GAS AND FLAME BATTERY FOR TY COBB; COACH SMITH PREPARES STEAM ROLLER FOR FO
Tech Gets Up Steam to
Roll Over Wilkes-Barre
\. The Technical High School football
eleven hold another strcguous prac
tice over 90 tho Island last evening
In preparation the Wilkes-Barre
game Saturday afternoon. With an
other clear day. the management Is
looking for a record orowd. Coach
Smith has been putting on a head of
steam to run the steam-roller over
the visitors In ruthless fashion.
At last night's practice both Bill
and JCohlman were on the field fol
lowing the practico, and becoming
familiar with the new. plays. but
neither player 'was In uniform. It is
probable that both will appear in the
lineup.. Lauster and Arnold are also
depended on to play an important
part In the game with the Coal Bar
ons. The new cheer leaders and the
band lender will make their first
appearance.
Fine Eat* For Apple Pickers
Principal Charles B. Fager, Jr., re
turned yesterday from tHe Adams
county fruit belt where he saw more
than 100 of the Tech boys located in
sanitary Liberty camps and start
their work of harvesting the largo
crop of apples. The principal reports
that apples are very plentiful and
selling at a low rate. Ten of the
boys went to Camp Waynesboro, near
that place. They nro living at a farm
house. One of the student-pickers
sunt back tho word "We are having
fine eats." Camp Quincy, also In
Franklin county has 22. boys, who
AROUND THE BASES
•'u. .iciieioi a cei i.i.tiiy uro kicking
to-day." informed tlio car starter. |
"They're .lust good and hot."
"If that's the case." observed the
superintendent, who could always
spot the stiver cloud, "It will save us
putting In heat for a long: time."
This Is the stuff. Silas Page, cham
pion pole vaulter, who made his reeorcL
at State College, 11 feet it Inches, hu-4
been commissioned and will start im
mediately for the front. Silas ought
to go over tlio top by a good margin.
An old bueiineer id Yucatan,
Slashed anil riddled as any man
Who'll led n life of naughtiness*
Was passing his checks on the crim
son shore
To the booming dirge of the ocean's
roar.
When he splcil n Yankee journalist.
"I.ny to, there, hearty: back y'r yards:
l.ets ns f'r n minute lie good pards."
He piped Ills eye nppealingly.
"Here's a yarn yo c'n publish from
pole to pole.
It'll rattle the bones and shiver th'
soul."
Ills twisted lips grinned ogreishly.
"I'm the Inst of the pirates that sailed
the Main:
We cruised from Rio to Cndtz, Spain.
Crimes! We wallowed in hlnod.
Teecb and England and Cnp'n Kidd
Was mates with me in tjie Roving Cld.
Take my pleture, son, I'm going.
"I've • • (One thousand walk the
pstnk.
And frisked their pockets before they
sank;
llnn't tremble, son, don't tremble.
I've looted, pillaged and put to sack;
• I've—." ''Prunes, old top; be seat
ed, way hack."
lie journalist was laughing
"I'irato, chf" And he turned a grin.
"Why you never knew the Beast of
lierlln.
How Cobb Has Led
in Every Feature
Save Sacrifices
SINGLES
1909 Hi!
1911 *lO9
1912 * 167
1915 161
1917 151
DOUBLES
1908 *36
,1911 1"
1917 11
TRIPLES
1908 20
1911 24
1917 -23
HOME RUNS
1903 ®
STEALS
1907 13
1909 7'!
1911 ..! 8 3
1915 '96
1916 68
1917 , 55
TOTAL HITS
1911 *2 48
TOTAL BASES
1911 347
RUNS ,
1911 *147
FIELDING
1 1011 Chances accepted ~t. 400
♦League record.
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JOHN
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
are fed by a cook who Is "on the
job." Camp Goodyear with 25 more
pickers is well located, and working
conditions are good.
A number of the upper-classmen
who are 19 years of age, have already
been called for their physical exam
inations. Thelj qucstlonnaries have
beei\ filled out and they have receiv
ed their classification cards.
llliiekHinlthN Busy
The Tech shops are doing much of
the work- to fit out the industrial
shops of the several Junior high
schools. More than 600 bolts are be
ing made in the blacksmith ' shop
under the direction of Professor
Shaeffcr.
Freshmen In the metal department
ara learning to make soldering seams,
and read blue prints. The director
is Professor Weisbrod.
