The Conshohocken Recorder, July 14, 1908

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I'lliLISIIKI) IIVKUY ll KSDAV AM) FRIDAY
CONSHOHOC Ki:\ PA. TUESDAY-JULY 14 1908.
SHALL WE
MAKE THE
TOWN BETTER
Mills, and iin- kin,i ,,i power "inch, in
iliis and every other town, is repre-
■ i" the offlcen who protect the
public peace. c n (
*1 PEB YEAR
X.
A FEW GENERAL SUGGESTIONS
A mi eting .ii the Town Improvement
Delation win be held this evening
G and Armj Han on Third ave-nue,
at 8 o'clock. Every man and
woman in the town u Invited to be
prei
i pin tiiis announcement at the head
ol my concluding letter on the sub-ject
ol town Improvement, because the
measure of the general public Interest
in the subject may be perhaps fairly
fa a n iium the attendance at this pro-posed
meeting;
A cltileo who can .|o little or noth-ing
else can at least be present at the
n ting and manifest a desire to give
it approval and moral support.
After all, the main thing we are in
netd Of is a strong public opinion
favorable to making the town hand-some
and the chic conditions better.
When we shall have most of the peo-ple
convinced that something can be
done and should be done, there will
be little difficulty to push the business
forward.
To that end, let us first of all believe
in the town. The far away places are
often preferred solely because we do
not know them. Not Ore per cent of
the towns in Hi,- United States are
so handsome naturally as Conshohock-en.
The site is unusually good for
scenic effect, ami all the countr)
■■■ ind about has surpassing loveliness.
We have a good Btart, then, with
ti rigs as the] are, In the task ol mak-ing
everything better, and thai fact
contains lots of encou agement. To
make a hi,1,0ns village pretty could
not be ii hopeful undertaking. To
make Conshbbocken remarkablj beau
tiini is a fairly easy proceeding;.
The children should be trained not
to throw papers and rubbish in the
streets, and the moat affective teaching
is bj example, We can after a w bile, per-haps,
get to the condition that an adult
shall be us much ashamed id disfigure
th>- public highway as he would be to
spit on the carpet in his friend's
housi i,
A good road to Improvement la that
which lies along the way ol strict
Obedience to law. A man who violates
any law. however trifling it may be, Is
in that degree lawless and an enem]
of the society which protects him and
cares for him. Reverence tor law
ii,- at the very bottom, as a great
foundation stone upon which character
is built and from which good behav-ior
derives its Impulse. Tin- most
serviceable thing i can do in behalf ol
law is io behave myself. Obviously,
ii every man did that there would be
an end to law defiance.
Another duty that rests upon us all
U io put lit men into office. This
borough is a business corporation with
RETIRED COAL MAN DEAD
W. B. Zehner Was Superintendent of
Lehigh Company.
W. B. Zehner, aged 88, who dl<
Lancaster on Sundaj ol apoplexy, was
superintendent ol the Lehigh Coal a
Navlgal Company. at l.anstoi,,.
thirty-five years, being retired In \'.«>•■■.
Blnce which time until death he held
the office of consulting engineer tor
iii" company. *
He Started when a boy as a slate-picker
and worked himself up to su-
Perintendent The development of
the company from a small operation
was greatly through his efforts.
Mr. Zehner had been ill for the past
two years, and had not been on active
duty.
•Mr. Zehner was born at Summit
Hill, then the mining headquarters of
the company. He was advanced to
the position of superintendent of the
mines, which position he held for thir-ty-
five years. He was superintendent
•luring the Molly Maguire troubles and
the shooting of Jones, the mining boss
in September, 1875, which resulted in
the exiwse, took place in front of Mr.
Zehners house and in the presence
of some of his family.
Mis. A. B. Bradshaw, of this bor-ough,
is a daughter of Mr. Zehner.
HOTTEST DAY
OF YEAB
SUNDAY BROKE THE HEAT REC-ORD—
TWO ACCIDENTS IN 6TORM
IN THE EVENING.
THE FREE LIBRARY
List of New Books Received
at the Library.
The following books have recently
been added to the library:
MM I.T FICTION
■lames Lane Allen Th, Reign of
Law.
i PWne D. Bacon—D istlc Ad-ventures.
Alice Brown-Rosa Macleod.
Winston chiir, hiii-MI. Crewe'a
farcer.
Mary B. Wiikins Freeman—The
Shoulder of Atlas.
Octave Thauet—The Lion's Share
Elfcabeih ('. Hall -Aunt Jane of
Kentucky.
Mis. Humphry Ward—Walled In.
CIVIC ART
Charles Mulford Robinson—Im-provement
of Towns and Cities.
