The Conshohocken Recorder, March 21, 1905

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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
SO. 2370 CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1905 PER YKAB
NOTES OF OUR TOWN
1TEK6 Oi INTEREST CONCERNING
THE PEOPLE OF OUR BOROUGH
CONDENSED FOR RECORDER
READERS
R. T. S. llallowell has the contract
to erect a dwelling for Thomas Murray,
Jr.. on Ninth avenue near Forrest
■tree)
Letters of administration have been
granted In the estate of Bridget Gan-non,
of this borough, to Elizabeth T
Gannon
The Rev. F. Lock wood, of Roi bor-ough,
occupied the pulpit In the Meth-odist
Church on Sunday morning and
preached an eloquent sermon. In the
■ wiling the meeting was conducted
under the direction of the Epworth
League.
Washlta Tribe. No. 53. I. 0. R. M.. of
this borough, will be visited on Satur-day
evening by a degree team from
Philadelphia, which will confer the
n on several new members. A
large attendance of the members Is
ill sired for that evening.
The management of the Schuylklll
Navagation Company's canal is making
preparation to resume operations and
It is expected that boating will begin
mi Monday, March 27. During the
inter extensive repairs were n|,de to
■ locks In the vicinity of Reading.
nit thirty boats will be engaged.
. "Package Party" for the benefit of
..e Mortgage Fund, will be held at the
Sunday School room of the Presbyter-
Ian Church on next Saturday evening
at half past seven. There will be live.
ten and fifteen cent tables together
with a candy table. Before the sale of
the packages there will be a short
musical program. No admission, and
all are Invited.
Rev. Father Brady, of the Church of
the Nativity of Philadelphia, a form-er
resident of this borough, will preach
in St. Matthew's Ciiurch this evening.
The funeral of George W. Peck, hus-band
of l.aura Peck, whose death oc-curred
at Allston. Mass., last week,
look place yesterday from the residence
of his fnther-ln-law. James neatly. Ivy-
Rock. Interment was made at Barren
Hill Cemetery.
A big celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of its arrival in America
Is being planned by the Salvation Ar-my
for the end of March. There are
now more than 3000 Salvation Army
officers in America, and the work has
nn annual Income of a quarter of a
million dollars. The Army provides
3.000.000 beds a year for the poor, ami
last Christmas It gave food and other
glf's lo 300,000 persons.
If the hill Introduced In the legis-lature
becomes a law. spitting will cer-tainly
become a luxury. It provides
that all persons willfully expectorat-ing
upon any footway or sidewalk of a
street, alley, park, public square, or
place of any municipality In the State,
or upon the floor of any railroad car.
omnibus or other vehicle for public
conveyance, or upon the floor of any
theatre, railroad station or other pub-lic
meeting place, shall be liable, upon
conviction, to pay the costs of prose-cution
with a fine of from 11 to $5.
Hereafter, It will not only be unlaw-ful
to sell cigarettes to minors In Penn-
I v Ivair.n. but even to give them clgar-rt">;;
or cigarette paper The Ware
bill, providing for this new prohibi-tive,
was signed on Friday by the Gov-ernor,
after passing the legislature.
The present law prohibits simply the
selling of cigarettes, but the new act
provides that "If any person or persons
shall furnish cigarettes or cigarette pa-per
by gift, saTe or otherwise, to any
panon or persons under 21 years of
age he tir she so offending, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upou con-
Tlctlon, shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than |300 and not less than
$100."
The following will be the program of
the Muslcale which will be given by
the choir of St. Mark's Church on
Thursday evening. In the Church:
PART I,
Piano duet, "Poet and Peasant."
Souppe
Miss Clara and Mrs. W. H. Eldredge
Chorus, "Away to the Woods," Oelbel
Full Chorus
Duet, "Roses Kissed by Sunshine."
Hart
Mrs. J. F. Ramsey. Soprano
Mrs. W. H Eldredge. Alto
Recital, "Ole Mistis."
Miss Christine Schuly
Quartette. Mlied, "Come Where
My Love IJes Dreaming"
Soprano. Mrs. J. H. Ramsey.
Tenor, Edward Davis,
Alto, Mrs. W. H. Eldredge.
Basso, William Davis
Vocal Solo, "Mighty I*ck a Rose."
Nevin
Mrs. Bella Apple
Quartette Mixed, "The Yachting Glee,"
Culbertson
Soprano. Miss Margaret Courduff.
Tenor David Smith,
Alto, Miss Bertha Spare.
Basso. J. J. Becker
Piano solo. "Martha."
MIBS Katherlne Moser
Anthem. "0 Sing Unto the Lord."
Emerson
Full Choir
PART II.
Piano duet, "Grand March," ....Blake
Miss Clara and Mrs W. H. Eldredge
Vocal Selection. "Beautiful
Moonlight," Glover
Soprano—Margaret Courduff. Kather-lne
Moser. Ida Martin. Eva Moser.
Alto—Bertha Spare, Hannah Courduff,
Elizabeth Longacre. Ella Courduff.
Vocal solo, "The Clink of the
Miser's Gold." Von Tllzer
David Smith
Recital, Selected, Miss Christine Schuly
Quartette, mixed "A Bird from
Over the Sea," White
Soprano. Mrs. J. H. Ramsey,
Tenor, Edward Davis,
Alto, Mrs. W. H. Eldredge.
Basso, William Davis
Vocal solo, "There's a Beautiful
Land on High," Taylor
Miss Margaret Courduff
Piano solo. "Hearts and Flowers,"
Toblan
Miss Adria Pope
Anthem. "Father Most Merciful,"
Adams
Full Choir
The piano used on this occasion is
the make of Charles H. Fisher Co.
Henry Shade. succeeds r
Schlnly resigned, us driver for the .1
Ellwood I-ee Co.
The American Federation of I'aiho-llc
Societies now claims a nicnih
of one and a half millions.
