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ADVERTISERS USE THE GEORGIAN FOR RESULTS The Atlanta Georgian. If You arc an J-. tWertiier and Want Result*, Test Us. YOL. 1 NO. 194. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906. FLAMES TERRORIZE PEOPLE IN WRECK; SEVERAL ARE KILLED Georgia Tech, One of the Mainsprings of Atlanta's Greatness, Is in Need of a Small Amount of Money; $5,500 Is Needed to Close Option on Lots For Enlarging Campus, and Atlanta Must Subscribe It; South's Great Institution Must Cease to Grow Unless More Room Is Provided For Its Expansion TECHCALLS FOR HELP IN NED Would Purchase Two Lots to Enlarge Campus. Southern Fast Train Crashes Into a Freight. * ENGINEER KINNEY KILLED INSTANTLY Flagman Dies of Injuries. Passengers Leap From Windows in Their Terror. SA VED IN ONE WRECK, BUI KILLED INNEXJ Engineer George Kinney, who wbh killed In the wreck on the South ern railwuy at Danville, Va., early on Saturday, was the engineer of the paaaenger train which on Thanksgiving Duy plowed Ita way. Into a train at Lawyers, Vo., killing Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern, and other persons. In the Lawyers wreck, Klmiey stuck to his post and was only slightly injured, being able to take up his run again in a few days. ACCUSED OF CRIME, TURNAGE MUST FACE VICTIM AT HOSPITAL S|hsIu1 lo The Ueorglnu. Danville, Va., Dec. 8.—Engineer.Geo. Kinney, who, on last Thursday morn ing stuck to his post on the engine of train No. 37 as it plowed Its way Into llte private-ear of President Samuel Spencer, was this morning killed out right, together w ith an unknown man, while live others were Injured, one of whom died later In a hospital here, and another of whom Is uot expected to live, nil the result of a reur-end col lision which occurred on the main line of iho Southern scarcely two hours’ fide from the scene of the other wreck. v Negro Fireman May Die. The two trains Involved were So. >. I.‘ a fast freight train which was stsndlhr on -tbo-tenek'abour 300 yards south of the lutssenger station In this city, and So. 34. a fast passenger train fi-om Jacksonville lo the North, which while running at a rale of speed ex ceeding 25 miles an hour, turned u sharp curve and crashed’ Into the ca boose of the front train. Fireman George Ford, a negro. Jump ed from his engine as soon as he saw I lie danger and sustained Injuries which will probably prove fatal. Flagman Held Responsible. i). J. Mull, the ftagmun of the freight train, and who Is said by the railway authorities to be responsible for the: wreck, died at a hospital soon after j being taken from the scene. O. O. Haller, a postal clerk, anti H. j Patterson suffered slight Injuries. WRECKAGE IS DESTROYED BY FLAMES THAT START. Richmond. Va.. Dec. 8.—Passenger train No. 34 of the Southern railway, north-bound, run Into the rear of north-bound freight train No. 84, Just south of Danville, Va.. at an early hour this morning. Engineer George Kinney, of the pas senger train, was killed anil Ills fire man badly injured. Two others are re ported killed, but their Identity Is not yet known. The accident was remarkably simi lar to that on the same road about 50 miles north of Danville, In which Pres ident Samuel Spencer was killed. The wreckage Is reported tp have been destroyed by lire. 8LEEPING PER80NS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN BURNED. Danville, Va., Dec. 8.—Firemen from this city went to the scene of the wreck and engaged In a desperate battle with the raging flames. At noon the tons of freight and two score or more pas- sehgers and freight cars were still burning. It Is thought that several persons who were sleeping In the curs were burned to death. The derailed engine, which afterward caught Are, tore down telegraph ami telephone wire poles and because of that fact It Is difficult to obtain necu- , rate reports from the scene of the wreck. All trains have been delayed because of the burning debris and de struction of the tracks by the Humes. Brakemsn Are Missing. The wreck Is said to have been caused In the same manner us the one on Thanksgiving day, when nn oper ator let a train Itnve a block which was occupied. The operator at the first block south of this city Is ullegcd toi HUSBAND SA YS BURNING IS PROPER PUNISHMENT