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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SCHOOLS OVERCROWDED:
CHILDREN AHE FORCED
TO STUDY IN BASEMENT
STAGE TURKEY-TROTTERS DEFEND NEW DANCES;
DECLARE AMERICA DOESN'T KNOW REAL TANGO
Deplorable over-crowding In the
Atlanta public schools was disclosed
In reports of the opening day’s at
tendance filed Wednesday with Su
perintendent W. M. Slaton.
Descriptions submitted by several
of the teachers and principals of the
difficulties which they were forced to
meet showed that In some of the
schools children are being housed In
the basements of the buildings and
that classes are being held there.
Because the schools near their
homes are so badly congested as to
forbid the acceptance of any more
pupils, other children are compelled
to walk a mile or a mile and a half
in order to be able to attend school
at all.
The negro schools are so much
worse that they are running on half
time, one-half of the pupils attending
from 8:30 to 12:30 and the other
half from 1:30 to 4:30.
Half of Schools Affscted.
The reports ©ent in the first daj
revealed the startling fact that more
than half of all the schools of the
city have more pupils than they can
take care of properly. This condi
tion will be aggravated during the
next few days, as the first day’s at
tendance will be increased consider
ably by late arrivals.
An effort will be made Wednesday
afternoon at a meeting of the prin
cipals In the office of Superintendent
Slaton to alleviate the congested con
ditions so far as possible, but the
superintendent said Tuesday that the
only real solution was the building
of new school houses about the city
where they are most needed.
At the meeting of the principals
some of the children in the most
crowded schools will be transferred
to schools In contiguous districts
where there la plenty of room or
where the congestion Is not so
marked.
Moreland Ready Soon.
The Moreland Avenue School rap
idly is being placed In shape for the
reception of students and within two
or three weeks it will be possible to
transfer five grades, three from the
Inman Park, Kdgewood Avenue and
Highland schools, none of which have
Huffieient acconimodiations for all
their pupils.
This, however, will not fully re
lieve the congestion in these three
bchools and the conditions are very
likely to be exactly as bad as they
are now within another two or threo
years.
Three grades in the Inman Park
School are kept in the basement.
There is no other place for them in
the building. It has been a question
either^of keeping the children in these
unpleasant, if not insanitary, sur
roundings or of giving them no in
struction at all. The basements also
are used at the State Street School
and at the Grant Park School.
Girls Sit in Windows.
An S. O. 8. call for more room and
more desks came to Superintendent
Slaton from the Girl’s High School
during Tuesday forenoon. All rec
ords for first week attendance had
been broken and the girls were sit
ting on window sills and rostrums
pending the arrival of more desks.
The attendance at the girl’s school
on the first day last year was 637.
This year it was 673, with 62 more
taking entrance examination*. Miss
Jessie Muse, the principal, estimated
that 700 would be enrolled by the
end of the week, the high-water mark
in the history of the school.
The attendance at the Tech High
School is beginning to crowd the ac
commodations and within two or
three years, Jf the school continues to
grow with the leaps and bounds it
has experienced since its removal
from the High School building, larger
quarters will be needed.
Tech Also Grow* Rapidly.
When the removal was made at the
suggestion of Superintendent Slaton
the enrollment was 76. It is now 237
and growing rapidly. That It will
reach EW0 within three or four years
Is the confident prediction.
Among the districts most needing
new school buildings at once, ac
cording to the superintendent, aro the
Ninth Ward. Kant Atlanta, where
about 30 children have to walk a
mile and a half to the Faith School,
Ansley Park, South Atlanta and^
Pittsburg. New quarters also are
needed for the English-Commercial
High School and better facilities are
needed at ^he Summer Hill Negro
School.
Superintendent Slaton is much
gratified at the evidence of the pop
ularity of Atlanta's school system
with the parents and children.
Urges the City to Act.
He expressed Tuesday the wish
that steps would be taken at once
more fully to provide for the care
and instruction of the children that
are applying for admission to the
schools.
Among the schools which have re
ported overflows on the first day are:
State Street. 28; Fraser, 12; Inman
Park. 23; Form wait, 60; Williams, 6;
Peeples. 94; Grant Park, 6; Lee, 7;
Pryor, 66; North Avenue, 3; W. F.
