WAR DECLARED ON GRADE CROSSINGS Public Service Commission Plans to Take Vigorous Action at Once The Public Serv \\\ ? A/ J * ce Commission \\ \\ committed itself to ~ a vigorous policy of i grade crossing in vestigation, protec tion find ellmina- tion at an executive l JftMlliOTfW session at which Commission er jjgpßß&aaisiifc Monaghan present- Ky" r -^—ed the matter and ■"■MOSiißfil his resolution was unanimously adopted. It recited that there are a large number of dangerous grade crossings in Pennsylvania, that under the law it is the duty of the Commission to investigate and remedy, the situation and to that end without: unnecessary delay to formulate o policy by which ultimately all grade crossings in Pennsylvania shall be eliminated and presently such protec tion by gates, bells or watchmen, as might be required to safeguard the public, should after examination, be installed. The resolution calls for re ports covering information collected by the Chief of the Bureau of Ac cidents, John P. Dohoney. nnd by Chief of the Engineering Bureau, F. Herbert Snow. and the reference of this in formation to a subcommittee for im mediate preliminary reports. All complaints concerning grade crossings now on tile with the Com mission were directed to be noted for hearings. Following tne adoption of resolution, the acting chairman named a subcommittee composed of Commis sioners Monaghan, Rilling and Brecht, and they have been busily engaged in preliminary examinations. Commissioner Monaghan's resolu tion contemplates the careful examina tion and classification of all the grade crossings in Pennsylvania, both with respect to the danger and with respect to the nature of the protection to be afforded. Some are over unfrequented highways, others are located where here Is extended unobstructed view; some can easily be eliminated by over head or undergrade constructions and others by changes in location of rail road or highways. This will furnish the basis for classification. In speaking of the grade crossing matter to-day. Chairman Ainey said: "Mr. Monaghan's resolution focuses our attention on, and directs our energies toward a stupendous problem. There are upward of 10,000 unpro tected grade crossings in Pennsylvania, as shown by the investigations made by Chief Dohoney. Their elimination would cost the railroads and munici palities concerned approximately $3i>0.000.009. The nature of these crossings vary so widely that each must be investigated. This in itself 13 a work of mammotn proportions. Courts and legislature have declared ngainst the grade crossing evil and the latter has placed upon this Commis son the responsibility of administering the law relating to it. Mr. Monaghan's resolution is timely in that it recog nises and proposes to men the respon sibility by immediate and appropriate action. In addition to the general In vestigation. the Commission will give prompt attention to all grade crossing | complaints, and will of its own motion | take up the question of the elimlna- | tion of the more notorious and danger- j ou? cases." The Commission has before it a | comprehensive plan for grade separa-j tion in Erie and their attention has j been called to the crossing over Le high Valley, Philadelphia and Read ing and Central Railroad of New | Jersey near the railroad stations at South Bethlehem. Chief of the Bureau of Engineering Snow and Chief of the Bureau of Accidents Dohoney, were ordered to make investigations covering the en tire State. Philadelphia Transit. This after noon the Public Service Commission heard the application of the City of Philadelphia for a certificate of public necessity in the matter of proposed ex tensions to the rapid transit system. Transit Director A. Merritt Taylor, through City Solicitor Ryan, presented a long statement setting forth the ne cessity for greater transit facilities and the city's financial abjlity and legal qualifications to proceed with the work. To-day's proceedings are re garded in Philadelphia as being of the utmost importance and great in terest is felt In the outcome. The transit problem in Philadelphia has been complicated by the starting of a taxpayer's suit against the execution <>f any of the plans that have been formed for the relief of an admittedly unsatisfactory situation. Armory Board to Meet.—When the Armory Board meets to-morrow morn ing the matter of a squadron armory for Philadelphia *lll be one of the things that will come up for considera tion. This armory is considered a pressing matter in National Guard circles. An armory for Washington will also receive consideration and the situa tion at Scranton where one of the 1 finest armories to be erected by the State is falling into the ground because ; of mine sinks will be given consider able consideration. The Washington proposition Is in j an advanced stage. Kemp Promoted. Announcement! was made to-dfiy at the office of Ad- I Jutant General Stewart of the promo- I tion of Major George E. Kemp. Third] regiment, Philadelphia, to a lieutenant 1 colonelcy. He succeeds Charles T. ' Creswell who became colonel of the Third upon the death of Colonel Bid die. Attorney General Back. —Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown re ' turned to Harrisburg to-day after a week's absence at Lake Placid. Wants to Be Judge.