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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913.
NO. 39.
Servia and Bulgaria to Throw
Combined Armies Against
Fortress at 7 o’Clock Mon
day Afternoon
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 3.—The war between
Turkey and Bulgaria, Greece, Montene
gro and Servia will begin again at 7
o'clock this evening unless the last
peace efforts of the powers should sne
ered or Turkey decide at the eleventh
hour to surrender.
It has even been decided who shall
fire the first shot, as Turkey has stated
that she will allow her adversaries to
take the aggressive.
The immediate object of Hie allies’
armies is the capture of Adrianople,
which has hitherto presented such a
firm front to its besiegers.
Upon this fortress the combined Bul
garian and Servian armies, the latter
well supplied with siege artillery, will
concentrate their exertions.
For the present, at any rate, the Bul
garian generals will simply try to hold
the Turkish troops at Tchatalja.
KING GOES TO FRONT.
King Nicholas, of Montenegro, has
started again for the Turkish’fortress of
Scutari, The king himself will take the
direction of the renew r ed attack. He
hopes -by /capturing the city and. thus
establishing an accomplished fact, to ob
tain a better chance of keeping definite
possession of it when peace finally
comfis.
In the western Turkish province of
Epirus, which touches the Grecian bor
der, the Greek troops under the com
mand of Crown Prince Constantine have
great hopes of breaking down the splen
did de'fense which the Ottoman army has
thus far offered. The Servian armies
alone of the Balkan allies have complet
ed their campaign, and have now placed
many of their troops at the disposal of
their comrades. - .
ALBANIAN UPRISING.
Some, however, must be kept in Al
bania, where a rising against the invad
ers has been organized.
It is declared that the Albanians,
with 80,000 rifles under the command
of Austrian officers, are taking the field
and it is rumored that they have
ought a battle at Dibra, -where the
Servians lost heavily.
The Albanians are said to be greatly
irritated by the wholesale arrests of
those suspected of having interest in
the provisional government.
The Turkish government, like that of
Bulgaria, will not allow newspaper cor
respondents to accompany the armies
in the field. Mounhoum Pasha, stated
emphatically today that he would not
allow’ any correspondents within twenty
miles of the lines.
tor Hoke Smith entertains a hope that | of that section of the water front
the house will agree to a conference on j b urne( j early Sunday morning. The Mer-
the agricultural extension bill which c hants and Miners’ Transportation com-
recently passed by the senate by sub
stitute. He believes it possible that the
conferees could w’ork out a measure
satisfactory in its terms to the friends
of agricultural extension work and voca
tional education. If, however, the two
houses fail to agree at this session, the
senator will re-introduce the bill at the
extra session of congress and keep ham
mering away until its passage has been
secured.
Discussing the matter today, Senator
Smith said:
“I still hope that the house will con
sent to appoint conferees to consider the
bill which was introduced by Mr. Lewis
in the house and myself in the senate,
and which lias passed the hoqse, but
for which the senate, by one majority,
substituted what is known as the Page
vocational educational bill.
INCORRECT REPORTS.
“The published accounts in Georgia of
the provisions in the Page vocational
bill for agricultural extension work were
not correct. These published accounts
in Georgia confused the provisions of
the bill which had passed the house
•with the provisions of the Page bill,
and really gave the provisions of the
house bill attributing them to the Page
bill.
’Woman’s Declaration He Did
Not Attack Her Will Be
Only Evidence
RAIN ADDS FEAR IN
FLOODED DISTRICTS
in
Twenty-Hour Downpour
Mississippi Swells
Rivers
(By Associated Press.)
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 3.—The climax
to a twenty-hour rainfall came early
today in this -vicinity in a startling
electrical display. For tw’o hours the
lightning was vivid and almost continu
ous, with constant loud thunder. Rain
fell in torrents.
Pearl river, already 7.5 above flood
stage, will probably reach last year’s
high stage mark at thirty feet by the
middle of the week. Thousands of acres
of lowlands opposite the city are under
water.
TARIFF REVISION BILL
Ways
and Means Committee
Submit It to Party
Caucus
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Democratic
members of the house committee on
ways and means today began prepara
tion of the bill for the revision of the
tariff with the plan of holding daily
executive sessions until the w’ork is
completed. It is expected this result will
be effected about March 15.
