The Conshohocken Recorder, March 14, 1913

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THE CONSHOHOCKEN RECORDER FRIDAY, MARCH 14 lOlJ 91 PER YEAM
TAKES THREE BALLOTS
THOMAS H. KAY WAS CHOSEN.—
WILL ADVERTISE FOR BIDS
FOR $27,000 OF Rt FUNDING AND
IMPROVEMENT BONDS. — 0':
BRIEN BILLS AGAIN HELD UP.—
BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT.
1912. The resurfacing job amounts
.to 10.987.35 square yards and the
IU LLLUI r ULIl/uMAI* price of 75 cents per square yard
| brings the total amount of he con-tract
to $8240.51. The Committees
recommended that the icontract be ab-rogated
by mutual consent and that
the borough agrees to give Mr. Little
street work, in other parte of town,
to the amount of tin Spring Mill ave-nue
contract.
At the longest session of town coun
ell this year at which there was long,
drawn out discussions on the policy
of tlie borough In doing street work,
neglecting to do it and the abrogat-ing
of contracts and agreements to
substitute others, there was a little
excitement when the time came for
the election of a policeman to succeed
■Charles L. Slavia resigned. Th ■
members thowed their love 'for con-test
and before the resignation cf
Slavin was aioceptel there was a mot-ion
made that we enter into the elec-tion
of a policemaa." When Mr. Wil-liams,
who acted aa president \n->
tern., president Thomas being unable
to attend the meeting, got the tangle
i straightened out, Mr Bate, chairman
of the Police Committee, made a mot-ion
that nominations be made for a
policeman. Mr. Harvey was immed-iately
on his feet iftj suggested that
no election be entered into but that
the borough employ only three reg-ular
policemen and the borough be
empowered to employ a detective
when the occasion requires. He stat-ed
that he believed that this plan
woulr afford better protection than
would be given by the regular police.
Mr. Harrold replied to his suggest-ion
by saying such a policy is a back-ward
one and that instead of reduc-ing
the force, the borough needs the
service of five men for proper pro
tectlon. Burgess Kay was present
at the meeting and suggested that
should Council adopt Mr. Harvey's
suggestion that the power be placed
in the hands of th3 Pclice Committee.
Mr. Bate said rhiit there were six
applicants for the police vacancy, anJ
he placed in nomination the names
of Thomas H. Kay, Walter Stemple,
James V. Stewart Jr.. Louis N. Metz-
;ger, Thomas MoCarter and Harry
Kush. Mr. Bate then made a mot-ion
that a secret b.Jlot be taken;
each member to vote by ticket. Mr.
Harrold objected saving that such a
ballot is against th« rules of council
and that the voting must be done by
voice. Mr. Harrold was sustained
and the balloting Itgan. The first
ballot resulted ia no election, it tak-ing
eight votes to elect. The votins
was as follows:
FIRST 1-ALLOT
For Kay:—Messrs Dale, Jones,
Laoey William* Woodland 5
For Stemple:—Messrs iHarrold,
Harvey. Kelly, May, Toner .*>
For Metzger:—Messrs Bate, Marks
Slingluff 3
For McCarter:—Mr. Stemple 1
Stewart and Rush did not receive
any votes.
SECOND EALLOT
For Kay:—Messrs Dale, Jones,
Lacey, Stemple, Williams Wood-land
g
For Stemple:—Messrs Harrold,
Harvey, Kelly, May, Toner 5
For Metzger:—Messrs Bate, Marks,
Slingluff 3
THIRD BALJX>T
For Kay:—Messrs Pate, Dale,
Jones, lacey, Marks, Slingluff,
Stemple, Williams, Woodland 9
For Stemple:—Messrs Harrold,
Harvey, Kelly, May and Toner. .5
Thomas H. Kay was declared elect-ed.
