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MAYOR PUTS TIME
LIMITON BIDDERS
Transit Contractors Have
Till Thursday Noon to
Sign Instruments
CONFERS WITH TWINING
Penalty Clauses for Delay Cause
Firms to Hesitate About .
Accepting Work
The contracting firms of McNlchol and
Vare, which bid on tho subway work of
the high-speed transit system will have to
decide definitely by noon Thursday whether
they will sign the contracts for this work
as they now stand.
The heads of tho three firms concerned
In the bidding were notified to this effect
this afternoon by Mayor Smith after he
had held a lengthy conference with Tran
sit Director Twining.
Bids for the work total $11,000,000. Of
this amount Senator McNIchoI's Keystone
State Construction Company had been
awarded work amounting to 111,000,000.
The other firms are tho Vnrcs' Fiillndclphla
Subway Contracting Company and Smith,
Ilauser & Mclsac, of New York.
All of the bidders have objected to sign
ing the contracts, for the reason that they
carry penalties for delays. The contrac
tors say they expect obstacles on account of
tho scarcity of labor and materials. Never
theless, the contract cannot ha altered.
DF.LAY IN L STATIONS
It was learned this afternoon that an
other delay had been encountered because
no one has bid on the work of constructing
the elevated stations on the Frankford line.
Director Twining said that bids for build
ing the stations separately would be asked
for.
It was announced that representatives
of tho newspapers would bo Invited to the
contractors' conference with tho Mayor on
Thursday.
When nsked If he had discussed the oppo
sition to tho proposed lease with the Mayor.
Mr. Twining said that phase of the matter
had not been touched upon. "We only dis
cussed plans for doing the real work." ho
said.
Asked If he were surprised by tho oppo.
sltlon to tho transit lease. Mayor Smith
aid:
"No, I'm "not n philosopher. I do not ex
pect every one to agree with me. When tho
hearing takes place on September 7 It will
be found that the administration Is merely
trying to serve the people."
Moni: join leash fight
Two more associations, one In North and
the other In West Philadelphia, have Joined
the fight against the Smith-Mfttcn transit
lease. Resolutions have been adopted
unanimously by both organizations urging
the elimination of the extra-charge ex
change ticket, approving ,tho adoption of
universal transfers and voicing opposition
to the proposed new lease generally.
The. North Philadelphia meeting was
called by Edward E. Zieglcr, president.
At ,a special meeting called last night
It was arranged' to send a delegation to the
councllmaulc hearing on September 7 to
protest against the proposed lease. Resolu
tlons were passed opposing' four specific
provisions of the new draft:
Legalizing tho eight-cent exchange
tickets ;
Suggestions of the abolition of the free
transfers with an Increase In tho fare ;
Guarantee, of 6 per cent on the capital
stock, of the Philadelphia. IUpld Transit
Company, and
Provision for the appointment of a
supervising board of three men.
George D. II. Swift, secretary of the
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: Until they had been discussed more at
length.
Guy L. Abe'r presided at the meeting
hld In the Fortieth Ward. Tho resolutions
were adopted without delay, Thoy follow:
Ttosolved. That .we, tha free and Inde
pendent citizens of the Fortieth Vinl.
" .'assembled this 27th day of August, 1917,
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ciare opposition to me new irunii lease
a belnr aralnat the best Interests' of
p -Piladdphla ; and be It further
(' '-Iteaoired', That the secretary be In-it-rfatr'ueted
to notify Mayor Smith and the
N ' i" TiownnanerB of the action taken by the
'independent citizens of the Fortieth
l "Ward ; and be It further
i Resolved, That w deman4 Uie ollmlna-
"Uen.oi tho three-cent exenange as soon
Mm. possible"; and wanta straight five-cent
m wlMtree Uansfert",
A cony of thete.. resolutions was given to
- lUyor Smith thls;afterfioon.