Chairman Underwood will submit the
plan to a Democratic caucus of the
house the first week of the extra ses
sion of congress. Upon the approval by
the caucus of the form in which the
revision shall be made—schedule by
schedule or as a single measure—he
will call in the Republicans of the com
mittee for a perfunctory formal vote
and then be ready to report to the
house.
The Democratic majority of the com
niittee, which is vested with the duty
of framing the original tariff of the in
coming congress, consists of Represen
tatives Underwood, Randall, of Texas;
Harrison, of New York; Brantley, of
Georgia; Shackleford, of Missouri;
Kitchin, of North Carolina; James, of
Kentucky; Rainey, of Illinois; Dixon,
of Indiana; Hull, of Tennessee; Ham-
nion, of Minnesota; Peters, of Massachu
setts; Palmer, of Pennsylvania, and
Aftsberry, of Ohio. Mr. James has been
elected to the senate, and Representa
tives Brantley and Randell will not be
in the next congress.
A number of new members will sit
on both the Democratic and Republican
fide3 of the committee in the new con
gress.
The first schedule planned to be taken
up by the committee in executive meet
ing today was schedule “A,” chemicals,
oils and paints. On this schedule goods
of the value of more than $47,000,000
were brought in last year, resulting in
a tariff revenue of $12,239,000.
Georgia Senator Is Working
for Agricultural Extension
Measure
(BY RALPH SMITH.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—Sena-
TO
FIRE-SWEPT
Burned Area Is Half Mile
Length and Over 200
Yards Wide
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 3.—Plans are
already under way for the rebuilding
BEACH EXPECTS WIFE
L
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
AIKEN, S. C., Feb. 3.—The declara
tion of Mrs. Frederick O. Beach that her
husband did not attack her will be the
only evidence that her millionaire hus
band will introduce Tuesday when he is
called in general sessions court to an-
iii ficuciai ocooiuua v-uui L iu cm .
swer a warrant, technically charging r i2£f property,
“assault and' battery with intent to
kill.
It is understood that Beach’s lawyers
will rest the case on Mrs. Beach’s
evidence, w’ith the confident belief
that no other testimony can be
offered by the state to overcome
her declaration that her husband did not
attack her.
Solicitor R. L. Gunter declined to say
today that he thought he had a strong
case against F. O. Beach, and declined
to deny the report generally made here
that the case would not go beyond Mrs.
Beach’s testimony and -would result in
an acquittal.
MYSTERNODS ATTACK.
The hearing Tuesday is the sequel to
a mysterious attack on Mrs. Beach on
the lawn of the handsome Beach resi
dence here February 26, 1912. In addi
tion to being badly bruised, the million
aire’s wife sustained a serious cut on
the throat.
Immediately after the assault it was
announced that Mrs. Beach had been at
tacked by a negro. It was stated that
she was in the act of taking a note from
a negro, to be delivered to one of the
Beach servants, when her injuries were
inflicted.
Great excitement followed the an
nouncement. and rewards aggregating
several thousand dollars were offered for
the apprehension of her mysterious as
sailant. Detectives ,were put on the
case»and consternation was caused in
the winter colony here as well as in
New York City by the issuance of a
warrant for the arrest of F. O. Beach,
charging him with the assault.
Mr. and Mrs. Beach sailed for Europe
and bonds for the appearance of the^
former were made nere by wealthy
friends. Some expressed the opinion that
Mr. Beach never would be arraigned in
court. All doubt, however, was ended
last week by the arrival of Mr. and
Mrs. Beach, accompanied by Mrs. J. B.
Taylor, of New York, sister of Mrs.
Beach, and counsel.
Pearl Hampton, a negro woman who is
said to have witnessed the attack on
Mrs. Beach, and a detective employed
by the town of Aiken to investigate the
case, probably will be the state’s chief
witnesses. 4
It is understood that MrSi Beach will
take the stand and will xeiterato * the
story of the attack made public just
after she was injured.
from a point
juts Westt of West Broad street to the
Ogechee chnal, which divides the docks
of the Ocean Steamship company from
those of the Merchants and Miners’.
Because of the peculiar location of the
fire, the fire department found it very
hard to fight it. The river blanketed one
Sside of the burning mass and the other
was enclosed in massive warehouse
walls, which were hard to get into and
in which it was almost impossible to
fight the flames because of the large
freight accumulation.
