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Newspaper Page Textthe weather. Partly cloudy to cloudy weather Wednesday night and Thursday. cL'Mtnesday temperatures: 7 o’clock , ni I! degrees: 10 a. m., 67 de grees: 1* noon. 69 degrees; 2 p. m., *6 degrees. The Atlanta Georgian AND NEWS m SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, stpndy; fi.ll. Atlanta, steady; 11V New* Orleans, steady; 11%. New York, quiet; 11.05. Augusta, steady; 11%. Savannah, steady; 11*4. Wllmlng. ton, steady; 11*4. Memphis, steady; 11%. Houston, dull; 11%. VOL. VI. NO. 182. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4,1908. PRTPF.* ,n Atlanta..TWO CUNTS. J lllV/Li. On Tiulm. FIVE ORNTt 125 CHILDREN MEET TERRIBLE DEATH IN SCHOOL PANIC; INDESCRIBABLE SCENES OF HORROR AT CLEVELAND FIRE; CHARRED BODIES OF LITTLE ONES BLOCKADE DOORWAYS Writhing and Dying Victims Choke Up Exits and Prevent Escape of Others—Agonized Parents Storm Burning Building' To Rescue Their Loved Ones. Cleveland, March 4.—Indescribable scenes of horror followed the alarm of fire in a school in North Golling- wood, a suburb, when more than one hundred helpless little children were crushed and burned to death before they could reach the outside of the burning building. In the mad panic that followed the alarm the little ones made a frantic rush for the doors and in a few sec onds their tiny bodies, twisted and cortorted, had jammed the exits and prevented the escape of those behind who tore and fought to get out. Up to 2 o’clock 109 bodies had been taken from the debris. When the news spread over the little village frantic mothers and fathers and other relatives rushed to the scene and fought madly to get into the burning structure where almost certain death awaited them and had al ready doomed so many children. The older people were only held hack by the determined efforts of the special guard of police. When the hlaie broke out a door connecting with the upper part of the building was opened by one of the attendants. This was a fatal mistake, for clouds of smoke, driven by a hack draught, poured into the rooms. The children rushed for the doors. Teachers franti cally tried to prevent a panic and organized a fire drill. They could no more stem the terrified little ones than hold hack the ocean. The fire department was soon on the scene. There was not sufficient ladders to make the work of rescue effective. An aerial ladder was attempted to save some of the children and several fire men nearly lost their lives by the failure of this plan. When the firemen ( flnally reached the third floor, some of the children still within the rooms were Irving. The doorways, how ever, were choked with the tiny bodies. This made the work of rescue difficult. Seething Furnace. Iligh school class pupils who were on the first floor made their escape in comparatively organized manner. There was some dis order, but few of the pupils were injured. All kinds of rumors are in circulation as to the cause of the fire. It developed, as far as can be learned, beneath a stairway on the third floor, within a closet. Tho interior of a store room was a seething ftrnace when the door was opened, releasing tho fire and smoke and filling the hallways. Some of the pupils guided by the teachers made their way to the top of the building, which is six stories high, and is brick. Tho department could not reach them with ladders and tho little ones, their terror taking them out of control of their teachers, separated and rushed madly from one part of tho building to an other. Many of them suffocated. After a while the fire was under control. INDESCRIBABLE SCENE OF HORROR IN ROOM. The firemen reached the room In which the greatest number pt death* occurred, a scene of Indescribable hor ror was before them. Lying In twisted "note. clasping each other's bodies In heath gripe, girls and boys of very ten* •ler age were lying In heaps of ugly head—ugly because In their death ago Continued on Pegs Two. The Georgian contains many offers of services and positions, rooms, homes and property bargains, investments and opportunities. Tho following lo Hat of such offers In tho want columns of to day's Georgian! Message.*. Help Wanted—Female 21 Help Wanted—Male 20 Situations Wanted—Female.. 2* Situations Wanted—Male.. .. 67 Business Opportunities 6 Penionalh g Board and Boarders 20 Rooms end Apartment* *5 Poultry, Pets and Ur* Stock. 17 Lost and Found 20 Money to Loan 7 For Sale .19 Purchase end Exchange.. 