8 FM PUS FOB TEACHERS Members of State Edu cational Council De cide to Frame Bill for Legislature STEELE ELECTED AS SECRETARY Resolution Calls on Teachers' Associ ation to Appropriate SI,OOO for Necessary Expenses in Seeking Pas sage of Law The f*tate Educational Council met to-day to discuss one subject,—a teachers' pension bill. The matter was debated at length the entire ytorning, as the subject presents more difficul ties in this .State than in any other. The Attorney General's Department holds that a teachers' pension bill will be unconstitutional, but some members of the Council felt that the difficulty might be met in the same manner as the pension for retired judges. Tire bill providing for the retirement of judges, after a certain age and after a certain amount of judicial service, provides a salary for them, but the judges are to be considered liable at any time to he cal'e I back to service and the money given them is looked upon as a salary not as a pension. Many members of the Couucil held that a teachers' pension could be ar ranged along the same lines as the judges' bill. The mothers' pension bill has never as yet been tested in the courts, but many lawyers hold that it is plainly unconstitutional although probably no one may test it in the courts. iThe second point debated was the manner ol raising the pension inonev. Some members of the Council advo cated raising a certain per cent, as :s done in Harrisburg, by a compulsory assessment of She teachers, the State supplying the balance of the money needed. Another plan proposed was that the State itself provide all of the money needed tor pensions. The Coun cil finally agreed upon the following resolution' which will be presented to the state Board of Education at its meeting in December: Resolved that the president of the Council be authorized to appoint a com mittee of five persons to draw a pen sion bill involving th e principles of a retirement fund made up of equal con tributions from teachers and State, this committee tn include the president of the Council and two other members, an expert on teachers' pensions, and a le gal expert; and that the executive com mittee of the Association be asked to appropriate a sum of money from the treasury not tn exceed orte thousand dollars for their necessary expenses. And further that, this report shall be presented to the State Teachers' Asso ciation in December tor consideration and discussion. 1 he Educational Council of the StaJe Teachers' Association favors a law for the retirement of teachers on age or disability. It believes that such a law should provide tor a retirement fund to bp made up from equai contribu tions by the teachers anil the State. The election of officers of the Edu cational Council was held this morning. Dr. George Becht being elected presl dent and Dr. \V. S. Steele, of the Har risburg High school, secretary. CIVIC CLUB iKES PLANS Directors To-day Discuss the Fall Work of the League of Good Citizenship The Boari of Directors of the Civic Club of Harrisburg held an important meeting this morning at the home of Mrs. William Henderson, 25 North 1 Front street. The report of Mrs. H.I Lindlex Hosford, chairman of the Edu cational Department, showed that the, League of Good Citizenship is now in 1 fourteen school buildings and that only a lack of workers prevents it being placed in more. The subject of the talks in the schools this month is "Our f ity's House-cleaning." The paper is preparatory to the municipal house-cleaning which will be under taken in November by Dr. Rauniek. j The Civic Club believes that it can' aid efficiently by interesting the ehi 1 dren in the cleaning of back yards, cellars, etc. Mrs. Edwin S. Herman report**! 542 entered in the home garden confests. Twenty-seven dollars worth of seeds were given to the children and the final visits for awards will be made' this afternoon. The names of the prize! winners will not be announced until Oc tober 19. The department will probably j give a large number of small prizes rather than a few large ones. Miss Pollock, of the Municipal De partment. told of the twelve bushels i and a halt of flies that were killed in I this year'* swatting contests. The year books will be ready for distri-! bution at the first meeting, October 19, j Mrs. Reily and Mrs. .Tones will repre | sent the club at the State Federation.! Mexican Mutineers on Rampage Hy Associated Press. flu Board IT. S. S. West Virginia, Mazatlan. Oct, 8, via Wireless to San \ Diego, I. si., (Delayed in Transmission). | —■Constitutionalist mutineers at Santa 1 Rosalia have shot Major Agua.vo, the military comander there, looted the] customs house, seized the Mexican steamer Korrigan 111, and put to sea. j Railroad to Be Sold at Auction By