Slaton, 12; Kdgewood. 29; Faith, 6;
Highland. 83, Home Park, 3; Georgia
Ayenue. 81; Hill. 9; Forrest Avenue.
26; Exposition Mills, 36. Mitchell,
110; Gray, 9; Luckle, 10; Fair, 21;
English Avenue, 17.
2 Arctic Explorers
Reported Killed by
Eskimos in Canada
NEW YORK. Sept. 10.--Members of
the Arctic Club here are surprised at
the report of the murder of H. V.
Radford, of New York, and George
Street, of Ottawa, by Eskimos Ht
Shultz Lake, near the Arctic Ocean.
They declared that if the report of
the killing of Radford and his com
panion Is true it is the first instance
of savagery among the Eskimos.
Ottawa dispatches report that Com-
missioned. Perry in Regina has re
ceived information of the murder of
the two explorers about June 5, 1912,
while they were en route to Fort Mc
Pherson.
Since Eskimo advices are usually
accepted with caution, members of
the Canadian mounted police have
oeen sent to investigate.
Georgia Experts to
Study Boll Weevil
In preparation for the threatened
invasion of the boll weevil In Georgia,
J. T>. Price, State Commissioner of
Agriculture; Lee Worsham, State En
tomologist. and J. Phil Campbell,
State Agent for the County Demon
stration Work, left Atlanta Wednes
day morning for points In Mississippi
and Louisiana, where a close study of
the habits and methods of*the cotton
pest will be made.
Following their return a Statewide
educational campaign probably will
be inaugurated to fight me boll wee
vil.
Gordon County to
Aid Highway Plan
CALHOt'N, Sept. 10 —The Grand Jury
here has returned 74 true bills.
The Jury recommended that Gordon
County co-operate in the proposed John-
son-Sherman highway from Chattanoo
ga to Atlanta
EXCURSION TO BIR
MINGHAM.
$2.50 round trip, Septem
ber 22. Special train leaves
Old Depot 8:30 a. m. SEA-
BOj&D.
Mrs. Bryan Sues to
Recover Ring From
Jacksonville Police
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 10.—In an
effort to recover a diamond ling val
ued at $660, Mrs. William Jennlngh
Bryan, wife of the Secretary of State,
through her attorney, William S. Jen
nings, has filed a friendly suit in the
Circuit Coprt here against Frederick
C. Roach, Chief of Police.
The ring is alleged to have been
held by the police several months, be
cause Cleo St. Claire, of Key West,
claimed It, too.
On a writ of replevin the ring^is
held in the Sheriff's office pending
the hearing in Circuit Court October
6. The Jewel was presented to Mrs.
Bryan by her husband, and was lost
more than a year ago. It was found
In the possession of a negro.
Bank Dynamited; 20
Hurt; Hundreds Flee
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—Two dyna
mite explosions early to-day wrecked
the private bank of A. Conforti on
the West Side and twenty persons
living in adjoining buildings were
hurt.
The three-at ory building occupied
by the bank caught fire after the ex
plosions. Hundreds fled from their
homes.
Delegates Named
To Roads Congress
Governor Slaton Wednesday ap
pointed the following delegates from
Atlanta to the American Road Con
gress at Detroit September 29 to Oc
tober 4:
W. J. Davis. W, T. Myer, Wylie
West, John L. Meek. G. F. Bigelow,
A. P. Matthews, J. H. Ewing, Fred
Houser.
U. S. Third in World
Motor Boat Races
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
COWES. ENGLAND, Sept. 10.—T.u-
Dcsperjohns French entry won the
first race in the international motor-
boat contests for the worid’© trophy
this afternoon.
The Maple Leaf IV, representing
England, was second. Ankle Deep,
owned *|s Mr. Pugh, of Chicago, fin
ished tmrd.
Inez Patterson
and Frank Hale
They declare
the new dances
if done prop
erly are not in
the least
immodest.
BELIEVE PRISONER
J. T. Mitchell, Held as Safe-Blow
ing Suspect, Faces Still
Another Charge.
J. T. Mitchell, No. 68 Tumlin street,
was Identified by County Chief of
Police Rowan Wednesday as the
probable assailant of a girl living
on the Cascade Springs road near the
Utoy camp Monday 'night.
The girl is the daughter of a
wealthy farmer and was on her way
home when she was attacked by a
rough-appearing man. Her screams
and struggles frightened him off.
