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DEATH TRAPS Loud Cry For Reform Follows Awful Result of New York Fire. VIEWING THE BODIES "f.ive Us Not Merely Fire Proof, Put Deatli-Proof Buildings," is the Slogan in New York?Fvrry Factory May I5e Investigated?Identifying the Bodies. lCighty-six bodies of tiie 1 1 I victiids recovered from the fire in the ten-story loft New York building 011 Washington Place Saturday have been identified. Sixteen of the bodies were men. There are 12 injured in the hospitals. District Attorney Whitman started an official investigation Monday to fix the responsibility for the horror. 7\'o arrests have been considered by him of any person In connection with the fire and none will be made until the facts disclosed give sufficient evidence for taking this action. Fire Marshal Peers began Ills investigation 'Monday. It is now known that the fire started on the eighth floor of the building near a window at the northeast corner. It began under a cutting table in a scrap heap and is thought to have been started by a cigarette. Crowds assembled at the morgue to view the bodies, 52 in all. At least half of the corpses were uri recognizable and only a small trinket or shred of clothing will help to show who the unfortunate was. Some of these bodies probably will never be claimed. The victims, living alone in furnished rooms or little flats, may have had no friends and few acquaintances. Managers of the Triangle Waist company, which occupied the burned floors, deny that the Iron doors lend ing to the elevators and stairs were locked. The fact that there was only one fire escape 011 the building will come in for a careful investigation to determine what city official is to blame. Progress has been made by public and civic organizations toward offering relief to those who have suffered as a result of the fire. The first contribution in this movement was made by Mayor Gaynor, who headed the list with $100 and made an appeal to the citizens of the city for a relief fuud. Industrial organizations, theatres and civic bodies have also set tn motion plans for supplementing the fund. Fire Chief Croker said today: "I do not hesitate to say that a more appalling loss of life in office .buildings and big stores is likely to home upon New York at any moment because of the lack of safeguards." * "Give us not merely fire proof, but death proof buildings," bids fair to become a municipal slogan as a result of the fire disaster of Saturday afternoon in which nearly 150 perons lost their lives. The slogan was coined by Fire hief Croker as summing up his recmmendations for the future. The ntire nation, he declared, will learn a lesson from Saturday's fire such as it has learned only twice of late years ?once when the Collingswood, Ohio, disaster taught the necessity of adequate fire protection in school buildings and again when the Iroquois theatre fire in Chicago taught the same lesson for theatres. Chief Groker's recommendation Is: "The City Beautiful" is loss vital than the 'City Safe.' "Let us see first of all that our < ]>eople live and work under adequate protection for their lives and per- i sons. "I would have fire escapes landings extending all along the outside of every office loft or factory building. I would have the balcony landings .built wide enough for two persons to pass in safety without crowding, "Next, let us have all inside stairways enclosed In fire proof partitions. Never allow an exit door to be blocked and make the fire escape windows open to the floor level like a door. "Protect each floor with all avail able automatic safety devices and sprinkles. Last, but not least, mane fire drills at frequent intervals compulsory in all factories, lodging houses and institutions." The Woman's Trade union announced the beginning of an investigation which is expected to embrace every factory in New York city where union labor is employed. All union workers will be asked to write confidential answers to questions concerning conditions where they toil. The limiting of the height of all buildings and even tearing down of existing skyscrapers is recommended ,by Theodore H. Price, a prominent fire insurance man. The height of every building should be governed, he says, by the character of its occupancy. Four or five stories should be the legal maximum where manufacturing or industrial pursuits are I followed. "A Are in the financial district could, In a small radius, wipe out the available fire Insurance capital . ; la the United States/' said Mr. Price. DENIES A SLANDER RLHASIO ANSWKRS A SLANDKKOl'S STORY ABOUT STATK. The Governor Rightfully Denies the Statement That South Carolina * lias Asylum for Illegitimates. (Iovernor Rlease received Saturday a letter from Nevada which aroused his indignation and brought forth a characteristically picturesque reply. His correspondent, writing from Reno, said he and others wore trying to "clean up tilings" at Reno, in respect to tlie divorce industry, and in ? i . r*, A _ ? 