The Conshohocken Recorder, July 25, 1911

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MANY BIDS RECEIVED
FOR STREET PAVING
LONGMEAD SUED FOR $10,000
MANY CONTRACTORS ARE ANX-IOUS
TO SECURE THE WORK
OF PAVING AND MACADAMIZING
THE STREETS FOR WHICH
BIDS WERE ASKED.—WORK
WILL AMOUNT TO ABOUT $50,-
000.—LOW BIDS RECEIVED.
A special meeting of Town Council
was, beld las) evening tor the purposi
of opening i he bids received tor the
paving and macadamising many of
the st reets of the borougb. The
meeting was attended by man] con-tractors,
anxious to hear the bids
read and many citlsens, who were
anxious to know what material would
be use,I on Fayette Btreel
Kvi\ member ol Coincil was pres-ent
except Messrs -May and Btemple.
Promptly at eight o'clock, all bids
having been received. President
Thomas called Council to order and
the i rii read the resolution adopted
by r mm .1 June l kth 1911 authorising
the paving of Fayette street, which
explained the object of the special
Mr. Wll in i! i i.i t loor and
stated that representatives ol the
Asphalt Company and of the
\ an Paving Company were pren-
.'. oul: llki to addn BS Coun-cil
i, i oi ening of thi bids
n. Thomas dei Ided that thla
\ 11 out of ordi r and Mr. Wil-liams
then made a motion that Mr.
the Pioneer Companj I a
Joseph Snyder Asks Damages in That
Amount for Loss of Two Fingers.
In a suit filed in the Prothonotarys
office on Saturday against the Long-mead
Iron Works, Of this borough.
Josepb Snyder, a former employee
aaka damages to the extent of $1 f.ooo
for the loss of two fingers of his left
hand.
The suit was tiled by Attorney T.
Lane Bean counsel tor Snyder and it
sels forth that the plaintiff went to
work at the plant in November, lliua
in [february 1910, while be was still
an inexperienced workman, the acct-di
in which caused the loss of the dig-its
occurred.
On February T:, 1910, Snyder was
employed as u socket marker. It was
a dark and stormy morning and
about i" o'clock the electric lights at
the plant were dull and there was
not BUfllcient illumination for him to
the dangerous machinery. He
was Instructed by the foreman to oil
some machinery of which employment
hi knew nothing, He failed to sec the
gearing of this machinery because of
the dull lights and his left hand was
caught in the gearing and the two
fingers were so badly crushed that
amputation was necessary,
Mr. Bnydei alleges that the firm
was negligent in not supplying snffi-clent
iaf< guards and an efficient
lighting system for the plant. He
claims that the injury caused him
much suffering and pain and that the
nOHaE 6TOLEN FROM STABLE
,Bcld Thief Enters Stable of John S.
Tarbutton
Horse.
and Steals the Best
privilege of the floor. The!'0" "' ,l!'' tw° fingers has Incapacita-motlon
carried and Mr. Roche explain-ed
the nature of the product of his
company. After he was through,
Mr. Turner, president of the Warren
was given the privilege of
the flour and spoke of the new pro-ilucl
ol hi Company called "W
iti.' which is a road built as follows:
a four-inch concrete base Is laid and
before thi concrete sits, a layer of
ted bim toi life Consequently he
asks tbe above amount of damages.
FOUR ANCIENT EMPIRES
Julius Caesar's Use of Irish Military
Terms in the "Beilo Gallico."
N. Y. Tribune:
If you were to tell the avi rage man
one inch stone is laid thereon, then tlt;ii there was once an Irish empire,
H layer of bituminous product l8|0lder than that of Home and almost
ver the stone, filling the voids | aa great, he would start to guffaw
and forming a cushion for a layer of 01„ ot ,,„. depths of an ignorance
finer stone mixed With the bitumin- mora abysmal than plummet ever
ous product, which iorms the top j 80uiideil Yet at the Council of Con-or
covering. He stated that itance (1414-18) Europe was deelar-this
Und Ol mad has been built and
is very good.
President Thomas then asked Dav-id
II. Ross, of this borough, to ad-dress
Council on the product of his
company "Pilbertlne.*1 Mr. Ron sad
a number of the Councilman had
seen 'Fiibertine'" and saw the great
amount of traffic the street had to
Withstand and saw that the street was
doing its work. He also commended
Mr. Turner of the Warren Company.
fa Council and stated that what Mr.
