1 s iln titdgtr SrtfcLIC LSDGE1 COtfAfY CTltW. H. K, CimtUS Imdut I, HWWM, m lHrSfttt John S.lliialu ' j8h "wrwon; EOtTOIUAX. 0ARDt Ct," . Hrlia, Caaknan. JIjBPT"TI. LjjMBW C. MAXTTW..Owwf,l Bwlntt, Managtr .",,fiauaK8.wI5jf ssJa"41"" I. Piatt, . .B p4 Chestnut 8treets 2J,C?',,,', Building: viitiiMtinin .STHrovoiiiB.n Tnwtr g..ip ,"?rt nullum 'tt..ik..llKM Pulltrion IlulMlns t...t.., ..!..,. .1303 THatine Building ynra bureaus t .TUggs BulMlne Ttmt Building; Hauss Mmn4 Louis 1 Qrand BICIpnON TERMS Si.- iTTSftJi Wfi ""n""n towrui at tha CLrtSr " W ' J""'1" .J?,'!'. !S r,a',ioulfl1 ' Phlladalphla. in lJ?Jt'- CAnaoVEr United BUtra pea" wajMj. Kk (M) dollars Mr yaar, payable, In mU& feretsm eeaatrle ona (1) dollar per -.S'IisirfSlirrl wthln address changed at a-fr aid a waft t naw address. Hi, MmVaLNCT KEYSTONE, MAIS 0 H cemtmtmtecilten to F.vtnlng MMr, h t nqwirs, rtuoaticnia. 'A W rntf.iect.ro i a roworricr it INiMUH VUlt, HATTia Tuna W i, , i :;.;,,, i ; Mwlln Ottsbtr 1, HIT MORE BILLIONSPOR LIBERTY npHB campaign to launch the second groat lAtwty Loan logins today. Tho call )a for a. mlnlmusi of three billions. Ton jratm ago tho Immensity of tho sum would' bavo staggered the Imagination. Clue then ovr theories of finance hava ' Uh4arjme radical revision and wa Jiava -Acun to understand that tha, proapr" ef the world has been hand!. i cappejoySy our failure property to tap tho laouraaVof credit and utilize the wealth aa earth for the good and comfort ot go. lnhabMaa4 thereof. If the war does nothing more. It has definitely shown the way to tha achievement of prodigious peaceful undertakings!, tho financing of which a generation ago, or even four years aaa, would have seemed hopeless and tnapoaaible. No man after this 1U .question tho financial feasibility of con structing a- aubway under the English phannet and a transcontinental railway, via Alaska, would cost no more than a week or two of war. We have had tho wealth all along, but have been unable to utillM the evidences of it ful' and com prehnWiy. The war, wr surmise, will prepay. Uta way for tblorsat national and International enterprlae's of' priceless wrUi to the eMBfort and well-being of thahtma mm. XfaMr hi merely money. The nation's ropa tfcfa year will he worth at least two Unions mora tha.1 they were worth hut yv What ! true of crops I3 truo f nsaJMKactures, Vast as are tho national xpaMttMrec, '? do not outrun the I lnjawzn.deei, the nation sucks Mk a- largo part of the ilbod that Is taken from them. ( process W a remarkable one and tlnetly ehcoraglng. But were this not wre avory dollar spent on the. war leav them shores forever, were man who supplies a dollar ever It back; or any Interest upon It, tken the entire amount asked by lOovernment would bo subscribed and sjild Jm a good Investment. (oner i erely money. Man after man gotta Bankrupt and lived to ride In or yachts. There Is alwayB ' to bo got. The world is full 4 It. JKt fw individuals have lost their obarawtar ad got it back. Few have sac ilAoa WalaVaepect and lived to regain forma atoIng, A nation can never be paujsartMd ay offering its cash in defense ot its iafcaltv, It can sink Into nothing- 1 only by making gold Instead of Ideals Ita Idol, Croesus had wealth, but It .vallatt Mm not, and men of Carthage, cfeo Yal their wealth above the liber 1 oftbo Mate, awoke to find that they uatthar wealth nor liberty, but were L'n-afuoeA to Oh condition of slaves. This MKtntry eouM afford to sacrifice every lauoco ot oM that Is in It, every cent income It possesses, and begin again artNtr our ancestors began If it were nec HM-uy to pay auch a price for the ylndlca paj of Um principles which are menaced ftttj-MnA by the conspiracy or Tfcare aro few men who can Hot ta subscribe to the new loan, It U Oa ot medium through which ry uttt aa testify to his Indorse- I T , kfa lovo of country and 1 tfavotMat to Ha Institutions. 0 tajto that a threo-billlon-dollar W at amau thing to ask. It nraaprf4a at all to the con- In a4 blood which the la oaadttaar- We wno can give. loved omm n also end our jjkjra, Mf hap leBJlng or giving avebaen-attained." Isaaertapi that Phila7 t'Ma ana -Mttld set an exam- (aw TMa- pawtry in the prompt. tt ta asvccftpnaaw, far history has tMa str ts Jaial iear In all ftattoneJ maaas g$t, (ha pr. 