Elect Hand Leader To-morrow
The candidates for the band will
meet with Mr. Rees to-morrow after
noon to elect a leader. The band will
play at each of the football contests
on tho Island.
Military Drill
Members of the Harrisburg Re
serves drilled the Juniors and Sen
iors yesterday mornjng from 11 to 12.
After the drill the directors ate lunch
in the tech lunch room.
The thirty-five clubs of the school
will hold their second meeting to
morrow morning, meeting with the
teachers of the Faculty.
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i>u never uiu/iiivcil the niotocr ami
] . chllil,
li'Vcr m,le nations killed iind de
fllctl!
<:h, no, there's Halvutiun for }'ou; just
respond;
l.cnvc all that you hate for a Liberty
Ilond."
Ninety minutes each day is the time
■ allotted for football drill at Pcnn.
Coach' Fohvell has a largo squad at
[ work and all indications poini to a
I successful season which early in the I
| year appeared blasted. Teams that
, will probably comprise Pcnn's sched
' tile are: Franklin and Marshall, Buck
nell, Pittsburgh, Lafayette and
i Georgia.
! Although Cornell has abandoned
j athletics for the year and presumably
i lor the duration of tile war. Dr. At
1 Sharpie and "Jack" Moakley aid to
remain at Ithaca. Moakley is already
j engaged as physicial director ol the
! aviation ground school and it is likely
that Sharpe will be retained by the
! Cornell University authorities in eon
junction with the military command
! ant as physician in charge of the is.
j A. T. C.
Strange thing how that demon,
j pneumonia, gets the strong as well as
I the weak. News to-day tells of the
i deatli of "Jim" Stewart, once heavy
i weight contender, and recently Y. M.
C. A. instructor at Camp Dix, by this
| cruel disease, and "Bill" BrennanT
Irish heavyweight, is at the point of
death from the same cause.
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How would "you like to suddenly
come l'nto 16,000,000, that you never
' knew anything about? This is the
1 uncommon experience of "Tiger"
. Smith, formerly a well-known middle
weight fighter. "Ti-er" was about at
the end of his financial string, when
; a good, old grandfather out in Den
ver. passed him this amount. True to
liis name. "Tiger" immediately leaped
, into active service and put the whole
I ?6,000,000 in Liberty Bonds.
Yank Fighters Will Have
Plenty of Football Togs
; New York, Oct. 2.—"William H.
! "Big Bill" Edwards, former Prince
i ton gridiron star and collector of in
' tcrnal revenue for this district, an
nounced to-day that he was organiz
; ing a committee of football men from
all parts of the country to supply 500
football suits for use by the Amer
ican Expeditionary Force.
Asserting that lie had just receiv
ed from "Johnny" Evers, the former
; baseball player, now overseas as a
Knights of Columbus athletic direc
tor, an appeal for the suits, Mr. Ed
wards said that among those named
on his committee were:
Walter, Camp, Percy Haughton,
: "Al" Sharp, F. H. Yost, "Bob" Fol
! well, "Tom," Thorpe and Glenn War
ner.
SERGT. MAJOR WAGNER HERE
| Sevst. Major Allen C. Wagner,
formerly of the Front and Market
Motor Supply Company, Is spending
a few days visiting Mrs. Anna Den
nis, 1013 North Second street. Ser
, goant Major Wagner formerly was a
I member of the Twenty-ninth di
vision, but now is stationed at
j Camp Grant, 111., as a hayonet in-
I structor.
ROBERT M. DENNIS CALLED
. CALLED TO THE NAVY
Robert M. Dennis, 1013 North Sec
i ond street, who enlisted In the Navy
about six weeks ago at the naval re
• crutting station in Philadelphia, has
j been called for active service apd
| reported at the United States Naval
| Training Station. Puget Sound,
| Washington, immediately. Mr. Den-
I nis is widely knojvn in the city.
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C. HERMAN & CO.
Makers
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Ty Cobb Ready to. Face
Gas and Flame Battery
Ty Cobb, world's greatest hero in
baseball, took a flying leap into fur
ther fame yesterday when he signed
ui to enter Camp Humphreys, Va„
having been commissioned ; n the
chemical war-fare service, most dan
gerous of all. Cobb has faced every
kind of battery there is in the Na
tional game but he will be up against
something new this time.