1 \ I consequence mis suue iiau uueii openly attacked in the legislative debates, a leader in the Nevada assembly going so far as to say that "the State of South Carolina, on account of its public immorality, occasioned by the absence of divorce, had been compelled to erect a large asylum for the maintenance of illegitimate children." South Carolina's standard of morality, Governor Blease replied, "is higher than that of any other State in the union." The governor denounces as absolutely false, mean and malicious the statement quoted in respect to a State asylum for illegitimate children. "South Carolina," says Governor Hlease, "has 110 divorce law, and her people are very proud of the fact." . . The Correspondence. The very interesting correspondence on the subject follows: Nevada Realty and Finance Company, Anderson building, Reno, Nevada. P. \j. Flanigan, president; Pix W. Smith, vice president; D. Ford Smith, secret ary-treasu rer. U or "1 A 1 1 in a run wi >, 1 j . i . Hon. Cole D. Dlease, Governor of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C.: My Dear Sir: We are in a hot fight out here in this Western country concerning easy divorce. We are trying to clean up things out here, organized a coarse of lectures and 1 enclose card descriptive thereof. Also send you under separate cover copy of my lecture and the attack upon me by one of the newspapers here, all of which will bring good results. An attack has been made by the legislature here upon South Carolina, as I understand, your State grants no divorces. I have timber interests in the South and know the high grade of citizenship and morality that obtains in your State. One of the leaders in the legislature told me yester,1.. .. 11. ? i it. ^ ~ r nay uiui me oiaie ui ouuui uitruiiiui on account of its public immorality occasioned by the absence of divorce, had been compelled to erect a large asylum for the maintenance of illegitimate children, and I write this letter to inquire if that is a truthful statement. Would it be too great a favor to ask for you to write me briefly if the absence of divorce in your State tends to immorality. Thanking you for the courtesy of an answer, I beg to remain, Very sincerely yours, I). F. Smith. The Coventor's Reply. Mr. D. Ford Smith, Anderson Building, Reno, Nevada. Dear Sir: Your letter of March 25 received. South Carolina has no divorce law, and her people are very proud of the fact. The betrayal of the virtue of one of her women means death. The standard of her morality is higher than that of any other State in the A ?>! ?\ ???/"? o -? > 11 1 r\n on/I R a of o a on f / v 111 v i ' v (in uiuuii, aiivi i u v luiuuii?? that she has an orphan homo for illegitimate children is absolutely false. There may be some institutions of the kind in the State, but the State herself has no such institution, and the assertions set out in your letter as to such statements being made in your State are mean and maliciously false. Very respectfully, Cole 1j. lllcase, Governor. Columbia, April 1. * ? ? ? RAISED A DIG RUMPUS. ? .. White Girl Refused to Pose Refore Negro Student. The race question came up in the Chicago Art Institute on last Tuesday, and for a time threatened to disrupt a class when a white girt who had been recently employed as a mrwlnl wfiifind in nnarv wtiiln n lioern student remained in the room. After a consultation with his fellow students the negro artist to whom exception had been taken relieved the situation temporarily by walking from the room. The matter Is not settled, as the girl says she will not pose for the class while the negro is in it. Most of the class sustain the girl. ? ? May Have IJeen Tiost. Cargo from the overdue interstate steamer Yonagal, bound from Townsville to Mackay, Australia, with 68 passengers and a crow of 70, was washed ashore Tuesday. It is feared that the vessel has been lost. The Yonagai is owned by the Adelaide Steamship company of Adelaide. ? Ex-Chief Justice Pope died at his horilo in Newberry on Wednesday. He was a good man, and served bis State faithfully in all the walks of life. WIFE WAS DEAD Bat He Still Clings to the "5cieoct" Belief and the Treatment. TREATED BY A HEALER She Objected to Her Father Calling I in Regular Physician, and Agreed With Her Husband that "Hod is Hetter Physician Than Man/' Treatment Kept Secret. "God is a l>etter physician than J man. I believe in the Christian Sci ence teachings, as did my wire, in not having medical treatment I did what I thought was best. Every one does what he or she thinks best." That was the explanation given by Lieut. Johannes Schiott of Bridgeport, Conn., formerly an officer in the Norwegian navy, who married Miss Mary E. Bedford, daughter of E. T. Bedford of Brooklyn, a vice-president I of the Standard Oil Company. Schiott was telling how his wife had dieo when under treatment by a Christian Science healer. "My wife became a mother March 17," continued Schiott. "Mrs. Battey was in attendance. Mrs. Schiott's heart gave out and she died quietly 1 1 ~ .. 