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RAILROAD
RECORD MONTH AT
CITY P.R.R.Y.M.C.A.
General Secretary Tells Direct
ors About January Meet
ings; "Gym" Popular
January was a record month at the
P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Reports pre
sented last night to the board of di
rectors showed increased interest in
all departments. The following sta
tistics were presented by the general
secretary, Frank H. Gregory:
Number of Sunday meetings, 5; at
tendance. 450: cottage prayer meet
ings. 4: attendance. 35; boy meetings.
4: attendance, 396; Maclay street
meetings, 3: attendance, 80; commit
tee meetings, 15; attendance, 74; vis
itors to bulluing in 26 days, 7,150;
daily average. 2 <"5; books taken from
library, 00; rest room visitors. 436;
shop and yard visits. 8: sick and in
jured visits. 114; members admitted,
41; total membership, 532: extension
meetings, 2: attendance, 800: enter
tainment. 1; attendance, 1.200; gym
nasium visitors, 930: swimmers, 683;
baths taken, 1,600; basketball games,
9; bowling contests, 15.
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WILLI AM M. YODER
W. M. Yoder, a former Harris
burger, was in the Pennsylvania Rail
road service fifty-two years and four
months. His last employment was as
shop clerk at Orangeville.
William M. Yoder was born in Har
risburg. December !>, 1 845. He entered
the service of the Northern Central
Railway as messenger in the telegraph
department on May 16, 18U3. He left
the service on January 3, 1864, and
re-entered it on A>>ril 1 of the same
year as messenger in the office of the
chief engineer at Harrisburg, where he
remained until April 1, 1866, when the
office of chief engineer was abolished.
Mr. Yoder was later transferred to
the Northern Central's Bolton shop, at
lialtfniore. He went to Mount Vernon
in 1 873 and later was transferred to
• Jrangeviile.
January Freight Business
Keeps Middle Division Busy
Freight movement over the Middle
division of the Pennsylvania during
the month of January was the heaviest
in the history of the road with one
exception, the record month of Oi -
tober, 1915. month's' total move
ment was 202,529 cars, while that of
October, 1915, was 204,900 cars. The
movement also shows a gain of 21,-
32."! cars over December, 1915.
Of the total movement last month,
115.449 were loaded cars. 20,382 be-
Iv westbound and 95,067 eastbound.
The dally average movement was 6,-
533. The gain over January of 1915
was 38.747 cars.
The total movement in the previous
month, December, 1915, was 196.106,
with a total loaded movement of 105,-
838 and a daily average of 6,100.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
RUMBLES
LOCAL BRAKEMAN
HAS CLOSE CALL
C. L. Adams Saves Life by
Sticking to Fence; Wheels
Touch Body
Thrills are a part of the life of a
railroad brakeman. Charles L. Adams
of 2056 Swatara street, employed on
the Middle Division of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, will vouch for this.
He had lits first real thrill early yes
terday when he was knocked from a
moving freight train, and saved him
self from being ground to pieces be
neath the wheels by squeezing his
body close to a fence.
Adams, with his crew, was enroute
east. At Lewistown Junction his train
was to wait for orders. Brakeman
Adams started to get off. Along the
side of the track was a fence. When
about to jump Adams' right foot
caught between two palings, and he
was thrown from the car. He fell be
tween the rail and track fence.
The space into which the brakeman
squeezed his body was small, and he
could feel every wheel touch his
clothing. Adams breathed a sigh of
relief, and a silent prayer when the
cabin car passed him. Members of
flie crew noticed the brakeman's sud
den disappearance and expected to
find him ground to pieces. They wera
more than surprised when the Har
risburger walking toward them re
lated his experience. He escaped with
a (ew scratches.
New Advertising Chief
For Pennsylvania Railroad
E. S. STEWART
E. S. Stewart, assistant adertising
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
yesterday was appointed advertising
agent, succeeding the late Colonel F.
N Barksdale.
Mr. Stewart is 47 years old. He has
been In the service of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad for 23 years. His first
railroad experience was received as
stenographer and clerk for the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway. He
entered the Pennsylvania in 1893 as
stenographer of the advertising de
partment. in 1897 he was made spe
cial advertising clerk becoming chief
clerk in 1900 and assistant advertis
ing man in 1906.