—John Field, of Kreamer. Snyder county, has filed a petition to be a candidate for asso ciate judge in the Seventeenth Judicial district. New Corporations. —letters of in corporation have been issued to A. H. Hoifman. inc., Landisville. seeds and grains, capital. $40,000: Cumberland Valley Fruit Growers. Chambersbyrg, capital, $5,000; York Trading Stamp Company, capital, $30,000. Want Better Service. —The Buffalo & Erie Traction Company has been ordered by the Public Service Commis sion to improve its service from Erie to Grove House Park at Four Mile George E. Stevenson, of Wa ™ verly, has complained to the commis sion against a 20 per cent, penalty w-hich the Abragton Electric Company enforces when bills are not paid oil time. The commission has been noti fied that the Pennsylvania railroad has placed a watchman at a dangerous crossing In the borough of Seward. CAESARIAN OPERATION Mrs. Frank Gutschall, aged 24 years, 910 South Ninth street, underwent a Caesarian operation at the Harrisburg Hospital to-day. The woman's con dition was reported as critical. LOSES APPENDIX Jacob Smith, 1626 North street, a lctej carrier, was operated upon to day at the Harrisburg Hospital for ap pendicitis. His condition is favorable, j MONDAY EVENING, UPteA!LRoSbs) REDDING COMPANY ORDERSSTEEL NILS Also in Market For Gondola and Coal Cars; Wooden Equipment Goes The Philadelphia and Reading Rail way Company will shortly be in the market for rails and other equipment. Recently a conference was held be tween officials and superintendents of the various divisions. It was decided to order at once 6,000 tons or steel rails. The order will be divided be tween the Pennsylvania and Bethle hem Steel companies. In addition to the recent orders for steel passenger and freight cars, the Reading company will order all steel gondola and coal cars. An inventory of wooden cars show that many have been put out of business, and there Is at present a shortage of cars for coal traffic. RAILROAD NOTES George E. Hahn of Port Richmond has boen made firema-i of the Read ing boiler shops at Reading. He sue- j ceeds James C. Clark who has gone to the Baldwin Locomotive plant at I Eddystone. Harry C. Scott of the Philadelphia & \ Reading Company's locomotive shops I at Reading has resigned to accept a, position at the Eddystone plant of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. General Superintendent C. ' H. Ewing, of the Reading Railway Com pany. will spend his vacation in the Maine woods. He and his family will leave the latter part of next week for Belgrade Lake, where they will take a cottage for two weeks. Standing of the Crews HARHISBt'RG SIDE Philadelphia Division—lll crew first to go after 4:13 p. m.: 103, 110, 116, 11S, 125. 105, 126. 129, 104, 102. 121. 128. 13», 127. Engineer for 120. Firemen for 102, 127. Conductors for 106. 116. 127. Flagmen for 104, 106. 110, 121, 136. Brakemen for 102 (two). 128. Engineers up: Snow. Kautz, Seitz. Statler, Streper, Smith, Manley. Brown, Young. Supple. Burg, Bissingor, c'riss well. McCauley, First. Madenford, Welsh. tShaub, Sober, Wol/e. Firemen up: Hamaker, Barton, Col lier. Kreider. Shaffer. Wagner, Dunlevy, Packer. Copelancl, McNeal. Everhart. Yohe, McCurdv. Arnsberger. Yentzer, Xeidlgli. Bleich. Martin, Bushey. Hor stick, Huston. Behman. Duvall, Shive, Moffltt. Conductors up: Fe#ler, Looker. Flick- Inger. Flagman up: Bruehl. Brakemen up: Brown. Jackson. Stimellng, Kope. Stehman, Collins, Kelk er, Kone. Pengrler. Middle Division —2lß crew first to go after 2 p. m.: 225. Preference: 3. S, 1. 2, 0, I, 5, 7, 10, 6. Laid off: 17. 26, 25. Engineer for S. Conductor for 5. Brakemen for 2. 6. Engineers up: Smith. Kugler, Moore, Mumma. Firemen up: Wright. Kuntz. Arnold. Richards. Pottelger. Mohler, Look, Fletcher, Karstetter. StaufTer. Brakemen up: Bell. Troy. Thornton. Miller. Wenrick, Kauffman, Derrick. Nearhood, Rissinger, Stahl. Yard fi*w»— Enginers for second 8, 10, 20. second I 24. 26. 32. i Firemen for 6. 16. IS. first 24, third 24. 28, 30, Engineers up: Houser. Meals. Stahl, | Swab. Crist, Harvey. Saltsman. Kuhn, Snyder. Pelton. Shaver, Landis, Beck. | Harter, Biever, Blosser, Rudv. Firemen up: Snell. Bartolet. Barkey, Sheets. Bair. Eyde. Ulsh, Bostdorf, j Lacks*-, Cookerley, Maeyer, Sholter. EXOI.A SIDE Philadelphia Division—2l9 crew first to go after 4:15 p. m.: 223. 214. 207, 236. 204. 220, 218. 240. 226. 239. 232, 203. 216. Engineers for 205. 214. 220. 231. 239. Firemen for 201, 204, 06, 208. 215, 226. 259. Flagman for 22. Brakemen for 1. 30. 36. 41. Conductor up: Steriouer. Flagmen up: Reitzel, Snyder. Brakemen up: Taylor. Jacobs. Middle Division— 249 crew first to go after 1:30 p. m.: 248, 285, 230. Laid off: 101. 103. 106, 112. 117. Yard Crews—To go after 4 p. m.: 1 Engineer for 13 i. Firemen for first 126. second 126, first I 124. 