JpVENlaa LJiibuEil PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY. JAKTTARY 21,
1015.
t
YS OF "KID DAYS'1
OLD WHITEFIELt) TABERNACLE HERE
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Store Opens 8:S0 A. iJ,
INPRAIRIEMMOND
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes 5:S0 P. M
RELATED BY SUNDAY
JOHN WANAMAKER
angelist Used to Manu-
ure Balls Out of Cork
Ihd Twine Began Ca-
With Anson.
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By BH.LY' SUNDAY
.,. my bnscbnll career on tno
L. .. ini. town, whero I spent it
rnvi ni
fSjfVrt of my boyhood. A bnscbnll
sjlt A lot - "- "-
51 worked nil day to mnkc tho lmll
V were to piny Willi, aim men some
t. . a Hi . r 1 1 At at Aialr-1
'fllOW Willi IV "" nnuui' ""!
h ball o ImrcJ fint It would go
., t nyA flinti wn would have (n
Sw fish it out.
S. mi eoulil get one, wo used ft
Se bull because It would tlont, for
Wide that big Dntes would bo sure
WW tho ball over tho fielder's bend
f&ifho water. Hut even rubber bnlls
wc..... in ilmnn tlavs nnil wo often
fUCitit--- -tj
take n cork from n ketchup bottle
a ball of string from tho grocery
v . a Mnln nnr mvn bnll.
rof nu "'""v
Wlf grandfather owned a turning lathe
when I could tlnd tho tlmo I would
9fJ'ffn to hlfl shop nnd. turn out the
U .... ..! Tlmif nfnpA nfntttr
iijlitnat wo um.". " ..-.o ,..ull,
Si bats, too, nnd with our homo mndo
fill and bats wo had somo lively games.
ijVtry now nnd then wo would have
ITmI we called n nig same nnu wo wnnion
(TOall )lko tho bIK fellows played with.
rae would get n cork or a pleco of
nbter and sonu string and s'.inpo up
te t,an. Then I would get an old boot
Wand make n cover for tho bnll. Tho
toct In those days had kid lops and they
ti not make bad covers.
fila Bra" on ll, Pralrlcs was lllsb nnd
" at a .ai fnllnw tho bnll closclv or
jg.m " """
iFit would, get into tho pond wo would
Jin It, I was n pretty rasi runnc-. nnu
JJiie3 It wns to keep from losing the
fell as much ns nnythlnff clso that I
YSmo to play In tho outfield.
Bier a whllo I began to play on tho
PlSlcam that represented tho village.
TVa the only country boy on tho team.
fit other toys lived In tho town. I had
it of work to do nnd there were times
rtmltould not get nwny to piny. Then
'., J. ..t.l nnne rtt.t In Ihn fnrm In
look me up, nnd they often hired another
tt tO DO my wont nuuu i wciil awny
hi play for them.
jTi played a lot of bnseball when wo
Rsld get nwny from our other duties
lh!l we were attending tho little coun-
WWiool. I'll tell you Hint those games
ijirc real iu. itit vi-n. uu . n.-i.
.yl... atnn f I, n ntlint linvo nl .lift
iclool. Wo could hit tho ball hard nnd
rS'fait. and wo often bent them de
finite the fact that they lind a full team
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iBne volunteer flro companies held tour
laients every year. Ono of theso events
u to run wim a noso carriago lor ouu
pits, take out 300 feet of hose and cou
th'It to a fireplug. Tho company that
fif this the fastest won the prize. Com
fatitlon, was keen nnd the companies
let icouts over the country looking for
tut pie n.
Il'ffia a senior In tho school nt No-
HaJi when they heard that I could run
prar iul uno or mo scouis camo up
tilths school In which I was also the
lultor, and naked mo If I wanted to
lob the Ifarshalltown company. I had
tt Jlie In tho town 30 days beforo I was
pitfbli ,to enter tho tournament. Jly
kiuw wurn was iiuuui uunu unu i wunt
'rsS
Tiy gave me a Job In tho furnlturo
van na 1 piayeu unu wun tno vuingo
jffl. In the final gamo Marshnlltown
IpeuMp. I virtually won tho game for
.ttUlarjhalltown team. Tho scoro was
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"rdM George E. Nltschc, of the University of Pennsylvania,
PtS? L?nXCPAd!Cti?,ne f tl,Is old buildinF- WW "ood on 4th
street, below yVrch, 175 years ago, on the university campus.
