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[Registered at the Fostofficé at Meyersdale, Pa, as Second-Class Mail Matter. ]
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL,
A. M. SCHAFFNER, Editor and Proprietor.
Pablisbed Every Tbarsday in tbe Year at 81.50 Per Year Cash
; Phone No..55. 110-112 Center Street.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1913
‘What Are the Prospects?
Up-to-date towns have their trades’ organizations, boards of
trade, business men’s leagues, etc. Meyersdale can boast of its
Commercial Club, but the boast stops with the club, not in the
deeds that the club has accomplished. One would scarcely know
that there is such a club in existence in Meyersdale if it were not
that the secretary:makes annual calls for the fees for holding mem-
bership in that august body. It is a long time since there has been
a meeting of the Commercial Club, unless the meeting has been
held without notifying the membership. It is true occasionally
there are whispers heard that the club has about landed some bus-
iness, but SILENCE is the word that comes with the whisper, and
that is the last heard of it. Such has been the work of the club in
the last few years and nothing to show for. It sounds well to
speak of the Commercial Club, the business men’s organization of
Meyersdale, but really the club has not been accomplishing any-
thing.
Surely Meyersdale should be as enterprising as other towns in
landing business, but there is a hitch somewhere. When you come
to the town itself every facility for heating plants is here, fuel at
our very doors, water sufficient to run factory and mill, paved
streets, electric lights, good churches, a high standard of public
schools, large stores, safe banks, trolley cars, two trans-continental
railroads, ete., etc., and yet the movement of Meyersdale is not for-
ward—at a standstill, and stagnation is the beginning of death
itself. Let the people get together, let them get employment for
two hundred more men and there is no town in Western Pennsyl-
vania to compare with Meyersdale. Let the money men forget the
steel plant and the speculation in distant coal fields and make a
new start for the greater, the better and more prosperous Mey-
ersdale.
~ House Passes Currency Bill.
The administration at Washington is pushing its measure with
energy. The tariff bill was a great undertaking pushed by both
houses of Congress with vigor. Now the currency bill, of which
Representative Glass of Virginia is chairman, but the bill is known
as the administration bill, has been passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives by an overwhelming majority. That the banking laws
are not satisfactory was realized for years by a great many people.
A complete revision of the banking and currency methods was
started in the House. The result of the votes was not a partisan
achievement, but rather the result of men of all parties.
The bill was passed by a vote of 286 to 84. Of this vote all but
three Democrats joined in. Twenty-four Republicans and fourteen
Progressives helped by their votes to make the bill a law. The bill
maintains the gold standard and would eliminate the present Amer-
jcan banknote system, under which banks issue currency against
Government bonds, and establish a currency to be issued by 12
Federal reserve banks, based on sound commercial paper, which
the Government assumes the responsibility of redeeming in gold or
Jawful money.
It would place practically every phase of banking under the
control of a Federal reserve board of seven members appointed by
the President, and a council of bankers which would have advisory
powers only. The system would be administered through the re-
serve banks in 12 geographical divisions of the country, capitalized
at about $5,000,000, which. capital must be subscribed by the banks
in the reserve district, ,
pn Are AF ARTE NAMA
The Beaten Path Is he Safe Path.
The world is always ready to applaud the man who achieves
success, and the greater the success the greater the applause. The
world has little time for the man who slowly and imperceptibly may
move forward under adverse circumstances, and totally ignores the
man who does not succeed. The days of hero worship do not be-
long exclusively to an age that is behind us, but to this age as well.
Men still step aside as the conquering hero comes, whether in poli-
Two men recently in
Somerset county have shattered much confidence and blasted num-
erous lives. These men are Henry F. Barron and Harvey M. Berk-
eley—two men who had held high places in the confidence of the
people, had been tried and trusted, and for a long period of years
they endured the test and appeared worthy of the trust. The for-
mer had been counted as a safe financier, at the head of one of the
tics, business, religion or the social realm.
