Weather To-Day: THREATENING. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 8. LEADB bii lOIRTIHI CAROLINA DADUEB II IEIS 111 CIRCULATION. In a Maelstrom of Flame APPALLING HOLOCAUST AT THE WINDSOR HO TEL. Half a Score Dead and Many Injured—Fright ful Leaps to Doom—Abner McKinley's Escape. New York, March 17. —Flames which originated from the igniting of a lace curtain burst forth irom the second iioor of the Windsor hotel at 47th street and sth Avenue shortly after 3 o’clock this afternoon, and in a few minutes they had leaped tip to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth Avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the j hotel. Ten minutes later the dames were roaring through the interior of the hotel, and all means of escape byway of stair ways and elevators were cut off. and there was the wildest scene of excite ment within and without the building. Hundreds of guests and employes were in tin* hotel when the tire broke out, and for many of them to escape was an im iMissibility. Probably from ten to fifteen lives were lost within a half hour, and »* thirty or forty other persons were in jured in jumping from windows and in rushing through the dames in the corri- , dors and on the stairways. Many who | were injured died later at nearby resi deuces or at hospitals, and others who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks were so badly injured that they are still hovering between lift* and death. It may be 24 hours or more before the com plete list of fatalities becomt*s known and it wul be longer than that before it can be ascertained definitely how many charred bodies art* in the mass of fallen masonry that marks the spot where the hotel stood. xAST OF DEAD. LELAND, MRS. ELIZABETH, wife of Warren Lelund, proprietor of the. hotel; burns of body; died at Flower Hospital. LELAXD, HELEN', daughter of War ren Leland, jumped from window; body- identified at Tatst Fifty-lirst street station. PADDOCK, MBS. AMELIA, Irving ton. X. Y.. jumped from window; body at East Fifty-first street station. KIRK, XANCY ANN (Mrs. James S. Kirk), Chicago; died in Bellevue. PIERCE. MBS. M.. Macon. Ga.; died at 19 East Forty-sixth street. GBAXDY, MISS I.AZELLES, Eliza- j both City, N. C M body at East Fifty first street station. GIBSON, -mBS. ADDIE, aged 35; shock; died at Murray Hill Hotel. I GOODMAN, ELEAXOB LOUISE, aged 17, fractured skull; died at Belle vue. CONNOLLY, JOHN, hotel employe, burns and internal injuries; died at , Flower Hospital. UNKNOWN WOMAN, middle aged; I jumped from window; died at Miss Helen Gould’s residence. UNKNOWN WOMAN, body at East S Fifty-first street station. UNKNOWN MAN, 35, seen to jump from roof at rear of hotel; body not recovered. UNKNOWN CHILD, thrown from window, by mother; body not recov ered. UNKNOWN WOMAN, mother of child, jumped from window; body not recovered. LIST OF THE INJURED. BOACHE. KATE, burns of face, leg fractured; Bellevue Hospital. NOONAN. POLLY, hotel employe; burns of tfie body, M’NICIIOLAS. PATRICK, watchman, burns. M'GUIBE, JAMES, truckman; left leg fractured; scalp wound. M'I"HATTER, I>R. NEIL, ankle frac tured. FLANNIGAN, KATE, domestic; burns of body. MALLOX, NICHOLAS, internal in juries, serious. / IIEXRY, MEHITADLE, probably fatal burns. WALDO, MBS. FtRANK K., burns of body. BAILEY, MBS. CATHERINE, 4.934 Greenwood avenue, Chicago, burns of the Im, dv, not serious. BREWER, MISS HELEN, thigh bro ken. bad burns of body. VON SBEIGLE. MBS., leg and rib fractured. MISOH, MBS. CATHERINE, burns of face and hands, suffering from shock. WHEELER, MBS. E. 1"., shock and burns. WHEELER, MISS DOROTHY, shock and burns. 'BOYCE, MBS. WM. S.. shock. SKEKHLTON. EDWARD, watchman, burns, probably fatal. DI KE. JOHN, hotel employe, shoulder dislocated. LELANI). WARREN F., proprietor of the hotel, head cut. HASKINS. MBS. MARY KIRK, Chi cago, hysterical. PRICE, MISS ALICE, sister of for mer Governor Price, of Georgia; shock; seriously injured. THOMAS NELLIE, assistant house keeper, shock. JOHN. severe scalp CURRAN. ELLEN, hotel, employe burns of body. F LOVE. WM. F., cashier, burns; con dition serious. JAMES, ARTHUR, fireman; scalp wound. CALHOUN. MRS. CARO 11., shock. SIMMONS, MRS. C. C., bums of body. ROSENTHAL, MRS. ROSINA. burns of body. UN KNOW N WOMAN, aged 25, frac tured skull; leg fractured; condition critical. UNKNOWN MAN, hands and arms burned. MPHERSON, THOMAS, hands ami body burned. WATERMAN, MRS. E. D.. burns. PURRINGTON, MRS. S. 11. H. WESTERFELI >. HELEN. LA WNE, MA R< lAlll7l’. BADENBURG, MRS. WINTERS, MISS. Bt TLER, WILLIAM. M’CLUSKY, THOMAS. STRIENER. JIBS. G. H. ROSENIIEIN, MISS. LIST OF THE MISSING. The following list of missing i , revised at 12:30 a’clock n. m.: THOMPSON. GLADYS. 