WEATHER FORECAST: RAIN. .VEATHER FOIIECAST: RAIN. READ THE CITIZEN SAFE, SANE, SVIIE. READ THE CITIZEN SAFE, SANE, S' )th YEAR -NO. 85 HONESDALE!, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1911. PRIOr CENTS 00 AT 58TH ANNUAL BALL OF PROTECTION ENGINE CO. NO. 3 mcert Numbers Make Big Hit-Most Successful Affair Ever Held in Armory. V. WOOD IS CHAIRMAN; GROSS RECEIPTS AMOUNT TO $000 PARADE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF RAIN HISTORY OF COMPANY. HUSBAND DESERTED A thousand people attended the ky-eighth annual reception, con- K and ball of Protection Englne ipany No. 3, at the Park Place Rnory, Honesdale, last Friday knlng. rhe anniversary entertainment pried open at twenty-five mln after eight o'clock by the Presl- it of Protection 'Engine Company . 3, W. W. Wood, who acted no lilrman of the evening, and de- lered the address of welcome. He Id among other things: r Friends. In the absence of our Burgess, who Is detained by i, and unable to be nresent this aning, it becomes my nleasant Ity to bid you welcome. It Is a irce of great gratification to me see so many present as it is an Idence of your appreciation of the mces or your fire department, f ' Once during the year Protection J sends out a general alarm or Ileal for 'help, and that appeal Is nobly responded to as the com- liy does when a lire alarm Is sent f ' After nearly fortv years' nssn Ition with different fire compan- Ii am ai lmerty to say that the n who stand ready to answer the irm or lire are the warniest-heart- men in existence. f If their deeds were exhibited on h field or battle th lied heroes. Protection Enclno ipany so. 6. Hose Comnanv Nn. lAlerts No. 2, Texas No. 4 and the plyvllle Fire company are proud to jw you appreciate their services." FFhe Kid Orchestra opened the con t program with a musical solen- In, and responded with an encore tne tumultuous applause which a their efforts. rho big hits of the evening were 1 Tl f i T1 f nt -Kttoo TnnA T-t i,.J i. Archer. Miss Jane Haeamnn. lomas Charlesworth was the blg- Ei. iiiuBH-umnuiacturer in the con t, and kept the audience In an pour uy uis antics as a colored Lk-in-the-hflX. Mlaa Tlalo Tl.- prlBed the audience with her jwledge of musical technique. Ifoseph Jacob's recitation, "The Isuner s riea," was rendered In a nner that captured the approval every member of the audience. le applause which followed -would ve giaaaened the heart of the susceptible old stacer. IVll the numbers were finenrnil on. Iisiastically and the affair was a isical triumnn from start to finish Irln's Kid Orchestra and Sonner's nesu-a ,were enthusiastically en red. ptevln O'Brien directed the Kid -hestra, whose members Included na weumann. nlano: Otto Hon. Inn, violin; Raymond Faatz, cor- Harold MuIIanev. clarionet- lymond Short, flute; Robt. L. Dor- Iirup urums. Chairman Wood called on the men to voice their thanks for the icert part of the ball, which he iiea a pleasurable success. The i was carried with a mlpht limn oi Ayes. rhe floor committee removed the Its, and the ball was on. Snn. rs orcnestra furnished the musle mo iwenty-rour numbers and rro were no encores. Between waltzes, the crowd went pn stairs where supper was serv- to over duo people, the gross pro ds from this source amount Inn- tn M8. The people of Honesdale do. ted the viands with unusual Hber- r, ana as over 400 tickets were Id, the treasury of Protection En- e vompany No. 3 will be enriched least $4uu, tne gross receipts punting to SC00. Ihe 'Participants were met at the fr of the Armory by a recentlon jnmlttee constituted of the ment is of the company, who were re sident in their snlc and snan new (forms. The Alerts and Number ompanles attended the affair in a iy. ounty Detective N. B.. Spencer the tlckots at the dooV and the Imbers of the company tried to ke everybody feel at home. It Is general consensus of onlnlon lit the ball of last Friday night la tne most successful in the hls ly of the comnanv. lAs many as 200 couples tripped ugm iantastic at one time, the ample floor space of tho Iraory at times seemed Insufficient accomodate those who wished to ice. rhe success of the evening was to the untiring efforts of an fixa tive committee. Following are! i momDers: unairman. p. w. Iiuerholz; secretary. H. H. nieh- Ils; treasurer, "W. H. Bader; J. M. ons, Jos. A. Bodie. Jr.. John Car- Ichael, W. J, Ferber, C. P. Searle, q., T, F, Gallagher, W. W, Klm- A checking booth was maintained the basement of the 'building and nds were maintained tor the sale cigars and soft drinks. Consld ible provision -were loft over and erwards distributed to the poor of j city. Of the honorary members who re elected September 19, 1853, en tne company was organized, nut three