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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30
TOLL OF VICTIMS OF WASHINGTON THEATRE
DISASTER REACHES ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN
ATLANTIC COAST SUFFERSFROM WORSTSIORM LN22 YEARs
FEARED THAT AN
AUGUSTA YOUTH
Is ALSO A VICTIM
iax Tho Associated ersssl

AUGUSTA. Ga. Jan 2s.-It Is be-
neved here that Charles DammoclL a
close friend OF young Sturgis and q
college mate, who was at all times {,
boon companion Of tho dead youth
was also a victim OF the Knicker-
booker disaster as he was thought to
have accompanied Sturgis TO the
theatre
kilograms have been sent and tele-
phone Communication esta blished with
Washington IN an effort to verify this
belief but nothing has been heard OF
young Dimmock His parents and
friends here have telegraphed him per
sonally and also the president OF
Georgetown university but have re-
ceived no replies
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30

Even aside from the theatre disaster.
the capital was hard hit, and although
the snow stopped falling a few hours
after midnight it was not until long
after day that the full affect was as
sessed. Daybreak found the city with
cat any sort of street car service. its
streets blocked to impassabiIit,- with
the snow, its suburbs completely cut
off, deliveries of bread, milk ana other
pGrisnable foOGstuffs greatly cartailcd,
and many buildings endangered 0y
tic load Of snow. The hours Of san
day were spent in attempts to restore
a scmbiancc OF normal conditions and
though aided by favor atDte weather
sunshine and thawing tempsrature-
the city tonight was still In the grip OF
the storm.
The coastal region had added TO the
factor of snow strong gales which
crippled shipping. The Hampton
Roads district experienced heavy seas
along its water frnnts. 42-mils gallo
and a dense mist OF snow and slset
keeping the area within ,ho Virginia
making navigation extremely periIo'Is
tn the few vessels moving.
Reports to the weather bureau to-
night Indicated that the gales whicll
y ere strong from Cape Cod 70 Cape
Hatteras during the day would dInin
ish Before the end of the night IS the
storm center passed out over the sea.
Tho forecast was for cloudy and un-
settled weather over the middle At
llntic region tomorrow and Tuesday,
with no severely cold weather.
The new storms, however, were
rushing toward the east and weather
bureau officials scanned their charts
and reports anxiousiy 70 see If the two
disturbances might add TO the general
decentralization. They said tonight
whether the new storms, one over
Texas and the other over the north
west. would recah the stricken region.
An Indications IN Washington to-
night were that evan with the favcra-
bic weather forecast It would DO days
before normal conditions wers re-
stored Some Improvement, however.
was dfscernfbie tonight, railroads en-
tering the city announcing the more
and more frequent arrival Of trains.
and one trunk line traction company
Operating few cars on g single track
on Pennsylvania avenue and 1z[h
street.
with the eHeption Of the one trs1nE
line, street car service, however, MAS
completely demoralized- Long lines OF
cars remained through the day banked
with snow exactly where their crews
had left them Friday nignt and yestsr-
day when they surrendered to the
storm. Ranged alongside the cars and
scattered through side streets we're
hundreds of automobiles stucE in
Continues ~ Fsssg
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The exact number In the theatre
when tho steel and concrete span OF
the roof hucllled and fell under its
three-foot load of snow probably will
never be known. The stories of per-
haps a hundred who got out uninjured
have been reported. These account
for n few more than 500 in the audi
ence that was roaring in laughter at
n filmed comedy when the roof fell on
them like a blanket, carrying down the
front OF the wide balcony in Its crash.
Normally the theatre has had every
seat filled at that hour and nearly 2.oo0
persons was its capacity Tho same
unprecedented snowfall which brought
death to the venturesome few. kept
the many st home. Street car traffic
had been abandoned and streets and
sidewalks were all but impossible with
drifts.
There has been no time as yet for
Official inquiry as to the cause Of the
disaster. aThe ruins themselves dis
closed, however. that the entire mass
of steel-seld concrete that formed the
roof had come down. The crash swept
the supports out from under the ball
cony, apparently, and this hinged down
at an angle of 45 degrees, adding TO
the tangled mass OF wreckase on the
floor below.
The building stands in an acute
angled corner at Eighteenth street and
Columbia road, northwest, tho heart
OF the most favored residential section
of tho city. The narrow niche of the
stage on which the screen was hung
was backed into the corner angle while
to the left from the stage the line OF
the auditorium wall runs in a straight
line for some 200 feet down Eighteenth
street. TO the right. the wall follows
the slow curve of Columbia road for
about the same distance and at the
far end, paralelling the stage front,
the back wall completes the auditorium
) proper, also about 200 feet in length
This whole space stood roofiess TO
the sky a moment after the FIRST hiss
ing sound of the breaking roof gave
warming above the music OF the or
chestra- There is only ono survivor
thus far who has told of having heard
that warning and seen tho first pow
derry handful OF snow sift down over
the head of the orchestra leader in
time to make his escape. From his
seat well forward on the main floor,
he raced fer tho doors at the back. \
great blast OF air. expelled rs the roof
came down. hurled him out through
the doorway 10 safety.
Most Of the bodies we're recovered
from the floor OF the pit beneath the
wreckage of the balcony or from the
front OF the balcony Itself. Follow
ing the rule Of motion picture audi
ences and with an almost empty house
10 pick from, those on the main floor
had grouped themselves in the rows of
seats just below the front OF the bal
cony. They We're back far enough to
see well and the front and back rows
were almost empty.
At the point they had chosen, the
CONTINUED on Page Two)
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Streets Of Nations Capital Blocked to Impassibl-
ity, and Entire Street Car Service
Out of Commission,
Hundreds of Persons Unable to Reach Their
Homes, Spent the Night in the
Union Station.
(By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan 29-Buried under from one to more
than two feet of snow by of the
decades the middle section of the country spent Sunday valiant
but mostly efforts the activities suspended Friday
night when the storm swept up from the south.
The storm described by the weather bureau worst
% tonight had passed its was said
by the weather bureau to be distance norhnorteast
Bermuda but in its wake from North Carolina southern New
England and from the coast to the Allegheny
buried ID under q snow blanket -
of the storms strength suffered the severa t6 of
nearly hundred lives having been taken hun
dred injured of whom be added later the
The loss of life in the capital with exceptions was due
to the collapse of the roof of motion picture theatre
weight of 26 inches of and this catastrophe also
for most of the injuries
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30
BRITISH EXPLORER
DIES ON STEAMER
Sir Ernest Shackleton Was Hunt
ing for Lost Island in
Antarctic Regions.
icy The Associates Press)

