The Conshohocken Recorder, May 17, 1912

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CONFERENCE OPENS
AT THE GULF CHURCH
ARDMORE MAN HANGS
SELF IN CELLAR
EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFER- HENRY H. KRAUSE HANGS SELF
ENCE OPENS WITH A LARGE
ATTENDANCE OF MINISTERS
AND LAYMEN.—REV. E. E. HALL
PRESIDED AT MINISTERIAL IN-STITUTE.—
ABLE SPEAKERS TO
PREACH.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather the eighty-second annual
meeting of tire New Jersey Christian
Conference opened In the Gulf Christ-ian
Church yesterday morning under
auspices circumstances. The meet-ings
will continue until Sunday inclu-sive.
-Many visitors are In attendance ln«
eluding delegates from different
churches in New Jersey, Pennsylva-nia
New York and other states, which
belong to the conference. All of the
these are the guests at residents of
Gulf Mills, while dinner and supper
are being served to all in the base-ment
of thv church by ticket gratitu-ously.
The Ladies Aid Society an organiza-tion
connected with the church of
which Mrs. Thomas H. Pearson, of
Mechanicsville, rs president, is in
charge of the entertainment of the
Conference, and this society has care-fully
planned all of the details of the
arrangements for .hospitality in iinter
taming the many visitors.
Many of those who will attend the
sessions of the body arrived at Gulf
Mills on Wednesday afternoon and
were taken In charge by the commit-tee.
The Ministerial Institute of the Con-ference
opened at 9 A. M. with Rev.
K. E. Hall, of Stockton, N. J„ presid-ing.
Devotional exercises were In
charge of Rev. John Blood of Finnes-vllle,
N. J. The entire day was devot-ed
to the subject of "The Revival,"
and a number of addresses were de-livered
by different ministers on var-ious
topics under this subject. The
devotional exercises were followed by
an address on "The Necessity 'of Bi-ble
Study" by Rev. Z. A. Poste, of l>ew-isburg.
Pa., Secretary of the Confer-ence.
Rev. John Blood, of Flnesville,
N. J., made an address on the subject
'Should the Church Depend Upon Con-tinental
Growth or Activeness Put
forth in Special Effort?" Rev. E. E.
Hoffman, of Baleville, N. J., delivered
an address on "Should Excitement be
Encouraged in. If so What Kind and
How Far?"
Following this address the benedic-tion
was pronounced by Rev. John S.
Conrad, of Gulf Mills, the venerable
minister who was pastor of the Gulf
Christian Church for more than twen-ty
five years. Adjournment was then
made for the noon recess.
In the afternoon at 1.4S the meeting
was opened with devotional exercises
in charge of Rev. C. J. Yeomans of
Baleville, N. J. Rev. William 11. E.
llainer, of Irvington, N. J., made an
address on "How Do You Account for
the Spiritual Deadness which often
Follows a Revival." Following was
the balance of the program for the af-ternoon:
"Work of the Church Reviv-als,"
Rev. J. A. Donahue: "Work of
the Pastor in Revivals," Rev. M. W.
Butler; "Work of the Holy Snirit in
Revivals," Rev. S. D. Fry.
During the day some strong points
were brought out on the subject of'
"The Revivals."
"Revival" means refreshing. It Im-plies
a want of energy and signifies
literally a breathing up the needed
energy. The Christian needs this re-freshing
and the sinner needs to
breathe in this new energy or to be
born again The new life must be
nourished by feeding on the Word.
There should lie time given in the re-vival
to teaching the Word. The re-vival
should be an outgrowth of clear
Bible teaching. The most successful
evangelists have been teachers of the
word. The urgent need is for Christ-ians
who know the law of the lx>rd,
keep themselves In conformity with it
and giv? themselves heartily to mak-ing
righteousness the law of civic,
commercial and social life.
Last evening the sermon was deliv
vred by Rev. A. J. Brand, of Ingleside,
N. Y.
The sessions of the Conference
proper opened this morning at 9 o'-
clock. This afternoon the annual con-ference
address will be delivered by
Rev. J. A. Donahue, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
On Sunday morning at 9.30 the annual
Sunday School address will be glve.i
,IN CELLAR OF HOME AT ARD-MORE.—
HAD TIED HIS HANDS
BEHIND HIS BACK BEFORE
KICKING BOX AWAY.—BELIEV-ED
TO HAVE BEEN TEMPORAR-ILY
INSANE.
