, j jw?ips y "idf Tjf-nwTi4-S7W'WSfWR uWBRjfftCTUP?! Vwtt -nnrni. -, WMtn& 6tt-& :?' H I m c 1 O a I vlt-- ' MATE LEADERS TO HASTEN DELAYED FPr.rer ATni?wni?if . , yniy une am or Major lmpor &i . stance Has Been Passed in vt Three Months of Session U' ?.fyWtO METHODS FOR SPEED Tlottf Added to Meeting Time, and De bate Limited Night Sittings In Prospect Jk.J "WASHINGTON, Mnrcli 8. The Senate having passed only one bill of major Im portance In three months of session. Ad ministration leaders today took Btcps to hUrry the program along. Adding another hour to the Senate's meeting time nnd limiting debate were two means employed. Tho latter procosi its brought about, despite Senate rules, by .'moving to table certain amendments to tho Shields wntcrpowcr bill. Where the amendment has only a few friends this has been successful. Among Important Administration meas ures not yet oven Introduced nro: Sh'P purchase bill, naval program bill, tariff commission bill nnd tho whole finan cial program, Including expected Income tax amendments and special taxes, to pay extra cost of preparedness. Dills not yot far advanced on the calen dar arc: Conservation bills, army prnparedness bills, rural credits nnd tho Government 'armtfr' plato bill. When the Shields bill Is disposed of this ytttX Senators Tillman nnd Myers will line up for a" fight to see whether the armor plato bill or Myers' substitute for the Ferris conservation bill shall have next place. Shields was reminded by Leader Kern yesterday that he had had more than a month for the passage of his bill and that tlmo was valuable. He gave notlco of ashing night sessions unless speedier progress was made. Senator La Folletto has Just arrived here with a half dozen amendments, which may delay the llll a week or 10 days more. House leaders today framed their future legislative program. Tho first Important project Is the repeal of the free sug.ir schedule of the Wilson-Underwood tarlfT act Leader Kltchln said ho expected to brine: up the sugar resolution In tho House tomorrow and spend the entire dny In de bate, nnd pass It before adjournment. A day of political debate was expected with virtually unanimous support for tho re peal resolution nt tho finish. "Whether the Houses will next tako up tho army preparedness bill, tho annual ag ricultural budget or tho Immigration measure Is doubtful. Chairmen of all three committees were working for first placo on the calendar. BERLIN EXPLAINS REASON FOR U-BOAT DECREE Continued from Tago Ono yet been regulated by International law and. In doing so, could nnd did not vlolato any existing rules, but only took Into account tho peculiarity of this new weapon, tho submarine boat. aU, ALSO WARNED NEUTRALS. "The use of tho submarine naturally necessitated a restriction of the move- ! ments of tho neutrals and constituted a ! danger for them which Germany Intended to ward off by a complete warning analo gous to the warning England had given regarding the North Sea. "As both, belligerents Germany In her note of February 17 and Great Britain In those of February 18 and 20. 191B claimed that their proceeding was only enacieu in retanntlon of the violation of International law by their opponents, the American government npproached both parties for the purpose of trying to re establish international law as It had been ln force before the war. "Germany was asked to adapt tho use of her now weapon to tho rules which had been existing for the former naval weapons and England not to Interfere with the food supplies Intended for the non combatant German population and to ad mit their distribution under American su pervision. Germany, on March 1, 1915, declared her willingness to comply with tho proposal of tho American Govern ment, while England, on tho other hand, declined to do so. Dy the Order ln Coun cil of March 11, 1915, Great Britain abolished even what had remained of tho freedom of neutral trade with Germany and her neutral neighbors. England's ob ject was to starve Germany Into submis sion, by these Illegal means. "Germany, after neutral