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House Passes Measure
Calling For Its Re
peal In the Third
Class Cities
ADVANCES FULL
CREW REPEALER
Measure Is Passed on Second Beading
in the Lower Branch and It Will
Be Made a Special Order of Busi
ness for Next Monday Evening
The Habgood bill which repeals per
sonal registration law in third class
cities was parsed in the House this
morning by a vote of 111 to 38. ""
Mr. Habgood, of McK.ean county, in
speaking for the repeal of the act of
March 5, 1906. said that it had had
plenty of time to be thoroughly tested
and had proved a failure. He said
practically all third class cities are
asking for its repeal.. Representative
Sarig, of Berks county, said the citi
zens of Reading wanted the repeal.
Personal registration was referred
to as "red tape." It was declared that
many boroughs, some larger than third
class cities, do not have to go through
all the questioning and personal regis
tration features. Only slight objections
were offered to the repeal. The bill
now goes to the Senate.
The full crew repeal bill was called
np in the House on second reading by
its sponsor Representative Baldwin, of
Delaware county, and passed after
Representative Habgood, of McKean
county, had made an attempt to amend
it.
The bill repeals the act of 1911 and
empowers the Public Service Commis
sion to require railroad corporations to
employ an adequate number of men
upon trains. Representative Habgood
tried to have the specific repealing
clause stricken from the bill but the
amendment was defeated by a vica
voce vote.
The bill was made a special order
for third resiling for ner.t Monday
evening at 9.30 o'clock.
Jitney Bus Bill Is Amended
The Jones bill regulating jitney
busses aud requiring a liceuse from
municipalities for their operation wan
amended by reducing the amount of
the bond to be filed with the State at
$5,000 /or each car and making the
percentage of gross receipts to be paid
to the municipality at 2 1-2 per cent,
instead of 10 per cent. The 50 cent a
month license fee remains. The amend
ed bill passed second reading.
The Kline Senate bill authorizing
an increase in the salary of the first
assistant clerk of the court of Alle
gheny from $3,500 to $4,500, passed
finally by a vote of 13S to 13.
The bill fixing the salary of county
controllers in counties having a popu
lation of 150.000 to 250,000 at $6,-
000 a year, wns defeated on final
passage after it was attacked by Rep
resentatives Oaks, of Cambria, and
Weaver, of Westmoreland, who claim
ed tl>e salary was too high. The bill
received but 70 votes.
The Mearkle bill to fix salaries of
jury commissioners, county jailor and
jail physician in Allegheny aounty,
was passed on second reading.
Other bills passed on second read
ing were:
Requiring ash value for redemption
to be printed on trading stamps.
Requiring locomotives to be equip
ped with bell ringers.
Bills Passed Finally
Bills passed finally were:
Providing short term notes for sec
ond class cities.
Regulating sale for smelting of pre
cious metals.
Extending to appeal to com
mon pleas courts from assessment for
taxation to inunicij>alities and public I
corporations. t
Increasing power of Department of i
Public Safety in second class cities to
regulate storage of explosives anil
regulating fire hazirds.
Regulating tender of judgment or
payment in certain civil cases.
Requiring steel frame ca.ges to con
'vey persons into anthracite coal mines
•by perpendicular shafts.
Providing for additional officers
and employes in Department of Labor
and Industry and fixing salaries.
Senate bill requiring Justices of
peace and aldermen to file acceptance
of office with Prothonotaries and re- I
quiring Prothonotaries to certify same.
Shortly after noon the House took
ft recess until 8 o'clock to-night.
CITY SC ALES BV APRIL 15
That Is the Plan of the Sealer, An
nounced This Afternoon
The municipal scales that are to be
placed in the market houses of the city
for the benefit of market patrons will
4»e installed on or about April 15, so
Harry D. Reel, City Sealer of Weights
and Measures, reported to the City
Commissions at their meeting this aft
ernoon.
The Seaier gave a statement of his
work in the last three months. He vis
ited city markets on 67 occasions Jur
ing market hours. His detailed re
port follows: -
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£ 2 3
Platform Scales ... 18 13 5
Counter Scales ... 40 29 11
Spring Scales .... 16 12 4
3il Pumps 6 4 2
Dry Measures .... 222 215 7
Liquid Measures . . 162 127 35
Boxes 25 0 25
Weights 137 93 44
Miscellaneous 56 4 7 9
Total 682 540 142
"iHas that young man given you any
encouragement, daughter!''
"Oh, yes, mother."
"What did he sayf'
"He asked me to tell him what sort
of a disposition father had."—Yonkers
Statesman.
