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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUTE, MONDAY MOKXLXft, JANUARY 30,1922. SURVIVOR TELLS STDRIf OF CRASH Capital Theater Catastrophe .Recalls 1903 Chicago Horror IDENTIFIED DEAD IN DISASTER 92 Sir Ernest Shackleton . TYlill A- W Traffic Tied Up in Cities as Gale Takes Death Toll and Imperils Navigation. which-brough- WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Burled under from one to more than Jtwo feet of snow by one of the most severe storms in several decades, the middle Atlantia section pent Sunday In efforts to resume activities suspended Friday night when the - d storm-brok-e. The storm, described by the weather bureau as the worst in twenty-lhr- e years, tonight had passed out to sea and its center was said-b- y the weather bu- reau to be some distance of Bermuda. as ths center of the storm' verely s toll of nearly e hundred lives having been taken and mors than a hundred Injured The loss of life here, with one or two exceptions, was due to th collapse of tha roof of a motion picture theater under ths weight of twenty-si- x Inches of snow, and this catastrophe also accounted for most of ths injuries. , "r -- - , - -- and-,-at- -- Scene Indescribable. tlie balcony were had grouK.d Tn the midst of th roaring fthrh ks and cries of women ami children and a few shouts of men. There were erica for help, groans and. worst of all, fiTfc! rlhlo pain. Tt was awful. I ran t describe It. i see it rH the tune, those poor children and men mid wonun trying and moaning There were only, ft ftvv of us in the baleonv. Luckily there weient rnoie The balcony gave wav and crashed, soon Rfter the ceiling lgan to fall, onto tlwjwe on the lower floor. They were caught tli worst. I guess there wns ft lapse of maybe twenty socomIh, hardly mote, before the baleonv felt. Funny, but It kind of av way, and twisted, as Its supports below It didnt swung down on those go straight down, just kind of sidewise and slanting I don't know how I got out from whore x was croftohlng under that chunk .of piaster. really believe it weighed And 1 think 6(0 pounds. moved Uut shoulders. Anyway, I pi.iMer with crkwLed out between the seats to where I saw a small hole in the piaster above. T forced imself up through that hole crawled out over th enow and Then . on th maid floor bHow th tnemselven fiont of th balcony. Theyjust wertmk tar to see well and most of th front enough and ba'k rows weie empty. AtT tlh hfu! choven. th point tliey doulde danger proved to l i'ew of those wealed her could have .escaped Even if the failing concrete slob and 'feel woik of Die ioof misled them, the balcony front came down on the first with crushing weight The wieckng gleaming brans rail of the baKonv hunt lav spread the wreckage of the roof fiitecn feet below wien ic'auer readied tho scene. Iverson or crawled beneath to drug out the Met mangled body, more speed was possible, ml the muss that formed the bottom of the great shell was moving In a eteady, orderly course under - the eyes of the army engineers. Daylight- should see tile last of it examined and the toll of death completed. SLEEPING BABIES RESCUED UNHURT WASHINGTON. Jan. 33 (By tho lated Press ) Sleeping peacefully JVs-s- be- moved from the debris. k was at Sandringham. He Immediately to Lady Shackleton, who sent a mes-ag- e Is now living at Eastbourne, expressing the grief of every meiTTber of the loyal family. Explorer Nansen, xrho arrived In London tonight, was deeply moved at news WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. (By the death He said; Recovered from the ofShackletnn's He was a f'd horror of the ruined o explorer. His pres ker theater, a pitiful stream of Kmcker-- ent expedition great have been, from would, mangled a scientific lh lntf' a viewpoint, his greatest. lat night andI.' ,,H,ui into the fio"J lower rooms a Ahrlstkm ik.ence church a few hun-of Ernest Shackleton was bom In 1974. dred yards away. At the first word of HeSirwas third lieutenant in the British the disaster tna place was thrown open national ftAntarctic to those stricken folk and the hundreds in 1907-- 9 coinmandfxlexpedition In 1901 and an expedition which ho to within ninety-seve- n miles of the uea or injured.,v'ima to search for their got south pole. Ho made his third quest of a firBt nld station for the the pole in 1914, n2ere,y Injured, who were carried there in stretch-V2The expedition In which he was enand women ten- - gaged when- - he died was to have covered iJc,lr,l &m odd miles of uiuhartcd Motions of the 30. the from. utfering gray rilyJa.fedcrumpled? concrete, the raked south Atlantic, the Pacific and the Antarcblood, blackened hours-osometimes tic seas. by f waiting- - pinned under thp debris. liui-dagOn board the Quekt, a little were applied and (then the salkd from Ilng'and last were taken to hospital or home. injured ship, Sir Ernest on what waa to have been a B ,av lonf in the double rows September voyage E, i6 In which thev stretched across the Tho vevage had as Its objcctlvifi --hot Door, lay lioiil ..a Jtearful rHatvre cr frlend. a 6nly