Henry Houck Krause, aged 42, a
nephew of Henry Houck, secretary of
internal affairs of Pennsylvania, was
found yesterday a suicide in his home
221! Ardmore avenue, Ardmore, sus-pended
from a water pipe in the cel-lar,
by a piece of clothes line that was
tightly bcund around his neck. He
had previously threatened to end his
life. According to James I. Donaghy,
chief of police of Merlon township,
the body was discovered by bis wife.
They wer married sixteen years ago,
at Lebanon. Pa., where both were
born and brought up. He had been
drinking.
In order to Insure the success of
his plan, Krause slipped the wrists of
both hands into the noose of one end
of a three-foot strap, as he held them
behind his back, in order to prevent
himself from raising his hands to his
throat after he had kicked a box
from under his feet.
Chief Donaghy was formerly Cap-tain
of Detectives in Philadelphia and:
who, as a detective was long connect-ed
with the police department there,
being called upon to investigate many
crimes, stated that raising one's
hands to his throat, is the first con-vulsive
movemant made by a person
in danger of strangulation.
The captain at first regarded the
case as a suspicious one. After he
and Coroner Neville of Montgomery
county, had thoroughly investigated
•the circumstances surrounding Kraus-es
death, however, they became con-vinced
that he had ended his own life.
Krause was formerly employed as a
machinist by automobile concerns in
Philadelphia, Lebanon and other Penn-sylvania
cities. Chief Donaghy stated
that Insanity had manifested itself in
several members of the man's family,
including an aunt now a* Kirkbrlde's,
Philadelphia, a brother who had died
mad and was buried in the Arlington
Cemetery, Washington; and another
brother who was an inmate of an asy-lum
up the State.
Krause's father, Joseph B. Krause,
is engaged in the wholesale hardware
business at l-ebanon. The suicide had
been living with his wife at Ardmore
for several months. A brother. Fred.
Krause, who is employed by a Phila-delphia
dental supply comj»any, resid-es
at 8 Llanerch place, Ardmore.
PROMINENT HOTEL MAN
CALLED BY DEATH
Y. M. A. A. TO GIVE
ENTERTAINMENT
The Y. M. A. A. Dramatic Associa-tlon
will produce a highly pleasing
comedy drama entitled 'The College
WldoW in Uttle'a Opera House on
Wednesday evening, June 5th 1912 for
the benefit of the Young Men's Ath-letic
Association. This drama which
is considered by those in a position
to know to be one of the best on the
American stage* no-day, is full of path-os,
love and interest from beginning
to end and will afford the well known
Y. M. A. A. dramatic troupe the oppor-tunity
to display that real dramatic
ability thus ensuring a thoroughly in-teresting
and pleasing enter-talnnie&it
and one that will hold the attention
of the audience from the rising of the
OUItadn until the end. The musical
numbers will bel of a high order also
as it is the determination of .the
Company to make this entertainment
the most successful In the memory
of the Association.
JOHN HOLLAND, OF THE KEY-STONE
HOTEL, DIED YESTER-DAY
MORNING AT CHARITY HOS
PITAL.—HAD BEEN SERIOUSLY
• ILL FOR SOME TIME AND SUF-FERED
A STROKE OF PARALY-SIS
WHICH CAUSED DEATH.
John Holland, manager of the Key-stone
hotel, at First avenue and Fay
ette street, died at 1.30 o'clock, yester-day
morning at Charity hospital, Nor-ristown,
to which institution he was
removed on May 4th.
Mr. Holland had been In 111 health
for s~me time and several week* past
has been seriously III, suffering from
kidney trouble. On the Tuesday be-fore
hia removal to the hospital, he
suffered a slight stroke of paralysis.
His condition gradually became worse
and it was deemed best to remove him
to the hospital, but he did not re-spond
to treatment and suffered an-other
stroke. For two days before his
death he aws unconscious and passed
away without regaining conscious-ness.
John Holland was the sen ci° the
late Thomas and Mary Holand and
was born in this borough, at the Key-stone
hotel, on February 28th, 1857.
He was educated in the public schools
of this borough and at the private
school of John l>och, at Norrlstown.
After leaving school, he entered the
employ of William Fields, of this bor-ough,
and learned the trade of brick-laying.
He was a skilled workman
and traveled much working at his
trade.
On February 28th, 1878, the day he
attained bis majority, Mr. Holland
married Miss -Mary Sockdemsy, of
Manayunk. To their union no children
were born. Mrs. Holland died about
sixteen years ago and Mr, Holland
continued to live at Manayunk until
twelve jears ago when he oame to re-side
with his late parents here and
tr>ok the active management of the
hotel. Mr. Holland was a member of
Conshohocken 1/odge No. 283 Ixiyal
Order of Moose.