II'VKMLK BOOKS
Edward Broows—Story of the
Aeneid.
Alfred ,i. Church—Stories from
Homer.
C. K. King, Jr.—A Boy's Vacation
Abroad.
Howard Pyle—Story of Jack Bal-llster'a
Fortune.
Howard Pyle—Stolen Treasures.
Laura Richards—When I was Your
Age.
We wish to call attention especial-ly
to C. M. Robinson's Improve nt
Striking suddenly at the close of a
sweltering da) that seemed to be al-
:i 0 i free from an> hi ,.,.j,.s
of thunderstorms, accompanied by
high winds, swept ihe i,,w,i on Sun
'lay evening continuing for nearlj two
hours.
It was the climax of the holiest day
of the year. The thermometer regis-tered
:•!> degrees at its maximum, and
J.U was the hottest 12th of July of
which the Weather Bureau has record.
The windstorm caused injury to a
number of persons and property was
damaged to the extent of thousands of
dollars as a result of the lightning
which accompanied the storm. Five
passengers on a Willow Grove car
were seriously injured.
Fences were blown down, trees up-rooted
and a few houses unroofed by
the storm, which, after the first five
minutes, assumed the velocity of thir-ty
miles an hour. Little rainfall ac-companied
the storm.
A merry party of four young per-sons
In a row boat narrowly escaped
drowning in the Schuylkill River, near
Shawmont, after the storm had cap-sized
the little craft, throwing them
into the river. The young women
were saved by their escorts after a
hard light against the current and the
winds.
Dusk had conic Without any warning
oi the approaching storm. Just be-fore
seven o'clock it broke, catching
people in the parks unaware, while
in the town residents w, re driven in-doors,
i.ike desert sand dunes, the
dust of the streets was Bent swirling
through the air. stifling and blinding
Hie thousands who vvn-e running for
shelter.
What threat,- | to be a serious ac-cident
was averted by the coolnesa ol
H" passengers on a crowded Inbound
Willow car. which had just passed Ml-kins
Park Station. At a point between
Spring Avenue and Ash bourn.- street
the lights in the car were suddenl) ex-tinguished
and the car came to a stop.
Simultaneously with an explosion un-derneath
the car came several vivid
Mashes of lightning, which caused the
car to tremble.
Thinking that a lightning bolt had
struck the car the passengers near the
running board began to alight, while
those near the rail began to struggle
frantically to escape. Pushing wildly
at first, men. women and children be-gan
to fight their way into the street,
with the result that five women were
seriously injure,! and scores of other
passengers were bruised by being
thrown to the ground and trampled up-thrown
Into the water. In the
I darkness Parker and Kenna attempted
|t<> reach the girls, win dd no
;""l after a hard struggle toum them,
'""' M1" ed in n
The part) went to Mis.- n
home where an „,.,.,. tound ,() |i(, |ln
Injured. Th< boat drifted awaj and
lias not yet been recovered.
BANKS IN A WAR ON
EXPRESS COMPANIES
Plan Proposed to Stamp Out Increas
mg Business in Money Orders.
BAPTIST ORDINATION
Rev. Joseph B. Thomas Enters the
Ministry of that Church.
The following accoint is taken from
Friday's Issue of the Harrisburg Pa-triot.
It is refers to Rev. JOB. lib I:
Thomas, who until recently was pas
tor of the Spring .Mm Baptist Church.
Rev. Mr. Thomas Is a son-in-law to
B. Morgan Ambler, of this borough,
he having recently been wedded to
Miss Edna Ambler.
The account Is as follows:
A meeting of the council called by
the congregation of Tabernacle Bap-tist
church was held in that church
yesterday afternoon to pass upon the
ordination of Joseph B. Thomas, a
recent graduate of the Crozler Theo-logical
seminary at Upland, Delaware
county. Delegates were present from
Tabernacle, First and Second congle-gations
in this city, Central of Steel-ton
and First of Lebanon. In ad lltion
Rev. Abiier .1. Davres, of Conahohook-en.
ami Rev. LeRoy iSevens, of lew
isbury, were presetn. Rev. William
I., l-ockhart. acted as moderator and
Attorney John C. Nlssley as clerk.
After a thorough examination the
council recommended that the candi-
Conshohocken banker* have been
1 '" Join in a campaign started
b) the Am. ricaa Bank
""i> "in the, large and rapldlj In
i reaslng money order business ,,, n„.
express companies. It i asserted by
the hankers thai the express compa-nies
are exceeding their prerogatives
bj building up what is practically a
great banking business, to the detri-ment
ol regular hanks.