Turner claimed he could do, he would
do, as Council knows by the ten years
experience with the Warren pavement
en Fayette street.
The Clerk was then instructed to
open the bids.
The bids were tor the following
Work: for paving Fayette street from
1st A\enue lo North borough line1
with vitrified paving block on a i
inch concrete base with a lVi inch
i ushion.
I'ci the resurfacing of Fayette- St.
between 1st avenue and ttie North
b i lUgh line, using a bituminous as-phaltlc
binder as follows 11 i la,
PI aeer, Barber Asphalt, Fiibertine.
A\ i terml i Armlealte, Warren or any
other similar paving.
For macadamizing the following
named str< ets,
Ave.. between Hallowell and
Righte: street—Approximately 6940
sq. yds.
Forrest street between 5th and pith
avenue—Approximately 6880 sq. y Is.
Tenth avenue between Fayette &
Maple streets—Approximately 8670
SQ. yds.
Fifth avenue between Fayette &
W.iod streets—Approximately .'.-8«
sq. yds.
Fourth avenue between Maple and
Wood streets—Approximately 10810
aci. yds.
Maple street between 8rd and 11th
avenues*—Approximately 10810 sq.
yds.
Seventh avenue between Fayette
and Wood streets—Approximately
62$ I Bq v is.
Elm street between Cherry nnd the
East Borough Line—Approximately
8620 sci. yds.
The macadamizing work totals ap-proximately
51690 square yards and
if this work is done at the bid of Wil-liam
Little, at 47 cents pe*
ed to have contained only four em-pires—
the Irish, the Greek, the Ro-man
and the Spanish. At that coun-cil
England gained precedence over
i ranee only because the King of Eng-land,
claimed by virtue of the bull of
Pope Adrian IV, now admitted to be
a forgery to be-'(Lord of Ireland."
'The Celts." said Kmerson, "are of
the oldest blood of the world." They
were already masters of Kuroi>e when
history dawned, their empire stretch-ing
from the shores of Erlnn to those
around the Black Sea, their govern-ment
based on the clan system, their
law the Brehon law, their religion
druldlsm, their language, Irish. Did
according to Irish annals, issue
from Ireland and sweep eastward ov-er
BSurope in successive- waves of con-quest!
Or was Ireland Itself peopled
by them from Gaul? These are the
two great queries exercising the Cel-ticists
ol Europe. Both theories are
probably true, as Zimnier has shown,
foi a large traffic was maintained be-tween
Ireland and France for centur-ies
before tin Christian era. Certain
it is that the Gauls, or Gaels, of
Franci were Of the same race as the
Gaels of Erinn.
East and west they spoke the samp
tongue. The rivers and mountains
Of Durope to this day bear Irish Gae-lic'
names, as Garonne (Rough River)
Eeine (Ijitin Suueant Dividing River)
Names like Pumorix. Orgetrix. Epor-edix
and Ycrclngetorix. occuring in
Caesar's "Bello Galileo" are all Irish
military appellations slightly latin-ized.
Thus Caesar and F.trabo. In
writing of the Gauls, remain with oth-er
Greek and Roman writers, the
greet outside authorities on the an-cient
Irish. And In the literature and
traditions ol Brian we have a surviv-al
in miniature, the value and inter-est
of which cannot be overestimated
of the heroic primitive civilization of
Europe projected miraculously till al-most
our day.
Thus, In the renewed study of Irish
history, the world is attaining a lit-tle
glimpse into a wonderland hidden
from it by three centuries of neglect.
FIVE GENERATIONS OF
The above picture shows Hve gen-erations
of a will-know n Consb
en family. The pictures in the top
IM» are: left to right—Mrs, Robert
Shore, I". -Mrs. George Weldle, 20;
Bottom row—Mrs. Aaron Ruth, 84;
Mrs. Cliarhs Allen. 59 years Old, and
II Karl Weldle 5 months old.
.Mrs. Aarmi Ruth, who has been I
widow for the past twenty years, has
lived lure sin.e lsT". her husband
having been employed at the' mills
Of the Man Wood Companj, as an
engineer for 21 years, she i-ther
of oilier George Ruth and re-
THE RUTH FAMILY.
with her daughter. Mrs. I ,
es Alii II, eil this UOrOUgh. The Otl • I
children ol Mrs. Ruth, still living, bi
sides Qeorge and Mrs. Alien are;
Thomas and Joseph, of Harmanville,
and William of West Conshohocken.
