EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916
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fjjEifADAY SPENT
Bf SClUJiUUUi unrvr
ifOR ARMY'S SUPPLIES
IctiowI ?!ndlL,,u
Work uvprw o.vUOii.iiB
Needed Materials to Mex
ican Frontier ,
I THOUSANDS OB1 UNIFORMS
S7M Complete Suits and Hundreds of
Tents maao uhuj .w..-...
Praised
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The Schuylkill Arsenal today Is not only
.,nlnc out nrmy equipment to Itn utmost
eitaClty. but has spent un mj ""
, .. ..n 11.O00.000 every day since Juno
jj when the hurry call was received from
Washington.
The Arsenal necr has been busier. The
.mrloyes nro working day nnd nlnht. Lieu
JSt Colonel O It. Tenrose. commandant,
.doom Rets to bed boforo 4 ft. m . nn.l he 1
it M desk before 8 o'clock every morning.
II, expects the rush to continue 'ndenplteljr.
ill tor while his first and Immediate Job.
tot of supplying the troops of the 19 States
Sf dtnot li responsible for. Is finished, prep.
Swii nna hae to bo mndo now for renewals
J3 possible complementary outflttlnss.
Colonel 1'enroso Bald today:
"When the call was made by the Score
Mrv of War It ordered supplies for 100.000
Zn Thli was almost Immediately raised
? J50 000 men The proportion this depot
jui 'had to supply was 70,000 men, npprox
Iroitely. "This haB meant a supply of under and
filter garments, 3hoes, stockings, bed tent
in blankets, -ponchoi. slickers ami reserve
:' n.ni,io thin limt nr or to the
?S for militia, the regular army was
S bed to war strength and the New Mex
ico Arliona and Texas National Guards
laj to bo supplied all by this depot.
SHIfMBNTS BHCJAN JUNE 23.
"Shipments began Juno 23.
Since then woliavo boon averaging ship
ments of 25 to 30 carloads a day. We
Sie been utilizing every wagon and truck
ha express companies could furnish. This
driot has but two railroad spurs running
Into It anu ino minimi i-. - --
n!ch supplies can bd sent Is, naturally.
limited
Wc hao had to mako immediate pur
ehaso In enormous quantities for theso ship
ments Contracts liavo been awarded dally
In excess of a million dollars
'Tho majority of states we havo had to
ripply aro now proldcd for. and we ox
lect to be dono with them all by tho end
cf this week If tho railroads can contlnuo
to take care of tho shipment?, all of which
ire going by express "
WOHKINC FORCn DOUDLED
ino tuii- . . " --
Han doubled In the manufacturing depart
ment, and all the clerks and other cilice
men are working overtime jubi as uuiunei
Penrose Is. An Idea of what the arsenal
Is doing can be gained when It Is considered
that among the things made each day are
tJOO complete uniforms nnd 160 tents.
An Idea of how Colonel Penrose Is pur
chislng things that aren't made at the
arterial Is his order for 400,000 pairs of
ahora yesterday.
Colonel Penrose said It was gratifying
to witness tho loyal mancr In which the
Urn business houses of tho country re
sponded to the calls They canceled foreign
criers, he said, nnd devoted nil their efforts
to supplying the United States Oovern
tsect. No trouble, ho said, was experienced In
jetting promise of Immediate delivery for
such an order as the one for shoes or for
Wieral million yards of cloth for uniforms
or duck for tentage
GIRL HURT WHEN WAGON
HITS PICNICKERS' BUS
SURVIVOR 0E CARRIZAL FiGHT
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AGED SPINSTER DIES;
FRIEND MAY FOLLOW
111 Womah.iLearning of Other's
Death, Hopes to Enter
Eternity
Inseparable through life, two spinsters,
bcth past 70 years old, may enter eternity
ntmost togother. One, Miss Margaret Mc
laughlin, 71 J ears old, Is dead: the other,
Miss Mary Allen, several months younger.