14. daughter of Eugene Thompson. West 71st street. BETTS, SADIE, daughter of John Betts. West 71st street. ITTIAM. ANNETTA. dnughter of ex- Senator Fpham, of Vermont. DEOORDOVA, MRS. ALFRED, wife of a stock broker, having an office in the hotel. BRADLEY. MISS. STEINER. MISS, New York. MORGAN. MISS CATHERINE, 448 Madison Avenue. GFIEN. WARREN, elevator man at hotel. AUZE. MISS, visiting at hotel. M’NULTY. MISS. BUCK HORN, -MISS 11.. New York. M’CARTIIY. CATHERINE, domestic. SHEA. KATE, domestic. JOSE. MARY, domestic. Mi CONNELL KATE. YltUlT. JAMES. DEMORASCH, MRS. BRAND. MRS. JAMES. FULLER, MISS MARGARET, niece of A. M. Fuller, of Philadelphia. TROOPS. MISS. CHAPMAN, MRS. WM. 11. BUCKLEY. MRS. WORTH. MISS. RIGLEY. MISS JENNIE. CASEY. ELLEN P. FORD. CHARLES. WELSH, MARY. WALSH. NORA. LAMMY. MARY, j STOKES. MRS. JAMES H. MULLEN, CHRISTOPHER. i McFLOY. MIL, 75 years old. lived at hotel with his family. I HOFFMAN. MISS DORA and two nieces. Baltimore. KELLEY, ELIZA. CLARA, MARY. ARMSTRONG. Bill I >GET. KELLOGG. DII. KENNITH E. MORGAN. MISS ANNIE TAYLOR. LOUIE. HARRY W. ANGELINA. MARY. MACK AY, MRS. FREDERICK. The flames could not Ik* checked, and in two hours from tin* time that the fire broke out the entire structure was in ruins, and the streets on three sides of the building were filled with debris from the falling walls and tall chimneys, while the streams of water being (toured into the interior of the ruins had no other effect than to fill Ihe air with clouds of scalding steam, making it im possible for any one to approach near enough to search for missing bodies. The lire was Ihe most spectacular that could he imagined. When it broke out Fifth Avenue was crowded with people watching the St. Patrick's Day parade, which was passing the building as the fire broke out. and every window in the front of the hotel -acing Fifth avenue was filled with spectators watching the marching men and floats in the street. An unusually large number of people were on the streets, and interfered no little with the movements of the firemen and police. In addition to tin* regular guests of the hotel the windows were crowded by a large number of spectators, residents oT this city, who had congregated there to witness the parade. Soon after the first alarm was given p-cople in tin* iowicr Hoots of the hotel, those who had easy access to tin* street and the stairway, commenced to pour out of the building in great numbers, but it very soon became apparent that a great majority of tit occupants of flu* hotel were either panic stricken or unable to make their way to the ground tioor. Windows were thrown up on every side of the building, and guests, mostly women, made frantic appeals for assis tance to ill i crowd below. Finally some of them stood upon the narrow window sills and beckoned to the spectators that they were about to leap 'to the streets. The men col lected upon tin* si dr walks ready to ren der any assistance they could. Sonic of the women dropped to the streets. In most eases the efforts to catch them and break their fall were unavailing, and broken limbs were the result. As soon as the firemen could get their scal ing ladders into position they elinri d the sides of the building and enter ed at every window when* as an unfor tunate guest appealing for assistance, land many eases of heroic rescue were witnessed by the throng in the streets. .RALEIGH, N. G, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, ISO'.). At the corner of Forty-Seventh street and Fifth avenue, directly across from the hotel, is the home of Miss Helen Gould, and at her direction many of the injured were carried there and were treated by physicians and nurses whom she had sent for. In the meantime the chief of police had telephoned to every hospital in the city, asking that assistance be* sent to tin* fire sufferers. Ambulances forced their way through the crowds as quickly as possible, and the injured were re moved to the hospitals. Several occu pants of the hotitl appeared at the win dows of the sixth and seventh stories and even mi tin* roof and leaped to the streets from those points. Very few of them escaped either instant death or injuries which resulted in their death a short time later. Within forty or forty-five minutes after tlu* tire broke out the walls on the Fifth avenue side showed every indica tion of falling shortly, and soon with an awful crash they struck the asphalt covering of the street in front of :hc hotel. This fall weakened the walls on the Forty-Sixth and Forty-Seventh streets sides, and they followed a mo ment later. When the walls fell the bricks and mortar and twisted girders and corrugated iron filled the streets on three sides of thci hotel. The* doorsteps and iron fences in front of the houses on the 'opi>osite sides of the street from tin* hotel •were wrecked by the falling walls, and the amount of debris piled in the streets was so great that travel will lx* impeded for several days. The northeast wing of the hotel continued to burn for half an hour after tin* walls of the other part of the building fell. Firemen continued to play streams upon the flames and also upon all tin* adjoining buildings, including Miss Gould’s residence, which seemed in imminent danger of catching fire, hut tin* Humes were brought under control before they could reach any of them. A Ini'll hoy discovered tin* flames while lit* was passing along the fourth Hoor, immediately over the rooms occupied by President McKinley's brother, Abner McKinley, and Inis family. The boy 1 Hilled a chain attached to the fire alarm, hut the chain broke, and then he or dered out ttiu alarm of fire and ran to the floor below. The blaze was then licking up everything on the Fifth, avenue end of the building, and the lad, ■when he got to the floor above the main hall, ran into tin* American dining room anil gave the alarm to the guests there. Only a few persons were in the dining room at the time, and they escaped. Wlkiii the !>oy reached the main Hour Warren F. Leland. the proprietor of the hotel, was in the rear of the long hall, and the boy shouted to him that the building was on fire. On Mr. Leland*.? instructions flu* clerks tried to save r.il the 'books and papers. The l>oy then rushed down the basement stairway and alarmed the women who were at work in the laundry. It is believed that all of them escaped. One of the most daring rescues ef fected by the firemen occurred on the fifth Hoor on the Fifth avenue front. An elderly woman was seen at a wondow, and two firemen succeeded in reading the window immediately underneath. One of these climbed to the coping of tlx* window on which she was standing and then stepped over to the woman. He swung her clear of the windows and landed her safely in the arms of his companion, who. with the asistance of several firemen, passed the woman down to the street. The first horror occurred just fifteen minutes aftei the fir* broke out. A handsome woman appeared at the win dow of a room on. the fourth floor. Stic held out her arms to ;ix> crowd below. Then *ie raised lew hands as if in sup plication, and hi a moment climbed to the window and teapot; She turned about like a top, and struck tlx* iron railing in front of the hotel. Hu* body seemed to be ioma'ed there, but it fell off and into the area way. Six* was dead. The woman was identified as Mrs. Amelia Paddock, of Irvington, X. Y. One of the most thrilling scenes of me fire—at a time when the building was a seething cauldron of flame- was ilm heroic rescue of several women from ill .* upper stories. One had been carried clown from the fifth story. Mrs. A. 11. Fuller, of Pittsburg, then appeared with her maid at the window of the fourth story. It seemed like an age before the ladder was lowered. Firemen ran up and with great difficulty brought down Mrs. Fuller and her maid. Just as she was gotten out of the window a middle aged woman appeared at tlx* window just north of that at which the ladder was placed. The woman, fear ing she would not he rescued, prepared to jump. She was warned to keep back and became panic-stricken and stepped back into tlx* dense smoke. A hook and ladder man, seeing the desperation of the woman, seized a scaling ladder and went up story after story through tlx* blinding smoke. He c limbed to the coping just as the woman reapiieaml. The fireman seized her by tm* waist, and. holding her tightly to the wall of the building, crept slow ly on the coping and passed the fainting woman to another fireman who had braced himself to receive her. There was a dreadful suspense as the firemen drew the woman toward him and finally had her safe on the ladder. A tremen dous cheer went up from the crowd. Fireman John Hanna, of the fire boat Zephar Mills, rushed through the smoke to toe top floor and found Night Watch man Mac Nicholas half asphyxiated. Hanna lowered him by means of wire to the fire escape two stories below and let himself down the same way. His hands were badly cut by the wire. Then Hanna assisted tlx* old man down the tire escape. Captain Emil 11. Pate, u Company L. Forty-seventh United Slaves volunteers, rushed up to the fourth floor, and res cued an old crippled man. who was part | ly asphyxiated by the smoke and burned I about the head. | Policeman Luke Miley. rescued three women from the fourth floor, aud was badly hurtled about the hands and face, and his uniform was nearly burned from his hack. A Brooklyn fireman who came over to see the parade saw a woman on the seventh story right over where the fire occurred first. He rushed up stairs and rescued Kate* Flaimigan, a