Gas-and-flame soldiers usually go
into action ahead of the attacking
waves of infantry. The flame men
carfy tanks on their backs and ad
vance against the enemy x under cover
of artillery barrage, squirting flames
of liquid fire from nozzles attached to
tanks of the fluid whicjj they carry
on,their backs. The gas men, when
advancing to the attack, carry a sack
of gas-filled bombs which they hurl
into the ttvnclies and dugouts after
the fashion of grenade-throwers.
When the wind is right gas offensives
other than those in which shells are
used, are launched by burying gas
tilled drums in front of the sectors
to be so attacked and loosing the
deadly fumes when the wind' direc
tion and atmospheric conditions are
most favorable. The preparation of
such offensives involves so much
labor that they are rarely resorted
to nowadays especially in view of the
fact that if the enemy learns of
them in advance his troops put on
their gas masks or arc removed from
the front lines until the attack is
over. 4 •
Training experts are predicting to
day that Cobb will never be the same
star after he goes through this ser
vice.
Cobb won't ha:} his speed. Ho
would have lost some of that, any
way. He may nor have the same
nervous energy, the gas service, as
said, being one is rifted espec
ially trying on men's nerves. In his
caje, and in the cases of other high
ly strung athletes, there will be a
reaction that wid unfit them for
baseball more than any mere phy
sical deterioration.
Cobb is 32 years old and h'e-is bid
ding good-by to the game as the star
of stars. In 191S he could do most of
the things that ho did when he was
21. in a year when he gave an all
time all-round performance with ex
treme speed ess.-niial to most of this
comeback, then he certainly must be
WESTMORELAND
MEN ON THE HILL
Address Governor on Qualifi
cations of Three Men Men
tioned For Judgeship
Governor Brumbaugh, who listened
for two hours to friends of men men
tioned for thtj vacant judgeship in
Westmoreland county speak in their
behalf, told a delegation of over forty
residents of that county, that the con
trolling factors in the selection of a
judge would be interest in the social
and moral progress of the comunity
and in the spiritual welfare of the
people. ' He said that he would also
have to be honest in business and a
devout believer. The" Governor also
remarked that from what he had
heard, the courts of the county were
not suffering because of the vacancy.
The hearing was arranged, so the
Governor said, that there might be "a
frank and free" discussion of merits
of candidates. Speakers for Judge C.
1). Copeland, of the Orphans' Court,
who aspires to the Common Pleas va
cancy, included James H. Moorhead,
who said that eighty of 112 active
lawyers had signed a petition for him.
and that attorneys away on "govern
ment service hud wired to be allowed
to sign; ex-Congressman C. 11. Gregg,
A."H. Hell, P. K. Shaner, R. IX Laird ,
and A. M. Wyatrt. For N. W. Wliitten
the speakers were; C. D. Scanlon, sec
retary of the Dry Federation of
Pennsylvania; the Rev. E. J. Knox, C.
K. Heller and E. E. Allshou.se. and for
Representative IX J. Snyder, who
would Vie eligible to appointment at
the conclusion of his term as a legis
lator in December, the speaker was
the Rev. H. D. Whitlleld. The latter
Insisted nothing w°uld be lost if the !
appointment was delayed and tnat J
90 per cent, of the clergymen wanted
him. Speakers for Mr. Whitton con
fined themselves to his personal quali
fications and high ability as a lawyer,
whidh is widely recognized in Western
Pennsylvania.
Formill orders were Issued by the
'Public Service Commission to-day for
the Harrisburg and Valley Railways !
systems to Issue excess fare certifi
cates. Thtr commission heard com- ;
plaints ngainst the WUlow Street i
Turnpike Company in Lancaster coun
ty, brought by the Lancaster Automo
bile Club, and against the Lewistown
and Klshncoqulllas Turnpike Com
pany, in Mifflin county. Thq readi
ness to nerve clause of the 'Atglenl
Gas Company schedule was attacked |
at a hearing by residents of that :
town.
Secretary-of the Commonwenltb
Cyrus E. Woods was the speaker on'
the part of the state at. tho Induction
day exercises at the University of
Pittsburgh and Duquesnn University*,
at Pittsburgh, yesterday.
Attorney General Brown tvent to j
Philadelphia to-day without making
any formal ruling as to election com
missioners for the soldiers.
E*-Reitre*entntlve James A. Dale,
of York, was at tho Capitol.
MRS. REBECCA V. FHOMM
Mrs. Rebeeca Yeager Fromm died
at her late homo In Philadelphia.
