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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06

as we could gain our feet we rushed through the house for the children who were in different rooms. Two of my lit taking a bath, and third was in bed with a fever We carried them out into the streets and finally made our way out of the ruins.
 Sounded Like Battle
 T cannot describe the scenes at that time" continued pr. Pirie. "The walls were everywhere falling, and the noise was like the cannonading of battle The people seemed to be crazy. They were shreilling and crying. and many were on their knees praying. The air was choking with ashes. The mer- chants and clerks had all run out of the stores, and no one paid any atten- tion to saving his goods. At the same time it was dark. When the earth rose it threw off the switch at the electric light plants, and thls saved many lives. Had 1t not done so the town would have been filled with live wires and many would have been killed by them. An electric wire caught me in the neck just asI ran out of the door, and had the current been on I should have per ished. eAs it was, I tried to get some coal oil, and went to store and ask ed for it. The merchant was out in the street He told me that there was a five gallon can in the rear of the store and that I could have 1t for nothing if would bring it out, but as for him, he would not venture. I went in and got the can, but it held only a quart.
 And what did the people do for quarters that night?'
 We did our best to get out of the city and later on we had tents which we lived in until we could find where we were. Many of the residents have coffee plantations and country estates and some went to them. A relief train and physicians came in from San Jose the next day, and the dead were grad ually taken out. A few of the build ings have since been repaired. The town has now perhaps one-sixth of the population it had two years ago"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06

buildings while falling and thus crushed.
 pr. Alfred Pirie. rich Canadian cof- fee and banana planter who lost some thing like $t00.000 in the earthquake, told me today of some curious in- stances which reminds one of Pompeii. When the ruins were eXcavated many people were found just as they ap- peared in the acts of their ordinary work when killed by this mighty ca tastrophe.
 Tn one house. said he, "a shoe maker sat amid the ruins with shoe on his knee and his hammer raised in the act of striking the sole We found women sitting at their sewing ma chimes, their hands still holding the cloth and their heads bowed over their work. In one case the wife of Gen. tral American diplomat was giving her baby a bath when the house fell and crushed both her and the child.
 Some Strange Features of the Earth
 quake
 "Tell me your own experience, MT. Pirie" said I.
 Myself and my family were unin- jured," was the reply, but neverthe- less the shock was terrible one and we had narrow escape. My house has walls over three feet in thickness and it was so built that only the interior of it was destroyed. I had several Canadian girls visiting me at the time the earthquake occurred. We had, just sat down to dinner It was already dark and the electric lights were turned on. We had been talking about earthquakes, and one of the girls had said she had felt a slight tremor that afternoon. We had warned her that there was little danger, but just at that moment the floors rose and the inside walls began to fall in. We were all thrown from our chairs to the floor. The table was overturned. At the same time the light went out. The screen was thrown against the door, shutting it tight, and we had great scramble trying to get out. We would rise, and be again thrown to our knees. As soon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06

French bankers s5o.0oo.o0o. English bank CTS $50 OO0,00O. and American bankers s50.- 000,OOo Whether China required $S00, ,000,- eco is not stated. That was not impor- tant. The great international bankers figured she should borrow that sum. and China was expected to be complacent.
 China has been so subservient and so accustomed to obey dictation from the great powers that 1t really is remarkable that any protest should have been en- tered against this benevolent arrange ment. China, however, in becoming q young republic has absorbed some repub- lican ideas. Some of the men of young China have rather radical ideas about lib- erty of action. One stipulation the inter- national bankers insisted upon was alto gether too severe for the Chinese. The bankers specified that they should ap- point their own agents in PelSin, and s',at no money should be expended by the re public except with the approval and con sent of these representatives of the banks
 To the Chinese this appeared to ie nothing more nor less than a declaration that the bankers would be the rulers of China. Some of the leading Chinese statesmen pointed cut that enterprise would be throttled, and that no railroad or no great work of development could be
 
