EVEN INCt EEDaER-EHIL'ADEliPfllAV BATTJRPA.Y, SEPTEMBER 2'C, '15T4!.
HEARINGS OF VITAL
'' IMPORT TO BOROUGH
AROUSE ITS CITIZENS
in hi i . -
Collingswood Prepares for
Figlit to Obtain Municipal
Sewage System and Water
Works.
COM.IN'aSWOOD, N. J., Sept. 28.
Tlnco liearlnss of vital Interest to Col
llliffsttood will t'ikp place soon to ilrclcla
wlirllinr or not tlio borough will control
Its own nffnlrs or bo thrown wholly In
the ptmci of Rinsplng corpoititlotis.
In prcparrttlon for oiicmjC thcuo licnr
InB!", n Rdioral cltlzeni' mass-mectliitf will
bo held In the National Bank IihII tonight,
when expert engineers will present pl.ms
adopted for the light nenlnst a sewer rnto
lncre.ii'c. i
The (Irst lieirltiK will be held before the
Tublle t'lillly CommlBslon In tlio Camden
ConrtlioiiFc on Wcilnnsday. Citlzcnn
here, liendod by Borough Council and the
Collingswood Civic Association, will op
pose tlio sewerage compatiy'ft rnlno In
rnles ntid will endeavor to show that the
town should be tillowcd to own Its own
Military sowcrago system and disposal
plant.
On Tuesday the municipal water plant
fight hearings will be continued In Ti en
toft. Many citizens will go to the capital
Jh the Interests of a municipal water
plant. The hearing Is given by the New
Jersey Wnt,r Supply Commission. Solici
tor Kiancls D. Weaver, of the borough,
has prepared arguments from the citizens'
viewpoint.
The thlid healing will bo granted to the
rublle Service Railway Company by tlio
!orough Council. The company asks the
right to coiibtruct a load and a trolley
line through part of West Collingswood
In order to shorten the route.- from Cam
den to Iladdon Heights and West Col
lingswood by nearly 13 minutes. The town
demands certain street paving from the
company for the franchise.
GIRL ROCKING CRADLE SHOT
TWICE BY INFURfATEPUNT
Woman Accuses Her of Stealing
Husband and Boy(
NUW VORK, Sept. 2.1,-As she rocked a
cradlo last night In an apattment at -S53
West jesd street, Sclma Straumc, 19 cftrs
old, was shot twlco by her aunt, .Mrs.
Augusta Rotlgers, of lot West i52d street.
The gill Is In the Washington Heights
Ho&pltul with a wound In her right tem
ple. Tito first bullet went through her
Imlr. Mm. HotWcra Is locked Up, charged
with, mid admitting, felonious assault,
I.lttlo more than a year ago Sirs. Red
der!) Bent for Selma to come to this
country. She felt socuie In the affections
of Waldemcro Rodgers, and a child, n
boy seven and a half yonis old, seemed
a tie that would contlnuo their relations.
Soon, however, Wnldemere's affection for
his vlfo begnn to untie, and finally Mrs.
Rodgers left him, with the understanding
that she was to have the custody of tlio
boy.
Apparently she has never had physical
possession of the child for last tilght
father and son went down from the
apartment of Mrs, Annn I'lostln, lih
sister, with whom lie has lived since tlio
separation, and thcto was a quarrel at
the place where tho mother has been em
ployed as a seivant.
When the pair left Mrs. Rodgers fol
lower with a revolver. At the lGJd street
house she laiiK the boll and the door
was opened by her son. llrushlnft by him
she stalked Into tho room where Selma
was rocking tho Infant child of Mrs.
Hostln, who is a widow. Without a word
Mrs. Rodgeis took tho revolver from tho
folds of her dress nnd opened lire. At
the recond shot Selma fell unconscious.
Two detectives soon reached tho house.
'Mrs. Rodgeis was standing on tho stoop
walling for them. As she handed the re
volver to them she said that she had shot
tho girl who had stolen her lunsband nnd
boy. That was all sho would say as she
was led to a cell.
BIG DECREASE IN EXPORTS
ILLINOIS PROSPEROUS
War Brings Good Tlmos and Farm
ers Thrive.