p. D. Comstock, husband of Mrs. Carrie Comstock, Is highly Incensed over the brutal attack on his wife Friday afternoon, and declares If he was permitted to deal Justice to Robert E. Turnuge. who Is accused of being the •assailant, he would burn him at the stake. Standing pn the steps at the police station. Me. Comstock said: “If I had that man out here In the street l would burn him. If I was allowed to deal with hint, he would not hang and lie would not be shot, hut he would die In flames. Arid I believe I would have plenty of-help iu burning him, too. He Is In the Itundaatf the law now, however, and I will let the law take its course.” . Mr. Comstock was formerly latter at the Tower, anil he remarked: "I have locked up hundreds of men on tills same charge, but I never , thought this thing would over come boute to me.” Prisoner Denies Guilt and Says Has Alibi. MRS. COMSTOCK IS SERIOUSLY INJURED Ilor Husband Visits Accus ed Man in Coll at Police Station. Uaiil.v le-atetl and bruised and suf fering from terrible nervous shock, Mrs. J Carrie Comstock, of 38 South'Hum phries street, wife of C. D. Comstock, a meter reader for the waterworks dr • j pnt tment. Is lying on a cot In the Tab ernacle Infirmary, the result of a bru tal attack und attempt at assault Fri day 'afternoon at the home of J. W. Turnage, at Jones avenue and Edwards street. Robert E. Turnge. 26 years of age. son of J. W. Turnage, Is held prisoner In a cell at the police station accused of being Mrs. Comstock's assailant. Turnnge protests that he la Innocent and declares he will be able to prove an alibi. Detective f’onnally and Plain Clothes Officers Rosser and Clark ar rested the young man Friday night In Bullock’s saloon In Marietta street. 25,000,000 RUSSIANS STARVING Women Barter Them selves to Save Families. MURDER IS DONE BY THE STARVING Georgia School of Technology is educating 500 men for our factories and the things that develop the South. One of the professors has been down with nervous prostration for three months as the result of night and day work in loyalty to the great school, because there is not money enough even to employ suf ficient teachers. His salary was one hundred dollars a month. His brother is employed in one of At lanta’s banks, and each month has the pleasure of cashing the salary draft for $150 of one of the profes sors of a negro institution in Atlanta supported by Northern kindness. The Georgian, for one, raises its voice and its gold to give the great Tech what it absolutely needs.. It needs ground—$7,500 will get it before January 1 —no amount of money could get it after that date. Of this needed amount, $2,500 is already on hand. Professor Matheson, we put. our name down for $250 of the remaining $5,000. God bless you. F. L. SEELY, Publisher. Horrible Stories of Existing Conditions Reach Out side World From the Tortured Dis tricts. Crowded Buildings Necessi tate Use of Makeshift Rooms. London. Dec. 3.—The ileum News Service bureau here has received dis patches from many points In Rusala, which show that 25,000,000 men, women and children arc starving to death, amkl appalling conditions of misery and suffering. ’ 1\“mine Is sweeping over the Ret i• • i. empire os a torturing signing ThO ulujc to which things have come ann; iji. t,, tens of thousands of per- tthrsa tnui'.in lining# Is almost ,lnde- isiTlbffidc. The bare facts read, Itko a -J bighinmri "wt il|st,mlddlc ages. Frartr street Disease Is 8oreading. Edgewood avenue 2 VlxLl there Is little or none. Rob- Grant Park ....; T b.ry and murder are Wttneased Ip the Formwalt street 1 streets of the villages and town*. The Williams street 2 I rountry Is ravaged.for such foot! as Pair street 1 ''there la. I Disease—scurvy, typhoid anil the I those are not now schools to je plugin—are spreading In a flame of built on thoso streets. The figures rep- ; contagion; fathers arc selling their resent the number of busement rooms i daughters Into the slavery of Moham-j—cellar rooms—Into which pupils have ; medans rather than see them die be- K „ „„....