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E.VEKING LEDGliilt-'PmL-APTilLPHriA-, SATTTBDAt,, SEPTEMBER 26, lfli-
HEARINGS OF VITAL
IMPORT TO BPRODGH
AROUSE ITS CITIZENS
Collingswood Prepares for
Fight to Obtain Municipal
Sewage System and Water
Works.
COIiT.iN'CISUVOOD, N. J., Sept. 2G.
Tlirce lio.irlimn of vital Interest to Col
lingswood will take place Boon to drclilo
licther or not the borough wilt control
lta own nffnlrs or be thrown wholly In
tlio power of grasping corporations.
In preparation for one of these hear
limB, u sencral cltlrcns maps-meftliiK will
bo hclil in the Rational Hank ball tonight,
whin expert engineers will present plain
ndopUil for the tight against a sewer rats
Increase.
The first bearing will be held beforo tbo
Public Utility Commission In the Camden
Courtboiiso on Wednesday. Citizens
here, bended by Borough Council apd the
Colllnqswood Civic Association, will op
pose the sewerage company's raise In
rates and will endeavor to show that the
town should bo allowed to own lta own
military rewcr.ige system and disposal
plant.
On Tuesday the municipal water plant
fight healing will bo continued In Tren
ton. Many citizens will go to the capital
In the Interests of a municipal water
plant. The hearing Is given by the New
Jersey Water Supply Commission.' Solici
tor Kiancls D. Weaver, of the borough,
has prepared arguments from the citizens'
viewpoint.
The third bearing will be granted to the
Public Service Railway Company by the
Borough Council. Tim company asks the
right to construct a rood and a trolley
line thiough pait of AVc3t? Collingswood
In order to shorten the routo from Cam
den to Iladdon Heights and West Col
lingswood by ncarlV 15 minutes. The town
demands certain street paving fiom the
company for tbo franchise.
ILLINOIS PROSPEROUS
War Brings Good Times nnd Farm
ers Thrive.
BLOOMINGTON, 111.. Sept. 33. While
other parts of the United States and of
the world In general are complaining of
hard times brought about by tho war.
eurh Is not the case In this Stati. Illi
nois has been blessed with bountiful
crops. Wheat is nbnormal, while oats
nnd corn nre up to the average. Every
mill In tho State Is profiting from the
effects of the war.
Factories which were suspended are
on full time, orders are coming for
shoes for tho armies of Europe, and
thousands of horses have been bought
in central Illinois by British and Fn neb
army agents and shipped to tho Continent.
WOMAN'S BODY MUTILATED
Fragment Found in the Delaware
and Karitan Canal at Trenton.
TKENTON. X. J., Sept. :!. A section
of a woman's body was found yesterday
in tho lielawate and Karitan Canal at
thN place, and tho pollco have taken
charge of it to make an Investigation.
Tin gruesome find was wrapped In a
nomin'b clothes. out.Mde of which wan a
largi! piece of wrapping paper with tho
nairp Slilet &. Van Graft Company. SI I '
North Lawrence street, Philadelphia.
This paper had been sent to tho Enter
prise cigar store in this city.
Tho pollco are searching tho city to
icarn ir any woman is nursing nere.
QlRL ROCKING CRADLE SHOT ,
TWICE BY INFURIATED AUNT
Woman Accuses Her of Stealing
Husband nnd Boy. I
NEW VOHK, Sept. K.-As she rocked a
cradle last night In an apartment at 5J
West lf.3d street, Selma Btraiimc, 19 ypars
old, wna shot twice by her aunt, Mrs.
Augusta Rodgors, of l Wc.it 15M street,
Tho girl Is In the Washington Heights
Hospltnl with a wound In her right tern
pie. Tbo first bullet went through her
hftlr. Airs. Itodgers Is lookod up, charged
with, and ndml'tlng, felonious assault,
Mttlo moro than a year ago Mrs. Rod
Rers sent for Selma to como to this
country. She felt secure In tho affections
of Waldemcro nodgers, and a child, a
boy seven nnd a half yenrs old, seemed
a tlo that would continue their relations.
