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The Weather:
Atlanta and Vicinity:
fair tonight and Satur-
(Jtj-; cooler tonight.
Atlanta Georgian (and news)
VOL. V. NO. 230.
ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY,. MARCII 29, 1907.
PRICE:
EASTER BONNETS
Dynamite Used to Check Course
of Flames, But Fire Depart
ment Is Helpless.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT IS BURNING
Conflagration Began in Warehouse and De
stroyed Stores, Churches and
Residences.
Special to The Georgian.
Newberry, S. C.,, March 29.—At 2:30 o’clock this
afternoon the fire was believed to be under control'.
Newberry, S. C., March 29.—A fire which broke
out in the warehouse of R. C. Williams at 11:40 o’clock
this morning, has destroyed 16 stores, 3 churches and
between 40 and 60 residences. It is still spreading and
the fire department has been unable to cope with the
conflagration.
Dynamite is being used by the fire department to
check the course of the flames and a number of buildings
have been blown to pieces.
The fire spread rapidly from the business district
to the residence portion of the city. A strong wind is
fanning the flames.
■pedal t° The Georgian.
Water Main* Are Buret.
Greenville. S. C., March 29.—A disastrous fire was reported raging at
Newberry, S. when the wires went down conectlng with this city at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
The report received here was that seventy-five stores and houses were
burned and that dynamite was being used In an attempt to check the
flames. The water mains were burst and the Are department was power
less to cope with tho flames.
The flames were being driven through the heart of the city by a strong
wind.
Business Block Destroyed.
Augusta. Ga., March 28.—A message from Newberry states that the Are
raging thsro threatens ito destroy tho town and that the Are flghlng appa
ratus and waterworks are insufficient to stay the flames. The town has a pop
ulation of seven or eight thousand Inhabitant!^ Latest : * hl f t
ffvrsfnrt-s and twelve residences have been burned, lricludlng the big busi
ness block cryitnlnlng the large mercantile establishment of Summer-Broth
ers, und other large stores. ... . . . .
The Bell Telephone exchange In that block has been abandoned and
communication by 'phono Is cut off entirely.
The Western Union wires are still standing, but no response can bo had
from that office, Indicating the fire t s near the office.
MANY STORES BURNED.
The list of stores und business houses destroyed Includes the follow-
HAY8 & CO., oroeertes.
JOHNSTON GROCERY COMPANY.
R. C. WILLIAMS, buggy* and wagons.
SHELLY 4 SUMMERS, furmturs.
SALTER, photographer.
SALTER, morchandiso.
3ENN & BURKE, bakery.
BOOZER BROTHERS, groeera.
J. H. M’CULLOUGH, druggi^a.
A. C. THOMAS, groceries.
WATTS RACKET STORE.
LIVINGSTON 4 LOMERICK, groeers.
JACK BROWN, stable*.
T. J. SENN, market.
T)fc W Presbyterian * church. thoArp church and about fifty residences
* C r C’haDMdia S C March 29.—The principal business blocks of Newberry
have boeTwfpedoui’by a fire which Is still raging. Columbia has been
called on tor assistance.
ROOSEVELT LIKELY
TO GIVE IN SPEECH
S
BABE INTO OCEAN
Has Been Asked to Speak
at Springfield,
Illinois.
I'aHhtnfton, March 29.—Tho presi-
it. It Ih understood, has almost be-?n
suaded to change his expressed de
clination to keep silent on the rall-
il question. The chances arc now
ut even that he will comply with
request of the representatives of
Illinois manufacturers and business
c and go to Springfield to deliver a
eeh, having for its object the resto-
ion of public confidence,
develops that the conference at
White House Wednesday night at-
led by members of the cabinet and
he interstate commerce commission
AMHlxtant Secretary of State Ba-
. the consensus of opinion was very
>ng in favor of the president ar-
'ing the invitation to speak on the
way and industrial situation at
ingfleld at an early date, to be fixed
himself.
Cardinal Macchi
Stricken by Death
R«me, March 29.—Cardinal Luigi
•'la^chl, secretary of apostolic briefs,
JIM today after a stroke of apoplexy.
ifriUf-rday morning he celebrated mass
was stricken shortly afterwards.
!?*,"«» born in Braxll In 1832 and was
““■le cardinal In 1898.
Italian Is Prevented from
Drowning Herself
at Sea.
New York. March 29.—The captain
of the steamer Konlg Albert, which
arrived today from Oenoa. Naples and
Gibraltar, reports that during the voy
age Fllomcna Aqullo, an Italian steer
age passenger, threw her Infant daugh
ter, 14 months old. through a port
hole overboard. Search by . the crew
failed to find the baby. The mother
attempted to drown herself, but- was
prevented.
