wmpipipjitwfi.mi' gspiwi ' Mfftmm i i ims m jmmmwiSwm n-iw&mm1' y .y Pf y y ijgiBiiftipiiaiiiwpwiwiwW! 2 EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Id, 1016- iwwiiwiiwMipviit ii' $1,000,000 RACE FOR TEMPLE FUND ' BEGINS TONIGHT Work for $1,000,000 Endow ment Will Be Launched at Academy DOUBLE CELEBRATION Founder's Day and Dr. Con well's Birthday to Be Observed t'hotoxrpnli on I'lclotlal i'oi A campaign to rntsc a $1,000,000 endow ment fund for Templo University, the great philanthropic centre of education In Philadelphia, will bo begun tonight at tho cclobrntlon of Founder's Dny of Templo Vnlverslty nnd tho seventy-third blrthdny of tho Itev. nusscll H. Conwell, president of the university, nt tho Academy of Music, Broad and Locust streets. The first word of tho plnns for tho $1,000,000 campaign to endow Templo Uni versity will he Riven In tho nddrcss by Dr Wllmer Krusen, Director of the De partment of Public Henlth and Charities and vice president of Temple I Diversity Tho success of tho cnmpnlgn for $1.000 000 to endow tho university would lilt rrom Doctor Conwelt's shoulders the responsi bility of maintaining tho Institution ho founded 30 yenrs ago,, trustees say. Since then, tolling Incessantly, uslne the Im mense Income Rained from his lecture, "Acre of Diamonds," nnd nndlux assist ance from loynl nldcs, he hns developed the Institution to a size accommodating nearly 4000 students nnd running classes almost continuously from 9 In tho morning until 10:30 nt night. Tho announcement for n plnn for a Jl.OOO.OOO endowment fund will ho tho feature of Founder's Day this year. In addition there will -addresses by promt nnt educators and ministers. Degrees ';i be conferred upon former Judge Meyer E'llibergcr nnd John Luther Long, the hnvellst. Toward tho end of the ceremony the faculty of tho University will present a. portrait of Dr. Conwell to tho University, through the Hoard of Trustees. The paint ing, executed by Leopold G. Soyffcrt, takes n high rank as portrait work. Tho degree of doctor of laws will be conferred ufon cx-Judgo Sulzberger by John M. Patterson, of Common Pleas Court, No. 1. John Luther Long will be come doctor of letters through n degree to bV conferred on him by Judge Norrls S. Barratt. of Common Pleas Court, No. 2. Tho Itev. Floyd W. Tomklns, rector of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, lath and Walnut streets, will de liver tho prayer at tho opening of the exercises, after an organ prelude by Philip H. Goepp, f tho muslo department of Templo University Henry R. Edmunds, president of the Board of Kducatlon, will follow him with an address. The principal nddrcss will be that of Edwin E. Sparks, president of Pennsyl vania State College. It will be followed by the presentation of the poi trait of Doctor Conwell. by Francis Chapman, dean of the Temple University Law School. Samuel M. Clement, Jr., will ac cept tho portrait for the board of trustees and It will be hung later In the forum of the university. Tho nrtlst, Leopold G. Seyffcrt, will then be Introduced by Dr. Thomas H, Fcnton, icprcsentlng tho Art Club. Thoddcua Rich, dean of the music department ot the university, will play two selections on tho violin, and the de grees will bo conferred. Doctor Con wellV address wilt close the speaking program. At the Founder's Day dinner nt Templo University last night 600 guests of tho Institution heard Doctor Conwell protest that he should not be Idolized as "great." "Do not consider me a groat man," he said. "Do not take mo out of your hearts and put me on a pedestal a man apart from you. In npltc of wlint people now say of me, let mo continue as your friend, a member of this large family. In the Christian church one never looks up nt a man: ho looks him squarely in tho ee. "Unless you treat me as a man and one of you, when you carry my body from this church a few years from tonight you will have a hard time to find a successor ns pastor of thla church and president of Templo University. No one will be will ing to attempt to nil tho shoes of one called 'great.' " At another point In his nddrcss Doctor Conwell divulged