This matter was brought to the at-tention
of the Clearing lions,- Kxecu-tlve
Committee at its last meeting by
<i member Oi the special committee ap-pointed
by the American Bankers' As-sociation
to devise a plan to combat
the course of the express companies.
The committee has been at work for
two years, and was Instrumental In
bringing a suit against seven of the
large express companies before the In-terstate
Commerce Commission to
force them to give up their money or-der
business. This case is still pend-ing.
SPRING MILL
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
NEIGHBORING VILLAGE CON-DENSED
INTO SHORT
«>u Sana,lav afternoon tire broke
'"" '" One Oi Hie Iran.,- houses along
Hi" Philadelphia and Reading railroad
al Spring .Mill, caused b) an oil sieve
upsetting in ti„. kitchen. The b
l« ocupled b) Thomas Pedle) the well
known sprinter, TI,,. flames commu-nicated
with some wood work and
BOOH a good si/,,1 bhize was in prog-ress.
All alarm vv;,, given im,| „ |„„.h.
•'i brigade formed among the other
residents of the row and work,,,.,,.
Word was also sen, ,„ ,)„* bomugh
•""I Miles Stemple and other firemen
"i the Washington Company respond-
"d with ,|,e chemical and soon extin-guish,
,i (he flames. The roof of one
of the buildings was burned and the
kitchen where the fire originated was
badly damaged. The row of houses
which had been recently repaired, be-long
to John T. Dyer. The loss is
■boul $2iH) fully covered by Insurance
Recently, however, plans have been
prepared for fighting the express com-panies
with their own weapons, b.v the
issuing of a uniform money order,
guaranteed by a surety company and
payable at par at practically any clear-ing
house In the country. It is heliev
<-.l by its advocates that this scheme
will have the effect of killing Hie ex-press
money order business by mak-ing
the bank money orders much more
convenient safer and mor onomic-e
express
companies,
■ Tin- Clearing HOPS,- Committee dis-d
Hi'- subject thoroughly, hut it
was slated b) a member of thi com
mlttee thai it was teit to be tar too
"AMERICA THE BENJAMIN
IN CATHOLIC FAMILY"
Holy Father Talks of Paternal Love
for This Country to Students
date be ordained and the ordination
services took place last night i, Tab-jal than those issued by the
ernacle church. The) were , iened
with a prayer by Rev. A. J. <;
pastor of the Sec I church o| this
City. Miss Mae Carter sang a solo
and this was followed by the ordina-tion
sermon b.v Rev. kbner J. i
The ordination pray,., was ma.
U i.. Zobray ami the cha
the candidate by Rev) Dr. |
Stevens.•'Che candidate was w
ed Into the Baptist mlnlstr) i,
I'r A I-'. Anderson, pastor of lb,
Church, Harrisburg.
Rev. Mr. Thomas, who is a
0| Harrisburg. has been called to a
charge consisting of two congregations
in Lackawanna county, near Scranton,
Important .. question tor Immediate de
clslon, and that Hi,, mattei had
referred to the nexl m, i
Clearing House body, which win
I lace nexl ill October.
II was said b.v a hank dire, lor w Ii,.
The Pope received in private audi-enoa
Sunday the American College stu-dents,
who presented felicitations ap-propriate
to the Papal jubilee.
FtectOl Kennedy said In an address
thai Hi,- American College repn
a voiniM country, but one as loyal to the
Papacy, as the oldest oi the Catholic
countries.
Pope thanked him cordially aa]
tag:
"America is young but the father ai-
"-'>••• loves re the youngest child.
in ev, iv family there js a Benjamin;
America is the Benjamin."
The Pope uav,- his benediction to
1 ' ll's, to Hie It.siltutlol,
represented by Mgr. Kenned] to the
am.: lean Students ami then said:
"The American College comes up to
w'" the Question careful study the Weal ol whal a college should be;
that <While local banks scarcely feel N is a model both for study and tor
Hie effect o| the express money orders discipline."
PROHIBITIONISTS TO
MEET ON WEDNESDAY
National Convention in Columbus to
be Attended by Thousands.
lowers, much money to spend 10f Towns and Cities; or. "The Prae-and
important work to do. A citizen
with any sense, having private busi-ness
of his own to be done, would
surely pick out for the job the most
efficient man he knows.
But the same citizen will sometimes
vote to put into public office a per-son
who is hardly qualified to push a
wheelbarrow straight along the pave-ment
Give control of the public business
to wise men, mi matter whether they
be rich or poor, and inevitably you
•will have the best administration of
affairs. Give it to the stupid and the
wooden-headed and of course you will
have a botched job. It Is one of the
most curious of American delusions
that a man who has hardly wit enough
to do day laborer's work and who
can with difficulty read a newspaper,
may properly be summoned to the
functions of a legislator and a director
of large public affairs.