 lation except it was fathered or fosterel by these International bankers There are going to be some rich2 pickings in China. There are going to be some grants of fabulous value The thoughtful men of China did not say the bankers would r.st be fair. out they did not want to r.s:e themselves at the absolute mercy of the persons who were lending money to them.
 When a business man has to borrow money from a bank to keep his concern going. and the bank makes the terms so hard that the business man gasrs the business man usually says he won't submit. goes out and does little cussina and then comes back and accepts what is offered. China baked at the terms of ths international bankers, serene in tho knowledge that they were supreme. ar, | that the six greatest nations of the eart'
 were behind them, left China to- cone t' her senses and then submit. And Chins
 would have submitted if it had not heef
 for that California scholar and miner. Prof Abraham Wendell Jackson mus
 have had |, lot of daring. He must. too hnve some friends in the Chinese gov ernment wno have lot of confidence i. | him He left China and came to Ner | York. On his way to New York h' stopped at London. He had long intsr view in London with k. Birch Crisp ; banker. no. widely known, but who ha
 gained a position of high esteem in Eng lland Mir Crisp was one of the banker
 interested in the railroad and water TOW
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had withdrawn from all participation in the Chinese affair.
 This was very considerate of them, in light of the fact that they had been kicked out of the game by Mir. Jackson.
 The great money kings have cement ed their friendships and strengthened their alliances year after year and ger- eration after generation. They have grown In power and prestige until they have been considered the masters of the world. Never was their position considered stronger; never was their power considered greater than in this year 1912, And yet an adventurous American in far off China, with two sons in New York and with a modest office over at No. Desbrosses street. man trained in the schoolroom, and who in his 57 years of life had done nothing to attract particular notice, by one stroke of daring upset not only their plans but the plans of six nations and made himself world figure and the financial Moses of the biggest coun- try on the face of the globe.
 Copyright by Richard Spillane.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06
HE CHUpcMs MRg M RU1ns.-

the great earthquake occurred There had been slight tremor about noon of that day, but it was not until the dark ness was falling that the earth gave its great heave. It was in fact, just about ten minutes to p. m., when most of the people were in their homes, either eating their dinner or sitting and chat ting, that a mighty shock came which converted the surface of this city into a awving sea, and which within a few seconds reduced the whole town to rub bsh. Nearly every house was thrown to the ground. The churches were ruined, and the tower of Fl Carmen was hurled many rods and dropped right across the railroad tracks. Nine ty-six squares of buildings were re- duced to debris. The market was laid low, and great female seminary be- came dust and stone. The American hotel, which then had over 200 guests, was destroyed. The Church of Los Angeles, about the richest in Central America, had It's towers cracked and its walls fell in. The Carnegie building, which it's architect declared was earth quakeproof, was leveled to the ground, and the catacombs of the cemetery were torn open. and thousands of breaking coffins, out of which spilled bones and ground, while in other parts of the cemetery family vaults filled with dead crumbled to the earth.
 One Thousand Lives Lost
 The loss of life was terrible. Almost one tenth of the city perished in the ruins. Including the neighboring town of Paraiso, the dead were fully 1000. and in addition to this many were wounded. The people rushed from the buildings at the first great tremor of the earth, but the shock came so quick ly that many were crushed before they could get out One of the citizens tells me of how he and his family crawled under heavy wood table and thus es- capped destruction. The streets rose and fell so that people running along them were sometimes thrown against the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06
CATAcOMPS M
 HECKllE,TEpY.

Copyright. 1912, by Frank G. C epenter.) @ARTAGO Costa Rica.--i am in the
 Pompei of Genital America. N Here on the highlands of the Andes, about h.if way between the Atlantic an the Pacific oceans, and almost mile above the seq, is situated I little city which from the shocAs of earthquakes. Like the Pompei at the foot of Vesuvius it has beer partially destroyed several times. sad, like it, it has finally met with of old Mother Earth which has reduced 1t to ruins.
 The Father of Flower
 Three years ago there was no pret- tier little city in Latin America than this town of Cartago. Lying as it does in a nest in the volcanic mountains, amid high peaks covered with green and crowned with feecy white clouds and with the purest streams of noun tain water flowing through it's concrete gutters, it was considered the most healthy resort north of our Canal Zone. The town was noted for it's delightful climate and as the vacation place for employees on the canal. They came here by the hundreds, and there was large hotel run by an American named Vel 
 houses which supplied them with quar- ters.
 The place was especially attractive because of it's quaintness. 1t is one of the old cities of Central America and had been built in Central American style. Its houses which were several thousand in number ran along well made streets with narrow sidewalks of hagstone. The houses were of one story made of stone and mud with walls several feet thick. The buildings also were of one story facing the streets with the rooms running around patios in which were orange trees, lemon trees and many tropical flowers. The doors and windows were large and the breezes from the mountains blew through from all sides. The roofs were Of red tiles, and were laid on thick raf- fers. Altogether the town seemed sub stantially built and no one would have supposed that single great shock could have reduced it to ruins. as it's low houses were considered earthquake proof
 In addition to it's residences Cartago had some fine business buildings There were many stores scattered here and there and also a great market, which was filled with stalls and crowded on each market day by the thousands who came in from the surrounding country to buy and sell. There were thirteen Catholic churches and great cathedral was building. Some of the churches were of large size. There were schools for boys and schools for girls, and last. just then approaching completion and ready to be dedicated, was peace palace built by Andrew Carnegie to be the home of d Central American court which would arbitrate the differences
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
WOMEN 'PROGRE5IVES'
TO HOLD MOOSRALLY
AT PIEDMONT DNIGHT