14 Heal Estate Miscellaneous It Read those that appeal ‘ to your special needs today. ooooooMoooooooooooecoooeg ° THE KNOWN DEAD. O o The known dead are: EDNA EARNER, aged 12. BERN1E SCHULTZ, aged 10. WILLIE WE1SSBARTH, aged 7.' MYERS, aged «. , ' TWO BIRDSONO GIRLS, aged ■ 6 12 and 10. 0 HUGH M'lLGRATH, aged 10. O THOMAS THOMPSON, aged I. I 0 EDDIE KEHL. aged 11. O ROSSITER, aged 10. I O TWO WOODMEYER OIRL8, I o aged 10 and 19._ O " " ‘ HAROLD BANDERSON. aged O 0 10. MARY RIDWAY. aged 10. ANNA ROTH. OERTRUDE DAVIS. WALTER HESTER. HELEN HESTER. MARTHA HESTER. WERNER HESTER. KELLEY, boy, aged 10. KELLEY, boy. aged 7. CATHERINE WtLER. teacher. LUCY SINOLEMANN. aged «. ■ SCHAEFER, boy. aged 9. O MABEL SIGLER, aged 10. O DOM RUSH, aged 12. 0 .IRENE DAVIS, aged 1«. ° ANOELINE ZUPAN. aged 11. O EDWARD MEYER, aged t. O FRANK WIDMAR. O JOHN WIDMAR, aged 10. O _ LILLIAN ROSTOCK, aged 2. $ 0 EMIL ROSTOCK, aged 14. O 0OO0000000O0GO0O0COOOOOOOO AMERICAN AUTO IN MUDDY ROADS OMAHA. Nebr- March 4.—The Amer ican car In the New York to Parts automobile race left Logan, Iowa, thir ty mllee eeet of Omaha, et 6 o'clock this morning end required two hour* to make ten mile*. The road* are very muddy. Contractors and Sup ply Dealers Organ ize Body. CLEVELAND MAN OUTLINES PLANS Daniel ■ Farrell Heads Tem porary Organization at Meeting. Organisation of the Atlanta Builders' Exchange was begun at a meeting of fifty prominent builders and material men In the chamber of commerce offices In the Empire building Wednesday at 1 o'clock. A charter will be applied for within the next low days and the new organization launched In a short while. George B. McMillan, president of the Builders' Exi iiahge, of Cleveland, Ohio, eras the chief epeaker. By giving i brief eynopele of the work of the Cleve land organlxatlon bp outlined a plan for the Atlanta body. "Tile doctore, the lawyers, the bank ers urn ail organlred," he said, ''anil for sdf-protectloh and the elevation of the buslnes-, the builders should or ganize, • In Cleveland ,w« have a splen did body which has taken a. prominent part in' the affairs of tho city for the poet ten yearn. "We have tho entire third floor of the chamber of' commerce building In Cleveland'and employ a secretary, an assistant secretary, a stenographer and two office boye for their entire time. It Is the duty of tho secretary to obtain as.much Information as possible about bulldlnr and each day he gives a report at a noon-day meeting. The average dally attendance. Including visitor*, was 276 last year, "W* sublet space In the exchange to material men who have exhibits there. They have desk room In the exchange and we derive In thin way mure than enough money to pay the rental of the floor. I think this plan would prove successful In Atlanta. "We have legislative, smoke-abate ment, aoclal membership, and other committees which look arter the vari ous lines of work of the exchange. Our membership Includes practically every contractor and many material men. In Importance we rank second to the Chamber of Commerce. "The bettor you builders know each other the better will conditions be. The builders hare been greatly Imposed upon In the past, and It la up to them to organize. They can be of great help to each other. The exchange'will fur nish a fine place for meeting." The meeting was called to order by W. D. Dlsbro, of the Woodward Lum ber Company. D. A. Farrell, of the Farrell Plumbing and Heating Compa. ny. who hat been active In starting the new organisation, was elected tempor ary chairman, and Introduced Mr. Mc Millan. V. H. Krlegshaber was chosen tem porary secretary. It was decided to elect no permanent officers at this time. An organisation committee of seven members will be appointed by the tem porary chairman at a later date. A unanimous vote In favor of organ- Ing was given, and, after extending a vote of thanks to George R Mr- Mlllan, of Cleveland, Ohio, the meeting adjourned; subject to the call of the temporary chairman. Following la a list of the charter member* of the exchange: Sanitary Plumbing Company. Smith Simpson Lumber Company. Wood- Contlnuad on Page Two. E Governor Smith Makes Statement to Mr. Wright. ANY CHANGES MUST BE BY ITS FRIENDS Rome Paper Publishes In terview Which He Says Is Practically Correct. THREE LOSE LIVES IN TROLLEY CRASH NEW ORLEANS, Mareh 4.