Walter It. Morris is In the I'niver-sity
Hospital, of Philadelphia, to daj
undergoing an operation to remove
a diseased bone In Ills right knee.
Samuel Davis has been given the
contract for the erection or a brick
machine shop at the l.ongmead Iron
Works. The building WU Itaitad lasl
week.
Next Sunday being the last daj or
the year in the Presbyterian Church
will be a grand day of ingatlu-rlng~ln
the church the envelope money ami
the barrel fund and in the Sabbath
School the year's collections for the
mortgage fund.
The Principals' Association of the
County held its monthly session on
Saturday afternoon In the high school.
The subjects discussed wire "English
Classic Requirements for College En-trance."
and "Heading of Classics lie-low
the High School "'
Division No. 1, of this borough, paid
a visitation on Sunday to Division No.
73. A. O. H., at the lattcr's hall,
'twelfth and McKean streets. Philadel-phia,
M. J. Fogarty, President of No.
73. who is also candidate for the of-fice
of Grand Chief Ranger of the For-esters,
was toast master.
Hannah Gorman, oi No "l>; South
Elm street, this borough, aged 46
years, died suddenly on Saturday af-ternoon
of hemorrhage of the lungs.
She had been under a doctor's rare
for two weeks, and the coroner upon
investigating found no reasons for
holding an Inquest.
The members of the Norrls Hose
Company, of Norrlatown, who recently
won the cribbage tournament front an
equal number of members from the
Conshohocken Fire Co., No. 2, will be
banqueted this evening at the Ex-change
Hotel, Norrlstown. I^evlous
to the banquet the victors will meet at
the engine house at eight o'clock and
proceed to the festive hoard in a body.
The Methodist Year Book recently
Issued, gives the present membership
of the Methodist Episcopal Char
3.0G4.73!,, an Increase of almost 33.000
over 1003. The value of the denom-ination's
28,384 churches and 12,239
parsonages Is $1.17.illi.s.7:'7. The > ear's
gifts to the ofhclal benevolent objects
totaled 12.942.079.
Last evening the do d Will Club had j
the pleasure of enteitainlm; htlaa Jean
Hamilton, of Oswego, N. Y. Miss'
Hamilton Is Secretary of the Nat-1
ionai League of Women Workers, to
which organization the Good
Club belongs. Miss Hamilton
all the clubs of the !.> uially
and Is always a most welcome guest. I
She told the ioca1 club what other I
clubs all over the country are doing.
gave them nn aocoun* »i her work
among these clubs and ol how tin1 Idea ;
of organization i ■;. as the
girls find ho* many privileges the]
can have when they are banded tot
or that they cannot have wiien I
stand alone. The Cool Will Club has
just finished itj second year of •
ence and feels justly proud at what It i
has accomplished. Nothing that they
have done, however, has given great, i
satisfaction than Ihe cooking class or-ganized
this winter under the direction
of a teacher from Drexel Institute.
After a day of changeable conditions,
in which there were several genuine
spring showers, the first thunderstorm
of the year broke over the town on
Sunday night shortly before II o'i look.
For more than half an hour lightning
flashed and thunder rolled while rain j
fell heavily. The electrical display was
conceded to he one of the most spec-i
tacular ever noted this early in the
season the flashes of lightning fre-,
quently Illuminating the entire heav- j
ens. The storm followed a period of i
excessive low pressure throughout the
country according to the (lovet :iment [
weather experts. The mean tempera-1
lure was 57 degrees, or 17 degrees,
above normal, while the humidity was i
also excessive for the period. The
storm belt covered the South and Mid-dle
East and electrical storms were re-ported
from several points. The rain-fall
for Sunday up to 8 P. M. was, ac-cording
to the Weather Ilurcau of-ficials,
little more than a quarter of an
Inch, but In some parts of the State It
was much heavier and a •pecla] Hood
warning was Issued for rivers of I'enn-svlvania
and tributaries of the Hudson.
Yesterday was a day of showers with
falling thermometer.
The home of School Director \l. K.
Davis was the scene of a pleasant
gathering last evening. The Indent"
-ent weather outside did not interfere
with the attendance or the pleasure of
the guests. Mr. and Mrs Davis had
given their home over to the social
committee of the Luther l-eague of St.
Mark's Church for the evening, ami the
spacious rooms were well adapted for
the occasion and were well filled with
a merry company of Luther Leaguers
and their friends. The ear'l> part of
the evening was devoted to a short
program. Addresses were made by
Rev. W. F. Hare and M. K. Davis and
after a recitation by Miss Hertha Spnre
that was much appreciated, the front
parlor was used as a stage and the
program concluded with a short drama
that was full of wit of good humor, en-titled
"Taking a photo." 1 he scene
was laid in New York, where the coun-try
cousin was visiting the olty cons
inB who prevailed upon him to have his
photo taken. Much difficulty was ex-perienced
In getting the desired photo
William I-obb and John Hi l-'arlatnl
posed as city cousins and made up wall
as females. Norman Hiker took the
country cousin to perfection, while
Frank Strecper made a typical photog-rapher.
After the program the com-pany
dispersed to the various r na
where games had been provided. The
dining room was devoted to playing
"Up Jinks," while the front and back
parlors "Pit" and "Croqutnole" ware
indulged In. The sitting room was
used as a music room and while the
games wen 5 progress the retreat
ments were served through the rooms
by the committee. This Is the first
lal the Society has held since
they changed their name I nun ,'hris
• Inn Endeavor to Luther League, but
all hope it will not be the last.
MRS ELY VERY ILL
Mrs William P. Ely. of Spring Mill.
!a seriously ill at her home.
while at the breakfast table on Bun-day
morning a blood Venal of the
brain broke. She was paralyzed on
the right side and rendered speerh
leal When strleken. her husband ami
son thought thai II was a momentary
indisposition, hut as she did not
recover a physician was sent for.
To-ila> she is much better. She has
partially recovered her speech and can
move her right hand, her ultimate
i, nvory is now looked for.