that his Ideal of edu cational development hi thl3 city would be to liavo a university In every wnrd. In order that the poor working boys nnd girls might have the same opportunities ns have the fortunato few who no to the big universities. "Put your university where the student can get to It easily, whero It Is a neigh borhood affair," ho said, "where. If a boy or" girl la compelled to work part ot the day, he or she may yet attend class es and work, for a degree: whero recita tions can be arranged to suit the conve nience of those for whom the university Is established; where higher education, bo It academic, professional or commercial, can be obtained at a minimum cost of time, money and physical energy, "This thing can bo done, and It will be done," said Doctor Conwell. "It Is part of the program of the larger Temple Uni versity, and I cart see Its accomplishment In the Immediate future. The university Is coming to a point where It will bo self- supporting. The property Is Increasing in value. The classes are getting larger each year. We are doing a big work of ex tension. "More than 3000 pupils, young nnd old. are enrolled in our classes. The Institu tion Is coming Into close touch with tho public schools, and 400 teachers are studying- for degrees In our classes, many of which meet In public schools for the con venience of teachers. The plan which we contemplate Is bIiti ply carrying this work to Its logical con clusion." Doctor Conwell also told something ot his own life and experiences. "I -worked my way through Yale Uni versity." he said, "and I have never for gotten It. My brother and I worked from ? (n the morning until 8 o'clock In the hotel to ge( pur meals, which consisted ot What was left over from the guests' tcblea, I made up my mind then that If I eyitr got a chance I would help students who were situated as we were. We had lew clothes, we couldn't Join any clubs, V couldn't go around with the students. We were Jut ground down by poverty, and I know what that means to a student." LIFE OF JAPANESE WOSIAN Looked Upon as a Creature of and for thejlome Only The- Japanese woman exists primarily for and In the family. We still adhere to the old way of thinking that her pat. vral habitat Is the home, and that her ap) pearnnc at the polls Is as unnatural as on tha battlefield lt It be far from me to gv Bin Jmpresalbn. already too prevalent iibroswl and at home, that we look upon W4tuei only aa cj In the machinery of He kltrtien or as mere puppeta and orna-rn,tru- In the parlor writes Doctor Nltrobe in 'the Jajaii5n Nation. Thi- purtu-nalib of the fair sex is not aa t4Kr;v rvognizad araonff us as It ought totr. but I am confident that It will pome with morn gtnerp.1 enlightenment of pub in. x4.ieni-e As it w at prekent, the Bint of fetnal education la to make "a (food 1C t,d w's mother." a stereo jiitif nJubjv,'i;h 'in the tip of ail educa taxn a- (J uf tli- (uuios. circuiueoribJnir the m & 'i "t wwutii's life. Aot'-jrdirg 1 603 toltES OP PAVED STREETS IN 28 THIRD-CLASS CITIES Statistics Show Big Increnso In tho Construction HAnniSBUna, Feb. l$.-TwcnlyelRht umes oi mo mird cinss in the stnto have a tolnl of 603.50 miles of paved streets. This Is nn nvcrago of 21 fiS miles lo ench city, which shows n big Increase In road construction nnd the lapld elimination of the old mud roads. Fifteen cities have constructed their roads with brick on a concrete base at n cost ranging from $1.15 to $2.60 n square yard, while two have vitrified block nhd asphalt, the cost of which does not nppcar In the paving stn tistlca, and four arc tiling sheet asphalt at a cost of ll.SS to $2.00 a square yard The cities with their mileage of paved streets nrc: ItsrrlFbur T4 70 Krte its W'llkn.narro ....in Altoonu 44 -,0 Johnstown 42.n McKtesport . .. .1.1.1,1 New Cattle ,10 ChMle r .10 nrsdferit 14 171 ronnellMllle 11 72 leaver Polls 10.1 Tltulllc 10.1 rrnnklln I'.l Cation RS8 ritteton T l-ancnstrr T till ttnlj. 7 nifrniown ... .. ,1(1 itrRumff ,. OH city . Mnulvlllo 21. Ml .Mnncnriihein Cllv fl.RT 21 MnilPton S 1" . Corry . 