Many of the promine women OF
the city and those acti'y interested
IN club work, patrioticihd civic or
ganizations and other lis or endeavor
have received cards I'm the state
,o,,,nlittee of the Progfsive party. re-
..,,.,tino their presenE at a meeting
of the Progressive Wnen IN the au-
ditorium Of the Piednnt MOTEL to meet
Mrs Long of Camde n. c., and New
vor, This evening s o'clock This
,s..,,hIsge will Insignificant as the
first purely politicaSathering OF wom-
IN of Atlanta.
The meeting wipot be suffragette
o.+baring but it tanned to give At
rsota women an opportunity to hear
Mrs. Long A nod speaker and club
,,-r,ar evnolJndhe measures which
the Progressive 1rty proposes to adopt
toward equal surage, A genial invi-
,s+ior is eXtcn3d by the committee
To- all women lterested to be pres
ont
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
Gertrude Anterior Advises Girls on MARRIAGE
DON'T WE'D UNTIL THIRTY
Trend of Women Now Toward
independence, Declares a
Famous Novelist.
BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON.
Recognized as One of the Greatest Lit
erary Women of the Age

l think the tendency of the modern
woman is greater and greater leaning
toward independence. The modern wom-
an. perhaps, will not marry unless she
be a woman who wants family. Here
tofore in years gone by woman was
taught by tradition to believe the Gull
mination of ideal womanhood was mar
rlage-an ideal that has undergone a
vast change within the last ten years.
1t is sort of natural climax brought
on by modern evolution of, we'll any
commercialsm, perhaps. The strife for
livelihood makes necessary the secur.
ing of employment by girls and women.
They are simply compelled to support
themselves-a condition that is as much
of an ideal to some as tragedy to
others
That is why they won't marry merely
for the sake of being supported. A
woman, of course. whose soul is yearn-
ing for home, naturally will marry
earlier than girl whose ambition inn
peis the seeking of a career, whether it
be art, music, the stage or any other
goal
TO me it seems there is nothing more
tragic than for a woman who is not
domestically inclined, has no particular
yearning toward motherhood. whose
innermost soul strives for, perhaps, d
career, where her individuality can as
sert itself, to be shackied by wedlock
and her ambition and talent di, of in
anition.
More Careers Are Opened.
Yet, these same women will do their
sacred duty, and live on with men
whose evening home coming is dead
ened by days toll where business ex-
hauSts them. | believe careers are
open to very great number of women
that heretofore were denied them, solely
to this so-called feminine movement.
Matrimony has been the ideal for so
many years that woman has been led to
believe marriage was the apex of her
existence. Anybody knows there are
many families where happiness is not
what it should be, where neither the
wives nor husbands are happy, to say
nothing of the children
Now they find their walks of life
where they will develop in comfort.
Man wants a variety in business to
keep from becoming stagnant; the
same should apply to the wife, for GER
tainly domesticity will have tendency
to dwarf as much as a business office
That is why believe woman is becom-
ing more of a factor to be reckoned
with, for she is finding her place
As for the effect on home life, don't
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
FOR DIVORCE
EVIDENCE AGAINST
HIS RUNAWAY WIFE

A. A. Lineberry, of Birmingham, the
Southern railway engineer who re-
Gently found his Wife in a hotel in
Atlanta after she had been missing for
two weeks. is here today obtaining evil
dence and making preparations to en-
ter suit for divorce.
Mrs. Lineberry, who, when found.
persistently refused to return to Biz
mingham, is said to be living in Gin
cinnati. Lineberry says he will make
no effort to induce her to return. but
will sue for divorce within a week.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09

vi course, you will ind the
collection Of conventional
floral effects and medallion
styles in tn, greatest variety.
We are also showing in very
liberal assOrtments two toned
effects with solid centers, in
fact the assortment of de-
signs and color combination
is so immense and variated
you cannot fail to find the
Rugexactly suiting your o,Ur1
individual taste and wants.
Added to this beautiful coll
lection of Wilton Art Pieces
we are showing a very strong
assortment of fine
Administer Rugs
In this collection Oriental,
Conventional and Floral de-
signs predominant.
Brussels Rugs, too! In the
best standard makes are
shown in large variety. Of
course, we have all the rug
sizes, from the smallest hearth
rug to the largest room size.
Beginning with Fl inches
length to 81 inches, 4 it. Gin.
x6 it. Also 7 ft.x6 and the
popular room size 9xI2 #.
Note also---that we have
10 #. 6xI3 #. 6 in a very
strong assortment.
Give our rug section a visit,
it will repay you. Once you
begin to look you will hardly
know where to stop. The as
sortment is so large, patterns
SO varied, and tone pictures
so attractive that you would
not fail to be led into tempta-
ton.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09