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PHIADELPHIAN MAKES
ESCAPE FROM GERMANS
Edward L. Weatherhcad, Scots
Fusiliers, Slips Away Safely
From Prison Camp
Following two years' confinement Iri a
German prison camp, during which time
he worked as n laborer In a cement cmurry,
Privato Edward I.. Weatherhcad, of the
P.oyal Scot Fusilier.", a former resident of
018 Friendship street, Iturholme, this city,
has escaped and made IiIh way to England,
according to a cable menace r 'feived here.
Ills mother. Mrs. James I.. Weatherhcad,
of IMS Friendship street, and his father, a
Civil War xeleran living at tho Old Sol
diers' Home, at Hampton ltoads, were both
overjoyed to hear of their son's escape.
According to letters received by his
mother from tho prison camp. Weather
head was treated welt by the (Icrmtins until
the entrance of this-country Into the war,
when he ivi put to v.xrk In tho cemtnt
quarry.
Another talo of the hardships endured by
prisoners In the German camps was told
by a Huxslan Foldler In a letter written to
his brother Alexander Relkow. of 241G
Orthodox street, Frankford. Tha letter
escaped the Germiin censorship and arrived
in this city on August 25.
The Foldler states that he was captured
on March 26, 1015, while fighting south of
Augustovo. During the battle, when defeat
seemed certain, he changed his clothing for
a Cerman soldier's uniform. Nevertheless
he was captured and tent to tho German
prison camp,
All prisoners, he said, arc compelled to
work eighteen hours a day cultivating fields,
for which they receive u cup of coffee and
seven cents. Sanitary conditions aro de-
i, rcrlbed as horrible.
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ler Colonel Turner, from the camp nlon,r the Old York Uoad, near Noble .station, is expected soon. The breaking of the camp and preparations to remove men and equipment were accomplished with so little delay
ns were aware that the regiment was about to leave until the last bit of baggage had been loaded on the watting cars. The picture above shows tho camp in process of demolition.
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PRESIDENT WILL LEAD
DRAFT DEMONSTRATION
Will March Down Pennsylvania Avenue
at Head of Capital's New
Army Quota
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2R. President "Wil
son will lead thij parade of tho capital's
quota for the new army when they mo
bilize here fur entralumeiil to camp Sep
tember 5.
Tho President's action follows Ills ex
pressed wish that throughout the land mo
bilization day be made a gal.i and patriotic
affair. After marching down Pennsylvania
uvenue with tho young soldiers, he will re
view those who constitute Washington's
first quota.
WHEAT PRICE LIKELY
TO BE FIXED AT 2.30
Rate to Govern Only 1917 Crop Com
mittee Concluding Its Work
Today
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 The Govern
ment wheat price-llxlng committee Is com
pleting Its work this afternoon. Tomorrow
It will announce Its figure for tho 1017
crop expected to bo $2.30 a bushel.
Tho llgure will be based on tho high cost
nt f.nrm Imnlpmentu find ntliAt. nr.nuu.qpAa
(and will not be taken as a basis for prlco
J'l I1C IJIO ciup.
STATE SENATOR SMITH DIES
Legislator Succumbs to Affection of
the Throat
L'tnte Senator William Wallace Smith,
son of former Mayor Smith, Is dead In tho
Jefferson Hospital as u result of a throat
nffoctlon, for which, ho had been taking
treatment for several months, He was
forty-six years old. The funeral will bo on
Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at the Smith
home, 4131 North Oroad street.
Senator Smith was graduated from Naz
areth Hall Academy in 1887. He served as
a baseball umpire for two years and then
became associated with his father-in-law,
Thomas Johnson, making printing special
ties for the textile trade. Later ho became
pi trident of the Lynwood Manufacturing
Company. He was elected to the State Sen
ate In 1014 as candidate of the Republican
and Washington parties.