Mr. and Mrs. Ely are very wc
known in this borough, both are
active In SI. Mark's Church, and ha\e
a w iiV circle of friends.
THOMAS B SUPPLEE
Thomas H Supplee. a retired mer-chant,
died on Sunday morning, at his
Inline 1619 Wallace street. Philadel-phia.
He was born near Overbrook on
January t, 1820. and was the son of
Tin.mas Bupplee, prominent in the So-ciety
of Friends, He was brought up
in the store of F. T. & 8. Jeanes. cloth
merchants. He afterward engaged In
business under the firm name of
Storms & Siipplcc. and later as Supples
& Taylor. He retired from business
many yearn ago. He was married In
1847 to Miss Emily Jones, a daughter
Of William and Elizabeth Jones of
Philadelphia. He Is survived by two
sons and one daughter. They are
Chalkley J. Supplee. Charles J. Sup-plee
and Miss l.ydla S. Supplee. For
many years he was a member at the
Race Si net Meeting House, Philadel-phia.
Mr Joseph ('. Jones is a relative
of Mr. Supplee.
CIGARETTE LAW DERIDED
The Ware Cigarette bill, which was
! lo Governor Pennypacker on
Friday, and which makes It illegal to
wa> cigarettes or cigarette papers
to persons under 21 years of age. Is
not causing dealers In this town any
uneasiness, and is referred to as an
absurd measure. It Is generally re-
;ar led as no Improvement on the old
law. which made It an offense to sell
i -irettes or the material of which
they are made, to minors.
Th" Ware mnar.ri says: "If any per-sons
shall furnish cigarettes or cigar-ette
paper by gift, sale or otherwise, to
any person under the age of 21 year*,
he or she so offe-idlng shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall b» sentenced to pav a flue of not
i MOO or less than $100."
Deal ra say there is no way to en-the
penaltv, since It would be
-ary to sue to collect the fine as
there is no Imprisonment alternative.
They are almost, a unit in declaring that
Die measure was originally a hold-up
measure directed at the American To-bacco
Company, and that it panned be-eause
the manufacturer! refused to
make any concessions. "The law
won't : top the sale of cigarettes, nor
will It stop their manufacture," said
one dealer, "and about the only thing
it can possibly do will lie to pflaee
some of the retailers at the mercy of
ipulOU persons, as the obsolete
Sunday lews have done."
LITTLE'S OPERA HOUSE
At Little's Opera House on Saturday,
; I en| igemnl of America's most
versatile actress. Carrie Stanley, and
her big company of 20 people, presents
the great sensational society play, "The
Gamblers Daughter." one of the finest
of all dramatic efforts, the veil lifted
from the Social 400 of New York, show-ing
society's great fad, a story written
from life No theme affords greater
■cope for dramatic power than this all
absorbing vice. The "Rev. Walter Ar-nold"
of New York, said: "More
good could be accomplished by wit-nessing
one production than 500 ser-mons.
It shows the evil of this great
vice, clear and unvarnished." See the
rt II gambling scene In the Million-aire
Gambler. Howard Robinson's Par-li
r- 'he maddened and crazed victim's
deliberate suicide and dying curse, once
ten never forgotten; the plots of the
ruined millionaire through his love for
gambling, his efforts to save his shat-tered
fortune, willing to sacrifice his
daughter's love and his wife's happl-
Carrie Stanley appears in the dual
role, of Mrs. Peyton, afterward Helen
Robinson, the -ambler's wife, and Bil-ly,
the Kid, a New York Bootblack. In
which character she has no equal.
Charles II Hums, as Howard Robin-son,
renders a powerful creation of the
gambler Master Walter Burns, as the
boy Monte Cross, Is a decided hit. The
Ladles' Orchestra, one of the best mus-ical
features of the day. Is still with
this complete and excellent company.
\'n pains or expense has been spared
to make this one of the grandest events
of the season. The wonderful dramat-ic
dog. Emperor. Is also seen to great
advantage and is justly titled the dog
avenger. Between the acts Master
W liter Kddowes, the phenomenal lioy
soloist, will slug. "Drop in on Mother
and He" and "Sylvia." J. Allen Kee-i
an Joseph Dempsey and the Colonial
Quartette will also appear. No ad-vance
In prices. Uttll Saturday at
2.30 P. to. as usual.
Spring caps In nobby atylet tor DOyi
nnd young men. 25 and 50c. at Trvey's
Ihe hatter, Norrlstown.
"SOULS ON FIRE"
CAN'T SELL RAILROAD TICKETS
The following taken from the Phila-delphia
North American is of Interest
here, as the selling of railroad tickets
is done openly:
Unless the present mood of In;
men of Coatesville should change, a
test of the constitutionality of the an
alping law will be made, as an
outcome of the arrest of four hotel
men. charged with violation of tho act
oi ls7:',. by selling "green tickets" of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, good for
passage between Coatesville and Phil-adelphia.
Evidence has been collect-ed
against twenty-seven others, and
should the warrants be served In these
cases a fight in the conns will nnottM-tionably
be precipitated.
Rarely hai ihe business community
of the town been so stirred as by
then prosecutions. It is not di
that the selling of the green slip tick
ets has been practiced, but It Is con
tended not more at Coatesville than In
some other places tapped by the Penn-sylvania
Railroad. But. it is said.
Coatesville Is virtually dependent up-on
one railroad, and prosecution; may
be started there which. If made else-where,
would he very likely to react
upon the railroad. As it Is, threats of
diverting rreighf are being heard.
The tickets which, the railroad main-tains,
have been Illegally sold are the
"slip tickets," sold in packages of ten
at the suburban offices of the Pennsyl-vania
Railroad generally. The price
for these tickets good for passages be-tween
Coatesville and Philadelphia is
$7.40 for the strip of ten. The charge
on which the four arreBts were made
was the buying of these tickets |
strip and then disposing of them sin-gly
at 74 cents each. As the single fare
between Coatesville and Philadelphia
Is $1.16, Ihe buying of a single ticket
would mean a saving of 42 cents. As
an excursion ticket, good for two days.
costs $1.93. the buying of two tickets
would mean a saving of 45 cents, and
would give the holder unlimited stop-over
Instead of the two-day limit.