think there will be a material change.
Aside from the servant question, which
is far more important than the question
of whether a woman should vote or
not woman that want~ a home will
have a home
Even at that, if she wants to vote.
become broader through public contact
with important events and national af-
fairs and become interesting in general
| can't see where the world is going to
suffer such a shock
"ChidIess Woman Not Worthless"
woman who is homeless or child
less should not be put on shelf as
worthless. Some are far more equip
ped for general usefulness after having
passed the 3O-year mark than when
emerging from their teens.
l know one woman in England whose
wealth would permit her to have every
care Of her eight children attended to
| by servants or maids, yet she gives a
part of Their time to suffrage, has been
Jailed for the cause and yet attends to
all her children herself and fairly wor-
ships them. ...
VI course. there are some men who
! neglect their homes or would from anv
cause, but. generally speaking, man
does not slight his home for the sake
of voting.
Take the woman's club. for instance
The rich and fashionable follow sports
so to speak-the golf links, boating,
M,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09

OF course Wilton Rugs are
put in the highest class and
take first place in the display.
They represent all that is
new and good and are only
equaled in their beauty by
Eastern Rugs.
Among these Wiltons you
will find exact Copies---Ker-
manshaw, Serapi, Mousoul,
and Ghorovan productions
from the East. Indeed, many
of the original, from which
these are copied, are not now
in the market, but are to be
found only in the hands of
collectors.
All of these are adapted
and variated by our best
American weavers, and this
collection will be found to en-
brace genius in color, paint
ing and pictures in design
that you would not expect in
domestic manufacture. High
grade Wilton Rugs are best
adapted for general home use,
in fact, no other rug takes it's
place in the average Ameri-
can home. For a special room
you can use a rug of Oriental
design, but for general floor
coverings you will find the
French patterns in dining
room designs, hall designs,
library designs and Queen
Anne effects are all included
in our large assortment, and
you can choose for your own
particular want.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
VOTE OF FIVE COUNTIES OUT.

Secre, AIRY of State Philip Cook, who
is compiling the state election returns.
has heard from all but five counties.
The missing counties are Habersham,
Pierce, Screven. Worth and Stephens.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
Wilton r uQs
Beautiful Royal and French Wilton
K E E L Y S

Bright skies and beautiful Indian summer
weather are helping us to people third floor
with pleased customers and we are extending a
welcome to home-con1ers Possibly you have been
to the mountains mayhap you have been to the
seashore or you may have been ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
you were-,Ue ,Oelcon1e you home. Every wo-
man returning from her vacation has found that
there is no place like home" She is glad to be
back and is now ready to take up her house-wifely
duties. She finds here and there want. 1t may
be curtains here and draperies yonder rugs in this
room portiers in that Foreseeing the wants of
our customers, our third floor has prepared and is
now unfolding for your pleasure and purchase.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
OMEGA BANK CHARTERED.

The Bank of Omega, in Tiff county,
a $25. 900 concern. was chartered by the
of state today.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-09
Royal and French Wi1to11s
Room Sizes
Room Sizes

The Kelly rug display meeting with appreciation fror
all lovers of the beautiful and the collection embraces tn
finest examples of rug In fact visitors third foo
are loud in their praises of the assortment shown.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-17

through q PERIOD of anything but pros.
peTity, and the handsome manner In
which the storms were w~eathered and
the business placed on a solid and
enduring basis was due in no small
measure TO his industry, foresight and
sound business judgment, Since the
conolidation OF the two publishing
houses here he has occupied q re-
sponsible position with the new com
pany. and the place which he leaves
vacant will not be an easy one TO I'LL.
The position to which Mr.. Wilson goes
is one that offers many advantages.
He will be associated with the Curtis
Publishing Company of st. Paul, one
OF the solid, Institutions OF that city.
which is now erecting a fine rev bust.
ness building between the two cities.
which il will occupy about the first OF
the year. Mr.. Wilson's service with
the Times.lIerald company will ter.
inmate Oct. /, and he and the family
will move 10 st. Paul as soon after
that date as possible.