130. 104. first 106. Engineers utv Sweger. Smiley. Fam- 1 ous. McCormlck. Firemen up: Harren. Gingrich. * Bruaw. Feass. Ewing. McNalley, For- i tenbaugh. THE READING Harrlshnrit Division—ll crew first'to go after 10:15 a. m.: 2. 3. 7, 18. 12, 8. 23. East-bound: 54. 51, 65, 68. 53, 58,- 61. 56. 63. 64 . Engineer for 2. 7. Firemen for 58. 63, 7, 8. Conductor for 7. Brakemen for 54, 64. 2. 3, 7. S, 11, 12, 18. 23. Engineers up: Massimore. Fortney, Merkle, Morrison. Morne. Fetrow. Firemen up: Bover. Stuoker, N'ye, Mover. Grumbine. Fulton. Longnecker. Conductors up: Hilton. Orris. Brakemen up: Epplev, Tlunkle, Tay lor, Wenk. Shultz. Avres. Laubach, Shader, Hickman, West. Miller, Duncan. • More Prizes for Mummer Mardi Gras at Paxtang Tly committee in charge of ar rangements for the mummers' Mardi Gras at Paxtang Park on Friday se cured additional prizes to-day. The j Harrisburg Telegraph presented a cup j to go to the Indian tribe making the finest appearance. Other merchandise! ptizes were donated and will be av arded winners in the various con tests. The committee requests all entries for the baby parade to be registered not later than Wednesday at 9 p. m. Arrangements will be made for haul ing the go-carts and baby carriages to the park. The Indian tribes are re quested to report at 8.15 Wednesday night at Paxtang Pask for rehearsal. BEAT WIFE WITH COFFEE POT Charles Arnstead of Sibletown was fined by Mayor John K. Royal this afternoon for beating his wife over the head with a coffee pot. Arnstead was chased by Sergeant Drabenstadt and Patrolman Cunimings In a Jitney. SLAMS O'RICKEY Harry O'Rickey. 125 North Cameron street, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital Saturday night for a large gash in his head. O'Rickey claims that a foreigner named Frank Bfon zic, hit him on the head with a pair of brass knuckles. Bronzic has not been found. BOYS DESTROY PROPERTY Complaints were made to the police to-dav regarding the action of boys at tire Penn school playground. It was reported that last week these boys broke down the gates, damaged lum ber, and Interfered with the younger boys and girls. They also broke sev eral windows. BOYS' ANKLE FRACTURED James Saul, aged 4 years, 619 Race street, fell from a woodpile near his home this morning and factured his right ankle. The little fellow was sent [to the Harrisburj Hospital. SELECT NEW POLLING PLACES IN ELEVENTH Court Approves of Voting Points and Election Boards For Four Recently Created Precincts Polling places and JL) )( 11/ election boards for the four newly ere ated precincts of the —Eleventh ward, rec ommended May 2 6 by the commission Sjg®~~E2s6Sßli appointed for the mfSfffß purpose, were ap- Proved ' ate Saturday by Additional Law JudgeS. J. M. McCar rell. The ward, | which origli had been divided Into two precini is bounded by Sixth street on tii east, Kelker street on the south, the river on the west and Msclay street on the north. The di vision recommended provides that the district be divided into four precincts, with Delawar and Logan streets forming the die tiling lines. The poll ing places and election boards sug gested and approved by the court fol low: First precinct—Polling place, Reily Hose house; judge of election, A. A. Runk: J. W. Burd and Glenn Kuntz, majority and minority inspectors. Second precinct—Polling place, bar bel shop, 2004 North Sixth street; judge, G. C. B. Buser; W. H. Lingle and R. R. Burd. majority and minority inspectors. Third precinct—Polling place, gar age office. 1917 North Third street; judge. C. W. Bowers; C. E. Matter and T. Earl Schuster, majority and minority inspectors. Fourth—Polling place. Ice cream factory, 193 2 Susquehanna street; judge. J. C. Deshong: C. Lero.v Zim merman and J. E. Wiertuan, majority and minority Inspectors. From Kelker to Delaware, Sixth to I.ogan, comprises the First precinct; Delaware to Maelay, Sixth to Logan, the Second; Logan to Front, Kelker to Delaware, the Third, and Delaware to Maclay. Logan to Front street, the Fourth precinct. The division board consisted of John A. Marshall, B. F. Umberger and John Conkling. Realty Transfers.—John A. Wlest to H. A. Schaffer, Gratz. ?350; Emma Klinger to H. A. Schaffer, Gratz, $7 5; James K. Kipp to G. C. Feeser, Lawn ten, $1; J. A. to W. H. Bohmer. Cniontown, $100; H. Keek er's heirs to W. H. Bohmer. Union town. $1,042; John E. Dare to Ernest E. Mark. 723 North Seventeenth sti eet. SI; John E. Gipple to Laura S. Beltz, 32 Prospect street. $1; to Percy Beltz, 30 Prospect street, $1; Margaret C. Leggett, 34 Prospect street, sl. Prepare Bellevue Park Paving Speci fications.—Specifications for the pav ing of the streets of Bellevue Park are now being prepared by City Engineer M B. Cowden and within the next ten days they will be ready for the adver tisement for bids. City Commissioner W, H. Lynch says he expects to have the contract completed before winter sets in. Must Mnkp Pipe Connection*.