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"V t* <0# ' £ . . ' : iijfcJCtv ■Wr — the weather. Continual cloudy und unsettled weather Thursday nlKht and Fri day. Thursday temperatures: 7 tu m 60 degrees: 10 a. m„ 01 degrees: jj noon, 64 degrees: 2 p. m„ 60 degrees. A\ -v' AND NEWS 8P0T COTTON. Liverpool, stonily; r, n. Atlanta, steady; 115-1*5. Nf*w Orleans, steady; 116-16. .Ww York. quiet; 11 55. Augusts, steady; UV4. Savannah, steady; 11%. Wilmington. quiet; 11%. Memphis, steady; 11%. Houston, dull; 11%. VOL. VI. NO. 183. ATLANTA, GAv, THURSDAY, .MARCH 5, 1908. PRIfiR- is Atlanta..TWO CBNTfi *. nivuj. On Trains..FIvg CBNTfi. LIHLE GIRLS He Sounded the Fire Drills and Opened Doors. SIXTY BODIES YET • TO BE IDENTIFIED White Crepe Fluttering From Many Doors Tells of Sorrow. tKH>oo<H5oaoo<H>oot^oo0CKjoao 2 ONE GREAT FUNERAL. O a ONE BIG MONUMENT FOR 0 O DEAD SCHOOL CHILDREN. O O O CLEVELAND, Ohio, March B.— 0 a Colllngwood will, bury Its dead In 0 O one great funeral, probably Frl- O Oday; one fund will pay the cost O 0 of the burial and one field will 0 O hold the little bodies: one great O O monument will mark the spot. 0 O Partial arrangements for the fu- 0 0 neral were completed today at a 0 0 Joint session of the council and 0 0 board of education, preachers and 0 ^ 0 undertakers. The field will be O ^ O purchased by the city unless prl- 0. 0 vate funerals are desired.^J3erv- 0 0 tees will be held In all churches O the same time. The Colllngwood 0 •O council, the presB of QleveTand and 0 0 the business men. are extending O O aid to the sufferers. » O « 000000000000000O0OO0O0O0OO CLEVELAND. Ohio, Msroh 5.—Sov- ,ral more charred corpses were brought out of the ruins of the Colllngwood school this morning. It Is now certain that jke dead In -this terrible holocaust will reach nnd even surpass the num ber of J00. ' * The searchers have not penetrated to all parts .of the basement, but expect to do to this afternoon. . A stream of heart-broken women went thru the morgue this morning, looking carefully at the charred bodies, shaking their heads and paiklng on. Immediately after an Inspection, which failed to result In finding the body of a son or {laughter, a woman would Join tho throng In front of the ruins and await tho finding of other bodies. . One hundred and seventy-one bodies have been taken from the ruins. Janitor Testifies. A conference ovum held this morning by Deputy Flrd Marshal Brockman, James Ilauder, president of the board of education; Coroner Burke and Fred Herter. the Janitor. Janitor Herter testified that the first knowledge he had of the fire was from a young girl In tho basement. Herter raid: "I ran up stairs nnd gave the signal for fire drill—three taps of tho gong. Then I threw open all of the doors leading to the .outside of the building. These consisted of two double pairs of Boors In the from and rear of the build ing. After that I did all In my power to ild In rescuing pupils." Stairway Crushed Many. The testlmqpy as* to which way the rear doors opened Is conflicting. The plans of the school show the rear doors opening out, not In. Whether they were built according to the plan Is vary much In dispute. The evidence la, of course, destroyed.. According to the story of one lad who is dying In the hospital, the stair way to the second floor fell In, bury ing many helpless little ones In the blazing debris. Material distress has existed In Col llngwood for months, due to the fact ’hat many factories have been partial- a# #Anil1lae nro tt'lfti. ly closed. Scores of families are with out money or food. Physicians are do ing heroic work to relieve suffering of Injured children and prostrated pa rents, but without money many fear to seek aid. Over f)lxty Bodi.a Unidentified, r sixty bodies remdln to be Iden tified and It Is possible that many of them will go to one grave. The cloth ier was burned entirely oft three corpses and there remained not a vei- of anything upon which parents could bass Identification. ■ The majority of those unknown thus fsr art boys. As a rule the little gl: IrU "ore some trinket of Jewelry which was readily recognized. Governor Harris has Instructed the Proper authorities to make a complete Investigation and ascertain the cause of holocaust as well as make every ‘Sort to place the responsibility. , Janitor Dazed by Death. Herter, the janitor, said this morn- DISASTER BRINGS MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY FROM MISS BOOTH NEW YORK, March 5.