domestic. She was badly burned and injured by falling debris, and was unconscious when brought down. Thomas McPherson, an employ 3 of the Government docks at Brooklyn, went through tlx* fire and smoke five stories and rescued Mrs. It. Butler, who was unconscious from shock and fright. McPherson was so badly burned that he had to Ik* taken to the hospital hini sel f. All of these aud many oilier incidents occurred in a period of a few miuuces. Meanwhile terrifying scenes were being enacted by frenzied men and wo men on almost every tlodr of the great building. I low many persons are buried in the ruins is not known, but at leas three or four persons were seen s o jump, whose bodies have not i»ee 1 recovered. A young man, apparently an employe jumped from the roof on Forty-sixth street side of the hotel. Another un known man jumped on the Fifth avenue side, and two more were seen to jump from the rear. Shortly after that two women jumped from the room to the court van! below, it is known that two of these at least are dead. Eye witnesses s.:y they saw a woman throw a child from a window and fall a moment later hers'lf, just be fore the eollapse. As yet no trace of these bodies has been so uni. J. Lcmott Morgan, of Birmingham, Ala., who has been watching the parade with a number of friends from tlx* bal cony. ran to the fourth floor and r.*scueil Mrs. Algernon Jarvis and her daughter Mabel. He took them to the balcony, and thence they were taken to the street by firemen. Abner McKinley, brother of President McKinley, had four rooms on tlx* ground floor of the hotel. Mrs. McKinley ami her daughter Mabel McKinley, occupied tix* rooms with Abner McKinley. Miss Mabel McKinley hail ord-ved a coach for a drive at 3:30 o'clock, and was dressing for it when the alarm of fire was given. Six* saw tlx* smoke and. be coming frightened, opened the window and was assisted out by an unknown man. She walked half a block and found her carriage in waiting. She was driven to the Hotel Buckingham. Fireman William Kennedy, of Engine Company No. 23, rescued a Mrs. Braun, from the fourth floor of the hotel by means of a scaling ladder. Her rescue was -cheered by the immense crowd. A crippled woman was found tying on the floor of a room on the fourth floor, unable to move, and was carried safely to the street. Mrs. McKinley and her daughter, Helen McKinley, were entertaining Mrs. John Sherwood, tlx* author. Bril Mrs. McKinley and daughter and her guests got out assisted by two nun. nut they do not know how. The McKinleys went to the Manhat tan Hotel, where there was a joyful re union of the family. They lost every thing except the clothes they wor . Dr. E. I’armelly Brown, of 509 Fifth Avenue, and.A. E. Brown, of Congress Heights, Washington, knowing the Mc- Kinleys were m the hotel, rusheu to the place as soot, as they learned of tlm fire and rushed up stairs. As they were going up the s'.iirs. they saw two men, one a fireman and tlx* other an employe, bringing down Mis. Warren Leland. The woman’s clothes were burned from her body. The men told Dr. Brown that they found the woman in the hallway, lying on the floor unconscious. The men said that they saw one woman leap from the window of the room, but they had no time to stop her. She was Miss Helen Leland, daughter of Mrs. Ice land. This was the saddest incident of the fire. Warren Leland is the proprietor of the hotel. The Leluuds have anoth er daughter, Miss Fanny Leland, but she was away from the hotel at the time. Mrs. Lelaixl died in Flower Hospital at 9:15 tonight. Her son Charles was the only relative with her when the end came. Frederick Corbett, the chief engineer of the Hotel Windsor, said that he, with his assistant, Robert Walker, and twen ty helpers, were in the engine rooms. He was made aware of the fire by the crackling of the flames. There were a number of women and men coming down from the windows by means of ropes; some slid down a distance and dropped to the court yard. A number of employes who vei'e on the roof jump ed to the court yard and received frac tures and injuries which lie thought would cause their death. Mr. Corbett said he met Mr. Warren Leland, who told him to shut off the electric current in order to enable the firemen to combat with less difficulty anil danger. While Mr. Leland was talking with him several women jump ed out of the windows and from the roof and there lay unconscious in the court yard. Dr. Robert Safford Newton who was one of the first doctors to arrive, said that many women ami men who had tried to make their exit from the hotel by the side entrance, were driven back by the tremendous crowd that surged about the entrance way. The loss on the contents of the build ing is almost complete. Ihe salvage men managed to save $20,000 worth of paintings on the first floor of the hotel, but very little else, was carried out. Many of the guests who lived at the Windsor regularly lost valuable jewelry and bric-a-brac and furnishings, among them being F. F. Flower, a nephew of ex-Govem'or Flower, who among othei things, lost a package of jewelry valued at SB,OOO. I 'Hie loss on the hotel is estimated at at least $1,000,000. All the papers and books of the hotel are believed to have been saved. Up to midnight the ruins had not cool- The War Has JUst PsUn TAGALOS' EXTERMINATES! ONLY GUARANTY OF Pi^ACR Inability of Americans to Estimate Plans, Re sources and Numbers of Filipinos— More Prisoners Captured* Manila. March 17.