Associated Pr-css. New York, Oct. 10. —Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is to be sold at public auction at the county Court House here at a date to he determined soon. "Pile road defaulted in payment of bond interest. MANY GIFTS FOR Y.W.C.A. Assembly Hall of Building Will Be a Memorial to the Late John Y. Boyd The building committee of the Y. W. C. A. to-dav announced that the assem bly ball, gift of Mr«. John Y. Boyd and daughter, will be called "The John V. Boyd HalP' in memory of the man who so largely gave of his time, knowl edge and experience in the preliminary construction of the building. The committee also appreciates the generous offers to furnish rooms in the new building. The furniture has been placed in the rooms and is of a silver gray tone, in harmony with the interior woodwork of tne building. An appro i priate tablet will be placed on the door of the room, bearing the donor's name jor the name of the person in whose I memory the gift is made. Mrs.' John VV. Reily, president, or I Miss M. Caroline Weiss, chairman of | the building committee, will give any I information desired. Sixty dollars pays for tihe complete furnishing of a room. Following is a list of donors to date: I Mrs. Prank R. Leib, Mrs. Martina j Moesleiu. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, I Miss ( aroline Pearson, Mrs. Elizabeth ' Kunkel. in memory of her mother, Mis. Rutherford; Mrs. Clute and the j Misses Clute, the Rev. William S. Har- I lis, Mrs. Edward F. Dunlap, in mem ory of her mother, .Mrs. Grice; Major | Lane S. Hart, in memory of his .wife, i Mrs. Martha H. Hart: \V. M. Ogelsbv, j in memory of his wife, Mrs. Eva Deu | i ley (>gel»by; Mrs. Mary .1. Coder, of I Mechaniesburg, a memorial clock for j the lob'bj ; the HicUok family, the home department sitting room, in memory of Mrs. William 0. Hickok, Sr.; J. H, Troup, a ?3ao piano, and Mrs. Charles Baker, Miss ( arrie Fotterhoff and Mrs. •I. K. (Smith, 100 hymn books. Aildi | tional donations will be published later. YIXUSt ON "HARDSCKAEBLE" Old Resident of District Appends His Views to Check for Taxes j Johfi Yingst, a resilient and property I owner in the " Hardscrabble'' district, I recently sent a check to the City j Treasurer in settlement for a tax claim land to it he appended a note telling of ! the .passing of " Hardscrabble." This , is what he said: Hardscrabble Must <io! Selling Out to Close Business. ! Anything from a needle to a hav | stack (inclusive). No reasonable offer i refused. Come and buy yourself rich and oblige. l'ours in P. L. & T., John Yingst. P. S.—We still hold the Port and are likely to for 'hout seben or elebsn' I years more, unless very gently per suaded to do otherwise, i. e., vacate, vamoose, absquatulate. Get up and' git.—J. Y. RELIGION AROUNI) THE WORLD Minister, Back From Abroad, Starts a Series of Sermons To-morrow Beginning to-morrow evening, the Sunday night services at the Market Square Presbyterian church for several weeks will have as their general subjeet " Religion Around the World." The minister in charge, the Rev. William B. Cooke, returned last month from a journey which completed the circuit of the globe. For over three years he was the minister of tihe First Presbyterian church in Manila, Philippine Islands, and so hail many favorable opportuni ties to observe conditions in the Far Ea st. While on the way out he saw our ■western country and on the way home he visited India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. The service to-morrow night at 7.30 will be devoted to the subject, "The Great West" and next Sunday night, "Hawaii and Japan." TENNIS CLUB ORGANIZED The Membership Charter Will Remain Open Until November 1 A number of Harrisburg tennis players met at the office of Park Com missioner Taylor last evening and formed an organization, which it is planned shall be made perpetual. Can didates for membership will be entitled to submit their applications to one of the society up until November 1. At the tennis club quarters in Re servoir Park, there are 128 lockers for men and 78 for ladies. These will be apportioned this fall as will also additional plans for the 1915 tennis season. FOOD EXHIBIT OPENS MONDAY Manufacturers Will Show Their Prod ucts in the Making The Manufacturers' Pure Food Kx- 1 hibit will open on Monday in the Chestnut street auditorium, to contin ue throughout the week. Exhibitors! have contracted for all space available.! and in some instances they will install i machinery to show their products in : the making. Congressmen In Bitter Tilt By Associated Press, Washington, Oct. 10.