—Evangeline Bodth, commander of tho Salva tion Army, today sent a message of sympathy to Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, as follows: "The news of the terrible calamity which has befallen so many of your homes hot come to me on the eve of my departure for Cleveland. Would that human heart and hand could assuage that sorrow and grief that tears the hearts of the bereaved. , \Yc would stand powerless and de spairing In the face of such an awful catastrophe, carrying on Its fiery billows so many precious and belovod children, save for the strength that comes from the seriousness of the depth of human sympathy never be fore reached .have been opened throughout the whole world and that pity and compassion of Him who loves them most will sustain every heart pierced by this agony. "Should there be any service our people might be able to render, com- ' EVANGELINE BOOTH." mand them. Governor Smith To Speak Next Monday at 11 O’clock. Governor Smith will make the open ing speech In his campaign for a sec ond term Jn Decatur on next Monday morning at 11 o’clock. Citizens of Decatur and DeKalb county have Invited him to speak then, ar.d tho governor will speak jipon polit ical Issues, both past and thoso pro posed for the future. He will speak again on March 17 in Covington. It le the present purpose of tho gov ernor to make at least one speech’In each of the eleven congressional dis tricts before the June primary. If pos sible he will make more. The governor considers that the public la entitled to know Just what has been accomplished and what he Is still seeking to accom plish In connection with state affairs. His official duties will render It Im possible to devote any large amount of BIBLE CONFERENCE OPENS THURSDAY AT TABERNACLE Great Religious Meeting to Continue Until . 'March 16. ONLY ILLEGAL CLUBS HIT BIT COURT 8AVANNAH, Gl., March 5.—In re sponse to numerous Inquiries tut to the effect Judge Speer’s ruling In the Fed eral court will have on the social club, It la stated that social clubs,’such as tho Oglethorpe, have not been mention ed In the warfare against the so called "locker clubs” which jiprang up by tho dozens In Savannah upon closing of the saloons on January 1. In these locker clubs whisky was sold over ths counter, the only require, ment being that the purchaser be a member of the club. The only thing election by those In the club room at any time, no matter how few. THOM80N, Ga., March 5.—William Shank, a negro, working for B. F. Johnson, was struck and almost In stantly killed by passenger train No. 2 os It was slowing up for Thomson. THEN ENDED LIFE Marietta Stone Cutter Dies as Act of Own Hands. W. D. BROWN. Killed himself in ths presence of his wife and baby. Continued on Page Twelve. COO000OO0OO0000O000000000O o DOOR OPENING INWARD 0 X COST 8CORE8 OF LIVES. 