oceanogiaphU' research, but the exhusband, or wife or father or mother, rec- ploration of a petrified forest an! the loognized the crushed form. lost cation of Island Tnaneki the a Some of the seekers came with of which had not been the waters dirt adjacent and grime of the wreckage on them still. sailed for more than ninety yeaia. Some had passed through Uie. theater crash only to leave a dear ope dead In Seeking Petrified Forest. Uiet.inBlcd mass. They had worked hours In addition, soundings wpre to haw been with the rescuers to Iflnd that one, to turn now and then for a hurried only taJien jof th oeeaJi plateau surrounding trip Gough's island, in an effort to determine to tho chamber of death. Kleven times death struck down husband Ut truth regarding ft supposed under-wfttand wife, seated wide by side. But continental connection between other times it was only ths wife drmany and America. ths Africa husband who perished. Sir Ernest for h- distfngufuhecl serar-ic- e tva The times when children were made a knight in 1909. Various societies have honored him weie sparingly few, the storm having taken kept most of them at home. Th Quest loft Hi Janeiro December IS Up the long path, trodden through heavy for bouth Georgia Island, which Jiea off n the east coast of th southernmost snow, that ran from the of South America. morgue to the Knickerbocker, impromptu an was was Irishman. Sir tha stretcher squads. Military trugglvl Ernest lie officer held the doois of the church and with educated at Dulwich college aJXl aftr gentleness and sjmpathv silted ojt those graduation went to rea. it was in who sougnt their dead from others drawn when be organised th expedition to the south ptdc, which brought him hi greatby cunoftitv. Above all, there was quietness at the est fame. It waa this expedition tliat church in spite of the urgent and nover discovered the south roagnetio pole. He reached ft The ceasing activity. loeeis In the Knickpoint nearer th south polo than erbocker disaster, neither the physically had been attained before. 1914-16 nor His the bereaved gave voice to their exped.tlon was prolific in hurt, aiuable geo'ogic and scientific survey. sufferings. Th Some who were alive when resells work ship Endurance, on which Khackle-to- n made the xovage, was crushed m an began (lied before they could be reached. ne g'rl. pinned under a beam, died with Icq Tloo In October, but driTted until mid- -' when the explorer and his party both hand fn those of an army officer winter, island, in th South directing her release. One min, pinned landod on ElephantbhftakWt-cuvbasld wlferwas Treed from pain five non. le't for Port with w th a and hvpodermlc needle ami Falkland inlands, seeking the long Dustit to a safe removal survived Stanley, fn the mon left behind. A moment after the crash Fartier John aid for the twentv-twUltimately th party was rescued. Floersi h, a priest, entered the ruined Sir Ernest married, in I9ul, Emily theater. Knee-dee- p in the snow, he gave Mary. Two sons and a daughter were general absolution and the final rites of orn. the church to the dying Then he plunged into the rescue work. Notable was the speed of the Red Bros organization, whose local chapter forced their wv to the theater site through the snow Scores of surgeons and rgrses answered ,thelr summon with. .Extant sliced, and tneir succor both saved lives of the vlitinis and sustained the .unflagging zeal of the rescuers. CHURCH USED AS FIRST AID STATION 'S neath the debris In the wrecked Rmcker-bBalcony Twisted Mass. ktr theater, two girls, four arid six, found today by rescuers, ten hours were All those farther buk on the main floor r the roof had fallen aft, Apparently probably escaped. The beams lent was badly hurt. They weie taken th back end of th bahonv di! neither id a Identification. without hospital, not let go their rluUhton th wall. The Four hours earlier a girl wide weep of seats they sippor1 tdfed down until th wr(kge lulow txk the was found unhurt, seated between the of bodies women. two life evidentHer weight of th front, and then stood Iisrck tows of thTnam floor ly .had been saved by her failing between the seats and the protection given her like a tent. The last person to be the twob-id'es- Th front bow of th balcony were by from the taken ruins was Dr. Scott Montground to a twisted mass. There wo no wood in th istrm lure. It was all feel gomery of Washington, who was rescued and compete, but ihe imotm&UA wuLglitxd twelve hours aftey the roof culDjueiL-H- e -4 .ptas-tawt vr aHfd fh balocny was uffa4ent to wind the was ginned bv ills "legs underneath beam which kilb-doors on the Eighteenth street side. the young woman tortured beams into fantastic shape Vcroftft when the crash came whom he had escorted to the theater. His Dt again ohaiu played a part in re- condition was A little fc low I never saw him ducing was serious. 