citizens had lost their lives against tho wish and In tention, nevertheless In the further course of the war complied with tho wishes of tho American Government rgardlng the use of her submarines. The rights of neutrals regarding legal trading were, In fact nowhere limited by Germany, BRITISH ARMED LINERS. "Then England made It lmposslblo for submarines to conform with the old rules of International law by arming nearly all merchantmen and by ordering the use of guns on merchant vessels for attack. Photographic reproductions of these in- ? tractions have been transmitted to neu ral Governments, with the memorandum of the Qermau Government of February S. 1016. "These orders are obviously In contra diction with the note delivered by the British Ambassador in Washington to the. American Government on August 25, 1914, On account of tho proposals, made by the United States on January 23, 1916, regarding disarmaments the Imperial Government hoped that these facts would enable tho neutral Governments to obtain the disarmament of the merchant ships of her opponents. The latter, however, con tinued with great energy to arm their merchantmen with guns." Today Is the eighth day since the new German edict regarding armed liners has been operative. Although a number of enemy vessels have been torpedoed, no American lives have been lost through U-boat attacks since March 1, and so far a Is known no Americans have been on any of the victim vessels. LOCAL OPTION WINS OVER PROHIBITION IN VERMONT Only One County in Favor of Re- 2 enacting Amendment BDTLAND, Vt. March 8. Local option won over prohibition In this State yester day by ft marglp of J3.161 votes, The prohibitory amendment was first placed on the statute books In 1852 and was repealed In 1903 by a majority of 739 The vote on the question of ra-cnactiDg the. amendment was Tea, 18.603 . no. 31.657. Every county in the State, wth the ex cbUoj of Orleans, gave a majority In favor of local option. Tfca proposed amendment had been passed by the last Legislature and sub mitted to the people in a referendum. Tho result of the vote was a surprise, not only to the Prohibitory Campaign Committee And tha Antlsaloon League, but also to tha local option leader, who. said they it&CL tit looked fur eo decisive a victory The State- vottd for direct primary elec tions t a. 1 1 t at le TUe ytem, will K'' into (fi-i fur the selection et dle-mx-m tj tlw titlunal CgntfuWon tht . , ,, iff" . ,. I; -Mr i Afr. rhoto by Evans studio. MISS CATIIERINE'C. CASSARD SOCIETY GIRL BURNED AS STRAY MATCH FIRES FLIMSY DANCE FROCK Miss Catherine C. Cassard in Serius Condition From Acci dent at Dinner Just Before Big Masque Ball RESCUER ALSO INJURED Miss Catherine Cooper Casiard, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hnrry Llpplncott Cas sard, of 336 Pclham road, Ocrmantown, Is In a dangerous condition at the Uni versity Hospital, tho result of burns re ceived nt a dinner last night preceding tho rial Masque, society's farewell fling bo foro Lent. Her head, face, shoulders, nnns and body wero badly burned when a, flying match head which some ono had scratched caused her flimsy whlto "Snow ball" costumo to fiaro up. The accident occurred In the home of Mr. nnd Mrs. Edwin K. Sparks, 127 South 23d street, whero tho dinner was given. Tho pretty brunette hnlr which lent much to Miss Cassnrd's charm, was virtually all burned away. Her friends are alarmed at Miss Cas- sard's condition No Improvement during the night was reported. Dr. George Ross nnd Dr. David Farley are In attendance. Albert II Kennedy. Jr., of 2203 Wal nut street, who probably saved Mist CaH sard from fatal burns. Is recovering to day from hurts of the hands which he received when ho extinguished tho blaz ing tulle of her costume with heavy cur tains wnicn ne Mintcnca rrom a doorway. The party, laughing and chatting, had Just entered tho drawing room nftcr din ner preparatory to leaving for Hortlcul- I tural Hall, when some ono scratched n j match, presumably to light a cigarette. J Tho match broke and tho blazing head new into .miss unssard b lap. Her costumo "area up at once, onvnloplng the upper parl of llcr body ln "ames After thoy wero extinguished Dr fs. A. Knowles and ! Dr. William Campbell Pnsey wero sum moned. Sho was hurried to the hospital. The party was chaperoned by Mr. nnd Mrs. E. Spencer Miller, 3d, in the Illness of Mr. Sparks and the absence of Mrs. Sparks. Others In tho dinner party wero C. Aplln Sparks, Miss Dorothy Frlck, of Baltimore, and Miss Sophlo Beauveau Norrls. Miss Cassard, who Is known for her Individual type of beauty and good danc ing, was one of tho most popular debu tantes two years ago. Her brother, Ed ward J. Cassard, Is a widely known tennis player. BIG CHEMICAL PLANT BLOWN TO ATOMS Continued from 1'ukc One and he was forced to abandon his onlco. Officials nnd firemen crouched behind other buildings, powerlebs to throw water on tho flames. Doctor Carvath said he had been mak ing sodium peroxide for a number of years, and after talking with his chem ists came to the conclusion that last night's fire was not tho result of an acci dent. He states also that all the men In the building at tho time have been accounted for with one dead and ono seriously Injured. BLAST ON BLAST. The fire started with a terrific ex plosion that rocked the entire city as by an earthquake. Other explosions of even greater vlo Icnce to the number of 12 or 15 fol lowed, nnd tho pcro:.ld. plant was liter ally blown to atoms. The plant In which the explosions oc curred contained apparatus for the manu facture of a large percentage of tho chloroform used In the United States. Enormous quantities of peroxide of hv. arogen are niso manufactured there, .. i ne building, of brick nnd steel construction, about 300 by 75 feet In dimension, was demolished. The first explosion shot the slate-covered Bteel arch roof, with its massive g'M i- ion f(.ct In the a.r and landed It several hundred feet nway, In another section of the plant's yard, CARS BOWLED OVER A string of freight cars standing on a Biding two blocks away was bowled over, while one of the huge electrlo hauling locomotives of the Niagara Falls Junction Railway was wrecked. Steel tanks, about 20 by 15 feet di mensions, were shot through a 3-foot solid brick wall like projectiles and sank In the Niagara niver, some 100 yards dis tant. Machinery of every description lies heaped in tangled and twisted masses In various parts of the yard, f The plant manufactures nitrates n. Jjy.product. which are delivered to the various powder companies working war orders. It is also understood they have Immense direct war orders. jjiach menardfc-pj manacg EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH DR. GARBER OPPOSES MILITARY EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Superintendent Fears Plan Would Hinder Legitimate Work of Preparing Youth for Citizenship CONSCIENCE A FACTOR Opposition to military training ns part of nubile school education Is expressed UL IIUU1IC SCIIOOI CUUl.lUun in t-AlJlt.not.il by Dr. John I. Onrbcr, superintendent of schools of this city. In n written opinion sent to Congressman John H. K. Scott today, Mr. Scott Introduced a resolution In Congrcii Rovernl days ago providing for the crcntlnn of a subcommittee of tho Joint Committee on Mllltnry Affairs, to study the question nnd determlno tho nd vlsablllty of enforcing mllltnry training In schools throughout tho nation Subse quently. Mr Scott wroto to Doctor Clnrber, asking for his opinion on tho subject. Tho opinion follows: "Although I fully recognize tho right of tho Stale to prepare Its young citizens to defend It from Injustice nnd a dis honored place In tho family of nations, I do not bollevo that direct and Compulsory military training should bo Introduced Into our public schools. In my Judgment mllltnry training Is n very technical mat ter and represents only a small part of what the schools should be doing ln the way of preparation for American citi zenship. Our best work for training young peoplo for this citizenship Is ac complished If wo tnako them as phys ically fit ns possible, not