4 874 Vork IS. fit 14 07 Cnrbonrtftle leLnnon Williams port 4.WI 23 ROOT INDORSED FOR PRESIDENCY, THEN PUT ASIDE New York Convention Res olutions Committee Changes Its Attitude DEPEW PRAISES SPEECH Calls Former Senator's Address Greatest Campaign Keynote He Has Heard in 60 Years NEV YORK, Feb. 16. Elihu Root was this afternoon denied the indorse ment of New York Slate Republicans for the presidential nomination in the report of the Resolutions Committee to the State convention. NEW OnK, Feh. 16. Ily a vote of .10 to 8 tho Committee on Resolutions re fused to Incorporate In tho main platform nn Indorsement of Governor Charles S. Whitman. Tho Itcrolutlons committee ndoptcd n secondary planlt Indorsing the Whitman administration. The vote was 3G to S. Tho committee nls oadopted a resolu tion advocating tho nomination of Kllhu Hoot for President of the United ntntcs. It was .aid that this resolution would not hind tho dolcKntes to ho Sent to the Chl cbro convention. On n motion for reconsideration tho resolution Indorsing Jlr. Hoot wan thrown out hy unanimous vote. WAUSWOUTH IS CHAIIt.MAN' Former Senator Hoot, temporary clmlr man. called the convention tn oidcr nt 12:45. Seu.vor James W. Wmlnworth was elected permanent chairman by nc clnmatlon. Whllo tho convention waited for the committee to report Chnuncey Depcw camo onto the stage and wni called on for a speech by tho convention. He declared Hoot's nddrcss of Inst night tho greatest Republican keynote speech he had ever heard In f,0 rars or political nctlvlty. He wanted to Itnow why( Colonel Ifouso was went abroad. ;'j"Bhoy say he carried the atmosphere of the White House to our diplomats. He undoubtedly released it from steel cap sules and they round It perfumed with ornngo blossoms. "Wo are cntcilng the most Important campaign since ISO) with our platform prepared for us by the greatest living statesman In America Ellhu Itoot." MAYOR'S FIRST VETO WILL OPPOSE SALARY BOOSTS Will Approve Three New Jobs Homo for Indigent nt Salary Increnses nsked bv city depatt ment heads for men' in their employ will get their first real Jolt tomorrow when Mayor Smith sends to Councils his first veto-which will nrfect a bill providing for Increases In tho ollk-o of Recorder of Deeds Hnalett. Although theso Increases affect only minor employes and tho amount Involved Is insignificant, tho ac tion Indicates tho Mayor's determination to refuso consent to boosts In tho pay roll. At the same time the Mayor places himself on record as opposed to salary Increases ho will approve a. new position providing for a chief engineer of tho Home for the Indigent nt J1200 and two assistants at J1000 each, as welt as a property clerk and paymaster for tho department of Whurves, Docks nnd Fer ries, nt MW. Ho will also approve an Increase in the police force. If It Is possible to obtain the money by n Councllmnnlc lonn. Speaking of his first veto the Mayor said "I realize If I woro to sanction these Increases it would he opening the door to ull slmlllar eases which may como along or which are now In Councils awaiting action." When asked why he approved of new postlons at tho Homo for Indigent he said "I allowed these positions because I found upon Investiga tion that each of them Is absolutely neces sary and that the servlro would be hampered without them. All these posl ttons have been needed for some time." Dritain Commandeers AH Grain LONDON, Feb. 16 The Central News Agency announced today mat the Hrltlsh Government was commandeering all grain and that the distilleries In Great Hrltaln and Ireland would bo nationally con trolled. Master Builders "Get Together The Master Builders' Exchange will hold a "get together" meeting tonight at the Exchange. 7th street below Market. Many of the 2000 members secured In the recent campaign will be present. jRlch Ricnardi manac ANOTHER FEDERAL JURY BEGINS SLUSH FUND INQUIRY President of Brewers' Asso . ciation First Witness Called SEARCH FOR MULVIHILL PITTSBURGH. Feb. 1G. United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes foiccd tho Issue In tho Federal Grand Jury probe at noon today, when, after nn nppeal wns taken by the brewers to the United States Circuit Couit of Appeals from tho de cision of tho district court, ho summoned tho first subpoenaed witness before tho Grand Jury and launched tho Govern ment's Inquiry. Charles V. Klschler, ex-Mayor of old Allegheny nnd president of tho Brewers' Association ot Western Pennsylvania, was taken Into the Gland Jury room a few minutes after noon. Tho Federal prorccutor will also call the two other subpoena-.