Some time ago the railroad made an
effort to stop this retailing practice,
which was known to exist among some
of the business men. Word was p ,
PRESIDENT ROSS ENTERTAINS
I're iibni of Town Council. David H.
entertained his tallow members
of Town Council and the borough of-ficials
at dinner last evening at Coun-cilman
llai rold's hotel on East Elm
■treat
Before Ihe dinner was served the
I'oiiucilmen gave a hasty Inspection to
the hotel, and all congratulated the
proprietor on the handsome, commod-ious
and beautifully decorated hostel
ry.
There were eighteen at the table, and
for two hours they gave strict attention
to the menu. This consisted of oyster
cocktails, terrapin, fillet of beef with
inn brooms. French peas, potatoes,
maraschlna ices. Ice cream, cheese and
crackers, cigars.
While the cigar smoke was floating
around Mr. Ross spoke of the prob-lems
before the members of Council
this year. The financial condition of
the borough will require the greatest
>i i are in husbanding the resources
and much thought and hard work in
getting the most for the money ex-pended
Council is harmonious and
i us i one Is striving to make Consho-bocken
ns near perfection as possible.
The past few years have been years of
progress for the borough and this work
must not stop now. How to best con-tinue
this was for the members to de-cide.
An Informal discussion will be
Oi help and these should be frequent.
The different members were called
on and each spoke of the problems
now awaiting solution. The need of
taking control of the alleys was ad-vocated
The collection of garbage
and ushes. the opening of streets in the
Fourth and Fifth wards, nnd the ex-tension
of our macadamized and paved
streets ware desired.
The evening was a thoroughly en-joyable
one: one of the Interesting
features being the excellent speeches
made by members of Council about bor-ough
affairs, who too often remain
quiet at the meetings of Council.
LUCKLESS PASTOR'S HOME FIRED
An attempt was made to burn the
residence Of Pastor llartmau. at Bar-
1 around among those supposed to be ren Hill, on Sunday night. His church
carrying on the practice that It would
have 'o stop. Some of those notified
heeled the warning.
The four hotel men who were arrest -
ed are B. F. Dorsheltner. John Taylor,
Walter McEvoy and Michael Smyth
They are now under $500 ball each for
hearings In West Chester on April Si,
Mr. Dorshelmer. who is proprietor
of one of the leading hotels In the town
when seen on Sunday, said: "I was
told three weeks ago that the railroad
was burned several years ago. On
Sunday night cotton waste had been
saturated with coal oil. placed on a
side porch and set on fire.
During the past year Pastor Hart-man
s home has been entered and
robbed three times.
METHODISM
The word Methodist, which Is held
In high honor to-day. was^primarily
was about to start prosecutions, and i „s..,, M , t„m „, llerJslon. It was an.
ha was the first intimation I rece veil p||e() ,„ |np We§1#y ,,rolhera and sev.
hat the selling of these strip tickets , Pra, „„„., „„,, ;„,,„ „f „ ger|ou8
"."_T,ra.ry.. V* 'TV ', ,mmeilla,elv slopped, but before I had done so one ' «'■" of mind attending Oxford col-of
their aci nis had been around.
"As a matter of fact. I carried th.se
tickets solely for tho benefit of my pa-trons,
and It was considerable bother
to me. The strip of ten tickets cost me
$7.40. and I sold them singly at 74
lege They were given this appella-tion
on account of their strict adher
oi methods—principally of a re-l
Ion nature.
The Methodist religion was Instltut-l
I by John Wesley in 1739. It was not
his intention to organize a distinct
IZ I , •, ",,ini""; ,h" B Bot religion and the vast Methodist church
^lawy"ellrRs ,.thhat, .i't. WwBa"s '"co'"nIt"r"a*r 1 ',,vi n.!'.y, «i»' r-to, -day was far from Its founder's w„ ,„„ (>f f
plain reading nf Ihe law as It stands. ' persona, ho agreed to hold regular My own belief is that the company has, ,' , s fl)|. ,„„ f „„,„„„
ln',l0o"nlg Itht1e*,lin"e "wTho" Jh'a"v.'eS",bepeenopsle,'l„li.n?g1" in versa, ion and Ihe benefit of those the tickets. It has picked out men , „ , ns, who wished to "flee from the 0 , ,)0 f f , ,
here who are known throughout the sins"
town, and probably hopes by so doing , Th„ his(il|.y ,„. Met,1(Mllflnl ,„ for ma_
to scare out many others. That the
'scalping'—if that Is what It is—has
been carried on by many people not
only In this but In nearby towns can-not
be doubted. Whether there will he
an effort to test the constitutionality
of the law I do not know. But. for
myself. I look for a rather light fine,
and will let that end the matter."
Mr. Smyth, another of the defen-
• ns the history of Christian effort
to evangeUn the neglected "masses"
of England. Europe, in the time of
Wesley, was ripe for a practical re-ligion
of the common people. All the
I hen existing religion was dealt out at
too high a price for the tolling millions.
The world needed a free, honest relig-ion,
ant! Wesley supplied that need.
The first Methodist conference was
dan.s. called attention to the reading h " ' } ^e ,j o,m Wesley met his
on the slip tickets. This Is ns fol-' '
New Spring Styles In our light
weight $2 stiff hats now on sale.
Trarry, the hatter, Norrlstown.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦•»»»eeeoe»e»»«»»
DR J B MAHN
DENTIST
i;« Fsyette Street
Electrical Equipment.
Hours:—* A. M. to » P. M.
Bell 'Phone 81 W.