Tuesday morning, Rha was for many
years a resident of Harrisburg and
was a slater of William and Mary
Broddeck, Harrisburg, She Is sur
vived by two sons. George Yeager,.
Philadelphia, end Charles Yeager
Harrisburg, The body will • he
brought to Harr'sbtirg t.o-morrow.
.Services will be held al 1 o'clock
to-morrow afternoon at the Harris
burg Cemetery.
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HARRISBUBG TETLEGRAPH
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TYRtIS RAYMOND *?OBB
cl.iv"' as one n: " having gone ever
the ridge. ,
, IDs 1918 work was really the more
remarkable. In 1911 he had wounu
ii|i his 40-straig'.it qireak at an ear
lier date than he started to make his'
climb for the .So> mark this year.
He was a sick m m when he began
hig climb. He worked on nerve. To
a ct > tain extent, he has always clone
this. And In the avow V \vrl< that
he is taking up the same nervous
strain will cdntiiiuc. The pan ser
vice is one in which the fighting is
of mental strain mora than of mam
tta..
Cobb himself is something of a fa
talist. He doub.s That lie will come
back—hut in a sialic other tliar. the
one being discussed. Perhaps he l!g
--ures that he will be qnable to re
strain himself from his old chance
taking, and that the battlefield will
not be so kind to h!".n as the ball
fiel-i has been.
STATE FIGHTING
THE INFLUENZA
Nurses detailed and Tents to
Re Sent if Necessary io
Care For Patients
Dr. B. F. Royer, State Commis
sioner of Health, to-day asked Ad
jutant General Beary to furnish use
of armories and to send tertts to
the Chester district to take care of
influenza patients. Dr. Royer stated
that he had received reports of nu
merous fresh cases from Chester and
that the' conditions in some of the
lodging houses were reported as un
favorable for .caring for patients.
The military end of the state govern
ment will co-operate in measures for
relief.
Last night fifteen nurses from the
Department of Health's Dispensary
Service, and Dr. Karl SchufTie, chief
of the Turberculosls Dispensary
Service, werp sent to Boston by Com
missioner Royer to render service to
Massachusetts in her time of dis--
tress. The nursing corps was head
ded by Miss Alice M. O'Halloran,
chief dispensary nursq, and Miss
Anna L. Hart, of the dispensary di
vision, and they were accompanied
by Catharine Berntheisel, nurse for
Perry county; Elsie B. Hatfield, of
the Lancaster dispensary: Frank
ford Lewis, of the Harrisburg dis
pensary; Nellie C. Loftus, of the.
Wilkes-Barre .dispensary; Marie Wit
tig, of the Mount Carmel dispensary;
Anna M. Lafferty, of the Reading
dispensary; Mary -E. tirua, of the
Lebnnon dispptisnry; Eleanor V. Cul
bertson. of' the T-ewistown dispen
sary; Mary Evans, of the'Towanda
dispensary; Marlon D. Good, of the
Hazleton dispensary; Lucy Shellon
berger, of the Carlisle dispensary;
Lillian Brown, of the Norristown
dispensary; Hannah P. Guthrie, of
the Phoenixville dispensary.
Outbreaks of influenza were re
ported to the State Department of
Health during the day in the soft
coal fields nt Wishaw, Jefferson
county, and Coal Run , Clearfield
county, two hundred and seventy
five cases being reported among
three hundred employes. Miss Sarah
Dunsmore, of the Dubois dispensary;
Roby Thompson, of the Clearfield
dispensary, preceded by Caroline
llensel, of the Punxsuta wney dis
pensary, were- sent to this vlistrlct.
with Dr. P. Meigs Beyer, county
modical inspector for Jefferson coun
ty,- and Dr. ,T. Moore Campbell, of
the central offices of the department.
An outbreak wns reported in In
diana county. The HenKh Depart
ment nurses detailed for service Jiere
wero Miss Nellie Brookbark, of the
Johnstown disnensary; Miss Nora
Hurst, of the Turqntum dispensary,
and Miss Viola Lnwson. of the Kit
tanning dispensary, Other nurses
will follow nH ned develops,
DIRECTORS TO MKET
The nnnunl meeting or the stock
holders of the West Harrisburg
Market House Company for the elec
tion of directors and other business,
will be held in the market building*
in- Verbeke street next ' Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock.
F. AND 1. CANNOT
MEET THE EOF P.