—TY!th in the sixty davs owners of property abutting on Second street from Seneca to Schuylkill, must make all the neces sary water, steam, sewer and gas pipe connections Incident to the paving of that section, according to announcement made to-day by City Engineer M. B. Cowden. At the Register** Office. Letters on the estate of Barbara A. Lindley were issued to the Central Trust Company, Register Roy C. Danner probated tlie Will. Appointed Rriclstrnr. —Removal from the district has caused tne resignation of Elmer Gottschall as registrar of the Third Precinct of the First Ward, and the place has been tilled by the appoint ment of Ross H. Balthaser. Becker's Counsel Asks Court For New Trial By Associated Press New York. July 26. Counsel for Charles Becker, condemned to die on Wednesday in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison for instigating the murder of Herman Rosenthal, ap peared before Justice Ford in the Su preme Court here to-day to begin the last fight to save their client's life. W. Burke Cochran read a statement in which the district attorney was quoted as saying he had held Rose, Webber. Yallon nnd Schepps in jail and had "hounded them day after day as he had considered it hi 3 duty be fore God to do." "This explains the whole character of the trial," said Mr. L-ochran. "Here were four men avowedly guilty and the district attorney pounded at them to compel them to disclose some body else's guilt." Local Patriotic Sons Attend Order's Outing Accompanied by State President Herman A. Miller, nearly a score of local Patriotic Sons attended the an nual outing of the Grantvllle Camp, P. O. S. of A., which was held in the woods near there all day Saturday. More than 500 members of the order attended. Feats of skill, baseball games and other sports during the day were in terspersed with addresses by promi nent members of the order. Mr. Miller, who came to this city Thursday to hend out the contract for the erection of the Molly Pitcher monument at Carlisle, was taken to the outing from this city in an auto mobile. Illegal Train Riders Traveling De Luxe Clothed for a nice transcontinental ride on fast passengeu trains, John Deboska and Frank Comeski, came into this city this morning on a Pennsylvania train and were arrested by railroad officers. The men wore raincoats to protect them from the water when the engine boil ers were being filled. At a hearing before Alderman Hil ton, both were sentenced to twenty days on a charge of Illegal train rid ing. HI'RT PLAYING BALL Charles C. Myers, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Enola, was treated at the hospital yesterday for a dislocated middle finger on the right hand. Myers was playing ball at Elmira, N. Y., Saturday and was hit by a ball. • LEFT FRUIT FOR POLICE A basket of pineapples and two bouquets await an owner at the police station. A man with a Jag was found by Patrolman Cope on Saturday. The man was sent to the police station to sober up. When he left for home he forgot all about the basket of fruit. He gave no name. PRAYING FOR WILSON Washington," D. C., July 26.—Mon terey has the most appreciative poor j people I ever saw," ueneral Hanna i said in a message to-day to the State i Department. "Thousands of the ,peo | pie are praying for President Wilson, the Red Cross and the consul gen leral." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Enterprise Coffee Co. Now Have Modern Plant One of Harrisbure's Industries that has pursued a quiet but persistent campaign for success, nag now de veloped to the point where it h&s out grown its modest quarters in which it was established eight year? ago, and is now located in its new build ing at 122 South Cameron street. This industry Is the Enterprise Coffee Company, which began business m 1907 at 107 Cherry street. The loca tion was inconspicuous and very few people, with the exception or whole salers and merchants knew that such a thriving conclrn existed. But "Enterprise" is the proper name for it. and its new location in South Cameron street will bring it into prominence as among Harrlsburgs rapidly growing industries. The new building, illustrated in the announce ment elsewhere in this issue, is a three-story building of substantial con struction, built to carry the heaviest weight possible for this character of business. The three floors are equipped with the largest and latest approved machinery and devices for roasting and marketing the coffee. The green coffee is dumped into a large boot buck elevator that cartes it into a large hopper on the tnlrd floor from which it descends Into a. seven-foot cylinder roaster. This roaster has a capacity of 400 pounds at one roast, with spiral flanges Inside to properly mix the coffee beans to Insure even roasting. After roasting twenty-five minutes the coffee is released into a cooling car, the first of its kind In the State. This car is perforated and a powerful suction fan makes It possible to cool the roasted beans quickly, which Is essential to preserve a crisp, properly roasted bean. This fan also disposes of the greater part of the chaff. After being cooled the coffee is dumped