Republican news item. (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, February 13, 1902, Image 1
Published Every Thursday. Volume 6. ) Worth the PriceTf P YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELL V WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLE JEWELERY.X r It wears and gives pleasure for years and is £ 112 always worth the price paid for it. Our many X r years of business at the same stand with the same 112 t principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery / Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. j / We intend that this store shall be first in } thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- J \ tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the J S same grade of goods. \ Always Ready for Rcpairwork. j y Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J % hands. To get values come here after them, / Very respectful iv, c > RETTENBURY, I J DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. C, ' DUSHORE, PA Preparation for Winter should include a call here. jfurnaces Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace and live in cemfort. flMumbiitQ. % Have it done now. This is the time for the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the best work for you. 4* - Marbware. Special low prices prevail here. No danger of infer iority. Our hardware line is as good as can be made. Steam Fittings, Stoves and Ranges, Farm Tools, Etc. General Job TiClovh, Bicycle IRcpaicing. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE. This means a saving on a good many articles that you have either a present or future need for. SILKS. TAILOR-MADE SUITS. One lot of Fancy Silk for Waists, in A few Ladies' Tailor Marie Suits in stripes and corded effect, all good colors, j»ood colors with full flounced skirts and for 50c, the regular price has been 75c to neat Jackets at one-third ami one-half off 87c. the regular price. One lot Fancy Waist Silk, large part FLANNEL of them this season's Btvl*s, worth 90c to An assorted lot of Ladies' French $1.25, sale price isc. 1 hese are only a I'hmnel Waists all new this season, in few ol the silks reduced. navy, old rose, reseda, cardinal, etc. DRESS GOODS. Your choice at one hall the market price. 10 piece all wool Plaids ami Mixed HOUSEHOLD LINEN. Suitings tor 25c, reduced from ? 0c six . Bleaolied Table Linon 2 pieces 4.Vincl, all wool Grey Serge P ular . J5( . lit for 20. and 2 pieces 50-inch Suiting, lm>e b en ,{| oac ,f etl All-Linen, good I.IC now . c. , patterns, 50c iiuality, lor this sale 40c. One lot ol plain and mixed rrench /', - n ~ . • , • , i .. t>4-inch I nbleached lable Linen,which Dress iioods in brown, navy, greens, nine , . . . , , n ' . , ~ we have considered a bargain at oOc, greys and fancies. 42 to 48 inches wide. I1()W These have been 75c to $1.25 all go now 70 inch Unbleached, extra heavy, very at _____ neat patterns,our 60cqualitv for 50c. FURS. TOinch Half Bleached I>amask, was A leading furrier has consigned to us 75c now 07c. to be closed out, a large line of medium TTvrT-\TTi-nTT7T A"D and tine Marten and Fox Neck Scarfs UNDlLrlWiliArt. and Hons, which we can offer vou at Men's Full Fleeced Shirts and Draw manufacturer s prices. \\ e mention one —large sizes only—the shirts are item—a Marten Scarf with a cluster ot ( | ou i,| e breasted, drawers re-enforced, were 8 tails, for $8.50, worth at least one-hall KO | (J afl H ) ea ,| ( . r tor 50Cf lIOW 3<j c t o close more than that. Pox Scurfs 44, 60 and Large men come and see them. SO inches long l; ur Jackets to close out A , ot ot Men - U(ließ , and ci.ildrens' at *12.00, worth f-0. Underwear in broken sizes, will be closed COATS. out at a great reduction, Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coats, , 0", r entire stock of Men's, Ladies' and Jackets, etc., will be closed out at a Children s All-Wool I nderwear per great sacrifice. <» nt oft lhe re «" ,Hr P r,ce - The Shopbell Dry Good Co. Republican News Item. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUBIIOBE, PENNA. CAPITAL - - #50.000. SURPLUS - - SIO.OOO. Does'a'General Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTB. President. Cashier J. J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORHKTS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in ibis and adjoining counties _APORTE, p A. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-et-Lew. LAPORTE, PA. owes M COOKTY BOILDIHO HEAR COURT BOUII. J. BRADLEY, ATTORBBT-AT-LAW, Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sts. LAPOKTE, PA J. H. CRONIN, ATTORBKT'AT -LAW, BOTART PUBLIC, orncl OH MAIH STRBBT. DUSHORE, PA COMMERCIAL HOUSE A.VID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORL'K - A. This largo and w«* i appointed house is the most popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber.shop; also good stabling and livery, J J. KEELER. I • Justiee-of-the Peace. Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care of this office will be promptly to. HOTEL GUY 7 MILDRED, PA. K. H. GUY, - Proprietor. Newly 'furnished throughout, special attention given to the wants of the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer on the market always oll tap. Mates lie<uionabl<-. LIME At the OLD OPP KILNS Located near Hughesville. This is the pufest lime on the ridge. We will compete with any dealer on car load lots delivered on the W. &N. B. R. R. with our own cars, giving purchaser ample time to unload. All correspondency will receive prompt attention. Address, A. T. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, PA. mrnri I * I IT'S WORTH •♦•••• WHILE to step in and absorb a little General Knowledge that is to be found in a really down to date General Store. Price Reduction on Closing out Goods now on EXHIBITION! ?????? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. BHUpSM) Pa. PiTEMNJWWr More Than Twenty-six Oity Blocks Wiped Oat. fHE LOSS WILL REACH $10,000,000 Flames Started In Traction Pow* r House and Swept Through Business Part of City With Relentless Fury. Hundreds Are Rendered Homeless. Paterson, N. J., Feb. 10. —A great fire swept through Paterson yester day, and In Its desolate wake are the ambers and ashes of property valued at $10,000,000. It burned Its way through the business section of the city and claimed as its own a ma jority of the finer structures devoted to commercial, civic, educational and religious use, as well as scores of houses. There was but small tribute of life and injury to the conflagration, but hundreds were left homeless and thousands without employment More than 26 blocks of the city hare been destroyed. The business section of the town lying between Prospect street, Broadway, Paterson and Mar ket streets was wiped out completely. The residence portion destroyed ex tended from Pearl street to Market street and from Straight street to Carroll street. What started the fire Is not certain, but it is thought that one of the feed wires running into the car barns was responsible. From the car barns the flames leaped to other buildings close by, and these were burned before the first call firemen reached the scene. The fire came at Saturday midnight and was only checked after a des perate fight that lasted until late yes terday afternoon. Every city and town within reach of Paterson sent firemen and apparatus to the relief of the threatened city, and It took the unltod efforts of them all to win the battle. A northerly gale gave the con flagration its impetus and carried Its burning brands to kindle the blaze afresh at other points. The firemen made stand after stand before the wall of fire, but were repeatedly driven back, and when victory finally came to them they were begrimed and ex hausted. Buildings Destroyed. A partial list of the properties de stroyed follows: Public buildings—City hall, public library, old city hall, police station, No. 1 engine house, patrol stables, high school and school No. 15. Churches —First Baptist, Second Presbyterian, Park Avenue Baptist, St. Mark's Episcopal and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic. Banks —First National, Second Na tional (partially), Paterson National, Silk City Trust, Hamilton Trust and Paterson Trust. Clubhouses —T. M. C. A.. Knights of Columbus, Progress Club, St. Jo seph's Hall and Hamilton Club. Office buildings—Romaine building, Kate building, Marshall ft Ball's, Cohn building, old town clock, old Klnne building and Stevenson building. Telegraph companies—Western Un ion and Postal Telegraph. Theatre —The Garden. Newspapers—The Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Stores —Quackenbush ft Co., dry goods; National Clothing company. Kent's drug store, Klnsilla's drug store, Muzzy's hardware and general merchandise store, Marshall & Ball, clothiers; John Norwood, paints; Oberg's grocery, Wertendyke's gro cery, P. H. & W. Q. Shields, grocers; "The Paterson." dry goods; Jordan's piano store, Sauter ft Co., pianos; Feder ft McNalr, shoes; Zcndler's con fectionery; l.appln's tea store, Ra gowskl's millinery. Brohal ft Mueller, shoes; C. E. Beach, automobiles; Morehead & Son. clothiers; Paterson Gas and Electric company, Skye's drug store and Mackintosh's drug store. An estimate made from a general inspection of the smouldering ruins placed the number of dwellings and apartment houses destroyed at 600, and the number of families left with out shelter at 1,000. The fire began its work of destruc tion at the power house of the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Traction company, which fronted on Broadway and extended a block to the rear of Van Houton