0 O MARIETTA! Os., March B^-W. 8. Brown, a stone cutter In the employ .k. ukVaai UarhU fnmnanv. com- ® CLEVELAND, March B—When O 2 'he head of the fire drill line O “ reached a rear door In the North 0 Z ~°HIngwood school Wednesday O I naming one boy tried to pull the O JJ door toward him. In his terror O JJ another Y>Ojr thought he could do O r . There was a scramble and O a ,, •» * SIC# 0 Mila ii - ;i A1IIU1C KIIU ft went down. The feeling O JJ w danger wu everywhere and O JJ other pupils near the door fell and O others added to the confusion until O n l h,r f * u *• heap. The line could 0 2 52! h<>,<1 ■ n< l broke Into confusion. O 5 /"to small dttall of th>- door open- 0 ” log Inward proved costly. of tha McNael Marble Company. com- mltted aulcldcby ahootInf himself thru the bead with a pistol The tregedy occurred at his home at *:W o clock, in the presence Of hla wife and J-year- old daughter. * . Brown left the house toon after ttrown s.w—« ■ breakfast to go to his work as usual. - ck In a few minutes, an- but came back m » : tered the room where hla wife was Sitting, placed a small sum of money In the baby’s pocket, told her good- bye. took a pistol from the mantel piece and without aayhtg a word to hla Wl No’re»so!i n fnr f thi art Is known, but It la stated that he and hla wife did HWSWWMW Oidand had lived at ami near Marietta all his oo O0OO0O5O00OCOOOOOOO0OOOO diet of lum uvea til biiu —• *— life. Tie coroner’s Jury found a ver- ‘ suicide. Will Meet Next Thurs day For Organiza tion. FRANK E. BLOCK CO. INDORSES MOVEMENT ‘Made in Atlanta” League Is Name Suggested by Mrs. Ottley. Acttvei steps looking to the perma nent organization of tho Consumers’ League will be taken by the executive board of the City Federation of Wom en's Clubs at a meeting to be held at the home of the president, Mrs. Sam D. Jones, next Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock. • Mrs. Jones announced to The Geor gian that this time has been deter mined upon tor the federation to vote whether or not It will actively take charge of the organization of the Con sumers’ League. It Is proposed that the City Fed eration -of Women's Clubs aid the com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce In the establishment of the principle of buying home-made product* In pref erence to all others, everything else be pSSHBBSXBBUMHHiKifniKn of committee of tho Chamber of Com merce. that she will call a meeting of the executlvo board, which has the au thority to act for the entire federa tion. * . Mr,. Paxon Is very much pleased. Mrs. Jones herself Is enthusiastically favor of the city federation or- Ivlnir Ihs ronRiinisW T.eiiirm* which REV. a CAMUELL MORGAN. He yiill Arrive in Time to Open e i .• Tabernacle Conference.’ Prominent preachers and Hihle schol ars from Oil over the country Will be present Thursday night in the Baptist Tabernacle when Rev. Dr. O. Campbell Morgan, of London, opens the ninth annual Tabernacle Bible Conference. Than It. Morgan few pro:,, he is no- better known the world over, and he Is one of the foremost Bible scholars liv ing. t’p to nnd Including .March is the conference will be In session, nnd dur ing that time men famous In the study of theology Will take prominent pnrts In the sessions of the conference. The first session will open at 7:30 o’clock Thursday night, with Dr. Len G. Broughton presiding, and until the conference closes there will be six serv. ices dally. Others who will take part are Dr. James Utichanon, formerly of Edinburgh, Scotland: Dr. Elmore Harris, of Toronto; Rev. A. C. Dixon, of Chicago; Melvin E. Trotter, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and W. R. Moody, of East Northfleld, Mass. Hundreds of Bible teachers and preachers promi nent In every section of the country ence. and It la expected to bn the most successful In the history of the Tabenwcle. A feature of the ten days be the musical program, the Taber nacle choir having been trained by Pro fessor B. C. Davis for an elaborate pro gram. FDR GOOD OF CITY? John E. Murphy Makes Significant Sugges tion at Meeting.' “I believe In talking out in meeting. Personally, I think the time will romr when the Chamber of Commerce will have to Uka a band Jn city politics.'