NONTEVTDEO, Uruguay. Jan. o.
Sir Ernest Shaskleton, the British ex-
plorer, died Jan on board the steam
ship Quest, on which he was making
another expedition :nto the Antarctic
regions.
Death was due to angina pectoris
and occurred when tho quest was off
the Gritvicken station
The body was brought to Moneyideo
on board Norwegian steamer and
will be taken by another steamer to
Europe.
Capt L. Hussey of the Quest will
accompany the body home.
Sir Ernest shackleton was born in
1874 He was a third lieutenant IL
the British national Antarctic expedi-
ton In 1907 and in I9O7--commaudsd
an. expedition which got to Within ~
miles OF the south pole, lie made his
third quest OF the pole IN 1914.
Tho expedition IN which he was en-
gagged when he died was to have coy-
cred 10000 miles Of unchartered sec
tions of the South Atlantic. tho Pa
ctf1c and the Antarctic seas.
On board the Qdest little 200-ton
last September on what was TO have
been two-year voyage Large crowds
gathered on he docks IN London 10
wish the party a successful voyage.
The voyage had as its objections not
only oceauographic search but the ex
ploration Of a petrified forest and the
location of a 'lost" island-Tuanaki-
the adjacent waters of which had not
been sailed for more than 90 years.
In addition soundings were 70 have
been taken OF the ocean plateau sur
rounding Coughs Island, in an effort
to determine ths truth regarding a
supposed underwater continental con-
nection between Africa and America.
sir Ernest for his distinguished
services vas made q knight In 1903
Various societies throughout the world
horored him for his work
AsHEvu1LE. n. c, Jan 2s-y7h5z5-
rrrr Stefeszsson. Arctic explorer was
shocked 70 hear Of the death Of Str Ern-
est ShackIeton, whom he terTosd ths
greatest nTing AnaTctic explorer. when
informed tonight OF his sudden death
aboard the Quest.
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CHILDREN DIE AS
RESULT OF BURNS
tey rhs Assoelatsa ecee.l

AUGUSTA, Ca, Jan. 29--Aileyene Bat
ley. aged three, and sister Annie, aged
seven, died today as q result of burns
sustained in an explosion of can OF
gasoline which the mother, Mrs. J. A.
Bailey. was using 10 ignite fire in the
crate of her home here. Mrs. Bailey is
in a desperate condition and is not ex
pected to live.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30
MISSISSIPPI NEGRO
is SHOT TO DEATH
tsv The Associated Press,