Aii agreement between the borough
and Mr. Little was submitted as a
part of the report. The provisions
are: Mr. Little agrees to give up the
Spring Mill avenue contract; the bor-ough
agrees to gl/> all street work,
solely and exclusively, to Mr. Little
until value of the v cik has amount-ed
to $8240.51, the work to be done
during the year of 1913. The work
is to be done und.;;- the instructions
and supervision of the borough, ana
to be paid for at actual cost of labor
and materials plus ten per cent. Con-tracts
already awarded to Mr. Little
not to be Included 'n the new work.
The Committees also recommmeni-ed
the trading of the borough's ten
ton steam, road roller for the eight
ton tamden roller owned by Mr. Little
Mr. Harvey suited ttat the borough's
roller is now almost three years old
and was purchased for $2500, Mr. L't-tle's
roller is brand new and was pur-cliaesd
for $2700. He said that the
trade could be made at an expense
to the borough of between $200 and
$300. Mr. Little agrees to give the
borough use of his roller in case im-mediate
sale is found for the bor-ough's
machine.
Mr. Jones made a motion that the
exchange of rollers be made. The
motion passed without a dissenting
vote.
Coroner's Verdict
A communication was received
from Coroner Neville informing Coun-cil
of the verdict ->f the Coroner's
jury in the inquest toto the death of
Harry T. Baker, who was killed at
the Reading station. A copy of the
verdict was read, which recommends
that the borough authorities and the
railroad officials devise means to pro-tect
the public from going on the rail-way
between Harry • aad Forrest
streets and to operate trains more
safely through the borough The
matter was referred to the Railroad
Committee.
The Little Contracts
The Street and Finance Commmlt-tees
made a report on the conference
held with Contractor William Uttle
in regard to him giving up his con-tract
for the resurfacing of Spring
Mill avenue for a width of twenty-five
feet in the center of the street. The
Committees reportel that the con-tract
la question was entered into by
the Borough and Mr. Little in August
Discussion on the Contracts
Mr. Harvey asked that council a-dopt
the recommendations of the
Street and Finance Committees as he
believed it to be a good bargain for
the borough. He £.aid that the accent
ance or rejection of the agreement
would have to be dene immediately.
Mr. Slingluff ask;d if Spring Mill
avenue would be .'uacadamized.
Mr. Harrold stated that council can-not
make motions to supercede or-dinances
and that the work to be
done on Spring Mill avenue was au-thorized
by ordinance and now an at-tempt
is being male to annul the or-dinance
by a motion. He said the
wiole proceedings arc irregular.
Mr. Toner said that Council should
not act on the Committee's recom-mendations
until th«y are fully under
stood. Ho branded the whole pro-ceedings
as irregular and unbusiness-like
as council was not fully informed
as to what is Intended in abrogating
the Spring Mill avenue contract and
awarding other work. He said it
was his understanding that a boad is-sue
was to be floated Tor the paying
the floating indebtedness and the con-tracts
for street woru already award-ed.
He asked for information as to
what is tc be done with the surplus
from the bond isbue should the
Spring Mill avenue wcrk not be done.
He asked that council, before accept-ing
the Committee-!* report, specify
what improvements are to be made
ia place of Spring Vill avenue. He
said until information was given none
could vote intelligently on the matter.
He also said that thj people will de-mand
such Information and they
should have it. He also remarked
that the re|x>rt of the Street Commit-tee
was not signed by Mr. Harrold
and asked why the third member dis-agreeed.
Both Mr. Harvey and Mr.
Jones said they signed the report and
made the recommendations to carry
out the instrucions of council and Mr.
Jones said that he believed the ar-rangement
would be a saving to the
borough.
Mr. Marks entered the discussion
and recommended that the borough
go ahead with the 8pring Mill ave-nue
contract. He sail when the work
was authorized the Ways and Means
Committee report ruowed that there
was no money available for the work
and in spite of this information, coun
ell passed an ordinance authorizing
the work. Mr. Woodland said that
Spring Mill avenu-3 needs little re-pairs
and that Hector street and
West Third avenue f.ro badly in need
of improvements. He made a mot-ion
that the report and agreement be
referred back to the Street & Finance
committees and for these committees
report back to countil and present
an ordinance specifying the work to
be done with the mr.ney saved from
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BOARD OF HEALTH
REPORT FOR YEAR
MORE MALES WERE BORN DUR-ING
1912 THAN FEMALES, AND
MORE MALES DIED DURING
THE YEAR.—THERE WERE 109
DEATHS AND 178 BIRTHS.—62
CASES OF CONTAGIOUS DIS-EASES.
