ -1 fc' are bctn.g -built at either end of tho mum t011diucns permit many of tha inmates Hrr'ils" H-VrV Thirn HHi I bitihuog tor the care of tne insane. Tnese Hre turned out on th. biff i.iwns to rilav. Hrrlou.

a lirr A. --'n, -J'v i a government engineers that Jl.CoO.foO be i appropriated, for improving the Yough'o-fjaeny rher as far as West of the ConneiLilie charsber of eommeree Mid other leading mer. of the Totigbloghenj- valley are expected to take. part. The recommendation of theengi- neers is the first substantial victory won i after years of fighting.

The work to I have the liver improved1 23 far as Con-ncllaville will be continued with renewed vigor. Tite Ycughiogher-y river wras slackwa-tcrei as far as West -Newton, but a big gorge- threw -oat. the three Jocks in 15(53 and they were never replaced; Some, of the mer- VTiO boats on tb rlvpr before the dams were oevtroyea are still living and an'eftort will be made to have them at tonight's celebration. 13 esr-ecially valuable Coring: 'the sum- mer season, vren outdoor occupation3 and iporti ere most in. order.

GRASS STAINS, MUD STAINS and CALLOUS SPOTS yield to it, and it Is particularly airree- able "when und ia the Lath after "tlo-1 lent ALL GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS A new Tvpewiiter a -high -grade typewriw, givirs you all the satisfaction of" a machine for .......40.00 CO. 432 Diamond ct. i HHffC (if a i committee to waik a distance of live miles in order to make an inspection oZ the buildings. Even then the hgisl ttor; did not go to every part of The institution, and ths big barns. An ice plant and a refrigerating- plant has become an absolute necessity.

The usual amount of natural ice could not be harvested this year and an effort will be made to have the legislature rush through a bill for artificial plant. The Institution i8 asking for S7S2.500, of which is for maintenance. Most of the items are likely. to receive favorable consideration from the committee. Speaker Cox was presented with a handsome gavvl which he win use for the first time tomorrow night in rapping the house to order.

The gavel was made by meet the legislators On Saturday after noon the. committee men were tue 'guests of Gen. Charles Miller at a lun.heon. The legislators arrived in Ilarrisburg this party consisted of the following members the cnmimttce: T. Mickey, -Cumberland; Milton W.

Fhreve, Fran. J. Detz-t. Erie; William Teiaare; James Dale, DISCOV casea royal i-'ill nay person who u-1 fCrg from the effects ct constipation can get quick relief. The aeaon of this 'cr pill is pleu-saut, agree-1 able uid.

-never drastic. A regular .1 conr? treatment will care pimples, boils, itchiag skin, incipient rheu- laa'tisru, neuralgia, htiadache. chronic or acnte indigestion, liver complaint and dormant action of kklreys. li is not only a rjiid and peasant phytic but a sj-siem rexo-vetor and tonic. Nearly every, drus store in this locality can suppb' nil's ia ten cent and twenty- live -cent' packages.

the rendft-vviahf-s a free psenage wrire to Ths Blackburn Products of Daytou, vi nrll ccr 1 1 tSTTiV 1 rt ward buildings wiii each have a capacity of On- ot the wit panin' sVl ri' Joieretn, t'u vltii ri. runntr 1'if- Always keep a good laxative hi the house. Take a dose when your cold first comes on. What i the best laxative for this? Ayer's Pills. -Ask year doctor his Let fctindeci4c.

i t. 1 nr- ri: Mht canno ueneti ate. Insane men and women spend their 'C3- their nights in these stuffy Danviile and warren mere a.e nunaa brings ron fined In iiauwajs wmcn wouia re deatiitraps were nre to occur in a short time, at -Warren, at least, it wilt be ncess-'ary to longer use these cor ilort as the new building provided by the Ifgiilatiire cf 117 W'H1 he available. Otvlng to the growth in the number of patient the legisl.iture lf'll will have M'-nata liberal appropriations for new buiidhigs or there will be a repetition of the conditions which do not rcfl-vt credit on the atate. In some of the wards of Danvilio Warren the ventilation is ba.

condluons rc rt.t found at Polk. There tie buildings are c-f the cottage construction. long, l'ght, corridors abound and tiie patients me supplied with bountiful quantity of ill sir. Theru arc inmates -it Danville. T.ncre and at Warren infinity can if all of its forms.