Soon, however, Waldcmore's affection for
his xvlfo began to wane, and finally Mrs,
Rodgfrs left him, with the understanding
that she was to have tho custody of tbo
boy.
Apparently sho has never had physical
possession of the child for last night
fnther and son went down from ths.
npartmntit of Mrs. Anna Plostln, bis
sister, with whom he has lived nlnco tho
separation, and theie wna a quarrel at
the plnco whore the mother has been em
ployed ns a servant.
When the pair left Mrs. Itodgers fol
lower with a revolver. At tho 1GM street
house slip rang the bell nnd the dnor
was opened by her son. Brushing by him
Bho stalked Into the room whero Selma
was rocking tbo Infant child of Mrs.
Plostln, who Is a widow. Without a word
Sir. Itodgers took tho revolver from tho
folda of her dreps and opened lire. At
the recond shot Selma fell unconscious.
Two detrcthes soon reached the house.
Mrs. Itodgers was standing on tho stoop.
waiting for them. As she handed tho re
volver to them ?ho said that she had shot
tbo girl who had stolen her husband and
boy. That was all she would say aa bIks
was led to a cell,
BIG DECREASE IN EXPORTS
Effects of European War Show Trade
At Standstill.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Tremendous
decreases In American trade during
August, resulting from war in Europe,
were shown In detnll yesterday by com
parlsonn of the Department of Com
merce with the business of one year ago.
Export trade to Germany practically
came to a standstill, while that to
Franco and Great Britain has not been
so seriously Interrupted, showing only a
comparatively small decrease,
Trado to Belgium and that to Argen
tina, which depends largely on foreign
shipping, suffcicd heavily. The decrease
In August's export trade to Europe an
a whole amounted to ?'il 320.1U3. Tho ef
fect of war upon American Import trado
was not so girat. En.U month it amount
ed to J12O.7B7.g00, compared with $137,051,
353 in August, 1313.
SPURNED $50,000 FOR GIRL
Son of Wealthy Pasndona Man Wed's
Despite Big Bribe.
EOS ANGELES, Cab. Sept. K.-Outwit-tlng
his wealthy father nnd tho guards.
Lester Crawford, 19. of Pasadena, and
Mlrs Laur.a Koppe. his sweetheart, have
succeeded in getting married. This neW3
wis learned Friday In Pasadena.
Crawford withstood arrest and incar
ceration In sanatorium) in his obcdlcnco
to Cupid.
The admission was mado by 'Mrs. Asa
P. Drown, grandmother of tho girl, that
the marrlago took plice two weoks ago.
Tho rnlr got out of sight six weeks ago.
The elder Crawford, millionaire, of Pasa
dena, who, It is said, offered his son ?."0 -0)0
to give up the girl, could not bo seen.
Mrs Crawford received the nev3 of tho
marriage several days ago. According to
Mis. Brown, the young couple are In
British Columbia.
AMERICA NEXT IF GERMANY
WINS, DECLARES KIPLING
Poet's Heply to Virginia Editor Says
IT, s. Is Unprepared.
STAUNTON, Va., Sept. 28.
On September B the SUUnton Nowa
printed Borne verses by Dr. Charles Minor
Blackford, an associate editor', addressed
to Itudyard Kipling, calling attention to
tho appal ent Inconsistency of his atti
tude oi distrust of Russia as shown In
his well-known poem. "The Truce of
tho Bear," and his prescril advocacy of
tho alliance between Russia and Great
Britain. A copy of the verses was eent
to Mr. Kipling, and the following reply
has been received from hlmi
"Uataman's Burwash, Sussex.
"I nm much obliged for your vorscs of
September i. 'The Truce of the Bear,'
to which thry refer, wns written 16 year
ago, In ISO?. It dealt with a sttuatlofi nnd
a mernro which have long since passed
ni"v and with Issues thnt are now quite
dead.
T.ip present situation as far as Eng
land Is concerned. Is Germany's delib
erate disregard of tho natitrallty of Bel
glum, whose Integrity. Germany an weli
an England guaranteed She ban filled
BcUlum with everv f-ort of horror and
atrocity, not In the heat of paanlon but
ni a part of a nettled policy of terrorism.