* of directors of the Cham tier of Commence, Wednesday afternoon, when the l*axon resolution to Invcstljrate and and Cason resolution to investigate and rt upon the Deed, wisdom, feasibility timeliness of a $1,000,000 I Kind issue for public Improvements was being die- ••However, ttntt should not lx» our In tention In tbit rase,” continued Mr. Mhr- The bond Its Or should he put up • council for Ita decision. But there arc Two or three directors of the made remarks to the effect that they agreed that the time was mining when the rhanitM-r would he railed upon to take part In politics. Others expressed contrary opinions. Uavld Woodward, former vice president of the chamber, urged that the chamber * clear bf politics. IT L Foreman saM: -f think when ail Issue la of public In terest. the Chamber of Commerce sui.tild ukeasirt In ft, whether It be of poUtlcs — nm." • Mr. Morphy was asked Thursday morning If hft had reference to any abn-lfir mnt- ‘ h be spokt% in favor of the Chun- Commerce taking .a band In poll- tli-e. •*l had refereuce to nothing' In pnrtlcii- lar.” answered Mr. Mnrpbr. Tuft to every thing In Kfurnl. I think the l>ualne*s men of Atlanta should take a greater In terest In loeal affair*, ami tbs Cbamlwr ganlzlng tho Consumers’ League, which will consist of the Bhoppers of Atlanta and the members <>f which nhall al ways demand to see Atlanta-made goods and give the preference to She anticipates that the federation will gladly glvo Its sanction to the or ganization, that the executive board will voto to aid In the work of or ganization. and that tho 2.000 members of the federation will Join the league gladly and without exception. of the city federation, a former pres dent nnd at present a member of the executive board. "I am heartily In favor of 1L" stated Mrs. Pattlllo, "and I approve of the federation taking up this splendid work. The ladles of Atlanta certainly could not be engaged In a more useful work." Mrs. Nellie Peteri Black, another of the former president/ of the city Fed eration of Women's Clubs, expressed similar views on the subject. "I nm entirely In sympathy with the movement." stated Mrs. Blnck. "I fa vor encouraging home manufacturers and, I am willing to do what I can, nnd I think the Federation will do what It can to organize such a league.” "I approve of the organization of such a league.” stated Mrs. El O. Mc Cabe, a former president of the Feder ation, "Just as I would approve of any thing looking to ths upbuilding of our city. The plan meets with my hearty approbation. I win j->in it And win d<> everything In my power to make It a great Influence for good." Mrs. John K. Ottley, whose-views on such mutters are always Interesting and worth while, also Indorses the plan enthusiastically, at the some time tak ing exception to the name propoaed. "Mad* In Atlanta” Leagu*. think It a magnificent project," stated Mr*. Ottley, "and tha auncaroful organization of the league will bring no eqjd of good to our city. I will cer tainly Join the league and do what I can to make It a success. At the same time, I think It would be unwise to coll It the Consumers' I,engue. "There Is -now a national organiza tion. with local branches all over the country, called tlfe Consumer*' League. ’I don't think we can call our or ganization that. I know we should not do so. It would be confusing In the 'onsumera' League has In'vlew object different from that of the league we are proposing to organize. I think the Made In Atlanta League would be a much better name." J -tu-.3 UK-u of Atlanta.” ztlcn tl the ich better name. ‘.Anything the City Federation of Women’* Club* takes hold of ‘looks good i<* me.’ ’’ was the terse comment of Mr*. Hamilton Douglas. ’This plan,” added Mrs. Douglas. "I* a splendid one and I agree with every word that Mrs. Jones has said in the Indorsement of the league and of the suggestion that the City Federation aid In It* organi zation." Letter from Mr. Block, *t. Elmo Msssengale. -hnlruwiti -of tbs i-otumlttes on lutuvllsnevos Industrie* of lbs t’hnndier of Cotntoen-e. has received Hu- following letter froei the Frank E. Block Co.: Hear Hlf: Voor letter of recent date. IVe are deeply Intere-ted- In the pro posed cnuipelgn for the ’Home lather sad feel that n well-directed effort to Impress on onr fellow-eltlseos the lni|mrtnure of K triHdiliic home Industry ran do more in anyihlng else to make Georgia gnat and wealthy. "Those not eugsged In the mnnnrarinr- iit linatnne In Atunla here little Ides of the smell percentage of home-made .food nr.