street It commenced In the car shed, and was burning fiercely when one of the employes detected It. It was leaping through the roof, and the gale was lifting it in forks and swirls when the fire apparatus came clanging into Broadway, Main and Van Houten streets. The flremen tried to hem it In, but it speedily crossed Van Houten street in one di rection, Main street In another, and, gaining vigor as It went, burned un checked down Into the business dis trict. Every piece of flre mechanism in the city was called out, but flre and gale were masters. A great torch of flame rose high In the air, lighting up the country for many miles and carylng a threat and warning to the people and property In its path. There were efforts to rescue furaiturs and i stock, but the speed" with which "the Are moved gave the rescuers little time. Property was often moved to a place of presumed safety, only to be eventually reached and destroyed. The warning to many was brief, and they were forced to flee, scantily clad, Into streets glazed over with Ice and swept by the keen wind. Three relief meetings were held yesterday afternoon, the principal one of which was attended by Governor Franklin Murphy, Mayor John Hinchllffe, Recorder George Ft. Senior, who under the city's charter is Are marshal. Id a few momenta SBOO was handed to the mayor for Immediate use, but the chief magistrate said that while the city had suffered a terrible visitation, he was In a position to say that there was very little distress. The business section of the city had been practically wiped out, but the resi dence portion which suffered waa that In which well-to-do citizens lived. Main street waa soon arched over with a canopy of lire for a block, and then for two blocks, as the flames fastened themselves upon building after build ing. The firemen fought with every resource of their craft and the Im pulse of desperation, but the flames found new avenues in Ellison and Market streets, and got beyond all control. Calls for relief went out to every city in this portion of the state, and the Jaded firemen labored on through the hopeless hours of the morning. The city hall, & magnificent structure, surmounted by a great clock tower, situated on Washington, Ellison and Market streets, finally caught fire, and with it all of the splendid business structures that sur rounded It. They made a great fur nace of fire that burned with a fierce roar. There was a series of explosions and scores of walls fell when the fire left them strengthless. Flying fire brands carried the conflagration over some buildings and around others, and it therefore burned In an Irregular course. These brands finally cleared the tracks of the Erie railroad and Ramapo avenue, and, alighting on Straight street, started another great area of fire, In which the destruction and desolation wrought was nearly as great as In the other. Second Fire Start*. This second great fire started at the angle of Park avenue and Washing ton street and swept almost un checked until on these two thorough fares there was no more fuel. On the right-hand side of Market street It encountered Sandy Hill Cemetery as a barrier to check it, but on the left hand side at Carroll street It claimed St. Joseph's Church, a great classic stone building. It was on this second great fire that the volunteer firemen from the outside cities did their most heroic and effective work. They fell back only when they had to, and when the natural obstacle interposed they seized the chance and stopped the flre. The final and one of the most des perate fights of the day occurred In mid-afternoon back in the first fire area at the Hamilton Club, situated at the corner of Church and Ellison streets. The handsome clubhouse caught, and the exhausted firemen were rallied around It. They were anilous to save the structure, and, besides, failure meant that the flre might take new headway among the properties ndjoining the clubhouse. The building was doomed, however, but a torrent of water kept the flre to the premises. The four walls of the clubhouse stood, but the roof col lapsed and the interior was completely burned out. There are many persons supposed to be missing, but in tho excitement and fright most of these are supposed to be separated from their families and friends. Reuben Isleib, while serving coffee to the exhausted firemen, was hit on the head by a falling beam, and it is doubtful if he lives. He was car ried away by the firemen. George Fitzmaurice. a fireman. Is also dying. Me was driving an engine from I'as s.aic, when the horses bolted, and be lore Fitzmaurice could get them un der control they brought the apparatus against an electric ,pole, and Fitz mn'irico, who had not waited to strap himself in.was hurled out upon hia head. There is no chance of his living. A