GAYNOR FUNERAL
REMARKABLE OUTPOURING AT-
TENDS THE OBSEQUIES OF NEW
YORK CITY'S LATE MAYOR.
BODY BURIED IN GREENWOOD
Ex-President Taft and the Other Hon.
orary Pallbearers Were Followed
By the Citizens’ Committee,
Headed By Ex-Mayor Seth Low.
New York, Sept. 22.—The funeral
of Mayor William Jay Gaynor, who
died suddenly aboard the steamship
Baltic, was the most impressive
ceremony of its kind the metropolis
has witnessed since the obsequies of
General U. S. Grant.
The procession left the City Hall,
where the remains had been lying in
state, at 10.30 o'clock Monday morn-
Broadway directly to Trinity Church.
Here the public funeral services were
conducted by Bishop Greer, assisted
by Suffragan Bishop C. S. Busch and
the Rev. Di. William T. Manning,
rector of Trinity. i
Following the ceremonies in Trin-
ity interment was made in Green-
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Unusual respect was paid to the
memory of the Mayor by the passen-
brought the body here. The usual
weekly dance was abandoned and the
concert for charity was turned into
practically a memorial meeting for
the Mayor.
Light rain was falling before day-
break when the body was taken from
had been brought up the harbor from
Quarantine, reached Pier A, at the
foot of Battery place, the rain had
ashore. b
Powerful temporary electric lights
had been installed on the upper deck
of the Correction so that there would
its interior, - weighs six hundred
pounds. On each side are six stout
bronze handles.
The coffin wes taken from the after
well of the Lusitania and slowly low.
ered to the upper deck of the Cor
rection, where it was carried to a
_catafalque which had . been erected
in the upper deck compartment, just
abaft the funnel. The United States
flag, which lay on the coffin on the
for a few minutes while the coffin was
being lowered over the side, but it
was replaced as soon as the coffin
rested aboard the Coriection.
Escorted by seventy-five mounted
policemen, the body was taken from
the Battery to his home, 20 Eighth
avenue, Brooklyn.
The body remained at the family
residence until Saturday evening. A
private funeral service was held, at
which only members of the family
and intimate friends were present.
It was conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Frank W. Page, formerly rector of
St. John’s Protestant Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn. The family took
a last look at the face of the late
publicist and then the body was con-
veyed to the City Hall. The doors of
the building were opened at eight
o'clock on Sunday morning and the
public was admitted until sunset.
The funeral services were held at
eleven o'clock on Monday morning
in Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church. The various organizations
which had a place in the funeral pro-
cession formed in’ the side streets
about the City Hall at half past nine
o'clock. The long column, with a
squadron of four hundred mounted
policemen and a regiment of police
infantry moved at 10.30 a. m.
This was the order of the services
held at Trinity:
Burial Psalms.
Lesson—1 Cor, 15:20—end.
Anthem—“Yea, Though I Walk”
(Barnes), Trinity Choir.”
Hymn—“Lead, Kindly Light.”
The hymns “Lead, Kindly Light”
and “Nearer, My God, To Thee,” were
selected by Mrs. Gaynor.
The body was buried in a new cir-
cular plot just inside the Thirty-sev-
enth street gate of Greenwood Ceme-
tery. The Gaynor family purchased
this plot since the Mayor's death.
MONEY BILL PASSES HOUSE
23 Republicans and 10 Progressives
strong financial institutions of the county, and the head of a great! “ye tor Ic-Three Democrats
political organization.
and so recently as a short year ago he carried this county as a can-
didate for congress.
is a fugitive from justice.
The heart is made sad when men with such possibilities end
The latter had been very prominent in
church work, a man of education and means, trusted and lauded,
Today one fills a suicide’s grave and the other
Among Minority.