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COURT HOUSE
TOWNSHIP OBJECTS TO
PAVINCC6/SS7OQCBARt;E
Mifflin Supervisors Involved in Court
Suit Because They Have Be fused
to Settle fjr Material Bought Sev
eral Tears Ago
Only one of the ten civil cases listed
tor trial at the second day of common
pleas court to-day was ready tor hear
ing when court opened this morning.
Consequently Judge McCarrell went on
the beach and Judge Charles V. Hou
ry, of Lebanon county, who is specially
presiding here this week, returned home
tor the day. Nine other vases sched
uled for hearing either were continued
or settled. Judge Kuukel was busy in
chambers.
In the case that was heard the super
| visors of Mifflin township attempted to
disclaim liability for a S7OO claim
i tiled by the A. L. Greenburg Iron Com
pany for pipe and other material fur
nished the township some two or three
years ago. After the order for the
material had been placed aud the ship
ment made, it is alleged, the supervisors
attempted to have it canceled on the
representation that the township had
no use for the "supplies."
The damage suit brought by Simo
Rusuor against Artso Dimoff for al
leged defamation of character result
ed in a SSO verdict of $122.85 in his
suit against R. L. Wiest. This was a
claim involving the sale of farming
implements.
By agreement of counsel a verdict in
the sum of $1,300 was taken in favor
of the plaintiff in the suit of George B.
Rosadeau against Karl T. Oppernian, a
local contractor. This involved a claim
for services rendered the defendant on
an excavating job. The damage suit
of Catherine Trout against the Lvkens
Valley Coal Company was settled, al
though the consideration was not an
nounced. The defense also won out in
the suit of Alfred Bechtel against Alice
Parmer.
Three Building Permits
L. M. Davis got a building permit
this morning to erect a one-story stable
at 2104 Brook wood street, costing
$100; Clyde Smith took out papers for
a one-story garage at 2236 North
Fourth street, costing S2OO, and Mrs.
Ellen 'Hauer obtained a .permit to re
model the two-and-one-halt story frame
■building at 43 North Thirteenth street,
costing SSOO.
Letters on Lantz Estate
Letters of administration on the es
tate of Isaa.- 1). Lautz, late of Pen
brook, this morning were issued to Fred
C. Miller.
Deed Charges Beleased
Judge McCarrell has made an order
releasing and discharging two certain
complaints that were contained in
deeds for Derrv township farm property
which now are held bv Milton S. Her
sliey and Thomas Wagner. The charges
are more than half a century old and
are presumed to have been satisfied long
ago.
Bids for Water Meters
Ptfblie Safety Commissioner Harry
F. Bowman will open bids for furnish
ing water meters during the year end"
ing May 1, 1916, at his office un the
Court House on Friday afternoon, April
23, at 3 o'clock. v
Contractor Is Paid
City Treasurer Copelin this morning
paid the Maryland Casualty Company
$2,019.51 as installment on the work
incident to improving Paxton creek.
Inspector Boyer Makes Report
Harry A. Boyer, County Inspector of
Weights and Measures, has made a re
port to the County Commissioners show
ing that during the month of March he
made 669 inspections, sealed 635
weights and measures, made 53 adjust
ments and issued 34 condemnation or
ders. His detailed report follows:
Insp'd. Sealed. Con'd.
Scales 61 53 8 |
Dry measures .... 80 80 0 j
Liquid measures .. 156 156 Oj
Miscellaneous .... 168 160 8i
Weights 204 186 18
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DELEGATES GO TO GETTYSBURG j
Semi-Annual Meeting of Carlisle Pres
bytery Opens To-day
The pastors of the local Presby
terian churches and one lay delegate
from each left for Gettysburg to-day
to attend the sessions of the Carlisle
Presbytery in the First Presbyterian
church at the battlefield town, the
church which Lincoln attended on the
occasion of his visit to the National
cemetery for the delivery of his im
mortal address there.
A moderator of the Presbytery is to
be elected and other routine business
taken up. The meetings are held semi
annually. The churches of this city
represented are Bethany, Calvary, Cov
enant. Immanuel, Market Square, Oli
vet, Pine Street and Westminster. The
delegates will return to this city to
morrow.
TARGET RECORDS BROKEN
Harrisburg Oncers With the Fleet at
Practice Off Cuba
The United States fleet of battle
ships, which has been engaged in tar
get practice off the east coast of Cuba,
has finished its practice and is back
to Guantanamo, where it will rest
for a while.
