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Garfield .Says He Will Get
Fuel to Hospitals in 24
Hours, if Necessary
L URGES PUBLIC PATIENCE
Wants Time to Form Own Plana
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There Is no cause for alarm, he said,
ni he urged rhlladelphlans to bo patient
oatll the tentative rates are announced by
Ike Government on October 1.
Doctor Garfleld, when told that eeoral
i hMDlUls and public institutions were In
' rreit need of coal and that several of
Rim hud Intimated they would have to
close their doors unless immedtato relief
ru forthcoming, promised drastlo meas
ures He said:
"If any hospital or other publlo Institu
tion finds itself In dimculty, all It needs to
. t, to send word to mo. I personally will
... that the situation is remedied within
Jl.ntv.foui hours after I hao receleved
f notice of tho predicament"
' ... r.nrflcM said he would announce
(1, name of tho State fuel administrator
lor Pcnnsjlvanla next week
"I feel Dr. Garfleld has aided us to a
..M.xiblo extent and that wo will bo In
noaltlon to obtain all the coal wo need
itew-rd 0f the Norrlstown Hospital, said.
"It Philadelphia and cery othor city
1P rive us a chance to make our plans first
before they send us a delegation," said Dr.
nM "Whn our nlana aro made known.
ii tha citizens are not satisfied, then Is tho
time to send their representathes. How-
erer u rnuaaeipnia 19 uniiuun iu scuu na
boilness representatives to Washington to
confer with me, I will bo iery slad to seo
tlem and to co-operato with them in any
iny that may be possible
The chief trouble Is that in this event
ImV I '" probably bo overwhelmed by a series
I Wf k AMmlttaa mpAtlnffa nnrl will h linnhlA
to cope with the situation at tho time of
the public hearings, as tho more time 1
Uke to meet committees the more time will
tt taken from the attention I can devote
to the Government'!! side of tho affair.
It only Phlladelihlans will be patient
tntll I can give all tl.eso matters my at
tention I feel sure they will be satisfied
I certainly hope that every one will bo
benefited, and of course wo must take Into
consideration both tho retailer and mine
operators and, all others concerned, bo as to
obtain an impartial lowpolnt Eory one
will be dealt with in a fair nnd equitable
way, at least as much so as It lies within
wr power to do so,"
GOVERNOR. AWAKE AT LAST,
PLANS FOR NEW MILITIA
After Four Months' Delay, Brumbaugh
Begins to Get Ready
for Force
JIARniSBUrtO Pa, Sept. 19. Governor
Brumbaugh yesterday, four months after
the Legislature pro Ided tho means for tho
orfranliatlon of the militia rsere of Penn
sylvania, took tho first strps toward this
organization Tho ret.enn Is to replace
the National Guard, which has -now left the
State.
A conference was held by tho Governor
with Colonel F D Beary Acting- Adjutant
General, relative to the rcvrve which will
consist of three regiments of Infantry nnd
one squadron of caa!ry.
The units, nccordlncr to tho Governor,
will be located where there are State armo
ries, and renrefntatlo men in these com
munities will be selected to form the or
tinliatlon if former National Guard com
manders cannot be found to do tho work.
"The preliminary details " nald the Gov
ernor, "are In the hands of Colonel Deary,
who Is now working 'hfm out " In a. short
time there will be a statement mndn show
ing where the new commands will be lo
cated.'1 The unexpended National Guard appro
priation, barely touched since the new fiscal
year started In Juno, will be available tor
equipment
Lay Cornerstone of Bank Building
The cornerstone for the $200,000 new
building of the Northwestern National
Bank, at Broad street and Talrmount ave
nue, has been laid. Tho building, which
Is to be sixty feet high, will be deotcd
entirely to the bank's business.
FEW coal dealers throughout the country have-had at any time
this year a sufficient supply of coal on hand to fill their cus
tomers' bins.
Every absolute need for coal must be supplied. Nearly as
many tons of coal must be delivered this year to the consumer as in
former years, but necessarily must now be delivered to the indi
vidual coal bin more frequently and rapidly than ever before.
Coal must be constantly and equitably distributed as fast as
itis being consumed. It is too late in the season for a railroad
carload of coal to. be apportioned to any one consumer it must
be divided and delivered to many. Coal dealers and consumers
must co-operate in making and accepting deliveries of coal more
frequently and in smaller quantities.
Our two-ton power dump coal motor truck wiN solve the
coal-distributing problem this fall and winter more efficiently and
effectively than any other distribution.device that we know of.