Mrs. Shore, her daughter. Mrs. Wei-die
and grandchildren reside at the
Blrd-in-Hand.
Mrs. Ruth, despite her age enji ys
good health and retains all her fac-ulties.
Her tight is beginning to fail
her. but she Is naive and is greatly
interested In all that takes place
about
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS
INTERESTING NEWS REGARDING
POLITICS OF THE COUNTY AND
THE DOING OF THE POLITIC-IANS.
Carpel Weaving neatly clone at Ke-hoes,
Hector st.,—oppo. school.
yard, the work, exclusive of curbing , gag0]|ne
and gutters, will cost about $24,294.- (JARAGE.
( Contniued on I>ast Page) 'night.
Automobiles for Parties and Wcl-snuare
j^,,^ iong or short runs. Repairs,
and oil. KNOEI.EER'S
Bell Phone 274: day or
Saturday, September 9, Will be the
last da) for aspirants for political
honors to file petitions to have their
names printed on the ballots of the
several political parties at the prim-arj
election to be conducted Saturday
September 80. The chairman of the
committee of the parties will have to
notify the- county Commisssioners
before July 8, M the officials will is-sue
their pioclamation within one
week thereafter. Petition for the
placing of names on the ballot for noir,
(nations for the borough ottlcers will
require the signature of ten qualified
electors of the same district in which
be resides. *« 4.
New rules bast d on the naturaliz-ation
law of June 89, 1906, which have
been promulgated by the Department
of Commerce and Labor, went into
effect on Saturday. They requlri ap-plicants
for citizenship to prod
certificate3 of landing in this country
before final papers shall be issued to
them. These certifies! s which must
be furnished only by aliens who have
arrived here since 1906, require' them
to alve the date, place and manner of
their arrival in the United States.
With the declarations of intention,
of such petitioners must be attached
their petitions for naturalisation. The
Idanks which each applicant for nat-uralization
must fill Insist on his
saying whi re his wife was born and
when, how many children, and name,
date of birth of each, and where they
now live, the applicant's height at
the time of arrival and his complex-ion
and color of the eyes at the same
time.
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NEWS FOR THOMAS AND NEVILLE
as to death, President of Town 1
ell, 1. Qulncy Thomas, ot Conshohock-en,
is the latest to retire. Dr. J. N W
ton Hunsberger is apathetic, und even
William Netf.lio. of Conshohocken.
does not appear to be anxious. It
looks therefore, pretty smooth tor
Coroner King, "the slasbee," 01 ce
more; In fact, he'll evidently be wel-come
to the- candidacy."
Earl) yeaterda] morning a bold
thief entered the stable of John s.
Tarbutton locattd along the German-town
pike, near Barren Hill and stole
the best horse- in the stable.
The horse taken was s valuable ani-mal
and the best owned DJ Mr. Tar-button.
It is a small bright bay
horse. Tin- left trout foot is marked
white. Several days ago, the horse
stumbled and knocked the skin off
the right front knee. This sine has
not yet healed and will prove a good
mark for id. nt it nation.
Tiie hois, was stolen shortl;. be-fore
two o'clock yesterday morning as
a son of Mr. Tarbutton, who is em-ployed
at Gei mantow n. nroM at two
o'clock and went to the stable to Se-cure
a Ham to drive to his work, lie
noticed Hie barn yard gate was open
and saw the cows beginning to make
thi Ir way Into the road. He 1
BLOW FROM BASEBALL
BAT KILLS YOUNG MAN
JEROME J. DEMPSEY TRIES TO
CATCH A BASEBALL ASJOSEPH
WATSON IS BATTING IT AND
DEMPSEY RECEIVES THE BLOW
FROM THE BAT WHICH KILLS
HIM ALMOST INSTANTLY.—AF-FAIR
WAS ACCIDENTAL.
A mosi pathetic tragedy which has
ca.M a gloom over the entire Fourth
ward and brought much sadness into
two homes, occured late Saturdayafter-noon
a; Filth avenue and Wood streets
when a number of young men were
playing base ball and Jerome Dempsey
aged I7years, was accidentally struck
on the forehead with a has.- ball bat
und died within a t.-u minutes after
receiving the blow.