'I (extremely of ho number the front victim. again and I wonder, if he is dead who row of th balcony, four or five tier laughed uni roan d at tvery especially deep, were known as reserved Beats. the f bn I don t know t funny part above th succeeding RESCUERS RELATE wr priced what hexane of him or the other in the They row the small uHendattc of hist With STORIES OF HEROISM . balcony. night, probably only a few had paid the most extra rioea for these seats, Roof Breaks in Pieces. of th WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (By the AsT patrons preferring to sit furAnd the ((dated Press ) Many brave deeds were lUcory. The pi ister fell f.rM, In chunks, It ther hack In'behind scrambled up the reported today by rescuers working in w.ift just ke an ice pond breaking up. many of tho baJconjr to safety, the Knickerbocker theater wreckage, but skp of th faJlenstruck The roof didn't give way jit on crash. down when they said Albert O. Buehler of WashingTt seemccTjo break Up everywhere. That Lwer hurled down ton was the outstanding hero, giving h wars let In the snow into when tho the balcony own life that others might live. He could wreckage Ut'9 wn pit I eonscioua all th front fjuer"I was fell and even enme of these es- have been taken from the debris Lilly time when pinned down by that caped ts no biulsea. There with record, sn hour before he was, but he directed e of certng Mv mind, when Feat pie among those lit the rescuers to sld others whom he dethe redtng falling, and afterward, however, of any aurvlvor seats foremost the clared more seriously huit than he. He balcony was lust as clear and collected as now. Frantic calls for aid wont out as soon died soon after he was removed. was hurt some, but I didn't knew tIknow tt was as realised had what Lieutenant Vv M Parson of the marine happened how badly. It aeemed mv ttm not corps, who assisted In directing the res The adjoining structures were had conve 1 lived a year pinned down Involved concue work gave graphic descriptions of Ip the disaster, which was between th teats. to the auditorium. Later these be- many Individual rescues. "It want until I rot outside that I fined came the first aid stations as the mangled We were digging into the ruins." he noticed Mood falling from my face and victims were dragged out. said, "when we saw a tuft of red hair hands. I got up myself. No on helped protruding. We uncovered a small bov, me. I crawled over th broken ears and probably 9. who told us, his little sister and snow to th door. On th Snow, Hinders Firemen. plaster beneath the debris. The girl was wav I saw a voting fellow Ivtng half Firemen fought their way through the was neither was seriously hurt, rescued and for up cur,d moaning crying help.- heaping snow drifts in answer to a gen- but theirand mother was dead. I leaned over to lift him and then veiyeral alarm. with 4ioth legs horribly line fellow, went thingI was atblack. .Tho next J remem. Police patrols filled wtth men churned broken, asked for clgarets as he was th door, wiping th blood and skidded Tr white muck, the through out. carried Jolted with the rescuers lie mv eves and mouth. I don t know and, In answer to a summons, marines about mapglO'.LJ' - from .il hyw- hjs king-- that-le any ther Eime F'dtdiv Time; panting- througn had about six legs now Injured ones us I crawled I cant re- - the heavy'doutilg going , At Fort Mer, across women and a man whom wo wefe "Two member about that part of it. the mer, cavalry was turned out and out also displayed remarkable started In truck toads to the rescue, only digging talking with the men and directGoes Home Unassisted. to find roads snowblocked. The men nerve, rescus. their ing shoveled their way , frantically, but "My only thought then vu homo before I should die My cheet f finally four mufe feams from the fort find pained fne, my back eeemed broken, my front the engineer barracks weie called SOUNDS OF CRACKING face was dripping with blood. All I on. WARNING TO MINER Wnnted wa to ret home and tell my At the scene of the disaster there was wife and little girl what had happened. wild confusion for a time. Thoee who I thought I was going to die. first made their way to the auditorium WASHINGTON, Jam 29 (By ths AsRepresentative Smlthwlelc who lives doois saw a dim, mvitaTloua heap of sociated prers.) Lung experience In coal ebout a block aw ay, a&ld he etaggernd wreckage faintly lighted by colored elec- mines enabled tV. H Moms, 63 veers of home without overcoat or hat through trics on the stage that still stood In- age, a retired coal mine manager of the enov.. Physicians found him suffer- tact, and by the reflected glow from the W. Va.. to escape from the Knicking from shock, bruises and possible In- leaden sklea above the void where the erbocker. ternal Injuries The crash had drawn 3f'I was In the eighth row from the Four in Family Die. roof had been. 1 think It was a mlracls that I came manv persons some who had relatives front, he said, "when I heard a crack, eut alive." he wild, "but think of the In the ruins. 