Mr. Stewart, has had supervision
over the preparation and printing of
millions of public time tables, and di
rect charge of schedules of the com
pany's limited trains.
Suit Against Grand Chief;
Engineer Asks Reinstatement
Special to the Telegraph
Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 2. Suit has
been brought against W. S. Stone,
grand chief of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Enginers, by William A,
Engle, an engineer, who claims he has
been wrongfully expelled from the or
ganization because he joined the
Mutual Beneficial Association of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Stone claims Engle violated the by
laws of the organization by joining an
other society. The case is regarded as
a test of the right of a labor organ
ization to restrict rights of members
under the Constitution. Engle de
mands reinstatement.
[A similar case will be heard in
Dauphin county courts within two
weeks. Oliver P. Keller, president of
the local branch of the Mutual Bene
ficial Association, has entered suit
against officials of Harrisburg Division,
No. 74. Brotherhood of Locomotive
engineers, charging illegal dismissal.]
Cannot Raise Men's Wages
Is Official Statement
Chicago, Feb. 2. A formal state
ment of tlie View of the railroads as
to the demands of the men for an
eight-hour day was issued here yes-;
terday by the Executive Committee of j
the Association of Western Hallways. !
Thp statement asserts that the de- j
manils are not in reality for a shorter
day, but, In effect, a request for an
advance in wanes which would cost
the railways of the nation $100,000,000 ■
a year in wages alone. This is ex
plained by the assertion that train
men work between terminals, not by I
the hour, and do not, as a matter of
fact, expect to shorten their hours:
of toil, but to be paid for overtime
over eight instead of ten hours.
The movement, says the statement,
involves 300,000 men on 280,000 miles
of line in the United States and Can
ada. A strike, which the statement
says has been Informally threatened
by an element of the brotherhoods, 1
would constitute
strial catastrophe the' American pub- \
lie has ever knewn.
Roads Pay Heavy Toll
For Personal Injuries
Damages for personal injuries 'on
four of the more important railroads
entering Philadelphia during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1915, aggregated
nearly three and a half million dol
lars, according to statistics compiled
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion and received in this city to-day.
The damages for the four roads ag- j
gregated $3,385,371. The Pennsylva
nia system paid $2,041,027. The Phila
delphia and Heading personal Injuries
cost that road $317,073; the Baltimore
and Ohio system paid $823,894, and
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, $203,377.* !
Old Engineer Dies in Cab; '
Veteran Reading Employe
Pottsville, Pa.. Feb. 2.—Sustaining
a stroke of paralysis as lie sat at the
throttle of his locomotive in Palo
Alto, John 11. Dicus, a veteran en
gineer on the Reading Railway, yes
terday died in a few minutes.
Me had been employed on the i
Reading Railway 40 years, worked on
all divisions of the road sud was 58
years of age.
RETIRED I'KX.NSY CONDUCTOR
DIES 1X lIARKISBVRG HOSPITAL
William M, Miller, aged 07 years,
a retired Pennsylvania Railroad engi
neer, died yesterday at the Harrisburg
Hospital. Death was due to a compli
cation of ailments. Mr. Miller was a
resident of Harrisburg for thirty years.
The survivors are two children, John
and Haltie, Harrisburg, and three j
brothers, Frederick, Columbia: Chris- I
tian, Philadelphia, and Jacob, Har
risburg, and one sister, Mary Mil- I
ler, Harrisburg. The funeral will be i
held Friday. Services at the home, ,
919 North Third street. Further ar
rangements will be announced later.
HAII,ROAD NOTES
The Pennsylvania Railroad Is build
ing a new tower at Pottstown on the
Schuylkill division.
E. N. Jones, retired passenger en
gineer who had been ill is convales
cent:
Adam Givler, veteran ticket ex- j
aminer, employed at the Pennsylvania!
Railroad Station, who has been oft
duty for six months, is improving
slowly.