Military Restrictions Cancel
Game but Penn Will Open
With League Island
No university in the country will
have livelier football this season
than Old Penn, which opens on Sat
urday with the League Island eleven,
coached by Hyron Dickson, ex-Penn
star and coach. This was the game
scheduled for Franklin and Marshall
which had to cancel by reason of
military requirements.
The sea soldiers should prove
worthy opponents for Iho Red and
BJue, as their personnel contains a
number of former collegiate stars, i
not a ftnv of whom were of All-
American caliber in their day. Wein
stein, the former Dickson star;
Pete and Charley Garlow, the Car
lisle lineman, and "Tom" Dough
erty, of Penn, are a few of the playp
ens that will cavort about Franklin
Field on Saturday in marine uni
forms.
All the other games, those with
Bucknell on October 12, Swarth
more, October- 19; Lafayette, No
vember 2, and Georgia Tech on No
vember 16, are sure. A missive from
Captain Beazley, of the Bucknell S.
A. T. C., was,received yesterday and
confirmed the date of October 12
with Penn.
The Army ruling in regard to
overnight trips will not affect Buck
nell for the trip from Lewisburg can
be made on the day of the contest.
Captain Beazley, who is a Penn
graduate, class of 1915, is enthusias
tic about the game between his
proteges* and his Alma Mater and is
doing all in his power to pave the
.way for the staging of it.
Because of the Students' Army
Training Corps' rulings that no col
lege team may take an overnight
trip during the month of October,
the Pittsburgh contest, sceduled for
October 2ii, will be moved back to
Saturday, November 9.
The Pitt contest was Penn'S sole
! game away from home. At first it
was thought that a dispensation
from the terse military order in re
gard to overnight trips could be
secured, but the old slogan, "Orders
is orders." prevailed. The Smoky
City representatives take the date
formerly held by Dartmouth.
| The concellation of the game with
I the Big Green team comes as a big
| rfhock to many Penn followers, for
j tills contest was always regarded as
I one of the best of the season. How
! ever, no word as to whether Dart
mouth will have a representative
eleven has been received at Penn
yet. The same condition prevails
wi,th Cornell.
Little Chance For Sleep
With Big Guns Going
Some of the most interesting let
ters from the front come from local
j boys who request that their names
!be not used in publication. Under
date of August Hi one writes:
"Over here: I am, nevertheless,
] pony again end though it moans the!
| same old thing i am,
glad to be buck. There is a big sun]
! right behind our billet which barks
i at through Ihe day and
j night. To-night X think Fritz wasjl
I trying to find it with some of his I
| heavies. Jufft as I was washing |
I my mess kit after supper a shell hit
| too close for comfort hut we did not.
show any signs of immediate action.
Thirty seconds later another came
over and knocked down a house some
seventy-five yards away. You should
have seen things move then. Mess)
kits disregarded the law of gravity l
and every man tried to set out in all i
directions at the same time. Bust-1
ness picked up wonderfully and the|
halt, lame and blind were cured as*:
by a miracle. Tiie company has|
been in some pretty bad places dur
ing the last few weeks and many of j
the men are a little more nervous I
than they used to be. As 1 write now!
there is a little counterbattery work!
going on and the big gun behind ine
is exchanging compliments with one
of the enemy's guns."
ATTENDS CONVENTION
At a meeting of the retail dry
goods and department store repre
sentatives to-day and to-morrow
held under the auspices of the
I Chamber of Comnterce of the United i
i States in the new Willard Hotel. In
Washington, William H. Bennethiim.
Sr., of 2009 North Third street, will
I represent the local Chamber of
Commerce. The creation of a war
service committee to represent the
dry goods and department stare In
terests before the War Industries
Board nfld other branches of the
government is the object of the t\yo
day conference.
Colored Attorney Coming
Back to Stand Trial
That he will return to this city i
next Monday and submit liltnselTf-ln i
court to lie held tinder hall for trial
Is the nssuraneo J. Robbln Bennett, j
colored attorney, wanted on an em - f
bezzlement Indictment, has glveA in 1
a letter to Robert Stucker in asking
the latter to represent him,
Bennett, according to Mr. Stucker,
states In his letter that he has a de
fense to make nnd that the money
he is charged with embezzling has
been paid hack to tho prosecutor.
He also writes that when he returns
next week to give himself up the
court-will be asked to fix boil for
his appearance for trial nt ft special
session or the January session St
I criminal court r
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FARMERS WILL
• FORM BUREAU
Plan to Apply For Loans j
From Government as Per- j
mittcd by Recent Laws j
Msnomann Farmers of
l y dauphin county!