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Swedes "Desperate" Front Hunger
LONDON, Aug. 28. A serious domestic
situation is confronting Sweden, due to
the exploitation of the food supply by pro
Germans and the Industrial stagnation, nc
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Swedish working classes are described an
"being ''desperate from hunger." Famine
conditions, It was said, do not arise from
any natural scarcity, but from the fact that
an aristocratic group. In Swedish court cir
cles, the members of, which are pro-Ger.
man, have been amassing great fortunes
from the clandestine sale of food to Ger
many. Contract for Fifty Submarines
, Wauhwoton; au. ji,iv i. und,r.
HOoa.tnai un javy department has closed
a cotrt;lr 'fifty ;ttnarls with the
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NEGRO DOCTORS PLAN
TO AID IN WAR CRISIS
Surgeon General Gorgas Will
Address Nineteenth Annual
Convention Tomorrow
Plans for Immediate co-operation with
the Government both here and "somewhere
In Trance" were considered nt tho opening
session of the nineteenth annual meeting
of tho National .Medical Association, com
prising negro physlc.ans, dentists and phai
maclsts from a. dozen State", which con
vened today In the Southwest Hranch of the
Y. M. ' , 1724 Christian ptreet. Thorn
aro about 300 delegates litre and many
mote aro expected tomorrow. The conven
tion will adjourn late Thursday afternoon.
IV. E. W. Dlrd, of Virginia, president of
tlin organization, said that after n dire
ful review of the sanitary eruditions and
mortality throughout states where large
populations of negroes abound, he found
that deaths were more uunierou.M among
negroes than whiles,
BROTHER OF MRS. BEW
WINS ARMY COMMISSION
Charles W. Bergner, Son of
Brewer, Will Go to France as
2d Lieutenant of Artillery
Among the Phlladelphlans shortly to sail
for service In France is Charles William
Hergner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustavus W.
Ilrrgner. Mr. Hergner Is a well-known
brewer. Young Hergner recently received
his commission ns second lieutenant of
artillery uftcr going through his training
at Fort Niagara. Ha Is u member of the
class of 1010" nt Yale.
Young Hergner is the brother of Mrs,
Jean Hergner Hew. who for the last year,
since her elopement with Hcrton Hew, has
flgurrd In a series of niiK.itlonal after
happenings, Involving court proceedings It
was claimed by Hew that his young wife'
had been kidnapped by her father and kept
from him. He filed proceedings on tho last
occasion on ncc-unt of military regulations
mat were Keeping mm fro mcnllstlng with
out formal guarantee that his wife would
be supported during his service.
One of the reasons udvnnced by young
Hew for his father-in-law's refusal was that
ho was unpatriotic and did not want Hew
to servo his country. At tho time friends of
Mr. Hergner retorted that Charles William
Hergner, son of Gustavus Heigner, at that
time In training nt Fort Niagara, was tho
best answer to Hew.
OWN MOVIES TO DIVERT
PHILADELPHIA TROOPS
Six Motion Tieture Machines Purchased
From Leisure Hour
Fund
Six ical live motion-picture machines,
destined to thrill tho hearts of a'x Phila
delphia regiments of tho National Guard,
made Joyous exit from the office of tho
Mayor's homo defense comtnltteo today.
They aro the glfta of the Soldiers' Leisure
Hour Fund, which during the last two
months at headquaitors, 201 City Hall, has
grown from JO.00 to $6075.00 Mrs. M. L.
Woodruff, secretary of tho fund, has ar
ranged thnt the picture machines be fed
through the regular avenue of the film ex
change. The machines were sent to the First In
fantry, at Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets;
tho Second Artillery, Camp Hancock,
Augusta, Ga.; Thirty-third Infantry. Bv.
wood, Pa. ; First Cavalry. Thirty-third and
Lancaster avenue; Field Bakery, Broad
and Filbert streets, and the Philadelphia
unit of the Sixth Heglment, at Gurretford
road. They .are packed so that they may be
safely carried to Franco as soon as tho
call to go comes to tho boys.-
Ton'ght there will bo movies nt the First
Infantry, at Thirty-fourth and Spruce
streets. Chaplain G, P, Futcher, who has
worked hard for the fund, will be manager.