Washington, Sept. 19—With an
overwhelming record declaration in
favor of the indorsement of the “gold
standard” and an equally emphatic
refusal to incorporate in the measure
a prohibition against interlocking ‘Di-
such promising careers in the way they have. = On the surface they | rectorates, the House ‘of Representa
tives passed the Glass Currency bill
were clever, affable and shrewd, the soul of honer, while beneath DE teich rte will wast Yeas
false, deceitful, dishonest and criminal.
To lose faith in men of
their profession and their standing is unusually sad and disturbing.
Under such circumstances for the conscientious man there is a des- en
285; nays, 85; present and not vot
ing, 2; not voting, 58. Three Demo-
crats voted against the passage of
They were Walter Elder, of
perate struggle to hold fast to his faith in his fellowman, and yet |youisiana; Samuel A. Witherapoon, of
to have confidence in his fellowmanis one of the sweetest.joys of life.
ESTES
VOTE for the best men regardless of politics.
JEROME is doing his best to convict a lunatic of crime.
ERE
Mississippi, and Oscar Callaway, of
Texas. Twenty-three Republicans
voted for the measure, which also
eommanded the votes of ten Progress-
{ves, including Representative Vie-
tor Murdock, of Kansag, their floor
leader, and William Kent, of Cal-
fornia, the only member of the House
who has shaken off all party alle-
WHo is the Republican boss in Meyersdale, anyhow ? Is the|siance and classifies. himself a3 an
boss a Standpat, a Progressive or a Democrat ?
“Independent.”
ing. The procession passed down |
gers aboard the Lusitania, which ||
the Lusitania, but when the City boat 4
Correction, aboard which the body | 1
ceased. A small throng stood in the | §
drizzle to see the body brought |;
be plenty of light to handle the heavy |:
‘| coffin. This is of mahogany and, with
voyage from England, was 1emoved |}
Our Specials for the Next
Few Weeks!
In the histor
Sweater Ss! of this ro
we never had as [large a stock, as
‘choice a variety and as good bargains
as we are offering this Fall for
Sweaters of all descriptions.
We
Blankets and Gomiorts. Ye.
laid in a big stock of Blankets and
Comforts at astonishingly low prices.
Come in, look the stock over and we
are sure you will want to help us re-
duce our stock of theabove description
FAIR Dealing
FAIR Buying FAIR Prices
FAIR Selling FAIR Merchandise
FAIR Treatment
Agency for
Butterick Patterns
Styles Were Never
AND So Stunning and
Butterick Fashions
Unless we keep abreast of the times we soon become common- :
place and unattractive. This does not mean that we should
adopt every new and freakish garment placed upon the market.
To the person of intelligence and reflnement to be dressed in
style means to be dressed in good taste.
The Coats and Furs
That are shown in this store have the kind of style that WOMEN
LIKE TO WEAR and MEN LIKE TO SEE. Being stylish
they are also popular-priced Come and see for yourself.
Underwear for Warmth,
comfort-giving, service-giving, warmth-rendering garments,
| Fleeced and Flannel Union Suits and two-piece suits for men,
women and children,
Low-priced Cotton Blankets and High
Blankets and Comforts. Grade Cotton and Wool Blankets, carefully
bound with silk tape, plain and plaids, also blue and pink borders. Crib Blankets at
50c and 75c. Comforts and Comfort Materials, better goods than in hi re 2a
son. Cotton Batting at 10c, 12 1-2c and 15¢ per batt. Also the comfort-size batts
72x84 inches, at 50c and 75¢ each. ?
Grocery Npecials---For Naturday Only,
This coffee is worth from 20c¢c to 22¢ per lb. Just
Good Coffee at 1 6c Ib. try one pound or a half-pound and be convinced. If
I were you, however, I would buy several pounds at this price, Take my word for it.
Granulated Sugar, 4c Ib. I will again sell one 25¢ Ib. sack of granulated
sugar for $1.00, when bought i i i
$5.00 worth of Dry Goods and Groceries—SATURDAY ONLY. IB Cos mi
One Good Broom at 25¢ Ten Cakes Laundry Soap, 25¢
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