W. J. Rose, division freight agent, i
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who has
been confined to his home, 113 Locust,
street, with the grip is improving.
G. E. Dressell of Baltimore yester- j
day assumed his duties as chief I
I plumber of the Baltimore division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. '
Emanuel Shepp, track foreman, and
his assistant A. S. Kope are making
an inspection of track conditions be
tween Enola yards and York.
H. E. Hess, freight trainmaster of
(he Baltimore division of the Penn- j
sylvania railroad was at York yester- ;
day, and with C. E. Kendig, chief |
operator, conferred with yard ofll- j
cials there, relative to. freight con- i
gestions.
Reading officials yesterday made in- !
spections at Sunbury. It is under-1
stood that a new bridge will be !
erected at that place this summer. \
Eight cars and an engine were piled j
up yesterday on the Taraaqua branch
of the Reading Railway system, as a |
result of a rear-end collision. No one
was injured.
Robert C. Keffer, assistant yard- 1
master in the railroad yards at Read
ing, has been appointed special duty
men, and will travel between Harris- j
burg, Reading and Allentown. L. H.
Wolford of Reading will succeed Mr. j
Keffer as yardmaster.
Howard 1,. Zerr of the Lebanon
Valley branch of the Reading has J
been made a signalman with head-!
quarters at Reading.
The New York Central Railroad
Company, formed in 1914 by a merger
of 11 minor companies, in Supreme
Court won its fight yesterday at
Columbus, Ohio, against the opposi- j
tion to the combination.
Standing of the Crews
THK READING
HnrrlMlmric DivlNlon —3 crew first to I
go after 1:15 a. m.: 2 19, 10, 17. 20 4 !
11.
Eastbound—7l crew first to go after
10:15 a. m.: 60. 66, 56, 57. 69, 64, 52, 59. I
Engineers for 64, 55, 6t, 9.
Firemen for 55, 2, 17, 19.
Conductors for 64, 66. 2, 4, 10.
Flagmen fcr 57. 66, 69.
Fngineers up: Jones, Wyre, Fortney, !
Fetrow, Massimore, Sweely, Me:-kle, '
ill rrison.
Firemen ui : Sweely, Stormfelt. Miller, i
Barr, Sullivan, Coyle, Koefer, Hoffman! i
Woland, Stoner. Alvord, Miller, McMul- 1
lan, Millet. McKee.
Conductors up: Stover, Alleman, '
Fhilabaum. Mentzer.
Brakemen up: Leaman, Risliel. ICeed, !
Wood, Jones. Dean, Nissley, Sullivan,
Dodson, Breach. Fleming, Arney.
Smith, Scott, Bittle.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Standing of the Crews
HARRISBURG SIDK
Division —l O6 crew first j
to SO after 4 p. ni.: 125, 131. 113. 111,
128. 127, 110, 105. I OS, 130. 122, 107. I
Engineers or 110. 122.
Firemen for 125, 110, 130.
Conductors for 130, 107.
Brakemen for 125, 128, 110, 130.
Engineers up: Downs, Ford, Tennant,
I Clark, Gelir, Blankenhorn. Baer, Shooff, i
i Hogentogler. Buckley, Gray, Albright, ;
| Yeater, StefT.v, Ksutz, Halbv, Grass, 1
Schwartz. Gemmill.
Firemen up: Smith. Jsoll. Seiders, I
Hoffman. Hepner, Klinefelter, Blxler.
Ham m. Miner, Paul, Parker, Cable,
Hayes, Fisher, Howe, Farmer, Steek
liclt. Herman.
Conductors up: Gallagher, Bltner.
Brakemen up: Rudy. Kilgore. Ster- !
ner. McNeill, Frank, Harmon. Enders, !
Welsh, Thompson. Stone, Kirk, Ed
wards. Renshaw, Preston, Potter, Arter,
Wright. Albright.
Middle Division—lilfl crew first to go I
after 3:30 p. m.: 23, 35, 25, 21. 111, 29, 34,
j Preference: S. 1.
! Firemen for 23, 111.
Conductors for 23, 35, 25. 21.
j Flagman for 23.
| Brakemen for 35. 111, 29, 34
j Engineers up: Fish, Brlgles, Shirk.
