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GOVERNOR AGAIN URGES
END OF DEATH PENALTY
Bays Eddystone Disaster Should
Not Halt Present Movement
HAIUIISBURG, April 14. -Vigorously
reaffirming Ills desire to ,ec Petmsyl
vanla abolish the death penalty, Govor
nor Brumbaugh has declared that lie
believes the- IIouso of Hepiesentattvcs
next Tuesday will pass the Tompkins-Wells-IIcss
bill, and that ho sees no good
reason why any legislatqr should permit
his attitude upon the measure to ho
thanged by tho Eddystone disaster or
ny other similar catastrophe. He said:
The movement to nbollsh capital
punishment Involves a fundamental
principle, which cannot reasonably bo
affected by spasmodic occurrences, no
matter how overwhelmingly sad nnd
unfortunato such occurrences may be.
I am quite sure that tho members of
the Legislature will not permit them,
ielves to be carried away"" In their con
sideration of so broad and vital u ques
tion as the one embraced In the bill
to wipe out tho death penalty by any
possible hysteria which may follow in
the wnke of a catastrophe such ns has
befallen Eddystone.
I still bellevo most firmly that tho
abolition of capital punishment in
Pennsylvania will be a long step to
ward a greater humanity, and a more
Indent administration of law In this
commonwealth. Wo have had the
whole matter threshed out openly for
the last four months, and I think tho
general conclusion Is that both of these
ends will havo been attained by the
removal from tho statute hooks of
the law that makes the people ,of the
State party to the taking of human
life.
The Governor's statement was in an
swer to expiessions by Individuals and
newspapers who aro' opposed, to the en
actment of the Tompkins-Wells Hess bill,
Which removes the death penalty In Penn
sylvania. There Is every indication that
it will be passed by n majority wnlcli will
reflect the overwhelming opposition of
public opinion to tho retention of capi
tal punishment.
YOUTH AND GIRL LEAD
TO ROBBERS' ARREST
Pursue Two Highwaymen Until
Policeman Appears and
Nabs Pair
ACCEPTED BY NAVY
F,
IRV COBB, CHAMPION FUNNY
MAN, TELLSTRICKS OF TRADE
Admits That Gayety Is a Strenuous Sort of Busi
ness and Proves His Statement by
Personal Reminiscences
Quick and nervy woik on the part of a
young man mnl iiH girl companion early
today resulted In the arrest of a couple
of hold-up men who had badly beaten Oscar
richcldln, of 2551 North Maschcr street,
treasuier of a benellclul society, and lobbed
him of $7S of the society's funds In his own
doorway. a
At the cud of the annual meeting of the
Saxonla Ilencfic al Society, at Second and
Cumberland streets, at 1 o'clock this morn
ing, (Sebeljllu was given the $75 for safe
keeping lie walked to his home and In
rerted the key In his lock. As he did so
there was a slight scullle on the steps be
hind him and he was hit a crushing blow
over the head. However, he succeeded In
turning and grappling with the iobbers.
They were beating, kicking and lobbing
him nil In ono motion when Chnilctf Light
foot, of :'10t Cumberland street, accom
panied by Miss Lillian McLearn, of 323C
North Lee street passed bs on their way
home from a s-oolal function. At the sight
of the couple the iobbers left off work on
the semiconscious Oebcldln and ran down I
Mnsehcr street. i
I-'or a few moments Llghtfooi lived up '
The number of recruits enlisted for the
regular sen Ice will havo to be doubled
cyen to approach tho Wnr Department and
i iVy .Dc',artnent quotas for tho Philadel
phia district, according to recruiting of
fice rs.
Philadelphia has contributed fi.1G men to
tlin regulnr Bervlco since President Wilson's
ueciarauon of state of war April 2. The
navy recruiting leads with 278 men, and
the army recruiting officers have accepted
jus applicants. The Marine Corps has
sent seventy men to Port Royal. S. C.
Within the samp period 1200 men havo
neon enrolled In the Naval Coast Defense
Keserves.
Payment of the Coast Defeiihe Reserves
In active service will be made April IS
Instead of April 20, It has" been announced.