A letter received from Lieutenant
Commander Ned C. Kalbfus, chief
navigator of the fleet, who with Lieu
tenant Commander Harry S. Brinser,
chief engineer, both Harrisburgers, is
on the flagship Wyoming, saye that
the fleet will be back to New York
in about two weeks. The target prac
tice has resulted in some world-beating
scores.
Miner Arrested as Murder Suspect
Hazleton, Pa., April 13.—Gnut
Ritchie, a West Hazleton miner, for
merly employed at Park Place, Schuyl
kill county, was arrested here to-day
on the charge of knowing something
about the supposed murder of Joseph
Fletcher, of Hazleton, night watchman
at the Park Place strippings, several
weeks ago.
Ice Company Directors Re elected
The stockholders of the United Ice
k Coal Company met in annual session
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and
re-elected for another year all of the
nine directors. The directors will meet
on the afternoon of April 21 to elect
officers.
WILIELITS CAPTAIN ASKS 1
TIME TO REPAIR HIS YESSEL
Newport News, "Va., April I' 3.
Formal request from Commander
Thierfelder of the German converted
cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm for time
to repair bis vessel iu order to make
her seaworthy, was awaited to-day by
federal authorities here. Pending
receipt of this information the mer
chant raider which still is at anchor
age in the James river, will not be al-'
lowed to go into the dry doek at tho'
Bhip yards here. Commander Thier
felder had promised his formal appli
cation to-day.
A survey of the Wilhelm will be
made by a board of naval expert* to
determine the necessary repairs. They
will follow tl*p precedent set by the
Prinz Kitel Freidrich interned n't the
Norfolk navy yard. The extent of the
repairs as well as the time required
will be kept a secret by the federal
authorities.
A preliminary survey -by experts
from the ship Wilding company here
disclosed that at least three weeks
will be required to make the Wilhelm
seaworthy. The ship was found to be
leaking bndjv and her boilers in bad
condition. Her 'pumps were working
constantly and the bilge water from
her pipes was said to be unusually
heavy. The leaks were caused by loos
ening of her plates as a result of fre
quent coaling at sea and ramming
merchantmen when shots failed to
sink them.
The fact that the Wilhelm will re
quire considerable attention before'
she can be made seaworthy, it was be
lieved, may eventually cause her to be
interned.
11. S. BAS NO KNOWLEBCE
i OF ANY PEACE OVERTURES
Washington, April 13. —Commenting
on a published statement of Pope Bene
dict that the latter had indicated a de
sire to support any move the United
States might make for peace, President
Wilson declared to-day that intimations
of this character had been frequently
conveyed to him through different per
sons. He said, however, no formal
communication had come to him on the
subject. Asked whether the United
Btates recently had learned officially
or unofficially of the terms upon which
the belligerents might be ready to
make jieace, the President said regret
fully there had been no basis whatever
so far as he knew for the rumors to
that effect.
While the United States government
was not consulted in connection with
the peace gathering at The Hague, the
President indicated to-day that the
movement had his sympathetic support.
Although the meeting has no official
status, President Wilson said he under
stood the delegates had not asked for
official authorities because they pre
ferred to act unofficially.
NO SEPARATE PEACE FOR
TURKEY,SAYSOLTAN'SIMEN
Rome. April 12, 9.30 P. M., via
Paris, April 13, 4.5" A. 'M.—-"t'araso
Kffendi, n member of the Turkish Cham
ber of Deputies, and Midhat Bern, for
mer secretary of the Turkish commit
tee of union and progress, who arrived
here last'week, have left for Constan
tinople by way of Venice and J'ienne
after interviewing Italian statesmen.
They denied emphatically that their
mission was in relation to a separate
peai'e for Turkey.
Their mission here, they declared,
was to study Italo-Turkish releatious in
the hope that the common interests
of the two countries might be guarded
now and in the future.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Caatinned From Ftrat Pift,
gives no Information as to the result. l
The German attack on the Russian j
forces in the North, near the Prussian
frontier, was resumed yesterday and
another battle is in progress for pos- i
session of the important Russian fort
ress of Ossowetz. The abandonment of
the former siege of this fortress was
interpreted in Petrograd as indicating
that the Germans had given np their ;
attempt to break through the Russian
line of defenses and advance on War
saw from the north, bnt it is now said
semi-officially at the Russian capital
that the invaders have brought up
howitzers and begun a new bombard
ment. One of the German siege bat
teries is said to have been damaged
badly by the Russian guns.
Five independent Austrian armies
are operating along the Carpathian
front. Petrograd newspapers publish
semi-official details concerning this
campaign to the effect that the various
Austrian armies are under direction of
the German general staff. It is said
also that Emperor William personally
is supervising the work of the staff.