into a boot stoner on the second floor and into a separator that slackens the speed so that a thin stream of coffee beans flows into the separator, where a different degree of suction in the respective pipes separ ates the perfect beans from the im perfect and permits the chaff to g» into the chaff collector on tne roof, the shells into a collector on the sec ond floor and the stones and beans that are too heavy into another col lector. The good coffee goes into an other hopper and from there to a seven-foot ladder so arranged that coffee beans slide gently from ono angle drop to another to avoid break ing until gradually deposited In a gal vanized bin of 1100 pounds capacity. Five of these retain the coffep per fectly. free from moisture until ready for shipment. A sample roasting ma chine is kept in the office for prepar ing special blends of coffee required by the trade. Oscar J. Bogen and George W. Brin ton. proprietors, have made every pro vision . possible to care for present husiness. but predict that the present Increase will shortly mane It necessary to extend the building back the entire length of the lot to the canal. Alleged Murderer Is Arrested in Reading By Associated Press Reading, Pa., July 28.—The arrest of three people, an alleged child mur derer. a child-wife and her husband, all in one hoarding house here early this morning revealed to the police the story of a proposed elopement, a trip to Reading to talk over the plans and the murder of a quarry foreman in Maryland by one of the men ar rested. Love for Mrs. Mary Maise. a pretty 15-year-old Reading married woman, was indirectly responsible for his murdering Louis Crescendio, a quarry boss, at a stone quarry half-way be tween Port Deposit and Perrysvilla, Md., last Friday, according to the con fession of Tony Marino, 36, made at police station to-day a few minutes after his arrest at a local boarding house. Mrs. Maise and her husband, Sala tine Maise, 23, were arrested at the same time charged with being acces sories before and aiter the act. The i trio were taken to Havre de Grace, Md., by Deputy Sheriff Reynolds. Marino on the charge of murder and the others as accessories. In their statement to the police, the husband and wife denied knowledge of the murder. Marino was soon in duced to talk and told of an alleged plot with the woman to elope with him, the husband was said to have been ignorant of Marino's infatuation for h;s wife. Strollers Find Aged Man With Fractured Leg on Mountain Under Stone Samuel Sollenberger. aged 60 years, employed as janitor at the C. Day Rudy Company stained glass factory. North Third street, is In the Harris burg Hospital with a fractured left leg. But for the timely arrival of help at the Janitor's home in the mountains near Rockville yesterday the aged man might have died. Sollenberger has a little home in the mountains. He was digging at the rear of his home yesterday. A large stcne was suddenly loosened and rolled on his leg, breaking it in two places. Several strollers In the mountains found Sollenberger. John A. Smith, of the Beauford farms, near by, brought the aged man to thfe hospital In his auto mobile. Marysville Republicans Will Discuss Campaign Special to The Telegraph Marysville, Pa., July 26. Final preparations for the smoker of the Marysville Republican Club at its headquarters on Tuesday evening are almost completed. Details for the coming campaign will be gone over at this meeting." Among the speakers will be State Senator J. Franklin Mar tin. of West Fairview; ex-Judge James M. Shull, of New Bloomfield; J. S. Eby, of Newport, member of Assembly from Perry county, and James Mac Barnett, of New Bloomfield. TAKF rr FROM ONE GROOM, LOVE CAN GRIX AT MERE YEARS If you're the kind of a person who likes the "silver threads among the gold" stuff, read this—from the Dau phin county marriage license list of to-day: Mary Elizabeth Stauffer, aged BO; William Spurrier, aged 48. Get it? Now read this: George Franklin Hall and Hattie Allen. The bride-elect Is only 42, and as for the groqm-to-be, well—he's only 70. SCHOOL. BOARD MEETS TO CONSIDER CONTRACTS The Harrisburg School Board held a special session this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Contracts for the W. S. Steele building were presented for ap proval. The bonding company for the contractor on the Shimmell building expected to make a recommendation for the completion of the building. SUPERINTENDING INSPECTOR CALLED Chicago, July 26.