remain, Messrs. E. A. Pen- niman, h. j. conger a nd George Foster, only one of whom, Mr. Pen niman, was present at Friday night's ball. Mr. Pennlman, by the way, has the proud distinction of missing very few social functions given un der the auspices of Protection Num ber 3. Protection Engine Company had a humble origin. Tho first meeting was held in a haymow of Dr. Con siders bain on Eleventh street, where the present High school build ing now stands. The first equipment that the com pany naa comprised two pumps giv en to them by the Rev. Abel Barker, a Methodist clergyman who was lo cated here, and who wbb formerly engaged in the book and stationery uuamuas uuuer tne nrm name of Ba ker & Delezenne. There was no suction to th.e en- biubb, una tne ooxes naa to be filled tip with pails and pumped out again. That was the way the apparatus was worked at the fires. AnH vot .they could throw water up over tho Presbyterian steeple. It required a short, sharp stroke to operate the mechanism'. No one could stand It for more than two or three minutes at a time. The fire laddies in tho early days wore a natty uniform consisting of a red coat, with red velveMrlmmlngs. A large figure three was embroider ed on the Jacket, and the wiole was set off with a zouave cap. The A. M.- Atkinson steamer was purchased March 25, 1875, following tho big fire of January 8, 1875, which began in the Throop building, Main street, where Doctor Brown's dental Qfllce Is now located, and burned fif teen buildings, affecting twenty firms or individuals, and causing a property loss of ?200,000. The steamer, with a two-wheel truck, cost ?4,700. The flrsf fire that the A. M. Atkinson was in action occur red April 10, 1875. The Lintel steamer was bought in Towanda. It was afterwards re named the R. W. Ham. It was a Silsby patent steamer, and cost $1500 with a four-wheel hose cart and fuel cart. . It arrived in Honesdale Dec. 2, 1880, and cost originally $5,000. William Muir .acted as en gineer of the A. M. Atkinson, and John M, Lyons and Andrew J. Car roll were the assistants. Once sta tioned near the canal basin, at the foot of old Number 13 plane with a 1400-foot length of hose attached, it threw a stream over the smoke stack still standing at the head of the plane, the stack being 60 feet high, and the head of the plane some 225 feet above the basin, making the entire elevation 285 feet. The first meeting of the Hones dalo Fire Department was held In the present firemen's hall July 11. 1895. " The Atkinson steamer was pur chased February, 1875," according to J. M. Lyons, who has been chief en gineer of the Honesdale Fire Depart ment ever since ho came to the Maple City in March, 1875. , " The ' R. W. Ham ' steamer," he continued, "was purchased, second, in 1884, in Towanda. After the big fire .of 1875, which started in Katz's store, which was then a small estab lishment located about where the Dime Bank now Is. It was along In February on a very cold, stormy night. It burned that block complete ly taking in the Commercial Hotel then known as the Coyne House. "The fire company then had noth ing but hand engines, and depend ed on pumping water from the canal. The flro got to the Coyne before they got a drop on the fire. The winnl hnd been closed upNind tho gates were down, and they had to cut the Ice from around the gates to raise It. It took some time for it to fill up so they could pump it, " I was down there on the street that night. They called for volun teers. I helped to pump. It started In the neighborhood of 2 o'clock in the morning. The whole block was burned down. The only thing that prevented the fire from snreadinir was the people down at McGrana- guan a wno put dampened carpet on the roof to prevent the fire from spreading. " The buildings that wore burned were mostly three and four story buildings. They wero all frame buildings. I Joined the company pur posely to run tho steamer for them. A. M. Atkinson was president of the council, and principal advocate for buying a steamer, land the engine wus jiamea anor mm. " The ' R. W. Ham was bought in 1884, and so named In honor of the foreman. In 1890 it was rebuilt and remodeled. - " Tho ' A. M. Atkinson ' was pur chased from tho Silsby Manufactur ing Company, Seneca Falls, N. Y and was an A No, 1 third class steamer." Chief Engineer J. M. Lyons fur nished a Citizen man with this infor mation" by way of correcting a state ment which appeared in last Friday's Citizen to the effect that the first steamer was bought in 1862, where as in reality It was first purchased in (Continued on. Page Eight) 24-Year-OId Mrs. Gaffney Gets Warrant HER SEVEN YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE HAVE BEEN FULL OF TROUBLE. Frank Gaffney, aged 27, 106 Fifth street, an