'rs-iultlng It ts wrt aur while to aUitti iJl-JUJILHSSSB! kFAN'S XONBOK D0CT1IXK dik..n)r) of a MJaaajMaa pi : i'vfiw w I"- rmx apaax fat J'i w of a fnn ai lfL kfr ornment la most frank and reassuring. Ills country la pledged to defend China against aggression, Just aa wo aro pledged to protect South America. He maintain that Japan has no desire to attack Chinese sovereignty nnd that tho door lc open to tho world's trade. Ishll asks us" to "cast out tho devil ot suspicion and distrust." Ills principal message seems to be that all thought of a future possible war between his country and ours should bo abandoned forever, uim wo certainty nave met him nan waj. Distrust of Japan's motives has olwaya been a manufactured product in this country. AVhenover a Congress man wanted to strengthen an argument for more battleships, ho nald, "Look at Japanl" Ho was not concerned for Chlncso sovereignty, and he knew that fighting was no wuy to get trade. But Is was an cuay argument to cry, "Look at Japan!" and the habit was rormco. n li a habit that we are going to cut out, beginning now. TWIN ALLEGIANCES PHILADELPHIA and New York are now engaged In a fight to a finish ,wlth gang autocracy. The issue In both cases Is whether the people are to own their own city or hand it over to a little group of corrupt men. While we nro fighting for democracy abroad wo ure fighting for It at home. Thus the pacIflco-Soc,lallst, that strange hyphen of tho times, is answered Ho has been whining that wo ought to make America safe for democracy while making the world safe for It. But that is what we are trying to do, while he helps tho Kaiser with one hand and tho city gang with tho other. Ho will not vote for Mltchel, Just as ho would not voto for Blankenburg or for Porter. t It may be said that a man has twin allegiances: ono to his country and ono to his city. The two go hand In hand. It is not only civic patriotism, It is na tional patriotism lis well, that demands tho defeat of the gang In November. For the outrages committed by city gangs distract men's attention from their na tional duty. Theso gangs help our ene mies abroad by stirring up dissension at the very time that wo should be most united. EFFECT OF STEEL PRICES ON TRANSIT HAVE never bad much faith In I F SOI some of the extremely high esti mates of the cost of tho new transit sys tem. Mr. Taylor has averred that wltn reasonable caro In the awarding of con tracts It would be posslblo to keep far below the cost on which recent calcula tions have been made. In view of the prlcesafor steel recently fixed by the Gov ernment, which may bo considered maxi mum prices for some time to come, would It not bo worth the while of tho Depart ment ftf PltV TVnnsIt in nrnnnra nan, nc tlmates? Deficits that nro so much tnlked about result In large part from prospec- tlvo abnormally high cost of construction. If we can get tho first cost back to a rea sonable figure, we may get tho leaso ne gotiation back also to a reasonable basis. METHOD IN GERMAN MADNESS KITCHENER at the beginning of the war asked Parliament to authorize tho enlistment of 500,000 men, which seemed so trivial a preparation, begun at the eleventh hour to head oft Germany's countless legions, that Matthias Erzber ger broke Into loud guffaws. Ho wrote: Germany will be enchanted when this halt million advance against us. We wilt put pome old military man. so de crepit that he can hardly Bit on his horse, In command of a squadron of seml-lma-lids, and he will soon capture all these English and turn them over to a Barnum to be shown at fairs as the .atest wonder of tho world 1 But Great Britain has raised nearly 5,500,000 men and her dominions another 1,000,000 for the British army. So there must be a new Joke, the American army. Says the Lelpzlger Neueste Nachrlchten: Heally, any one who has seen parts of the regular army of the Americans and knows something of the modern history of these braves Is reminded of Falstaff's Ouards. Hlndenburg Will make short work of the recrultH and volunteers from the other side of the great pond should there be time enough to enable them to bs trained. Conscientious and cautious study enables us to say that we need not overestimate the American danger. And now Von Tlrpltz Informs the Hun garlans that America's army is a phan tom and that -oil Gentral Europe has to do is to hold fast while tho U-boats win tho war, 'although1 Her knows that the U-boat campaign Is n failure. But It' would" b'e most" unwise" 'to dls miss this talk as