When bilious try a dose ol Chamber-lain's
Stomach and I-.ver Tablets and
realize for once how quickly a tlrsl-class
up-to-date medicine will cornel
the disorder. For sale by J. Ruftis
Harr. West Conshohocken. and \\'m.
Neville, Conshohocken.
You can get umbrellas rovcred and
repaired at Kenoe's. Hector street, op-posite
Catholic School.
You should smoke Tho Woodvalc 6a
cigar. It's all Havana.
The greatest serial story of Ihe year
by Louis Tracy, famous author of
"Ihe Wings of the Morning" and "The
Pillar oi Light." will be exclusive to
the readers of the color magazine giv-
• n free with each copy of "The Phila-delphia
Press." beginning Sunday.
March 26. The Sunday Magazine will
be the only publication In America
this great story may be read.
By sj sial arrangement with Mr. Ed-ward
J. Clode. Mr. Trar> s American
publisher, this story will not appear In
air other published form until 1906.
Bngland, Russia and American fur-nish
the principal characters in this
remarkable and timely story. I-ove
and thrilling adventure Is the theme.
as in all of Mr. Tracy's most success-ful
work The action begins with a
bomb thrown In Umdon. an Anarchist
meeting in Tottenham Court Road,
some sesallonal disclosures In the Rus-dlony
in England, and then shifts
io Ihe castle of a Russian provincial
governor, or "Little Caair," whose BIIII-arc
in revolt at his Intrigues. The
plot affords superb opportunity for a
brilliant display of the author's swift
imagination, and an almost equally In-ti
n sting display of his Intimate
knowledge Of Russian life of to-day.
lows
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Hood for one continuous first-class
passage between Coatesville and I'liila
delphla.
"Void one year from date of Issue "
"Now." he said, "I cannot see why.
when I buy that ticket, it does not be-come
mj property to nil again if l
want to do so -Just as I could sell a
postage stamp that I had bought. There
Is no contract printed c»n the ticket
which says that 1 must not do so: and
I believe that if a light were made It
would be found that a law which for-bids
me to sell that which I have
bought anil paid for Is unconstitution-al."
It Is claimed that business men of
the town have been forced, in self-de-fense,
to adopt the practice. If. It Is
declared, a hotel was without green
slip tickets, it would inevitably lose
customers, and even merchants have
similarly found it to their advantage
to keep a stock on hand.
A Coateaville business man, discus-sing
the case on Sunday, said: 'It Is
notorious that his selling of trip tick-ets
is going on at other places—tor in-stance,
at Phoenlxville. Hut it would
not do for the Pennsylvania Railroad
to start prosecutions ther, as it would
mean that business would be diverted
to the Reading. Here we are tied up
lo the Pennsylvania. It Is true that
Height might he diverted, and I have
hoard talk of such a thing. But it is
llble tor us to get to Philadel-phia
without a prohibitive waste of
lime unless we go down on the Main
Line of the Pennsylvania."
It Is declared bj railroad employes
at the Coateaville station that there bsj
been mi important Increase in the
numl i" ot cv, nrshui tlekata sold for
travel lo Philadelphia since ihe prose-cution,
were siarted. On Saturday, it
is stand, sixty-four single ticket* for
Philadelphia were sold, whereas, ow-ing
lo the ease with which green slip
tickets could be procured heretofore.
Hie sale hail ilmo-i entllt l> -eased.
The difference in cost between the
green ticket and the regular one wa]
ticket is 12 eenta. On Ihe sixty-four
tickets sobi on Saturday the Inci
in the company's revenue was |26 B8
Mm What il would have been had Ihe
tickets been sold In strips from the
ticket Office and then retailed at the
unit price of 71 cents
brother Charles, two or three other
Clergyman and a few Of the preachers
—men whom his zeal and fervor had
Induced to abandon their secular em-ployment
and devote themselves to de-claring
the message of the Gospel. In
ih urn of his life Wesley presided
nt 47 of these annual assemblies.
The Methodist religion grew rapidly
in Europe but the comprehensive re-ligion
found fertile soil in the hearts
of the simple people of America, where
to-day are found Its greatest numbers.
To the Methodists in the L'nlted States
was first applied the title of Methodist
Episcopal. The first of this creed in
America were Immigrants from Ireland
and established themselves in New
»ork in 1766.
A FAVORITE REMEDY
FOR BABIES
Its pleasant taste and prompt cures
have made Chamberlain's Cough Rem-edy
a favcrite with the mothers of
smau children. It quickly cures their
coughs and colds and prevents any
danger of pneumonia or other serious
Quencce. For sale by J. Rufun
llnrr. West Conshohocken. and Win
Nivllle, Conshohocken.
MOTHER QUAY'S APPEAL
TO WOMEN
L' you have pains In the back. 1 rln-ary.
"ladder or Kidney trouble, and
wai t a certain pleasant lie,-:* remedy
for woman's Ills, try Mniner Oray'i
Viisiialian-I.eal It Is a safe and nev-er-
failing monthly regulator. At Brug-ghSU
or In mail T,0 els. Sample pack-
*RBK, \iblrcss. The Moth"r Oray
Co LeRoy, N. Y. • 4-fl
QULF MILLS
c
There Is still plenty of snow on
some portions of the tlulf Hills.
Mrs. William Mellow.II. Sr.. and
daughter, Mlai Florence MoDowell,
spent Saturday ami Sunday with rela-
Urea In Philadelphia.
Wat'ion Hay,- has resigned his pos-ition
on the (iarrelt properly where
he has been emploci t,»r several years.
He Is succeeded by William Carr.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ladies Aid Society ol the llulf Chris-tian
Church was held on Tliiirsda i
enlng last. Business of a routine
character was transacte,|.