Firemen up: Burns. Forsythe. Steele. ;
\\ agner, Bruker. Rexrotn, Malone,
' Trimble. Sprenkle. Sheaffer.
Conductor up: Glace.
Flagman up: Anderson.
Brakemen up: Williams. Howard, S.
Schmidt. McNalght. Swail*. llolsberger,
Shlvely. Brown, Powell, Measimer Far- '
j leman. Doyle, Jr.
Vfir«| ( retvn—
Engineers for 22, 36. fifth 8. Three
extras.
( Firemen for 10, 16. first 24. third. 24.
; -6, 32, 38, fifth 8. Three extras.
; Engineers up: Snyder. Leib.v. Fulton.
Fells, McMorrls, McDonnell. Runkle.
Firemen un: Graham. Fry. Daugli-
£ y ,'-' McKlllips, iOwlng. Reeder,
Hitz. PeilTer, Snell, Jr.. Flelslier, Blot
tenbeiger. Wciglc. Burger, Alcorn,
I Wagner, Richter. Keiser. Ferg'uson Six
j Cumbler, Cain. Williams. Wagner.
Steele. Hardy. Wiihelm, Albright,
Moyer.
ENOI.A SIDK
Phlladclphln Dlvlnlon—-25 crew first
to go after 8:45 p. m.: 218, 226 247 21 3
212, 207, 255, 200, 260, 248. 222, 217 243'
240. 208, 206, 245.
Engineers for 209. 213, 236. 240 255
I 260.
Firemen for 225, 240. 247, 255.
Conductors for 12. 26. 40. 56, 60
Flagmen for 17. 18, 26. 45. 55.
Brakemen for 6. 7, 9. 13, 17. IS. 19 45
1 48. 55, 56. 60. ....
Conductors up: Keller. t,ibhart, Nich-
I olas.
! Flagman up Zorger.
Brakemen up: Brenner. Wintermyer,
(Vamer, Kearney, WMiitington. Hevil,
Shade, Dougherty. Hutchison. Summv,
Coder. ShafTner. Gaynian, Kirk.
>lld«llc Division—22o crew first to go
after 1:30 p. in.: 222. 240. 217, 228, 107.
Two Altoona crews ot come in.
Yard C rew*—To go after 4 p. m.:
Engineers for second 108, second 124,
: Exera.
Firemen for 112. second 124, 122, first
i 102. second 102. Extra.
Engineers up: Anthony, Nuemyer,
I Rider, Hill, Boyer, Aspacli, Kling,
i Smith, Branyon. Bretz.
Firemen up: Hinkle, Diddick, Brown,
C. H. Hall. Bickhari, Eichelberger,
Kline, Linn. Yost. Waller. McDonald,
j Dell lug, 1.,. C. Hall. Sellers.
CONFER ON NEEDS
OF COUNTY POOR
[Continued From First Page.]
or not the youngsters have relatives
l or any oilier means of support,
whether they house any charges from
j outside Dauphin county, and whether
( the institutions are incorporated.
"All we wanted was to obtain some
information in order to guide the
board in making its appropriations
j for the ensuing year,." said O. G.
Wickersiiam, counsel for the direc
-1 toiate.
Records show that there are sixty
! five youngsters in the three local insti
tutions. All told about ninety chil
dren are classed as dependents but
! the others are maintained at the col
ored nursery, the institutions for
feebleminded or in private families.
"The sixty-five children," according
lo an official of the board, "cost the
| county $772 last month. In 1914 the
j poor board spent $5,056.75 for main
i taining the dependent children; In
| 1915 the cost was $10,057.21. On
I August 17, 1915, the cost, was in
creased sixty per cent.—an Increase
; per child of from 25 to 40 cents. And
i we invited the boards here to-day to
j obtain information on the subject."