Erie Railroad sectioh hand, deserted his wife and two small ehlldren Saturday night, Sept. 29, after, it U said, squandering In drink and riotous living all his wife's money. Had it not been for the charity of kind neighbors who sent them in things to eat, and for the liberality of St. John's R. C. church, which donated them a ton of coal, Mrs. Gaffney and her two small boys, Francis, aged 3, and James, aged 4, would have fared badly. It was a pitiful story that the de serted wife told a reporter last Fri day morning. Mrs. Gaffney is a young woman only twenty-four years old, but her seven years of married life have been full of trouble. " I met him aUa ball one night. I went with him for quite a while. I always found he had a good repu tation. He made big wages. I used to work in a factory. My father kept a livery stable. We lived In Port Richmond, Staten Island. " I never knew he drank Until we were married six months, and then he started. We often used to have words all through his drink. He'd DENVER DISCOURSES HERE Dr. E. M. Stephenson Ad dresses the Baptist Church THEME "CHILD CULTURE" GIVES TWO TALKS IN HAW LEY. , Dr. E. M. Stephenson, of Denver, who is Interested In youne neonle and Sunday school work, gave a vory instructive aaaress in the Honesdale Baptist church last Sabbath morninc, Dr. Stephenson s theme was "Child uuituro. This Is a parable of the cornstalk ana illustrates tho growth and de velopment of the child on the laws laid down by Christ; first the -blade. men tne ear, ana alter that the full corn Jn the ear. Mr. Steohenson has given this lecture in more than half the states in the Union and is called for more than any lecture he aanvers. Dr. Stephenson held two different meetings in Hawley. iHe presided over a union meeting at 3 o'clock that afternoon, his tonic belnc "How to Make Good Bible School Bet ter. Tiie following good thoughts were gleaned rrom the meeting: " Improve Its organization by the application of the two self-regulating principles or completeness and sim pliclty. " Improve its atmosphere hv elv. nea!i.. z . . . - . .. . have his money spent in a saloon "1 iLu.0"?"1683 a,r' more mtellect- berore he came home. My people hmT. ' 3 "aJ"2 ,eBS' wero a ways ne ping us. He always Tm" 7 claimed V was Jealous of him. " We used to live in Port Rich mond where 'he worked In Burley's ship yard. He deserted me there, and I had a warrant out for him. He wrote me If I came to Honesdale he'd do all right. So I came here last March. I sold my house down there. He spent every cent I had. He spent it for drink. He went around sporting. I heard he used to hire rigs and go around every day sporting. " He used to tell me he was look ing for work and at the same time he was drinking. He used to be away for weeks. He was working on. the Erie Railroad. Ho earned $10.50 a week. He only, worked six weeks. I was In the hospital seven weeks. I've been In poor health. Only two months ago I was operated on in the btate Hospital. Scranton. Ho de serted the children while I was in the 'hospital so I had to come home. He took the pledge for a year before coming 'here, and promised me he was going to do all right. He came home Saturday night two weeKs ago. 'He has two weeks' pay coming to him, but the check is made out in his name so I can't get It. He s crazy about the children. That night he Went he bought 'home a bag of candy for the children. A man came in that night and said he was going to have Spencer after him for something he did. It was about eight o'clock. When he came, my husband ran out. " I have a warrant out for him for desertion. He has a brother in an insane asylum. I don't think ho Is really right In the head. He al ways goes away without any reason. I heard he was In Long Island. I was told he went down to work on a steamboat. Five of his uncles are on canal boats. When he was away seven months before he was on a canal boat. "He has two or three different kinds of work he can do. He can, drive rivets, chip Iron, and he has an application in for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ho used to work for the Wells Fargo Express Co. In Now York before the strike, when he was away in August and came back in March, " I was told he changed his name that time. Ho had a Job as Janitor at a place in New York, where he was called Frank Cavanaugh. Ho took a D. & H. train to Scranton when ho left here. " We had to pull and drag for the children ever since we came here last March. It wasn't the right thing for him to do. "He's got dark hair and brown eyes. He's not very tall, and weighs 160 pounds. He was noted for a good worker always. He is clean shaven, and has one mark on his right cheek whore he was kicked one time, and a small scar on his