Films tonight and for the next two nights
will be shown through ther courtesy of the
Stanley company.
BRISTOL TO BUILD
40 BIG FREIGHTERS
U. S. Government Announces
Largest Separate Contract
for City on Delaware
WORK FOR THOUSANDS
Forty 9000-ton freight steamships are
to be built for the 1'nlted States Govern
ment by the Merchant Shipbuilding Cor
poration at Bristol, I'll., according to nn
official announcement.
The order menus u big boom for tho city
of lli-lstn) Itself, and Is said to be the
largest yet placed by the 1'incrgency Fleet
Corporation with any single concern.
Thousand') of men In and about Bristol
will be hired for the work In tho near fu
ture. Tho freighters are to be rushed to
completion within eighteen months.
W. Averlll Hnrrimnn flgned the con
tracts In New York for the Merchant Cor
poration, which he organized and controls.
The corporation not only operates tho
new shipyard at Bristol, but also the Ches
ter company, purchnsed recently from C
P. M. Jack, a Philadelphia consulting en
gineer, who now Is employed ns consult
ing expert for both the Ilatrlinan com
rallies. Twenty-eight freighters now nre under
conitructlon at the Chester plant.
W. T. Thomas, general manager, nnd
Charles P. M. Jack, consulting engineer of
the Chester Shipbuilding Company, and of
tho Merchants' Shipbuilding Corporation,
tlie two llrms under control ol the Harrl
man Interests, nre In New York today In
consultation with "W. AVerlll llarrlinan.
Tho offices of tho two companies on tho
eighth floor of tho Finance Building are
busy on the construction of the extra ways,
dolphins nnd bulkhead line for tho exten
sion of the Chestor yatil and the ways and
equipment of tho Bristol yard, which Is
now under construction,
Tho Chester shipbuilding yard had six
ways when Mr. Harrlman acquired it ; It
now tins ten, and further extensions and Im
provements nre going forwnrd. The Ches
ter plant Is at work on twenty-eight indi
vidual contracts for fabricated steel fi eight-en--,
originally entered Into with private In
dividuals and shipping companies, nil of
which, however, have been taken over by
tho Government.
The Bristol plant has twelve ways, and It
Is expected that tho first keel will bo laid In
three months or less. Mr. Harrlman intends
to have tho last of tho forty freighters In
commission within eighteen months.
The contract was negotiated on ti dif
ferent basis from previous contracts for
ships entered Into by the Government. The
Emergency Fleet Corporation leases the
Bristol yard, plant nnd facilities outright,
nnd employs tho company simply ns Its
operative agent to build the ships for a. fixed
fee.
Tho vessels, however , although generally
resembling tho standard steel freighters de
signed by tho Kmergency Fleet Corporation,
will be built to designs of tho Mci chant
Corporation. The president, (Mr. Harrlman
Is chairman of tho hoard,) Is It. II. M.
Robinson, one of tho best known naval
architects of tho United States, who was
formerly n constructor In the navy. lib
Is an Intlmato friend nnd associate of Bear
Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bureau of
Construction, and himself has designed and
built several battleships.
The designs for tho freighters were pre
paicd under Air. Robinson's personal nuper
vlMon, and Include a number of special
features not possessed by tho standard
types. They will be of eleven knots' speed.
PERSHING SENDS TWENTY
FIVE MEN BACK TO U. S.
Americans Returned Because of Fraud
ulent Enlistment and Other
Causes
WASHINGTON, Aug, 28, Between twen-ty-fiye
and forty men who sought service In
Franco with Perehlng's forces have been
returned to thla country because of fraudu
lent enlistment, extreme youth or other dis
qualifications which th nien, failed to men
tion In their enllstmnt blanks:
Fourteen ease of mumpa report! mhbi
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HOT FOR DRAFT AGITATORS
Must Go to Prison or Increase Bonds
to $47,000
NKW YORK, Aug, 28, Alexander Berk
man, anarchist; Louis Kramer and Morris
Becker, nntl.draft agitators, will he sent
to Atlanta Federal Penitentiary next Tues
day unless they furnish ball pending the
hearing of their case by the United States
Supremo Court. This wns announced by
Federal Judge Mayer hero this afternoon.