Is Bald to bo dying. Informed today that
her friend of a lifetime had gone, Miss
Allen, In the Presbyterian Hospital, cried
out that death would now bo most welcome
to her.
Tho spinsters Ued for years at BOtli and
Ogden streets, but two yenrs ago they took
up their residence at tho homo of Mrs
AIMn Culver, of 781 North Preston street
Last Thursday. Miss Allen suffered nervous
prostration Miss Mclaughlin helped to ro
move her to the hospital, nnd, to be near
her friend, went to llvo with relatives at
36th and Powelton avenue. Sho became 111
Monday nnd was taken to tho hospital, Iter
room being near that of Miss Allen Sho
died yeslerdny morning
Today a nurse broke tho ncwB to Miss
Allen
"Let mo die now, too," she cried
Miss McLaughlin has n brother In tho
MnBonlc Home, Droad and Tioga Btrccts.
Cuba Urged to Support Mexico
HAVANA. JUnc 28 Hcraldo do Cuba,
edited by Crcstes Ferrara, Speaker of tho
House and pro1' lent In Its anti-American
attitude -,. "Before a happening
of such m igi e. all peoples of tho
American world should protest most sol
emnly Cuba, becauso of her special posi
tion with respect to tho United States,
should be first to pronounco her protest
against the Yankees' nggrenslon "
COLONEL IN NEW V0RK
TO MEET HUGHES
Both Silent on Report of Pros
pective Reconciliation
With Taft
NHW YOtlK. June 28. Colonel Iloosevelt
came to town today to keep his dinner
appointment with Justice Hughes tonight.
Neither the Colonel nor Hughes would dis
cuss a report that efforts were being made
to bring Roosevelt and ex-Presldcnt Taft
together Itepubllcan leaders who called
at Hughes' headquarters during the day
eald they would not he surprised If the
report wcro true.
Frank Hitchcock, who helped corral
Hughes' delegates before tho Chicago con
vention and was prominently mentioned for
tho nntlonnl chairmanship, called on Hughes
today with nn offer of his services.
W It Wlllcox new Republican national
chairman, established headquarters nt the
Hotel Astor In rooms connecting with the
Hughes hendquartcrs.
Says Tcuton3 Arc Growing Weaker
LONDON. June 28. Dr. H J Dillon ap
pears In a fur more optimistic mood on the
war than usual In the current number Of
tho Fortnightly llevlew Ho says Germnny
nnd Austria nre substantially much weaker
than they wcro: their staying powers nro
Impaired , they nro hardly capable of much
longer maintaining nn offensive against
Tranco nnd Itusala, nnd they nro Impotent
to withstand nn olfenslvo from a now
enemy
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APPLIANCES
For Mechanical Purposes
SEMI rOR CATAIOOVE
I,. D. BERCER CO.. 59 N. 2(1 Slrect
Bell Market J5. Keystone nam J5C0.
I'nata l) Umioiwood & L nutrwooil
Cant. Lewis S. Morey was one of the three white officers of tho 10th
Cavalry detachment which was fired upon by Mexicans at Carrizal.
He was wounded in the shoulder and given up as lost, but later nc was
found in tho desert by a rescuing party after being 22 hours without
water. His companions, Captain Boyd nnd Lieutenant Adair, were
killed. Captain Morey is now at General Pcrshinrjr's base.
GREAT LEGAL BATTLE
OF DUP0NTS BEGINS
ft? M 1 tTf . i T1?1 1 f 1
faix-iear-uia west rnuaaeiprua
Child Seriously Injured 100
Kiddies in Panic
One llttlo girl was seriously Injured and
k hundred other children thrown Into a
panlo when an autobus. In which they were
being conveyed to Falrmount Park for the
annual outing of the IllcharJson Memorial
Church, 60th street and Baltimore avenue,
was struck by a coat wagon at 68th and
Market streets th(s morning.