THE AUTOCAR COMPANY, Ardmore, Penna.
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From tho orch of Eitel Fritz's little one-room birch observatory
tho Evening Ledger war correspondent witnessed tho wanton burn
ing by tho Germans of St Quentin Cathedral, easily discernlblo only
a fow kilometers away.
CATHEDRAL OF ST. QUENTIN
POINTS ACCUSING FINGER
Sacred French Edifice, Now Mute Monument to
Teuton "Schrecklichkeit," Must Be Remembered
in Pinal Accounting With Riithlessness
By HENRI BAZIN
Staff Corrtnrondfnt of the Vvnina Ledger vtth
ii0 American
TOTTH TIIU FREXCH ARJIIUS IN TUG
TIELD, Auir 2
We have another deep score to remember
when tho Allien come to settling with the
barbarians, I mean tho Cathedral of St.
Quentin.
I camo over from a vision of thn battle
of Loos this afternoon on a long journey
to the Dots do l'Abeyc, near a tiny placo
called Fallowal, which I Ulted In April at
tho tlmo of my first trip Into the devastated
region. I mounted for the second tlmo tho
winding- steps lendlnit to KItel Fritz's llttlo
one-roomed rustle birch observatory stand
ins upon a high elevation commanding tho
country for miles around From Its porch,
standing directly before tho doorway, over
which 13 carved "Hubcrtus Haue," I had
looked upon St Quentin four monthi ngo
and at tho- Intact cathedral. This evening
I saw It a mass of flamo in the near dis
tance, witnessing distinctly this additional
Bocho sacrilege through a groat trlpodtd
glass
Tho cathedral stands out a dominating
thing In the landscape. As a burning spec
tacle it was the true sight of a lifetime.
As an cll deed, it-r burning ranks with the
bombardment of more beautiful Reims.
St Quentin I had visited four years ago
when it was my happlne-s to study French
Gothic for a specific writing purpose. It
had a splendor and an Imposing dimen
sion ecjual with greater edifices In the
samo stylo to bo found throughout France
Its nave, about thirty feet less In length
than that of Amiens, and as wldo nnd
almost as high ns Notre Dame do Paris,
was cut architecturally into two transepts,
forming thus In whole tho outline of nn
archleplscopal cross This In Itself was
a rare thing In French Gothic, and as I
remember without looking up tho historical
facts, to bo found nowl.cro else save In
the ancient ruins of the church at Cluny
From without. Its high roofs dominated
thn town nnd Indeed the entire vnlley of
I tho Somme, presenting on nspect of great
UCIV VOIlK NEWARK
KvTBNING LEMEBr-PHILADBLPHIA; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 19,
VISITS LODGE OF KAISER'S SOtf
Army tn france
antiquity In nn interesting beauty of style
and dignity.
St Quentin was built In tho years be-
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tween 1230 nnd 1257. Its designing was
due to the art of Vlllard do Honnecourt,
the celobrnted architect of tho time. Its
nave was an admirable thing, and the light
ing from Its windows on the same general
order as Reims. Like the latter. It hnd
preserved In the Interior sense, much of Its
ancient richness In carving, nnd was orna
mented with superb glass datlnc through
tho thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
conturles. Many of its frescoes were pure
moyen age, and a treat portion of Its in
terior sculpture was painted nnd gilded
upon the stone. Time had given this decora
tion a mellowness beyond words Gothic
grills in hand tooled Iron abounded within
It and there wore a number of mortuary
monuments. In particular the magnificent
marble sarcophagus contaJnlnff the bones of
St Quentin.
For months wo hare been reading" thrtrach
German papers that the Frenoh and Kngllsh
armies were mutilating and bombarding
the cathedral, and for that reason Its many
trft&sures had been removed to Germany.
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We have thus known It haa been pillared,
since It Is a matter or record that no single
French shell ever reached the cathedral,
and also, that this was expressly a spectflo
order from the French high command.
Now, with doubtUss all lta Interior
movable beauties carted away, the Boches
have set It on fire. They cannot blame an
allied shell, since the city of Bt Quentin
has not been under direct Are for months.
It Is simply and purely another evidence of
German vandalism, another addition to the
many churches, great and small, from
Reims 'to the most modest of village houses
consecrated to God, that have been de
stroyed by these evil Invaders from over
the Rhine.
As at Reims, nothlnir In the necessities
of warfare made essential the destruction
of this ancient Cathedral of St Quentin.