-lnrts pnrriusct he Atlanta merchants. A careful serve, of the situation wttl show shut food nredacts made In fhattanoom. Memphis. Ulrhinond. New York and Chi cago. nllbo Ihw never excel and rarely equal the qnsUty of Atlanta made goo-ls. Hitchcock Arraigns Prin) Paper Trust in House. WAYS COMMITTEE PARTY TO BIG PLANS E Aged Planterand Wife Are Murdered at Empires MONEY IN HOME N'OT DISTURBED Nebraskan Charges Trusts Man Found Dead in Lot, Write Own Schedules Into Tariffs. WASHINGTON, March 5s—Declar ing that tyie ways and means commit tee, either knowingly or In Ignorance, haa been a party to “gigantic Bchemes of plunder," Representative Hitchcock, of Nebraska, yesterday told his col leagues In the house that the paper trust wrote into* the Dlngley bill the paper schedule; that the lumber tcuiit wrote the lumber schedule, the nteel trust thg ateel schedule and other trusts tho schedules affecting their respective Interests. He particularly attacked the paper trust. ■ Ho declared and substantiated his declaration by the printed records that the newspaper proprietors had vigor ously protested fagalnst the proposed tariff on wood pulp and paper at the time the Dlngley bill was under con sideration and that their representa tives before the ways and means com mittee dally warned .Mr. Payne’s com mittee that the paper manufacturers were seeking the tariff aa a shelter un der which to create a great print paper tnist He said' that former Congressman Russell, a paper manufacturer; former Senator Warner Miller and H. J. Chis holm, of Maine, all had spoken before the committee*in advooacy of the tariff, and he charged that six month* after the Dlngley law went Into effect the International Paper Company was lif- (rm cprporated with the three gentlemen as its highest officers. The reAl object of those who had se cured the Dlngley tariff on paper, he declared, was to capitalize the water power and spruce forests of the United States, form a great monopoly, and raise the price of print paper In Amer ica. OF DERBY MURDER Man Held in ’Orleans Says He Was in Atlanta at Time. NEW ORLEANS. Maroh V«he- ment denial wo, made today by George Hamilton and Charle* Weatherby. the of A. H. Berry, the young Georgian ,, at a hotel at Nor- hatllng from Rome, folk, Va. Both men denied being In Altho their stone, are conflicting. Weatherby aaylng he met Hamilton here In November lost, while Hamilton claimed being In Atlanta at that time. Both prisoners claim’they have no aliases and that the names under which they are held are their right one,. Hamilton admit, disposing of a val uable diamond ring while here, pawn ing It and afterward selling the ticket, and the police hope by recovering this to establleh nn Important clow In the Norfolk murder. , - Wife Dying in Home. HAWKINSVILLE, Ga., March S. Yesterday Warren Hart was murdered at his home, six miles east of Hawklns- vllle. His wife was also mortally wounded. • Mr. Hart and wife, an aged couple, lived near Bailey’s Park, In Pulaski county. They had about $1,600 lp tho hopse, which was not disturbed. Mr. Hart was found by neighbors lying In his horse lot dead with a deep gash on the head. His wife was found In her kitchen In a dying condition. Both had wounds from sharp Instruments llko an Mrs. Hart died last night without re gaining consciousness. The two ne groes, Jerry Buskin and Clinton John son, first arrested suspected of com mitting tho deed, were released. Two other negro'’* were caught by a band of angry men last night, accused of the crirtfe and put to death. There are many armed citizens In tho community who fear further trou ble. •2,000 IN HART HOME WA8 NOT DI8TURBED. EASTMAN, Ga., March 6.