—A bitter ex change in the House to-day between Republican Leader Mann and Repre- i sentative Heflin, of Alabama, culmi nated in the Alabama Representative denouncing Mr. Mann as unworthy of his seat and demanding that the House ! take up his charge for consideration. Amateur Speculators Here 'Phe matter of selling ticke'ts for the World's series games in series of three 1 made a few amateur ticket speculators in iHairrirtwrg, as many 0 f the pur-1 chasers could see but one game and t»he j purchasers were compelled to get rid I of the other two. Tn most all cases the ' pasteboards did not sell at advanced | prices. Small Boy Injured Under Wagon Charles Aerie, 3 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Aerie, 914 Sarah street, was knocked down anil run over by a wagon at Sixth and Forster streets this morning. His left leg was fractured above t'he knee. Be was cd mitted to the Harristourg hospital for treatment. Condition of Clearing House Banks By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 10.—The »taite<ment of the average condition of Clearing House banks and trust companies for t.he week shows that the cash reserve increased $10,195,300, leaving a deficit of $7,79 1,350 below legal requirements. Artistic Printing at Star Independent. HARRISBUBG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10. 1914 CALL ISSUED FOR MEN TO HELP ERECT TABERNACLE Hasty Action Taken by Stough Work ers When Request Was Made to Remove Banner Is Termed a '' Stu pid Piece of Business" The following call for volunteers in the building of the Stough tabernacle appears in "Stough Campaign Bulle tin No. 4." to be distributed to-mor row' in the co-operating churches: "Men Wanted—Wanted, five hun dred men to work exclusively for Al mighty God for one dav of nine hours, next Saturday, October 17, starting at 7 a. in. No wages will be paid, but each worker will be provided with one square (hot) meal in the middle of the day. Experience unnecessary. This is open to able-bodied men, whether church members or not, saved or un saved." The "Bulletin" has this to say re garding the misunderstanding which recently arose when the executive com mittee was requested to remoye the Stough banner from Market street: "Prior to the firemen's convention held in our city last week, the execu tive committee was requested to re move one of the advertising banners from Market street on the ground that it. ami others of a like character, detracted from the effect of the decora tions provided by the Chamber of Com merce. This was a perfectly reasonable request and we, of course, complied. "We regret to say that the above circumstances were, in some unaccount able way, so distorted that it became a matter of considerable talk in town that an injustice had been doue our campaign committee, and Mayor Roy al's name was connected with the mis statements in a manner prejudicial to the chief executive of the city. "There are some things it is better to ignore, and we do not wish to at tach over much importance to this stu pid piece of business, but we do wish in the most official manner possible to say that any reference to the • mayor prejudicial to him or to his high ster ling Christian character is as untrue as it is ridiculous. "Mayor Royal and the Stough cam paign both stand on the same platform —for a cleaner and a better Harris burg. '' ; COURT HOUSE AUTO STRUCK BY TROLLEY Owner Files Court Action to Recover Alleged Damages A claim for S2OO damages is made in a suit tiled with the Prothonotarv j this morning by Frank K. Downey against the Vailey Railways Company. The plaintiff claims that amount for . damages which he alleges was done his auto when the machine was struck | by one of the defendant company's 1 trolley cars. The accident is alleged j to have occurred at Second and Wal s| nut streets on September 11. H. A. , I Segelbauinn represents the plaintiff. I I t Suits on Notes e Two aasumjfsits suits were filed by , George L. Keed this morning. One is a , ; elaimi for $580.20 made by the Lilly f | Lumber Company against Malcom H. g j Gettys. The other is the suit of Mrs. , Angeling R. Knight against Patrick | Buss and is a claim for $733.79. Both _ ' actions are based upon promissory r j notes. r i Gain in Building Work 3 | Figures .just announced by the Amer- I I lean Contractor show gains in building t 1 operations in Harrisburg, both this year over last and September, 1914, ' over the same month a year ago. The monthly gain is 26 per cent, while the gain from January to Octo ber. 1914, over the same period of 1913, is 11 per cent. Scranton is another nearby city l which has gained, its monthly increase | being 339 per cent. s i . Start on Water Lines I ! Millard F Saul, the contractor who 9 will construct the sixteen and twelve . | inch water mains in Front street to-day I announced that several carloads of f pi.pe have been placed along the street | and the preliminary will begun on . j Monday morning. J i Appeals Trust Company Case j Appeals from the decision of the re -4 i ceiver who is in charge of the affairs of the Tradesmen's Trust Company, ( have been filed by Franklin S. Edwards I and Charles I. Cronin, and the matter ! will be taken to the State Supreme Court. The Prothonotarv to-day certi fied the county court, records to the . Supreme Court Prothonotary. 