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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C,A„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013. GIFTS TO SCHOOL-BOOK Classes Begin Monday, and Un less You Heed Associated Char ities Appeal for Poor Youngsters 250 Children Will Be Barred. Nothing to Lose and Much to Gain in Giving to Educate Those Who Otherwise Are Likely to Become Charges of the City of Atlanta. Over your Sunday morning: break fast table, and In the lazy, luxurious moments that come after breakfast, listen to the last appeal of the 250 poor Atlanta children who are asking you through The Georgian and Sun day American and through the Asso ciated Charities to give them the chance for an education. This is the final appeal. School opens Monday, and unless the children are helped with a lit tle money and clothes, the cast-off clothing that is lying useless in your closets, they probably will be kept out of school this year altogether. Even going to public school requires a little money. There are books, you know, and a new pair of stockings, maybe. There is no money at home for these 250, and unless you help them they probably will be kept out this year. They probably will be kept out next year, a lot of them, because they will be bigger, and can work then in the mills and factories or on the street. Then it will be too late. Then their chances for an education will have gone glimmering, and a few more hampered, woefully handicapped citizens will be on the way to be coming the city’s burdens. Donations an Investment. It is something of an investment, that contribution you are going to make to the schoolbook fund of The Georgian and Sunday American. It is an investment # in humanity, where there is nothing to lose, and worlds to gain. The money sent to this office will be directed to the proper place for distribut'on. Not much money is needed. A dol lar will buy the outfits of the little tots, who need only a speller and a reader and the simplest of arithme tics. t Considerably more than that is necessary for the books of the older children, but altogether the request that is being made of Atlanta is ■mall. It is very' pleasant there in your Sunday morning home, isn’t it, in the luxurious period between breakfast CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCH00L=B00K FUND Georgian and Sunday Amer- ican ... $50.00 Cash .... 10.00 W. L. Peel .... 5.00 J. P. Allen .... 2.00 Cash .... 2.00 Cash .... 2.00 George Winship .... 25.00 M. W. Meyer .... 5.00 Fred Lewis .... 5.CO Mrs. J. T. Huss .... 5.00 Rutherford Lipscomb . .... 5.00 Ed Jones .... 5.00 H, A. Maire .... 5.00 Carl Hutcheson .... 1.00 Anon .... 1.00 Cash .... 3.00 Southern University of Music 5.00 J. O. Bagwell .... 1.00 Tiny Feet Trip Along Peachtree +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +§•!• Child’s 121 B’s Fit Miss Spalding +•+ +#+ +#4* +#+ Lovers Here Kneel atTrim Shrines Miss Elizabeth Spalding and her dainty foot, which is declared to be typical of Atlanta pedal extremities. .r<>. Conflagration Halted With De struction of Fifty-five Blocks, Leaving 2,500 Homeless. and church time, with the newspapers all about you? It is pleasant to read and to smoke and to be lazily con tented. But even that simple luxury of reading will be denied m$iny of the 250 unless you give them this year their chance to go to school. Face Spoiled Lives. Your Sunday mornings would be spoiled altogether but for your read ing. So would your life be spoiled but for your ability to read and to understand. It is just such a strait ened, spoiled career that confronts many of the poor children whose ap peal Is made to you to-day. In Atlanta to-day there are 250 children who can not go to school because they lack money to buy school books. There are 129 who can not go to school to-morrow because they have no clothes to wear. They can not face their companions with out shame. Some of them, even, can not leave their homes for want of clothing. Remember all this during your mo ments of contentment and leisure this morning. The 250 children most likely are not so contented to-day as you are. Most of them, eager to go to school, prob ably are very much dismayed over the fact that school opens to-morrow and there seems little chance for them to go. But of course they don’t know that you are going to help them get their chance. Rome Business Men Provide for Poor Children, ROME,, Sept. 6.