It Is estimated 30i) of the tcservlsts hao
been In active service sufficiently long to
bo included In. the payroll.
ltecruUIng olllcers for the Third ltegl
nietit, N. tl, P.. Irnve been onened In the
olllccs of the Baltimore nnd Ohio Railroad,
Hroad and Chestnut streets. Lieutenant
Colonel Robert M. Ilrookfleld Is In charge.
Regimental reports show that 100 men wilt
bo required to hrlng tho strength of the
regiment up to 100 men to the company.
Tho first response to the nppcal for re
cruits for the. Naval Coast Defense Reserve
and the United States navy that has come
In fiom tho districts lying n'ong the iJeln
ware River was from Chester, where the
new recruiting station, under Lieutenant
Charles It. Norrls. U. S. N , enrolled sixty
five men.
The president of the Chester Chamber
of Commerce has offered $1000 to the Gov
eminent for any kind of a boat that may bo
desired The offer also Includes a crew of
twenty expert men from the Alpha 'Joat
Club, of Chester, and was made on the con
dltlon that the Government furnish a gun
crow to train tho men.
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need not, ftpply. Please Inologe aUmps.
"The next mornlnK," Mr. Cobb cohtlnued
enthusiastically, "I went round to the New
York Evening Sun nnd sent In my card.
I saw the editor, If you wrote this you're
hired nt $16 n week. If you're worth more
you'll gft It; If you're not worth more you'll
be fired. When can you work?
"Now," I said.
"There's no hurry" he replied, "come
around In the mornlnir."
"When I got back to my room," the
humorist smiled like a boy who has put
over an old trick, "thero were Ave letters
from editors asking me to call on them,
among them a personal letter from Arthur
Drlsbane. I answered thorn nil, sympa
thizing with them In their tardiness nt
having missed me. I went on tho livening
Sun."
At this mnmmit flip nllfnt nf 4tm tnnr
I tlinn two million weekly appeared and
junMcd soinetlilng to Americas Greatest
Remtrter uhout luncheon entrncrAmenta nn.
town, and tho lntter who's said to bo just I
as Human ntounil luncticon tlmo us at any
other, i cleared Miss Ileppctwhlte. Her
gasp: "Does he think that's funny?" proved
that een great humorlsts'hnve a hard time
pleasing cxeryhody. As Cobb himself said:
'It means sweat.
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Service Board
EXPECT QUICK ACl
SALVATION ARMY IN WAR
to his name and Miss McLearn was scarcely i .
behind him. The men thought they bad , Patriotic Procession 16 Miles
distanced the pursuit and ducked Into a n m ,. ,
j-ong icsunes to Herns
1
City News in Brief
saloon near Hope and Dauphin streets.
Llghtfoot ran to the corner and told Po
liceman Poi tner, of the Fourth and York
streets station, about the affair. Fortner
went Into the saloon and surprised the two
men. who were there.
At the Foilith and Voik streets police
station Magistrate Glenn held the two men
without ball for couit, charged with high
way lobbery. Their names are William
Smith, twenty-four years old, of 2533
Noith Howard street, and William Ahrndt,
twenty-three years old, of 2220 North
Howard street.
GUARDS FRUSTRATE
PLOTS IN MINNESOTA
One Plotter Killed Others Ar
rested With Dynamite and
Nitroglycerin
A BUCKET OK I'ONt'ltKTi: falling four
torles on the head of a negro, lirowu
Robinson, was unable to pioduce results
serious enough to keep him In tho hospital
last night. Robinson was passing Klcventli , Sensational reports of battles between
and Muiket streets, when a caieless work- uuanlsiiieii and spies .came to light here to'-
MINNKAPOLIS. April
man on a new building dropped the bucket.
Brown was knocked down, hut walked to
the Hahnemann Hospital, then to his home
at 1630 Lombard stieet.
rOM.OWINO Till: DKATII tetcrlny In
Hahnemann Hospital of William llornul,
312 Callowhill street, who was run down
on March 24 near Fourth and-VIno streets
by a bread wagon, Horace Murkley, the
driver, 1323 North Twenty-third street, was
held without ball today by Magistrate Pen
Hock at Central Court to await the Coroner's
ction.