—Charles H. Westcott, of Detroit, supervising in spector for the Eighth dis»rict of the. Federal Steamboat Inspector Ser vice, was subpenaed to-day to appear in the State's attorney's oflfce to be questioned regarding the Eastland L accidecu ROYAL HDD GDRGIS WANT TO CLOSE GAP In Lengthy Statement They Reite rate Desire Not to Hold Up Im provement if Money Be Found In a lengthy statement Issued last evening relative to the river wall gap Mayor John K. Royal and Commis sioner W. L. Gorgas. superintendent of fl nances and account*, reiterate the declarations they have both frequently made in newspaper Interviews and on the floor of Council that they are not opposed to the proposed plan for dos ing the gap at Market street by con tinuing the concrete steps across the unsightly chasm. Both the Mayor and Mr. Gorgas add that their only purpose In opposing the plan to date is a lack of funds, as tliey believe, to complete the job. The problem will be threshed out In Council to-morrow and It Is hoped tlat the commissioners will get to gether on some plan to permit the work to f»e proceeded with without further delay,. Following is the state ment of Messrs. Royal and Gorgas: Statement in Full The statement signed by both Mayor Royal and Mr. Gorgas follows: "So that the citizens and taxpayers may fully understand all the facts, wo desire to make this public statement. "In the year 1910, by a vote of the people, a loan of $316,000.00 was au thorized for 'an intercepting sewer along the Susquehanna river." When bids were asked for this improvement it was found that the sewer would only cost about one-third of the amount authorized. Plans were then made to spend the balance author ized and a wall or series of steps was ordered built by the Board of Public Works. "On the completion of the sewer a controversy arose between the con tractor and the Board as to the amount duo the former. The con* tractor claimed a balance due of about $25,000, and the Board of Pub lic Works claimed that about $12,000 only was due, and it has been said (unofficially) that, the contractor would have been willing to settle for $16,000. "The matter in controversy was sub mitted to the old council through the city solicitor., who in a communica tion 'strongly urged arbitration' and on his recommendation council au thorized the Board of Public Works to appoint a Board of Arbitrators and according to the terms of the agree ment the decision of the arbitrators was to be final and from which no appeal could be taken. "The arbitrators found there was due the contractor the sum of $2 2,- 767.09, and so reported to Council. Council took no definite action on the report. After some weeks the attor ney for the contractor notified Council that hts client, wanted his money and Council should take steps to pav same. The city solicitor notified Council that the award must be paid and it was their duty to provide the money. As there was a balance of $23,156.18 in the fund. Mr. Gorgas Introduced a res olution directing the superintendent of streets a'nd public improvements to draw a warrant in favor of the con tractor for the amount awarded. As the amount of money already expend ed and the bills for work ordered and completed exceeded by SIO,OOO the amount authorized by the people, Mr. Gorgas. as superintendent of finance, felt as if he could not legally counter sign any more warrants on this fund until some decision was made, as to whether debts could be contracted in excess of the amount authorized by a vote of the people. Therefore he re fused to countersign any warrants on this fund. 'Up to this time there lave been warrants drawn and paid for work done on the sewer and steps $292,843, and there are debts unpaid for work done $10,033.80, and due contractor $22,767.09, making a total of $325,- ■644.71, or $9,644.71 in excess of the amount authorized by a vote of the people. "In the face of this the superinten dent of streets and public improve ments and the board of public works have authorized a further expenditure of $7,250 (estimated) to close the gap at Market street, which would make an expenditure of $16,894.71 in excess of the amount appropriated and no steps taken to pay the said excess, to say nothing of the bill rendered by the arbitrators of $4,500 for services ren dered. "The Constitution of Pennsylvania says no debt shall be contracted or liability ihcurred except in pursuance of an appropriation previously made therefore by the municipal govern ment. • "We are in no sense opposed to filling the gap in the River Wall, but We consider it our duty, as city offi cials, to see to it that thi~ step is not taken without provision for its pay ment and we stand ready to hear some definite method by which the city means to pay this excess and tf that may be legal and at the same time feasible we are willing to support it." — George D. McCreary Dies in Philadelphia By Associated Press Philadelphia, July 26. —George D. McCreary, who served ten years in Congress from the Sixth Pennsylvania district. Philadelphia, retiring in 1913, died at his home here to-day. He was 69 years old. He was born in York Springs vil lage. Adams county, Pa., and spent much of his early youth i» the an thracite coal region at Tremont, Tamaqua and Mauch Chunk where his father, John B. McCreary, one of the pioneer operators, was engaged in coal mining. 2500 TICKETS SOLD FOR POLICE GAME Tickets for the police baseball game on August 20 are selling rapidly. To date nearly 2500 have been dis posed of. The game will be played with the Reading police. TRAIN RIDERS ARRESTED Waynesboro, Pa., Jluy 26.