POSTOToC. Miss. Jar. ae-Win Bell.
90, negro charged with an attack or a
young white woman near here last night
was taken from the officers early today
"a he was being transferred TO Jackson.
Miss. for safe keeping and was shot to
death by a number Of unidentified men.
who intercepted the officers near town
as they were taking tho prisoner TO n
train
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30
pAssEneEs STATION euens

DANynLE Va. Jan. 1e-The South
err. Rz.tvay passenger station was
destroyed by hrs here today, the Ilss III
estimated at about $4,000. It vas par
tally insured.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30
MIGHTY Steel And CONCRETE
Span OF ROOF BUCKLED UNDER
TREMENDOUS WEIGHT OF SNOW
Exact Number of Persons in the Building at the
Time Of the Accident Will Prob
ably Never Be Known
KNOWN INJURED WILL REACH 134
WITH ia LISTED AS "SERIOUSLY'

Stores and Corridors Became First Aid Stations
as the Mangled Victims Were Dragged
From the Wreckage
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King Priscus XVIII

requests your presence at
his reign OF
FUN, FROLIC, MERRIMENT
PENSACOLA. FLORIDA
FEBRUARY 2T-2S
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-30

Bigger and Better Than Ersr
III A E DI c. r A S
CELEBRATION
AT PENSACOLA
FEBRUARY 27-28
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

seaman who never in his twenty
six years has been more than fve
miles from the ocean. The nephew
of a quartermaster in the Dutch
Navy and the son of sailor Tom
my sailed as messroom boy on the
British tramp, Queen Eleanor,
bound for Vladivostok when he was
only 13 and stayed at sea until a
year ago.
Broken Stowage," reviewed In
this section of the book section, Is
by David w. Bone, the author OF
"The Brassbounder." The title
Broken Stowage" is taken from
the seaman's term for the small
packages which are used to fill up
the odd corners of the cargo or
seagoing ship-and is indicative OF
the humor and pathos, the good ana
bad fortune, and the varied expe-
riences on sea and in port, which
have gone in to the making OF the
book.
The recent address of Sir James
M. Barrie on the occasion OF his IN
stallation as rector of Saint An
drews University, which struck
responsive note throughout all
Britain, and even appeared in full
in the American press, is already
in process of publication by Charles
Scribner's Sons. 1t will appear un-
der the title Courage"
John d. Quackenbos, M. D., pro-
fessor emeritus of Columbia Uni
versity, in recent lecture in New
York city, discussed the subject OF
immortality from three points Of
yiew-the Thomas Edison theory
of electron; the Conan Doyle theory
of conversation with the dead and
his own theory which he has out
lined from psychologist angle in his
book, Body and Spirit (Harpers).
The proof of Immortality is not to
be sought for in the vaporings OF
spiritism, he writes. The gold of
its fact is concentrated in vein OF
supersensible realities which rem
der it not only possible but GER
tain. The writer has never
heard a spiritistic medium say any
thing that was not readily compre-
hensible on the theory of thought
transference. He has never seen a
medium do anything that could not
be nationally explained as due to the
action of that supersensible psychic
force so fully described in the fore
going chapters. This force he be-
lieves to inhere in every human per.
sonality, but only few human be-
ings have power consciously or un-
consciously to exploit it in their
earth lives, or make it visible and
tangible in the sO-called phenomena
Of the seance"
Houghton Miffiin Company are
planning to bring out i'm the near
future a complete sixteen volume
edition of Lafcadio Hearn's works.
The first edition will be limited to
$50 copies, each set being auto
graphed by Madam Hearn. There
will be 125 full page illustrations.
many of them taken especially by
Burton Holmes, who is now en-
gagged in this work in Japan.
The Oxford University Press
American Branch is about to pub
lish "The Government of India"
brief historical survey of Parlia-
mentary legislation relating to In
dia. by Sir Courtenay Ilbert,
K. c. B., X. C. S. l., sometime clerk
of the House of Commons and Law
Member of the Council of the Gov
ernor-General of India.
William Dana Orcutf mboca
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CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT.
By ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.