Her a owed object Is the conquest of
Euiope on these lines.
"As you may prove yourself If you will
consult her literature of tho last gen
eration, Germany Is the present menace,
not to Europe alone, but to tbo whole
civilized world. If Germany, by any
mentis. Is victorious, you can rest as
sured thnt It will be a very short time
brfore nlie turns her attention to the
United States. If you could meet the
refugees from Belgium flocking Into Eng
land and have the opportunity of cheek
ing their statements of unimaginable
atrocities and barbarities studiously com
mitted, you would, I am sure, think as
.seriously on these matters ni we do,
and In your unprcparedncss for modern
war you would do well to think verv
SfriouMy Indeed.
"Yours trulv.
"RUDVARD KIPLING "
LAWYER HELD FOR FORGERY
Ones Beputod Millionaire Accused of
Passing Worthless Check.
NEW YORK, Sept. K.-Henry Zclmer,
once a lawyer and Inter leputed to be a
millionaire mnnufnctiiier of artificial
floweis and feathers, wan In tho line-up
at police headquarters yesterday, having
been arrested on a charge of forging the
name of an old business friend to a check
for $20. He wns arraigned later in Jef
ferson, Market Court nnd hnld by Magis
trate Slmrrfl for examination today.
The police say he was admitted to the
bar In Albany In 1G4, and that at one
time he was In the office of D. Cady Her
rlck. Later ho rroidc his million In busi
ness, and along about ISDi resumed the
practice of law, specializing In divorce
case3. Ills methods brought him Into con
flict with the law und ho was sentenced
to 10 years in Sing Sing. Since his re
lease he hiii? lived, it Is said, on the fa
vor of merchants who knew him In his
prosperous days.
SUIT F01U1, 064,265
Trespasser Took Ore From Other's
Claim, Is Charge.
DENVER, Col., Sept. 20. Judgment for
Jl,0(!4,S'-'i was asked In a suit brought
here by Charles M. Becker against tho
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 Cjclo Mining Com
pany, of which John T. Mllllkcn, a St
Louis capitalist, is president.
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TEACHERS GO TO SCHOOL
Agricultural Experts Give Instruc
tion in Garden Work.
BOSTON, Sept. 20. Boston teachers
went to school today. I'rofeasors from
Massachusetts Agricultural College were
tlieii Unc-hoi a.
nie,'ting of nil th teachers In tho
clu was held .it the Normal School
buil'.mg. Agricultural professois ad
drf.s,'d the teachers In garden work,
which Is to be one of tho stydlea in the
public schools this winter.
The Hoard of Education has leased sev
tra' plots of land throughout tho city,
wline gardening will be taught the 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.
P-SSjhk
We chose for our route Bethlehem Pike, through AHentown, Eastern, finishing at Delaware Water Gap
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 during the entire
distance. Figuring difference in gear ratio this equals 336 miles on high gear, qr an average of 48 miles per
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
3420 Chestnut 'Street
Phone, Baring 1200
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GRAIN EXPORTS INCREASE
August-September Bccords This Year
Better Thrtn in 10i3.
Grain exports for Ausust and September
of this year are In excess of tho flsurcs
for the sanlie months last year In spite of
the war In Europe, narly next week a
still further Increase will bo recorded
when the Hrltlsh steamship Oaklands
Orange falls with 40O.O3O bushels of oats,
believed to be the largest cargo of that
commodity ccr shipped from this port to
Europe.
Carsocs totaling l,593,m bushels wcro
shipped from this port In 20 vessels In
Ausust, 1913. This year but nine ships
sailed with cargoes of sn,72t bushels, ow
'lug to the slump brought about by tho
war. Shipping for a time was virtually
at a standstill and rates becanio almost
prohibitive.
Since August there has been a iwtlce
able Improvement In conditions, nnd every
dm' the extiorta have been Increasing. So
far 13 vessels have sailed this month, car
rying grain cargoes of 1,131,610 as com
pared to cargoes totaling 1,117,321 bushels
taken from the port In September of 1913
In IS vessels.