mere froth. There Is method in the madness of these state ments. They prove that It Is the inten tion of the German ruling class to deceive the people to the end. They prove that what We have before us Is no mere flour ish of arms, but some very real and ter rible fighting. The masters of Germany know their country is beaten, but they are only concerned for themselves. .It is their own future they are fighting for. If they made peace now on reasonable terms they would see- their own power gone. Bather than that they will prefer to see Germany so crippled and hu miliated that she will not have spirit enough left to ask for self-government. They are not waiting for the Allies to wear themselves out They are waiting for Germany to wear herself out, so that she win fair, a broken and Intimidated slave, to be ruled over by their sons. Lending the Government money Is Just another way of buying an annuity, Mayor Stands by Bennett Haadllne. Well, the, evidence seems to show that Bennett stood by the Mayor, The London 'Times feels that Ger jaany baa closed the door to peace. jCaybe so, but wo can't help believing that Pershing will open it. We do not thmk that any Con greaaraen gdt monejfi from the. German CJoyomment, ljut itis, beyond Question tkt soma of them earned It ,1 .1 1 H 1 1 1 1 1 11 toejftiaai wuMkr in ?kil4la;a, 4o M ammMwA TaaiQiMJ'. kveninI EnqjajaiAPiA:, AHOTFIGHTltf PARADISE WOOD A Colonel Tells of an Episode Near Chemln-des- Dames By HENRI BAZIN Slat Corrtntxxident l Hit Kvenha .erfocr tvtlh American Armv l Franca ,- AMERICAN KEADqUAKTEIta IN vrtAvriH Kent 10 - .y OFFICER, escort said to me! "Let jyj us visit a regiment that has Just come out of the trenches after a full forty days' stay, during which time It successfully stood the shock of formidable Boche at tacks upon three different occasions," Our car rolled rapidly toward n little Ul lage, a village that, like hdndreds of others I have seen this last year, was a ruined habitation of peaceful country folk. Tho regiment of chasseurs had been thcro tlfree days, coming direct from front-line trenches Their objective was a partial cleaning up ere full repose, a change ot clothing, n decent wash, luxuries that the pollua of Franco hae almost forgotten these last three years, and which in mild astonishment they find are still part and parcel of the life of peace they luc left behind them. They had scrubbed themseUcs and washed themsehes, changed their undei wear and shirts and socks, put on new uni forms In either part or whole, and for the first time In more than a month rcmoed the mud from their boots and leggings Hut for the unmlstakablo expression of men who have fought, they were ns new soldiers. The Bky overhead was grny and the re cent unaccountable August rains, for all the world, rave Iclness. llko those of No vember, continued. The village streets were mlret of mud It was a tiny lllago with few houses left standing, nnd most of these showing shell or shrapnel scar. Little gar dens sloped from the gray Btono moss-co-ered cottages to the roud, a mass nt red field popples and marguerites, the grass showing through them hero nnd there, n touch of green and red nnd gold and white. The colonel with a few of his ofllcers, received us In a peasant's modest home, a simple liouso of a story and a hnlf. with the typical sloping roof of the French country districts. Hero In a scantily fur nished room he smiled upon us, bade us welcome and without ado led us to n table on which a map was spread. And In quiet tones he told of one of forty days- "We stood In the trenches In Paris wood on the Clicmln-des.Damcs, opposite Courte con, still In the hands of the enemy You know the Cliemln-des-DameH It Is or was, until torn to pieces by xltellflrc. nn ancient Itoman road elevated nboe water lecl through a low section resting upon a height, rebuilt In tho Napoleonic era on the plateau rising north from Kolssons and northeast ot Ithclms nbout the vlllnge of Craonne A Veritable Inferno "It Is upon the outlined form of this plateau that the front shapes Itself nt this section, Its edges of spur-shaped land den tiled between little alleys. "Paradise wood Is partially Inclosed In one of these alleys. The trenches of our regiment were In Its very center, first, sec ond nnd third line with communications On tho fourth day after our occupation of this sector, at 8 o'clock In the evening, a hall of