The Conshohocken Recorder, August 1, 1911

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BRAVE GIRL BATTLES
WITH BUKGLAR
YOUNG WOMAN bAVhS HICKOHV-TOWN
HOME FROM BEING BUR
GLARIZED-FIGHTS WITH POW-ERFUL
MAN AND IS KNOCKED
UNCONSCIOUS — FAMILY DID
NOT HEAR SCUFFLE— BURG-LAR
ESCAPES.
THE WEST SIDE iROWDY PICNICKERS
WATER QUESTION! START A SMALL RIOT
THE SUPPLY BEING FURNISHED
CONSUMERS IS UNFIT FOR USE
AND PRESENT INDICATIONS
POINT TOWARD A REPETITION
OF THE TROUBLE EXPERIENC-ED
TWO YEARS AGO WHEN THE
PIPES BECAME CLOGGED.
A fierce battle between an athletic
young girl and a burglur which end-ed
by the girl being beaten and bad-ly
bruised and rendered unconscious
and the burglar making his escape,
o< curred late Friday night at the
In me of b C. Fisher, on the Uerraan-to
«n Pike between DeKalb and Arch
Streets, Xorrlstowu.
The girl who proved herself a
heroine Is Miss Kdna Deunls, is
years old, of ilelaneo, N. J., who is
visiting Mr. and .Mrs. Fisher.
About 4 o'clock on Saturday morn-ing,
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher heard groaus
coming from the hall way near their
bed room and Mr. Fisher arming him-self
with his revolver investigated
aud found Miss Dennis In an uncon-scious
condition at the head of the
stairway. She was removed to her
room and a physician summoned.
When she was able to talk, she told
the following story:
Sin said that some time between
11 o'clock and midnight she was
aroused by a noise in the .lining roe in
The family had retired early and Miss
Dennll went to her room shortly af-terward.
She describes the noise as being
like the thud of a heavy body and
the clink of silverware. Miss Dennis
drew on a kimono and cautiously de-scended,
taking care not to arouse
the Fishers lesi her [ear be unfound-ed.
She says she groped through the
dark hallway to the dining room, and
at this Juncture she b< ard a shuttling
as though some one were crouching
nearby.
"Who's there?" she demanded in a
low tone. "What do you want?'
There was no answer. Instead th
shuffling was heard again. This time
it sounded as though the unseen per-son
was crawling into the kitchen.
A light was burning dimly outside
the kit'lien window. Miss Dennis de-cided
to dabh into the kitchen and
take a chance on seeing the intruder
in the flickering light of the lantern
outside.
She says that no sooner had she en
tere.l the kitchen than a'short pow-erful
man arose by her side and grasp
ed her by the throat. Miss Dennis
is a muscular, active girl, wnom out-door
sports have given remarkable
strength and cool, steady nerves.
She began to wrestle with the man
and succeeded In staggering with hlra
across the room to the kitchen table.
The man had twisted her arm behind
her. As he slowly drew her hand It
struck the table. Her fingers touch-ed
the handle of a knife and she seiz-ed
it
She gave a mighty wrench and
freed the imprison* d hand. She then
swung the knife above her nead and
was about to strike her antagonist
with in. blade when he struck her a
powerful blow behind th ear with
his fist. She dropped, dazed. As she
feil she struck the table, upsetting it
and i
Bhi says she recovered hr si
and looked around but the man had
fled. The door was open. The knife
was st,n clenched In her hand. She
managed to stagg< r ti the stain and
crawl to the top landing where she
fainted.
Neither before, during or after the
struggle did the girl scream, Neith-er
did the Fishers hear the combat-ants
Stagger around the room nor the
table fall with the girl. Mr. F'slier
heard a low moaning four hours lat-er.
He sal up ami called to his lie
to listen The moan was repeated.
Fisher grabbed hit revolver and went
to the hallway. He saw Miss Dennis
lying close to the staircase, and when
lie reached her side she moaned again
He struck a light and at once saw
that a terrific fight must have taken
place.
Ilo telephoned for a physician, and
Mrs. Fisher tried to restore the in-sensible
girl to consciousness. The
doctor revived her sifter some effort
and she told her strange story. The.
police are investigating but have Ti-tle
clue to the stranger's identity, as
Miss Dennis is unable to describe him
further than that he is a white man,
about five feet eicht Inches tall and
powerful.
The urgent need of the West Con-shohocken
Town Council purchasing
the water system in that borougli and
placing it under municipal control,
as favored several months BgO, in tin-report
submitted at a mass meeting
ot the citizens, by the special com-mittee
apointed by Town Council is
being manifested more clearly every
day.