29 Jan. The clang of fire apparatus a sort of ritv Washington, sound, exactly like tc.at Associated poor children and men and women not brought other hundreds, and until the which theriid'lng press Four of ths flvsmem-ber-thea mof x,f a coal so fortunate! I don't see how anv who mat ti es came pant.ng up police were makes whenslate of the family of Osur o. Kanston, It Is going to let" go wax It wero under that baleonv escaped. If crowd. more instinct than anything else that t Tiicago, lost their lives In the Knickerthose below could have seen the ceiling powerless against the theater disaster. Kanston, who ' brought me to mv feet w th ono thought bocker t reaklng thev would havs had time to came here recently In connection with through giv mind flashing some rush out thiot.Rh the doom. Those un- One Wall Stands. work for tbs bureau of temporary I to fall can beat the outolde derneath us had no chance, i guess Firemen plunged Into the wreckage ."As I sutme that valuation of tbs interstate commerce T saw the into aisle, 1 Men with eiectrlc keep thinking of It all the time, that with lanterns went last night to the playleaders baton waving w.th tbs Commission, awfut roaring and tho crashing "of the torches came from all side. And It was orchestra with his wife, his two daughters, music and a little white coming down house balcony on Its wav down to thoee people a daunting task they faced. On the L'o- - above his head. Then 1(loud ran ifp the a.sie, Helen, 13, and Anlyn. 7. and his son. beiow. Itwas ail over In halL min- - Jumb'a joaiLjilde the single walb towered with the roof fnu king and fa'llnsr As Chant, 11. only ths boy escaped. ute, T guess, but It seemed bouts. menacingly a bov e their heads, stripped I got' to ITur dxor, the stuff begun TT TiTT exit me In a wave of wind from behind Work Hastens East. almost bare except for the high signs, marking the way out of the wJtkb HtgraHy flung mk through !h- - door PUEIU'O, Folor Janf 29 Dr. Hubert Offici&l Says Railroad now At crumpled mass below. Nut a an ib across tho lobbv onto the Work, first assistant postmaster general, window was broken. saw no ore vice moving ax I went announced "I tonight that he would leave 1 ith care, the rescuers began work. up the aisle The house aiound ne was at llJt o'clock 'Savings Exaggerated Eveiy tonight for Washington beam they touched might let an- practically empty." D. In to a telephone response mass of concrete down If It was from Postmaster General will H.message CTIifAOO, Jan 19. Statements of the other Havs some were There Dr. Work said Mr. Hays requested hlni railroad labor board as to estimated sav- moved Intootheswiftly. darkness below and no one POSTQFFICE OFFICIAL to return beiaue of the serious Injuries ings to the railroads resulting from groans knew how many pereons had been tgr Kdward H changes in two rules affecting the Broth- crushed AND FAMILY INJURED sustained or trapped there. The huge slabs second assistant ) ostmaster Shaugbnessy, erhood of Railroad and Kteamsblp (berks. general In In roof stood from the of the conciete the collapse of the Knickerbocker theaFreight Handlers, Kx press and Ptatlon crazy altitudes: A touch might send In ter Dr. a CCS, T?v 29 Work M'ASI Washington. had exJ.in. gave th riNCTOV, "grossly exaggerated r.mjdoj to Fhane'h-neae- v idea of the reductona In railway labor them toppling. eve-- y In pected Coloanother week Pre H spend Aft(xtatoi difficulty the resof fhicatro, swond aitnt t xt-mant- rado. nst, Fannie' M Felton, president of the Rut againstdesperately, slow and Mi mi Oileago ilreat Western railway, said In cuers tobed freneral. stream of dead and Injuied began to thlr daughter, Mwtle ghaughn? a statement tonight er Wyoming: Man Victim. and Kuth. near-b- y house Referr n to the labor board s state- trickle out. Nearly every in injured, Mr. FhauEhnssy eriou! (H'VC.VYH, wyo, Jon. 29 W. 11. ment when the rules were made public and store became a rescue station. th on theater disaster. At Summon, of thoso killed in the Housewives heated coffee for rescuers th Walter Mr. recently, MrtheFelton saidon that the' board and Ked Knkkerbocker In Washington theater hospital. hr on. rescued as the night wor had given that the railtv its taken after his rotteue Impress, last night, was deputy state treasurer of On the Eighteenth street front a row Siiaughnesgy roads believed a saving In exces of from debn several hour the th after when he last summer Wyoming resigned would result by the changes, while of automobiles stood, awaiting owners roof fell in. it a. aid that .h was to attend In university the board's experts estimated J!5 COO.OOU killed or hurt. They were hub deep In suffering from a broken pelvis and Inter- Washington. Georgetown also had one of He been as a conservative estimate of the sav- snow." and hindered the rescuers. They nal Injur! the in loaders Ion the American in Deg were picked up bodily by men and lifted ings. . Mr 8haughnsy sustained a fractured this state He was a son of J. W. Dam-mMr. Felton asserted no witness for the out of the Way. rib. Ruth, 10 eais ot ae, had both of Kemmerer, Wyo railroad had estimated savings from arms broken, w htie th other daughter changes would amount to ji),fi.SVf and Rescue Work Dangerous. was bruised. AU ar at the emergency NEW YORK, Jan C. xontended that the statistical department Ambulam.es and Ttralnerd a victlm-o- f the Knickerbocker private machines hospital of the