A block away from the center of the
fire lies Yamacraw, a densely populated
section of the city, made up largely of
small wooden houses, and it was realized
that if the fire reached this section the
loss would run much greater than it did.
The efforts of the fremen were directed
largely to saving this section and keep
ing the flames from spreading eastward
toward the newer portion of the city.
- In this they were largely successful.
SUPREME COURT REJECTS
JACK JOHNSON’S APPEAL
Chicago Attorney Says Case
Against Black Will Be
Tried at Once
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The su
preme court today dismissed the appeal
of Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, in
dicted in Chicago on charges of violat
ing the federal white slave act, from
tile decision of the federal court of
northern Illinois.
Johnson’s appeal was from the Illi
nois federal court's refusal to sustain
a tvrit of habeas corpus by which the
pugilist’s lawyers sought to test the
constitutionality of the white slave act,
in violation of which Johnson was
charged with transporting In interestate
commerce Belle Schreiber, ’from Pitts
burg to Chicago.
Justice Lamar announced the deci
sion of the court, which held that a
person was not entitled to raise the
constitutionality of a law on habeas
corpus unless all other means of test
ing its validity had been exhausted. )n
the meanwhile, the court pointed out,
Johnson bad been released on bail.
pany, whose wharves were, destroyed,
has made arrangements for a temporary
wharf and the Ocean Steamship com
pany and Central railway, which,owned
much of the destroyed property will at
once begin its reconstruction.
It is cxpetced the new wharves will
be in many ways superior to those de
stroyed. A large number of insurance
adjusters reached the city this morning
to take up the question of losses for
settlement. The question of losses for
low the actual financial losses.
FIREMEN WORN OUT.
Many firemen are laid up today, suf
fering from various causes, as the re
sult of their long tour of duty. Most
of them complain of- the effect upon
their eyes of the heavy smoke, which
was in some instances laden with fumes
of acids stored in the burned ware
houses.
Practically a half mile of the most
valuable portion of Savannah’s water
front w r as raked by a fire at an early
hour Sunday morning that did probably
million and a half dollars’ worth of
damage and for several hours threaten
ed the city with the most serious con-
fiarration it has experienced in many
years.
The magnificent wharves of the Mer
chants and Miners’ Transportation com
pany, with warehouses filled with freight
just brought into port by steamers from
Baltimore and Philadelphia, were quick
ly turned into a ruined mass by the
flames.
Large storage warehouses filled with
many articles of value were wiped out
by the fire in a short time.
LOSSES ARE HEAVY.
The heaviest losers are:
The Ocean Steamship company, which
owned the docks under lease to the Mer
chants and Miners’ Transportation com
pany; the American Steel and "Wire com
pany, which had an immense storage
warehoyse filled with its products in
tended for distribution to many points
in the south; the Conklin Tin Plate com
pany,’ which also had a distribution
point here, and the Crane company,
large dealers in plumbing supplies,
whose warehouse had just been replen
ished for the early spring business.
The Atlantic Coast Line railway also
had an office with valuable records in
the ruins of the Planters’ rice mill a
few blocks from the center of the con
flagration went up in smoke with the
HOKE SMITH ATTENDS
“TAR HEEL” DINNER
Governor Locke Craig Guest
of Honoj of North Carolina
Society
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Fob. 3.—Governor
Locke Craig, of North Carolina, was the
guest of honor at the annual banquet
of the North Carolina society of Wash
ington Saturday and made the principal
address to the large gathering of North
Carolinians which included not only
residents of Washington, but a number
who had come north for the occasion.
Dr. J. A. Holmes, chief of the bureau
of mines, and president of the society,
was toasi master , and the speakers in
cluded Josephus Daniels, Democratic
national committeeman from North Car
olina.
Senator Simmons and Overman and
the North Carolina members of con
gress were present, as was George W.
Connor, speaker of the North Carolina
lower house; United States Senator
Smith, of Georgia, and Johnston, of Ala
bama, and Senator-elect Webb, of Ten
nessee.
SHOE MACHINERY CO.
NOT CLASSED AS TRUST
Government Suffers First De
feat of Its Recent Anti-
Trust Campaign
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The govern
ment today suffered its first big defeat
in the recent anti-trust campaign when
flie supreme court held that the officials
of the United Shoe Machinery company
had not violated the Sherman anti-trust
law by organizing that company.