3 j Offices to Close All of the county and citv offices * will he closed on Monday, (Columbus .' Day being one of the legal holidays. i | Marriage Licenses Joseph H. Botteiger, Lebanon, and Edith M. Rudolph, Los Angeles, Cal. John J. Strine and Lillie E. Mugger, Altoona. - ! Eugene E, Secor, York and Mary i Leighton, Harrisburg. - j Harvey H. Piffley and Alice Coral, - Sandbeach. > Henrjg Snively and Pearl Maddison,. ' , Harrisburg. One Possible Mixture j >on can't say you saw her voice, i can you?" ' | " No. " sj "And you can't say vou heard her i j sharp look?" ■| "No, not exactly." ' j "And you can't say that you felt ! | tile odor of hay rum?" (I " Perhaps not, but please stop In I | here, where we can \ be seen. Here comes Ethelbert Glue. He's a chronic borrower, and, in spite of your strict notions about the use of words, I'm ' going to be invisible to t'he touch.''— New Vork Evening Sun. His Remedy i "The major was having some diffi loulty with his breathing, wasn't, he?" "Yes, but he has recovered from thar.'' "What does he do i't for?" "'He uses liquid air, with a dash of bitteTs. " —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Second Edison Farmer—Yes, sir, that hired man of mine is one of the greatest inventors of the century. . City Boarder—You don't say! What ' klid he invent? . • Farmer—Petrified motion.—Judge, I U. S. CONSUL HAS MMW ESCAPE American Official and His Family Flee From Antwerp During the Bombardment SPEND NIGHT IN BASEMENT Consul General Says He Had Most Hor rible Experience of His Life as Family Crouched All Night and Heard Havoc Caused by Shells London, Oct. 10 3.40 A. M.—Hen ry W. Diedrich, American Consul Gen eral at Antwerp, who escaped from that city with his family in an automobile, gave the following account'of the bom bardment to the Ghent correspondent of the "Chronicle:" "For days we heard the sound of heavy gun fire and were told of the fall one after another of our forts. It soon became apparent that nothing could avail against the great German cannon and, in conjunction with other neutrals, we endeavored to mediate with the Germans to spare, at any rate, some of the most valuable buildings of world-wide interest, but the negotia tions failed to lead to a successful re sult. Consul's Awtul Experience "I had intended to remain in Ant werp throughout the bombardment. I was told, however, too, ' for God's sake clear out of the city, as its destruction is inevitable ' but 1 did not realize un til it was almost too late. At 11 0 clock at night we were going to bed, when we were aroused by a frightful noise, reminding us of previous visits of Zeppelins. Soon we realized (hat the bombardment had commenced, and then 1 had the most horrible experience of my whole life. I went with my family to the basement and we crouched there all night. Shells falling every few minutes came with a dreadful whistling sound, followed by a thunderclap and the collapse of souie building. Havoc of German Shells "Opposite the consulate is the home for old people, the front of which was torn out bv a shell and the debris scat tered over my house. More debris fell on the two-story building adjoining, | crumpling it up entirely and setting it on fire. After this another shell blew out the facade of a house lower down on our street. As dawn came we were i wearied out and my family was utterly collapsed from fright and'strain, so we | decided to leave the city. I succeeded | in communicating with my chauffeur : and got a car, but did not know where to go, being left without anything but what we had on and exposed every mo ment to exploding snells. Flight Fron the City "With my wife, daughter, two serv ants and refugee and child, I crossed the pontoon tiridge ever the Scheldt. It took us four hours to do this, the stieets being a seething mass of every kind of vehicle and dense crowds of fugitives. The Bcene was indescribably dreadful, everybody being moved by the same desire to get away from the awful horror " After crossing the Scheldt we heard : a report that the bridge was destroyed by a shell, thus bottling up the inhab i itants. As we left we saw vast, vol ' nmes of smoke arising in Antwerp from t the burning buildings and blazing pe- I troleum tanks." HARRIS' URG NOW BACK TO NORMAL Continued I'm in Flrnt Png» ness can be closed up at Monday even ing's