- , 1 I fore their eyes; the hitter grip of the to *>e crowded. Russian winter is closing like cold steel | And It wns one of those rooms tlint ’ on the people—it Is a spectacle of the i was formerly used ns a c6al room. That depths of human misery- unparalleled {was In Fair street school. But the chll- I In the history of the modern world. , Iren kcpt lncreMln g In attendance and Women S.I Themselves. so the coal had to be moved Into a • , In ,h * " ,tle ' Tetyuschl hou „ „ le ,, ard and , |u|e chtIdren alone, within the last few days, eight were put In this room to take the plaoo NINE DARK CELLARS ARE USED AS SCHOOLROOMS FOR ATLANTA CHILDREN BEST THEY CAN DO WITH PRESENT FUND Tartar maidens have been sold to deal ers In white slaves, at prices ranging ; from 134 to 892 each. Russian peasants near Astrakhan are j t:iking their wives and daughters to the city und selling them In order lo buy i bread. Women are bartering them- ■ selves to provide food for their stnrv- | Ing husbands und children. ROBERT E. TURNAGE. Prisoner at police station, accused of attack on woman. near Broad. The officer* • assert they are satlsjled the young man, is gpllty. .Mrs. Comstock’s condition Is not con sidered serious, although st)« Is suf fering considerably Saturday. She was terribly beaten hy her- assailant, an ugly gash being cut on her head, her nose broken, one of her eyes almost Continued on Page Three.. OWNER DYING IN ATLANTA WHILE STORE BURNED IN HIS SOUTH CAROLINA HOME Widow of Suicide Follows Him To Grave. John W. Baker, of Batesviile, Passes Awav. 00000000000000000000000600 0 O! After lingering between life and O REAL SUNDAY WEATHER O i death for a week. Mrs. Georgia Coop- train have not been seen or heard from and there le a possibility of tlirlr hav ing been roasted under the burning cars. People Leap From Windows. A wrecking crew left Danville as soon as news of the collision reached here, and a large force of men Is at work clearing the track and linking for bodies. Scene, attending the wreck were pa. thttlc. Men, women and children were j extent Glut the Journey home w all but parolyxed with fear when they I ennnnenced Saturday last In Atlanta flames were White John W. Baker, of Batesburg. have allowed No. 34. which was some | H , c„ and a prominent cltlsen of that j jj minutes behind time. In on the block; of , he stat( , t , vaK breathing hla ' before the freight hail cleared the five miles of track. The passenger train was going fust, and overtook the freight Inside the block. The brakemtn on the Weight q{ wh|e „ „ e wa , the mana . gei. an«l by the lime the dying man lost‘In the battle with death, hi* *tore WAH A total lo** About ten day* ago Mr. Huker earn* to Atlanta for treatment ami It wa* thought he would *«*>n he able to re turn to hi* home. III fact, he had writ- 18 ON THE PROGRAM. O O O O Forecaster Marbury ha* opened 0 0 hh bent ran of weather and If the O O Indication* hold true, AtlantA will 0 0 enjoy fair and wanner weather.O 0 tonight and Sunday. The attnos- O 0 phere will remain bracing and Ju*t 0 0 cool enough to be c»1»p and lit for O O the holiday*. O 0 The foreca*t: 0 O “Fair and warmer tonight und 0 0 The temperature*O ,C 7 u. m ..38 degree* 0 Saturday morning, j £ s a. m 3H degree* o d»covered the l«rg e g • £ £; ;; ” ;; ;;«» *££ % store -of the Batesburg Manufacturing O it a. tn. .. .. .. ..47 degrees O . ......... C. ....... ,tm „■«. 10 15 noon 83 degrees O 0 IO o Q0OO0000O0OO0O00O00000OO00 .36 degrees Q degrees 0 he was dying reached Batesburg. Are of cool. Of course the room was fixed up after the coal was removed and was mado to look like it school room, but before this was done It wss necessary to dig out a lot of dirt ami all this con now be seen piled In the yard. None of the school officials wanted to put children Into cellars—basement rooms. But there were no new schools to take care of the Increase, so It had to be done. In tha Fair 8tr.