SUGGESTS RESTORATION OF
WHITEFIELD TABERNACLE
Ilecordct Nltzscho, U. of V., Becnlls
Famous Building.
If n plan suggested hy George R.
iSltstsche. recorder of tho University of
1 eiinsylvoiiln, Is cnrrlcd out the West
rlillndelpllln Institution may hnve on its
cnnipus a reproduction of tho tnbernnclc.
which tho people of Philadelphia built
for George Whltelleld, tho famous ovnngc
llsl, 1.5 years ngo. Just ns tlfb people
thli year built a tnbcrnnclo for "Hilly"
Btinday, whero ho might conduct a
revival, so did they build ono for White
field when ho conducted his memorable
revival here nenrly two centuries ngo.
Tho Wliltcllelil tnbernaele on Fourth
street, below Arch, becamo the home In
1717, Just seven yenrs nfter Its erection,
of tho academy founded by llenjamln
Franklin, and which later becamo the
University of Pennsylvania.
This building wns used by the Univer
sity until 1S02, when other quarters wore
oiiinincii. it remained standing until
COMPULSORY CHAPEL
RULE FINDS MAM
AGNOSTICS AT PENN
Senior Says 90 Per Cent, of
Students Are Not Chris
tians Vice Provost's
Views.
rtcsentment on tho part of the students
of the University of Pcrnsyivnnln against
thr. recent nttempt to enforce cninmilH'.i-;.
chapel nttindanco Is running high, nnd,
1SI0, when It wns destroyed. Now Mr. I "ltl,nu?h tho college authorities deny
ii.v.u m any iricuuii wmuevor, yet a num
ber of the student body say (boy will
tnko a firm stand against nny effort to
coerce them into being prcscent at tho
religious exercises.
At. tho rule stood some time ago only
those students wero exempt from chnpcl
who professed Judnlsm or Catholicism.
Smne time In October, however. It was
discovered, nccordlng to one of the
students, that tho boys wero staying
away In largo numbers, and when they
enmo to tho ofllce of Provost Kdgnr Fnhs
Smith In response to notes sent out by
him to the delinquents the majority of
them declared themselves to bn Mtlior
House occupied by Provost Smith, tho first ""08cs or nincists, nnd as such stated
provost of the University, which Is now I ta,' "hould not bo compelled to attend.
rapidly deteriorating. , I ' t,le opinion of some, the pica of non-
Tho Whltelleld tnbcrnnclo orlglnnlly t bllef wns merely a clever dodge to cut
consisted nf nno lnri-n rnnm with vi-i' I Chnpcl.
high ceilings. L,ater it wns divided Into r.hls tho students denied.
Nltzscho wants the University to have
this famous building restored nnd placed
on tho University campus whero It might
bo used for meetings nnd other Uni
versity activities.
When this tnbcrnnclo wns originally
constructed It was the largest public
building In tho city. Tho lot on which
It stood hnd a frontage of 2W feet, and
In 1702 n now building wns constructed
Just north of tho nendemy, n part of
which Is still standing. It also, Mr.
Nltzsrho thlnkB. should be moved to tho
University enmpus. This group of build
ings Mr. Nltzsche would complete by
removing tho old Franklin houso and tho
two stories in which shape It was used
by tho University of Pennsylvania. It
Is felt thnt such a proposal for tho
restoration of this fnmous tabernacle
should bo favorably acted upon this year
because this year Pennsylvania celebrates
the 175th year of Its founding and also
because of tho similarity of the Whltelleld
and tho "Hilly" Sunday revivals.