Frame kitchens in the rear of the
residence of John Mustard collapsed on
Saturday. The weight of the recent
heavy snows nn the roof of the struc-tures
was the cause of their collapse
Rural Mail Carrier I J. Mover has
purchased a fine young Iron grey mare,
and Judging from lb, looks of the ani-mal
It will be very useful to Mr. Moyer
in going over his long mail route. The
youngster was purchased from Ivlns
Walker
Mrs. Emma C. Jones, widow "of
Cbalkie> Jones, will hold a public sale
of personal property at her farm on
Thursday, March 23d.
A mad dog passed through this vil-lage
last Wednesday morning and bit
a number of dogs along the road. The
animal Is described as being small and
brown In color He continued on to-ward!
Cnneohoaken, a short time ago
■« mad dog made hi- appearance in the
illage and bit quite a number of dogs,
many of which were shoi. while It Is
said that others were not. It is dan-gerous
to have a dog about that was
bitten by a mad dog. as It Is only a
question of lime when the animal will
how signs of rubus
ltlfl IMPROVEMENTS AT
WILLOW OROVK PARK
NAN, THE NEWS HORSE, IS DEAD
Nan, the news horse. Is no more.
!"or years, as ihe able assi tanl of Har-ry
Strecper. the llristol news Igl til. the
old horse has served the daily newspa-pers,
knowing the residences of sub-scribers
so well thai It needed no pull
of the rein, but would atop of Itt own
accord and wait lor subscribers to get
their newspapers.
Death came to Nan on Saturday
night, end all llristol mourns the loss.
DANGER OF RJDCEIPTED HILLS
Charged with embezzle, ueni b> torn
ner King, of Montgomery county, Jas.
i. MoGrory, a former Bridgeport Coun-cilman,
has been held In ball for court
by Magistrate Egbert, Of Norrlstown.
Coroner King. B lloiist. testified that
prior to Ihe funeral of John J. McKer-csn.
of Brldgepott. McOrory gave him
an order for a floral design on behalf
of a Philadelphia!) as a tribute for the
hotel keeper. That he might collect
the amount promptly Mrs. King gave
MoGrory a receipted bill for $12, He
has since learned that the amount has
jeen paid to MoGrory and the Phlla-lulphlan
has the receipted bill.
William Shaft., a ".irnk man of Den-nison.
Ohio, was confined to his bed
for Bevci d weeks with Inflammatory
r'leninatlsni. "I uaed many remedies."
h.1 says. "Finally 1 sent to Mot
drug store for a bottle of Chaiuber-lain's
Pain Balm, at which time I was
unable to use hand or foot, and In one
week's time was able to go to wank
as happ> as a clam." For sale by J.
Rnfiis Harr. West Conshohocken. nnd
William Neville. Conshohocken.
Sweel Peas and all new garden seeds
at the Monitor Coffee Co.
MOTHER (IRAY'S APPEAL
T'I w im BN
If yen have pains in the back. I'rln-ary.
I ladder or Kidney trouble, an1
w.iiii .. certain pleasant herb round,
for woman's Ills, try Mother flray't
Australian-Leaf. II Is a safe and ne'-
er-falling monthly regulator. At Drug
or by mall SO cents Sample pack
age RtDI Address, The Mother Orsj
Co.. TeRir, N V
WEST SIDE NOTES
Oet your Onion Sets at the Monitor
Coffee Company. 12V4 ients a quart.
QUICK CHANGES
In the weather bring severe
colds.
Always be prepared by hav-ing
a iMittle of
MCCOYS COUGH MIXTURE
on hand.
Price 2.1 cents.
McCOYS
Kinetic street above Elm.
241 E. Hector street.
St and Fourth Ave.
Oonahohocken, Pa.
PROGRESS OF A NATIONAL INSTI-TUTION
The twenty-ninth annual statement
of The Prudential of Newark. N. J..
which is published on another page,
shows the Company to he stronger
financially and in public (onQjdence
than ever before The year 1904 Is re-ported
to have bean one of unusual
galnB In every department or Ihe Com-pany's
business. The Company Issued
and paid for in new Insurance during
the year over 312 million dollars, which
Is the largest of any single year's re-sults
in the Company's history. The
number of policies In force has been
Increased by over 1100 thousand, bring-ing
the total number of policies in
up to nearly six millions. The
total amount of Insurance at risk Is
over one billion dollars. In payments
to policy-holders. The Prudential has
maintained and surpassed Its records
for liberality. During the year The
Prudential paid to policyhohlers over
13 million dollars, while since the or-ganization
of the Company the iotal
payment to its policyhohlers lias been
over 92 million dollars. One interest-ing
feature brought out In ihe state
inent is the fart that in cash dividends
and other concessions, not stipulated
in original contracts. The Prudential
has paid to holders of old policies over
5 million dollars. When changes are
made In policy contracts or rates which
result in increased liberality to the In-sured,
The Prudential alwuys makes
anot changes retroactive, wherever it
la practicable to do so. and the above
payment Is the result of this well-de-fined
policy on Ihe part of the Comp*
ny.
The financial statement itself is un-usually
clear and convincing The
Company's nssets have Increased over
16 million dollars, making total
amount of assets over 88 million dol-lars
The analysis given In the stale-ment
shows these assets lo be of the
high grade; for Instance. $15.-
600.000 has been loaned on 3.309 first
liens on property valued at over 40
million dollars. The Company owns
over 12 million dollars of real estate:
over 27 million dollars of railroad
bonds: over 10 million dollars of mu-nicipal
nnd miscellaneous bonds and
United states Government bonda; and
over 4 million dollars of national bank
and trust compan> stocks. The Iotal
cost of all the bonds and stocks was
$40.1197.570.41, and as these now :
market value of |4I,1SBIB67.8T, It Is
shown that the., have Increased In val-ue
-ince I heir purchase by more than
$1,430,000. Over $6,800,000 cash was
held OH January III In 251 banks and
(rust companlei throughout the Unit-ed
Slates and In the office, of which $'i-
154,000 was drawing interest and so
actually constituted an investment
Tin re was loaned on collnntcral se-curities
|8,66S,100; these are approved
bonds and stocks which have a market
inluc of $7.MI,$*2, so thai the margin
of security here afforded is over
$1,884,000.