—The free ^school book committee, consisting of a num ber of prominent business men, has taken up the work of providing school books for children unable to attend the public schools unless they are sex aided. HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Sept. 6.— Rain in copious quantities to-day proved a wonderful aid to the weary lighters among the smoldering ruins of the $6,000,000 conflagration which swept this city last night, devastating 55 blocks. The downpour allayed fears of a further spread of the flames, even should a wind arise. More than 2,500 persons are home less as a result of the fire, and are camping temporarily In the vicinity of the Oaklawn Race Track and State Fair Grounds. At a mass meet ing to-day, a committee was appoint ed to care for the homeless, and the work of furnishing food and cloth ing to them was started at once. Stragglers Line Roadway. Grand avenue, leading from the burned area to the fair grounds, to day presented a picturesque sight. 26,000 Ready for School; Record Attendance Seen It’s down to work, kiddies; no more morning play. Monday morning the bells in At lanta’s 47 public schools will toll va cation’s death and Bobbie, Helen and Jimmie must get out the old book straps. Twenty-six thousand children will get up a little bit earlier than they have for three months past; faces will be shining from a double rubbing, and there will be great scurrying as the minutes fly. The first day of the school term is always a puzzle to the kids. They can’t tell whether they are happy or sad. It’s hard for the good old va cation days to be gone, but still it’s mighty nice to get back with the old bunch at recess. Then there will be 1,000 new kid- lets, who will be away from mamma’s apron strings for the first time, and who will have something new to open their eyes about. The attendance last year was 24,- 065. The prospects are that the 26,- 000 mark will be touched by the end of this week. There is the problem of taking care of the ever-increasing attendance up on Atlanta’s public schools. Each year the Board of Education and City Council has been put to it to pro vide adequate facilities. But a way is always provided for taking care of every child and this year they have taken time by the forelock. Schools which gave indi cations of being overcrowded have been provided for by the renting of adjacent building? and equipping them as schoolrooms. These build ings will be used until the school structures can be enlarged or new buildings erected. Probably the busiest office in At lanta for the past ten days has been that of Superintendent of Schools William M. Slaton in the Boys’ High School building. Each day there have been several hundred callers and Mr. Slaton’s corps of assistants have been taxed to their utmost to accom modate every one. Southern Railroad’s Paymaster Robbed Reward of $600 Is Offered for Trio Holding Up Employee at Parr Shoals, S. C. A telegram from J. T. McClelland, chief of detectives of the Southern Railway at Parr Shoals, S. C„ tell ing of the robbery of the Southern paymaster there Saturday night, and offering a reward of $600 for the ap prehension of the robbers, was re ceived at police headquarters. One of the robbers was described as being short and stout, weighing about 190 pounds, while two others were said to be tall and thin. Bumper Orange Crop Predicted by Grower Wauchula Grower Finds Grove Giv ing Promise of 45 Per Cent Increased Yield. \UCHTJLA, Sept. 6—W. W. man, manager of the local citrus singe, says there will be a bumper ge crop this year. On one set of as with which he is personally liar he estimates this year's crop 9,000 boxes, against 20,000 last e orange crop of the State last was about 8,250,000 boxes, but no wide estimate has been made for season. IGHTNING WRECKS P. O. SD, MISS., Sept. 6.—Lightning ished the postoffice here, in- the negro janitor and set fire o business houses. Posed as Preacher, Is Held as Burglar Charged With Blowing Postoffice Safe at Green Cove Springs. JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 6.