The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-22
A BAS BALD HEADS
POMP PADOUR COMING
Ancient Style for Men Has
Been Revived
IT COMES FROM SARATOGA
University of Chicago Students Are
First to Adopt the New High
Bristling Art In the
West.
1T COMES FROM SARATOGA

Chicago, September o1.-Cspecial.)-T
pompadour has returned to Chicago.
Among the students at the University. )f
Chicago and the High schools that follow
in It's lead the ancient style has been re-
vived. Youths who heretofore have spent
valuable minutes morning, noon and
night, plastering stubborn locks down fast
on each side of rigid part, will find new
use for their military hair brushes.
Now they must cultivate the upward
movement" If they would keep in the van
of mems fashions The style promises to
be no passing fad, either for the young
Chicagoans who have taken 1t up declare
they intend to stick.
Especially in Hyde Park the fashion is
rampant on the streets and 'boulevards of
that part of the city hatless young men
on foot and in automobiles present an In
dian-like appearance with their hair ar
ranged In the new manner.
The style commenced In the fag end of
August, when very few examples were
seen. When the High schools opened the
young men with pompadours were first
derided Convict No. 99' was the gem
eral term applied But soon others began
to initiate and the style took hold.
1t is said to have originated in the east
at Saratoga or some other place where
money is spent easily. In travelling west
ward college towns were first visited by
the new style and Chicago probably owes
its being 'in first" to the Midway school.
THAT sort of thing may be all right for
the young fellows" said William BALI,
head barber at the Stratford hotel today,
but 1t will be rough on the man past
middle age whose hair has begun to
dwindle in front. 1t Is a sign of the
times that men are less able to wear POM
padours now than they were years ago
when life was less strenuous and hair
thicker. The average man. to present a
respectable appearance, must comb his
hair to the front, not backward"
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severely, windows and doors being blown
out in houses as far from the scene as
one mile
Buildings Totally Destroyed.
Among the buildings totally destroyed
were the Armour Packing company s
warehouse, the Jung Brewing company's
warehouse, Pinnacle Brewing company's
warehouse, oil tank and warehouse of the
Kentucky Consumers oil company and
the Standard OIL company's warehouse
Beside the two damaged hotels the Jel-
Iico Furniture company's building col
lapsed and the stock of the Smith Dry
Goods company was practically ruined
although the building which Ii occupied,
the Cumberland opera house, the finest
structure in Jellico, escaped with little
damage. Fully twenty other firms suf-
fered losses, but they occupied small
buildings.
Rescurers Begin Work.
Rescuers began work soon after the ex-
plosion and medical aid was asked Of
Knoxville, which sent dozen physicians
to administer to the wounded. Twelve Of
the most seriously injured were sent to
Knoxville tonight to hospitals In that
city The holding Of Inquests over the
bodies Of the victims was begun this aft
ernoon, but was not completed.
Many people are homeless as the result
of the disaster
Some estimates made tonight on the loss
of life number as high as forty. but
this, It is believed. is an exaggeration.
The disaster is the worst since the ter
rible explosion in the Fraterville mines
in 1902 when 1874 miners lost their lives
In a coal mine near Coal Creek.
City PatroIled BY Officers.
Knoxville, September 2l.-At midnight a
dispatch from Jellico says:
Jellco is tonight patrolled by 200 armed
men, sworn in by Mayor Baird. People
rendered homeless by the explosion were
fed tonight from the stores which had not
been wrecked by the explosion An Of
ficial review of the results of the disaster
places the number of dead at nine instead
of twelve.
The streets are deserted. the Mayors
order requiring all to remain indoors hav-
ing proven effective. Col c. F. Spencer
of Knoxville has wired Governor Cox, ten
dering the services of the Third regiment
IL needed.
Mayor Baird today called on the gov
ernor for troops, but that official could
not be reached, being absent inspecting
state coal mines at Petros. Troops will
probably be sent out In the morning.