One of the safest and most profit-table
Investment., to a life insurance
company consists of loans to its own
policyhohlers. on the enmity Of thelt
l nines The stntement shows $2,427.-
950 loaned In Ibis way. protected by
a reserve value of $4,427,208. thus
affording ample security. Nearly 74
million dollars Is held as reservo by
the Company to protect policy con-tracts,
and the assets Include a surplus
to policy-holders or $13,325.801",..33
The complete schedule of bonds owned
by The Prudential shows the securtles
to he of the highest grade. Alto-gether
the statement Is an unusually
satisfactory one lo the Company and
its policyhohlers
The Philadelphia Rapid 'Iran-sit
Company Is making stupendous
and costly Improvements at Willow
Grove that will not only greatly facili-tate
the handling of the large crowds
that visit that popular resort but will
he a great convenience to the visitors.
The work has been In progress since
early last fall hut there Is much yet to
be done and there will have to be con
■ldernble hustling done to get the work
Onlahed by the opening of the season.
May 28th. That the company realizes
this fact is manifested by their put-ting
on two gangs of workmen, labor-ing
day and night and expect to put
two hundred more laborers at work
Ibis week
To make the Improvements possible
the Rapid Tianslt Company was son-pelled
to purchase two acres or land
south of the power house and east of
the Germantown and Willow Grove
turnpike in the rear or the music pa-vilion
This has all been filled in to
the depth of five feet, raising the
grade of the turnpike and the whole
tract. Here the turnpike has been
straightened from Just south or the
Old York Road lo the Old Welsh
Road, obliterating the double S that
curved about the Park grounds.
The five acre tract purchased will be
covered with a net work or tracks and
platforms for the purpose of facilitat-ing
the loading and unloading of pas-sengers,
and the scheme lias been
skillfully and lucoeesfully worked out.
The Doylestown and Hatl-oro cars
will all run Into the Park. Work Is
-low far advanced in changing the
tracks so that the cars will run Into
the pnrk along the Germantown and
Willow Grove turnpike to the rain shed
in the rear of the music pavilion. This
will do'away with the long walk from
the park entrance- that has been con
sidered one of the worst features on a
hot day to many who have visited the
park. After the Improvements are
completed all cars will run to the north
orner of this rain died, where pas-engera
Will find themselves practical-ly
at the music pavilion, or they can
take the cars for Philadelphia by any
route they choose.
lust- a I ot running around the park
IB heretofore, the Fourth and Eighth.
Thirteenth and Fifteenth. Frankford
ind Cbcflten avenue cars will make Ihe
I urn at the north corner of the wait-ing
room and run along the east side
nf the Germautnwu and Willow Grove
turnpike to the power house at the
New Welsh road, where they will turn
to the east and run nlong the new
live acre tract to the platform south
of the subway, where the passengers
will be unloaded. The passengers
will then walk down nn Incline ,o the
subway, which runs under all the
Hacks and the Germantown and Wil-low
Grove turnpike, and enter the
park on the level In the rear of the
music pavilion. The car will then pass
10 the south o.' the subway where the
loading platform Is located and take
on passengers, then proceeding on to
Terrell avenue, where a turn is made,
run along Berrell avenue to the Phila-delphia
and Reading railroad tracks,
v here It will turn to the south and
pass through a cut forty feet deep to
the Old Welsh Road, where the car
will pass over the railroad on an Iron
bridge and continue down the Old
Welsh Road to the Old York Road.
The Glenslde cars will come In
llerrell avenue and down over the
i aw tract to the west side of the un-loading
plailorin when they will
make a loop south of the power house
and run up to the loading platform
which Is west and separate from the
platform used by the Old York Road
cars The passengers will reach this
platform also by using the subway
under the turnpike, an Incline leading
to the platform east of the turnpike,
while the passengers for the Old York
Road cars will pass on to the incline fti
the platform on the east side.
The Glenslde cars will follow the
same route of the Old York Road cars
out Berrell avenue to the Old Welsh
Road, and passing over the bridge will
turn down Cheltenham avenue opened
for the road.
The use of the subway will greatly
i.icilitatc travel and avoid the conges-tion
that has always been an annoy-ance
when there have been big crowds
at the park. The subway and plat-forms
will be divided by fences separ-ating
the "goats" from the "sheep."
preventing those who would attempt
to gain a seat in the cars while un-loading,
and compelling all to take the
cars at the platform assigned for the
different lines.
o cars will he run around the park
hereafter except the special picnic cars,
whicii will use the old route.
In the case of Doylestown and Hat-lioro
passengers desiring to take an
Old York Road or a Glenslde car. all
that will be necessary will be to step
off the Doylestown car at the rain
shed, pass through the subway to the
platform of the car they desire to take
and they are off. When the arrange
mem goes Into effect there will be no
changing of cars at the waiting room.
But that Is not all the company la
doing to mnke the park more attrac-tive
to the people. There are several
new attractions scheduled for this sea-son.
The first and greatest probably
is the Sir Hiram Maxim's captive fly-ing
machine, the first erected In tills
country. It Is essentially different
inun any ever seen here. The last
one waB installed at lllack Pool, Eng-land,
where It proved an Immense suc-cess.
Il will lie located south of the
music pavilion on the site formerly oc-cupied
by the old bicycle stand. The
captive flying machine will doubtless
prove a big attraction, and more will
I e said about It in the future.
Another immense attraction Is the
new scenic railway being erected on
the site formerly occupied by the
"Shoot-Ihe-Chutes." The highest point
is v", teet and It is one and three-elghth
miles long. It will have all the
Ihillls desired hy the most venture-some,
be perfectly safe and the scenic
pavilion will be one of the largest and
most beautiful seen in this country.
The old attractions, the mill, coal
mine. etc.. are all being overhauled
and beautified with new scenery.