The court, however, did not pass upon
legality of the system by which the
company leases machines on terms that
no “independent’’ machinery be used.
The action of the supreme court today
grew out of the Massachusetts federal
court’s annulling one of two indictments
brought againts the Shoe Machinery
company officials. The Massachusetts
court took the position that the indict
ment did not state an offense under the
Sherman law.
The government appealed to the su
preme court by virtue of the criminal
appeals act of 1907, on the ground that
It did state an offense.
E TAX IS
II PURI OF
U.S.
SEEING HIS SHADOW
KING MENELIK AGAIN
DEPORTED AS DEAD
t *
Monarch of Abyssinia Will Be
SuceOded by Prince
Lidji Jeasu
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 3.—King Menelik, of
Abyssinia, is dead, according to a dis
patch received here from Addis-Abeba
today. His successor, Prince Lidj Jeasu,
one of his grandsons, entered the capi
tal on Sunday with great pomp.
No official confirmation has been re
ceived here of the death of Menelik,
who has on several previous occasions
been reported dead.
Prince Lidj Jeasu, "who is said to
have entered the Abyssinian capital as
the new emperor, is only seventeen years
of age. 1-Ie was selected some years
ago by Menelik himself as his successor.
There have been many rumors during
the past five years of Menelik’s death.
It was reported at one time that the
fact was being suppressed and that the
empress was conducting the affairs of
the Abyssinian kingdom until Lidj Jeasu
was old enough to take the government
into his own hands.
This was denied officially. At the
beginning of last year Menelik was re
ported to be paralyzed below the waist
and since then there has been uncertain
ty as to whether he was really dead
or alive.
GIRL CASHIER A
PRISONER DURING
PANIC IN MOVIES
She Sees Crush Which Killed
Two Women-Couldn’t
' Escape Booth
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—A prisoner
in the little ticket booth at the Houston
street moving picture theater, where
the explosion of a film and cries of
“fire’’ started a panic among the 400
spectators last night, Rose Siegal was
forced to be a witness of the strug
gle in which two women were tramp-
eled to death and a dozen other persons
badly injured.
“I heard a cry from the inside, then
a rush,’’ she said. “There was a crowd
of persons in front of my booth seek
ing to enter the theater when those in
side rushed out. There was a crush
against the doors; little girls, boys and
men and women all seemed to shoot out
together. My little brother, Ned, came
running down the steps in front of
the first rush and I saw him get safely
around the corner of the entrance.
“The first half dozen or so got down
the steps all right and then they be
gan tumbling. As soon as they struck
the bottom landing others were on top
of them, and soon there was a large
semi-circle of bodies on the pavement
over which the other persons ran. More
fell and at one time it seemed as
though the pile was seven ’feet deep. 1
couldn’t get out of my booth because
the doors open inside. I just had to
stay there, helplessly hearing the
cries.”
The panic was caused by a boy cry
ing “fire” when a film burned. It was
a false alarm, for the blaze did scarce
ly a dollar’s damage and was put out
in a few seconds. The flash which the
spectators had seen, however, was
enough to terrify them.
WALL STREET SENDS
COMMITTEE TO SULZER
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The New York
stock exchange today appointed a. com
mittee to confer with Governor 5$ulzer
regarding proposed legislation affecting
the exchange.
BROOKS BANKER LEAVES
AGGOUNTS ARE GORREGT
Friends Gannot Account for
Strange Disappearance of
Arthur Digby
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GRIFFIN, Ga., Feb. 3.—Arthur Digby,
cashier of the Bank of Brooks, Brooks,
Ga., left his house last Friday night un
der mysterious circumstances and ef
forts so far to locate him have been
futile.
H© left a note at the bank, stat
ing that he would leave that night for
parts unknown, carrying with him only
$200, and leaving on deposit nearly $2,-
000.
President Boykin, it is said, examined
the cash in the bank Saturday and does
not believe Diglfjy is short in his ac
counts, but can offer no excuse for his
strange disappearance.
The stockholders of the bank are mak
ing a searching investigation in the
affairs today, but it is not known what
discoveries they have made, as the
wires are down and the little village can
not be reached by phone.
Mr. Digby was about forty years of
age, unmarried, and had the confidence
of the entire community, and it is
believed his suden departure was caused
by private affairs.