ANY WOMAN Joining the VNutlntml
League for Women Servico "must testify to
her belief that It were better for each and
every man to dlo nobly than to llvo Ig
nobly," according to a resolution passed by
the executive committee of the Kmergency,
Aid.
a.cii;nt oiimnt or inm;itM..s,
Board of Kiln, DMslon No. 1, held Its
annual ball with 1B00 guests In Mercantile
Hall, Dioad and Master streets, last night.
The h,all was draped with American and
Irish flags. John Devlin, Jr was the
frand conductor.
OBDERS CLOSING CITY HALL to
tlsltors after 8 p. m. went Into effect last
nifht. Only persons having business with
the Superintendent of Police, on the second
floor; the Detective Bureau, on tho fifth
floor," and the Contral Station, on the sixth
floor, aro admitted after that hour. All
tntrances except that on tho southeast cor
ner were closed.
AUTOMOHILE IlANlTlTS, according to
the police, held-up and shot Louis Remlnta,
twenty.flvV years old, at Thirty-third street
nd Ulrard avenue. He was sent to tho
Cerman Hospital and Is in a critical con
dition. The police were unable to learn
nil address,
WHOLKSALK HOIIIIKIUL'H, the police
y were committed by Howard France,
alias Francis, who has been arrested by the
Police In Atlantic City. Captain Tato said
the prisoner had admitted robbing twenty
wo houses. If found guilty he may be
iven a sentence of twenty years.
" ACCUSED OF CAUHiytJ A 1WNIO In
Pal moving-picture theatre, Frankford,
Oliver Fospenner, seventeen years old, of
" tulip street, waB sentenced to ten
Cava til thft ntln),, ni.lun., 1,1, Affl r( fit m t A
, ,neltx today. The panic occurred when the
"f oi "iignt" was mlstauen tor "lire.
wipenner, the police say, started tho light
'th an attendant.
SIX OYPItEHK THEES were planted to
Jy by tho police nround the Park and Le
'h avenues station, in keenlntr with the
TT RUING a dull d.iy and "Irv
having drowned about 2H00 Red Cross
rooteis at the Forrest Theatre the day be
fore with his humorous stories of the Hel
glnn atrocities, tho city ed. ns hot on the
trail of a copile "story" as Pi auk Gar
liarlno Is for a German spy and as likely
to got one commanded:
"That," said Mr. Irvln S Cobb, Ameil
ca's greatest leporter. Judiciously consider
ing the tisk before me. "Is the way you
begin yo1."- story. You take the public Into
your confidence; then you tell them. Just
what I'm going to tell you, that theie ain't
any more seiloiw business on God's eaith
than this business of being funny Most
people think an Alleged Humorist such as
myself grins. He don't. He sweats They
used to say of me on the New York He
nlrg World, wheie. in addition to the day's
woik, 1 was expect! d to get out a full
page of alleged sparkles for the Sunday
paper that I began to be funny when I
began to look sad."
"Co over to the Saturday i:enlng Post,
where the gieat humuilst Is now smoking
them all out, and bring back a column
Interview itiK Cobb
Ily M'LISS
Cobb
that as a aguc and remote possibility,
th"ro might be subjects upon which he
was not iiualifled to tali; extensively, but
that humor alleged and otherwise, was not
one of then'.
Phlluilelphian Asks to Bo Made Chap
lain in Proposed Ambulance Service
A Phllatlolphlan, Captain Kdwnrd Under
wood. Salvation At my worker, Is one of
tho first men In tho country to ask to be
mnde a chaplain In the proposed Salvation
Army ambulance units, which aro to be the
contribution of the Salvation Army to the
United States In tho wnr with tJermany,
Tho units were planned nt a meeting In
national headquarters at New York this
Week. These units will bo sent to the
Mirlous training camps nnd to the troops in
the field.
The ambulance units of this district will
be under the supervision of Colonel Richard
U. Holz, of Philadelphia, commander of
the Atlantic province.
i --. MicimcB Biuuun, in Ket
?Toor Day proclamation of Governor Brum
&UKh. Tlia .,...1r ..n l...,n l.nilar tllA
.-;,ojrectlon of Lieutenant Dlnlocker.
.DIRECTOR I)AthmAX. of the Depart-
F f t 0I Public Works, today nppoimou
tlrVWles P. O'Connor, ri2 South Twentieth
f ZF " inspecior in tne uureuu m jjibji-
"jrs at a salary of $1200 a year.