In Bukowina heavy fighting is in
progress according to a Bucharest dis
patch to Paris. Of two Austrian arm
ored trains which advanced against
the Russians yesterday one is said to
have been blown up and the other
forced to withdraw after being dam
aged.
"The highest German authority" in
Rome has denied reports that Ger
many is considering peace negotiations.
From this source comes the statement
that the German general staff has made
plans for resumption of the offensive
with fresh vigor.
The Italian military authorities have
ordered army officers to dull the metal
on their uniforms and scabbards. This
is described as a measure usually adopt
ed on the «ve of war.
Say Germany Has Defaulted in Loan
Paris, April 13, 6.05 A. M.—Ger
many has failed to pay to Bulgaria the
portion of the loan she agreed to remit
April 1, according to a Sofia dispatch
to the "Petit Parisien," which says it
is believe*} Germany distrusts the Bul
garian attitude and suspects she al
ready has decided to join the allies.
Fanner Dies From Tetanus
LCbanoa, * April 13^ —Bdwin H.
Shaeffer, aged 55, a farmer of Fontana,
died last evening at his home from
tetanus after an illness which started
on Friday. He had scratched his finger
with a splinter and wbile the wound ap
peared to be healing erysipelas set in
and produced lockjaw, which caused ins
death within a few hours.
FINANCE
BETHLEHEM STEEL CAINS
18 PUTS IN TWO HOURS
Rise Thought One to Scarcity of Stock
Available for Speculation. As
, Shown by Sale of But 20,000 Shares
During Most of Day
New York, April 13.—'Another spec
tacular rise iu Bethlehem Steel, which
sold up to 142 in thl second hour of
to-days business, a gain of 18 points
over yesterday's close, was the all-ab
sorbing feature of to-dfcy's early stock
market. The advance was again accom
plished mainly in transactions of 100
share lots, but its effect iy>on the bal
ance of the list was less disturbing than
heretofore.
Wall street still inclined to the be
lief that the movemeut, without par
allel in the recent history of the ex
change, is primarily due to the persist
ent opposition of the short interest to
gether with the small amount of stock
available fcjr speculative purposes. All
rumors of a contest for control of the
property were scouted.
Bethlehem Steel dropped back four
points from its high price aud then
moved up to 139. The entire market
moved forward towards fhe end of the
morning session largely as a result of
peace rumors from Washington.
By way of variation the phenomenal
movement in Bethlehem Steel was said
to be the precursor of an important
announcement to stockholders of the
company. This, it was said, would in
volve an increase of fhe company's
stock, with valua'ble subscription
rights. .
Bethlehem Steel's high price showed
a £"'11 of 61 points over its low price
of li week ago.
During rhe midsession BethleQiem
Steel ascended to 149%, from which it
reacted moderately. Brokers who watch
ed the course of the stock said they
saw evidence of absorption, even at
t-he extraordinary advance. Sales of
Hethlehein Steel up to 1 o'clock barely
exceeded 20,000 shares, which offered
further proof of the stock's scarcity.
The entire market became stronger in
the early afternoon.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS
New York. April 13.
Open. Close.
Amal Copper 68% 70%
Amer Beet Sugar 48% 48 it
American Can 35% 35%
do pfd 97% 98%
Am Car and Foundry Co 49 50
Am Cotton Oil ..!... 51% 52
Amer Ice Securities ... 32y., 33y 2
Amer Loco 33 34%
Amer Smelting 69'/ 8 71
American Sugar ..../ 108 108%
Anaconda 34% 35%
Atchison 102% 102%
Baltimore and Ohio .. . 75% 76y„
Bethlehem Steel 126% 125
California Petroleum . . 16" 16%
Canadian Pacific 167% 169
Central Leather 38% 38
Chesapeake and Ohio . . 46 46
Chino Con Copper .... 41 >4 42%
Col Fuel and Iron .... 32y„ 32%
Corn Products 13 131/„
Distilling Securities . . . 9'/, 9%,
Erie 27% 28
Erie Ist pfd 44% 44%
General Electric C 0... 151'/. 10l
Goodrich B F. ... ... 50% 52
Great Nor pfd 118% 120
Great Nor Ore subs . . 39% 39%,
Interboro Met 16 17'/a
Interboro (Met pfd .... 68 69%
Lehigh Valley 141 142
Louisville and Nash ... 121% 121%
(ilex Petroleum 74 75%
Mo Pacific 16 15%
Natibnal Lead 63% 63%
(Nev Consol Copper ... 14'/ g 14%
New York Cen 89 89
NY, N H and H. .. , . 62 62
Norfolk and West .... 107% 108%,
Northern Pacific 104y. 104*2
Pacific Mail 22% 23'%
Pennsylvania R. R. ... 109 109%
Pittsburgh Coal 23% 23%
Press Steel Car 34% 35i/I
Kay Con. Copper 21% 21%
Reading 150% 150%
Repub. Iron and Steel . 24% 26%
do pfd 83% 84
Southern Pacific 91% 91%
Southern Ry 18% iB7/ g
do pfd 59 59
Tennessee Copper .... 31% 32yc,
Third Ave 54 54%
Union Pacific 129 1301/0
U. S. Rubber 72% 73%
U. S. Steel 55% 56y„
do pfd 108% 108%
Utah Copper 59% 62%
Vir.-Carolina C'hem. ... 26 ~ 25%
Western 'Maryland .... 26 25
W. U. Telegraph ...... 65% 65%,
Westinghouse Mfg .... 77 7J "
Chicago Board of Trade Closing
Chicago, April 13.—Close:
Wheat—May, 156%; July, 123%.