Mr. Holand Is survived by one sis-ter,
with whom he resided, Mrs. Tom-asine,
wife of Harry Pearce.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence, on Monday afternoon,
at one o'clock. Services will be held
at the house and the interment will be
at I^everington cefmetery, Roxborough.
The services will be conducted by Rev.
Robert Hetherington, Ph. D., of the
Methodist Church.
NEW FIRM PREPARING
MILLS FOR OPERATION
POSSESSION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO
NEW CONCERN, OF THE LEE
MILLS AT EIGHTH AVENUE AND
HARRY STREET.— MACHINERY
HAS BEEN ORDERED AND IS TO
BE INSTALLED BY AUGUST.—
OPERATIONS TO START OCT. 1aL
MAN DRUGS WOMAN IWILL AID TO BUY
AND ROBS HOUSE AUTO CHEMICAL
The l.ee Tire and Rubber Company
have given possession of their old
mills at Eighth Avenue and. Harry
street, to the new company, formed
for the manufacture of solid rubber
tires for automobile trucks and other
vehicles. The new company is headed
by James .1. Gibboney and Brother,
the well-known dealers in automobile
accessories and who have an exten-sive
trade in automobile truck tires,
with stores In Philadelphia and New
York.
The mills are already being prepared
for the reception of machinery and
the necesary alterations are now be
ing made. The order for the niaihin
ery to be used In the manufacture of
tires has been placed with the wvll-known
Farrel Foundry and Machine
Company, of Ansonia, Conn., and the
machinery is to be delivered b; Aug-ust
Kith. The mills will be operar-d
by electricty, which will be generated
from generators operated by a :.50 H.
P. gas engine. This is deemed to be
the most economical power as no coal
will be necessary, the gas will be sup-plied
by the local gas company. All
machinery will be operated by mo-tors
driven by direct current of 180
volts. The operation of the plain will
not interfere with the residents of the
upper section of town as there will be
no smoke or other objectional fea-tures.
The success of the new company U
practically assured as to day, Glb-boney
& Brother are among the larg-est
handler of solid tires in the East.
The Company is anxious to get the
plain in operation as soon as possible
and are making their contracts for
their machinery with a penally at-tached
for delay in delivering and are
giving a bonu3 for installation prev-ious
to a certain date.
It Is expected to have the plant In
operation by October first and fifty
to one hundred hands will be employ-ed
and it is anticipated that later, the
capacity of the plant will be enlarged
to give employment to about 800 per-sons.
ROEBER ENTERS THE HOME OF
JESSE FIELDS ON THE WEST
SIDE, GAGGED MRS. FIELDS, RAN-SACKED
THE HOUSE AND
STEALS A SMALL AMOUNT OF
MONEY. MRS. FIELDS FOUND
UNCONSCIOUS.
AN EBFORT WILL BE MADE TO
HAVE THE RESIDENTS OF LOW-ER
MERION TOWNSHIP CON-TRIBUTE
TOWARDS THE FUND
TO SECURE THE AUTO CHEMIC-AL
TRUCK OF THE GEO. CLAY
FIRE COMPANY.
RICHARD BULGER DEAD
Well Known Cigar Dealer
Away Yesterday.
Passed
BODY IDENTIFIED
Man Drowned at Norrlstov.'.i Was
Resident of West Telford.
(Continued on Page Five)
The body of the man found drown-ed
in Stoney Creek, at Norristown,
last week, was .this morning identified
as that of Anthony Duffy, a cigar
maker, who resided at West Telford.
The body was identified by llarr> W.
Wami>ole and Frank Kuhn, both of
West Telford, Who knew the deceased
very well. No clue has been found as
to IIQW Duffy came to get into the
creek.
I' leased aws a widower and is sur-vived
by a son.
Richard, son of Catharine and the
late John Bulger, died at 5.30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at his home, 6th
avenue near Well street.
Mr. Bulger had ben a sufferer from
tuberculosis for some time and about
a month ago was compelled to re
liuiiuish business and fake to his bed.
lie gradually became worse until
death ensued.
.Mr. Bulger was one of the bor-ough's
young business men and suc-ceeded
his late father in the cigar and
tobacco business, conducting a store
in the bank row, on Hector street, be
low Fayette street.
Deceased is survived by his wife,
who before her marriage was Miss Al-
'tce Orner, and three children, Alice,
John and Catharine.