In an introduction" to the novel
written late in life Mrs. Stowe re-
ferred to the incident of ELIAS
fight over the ice as the first
salient point" in the story. She
also referred to the incident as
though she had learned of it for the
first time in the pages of an anti
slavery magazine. AS a matter of
fact, it was an actual happening
during her residence in Ohio. She
had known and had often talked
with the very man who helped
Eliza up the bank of the river. That
was years before she thought Of
writing the book. Finally, at the
suggestion of her husband. who had
found scribbled on bits of brown pa
per the beginning of Uncle Toms
Cabin" and had been deeply af-
fected by it, she determined to write
serial story, the climax of which
was to be the death of Uncle Tom.
DERHAPS the strangest of all
= contemporary reviews Of
Uncle Toms Cabin" was that pub
lished by the Lberdtor of Boston,
professedly the organ of the New
England Abolitionists. In its col
umns its editor, william Lloyd
Garrison. had been laundering out
his weekly diatribe against the
slaveholding States. A great part
OF the paper was given over to clip
pings inimical to the South, de-
signed to rouse Northern indigna-
tion and to infiame Southern re-
sentiment. Yet in the Liberator the
review of Uncle Toms Cabin"
which appeared in an issue in the
spring Of 1852, just before the ap-
pearance of the story in book form,
was not only unenthusiastic; it was
actually unsympathetic. Mrs. Stowe
and her book were damned with
faint praise and roundly scored for
what the reviewer called her OBJ
jectionable sentiments respecting
African colonization" Is it possi-
BILE that professional jealousy exist
ed between the Liberdtor and the
National Erag
DUT apart from the LiberatOr,
II Boston naturally indorsed. The
Morning Post, for example, said.
"Since Jane Eyre no book has had
so sudden and so great a success on
this side of the Atlantic as Uncle
Toms Cabin Everybody has read
it, is reading it or is about to read it,
and certainly it is one of the most
remarkable literary productions of
tile time, an evident result of some
of the highest attributes of the
novel writer. AS all the
world knows, Uncle Toms Cabin
purports to be a picture of slavery.
.. The incidents are stated
to be drawn from the personal ex-
perionces of the writer or her most
immediate friends, and we believe
it is universally admitted that as
a mere story the book is of intense
interest. But brilliant as
Uncle Toms Cabin is as literary
work it is yet more creditable to
the author in another point of view.
1t appears that, unlike most women
and very many men, Mrs. Stowe
has the high ability of looking on
both sides of one question. With
feelings and principles equally op-
posed to slavery for its inevitable.
evils as well as its accidental
abuses. she is yet able to paint the
STAKEHOLDER as he lives and moves
with no touch of bigotry or fanati-
cism."
THAT is a sample of the New
England attitude toward
Uncle Toms Cabin" New York in
the fifties was neither violently pro-
nor anti-slavery. The Evening Post
OF June 16, 1852, in an editorial en-
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perusal, the free discussion and the
frequent imitation of such thinly
veiled pictures of corruption? Can
a lady of stainless mind read such
works without a blush of confusion,
or a man think of their being read
by ladies without shame and repug-
nance? 1t is sufficiently disgraceful
that woman should be the inStru-
ment of disseminating the vile
stream OF contagion, but it is in
tolerable that Southern women
should defile themselves by bring
ing the putrid waters to their lips.
If they will drink of them in secret,
let them repent in secret, and not
make vices unknown to the ears Of
the pure and upright of their sex
the subject of daily thought and
conversation"
DUT the abuse of the Southern
II papers served only to swell the
tide. Very soon after it's appear
ance in this country it had taken
England by storm and had been
translated all over Europe In
French it became lie Case de
lOncle Tom; in Germany, "Oncle
Toms Hutte"; in Denmark, "Onkel
Tomas; in Holland, de Meyer
hut; in Flemish Belgium. de hut
van Onkel Tom; in Hungary,
"Tama's Batya":: in Italy, La
Capanna dello Zio Toma"; in Po-
land, "Chata Wuja Tomazza";; in
Portugal, "a Cabana do Pal
Thomas; in Spain, La Cabana del
Tic Tom; in Russia. 'Khizhina
dyadi Toma";; in Swedens "Onkel
Toms Stuga." Thirty years later,
at garden party given in honor of
Mrs. Stowe to commemorate her
SEVENTEEN birthday. DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes referred to these edi-
tions of Uncle Toms Cabin" in the
following lines:
If every tongue that speaks her praise.
For whom I shape my tinkling phrase,
Were summoned to the table.
The vocal chorus that would meet
OF mingled accents harsh or sweet.
From every land and tribe, would beat
The polyglots Of Babel.
Briton and Frenchman, Swede and
Dane,
Turk, Spaniard, Tartar of Ukraine.
Hidalgo. Cossack, Cadi.
High Dutchman and Low Dutchman.
too,
The Russian serf, the Polish Jew.
Arab. Armenian and Manchoo
Would shout: I'VE know the lady ="
COME weeks ago, apropos of the
~ publication in this country of
the new Byron letters, there was
discussion in this department of
the book section of Mrs. Stoves in
trusion-no other word exactly fits
the case-upon the Byron scandal
The authors of Harriet Beccher
Stowe: the Story of Her Life" have
this to say about the matter: "She
was urged not to do it; even her
own husband pleaded with her and
begged her to stay her hand. Her
son Charles Joined his father in
urging her not to publish the article
after she had read it to him at
quiet seaside resort during the sum-
mer Of 1869. But she set her face
as flint, and to every objection she
said in substance: My friend Lady
Byron is vilified. disgraced and COW
cred with infamy by the hand of
Lord Byron's mistress! l know the
truth in all this horrid business, |
am the one who can speak the truth
that shall set her right before the
world! If others who could speak
would speak and clear her name of
these vile ISLANDERS then l could be
silent. / could never respect my
self nor have one moments peace
did l keep silence at this time. l
cannot, and I will not, sit calmly
by and see my friend insulted, out
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
tsTTNcLE tom. SEVENTY