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HE’S ABLE 10
THE TOPIC OF THE HOUR ON THE EVE OF THE PARADE.
FRASER STREET SCHOOL
VISITS THE GEORGIAN
STANFORD WHITE
OVERDRAWN FORTUNE
DAV HE JET DEATH
Money From Sale of Home
and Insurance to
Pay Debt.
THE FRASER STREET SCHOOL BUILDING.
‘It Is wonderful,” said one of the vis
iting teachers. "I never knew that a
machine could be so nearly human.
And I never realised what It means to
print a great newspaper every day.
frjsh from bottom to top.”
It was Fraser Street school's day at
The Georgian plant, and teachers and
pupils alike were Intensely Interested
In the exhibition gjven them. They
followed a piece of "copy" as It went
from the reporter’s hands, past the city
editor, fo the composing room, was set
up on the linotype machines, was
made up" In the "form," converted Into
matrix," -cast Into a semi-circular
metal "plate” and placed on the big
press. Then they saw the finished
newspaper come tumbling out of the
prees, while whirling rolls of white pa
per spun swiftly through to feed the
Insatiable steel monster.
One department of especial Interest
was tho mailing room, where The
Georgian Is wrapped, addressed and
sent flying to the trains for subscribers
In other cities and towns. If the com
posing room Is a marvel of mechanical
perfection, the mailing room Is the
acme of high speed manual work. The
little army of boys around the big ta
bles work with marvelous rapidity, for
whether the paper Is a minute or two
early or a minute or two late the malts
must be caught. Anil they seldom leave
without The Georgian.
THE GEORGIAN'S GUESTS
TEACHERS AND PUPILS
tb* Ff**«*r »tri*et aobool, Invited to
The Georifimi:
Teacher*.
Mias Myrtl* Smith, MIh* Mary W. Partell,
MImh L. A. Field, Minn C. V. llartsllelil,
MIm E. MtMenjfnlc, Mi** Mary W. Martin,
Mia* Byrnlua Dttfn*. MIm Zourite finite,
MIm Annie L. Fuller, MIm I.uclle Moyers.
MIm Mollle Stevens, MIm Florence Harry.
Miss Nannie Jones. MIm Mnude McDaniel
Joseph—
Pauline Adams,
Iris Blackwell,
Until Bowden,
Willie Farrar,
Irene Garvin,
Dora Lee I Hers,
Marlon Holmes,
Bailie MasiiLuru,
Mamie Milner.
Allen element#,
I .con Cohn,
Minnie Duun,
Hylvte Galliuiml,
Jewel Graham,
Clara Hoffman,
Clara Kilgore,
Annie Milner,
Itoy Blackman,
Htedmau Burgess,
Hcuheu Dvuunrd,
Hugh Estes,
Veater Garraux,
David Johnson,
George Marvin,
Ernest McGee,
Cabell Parker,
Garrett Ware,
Charles Gallmard,
Joe Griffin,
Allen Jones.
Itoliert McDougnll,
Itoy Milner,
Itoy Htewnrt,
John Warwick. tieorgo V
Courttnnd Winn.
8ev«nth Grade.
Eloloe Adams,
Claud Dntiey,
Annie Lou Bowen,
Vivian Bowie,
Ernest Borowsky,
Benton Cotney,
Max Dlckstcin.
Bernard Fuller.
Eugene Gnilmnnl.
Willie McDougnll,
Merer Goldltenr,
Jedrile Grabaui
Mary Gruhta.
Amm Hardwick,
Ellen Harper,
vesta llaygood,
Celia liters.
L**hn Hymen,
Maud Haynes,
Mary Etta Herring,
At»e Jaffa,
1 hitman lso«b,
ITue Mniiu.
JiitiK'M Moore.
John McCarthy,
Elolse €lny,
William MeCollough,
Wllllatiilna Heins,
Isaac Hives.
Com Ilelle S'lni tb.
Hurry Hiieetor,
* -nilee \aimersoa,
KANSAS CITY LIKELY
TO BAR SHAW PLAY
Kansas City. Mo., March 29.—John
Hayes, chief of police and censor of
plays. Is to deride whether "Mr*. War
ren’s Profession" la to be played at the ted In Ka;
Willi* Wood theater, beginning Sunday
night, by Rose Coghlan and a company.
Frank Roscseltc, of the board of po
lice commissioner*, read the play and
directed Chief Hayes to notify tho
management of the theater that the
play wai of a nature not to be perwil-
City.