Th UIUiMBlI I'-r-UDles oi nit nre vieweo inn okpi pleasures, after one has fr-ent several Uon have been provided fr. Excellent Care fti' the A Or a cf the inmates St Danville is yp'irs oid an-1 he has been there for SO years- At bcth Ds'tivliie and Warren th are nrr.y old people. The excellent tare tiifv receive prolong their In ie dcrartmeiit at Unvilie is a rr.pn who has ietn confined to i.ib bed for 1" Many do not -have sufficient intelligence to feed themselves, hut every inmate, whether entirely bereft of reason or s'mp- su.terii trom a li.aat-r form cf Susan. is rec-tivU the bt dms It is possible for the to l'iioae who administer t. want.

cf tuee iir.fortnnates U-ao I- dreary! the f.ci::fvrfs of the atttni- irtiiv 1 14, iti r. in ow-rter-. TVej 1.3 t5.n.d to provide a basic ror them and rfl a uozen years iaifi. -i unm iuou.d- there are dark corridors, where the rne ouiiuip.gs fit i ic.i vil are censtructd along modern lines, ITverv ward has plenty of light and the veutdMloa is gocuf. There is every mdi- 'Wrove conditions a good effect on the patients.

The VU fan rarlors are cheerful and are -j it. tne.se mstmiuons. me K-gisiaror leaves hc-m with the thought that whn fcpropiiatioi-s are to be decided upon, no expenditures should he ronsiderei I j.khi iu; lue t-i-r-ie or intn and women have rJVtrue oC m' ki: irksome caes if t.i V1 ut i gas or tc tiuat.i, tt caid c-e ctf ricuit uut th, and oftn VraVtern In n.y tiwue s. iM i daud; 'A'estrnor cr.nt" icne a'e Vl -i ir oy uuiy joi t. worron, 'j.

c-sicr. Lr'ed" men nre Rlbv'-d to work hi 1 cw buiidibjrs wl be ready I Venango; J. Caivin Meer, Center; David tnV ePju xi'e 'v'-ird convilcenV for occupancy. One can gather aa Kuser, Berks; II. Reeves Lufcens ti.a hv-ei-t V.

'one of of the ol the when it Phlladel ohia, secretary of the committee. A BUNGALOW i culte often a complete cure is worked. The original hygeia was a frame struc- Cures Worst Cases of Chronic Con-ture to whictt a. brick annex has; been sttOtian and 2iood Discdcrs. addeo.

Dr. Guth now wants a similar a cottar-re. a mansion oinc to Build? VvTe have 1ooks to help you. Ask about Henricrs East End Book Store 6126-5123" Perm t.r?..y J. a i.

P. E01HBLUH, I'OR WOilO St. 4.T AT hj proving treat advantage in the treat-i um4 of the insane the hvdrothera- ev arues. inc-ntaiUS oil, wild lemon, black ctiura. siner 1 "I 11 Ll'UI C- vv.lj .1.

dicatiqn tliat the appropriations commit tt-e wut grant the request. Chairtnan for tfaild I female convalescent, ward and a tuber- cular hospital. Another depaitmorit at xne inmate ra 1 asy Many- of the -Inmates of the ki'sae I yijms arc constantly on The alert for opportunity i Iron tc-d, aro 1 rati l.JS u'rSTlt v'S "1 -Pr, -a." it is th, first r. "lai-d. Option have been se- '7 eVi-r wncuved can be 'trf4 on ly' fcvres for ifi.too.

which i rp.crularJy -ilhout arini-a" nain v. ill be taken, over bv the tato if tre 1 thp- ir.ormvor.ic-r- te TA hre authors the expelt.