Two years ago the entire service
was nut out of commission by the re-fuse,
collected ou the sides and bot-tom
ot the reservoir, finding their
waj into the service pipes and plug-ging
them up so tight that it was Im-possible
for the consumers to get any
water for several days.
During the past few days many of
the water consumers have no
that when the spigots are opened a
yellowish mossy subbtanei runs
through tin pipes and in a numbi r ol
Instances the flow of water has been
almost • ntlrelj shut i it bj this accu
mutation.
ihe matter iias been brought btfore
the attention of the Water Committee
i ! Town i oineil as weTi as the local
Boavd HI Health, ana th< matter will
be thoroughly Investigated.
st.ee the trouble of two years ago
the West Conshohocken Water Corn-pan
. composed of Reading Capitalists
with Howard Air i Bident,
have made considerable Improve-ments
to the plant, notified the con-sumers
of a sharp advance In the
and fixed the selling price of
the entire system Di the borough
. to buy It) at $42,600.
At a mas.- mi Sting Ol 111 I iiizeus
. uar; called foi thi . irj i
ii ring the purchase of the plant
and placing It under .Municipal con-trol,
a committee of seven citizens
appointed to confer with the of-ficials
of the Water Company, and ob
tain their lowest figure tor selling
the plant. The committee submitted
thaustlve report at a meeting In
early pan of May In which they
cited a number ol instances where
boroughs no larger than that of the
Sldl wire operating their own
water plants. All of the members
Individually favored the purchasing
ot :he plant, as did many of the citi-zens
present, but all expressed the
:ht ttat the price asked was ex-orbitant.
ihe meeting was unproductive Of
;/iy definite action and on motion
that another meeting be held ou July
Jcith, adjournment was in order. T-ieie
was no meeting held on July 20th, as
Borough Solicitor M. F. Donnelly, and
th.. Water Committee took up the
matt' i Joll tly and were not ready at
■ to submit anything nev
However, tlie quality of water that
is no* !■■ Ing furnished which has
been brought to ihe attention ol Town
Council and ihe Health authorities,
and the ueinand for an Increase in
rate to take effect the First of
year "ill In all probability cause
defin te steps to be taken In
th- very near rutnre, of acquiring con-trol
of the plant.
START FIGHT ON A TROLLEY
CAR ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND
CREATE .A DISGRACEFUL SCENE
—MEN WERE DRUNK AND BOIS-TEROUb
AD THEIR ACTIONS
CREATED MUCH INDIGNATION.
Passengers on the trolley car leav-ing
here about eight o'clock Sunday
evening for Xorristown, were witness
es to a most disgraceful scene at Ce-dar
Grove lane, near Harniau\ille.
Then was an all day picnic- held on
Ihe Da\is farm, in Whlteniarsh town-ship,
along the North Dane, which
was participated in by residents of
the Conshohockens, Norristown, and
Manayunk and other nearby places.
There was a lot of bier at the place
and the picnickers Indulged rerj free-ly.
As daikness set In and the crowd
was ready to go home, a number of
them boarded a trollej car bound for
Norristown al the North Lane and
when the car reached the nexl switch
at Cedar Grove lane, a B'.ghi had been
started. Thi car was crowded ai d
the women passengers became fright-ened
and Jumped from the car. In a
few minutes everj one had left the
car and a free for ail tight was being
engaged In and before the fight was
stopped the whole neighborhood hied
. and mui b excite .
en, pi - rs on the
i tin crew in separating
1 ■ and the car continued
Its journey.
Ri sidents of the section were par-ticularly
annoyed .luring the late af-ternoon
as some of the Intoxicated
picnickers wire particularly In
Ing to persons traversing North Lane
ana much complaint has been m
FOOLED THE UNDERTAKERS
CRIPPLE KILLED BY POLITICS AND ADVOCATES DOING
READING FLYER POLITICIANS; THE JOB RIGHT
WAS WALKING ON THE RAILROAD
AND STEPPED FROM ONE
TRACK TO LET A TRAIN PAGS :
AND WAS KILLED BY THE !
SOUTH BOUND FLYER. CArt-|
RIED CARDS WITH NAME OF
CHARLES KLEIN.
I NEW SCHOOL BOARD IS TO BE
ELECTED.—FIVE COUNCILMEN
ARE TO BE ELCETED AND MANY
COUNTY OFFICES TO BE FILLED
—SEVERAL LOCALITES ASPIRE
TO COUNTY OFFICES.