meeting. Only Four Companies Remain Thursday night was the last night for the fifteen extra patrolmen and yesterday at noon the detectives from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pittsburgh went home. In so far as the police department was concerned, it settled down to ordinary routine a day ahead of any other organization made busy by the convention, for last night there was still quite bit of celebrating. With the departure of the four re maining companies to-day the city will return to its accepted groove and con tinue on until the next big time. The Hampden Company, of Reading, re mained as guests of the Good Will Company to-day; the Lincoln Company, of Perth Am'boy, stayed over with the Citizen Company; the Union Company, of Reading, at the Mt. Vernon, and the Humane Company, of Norristown. at the Hope. The Pniou Company, of Reading, visited the Baldwin Hose ( ompany, at Steelton, this morning, dohn K. Shupp, Jr., chief of the Steel ton department, who was elected second vice president, of the State associa tion, is a member of the Baldwin com pany. Glacier National Park Glacier National Park is in northern Montana and is bounded on the north by the Canadian line, on the east bv the Blaekfoot Indian reservation and on the south and west by Flathead river. It has an area of about 915,000 acres and derives its name from many glaciers, which are scattered throughout its area. There are about eighty gla ciers, between five square miles and a few acres in area. The park is a rugged mountainous region and contains over 250 lakes, which are surrounded by steep and beautifully-wooded moun tains or precipitous rock walls. The methods of transportation in the park are by automobile, horse stage, launches on the lakes and saddle and pack horses. Stough Meeting in Square A meeting will he held in Market square to-night in the interests of the Stough evangelistic campaign. The speakers will be Josephine Colt, Billy Shannon and Dick Branston. CITY OF ANTWERP A MASS OF FLAMES Continued From First Pace. quarter and Peppiniere have suffered badly as also has the quarter around the Museum. The Palace of Justice has been partly destroyed and there is a ring of fire around the cathe dral." Belgium's Last and Strongest Citadel London, Oct. 10, 10.30 A. M.— Antwerp, the last and the strongest citadel of Belgium, has fallen before the rain of huge shells which the Ger mans began throwing into the citv at midnight of last Wednesday. The civil ian population of the city has in large part fled, the seat of the Belgian gov ernment has been moved to Ostend and the Germans are in occupation. Because of the chaotic conditions during the past few days in the be leagured city and the interruption of telegraphic communication there has been much delay in the transmission of news from Antwerp to England. Nevertheless England has been ex pecting and anticipating the fall of the Belgian position and newspapers are speculating on what strategic use the Germans will make of it now that it is in their hands. Hopes of Allies Blasted v The battle line in France is now so I long—forijiing as it does a rough curve j of 350 miles—from to the Belgian frontier—that the battle of the Aisne and the operations before Antwerp had become so closely knit as to be, from the military point of view, inseparable. The hope of the allies to deliver a crushing blow against the German army in France before the occupation of Antwerp by the enemy, is now of course, a thing of the past. The Ger man right wing under General Von Kluck apparently is still intact and the official communication out in Paris last night recorded no change in the situation merely emphasising that there was sharp fighting in the region of Rove, nearly 100 miles south of the northern extremity of the fighting line where opposing bodies of cavalry were clashing almost within sight of the North Sea. EXPOSED FORTS HAVE NOSHOW AGAINST MODERN ARTILLERY London, Oct 10, 5.04 A. M.—The ."Times' " military correspondent, in commenting on the situation at Ant werp, says: " Permanent forts in an exposed sit uation stand no chance against modern artillery. If the German force holds Antwerp later and we attack it, the result will be the same." TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION IN THE BOMBARDMENT OF ARRAS I>ondon, Oct. 10, 4.05 A. M.—The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" in France telegraphs that ho .learns from refugees that the German bombardment lias worked terrible destruction at Ar ras, a large part of which lias been re duced to ashes. Thousands of destitute inhabitants have taken refuge in neighboring vil lages. Closing of Cuban Legation Denied Washington, Oct. 10. —Reports from Berlin that the Cuban minister there had closed his legation and withdrawn consular officers on account of lack of funds were denied to-day by Dr. Ces pedes, Cuban minister to the United States. • SIX INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Girl in Party Hurled Forty Feet to Railroad Tracks By Associated Prcns, St. Louis, Oct. 10.