Itoche shells began to fall upon our lines. It was a veritable inferno, great shells sent toward us and bursting every where about us, destroying small nhrl and observation, breaking connection with the rear That meant the Immediate establish ment of a relay courier system. In which man after man picks up a message nnd carries It under fire to a given point. It's life-giving business, nnd to avoid loss of the message In transmission I divided tho relays Into two sections, starting from dif ferent points and going toward tho objective by different routes Sometimes both reached home' ; sometimes but one. And often during that day neither. "We knew an attack would follow the bombardment Probably the attack would begin In cloce formation Immediately after the bombardment ceased And when this moment should be announced by n lull In the storm of shells thrown upon us, our men stood to tnlte to the open, to leavo their deep shelters nnd girded to the loins, receive the Boche shock We had only ona aim the aim of Verdun and all the rest ot It 'They shall not pass '" "Hut on this occasion the grenadiers of the Guard left their trenches before the bombardment ceased, while their artillery was still launching shells upon the terrl torv to be assaulted "Here and there along the line our de fenses were a wreck. Here nnd there, too, we had no mon living to defend them. Here and there finally, we held firm, a little group of heroic men standing fast In a hell of fire Ono of the couriers sent forward with Instructions from myself to Major . saw the enemy's preparation for assault and understood It was to be something new. an assault with a continuous fire. Instead of an assault after fire He Immediately abandoned his mission, returned to me and delivered the Information, Indicating to .me on this veiy map the portions of our line that were destroyed, the portions still hold ing. I sent him back for further recon naissance. He never returned. Hand-to-Hand Fighting "Hut the information he had given me enabled me to learn that a mitrailleuse squad was pouring lead with deadly de struction Into the Boche and that two com panies hnd counter-attacked with tho Hoche attack and broken through, to be Imme diately surrounded ; that Captain , with one company, had come to the rescue and broken the Boche line. I sent forward a fresh battalion In counter-attack. They went through the enemy line like a train through a tunnel and took as prisoners Boche troops that had held some of their comrades captive for twelve minutes. "There was death nil about. Hand to hand and body to body, men fought and died and won and lost, amid shell explosion and bayonet thrust. Later we found two of our machine guns Intact and every man ot 4ach crew dead about them. We fought the fight alt night and gave more than we lost At dawn we held true to the previous night's positions, save for a few meters here and there, and by 9 in the morning we had regained these. Not a foot of our line was In enemy hands. Not an observation post belonging to us was taken. All our line was ours. Our dead and theirs attested why." After a moment's silence he said, "Let US stroll through the village." Here during this walk I saw again the true France, the fighting France, that has astonished Germany and tho world; saw why France Is what she Is what she has so jolten proved Herself to be during these last three years. Saw it in countless little significant ways. For one, the smiles of affection between the colonel and his men. "They are all des braves," he said; "aiL Ce chers enfant si" Stopping to speak to some of them I was struck by a cUrlous combination of pride and confusion In their expression They all had about the same thing to say to me; yes. It had been something like hell out there, but they had come through It and after a little while they would.be ready to go In It again if need be. They had had a chance to clean up, to eat, to sleep and rest; never had the plnard taa&d so good, and now they waro going en repos. back home to see their own, And bna added with a smile, "I'll be glad tp ,, mZ Wlf and tho two faovl train II I looked at this smlllnir. no lm,r. ...... ntan who was going home fcw a timr .n.ii mt hra aani a waXa t Tom Daly's Column TO A VLAJN SWVETltVART I lovo thec, dear, for what thou art, Nor would I have thec otherwise, .For tcTien thy lashes lift apart, I read, dccp-mlrrorcd In