only for ready training for defence, but also for contrib uting In full measure to tho economic, civic nnd social welfare of tho State, "Tho completo physical preparation of young neoiilo for this broader Idea of American citizenship embodies all such things as a thorough building-up process to dovelop vigor and endurance ln tho body, such ns co-ordination of nerves and mus cles ns makes the body respond almost automatically to the word of command, nbundnnt training In group nctlvlties and group contests nnd certain forms of mass activities all of which should servo to furnish nn excellent foundation for mlll tnry or any other form of special activ ity. "Rifle practice, summer camp's for ex perience In out-of-door life, trench digging nnd mllltnry evolutions, tho use of uni forms and such things, I bollevo should be entirely voluntary matters, thrown open as wldoly and with as many Induce ments ns tho nation deems It wise to offer. "It should be added that the public schools are tho people's schools, represent ing all types of Interests and beliefs, and, therefore, while wo should give and re quire all that makes the pupils of these schools physically fit, we need not and should not enter upon the mora technical lines of military training that would bo an offense to many of tho patrons of tho schools who have really conscientious scruples In tho matter. "The pupils of the public schools nro practically all under 18 yearn of ngc and not sufficiently well dc eloped for the hard work involved in direct military training. Thoy would, therefore, profit more by be ing required to take proper courses in phy sical exercises during their school life. If, however, summer camp work and riflo practice should be deemed advisable, I havo no doubt that, even ns a voluntary matter, many would elect to tako them." SUFFRAGE VICTORY IN 5 YEARS, FORECAST Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, at Harrisburg, Spurs on Workers in Cause HARRISBURG, March 8. AVI "vo years every womnn In the Unit s will have the ballot If they per.M r- ously enough In their campaigns, saia .ilrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Natlonnl Suffrage Association. The expected debate over rules failed to matcrlallzo nnd most of the morning was I given over to nn nddrcss by Sirs. Catt, : who urged the suffragists to try for both tho adoption of a Federal amendment nnd the passage of suffingo acts by the sev eral States. However, Mrs. Catt urged Immediate action looking toward a suf frage amendment to the National Consti tution. "Tho first thing to do," she said, "is to get your map and learn where your Con gressman lives. Then bo sure there Is a miff ii Ko organlnztlon there nnd get the f i lends and relatives of the Congressman to join " The speaker Intimated that she thought this pressure eventually would have tho desired effect on the Congressman's suf frago views. Sued for False Credit Inventory Giving a false Inventory of their busi ness to the R. G. Dun Mercantile Agency, for the purpose of obtaining credit, Is charged in a suit of tho American Wool en Company, of New York, brought In Court of Common Pleas No, 1 today against Rehl & Bender, cloak manufac turers, 25 South 6th street. The company RAnlru in rpcnwr S9DQR RK with lntrttt for goods Bold and delivered to tho de " .-.... ,---- --, fendants In 1914. The plaintiff company alleges the figures given out to Dun's wero false. Emmet Celebration i di:m of music tiwr-rluy l',ve . Murc-li 0 UMKT fi:i,i:ilK.VTIUN Muale Sotlb-s Hpveches. inn pictures or O'Dono u i8ea funeral In Dublin. k. la Sr rents to II, ! Ti'H Spruco street. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION HKr.1' WANTHH FKMALE FILING, office work and atenosrachy; mint hate experience, otherwise du not apply. O 533 Leiluer Central. 