lMMMi5jAMiUl!Mlm.Pig-;Mwr r" i!9 '. .c- ittk a I EjHfl ill mmt Committee Likclv to Annrovc h.& 5o nnn.nnn Mnnsiim tK' --- ' ' ' Tnrtnv 1 l& Is' It? I-, V Tho Sonnto Commerce Committee lint ,jv drafted a substitute, for the J17&,-,- 000,000 emerReney power Wll laRrrt by inn nuuflo leu uitj -i .,.' "" ,- " will formally adopt It and voto to report It out In place of tho JIou'o bill at a meetlnc of the committee today. Tho monsuro makes only $50,000,000 mallnhid for new power development, Instead of $176,000,000 appropriated In tho Houo bill. Tho substttuto measure nuthorlzes the war flnanco corporation, upon tho recom mendation of the war indurlci board, to advance such monexs ns nnv be nec essary to provide power vluro nrrc"! wiry to enrry on tho mnnufteture of war munition- and the bulldlns of ship"!, not to exceed $50,000,000." One of tho projects provided for In tho Houto bill, which licrnard M, Baruch, chairman of the war Industries board, t told tho Senate Committee tlurlfiB Its week of consideration of the meaure In vitally necessary, calls for etenslvc . rtowcr development In the Philadelphia l(tf district. Mr. Baruch told the Fcmtg ommltteo that tho crtntest nceu for additional power today Is In tho nliln yards along the Hclawaro Blvtr be tween Bristol and WIlmlnRton. Including Hog Island. , Should tho substitute bill he adopted, development of power In the Philadel phia district undoubtedly will bo -tho first to bo undertaken. In vIlvv of Mr. Baruch'i) testimony. Experts of the war IndttFtrlcB board told tho Senate com mltteo that 120,000 additional horsc- power Is needed In tho Philadelphia district. This would cost about $14, 500,000, they Bald. SOUTH STREET FERRY TO GO McAiloo Orders It Abolished at End of This Month Old South street ferry will pass out of existence nfter tho last tilp on Octo ber 31 by older of Director McAdoo The Beading Ilallroad had been operating tho line, which runs from Kjluhn avenue, Camden, to South stiect, Phllulclphl-i. The ferry Was started In 1S09 ana Until 1815 bo.itH landed at Queen htreet, Philadelphia. In 1810 the widow of Clement Beeves took over the property and nfter her death. In 1S27, It vvn- bought by Kbcnerrr Toole and William Champion. In 1851 tho company was taken ovir by the South Cnindcn Perry Companj, which operated tin- feriy until 1873. will li n lontrollhiK IntiiiKl vvai bouKht by General John S. Schultze, president of tho Manchester H.illioaa, whose Interests were later tikin ovei by tho lUudliiK. Father anil Daughter Iluricil Bobcrt .T. IluUtnn and his daughter llllznbeth virr,. burled lodiy fioni their home, 0311 Pastil ill avrnue The father, who was will known In fiatern.il cIilIim, was taken ill s-eviral il.is .irii with In fluenza Ills dauKhtei. nltlioiiRli lif.t eleven c.us old, assisted in cuius foi lilm. , Slip, toil, contiactid the iilse.ii rt Lop Off $1,000,000 Irtterest on Ltamngc Awards Cnder n deelslon of Justice Simpson In the State Supreme Court, Just filed, tho city will fivo tipwird of $1,000 000 on property taken for the Parkway and In other pail's of the cltv In condemna tion prdcicrtlnrr The rullnp; pets nslde a Judgment for $183,85107 nsalnst the cltv nn aided to the estate of Mary .1. Miles as d-images for property at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Arch streets and srants a new trial. The crtf of tho decision Is that owners of property so taken cannot collect In terest on the award nindc by tho Jurv of view nor delay by the cltv In tnMnc over the property after It was netuallv condemned without diducllon or Income deilve.l thcrcfiom. Tho claim for In terest for delnjod pament was mnda under the net of lnin. and Justice Simp fon declates this legislation unconstitu tional. Many property mvnnr will be afTrcled by tho ruling In tho Miles cane tho I vrrdlct v ns obtained In tho lower ciuirt, me sum rcpr scntlng approximately $200,000 In lntiret over and nbove an award of about $2SS,000. the value of Mm propel ty Tho Hml was legally taken bv the city In 100 for tho pur poses of the Parkway. Not until 1017 wuo dimngek. nsoesstd The estate claimed Interest foi eleven, eais. P. R. T. FIGHTS EPIDEMIC Gics Tiolloy Unlet C.mls Ur"tn Ilclp Against Spitting To fttrthtr the rampalgn vvlrih