UNITARIAN SAYS ADAM
AND EVE WERE MYTHS
Pjy, and I made G runs and had seven
Itfcat
putouts In tho outfield.
tKihhalltown wns tho home of "Cnp"
W, of the Chicago White Sox. Tho
fro Began to tnlu about me to tho
Clpudn, and ho offered mo a Job with
ikCChlcairo team. That m h lnHn-
tttytft my career aa a big leaguo bnll
Lperer played In tho minor leagues. I
flatted at tho top, and I was at the top
'"?. Pive up baseball to begin my re
gws work.
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Hev. Wm. Sullivan Also Declares
Conception of Hell Is Repulsive.
Tho biblical version of Adam and Eve
wns characterized as n myth last night
by tho Itev. William Sullivan, who de
clared that tho dogmatic Christian con
ception of hell and of tho guilt of nn un
baptlzed child were repulsive to reason.
In tho cotirso of Ills sermon, which was
delivered at the first Unitarian Church,
21st and Christian streets, tho speaker
asserted that the doctrine of hell was a
relic of tho dawn of tho raco and Im
moral, Etupld nnd Insulting to tho popu
lar conception of n Just deity.
"Liberal Christianity," ho declared,
"cannot believe that nny divine truth cm
shock or scandalize our senso of right.
"Hell means the eternal triumph of
evil In the world governed by essential
goodness. It means a. failure In the pro
gressive provldcnco of God, . But wo bo
llevo that It Is evil that Is destined to'
disappear nnd die, not goodness. Liberal
Christianity takes no light and Jaunty
Idea of moral evil, nut It believes that
good lies beneath sin, and that the final
vindication of God Is tho triumph of
that good."
Cuba Wants This City's Goods
Philadelphia manufacturers have re
ceived an Invitation from tho Stuto De
partment of tho Cuban Government to
exhibit a full lino of their products In tho
commercial museum to bo established at
Havana. Tho Invitation camo through
Dudley Rartlctt, chief of the Foreign
Trade Bureau of tho Commercial Museum.
IWK.
If I
IHILDREN'S CORNER
U The Little Girl Across the Way
MgtOSS the way from tho big apart
Aeent building In which wo live Is an-
2r.bu!ld!nir enunllv hit- nnd Imnoslng.
tr It la ao big that It's hard to realize
"7uUfiJf & ftmttll nm nnnU n fa. tfnn ftA
mm
Sou can quite Imagine our surprise.
kjS uu" uay, ws saw at one 01 mo
jjpwi a little girl's face. She looked
IO3 lnaulrlnvlv ! fnrlniilv nm mlieh
T "Dear met This Is such a big
tt euch a blir house, and such a
tylPnlOW. hnt U n m,r llttla nlrl
Cthen ahe spied us, Wo smiled at
W the, very smlly-eat wo could, and
"t ahe knew she smiled back at us
ndly as you pleaasl That's the
lln smiles, you know, they're very
K?r!y an hour wo sat at our wln-
SUIImlllnr li..l .... .. . Kh
.Q VMV mU ,11 M. V
r mat time we felt so well ao
thflt WA UfttnlA n vaallt, tnilV
iTVhat In the world can we do,"
:' ourselves, "to play with the
!'l across the v!" You sea sha
'P In tha fourth story window of
S DUlMlnir flnrl WA vattTtk in th KA(
!'J!? ,f.ur big building; and there
""ie PIg yard n between.
ugbt about it for a long time,
o the thought about it. too. for
lee that aha sat verv still and
4 thought and tboughtl
"er naa a bright Idea. "I'll
we. can do!" iho exclaimed,
let all our best dresses and
81 "P tot her to seel" Did you
t Of such a Kood idea.? Uv sister
cn think of things to dol
quicKiy to our room and got
wwses, ana ttia thera up for
flrl across ths uiv in , Rhn
Wd nodded aoa seemed SO
And then she motioned to us
f couldn't understand what.
t eiothea on ao she can e how
u we aid mat. And aura
was lust what aha wanted.
Ra ana nodded, happily at ua.
! PPeare4 from tha window.
" wat ned carefully, for w
" WjuW tom back and she i
did. She had all her best clothes which
she tried on for us to see. They wero
awfully pretty and wo liked to see them.