4 n TA .. lasl oaiurua; uigiii ui i u uiuurv. i/i . C. E. Blackmail of Bridgeport was the first physician called. He came Friday afternoon and Dr. Dorman came up from New York 011 Saturday." Dr. Blackman, who is connected with the Bridgeport Hospital, says Mrs. Schiott died from blood poison-, ing. "When I readied the Schiott home Friday afternoon Mrs. 'Schiott was very low," said he. "I realized there was 110 chance to save her life. 1 understand there was a New York woman named Battey, a Christian Science healer, in attendance upon Mrs. Schiott following the birth of her child." Mr. Bedford called in Dr. Blackman against the wishes of his daughter and son-in-law, .both of whom held to their absolute faith in the healing powers of Christian Science. When Dr. Blackman reported the serious condition of Mrs. Schiott to Bed [ ford, her father swiftly summoned Dr. F. A. Dorman, a specialist, of No. 133 East Fifty-seventh street, New York. The regular physicians were with Mrs. Scliiott until the last.' Mrs. Battey also was there. Dr. Frederick C. Hotchkiss, who does the talking for Christian Scientists in Bridgeport, said: "Mrs. Schiott had been a sufferer from a serious form of heart trouble for years and had been saved on two similar occasions by a practitioner of the faith. It always is the custotn to have a physician present at such a time, however. Christian Scientists use common sense, above all. I presume that there must have been a physician present when Brs. Schiott died." Dr. Sarah F. Battey, who is both a regular physician and a Science healer w.as the New York woman called to attend Mrs. Schiott. Dr. Battey became a believer in Christian Sci? ence six years ago. In her home at No. 123 Wadsworth Ave., the Bronx, she said last night: "I was called to attend Mrs. Schiott as a regular physician." "Was your treatment such as would l>e given by a regular physician or did you use Christian Science?" was asked. "That question must be answered by members of the family," was the reply. "Mrs. Schiott's husband says Christian Science treatment was given until the day before her death." "Then Lieut. Schiott must know. I can make no statement as to the sort of treatment given Mrs. Schiott by me." Mrs. Schiott was thirty-two years old and had the appearance of a woman in fine health. She was fond of outdoor sports. The couple's home, Green's Farms, near Bridgeport, was a gift from Bedford to his daughter. Schiott had been in this country only a short time and was working for a carriage company in Bridgeport when he saw Miss Bedford and fell in love with her. It was said then that he was a chauffeur, but this was denied. It was asserted he was an expert machinist . "My daughter became interested in Christian Science several years ago," said Bedford last night in his home. No. 181 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, "and converted her husband to the belief. She always had a weak heart and this affection caused her death. For years her doctor was Dr. McCorkle of Brooklyn." Dr. 'McCorkle said last night that a Mrs. Scliiott was under his care until six years ago. "If her heart was weak then," he added, "I knew nothing about it." ? Abandon Vessel. An abandoned ship riding on her beams' ends was reported Tuesday in the lane of the coast liners about 140 miles due east off Jacksonville, Fla. Revenue cutters are searching for the derelict to destroy it. CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed At Poultry Yard, Darlington. 8. S. Paint 1c lb.? (Formula) and 9 others, 12c. John Hellwig, 49 Clinton Street, Albany, N. Y. For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at" $1.00 per bus! el. Address, J. J. Littlejohn, Jon aville. C. For Sale?1.X00 acres fine farm land near Macon, da., for less than $15 per acre. Address J. L. Bragdon, Sumter, S. C. Money Maker Cotton Improved and selected by T. J. Kirven is the best. Seed at $1 per bushel. T. J. Kirven, Providence, S. C. For Sale?Eggs of the famous Northup Strain, S. C. Illack Minorca, for hatching, $1.50 per 13. 9 Bennett street, Charleston, S. C. Buff Wyudottes; S. C. White and Buff Leghorns, Stock and eggs at bargain prices also O. I. C. hogs, W. E. Carroll, Normandy, Tenn., Route No. 1. Collect Direct. Send accounts to expert collector in home-town of man who owes you. Collection system free. Creditors Supplies Co., Rock Street, Newark, Ohio. For Sale?S. C. R. I. Reds, White and Brown Leghorns, Black Langshang, Plymouth Rocks. Eggs for setting, 15 for $1. M. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. Eggs in incubator lots or single sittings from S. C. Reds, $1.50 per 15; $8.00 per hundred. Nico cockerels, $2.00 each. Eugonla Hammond, North Augusta, S. C. Hustling Agents wanted to sell ac-j cessory indispensable to all auto-' mobile owners; very liberal te/ms. Write for particulars. Henszey, Box 5 4 2, Troy, N. Y. For Sale?Barred Rocks, White and ..Silver Laced Wyandotts that are strong, healthy, vigorous and good layers. Eggs $1.50 per setting; fertility guaranteed. H. A. Preacher, Brunson, S. C. Shave Yourself with our Danish Double Shear Steel hand ground and honed razor. Fully guaranteed for t?.'/-? voa ra 4 1 0 0 \tnnfV back if not entirely satisfactory. Brown & Rightmire, Phoenixville, Pa. The Little Tell Tale which tells the Truth. A complete egg record of the day, the week, the month, and the year. Price 1 Oc. Address, Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Dade City, Fla. Girl or Woman?each locality, good pay made acting as representative, address envelopes, fold, mail circulars, material, stamps, furnished free. Rex Mailing Agency. London, Ontario. For Sale?Whippoorwill Peas, $2.25 per bushel; Clay Mixed Peas, $2.10 per bushel; Ripper Mixed Peas, $2.10 per bushel. Write for prices in larere Quantities. F. A. Bush Co., Preston, Ga. Dropsy C ired?Shortness of breatn relieved 'n 3 6 to 4 8 hours. Reduces swelling in 15 to 20 day t. Call or write Collum Dropsy Remedy Company, Dept. O 512 Austell Bldg., Atlanta Ga. Dobbs* Single Comb Rhode Island Reds and "Crystal" White Orpingtons win and lay when others fail, stock and eggs for sale. Send for mating list. G. A. Dobbs, Box B. 24, Gainesville, Ga. Wanted?Men and ladies to take throe months practical course. Expert management. High salaried positions guaranteed. Write for catalogue now. Charlotte Telegraph School, Charlotte, N. C. Wanted?Men to take thirty days' practical course in our machine shops and learn automobile business. Positions secured graduates, $25 per week and up. Charlotte Auto School, Charlotte, N. C. Wanted?Bookkeepers, stenographers, clerks, write us if desiring employment. We place competent business help and aro not able to supply demand. Carolina Auait & System Co., Skyscraper, Columbia, S. C. Regular 2.">c Sheet Music?"Don't (Forget Me Sweetheart" (Song). "HI ue Bird," (Intermezzo Two Step). "Take Mo Hack to Dreamland" (Song). Three for 25c. F. F. Pfeiffer, 100G Republic Bldg., Chicago. Good Live Agents wanted in every town to sell a meritorious line of medicines extensively advertised and used by ever family and In the stable. An exceptional opportunity for the right parties to make good money. Write at once for proposition to L. B. Martin, Box 110, Richmond, Va. When Medicines Fail, will take your case. Diseases of Stomach, Bow LEE'S HEAD.A NEURAL Safely Sun Cures Headache and Neuralg 4 * ? ? ? m . ous lesumomais on me iu our um< Read the following: I have been a constant suffer could not get any relief until it hi I tried Lee's Headache and Neuralg lief. I heartily endorse it as the be; (Signed) Sold everywhere. Price 25c and 50c Burwell & Dunn I DON'T SUFFER WITH Cuts, Bruises Strains and Sprains, but apply Noah's Liniment. It is antiseptic and will take the poison and soreness out quickly, when all else fails. r Noah's Liniment will save' any amount of pain and can be taken internally for Colic, Cramps, etc. Nothing better for Toothache. - i Noah's Liniment Is tho host remedy for I Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lame Rack, Still I Joints and Muscles, Bore Throat, Colds, J Strains, Sprains, Cuts, Rrulses, Colic, Cramps, Neuralgia, Tootliaclio, 1221332223 and all Nerve, Bono and Muscle Aches and Pains. The genuine has I package and looks like rnRVVVjfl this cut, but has RED band on front of pack- IklArallPJ age and " Noah's Lini- |in|TTMT|3 mant" always in RED UlillkUUll Ink. Beware of Imlta- 7 tlons. Lnrgo bottle, 25 Mi mi It KMT cents, and sold by all dealers In me d 1 ci n e. CJua ran toed or money refunded by Noah mmmmmtmm Remedy Co., Inc., Richmond, Va. els, Kidneys, Liver, Lungs and debility (either sex) permanently eradicated by Natural Methods. Interesting literature free. C. Cullen Howerton, Durham, N. C. For Sale?Well improved farm of 4 88 acres, within one mile of Catawba, York County, S. C. Catawba is the junction point of the Seaboard, Southern and Catawba Valley railroads and has excellena schools and chijrehos: two public roads through the farm; R. F. I), route; splendid two-story sevenroom dwelling; good barn and tenant houses; land well adapted to cotton, corn and oats; magnificent pasture facilities; to be sold for division. Price $22.50 per acre. James T. Faris, Catawba, S. C. If you want more money for your cotton crop, plant "Acme Upland Long Staple. Very productive superior staple. Two bales (1023 lbs) this variety sold in Boston, Nov., 1910, for $281.32. Seed $1.50 per bushel, 10 or more bushels, $1.25. Address A. M. Huggins, Lamar, S. C. Reference: Merchants & Planters Bank, Lamar, S. C. For Sale?