—4 p. m.—Company 1 G, of the Washington regiment, has cap-j tuml 150 additional prisoners near Taguig and also seized some ammunition. Most of the rebels arms were hidden or thrown into the river. The engineers threw a temporary bridge across the Fasig river for the ar tillery and commissary trains. THE REAL SITUATION. Hong Kong. March 1i. —The following general view of tlx* situation is from a J correspondent of tlx* Associated Press at Manila, and has evidently not been subjected to censorship: “The most remarkable feature of the situation is the inability of the Ameri cans and residents to estimate the num bers, resources and plans of the Filipinos. Prominent generals think that two or three disastrous battles will break their spirit and make them sue for terms. A majority of the English and other resi dents are of the opinion that the exter mination of the Tagalos is the only guarantee of peace, that they can easily lie whipped if they give battle, but that they, will dodge a meeting with i the Americans in force. “Some people think they will risk bat tles at Malabon and I’aranaque. where they are strongly entrenched, and that if they are defeated they will resume bush whacking and keep it up as long as any of them are left. United States Consul Williams says; ** ‘I don’t expect to live to see the end of the war.’ “The rebels shift about so much that it is impossible* to estimate their num bers. “The correspondent questioned several generals as to tlx* number of Ihe rebels, and Ihe .replies ranged from 2U.UUU to 100.000. The estimates of the quantity of arms possessed by the rebels are equally uncertain. The l**st authorities say 30,000. Large sections of tlx* arm ed natives are ignorant of the use of their weapons. “The country beyond the American lines is rice fields, cane and brush. The rebels are familiar with every inch of it. and it affords tine hiding places. “The residents say the Tagalos are unanimously rebels, and they predict the Americans will he resisted at Mindoro and Mindanao, and that they will be obliged to subdue them. “The extent of the support which the other Luzon tribes aw* giving Aguinaldo is a mystery. It is known that several regiments were under arms before the outbreak, but the majority of them are supposed to be jealous of the Tagalos, who are reported to be treating the other tribes in the fashion of the Spaniards, dominating the island and holding all the offices. “Reports from the rebels are to the effect that the -recent tactics of the Americans in, retiring to their establish ed lines after pursuing them, makes the rebels think they are winning victories. “The Oriental character is so deceptive that the residents of Manila are ignorant as to whether their own servants sym pathize with the rebels or not. It is ed off sufficiently to allow a search for bodies. A big force of men is now at the ruins ready to make a search as soon as possible. It is believed by both firemen and police that there are a number of bodies in the, ruins. THE ORIGIN OF THE FIIIE. Man Lit a Cigar and Tossed the Match Aside. New York, March 17. —Regarding the origin of the lire the Herald tomorrow will publish flu* following: John Foy, a waiter in the hotel, was passing through the hall on the parlor floor., the first above the street. He was making his way to a place where lie could catch a moment’s sight of the parade. In front of him walked a man patron of the hotel. The waiter did not know him. Passing thus one be hind the other, they hail nearly gained tlx* angle of the passage near Fifth Avenue and 4t!tli street, wheli the pat ron drew a match and lighted a cigar or cigarette. He tossed the match aside. It was still blazing ami fell into the folds of a lace curtain. In an in stant the flimsy fabric was ablaze, and instantly the flames shot to surrounding draperies. This, from all accounts, was the ori gin of the holocaust in which many human beings jierisheil and others were severely mangled, while helpless thou sands looked on in wild horror. SISTER-IN-LAW OF CANDLER. Mrs. Alice Price Injured in the Windsor