"Now, what shall we show her?" I
asked sister. "Our dolls, of course," ahe
replied, so we did, We got all our dolls
and the little girl across the way got all
hers, and we spread them along tho win
dow sill In a big parade. It was lots of
fun)
I cannot sneak for tho onitrn TTni.
! vcrslty, ' said n senior member of the
Architectural School seriously, who for
i obvious reasons would not permit his
nnmo t6 be used, "but I can say that
BO per cent, of tho men with whom I
come In contact uro either ngnostlcs or
atheists. In fact. I nm even willing
to go so far as to say that a wave of
agnosticism Is sweeping over the place,
and with tho exception of tho freshmen,
who. per se, nre apt to too tho mark
Pretty closely, thcro nre mighty few of
the students untouched by it.
"To tills end, it seems to me, an ex
ccedlngly narrow-minded thing for nny
college, particularly ono which Is sup
ported by tho Stato. to lay down n mnn
dato of religious coercion to nn entlro
student body, nnd I nm ready to state
thnt If a cnuvnsa were tnken of nil tho
members of tho sophomore. Junior and
aumur clauses 10 unti out thoso who at
tend chapel voluntarily, not one student
would be found. Many of them nre
already exempt nnd many go Just because
It Is too much trouble to put up a fight
not to. but I'll venture to say there Is
none who go because they want to.
"Tho outbreak of ngnostlclsm." said
nnother senior, "Is not peculiar to the
University of Pennsylvania, but compul
sory chapel attendance la, I believe. Har
vard would show a large percentage of
non-believers, I am sure, ns would tho
other big colleges. It Is n phase of mod
ern collego life."
When Vice Provost Joslah II. Pennlman
vna asked to comment on tho subject, he
nsserted emphatically that chapel attend
ance hnd never been better thnn lately.
im aueuunnce is compulsory," snld
he, "to all except Catholics and Jews and
a lew nincists nnd ngnostlcs. Moreover,
It 13 prnctlcnlly necessnry for a boy to
attend apart from religious considera
tions, because nil tho clnss announcements
nre made at theso exercises. Somo time
ago a few students snld they were athe
ists and naked to bo excused. After n
tnlk with Provost Smith, however, they,
decided they wero mistaken nnd were not
atheists, after all,"
Riri!
We got all our doll and the little girl
across the way got alt here, and ue
iprtad them along the window
till in a big parade.
Then we showed her our Teddy beam
and our soldier dolls and our menagerie
and and Just then who should came Into
the room but mother I She was back
home from her shopping trip hours be
fore we expected herl
"Mother!" exclaimed slater and I to
gether, "how ever did you get home sq
goon! Usually you are gone ao Iongl"
"I'm not home soon," replied mother,
laughing, ''you must have found some
thing interesting to dol" We told her all
about the Uttle girl across the way, and
mother amlUd and podded to her, too.
And then I thought about writing this
story bo that other little girls, whose
mothers go shopping, can look for the
Utile girl across TIIMUi way and play
with her a we did!
lory'UM. tttiOara Jresi Judton.
HADD0NFIELD MISSIONARY
IN TOWN TAKEN BY TURKS
Parents Fenr for Safety of tho Ilev.
H. A. Muller and Family.
News that I'rumlah, Persia, had been
captured by the Turks and Kurds caused
apprehension to Mrs. F. Otto Muller, 40o
Washington avenue, Hnddanfleld, N. J,,
whose Bon, tho Ilev. II. A. Muller, Is a
Presbyterian missionary nt that place,
With him oro his wife, who was Miss
Laura McComb, of Haddonfleld, and their
3-year-old daughter Itutlt nnd 15 other
American missionaries and their wives.
The Rev. Mr. Muller, whose father 'Is
In the leather business at 327 North 3d
street, this city. Is acting principal of the
Moslem Boys' School and treasurer of
tho missionary station nt Urumlah, In
the last letter which his parents received
three months ago he said the missionaries
were on excellent terms with the town
officials and Russian officers.