labor board had estimated savings c snt Rrieadler Genlrealdnt Hardin disaster In Washington, had beexv theater gathered up the Injured. Finally a string eral that could be effei ted at 4 23.52,, of army ahuianees airlved with, band Jgus. of the Washington bureau of Kaur, hi personal rhjftfcian to In th Waiter Reed hospital to make cUtort the charge Doctois came from everywhere ' Brooklyn Daily Kagle since 1911. He shout condition the of Mr IDAHOAN WINS FROM NEFF. Ad through the n.ght the work went Inquiry had been employed by that newspaper Lower California, Jan. on. It was evident that nothing could 8haughney and to inquireIn about aov continuously since 1699, when he became AIAJODONKS, th theater private secretary to the late St. Clair Me. caught 19 Dee Shirnssey op Idaho Falls, Idaho. be done for many of the victims until ernmept employee f. won from T'het Neff of Seattle on a foul ths weight of the wreckage could be who are under treatment there. Kelway, Rs . at the end of th- lifted,. A .call to ths navy .yard brougnt nurd m twentv-round d "Kbcdtllr bout here to blucj.ickets and hydraulic jacks and WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. (By the AsJets to burn through the steel CAPPER TO ASK sociated Press ) The orchestra leader, night. They met at L18 pounds. beams The Jacks were lined up under Oresto Matell'o, and several members of FOR INVESTIGATION ths orchestra the edge of the fallen balcony and Its of the Knickerbocker theaMARTIN BROTHERS DEFEATED. Reecuere lifted. took their welqht were killed. Others seated near the finally ter BANTA BARBARA, Onhf., Jan. 29 lives In their hands to. creep under and with Injuries more r less 23 Jan. stage esiaped WASHINGTON, ths (By and Hutchison Jock Jbn Barnes defeated release people there. Associated Press. ) Senator Cupper of serious. Ths stage broke the full fore? Halt and Joe Martin, brotheis nmt Ax div 1gbt ca.me the became tea a nens. Dr.xtrtct-(oths fait f of ttnrsenata niemoer Pv-lIon goH match here easf-r- .officers from the army Of Columbia committee, announced totoday, 3 and 2. The morning round of could seeEngineer must be done, night, that when the senate reconvened PITTSBURG, Jan. 29 Dr. Andrew what was to have'heen a match could see what what must lie done. They he would Introduce a resolution calling Jackson Rarchfeld. - 63. killed in the was cancelled because of rain. traced 'each twisted beam and saw where for an Investigation of the Knickerbocker theater disaster at WashIt wohld be safe to cut and where a steel theater disaster and also of all large Knickerbocker as a representative in served ington, BIRTH ANNOUNCED. girder might be dragged out of the pile buildings constructed her since ths be- seven from the Thirty-secon- d congresses PDA CK FOOT, Idaho, Jan 29 -- Mr. and with safely to those below. war. of the ginning Pennsylvania district, jt-Mis. John M. Hartong announce the birth Meanwhile, all Washington, It seemed, said come had Klncs genatoc his reports from congress he Capper retirement of a. daughter. - n was luacimg for the Scene, strings of. tcLhlm that to a more or less degree the had lived. in Washington. oi sup-poi- bl X X 00-t- two-ye- -- tho-au- I 1 'll -- j es inh3-Hin- nr pro-tio- lox-de- ad Ruk-hano- n. o ute T sab-wal- (, er on editor-ln-chle- iitt-e-ii- -- . pro--fe- as m t (Continued from Peg. On, ) ture and the wiser appropriation of statoi revenues to matters of urgent Impor" tant e. The resolution says that the government should not lose time In submitting concrete plan for land, armament restrictions. Accompanying the bill was a declaration whieh-salJapan's environment had Changed since the war attri than the Knkuminto party recommended a reducf, or a reduction of the army by tion in the term of condi rlptlon to one . ear. , The premier, Famn Takahashl. tn replying to an Intel pellallon, said the government would convoke an extra session tthe diet to refraine the budget In case the disarmament treaty arranged at aSli.nK I on is ratlned. ono-hal- ) Daybreak today found the capital without street oar service, its streets blocked with snow, its suburbs cut off, deliveries of penshabls foodstuffs curtailed, and many buildings endangered by the load of snow. Sunday waa spent In attempts to restore a semblance of normal conditions, and though aided by favorable weather sunshine and thawing tempera. turea ths city tonight was still in the grip cf the storm. Other portions of the middle Atlantic section reported conditions similar to a lesser degree. In Baltimore ths snowfall waa almost as heavy as here. Southeast' ern Pennsylvania and the region In and about New York City and adjacent sec. lions also experienced a heavy snowfall along with eastern Delaware and New J ersey. The Hampton Roads district experl enced heavy seas along Us water fronts, a gale, and a denss mist of snow and sleet which made navigation extremely perilous to the few vessels moving. Ad indications here were .that even with (he favorable weather forecast It would be days befors normal conditions wire restored. Boms Improvement, how ever, was discernible tonight, railroads