" iAVxa I1AND1TH HHOT Louli Kemluta
-;-,,ln the back at Thirty-third and Mnstcr
h eany toaay wnen no reiuseu m
-wrow up his hands. The car came near the
Jrb) HemlntH waa accosted and was shot
t'.HBen he ran. Ileminta lives at 2829 Ridge
Vuie. jh8 conation j8 not serious.
A MILKHTONE1 ERECTEU IN 16()0, on
JJj, Lancaster or Blockley and Merlon turn-
at Wynnerteld, has been marked with
x!Li lot by th8 Merion Chapter, D, A, R.
w wmet waa unveiled .this afternoon.
Ot ATEB A CHASE by" Policeman
ra, ot the Twelfth and rine sireew
,CtUrPutfum. of Twelfth 'ana
rlnv. desnlto close censorship antl refusal
of "the military authorities to talk. These
Include meager tep'orts of the killing of a
plotter by glial dsmen, the wounding of four
guardsmen and tluee plotters and the
court-martial of several supposed Epics.
Public anger was aroused as the attacks
on gum dsmen became known.
Guardsmen yesterday frustrated an ap
parent plot to blow up the Washburn
Crosby flour mills and the St. Paul Rall
load bridge at Mendota. near here. A
stranger seized at tho Washburn-Crosby
mills earned a suitcase containing llfteen
sticks of dynamite and two bottles of nitro
glycerin. He was said to have been taken
to the Fort Siielling guardhouse nnd with
others to tho Federal Penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth..
It Is repotted another prowler was shot
to death by sentries at a mill nere. .nu
Itaiy ollUials refused comment. A St.
Paul sentry carried a bullet III one leg to
ilav after being fired on from ambush.
Three guardsmen and three civilians are In
the Fort Snelllng Hospital as a result of
frustrated plots.
The Washington correspondent of the ht.
Paul Dally Nes wired his paper today that
tho mllltarv authorities are seriously con
sidering placing Minneapolis under martial
law as a result of the attacks on guards
men and the many Incendiary Arcs since
the break with Germany.
WORKERS HOIST FLAGS
OVER MANY PLANTS
Employes of Disston Saw Works, Bern
stein Brothers and Others
Show Patriotism
i ipmii il.iirs were raised at ceie-
monles In numeious Philadelphia manufac
turing nlants today. Thousands connected
with the factories took part In tho celebra-
One of the most elaborate of tho events
was that at the Henry Disston & Sons
Saw Works, Frankford. Two thousand em
ployes marched behind a band as a Prelim
inary to presenting the flag given by iBO
employes of tho steelmaklng department.
K J. Cattell, City Statistician, made the
1,',,undd"e.neioy.H of tho Bernstein
Manufacturing Company took part in a flag
raising at the factory. Third street and
Allegheny avenue, K. Arinur ueriisiem, u.
and Edward H. Bernstein released tho flag,
furled on a polo In tho grounds.
Patriotlo songs and addresses were fea
tures of a flag-raising nt the plant of the
Harrison Safety Boiler Works, Seventeenth
btreet and Alicgneuy uvenu. v .....
Ployes of tho plant assembled In the ma
chine shop building and tho flag was pulled
ut) sixty feet above tho street to the tune of
"America," played by a band and sung by
tlie onlookers. There was an address by
William S. Hallowell.
Two flags were hoisted above tho roof
of the Heywood Brothers & Wakefield
Build ng at 244 South Fifth street. Joseph
Kenney foreman of the plant, presented tho
Hags and C S. Barlow madef formal ac-
Cepatrotic songs were sung while u baud
nlaved at the John Gay's Sons' plant, Tren
ton aVenue and Ann street, and a .large flag
was presented on behalf of tho 250 em
nloves Super ntendent Charles H. Law. of
the factory; ! and John II. Gay, of the firm.
mAeflagdwasCSralscd at tho plant of the
Isaac A. Sheppard Manufacturing Com
oanv Krle avenue above Sepvlva street.
,"-." rMlo was invited to bo the
principal speaker, following a march around
the ifactVy. " wll,ch t,le emplor8 t00,
part. t
Shad Fishermen Make Small Catches
DELAWARE CITY. Del.', April 14.
ci,aTishermen reported email catches.