Fire. Macon, Ga., March 17. Mrs. Alice Price, who was reported injured in the Windsor Hotel fire in New York, was the widow of the lute W. P. Price, prominent cotton merchant of Macon: was a sister-in-law of Governor Candler of Georgia, and of Mayor S. B. Price, of , Macon. Sin* is one of the handsomest | women in Georgia and mother of Miss I PRICE FIVE CENTS. known that a rebel organization exists in the city, and the evidence is growing that there was a widespread plot to assassinate the Americans, the signal being the commencement of hostilities. The servants were instructed to kill their employers; but they were terrorized by the vengeance dealt out to offenders, and they weakened. Every Tagalo would have cut his employers throat if he had dared, or at least this is a current saying. “'1 he faithlessness of the natives is illustrated by the action of the commis sioners who came here to offer the alle giance of tm* Island of Negros. It is now known that they were in friendly communication with Aguinaldo while here. “The rebels have been resupplied with ammunition and are using smokeless powder. “Nearly every house here displays a foreign flag for protection, whether it is entitled to it or not. All flags except the Spanish flag are seen. From the native huts hang white towels or shirts. “The natives working in the fields plant a white flag on u bamboo as a protection against being mistaken for active rebels. “Every hut between the city aud the American line is a heap of ashes. “The residents are the Chief suffer ers from the present state of affairs. | Food commodities have doubled aud trebled in prices, and many lines of business are at a standstill. I “After 7 o’clock in the evening it death-like silence prevails in the city, except for the footsteps of the sentries or their challenges as an occasional civilian is halted. Every sentry calls upon the passing civilians to explain their business. The shutters are all closed for fear of shootings, occurring in the streets, and the theatres, restaurants and stores are also closed. Uniformed Spanish officers in the public places sneeringly say: | “ ‘lt would be different if we were in control.’ “As an instance of the nervous ten sion prevailing, it is cited that when the sunset gun was tired on Sunday a whole regiment encamped at the Luneta jump ed for its arms as if at a word of com mand. “About 300 new saloons have been 1 opened here since the American occu-* pation, with the result that many drunken soldiers are to be seen in the streets. The officers, however, say the conduct of tlx* soldiers is better than those of other nations under similar cir cumstances. • “The chief topic of conversation at present is the delay in assigning Major General Lawton to a command. "Everybody expected that he was to take command of the troops, and he is •eager to get to work, but he has been a spectator of all the week’s fighting, and his staff and ten years’ old son have been exposed to the hottest fire. “There is an impression that Japanese firms are supplying the rebels with arms. The Japanese papers are urging Japanese mediation.” Alice Brice, last season's belle at Narra gansett Bier, and who died three months ago. She was formerly Miss Williams, of Jones county, Georgia. No Miss M. Bierce is known in Macon so far as cun be learned to-night. M'KINLEY LOOKS BRIGHTER. lie is Enjoying 11 is Vacation and Gaining Strength. Thomasville. Ga., March 17. -The Bresidont is beginning to show plainly tlx* good effects of his outing. The ! bloom is once more returning to liis cheeks and the fagged out appearance is ; vanishing, lie is enjoying pretty drives around Thomasville. Invitations con tinue to pour in from the surrounding country, but are being declined in pur suance of the purpose to avoid every thing having the aspect of a semi-public - function. The l’resiileutial mail is ! growing rapidly, tlx* people being well I acquainted now with Mr. McKinley's i whereabouts. The statement cannot be made too broad that it is the Bresident’s wish that communications on business and other matters be sent to W ashing ton. w here attention will be given them. I the present trip being solely for play ■ and rest and not work. President McKinley was shocked to hear of the frightful holocaust at the Windsor Hotel, New York, and grate ful that all the family of his brother, Abner, had escaped unhurt. Judge Day. formerly Secretary of State, who is now at Balm Beach, will stop at Thomasville on his way North, in all probability, and may be one of the party to Jekyl Island. TOTAL BANK CLEARINGS. New York, March 17. —The total hank clearings in the United States for the week were $.1,845,172,689; per cent increase, 42.9 ner cent. Exclusive of New York, $623,054,149; per cent increase. 23.6.