BIiOOMINGTON. III., Sept. 26. AVhlle
other paits of tho United Stales and of
the world In general are complaining of
li.ird times brought nbout by the war.
fiich N not the case In this State. Illi
nois has been blessed with bountiful
crops. Wheat Is abnormal, while oats
nnd corn are up to the average. livery
mill In tho State Is profltlni; from the
eftects of the war. o
Factories which were suspended are
on full time, ordeis are coming for
Fhoos for the armies of Kurope. and
thousands of horses have been bought
In central Illinois by British and French
nrmy agents and shipped to tho Continent.
WOMAN'S BODY MUTILATED
Fragment Found in the Delaware
and Raritan Canal at Trenton.
TRKXTON. N. J., Sept. M. A section
of a woman's body was found yesterday
Pi i he Delaware and Raritan Canal at
this place, and tho police have taken
ilmn,e of it to make an Investigation.
Tin gruesome find was wrapped In a
woman's clothes, outsldo of which was a
largo pii'co of wrapping paper with tho
name fhlet & Van Oraft Company, 811
Js'orth I.awienco sticct, Philadelphia.
'Ibis paper had been .sent to the Knter
piiso cigar store In this city.
mo ponce are se.ircning me city loug
leiun If any woman is mlsMng buie. jfltttJ
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TEACHERS GO TO SCHOOL I
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Effects of European War Show Trade
At Standstill.
WASHINGTON. Sept 2C. Tremendous
decreases In Amorlcan trado during
August, resulting from war In Europe,
were shown In dotnll yesterday by com
parisons of the Department of Com
merce with tho business of ono year ago.
Export trade to Germany practically
came to a standstill, while that to
Franco and Great Britain hns not been
so seriously Interrupted, showing only a
comparatively smalt decrease.
Trado to Belgium and that to Argen
tina, which depends largely on foreign
shipping, suffered heavily. The decrcaso
In August's export trade to Europe as
a whole amounted to JM 3M,fil9. The ef
fect of war upon American Import trade
was not so great. La-it month It amount
ed to $120,7G7,R0O. compared with $137,C51,
553 in August, 1U13.
SPURNED $50,000 FOR GIRL
Son of Wealthy Pasadena Man Wed's
Despite Big Bribe.
I.OS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 2I.-Outwlt-tlng
his wealthy father and tho guards.
Lester Crawford, 19. of Pasadeno, and
Miss Laura Koppe, his sweetheart, have
succeeded In getting married. This news
was learned Friday In Pasadena.
Crawford withstood arrest and incar
ceration In sanatorlums In his obedience
to Cupid.
The admission was made by (Mrs. Asa
P. Brown, grandmother of the girl, that
the marrlnge took place two weeks ago.
The pair got out of sight six weeks ago.
The elder Crawford, millionaire, of Pasa
dena, who. It Is said, offered his son S50,
000 to glvo up the girl, could not bo seen,
Mrs Crawford received the news of the
marriage several days ago. According to
Mrs. Brown, the young couple are In
British Columbia.
AMERICA NEXT IF GERMANY
WINS, DECLARES KIPLING
Poet's Roply to Virginia Editor Says
U, S, Is Unprepared.
' STAUNTON, Va,, Sept. 28.
On September B the Staunton News
printed some verses by Dr. Charles Minor
Blackford, an associate editor, addressed
to Rudyard Kipling, calling attention to
the apparent Inconsistency of his atti
tude of distrust of Russia as shown In
hlu welNknown poem "The Truce of
the Benr," nnd, his present advocacy of
the alliance between Russia and Great
Ilrltuln. A copy of the verses was sent
to Mr. Klplln?, nnd the following reply
has 'been received from him!
"Bateman's Burwash, Sussex.
"1 am much obliged for your verses of
September I. 'The Truce of the Bear,'
to which the.v lefer, was written 16 years
ago, In 189S. It denlt with a situation nnd
a mennre which have long since pascd
nwnv nnd with Nsucs that are now quite
dead.
The present situation as far as Eng
land Is concerned, it Germany's delib
erate disregard of tho nautrallty of Bel
gium, whose Integrity Germany a well
ns England guaranteed. She haB filled
Belgium with every sort of horror and
atrocity, not In the heat of pasilnn. but
ns a part ,nf a settled policy of terrorism.
Her ijowed obJect is the conquest of
I'hirope on these lines.