We want the fit man atways, no mat-ter
what political party he belongs to.
As a Republican I should rather have
the town governed by wise Democrats
than by numskull Republicans. The
party issues do not run here in this
town. The Burgess and Councilmen
and School Directors do not touch any
great national qu»«tion. like the tariff.
It Is folly to reject the better men be-cause
they belong to a party which I
do not like.
Finally, matters will be much Im-proved
in this borough, in my opinion,
when the Burgess shall be actually
an executive officer—which can never
be until he shall appoint and complete-ly
control the police force. He must
have power before he can produce re-tical
Basis of Civic Aesthetics."
In view of the movement toward
the improvement of our town, this
book will be of particular Interest at
this time. The problems of modern
civic art are treated in a general
way .and at the same time are set
forth ways by which other cities
have dealt with these problems.
Probably no American has done more
for the now wide spread movement
of civic beauty than has Mr. c. \V.
Robinson, and the hook will be found
well worth reading.
Don't take cold, but If you do, don't
fail to take Kemp's Balsam to prevent
serious consequences. Nothing else
is so valuable In treattag coughs anc"
colds.
Diamond Rings.
A diploma and a diamond ring.
How nicely they go together. Why
not make the life of the graduate hap-py
by presenting them with a nice
diamond ring? We have them at all
prices—$10 up. At Bloomhall's, the
Jeweler, Hector street, oppo. Bank.
Here Is Relief for Women.
Mother Gray, a nurse In New York,
discovered an aromatic, pleasant herb
cure for women's Ills, called AUS-TRALIA
N-LE3AF. It is the only cer-tain
regulator. Cures female weak-ness
and Backache. Kidney, Bladder
and Urinary troubles. At all Drug-gists
or by mail 50 cents. Sample
FREE. Address, The Mother Gray
Co., Le Roy, N. Y.
Umbrellas covered and repaired at
Kehea's, Hector street, opo. School.
The more seriously injured were:
ABBLSON, JBNNIH, 2025 South
Dlghth street. Bruised and suffering
from shock.
JEFFRIES. LUCY. 4408 Falrmount
avenue. Leg broken.
LEONARD. ALICE. 638 North For-ty-
fifth street. Leg broken.
PROCHOSKIS, MRS. S.. 322 Monroe
street. Internal Injuries and bruises.
RESTIGER. MRS ANNIE, 915
South Dover street. Wrist broken
and badly bruised.
The above named victims were tak-en
to the Jewish Hospital, three In the
ambulance and two in a passing auto-mobile.
Others who were more or
less bruised and shaken up were treat-ed
on the scene.
The car was not damaged and the
cause of the accident has not been de-termined.
It Is not believed that the
car was struck by lightning, but that
the blowing out of a fuse caused the
panic.
Along the river fronts the storm
was especially severe. Many boating
parties had narrow escapes, reaching
havens of safety In the face of the
blinding winds. This was particularly
the case along the Schuylkill courses,
where the storm broke with the force
of a squall. The capsizing of the boat
near Shawmont was attended by the
exciting rescue of two young women.
Miss Anna Howard, age 21, of Lafa-yette;
Miss Ethel Schaeffer. age 19.
of Ridge avenue and Hilton street;
Robert Kenna. 5963 Cresson street.-
and Wilbur Parker, of Lafayette,
started out In a rowboat late In the
afternoon.
When the storm reached Its height
at 7.30, the party was near Shawmont
in the middle of the stream. Despite
the efforts of the men to steady the
Delegates began to arrive Sunday
in Columbus. Ohio, for the Prohi Won
national convention, which will b- held
on Wednesday and Thursday, and for
the State Prohibition convention,
which will open to-day.
The two conventions will bring to
the city several thousand persons,
Most of the State delegations to the
national convention are expected by
to-day.
The National. Executive and the
General Committees will meet to-day,
at which time temporary officers
will be chosen, subject to ratification
by the convention. For temporary
chairman there are under considera-tion
President Samuel Dickie, .M ,\l
bion College, Michigan; Robert II I'm
ton, of Springfield, III.; Colonel Frank
Slbley. of Arizona, and Homer L. Cas-tle,
of Pennsylvania.
Indications now point to an open
fight for the nomination for President.
There is on foot a movement among
■0 of the leaders ol the party to
place a Southern Democrat and a
Northern Republican on the ticket.
and Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, and
Judge Samuel R .Artman. of Indiana,
were consulted on the subject, but it
Is stated by National Chairman Charlei
R. Jones, of Chicago, that assurances
have not been received from either
that a nomination would be accepted.