—One of the worst street car wrecks of the year from the point of lose of Ilfs occurred last night. As the reeult of a car run ning Into a heavy wagon the following are dead: LOUISA DeROUSSELL. aged 46. LOUISA H1CK8. aged 21. VIVIAN LICKS, 14 monthe old. all negroes. * Two osiers were Injured. That Governor Hoko Smith will veto any amendment to the prohibition law not backed by the frlenda of the law, la stated In an Interview In The Rome Tribune-Herald of Tuesday. That pa per publishes an interview with Sea born Wright. In which Mr. Wright makes the direct atatement that Gov ernor Smith had stated that he would veto any amendment to the prohibi tion bill that might be passed by the next general assembly. When shown this Interview Wed nesday morning. Governor Smith ad mitted Its practical correctness, but declined to dlecuts tho matter further. In his McRae speech last November Governor Smith stated this In sub- stanco. He said tlmo might prove that certain modifications would bo advisa ble. His statements to Mr. Wright, however, would Indicate that he does not think tho tlmo has come yet for any changes whatever In the law. The Trlbuno-Herald article was as follows: Statement to Wright “Governor Hoke Smith Is not In fa vor of any amendmsnt of the prohibi tion law. Not only Is this true, but If any amendment Is pasted at tho next session of the legislature, he will veto the bill, unless the amendment be In troduced by friends of prohibition. "This positive statement was made by Governor Smith on Saturday to Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Rome, the leader of the prohibition forces. “It has been stated lately that the liquor fi rms ure organizing for an at tack on the Georgia prohibition law at the coralnr session of the legislature. An Interview given out by Governor Smith some weeks ago to the efTect that he did not expect to see prohibition In Its strict Georgia form spread over the country, has been taken In some quar ters a* meaning that the Governor would lend hi* sanction to "light wine" amendment*. The controversy as to what position the governor really oc cupied ha* waged very warm for the past week between the Atlanta news papers. Thla positive etatement glv en authoritatively to Mr. Wright will set nt rest the controversy and will make the assurance of the prohibition cohorts doubly certain. In speaking to a Tribune-Herald reporter of the mat ter on Monday. Mr. Wright exhibited very evident satisfaction over the gov ernor's assured position. "It Is a well known fact that Gover nor Smith was not an advocate of the present liquor laws of Georgia, but that he favored local option. It Is very natural, therefore, that the liquor forces had looked to him with at least a faint hope of assistance. In their desire to break down the barrier so as to allow the sole of beer and wine. It not of whisky. The position of the chief ex ecutive as announced In this Interview will mean that If the opponents gain any victory this year they will have to get it by a two-thlrda vote of the leg- lalature. It requires a two-thlrda vott to override the governor'* veto. "It Is possible that the prohibition- late will want to make some few amendments to the law, with especial reference to locker clubs. Such amendments aa these, Mr. Smith will not oppose." Bank Is Chartarsd. A charter wa* granted by the aecre- tary of state Wednesday to the Bank of Mitchell In Glascock county. It has a capital stock of 226,404, and among the Incorporators are J. H. Battle, Ruth H. Tufts and J. M. Nunn. WEAR “HOME MADE” BUTTON, SUGGESTS CHAIRMAN PAXON F. J. Paxon, chairman of the committee on commerce of the Chamber of Commerce, who has been ono of the leading advocates of the organiza tion of a Consumers' League, suggests that the members of the league, when organized, be furnished with buttons which they will wear when shopping, these buttons bearing the name of the league. “The buttons will advertise the league," stated Mr. Paxon, “and a woman not a member, when seeing this button, will be reminded of the fact that she Is pot a member—It will be a constant reminder to her and will probably lead her to enlisting tn tho cause of home-made goods. "The merchant, upon Bering this button, will be led to purchase more liberally of home-mado goods. The clerk will be led to display home made goods without being asked. It will be a tremendous aid to the movement.' “The Chamber of Commerce can furnish the buttons or some other organization can. The expense will be small. This, however, Is a detail that con be worked out later.” A TLANTA WOMEN WILL INSIST ON BUYING (< HOME MADE" GOODS IN HOME STORES Federation of Clubs Will Take Up New Movement. The Atlanta Federation of Women's Clubs, consisting of more than 2,000 At' lanta women, will toko up. the move ment for the purchase of home-made goods. The Consumers* Lcaguo, which will bo organized by the committee on com merce from the Chamber of Commerce, will