lip. He had on a blue coat, black shoes, and wore a white shirt, blue bow tie and derby hat. " My people were always helping us. But they are mad now because I went to live with him again last March." It was a pitiful story Mrs. Gaff ney told, with her youngest boy, a bright flaxen-haired chap nestled in her arms and hugging her close around the neck, with a most woebe gone face, as though he feared his mother would leave him as his fath er had done. Tho older boy clung to her skirts and did not seem to mind it half so much as the little fellow, One of the candidates for office this fall, who doe3 not believe in let ting his left hand know what his right hand is doing, has sent her on order on a nearby srocery store and her Immediate wants have been sup piled. The neighbors wag their heads ominously when asked "what they will do to her husband If he should ever come back and continue in his evil ways. Improve its teachine force hv wui-uoi d uuuiui cuuea, uy special reading and study of the best profes sional books and frequent lectures from those who know how to teach and to teach teachers how to teach " Improve the course of study by the introduction of the newgraded lessons and by training tho teachers in tne use of these new lessons. " Get into the schools a larger per ueui. oi tne memDers of the churches, put Into the work time, more thought, more skill, more money, and more prayer." At a union meeting at 7:30 in the evening Dr. Stephenson talked upon " Factors in Religious Education." Among other things the speaker saia: O'jl Home is the first . great iorce ior ngiiteousness. Judge Tut hill of Chicago, the founder of Jn. venlle Courts In America, said that ninety-live per cent, of those who appeared In his court were there for want of the proper home influences. " No community rises above the moral and spiritual level of its homes. No church is any wise bet ter than the homes represented in its membership. " The Church Is another factor In the forces of good. The home should ue nnKea up with the church In the religious development of the chil dren and youth of the community. Tne child should learn to live the Christian life in tho homo first and then in the larger social group of the church, in Bible school, Young People's society and In the preach ing services. " The public school Is a powerful factor In the lives of children and youth, and Is nowadays far more the handmaid of rollglon than in tho past. All these forces together may so operate as to Dund up the youth of our land In righteousness, as to wellnigh guarantee their own per sonal cnoice or tne nignest lire. And this Is our duty Jointly toward every boy and girl in the sphere of our In fluence, for when we have done our best it still remains for the Individu al to choose for himself that better part, the choice of which is the self determining act of tho soul." The union services of Sunday were largely attended In Hawley so Dr. Stephenson decided to give an other address on his chosen work. The meeting, like former ones, was union, all the churches uniting In the support of the work. " The Moral Dignity of Teaching" was Dr. Stephenson's subject. He said in part: " God is the greatest teacher. In nature, in history, In human char acter, and especially In Jesus Christ has God proclaimed his own char acter. " Teaching is self-revelation. We must flrst incarnate the truth and then impart it by a sort of spiritual induction. "All the progress the world has made In morals and rollglon has been through her teachers. " The greatest teachers have been religious teachers, and the greatest religious teachers have been asso ciated with the Scriptures. Our Bible is the literary remains of God's inspired teacherB. The world waits to-day on her teachers, secular (so called) and religious. "The world owes more to Bible school teachers than she knows, but the day Is fast approaching when we shall see that our debt to this body of workers is great Indeed. " Religions cannot be taught, It must be lived. "Whatever else it is or may be it Is life, and life is an impartatlon. The scholar becomes what tho teacher Is by association, by thinking the same thoughts end habituating the same Impulses and feelings. 3 - i . REPUBLICAN TICKET. f Congressman, W. D. B. AINEY. President Judge, HON. ALONZO T. SEARLE. L Sheriff, THOMAS Y. BOYD. Prothonotary, WALLACE .1. BARNES. , Register and Recorder, W. B. LDSHER. Commissioners, JOHN MALE, EARL ROCKWELL. District Attorney, M. E. SIMONS. Treasurer, W. W. WOOD. For Coroner, P. B. PETERSON. For Auditors, W. O. AVERY, LEROY GILPIN. 