Pol tics are becoming of absorbing
All unknown man was Ins! i ■' ' The Republicans are the
killed by being struck with a Reading
Flyer due at West Conshohocken, at
1-7 I*. M., Saturday afternoon abo it
BOO feel north from Hall's crossing,
The man was a cripple and had
been walking south on ihe nonh
bound track when ho saw a coal train
approaching, he stepped over onto the
south bound track and the noise made
bj the coal train prevented him hear-ing
the approaching passenger train
The pilot of the* flyer struck him and
threw him on his hands and face on
the right Of way. instantly killing him.
lie w,i- Mot mangled but man] bones
In his body were broken and he was
badlj bruised. Patrick McShane, who
In.-t to start the ball rolling and
many candidates are being presented
for the nominations for the various
County offices.
Little is doing in Horough politics,
but as a whole new school board and
five c'Mini lliiien are to be elected, a
lively campaign can be expected to
be started In cue next two weeks.
The School Code provides that the
School board of this borough shall
consist of seven members, who are
io be elected by the note of the bor-ough,
it is expected thai several
members of the present board will be
candidates to succeed themselves.
In Town Council there will be five
lives near the -scene of th.- accident ,; mben term expiring as follows:
found the body lying along the lrs' w;lnl- MJ,ea Stemple; Second
of w.i. and secured assistance a il """•«*. Bllwood Noblltt; Third ward.
brought It to the West Comfhohocken •l"lm Sllngluff; Fourth ward. Frank
Ion. Coroner King was notified! ePhllomy who Is a Democrat, re-and
came here, to view the body and ( Wi'h '"e exception of
maki an Investigation. He found ourth wards repret . all
few cards bearing the name of Chi terms explnng are those of (te-les
Klein and bore an appeal to "alvl publicans and It is expected that all
a poor cripple." A couple of pack- Dut Nlr Crossnjore will bi candidates
ages i .en plaster were also found
in his cl -hing. The coroner
tin- i" d in i barge of undertaker
roll, ; whose morgue the body lies
await ig Identification.
' e man was a cripple having b '
a broken leg which was never pre >-
erly set and had tw ci :i11^>
i lion Mr. Stemple is a Ke-
I an ai d BI cure i his eleel i"n In a
tic ward, while Mr.
M I i. Ii my, who It :i 11 unocral (, re-pn
ents a ward which Is usually Re-public:
n, by a good majority.
'•' r Republican nomination for
i HlceB, this district has many
talc,I from his* let! hand. He v Ills. Health otticcr William
When Undertaker Came for Body,
Supposed Dead Man Ran Away.
READ THtJ RECORDER. $1.00 a Yr.
HAD TOES AMPUTATED.
Heavy stones, becoming dislo
fn in a huge pile fell OB the I ■
i onj Phanbagon, a laborer in ■
quarry, on Friday, and the member
v>aB no badly crushed thai it was ue-irj
io amputate nli five toei
Charity Hospital, Norristown, on
urday.
Tony resides at 118 Maple street,
and was standing near the pile of
.-.•cues when several on toup si
to roll. He made a futile effort to
step n,,. heavy rocks and while so do-ing,
one weighing fully a bui
pounds tell wilh great force upon his
right fool, crushing both shoe and
flesh.
His cries for aid brought fellow
workmen to the scene and they re-moved
the stone from the member.
At the Institution every effort was
i xerted to save the member but it
was deemed necessary'to cut off the
five toes, owing to the large amount
ct blood oozing and flowing there-from.
The operation was performed
successfully and it is now expected
that he will recover.
ard Murphy, who lives with his
parents on Fayette street be lew Elm
has a highly developed sense tor
morbid humor and Indulged In this
on Batui lay, to such an extern ti. u he
gave bis family a Bevere shock and
caused an undertaker to take a long
drive only to find out that a morbid
joke had bei n I laved.
Murphy has recently been discharg-ed
from a Philadelphia hospital at
which place he was treat' cl for dia-betes
and come to his home
While bid health has been greatly
Improved, be has not recovered ro-bust
health and en Saturday he wenl
to Kensington to visit friends. About
eight o'clock the same evening, his
family received a teh ph me message
that Edward had died at the home of
Ins friend. Murphy s wife and hifl
brother Immediately called upon a lo-cal
undertaker and requested thai he
go to Philadelphia and secure the
bei!> . The local iiu : take I called up
an undertaker In Kensington and ask-ed
him to prepare 11 and notify
the coroner. The undertaker drove
to i iie address ren, with an
box and other paraphernalia and « is
surprised to learn tl Murphy had
not died there, but his friends belles
Ing that something might happ
to him gave an address in Fran
where Murphy said he was go ng T I
undertaker drove to the p
address and as he wai | from
his wagon, Murphy ran out of the
house and into an alley shouting at
the undertaker, "thai la Hi time 1
1 you."