title of an article in a recent issue
OF the book section discussing the
problem Of the American negro Of
to-day as 1t is reflected in fiction
and particularly emphasizing Mr..
Stribling's "Birthright" and Mr..
Stands White and Black" The
Abclitionists of the fifties foresaw
the end Of all civic ills with the
emancipation of the slaves. They
pictured a millennium and probably
honestly believed in the vision. Yet
after nearly sixty years, during
which the negro has enjoyed the
priceless boon of liberty--if it be
not treason to use that word-the
full solution of the problem has GER
tainly not been found. Novels are
not needed to prove that. The
lynchings and burnings of which the
newspapers inform us every other
day are not such an improvement
on the whip welded by Simon Le-
gree. Cissie Dildine of "Birthright,"
for example, has her troubles, just
as Eliza OF Uncle Toms Cabin"
had her troubles. But there is one
aspect OF the matter in which the
world has changed. Books like
"Birthright" and White and Black"
provoke discussion; they do not in
flame the passions as did Mrs.
Stoves book seventy years ago.
UST seventy years ago Uncle
y Toms Cabin appeared in book
form. 1t was already famous, for
it had been published serially in
the National Era. The National
Era had been established in Wash
ington in 1S47. Its editor was DIR.
Gamaliel Bailey. prominent Abo-
litionist. The Era became the rec
ognized organ of the anti-slavery
party in the national capital. Sew
eral times the paper passed through
the ordeal OF mob violence. Dr.
Bailey wrote to Mrs. Stowe, asking
her to write story for the paper
which should aim to further the
cause with which they both were so
much in sympathy. The result was
Uncle Toms Cabin" which began
in 1851. 1t was originally intended
by Mrs. Stowe that the story should
run through three or four numbers;
instead it ran through about fifty.
Then, as book, it was brought out
in 1852 by Boston publishing
house. The tale carried the ques-
tion of slavery into the very homes
of the people. rousing those in the
North to indignation and stirring
the South to resentment. According
to geography. it was triumph of
reality" or a "monstrous distor-
tion, inspired by Abolitionist ia
naticism and designed to excite Sec
tional discord."
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Drevis Jonkers of Amsterdam,
the original of William McFee's
Tommy in "Casuals of the Sea-" has
set sail on new adventure, this
time on dry land. Tommy is true
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Pierre Loying's one act play in
verse, "The Stick-up," recently pro-
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Authors Works
And Their Ways

AS an indication of what the Aus
tralian public reads. the Harpers
offer the information that they have
received large orders for the fol-
lowing books: "Coomer Ali" by
S. B. H. Hurst; "The Vertical City,"
by Fannie Hurst; "The Painless
Trail" by Arthur o. Friel; Lost
Valley" by Katharine Fullerton
Gerould and Zane Grey's ITO the
Last Man"
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Continued 0a P0gs Futeem
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CONTINUING in this vein the
~ Southern Messenger went on:
1T is horrible thought that
woman should write or lady read
such productions as those by which
a celebrity has been acquired. Are
scenes of license and impurity, and
ideas of loathsome depravity and
habitual prostitution to be made
the cherished topic of the female
pen, and the familiar staple of
domestic consideration for promis-
cuous conversation? Is the mind
of woman to be tainted, seduced.
contaminated. and her heart dis
enchanted of it's native purity of
sentiment by the unblushing