Corn—'May, 72%; July, 75y 3 .
Oats—May, 56%; July, 53%.
Pork—May, 17.32; July, 17.80.
l^ard—May, 10.12; July, 10.3,7.
Ribs—May, 10.07; July, 10.37.
FIRE DESTROYS TIMBER
100 Acres Belonging to James Leiby's
Heirs in Path of Flames
Newport, April 13.—Fire broke
out on a large tract of timber owned
by the James Leiby heirs, five miles
south of this place, burning over a 100
acres and destroying timber valued at
|SOO.
Several automobile loads of men
from this place helped to fight the
fire.
Watts to Address Students
To-morrow afternoon S. B. Watts,
local manager of the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania, will deliver
by request a lecture to the students of
the School of Commerce on "The Use of
the Telephone." D. L. M. Raker, prin
cipal of the school, feels that it is as
necessary to instruct the students in
the proper use of the telephone as it is
to teach them the different courses in
the school.
Boy Struck By Auto
New Cumberland, April 13.—Don
ald Perigp, 10-year-old son of William
Perigo, of Elkwood, received a scalp
wound when struck by an automobile
near this town this morning. He got
in the way of the machine when
alighting from a wagon. He narrowjy
escaped fatal injury.
Statue to Jefferson Unveiled
Charlottesville Va., April 13.
Founder's was celebrated at the
University of Virginia to-day by the
unveiling of a bronze statue ol Thomas
Jefferson, done by Karl Bitter, and pre
sented to the University by Charles B.
Oane, of Chicago. I
PROPOSES BPFICE 8F OTY
REAL ESTATE BEOSTMR
cwttiM rna imt FMr*.
j vor of the city, !n the sum of 91,359,
'back rent on the grounds under a for
mer lease, that it is proposed to con
tinue the louse at a nominal, figure to
permit the association to use the
■grounds for athletic purposes to obtain
revenne to repay the city for the
amount of the judgment. The associa
tion has no funds and if such plan were
not adopted the City in all probability
would get none of the .hack rent.
Because the specifications of John
Barnhart, the low bidder on the pro
posed Koyal company 's fire house differ
a trifle from those of the architects,
the contract for the new building was
not awarded to-day by Commissioner
Taylor. The slight change is trifling,,
Commissioner Taylor said, amounting to
little more than h cart load of bricks.
The award will be made next Tuesday.
The Health Bureau's food regula
tions were slightly amended by the
City Commissioners to-day and subse
quently adopted The ruie prohibiting
dealers frjm exchanging bread was
stricken out. Another rule was made
i to read so that it will be illegal to
I use milk bottles for any purpose other
than that for which they are intended;
Dealers are prohibited from exchanging
milk bottles under this same provision.
An ordinance accepting u gift of a
12-acre tract of land from Mrs. Helen
Boyd Dull, to be used for parkway
purposes, ;ind another increasing the
amount of land to be purchased from
the Paxtang Cemetery Association for
parkway purposes from twelve to
twelve and one-half acres, was passed
finally. A bill changing the name of
Plum street to Grant street, also was
filially approved.
The commissioners were ,invited to
attend the housing conference to be
held in the court hmlse Friday at
which addresses will be ifiade by John
| Ihlder, of New York City, secretary
of the National Housing Association,
and John Molitor, chief of the new
Bureau of Housing of the State Health
Department.
SA\S LEPROSY IS CURABLE
Dr. Adolph Boehmer Mingled With Af
fected Servants for Many Years
By Asaorialeil Press.