Kr Paid 80 andred for the fl.h.
H??i?!i P.,. .lao belna- cauhfln email
County's Loyalty
RL'ADING. Pa.. April 11.
Twenty-five thousand men. women and
children, Including members of 117 mllltnry
and fraternal organizations of the city and
county, the f out teen Reading fire companies
and delegations from many mills and fac
tories, marched here yesterday In the great
est patriotic demonstration the city has over
seen, pledging Berks County's loyalty to
the national Administration In the present
war crisis. In tho line of march wero G00
motorcars and half a hundred bands of
music. The procession, marching In strict
eight-platoon formation and two paces
apart, was estimated to be sixteen miles in
length, and required eight hours to pass n
given point.
It wns a general holiday throughout the
city and county. Mills and factories closed
for the day; Penn street stores closed dur
ing the hours of tho parade and there were
gorgeous decorations everywhere, confined
exclusively to the national colors. Whllo
citizens generally were urged to participate
In tho parade, it Is estimated that fully
100,000 viewed the Imposing spectacle from
tho sidewalks. Karly Incoming trains and
street cars were thronged with visitors, and
fifty plainclothes detectives were brought
hero from Philadelphia to assist the local
and State police In handling the crowdF.
The parade was made up of six divisions,
headed by thirty-three automobiles bear
ing Reading's Civil War veterans. Then
came Reading's National Guardsmen, volun
teer firemen, public school children. Catholic
societies, fraternal organizations nnd dele
gations from the Philadelphia and Reading
shops and other mills and Industries. Con
spicuous among the civilian' organizations
in lino was the Berks County Bar Associa
tion, headed by the three Judges of tho
local courts, this being the first time tho
lawyers paraded since Civil War days.
The parade formed In the northeastern
section of tho city, "nnd after traversing
Penn street and streets of that vicinity
nroceeded to the northwestern section,
whero ranks were broken. Slany of tho
youngest marchers broke ranks and headed
for the local recruiting stations, which had
announced that special preparations had
been made to receive them, and quite a
number of volunteers were obtained for the
army and navy.
L iv
Mark Twain
MARSE HENRY HAS A SLOGAN
It's "To Hell With the Hapsburgs and
Hohenzollerns"
NEW YORK, April 14. -The committee
of citizens of Oyster Bay, which was np
pointed to find an appropriate battle cry
for the nation nnd is called the American
War Slogan Committee, received from Col
onel Henry Watterson this alliterative
whoop: "To hell with the Hapsburgs and
Hohenzollerns." Robert Duvall, Edward R.'
Summers and Mnurlce E. Townsend com
pose the committee. Colonel Roosevelt Is
to bo one of the Judges.
The contribution of the Louisville editor
accompanied an editorial clipped from tho
Courier-Journal of Wednesday, entitled "Red
Blood Versus Red Tape," which describes
the slogan contest. In It Marse Henry said:
"If this bo a contest for the royalties of
patriotism, count the Courier-Journal In. "We
disdain the cash and furnish the battle
cry What Is the matter with: 'To hell
with the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol
lerns'?" $1.40 FOR BELGIANS STOLEN
Meanest Thieves Take Girls' Gift to
Starving uiuiaren
Thieves broke into the store of tho Globe-
Wernicke Company, at luia unesinui
street early today and turned the place
tonsy-turvy, but got away with only $1.40
and a reputation of b.dng the meanest
burglars In the profession.
The police called the taker of thu; money
unspeakable, for the money was plainly In
tended for the starving Belgian children.'
Tho thieves bad tried everywhere to make
a satisfactory haul, evidently leaving the
Belgian relief money to the last. The en
velope in which had been the nickels and
dimes for Belgians was lift on the floor.
The thieves knew they wero taking bread
out of the mouths of babies, because they
had to tear open the envelope to get tho
money and the envelope was plainly parked
"Belgian Relief."
chock full of wit and humor.
stuff."
.Mr. Cobb caressed the. pessimistic fore
lock, which contributes in no small meas
ure to the puiolirltudlnous ensemble of his
classic countenance, and gloweied abaft the
funnel of a not too mild Havana. Inci
dentally, if anybody whispers to you that
somebody's relieved tho Vateiland or tho
Eltel Frlcdrich of Its main smokestack,
have Mr. Cobb paged. He smokes It.