—A. D. Cannlmeyer, who posed as a preacher, is in the county jail as a United States prisoner, suspected of being connected with the blowing of the postoffice safe in Green Cove Springs a few' months ago and the theft of $1,000 in postage stamps. Cannlmeyer has been Identified as James Driscoll, who, With his part ner, Robert Duncan, is alleged to have blown and robbed the Cohen Brothers’ safe here of $1,100 during the early part of 1903. He since has served a term rn the Alabama peni tentiary. Deputy Sheriff James Crawford, who was detailed on the Cohen Brothers robbery, has never given up hope of capturing Canni- meyer, alias Driscoll, and knew the man immediately after his incarcer ation on the other charge. Salesman Accused of Giving Bad Check Paper Drawn on Thomasville, Ga. f Bank Worthless When Pre sented, Say Detectives. James Barwick, a traveling sales man living at the Terminal Hotel, was arrested Saturday night on a warrant charging forgery. Barwick, according to,the detectives, passed a worthless check on a bank of Thom asville, Ga. #f The check, they say, was given ta. L. Suddlth and called for $10. Boston Can Produce No Entry in Cities Quaint Race Where Atlanta Leads. Atlanta lovers, growing rhapsodic in the expression of their suit, still kneel at the feet of their ladies, in the good old orthodox way of lovers, it is to be hoped. If they do, small wonder, for the French-heeled feet 'of the Atlanta maidena are truly feet to worship, being neatly small and adorable. Atlanta girls, favored of fortune in every respect of beauty and smart ness, are beyond criticism in that final feature of feminine pulchritude, the feet. Witness any parade along Peachtree of an afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Spalding, for in stance, is one whoae feet attract the eye. They are shod in pumps of fairy daintiness. They are a bare six and a quarter inches from toe to heel and you can easily believe it. They are of the size technically kno-wn as a child’s 12 1-2 B. and that fact, too. you accept as true at the very sight of them. Altogether, they are small and neat, typical feet of the Atlanta girl. Miss Spalding is not the exception; rather, an example. This little exposition on the feet of Atlanta girls comes as Atlanta’s entrance into a sort of civic com petition. Everywhere in the United States, it seems, a sudden interest has sprung up in the size of the girls’ feet. Chicago comes forth, offering Miss Anita Blair, the daughter of a plutocrat, to refute the old. old charge that the feet of feminine Chicago are beyond the pale of gracefulness and beauty. Then comes New York, with a child’s 12 triple A foot to match Miss Blair's. Boston could not do so well, and a search through the ranks of Back Bay society failed to reveal feet about whose size Boston papers could boast. But Atlanta is more fortunate. Take a turn down Peachtree street, and see for yourself. There’s Miss Spalding, for instance Find ‘Kidnaped’ Boy Intent on ‘Movies’ Detectives, Parents and Their Friends Join in Frantic Search for Missing Lad. Detectives spent the greater part of Saturday afternoon searching for Col quitt Clark, Jr., the 10-year-old son of a real estate man, who was re ported as having disappeared from a moving picture theater into which he had gone with his mother at 2 o'clock. The search was joined by a num ber of friends of the missing boy's parents and extended throughout the downtown district, Mrs. Clark ex pressing the fear that her son had been kidnaped. Young Clark left his mother in the theater, telling her that he would return in a minute. After half an hour’s waiting, the po lice were notified and the search be gan. The boy was discovered later In another picture theater watching a film in supreme innocence of the dls ■ turbance which he had caused. GRANDMOTHER AND UNCLE FIGHT FOR CONVICT’S BOY SAVANNAH, Sept. 6—J. S Har rison, brother of Hugh Harrison, serving a life sentence for the mur der of Ruth Hester Harrison, his wife, filed a petition with the Ordinary this afternoon to secure the guardianship of little How'ard Harrison, his neph ew. The child's grandmother, Mrs, Laura E. Bxleys, will contest the pe tition. KILLS SNOW-WHITE SQUIRREL. SPARTANBURG,. Sept. 6.—While hunting in the mountains at Union, near here, William McDaniel killed a snow-white squirrel. Experienced hunters say they have never seen anything like it before QUARREL OVER HOG; DEAD. MARSHALL, ARK., Sept. 6.—Frank Cross was shot and killed by Will Tucker. The men quarreled over the possession of a hog. 13 Macon Saloons Raided by Sheriff Law Enforcement League Continues Campaign to Close Liquor Selling Places. MACON, Sept. 6.