relief movement for the care of those unsheltered and unprovided for has already been organized, and Mayor John Henchllffe said laßt night that Patorson would be able to care for her own without appealing to the charity of other communities and states. The great manufacturing plants of the place are safe, and the community, temporarily dazed by the calamity, has already commenced the work of reorganization and restoration. Paterson rests in a valley, and the conflagration was an Imposing specta cle from the rim of hills that wall It In. Columns of flame climbed high In the air and shed their light for miles. Hundreds of persons hurried Into the city before daylight to watch the work of destruction at close range, and when the day came thousands more Joined them. With the crowd came thieves and looters, but there was not much pillaging. Under orders from 1.25 P'r. Year Governor Franklin Murphy, who hur ried here from Jersey City, Companies A, C, K and M, of the Fifth Regiment, N. J. N. G., assembled at their ar mories and were held as a reserve force. The police, deputy sherifTs, hundreds of special watchmen and firemen united in protecting property during the day, and when night came a grim order clearing the streets was Issued by the city and county au thorities. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Stricken With Pneumonia. MRS. ROOSEVELT AT BEDSIDE Disease Developed From a Slight In disposition, and Young Man's Con dition Is Serious—President In Com munication With College Faculty. Groton, Mass., Feb. 8. —The condi tion of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Roosevelt, and a student at Groton School, who Is 111 If pneu monia, was reported at 9 o'clock last night as being "as comfortable aa THKODOP.E ItGOSEVKLT, J&- could be expected." Those who are in attendance at the lad's bedside declin ed to give anything more definite. It was understood at the school, however, that the patient showed some improve ment during the afternoon and early evening. Washington. Feb. 10.— Mrs. Roose velt, wife of the president, left Wash i ington at 4.50 o'clock Friday after noon for Groton, Mass., where tneir son, Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., is lv'i <,• seriously ill of pneumonia. Bh' ..av eled In a drawing room car r ~ne reg ular train of the railroad, which goes through to Boston without change, anil arrived at Groton Satur day morning at 10.30 o'clock. The first information to reach the president and Mrs. Roosevelt of the illness of their son was received at the White House uy telegraph Saturday morning. The message was signed by the president of the college where the young man is a pupil, and stated in effect that a slight indisposition had developed into an acute and sharp at tack of pneumonia, aud that he wai seriously ill. President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Cortelyou, left for Gro ton, Mass., over the Pennsylvania railroad Saturday at midnight. The president's visit to Charleston hae been abandoned. He concluded that ho wanted to be near his sick boy. The following bulletin was made pub lic last evening at the White House: "The president saw his son shortly after his arrival here. Boy's conditio* is unchanged, but he is holding his own well. "The Hatless Brigade." A despatch from Groton on Wednes day last may possibly explain In some measure the illness of young Theodore Roosevelt. It was stated that "Teddy, Jr.." had organized a hatless walking brigade at the Groton school. He de cided about a week ago that hats and caps were useless articles of raiment, and accordingly discarded his ewa, an example which was promptly followed by every one of the 150 boys who at tended the school. It made no differ ence how cold the day or how severe the storm the boys of Groton trudged about over the country bareheaded. SLEIGHING PARTY WRECKED Horse Ran Away and Occupants of Sleigh Received Severe Injuries. Phillipsburg, N. J., Feb. 10.—While John Keanly, Miss Mamie Cartland and Bertha McCann, of this place, were returning from Bethlehem, Pa., In a sleigh early yesterday morning, the horse took fright and ran down a steep hill. In turning a coraer ef a road the sleigh struck a telephone pole and the occupants were throwa out. Miss McCann Is believed to have sus tained a fracture of the skull. Miss Cartland received a broken leg and was internally injured, and Keanly had two or three ribs broken and also received a severe cut on the head. Second British Warship Lest. Vancouver. B. C.. Feb. 10. —Fears •re entertained for the safety of the Kgria. the warship which went In search ef the mtsrlng Condor. A studding sail boom belonging to the Kgria has been picked up on the west coast. The section of the coast vis ited by the Egrla Is known as the "graveyard of the Pacific." Number^