A number of young people of the
Fourth ward had arranged to have a
watermelon festival on the vacant lots
at Fifth avenue and Wood street Bar-ly
In the evening a number of young
men among whom were Jerome Demp
thi MI. and went Inti the stable andlBey s"" (1' Edward Dempsey ol Sixth
d thai the baj horse was missing.'avenue •""' Wood street and jos<
PROMINENT YOUNG MAN DEAD
The Norrlstown Correspondent of
Town and Country iu writing of the
political situation among the candid-ates
for the Republican nomination
for the office of Coroner forgets thai
In J. Q. Thomas withdrew his name-as
a candidate early last winter and
Health officer Neville is still in the
race and has many friends offering
their support.
The article is as follows:
"Aspirants for the Republican nom-ination
for Coroner continue to dwin-dle
awaj—since, upon a ruling of the
Court the bills of the former (dice
are slashed, being honored only inso-far
as they apply to cases wherein
there were suspicious circumstances
l.eo Kelly, son of John P. and Annie
Kelly died at his parents' home, V. 5
W. Third avenue, at 4.30 o'clock this
morning.
Deceased had been in III health f< r
the past tnree yearn and five months
ago was compelled to stay within
doors and for the last two months
was confined to his bed.
Leo Kelly was born in Consl o-ho.
ken. October Both, 1887 and lived
-ill his life, lie receive.d his edu-cation
at st. Matthew's parochial
school, but did not graduate. After
leaving school he was employed at
the works of the John Wood Manu-facturing
Company and continued In
employment there until failing
health compelled him to relinquish it.
He was an active and popular mem-ber
of the A. O. II. and the Y. M. A.
A. lb- possessed an active mind, a
cheerful disposition and his com-panionship
was much sought by tie
who knew him well. During his long
Illness he was cheerful and hope ml
and bore his burden of the sickness
with great fortitude.
His father, John P. Kelly, is one
of the borough's best known men and
has been In the employ of the Alan
Wood iron and Steel Company fi i
many years.
cBsirtes his parents, deceased is
survived by a bister, Margaret, wife
Of Joseph Mullen, ot 1 his borough tend
the following brothers: Joseph, .ii bn
and ol.ois, who reside her and Rev.
Richard Kelly, who is a priest at th
Cathedral. Philadelphia. The funeral
will be held from his laie residence
on Friday morning at 9 o'clock. High
Mass or ReqnJem will be celebrated
in St. Matthew's church at LO O'clock,
Interment will be made in St. Hat
thow's cemetery.
The thief had put a bridle on the ani-mal
and ridden n away. Mi . Tarbut-ton
was aroused and notified the po-of
sui rounding towns of ins loss.
Tin local police hellexe tha: the
horse has been taken P
phis to be soi 1. The police also found
out thai a short time ago a Btr
who said he was from Doylestown,
came to the Tarbutton place and of-fcr.-
il 10 sell a small bay hoi so. that
bav< made a go a for
Mr Tarbutton'a borsi for $\ Mr.
Tarbutton n fust d to buj the hoi ■
he was suspicious of the stranger
and knew the horse was worth twice
tin amount asked foi it The strang-er
afterwards disposed of the
for $70 and a carriage and set of
or 110.
Stealing horses is becoming very
common Of late, in this section an.l
only a few weeks ago a horse and
carriage wore stolen from the Bt
Of the l.ee Tire and Rubber Company,
Bt Spring Mill, but through the 1
Ol the- local police ttie team was
leoovercd in less than 24 hours,
RE-ELECT SEWING TEACHER
Nine Ballots Required to Continue
Experien ed Woman.
REMOVAL NOTICE
Dr. Frank J. Wallis, has moved hi*
office to 11 West Main Street. Office
Hours—10 to 12 M., I to 5 P. M.. 7
to 9 P. ft,, Sundays 10 to 12 If. Ha
Office Hours on Thursdays. X-ray
and Electric- Treatments l>y Appoint
sjsant
If you have an item of news social,
personal, or otherwise, send It to the
Recorder.
The School Board of Norrlstown on
Friday night re-elected Ella McGar-vey,
sewing teacher, after tin Corn-ea
on Teachers had refused to
consider her again, although she hail
taught for 20 years. One of the Dir-ectors
in pleading for her, declared
thai he could not understand the dis-tinction
which was shown between
her and the teacher of music, who Is
a man.