"As I was saying," America's Greatest
Reporter sank deeper into the upholstered
folds of the frail Heppelwhito outside
George Horace Lorimer's olllce with a Teu.
tonic disregaid for Its sobs and groans. If
all the Sat. Eve. Post contilbutors measured
up to Mr. Coblj's Tudor proportions tho chip
would havo been put hi tho Chippendales
long ago, and Mrs. and Miss Heppelwhito
ordered out In favor of hardy Miss Mission
and Jacob Jacobean
"As I was saying," Mr. Cobb Indicated
WHAT HUMORIST MUST LUARN
"As I wns saying." he went on. "the al
leged humorist and bis gift can be eltbei
natural or acquired must learn two very
.'...einiiti les.son:. u no wains in- mull in .
Ilxo, of even If he wants it to get over at j
all. He must learn:
"Flist, to take a fat fait and stand It
on its head; or to take that fat fact and
make It skid on the Ice of reality and
fracture Its hip pet haps, He mustn't do
more than that. Ho mustn't kill It. It's on
i'tlie principle of the fat man. If he falls
down and hurts himself It i funny. If he
kills himself It's tragic.
Second, he i itistn't put h'mself up on a
mountain top. anil, looking down at his
audience In tin valley, address them In this
fnshioir 'You are vcrj-, very funny and
ciude, but ,u don't know as much as I
do. I'm alms you; oiir Intellectual su
perior. I si ill in oil you with my probe
and make sou .since.'
"That." said the great leporter. "is not
humor, it may be known sailotisly as
Mcrld wit, or biting satlie. but It Isn't humor.
'The humorist, alleged or otbersslsc,"
the bulldog J.isvs shot out and the sioids
came nuthorltatlosij . "Is down In the w
le). He's tile one svlio's looking up at ? i
leaders. He .ays to tliciu! 'Of course,
sou're fiiniij ; of course, you're grotesque;
but sou're not nearly ro funny or so gro
tesque as I am. I've got you thero. I'm
like you, only more so; that's the real rea
son I tickle )ou so.' "
"You pioved that In your famous ap
pendicitis story," I Interjected boldly.
But It being nigh on to lunch time, Mr.
Cobb refused to stop for piutse. And, de
spite the fact that he has tho distinction
of having gls'cn the Kaiser's fourth son
chills and Lord Kitchener chllbains, Amer
ica's Greatest Reporter is an exceptionally
modest man, a fact to svlilch all ssiio saw
hlin behave like a bad schoolboy at a Sun
day school entertainment, while ssaltlng to
rpeak at the Red Cross meeting tho other
af let noon, ssill subscribe.
HE LANDS IN METROPOLIS
"And how did you land In New York?"
"Palpitating." said he, chawing at the
end nf the smokestack. "I bad been all
kinds of a leporter, and a country editor
back In Paducaii, Ky. I thought I ss'as
ready for the big town, inn) be, and shipped
my wife and baby down South for her
folks to take caio of; borros-cd two hun
dred fiom the father-in-law and came di
rect. I spent three ssceks gunning for edi
tors, and ncser got a bead on anything but
ofllce boys.
"The end of three sveeks sasv me sitting
In Madison Square with forty of the two
hundred left in my pocket, a bunch of
New York papers In my hands. I was
studying how the successful boys did It.
"I found that whenever they wroto of a
big nnd sacred man they did It fllprantly.
Editors aie big men. I said to myself.
They must like this flippancy.
"So 1 ssent to my boarding house,"
Irv. Cobb has the nicest, kindliest, most
laughing blue eyes I've ever seen "and I
wroto 'em letters. I told 'cm what they
xcro missing.
" 'I am the young Lochlnvar come from
out the svestr the blue-eyed boy genius
you've been looking for,' I told 'cm, 'you
can't afford to do sslthout mo much longer,
or I might have to stall a paper m)self.
All serious proposals will be considered In
the otder of their arrival. Come early
CURTIS BOYS' CLUB SHOW
Large Audience Enjoys Minstrel Per
formance and Dance for Scouts
A largo audience enjoyed tho minstrel
show and dance given by members of the
Cuitls Boys' Club for the benefit of the
Curtis Boy Scout Troop last night In tho
Curtis Auditorium. A rollicking sketch,
entitled "What Is It?" provoked much
laughter.