The three prisoners are held In the
Tombs because of failure to raise bonds
totaling 47,pOO.
English Socialists Meet in London
LONDON. 'Aug. 28. Socialists from all
parts of the United Kingdom gathered hero
today for the two-day Interallied Socialist
conference at Westminster. British Social
ists had previously drawn up peace condi
tions calling for no annexations and tho
contribution by nil belligerents to u com
mon fund to repair the ravages wrought
by the war,
Radio Students to Give Smoker
Students of the radio school jf the
United States navy reserve force will give
a Bmoker and entertainment In tho Park
way Building. Broad and Cherry streets.
Friday night. Funds raised probably will
be used to buy "smokes" for tho American
soldiers In France.
Sugar Drops to 8 1-3 Cents Wholesale
Granulated sugar has been reduced from
814 to 8 1-3 Cents a pound, wholesale, uc
cordlriK.to.an official of the Philadelphia
branch Of th PepntylyAnU Sugar Iteflnln
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CAREY TRYING TO WIN
JEWS, SAYS DEUTSCH
Councilman Accuses Rival Can
didate of Unfair Tactics in
Fifth Ward
"Caiey Is trying to discredit me with
the Jewish people of the Fifth Ward and
with the other business people of tho ward
by accusations he and his followers have
been making regarding the use of the
police In the contest for Councils here."
This was the answer of Select Council
man Isaac Deutsch, Varo candidate for
renonilnatlon on the Republican ticket In
the "bloody" Fifth Ward, today to the
many charges which are being made
against tho Vnre faction and against the
l)llce of the Thlid nnd Do I.ancey streets
station. Deulsch was outrp ilten In his con.
demnatlon of tho methods bn'ng employed
by the McNIehol-Cnrey faction. He pre
dicted he would be nominated by u big
majority because, he said, "I am the choice
of the business people of the ward." Carey
Is tho McNIcliol councllniaulc candidate.
Answering the statement of Harry Kcss
lcr, cigar dealer, nt 238 Spruce street, that
PoJIce Lieutenant Bennett, of tho Third and
De Lahcey streets i.tatlon, and Deutsch of
fered to protect him In n gambling house If
he supported Deulsch, Lieutenant Bennett,
at Deutsch's meat shop, 305 South street,
today Mild that ho had threatened to raid
Kessler's place of business instead of offer
ing to protect It. Deutsch said he had noti
fied Captain Harry Davis, Assistant Super
intendent of Police, that he suspected there
wns gambling at Kessler's storo so that
Davis could send special detectives, not
known In the district, to Investigate.
Special Policeman Wlitshuflcr, who was
sent to the Third and Do I.ancey streets
station less than a week ago, was with
Lieutenant Bennett when ho arrived at
Deutsch s meat store. Mo said no saw
money and card playing on tho tables at tho
cigar store, and that after he reported
to Lieutenant Bennett tho latter had told
Kessler ho would close his shop If he got
additional evidence that gambling was going
on there.
Deutsch Fald tho Caicy . .. ...o six
men registered from US Lombard street
for the primaries, whllo only one actually
lives there. At tlin Republican League one
of Deutsch's men furnished a lift of names
of men registered nt the Lombard street
address as Frank Hllferty, James Splcer,
John Foley, Thomas McGulrc, Arthur Mc
Gonlgle nnd Oeorlge Conley.
Mrs. Rebecca Halfus, who runs a room
ing house at 118 Lombard street, said
James Splcer has rented a room from her
for about five years, but during that time
he had not lived there steadily, though he
was frequently there, sho Bald. The other
llvo did not llvo nt her house. She vald
they might have been visitors with Splcer
nt times.
