Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-03
PUPILS
MARCH To
SAFETY
Boys Put Out Blaze in CIoakroom.
1000 Children Sent Home
From Cold CIassrooms.

In less than 60 seconds after the
fire gong sounded in the Peoples
Street School Monday, 500 pupils were
eighth grade had checked blaze in
their courtroom with the handeXtin-
guisher, which otherwise would have
been beyond control and probably
would have destroyed the building be-
fore the fire companies could ar
rive.
At the same time about 1000 of the
$4,000 school children in Atlanta We're
dismissed for the day from seven of
the schools because of Inadequate
heating facility.
That should prove conclusively,
said Superintendent of Schools Will
liam NJ. slaton, that my scoffed at
contention that we need better heat
ing apparatus in the schools is the
truth" <'s-t+sef
Not Safe to Use Furnase.
Five hundred pupils were dismissed
from the Peoples Street School after
the fire, because it was not safe to
build another big fire in the furnace
The fire caught in tie baseboarding of
the cloa1room from the main furnace
f1ue, which became overheated.
Due to the efforts of Miss Sarah
Sasnett, teacher of the eighth grade;
Miss Jones, the superintendent; Jani-
tor Robert Smith and the boys with
the hand fire extinguishers, the dam
age to the school building was tri-
fling.
About ESQ pupils were sent home
from three unheated classrooms in
Grant Park School, ESQ were dis
missed from William F. Slaton School,
300 from the Fraser School, $50 from
Edgewood School, $50 from the Girls
High School and $50 from. the Eng
ush- Commercial School.
I'm Edgewood," said Superinten-
dent Slaton, the temperature on the
north side of the school was down to
20 degrees above zero. The tempera-
lures in the rooms dismissed at the
other schools ranged from rs to 30
degrees above zero. The tempera ture
in a schoolroom should be at least 65
or 20.
Fire Drill Saves Day.
81 consider it a remarkably rota bic
fact that the use of the hand fire ex-
tinguishers and the efficacy of the fire
drill at the Peoples Street School saw
ed the day With these two safety
valves to fall back upon, practically
no damage is recorded But think
what might have happened had there
been no fire extinguishers in the
school and no fire drill among the
children"
Some OF the BOYS In the eighth
grade at the Peoples School smelled
wood smoke. When the bows called
the attention Of Miss Sasnett to the
smoke she ran to tho main corridor
of the building and sounded the gen
eral alarm Of fire.
Then she hurried to the front of the
building and sounded the city fire
alarm, then ran back to her room and
watched the janitor and her pupils
use the hand extinguishers on the
cloakroom blaze,
Children File Out Quietly.
Immediately the fire gong sounded,
the 500 children in the different class
rooms on the different floors of the
building arose from their benches and
formed i'm marching order There
was hardly an appreciable space Of
time between the sounding of the fire
gong and the appearance Of the dou
Bile column of boys and girls march
ing rapidly. but quietly. and in order
" fashion, from the entrances to the
building.
The children remained quietly IN
the school yard, not breaking ranks
even when the fire engines charged
down the street and stopped at the
building.
Miss Sasnett and Miss Jones came
out and stopped the firemen as they
were getting ready their apparatus,
telling them the fire had been eXtin-
guisued.
Thcr Miss Jones dismissed the
scAoGl lOI Lhs ca.