—Train riders are being caught at Pen Mar almost every day. As high as eleven in one day have been taken into cus tody. The riders are taken to Hagers town, where they are placed in Jail. "YOl'R SWORD HIRST" "Tour sword, first." It was the speech of Nelson to an officer of the enemy who had been taicen prisoner, and who waited to shake hands with the great admiral. "Your sword first!" Surrender before communion! Hom age before familiarity; the relinquish ing of the last symbol of hostility be fore there can be free courtesies of friendship. And that, too, is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The condition of a full communication with the Lord is absolute surrender. So long as we retain a sword the fel lowship is broken. We may seek tho gifts of grace, and the consolations or I the promises, and the encompassing ! oare of Providence, but ir we hold to our sword the search is in vain. "Your {sword first:"—The Christian Herald. JULY 26, 1915. "Get Good Nurse" Friends Wire John Carl Ryder, 111; Announcement Proves It When some months ago friends of John Carl Ryder, private secretary to Millionaire H. S. KelSey, of Boston, learned that he was ill, very ill, in a hospital far from homr, they wired and wrote anxious advices as to the importance of his hiring the best nurse available. Consequently they were vastly relieved when Mr. Ryder wired back: "Got her!" The letter that fol lowed revealed the fact that the nurse was Miss Mary Anna Foulke. of Strasburg, Pa. Prom day to day the telegrams of still anxious friends Inquiring as to Mr. Ryder's conditton invariably elicited crisp, concise responses such as this: "Getting better every day:" The speediness of Mr. Ryder's re covery seemed little less than pheno menal they • figured—and they won dered not a little thereat. Saturday the problem was solvea when Harris burg friends of Mr. Ryder got this in their evening mall: Mr. and Mrs. William Q. Foulke Announce the marriage of their j daughter Mary Anna to Mr. John Carl Ryder Saturday, July twenty-fourth at Harrisburg. This at least is the story friends gave out when asked to verify a re port that Mr. Ryder and Miss Foulke had been married here after they had obtained a license from the Daupliln county marriage bureau. ICE FUND NEAR SIOO Increasing the contributions to the ice fund of the Associated Charities to nearly SIOO, a donation of $5 was received by the Telegraph from the H. Astrich estate to-day. MIXERS ARE BEST SOLDIERS Manchester, England, July 24. From a Manchester officer who has been in France since the beginning of the war, serving with the British staff, the Manchester Guardian has gleaned some interesting views as to the character of the different varieties of British soldier in the test of war. In the opinion of the officer, the best soldier is the ex-miner. He pre fers the miner "because he is strong in the back and used to dangers and ex plosions; because he can endure cramped positions in the trenches; be cause his ears are quick, because he is curious about sounds, because he is intelligent. The miner puts two and two together much more quickly than any other class of men." FREErORT'S ON-THE-DOT GIRL Miss Marion E. Patterson of Free port. Long Island, received a prize of ten dollars at the graduating exercises of the High school of that place for not having been tardy nor absent a single time in ten years, which in cluded the grammar and High school course. She Is going to college ami says she intends to keep up her record there. To make sure sne arose at six o'clock every morning nnd started for school at a quarter after eight. Miss Patterson was fortunate In having good health, and In possessing the con stancy that is too rare, and which is so much to be commended. Many preachers begin service on the dot, whether the people are. in their pews or not; too many begin five or ten minutes late. The average congrega tion is hardly ever in its place at the appointed hour for Sunday service. A few might be found who have attend ed the services every Sunday for ten years, but there are more who miss them ten times in on«» year. The Christian Herald. "WHERE THE NEIGHBORS lAiVE ONE ANOTHER" The question -was asked of the mat ron in one of our great metropolitan union stations, "how do you erfjoy your work?" "I have no heart in it; I'm here for the money that's in it." was her answer. Henry W. Grady of Georgia spent » few days in a north ern city with his good wife. Next to his apartment he s!fw crepe on the door. He asked his landlady who was dead. She cooly replied, "I don't know; It's none of my funeral." Grady turned to his wife and exclaimed, "Let's go back to Georgia, where neigh-' bors love one another." What would Jesus have done? Just as he did In Palestine. He goes where people are [ sick, where people are dying, where people hunger, where people labor and he cures them, comforts them, rests them. . In city, country, lake, moun tain, valley, wherever he finds a broken heart, he is always the same affectionate Friend: pitying and lov ing, living and doing, serving and sav ing. weeping and dying.