Deceased was a member of the lo-cal
Lodge of Loyal Order of Moose
Court Spring Mill, Foresters of Amer-ica
and had a large circle of friends.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence on Monday morning at
eight o'clock. High mass of requiem
will be celebrated in St. Matthew's
church at 9.30 o'clock. Interment at
St. Matthew's Cemetery.
NO CLUES TO ROBBERS
Police Have Been Following Clues in
Vain.
Most disfiguring skin eruptions,
scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due
to Impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit-ters
as a cleaning blood tonic is well
recommended. $1.00 at all stores.
READ THE RECORDER, $1 a Year.
This Will Interest Motners
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Children relieve Feverlshness, Heal-ache,
Bad Stomach, Teething Disor-ders,
move and regulate the Bowels
and destroy worms. They break up
Colds In 24 hours. Used by mothers
for 22 years. All Druggists, 25c. Sam
pie Free. Address, A. S. Olmstead,
I^eRoy N. Y.
The local police working with the
Norristown police have been fallow-ing
out several clues In the hopes ot
capturing the persons who robbed the
home of William Little, on Tuesday
morning last, when jewelry valued at
about $1UU0 was stolen. Early this
morning, Officers Ruth and Healcl went
to Norristown with a search warrant
to search Ohe house of Mrs. Jesse
Brown, a colored woman who HI one
time resided here and whose husband
Is now serving a sentence in the Kast-ern
penitentiary for robbery. The of-ficers
mat Mrs. Brown on the street
and she willingly accompanied them
to her house and aided in the learoh,
Nothing was found nor did the 0
find anything that would throw the
'east supic'.on on the woman.
Every pawnshop in Philadelphia
and Norristown has received a de
script ion of the jewelry stolen and the
police have visited the pawn stops
of the city but have not found any
of the loo i.
The robbers in ransacking the I-it
tie home instead of opening the Jewel
boxes, wrenched each one apai
straying the boxes. Their mettud Of
* ik makes the police believe that
the robbery was the work of ami, -uis
who are familiar with the Little home
and the habits of the family.
A daring daylight robbery was per-petrated
in West Conshahocken, on
Wednesday morning when about 9 o'-
clock, a masked man who had secret-ed
himself In the homa of Jesse
Fields, the well-know n milk man, at-tacked
Mrs. Fields who was Ln the
lions.- alone, gagged her, ransacked
the house and departed taking with
him a small amount of money after
leaving her in an unconscious condit-ion.
Mrs. Fields had gone to the stable
early ln the morning to attend to
some work and left the door of th.a
house unlocked. She returned from
the stable about 9 o'clock and just as
she entered the door the telephone
bell rang. Picking up the receiver,
she talked to a customer who ordered
some milk. She was standing with
her back to the door leading to the
parlor and upstairs rooms and before
she had completed her conversation a
man wearing a mask came up from
behind and grabbed her. She dropped
the receiver and grappled with the
si raager but he finally got the best
c-f her and tieing a damp tag over
her mouth dragged her to the opposite
side of the rorm leaving her lay there.
The rag which the man bound around
the woman was saturated with either
ether or chloroform and she was ren-dered
unconscious by the drug.
Mrs. Fields lay in an unconscious
condition lor a long time before Miss
Clara Wallace, a neighbor, hapfiened
to come in and discover her. Miss
Wallace lilted Mrs. Fields to a couch
and this arousc-d her. la a few min-utes
ehe was able to describe what
had happened. A search of the house
revealed that the man had entered the
upper apartments and had ransacked
the bureau drawers and scattered the
contents around the floor. Mrs. Fields
does not know whether this was done
r«lter she had been drugged or wheth-er
the man had gone through the
house while she was at the barn and
finding that he would be detected
when she came back, drugged her so
that he could make his escai>c.
The man was evidently in quest of
money as the only thing missing was
a small Easter barrel containing
eighty cents and about a half cup full
of pennies which he took from a clos-el
a .d amounting to less than a dol-lar.
Several pieces of jewelry which
were in the upper rooms were not
disturbed.
Mrs. Fields says that she noticed
a man loitering around under a large
tree not far distant from her home
about 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn-ing
but she gave no attention to him
believing that he was an employee of
the Phillip's estate and had been sent
there to repair the fence. She de
scribed the man who attacked her as
being about five feet five Inches in
height and of a slender build. He had
his face hidden by a mask ami did not
wear a hat. She ia unable to tell
in what dii-ctioa the man went when
he left the house. <
NOT FOR TEDDY
HURLED OVER A DYNAMO
An explosion evidently caustd by
an accumulation of gas under the
cement floor, tore up the engine room
of the AutoCar Company at Ardmore
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It
also threw Andrew Gallagher, an em-ploye,
over the dynamo, cut him up u
bit and injured Samuel Kyle, another
worker.