Mitchell, who Is slightly cross-eyed,
fits her description and she will be
summoned further to identify him.
Mitchell was In company with Hoyt
Garner, of Stockdale. Ga., when ar
rested. They were taken Into cus
tody on suspicion, the officers be
lieving that they had captured the
men who were wanted by the Fed
eral authorises for blow ing the safe
of the postoffice at Stockdale several
weeks ago.
Mitchell >s said to have served six
years In the chain gang for various
offenses, and both men. according to
the police, are experienced criminals.
Garner was arrested about a year
ago. the police say. for violating the
cocaine ordinance and gave evidence
that enabled the authorities to break
up the systematic sale of the drug by
venders in Atlanta.
Chauffeur Held for
Near-Crash of Autos
• _ _____
A cqtlision with an automobile
filled with passengers was narrows -
averted Wednesday when Jim Davis,
a negro, driving an autotruck belong
ing to the Atlanta Milling Companv,
down Decatur street, went on the
wrong side and attempted to turn
into Ivy street.
The automobile swerved to on*
side, escaping damage. Davis was
arrested for violating the traffic or
dinance.
South Less Subject to “Ragging” Fever Than
North, Says Actress.
Do you know, you disciples of Terp
sichore, that when you twist and
squirm, and whirl, and dip, and duck,
and shrug your shoulders, and wiggle,
and do the thousand ana one other
things that popular opinion has asso.
elated with the latest dances, that
you are not dancing the tango nor
yet the turkey trot, but an adaption
of the rag. a sort of combination of
the turkey trot and the barroom rag
in which the steps of the latter pre
dominate?
It’s a fact!
Frank Hale and Inez Patterson
headliners at the Forsyth this week,
with a tangoing and turkey-trotting
act. say so—and they ought to know.
They ara giving in Atlanta this week
their first performance after an Eu
ropean tour of several months. Hale
claims to be the champion rag and
Texas Tommy dancer of the world.
"The real tango is not danced at
all in the United States.” they say.
"It is not danced anywhere but in
Paris and London and Buenos Ayres
—that is, it is not danced correctly.
There are a few couples in New York,
whom we recently saw, who have the
right steps, and who will be able to
dance the real tango soon. We used
to think w»j danced the tango, until
we went ‘.o Europe and saw the real
dance that was Introduced in Paris
by dancers from South America. The
tango came originally from Buenos
Ayres, in the Argentine Republic, and
is now danced all over Europe, es
pecially in London and Paris.
"The tango that is danced in Amer
ica bears little resemblance to the
real tango. It is a sort of an adap
tion of the old rag dances and the
Texas Tommy; a combination of the
turkey trot and the barroom rag, with
the latter predominating. There are
no whirls, and exaggerated dips and
throwing of the woman in the real
tango: it is a dance almost as smooth
and graceful as the waltz. In place
of the dips that Amer* ins nut in
the tango there should be but the
"lightest bending of the knee; it is
more of a walk to piusic than any
thing else.
"Whatever may f# said of the
American tango, the real tango is
no immodest. When American danc
ers learn the beauties of the real
tango, they will discard the rough
not immodest. When American danc-
adopt the real dance.”
Misa Patterson declared that in her
opinion the tango will enjoy greater
popularity in the North than in the
South, because Southern music is not
so "raggy” and is more dreary ana
soothing than the music of the North.
Society Party Drifts
All Night in Launch
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—Nine women
socially prominent in Oak Park and
Austin suburbs were found to-day
drifting in a heipless launch pn the
drainage canal near Joliet, 111., after
an all-night search.
The women, guests at a party given
by Mrs. Herbert S. Mills, wife of a
wealthy manufacturer o4 Oak Park,
had started out for a ride in the
Mills launch.
WHIPPED FIFTEEN
TIMES OVER ft PIE
Negro Porter Fined One Dollar for
Each Time He Put His Fist
in Face of Boss.
Surveyor Arbiter
In Counties' Row
Steel Rich, a Greek baker of No.
251 Peachtree street, told Recorder
Broyles t»-day he had been clubbed
fifteen times by Edward Harper, a
negro employee.
Fifteen times, he asserted, his head
had been bumped on the floor of his
hake shop. Fifteen times had the
negro’s flat met his face, according to
his testimony.