The principals In the sketch were WI1
llnm Ijicey, Samuel Masser, Jack nines.
Samuel Hunter, William Dolan, Ella Roth
well, Alice Rothvvell, John llarnum, Jr., and
Helen Kolhoff. Tho musical numbers wero
bright and catchy. Tho soloists wero ac
companied by Miss Bessie Sheehan and
Edward Jo)ce.
HARRISBURO.Ai
Favorable action by the Publlc'-
Commission UDon the anDllcatlonatl
city of Philadelphia for authority W
cced with the construction of the'
lines of the high-speed system is e:
to follow n conference today betwe
entire commission nnd Mayor Smlth1
sit Director Twining nnd Joseph PjJC
ney, chairman of Councils Finance
mlttee. of Philadelphia.
The conference Is being held behind i
doors, spectators being barred. Thee
commission is present. r '
The commission has been deadlocked
several weeks over the transit question.
a result of tho delay pressure has
brought to bear through Governor Br
baugh to force tho scrvico board to net.
Senator Penrose has publicly questla
tho legality of the commission's hold-up, I
tne grounds mat two ot the three men
who voted to refuse tho desired certlfic
of public convenience do not have the i
to vote, since their nppolntment hasjl
been confirmed by tho Senate.
The certificates pending nro for autho
to proceed with the Ilroad street subwa
the subwny delivery loop, tho Darby
vnted, the northwest-Roxborough subwa
elevnted nnd the Thirty-fifth Ward surfa
line. Applications for all except the Dar
"L" wero filed with, the commission la
in 191G nnd have been under considerate
ever since that time. fe
Tho delay of the commission lias result
In tlie hold-up of construction work totaH
approximately SIS, 000,000. Bids have be
opened for Jhls work, which consists of tn
entire delivery loop nnd tlie Broad etf
subway from South to Stiles streets, but'l
contracts can be awarded until the
mission nets.
Goes Under P
Wall Street Firm
xhw YORK. Aorll 14. It was announ
from tho rostrum of the stock exchaM
tbls moin ng that Morris & I'opo wore
nble to meet their obligations. Lewis X
Morris Is tho board member of the fir
which was formed on January 1, 1916. Th
other members of the firm are J. ilntnaWQ
Pone and Frank B. Porter, isir. Atoms
admitted to membership In tho exchas
on April 1, 1009. The olllccs of tho firm I
nt 50 'Brood street. f5J
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PREPARE NOW FOR SHORTAGE!
KUNKECSACOAl
63d & Market
51st & Gray's
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Weit 30:
Wtit 44
Ready Money.
Unitod State
Try Our
Sunday
Dollar
Dinner
Tlie bill) rot nt llvlni nnu
the week-end rent are two
cellent reaon for br:a.
Isc tba entire family bir to
morrow, Special Mutla
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Twelfth and
Arch St.
(EtitraAc on Ut St.)
CLA.UDB It. MOlin,
tier.
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J. E. Caldwell & Co.
Chestnut Juniper-r South Penn Square '
IMPORTANT
PRECIOUS STONES
Mounted as finger rings, brooches,
bar pins and flexible bracelets
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The Philadelphia Art Galleries
S. E. Cor. 15th and Chestnut Sts.
REED H. WALMER, Auctioneer.
NOW ON EXHIBITION
A REMARKABLE SALE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
pi . JO ma.lD
isfiinese ana rersian wnenicii ivugs j
and Carpets
to be sold at public sale by order of A LABGE IMPORTING FIRM and their")
represcntatl-e. h
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MR. H. DONJIAN
Beginning Monday, April 10, 101. nnil live Following lnj,
nt 2i 30 o'Clork
1'rpent need of leady funds makes It Imperatlse that this
ssonderful collection be disposed of at public auction.
Catalogues mailed upon request.
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During the six business days
Monday, April 16th, to Saturday, April 21st, inclusive
We Will Hold Our
Eightieth Anniversary
Opportunity Sale
Signalizing Our 8oth Birthday as Dry GoodsMercKants
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