SMALLPOX IS
CROPPING OUT
Large Number of Men Com
ing Here Are Bringing
Disease
Smallpox in Pennsylvania, on ac
count of the large number of men
who bave come into the state lately
from other states is at the present
time threatening the public health,
according to State Health Commis
sioner Dixon, who says that condi
tions mentioned in his warning last'
week still prevail. Drastic steps are
being considered at the Health De
partment. whose staff is keeping in
close touch with conditions through
out the state by order of the Com
missioner.
Jtoports of new outbreaks received
lately are still connected in many
cases with the presence of negro la
borers recently brought into the state.
It was reported by the County Medi
cal Inspector for Erie County that
four cases had developed in the city
of Erie within the last few days. The
State Health Department has taken
tip with the Pennsylvania and New
York Central Railroads the question
of vaccinating negro employes around
the yards and docks. The Merchants'
Association has also been asked to
use its influence toward getting man
ufacturers and others to aid the local
health authorities in meeting the seri
ous situation which the city faces.
Dr. Dixon sent Associated Chief
Medical Inspector Hull to SasLton Fur
nace, where there has been/ a fresh
outbreak of cases thought to have
originated by contact with member*
of a camp of southern negroes, among
whom infection was found last week.
|WE SELL FOR LESS |
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Great Shoe lIHHi I for Young
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On Friday and Saturday We Will Hold
The Greatest and CUAF C A I C In the
Most Important OIMxJLd unLL Entire City
Several Thousand Pairs Marked Way UnderValue
The Season's Newest and Most Stylish Models
_ _ This is the sale that will be of In
|li| " terest to the entire family for we I _J|" _f ■_ ■
lYlen S have marked these stylish shoes at I 9(1 IpC rDIPIIT
° the very lowest prices that have fcOUIVa 1 dICIII
l> ti a |H|B been heard of for a long time and _ _ .. —,
\A/ 111 f n . \ we are going to show the people of I malLah R„ll ah *o ~—
W Illlc hIWo/ \ this city that wo can sell the best LGfllUßr DUIiOII -O /
ifllpß and most fashionable footwear to 1 *C) /
/"\ V. ' )e had at the lowest prices in the jab -o I
Canvas „ e w, P ,ea ß e * Shoes s/ /
C 1 ti WlB bear in mind that we carry such Handsome shoes with gray , J?/
I lYTftfflC < 'VH 11111 celebrated makes as W. L. Douglas cloth tops and plain .toes, sizes / „ / \
/ ■ M lllf and Lndicott-Johnson & Co. and 3to 5 only. AND you save a /„ / \
/ I ■■■■Hl other well-known makes and that dollar a pair. FRIDAY AND / /
$ — 70 IHBIBT we are hereto sell shoes for less SATURDAY IN THE SALE /*7 yjßk
1 ,/J lIUBP money than any other store. AT $2.08. /
I THE SHOE DEPARTMENT IS ON
t THE MAIN FLOOR. *P®#.oß /7 /ZJM&FuB
High grade white canvas oxfords with leather \ S*
or rubber soles, very stylish and durable. FRI- aoeaa 1 1 •
DAY AND SATURDAY IN THE SALE AT 81.73 L3uICS fljiTrr^y
. " 77: 71 ]H / Patent and
r^MBoyS• Scout J I VelourCalf Ladies' White
(\ \\ Shoes Shoes Canvas Boots # Vi: \T\
\\ $2-97 $9- 75 If /I
These have cloth tops and you 11 gj[ fit f Xtri !
/ff A I have the pick of button and lace This is a great offer and PV at / >*4 I
in urtlw ™ a v mone y will be in demand —white \\ &• / A 111 /
on these. FRIDAY AND SATTTR- , . .. VA Jtc* t /I 01/
DAY IN THE SALE AT $2.97 canvas lace boots, button \ \ / k&jf
v ' I or blucher styles, high I 77
These are the greatest Scout Shoes you ever heels, less than anywhere / J //
S A a i?" £h*y certainly will stand the hard knocks. '. i, ~... , A else. FRIDAY AND SAT- / / /
AND°SATCRDAY n iNVH Z E H SALE OAT 0 AT '$l!88. IDAY LadieS White CanVdS URDAY, A PAIR, *2.75.