entering the city, announcing the more and more frequent arrival of tain. . Taking warning from the theater ca tnstrophe. many apartment houses and ofnee buildings Issued orders today for removal of the snow from the roofs. M.tnv porches, however, collapsed. ' Reflecting the tleup of railroad transportation, hundreds slept last tulght in the Union station on cots sent there by the war department. TO LEASE LANDS. Idaho, J,in. 29 In the future the state land board will lease to livestock grazers sll lands included within sections 16 and 86 when toee sections are within the boundaries of national forests. This notion is a result of an agreement reached following a conference ot Sec- stale (Mvl federal representative school lands and are owned by the stste bv virtue of an act of congress passed in 1990. RUPERT HIGH WINS. RUPERT, Idaho, Jan. 29. The Rupert school basketball team defeated the high school Friday night by a score to 9. "Walker's has one of the most extensive lines of traveling goods in the middle if est. Bags - Wardrobe Trunks Fitted Cases Hat Boxes Regulation Trunks Prices are particularly moderate anti quality is consistently high. y . A Little Hint on Home Management Dpen a checking account for the wife. Put, a set amount in the bank each months : Ask her in the course of a feiv months inow wonder- fully pleased she "is with this businesslike way of running the home. -- Come in and let us talk it over. S flewhouse Hotel Auto-mohllls- ts MONDAY January M, Chicken -- 'Creole Wafer Ripe Olives atv Inch DIN &ER 1922 (LOO -- Okra two-inc- u ar. ' - . Suit Cases California. EBANOaOU Jan. today received the most widely distributed snowfall In many years. A cold north wind whipping In off the ocean and down over the northern mountain Into tho valley brought rain that turned to xnow in many localities, some of which had not twvd so heavy a fall In thirty years. Los Angeles and other southern points and Ban Francisco alike shored Hurries of fat flakes. Around San Francisco bay ths fall was the drst In six year, and varied from a trace In San Francisco proper to two or three Inches In parts of Berkeley and Oakland. There was three inches or more on the hldxlde around San Rafael, Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais. The mountain itself had a heavier fall Yesterday. At Son Mateo and other points on ths San Francisco peninsula In San Mateo county snow was reported, while at Moss Beach there was a heavy hailstorm. Ssv eral Inches fell at Vallejo, and telephone and telegraph wires entering the town were oirt of commission for some hours. Snowmen appeared on many lawna that never before had sported them. loaded their nmnlng boards with snow and took It home, so that many children living where tha whits flakes melted as they touched ths ground built snowmen just the same. Visitors and residents engaged to snow hurtles In the streets oT Modesto, where h fall, also ths flrst there was a In six years. Borne of the flakes there with Rice Radishes Tholfe Grilled Halibut Steak Maltre d Hotel f Breaded Pork Tenderloin Spanish Sauce Boston Brown Potatoes Dinner Roll Shredded Lettuce, Egg Dressing Vanilla Ice Cream and Cake or Communication Broken. Benicia, on the Ban Francisco b$y, reported two feet of enow had fallen today, carrying down telephone and (telegraph lines and Interfering with wireless tron. rr.lssiort from the government station at vert a Buena Island by breaking the con trol wires leading to It sending am at Mare island navy yard. In southern California the wind higher than elsewhere along the Off Lns Angeles harbor the pilot boat. man Helper, was capsized and on drowned. or Tea Chocolate Eclair Coffee Milk Snow on Orange Trees. While the snow was generantT northern California, there were points to ths Los Ansouth that It did not str'ke geles had a few flurries ot flakes; Riverside reported enough to whiten the ground, and Sn Bernardinos fall was 1992, from one since the"heavlet varying to three Inches, according to location. Naow froMcs were hevd In (he streets. Ths snow had not melted tonight and residents had the unusual sight of snow clingorange trees. ingIn tothe vallexs around Los Angeles the A foot fell at Mount fall was general Wilson, near Pasadena, and an equal fall at Devore blocked automobile travel through Cajon pass.three-inc- h fall, had Its Btockton, with a first snow since 1916, and oungsters made the most of tt. Some of them never had seen enow before. The weather bureau forecast (Is for continued cold weather tomorrow. poor, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., his son, today told members of his Sunday school class In the Fifth Avenue Baptist church The Standard Oil magnate kept a ledger which showed such Items, his son said, and also revealed that he then paid It a week for board and lodging. "Unless we use wisely what we have, when we have It," the speaker said, "we are not apt to use tt more wisely and more generously when we "Pome Into better circumstances Wealth, when un- Wisely used, la likely to bs a stone around mans neck. It is only as It Is converted Into useful service