A consequent fire in the place was
readily overcome.
READ THE RECORDER, $1 a Year
The Public Ledger Tuesday morning
I tinted the following letter on the
presidential political situation:
To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir—Allow me to congratulate you
on th' stand you hare taken on the
pn -idential contest now going on.
You are right in everything you have
said on the subject, and all good citi-zens
Who care more for their coun-try
than they do for their" own ambit-ion
\> ill Indorse all you say. .lust look
at the platform made by Boss Flinn
and dictiited by Roosevelt and which
they ask all good, law-abiding citizens
to indorse—a platform that is a dis-grace
to Pennsylvania and an insult
to the memory cf the men who gave
up their lives that the Constitution
Which our lor lathers framed might
DO) lie destl red, By their acts Flinn
and those who support him have In*
doised revolution and a dictator. The
v liter voted for Abraham Lincoln in
I Still anil def'llded his p~ll-ies by
serving In the War of the Rebellion.
JOHN PUOfl
I insbehsoken, Fifth Month 8th, 1912.
The effort to Becure a combined
auto-chemical and hose carriage has
been renewed with vigor by the mem-bers
of the George Clay Fire Com-pany
of West Conshohocken, and at
the present time indications are that
the time is not very far distant when
this modern fire apparatus Will be ae-cured.
Several months ago the member*
of the Company started a fund with
which to make the purchase and by
dint of hard work and careful saving
the fund has grown to the amount of
nearly $3000.
Councilman S. Gordon Smythe has
become interested in the matter and
will use his influence In having some
of the wealthy residents of Ix>wer
Merion to assist in securing the car-riage.
With this modern fire fighting ma-chine
the residents in Lower Merion
would receive additional fire protec-tion
and especially those living close
to the borough line as the nearest
companies in the township are locat-ed
at Ardmore and Bryn Mawr, which
Is a much farther distance than the
George Clay Company.
A number of serious fires have oc-curred
in 1-ower Merion close to the
West Borough In which considerable
loss was suffered and in which much
property could have been saved had
the local company iiossessed modern
fire aparatv.8. This is noticeably true
in the case of the burning of the Inn-wood
Sanitarium about eighteen
months ago. The George Clay Fire
Company, less than a half mile dis-tant
WRS powerless to cope with the
flames ami companies from this bor-ough
and Bryn Mawr had to be se-cured.
The time lost in bringing these com-panies
allowed the fire to gain such
headway that when they did arrive
the building was beyond saving.
Only recently a fire occuned at Mr.
Smythe's place and it was due to the
fact that it was in such a place that
it was imiosible tor it to gain much,
headway before the firemen could get
to the scene that his home was not
destroyed in the same manner as Inn-wood.
The George Clay Company is al-ways
on the alert when an alarm is
turned in and answer the call with all
possible speed but they are doubly
handicapped; first in not possessing
modern apparatus and secondly hav-ing
such hard hills to contend with
in dragging their antiquated machine
to the Bcene of conflagration.
The amount necessary to equip the
company with the apparatus desired is
about $8000 and it is hoped that with
some support from the lx>wer Merion
people, the additional $5000 will be
forthcoming and the West Side lad-dies
will be in a position to take their
place in the front- ranks in carrying
out their humane purpose of prevent-ing
homeless families made so through
the demon—fire.
That the company is being backed
by the residents of the West Borough
ln its earnest endeavor to become a
factor among other fire Companies
is seen by the communication in the
issue of the Recorder of -May 14th.
CHARITY IN TWO BEQUESTS
When the husband and brother of
Mrs. Anna R. Myers, of Trapiie, shall
die, the Young Woman's Christian As-sociation
of Eighteenth and Race
streets, Philadelphia, and the Atlan-
Klc tit;, hospital will profit to the
extent ol about $5000.
In Mrs. Myers" will admv.ted to pro-bate
yesterday, Buch provision is
made, The first conditional bequest
is to go to the Young Woman's Christ-ian
Association, "to be used as a sum-mer
home for their patrons," and to
be known as the "Anna B. Rehling
Home." The bt«quest to the Atlantic
City Hospital is to be paid out of the
residue of tire estate.
Besides giving her husband a life
i nerest in her real estate he LB tot re-ceive
$600 annually. Provision is also
made for the erection of a $4000 mau-soleum
in either ML Peace or Laurel
Hill cemetery.