DALTON WILL ASK
F|R E RATE REDUCTION
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., Feb. 3.—City council
will, at its meeting Monday night, take
up the report of Chief Inspector Cates,
of the Southeastern Underwriters’ asso
ciation, relative to reduced insurance
rates here. The report shows that the
city can make improvements to the ex
tent of about $5,000, and get reduced
rates, which will save insurance patrons
here between $5,000 and $10,000 an
nually.
Twenty fire alarm boxes and an ad
ditional steam pump at the pumping sta
tion are the improvements needed to
give Dalton secondclass instead of the
thiijdclass rates which now apply.
STREETS OF PARIS AGAIN
FLOORED BY RIVER SEINE
GOTHAM POLICE TRY TO
FERRET BOMR MYSTERY
Woman Killed, Husband and
Another Woman, Seriously
Injured by Explosive
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The police today
made extraordinary efforts to find ths
perpetrator of last night’s bomb outrage
in the Bronx, because they believed if
they succeeded they would solve also the
mystery of the death of Mrs. Heler.
Taylor and of the attempt to kill Judge
Otto Rosalsky, of the court of special
sessions. , .
They have discovered that the infer
nal machine which killed Mrs. Madeline
Herrera, last night in a Bronx apart
ment house and wounded her husband
and a woman boarder, was like those
sent to Mrs. Taylor and Judge Rosalsky.
All three bombs wer e in boxes con
structed so that raising the lid closed
an electric circuit and caused the ex
plosion.
John P. P’arrell, aistant janitor of
the house where the Herreras lived, was
held today as a material witness. Both
Herrera and Miss Sarah Fughtmann, the
third victim, arc in a serious condition.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Pieces of the iron and lead pipe with
v/hich the bomb was loaded flew in ev
ery directipn. Mrs. Herrera was bending
over the bomb and her face was torn
and lacerated beyond recognition. .Miss
Fughtmann, not so close, sustained a
fractured skull and pieces of iron and
lead penetrated the skull of Herrera, who
also stood near.
Almost everything in the room was
shattered by the force of the explosion
At the hospital Herrera said that he had
never received a threatening letter and
that he had no enemies so far as he
knewu He said that he believed the
bomb had b^en intended for someone
ele.
Herrera and his wife are about iforty-
five veafs old. Miss Fughtmann is
about thirty. Herrera is a cigar manu
facturer.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dougher
ty in company with Inspector Fauret, of
the photograph and finger print bureau,
last night went to the apartment of
Herrera and began an investigation.
Shortly afterward Herrera wa made a
prisoner*and taken to the Manhattan eye
and throat hospital in the custody of
detectives for an immediate operation.
Wyoming l^akes the Thirty-
Sixth State to Ratify Six
teenth Amendment of Na
tion’s Organic Law,
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—An income
tax is now one of the provisions of the
constitution of the United States.
Wyoming’s ratification today of the
income tax amendment—the sixteenth
change in the constitution and the first
since the reconstruction, complete a
list of thirty-six states—three-fourths
of the union, which have approved the
provision.
Congress now will enact a law to levy
the tax and it probably will become ef
fective during the extraordinary ses
sion to be called by President-elect Wil
son in March. The tax itself, its pro
visions and its limitations are all left
to (congress.
$100,000,000 REVENUE.
The new’ law probably would super
sede the corporation tax and provide
for a tax on all incomes above $5,000,
although there has been some sentiment
in favor of making the limit as low as
$4,000. Congressional leaders who have
been preparing for the final ratification
by the states estimate an income tax
would bring in about $100,000,000 a year
to the government.
Now tha^the tax is provided by the
constitution, the proposed excise tax,
framed by Democratic leaders In 1912,
to meet the supreme court’s decision
which held a former income tax uncon
stitutional, will be dropped and some
of its provisions may be included in
the new law.
West Virginia ratified the amendment
last week. One house in New Jersey
and one in New Mexico have approved
it. Wyoming's ratification was wholly
unexpected at this time.
STATE’S HONOR ROLL.
Following is the list of states which
ratified the income tax amendment:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Califor-
nia, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine,
Maryland, Michigan Minnesota, Missis
sippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
.York, North Carol! mw-Nart.U^, UtirtftUv——
Oklahoma, Oregon, South C&rpiina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, i>xas, Washington,
Wisconsin, Louisiana, Ohio, West Vir
ginia, Wyoming.