1IKLP WANTED MAI.B UOnlNO MIL!. Lathe and planer hands wanted, steady work Apply Wheeler Con. denser and Hnelneerlng Co., Carteret. N. J. Other Clunlfled Ads on Pates 17. IS und IB FEEBLE MINDEDNESS EXHIMT WILL END SESSION TONIGHT Expect 100,000 Attendance Mark Will Do Reached Today Jt Is expected tho 100,000 attendance mark will bo reached tonight, when tho doors nt the nxhlblt on Feeble-Minded-ncss. In tho Wldcner Building, Cnestnut and Juniper streets, held under tho au spices of tho Public Charities Association, are closed at t o'clock. This afternoon a band concert will be given by the 28 young people, all Inmates of tho Pennsylvania Training School for Feohle-Mlnded, nt DJwyn. Tho concert begins nt 4:30. It Is the first tlmo tho j band has ever appeared In this city. I Tomorow night the two weeks' cam- I"1'?" wl". c.?" ,1 " fl"rv.Lc,0St wltI' 1 "pccim meeting in wio Clover uoom oi . tl1tnt.,i.CJ(l-nfnfrt wlinn knu.l... ...Ill the Bellevue-Stratford, when speeches will he mado by Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, New York, of tho National Commlttoe for Men tal Hygiene, on "Tho National Feeble Mlndedness" nnd f .orgo W. Klrchwey, whoso subject Is 'Tho Now Spirit nt Sing Sing." Mr. Klrchwey Is dean of tho Co lumbia Law School and acting wardon at Sing Sing, following Thomas Mott Osborne. HYMEN FROWNS ON YOUTH Young Mnn Applies in Vnin Llconso nt Elkton for ELKTON, Md., March 8. Nine of tho ten couples who applied for marriage licenses In Elkton this morning were granted 'the permits. Tho tenth pair, Francis Ochs nnd Harriet K. Wallace, Lykens, Pa., were refused owing to tho prospective bridegroom not being of oge. Thoso receiving licenses woro: Martin It. Vanderpot nnd Lena M. Cnmble. John 13. Dorsey nnd Agnes V. Prommer, William J. King nnd Helen C. Koenan and Kttono Mnnfredl nnd Car tncla Buonomo, nil of Philadelphia ; John J. O'Kourke nnd Mnrlo Snyder, Pottsvlllo ; Lawrence A. Martin and Laura Dcppe, Berwick ; Robert D. Shocklor nnd Luella A. Sheckler, Lchlghton, Pa. ; Tony Reco kctt nnd Grace Mnrtlno, Trenton, N. J. ; Day Fisher, Penn Hill, Pa., and Ollvo C. Trimble. Pilot, Md. LEADERS OF FINANCE PROTECTED BY NETS Steel Bomb - Proof Devices Placed on Skyscrapers in N. Y. Money District NEW YORK. March 8. Threats of would-bo nssasslns nnd bomb plotters have terrorised New York's millionaires. These financial leaders nro spending thousands of dollars a day to protect tholr lives, their wives nnd children nnd their prop erty. It was learned horo today. Lower New York, particularly Wall street, Is honeycombed today with high priced "shadows," both men nnd women, who "dog" tho footsteps of such men ns Daniel G Reld, Elbert H. Gary, Vincent Astor, Henry Clews, Charles M. Schwab, Henry C. Frlck and others, day nnd night. Not only Is ovory moe of these men and tholr fnmlllos closely guarded con ntnntlv. but residences, skyscrapers In tho financial district and tho winter nnd country homes or tlie wcaitny insnion nbles nro nrmorod with closely woven, bomb-proof steel nets upon tho roofs. Two trim little women, apparently bustling along the Btrcets on business of their own, laughing nnd chatting soclnl small talk, look llko the wives of pros perous business men. Theso two women nro watching cvory one about them closely. Inside tho muffs they dangle so carelessly aro bluo black nutomntlcs, nnd never more than 20 feet from them Is Henry C. Frlck, tho steel baron. Theso women watch every move Frlck makes. Apparently frail little crenturcs they aro In reality, two bundles of Iron muscles, ablo to copo with n. inoro than ordinal lly husky bruiser, With this pair and tho men shadows ho employs, both In Now York and Pitts burgh, ns a personal guard, nnd tho others ho keeps to protect his property, Frlck's nntlmurder-nnd-bomb net costs him sev eral hundred dollars a week. Tho most comprehensive and expensive scheme of protection Is that employed by J, P. Morgan. Ho has built up his system of defense only since ho was shot at Glen W syB -S&pr 30,000 houses have actually been built from Ladies' Home Journal plans. And this number is several thousand shy of the actual total. There was a time when builders and architects said: "Ladies' Home Journal houses look nice in the pictures, but they aren't practical." But that was 20 years ago. Now the 30,000 houses