-d I'lttf burghers, ' Charles F. Fisher, treasurer, una n. a. Mason, terrctary of tho Brewers' Associa tion of Western Pennsylvania. Deputy Marshals were out i.earrhlug for James P. Mill vlli ill, vice pie.sldent of the Independent Browing Company, an en tirely new witness. Tho formal opening of the Grand Jury Inquiry rapped tho climax In a morning of exciting events. Judge Joseph nufflngton, Just before noon, snld he would endeavor to got his colleagues together for a mooting of the United States Clicult Couit of Appeals tomorrow morning nt ID o'clock In Phila delphia to hear arguments of counsel for the hiewery Interests for nn appeal from tpn decision ycsteidny of Judqo W. If. S. Thomson in tho Unltud States District Court. Judge Burlington, however, refused to In tel fcio to stop tho Grand Jury probe pend ing hearing of the appeal. Attorney Gcoigo Shaw, ot Bced, Smith, Shaw & Ileal, nt the brief session In Judge Burlington's chambers, first suggested to Humes thnt matters icmain In "status quo" pending tho result of tho nppeal. Humes merely smiled. Mr. Shaw then renewed tho effort before Judge Ilufflngton, and Humoa stienu ously opposed It. "Tho questions on which nn appeal Is taken affect only a small part of tho sub poenas," said the Federal prosecutor, add ing: "This Is another moo for delay, purely and simply." Judge Buffington declined to Interfere. In tho brief nrgument to get the case before Judge Ilufflngton, who Informed tho lawyers he would not attempt to net befoio the matter camo before the full court. Prosecutor Humes Insisted that tho points raised on Judge Thompson's decision wero not nppealnble. Ho mado Just ono citation, a. caso In which tho Circuit Court, with Judge Buffington sit ting had granted, ho claimed, an appeal "on all fours with this case," nnd was reversed In the Supremo Court of the United States. He added that the Thomson decision, nn Interlocutory order, as such was not appealable or subject to a writ. Prosecutor Humes aroused Judge But fington's iro when, over vigorous protests of Attorneys Shaw and H. P. Tull he said that counsel for the brewers came before Judge Buffington only nfetr they became convinced they could not Induce Judgo Thomson to grnnt a writ of error. If that was the state of affairs, Judgo Buffington said, ho felt counsel owed him nn explanation, as ho had been given to understand counsel came before him at the suggestion of Judge Thomson. "We are hero at Judgo Thomson's sug gestion," Attorney Shaw Insisted. Tho United States Circuit Court of Ap peals, which will decide whether counsol for brewery associations shall be grant ed an uppeal from the Government's method in the Federal Orand Judy probo of campaign contributions, Is composed of Judges Victor B. Woolley, Joseph Buf fington un John B. McPherson. Powder Co. Recruits Drivers Here Drivers for tho Pennsgrove powder plant of E. I. du Pont-de Nemours & Co. are being recruited In this city, Fifty men were taken to Pennsgrove today by John MacNamcc, agent for the company, and GO drivers were "signed" and sent to the powder town yesterday. The men are be ing recruited at sales stables In West Philadelphia. "Silver - tongued orators fail to convince a deaf audience. Advertise yqur wares to a wide-awake audience who are eager to hear what you have to say," saith Rich Richard. TRAIN CRASH AT CORNWBLL Japanese Ship Lost; Crew Saved LONDON. Feb. 16. Tho Japanese steamship Kcnkon Mnru, No. 11, bound from Marseilles to Baltimore, foundered In n storm In the Atlantic. Her crow was landed nt Plymouth today. P ' n i The Ladies' HOME JOURNAL 1 Ttjq ntirar f -n-. Tho locomotive of a fnat freight bound for this city plUriged into a string of four Btecl cars nt