The following rejected:
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Utah.
No action or only partial action was
taken in the eight other states.
The provision authorizing ah income
tax as now made a part of the Federal
constitution Will be known as the "Six
teenth Amendment” and reads as fol
lows:
“Article XVI.—The congress shall
have power to lay and collect taxes on
Incomes, from whatever* source derived,
without apportionment among the states,
and without regard to any census or
enumeration.”
The change in the fundamental law
of the land marks a new epoch in the
American tax system. For the first
time congress is given specific authority
by a provision of the Federal constitu
tion to levy an income tox. All pre
vious efforts for a tax of this kin.1
have been without the explicit authority
of a constitutional provision. The
change also marks a broad development
of the economic and fiscal system of the
United States, permitting incomes to be
a basis for taxation, similar to the sys
tems now in force in Great Britain
Austria, Switzerland,j Spain and various
other countries.
Fears of Repetition of 1910-1
Flood Are Aroused as Rue
Watt Is Inundated
(By Associated Pi\-ss.)
PARIS. Feb. 3.—Fears of a repetition
of the disastrous inundations which oc
curred in Paris during the winter of
1910-11 have been aroused during the
past forty-eight hours by the rapid
rising of the River Seine. The water
today is mounting about two inches an
hour.
In the low quarters of the city, es
pecially in the southwestern district of
Berey, the water has already overflow
ed into the streets. The Rue Watt, near
the Tolbiac bridge, was the first to be
flooded. It is now under water to a
depth of several inches and consterna
tion reigns among the occupants of ad
jacent houses.
Rain ceased this morning ( in Paris
itself, but it continues to fail heavily
in the up-country regions.
TUMULTY IS NAMED
WILSON’S SEGRETARY
Present Private Secretary to
Jersey Executive Will Go to
Washington With Wilson
(By Associated Press.)
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 3.—Joseph
Patrick Tumulty, at present private sec
retary to Governor Wilson, will be secre
tary to the president after March 4, ac
cording to an announcement by Presi
dent-elect Wilson today.
The president-elect offered Mr. Tumul
ty the secretaryship a week ago and the
latter accepted today. Tumulty has been
associated with Mr. Wilson since the
gubernatorial campaign three years ago.
He became his private secretary when
Mr. Wilson was elected governor, but
resigned last November to become clerk
of the state supreme court ajt a salary
of $6,000, a position to which he was
appointed by the governor. He con
tinued, however, to discharge the duties
of secretary without salary.
Tumulty has been in charge of the
governor’s correspondence s.’nce election
day and has been throughout a close
confidential adviser.
AIKEN HOTEL IS BURNED;
GUESTS BARELY ESCAPE
“Park-in-the-Pines" Is De
stroyed by Fire That
Causes Panic
A
(By Associated Press.)
AIKEN, S. C., Feb. 3.—“Park-in-the-
Pines,” Aiken’s picturesque tourist hotel,
was destroyed by Are in a short time
Sunday, the guests having to flee for
their lives, leaving most of their per
sonal effects behind. All escaped, in
safety, but Colonel A. E. 1 )it’k, manager
of the hotel, was overcome by smoke
and was dragged from the burning
building just before the flames reached
him. The loss is estimated at $250,000.
JEWELRY IS LOST.
Mrs. John W. Nary, of Trenton, N. J.,
left on her dressing table about $2,000
worth of jewelry when she and her two
daughters were compelled to quit then-
suite. Several other guests reported
large losses of jewelry and clothing. C.
J. McCoud, of New York, who had a
large display of rugs, laces and fancy
goods on display in one of the upper
rooms, saved none of his stock.
The building was a three-story frame
structure and contained 177 rooms. The
fire is believed to have originated In a
storeroom in the basement, directly at
the foot of the elevator shaft. Mount
ing swiftly through the aperture, the
flames spread very rapidly. There was
only forty-four guests in the hotel at
the time and the fire had gained such
headway when the first alarm was
sounded that they had no time to save
anything but themselves.
USED FIRE ESCAPES.
Some few of the guests tarried be
hind in their rooms to gather up some
of their belongings and the moments
thus wasted came near costing them
their lives despite the fact that the firo
started just before midday in broad day
light. When they reached the hallo
they were turned back by a black vol
ume -of suffocating smoke and had to
make their way to safety by means
of the tire escapes..