—The Chris tian Herald. Putting the "Eat" in Whole Wheat The whole wheat grain is without doubt the most perfect food given to man. But you don't want to eat raw wheat—it would be im perfectly digested if you did eat it. Whole wheat bread made of so-called"whole wheat flour" is not much better. It serves to stimu late peristalsis (bowel movement), but the body gets little or no nu triment from it. All the nutritive elements in the wholewheat grain are supplied in a digestible form in Shredded Wheat It is the shredding process that put the "Eat" in Shredded Wheat Try one or more of these crisp, delicious little loaves of baked wheat for breakfast with milk or cream. Your Grocer Sells It MINERS PROTECTED By FREJUEIIT TESTS Elevators Are Dropped Once a Month Under Superintendence of State Inspectors Among the many precautions taken to safeguard the lives of the anthra cite mine workers of Pennsylvania it the testing at least once a month ol the safety catches on the elevators, ot mine cage?, used in the shafts. Thes« tests are now a legal requirement, bul they were originally instituted by th« operators. The test consist of dropping th« elevators, fully loaded with coal, to see that its safety catches are in working order and capable of preventing a fall in case the rope should part. For carrying out these "drop tests" a spe cial release hook coupled to the end of the hoisting rope is provided. When the trigger of the release hook Is pull ed. the cage depends upon nothing but the safety catches, but its fall is stop ped within a few inches. The power ful catches act promptly and grip or bite into the guidefc tighter and tight er until the descent is stopped. Naturally no men are allowed on the cages during the tests, but the loaded , eagre Itself weighs about three tons and this great weight is all exerted in mak ing the safety catches grip the guides, the tests are always witnessed by re sponsible officials of the coal com panies. and reports of the results ara submitted to a State Mine Inspector. In addition to this the coal com panies have had for several years at the heads of all shafts, where men are hoisted from tho mines an auto mat ic controller which prevents the fro,r l overrunning its distance and hitting the wheel, or drum, at the ™ P . l of ,, the , shaft This device auto matlcallj shuts off the steam from the engine and applies the brakes unless the cage has slowed down about seventy feet from the surface. Thus the mine workers are protected both going and coming." Details of Fighting in Alps Picturesque Geneva, July 24. (Correspondence or The Associated Press). —Swiss sol diers and guides bring some pic turesque details of the fighting be tween Italy and Austria in the Alps around Stelvio Pass, nine thousand feet high, and the neighboring heights overlooking the Valteline V&Uey. Stelvio Pass is an important back door entrance into Italy, threatening Milan. It was strongly fortified by the I Austrians and manned by a large j body of mountain artillery. The ! Italians have similarly fortified other i passes nearby, and there are daUy artillery duels, while at night the whole district is swept by searchlight". •Swiss soldiers on sentry duty a few miles away keep constant watch over the scene. Near the point where the Swiss, Italian and Austrian frontiers meet there are several villages where the inhabitants all speak a half dozen languages and dialects. The principal pass was buried under two feet of snow when war began be tween Austria and Italy, but the Aus trian Alpinists cleared a path straight .to the summit, and recently fighting has been taking place above the clouds which cut off both sides from view of their base and supporting artillery be low; so that they have to depend for orders and instructions on the field telephone. The Italian batteries on the lower ridges obtained the exact range of the summit of the pass after a. few ex periments, and they keep up a con tinual cannonade, firing through the clouds, of course without seeing tho result of their shots. The Red Cross workers on both sides experience the greatest difficulty in reaching the wounded at isolated places in the upper ranges. The nurses in this district must qualify as skilled Alpinists. Smugglers are making huge sums through dealings, in tobacco, matches, salt, and other articles whose export is | forbidden by all three countries. Most of the smugglers are young women, who climb many thousand feet Into the passes with their little bundles of goods. The soldiers seldom Insist on strict observance of the exportation rules in these cases, and even the officers buy their wares gladly. Young Swiss women are able to sell their five cent cigars at a profit of ten or fifteen cents each, although the price is scarcely exhorbitant when It is con sidered that the young women must make a trip of several miles along the most perilous mountain roads and run the risk of being shot as a spy in order to reach her market. 9
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