—Earl Hamilton, ■pitcher for the St. Louis Americans, and five girls were seriously injured in an automotive accident on the East iljouis, 111., side of the Lads bridge here early to-day. Hamilton suffered a scalp wound, three brokeu ribs and other in ternal injuries. One girl was thrown cleaT of the bridge railing onto the railroad tracks forty feet below. B>he fell directly in t)he way of a approaching train anil would have been ground to pieces but for t'he prompt action of a flagman, who saw her fall. He first signalled the train to stop and then pulled the un. conscious girl from the track. 'Hamilton was scheduled to play in the city series herre to-day. The acci dent occurred when the automobile own ed and driven bv Hamilton, crashed into the heavy wooden partition separating the upper deck of the bridge from the railroad decks. GYMNASIUM IN RUINS Disastrous Fire Occurs in Columbia Uni versity Building New Y'ork, Oct. 10.—The Columbia University gymnasium building, a two story brown stone structure 75x175 feet, designed by the late Stanford White and built twelve years ago, was a charred, watersoaked ruin to-day with all 'but the walls and the electric power plant in the basement destroyed by a fire which gained swift, headway this morning. If heat and water have weakened the walls the loss will be heavy; if they stand strong as ever it is believed that SIOO,OOO will be sufficient to renaDlll tate the building. End Came Quickly The experiences of local jewelers with prospective bridegrooms have been many and varied. Some wish tj buy on the installment plan, some wish to take a half dozen sizes to be sure of a fit and some bring "beautiful verses" to see whether thev can be engraved in the ring. One jeweler in recounting his experi ences said a young man came into his store and when asked whether he wished anything engraved inside the ring became confused, fumbled a bit in his pockets and finally produced a paper on which was scrawled, "The love that never endeth," which the jeweler said was just the proper senti ment. A month later the young man re turned and told the whole history of his marital life in five words, "Can't you cut that out?" pointing to the en graved sentence.—lndianapolis News. 1.615 YJ.C.A. BOYS WERE TAUGHT TO SWIM IN YEAR Four New Associations Organized, $;t27.000 in Building Funds Raised and Buildings to Value of 000 Were Opened The fall meeting of the State execu tive committee ot the V. M. C. A. 's of Pennsylvania was held yesterday in the Commonwealth hotel. The members of the committee present were: .lames Shand, Lancaster; A. D. Smith, Leba non; .1. c. Eckels. Carlisle; C. A. Kun kel, 'd»rri»biyg; Christian Walter, VVilkes-Barre; f. J. Gillespie, Pitts- Ijurg'h; \\. G. tie/in, Harrisburg; S. W. Dickson, Berwu-k; K. E. McGul, New Castle; H. M. Keller, Hazleton; R. W. Hanoi son, Pittsburgh; I>. J. Pearsall, Mauch Chunk, and Gilford Pinchot, Mil ford. Other members of the committee, among tlhem Vance C. McCormick, found it impossible to be present. After the presentation of the finance committee's report George B. Landis. educational secretary of the committee, made his report. In the mining dis tricts 193 men were in mining classes, of whom 102 passed the State examina tions. Miinii.y institutes ha<l 3,500 members. First, aid contests were held as usual. The Mining Association at •Jerome is in good condition. At the request of the companies, investigations were maile not only of piining communi ties, but also of industrial plants. A total of 3,180 foreigners studied Eng were prepared for citizenship, 9,776 students were in the educational classes of the associations. There was a gain of 21 per cent, over the previous year. The report of railroad work showed new buildings in Derry, Tyrone and Dickerson Run and an increase in tflie work of every department. Correspond ing members in every eonntv of the State, numbering 810. have followed .ilO young men who changed their resi dence during the year. The college secretary, J. H. Ehlers, reported a new association in State Forestry Academy, Mont Alio. Spe cial evangelistic se.vric.es, with 1,700 conversions, were held in State Col lege, University of Pennsylvania, Laf ayette and other colleges. Deputation gospel teams were sent out toy a num ber of colleges and much social service was rendered toy college students. TUie groat, student conferences were well at tended by Pennsylvania men. The physical work