has been waged In the street cits nRiilimt Fpldcinlt' Influenzii tlio Plillndclphli Itapld Tnnslt Compiny tortus beKiin distribution of lmllvfdii.il ciids railing attention to tho epidemic and asking trolley ildirs to help In (damping out tho pest. On onb side of this cud Is an anneal to aid the police and the ivle iililhmltlcs, wiilte tne olivcise stile, with skull and crossboiiPB, i tads: Tho Co-opci.itln Association of the Philadelphia I! ipld Tran.t Coinpany appeiN to all citizens to assist In stop ping the spitting In stieets and public pi lies. Four thousand five bundled and nlintj-sK died hero last weik; sllv thrie nf cur fellow woikers died H'nce October 1. IT 11. T le iIolngltK p.nt, disinfecting cam nhnosi hour!,' keeping ventll itom opin, as dliected by Iloitoi Krusun Doctor Pipper, University of Penm-.vl-vanla, asked stieet-sprlnMIng contrac tors October 12 t put more water en the streets us n fuithertpreveiitlve Spi Inkling i ontrnitorli bnrtoved P. P. T .spilnkleit' and ale wot king day and n'ght. Includlnu Sundajs, to kcip the i dU't down Dr. lames Watt Keen Dcail of Clip Hr. .Inmes Watt Keen. .1414 i!m strict, died .it tlio emeiaencv' hoiultnl. IJioid hticet "ind Snvdcr avinuc, on Widnrnlav Poctfr Ktcn ins the tils Plivsli Ian lo npmt'at the inllce station, roiiith stud and Snjder aviiiiie, In r -spoils,' to Dot1 in Kiusen's appeals for nudli il aid He labeled tlulisFv n(j. tpg strieki n famllks of South I'lill idel nh' i In the eplitimlr, until In. became -"'it'-eltT a victim of the disease . If trtJUte Of CtttMRrOk HOME FOLKS FROM' BOYS W TtiE SERVICE joy ;.v MaiiTtsa It h toupU teieii n iitnn col Tie't eltie for n tciI Auit hh ngn for a scrap has groxon hlunl. Anil hi inhllrrlll quality' put fn thr test 11)1 a rail to tin Vak to thr front. Jtiif Ms hrail I tnir nald Anil hr eors what hr's tolil: Qhotttih thr jaurtiiy's el ;iaietli 'ic hIKci u: A)i, he liiotes It's all rlnht. llr ii there or ei p'lt -hid ic not only dors it hut Uhcs U. 'Tit the 'itouirefie hr ;iets that hr flohls for the tiiirlet, l'or eoKiilil, or iMndrrel. that chrn Ami JireitfciM him lenrn Into battle he hvtlcil. , Ah. then hr is vlrniifrr lo rnrs; .Ind hc'i ilnlun rlnht fine On the llimlcnhurp llnr, for ninteier hi tj cs il lie Urines it, -tml he stilkc qultr et lot Ves, indeed.' ami tr'n tio" i'nr he not only ilocs it but Uhci it. Pi Iv nte Frederick VoRt, formerly of 1501 North Fifth street, now with tho 300th .Field Artlllerv In France, has written the t.-llowlng letter to a friend In this city: 'I am now at the front with Gorman planes fUlng nil about and I nsuro voti It Is Interesting writing letters with KiiB tnnsk and helmet oil. "So far 1 have seen a great deal or Fiance, but 111 nil my travels 1 havo spin nothing lo be comparted with the .'tales Tho railroads here arc so far behind ours that It would take years to cnte.li up Where our signaling Is do-no by clrclrVlly. here It Is all done by, hand The people niv very poor and tho joiinger fhiss Is very scaicc It Is ti common thing to see nn aged oiiile of about seventy working on the farms ' "In my last Uttei I wrolo about get ting a furlough and vlltlng Paris, but now that Is nil eft We traveted about l dnvs and nights and weio near our i est camp (and believe me I hnd visions of a pood bath, new uniform, Paris and Its gaieties), when the orders changed nnd we were sent back to the front again. You should see tho 'expressions on the boys' faces when they heard the news, but nevertheless they are all good soldiers and nobody complained. It only made their hatred for the Ger mans more, nnd they sure will pepper them. AV It Is, we hnve some battery, having been elted threo (3) times nnd we are going to keep It up. Having met a Frenchman on the way, I asked him what kind of a front It was. Ho said: It Is epilpt now, but when vou Ameri cans get thPie 1 know It won't be quiet long. That Is nur motto, 'to light' we are not here foi n vacation, and tho rooner wo get this over and get back the better we will nil feel. "bating Is the last thing vie think of w hen we nre on the Kaiser's tiall. nnd that we surely nie. The kltehpu Is right up In bnik of the guns and three times straight when we wire about te have mess the Huns Kent over gas