"As you may prove yourself If you will
consult her literature of the last gen
eration, Germany Is the present menace,
not to Kurope nlone, but to the whole
civilized world. If Germany, by any
means. Is victorious, you can rest as
sured that It will be a very short time
before she turns her attention to the
United Ktntes. If you could meet the
refugf es from Belgium flocking Into Eng
land nnd have the opportunity of check
ing their statements of unimaginable
atrocities nnd barbarities studiously com
mitted, you would, I am sure, think as
seriously on these matters ns wo do,
and In your unpreparedness for modern
war you would do well to think very
seriously Indeed.
"Yours truly,
"RUDYARD KIPLING."
LAWYER HELD FOR FORGERY
Onca Reputed Millionaire Accused of
Passing Worthless Check.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26,-Hcnry Zelmcr.
once a lawyer and Inter reputed to be a
millionaire manufacturer of artificial
.flowers and feathers, was In the llnc-up
at pollco headquartors yesterday, having
been arrested on a charge of forging tho
name of an old business friend to a check
for $30. Ho was arraigned later in Jef
ferson Market Court and held by Magis
trate Slmmfl for examination today.
The police say he was admitted to the
bar in Albany in 1R64, and that at ono
time he was In the olflce of D. Cady Her
rlck. Later he made his million In busi
ness, and along about 189i resumed the
practice of law, specializing In, divorce
cases. Ills methods brought htm Into con
flict with the law and ho was sentenced
to 10 years In Sing Slngr. Since his re
lease he has lived, It Is said, on the fa
vor of merchants who knew him in his
prosperous days.
SUIT FOR $1,064,265
Trespasser Took Ore From Other's
Claim, Is Charge.
DENVER, Col.. Sept. 2G. Judgment for
J1.C64.265 was asked In a suit brought
here by Charles M. Becker against the
Christmas Gold Mining Company. The
claim represents part of the value of
gold ore alleged to have been taken from
the Christmas claim In the Cripple Creek
district by the Golden Cycle Mining Com
pany, of which John T. Mllllken, a St.
Louis capitalist. Is president.
Agricultural Experts Give Instruc
tion in Garden Work.
BOSTON, Sept. 20. Ronton teachers
ivent to school today. Professors from
Misachusetts Agricultural College weio
their teaehers.
A meeting of all the teachers In the
clt was hehl at tho Normal School
building. Agricultural professors ad
dressed the teachers In garden woik,
which is to be one of the studies In the
public schools this winter.
The Ho.ud of Education has leased sev
eral plots of land throughout tho city,
where gaidenlng will be taught tho school
children.
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FRANKLIN-LIGHT SIX
Goes 100 Miles on Low Gear
TO DEMONSTRATE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE FRANKLIN DIRECT AIR
COOLED MOTOR
Test made on September 24 by Franklin dealers throughout the United States.
Wc chose for our route Bethlehem Pike, through Allentown, Easton, finishing at Delaware Water Gan
1th following results: . wajj,
with following results
Distance, 100 miles.
Time, 6 hours 55 minutes. Lubricating oil used, 1 gallon.
Gasoline used, 12 gallons.
Motor on car was not stopped nor was transmission out of low gear or clutch released durine the entire
distance. Flguring difference in gear ratio this equals 336 miles on high gear, or an average of 48 miles ner
hour for nearly seven hours; also equaling 28 miles per gallon of gasoline, 340 miles on gallon of cylinder oil.
WE HAVE AFFIDAVITS TO THESE FACTS.
Sweeten Automobile Company
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GRAIN EXPORTS INCREASE
August'September Records This Year
Better Than in 1013,
Grain exports for August nnd September
of this year nro In excess of tho ilgurcn
for the same months last yenr In splto of
the war In Kurope. Karly next week n.
stilt further Increase will be recorded
when tho British steamship Oaklands
Orange sails with 400.000 bushels of until,
believed to be tho Inrccst enrfro of that
commodity ever shipped from Hils port to
Kurope.
Carerocs totaling l,f.93,C3t bushels were
shipped front this port In 20 vessels In
August. 1913. This year but (lino shlM
sailed with cargoes of 811,721 bushels, ow
Ins to the slump brought nbout oV tho
war. Shipping for a time was virtually
nt a standstill and rates became ulmost
prohibitive.
Since AuuuBt there has been n notice
able Improvement In conditions and every
day the pxporta have been Increasing. So
far 13 vessels have sailed this month, car
rying groin cargoes of 1,151,610 as com
partd to cargoes totnllng 1,117,321 bushels
taken from the port In September of 1913
In 18 vessels.