While the undertaker in Phlladel-ai
going mi ins wild goose
chase. Murphy's fdainily here, were
mail ng preparations to receive the
body, when he walked into his home,
thinking b« had played a fine Joke
e cii i the telephoning himself,
sn< ■ i ae in witness the r
! a'tion.
about •' feel S inches tall and we
eel about 170 pounds. He was of
smooth face and dark complexion.
bo aiinouiic ed his candidacy
for Coroner about a year ago. is al-starting
bis campaign, his pe>
The man is not known in this sec-jtltton lor a place on the primary bal-
: ci clue was tonne! upon bin let is being Hlgned by many active
UPTOWN RESIDENT DOES NOT
WANT AN EXPERIMENTAL
PAVEMENT LAID ON FAYETTE
STREET.—DO THE JOB ONCE
AND FOR ALL.—DO IT RIGHT.
by which his relatives or friends
ted.
A' neon tO-day the body lias not
been identified and it is likely that
it will be burled to-morrow.
A SNAPPER SUPPER
Large Snapper was Improperly
Cured and Tongue had to be
Substituted.
Thi members of the Up-Town Bo-c
in! club had planned to have a line
Biiappe i a ipper al their club bouse.
at Ninth avenue and Hairy street, on
Saturday evening and Alex. Long
blicans and he has been insured
I by man] good workers in
various sect Pins of the county.
Daniel H. Stewart, one of Consbo-
I in k< a s best known residents, is a
■ late for Ite^isic r of Wills. "Han'
has been a transcriber at the Cora-men
Office t'er many years, and
i a wide acquaintance throughout
the county. He is just Ihe type of
that it Will be to th' advantage
of the citizens to elect to office. For
the same office "Han" is being oppos-ed
by Howard 1». Whitehead, of West
Conshohocken, who nr present is D<>-
puty Register "f Wills. Mr, White-head
has held his office for several
terms anil now as;'res t < > be chief.
John ii win were appointed head ; - •v'"11 lil<"1 '" llis l""1"' ,own and
ei.efs to prepare the snapper soup '■ Popular with Republicans through-
Bei me il a line recipe for the
c oncoi tion from thi Eastern She re
en Mar\ land in which it was expls ti-ed
tin proper curing of the sna]
added Io the eielieioiisness of the
A i iper was secured last
ft-eek and on Thursday it was kill .1
and then the chefs took the carcass
! hand ton the curing process. In-
Bt< a.1 ol . uttioi 'in caicans on I e
ll er the animal heat had ;
from it. it wa.- to be laid In thi r
from the sun's rays. The I
per was properly put away where
| ihe sun did not reach it. at it was
Owner Recovers Auto.
The owner ei the five-passenger
Cadilae i uring car which was I
thi b inn (.r Harvey B, Meat, In Btowe
about two weeks ago by three un-known
men Who said they would
turn for it iii a couple of hours, hat
been found Or rather he has found
the machine. The owner of thi
la i.' wis H. Brown, Mo. 2401 Be
Bt iet, Philadelphia. He came to
Pcttstown Saturday and claimed the
car. which was given him by Mr
and which he took with him back io
the city after having the necessary
repairs made.
out the county.
Another locallte wno aspires to fill
B "hill" OfBe - rose : b C. Moore, of
thi third ward. For a number of
he has been employ d in the of-fice
of the Recorder of Deeds and
erj om In ■ I e county. "Joe '
is the kind of worker who (sets out
after the votes and with his friends
working with him in the "Third" is
> B need for a majoritj and has
been a "life saver" to more than one
ticket
Another locallte who desires i ml-ounty
ofl John irvin of the
ward, -.luck' WSntB to be Ju-rj
Commissioner lie- is. one of the
irtl of ilu Fifth ward and Is
active In every right to roll up a
i.'i publican ma|orl
It has not be c■:. dec I led ns yet
v h il—r the borough primaries will
be he I I ai the same time as the Uni-form
primaries, which will tie held on
3e] tember 80th, It is stat-ed
In some circles that it would be
r in hold i ..em separate. How-ever,
this uuesilon will he determined
within the next week or ten days.