shells, nnd good-bv mess You can Imagine the mood It put the bojs In, for when the gas was over they bad thrown nwav their meat. That Is only one of mnny Instances wc have had plenty to eat until we held down this last pUlon, but now we nre advancing so fast that the supplies ean hardly tateh up "I bavi Wen at the front so long that 1 don't mind tlio shells, whlcn eontlnu nllv hurst all around they seem like music and I can sleep through the longest barrages and don't even hear them "Will close now, as things nre getting1 pretty hot n round .hip " NEEDED BETTERMENTS Bill Pnsscd by Senate Carries $40,000 for Purpose Ar- scnals to Benefit Forty thousand dollnrs Is made avnll nblo for the remodeling of the evict ing buildings nnd for necessary addi tional buildings together with equipment nnd furnishings nt tho Ileedy Island (Delaware) quirantlno station through the passngo late jestcrdav afternoon by the Senate of tho urgent deficiency ap propriation bill earrjlng this provision. The bill also carried $2000 for rental of trmpnrnry quarters; at Hnrrlsburg for accommodation of Government of ficials and Incidental moving expenses It Is most likely that some repairs and Improvements villi bo made at Frank ford Arsennl out of the $1,000,000 lump sum npprnprlitlon carried In tlu bill for ii pnlis and Improvements nt Gov trnnunl arsenals Authnilty to appoint three additional assistant stenmboat Ipsppctois at Philadelphia from November 1, 1'ilS. to Juno 30, 1911, nt nn annual silary of $2350 each, Is contained In the bill, One hundred and scvent-sx thou sand dollars la also cnrflid In tho urgent diuelenev bill for Plcatlnny Alsiunl, Dover, X J. i flOO.OOO for repair of roads; $40,000 for four change houses for emplojes nnd $30,000 to lne.rc.-ise siiivelllance over the iungi7ltie, IUW p TR0UIYIW i Hog Island Line Employe Are Awarded ray Increase Fmployes of the Philadelphia Hallway Compnny have heen nwnided an Increase In wages by the war labor board at Washington At the same time It was announced nt Washington Mitt awards were innd In controversies In the cases of nine other street rnllwnj companies In the Fnlted Mates Plattorm men of the Philadelphia Hall wnv Comintiy, who hale been getting IB cents nn hour, had their wagis ad vanced to 41 and 4fi tents nn hour. Women e mploves of the company will tecelve 32 nnd 35 cents nn hour here nfter: they formerly got 25 nnd 27 cents. Proportionate Increases were glvin to starters. The line of the Phllidelphln H-illwav Compnnv feeds llog Island and cirrlcs thousands of workers dally from Third nnd Jnckson ftreets to the shlpjard, SANITATION BIG ARMY AID Capt. Pilliiiji, Phiiiitlclpiiittn. Han dles Important Tnk 0orcas Not the least fnctor In the success of the Yankee o else is Is the rlllclent man ner In which the sanitary lorps of the army Is overcoming "he dltilcultles facing the dispatch of Its all-lmimitant w ork, This particular branch of the nrmv hns bpcn under the mincrv Mon of Cap tain lie my I. Pilling l.nndovvne, for the last eight months He Is a meelnnt. cat evprrt, who received his training with eieoigp P. Pilling A S-'on Compinv, inniuifniliiiiis of surglial Instruments nnd kindred prodin.tR Ciptalu Pilling Is twentv-the vents old, a giadualo of the WlUlim Ponn i narier cmui ami ine snn nt air, and .Mrs Charles I I'lillng, Wlnduncrc inc line I.aiisdownp IVtf MAY BE CANCELED Emergency Fleet Considering Replacing Contracts With Ones for Steel Vessels Wood' ship lonstructlon may be aban doned by the Fmergency Fleet Corpora lion If ptanH lending toward this end adopted by a conference of he-ads of the departments are approved, Present con trncts calling for the construction of 750 wood ships, to cost $000,000 nplece, may be elmnged Into contract for steel ships lMwnrd X, Ilurlcv, chairman of the Fnlted Stnles shipping board : Charles M, Schwab director general of the Fmer gencv Fleet Corpirntloti; .1. It, Hossllcr, director of operation, and P. A. S Franklin, of tho ship lontrol committee, arc discussing the question nt confer ences being held In Washington. "The move will, if adopted, slow down the work of 150 shlp.vnrds where wood vesrels nre now under construction," It wns said In this city veslcrdny by J, I. Aekerson, vice piislil'Iit of tho Fmer-gene-y FIpi t Corporation, "These jards will build barges and tugs on private order Instead of ships for the nation "Kven If the t'on tracts are not altered there will iirtnlnly he n lessoning of wood-ship coiisliietlon next vc.ir," he milled. 