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! \ i \ \ 2 TTTR ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SCHOOLS OVERCROWDED; CHILDRENS FORCED TO STUDY IN BASEMENT Deplorable over-crowding In the Atlanta public school* was disclosed In report* of the opening day's at- tondar -ft 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 school* 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- ttme, 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 Affseted. The report* sent 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 lake 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 Huperintendent Fla ton to alleviate the congested con ditions so far as possible, but the superintendent said Tuesday that the only real solution was the building of j)6w 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 sch<)>oI» in contiguous districts where It here Is plenty of room or where j the congestion is not so market? , Moreland Ready Soon. Tha> Moreland Avenue School rap- 1djky is being placed in shai>e for the reception of students and within two or three weeks It will be possible to transfer five grades, three from the Inman Park, Edge wood Avenue and Highland schools, none of which have sufficient accom mediations for all their pupils This, however, will not fully re lieve the congestion In these three schools and the conditions are very likely to be exactly as bad as they are now within another two or three 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 2 Arctic Explorers Reported Killed by Eskimos in Canada NI3W 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 at Shultz liake. near the Arctic Ocean. They declared that if the report of the killing of Radford and hla com panion U true It is the first Instance of savagery among the Eskimos. Ottawa dispatches report that Com missioner Perry in Regina has re ceived information of the murder of the two explorers about June ft, 4912, w hile they were cn route to Port Mc Pherson. Since Eskimo advices are usually accepted with caution, members of the Canadian mounted police have been sent to investigate. Georgia Experts to Study Boll Weevil In preparation for the threatened invasion of the boll weevil In Georgia, J. D. Price. State Commissioner of Agricu Iture; Lee Worsham, State En tomologist. and J. Phil ('ampbell. 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 the boll wee vil. Gordon County to Aid Highway Plan CALHOUN, 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. unpleasant. If not insanitary. sur- j roundings or of giving them no In- j structlon at nil. The basement* also ! are used at the State Street School and at the Grant Park School. Girls Sit in Windows. An 8. O. S. call for more room and more desks came to Superintendent Slaton from the Girl’s High School during Tuesday forenoon. All rec ords for firnt week attendance had been broken and the girls were sit ting on window sills and rostrum* pending the arrival of more desk* The attendance at the girl's school on the first day last year was 687 This year It was 673. with 52 more taking entrance examinations. Mis* 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, If the school continues to grow with the leaps and bounds It has experienced since Its removal from the High School building, larger quarters will he needed. Tech Also Grows Rapidly. When the removal was made at the suggestion of Superintendent Slaton the enrollment was 75. It Is now 237 and growing rapidly. That it will reach 500 within three or four years Is the confident prediction. Among the districts most needing new school buildings at once, ac cording to the superintendent, are the Ninth Ward. East 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 the 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 Aot. 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; Formwalt, 60; Williams, 5. Peeples, 94; Grant Park, fi; Lee. 7: Pryor, 68; North Avenue. 3; W. F. Slaton, 12. Edgewood. 29; Faith, 6; Highland. 83, Home Park, 3; Georgia Avenue. 81; Hill, 9; Forrest Avenue, 26; Exposition Mills. 36; Mitchell, 110; Gray, 9; Luckie, 10; Fair, 21; English Avenue, 17. Mrs. Bryan Sues to Recover Ring From Jacksonville Police JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 10— In an effort to recover a diamond ring val ued at $660, Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, wife of the Secretary of State, through her attorney, William S. Jen nings. has filed a friendly suit in the Circuit Court 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 Sheriffs 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-story building occupied by the bank caught tire 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. Matthew’s, J. H. Ewing, Fred Houser. U. S. Third in World Motor Boat Races EXCURSION TO BIR MINGHAM. $2.50 round trip, Septem ber 22. Special train leaves Old Depot 8:30 a. m. SEA BOARD. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. COWES, ENGLAND, Sept. 10.—The Desperjohns French entry won the first race in the International motor- boat contests for the world’s trophy this afternoon. The Maple Leaf IV. representing England, was second. Ankle Deep, owned by Mr. Pugh, of Chicago, fin ished third. inmni nr ninirn South Less Subject to “Ragging” Fever Than North, Savs 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 and one other things that popular opinion has asso ciated 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 r.t the Forsyth this week, with a tangoing and turkey-trotting act. say so—and they ought to know\ They ar? giving in Atlanta this wreek 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 I#onaon and Buenos Ayres -that la, 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,r> 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 Ayrss, 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 Texus 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 Americans put in the tango there should be but the slightest bending of the knee; it is more of a walk to musdc than any thing else. "Whatever may be 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.” Mi S3 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 helpless launch on the drainage canal near Joliet, Ill., after an all-night search. The women, guests at a party given by Mrs. Herbert S. Mills, wife of a wealthy manufacturer of Oak Park, had started out for a ride in the Mills launch. WHIPPED FIFTEEN TIES 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 to-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 bake shop. Fifteen times had the negro’s fist 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 says, 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. C. 8. 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 of the Central of Georgia Power Compa ny 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 »«• 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. Sep t. 10. — Thomas Beecham, 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 opera for the masses 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. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. found the fly in the Vice Presidential ointment. It Is the possibility of renting a house 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 year. 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. No. 10 531- No. 20, $2.55; No. 50, $5.99 Argo Salmon, can 20 Pounds Sugar $1.00 No. 10 Silver I^eaf Lard $1.35 Rex Hams, special, lb 18 3 4c Rex Breakfast Bacon, lb 18^ 4 c Diamond C. Best Bacon in America, 1-lb. boxes 32c Fancy Lemons, dozen g c 16-oz. 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I Open daily. 8 ! and Ladies’ L=nnr= DI=3Q!=3C ndant I rir==J 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. bus ur nHdiu IS Dr. Noguchi, of the Rockefeller Institute Announces Important Medical Discovery, NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—The grerm 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 upsetg the pre vious 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 cure for the disease. The Pasteur treatment is a preventative of hydro phobia and not a cure. "I very much doubt whether Dr. Noguchla’s discovery will make any Immediate change In the treatment of rabid dogs,” said Dr. George Gibier 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- guchl will be the one to give it to the world.” Dr. Nouguchi says that the method employed by him was similar to that employed successfully for the culti vation of the splrochaetae of relaps ing fever. 118-120 WHITEHALL CASH GRO. CQ. Consult your pocketbook; it beats the telephone book. Marshalls Seeking a Home Send Prices Up WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Vice President and Mrs. Marshall have BELIEVE PRISONER ftSSIIILftNT OF GIRL 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 authorities for blowing the safe of the postoffice at Stockdale several weeks ago. Mitchell is 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 drag by venders in Atlanta. AUTO 3 Chauffeur Held for Near-Crash of Autos A collision with an automobile filled with passengers was narrowly averted Wednesday when Jim Davis, a negro, driving an autotruck belong ing to the Atlanta Milling Company, 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 tor violating the traffic or dinance. They declare the new dances if done prop erly are not in the least immodest. STAGE TURKEY-TROTTERS DEFEND NEW DANCES;! DECLARE AM ERICA DOESN’T KNOW REAL TANGO] Inez Patterson and Frank Hale.