thine eyes The olorv of a sinless heart. Wert thou as fair as thou art pood, It ucrc not given to any man With darlna eves of flesh and blood To look thee In the face and scan The splendor of thy womanhood. Clawss HATUrtDAY. nt 2:30 p. m. approxi mately, I was eating nnd drinking un ico cream soda ut a well-known Chestnut street candy store where tho material is good and tho girl behind tho counter a bit untidy. I puld ten cents for said boda nnd had not less than ono thousand dol lars' worth of fun out of it; to wit as follow s: A husky girl (Swede perchance) nt my left was counting a pllo of checks when the damo entered. Sho looked round and spjlng only Bald Swede (perchance) Utiotoil: "You nic busy, nrcn't jou?" nnd tho voice bald, "You poor, benighted, useless rag." I guve It tho onco over. It was dressed piQPcr, us would becomo a duchess walk ing incog., but thcro was a suspicious color on her checks that ended In a suspicious stialght line nt tho Jaw. Entei u little pill, back ot tho counter, slim, black-haired, untidy, not pretty, but rather intelligent ns to looks. Tho olco cumo forth again, to tho Ut tlo datk glil. Thcro was class to that voice. I know class when I hear It, or 1 ought to, but 1 cun't tell yet whether that voice wusn't Just a little too classy. Any way, It bald: "I'd llko a Hiked chicken (what'd sho expect, chicken a la king?) baudvvlch and 11 ginger Ice cream boda with u good deal of ginger, pleaso (that was a new ono on me). How much will that be?" And the voice said: " 'TIs 1! Behold! I, tho most wonderful woman in tho vvoild, I who condescend to address you. You, ou Insignificant, useless, low-down, good for-nothlng atom of humanity. Uo impressed! There Is nothing like mo in tho vvoild. Bow down, worship, and ui, dci&tand that, though I am always polite, I havo not, as a mutter of fact, seen you at all," und tho queen, duchess and gianddamo all In ono went across to tho desk to buy her thirty-five cent check. Was tho black-haired kid duly im pressed? Sho was not! She clicked her heels together, stood up very straight, put her left arm ngulnht her side, brought her right hand, palm outward, to her templo In tho saluting posture, and for un instant stood without a smile. Then sho opened her mouth In mock wonder, her tonguo flew out and downward over her lower Up not at tho duchess. Then sho rolled her eves nnd gilnncd at mo and 1 heard her whisper to herself, "My goodncos!" and tho voice said: "Forget It! You can't pull none o' that stuff iound here. Say! I see more real ladles In a day than you do In a jear. You can't put nono o' that over on mo." I slipped off my stool and went my way. But if the duchess sees theso lines I'll be Indebted if she'll tell mo whether that red stuff was only paint or some terrible allllctlon. A. CHABB. Can You Remember Your Hats? KIT MOR.LEY, tho young author of whom wo spoke to you briefly tho other day, had what ho calls "a great ndven turo In Norrlstown." "In a shop window," bez he, "I saw a cap mado out of some fabric counterfeiting the bpotted fur of tho leopard. It was remarkable. Who on earth do jou suppose would wear a lid like that?" Oh, some young Bavage, Kit. Wo wore ono ouibelf many, manv year ago. Let's see if we can trace our hats and caps back to tho beginning: Well, here's this flno Stetson wo won last fall on tho election, and which 13 plenty good enough for the winds of 1017 18 to play with. And hopping lightly over the many straws, felts and deibles which are too modern to be Interesting, we come to a mouse-colored derby with a peaked crown (circa 1892) which mado us look like a squireen In one of Dion Boucicaulfs plays. Beyond that there were severalsane intervals. Then came a cartwheel straw hat with a black un derbilm (circa 1888). About the same time our winter thatch was an enormous derby which mado our Adam's nnnle shout aloud to every passerby. And only a fow years before that we used a fried egg; a low white dip, with our initials on a silk band Inside. Now we como to the leopard skin.' It was a plush polo cap and looked like heck. Our first real hat (after baby caps with "boomaladdies") was a felt telescope. If any of you can remember that bird, jou'ie old enough to voto this new party ticket. BOB MISHLEH says he knows the color of Frank n. Stockton's hair. "Why," sez he, "when I was a kid In knee breeches one of me buddies was a feller bo thd name