Referring to the assertions of the Carey
henchmen that In asking tho County Com
missioners to remove the polling place from
the house of Mrs. Helen Gallop, DeuUeh Is
taking the fee, $05 n year, from a poor
widow, Deutsch said Mrs. Gallop was
drawing n widow's pay from the Firemen's
Pension Fund nnd that two of her sons
wero employed as firemen. He said that nn
assertion that Mrs, Rose Asklns, whoso
poolroom at 027 Lombard street, Is now
tho polling place, Is n poor widow Is "more
Carey bunk, ns sho Is worth at least
$10,000," and that Meyer Michaels, her son-In-hiw,
Is n clerk In tho County Controller's
olflce.
Deutsch said that not only did his repre
sentatives not Interfere with tho Rumanian
Jewish synagogue, nt Fourth nnd Spruce
streets, Sunday night, but that ho In person
nan ontaiiKii ine permit tor leaning the celo
bratlon. Lieutenant Bennett, who was pres
ent when this was held, declared that ho
did not intcrfero with tho celebration, as
charged by Carey. Special Policeman
"Wlrtshafter said Leo "Welntraub, a leader
of the congregation, had admitted to him
that flie wires to the church wero not cut,
as he originally Intimated, by Bennett or hln
representatives, but that ho blew a fuse,
thus Interrupting the meeting.
"Carey Is circulating all of these various
stories hi n last attempt to save the elec
tion when he sees that lie Is beaten," de
clared Deutsch, This was his parting
thrust ut his opponent us ho hurried nway
to attend a committee of tho South Street
Business Men's Association, of which ho Is
president.
Herks Pays for Frcejng Turnpikes
RMADING, Pit.. Aug. 28. Kdwln C, Gery,
county treasurer, today sent to Harrlsburg
n check for J9720, Berks County's share
In the freeing of the turnpikes between this
city und Harrlsburg. Dauphin, Lebanon
and Berks County pay a proportionate
share. The turnpike Is to bo freed on Sep
tember 1, when nil of the old toll gate land
marks Will be swept out of existence and
nutolsts between Reading nnd Harrlsburg
will no longer be required to pay from Pfty
cents to l for travellnc flfty-elght miles.
Prowned Girls' Bodies Recovered
The- bodies of the two iglris who were
victims pt the triple drowning In the Dela
ware River last Sunday were recovered to
day. The body of Margaret Kunts, nine
years" old', 3270 Gdgemont street, was found
nt tbo foot of the Westmoreland street per.
Two. hours later the bodyuof Cecilia Kunfi,.
.uffiMUMMii' tuubmmmiMmttK
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CEMETERY PROMOTER
HELD AS "DRAFT FOE"
Chief Cortelyou Scores Man Who
Tries to Sell Burial Lots to
National Army Soldiers
Distribution of circulars urging drafted
men to prepare for death by buying beauti
ful cemetery lots got "W. J. Webb, of Cam
bria street near Thirteenth, Into trouble
with tho Federal authorities today.
chief Postal Inspector James Cortelyou,
und Postal Inspector Samuel O. "Wynn ar
rested Webb. United States Commissioner
Long held him In $2000 ball for court on a
charge of violating the espionage law.
Webb, according to toitlmony, sent the
objectlonablo circulars to thirty-six drafted
men nf tho Thirty-first Ward, Kensington,
whose names he found in a newspaper.
"Tho country at this tlmo is being
flooded with the most damnable literature,"
said Chief Cortelyou, "but this Is the worst
of all. H Is worse than any tho Socialists
have sent out."
Tho circulars dwelt upon the possibility
of death In the war and urged men to pre
pare for burial, expatiating upon tho beau
ties 6f the cemetery nnd advising purchase
of lots therein. Attractive terms were of
fered, provision having been made, accord
ing to testimony, for men to buy on the In
stalment plan as houses nre bough.