Among the candidates for President
being mentioned are
Fred F. Wheelock. Los Angeles.
Daniel P. Sheen, Peoria, III.
Joseph P. Tracey, Detroit.
Rev. W. P. Palmer, St. Louis.
Alfred L. Mannlerre. New York.
Dr. J. B. Cranflll. Dallas. Tex.
AT THE GEM
A great attraction will take place
at the Gem this week." Tonight, we
will have "Honesty is the Best of Pol-icy."
On Wednesday evening we will
present the "Blue and the Gray." Mr.
McCloskey, of Philadelphia will sing.
The Gem Is open every evening. Al
it has been a serious question in some
I ails of the country. notably the
West. |i,. gald it WM noJ Ul|, iM,m(,dl.
ate loss of revenue from exchange
that the banks objected to so much as
the encroachment of tin- express com-panies
upon the legitimate banking
held. The hanks are under strict State
and Government supervision, with a
limited Meld to work in. The express
companies, on the other hand, through
money orders, have built up I, bUSJ.
nesa amounting to millions of dollars
annually, all at the expense ol the
banks, whii,. they escape th<- restrict-ions
of regular hanking Institutions
The local banks have been asked
through the Clearing House, to give
their assent to an Bgr. .ill-ill to ensli
at par money orders issued according
to the plan authorised by the Ameri-can
Bankers Association. It is in-tended
to obtain the co-operation of
banks in all the reserve cities in the
I'nlted States. The orders are to bear
the imprint. "This order will |„. , ash-ed
at par by any Clearing House bank
in any or the following cities." the
list of cities to follow.
In this connection the letter sent |M
the Committee on Express Companies
Of the .American Bankers' Association
to the local Clearing House said.
"By this means every banker in the
United Slates who issued orders
would be in a position to issue a
draft directly upon all of the points
mentioned, which would make It val-uable
for banks of all kinds and siz-es
to Issue the orders. Such gen,
eral use would result In the money
orders being payable at par in prac-tically
all points In the United
States, as all bankers, issuing the
orders are obliged to sign an agree-ment
to cash those presented to
them at par."
It is charged In the suit now pend-ing
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission that most of the express
money orders are deposited for pay-ment
through banks, and that they
thus have to do all the work of the ex-change,
while the express companies
charge them for shipments of cash
which are necessary to pay the ex-press
companies' own orders. The
banks are thus "hit hard both going
and coining."
Mgr. Kennedy presented an off.
"' W. front the students and also a
painting of the Pope by A. Mutler Urj
ol New York under the bellel that the
picture would remain at the Vatican.
But after expressing admiration for
the portrait the Pope said he pre:
it should be kept by the American
College as a memento of Sundays
audience.
GWYNEDD HAS OLDEST
SMITHY IN STATE
Birthplace of Daniel Boone Boasts of
Historic Blacksmith Shop.
Qwynedd, birthplace ,,i Daniel lioone.
boasts ot having the oldest blacksmith
shop in the State. The building ITU
erected about fifty years before the
Revolutionary War. The exact date
is not known. From its forge the cav-alrymen's
horses of our two great
wars have gone forth newly shod.
It was there that Daniel Boone had
his horses shod before he and his wife
started out on their perilous exploits.
Here George Washington and his cav-alrymen
had their horses shod before
the winter of hardships at Valley
Forge. Many other notable generals
ol the Revolutionary and Civil Wars
are numbered among those who have.
Stopped there tor the :;.|||o ,,■), ,,.
A very interesting character and
worthy old man is the present black-smith,
who for fifty years has wielded
the sledge with unfailing energy.
Harry Lowery when sixteen years of
age signed for apprenticeship under
Michael Burwick. who then had a shop
in Bustleton. Under him he served
for four years and then established his
trade in the Gwynedd shop, which had
for years been in disuse, in April,
1858.
He married two years later, settled
down, and has lived In the same spot
faithfully plying his trade ever since.
Recall Ixmgfellow's "Under the
Spreading Chestnut Tree" and Mr.
Lowery fills the description In every
particular.
—, — so a change of pictures will be given
boat it capsized and all the occupants! each night. All this for 5 cents.
Any skin itching is a temper-tester.
The more you scratch the worse It
itches. Doan's Ointment cures piles,
eczema—any skin itching. At all
drug stores.
J. BREsSSEN
Cleaning, Dyeing. Eresslag and
Repairing Neatly Done
GENTS' SUITS AND TROU-SERS
MADE TO ORDER
LATEST STYLES
9 West Elm Street
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