of 'Muggins,' and every onco in awhile F. H. 8. used to como down to 'Mansard Square' to see his brother, who was Muggins's Dad, and tho whole' gang had a good look at Undo Frank's black hair and heard of the stories about tigers and things that his uncle told." "Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt" Bemember when you used to pull your boiled shirt over your head? Buttalo News. And hooked your bow tie at the back of your celluloid collar? Pltttburpn roit. And went out buggy riding on Sunday afternoon? Boston Olobt. And bought three pounds of pork for a quarter? New York World. And wore a fancy vest with nearly every color of the rainbow? Bpartanbura Journal " And twisted knots in our socks to keeD them up? .AUe)i Journal. " And bought a strawberry milkshake for a nickel a glass Pickens Sentinel, And wanted the girls to think you a regular "lah-de-dah"? ffotiajon Post Artd wora a short covert-cloth overcoat over our wfde-waie suit. EVEN ONE so unagrlcuitural as our book editor f buckled a he passed over to ua wa mm, tew Wewtaw p,,,' MOKDAY, OCTOBER 1 1917 NOW PROGRESS ON BIG PLANT NEAR CITY Westinghouse Company Expects All the Buildings to Be Com pleted by January 1 To the Vdltor of the Evening Ledger. , Sir I take pleasure In responding to a request for a brief description of my com pany's latest manufacturing development near Philadelphia. Starting thirty-one jcars ago on tho top floor of a building owned and operated by another concern, tho WestlnghOuso Electric and Manufacturing Company has grown ana expanded until for Itself and some fourteen subsidiary corporations it owns and oper ates twenty-one separate factories or seta of factories distributed through eight States. It has outstanding just under $76,000,000 ut capital stock and no bonds there being, however, a ljttle less than J3,000,000 of debt, represented mostly by the remnant of a note issue still to be liquidated beforo tho company's property will belong entirely unencumbered to Its shareholders. The company directly or through Its sub sidiary companies Is engaged In the busi ness of manufacturing and selling a wide variety of electrical and steam machinery and appliances, ranging all the way from the smallest lamp socket and switch nnd the miniature Incandescent lamp to thu largest generating units for electric povve. houses or for ship propulsion. During the fiscal year ending March 31, 1917, the gross sales totaled just under $90,000,000, the largest year's business In the company's history During 1916 it was decided to increase existing facilities, and after an exhaustive study of the advantages of manufacturing in different parts of the United "States tho Philadelphia district was selected as the most desirable location A tract ot land o, about BOO acres was acquired, situated be tween the towns of Ksslngton and Lester, about nine miles from City Hall, and having a frontage of something more than one mile on the Delaware River, and at just about the close of the year 1916 tho Immediate construction of a factory development there on was begun. , To Employ 5000 Men The first section of this development Is now rapidly nearlng completion. In fact, manufacturing operations were started there the latter part ot August, and It Is expected that by or before January 1 all of the buildings and equipment will be ready for production. There will be seven build ings, aggregating approximately fourteen acres of floor space, which when fully manned will furnish employment for about COOO people and call for a monthly payroll of more than (400,000. About 9000 tons ot structural steel are being used In the framework and roofs of the buildings, and between Ave and six miles ot railroad track on the company's prop erty are necessary to provide transporta tion facilities. The Chester branch of th Philadelphia and neadlng Hallway runs through our property, passing Immediately north of the first development, and that company la making an extensive change In the grade and alignment of Its main tracks and constructing a new yard at that point The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has almost completed the construction of an entirely new branch line bordering our development on the south. The section now nearlng completion will be utilized by the Westinghouse Company for the production of steam turbine engines, and It now seems more than probable that the Federal Government will require u... entire Output ot these works running at their maximum capacity on turbines tor their shipbuilding program. Ready for Rapid Extension The factories now building will amount tj between 2B per cent and 10 per cent of the ultimate development planned for this property. Most ot the grading necessary and much other preliminary work for th completed plfwt ve already been done. The property, fcJMw jn aha for a very rapid "Mi!MNqfcl It aantatt ne ' ' - if.i'V,'. j.i .