'Sail Francisco, April 13.—"LeproBy
is curable and there is little danger ofi
contracting the disease, as I have shown
by having none but leprous servants iu
| my house for years.''
This statement was made to-day by
I Dr. Adolph P. Boehmer, who has ar
. rived here from Siam. For five years
-Dr. Boehmer was surgeon general of
that country and private physician to
the late King Chulalangkern". He has
studied leprosy exclusively for several
years.
"All the house boys I had during
many yenrs in Siam were afflicted with
leprosy and I cured them all, except
those who~had the disease in a too ad
vanced form when fhey came to me,"
Dr. Boehmer said. "The cure is sure
and leprosy could be stamped out in
this country in a short time."
MAUREK TO HAVE OPPOSITION
Lively Election Will Mark Federation
of Labor Convention
Both J. H. Manrer, president of the
Pennsylvania Federation of labor, and
C. F. Quiun, secretary, will be opposed
for re-election at the annual meeting
to be held in the Board of Trade audi
torium May 11. Mr. Maurer's oppo
nent has not been announced as yet,
but the candidacy of William Young,
president of the" Philadelphia Typo
graphical Union, for secretary has been
launched.
Due to the industrial conditions,
particularly in Western Pennsylvania,
there will not be as many delegates to
the convention as usual. The number
will be between 200 and 300.
Fleck Returns to Work
Desk Officer Charles T. I'Joek, who
has been ill at his home for two
weeks, resumed his post again this
morning. Motorcycle Policeman Paul
Schelhas, who substituted at the desk,
is acting clerk to the police depart
ment, Secretary to the Mayor C. 0.
Backenstoss, being off duty on account
of the death of h.ia father-in-law.
Mercury to Drop To-night
A further drop in temperature is
expected to-night, Local Weather Ob
server Domain forecasting a minimum
of 35 degrees. The low temperature
to-night will likely cause frost, but
vegetation is not sufficiently advanced
that much damage will result. .The
weather will continue fair.
PERIL OF RUST
A Constant Menace to Structures of
Iron and Steel
Among the many questions which the
architect and builder are called upon
to consider, none perhaps is more im
portant than that relating to the cor
rosion of iron and steel. This tendency
to decay is peculiar to these materials,
since none of the ordinary metals ex
hibits it to any comparable degree, and
it is so strong that an unprotected
piece b soon reduced to a shapeless
mass of rust. It is one thing to design
and erect a mighty skyscraper, but an
entii%ly different matter to protect it
from those influences which, if allowed
to do tneir work, would ruin the great
est structure in a short time.
It seems strange, in a way, that un
less iron is well protected it is far less
resistant to natural agencies t'han wood
or other building materials. It is be
ing used more and more in the fabrica
tion of large buildings and other struc
tures of a permanent type, and the
length of their life, to sav nothing of
the safety of the gieo-ple employed in
and around them, depends on the suc
cess with which corrosion can be pre
vented.
Painters are constantly employed on
such structures as the Brooklyn or
Forth bridges scraping away rust spots
and repainting. When serious rusting
is once started it is very hard to check,
and as it would inevitably lead to tne
destruction of the framework a col
lapse would 'be certain to occur sooner
or later, iprcfoalrtly v wifh an appalling
loss of life.—'Engineering Magazine.
Nice Outlook
"When we are married," !<he cooed,
"I shall keep you in love with me al
ways. I know the way."
"And What is your recipe, denrt" he
isked, drawing her closer.
"I shall spend heaps and heaps of
money on kice dresses and always look
hs pretty as I can."—Cleveland Leader.
Sin writes histories, goodness is si
lent.—Goethe.
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Lite Our Own District Attorney De
posed President Enjoy* Boeing
Cows Or axe on Broadway
Now York, AprU 13.—General Vic
toriano Huerta began to-day to attend
to the business which brought the for
mer President of Mexico to New York
and which ho described as," personal
and family." The general occupies one
of the most expensive suites of the
Hotel Ausonia.
Despite Huerta's assurances on
landing yesterday that he would, do
nothing while here to violate the neu
trality of the United Stittes, it was re
ported to day in Mexican circles that
important conferences would be held
here at once to determine whether the
time was ripe for Huerta to interfere
in Mexico, rally his old battalions to
his support and attempt to put down
tha factions contending for the control
of that country. It was said that
agents of the Federal government hero
were keeping a close watch upon his
movements.