An addition of 40x50 feet Is also
being innli to the power house to be
used as a rotary station for high ten-sion.
The current for this station
will be brought from Second and
Montgomery avenue.
Altogether the improvements being
made at Willow Drove Park this year
.-re the greatest ever projected by the
company, and will do much to Increase
the popularity nf this resort.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE RIV-EJl
CONDENSED FOR RHCORDER
HEADERS
Tho annual Borough statement Is
published In another column of to-day's
Issue.
John Rowley now occupies the house
of Samuel Eisenherg on Apple street
recently vacated by Charles .\b Mullen.
The Schuylklll river Is far above Its
normal helghth and anglers aie out in
force after sinkers' which at this
particular season are at their best.
To-day Is the first day of Spring.
Evangelist Miss Bessie Brltton
closed her engagement at the Holiness
Christian Church on Sunday. Her
stay at the local church was marked
with much success. Several persons
professeil conversion during the last
three weeks and at the meeting on
Sunday a number of the convert! were
taken into membership.
The West Conshohocken base ball
learn has organized for the season of
1905 and will open the season on the
school grounds on Saturday, April 15.
The new suits arrived on Saturday last
and if the grounds are In condition on
Saturday a practice game will be play-ed
with the Wllsontown team. George
McLaughlin is manager and he already
has a number of games scheduled with
Philadelphia teams.
HEATH OF ALGERNON S. RORERTS
Algernon Sydney Roberts, a member
of one of the oldest of Philadelphia's
Revolutionary families, died in the
seventv-elghtli year of his age at the
Gladstone Philadelphia. Saturday
morning. Mr. Roberta had been 111 for
some time and his death, while com-ing
as a shock to his many relatives
and friends, was not altogether unex-pected.
His daughter. Mrs. Walter
Wyatt. was at his bedside at the time
if bis decease.
For nearly tony years he had been
a widower and for some time had been
living at the Gladstone. At the time
of his death he was not engaged In any
business. Previous to taking up his
i••■• Hence In Philadelphia. Mr. Roberts
lived upon the Rolierts' estate at Pen-coy
,1. Deceased was a relative of State
Senator Algernon B. Roberts, of Low-er
Merlon.
The funeral services will be held In
St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, to-day.
WIDOW'S FRIENDS CAN'T
FIND HER
Search is being made for some time
of Mrs. Grace McKernan who was
expected at Norrlstown a week ago.
The woman was the wife of John
McKernan. who formerly conducted
the St. Elmo Hotel, at Bridgeport.
After McKernan died his widow went
to McAdoo. in Schuylklll county, to
'ivet She left her home a week ago
to nttle up an estate at Norrlstown,
and since then nothing has been heard
from her.
M E CONFERENCE
The Methodist Conference held at
Allentown adjourned yesteday. The
following assignments were made:
Conshohocken Rev. Eli Plckersglll
Norrlstown. First Church,
Rev. S. W. Gehrett
Norrlstown, Haws Avenue.
Rev. A. E. Crowell
Norrlstown. Oak Street,
Rev. ... W. Burk
North Wales Rev. E. E. HanD
Valley Forge, F. M. Dougherty, Supply
Ambler Rev D. W. Morton
l.ansdale Rev. T. H. Evans
Bryn Mawr, Radnor.
Rev, A. I. Collom
Bryn Mawr. St. Lukes,
Rev A. S. Dungee
Ilird-ln-IIand Rev. H. B. Balrd
Ilerwyn Rev. A. W. Queenby
Ardmore Rev. C, M. Simpson
Evansburg ..Rev. W. I) Mailman. Sup.
Glenslde Rev. J. B. Mackey
Jenklntown Rev. R. H. Harklnson
Mont Square and Prospectville,
Rev. C. H. Egge. Supply
VLSIItY YIELDS TO REV.
MR. MARPI.ES REQUEST
Saturday evening last the vestry of
Christ Church. Upper Merlon, held a
apei lal meeting, at which every mem-ber
was present, with a single excep-tion.
After a full and friendly discourse,
the vestry yielded to the earnest re-quest
of the Rev. Marple. to be relieved
from the charge of the parish, on the
grounds of increasing age and derceas-ing
strength He still continues as a
part of the clerical staff at Christ
Church with the title of Rector Emeri-tus.
A committee was appointed to com-sult
with the Bishop of the Diocese.
TO BURN A MORTGAGE /
Use Moser'B country-mi'le Maus^ge
of smoked meats at Mose-*s ll-at
Market. 3U3 Hector street.
Ground will be broken for a new
Catholic Church In Norrlstown on St
Patrick's Day.
The following resolution, which ex-plains
iself. was adopted at the meet-ing
of George Smith Post, on Saturday-evening:
Invitation to attend the burning of a
mortgage by George Smith Post. No.
79. G. A. R. at Grand Army Hall, on
Saturday evening, .\prll 8. 1905.
Whereas. George Smith 1'ost, No. 79,
G. A. R.. created a mortgage on Grand
Army Hall;
Whereas, said mortgage has been
paid off and satisfied of record, and
Whereas, many friends of George
Smith Post have contributed In talent
and many way a towards assisting In
freeing said hall from debt, therefore
be it
Resolved. That George Smith Post,
No. 79. G. A R.. have a public burning
of said mortgnge on Saturdnv evening,
April 8. 1905.
Resolved. That an Invitation be ex-tended
i through the columns of the
Conshohocken Recorder! to all those
friends who so generously assisted In
attaining the above results. You are
therefor cordially Invited to be present
with us at Grand Army Hall, on the
above dale, at 7.45 P. M.
"Extracts from the minutes."
BY ORDER OF COM.
PR LAMBLEY
DENTIST
Philadelphia Dental Rooms
Fayette St. and First Ave..
(over Bell's Grocery)
Conshohocken
Painless Extracting
Hours: 9 A. M. to 7.30 P. M.
Sundays by appointment
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