4 Sf: Vote for Hon. Alonzo T. for President Judge. Searlo Vote for Wallace 'J. Prothonotary,' ? Barnes, for LEAVING POLITICS OUT Some Reasons Why the Repub lican Ticket Ought to Carry Wayne County. Laying politics aside for the moment and appealing to Democrats, Keystoners, Prohibitionists and Repub licans alike, we ask that the voters of Wayne county consider carefully and thoughtfully the qualifications of the men whose names appear at the head of this col umn. From the first name of the list to the last, you will find that the candidates offered by the Republican par ty for election on November 7th, make one of the strongest tickets, if not THE strongest ticke,t ever presented by any party in any year in the history of the county. There is not a single flaw to be found against it. Individually and collectively these men represent the very highest types of public-spirited cit- izenship. They are men who have lived in Wayne county pretty nearly all their lives, who know the peo ple and their needs, and who are prepared to use every effort in their power to make the government of Wayne county efficient, economical and progressive. Because of the remarkable qualifications of each of these candidates for the office to which he aspires, it ' seems to be, as someone has called it "The Logical Ticket." b i There is Mr.. Ainey, a brilliant and hard working lawyer, a student of men and affairs, a speaker of more than ordinary power, a man who has always been iden tified with the higher ethical and religious movements - of the age; a man who stands Strong and firm on all moral lines. Li politics a Republican, but one who has never hesitated to raise a warning voice against wrong or errors even at the risk of personal popularity. :'Withal he is a man of, genial parts and in friendly . touch with' the great mass of people by whom he is so well known and greatly esteemed.' There is the Hon. A. T. Searle. A more capable judge has never sat on the bench in the Court of Common Pleas. His record of never having hadi a case appealed of any that he has decided is but one out of many reasons why the voters of Wayne county, no matter of what their political affiliations, know that he' is the right man in the right place and are going to vote to keep him there. There is Thomas Y. Boyd, born and reared in Da mascus township, who has never held a public office of any kind and who will make a Sheriff that this coun ty can be proud of. There is Wallace J. Barnes, broad-minded, experi enced and well-known throughout the entire, county as a man emenently qualified to take up the duties of Prothonotary and give as fine an administration of that office as the able and popular Mr. Michael J. Hanlan has given. There is W. B. Lesher, who has made a record as a County Auditor for accurate and conscientious work that leaves no doubt as to his ability to handle the of fice of Register and Recorder in a manner to do jus tice to himself and the county. There is W. W. Wood, a Civil war veteran whose training has been such in financial matters, that no other recommendation should -be-needed. Mr. Wood has handled over $1,500,000 in one business alone and every penny of this 'gigantic sum was properly ac counted for in the final audit. What better qualifica tion could a man have to prove that the office of Treasurer is exactly suited to his ability and training? There is Earl Rockyell, farmer, contractor and con crete builder, vocations that require just the knowl edge and training that a commissioner who is to serve the best interests of the county ought to possess. There is John Male, recognized from one end of the county to the other as a man fully equipped by rea son of his training and natural ability to Safeguard the interests of the taxpayers as Commissioner. There are M. E. Simons and P. B. Peterson whose names appear also on the Democratic slate, and this fact alone proves that they are the unanimous choice of Wayne county for the offices of District Attorney and Cordner.j There are Avery and Gilpin who are-well able to aud it the county's accounts in an honest, efficient, and business-like manner. Space does not permit an extended review of tlie many qualifications of the several Republican can didates. Enough has been said, however, to show that each man is more than well-fitted to occupy the office for which he is a candidate. Indeed, in nearly every- instance, it would almost seem as if the occupations and training of each candidate so far, had been along specialized lines to fit him for the office to which he aspires. " Voters of Wayne county, if you elect the Republi can ticket this year you will assure yourselves thdfc unil the next election Wayne county will receive an administration that wijl be honest, fearless' and effi cient. - . ; .iti . " '.'-' 1 j . " The. Ljogical Ticket." It has indeed ' been well named. ' a'Wrt. 1 rim irtto''"-jMj.M.. ,J.MMi