Whereupon the court fined Edward
Harper $15 and costs.
Rich averred that he had returned
to his bakery last night and found a
pie missing. The pie, he say©, was
later discovered under the bunk on
which Harper sleeps at night.
He accused the negro of the theft.
He resented the imputation and the
fifteen thrashings followed.
Marshalls Seeking a
Home Send Prices Up
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall have
found the fly in the Vice Presidential
ointment. It is the * possibility of
renting a houre in Washington suit
able for Uncle Sam’s second In com
mand at any price that comes with
in the Vice President's means and
his salary of $12,000 a years What
they most desire is a furnished house
at not over $2,000 a year. It seems
impossible to get it.
Houses that promise well leap in
price when it becomes known that
the Vice President wants them.
The great Comic Section of
The Sunday American will keep
you in good humor all week. All
your favorites, all doing funny
stunts. Order your paper now.
Dr. Noguchi, of the Rockefeller
Institute Announces Important
Medical Discovery.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The germ '
that produces hydrophobia has been
isolated by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, of
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research. The achievement is one
for which pathologists have strived
30 years. Dr. Noguchi began his in
vestigation, which has resulted in the
discovery and cultivation of the germ
of rabies, In the early part of last
year.
His announcement upsets the pro-*
vlous theory regarding the disease,
it having been generally accepted that
the germ was bacterial. Physicians
are greatly Interested. They believe
the discovery may result in a specific j
cure for the disease. The Pasteur
treatment is a preventative of hydro
phobia and not a cure.
”1 very mruch doubt whether Dr.
Noguchia’s discovery will make any ^
Immediate change In the treatment of
rabid dogs,” said Dr. George Gibler
Rambaud, director of the Pasteur In
stitute in this city, when he heard of
It. “Whether it will result In the
finding of a specific cure for this
most dread disease is something
which must be left to the future. If
such a specific and absolute cure can
be found. It Is probable that Dr. Nou-
guchi will be the one to give it to
the world.”
Dr. Nouguchi says that the method
employed by him was similar t<p that
employed successfully for the culti
vation of the spirochaetae of relaps
ing fever.
Negro Who Escaped
Gibbet in Mob Peril
MOBILE, Sept. 10.—So bitter was
the feeling against Brooks White,
convicted last night at New Augusta
Miss., for killing Frank Williams, a
white man, that the judge immediate
ly had the prisoner hustled into an
auto and sent to an adjoining county.
The citizens were angered because
the jury failed to agree on death pen
alty.
CUSH GRO. CO.
Consult your pocketbook; it beats
the telephone book.
No. 10 531-
No. 20, $2.55; No. 50, $5.99
Argo Salmon, can 12'/»c
20 Pounds Sugar $1.00
No. 10 Silver Leaf Lard $1.35
Hex Hams, special, lb 18 3 4c
Hex Breakfast Bacon, lb 18%c
Diamond C. Best Bacon in
America, l-lb. boxes 32c
Fancy Lemons, dozen 9c
16-oz. Condense^ Milk can 8i/»c
16-oz Evaporated Milk, can...7v4c
6-oz. Evaporated Milk (full
creamy 3 3 ic
Fancy Salmon tall can 6'/ 2 c
10c Can Ga. Oane Syrup 4*/Sc
CASH GRO. CO.
C. S. Roberts, surveyor for Fulton
County, was appointed Wednesday
morning by Governor Slaton to make
a survey to settle a dispute between
the authorities of Jackson and Butts
Counties in regard to the location oi
the Central of Georgia Power Compa-
n> plant.
Robert will begin the survey imme
diately.
Chesapeake Bay
Almost ‘Fished Out'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The
Chesapeake and its tributaries are
doomed soon to become fishless, ac
cording to official reports.
Excessive catches by anglers is
blamed for the danger of fish extinc
tion.
London to Have Opera
At 12 Cents to $1.25
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Sept. 10. — Thomas
Beefham, undeterred by Hammer,
stein’s failure, plans to build a new
opera house in London to cost $1,-
250.000.
The plan is to provide oDera for
the masse© at prices ranging from
sixpence (12 cents) to five shillings
$1.25). The house will seat 4,000.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
$2.50 ROUND TRIP.
Special train will leave
Terminal Station 8 a. m.,
Thursday, September 11.
Return any time until Sat
urday midnight.
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