The circulars, according to Inspector
Cortelyou, tended strongly to depress tho
minds of men addressed and tempt them to
avoid service, Frank H. Longshore, secre
tary of the Twenty-sixth District draft
board, sitting at Collins and Cumberland
streets, had complained bitterly nbout tho
distribution of the circulars to men In the
district. Ho got hold of somo of tho clr-
nnlfirtl unrl tttrnAil tlmm rvw in tha Vmlnml
authorities, Webb's arrest resulting.
FIRST U. S. MARINE KILLED
IN ACCIDENT JN FRANCE
Second Lieutenant Frederick Wahlstion
Fractures Skull as Result of Fall
From Motorcycle
NF.W YORK, Aug. 28. Second Lleuten
nnt Frederick Wahlstion, of the United
States marine corps, has been killed In a mo
torcycle accident "somewhere In France," ac
cording to a cablegram received today at
marine headquarters here. Death was
caused by a fractured skull. This Is the
first marine corps casunlty reported.
Wnhlrtlon's next of kin Is a cousin, Ed
ward Hajrman, of Worcester, Mn's, Tho
message telling of his death camo from
Colonel Doyen, commanding tho marines
In Pershing's army.
Wahlstion was one of tho best marks
men In tho sorvlco and was formerly an
Instructor In electrical engineering at tho
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
GIRL, ACCUSED OF THEFT,
SWALLOWS A LETTER
She and Companion, Both From Balti
more, Stolo From Stores, Police
Charge
Mattle Butler, a pretty g,,, nineteen
years old, who said she lived In Baltimore
chewed up a letter containing sovoral ad
dresses nnd swnllowcd It so the detectives
who arrested hep and her fri.i .hu...
Johnson, twenty-three years old, also of
Baltimore, on tho chargo of shoplifting
might not learn her proper nddress or anyl
thing else concerning them, police assert
The girls wero arrested by Detcctivo
Prague, yesterday, nfter they had stolon It
Is charged, mnterlal valued at $01,25 from
one department store and $54.85 from an.
other store. Magistrate Collins, at tlie Ccl.
tral station, today held the defendants in
$000 ball for a further hearing '.The Twirls
wero well dressed, mid the police are. In
cllned to think that they conic from gooj
families nnd that they had a longing for
expensive lingerie, which was about the
1'iuiwii'ui iiiiiik in wieir collection.
PATRON ENTERS SUIT
AGAINST RITZ-CARLTON
. .
,$25,000 Damages .Asked by Charles H.
Oldham for Alleged Fjtisef
Arrest 4 '
Some unpleasantness betWeoVithe.Rltz.
Carlton Hotel and Charles H. Oldham- In
which Oldham, It Is said, had the better of
the argument, resulted In a suit ugalnst the
hotel for $25,000 damages today.
Oldham, the plaintiff, alleges that the
.hotel wrongfully prosocutod him for failure
to pay u $384,55 restaurant and bar bill in
1015. After he was held In jail V days
he saj, he was discharged. '
Royal Arcanum Order Stands
.n?STON. Aug !J.-.The United states
Circuit Court, of Appeals today denied the
petition of Artnur U JHobart. of BriKJ
5i'tXiJiL"-"i r
WHmxsm
SECOND ARTILLERY
RAZES CAMP; HELD
Soldiers Ready to Leave
Noble When Order Comes
to Stay
EXPECT TO LEAVE SOON
After breaking camp today In record time
when orders camo to start for Camp
Hnneock, near Augusta, Ga,, tho Second
Pennsylvania Field Artillery was detained
at Camp Wanamaker, nt Noble, this after
noon by orders from tho Department of the
Fast headquarters nt Governor's Island.
The message to Colonel Hamilton B. Turner,
commander of tho regiment. Instructed him
not to proceed south until further orders.
Indications are that tho unit will not get
away until Iato tonight or tomorrow.
The reason for the delay Is not known
hero. Colonel Turner had no Information
and would venture no guess.