Its burning; the great mass of devouring
(lame I have looked upon, la but added evi
dence of what tho Bocho Is, and an added
score to settle nt tho great day to come
when Prusstnnlsm Ii to bo a dead thing at
the feet of the Allied armies.
When I looked upon St Quentin the last
time, a French offlcer took a few amateur
photographs of "Hubertus Ilaus," which I
was unable to secure In print In season to
forward to the Hvenino Leooer with one
of my devastation stories. And since they
were sent to me a few weeks later, I have
thought to toko them from my private col
lection nnd forward thorn with this story.
The very glass I looked through in April
and again yesterday can be seenf It is
pointing dlreotly toward the cathedral a
few kilometers away, and, of course, Is not
seen In the photograph.
DOCTOR SUED FOIt $10,000
Alleged to Ilnvo Failed to Find Wound
From Which Boy Died
LANCASTHR, Pa., Sept 16. A damage
suit for flO.ooo has been brought here
against Dr. W. B. Tome, of Kllzaheth
town by Arthur A. Iloltz, of mizabcthtown.
Dr Tomo n"ided the plaintiffs young son,
who wai ill, and. It Is snld, failed to Uli-
it he nan accidentally Biiot mniBeit
revolver and wan concealing his
wound
The child died nnd damages aro claimed
m the ground that the physician should
have discovered the wound and provided a
remedy for It
Two Killed by Blast
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Sept 19-Whlle
tamplifg a nolo Into which dynamite was to
be placed to break up the concrete mass In
the bottom of a furnace which was out of
blast at the Swedeland plant of the Alan
Wood Iron and Stoel Company, John Carr
and Andy Roshko were blown to pieces by
a premature blast
Now the Days 'Hl
Are Here For .B
We are manufacturing and
pianos today
done, butthereisno Joker lurking
in our offers, nor do we, by juggling
with words, endeavor to mystify the buyers
or try to make them believe they are get
ting something for nothing.
fl Merchants, finding the piano business slow, call up the manager of
that department. They confer as to what stimulant would most likely
prove successful, but usually resort to the old time-worn subterfuge of
using the name of a piano which had a reputation before the concern
went into the hands of the receivers for adjustment; but to make them
appear worthy of your confidence, they are still stenciled the old name,
although made by some one else, and carry with them the indorsements
of Xaver, Philipp, Moritz, Homer, Louis and Emma. We wonder if
these indorsers are requested to call each week to draw their salaries
and protect the public from those peculiar dealers.
q And don't the dealers by their advertising admit they do not understand tho
business that they are engaged in? If they did, why employ outsiders to confer
with them. Every manufacturer of an article of any kind knows that they are
absolutely competent to. pass judgment on construction and durabUity.
191'
Klnfrdon Gould to Be In First Qb&s
TOMS RIVER, N. J Bept 1. Klngdon
Gould, son of George J. Gould, will be
amonr the 169 recruits for the new National
Army whlcTi wilt mobtllte here, pre
paratory to entraining for Camp Dlx,
Wrlghtrtown, today. Mr. Gould requested
he bo Included In the first ruota of 40 per
cent from Ocean County to be sent to the
camp.
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He must have weighed three hundred potmdsl
"Some shoes, these Rivals," he remarked, dis
playing a worn but still efficient pair of elevens.
"Had 'cm half soled twice and thcrc'3 a lot of
wear in 'cm yet."
Three hundred pounds and half soled twiccl
Some shoes, indeed!
RiViqL Skees forVW4-'6
Frch first to Izstand last is upper-Real Shoes
l225M,qRKET Street - 130 flertK au5treet
sport until IO p.m.
as we have always
i We, as manufacturers, indorse, recommend and
absolutely guarantee every piano built in our factory.
If any portion of the instrument is defective in any
way, we take good care it is not marketed under our
name, as our guarantee is absolute, and without
"Jokers" to excuse us from the real responsibility of
our product. '
It Pays To Think
1 1th & Chestnut Streets
Makers of the Famous MatchUta
Cunningham Pianos and Player-Pianoi
Factory, 50th & Parkside Ave
West Phils. Branch
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sixty-one years old, farmer councilman, sMt
official of the Bethlehem Steel Compaaqr,
w ma vicum ci a mysterious snooossi L,W,; 1
late last night, while he was on his &"-'$&
home after seeing the draft parade. Kramw ' " V
was found shot through the left hand a 'i.A; ' - i'JI
abdomen. The nollea are lnreatlntiBie. "V X) 3
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