The Board of Health offers the fol-lowing
report for 1912. There were
62 contagious diseases reported as fol
lows—
Chicken Pox i
Dyphtheria 17
Eryvipylas 1
German measles
Measles k
HG
Scarlet Fever jg
Typhoid Fever 4
Tuberculosis 7
Wnooping Cough s
Total 52
During 1912 there were 109 deaths
reported of which IM were males und
53 females ,the following are the
causes given.
Accidents 5
Aciue Alcoholism \
Angina Pectorls t
Apoplexy 4
Anemia 1 1
Acute Rheumatic Fever I
Bronchitis •>
Broncho Pneumonia 3
Bright! Disease 3
Cardiac Exhaustion 1
Cancer 4
Cardiac Dilitation 1
Cerebral Paralysis .- 1
Ce:vbral Hemorrhage 3
Convulsions 3
Cholera Infantum 1
Diphtheria 5
I <■ lll'ICS 1
Gastro Enteritis 4
Hemorrhage ,_\
Illeo Collitis 2
Inanition 3
lobar Pneumonia 1
Measles 1
Myocardlal Degeneration 3
Myocarditis - ;,,J
Meningitis 1
Nervous Pi ostratloa 1
Organic Heart Diseas'.- 1
Odema of the Lungs 1
Pneumonia 6
Premature Births 3
Phthisis 6
Paralysis ...2
Still born ...g
Suicide by Hanging 1
Septicemla from wound 1
Senile Degeneration ; 1
Shock dua to burns 1
Senility r
Tuberculosis tf
ROASTED TO DEATH
IN MOLTEN SLAG
CAR OF MOLTEN SLAG AND EN
GINE GOE8 OVER FORTY FOOT
EMBANKMENT, AT SWEDE FUR-NACE
WHEN ENGINEER FAILS
TO CONTROL HIS ENGINE.—
BRAKEMAN IS ROASTED TO
DEATH.
over the embankment, he jumped and
saved himself.
The regular engineer is Edward
Waters, who was not working the day
of the accident Sopleske who has
been substituting for some time had
always been considered a careful and
competent man.
Coroner Neville will hold an In-quest.
Typhoid Fever 2
Tubercular Menlng.Uk 2
Uremia 2
Valvular disease of the heart 1
Total 10J
There were seven deaths from
pneumonia accordiig to this table
(one from lobar pneumonia and six
from pneumonia) and not one of
those cases wore rt ported, which
shows that some of cur physician act
a little lax ia reporting some of the
diseases that are 10 be reported, then
again there are sorr,\» diseases where
no physicians are tailed in, and hte
parents went maka a report of them
for fear of having a card on the door.
Of the 10 deaths En the borough, 56
were males and 53 Females. During
the year there were 178 births report
od of which 101 w-re males and 77
females of this number of births, one-was
reported as Premature and four
as Still barns.
During the year 'here were a num-ber
of minor complaints received
which were acted upon.
William DeKalb aged 25 years, Of
Bridgeport, was roasted to death, on
Wednesday afternoon at Swede fur-nace,
when the lar-js ladle filled with
molten slag and the locomotive push-ing
it went over i.'i» high cinder em-bankment,
at the furnace.- DeKalb
was employed as i brakeman at the
fUTiaee and with John Hornack, an-other
brakeman aal John Sopleske,
engineer of the locomotive were tali
ing a car—which 13 a huge ladie on
car trucks--loaded with molten sla;
from the furnace L) 'he cinder dump,
along the river anil at the upper side
Cf the furnace.