-ij'rf"f'n-,w ri'f s j, . - FOR ANOTHER BtlltTL'lYB contribution to tho prosperity of the regloi. Just south of Philadelphia through the medium of Its payrolls alone should amount to $1,000,000 or more a month The Westlnghousp Electric and Manufac turing Company has long maintained one of tho most Important branch ofllces In Phila delphia, and, being a corporation chartered by tho State of Pennsvlvanla and having Its headquarters nt Hast Pittsburgh, has felt at homo In our cltv The lslngton development when completed will be mu... the largest of tho companj's many facto ries , will, give us a renewed and Increasing interest In the prosperity of Philadelphia, of Chester and the Intervening country, nnd we hope will result In even closer and moro friendly relatlonb with Philadelphia's vast business interests than those which we have been privileged to enjoj heretofore CALVnitT TOWNI.EY. Assistant to tho President, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. New York, September 29. COAST DEFENSE RESERVISTS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir It was with a great deal of pleasure that I noticed In yesterday's Evening J.EDonii the pictures of some of the coast defense reservists at Cnpe May. I believe that this Is the first that any of our Philadelphia papers havo printed regarding this camp, and so far as the newspapers aro concerned I don't believe any one outside of those who have bou in this camp knew that there was such a place. I hopo that jour paper will give us more of what Is going on at this camp, as most of the boys are from Philadelphia. Another subject that I wish to comment on Is the discriminating charges In the fare the railroad companies are making. Last Saturday BOO of these boys had leave to como homo and stay tilt Sunday evening The Philadelphia and Reading consented to run a special for them leaving Cape May at 1-30 Saturday afternoon and re turlng leaving Camden Sunday evening at 9 o'clock For this accommodation they charged them $2.50 for the round trip Now, If It had been a party of Phlladel phlans that wanted to go on a flshlrtg trip and good time they would havo had the same accommodations for $1 a round trip. Here aro a lot of bos who have left their home or schools, some of them good posi tions to answer their country's call, and for the privilege of serving their country these great patriotic corporations charge them two nnd one-half times ns much as they would an ordinary person. I understand that these boys will be allowed to come homo every two or three weeks and there will be 500 to 1000 that will come at a tlmo. J. C, DRASHEIt Philadelphia, September 20. DREAM UNFULFILLED. Threo years ago Germany began this war for the cbnquest of Middle Europe. What has she gained? What has this gain cost her? She has gained by her arms the terri tories 01 ueiBium, iiuxemnurg, Serbia, a. niuui uui dun Betuuu ui iiorinera r ranee and parts of Lithuania, Poland and Ru mania a total of a little less than 201,000 square miles. She has lost: Except for an Insignificant corner In southern Africa, all her colonies, over a million square miles. Virtually all her shipping not bottled up In Bremen and Hamburg, a loss esti mated In tonnage at 3,600,000, Of tbe flower of her youth, more than 2,000,000 ' In cash, nearly $20,000,000,000 to be added to her national debt Before the war, though unpopular as a people. Oermany was honored among all nations for her intellectual scholarship and her Industrial efficiency, she his lost Irre trlevably this respect and won In Its place the mingled hatred and contempt of the civ lilted world Scarcely a considerable neutral nation Is left except those whose safety com 'pels fhelr neutrality ' " No one thinks Oermany can retain her gains. No one imagines that ehe can re cover her losses. It Is not strange that some of the Oerman people ore eerioUBly discussing among themselves the question whether it is not time to change their bust, neas managers The Outlook. YOU AN NEVER TELL "Whf woHld hare expected a year ago lIUWiU Rout, SHI , . What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is the Dutch name for The Hague? 