When the order to postpone departure ar
rived every tent had been razed and all the
guns nnd other equipment packed on freight
trains of the Rending Railway. The men
were all ready to start and were awaiting
tho arrival of the troop trains. The railway,
however, received Instructions not to send
tho trains to Noblo until further notice.
Should the order to entrain be delayed
overnight the men probably will unload dog
tents from the trains.
Tho order to moe was received last night.
Dawn tod.iy found nearly all of the 250
tents that had formed Camp Wanamker
razed and packed on Reading Railway
freight cars. By noon the entire regiment
was ready to leave, but delay on tho part
of tlie railroad in furnishing the troop
trains may prevent departure until late thin
afternoon,
,,T.he umt' ns "ow constituted, Includes
1191 men. 160 horses and twenty big guns
of the 4.7-howltzer class. It Is commanded
by olonel Hamilton D. Turner.
News that tho regiment had been ordered
to depart swiftly filtered Into the city, and
soon after daylight a great throng of rela
tlves, frlcndj and sweethearts of the sol
diers had nssembled to witness the passing
or the camp. It wo- estimated that be
tween 12,000 and 13,000 spectators crowded
about the camp site. Cheers for the artil
lerymen were frequent, loud and prolonged.
Among the scores that pleaded for permis
sion to pass through tho lines for a word of
tarewell to some loved one, was a man of
elghty.flve, who had Journeyed from Allen
town for a final handshake with several
boys who had been his neighbors. He gave
nis name as August Fehwapapenwalt.
proudly calling attention to tlie fact that he
is Pennsylvania Dutch. He said that this
class of German-Americans has no sym
pathy with Prusslanlstu. He was allowed
to enter the camp and visit his friends.
L'nthuslasm of the highest pitch gripped
soldiers nnd spectators alike. Flags were
waved and cheers rang out as each of the
huge howitzers was placed aboard a freight
car. "There goes the terrible stuff,'"calld
i woman In the throng as a squad of
khakl-clad youths bent their backs to the
task of shoving one of tho formidable four-point-sevens
up the Incline to a car.
"Yes." replied the soldiers, "they nre the
death-dcalers."
SHOPKEEPER VS. SHOPLIFTER
Haberdasher Holds Man After Battle
From Storo to Street
Atfer a battlo which carried hint strug
gling out of his store Into the midst of the
Chebtnut street throng, John F. Bush, ot
Marshall & Bush, haberdashers, 1018 Chest
nut street, today caused the arrest of an
alleged shoplifter. The prisoner gave his
name as Harry Lyons, twenty-nine years
old, and said he lived on Eighteenth street
above York. The police Bay he Is R fugitive
,..... , .P,w(mlUry m isow ions fliw
IIo wan held by Muglstrato Co .linn, in Cen-
-.i .....iiujj, in ouu nan tor trial.'
Mr. Bush said ho detected the man try
'"f to stuff several silk shirts under hit
belt. The merchant made u flying tacklo at
Lyons, but the latter fought so hard for
Iherty that tho two reeled out of the store
Into the crowd of. passersby, Mr. Bush
m,naRed to hold llls captive until Reserve
l olleeman Irons arrived and took him In
charge.
KELLY (WELSH) REMANDED
Blanche Gray, Alias. Mrs. Welsh,' Re
fuses to Drop Chargo
Harry' Kelly, alias John Welsh, was f
manded under $2000 ball and his habeas
SJ"!.? at,on for release failed when
?!?. .hie Sf11 a,las Mre- John Welsh, of
Atlantlo City, refused to drop prosecution
t ,mior, a,lese! complicity In a robbry
qf which she was the victim.
rh said Kelly let two men rob her of
, ? J Acl s?me weeks ft- Jude Bar
Keil'vi i,,?,Uar"r Sessions Court, reduced
Jvellys ball from $3000 to $2000.
Baltimore Salesman Seeks Death
wristVluhUl; Au'" Me-Siashfhif his
wrists with, a pooketknlfs .an Ubblrur