$13,000 JEWELRY STOCK
LEFT IN A SUBWAY CAR
Dealer's Son Forgets bout Parcel
Containing Precious Gems.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. The entire
stock of the Jewelry store of Abraham
nlttor, 51S Willis avenue, the Bronx,
was left on a downtown subway ex
press last Saturday night when the
Jeweler and his son left the train at
the 9Jth street station. Mr. Hitter places
his losss at (13,000.
Not until Wednesday did the Jew.eler
notify tho police of his loss. The val
uables were In a box, and consisted of
diamond rings, diamond brooches and
diamond and pearl lavallleres.
Mr. Rlttcr takes his stock home with
him over Sunday, as burglaries have
been frciucnt In the neighborhood of
his store.- I.ate on Saturday night he
boarded a downtown express with his
son. and the latter wns given the box
containing the Jewelry.
Tho son placed tho box on the seat
and it w.as forgotten when tho pair left
the train.
Interborough detectives and private
sleuths are working with tho pollco to
recover the Jewelry.
DANIELS TAKES ORDERS
Couldn't Sond Destroyer Away in
Captain's Absence,
ALBANY, Sept. 2. Secretary Daniels
received a lesson In naval etiquette the
other day, when, according to tho story
told at the waterways convention, ha
boarded the destroyer McDougall, moored
to Hccreatlon Pier, and ordered that she
bo moved to permit the Berkshire to
land 1000 delegates to the convention.
"Sorry," said the boatswain, who was
In chare "but, Captain Palmer's ashore,
nnd we can't move."
"But I'm Secretary Daniels."
"I kiiow It, sir, and I'm sorry, sir, but
tho captain Is In command here, and
until he comes back the vessel can't bo
moVed."
"But If the captain should drop dead,"
asked the Secretary.
"Sorry, sir 1 mean I'm glad, sir; that
Is, t am glad that he ain't dead, but If
he was, that might be different."
The destroyer stayed at the pier. ,
GEMS LOST ON AUTO RIDE
$18,000 Package of Newport Woman
Strangely Disappears,
BOSTON. Sept. 2(1. Jewelry valued at
$18,000, the property of Mrs Harold
Brown, of Newport, tt. I., which disap
peared Friday, Is being sought toy the
Dollce.
Mrs. Brown arrived from Kurope on
the Cnnoplc Friday and gave a bag
containing tho gems to her business
agent, Prank Mattcson, of Providence.
He says he had the bag with him when
ho entered an auto at the pier, but that
It was gone when he reached Mrs.
Brown's hotel.
ONE DEAD IN FIRE
Sixty Persons Rescued From Burning
Industrial Home.
BUFFALO. Sept 28. Orv man Is dead
and several persons arc reported missing
ns tho result of a flre which destroyed
the Salvation Army Induitrlal Home, a
four-story block In the heart of the
wholesnlo district, early today. Firemen
lescucd 60 persons trapped In the burning
building.
DUMB MAN "CUSSED" HER
Wife of Mute Telia Court Husband
Made Her Miserable.
PlTTSBUrtOH, Sept. 26. Being "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 Esther need, of Craf
ton, n suburb, speaking of Alexander
Heed In her suit for divorce, which was
heard yesterday.
The court Inquired with keen Interest how
a husband who was a mute could "euss"
her She said he did It by means of
harsh or high and angry squeaks. ..Ts
for the mice, he would come Into her
presence with a dead mouse dangling
from his fingertips. She would run; he
would chase her. Reed took the stand,
and, facing an Interpreter, denied with
a whirl of dlglti that he ever "cussed"
nt his wife. His lingers declared that
he didn't know any swear words cer
tainly had never heard any. He also
mado Indignant gestlculatory denial con
cerning the dead mice.
Decision Is pending.