New York, March 29.—It developed
today that Btanfofd White, on June- 25,
1906, the day on which he was shot
down by Harry Thaw, was overdrawn
In hi* accounts with his Arm to the
extent of about 3600,060.
According to the etatement made by
a friend. White lost about 1200,000 In
Wall street a year ago. He appealed
to his friends and they agreed to take
up the account and carry It until his
losses were wiped out. providing he
would sign a promise never again to
speculate. Mr. White agreed to this
and his losses were token over by a
syndicate, which subsequently recover
ed almost all that had been advanced
by a rising market.
To meet White's debts to his firm,'
however, at the direction of Mrs. White
the proceeds of the sale of the former
home of the Whites at No. 121 East
Twenty-flrst street and the great quan
tity of art treasures It contained are to
go to the Arm to pay at least part of
tho debt of Mr. White. Also It became
known that Mrs. White had given In
structlons that the amount received
from the Insurance on her husband's
life should be applied to the same ac
count.
Mrs. Stanford White Is understood to
have been well provided for by her
relatives, who ore wealthy. She was
Miss Bessie Smith, the daughter of
Judge Lawrence Smith, of New York,
and a descendant of Colonel Richard
Smith, the original patentee of Smith-
town, L. I. The family had been prom
inent and wealthy for many genera
tions.
TO
George Fawcett Company
Begins Engagement
in May.
Announcement Is made that a slock
company will show at the Grand this
summer.
L. DeGIvo, when asked Friday
afternoon If this were true, replied In
the affirmative, stating that arrange
ments had practically been completed
with the George Fawcett Stock Com
pany, of Baltimore.
The company will begin Its run about
the middle of May, and. If business
Astonished His Own
Counsel by Lucid
Explanations.
LUNACY BOARD
PLIED QUESTIONS
FIFTY KILLED
1ECK OF
Belief Strong That He Will
Be Declared Sane
Without Delay.
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New York. March 29.—Present In
dications are that the trial of Harry
Thaw will be resumed early next week
at the point where It was Interrupted
by District Attorney Jerome demanding
a lunacy commission. The examina
tion of Thaw yesterday Is believed to
have convinced the examiners that he
Is perfectly sane within the meaning
of the statute.
Thaw's lawyers believe he will make
equally as good showing at ths exami
nation tomorrow, and that the commis
sion will report he is sane Moi\day
when the Jury meets again.
While the examination yesterday
was behind closed doors, It was learned
positively today that Thaw answered
every question In apparently rational
manner, and It whs aHsertod by those
who heard him and wore willing to talk
that, In their opinion, he hnd Impressed
the commissioners as being sane. and.
therefore, lit to advise with his counsel
In the conduct of his cose.
Thaw was alert and confident and
was pllsd with questions as to various
phases of the trial, the selection of the
lury, objections mads by counsel, and
Is understanding of such matters.
May Be Only Mental.
It was apparent that the commission
purposed to deal solely with the legal
definition of Insanity as applied to
Thaw, which Is different from the med-
leal definition. This was clearly Indi
cated when It was stated today that
the commission had practically decided
not to subject Thaw to a physical ex
amination.
According to the law, the commission
can declare Thaw sane If sufficiently
convinced that he has a thorough un
derstanding of what Is going on around
him, If he appreciate* ths Importance
of various points In his trial and of va
rious measures advocated by his attor.
hyslclans, however, recognize sev
eral forms of insanity, some of them
Incurable, which iiermlt of all this, but.
nevertheless, In their opinion, make the
subject a dangerous member of the
community If permitted to be outside
in Insane asylum.
Thaw Aatonishes Counsel.
Thaw astonished even his own coun-
Crew of Freight En
gine Held Respon
sible.
THEIR BAIL FIXED
AT $1,000 EACH
Switch Was Left Open And
Overland Flyer Crashed
Into Ditch.
Continued on Page Eight.
Colton. Cal., March 29.—The death
list of the Southern Pacific wreck will
exceed fifty. A dozen of the wounded
are in a serious condition. Three or
four are certain to die. The only iden
tified Americans among the dead are
George L. Sharpe, of Munclo, Ind., and
W. Shea. Mall Clerk Milton Hill, of
Now York. Is reported dead.
It has been established that tho
wreck was due to carelessness of a
switch engine crew, who left the switch
open .when entering a elding Just be
fore the arrival of the Overland.
The coroner held In 21,000 each the
threo accused members of tho switch
engine.
Colton, Cal., March. 29.—Not less than
28 persons, most of them foreigners,
are known to havo been killed outright
near here when the westbound South
ern Pacific train, from New Orleans to
San Francisco, was derailed yesterday
afternoon.