Cornwalls, on tho Pennsylvania Railroad, today, blocltinjr traffic to New York, This Is the third wreck at this noint since November. Fire Damages Munich Brewery MUNICH, Bavaria. Feb. 18. Munich's greatest brewery, tho Ixnvcn Brnuorel, was badly damaged by fire today. A storehouse containing fJO.000 worth of hops was also destroyed. The women of America are not spending two million and six hundred thousand dollars every year buying a magazine that doesn't satisfy them. They are too careful spenders for that That's a good deal of money for women to hand over to one magazine. But they do it. Why? Because of the very simple fact that they want this particular magazine and are willing to give up their money, for it No other reason could exist That is the answer and back of the answer lies American womanhood's over two million and a half of dollars. It is a convincing answer and it lies in any issue you may buy of ALL OF LIFE'S SUNSHINE LEAVES BLIND MAN WHEN WIFE IS Klhtm Daughters Too Young to Work for Him Son VhJ Was Auto Victim The only sunshine which remained In the life of Joseph Wolk hnB been taken from him by the tragic death of his wife, wary. Welk Is blind nnd nt hln home, 240 Slcgcl street, he sat with bowed hend to dny as his 15-year-old daughter, Iteglnn, tried to cheer him Sho cannot work to support her father, on account of her ago. Tho heartbroken man Is now solely de pendent upon his son, Joseph, 1G years old, who earns U a week In nn Iron foun dry. Carollno, another daughter, who Is C years old, has Just started to school. Tho Wclk home Is neat and clean, but the hand of poverty Is nppnrent. The man cannot rcailio thnt his wife Is dead. He has been sitting constantly beside the little plno box In which her body Ilea. It waa taken home yesteiday after Bhe had been struck by a motor truck at Broad street nnd Falrmount avenue. Trouble hns pursued Wclk ever since ho lost his sight 18 years ago. For a time ho tried to make a living as a huckster. Ho thought his nrtllctlon would bo tho means of bringing him trade. But In stead of sympathy, many of his custom ers, he said, chented him nt every oppor- I tuntty, and finally he wns obliged to give it up. "Mary nnd I weto childhood swoot rearts," ho said, "but wo became es tranged for a time and I married another woman. Two children wero born to us, and they nro with mo now. Iirtter on, Mnry nnd I mot ngaln, but I wan blind. Sho proved her loyalty by marrying mo dcsplto my affliction, Thnt was eight years nao. Two yenrs lator llttlo Carollno was born. I hnvo n few dollars, but debt will soon oxhoust tho llttlo fund. I hato to think ot what might happen nfter that." Wclk said he had n brother, but did not expect any old from him, because he, areful fnn. hns I.,,......... . ,. . " "",hu wnicn ,..,.-. ,, sources. i "ai " rt i For many yoaw his wife M, I no iiiri nappy m t16 (,,. .VW was ablo to make sacrifices 1 !' tti she loved. ccs for " Jnsl A few Weeks ago sho lnt , . , 1 and eho waa on the wav . .il.P01 terdny when death ended her n i.I V.i brought the llttlo fftmy almost $M verge of destitution. "'most to hfi WOMAN FATALLY BDBVRn. I'OUREDflASOUNEoxVtnj Her Children Wero Awaiting Lt, , Hearing j Mrs. Lena Belakof, Tn Mercy . mothor of four children. oti.JL.. hurry preparations for their luncheon k! pouring .gasoline on the kitchen a Thcro wns nn explosion nnd the mm was enveloped In flames frnm i.. . , ! foot saq ty Sho had tho presence of mind to m,.s A baby carriage, contnlnit,,, i." pu . baby out of tho way of the flro and h?. alio ran screaming to tho streot. TiVr.iT! o'" ?NM Of their motbor fnnrlnr, (,. V .."" lh irti nralv,n,l n, i.n. . ... "u?" ." room imntiyzcn ino cutliiren. un tii. " . """ yenrs old. followed her. ", l) Mrs. Belakof flung herself In th . nnd tho child helped to extlnihiTH I llamcs. Later tho woman was u!.n 1 tho St. Agnes' Hospital by Dr. LeoJ.Ij Averett, who wns passing at tha Hm.1 A summoned nn ambulance. At th , k. S pltal It was said that tho woman could 3 r survlvo her Injuries. wa m K i r- ti ami MwtbM, Uuti wowa (a to be i
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