John Sopleske i<«J 22 years, was
In charge of the ioo-.-motive for tho
day. He is an extra engineer and
had been the extri man on this en-gine
for the past two months. Tire
engine is of the Industrial type and
Is used to push the ladle car. The car
is place ahead of liie engine and con-nected
with a long iron bar. Owing
to the great heat from the slag, it Is
necessary to keep the car some dis-tance
from the engine.
About lour o'clock. Wednesday af-ternoon,
the ladle c>r had been Ulled
with several tons of molten slag and
was being taken to the dump. Soples
k^ was 111 uharge of the engine ami
DeKalb aud Hornank were riding 0.1
the front bumper, DeKalb being ou
the side lowards the river, ready to
tilt the ladle aad empty the slag
when the proper Liute was reached.
i.wn thing went ibng in the usual
way until the grade was reached
mounting the top oi the dump. Ag
the grade was approached Soplesps
inrreuseu ilic opet.ii i/f the engine.
The biakeine.'. beikviug the engineer
did not kuww how rear the edge o£
the embankment th; ear was, called
to him to saut oft the steam; Die e.i-giiiver
paiu no attention and DeKalu
aad illoriiaok seeing that the car and
engine would go ev»i the embank-ment
jumped. Horuack being on the
left side ur the side away from the
embankment jumped to safety while
DeKalb, being on the opposite side,
had ao chance for his life. As be
jumped, the ladle lift the tracks and
tilted, the hot slag surrounding him.
Sopleske remained in the engine cab
ami went over the embankment with
it The cab proteetid him from tii-i
CHARGED WITH ROBBING
EMPLOYER
GANG IS CHARGED WITH
THEFT OF IRON
—Adv.
THREE MEN ARE HELD FOR
STEALING IRON FROM CARS
NEAR STEEL PLANT.—THREE
OTHER8 E8CAPE, ONE ELUDING
THE OFFICERS BY SLIDIN«
FROM ROOF OF HOUSE.—T»
HOLD A FURTHER HEARING.
Fayette Street Butcher has his Clerk
Arrested Charged with Stealing
Money
Officer Heald arrested Charles
Iawrence, last eveaing, charged by
William Kenainger, who conducts a
butcher and provision store on Fay-ette
street above First avenue, with
having stealing money from him. Mr.
Renninger has been missing money
for some time and discovered that his
clerk was dishoest. A warrant was
sworn out before Magistrate Light.
The officer made the arrest at the
close of business y« sterday after
noon. Mr. Renninger stated that he
has been losing money for the past
three months and feud that his sus-piclos
wer dierected to his clerk. Law
rence is a young ni&n and enjoyed
much popularity. His habits about
town wer-j not extravagant and It is
believed he spent the money else-where.
BEAUTIFUL SERVICE
Western Edito- in Town
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Lang of Fondu-lac,
Wi8., were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Bream, of E. Fifth avenue,
this week Mr. Lang Is editor of the
Fondulac Dally Reporter and is East
on a business trip.
A complete line of Kodaks, Films
and supplies at MAAU'S New Jewelry
Store. Oppo. Opera House—adv. 2t.
Blcyole Repairing m all branches at
KwHOB'S. oppo School.—advL
Chocolate Cream Cocoa Eggs;
prices at BENZ'S—advt.
all
If In ne«d of anything, try a Re-corder
Want Ad.
fiery fluid but he Li-tfered burns a-bout
the head, arms and hands. Work
men about the fura.xce ran to the
scene of the accident but could give
no aid to DeKalb as he had been
icaught in the flow of molten slag an^
was roasted to death in a few sec-onds.
Sopleske was released from
his position aad aided to the top of
the embankment When he reached
the top, he ran to the office of the fur-nace
where he mot Superintendent
Black, who was talking with Philip
Burns aad Al. Hladc. The engineer
was greatly excited and exclaimed:
"I don't know what happened to me;
I never shut off."
Sopleske's burns -,.ere treated by
the chemist at the furnace aud was
then taken to Chanty hospital. Cor-oaer
Neville was summoned and ar-rived
at the scene of the accident
within a short time after it happen-ed.