Investigation of charges of criminal
carelessness has bcen'lnstltuted Into the
Wreck. Tho train was running at high
speed and, it is charged, a switch was
carelessly left open.
One Italian woman was killed.
In the confusion that followed there
kt little to bo learned of the actual
cause of tho wreck, or the names of tho
victims, although It has been found
that some of tho bodies recovered are
those of Italian laborers.
100 Persons Injured.
There are no less than 100 Injured,
and many of theso may die. Many are
Eastern tourists, who were going to
spend the'sprlng In California.
Rsn Into Open Switch.
Ten of the fourteen coaches of the
train ran Into an open switch and all
of them left the track and Jumped Into
the ditch, where they were piled up in
a mass of wreckage. Four of them
were smashed to pieces.
George L. Sharp, of Muncle, Ind., a
wealthy manufacturer, was one of tho
victims. He was dead when taken
from the wreck. The engineer, Clar
ence Worthington, and the fireman,
Victor Crable, were both horribly
scalded by escaping steam. The bag
gageman was one of thoee killed.
Hospitals Are Crowded.
The hospitals here are filled with tho
Injured. Many of the wounded died
after being removed from the debris.
Only a miracle saved tho members
of the Florence Robert* theatrical com
pany from dpath. They were In a
special car attached to the train, and
It was thrown from the track, both ends
were splintered by the crash and only
two members of the company were In
jured. The actors and actresses aided
n the work of erscue.
Justifies, will continue throughout most
of the summer. It Is also stated that
arrangements are being made with
several high-class vaudeville troupes
to appear at the Grand.
The Indications are that the Grand
will be dark only a few week* during
the entire summer.
In this connscflon It Is rumored that
the Hopkins Company, the well-known
vaudeville proprietors and promoters..
will produce vaudeville at the El Dora-1
do cither this summer or next fall.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records here etch day some
economic fact In reference to the onward
march of the tooth.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY.
area, yet few really grasp Its Immense scope and vast productive possi
bilities..
It Is nearly thirty-two times the site of Massachusetts, almost equal
In area to five such great states as Iowa.
Its governor estimated Its population on January 1, 1807, at 3,800,000,
a growth since 1900 of 851,290. That Increase exceeds
: Increase exceeds the entire
popula
te.
tlon of Florida or Colorado In 1900, and nearly equals that of Maj
And the state la filling up rapidly, from the North mainly.
The farms, factories and mines of Texas produced for sale last year,
at cost prices, an output of fully 1700,000,000. enough to build 14,000 miles
of railroad costing 850,000 per mile, a line about two-thirds around the
globe! And It Is reasonably certain that the state wilt double that tremen
dous yield within ten years. ,
The cotton supply of the world In 1905-6 was placed at 14,072,000
bales of 600 pounds each.
Of that quantity the United States grew 11,119,800 bales—80 per cent.
And of the yield of this country, Texas sold 2,525.000 bales, or about 22
per cent of all harvested In this nation, and over 18 per cent of the total
supply of the world. In 1904-8 Texas sold 3.235,000 bales, over 20 per
rent of the world's output. The crop for 1900 was worth over 3126,260,-
000 to the grower.
In 1900 the census showed Texas as the second state in the Union In
value of live stock. It produces corn, wheat, oats and thegrasses with
great success.
Around the gulf and In southeast Texas generally truck gardening Is
growing into a very profitable employment. There all kinds of vegetables
are produced In January, February and the spring months for the North
ern market, and prices are good, of course. Car loads of strawberries were
on the market In January and February from those fields.
Excellent literature on this subject ran be procured from the South
ern l’aclfic Railway Company, at Houston. Texas, or any of Its Northern
offices. The Rock Island Company also has fine descriptive pamphlets
concerning the truck farming In the gulf coast region.
One of the comparatively new Industries of Texas, and one that prom
ises to be of great Importance Is the cultivation of rice.
It may he stated In a general way that this promises to be one of the
most important branches of Irrigation in this country. Rice Is grown In
water three or four Inches deep, kept standing for about three months.
It Is estimated that at least 2,000,000 acres of land In the Btate can he
thus Irrigated. Ry “slouch” farming, the shiftless, careless variety, the
yield Is about nine barrels per acre. By careful, diligent work, fifteen or
more barrels can be realized Just as well.
Japanese in Texas harvest around twenty barrels, and the record has
exceeded thirty-six barrels. The firm price Is about 88 per barrels, so
that good cultivation will produce from 846 an acre up. The straw t- as
good for feet) as wheat straw.
The future rice crop of Texas tray easily be 875,000,000 a year, ami
may reach 8100.000,000.