The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-20
GENEROUS HEARTS !. COME FORWARD ID AID THE STRICKEN Over $100 Turned Over to the Walkers Yesterday
 Afternoon
MANY GO TO HOME TO
 TENDER SYMPATHY
Five Children III in St. Vincent s Hospital Are Still in Critical Condition-All Have Very
 High Fever

1 The remains of little Altha Walker will be laid away in Elmwood eeme- tery this morning. Funeral services will be held at the Walker home at II o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Thomas c. Cassady.
 The hearts of the citizens of Bir- mlngham have respoded to misfortune and | last night the stricken Walker family possessed over a hundred dollars that had been willingly donated as the news of the unfortunate family's trouble spread over the city yesterday morn
 Ing. More money is coming in Tears came into the little gray eyes
 of Amos Walker yesterday afternoon as he stood in the woods in front of
 his cottage home and said "I never
 knew there were so many good people
 in the world.'
 The five children at St. Vincents hos
 pital, Walter, aged II years; Ernest, | aged 10 years; Ellis, aged years; Allie
 Mae, aged 1 years, and Elsie aged 15
 years, were reported last night to be
 very i'll. One of the internes at the l ioSpltdl Sdiu lie or all | five of them stays close to the 104 mark
 and on two of them it refuses to yield
 to the ice baths. They all five are very | seriously i'll, but 1t could not be stated | that any one of them was past recov-
 cry The oldest, Walter, is probably
 in the worst condition, but he yet has many chances to recover his health. l personally am very optimistic concern | ing the recovery of all of them unless | soma nOf0rSaan iroff i,, which we know nothing about at pres | ent'
 In going to the Walker home, the
 street car Is left af Elizabeth station on
 the South Bessemer line. red mud
 road is followed off to the right for
 some few rods and then a path is taken | that leads down through the woods. | The path crosses a little brook just be- fore ascending a slight knoll in the woods and from the top of this knoll the
 first sight is caught of the Walker home.
 It is a small four room cottage propped up on high pillars and setting | far back in the woods from the car | line. It is painted dark, muddy red | color and but two out buildings sur-
 round 1t. A small porch crosses the
 front and a pair of decreplt steps
 reaches from it 10 the ground The
 front is fenced off into a small yard
 Aid From Many Sources | When the house was approached by a newspaper man yesterday afternoon there was a man to be seen standing in the front yard and leaning on the | gate. A few moments later he proved | to be w. A. Smayer who lives at Phelam
 avenue and Berney street. West End
 MT. Smyer learned yesterday morning ing of the Walker family's trouble and I tlns x.rffI | at 70S Tuscaloosa avenue, West End, money to the amount of about $60 had | been collected by him from the residents
 in the West End neighborhood and turned
 over to the Walker family.
 | While talking with Mir Smyer, n grocery wagon appeared over the brow | of the knoll down in the woods. It
 drew up beside the house and Clyde Vaughan and Dan Hall carried a large
 basket of groceries into the house. In | the basket were flour. sugar, coffee,
 canned goods of all kinds and other
 packages of staple foods J. w. Me | Donald, groceryman in West End, had | heard of the Walker family. The groc- cries came from him.
 The grocery wagon had not left when | the door of the Walker home opened and
 young man came out. He was Tom Underwood, employed in the business of flee of The Birmingham Age Herald A number of citizens and business firms in the downtown district of Birmingham banded together yesterday morning and all clipped in in providing a fund for the stricken Walkers. Over $35 was collected and turned over to The Age Herald. Mr. Underwood had just given the money to MT Walker More money came into The Age-Herald office last night and will be sent to the Walker home this morning.
 A few moments later several women of the neghborhood came in to offer condolences and aid to the sorrowing nother. The Rev. J. A Bryan passed into the house and offered comfort to the father and the mother Everywhere there was sympathy and eagerness 10 help the unfortunate ones.
 The flood of tears which Mrs. Walker had bravely held back for hours was re- leased in helplessness as the sympathy and kindness of the neghbornood be- came manifest and she sank to a chair shaking with sobs In the front room the bed and no carpet, lay all that re- mained of Altha, who suddenly dropped dead the previous night. There was a
 mistake made yesterday morning in re- porting Altha's name as Alpine
 Tells of Daughters Death ! In speaking of Althas death, her father 1 yesterday said:
 Eva (AIrs. WallSer) went out to the | hospital to see the other children yes-
 terday afternoon. Altha appeared in the | best of health and before mother left, ff.