It took nine ballots to elect Miss
McOarvey. Several other teachers
from various parts ot this State,
New fork and Chicago were candid-
B, but the others wanted more
money, and they would not teach as
much.
Superintendent Man in c ause I a
ben he declar.-d that he thi
■ ten< ral increase of
salaries ol teachers and not confine
the preference to a few who
frii nils of or had influence with the
Directors, As a result of his
41 teachers were given an ir.M-.i-- ol
salary of $J." a year each.
Harriet Clark. Clara Tyson and
Mary Price were elected additional
tl BI In I -.
TRAIN DOG KILLED
"Toodles" the wcii trained French
Poodle owned and trained b) ou-i
i - anagh, was struck an u-
Btantly killed by the Reading Ex-press
Bunday morning lest He was
ii- the tracks to take his morn-ing
plunge in the canal. James Ham
llton whe saw tha danger, tried to
>:". bim, b it was not close en
Kve -j ' ,... and girl knew "Toi
and Ins tricks. He would perform for
. I hem. He- was photograph
the sixteenth by a aBltimore firm.
He wore a complete auto outfit, gog-gli
, tp, etc, with front paws on the
og M h -i nf Knoeller's Peerless,
The dog was sired by Punch. He
represented the finest of Poodle
strain.
Bicycle repairing in all bran
at Kehoes—oppo. school.
Our motto Is "Better Goods—Curtis'
5 & 10c store, 15, First avenue, Con-
Bhohocken.
vVatson.aged 17years, of Third avenue
abovi Maple street. The b
ng OUt Hies". Watson
was batting and Dempsi j was stand-ing
near him cati hing the ball
was thrown in from the field and giv-iii-
II tn tbe batter. Watson hail just
d out a fly and as It i
thrown In from the fli Id he made an
attempt to bat it before it fell to the
ground. Dempsey, at tha .-nun- time,
made an attempt to cat b tbe balland
in SO doing, was quiet CloSI to Wat-son.
The latter not knowing that
Dempsey was in any danger swung
his bat to strike the ball and in the
hack swing in mpsey was struck a ter-rlfli
blow diagonally across his tore-head
from the nose to the temple,
fracturing the frontal bone. Former
school diroctor Frank Kelly, who was
near bj saw the accident and rushed
to Hi. assistance or Dempsey. He
held the Injured man in his arms and
tried to comfort him but within two
minutes after the accident happened,
the young man expired In Kelly's
arms. A physician was immediately
Bent for nnd Father Dale, curate of
St. Matthew's church hurried to the
scene ol the acident but death hau
preceded them.
When Watson saw that his friend
was dead he In came frantic with
grief and after receiving attention
from the physician, he was taken
to his home.
Deceased was the son of Kilward
Dempsey, of Wood street and was a
popular young man. He was deeply
Interested In athletics and participat-ed
in the sports of the town. !>ur-
Ing the summer he has been em-e
di aler John Rellly.
-lose ii Watson lives with his moth-er,
the widow of Piter Watson, em
Third avenue above Maple street and
Is employed at the works of the John
Wood 'Manufacturing Company. Doth
he and his mother are almost heart-broken
over the sad occurrence as
the boys were close friends
ii- Is a member of the v. M. A. A.
and is popular in the organization.
Coroner King made an Investiga-tion
o: the ■'■ Idenl on Saturday ev-enlng
and again on Sunday. He ex-amined
numhi r of witnesses and
lir. A. II. Reed made an examination
of the body to determine the cause
Of death. Death was due to a frac-tured
skull. The coroner exhonerat-ed
Watson from all blame as it was
clearly shewn that death Was clue to
purely accidental causes.
The funeral will be held at 8 o-clock,
tomorrow morning from the res
Idence Ot his father. Kilward Demp-sey.
High mass of requiem will he
celebrated in St. Matthew's church at
'.< o'clock and the Interment will be
made at St, Matthew's cemetery.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our gratitude
to the many kind friends and neigh-bors,
for kindness shown during our
recent bereavement.
MARTHA NEII, and FAMIDY
* J. BRESSEN •
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♦ LADIES' AND GENTS' «
♦ TAILORING •
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