—Warren Hart and wife were murdered at their home, two miles from Empire, between 6 and 0 o’clock yesterday morning. It dered couple reached the home shortly after the homicide and found the body of Hart lying In tho horso stable with his skull broken In apd Mrs. Hart was found In the house with her entire skull crushed. It Is supposed Hart was attacked while feeding nls horses, and that the murderer was frightened away by tho approach of hls nephew, as nothing was missing from the house. Two thousand dollars was later found In the houfee. DR.WHITETOPREACH TO ROCKEFELLER Will Fill Fulpit of Cleveland Church Next August. Rev. John B White, paitor of the Stoond Baptist church, will preach to John D. Rockefeller next summer. In response to an Invitation from the pna- tor. Dr. Whlto will supply the pulpit of 111.- Kiii-!li! -.1 v*-. Il.il M -I ' li'H 1 h. '•< Cleveland. Ohio. In August. John D. Rockefeller la a member and a con stant attendant at this church. This will not be the first time Dr. Whits has preached before him. He ha* known Mr. Rockefeller for yenre. Mikado Appears To Be Forcing Row on Emperor. JAPANESE REFUSE ANOTHER OFFER Contraband Trading Haa Continued Since Seiz- . ure of Tatsu. LONDON, March 5.—War Is unques* tlohabiy imminent between China and Japan. Members of the English gov ernment have believed until very lately that the continued squabbling between the two nations meant nothing serious. High officials at last are unofficially admitting, however, that there Is every appearance of the disposition on Ja pan’s part to force a quarrel on the Chinese. JAP BUDGET 18 PASSED BY HOU8E OF PEERS TOKIO, March 5.—The Japanese budget passed In the lower house Jan uary 16 passed tho house of peers without amendment yesterday. The government expenditures for 1908-09, as provided In the budget, are estimat ed at $307,876,000, one-third of which Is for tho maintenance of the army and navy. The receipts are estimated at $306,320,000. The budgot provides for an Increase In taxes on kerosene, alco hol and sugar to meet the deficiency* Japan Is preparing to send warships to China to enforce her demand for the Immediate and unconditional re lease of the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru, seized at Macao, on February 7, on suspicion of bringing arms and am munition for revolutionists. While the foreign office denies any hostile Intent, It Is nevertheless admitted that Jap anese warships will, as a matter of official procedure, visit the neighbor hood of tho Imprisoned ship. The Tatsu Maru Is now detained at Canton. Japan received replies today from Pekin. It Is admitted that they are not satisfactory. JAPAN READY FOR WAR, 8AY8 REP. R. P. HOB80N. WASHINGTON, March 5.—“I ain not at all surprised,” said Representative Richmond P. Hobson today, when hls attention was called to the threat of war Japan Is reported to have made ngnlrist «'lilniL Captain Hobson Is rec ognized In congress as an authority on Oriental questions. “Japan Is ready for any Invasion of China," ho continued, “having prepared for It by tho organization of six di visions of cavalry. “These powers with Oriental ambl- Mrs. D. Ssncken. AUGU8TA, Ga., March 5,—Mrs. D. Sancken. wife of one of the most prom inent German citizens of Augusta, died at their home here yesterday at 4 o’clock. Mrs. Sancken was C3 years old and a native of Germany. Sho and her husband have been living in Au gusta for the past forty-two years. FIRE DRILLS EMPTY SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA IN A MINUTE; 10TH-ST. DRILLS THURSDA Y When the cry of ’’Fire!" rang out la th. Tenth .!, ichool In Atlanta Thurmlajr more Ing th. 4M pupil* roao at their (Iraki, pick ed up lltelr hook, rod marched out Into the .tract In reguUr order nnd wlthwut writ* ment. for the lire drill Ii « common .