\ Low Shoes J
Men s Velour Calf Low Shoes Ladies' Vici Kid Pumps
Very stylish low cuts with rub- have high heels. Won
bcr or leather soles. Thev are derful values in the jMjKKggKi&F
These are Endicott-Johnson make, hand-sewed the niftiest shoes sold at the price sa,e FRIDAY AND
soles, English or broad toes. FRIDAY AND SAT- ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SATURDAY, AT, W
URDAY IN THE SALE AT #3.45. IN THE SALE, A PAIR, SL7S. PAIR, $3.90. /aMBT l£i 7
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Men's Scout Shoes Men's Working Men's Vici Kid Lace Ladies' Gun Metal Ladies' Vici Kid
AU solid leather soies. Shoes Shoes Button and Blucher Lace Boots
Black and tan uppers, Endicott-Johnson make. DUlton ana
$2.75 values. Special Fri- Full double soles of green Broad plain toe; solid Shoes ♦ ne Go ? d y ea , r welts,
day and 0 OC leather; tan uppers. Spe- leather- solid comfort o i .^. p i. h heels -
Saturday cial Friday and *0 QC 1 , , , IJPIL SoUd leather soles. Low Special Friday *4 aq
Saturday Special Iriday <JJO OC heels. Special Friday and and Saturday... D < * 4 i , 0
Men's Gun Metal __ , „ , p and Saturday ... 90M s tur- $2.23 T D „
<5. , Men s Velour Calf, special lot Tennis oil d y Ladies Patent
and bmt.n Hand-sewed Shoes Ladies' Comfort Lea^ther Pumps
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cial Friday and (O 7C styles. Every pair guar- Kize<( 214 to 5 ni fonts . T ' ac e only. Tip and plain and Saturday .. w< " u "
s 2 -75 ZSt 1 i'o'J'S SS ItUVSSf" rS'.'-'S.S'Si./S White Babv Doll
Men's Velour Calf Jilv _ s3 ' 4B , w Sr. $2.60 Pumps
Shoes Little Gents' Vici tioys Wax or n~ic For mlßaeß and children
I r\A Ol,„. RlnrVipr <shns L.adies VelOUr Calf at the following special
Goodvin? wouV B °Rnirv A,. 7 BlUCher bhoeS Patent leather Shoes, all P'' lces
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si"'- $3.48 Z 3al "'" s2.2s:'"'™"""' SLBS -a ' $2 98 SSS SIWWiSs.
uay 1 Uay Saturday Saturday W"' so Sizes 2'A to 6, $1.75.
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THURSDAY EVENING,
BIG SHIPS OF U. S. FLEET ]j
READY TO MAKE WAR HISTORY |
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AD.BENSOK
i With the United States Atlantic
I Fleet, May 24. The big ships of
I the most powerful lleet ever under
| the American Hag, when visited by a
J correspondent of the Associated
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i Press, through arrangement with the
I committee on public information,
| were working day and night to bring
I about the defeat of Germany on the
I sea. Ready for battle, they are
HARRISBU HO TELEGRAPH
><**■> AQ.XOAXO,
spejuling the waiting period turning
out sailor men.
The fleet, temporarily, is a great
workshop of war. 'Already it is turn
ing out one of its finished products—
men who can fight. They are serv
ing the guns on American armed
merchant ships. Its other product—
men who can run the great merchant
fleet the United States will use to
feed the allies —will be ready as soon
as the ships.
Five-inch guns, the kind principal
ly used against submarines, are there
by the hundreds. On the decks great
turrets house long fourteen —and
twelve-ince rifles—three or two to a
turret. On high platforms guns used
for defense against airplanes point
to the sky. Brass is always shining,
steel is always polished, paint is al
ways new, decks are always white
with scrubbing.
Looking For Action
The men behind the guns, have
lost shipmates in the war—they
were guns' crews on merchantmen
sunk by German submarines. And
other shipmates now are on duty
aboard the destroyers operating with
the British and French fleets. The
men with the Atlantic fleet are work
ing to prepare themselves to avenge
the killing of their mates.
Here's what happened the other
day. A crew was practicing with a
fi\e-inch guns. A bluejacket about
seventeen —he still had down on his
chin-—was pointing. He grasped
handles on a board brass wheel; his
eye was steady at a rubber cup at
the end of a long sight, through
which he saw the target. His duty
was to keep the gun on the target
so it might be fired any time.
Around this beardless youth were
grouped other guns' crews ready to
fire when his .crew had completed its
period.