_ A statement given out by Francisco
Klias, the consul general representing
(Jarranza here, said that Huerta's desti
nation is Zucatan, ''where he expects
to inaugurate a revolution against far
ran za.''
i General Huerta turned over to the
police a mystefious box which was sup
posed to contain .eawdy and wliiuh was
handed to him as lie landed. He did
not open it,.but notified the hotel man
agement. At the police station the box
was opened by an expert in explosives
and it was found to contain rambling
manuscript, apparently written by some
irresponsible person.
Bombardment of Matamoros Begun
Hy Associated Press.
I -Brownsville, Texas, April 13.—The
i long expected bombardment of Mata
j inoros, Mexico, by Villa artillery began
to-day and rhe direction of fire'and its
comparative accuracy brought distinct
relief from fears for the safety of
'Brownsville.
Wilson Nails Canard About China
Washington, April 13.—Keports that
the American government had informed
China that she wonld not be able to re-,
ly oo the moral support of the United
States in her negotiations with Japan
were declared without foundation to
day by President Wilson.
SIBO,OOO Blaze in Kentucky Town
Lexington, Ky., April 13. Fire
which threatened to destroy Lawrence
burg, Anderson county, Kentucky, early
to-day is reported under control. The
Court House and Bcveral business houses
on Main street were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at $150,000.'
136 Perish in Coal Mine Disaster
Tokio, April 13.—An accident in a
coal mine near Shimonosoki has re
sulted in the loss of 136 lives, accord
ing to information received in Tokio
this evening.
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
Do You Know Your Age and the Year
and Day of Your Birth?
How old are you f When were vou
born? See if you really know. See if
your children know how old they are.
L)o not laugh at these simple questions
until you try the test.
According to a recent issue of the
United States public health service re
ports, it is a common occurrence to find
school children, even high school pu
pils in the junior and senior years,
who cannot tell how old they are, or
who, if they know their age, cannot
tell accurately in what year they were
born.
ou will need this information when
you apply for a marriage license, or in
registering for voting, or in seekiug a
government position, or in case you
claim that you are heir to a fortune
that is going to some • other pSrson.
You may have to go under oath as to
your age when you pay your custom
duties upon return from your next
European trip. So you should practice.
In some of our states there is no
birth registration, so you may not be
able to prove from the records that
you ever were born. This might be
embarrassing to you if you want to
marry in Europe.
Perhaps the easiest way to remem
ber your age is to form some jingle or
rime on your birth year. For in
stance, "In 1897 lit tie Johnnie came
from heaven," or "In 1882 little Susie
began to boo.'' Never mind what the
rhyme is, just so you remember it, and
if, after reaching the age of forty, you
want to prove that you are only .twen
ty-three years old, just change t'he
rhyme and perhaps people will believe
you when you repeat the jingle to
prove your youth.
OUR CALENDAR IMPERFECT
Under the Present System a Day Is
Lost Every 2,500 Years
Many people are dissatisfied with
the calendar. They propose to take it.
back and change it. They would have
to go back to an act of ' the British
parliament in 1751—that irf, English
speaking folk wonld—and then still
farther into the recesses of time. It
was that statute which later led Ameri
can schoolboys into doubt as to wheth
er George Washington was born on
February 22 or February 11. Eleven
days were lost between Julius Caesar
and George Washington, but that hard
ly seems appalling enough after all to
justify so many preachments on the
subject of lost time, does it! The
way things are arranged now it will be
2,500 years or more before we lose
another day.
The scientist, however, is never sat
isfied with anything lesq than accuracy,
ati(| he wants a perfect calendar. He
has taken his ideas of reform into the
legislatures of several nations, but
nothing ha* happened yet. Reform is
sure to get into trouble, anyway, when
it gets into politics. But truth, crushed
to earth, shall rise again, and maybe
the dream of the scientist will come
true. The first day of every month
will fall on the first day of the week,
and so forth. The printed calendar
which comes from the insurance com
pany or the groeery store will be just
as good one year as another, nnd the
months will be all alike. Probably a
more durable form will be invented, so
that it will last a lifetime, be move!
from house to house with the rest of
the furniture and be handed down to
future generations as an heirloom.
Time, with such a calendar, wouMn't
seem so flighty.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Meek Reproach.
Lady (who has given tramp a plate
of scraps)— You must feel the humili
ation of begging for food.
Tramp—lt's not that so much,
mem. What hurts me is that I 'm de
priving the pore innercent fowls of a
feed.—London Telegraph.
A RAILWAY WIZARD
Tuft Created a Sensation With
His Vertical Road.
FIRST PASSENGER ELEVATOI
It Was Erected In the Old Fifth Av
enue Hotel, In l4e«v York, In 1859 and
Wee Regarded a* the Marvel of the
Dey—lts Introduetion to England.