that It Is of , Jr real-valu- Power Companies Ordered to Bear Higher Line Cost MALAP, Idaho, Jan 29. The Idaho public utilities commission losued an order Friday requiring electric power companies to Increase by 100 per cent it expenditure when a power line is extended to serv a customer. In the past, a power company h only put up a much construction as the annual revenus of ths line .will amount to, the customer being obliged to- - furnish the remainder of the cost of construction and being reimbursed over a period of years. Chletgo Tribune M A I. AD. trip-Sout- h? .29 Radio Telephones Used in Political Campaign Slt I.tke Tribune Lazed Wire, NEWARK. N. J, Jan. 29.Hundtds of radio telephone connections are being made through New Jersey for use In broadcasting oampa.gn(jratory during the gubernatorial ftgt t next fall. State Senator William Runyon of Plainfield, leading contin irr for tha Republican nomination, launched the new style of campaign when he spoke from the W. J. Z. station at Newark, te ling of his candidacy. After talking ten thousand words Into the receiving apparatus, xvhlch conveyed his speech to an invisible audience numbering thousand. Senator Runyon sang the "End of a Perfect Day." for that California Feels Storm. SAN Needing Luggage Streets Are Blocked. ny -- , north-northea- st I ti4ad. GRIPPED RE - V the number of Uvea lost 4n the The balconies outside the building lead Knickerbocker theater catastrophe is not ing t j the fire escape ladders were crowdt full, and, as more came from behind, with nearly as great as that of the disastrous superhuman (Conlissed tram Pmt Ob.) pushed those In Iroquois plahoue In Chicago the night front 'past thestrength codapsed railing to the below. I 30 The ladders had 1903. ,h scenes of horror granite pavement Collapse of Knickerbocker inin down the- - front of tho wide balcony lJriml'er been put into place yet, a the etruc were everywhere in the flash that not Its tht crash. ture wws considered absolutely fireproof . Normally, the theater has had every - followed' the realisation that death was and modern. i Is Described seat , Theater filled at that hour and nearly 2x0 inevitable are The awfulnees of the situation was not slm,Jar t0'4f not mor cr- The same un- persona was its rapacity disco vecod a until and a newspaperman than those of the earlier tragedy, snowfall t death with wet cloths in their mouths by Florida Congresjman. toprecedented The nation viewed with the utmost hor- - fireman the venturesome few kept the many at to suffocation from "the dense home. Street car traffic had been aban- ror the reports of th Iroquol. theater cloudprevent ,C of smoke that filled the theater, doned and streets and sidewalks were all disaster in which 02 lives were snuffed to gain entrance to the center but Impassable. out. The new show bunding had beon attempted the building. It was not until die completed two months before at a cost covered that they were walkingtheyn the Building Debris Mingled Audience Is Light. It was considered tne farce of dead, women, who were piled totaling ?3fW,oou. Chicago and higher than their heads, that they realised There has not been time for official finest struct vuruf it kind in With- Snow - Falls With inquiry the enormity of tho loss of life. scaling cawcUy tf 1724 persona as to the (diiae of the disaster. In the middle of the second a t of Mr. Tho iflins dis loe, however, that tue Bluebeard, m the rear of the steel-helscenery Relatives of Stood By. concrete that forn d tho stage Roar of an Avalanche. niftfis caught fire from an lectric the roof had nmo down The uaMi stores near by responded to the supports from under the bal- wire. Tt asbestos curtain caught whilef theDepartment general alarm for help with num cony, and this htndMion ijk '!? apparent!., of here with who h to haul away trucka ' At a n apple of 45 EL 1 -idegrees, adding In the the 8ulhn7 the dead. As tfhe bodies were taken WASHINGTON, .Jan l.j- the lull a leil fUt JlXlrif. kagtt on' th. Hoof "lilim nfhf ie from on ! a phvslctan with the i V Ircs An avalant he of broken Th. building elands In an acute(oluu'ibl-muled i locatM and .T"' "'1; stiheacope building conducted a hasty examinabefore they !nincritu at Eighteenth street and hard tv rkvo from me tion and plaster, braks, now, splintered wood and comer were neardead removed to thvir noithwcbt, th heai t of the most by stores, where relatives might make twisted st ol beam catpuliing rn the load, fanned resident e action. The nariow YVnmon Died III I lief?, identification, and the living weie hastily audience tfhito tho orchestra placed and nh he of the' stage on which the screen taken to and first aid stations a comefiy film ground out Is the lning waa backed into the comer! Tho who vsrapri- - the fust hot blast buffering hospitals watened the removal while to the left from the stage jfld f r the most puit, toward tho left cf Mai lee relatives theater anjglc, ol the Knkkerbnker from the building with tears the line of the auditorium wail runs entrant e and tne cast stairway. It was - and Tear stamped on their theireyeadN.tsttr given today bv