have as a nucleus those 2.000 members of Atlanta'* women's clubs. Mrs. Sam D. Jones, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs, Is en thusiastic In her Indorsement of tha movement and of the suggestion that tho federation take up the work, nnd will call a meeting of the executive board for one day next week to take action. The executive board comprises the presidents of each of the thirty-one clubs In Atlanta embraced within tho i.rgnnlzMtton, and of the four officers of the federation. The executive board has authority to act for tha entire membership of the federation. "Personally," stated Mrs. Jones to The Georgian Wednesday morning, "I favor heartily and enthusiastically the movement nnd I will use my Influence to have the federation take up the work. I know that practically all the women of Atlanta feel as I do about tho movement, and I anticipate no trouble and no opposition to having tho federation organise and become a part of the Consumers’ League." Nothing could give stronger Impetus nor flrmer foothold to the movement Continued on Pag* Two. LATE CITY PRIMARY THIS YEAR, SAYS Race Won’t End Until Sep tember or October, Next. Atlanta's city primary will not be held until next fall, probably In Sep tember or October. Chairman W. W. Gaines, of the city Democratic executive committee, stated to The Georgian Wednesday morning that he would not call a .nesting of the committee for the purpose.of setting a primary date until late In the summer, and the primary, therefore, could not be set for before September or October. "My reasons for this steps." said Mr. Gaines, "are these. The primary wa* always held In the fall until two years ago, but for the past two years It has been held In the summon There are too many people away from the city at that time, and they have no opportu nity to vote. "Another reason Is that the primary should I"' set II , II. '.II I" I III' I In tlon ns possible. If the primary Is held I"" for ahead, the whole P'.llli'ol 1111- atlon may undergo a ehange The • I". 11' 'll Comes "ff early 111 In oilier." Many candidates for city offices have already announced. The primary this year will nominate every officer in the city list. HOW ESCAPE Clears Jailers and All Complicity in Escape. SAWED BOLTS OUT OF HIS CELL LOCK Job So Skilfully Done That Any Expert Would Have Been Deceived. UNCLE REMUS’S PURCHASES HOME MAGAZINE AND WILL CONSOLIDATE PERIODICALS $12,000 OF CERTIFICATES STILL HELD BY PUBLIC Despite the fart that the Atlanta Clearing House Association Issued a formal announcement on January 1# that all certificate* would be re tired. there were 112,000 of certlflcates tn the hand* of the people Wed nesday momlnr. The certificates were Issued on October 20. 1907. The vote was to Is sue 22,000.000 of them, but the greatest amount In the hand* of the peo ple et any one time was 2996,400. on December 6. All the certificates outstanding are still protected, 11.60 of negotiable collateral protecting each dollar of certificates. Uncle Remus's Magazine has secured by purchase at a figure aald to be more than 2160,004 the Home Magazine. Is sued for ten years by the Bobbs-Mer- rill Company of Indianapolis. With the May Issue The Home Maga zine will be discontinued and Its con solidation with Uncle Remus's Maga zine consummated, the magazine In the future to be Issued from the splendid plant of the company In Atlanta, under the editorship of Joel Chandler Harris. It mean* a great Increase In the pub lishing business of Atlanta and the vol ume of second-class mall sent out from the city. It Is announced that no change In the name or Haft of Uncle Remus's Mag azine will take place becauae of the consolidation. This consolidation gives the Atlanta magazine a circulation of 272,000. The Home Magnzlne has circulation of 206.000 and Untfle Re mus's Magazine 71,400. Roby Roblnaon, president of the Un cle Remus’s Company, returned Wed nesday afternoon from Indianapolis and Is enthusiastic over the purchase of The Home Magazine. "It will mean an enlargement of our office force and other employees," ha aald, "and will be a great thing for At lanta. The Impression has prevailed that no magaalne could prosper outside of New York city. Jhe Home Maga zine prospered In Indianapolis and Un cle Remus's prospered In Atlanta. The South, the southwest and the middle west have most of the money now, any way. after good crops, and we shall show them that Atlanta la the place for a big magazine." The purchase of The Home Maga alne is outright, consisting of the cir culation. good will and advertising contracts. The