actually standing prove the contrary, until one leading architectural authority was recently forced to say: "I have no hesitation in saying that The Ladies' Home Journal has had more influence in bettering domestic architecture than any other single modern agency." It is a record for a magazine to put 30,000 houses on the ground, and it has been done by the most careful selection and because people have had confidence in us. And every month we print more and better house designs. Have you ever seen them ? Just buy a copy of ftiT-1-ls.iiii'" he Ladies' Ms only IJ) cents 8, 1916, Cove. Prior to tho attempt to murder him Morgan laughed at tho Idea of any ono "getting'' him. Encasing tho roof of tho Mills Building, next to tho Morgan Building, In lower Now York1, Is n masslvo stoel net which cost Morgan fS000 Another $5000 steel web encases tho roof of tho Morgan Building. Tho Mills Building not was put up so bombers could not hurl explosives from Us roof, $1,000,000 RIPARIAN GRANT TO LEHIGH VALLEY VOID N. J. Appeals Court Nullifies Convey ance of Morris Canal Basin TRENTON, Mnrch 8. Sustaining Vlco Chancellor Stevens tho Court of Errors nnd Appeals today decided to bo null nnd void tho riparian grant of 1880 to the Lehigh Vnlloy Railroad Company of the big basin nt tho mouth of Morris Canal In Jersey City. Tho decision Is a great victory for the State, which prosecuted tho case. , Other claims for tho property are still held by tho railroad, and the court said It was unwise and unnecessary now to pass upon tho effect of tho net of 1801 giving tho Morris Canal and Banking Company the right to lease tho proporty In per petuity to tho Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Under tho opinion of tho Errors Court, which was written by Chlof Justlco Gum mere, tho conveyance mado July 12, 1889, to tho Lehigh Valley of tho Tldowntor banln Is affected. Tho basin Is near Now York harbor and is worth millions of dol lars. Tho rnllroad claimed tho right to mako fills nnd other chnngos. Only $40,000 will havo to bo roturncd by tho Stnto, tho consideration ln the riparian grant. Du Pont Workman Shot Peter Domnncco, 18 years old, of Ponns grove, Is In tho Cooper Hospltnl, Cnnulon, suffering from a bullet wound In his right leg. Tho youth was shot by nn unidenti fied assailant nt a lonely spot near tho du Pont Powder Works, whero ho Is em ployed. He will recover. URNAL HlEADFEAi REACTION AFTER WaI James Hewitt, PhHadetphJl Speakintr at Anni.ni n. m tlon. Urtn TCH READING, Pa March 8.-A ,A " " muwcu with cautln. i W tho unusual stimulus ah-J "tL"w tho European war Is likely in .'" by a discouraging react V h" by James Hewitt, of Phltadi S0UM4 annual address at the ope UngI0hfVh,8.,' annual convention of the p. h. 'H' Now Jersey nnd Delaware "Wj'A Grocers' Association nt th?BtahrhMl tel here today. Mr. Mewltt I. of the association. Th.re was a U?M tendance of members froni H,w ,lI States, their buslncs, lnte?eBU InMI big sugar refineries, etc. nm4m!!. Investment of many millions nt,n Mr. Hewitt referred to th t. . boom that, has been In progrce, .i"', fall. Ho s'poke of the great eooll H been accomplished by hoaTTwl H elation, raying It has olovateti i ii,lr?..rw ?anVro?lcnwrff upbear tho light ,of Vy3 The. addresses of welcome were .A cred by Mayor Filbert nnd D j mS1 president of tho local Chamber or rU merco. Col. Fred Drake, of &.-.' mombor of one of the oltlsat SJ3 groceiy firms In tho State, responds 3 William a Iledfleld, SeorMnrTo Vl merco, will address tho convention V'-J social session tonight. "" Governor Brumbaugh, Congresam.n JJ wait, ot Allentown, Pa. ; Judge Han? Hchaoffer. of Heading, ,nd F" SIM ui rtingaia fans, will ho the epeakeri , i tho annual hannuet Innmrm,. t.i. W'.M' will closo tho convention. ' ' City Bonds Issued i Certificates of purchase of the JM. h 000 municipal bond Issue of Decertb,, ifl 19IB, wero issued today by raw . S troiicr wnlton. Tho bonds are of iiii $500 nnd $1000 denominations. '"! H t f- i "V ita m -5SM, St-MMU -VMWRSBfFS "SSHPft "JSJS.Jm " 'fit rf ap Willi uOJ t3M Mv, mM