The breach open, the load
was thrown home, the breach was
hurled back in place and then a
buzzer, operated from the fire con
trol station, sounded; there was a
flush, a roar, the hiss of a projectile
speeding through the air and the
louder hiss of compressed air blow
ing smoke out of the gun. Miles
away the projectile struck the tar
get.
Hit After Hit
"Guess that's bad," said an old
man-o'-war's-man looking on admir
ingly at the third shot, as the gun's
crew got the range and the pillar of
white water leaped into the air.
"How would that do for FritZy?
Suppose that had been a submarine
and—"
The buzzer, the roar of the gun
and the hiss of air interrupted him.
"Another hit! Gee whiskers that's
shooting."
On the after deck latest arrivals
aboard thd ship were set to work
that day, and every other day, in
fact, upon the loading machines.
They consist principally of a breach
and block and a slide that carries
away dummy projectiles and powder
bags. •
Officers with stop watches in their
hands set one crew after another to
work, the idea being to develop ex
treme loading speed by competition.
The newest members of the ships'
companies work for days at these
loading machines. The next step in
their training carries them to tho
guns. But they are not yet ready to
lire the regular charges. One pound
ers, that go off with a sharp crack,
are lashed on top of the big guns
and the crews go through all the mo
tions of firing, but instead of a big
shell, a little one weighing a pound
speeds for the target when the buz
zer sounds or when the turret cap
tains in charge of the bigger rifles
yell "Fire!"
Ileal Battle Practice
After a period of firing with the
subcaliber arrangement the crews
get down to real battle practice.
There are few busier places than a
turret in action. Concave steel walls
are all around, and a steel roof is
just above the heads of the gunners.
The pointers sit far forward, under
neath the barrels of the guns. Little
seats like those on a motorcycle are
there for them and on every side are
instruments. As the turret begins to
fire, a lift, bearing the huge pro
jectile, bangs up from below, great
bags of powder slide from the maga
zines into a long brass trough. Husky
bluejackets toss the powder into an
other brass trough that is slipped
into position at the gigantic breach.
I The projectile, almost as large as a
man, meanwhile has been rolled in
to the trough, a long automatic rahj
nier lias jumped from the rear and
shoved it into the barrel. The powder
bags are driven home, a man at the
bleach swings a lever, a ton of steel
swings up with a hiss of compressed
air. The breach block turns and
locks, a buzzer sounds, the charge is
ignited and with a rush of air the
guns recoil about a yard and then
jump back into position. There is a
loud "swish —swish" as the guns
come back and then go forward. In
side the turret not much more than
that is heard.
Outsidei it is much different. There
is a flash, a roar, a ring of smoke
and the loud whistle of the projec
tile rushing through the air. So
great is the concussion that every
man outside has cotton or some
other substance in his ears to save
his ear drums from being broken.
Fifteen Seconds '
Fifteen seconds from "Commence
firing" to "Fire" is considered pretty
good time for the big guns in the
navy. They have new guns' crews
in training now who never saw salt
water until three weeks ago who are
doing the thing easily in sixteen sec
onds.
While the guns' crews are being
trained on some of the ships, aboard
others aro being trained men to run
the hundred or more German vessels
the United States will operate as
soon as repairs are made to their
engines, and the fleet of merchant
men being built to carry food and
supplies to the Allies. The fleet is
training engineers, electricians—-men
to fill every position. The Atlantic
fleet is confident that it will be able
to supply a full complement for
every ship, for the navy is getting
men now faster than ever before,
and if the officers are proud of their
ships, the guns on the decks and the
power of the engines in their hulls,
they are doublj' proud of the spirit
of the new men who are coming into
the navy.
A large majority of the new men
in the fleet, their officers said, have
come from farms, especially In the
middle west. On any ship may be
found youths who until the war
began were following plows. "In
the first place," said an officer, "more
than ninety per cent of the men are
native Americans. There are few
foreign-born men here.'"
All U. S. Represented
On any ship may be. heard the
drawl of a South Carolinian or a
Georgian, the New Yorkese of the
East Side; tho twang that is New
England's, the rising intonation of
Western Pennsylvania and the tone
that only comes from west of Chi
cago. So is the enlisted per
sonnel of the navy growing that
there is no room for the new men
at the training stations ashore. A
man enlists one day In Kentucky
and three days later finds himself
at a loading machine on the deck of
a dreadnaught.
On nearly every ship are men who
used to be In the navy .and who have
gone back to their old and usually
low, ranks because their country
needs them. They are regular of
ficers.