The Injured child lu Lillian G. Allen. G
years old, of 104 South 62d stieet She
received a fractured right arm and con-
S's fusions of the hodv. when the shaft of the
coal wagon smashed through the body of
it iuo dus ana jammea ner against a seat.
W She wnft tnl.tn tn thn nfflnft nt nr. William
ft C Griggs, at 558 North 58th street, by
ff Sergeant McMullen, of the 01st and Thomp-
wLt Sftn MtfAAtri hhIIaa flilftilAH nn1 tflAH feAflt tt
E " BUCCtO IJVMIV;? DlUilUilt MI1U tUiCl DCIIk
B the West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hos-
,vuai.
' Jacob Rappaport, of 048 North Marshall
tret. driver pf the coal wagon, who was
placed under arrest, said he tried his best
to atop his team before they struck the
bus. He was driving w est on Market street
and the bus. one. of three, crowded with
about S00 children, was going north on 58th
ItreeL Rannanort oermltted two busses to
pass and then believing there were po more,
umicu ma tarn,
Family Fight for Control of Big
Powder Interests Opens.
Large Crov7d Attends
WILMINGTON, Dol . Juno 28 The fam
ily tight for the control of the vast du Pont
powder Interests, Involving several hundred
million dollars, was begun hero today in
United States District Court before Judge
Thompson.
Tho Issuo centres about tho sale by Gen
eral T Coleman du Pont, formerly presi
dent of the corporation, of hli Btock Inter
ests to the du Pont Securities Company,
which wbb organized to acquire his shares
hy Pierre S du Pont and others Philip.
Alfred I , Francis G. and other members of
the family charge that Pierro and a major
ity of the directors of the company should
have taken over Coleman du Pont's stock,
now valued at upwards of $50,000,000, In
the naino of tho du Pont Company proper.
They seek the transfer of Coleman du
Ponfs stock from the Securities Company
to the treasury of tho B I. du Pont do
Nemours & Co When court opened there
were a large number of persons present
Tho array of distinguished counsel was also
lirgc For tho plaintiff thero were John O
Johnson nnd Wllllnni A. Glasgow. f Phlla
delphfa, Robert Pennington, of Wilmington
nnd Henry F Brown, of Philadelphia
George S Graham, of Philadelphia ; Wil
liam D Hllles. of Wilmington, nnd several
other attorneys occupied the table for the
reapondont
Mr. Glangow, after offering tho charter
of the powder company and tho du Pont
Securities Company, to each of which Mr
Graham nnde objection and was overruled
called Alfred I du Pont as first witness
Alfred I du Pont said In 1914 he received
a letter from Coleman du Pont offering to
sell 20,000 shares of common stocl. lu tho
u-i i.thim for SlflO a share, for
distribution among employes, lie and
Pierre, both bilng vice presidents, favored
the purchase, except that they objected to
the price, writing Coleman to that effect
The Tlnance Committee, with tho exception
of Pierre, he said, thought J125 a share
sufficient.
If Tou Are
one of tlmte efficient and
ftucceimful men who don't
believe In woiitr If oa
haven't any time to fool
nwiy on pattering Incom
petence or dully-eyed Indlf
ferenci If you want to buy
jour furnishing roihU frcni
one who l a uprrlnllftt In
IiIh line, who will nrrte you
to your entire natlnfactlon,
deliver jour rood on time,
wlthrut nny wlilte-waih ex
planation, npologlrn or rr
sretn, then roll on W. O. II.
Himself.
featuring thia week:
Very beat qupHty Crepe
Sltk Mlfid, -.liti.t. I mast
ers, llathlng hulls. Pajamas,
Xcckuear, etc
ONLY ONE STORr.
1018 Chestnut Street
E. Caldwell & Co.
Jotfels, Goldwore, Silverware
902 Chestnut Street
V.
