Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-02
5OO PUP Is
MARCH To
SAFETY N
Minute:
Boys Put Out Blaze in CIoakroom.
1000 Children Sent Home
From Cold CIassrooms.

In less than sixty seconds after
the fire gong sounded in the
Peoples Street School Monday
800 pupils were out of the school
and the boys of the eighth grade
had checked a blaze in their coat
room with the hand exinguisher.
which otherwise would have been
beyond control and probably
would have destroyed the build
ing before the fire companies
could arrive.
AZ the same time about 1000 Of tn
$4,000 school children in Atlanta WEI
| dismissed for the day from seven or.
the schools because Of inadequaie
heating facility.
That should prove concusively.
said Superintendent of Schools wi
, liam NJ. Slaton, that my scoffed I'll
contention that we need better hea
ing apparatus in tie schools is the
| truth"
| Not Safe to Use Furnace.
Five hundred pupils were dismisse5
from the Peoples Street School afs,l
the fire, because II was not safe
build another big fire in the furnace
The fire caught in tie baseboarding -
the cloakroom from the main furnace
nue, which became overheated
Due to the efforts OF Miss Sara
Sasnett, teacher of the eighth grade
| Miss Jones. the superintendent; jan
| tor Robert Smith and the boys witt
the hand fire extinguishers. the dam
age to the school building was tri-
fling
About $50 pupils were stn HON
from three unheated classrooms il
| Grant Park School, $50 were dis
missed from William r. Slaton School
800 from the Fraser School, $50 from
Edgewood School $50 from the Girls
High School and 25O from the Eng
! ish- Commercial School
In Edgewood,' said Superinten-
dent Slaton. the temperature on the
north side Of the school was down to
IS degrees above zero. The tempera-
lures in the rooms dismissed at the
other schools ranged from rs TO 81
degrees above zero. The temperature
in a schoohoom should be at least IS
or 20.
Fire Drill Saves Day.
II consider it a remarka bly, uota Bile
fact that the use Of the hand fire ex-
dnguishers and the efficacy Of the frs
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 boys called
| the attention of Miss Sasnett TO the
smoke she ran TO the 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 eKtinguishers 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 tho
| building arose from their benches and
formed I'm marching order There
| was hardly an appreciable space or
| time between the sounding OF the fire
! gong and the appearance of the dou-
/ Die column OF boys and girls march
! ing rapidly but quietly, and In order
! ly 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 al the
| building
Miss Sasnett and Miss Jones came
out and stopped the firemen 40 they
| were getting ready their apparatus.
telling them the fire had been eXtin-
| guished
Then Miss Jones dismissed the
school for the day.