The Rev. Mr Muller was born In Phila
delphia and Is 30 years old. He Is a
H. A. of tho University of Pennsylvania,
an M. A. of Princeton University nnd
received his theological training nt the
Princeton Theological Seminary, from
which he was graduated In 1910. Immll
ntely after his graduation he was sent
to urumlah.
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200 WOMEN AT MEETING
Noon-day Xuncheon and Talk Under
"Billy" Sunday Auspices.
Qlrls and women to the number of 200,
employes of the large department stores
and 'the Curtis Publishing Company, were
present at the second of tho meetings
for business women held between 11:30
and 2 o'clock today at the First Presby
terian Church, 7th street and South
Washington Square, by Miss Frances
Miller, of the "Billy" Sunday organiza
tion. Tha luncheon today was provided by
the 16th district, whlch Includes the,
churches of Germantown and Chestnut
Hill Ninety helpers, with Mrs. John
McArthur Harris as chairman, were om
hand to see that every one was served
quickly. Many of the girls refused, to
accept the lunch for 6 cents, and Insisted
on paying more.
MUs Miller repeated her talk of yester
day on "Peraonal Friendship With
Christ"
Miss Florence Kinney, MUs Miller's
assistant, conducted a similar meeting at
noon at the Chambers-WyUe Memorial
Presbyterian Chureh. on Broad street
below Sprue- Several hundred business
women attended.
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ANNOUNCING
That All Things Are Now in Readiness for the Coming of the
Celebrated February Furniture Sale
Largest in the World and Most Fortunate
. Starling With Three Inspection Days
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Next Week
Already we have inquiries from thousands of miles away. The
February Furniture Sale has become national. And always as it becomes
greater it becomes better. Good friends will come to it this year from
far and near, and we will have something well worth while to show them.
Men's Fur Caps and Gloves are
Clearing Out Fast
"What!" Exclaimed a Woman.
"These Fine Shoes for $3.65 ?"
She passed through our Shoe Store a few minuteB after
having paid nearly twice 3.65 for a pair of the identical
shoes elsewhere.
This group of shoes is tho feature of the Winter Shoe
Sale, and yesterday we added 8000 new pair to the 6000 we
started with. All high grade and many over-gaiter effects
in the lot.
Other shoes for women in the Sale at $2 and $8.35.
Men's shoes in the Sale at $2.85 and $4,
(Slain Floor nnd Subway Gallery, Market)
There are always people waiting for this Sale to get fine
furs at the price they would ordinarily pay for common
place stuff. ,
Reductions of a third to a half throughout the entire
Stock. , (Mala Floor, Market)
The New Glorified Taffetas
for Spring Gowns
So fine and soft that you can almost pull the close-to-a-yard
width through a man's finger ring, and this means
that they are peculiarly adapted to the making of the
flounced and frilled dresses for Spring,
In plain colors, the new taffetas come in many light and
dark colors, highly lustrous, 85 inches wide, at $1,25 a yard,
Printed flowered taffetas, white or light tints, are very
pretty used in combination with the plain colors for dancing
frocks. They are 85 inches wide and 2 a yard,
Swiss taffetas, in the loveliest glace and changeable
effects, as well as plain colors, are $2 a yard and 85 inches
Vide. (First Floor, Chestnut)
Best for a Man in the Hosiery
and Underwear Sale
sec-
At 75c light-weight merino shirts and drawers
At $1.15 Winter-weight merino union suits,
onds."
At $2.50 Heavy-weighfc all-wool shirts and drawera.
At 12yc black and colored cotton half hose.
At 50c -black- and colored thread silk half hose, "sec
on(lS." (Main Floor, Market)
At 10c black mercerized half hose, "seconds."
(Subvrny Gallery, Market)
Lace Guimpes With Jew Ideas
You will notice the use of lace on many of the Spring '
guimpes sheer, pretty laces that are very dainty and
feminine.
Some are in vestee effect; some button high in the neck
and otherB are high and low at the same time, which is para
doxical but true.
Prices start at $1 and go to $2, and there are many
styles from which to choose. (sultt wr, centra)
JOHN WANAMAKER
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