$13,000 JEWELRY STOCK
LEFT IN A SUBWAY CAR
Dealer's Son Forgets About Parcel
Containing Precious Gems.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2i.-Tlio entlio
stock of the jeuelry store of Abraham
nitter, 51S Willis avenue, tho Uronx,
was left on a dontown subway ex
press last Saturday night when the
Jeweler and his son left the trnln nt
the 96th street station. Mr. Itltter places
his losss nt $13,00i).
Not until Wcdnesdny did the Jeweler
notify the police of his loss. Tho val
uables were In a box, nnd consisted of
diamond rings, diamond brooches and
diamond and pearl lavaltlcrcs.
Mr. RItter takes his stock homo with
him over Sunday, as burglaries havo
been frequent In the neighborhood of
his store. Late on Saturday night lw
boarded a downtown express with his
son, and tho latter was given the box
containing the Jewelry.
Tho son placed the box on the sent1
and It was forgotten when the pair left
the train.
Interborough detectives nnd prlvat'1
sleuths aro working with tho pollco to
recover the Jewelry.
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DANIELS TAKES ORDERS
Couldn't Send Destroyer Away in
Captain's Absence.
AMJANV, 8ep"t, 26.-Sccrctary Daniels
received a lesson In naval etiquette tho
other day, when, according to tho story
told at the waterways convention, he
boarded the destroyer McDougall, moored
to Recreation 1'lcr, and ordered that she
he moved to penult tho Berkshire to
land 1090 delegates to the convention.
"Sorry," said (he boatswain, who was
In charge "but, Captain Palmer's ashore,
nnd we can't move."
"But I'm Secretary Daniels."
"J know" It, sir, and I'm sorry, sir, but
the captain Is In command here, and
until he comes back the vessel can't be
moved."
"But If the captain should drop dead,"
asked the Secretary.
"Sorry, sir I niean I'm glad, sir; that
Is, I ii in glad th.lt he ain't dead, but If
he was, that might be dllTeiont."
Tho destroyer staged nt the pier.
GEMS LOST ON AUTO RIDE
$18,000 Package of Newport Woman
Strangely Disappears.
BOSTON, Sept. 2G.-Jowo!ry valued nt
JI8.000. the property of Mis. Haloid
Brown, of Newpot t. It. I., which disap
peared Friday, Is being sought by the
Police.
Mrs. Brown arrived from I'urope on
the Cnnoplc Friday and gnvc a bag
containing the genm to her business
agent, frank Mntteson, of Providence.
Ho says he had the bag with him when
ho entered an auto nt the pier, but that
It .was gone when he reached Mrs.
Brown's hotel.
DUMB WAN "CUSSED" HER
Wife of Muto Tells Court Husband
Made Her Miserable.
PITTSBURGH, Sept 26.-Belng "cussed"
by a mute husband and chased by him,
armed with dead mice, were the causes
to strain the marriage bond to breaking,
averred Mrs. Mary Dsther Reed, of Craf
ton, a suburb, speaking of Alexander
Reed In her suit for divorce, which was
heard yesterday.
Tho court Inquired with keen Interest how
n husband who was n mute could "russ"
her. Site said he did It by means of
harsh or high and angry squeaks. ,TS
for the mice, he would come Into her
presence with n dead mouse dangling
from his fingertips. Sho would run; he
would chase her. Reed took the stand,
nnd. facing an Interpreter, denied with
a whirl of digits that he ever "cussed"
nt his wife. Ills fingers declared Mint
he didn't know nny swear words cer
tainly had never heard any. IIo also
made Indignant gestlculntory denial con
cerning the dead mice.
Decision Is pending.
EUROPEAN WAR HAS COST
U. S. RED CROSS $286,000
DRIVER GRADY SUSPENDED
ONE DEAD IN FIRE
Sixty Persons Bcscucd From Burning
Industrial Home.
Bf FtWJ.O, Sept. 2iS One mull Is dead
fllwl anvninl nnrnnna fitr. pnit.i.tnrl hi'ual.n, I
ns the lesult of a fire which destroyed
the Snlvatlon Army Industrial Home, .1
foui -story block In the heart of tho
wholesale district, early today. Firemen
lescued CO persons trapped In the burning
building.