Die organization
ilHfflKi applications can
fl!ii WinS: ' )0 niade for se- 1
| B curing mon e y
WTIIIB ■ HI MM from the govern
iii. m until i a recent Federal statute.!
"Thy meeting first was held in the
offices, of Wlckersham and .Metzger, j
but later the farmers went to the!
Courthouse.
William D. KTaston, of Elizabeth-1
town, who recently purchased the
Bossier fnini near Royult'on and wilL
move there soon* was the principal |
1 loader in arranging for the organ!-,
j ration. A meeting will he held soon'
i at which a permanent bureau will |
j lie formed.ar.rl officers elected. Ac-j
I cording to !b< farm loan law farmers
: must apply lor funds through a io-j
cap bureau and the bureau will then
i apply to tho nearest bank authorized j
•to make such a loan. The nearest |
I one foY this county of the twelve!
) bunk* named is at Baltimore- After j
| the application is made an appaisnl'
j of the farm property of the appli-1
j cant will be made and if a satisfac
j tory report is returned the money'
i will be advanced.
Atynrd Contracts. —Bidding much!
I lower than the proposals of the last
j few years the Kutztown Publishing
■ Company to-day was nwarded the
j contract for printing 45,000 official
- and 11,000 specimen ballots for the
• general election a!t the rate of $8.35
| a thousand. The bid was $1.40 low
i er than ihe Weilers' printing house,
j Heading. The Telegraph Printing
; Company received the contract for
| election supplies and will furnish
[ 128 secret $1.40 each. J. A. Thomp
' son was tlio only other bidder for
| supplies.
Ciller Clerk III.—Ed. H. Fisher,
• chief clerk to tho county comniis
j sioners, is ill at his home.
; Letters on Estate. —Letters of ad
| ministration on the estate of Alvin
I McNalr, late of Middletown, were
j issued to-:luy by Register Danner to
j P. son. Harold V. McNair.
i Holler Now nt Home. Arthur
j Holler, sot} of Deputy Attorney
j Henry F. Ho'.ler, who was injured
on board a ship when a depth bomb
exploded prematurely, was brought
I home by his father last evening after
[ being under treatment at the Brooks
; lyn Naval Hospital. He -VvUl remain
i at his home in Hummelstown until
the expiration of a thirty-day fur
lough.
Reading Officials
Probe Boiler Blowup
| Assistant Superintendent C. E.
j Chamberlain and Road Foreman of
j Engines Peter Schuyler, both of the
; Philadelphia and Reading Railway
j service, went to Lebanon yesterday
| to probe the explosion of a freight
! engine which resulted in the deaths
• f two employes yesterday morning.
Mr. Chamberlain returned to the city
j to-day. The locomotive is wrecked
[ beyond repair, ns the crown sheet
; was torn from the flue sheet to the
firebox door.
Yesterday's was the third locomo
tive explosion that lias occurred in
Lebanon on the Reading*-Railroad.'
jAn explosion occurred on October
i 15, 1906, at 4.30 o'clock p. ni„ when
I the boiler of the mate of Engine No.
! 1519, which blew up yesterday, was
| exploded in practically tho same
i manner. At this time several men
| were also Injured seriously, espe
j cially Edward Wholly, who is the
I assistant yurdmaster at present.
About twenty-six years', ago En
gine No. 948 also exploded near
Fifth. street shortly before the noon
hour, when the crew, consisting of
Lebanon men, were killed, on Mat 1.
1892, the date the * cornerstone was
laid for the Good Samaritan Hos
pital with special , ceremonial in
charge of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons of Pennsylvania and an address
by Governor Pattlson.
Tells of Bombardment
of Paris at Long Range
Here Is tlir> way a Pennsylvania
soldier writing to some friends ut
Philadelphia described tho shelling
of Parta by the big German long
range guns: \
"Night before last T went to a
barber shop and had a rcgulitr
French haircut and shampoo, I
wouldn't lef the barber do all the
things ho wanted to to my hair and
face, but even then I smelted up to
heaven when I cume out —like a lilac
bush—and it sot me back five fruncs.
As I walked to my hotel for dinner
—-it being about 7p. m.—bung; went
Bertha about a block behind, I
couldn't help but think thnt I should
■ have wasted five perfectly good paper
francs hud It blown rrty sweet
smelling head off One can't be too
careful how he spends his money
over hero, us accidents sometimes
happen, even at seventy miles."