Attending Conference
Attending the conference to-day
j were the following: Children's Indus
trial Home, Airs. Charles Uettew,
Miss Emma Bross and Miss Agnes
i Felix: Nursery Home, Mrs. James D,
Hawkins, Mrs. H. B. Montgomery and
j Mrs J. Hervey Patton: Associated
! Aids, John Yates, secretary, Francis
IJ Brady and Mrs. Mercer B. Tate;
the Slate Board of Charities and Cor-j
| rcctions was represented by Mrs.
Elsie V. Middleton.
Meals to Swear in Half of
Fire Apparatus Drivers
j One-half of the fire apparatus drivers I
I in the citv wil! be sworn In as special I
| officers to-morrow afternoon by Mayor
jE. S. Meals. The remainder of' the
drivers will be sworn in
| week. Badges for the drivers and press
| badges for the newspaper representa
j fives in'the city, arrived to-day and are
I being distributed.
! The drivers of the fire company i
I trucks, after they are sworn in, will
| have the power to act as regular of
| fleers on the force at. any fire.
TO 1IUIM) gii&.OOO PLANT
j At a meeting to-day of the Hum
! melstown Light and Power Company, i
' plans were completed for the erection
of a modern plant. The cost will be
] $25,000, and work will begin within
three weeks.
RECRUITS offer what
J . most smokers seek—
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* ts cleanest, purest form
j^fejlt^^fyvuOSfwaQx
Over a Million Paid to
Retired M. E. Ministers
' By Associated Press
Cblcako,' 111., Feb. 2. The Metho
dist Church paid $1,200,000 In pensions
to retired ministers and widow.* and
orphans of ministers during 1915 a( ..
cording; to-the annual report of Dr. Jo
seph B. llintveley, secretary of the
'ooard of Conference Claimants, sub
mitted at the annual meeting of the
board here to. tin j.
' Fifteen million dollars is needed for
the pension fund, Dr. lUnireley's report!
said, und of this amount <6,000,000 now
is i i the treasuries of the conference.
I 3& GOING ON TRAOK THII*
President 'J. Witllam iJowman, of
the UarrisburK Chamber of < 'onuneroe,
announced at the noonday luncheon
at the Harrisliurt; Club to-day that
more than 125 acceptances had been
received from members who have thus
signified their intention of going along;
on the bit; 1916 Trade Excursion on
February lfi-17.
FEBRUARY 2, 1016.
Portuguese Minister Is
Fired at During Riots
By Associated Press
j Pill-is, Feb. 2. A dispatch from !
; Madrid to the Havas Agency says that i
travelers from Lisbon report that the i
Portuguese Minister of Justice was fired i
upon by rioters and that he defended I
i himself with his revolver.
They also state that fire occurred j
in Belem Palace, the official residence j
o. the President, but that It was soon j
extinguished; that many bombs have I
been exploded in different parts of the I
\ city, and that the police have discov
i red <iiantit!e.< of dynamite bombs and
arras,
HO>lll ON 14
By Associated I'rrss
Lisbon. Feb. 1, via Paris, Feb. 2.—-The j
rioting which began last Saturday on
account of the increased price of food
articles, has not yet been quelled, and
tone person wuv reported killed and scv
| era! wounded to-day by bombs throvvi
; by the rioters in their conflicts will
the police and the soldiers.
IISE OF DRUGS DIMINISHING"
It has been stated that the expensi
\ for drugs at the Massachusetts Gen
| era! Hospital has been reduced 50 pe
i cent, in ten years—but the deniaix
| for such non-secret, reliable remediei
ias Vinol is largely on the increase
Our local druggists, George A. Gorgas
i Druggist, Kennedy's Medicine Store
[321 Market St., <'. F. Kramer, Thin
and Broad Sis., Kitzmiller's Pharmacy
! 132!) Derry St., Ilarrlsburg;, Pa., g<
so far as to guarantee Vinol for weak
run-down conditions, chronic coughs
colds and bronchitis, because one get
, in Vinol a combination of the thre
i most. 1 anions tonics, iron for th
blood, Ihe healing medicinal extrac
i tWes of fresh cod livers, and th
r.ourisping properties of beef peptone
'all in a delicious native wine.—Adv.
p. S.—Jn your own town, whereve
you live, there Is a Vinol Drug Store
I Look for the sign.—Advertisement.