'The wood-ship division can scarcely handle eillclrntly more than the 760 ships iilteady provldul for" Neither concrete nor steel shlln will be affected by the change, he said. There aro 1424 steel ships and forty-two con crete ships authorized " y. 4 -t .. v ,... juuiuuiH ifWitiVsi MWMsl Trenton, net. 9k.TnB MmtM ment of Ilanklnk and ImturaftM, .. Is In charge or the ."Honor Itoll" Jersey in tne recent fourth uln drive, reported today that tM northern counties of th State New York Federal lleserve District I nrcoruing to ine nesi inrorrnntian'i able, exceed their quota of $141,11 by more man n,nuo,ouu, una in nine South Jersey counties In tn : lieqillia uiniiisi, nn niiiiiinr iiiiurrnMl will exceed their total quota of $!!. V70 ny nnom i,imiu,iiuu, inus m rtimroxlmntelv the total allbscMDtIB thn loan In New Jersey about $211,14 '.no. THE DIAL A FORTNIGHTLT In the turrent iisut: Thorstein Veblen the first eft series cfur lutes $n "The M odern Point of View and the New Order" ? AT THE BETTE NEWSSTAND! NO! SPECIAL 4 MOI. TRIAL OrFER., t.O Tfo ftpir thrlatt h limitti nr Mwf Hand Jmrihiltn. A lubteriptin will nrt At lutyri numltrl. ' ICl WEST 13TH STKrrT, NEWTOtK The Shorter Bible The New Testament The Shoiter IJiblo omits all rep etition, and giv cs a connccteil nar lative of the life of Jesus and a logical aiiangcmcnt of His teach ings. It is a NEW TRANSLATION into simple, dignified, modern English of these parts of the New Testament which ate of vital in tcicst and of the most practical value. aUG pages. Cloth $1.00 net. C-ftCHAttLES SCRIBNE1S SONS V,$nnil .VE.AMaiSTNEWYDRK 1; IV, HMmaMHgaaiM- . mwi jii ii jgj imwj JllllM"lr')IM'l."lf C. 31 LL1 ' L"TjjJBtBlHnBnBBBBIBBmB I Have youji tfoedl Hlhi I ,yUiJ;,y s H 1 QrVvlTOnBsiBSHIBHHIJSiBHHuflBsQ Hc'V.c Here is a pound and two ounces of the snowiest, most delicate cooking fat you ever used. SAWTAY is made from the rich 'cream" of tropical nuts, and as it.cotitains no salt and water is richer than creamery butter. ' It has- absolutely no nut taste or odor and gives real dairy butter flavor. Fats are getting scarcer and higher every day, so stock your pantry with SAWTAY. The Mb. 2-oz. cans are only 39c this week. SAWTAY keeps sweet indefinitely will not turn rancid. With SAWTAY in your pantry you needn't worry about the soaring price of butter. SAWTAY takes the place of butter in all recipes and, worked with milk and salt, makes a delicious table butter. Creamed with sugar it makes a richer hard sauce than when butter is used. i j i m s Family Sizes 1 lb, 2 oz. Can 2 lb. 5 oZi Can 4 lb. 12 oz. Can Reitaurant Sizes 20 lb, Can 40 lb. Can 65 lb. Can Aik your grocer about Sawtay Community Stores We Serve ( You Save 1 "How Kolb's Bond Bread helped me to Buy War Savings Stamps'7 UTTCTHEN I found that V V every family had to average $20 worth of war stamps this year, I cut out my baking and started to buy Kolb's Bond Bread. "It yas John who helped me. figure it out. "When I said to him: 'I'm going to be economical this Fall I'm just going to get a nice new serviceable, plaid skirt for $17.' John said 'why don't you make it, and save $7 'or $8?' "I told him I was too busy with my house-work. He ask ed me why I didn't cut out baking bread. "And you know, Betty I did cut out bread-baking, and started to buy Kolb's Bond ' Bread. John seemed to like it almost as well as mv own. And with the extra hours that I saved each week I made my ' plaid skirt and saved $7.50 and you ought to see the way ;. ,i i . A f me nice dip; green stamps tt keep spreading over my War Stamp certificate! Kiir' nm - - - mm rvMF' biiv tmyi.' LID CUT Y BONOS V , Conomris to VS. GovernmentWhezt-SavingTieguktions uymqmt.m.i Purity Guaranteed by the Kolb Bakery Company p. ' i ' '.l . iSSltaHihtt I-'ffl . .r.H'i i" kTIS3SniS!tf' avb-si' j ?" I- ."ft.Tv :sa? SS&u TA y, .?, J 'life. .3"l fe3 Wjri VJf" mj tana M ?34i w:fti ; Tfi&t Srf:; ijlv i S ?.-' 11" !JS. K I KMfiJ i?ri,r; '&$?' 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