—Thirteen saloons were raided to-day and last night by the Sheriff in pursuance of peti tions for injunctions against the places. The petitions were filed by the Law Enforcement League in continuance of Its campaign to close up all of the saloons where liquor is sold. Before applying for the in junctions the Law Enforcement League effected the purchase of whis ky at each of the saloons, using de tectives brought to Macon for the purpose. At eight of the places the Sheriff found whisky in large quan tities on the premises. The cases have been set for hear ing on the first Monday in Novem ber, and until then the saloonkeep ers are under bond not to sell any Intoxicating liquors. There are con tempt cases now against three sa loonkeepers who were served with Injunctions last month, and who then, It is alleged, sold whisky. These cases will be heard on September 12. Hundreds of families gathered along the roadway with what little they saved from their homes and worked their way, gradually to the camp. There were sworn ip to-day 250 citizens as special officers. No trou ble has been reported so far. It was not believed to-night that the city authorities would have to call on the State for assistance. Two companies of militia will be sent here by Gov ernor Hayes. All saloons are closed. Bareley had the ruins ceased to burn to-day when workmen began clearing up the debris. The exicte- inent that prevailed last night has subsided, and plans for rebuilding the demolished section are being made. A demand for laborers has been sent broadcast. Emergency Current Given. The light and power company late to-day provided emergency facilities for the newspapers and other In dustries. The city will be in dark ness about a month. About 6,000 feet of hose belonging to the fire department was burned. Many of the fire department horses were left unfit for further duty. P0ST0FFICE EMPLOYEES MUST SWEAR TO EXPENSE WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—An oath as to the truth of their expense ac counts will be exacted hereafter from postoffice employees, according to an order issued this afternoon by Post master General Burleson. The in structions also call for Itemized ac counts and traveling expenses, which heretofore permitted of padding. SWIMS WHILE FAST ASLEEP. RACINE, WIS., Sept. 6.—Frank Ryerson. an employee of the Lincoln Ice Company at Brown’s Lake, lay down on the lake bank and wok e up near the opposite shore. He says he swam across the bay while asleep. CYCLONE IN MISSISSIPPI. PURVIS, MISS.. Sept. 6.—A cyclone parsed over this town, demolishing a church and 25 residences. Two per sons were fatally hurt. White’s Slayer in Prison Hears Band Concert in His Honor and Makes Speech. COATICOOK, QUEBEC. Sept. While the town band played “God Save the King" a great throng of people surged about Harry K. Thaw's quarters in the immigration deten tion station here to-night and in two languages shouted their admiration for the millionaire slayer of Stanford White. Plans for a celebration of Thaw’fc eleventh hour escape from the clutches of William Travers Jerome had been under way all day, and when darkness fell there was already a small group in front of Thaw’s -Uni! Anuujsuoo sum sjqx sJ^IJunb mented, and when the band came marching briskly up with the music so dear to the hearts of the French Canadians resounding on the clear night air, the pent-up enthusiasm of Thaw’s well-wishers broke loose. They cheered him again and again, and finally the crowd became so en thusiastic that the prisoner appeared at his window and delivered a brief speech of thanks. Thaw Voices Thanks. “I am glad that you are glad that British fair play has finally won piy fight,’’ he said. “Jerome Is at last unveiled to the people of Canada in his true light. He now knows that ns has been beaten, and he may as well go home.” “We’ll put Jerome in Jail unless he runs away,” howled the crowd. “If you give the word, well tear away your bars and put Jerome in your place.” “A diable avee Jerome!” shouted one burly French Canadian. “A dia ble avec Jerome, le loup (to the devil with Jerome, the wolf)!” "Mes remereiements an gens du Canada (my very best thanks to the people of Canada).’’ replied Thaw. The demonstration lasted more than an hour, and the crowd stayed until the lights in Thaw's quarters went out. Then the band marched merrily away, with the cr*. wd follow ing, still cheering. While the crowd was around the detention station a squad of Dominion police was sent from Montreal for the purpose of keeping a close watch to nip in the bud any attempt to liberate the prisoner. The authorities have no doubt thut if the populace should find a leader it would try to set the prisoner free For that reason he will be closely guarded day and night until the time comes for his departure for Mon treal. Jerome Spends Quiet Day. Jerome, who has been outwitted for the present in his effort to secure Thaw’s immediate return to Mattea- wan, enjoyed a dilatory domicile to day. He secured through counsel an adjournment until Thursday of his hearing on the charge of being a common gambler in that he partlcl pated with a number of friends in a game of poker In an automobile Thursday afternoon. Until 4 o’clock this afternoon Je rome remained at the Hotel Carpen ter, a line house at Nortons Mills, Vt. The bar of the hotel is In Canada and the tobacco stand In Vermont. Thaw’s prosecutor spent most of his time in Vermont. He had been advised that the tem per of the people of Coaticook was such that his life w'ould be in danger if he returned there. “I would like nothing better than to return to Coaticook immediately and face every one of those who think I am their enemy,” said Jerome. “If I were merely a private citizen I would do so but I am a representative of the Empire State and so I shall not return until Thursday, when I hope that the better sense of the in telligent people will prevail.” At Montreal Jerome will engage lawyers and continue the fight for Thaw’s early deportation. He still believes that he will have Thaw over the border within a fortnight and will devise ways and means to com bat the latest move of Thaw's law yers in securing a writ of habeas corpus returnable September 15. Jerome thinks that the Minister of Justice, or Premier Borden has pow er to order the immediate execution of the Imm.gration Board’s edict of deportation to Vermont. GIRL SEEKING $10,000 IN BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT CHATANOOGA, Sept. 6.—A breach of promise suit brought by Mies An na Mae Hawk, of Cleveland, agralnst Grover C. Brown, also of that place, is ready for the jury. The plaintiff asks $10,000, aliening that Brown, after promising mar riage, married another last winter. Both principals are prominent. U. S BOAT MATE KILLED. GREENVILLE, MISS,, Sept. 6 — Robert I.. Llnnent, first mate of the United States snagboat H. G. Wright, was killed by a limb falling from a tree where the boat was working, a few miles up the river from here. BENCH WARRANTS ISSUED FOR NASHVILLE SAL00NISTS NASHVILLE, Sept. 6—Criminal Judge Neil today Issued benrh war rants against saloonlsts of Nashville for violation of the prohibition law and every saloon is expected to be closed after to-night for the first time since the prohibition law was passed, nearly five years ago. BIRMINGHAM EXCUR SION ROUND TRIP $2.50. | Special train leaves Old Depot September 22. Re turn on regular trains. SEABOARD. Mrs. C. H. Smith 115 Peachtree Street, Next to Candler Building Beautiful Display of Chic Fall Models New Models at Low Prices Semi-Dress Hats . .. .$5.00 Children’s School Hats .. .$1.50 Misses’ Ready-to-Wear Hats , . .. .$1.50 Hat remodeling a specialty. Life Sentence for McNaughton Likely Prison Commission Expected to Rec ommend Commutation for the Doomed Slayer. That Dr. W. J, McNaughton, the Emanuel Gounty physician under sentence of death for the killing of Fred Flanders, will receive a commu tation to life Imprisonment on recom mendation of the State Prison Beard is the opinion of those in close touch with the situation at the State Capi tol. Arguments for and against the pardon were closed late Friday after noon, and the ca.se is now In the hands of the Prison Board. Chairman Davidson, of the Prison Board, declared Saturday that the case was by far the most technical one that has been considered for some time. Mr. Davidson left At lanta Saturday for his old home. He will return either Monday or Tues day, when a final decision probably will be reached and transmitted to Governor Slaton. Wild Beasts Believed To Have Eaten Child Hundreds Join In Search