committee report ed gains iu every department, whether attendance, summer camps, physical ex animations or atheltic. events. The most remarkable gajins were shown by the religious work committee, which reported 387,000 men attended Sunday afternoon meetings, 310,000 attended shop meetings and 181,000 other religious gatherings. There were 14,765 students n. Bible classes. Albert M. C'hesiy, the new State boys' work secretary, reported the suc cessful State boy-.i camp in Inglenook, where more than 100 boys were in at tendance for two weeks with the Rev. 8 W. Herman, of this city, as camp leader. Sixteen hundred and fifteen boys were taught to swim during the year and 5,600 were in Bible classes. The materia! development of the Young Men's Christian Association was best indicated by the report of the State secretary, J. B. Carruthers, which showed that foui new associations were organized during the year, including Stroudsburg and Waynesboro. Build ing funds amounting to $327,000 were raised at seven places and buildings to a value of $1,095,000 were opened dur ing the year. Army work was conducted with the National Guard at three different places during the season. Each large tent was equipped with writing material, maga zines, papers, ice water and musical in struments and almost every evening a gospel talk was given. Two deputation bands wore sent iuto the lumber camps of Sullivan ami Mc- Keau counties to conduct, services and gospel meetings among the lumber jacks of the north woods. Jn comparison with all the other States in »thc Union, Pennsylvania stands far ahead of the others in the promotion of Young Men's Christian Association work, though some other States exceed it in amount expended for current expenses and in property values. The statistical report shows that 181 associations in Pennsylvania have 72, 840 members, owning property valued at $10,700,000 and expending for cur rent expenses $1,150,000. AT DERRY STREET U. B. Chestnut Social and Chestnut Outing Planned for Next Week Special music by the Men's Bi'ole class will be a feature of the service at 7.30 o'clock at Derry Street United Brethren church. The occasion is the annual Rally day. The Young Men's Bible class of the church will hold a chestnut social on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Re freshments will be served. On Thurs day evening the annual chestnut outing will be held at Indiana Cap. Miss Nancy Studebaker The funeral of Miss Nancy Stude baker, who died of a paralytic stroke at her home, 261 Briggs street. Wed nestay, was held yesterday afternoon from the residence. The Rev. .1. B. Markward, pastor of the Bethlehem l,u thern church, officiated. She is siir vived by the following brothers and sister: Clement, Jacob and Mrs. Eliz abeth Flickinger, all of Harrisjurg. Miss Annie M. Burkholder Miss Annie M. Burkholder, daughter of C. W. and .lane Burkholder, former ly of this city, died in Philadelphia on Wednesday an,l was buried in the Laurel Hill cemetery in that city ves terday. Charles E. Zigner Charles E. Zigner, aged 76 years, died at his late home in Goldsboro a; 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held on Mon lay morn ing at 10 o'clock at his late residente. Interment will be in Paddletown ceme tery. Lawrence A. Hepsmith The funeral services for Lawrence A. Hepsmith. who served in Company H of the Regular Army as a private and died at Vera Cruz. Mexico, on September 6, will he held at St. nence church on Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary cemetery, » STAR-INDEPENDENT WANT ADS. BRING RESULTS. CAPITOL HILL mmTutpot is NOW 120,(100.000 GALLONS Food Commissioner Foust Says the Sup ply of Raw Material for This Popu lar Delicacy Is Now a Matter of Much Concern Dairy stid Food Commissioner Fount believes in the use of ice cream. His remarks at. h conference of ice cream manufacturers this week have been quite widely quoted, and in reply to some direct questions on the subject, Mr. Foust said to-day: "It. is a mark of the material evi dence of this a are, that what was. not so long ago. a dainty devised to stir Hie cloyed appetite of a king, is become an almost every day delijrht of the com mon man's homp. and from Seattle to Key West, San Diego to Eastport, is everywhere welcome, and from Uhrist mas to the glorious Fourth and on again to <lh list in as. ''lt may be that, joy givers though they are, ice cream men also have their troubles. The supply of raw material is properly a matter for concern. The ■business has grown from an output of 50,000,000 gallons, not so long ago, to a present figure of 120,000.000 gal lons. Die population of the country has steadily increased and with this growth has come a corres ponding increase ia the general uses of milk. "On