advertising contracts are subject to such restrictions as the Atlanta magaslne place* on matter of that character admitted to Its columns. Some weeks ago tha Rnbbs-Merrill . jmpany sold The Reader Magazine to the I’utnams. This is followed now by the sale of The Home Magazine to Un- JULIAN HARRI8. Business Manager of Remus's Magaslne. erary lights as James Whitcomb Riley, Meredith Nicholson and others. Some time ago. learning that tha Bobbs-Merril! Company purposed re llnqulshlng Its magazines altogether. If their price could be secured, negotl*' tlons were opened with the company by tha publishers of Uncle Remus's. There were many offars for The Home Mag aalne, but the owners held steadily to their price. After a full Investigation nnd find Ing every claim made by the Bohbs- Merrill Company as represented, the deal was closed for tho consolidation with Uncle Remus's. Messrs. Roby Robinson and Julian Harris went to Indianapolis to perfect the details of the negotiations. This deal gives Uncle Remus’s Maga slne tremendous Impetus, and for the first lime the South has a magazine founded on a national scope. That fart _ waa true of the magaslne before the cle Remus's Magaslne. Throughout the) purchase, but the acquiring of the new West particularly. The Home Magazine | magazine undoubtedly places It In the has a large following, and has been I very front rank of magazines. It makes esteemed as a high class publication. I Atlanta the magazine i-ubll-hlng center it had us regular contributors such lit- of the South. George Barton, alleged cracksman, has broken his sllenco, and In a com plete confession Wednesday morning as to the manner In which he and John Harper escaped from the Tower a few weeks ago revealed one of the clever est pieces of work on rocord by prison ers In an effort to gain freedom. Barton's story solves the mystery of how the two men got out of their cells und out of the stcol cage, leaving ths cage door locked and apparently un molested, and also clears James Brown, former night Jailer, of any complicity In tho escape. He declares that Joe Williams, the trusty who has admitted that hr unlocked the door and turned the prisoners out, and John Groves, the other Indicted trusty, had nothing to do with the escape and knew nothing of It. He says ho and Harper planned and executed the escape from start to finish without the slightest outside assistance. In planning and executing their es cape. the prisoners displayed unpar alleled skill. The sawing of the bolts of the cell lock was so cleverly done and tho methods taken to conceal their effort to escape wore so successfully m c-’iiipiisli' .1 that ev n a clone Inspec tion of tho cage after the escape wa* effected would never hnve revealed the work that had been done. Sheriff Nelms stated Wednesday that It was the most skillful piece of work he "V.T raw iii'.'l declare' 1 mat tho manner In which tho prisoners escaped from tho cell would have always remained a mystery had Barton chose to keep si lent. Barton says he was prompted to make a full confession In order to pre vent Innocent men from being pun ished. They Used No Keys. According t'l Barton, whose state ments arc borno out by unmistakable evidence In the cage, no keys wore used at all. The two men actually sawed their way out of the big steel cage, which appeared even unscratched, and did euch a neat Job that It was never discovered. There was not tho least suspicion that tho escape hud been ef fected In this way until Barton first made his confession to Jailer Hollo way and then voluntarily went to the north wing with Jailers Fain and Hol loway nnd Engineer Howard and ea- plalned every detail, pointing nut tha Continued on Page Three. LEE ENTERS RACE FOR U, SENATE Deadlock Is Unbroken by Third Joint Bal lot. being » ittiTot ^ COLUMBIA, 8. .. „„„ ballot for aenntor resulted in I>. Lee, of Humter. I tom l**t night. .Thi Name. IIow. Ser .vis Mnulilln 12 Coker 20 i«*j^ | A majority' of ‘those’ voting I to e duties. Total vote cast After the second ballot. the ■emhly rested from balloting til at noon. 4.—The flr.t WHAT CONGRESS DID WEDNESDAY! WASHINGTON, March 4.—Senator Hopkins addressed the agnate today In ipport of the Aldrhh currency blit Senator Tillman's resolution. call in* for exhaustive reports from New Tork banka ** to the loan* on collateral se curity, waa referred to th** senate com mute.* after a .sharp debate. The house considered the postoffioe appropriation bill.

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Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, March 04, 1908, Image 1