Hand-Painted Wooden Lamps
With Vellum Skades
ftftANN & DlLKS
1102 CHESTNUT ST.
Tyrol Aool
Ladies' and Misses Suits
LirjKt Suits. Dark Suits. Suits for Warm or Cold Weather
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I JACK H'KALLIP, NEWSPAPER
MAN, DEAD OF PARALYSIS
E Well Known In This City and in Central
and Western Pennsylvania
Jck McKalllD. a former Phtladelnhta
Hewipaper man and well known In Jour-
naiiailQ clrrlAa thrmiffhnut Pnnnvlvnnl&.
died of paralysis In New Kensington, West
moreland County, last Sunday, according
to word received by his friends In this city
today He was about 10 years old
McKalllp won fame as a writer of hu
toorous poetry He was a member of the
Uffa of th Philadelphia Press, tha North
American and the Evening Telegraph a few.
rs ago, coming here from Harrisburr,
jnere he first entered the newspaper field.
He went from here to Pittsburgh, where
J, wrote a special column for the Pitts
furgb. Press. A brother and sister reside
to Pittsburgh.
MOVIES TO AID RECRUITING
Daniels Accepts Offer and Baker Gives
Plan to Funston
WASHINGTON, June 23, A proposal by
Ave moving picture weekly news rvlces
to help recruiting for the nav? through
nictures showing American warships at
Vera Crut has been accepted by Secretary
Daniels.
Secretary Baker referred to General
uiinston a proposal- to send "movie'1 opera
Site General Pershing's camp to help
recruiting. Films taken of either branch
Lill be censored by the authorities before
being releasqd to theatres .
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These nre trying days for
collars except those with
our soupletsa finish. We'i!
help you to weather the
weather with a flexible col
lar that's both dressy and
cool.
Neptune Laundry
1501 Columbia Ave.
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Special Patterns
Now Reduced to.
25
Tola U cur ml-nmjt clearance and Include!
manr aulta that were S3 and 40 dollara.
BRAD.BURN & NIGRO
Men's Tailors
Cor. 13 th & Sansora
Balls S23 U (50
15.75
Redu&d from 18.50, 22.50
We are selling many colors and models (not all) to
prepare our stock for New Fall Styles, Models, etc,
Nl ann & Silks
1102 CHESTNUT ST.
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you haven't got
and really need,
it is Water
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Get one fitted
to your hand.
Sold at the Best Stores
.E. Waterman Company, Cortlandt St. and Broadway, New York
j. & r. cousins
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Summer Closing Schedule
Our store will be dosed all day Saturday, July
and following our custom of th past four years, vizs we
shall dose all day Saturdays during July, August, and
until September 9th. and S P. M. Daily.
1226 CHESTNUT ST.
Enllr Floor Peiotedlo Wodkii's StossEnlirj Floor Devoted to Msn's Shoes
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SPECTACULAR
REDUCTION SALE
is in full blast!
Here's-what makes it "Spectacular"-
It's a
Bargain
Festival
in the finest
clothes made
at a time wlien
prices are soaring
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By rights, the regular prices of these Suits
ail season should have been higher than we
marked them, for the fabrics in them cost
everybody more than in years; yet we kept
quality and prices yoke-mates as of yore
meaning, before the war and it's from those
prices we make these reductions!
C What's the Answer?
CJ It's your Opportunity to dig in and get out
of this Event a stock of Summer Suits that
will put you on Easy Street for next Summer!
It's an opening that will let you apply your
object lessons in Preparedness ! It's a bear of
a chance in a bull market, and you can laugh
at the fellows caught short in 1917! Buy
now and be happy!
$15 and$18 Suits, $12.50 and $13.50
$20.00 Suits for $16.50
$25.00 Suits .' for $19.00
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And so on up through the finest
woven $30, $35 and $40 Suits at
corresponding: Reductions!
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Trousers Reduced!
$2.50 for originally low $3
and $3.50 trousers; $3 for $4 trou
sers; $3.50 for originally low $5
, trousers; $4 for $6 and $6.50
trousers, and so on! .
PERRY & CO;,
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16th & Chestnut Sti
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