CHIEF WETZEL GOING
Edward J, Wetzel, chief of police,
will attend the meeting of the com
mittee of the chiefs of pojlco who
are taking action on the establish-,
ment of a clearance police head
quarters, The meeting will be
on October 15, In Philadelphia,
OCTOBER 2, 1918.
VETERAN OF WAR
PLACES UNIFORM
IN BELGIAN BAG
j Givers of Clothing For Rcfu-j
gees Thanked For Go
ing Over Top
| Closing of the campaign for ctoth
| ing to be sent to the Belgian and
' French refugees clid not close the
• draweVs which Father and Mother
I Harris have been ransacking. From
! bureaus, wardrobes and closets
came a flood of clothing which con
tinued through last week and still j
i was flowing into the headquarters,
: Fourth and Market streets, this 1
; morning.' The workrooms have be
! come hives of industry, corps of
j workers hammering boxes shut while
other workers continue to assort the
inflow of clothing.
An old veteran of the Civil War
| was among to-day's contributors,
.bringing with him a faded uniform
] of blue with its brass buttons intact.
"Perhaps some Belgian can wear
j it. They need it more than!" he ex
i plained to the workers.
"By little bronze button will Iden
; tify me anyway!"
A picture of a soldier taken in
I Paris was found in the pocket of a
I coat. Because it is though someone
| will valtie the picture it was kept out
j of the packing and if the owner de^
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i
Don't Waste Coal just to get
the Bathroom Extra-Warm ,
You do like it extra-warm for a bath. Surely. But
isn't it wasteful to fire up the furnace just to get that
one room warmer than the rest of the house ? For such
j occasions and any occasion that calls for extra heat in
any room you need a Perfection Oil Heater.
I . PEREffariON
OIL/M-EA^ERS
are a wonderful help in saving coal and cutting down
I fuel expense. They are small in size but big in heating
capacity. With very little attention your Perfection *<
is ready at all times for the living room after the fire is
fixed for the night; for getting-up time when the bed
room is still chilly. You'll find use for it somewhere
in the homo every day of winter.
Of course, one of the finest features of a Perfection Is that It burns
kerosene—an economical fuel That means money saved But all
kerosenes do not give the same kind of results in a Perfection, It'e
n matter of quality So, to he sure of getting perfect satisfaction
from your Perfection always Insist on getting Atlantlo Rayollght
Oil. It Is so highly refined and purifier! that it gives a steady, radl
| nfing heat'without smoke, smell or sputter. Ask for it by name, f
And now Is tho best time to buy your Perfection Oil Heater. Don't
(! off. Your dealer should have a good supply on hand now but
h there is going to be n big demand later, They are reasonably priced
I —46.05 to SIO.OO. The Perfection la safe,
The Atlantic Refining Company j
f. . Everywhere In Penneylvarrla and Delaware M
fill Ravgjfoht ■
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sires the picture he may secure lt> If I
calling at the headquarters. [ '
While assorting the clothes Mri
Wilson, 1519 Penn street, found a.
gold signet ring, which may be se
cured if the owner will identify it
at Mrs. Wilson's home.
"Tell fhe people of Harrisburx we
j thank them," said Mrs. W. G. Gipple
land Mrs. William Strouse. chairmen
jof the drive. "We knew they wonld
hell) us to go over the lop in this
campaign!"
Hick-A-Thrift Class to
Hear Prominent Speakersl
Prominent speakers every other
week are promised members of t£o
Hick-A-Thrift Sunday school class
of the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church this winter as the outcome
of a meeting of the class Mondas
evening in the John Y. Boyd Memor
ial building. The topics to be dis
| cussed by the speakers who will ad
j dress. the class during the wintei
months will be mostly touching the
: war. . •
; Arrangements are under waj
through J. Harry Messersniifh to se
j cilre a prominent Frenchman t)o ad
j drc'ss the class on the history and
' causes" of the war. Other speaker!
' of authority are also on Mr. Messer
| smith's list of prospects..
At the meeting last night a letteq
I was read from "Ben" Whitman,
| former head of the Hick-A-Thrift
class, who is now doing "Y" work in
France, a copy of which will be sent
to all .members of the class who are
i engaged In the service of tJncle
Sam. A service flag honoring mem
bers of the Hick-A-Thrift class who
are with the colors will be made as
soon as their names can be compiled.
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