DRIVER GRADY SUSPENDED
Philadelphian Barred For Season by
Grand Circuit Judges.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. M. U. Grady,
tho prominent Philadelphia driver, re
ceived a suspension which holds good
until the end of tho reason, from the
Grand Circuit Judges yesterday. The
ofllclals' ruling occurred after the finish
of the 2:06 paco event, In which Fred
Jamison drove. R. H. Brett In Grady's
stead. The horse was also barred for
the season.
PYTHIANS INVALE 'FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO. Sopt. 26. Fifteen
hundred Knights of Pythian arrived In
San Fraiiclfcco today from tho central
and northern parts of the State, bring
ing with them a class of 200 candidates
tn receive the ranks of the order at
Pythian Castle. Grand Chancellor Miller
and other grand ofTlcers will take an
active part In the work.
Cleveland Honors the Horse
CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. 26. Today
was work-horse day In Cleveland. A
parade through the downtown section
was enjoyed by all except the work
horses. Members of the Cleveland Work
Horte Parade Association were busy
along the lino of march selling tags to
raise a fund of $.jO00 to buy an automo
bile ambulance for Injured, sick and
crippled work horses.
EUROPEAN WAR HAS COST
U. S RED CROSS $286,000
171 Surgeons and Nurses, And 38
Carloads of Supplies Sent Abroad.
NEW YOrtK, Sept. 24.
The National Red Cross Society ha
made public through the New York offle
a partial estimate of the expenditures to
date and obligations Incurred slnea thd
beginning of the war. This shows that
the society has spent approximately fEA,
MW. The total receipts to date have been
$323,000. The total cost of sending p. ur
geon or nurse to Kurope and maintaining"
each there for six months In estimated,
at Mloo Important Itemized expenditures
are:
For transportation of 171 surgeons and
nurses from their home to New Yorle,
by sea to Europe, by land from porta of
debarkation to destination In England,
France, Germany, Austria, Servla, and
Russia, Including outfits of uniforms, per
sonat equipment and salaries and sub'
slstenco for six months and return to
United States; also transportation of 35
carloads of hospital and surgical mippllei,
$200,(X'0. Purchase of hospital and sur
gleal suppllo", $40,000; special funds given
for transmission to specified European
Red Cross societies and other especially
Indicated purposes, H0.000
Tho New York Stato branch of the Red
Cross. Jacob H. Scb Iff, treasurer, haa
raised to date $170,993. Tho BelgMn Re
lief Fund la IC.1.304. The Merchants' Asso
ciation iiinn lor uic lieu irosa nna
reached J2M4. The fund for the Ameri
can Ambulance Hospital In Paris la
$57,S52.94,
Seven physicians sailed today on lh
Olympic for service on the staff of th
American Ambulance Hospital in Paris.
The volunteers aro Dr. Richard Derby,
of 989 Park avenue, connected with St.
Luko's Hospital; Dr. J. P. Hoguet, 40
East 83d fctrcet, connected with Bcllcvua
Hospital; Dr. A. H. Dugdale, of Omaha,
Neb., and Dr. Mercer Blanchard, of Co
lumbus. Ohio, both of the Hudson Street
Hospital; Doctor Corry, of the New York
Hospital; Dr. Benjamin Joblons, 216 Eaat
Fifteenth street, St. Mark's Hospital, and
Dr. Lester Robcrs, 200 WeBt 33th street,
Bellevuc Hospital. Doctor Derby and Doc
tor Hoguet will Ijp accompanied by their
wives. Mrs. Derby was formerly Miss
Ethel Roosevelt, a daughter of Colonel
Roosevelt.
Motorcycle Factories Busy
BIRMINGHAM, Eng.. Sept. 26. Th
valuo of the motorcycle In warfare has
been demonstrated to such an extent
on the Continent that the War Ofllco
has put in a rush order to a local firm
for an additional 3000 of the machines.
The motorcycle manufacturers are work
ing night nnd day.
English Author on Police Force
LONDON. Sept. 26. When tho first big:
demands were made on the public for
army volunteers, tt practically cleared, out
London's police force and many notables
w ho were too old to go to war volunteered
to servo as special policemen. Among tho
first of thefyj volunteers was Robert Hlch
ens, the noted author and playwright.
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