Americans may lose the use of their
legs. A number of authorities on this
subject have made the prophecy that
unless the American nynds his ways
and changes the direction in which
certain of his habits und tendencies
He his legs will become as utropbied
us has become his little toe froui close
confinement in shoos nnd long disuse.
These authorities have pointed out
the street car. the automobile nnd the
average man's eagerness to "get there"
In the quickest way and with the
least possible effort is the causes for
the preseut deterioration In legs, and
as mechanical locomotion becomes
more nnd more accessible and the rid
ing habit grows man will have less
and les» use for his feet and legs.
In addition to electric cars and auto
mobiles, another modern device con
tributes to the nverage man's Increas
ing feebleness of limb. That modern
device Is the elevator. To the present
generation, accustomed to ride from
floor to floor and to push the elevator
bell button and wait for the car rather
than cllnVb a flight of stairs, It proba
bly seems queer to see or bear the ele
vator mentioned as a modern device.
Men tn thi'V - youth and even in their
middle age have become so habituated
to the elevator that they feel that such
a thing always was. or at least that it
Is coeval with brick and stone build
ings. Yet the elevator is a modern
device, aud the word "elevator" In" the
application given It in America Is new
er still than the contrivance It de
scribes.
Before the demolition of the old
Fifth Avenue hotel in New York there
was in one of the elevators a tablet, on,
which was Inscribed this: "In this
space was erected aiul operated in 18."it)
Tufts vertical screw railway, the first
passerger elevator ever built."
That elevator was one of the chief
wonders of the hotel, which, because
of its luxury and magnificence, was
considered one of the ponders of the
new world.
The "vertical railway." which saved
persons the trouble of walking up and
down stnlrA was widely written about,
and people came from far and near to
look at the strange invention and to
be able to tell their admiring friends
In Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington and other cities out in the
provinces that they bad been able to
go up and down stairs without walk
ing.
When travelers en me from New York
and told about this vertical screw rail
way to onr grandfathers, those worthy
gentlemen raised their eyes and bauds
in astonishment and probably exclaim
ed, "Will wonders never cease?"
An English trade paper, the London
Builder, iti September. lßTii). had un
editorial on the subject of the vertical
screw railway In the United States,
saying: "It is a carriage that will
move from the top to the bottom of
the building and from the bottom to
the top. It will be forced upward bf
the application of steam power, and
the descent will be regulated by tl»,
resistance of hydraulic power."
It was not until the early seventies
that the vertical railway was Intro
duced in England, the first "lift" being
installed in Albert ball, and to ride in
this pnssengers were required to pay
a fee of one penny. Conservative peo
ple in America and England looked on
this invention with grave suspicion
nnd "felt It Jn their bones" that it was
only a question of time when it would
fall down and kill everybody in It
Today the "lift" is nothing like so
common in Europe as the elevator,
which is the same thing. Is In the
United States. One reason for this is
that the United States is the birthplace
and the home of the skyscraper, while
high buildings, as building heights are
j measured in Americn. are infrequent
in Europe.—Washington S'nr
" ~ '
Aiele of the Car In a Railroad Wreck.
A veteran railroad man gave a piece
of valnable advice some time ago.
"If you ever get Into a wreck," ho
said. "nnd have time to follow out tills
suggestion remember this: Always
stand In the nlsle. Most of the In
juries that are suffered occur because
the victim Is crushed between the
seats. If you are In the aisle you mny
he thrown forward and bruised a lit
tle. but there Is much less chance of
receiving serious hurts. It Isn't always
possible to get out of your seat before
the crash comes, but If It Is follow
that advice."—Louisville Courler-Jour
naL
Strong Paper,
A single United States treasury noto
measures three and one-eighth inches
In width and seven and one-quarter
Inches In length. It will sustain with
out breaking lengthwise a weight of
forty-one pounds, crosswise a weight
of ninety-one pounds. The notes run
four to a sheet a sheet belli" eight and
one-quarter Inches wide by thirteen
and one-half Inches long. One of these
sheets lengthwise will suspend 108
pounds and crosswise 177 pounds.
Modern Hoetilltlee.
"A gossip is never willing to repeat
uuklnd remarks to your face."
"No." replied Miss Cayenne. "Gos
sip Is a social attack conducted on the
approved principles of modern war
fare. You are not supposed to see the
person at whom you are shooting."—
Washington Star.
Identification.
"That handsome woman over there
is a widow of one of the Jaggs broth
em."
/"Which brother is she the widow
off
"The dead one "—Baltimore Ameri
can.