the other hand, the number of dairy cows has stood Still; their indi vidual producing capacity has probab'.v improved somewhat, but not enough to keep supply up to demand. The ro->t of milk production has gone s.'tr.ctlv up ward —grain fools, labor, farm equip ment and even t'he ww, herself, to da*' costs the farmer much more than she did twenty years ago. So the dairy farmer, too. has his troubles. ".As to composition, our present ice cream law enables me to guard Hie in terest of the public and of the maker of standard product; but it. gives mc no power to deal efficiently with the san itary question. *'A law is ncede 1 placing reasonable sanitation requirements upon the man ufacture of ice cream, ices an I the like; anil for its cfficie r, enforcement, it should include a license requirement with a minimum fee so small as not to prever* the poor widow frorti using her clean, best room as an ice cream par lor; say a fee of five dollars per vear, and possibly a maximum of ten dollar for venders ami manufacturers of large business, the idea hein'g to keep the fee down to rhe level of reasonable sanitary inspection cost, and to see that factories ami salesroom's are made clean before the business is beg;,n and kept clean so long as it, goes on." Want, Paiiroad to Rosume R-innin» 1 dolln Fox Weiss, representing 'Daniel | K. 'Brandt and other residents of East J Berlin, Adams countv. has appealed to J the Public Service Oomimission to com ! nel \\ illiam 0. l.eas to show cause lie does not operate the East ißerliii ! railroad. Pile property was purchased lat receivers' sale on July 18 and on September 9 its operation was diseon j tiiiii o i. Now the residents of East Bcr- I lin have no railroad facilities and th« nearest railway rt.ition is New Oxford, seven miles distant. Several Candidates Withdraw j Withdrawals of candidates tiled with the Secretary of the Commonwealth to day are; David L. Hemmerlv, Kev stoue party, Twenty-fifth Represente j live district, Philadelphia; John A. ■ Ziegenfuss, Prohibition, General Assem bly, Carbon county. Oliver P. Peasuall was nominated las Prohibition candidate for Congress ' in the Tenth district in place of John R. Thomas, withdrawn. I , State's Best Year for Fruit |. According to present returns, it. seems probable that this vear mav be j the greatest year that Pennsylvania ever knew in the fruit line. The' re j suits of spraying and of expert care are 'everywhere manifest, and States far ; west and east are after our apples and ! peaches. Thc Pennsylvania farmer is j specializing more and more. Institute Schools Hundreds of institute schols have , been held this summer and early tall jin Pennsylvania The last ones are : now closing. These schools lasted four days. Two days were divided between horticulture and poultry interests and I the other two days were given entirely ;lo matters relating to dairies. In th« i model institutes one session related to | the dairy barn, its ventilation, equip ment, lighting, etc. These sessions I were held wherever possible in a d.iiry i barn. Mitch (Tactical work was done i at these institutes, which are a compar atively new thing in this State. For instance, under horticulture were cpn j sidered bow to start an orchard, its ca;fi and management, pruning, spraying j and marketing, effect, of root pruning, i root injury, trunks and branches, their I function, buds, etc. At least one even i ing session was devoted to home eco nomics and the farmers' wives turned | out in large numbers to hear this sub j jeet discussed by expert women. To Speak on Agriculture * | The following speakers have been ! assigned by the State Department of Agriculture to Dauphin county: M. S. j Bond at Linglcstown, February 22-23; at Halifax, February 24 25; at Gtau, | February 26-27. Shaw's Criticism Gilbert K. Chesterton, the 300-pound I English journalist, lately wrote a farce, ("Magic," which had a short run in i Loudon and then died quietly. One of I the features of the London theatrical season was a play called "Fannv'a j First Play.'' G. Bernard Shaw was prevailed on Ito attend one of the performances of ("Magic" and at the end of the show left the house murmuring quizzically. , " 'Fatty's First Play.' " An Unworthy Connection Waverly had just returned from an extended eastern trip. "Were you in many of the old New England towns!" asked Manelia. " Nearly all of them of any size." "And did you see Plymouth rock?" "(Had my picture takeu standing on It." " What diil you think of the rock?' "Oh, it's all* very well in its way, hut why on earth do t'hev have it in such a dinky little town!''—Youngs town Telegram. Wipe out the past, trust the future and live in a glorious now.—Towue.
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