«t. In tho Fair street school there are four of these basement rooms, bu{ only one of them Is used as a school room. In the others they store rubbish. They formerly used all of these rooms for school purposes, but they had to stop It. The children became sick-and the doctors said this sickness was caused by these rooms; said they were damp and unhealthy. Ro the children had to pe turned out. They still keep one for the children, however. This Is , the one that was formerly devoted to I coal. Tho school authorities didn’t wont to use It this year when school opened, because they knew what the doctors said about the others, but the t tendance Increased so rapidly that Ita e was necessary. Two in Frazer street. „ In the Fraxer street school they use two of these rooms In the basement, but fortunately the congestion In this school will soon be relieved by the Pry or street school—that new- structure which is n model In Its line. These basement rooms—cellar rooms, they might Justly be called—have hoard floors above those of cement. Of course they are close to the ground, and that means they are damp. The school au thorities found out that they rotted out so quickly that It was necessary to put In new ones every little while. They don't want to crowd children In cellars and basements, but they are compelled to under the circumstances. This Full- street school Is one of those old-fashlimod frame structures which OO0«>O0O0O00aO0O000OO«lO0O THE INVITATION. O December 6, l»o*. O O Mr! Luther Rosser, O O President Board of Education, O O Atlanta. Ga. O 0 Jty Dear Mr. Rosaer: The (leor- 0 o glan wishes, through the board of O O education, to give the 10,000 white O o school children of Atlanta on ob- o 0 Jert lesson In uewspaper-maklng. O 0 IVe believe such nn opportunity 0 O would have splendid educational 0 O effect ulong practical lines and a 0 would Impress upon them much O O that they do not know about the O 0 production of a great dally news- a O paper. O 0 To bring title about. The Gear- O O glan extends nn Invitation through a 0 you to the children of Atlanta lo O S visit Ite building and see how a 0 newspaper Is made up, published O S and distributed. 0 Every detail of the publication '0 O of The Georgian will be shown 0 O ttiem with on re and attention, 6 O and In the most effective manner 0 O for their Instruction. O 0 IVe would suggest that. one 0 0 school visit our plant on each O S Friday afternoon between 2 and 4 D o’, ‘ MUST HAVE ROOM OR CEASE TO GROW Unless Option Is Exercised Land Will Pass Irrevo cably from Reach. er, of 228 Irn street, who wns terribly cut and beaten with a hatchet hy her husband. John F. Cooper, who then shot and killed himself, died at the Grady j Hospital at noon Saturday. After being taken to the hospital, Mrs. Cooper at first showed signs of Improvement and the physicians bad holies of her' recovery.' A feu- ago, however, she took a turn fur the worse and continued to sink until Sat - | urdiiy at noon, when she lirenthed her lust. , Before killing himself, Cooper xtiuck! his wife several terrific blows In the I head with the sharp edge of u hatchet. 1 Her throat was also cut and siie was otherwise brulHed. Tile tragedy occur- real Friday nlgiit. eight days ago. i ,, , special to The Georgian. Mrs. E. J. LsHatts III. New Orleans, Dec. 8.—The defense in •Mrs. Elizabeth J. LaHatte Is very III the trial of Mrs. Angte Birdsong, at her home In Garnett street. Hite Is ,.),argoil with murdering Dr. Thomas 82 years of age and has been In de- riutler. today continued its efforts to Georgia School of Technology’, the greatest educational institu tion of Atlanta, the most widely; known technological school in ihc South, the school that has.done more to advertise and develop the interests and prosperity of Atlan ta than any other institution with in its limits, is in need of help. It is overcrowded on its present small enmpus, and unless it is pro vided with more room, its growth’ will he stunted and the great good which the enlargement of the school would cause, botli to the city anil the state, will be lost. Ur. K. G. Matheson. president of tho Georgia School of Technology, has appealed to the residents, espe cially the business men, of Atlan ta for aid in expanding the school. I)r. Matheson only asks for an in crease of about three acres in the campus, in order to give him room in which to Imild several much needed buildings. OPTIONS EXPIRE JAN. 1. Options ore held by Dr. Mnthe- son on two lots in the % immediate vicinity of the school. These lots are valued at the present time at a. total of $7,500—$4,000 for one ami $11,500 for the other. The options will expire January 1, and unless the lots are bought by.that time, it is probable that opportunity to se cure them will he lost forever. The owner intends building resi le deuces on them after January 1, if public achool term In Atlanta, The .. ... . . • Georgian In to have the honor nn-1 ] the property la not bought by that pleasure of playing hunt to a delegation time, of Atlanta school children. I'clock. With very best wishes, ■ Ever sincerely yours. F. L. SEELY, Publisher. 