for Crook- ston, Minn., Girl Who Van ished During a Storm. CROOKSTON. MINN., Sept. 6—Tne hunt for the three-year-old daughter of Jacob Ganthern, of Ersklne, who has been lost for several days, was continued by hundreds of people to day. It is believed that the little girl perished in a severe storm which pre vailed the night following her dis appearance and was later devoured by a leopard that some time ago es caped from a circus, or by wolves. The country surrounding the home of the Gantherns is said to abound with wolves. Bram to Stay Here; Gives Sermon To-day Paroled Convict Gets Employment With Tailors and Intends Living in Atlanta. Thomas C. Bram, the sailor re cently paroled from the Atlanta Fed eral Penitentiary after serving seven teen years for a crime of which he claims to be innocent, will speak at the Jones Avenue Baptist Church Sunday night at 8 o’clock. Bram intends to make Atlanta his home. He is at present working for a tailoring establishment. SCRATCH OF STRAW FATAL TO TEAMSTER CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—A stiff straw In a bale of hay was responsible for the death to-day of Michael Verllck, n teamster, who died at the County Hospital of blood poisoning. Verlick was unloading hay when a straw in one pf the bales cut the palm of his hand. Blood poisoning set in. TURKEY THIS “Hesitation Drag,” in Which the Partners Talk Constantly, Be lieved Natural Successor. NEW YORK, Sept.. 6.—The Ameri can Society of Professors of Dancing, which has just ended its four days’ convention at the Majestic Hotel, to day issued an edict In which the fol lowing thing;* are set forth: THEY DISAPPROVE— Gripping of the knees. All shoulder motions. Swaying from the hips. Jumping and hopping. Close contact of bodies. THEY APPROVE— More use of the feet. Bodies more erect. Heads and shoulders well up. Dancing Instead of hopping. Moderation In dips. The society saddens society with the declaration that the terrible tur key trot and the tango axe to be thrown into the discard. In their places are to come the “Shadow,” the “Manchester,” the "Sidestep Glide,” the “Hesitation Drag” and the “Sen sation Scroll.” The new dances are said to permit easy motion, with varied step® and to combine grace with comfort. In the “Hesitation Drag,” which has won a certain vogue, ths part ners face each other and their con versation may never be Interrupted. The man leads with a long glide with the left foot, poises on the right foot for two beats, and then sways his partner on a quarter turn. PITTSRURtt, Sept- Dancing masters of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio have declared the tango too tame, and Its successor Is to be the hltchy koo In the hitchy koo, the turkey trot, the bunny hug and the tango are combined. WIFE OF MAYOR MARTIN, LAWRENCEVILLE, DEAD LAtVRENCEVILLK, Sajvt. 6.—Mrs. Lovic R. Martin, wife of Mayor Mar tin, died at her home here to-night after an Illness of two weeks. She was 42 years of age. * She is sur vived by her husband, seven children, her mother, Mrs. H. B. Hoyt, of At lanta; three sisters and two brothers. MRS. PRANK PEARSON will sing this (Sunday) even ing at the HOTEL ANSLEY during the concert from 6:30 to 9:30. Mezzanine Floor, overlooking main cafe. MANNING- FALL OPENING SALE Pianos, Player-Pianos, Organs Monday and for the week, we place on sale special designed styles of modern-made Pianos and Player Pianos at a GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. THIS SALE INCLUDES Everetts, Harvards, Daytons, H. P. Nelson, Steinberg, Mason & Co., Mellville Clark Apollo Player-Pianos, together with other high-grade makes of Pianofortes. Sample of What You Buy Player Piano (mahogany finish, <t97C 00 Player Piano (mahogany finish, d»orn nn bench, music) epJJlF.UU Upright Piano (mahogany finish, Cl C7 ft ft stool and scarf) ..«plO/.UU Upright Piano (mahogany finish, 07 ft ft stool and scarf) pll/l »UU THE UNDERSELLING PIANO STORE Is the slogan of this firm. More musical homes and teachers of Atlanta use and indorse the pianos we sell than any other store in the South. We in vite your consideration of the merit of our pianos. See us before you buy and you become a customer of this store. EASY PAYMENTS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Prices and Catalogues Mailed on Request MANNING PIANO COMPANY 52 North Pryor St. Opp. Lowry Bank