Keptvsentative Mralght for about mo fet down ElKhr--jj e hjr Ihaggeai-.Htb- f Iwo exits that in. enth street Ttt Tlre right, the wuTlj was lost Women crawling over pik-- of Hen jam in H. Marshall, Chicago, archl ho had died before ittMUnt met teLt ol wax In tba bqlcuny wnen Uui ri ad U I be. the a lei-- , w ho was In Wxab L M hanujJut icuu. difetanca , Oia4 th ThtfSffT'fuUhT H mrtrm, It. dead . vowed, ori Tuft5r juuJ ajsidtfTrtararchAt emt, parnneTtnAf 1ft stag Tfonl,th (hitched lit Ihelr rigid hands that h.t'i leading the T at tho lime, dispatches from the disaster Rt aiied unaided-ju- st how, ho can not Iftck Wall complete the auditorium prop- - comb from garments other than their that never he again would put a stick ol own. re nil w Uh more or les' serious hurts ur, also about 2y feet in length. wood into a theater building, British explorer of Antarctic, who died on , The oiihestra was pUvlng much and - , , hit steamship Quest, off th Gritvlckse he s.ild in OUrviVOr (iClS vv 8121111 ft coiplc film was running, station January 5. people stumbling over the banked snow. building cod of th District of Columbia tils bed, bandaged and with hi .face and I his stood moment a roofless spate Hold and lets held ricld hues hands covered with cuts. ''Suddenly after the .first hlsamg sound of the polite had ben vio'atedudurinR th ruh of contheater to keep them bj(k. there was a sharp crash I ettw a gieat hieaking struction following- the increase in th and gave warning altove theHour through--thednr b, the ceiling, right the muslrroof the by fissure mnnittg 1across city population after the war deci&r&i of The orchestra. Theie ie htoll rose. Ju. death l.Hgriiv Lees toe than half 4. of my. Uon. xter pUMr one survivor thus far who has told all 'over the theater, K scemtd to me only An Investigation was ordered of having 'heard that warning and seen total had been reeovcicd whin daylight by I was looking up a great pp came After the center of the main floor Ihe District of Columbia board today Vhb of comI the first powdery handful of snow sift er mv Head started to fall 'right down over the head of the orchestra had been leared of vhtlma dug out bf missioners. Orders uuio went out to close I sup lender in time to the wnckago, a more svstematu search all theaters until the snow had been ducked, cron hing, involuntarily. escape. From his seat pose, down betvson tho atat4. The piece well ilenred from ths roofs and -- Inspectors on the main floor, be raced began and It wins still going on tonight The workers, sme that tills center spate bad examined struck the seat where I had bten sitting for thforward the structures. doors at th blast of back. A but no the held force was broken The seat, by OfflHals said that until an Inquiry had body or Injured person, began air, expelled os th roof cme down, tinning over ton It it pinned mo down. of the ; been debris, marie piling huiled the direct cause of the colThe noike wan awful. It wt a grtat safety. h un out through th doorway to In that space or dragging beams and lapse could not be determined. roar. It was simply intlcecrlhaldt It was stated that the Inquiry would Most of th Imdlrs wero recovered froln Blubs outside. When the last eoctlon of tlie gallery bo started when rescuprs had made cerlh floor of the pH beneath th wreckUirr tan forget It. (Continued from Pago On.,) age of the balcony or from th front of had been lifted on jacks and men had tain that all of tile bodies had been reI 4 't -- NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Gift tor the furtherance ot education totaling were made during the fiscal year 2 by the general education board of the Rockefeller Foundation, It waa made known In the annual report today. Up to date, the board has distributed 147,132 442 phi the Income of the total 3126 768,094 given the board by John D. . Rockefeller. The report further reveals that Mr." Rockefeller ha released th board from any obligations to hold any of his gifts In perpetuity. The capital funds held by the hoard at the end of the fiscal year amounted to 184,653,632. il fts to colleges and for secondary education totaled $19,91,574 during th fiscal year. Toth furtherance of medical education was given $11,859,-51- 3 and to schools and colleges for neMiscellaneous expendigroes 31.212.659. tures were $143,000. 1921-192- Would Rather Fight Than Work I suffered for years with stomaeh trouble and could not eat and just hated for anyone to eay work, to me. I would rather f ipht. 8inre taknij;a coum of Mayr "Wonderful Eemedy l actually want to work. and talk about eat I am the last one to leave the table tow.' It Is a simple, harmltvs preparation that removes the catarrhal, mucus from the intestinal tract and al-lays the inflammation which cause NEW foRK, Jan. John Dv Rocke- practically ail stomach, liver and infeller. whose publlo glfuf approximate testinal ailments, including appendici $5 ito, ooo.ooo, started his benefactions with contributions of five cents a week to tis. One dose will convince or money foreign missions and three cents to ths refunded. At 11 druggist,. (Adv.) -- -- BCO-IK- JA -- A |