PYTHIANS INVALE 'PBISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 38. Fifteen
bundled Knights of Pythias arrived In
San Francisco tcday from the central
nnd northern parts of the State, bring
ing with them a class of 200 candidates
to receive the ranks of the order at
Pythian Castle. Grand Chancellor Miller
nnd other grand officers will tuku an
active part In tho work.
Philndelphlan Barred For Season by
Grand Circuit Judges.
COMIMBL'S, O.. Sept. 20.-1. Grady,
the prominent Philadelphia driver, re
ceived a suspension which holds good
until the end of the uenson fiom the
C'rand Circuit Judges yesterday. The
olllclnls' ruling occurred nftcr the finish
of the 2:05 paco event, In which Fred
Jamison drove R. H. Brett In Grady's
stead. The horse fax also barred for
the scuBon.
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Cleveland Honors the Horse
CLKVHl-A.VD, O. Sept. 26. Today
whs woik-liorse dav in eh vcliind. A
parade through the downtown section
was enjoyed by all except the work
horses. Members of the Cleveland Work
Horse Panicle Association were busy
along the line of march selling tagB to
raise a fund of $5000 to buy nn automo
bile ambulance for Injured, sick and
crippled work horses.
Motorcycle Factories Busy
BIRMINGHAM, Eng., Sept. 20 Tho
value of tho motorcycle In warfare has
been demonstrated to such an extent
on the Continent Hint the War OIIlco
has put In a rush order to a local firm
for an additional 3(KJ of the machines.
The motorcycle manufacture! s are work
ing night nnd day.
171 Surgeons nnd Nurses, nnd 08
Carloads of Supplies Sent Abrond.
NEW YORK, Sept 28.
The Notional Red Cross Soclt Mb
made public through the New York ofllce
a pnrtlnl estimate of the expenditures to
date and obligations Incurred slno tho
beginning of the war. This shows that
the society hns spent approximately J2W,-
CO0. The total receipts to date have been
J $12o.OOO. The total cost of sending it sur
geon or nure to Kurope nnd maintaining
each there for six months Is estimated
at Jlioo. Important Itemized expenditures
are:
For transportation of I7l surgeons nnd
nurses from their homes to New York,
by sea to Europe, by land from ports of
debarkation to destination In Fusland,
France, Germany, Austria, Scrvla nnd
Russia, Including outfits of uniforms, per'
sonnl equipment nnd salaries and sub
sistence for six months nml return to
Fnlted States, also transportation of 35
carloads or hospital nnd surgical supplies,
20u,uifl. Purchase of hospital and sur
gical supplier, jio.OiX): special funds given
for transmission to specified European
Red Cross societies and other especial!'
Indicated purposes, $10,000
The New York Stnto brunch of the Red
Cross, .fnrob H Schlff. treasurer, has
talsed to date JI7O,!)03. The Belgian Re
lief Fund Is tr1.K1. The Merchants' Asso
ciation fund for the Red Cross hns
reached $2151. The fund for the Ameri
can Ambulance Hospital In Paris Is
$-.7.W2.9'.
Seven pnyslclnns sailed today on the
Olympic for service on the staff of tho
Aineilcan Ambulnnre Hospital In Paris.
The volunteers are Dr. Richard Derby,
of 9W Park avenue, connected with St.
I,uko-s Hospital: Dr. J. V. Hogilct, -JO
East 83d street, connected with Bellevue
Hospital; Dr. A H Dtigdale. of Omaha,
Neb., nnd Dr. Metier Blaliehard, or Co
lumlnn, Ohio, both of tlio Hudson Street
Hospital: Doctor ('urn. of the New York
Hospital; Dr. Benjamin Joblons, 21G East
I Fifteenth street. St. Mark's Hospital, and
Dr. Lester Robeis, 200 West .".3th street,
Bellevue Hospital. Doctor Derby and Doc
toi lloguet will be nccompnnled by their
wives. Mrs. Derby was formerly Miss
Ethel Roosevelt, a daughter of Colonel
Roosevelt.
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English Author on Police Force
LONDON. S'-pt. 2.-'hcn the first biff
demands were made on the public for
army volunteers. It practically cleared out
London's police force and many notnblcs
who weru too old to go to war volunteered
to src as special policemen. Among tho
first of those volunteers was Robert Hlch
ens, the noted author and pla ; wright.
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