Those who are mentioned as Re-publican
candidates for the various
' i Include:
i:c Idenl of the Orphans Court—
" ' ui r Solly c.r Norristown,
District Attorney—Conrad S. Shieve
and I. Ambler Williams of Norris-i
r of Wilta—-Daniel H. StSW-A
small bay horse-, blind of one c art Ci nsfe bo ken; "Berl Campbell,
and badly foundered strayed into thi town; Howard D. Whitehead.
barn yard at the Tracy farm, on I te We ■ • i-on-hot-or-ken.
Dlght time, but the next day. when
the sun again got on the job, the
snapper was there too getting a tire
sun bath. When the chefs arrived
early Saturday afternoon to prepare
the soup, the snapper was there with
nli its strength—In fact too stn i
for soup.
The in mbi ts arrived for the sup-per
and were deeply chagrined When
tb.< learned that the snapper failed
in the curing and new chefs w i
appointed who got up a lunch which
they knew something about, oold
toi me ane! pickles.
The next feed of the club will be
given In charge of chefs who will re-ply
on the home recipes.
To the Record' r:
The positive stand you take on the
paving of Fayette street in your edi-torial
of Friday is most admirable.
The writer believes that the time has
come when the people of stir bor-ough
should enter into a discussion
of the merits of the different kinds
of paving offered, and its adaptability
to the needs of our one particular
important street.
It is well to know that In Ihe "last
analysis" as the saying goes, that
the peoph' have good sense as well
as perseverance to get what they want
and generally what Is for the best
Interests of all concerned. We have
had instances of this show?, us at
times, like the widening of 5th ave-nue
for Instance) . It might be pertin-ent
to ask at this date if anyone in
the borough would like- to have seen
thai epic-tion decided in any other
way: an object lesson for free anJ
full discussion.
Our borough fathers are confronted
with some of the largest questions
thai have ever been pul before our
borough officers to decide; and it is
a difficull task No one is more anx-ious
than they to decide these Quest-ions
for the best Interests of this and
tl ■ aeration, and no one
will welcome more than they a free
and full discussion by the people of
the Payette street paving through the
columns ol your paper as our only
medium.
As I said or intimate I a moment
ago. we arc- building not alone for
Ives but for those who will come
US! and as those who i i.lne af-ter
us will have a share in paying
for some of thes. things (1 don't know
whether the pining ot fayette Street
ionics out ot the loan or not, it eloes-not
matter i we should be large mind-to
think what Conshohock-en
will be fiftj years from now rath-er
than what it will be five years
from now. and build accordingly.
We should hold up Ihe hands and
strengthen our public officials by mak-
Ing i hem know our wants and needs,
and not leave it all to them to decide
what we ought to have. Then by
ami bye v hen these things are done
ami done right 'ben we can say hear-tily
"we il done thou good an.l faith-ful."
Don't you sec where we as borough
people have this all in our own
bands; an.l don't you see that a few
moi'e thousand expended now will
stn nli o..; and spread ovey many
mi ii 5 ai ot the coming generation,
a land-mark and a monument as it
v, i, to thi horse s» nse and ijagacity
of Conshohocken, to all the surround-ing
country.
And Conshohocken needs it; situ-ated
BS si.i la, so delightfully, subur-ban
to tin third largest city of the
country, on the banks of a river, her
streets so ideal for beautiful and
healthful homes, just fitted for the
rearing of a new g< aeration, which
Nviii bi ■ leer than we, we
hope: BO different from the flat low-land
many city and towns
can only boast.
II. re Is a little bit of indelicacy
which lb.- writer hopes to be pardon-ed
for. ioo much of the taxpayers
money has In years past been wash-ed
into the S. huylkill and gone on its
wa> down the m. The oppor-t
,ii i> still exlsis to send more money
ia the srme direction, for Fayette
street still slants in Ihe "same old
way" and the water runs clown It In
torrents just as of old.
Hence In view of all the facts, the
writer agrees with ycu as to the de-sirability
of either "Brick or Warren
macadam e'er fayette- street
i HXRLB8 C. PARKER
A Strayed Horse.
Consh< ' oi ke a pita , just above I i
borough line early yesterday mc n
Recorder of Deeds—Henry T. Iltin-i
ivnt In* unbent, of Irnn-
'i is believed that the hois. pridste; Joseph C. Moor-, of Const.o-
Alico where art thou?—Curtis' 5
nnd IOC. store.
strayed away ft • arby faun
Get a free catalogue, McKinley mu-sic—
Curtis 5 and 10c. store.
- muel Yeakle, of White-h
and .lames Stretch of Lower
Merlon. Ho is also mentioned for
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