On one of the ships Is a Wall
; street broker. He graduated from
Annapolis many years ago, resigned
and later came back into the service
diirlng the Spanish-American war.
He commanded the Hist in several
fights in Cuban waters and knows
how it feels to be under fire.
, " 'The Navy Needs You' was the
sign that got me back this time,"
said he. 'When I read that sign I
knew it meant me and 1 fixed it
right off so I could come back. I I
left the navy at the close of the •
Spanish-American war and have |
been in fche brokerage business in
New York ever since."
Grandfather Ensign
On another ship is a little man
with gray hair"—a grandfather—who
wears the unfrom ensign.
"1 resigned from the navy many
years ago," he said. "I have grand
children now. When wo went to war
with Germany I knew the navy
needed trained men and I offered
myself. They accepted me and here
I am with the junior officers. I sup
pose I am the only grandfather en
sign in the navy."
Every ship has a mascot. Some
times it is a goat; more often it is
a dog, or several dogs. One big
dreadnaught has aboard a litter of
bull puppies, sons and daughters of
the ship's chief mascot. When the
ship rolls the puppies slide across
the decks and into the scuppers, to
be fished out and set on their feet
again by the bluejackets, their
mother all the while watching the
proceeding with a critical eye from
around the corner of a hatchway.
Then there is a god, half fox ter
rier and half something else, that
answers to the name of "Pork
Chops." He follows squads of sailors
all over the ship, but he hasn't be
come used to the gurs yet.
When a five-inch gun went off al
most over his head, he lit out for
the crew's galley, skidded around
the door and disappeared for the rest
of the day. Whereupon the crew
began to "run" his owner.
"A hell of a fine mutt to Ire afloat
in this packet." yelled one sailor.
The owner, himself, had no reply.
The disgrace of "Pork Chop's" re
treat had overwhelmed him. Jt Is
tradition that the American navy
never runs away from anything, and
a navy dog shouldn't violate tra
dition.
School Notes
TKCH
Dr. J. H. Morgan, president of
Dickinson College, addressed the stu
dents in the chapel exercises yester
day morning. He urged upon them
the necessity for staying in school
so that they may be prepared for the
best purposes when their country
may need them. -"Doing one's bit"
he quoted as doing better than
that which you have been doing.
Another Tech dance will be held
Friday in Hanshaw's Hall. Members
of the four classes are invited to par
ticipate.
Professor P. L. Grubb will repre
sent the school Saturday morning at
the meeting of the Pennsylvania In
terscholastic Athletic Association
that will be held in this city. The
officers will be elected and a sched
ule prepared for next season.
The Tech Athletic Association will
hold its annual meeting Friday for
the election of managers for next
year.
The members of the Tech Camera
Club are making preparations for
their exhibit that will be given in
connection with the open house af- |
fair June 1. The club will go to the
country Friday to secure another set
of photographs.
Professor A. M. Lindsay, director
of music, is preparing a new anthem
to be sung at the Memorial Day ex
ercises when the Grand Army veter
ans address the student body.
Stomach Not Helped
By Artificial Digestents
Doctors ,\o Advliie MnKneala for Arid
IndlKCHtloii
Just how foolish it is to indiscrimi
nately dose the stomach with drugs
and medicines is often not realized
until too late. It seems so simple to
swallow a dose of some special mix
ture or take pepsin tablets, or other
artificial digestents after meals, and
the folly of tills drugging is not ap
parent until, perhaps years afterward,
when chronic dyspepsia has developed
or gastric ulcers have almost or en
tirely eaten their way through the
stomach walls. Regrets are then un
availing. , . ..
It is in tho early stages when indi
gestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatu
lence, etc.. indicate excessive acidity
of the stomach or fermentation of
food contents that precaution should
be taken.
In excessive acidity, digestents are
unsuitable and have little or no in
fluence upon tlie harmful acid; that
is why so many are discarding tlieni
and advising sufferers from indiges
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of the dangerous acid and keep the
food contents bland and sweet by tak
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instead. . ,
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is practically tasteless and a teaspoon
ful taken in a little hot or cold water
after meals, will usually be found
quite sufficient to instantly neutral
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and thus relieve the distress to which
it is giving rise. Geo. A. Gorgas can
supply you.—Advertisement.
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<J The third operation is a
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<J The fifth step is direct to the
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*| Then the bottle is filled and
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