00000000000000000000000000 THE GEORGIAN IS TO BE HOST OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Only $2,000 is at present avail able toward the purchase of the lots. Of this amount $1,500 wns contributed by the state. The re maining $500 of the amount at hand was recently given in pri vate subscriptions by four men. Ur. Matheson only asks that the public of Atlanta contribute $5.- •unAn N*nnn mam i 300 toward the enlargement of an AT HOME SHE LIVED.! institution from which they have Special to The Georgian. ! received hundreds of thousands of An Invitation from The Georgian ex tended to the *chool children, through the board of education, fer one *chool at a time to vl*lt The Georgian build ing, Innpect Ita plant and see how n big dally newspaper la made, ha* been ac cepted. The Georgian believe* It will be abta to make Uie*e weekly vl*lt* pleaaant and Inatructlve for the children, and every effort will be put forward to thin end. . s —•loe.'Vahiter { dollars worth of benefit. CAMPUS VERY SMALL. was killed last night by Lynda Estes,! both colored. It la aaiil they lived In i the aamo house and trouble between ! the E*te« woman and webtter’a wife! The campus of Georgia School waa the cauae of the deed. This wan the farm of Captain 8. 8. Rose, near this city. was built In 1873, and all the room, arc heated by stoves—rather primitive, school architects say in tlila day. All told, there are nine of these cellar rooms where the little children are crowded to lie taught, but perhaps thing* will be better when Atlanta peo ple realize the necessity for digging deep in municipal pockets and building more schools. ■ EMOTIONAL INSANITY THE LINE OF DEFENSE IN BIRDSONG CASE whs discovered In his store anil when dining health for the imat two years. th( . o H emotional loianltv ,'»• —•» - b.M.viss ,,, that he had Improved to such an *°*“ Baker wa* dead, the think there L, little hope for her re- u>n mai u* u* 1 " » ;*to»e wa$t (le*troye«|. 1 vr.very. I Before coming to Atlantu All. Baker!.. 8 ' 10 *? the moih*r .ilDil’. B. La- VAN MiiffPt-inir from r.*M«»*. in iioman.L.. Hate, M. T. IeU>lait*», Ml** I unnlo La- !.!!„! ! * Indigestion. | BIlfI Mrv p i^ntmtckl. of At Mr*. Hfrdnong <lf«l not appear dis turbed over the evidence of Dr. Alford j be had an given yesterday, when the phy*lclan! •°**** declared the woman wa* not insane. with tho defense'* attorney*. A. Heilman wa* called to the *tand and for half an hour a tilt between attorney* occurred, during which the defence demanded "a fair play at jus tice and common honesty” from the bench. Heilman wa* called to prove l>r. Butler bad, while Intoxicated, stat ed In the presence of the wltne** that ngagcinimt with Mm. Blrd- Continued on Page Three. The court ruled out nil evidence •'H* hsd a reh:p,c Saturday and wen, «., Graenvl,,,.. S.C. tor 15SE ami "jSsLaT’ lfTSSSr^ rfi "or. o7 «7 ^ I {hSl"*U^ hSSS an i who; u telegram to the effect that treatment, and then he came hero. X'hlindrlf Mu. #.*-•« Iloepltnl staff, occupied a eeai' were communicated to Mr*. Birdsong, of Technology at the present tim is only sixteen acres in extent. The campus of Vanderbilt Univer sity is 75 acres in extent und other institutions in the .South have large campuses. Vanderbilt uni versity has only about 250 more students than Georgia Tech, though the former institution lias 59 acres more on which to pliu-e its educational buildings. It is readily seen by examination of other institutions of learning iu tho South, that Georgia Tech has an extremely small campus iu comparison. The wonder is that it has been able to do the magnifi cent work it has achieved in such small space as a working basis. The institution has 545 students, who arc crowded into the build ings which Dr. Matheson has found room for on the small cam pus. The school has had a tre mendous expansion in thi- post few years, und is still growinc rapidly. The enrollment this year is larger than ever before. Geor gia Tech is at the height of its prosperity. The demand for ernd- Continudi on Page S«vent«,n.