2. amo the member ef the flermnn RelrhMac who. In 1000. exposed mnlndmlnlatratlnn In Oerman t-outhnreat Africa. He has been In the puhfc eye of late In connec tion with pence propoftalii. 3. How many drnmntlo situation! ni"e there? 4. What nre the chorpte nmlnt Prmldent Stonier, of the I'arla Court of Appeult? 8. Mho la Charles A. IJoien? O. In military phraseolocr, what Is a "pom- poia"? 7. Vtho composed the opera "La GlwonJa"? 5. When was the typewriter Invented? 0. Mho were the two Orrman attaches re- ruueu irom me Lliltcil mates in 1DIS7 What does "llnicnarnk" signify In Scan dlnutltin mstholot)? 10 Answers to Saturday's Quii 1. Sappho was n Lesbian poetess, the head of n coterie of yonnc women, whom she ndilresved In her lyrics, ind whom she In striicted In her nrt. She llred about 800 II. t .. rracments of her work survlTlns. 2. A drastic reduction In the price of bread Is rxnrttnl to result from the "standard jouf plan." alwut to he effected bv Her bert Hoover and bis food administration. 3. The Kaiser has been compared br modern poets to lldat, a ruthless, iiilllturlstlo kin, described in Genesis. 4. Tientsin. Chlno, U threatened with de struction by flood. B. A lemur Is a kind of nocturnal mammal, especially of Madagascar, allied to the monkey, but with n pointed muiile. 0. "Probation nfter death" Is n theological doctrine, according to which man's fu ture, destiny Is not unalteruhly llird ut denth. but either nil men or a irrtaln .f.V!S!:.otii?"n wl",b?. Placed on trlatln mother lite for dellnltv period or until they shall have jlelded to (.od's . re deeming love, 7. Theodore Itoosevelt's newly coined phrase. 1 n fi?TCOI " r-lf . with reference to seditious attitudes In the United Mate toward the war. means "new traitors." A copperhead U a venomous American Tbf, vUiiomnAi".,:,e f,r lnUniUe mTaU,,t Unhi ." n"r,n" now nbroad hate been spilt in, nt0 provost guards In i'ng'land! li,a" 1'rance and al.2 "Has ewlg Welbllche rleht una hlnan" JnwJKi Th.?h"fnul "omanly leads "a "Fnu r hrua occurs In Ooethe'a 10. THE BLUE ANCHOR TAVERN PHILADELPHIA'S old taverns seem to - have been cut to the scalo of the English ones of the period. At least they preserved the atmosphere which saturates "The Pick wick Papers," and their bubbling punch and creamy ale, seen In retrospect, bring up In stant visions of Mr. Jingle, Doctor Slammer and Job Trotter. So far as size Is concerned, the modern imagination rather boggles at the ancient Ideas of comfort and space. Instead nf tb big cafes and hlgh-celllnged grills of the "I present day. the old Philadelphlan had to be content with (nay, was content with) so diminutive an Institution as the Blue Anchor Tavern. This was 22 by 12 feet, with a two-story height Catering "to man i&d beast," theso jolly little affairs ot hostelries featured the apple-cheeked barmaid and tho eupeptic landlord. Napery and tables were Immaculate, commentators assure n. and the food alluringly wholesome. Tha roaring nre of such places, Insisted on by every novelist from Charles Dickens to Compton MCKenzle, was not lackin-s The rooms were small, the beds hard, the ' uoors nare, me windows tiny. Discussions of news artd politics took place in the inns which were a substitute for tbe twentieth century business exchanges and clubs Com. plaints against Intemperance were heard. but tint tin ntl.n oa IU. . . " peered. ""'" nav peen AH the earliest Innkeepers were Friends, at least bo far as the Blue Anchor wa. concerned. In front of thl, attractive mor" William Penn met and chatted most inti mately with the Indians. The recorded fact that he sat on the ground with tham ate their roasted hominy Tnd awrns and ou did them at jumplng'recall, tne grave Krlend's disapprobation of such frivolity However, he carried his point 4r,0,"y' So the Btue Anchor grew into the stature of a prominent institution. "U uaa the Vtv llo butldlnJT.' remarl.a an ih..i... J. :.? a timbered house, (llled 1p with small brleka, ?WWW, " wt U now ihi th! oorr or yrai aM OotK Wat 1 si ; stnsrpni, api'iaM) naaililan auul pvi quicKiy, i. i. 7 . -r r - easary ia aHBainjM
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