-120 bushels Iron Peas at $2.50 per bushel, 200 bushels Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed being best of seven different varieties r>y lest ior iwo yt;ara uy uiu, unu free from disease, therefore I have abandoned all other short stables, also 3 0 bushels Long Staple left, sole lint at 2 0c. Dec. 23, good and bad, all delivered F. O. B. Newberry, S. C., at $1.00 per bu. J. L. Mayer, Newberry, S. C. Wanted?Every man, woman and child in South Carolina to know that the "Alco" brand of Sash, Doors and Blinds are the best and are made only by the Augusta Lumber Company, who manufacture everything in Lumber and Millwork and whose watchword is "Quality." White Augusta Lumber Company, Augusta, Georgia, for prices on any order, large or small. Southwest Georgia Bargains?1345 acres or gooa iarnnng iana about two hundred acres in cultivation balance, excepting about 76 acres in lake, easily put in cultivation only four miles from Rainbridge, a hustling town of 6,000, and touched by one of the counties fine thirty foot roads and only two miles from main line of A. C. L. |H 1 ???? lCHE AND I ,GIA REMEDY^ I aly Speedily I la no matter what the cause. Numerje bear us out In this statement. er from headache for 12 years ah<^^ jfl i (1 run Its course or take morpniu?.^i ? 1 a Remedy and found permanent re- \ H st thing I have ever tried. H. A. GANDY, Hartsvllle. S. 0. fl Manufactured by Co., I Charlotte, N. C. v ^ 1 AFTER THE BLACK HAND | THK GOVEHXMKXT WILL TAKE A 1 HAM) IX THE HUNT ] The United States to Thoroughly Kx\ plore the Order That Has Caused Forty Deaths. At Chicago the United States secret service operatives are about to , explore a "black hand" bomb that is expected finally to bring to justice officers and members of the body that in a little more than one year has claimed nearly forty lives and caused a reign of terror in the Italian district in Chicago. , The threat upon the life of Judge K. M. Landis of the United States district court, it is learned, was but one feature of a program of threats and blackmail that lias been carried into I the midst of the government's do- k partment of justice in Chicago. ( The threats resulted in the recalling of members of the F. Q. Alongi jury, which disagreed after hearing . evidence in a "black hand" case a week a?o, and tho discovery that ] members of the jury had been terrorized and that their inability to reach a verdict probably was the di- ^ rect result of these threats. The recent threats upon Judge 1 Landis, upon jurors and Monday upon the life of a member of Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler's staff, are expected to hasten the scheduled arrests. It is known that numerous Italian secret service men imported from New York in order to prevent them from being marked by the organization under investigation, are at work seeking evidence to he used in the , government's moves. ^ 0 + 1 What is to Be Done. J The New York World thinks that some way should he devised by the Senate and the President of withdrawing Statehood from California nnrl pnrl iir>ln (r If f r\ t hrt ratlV A rl* zona as a Territory. Before adjourning, the State Legislature at Sacramento decided to submit to the people a constitutional amendment providing for the recall of all elective officers, including the judiciary. 1 _ Because the people of Arizona em- V bodied a similar radical provision In their new State Constitution they are denounced as unfit for Statehood and threatened at Washington with being held forever under a Territorial form of government. In the innocence of their souls they only did what their nearest neighbor among the States proposes to do, and what any other State has the right to do If it wants to. It will he remembered that Bailey threatened to resign because the j Democrats on the judiciary commit- i tee voted to admit Arizona to Stat?- Ljet hood with this provision in her con- J stitution. No doubt he will now take the ground that the Territory of Arizona ought to be barrod from Statehood for setting tli? State of California a had example. But that would not punish California. The question is what is to bo done wltk her and other States that persist In adding these Democratic provisions to their constitutions? The great -Jh/ Bailey must bo placated somehow. ^ R. R. The soil is sandy loam with clay ranging from three to twelve inches of top and will produce abundantly, when properly cultivated, Wrapper Tobacco, Corn, Cotton, Sugar Cane, Velvet Beans, Peas, Peanuts, Irish and Sweet Potatoes, Turnips, Cabbage, or almost any kind of garden truck, Peaches, Plums, Grapes, Melons, Cantalopes and almost any of the products of a Southern climate. Southwest Georgia Is making more rapid advances than any other section of the entire South and Inside of two years no land can be purchased in this country for lese than $25.00 to $50.00 per acre. $?,009 buys this 1345 acre tract or will sell desired amount at $7.00 per acre. Better act quick for thin is the greatest bargain in Southwest Georgia. T. A. Ausley 4k Co., Bainbridge, Ga. y X