«ynt- ranee In Atlanta rahool.. and the children welcome It aa a Mnxntlon from ntudlea. Keren I of tha Atlanta arhoota held M drill. Thnradajr. for the newe of the Hr. In the CoUlngwood ochool In Cl.-j.lnnd, ghlo. \Vfdn.»dnr hnd net every t.Ieh.r In th. \Vfdn.»-lny hnd net .very traen.r la in. rlty to thinking, aa It hnn th. paranta of the thouannda of pnplln. Many of the tra.h.r. rafrntn<-I from drllln on ’rhur.dnj, li.ll.rlnK that tb. thought of the n.r.- Innd lira might ranee an nnunnnl eirite- ment on tb. day following, lint In the iilPiii on im* iiMWMi*. •rhools wbsffe tho drills ti.«k pl^co there was ss perfevt dhler * ns always. ther than 'the uptown streets of Atlanta, the pupils of the frew-st. srbool were nuurenlng out *»f the t»tc double liulldlng In rfect order and with ns thought of tbs Krror 1 In’ the «Tty far swnr. It r -.k jost one minute for the _ pupils to leave the two buildings, ami nt tho end of three minutes they were back U» tbelr seats. Liko a Real Fire. The Atlanta Are drill Is very like the rent thing. The pupils hare no Inf line timi of It. When the prlurlpnl derides U[n>q the drill she notifies the Jmirofs to raise n cry «»f •’Fire!’’ In the corridors. Bella ore MMUxlrd, Continued on Psfle Thirteen. irr . Ill nmi'iinn, iee-aij» .it the tcirhera and pupils ruareh % ont of tli- rooms iml down the stairs to tb«* street. sfbM mertasr whothar ftp—» a real ure or not unless it had gsln«'d great headway before the alarm, not nn easy oc currence In the day, under the eyea of the employees. *••1 am satisfied there Is no danger, of n disastrous dre In an Atlanta school/' said Professor I*. M. Lsndnnn, antatant au/terln- tsndent «>f public schools. Thursday morn ing, after witnessing the drill at the Tenth- st. school. **Wo have only two biddings of more than two storlea. the two high schools. The doors of all schools open out pi* stairways. The fco drills tire as nearly perfect as possible. At the Ulris* High School, two big brick three-story buildings, there U additional protection furnished bjr #Mo pah*ng«*wairi between the two buUdlng*. If fire rdiould break out In one It would !*•* for the cb the street thru tin pnplln to reach the street thru the other. There are $M girls In the Idg school, and at the last drill, a few days ago. It re quired three minutes to empty the bulldlngi ami two more mlootifi to «c*n«l the girls bock to their seats. Recent Fire Drills. Fire drills bare been held- recently In the Retl-st. s--b<xd. where the 400 piirdh were out In abort onler. nud nt the Boulevard school, where $30 pupQx left tho two lailld- fngn In Icm than one mlii'itc. At the Marl- etta-st. arb»H.l the las*, drill rent the out In one mlnnte. Bid weather ban prevented many drills within the pant few weeks, hut the pdwel ls all report tL ^ " they can remain In Asia only with ths consent of Japan. “Should Japan gain control of ths Pacific ocean after war with China tho next move would bo to bring about tho suppression of Oermany, then that of France/and, last of all. Great Britain. “The Instructions given to Chinese students who are Invited to Japan ami are then sent b^ck to China, In the em ploy of the Japanese government, la to teach the Chinese masses to hate for eigners and prepare for a great war, tho cry of wrhlch will be ‘Asia for Asiatics/ then America for Asiatics, and lastly, the world for the Asiatics.'* It was authoritatively announce^ at the state department today that r the demand of Japan for the return of the steamship Tatsu Maru from the Chl- v vrnment was justified, if the r, r- were ns stated by Japan. That Japan has made this demand and will stick to it Is a fact. JAPANE8E HAVE REFUSED SECOND CHINESE PROPOSITION. PEKIN, March 5,—Japan has refused the second Chinese proposition to ar bitrate the Tatsu Maru dispute. Vice Admiral Sir Arthur WllUam Moore, commanding the British China station. Is suggested as a mediator. 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