Sopleske made a statement 10
him and said: "The locomotive got
the best of me wh3n I tried to shut
off. The throttle stuck on me."
Workmen recovered the body of
DeKalb. The body v as roasted. Th1*
clothing was consumed. All that re-mained
on the bod/ was the neck
band of his shirt and his shoes had
been scorched but net burnt A silver
open face watch, which the unfortun-ate
man carried, was found beside
the body. The watch stopped at 4.10
o'clock. The case had become oxld
lzed and the crystal was not even
cracked.
The locomotive caught fire and
was totally destroyed.
John Honrack the ether brakeman,
was ualnjured. He -said that he an,!
DeKalb were ridinir on front of the
engine an.l while amending the grade
to the dump, both of them signalled
and called to the engineer to "Bhut
oil" but no attention was paid, and
when he taw that both engine and
One of the most beautiful sights
ever witnessed was the Solemn
Months' Mind for Miss Kate O'Brien
of West Conshohockxn, which was
held in Sacred Heart Chapel, Phila
delphia, yesterday. In the sanctuary
were twenty acolytes vested In pur-ple
and white. Rt Rev. John J.
O'Connell was celebrant of the mass.
Revs.-Thomas Mona was deacon and
Francis H. Maxwell, sub-deacon. The
choir was compose! of one hundred
boys, lead by their instructor and or-ganist
Rev. James J Ryan.
WARREN BUCK DEAD
Husband of a Former Resident Died
at Sterling, Mass.
Warren Buck, husband of Mauds
Lloyd, daughter of Rev. and Mrs
Thomas A. Lloyd, who resided hera
/for many years during Mr. Lloyd's
pastorate at the First Baptist church,
died at his home, it Sterling, Mass-on
Monday. Mr. liuck suffered an
attack of typhoid fever from which
he never recovered. The funeral waj
held from his late home, on Wednes-day
afternoon aad the interment was
made at Sterling.
MOOSE WINS AT "CRIB"
Defeats the Pastime Team, of West
Conshohocken by One Game
The Cribbage team of the L. O. O.
M. of this borough and the Pastime
Club, of West Conshohocken, ended
the tournament last evening. The
contest was a very Interesting one,
the games running ciose all through
the series. A total of 135 games we.-e
played between the two teams—the
Moose team winning 68 and the Pas-time
Club team, 67.
CALVARY CHURCH MUSIC
The 5th organ recital of the pre-sent
series, will be played in the
Church, this Sunday evening, after
the service by H. Grey Steele, the or-ganist,
assisted by Miss M. Staley.
Pastorale Silas
lx>besang Mendlessohn
I-argo Cantabile (Symphony
D> Haydn
Marche Funebre Chopin
He Was Despised and Rejected
(Messiah) Handel
Buona Notte ...Nevln
Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhauser)
Wagner
Legende op 59 No. 2 Dvorak
Mr. J. Burnett lie Hand will sing
"The Palms" at both the morning and
evening services.
Carpet Weaving ut Kehoe's, oppo.
School.—advt
Easter Novelties, all kinds and all
prices at BENZ'S—advt.
You will be surj ef correct time all
the time if you buy that wateh here,
car could not be wved from goinglMAAG'S New Jewelry Store, Oppe.
William and Frank Rinker, Joh«
McMenlman and Joseph Stemple
were arrested and given a hearing be-fore
Magistrate Light, yesterdar
nierning, charged by the Reading
Railway Company -v!th stealing scra»
iron from cars on tlir, tracks of the
company, near Beatty s quarry, o«
Monday last. At the conclusion oi
the hearing, Frank Rinker was dis-charged
as there was no evidenee .
showing that he had any connection
with the robbery out Officer O'Doa-nell,
of the Reading Railway, imme-diately
entered a detainer asking
that Rinker be held for a further
hearing on the cha.-gr- of loafing a-bout
and sleeping in the Ivy Rock
station, at numerous times and stat-ing
the night of February 26th, fa hie
specific charge. Rinker was held Is
$500 for a hearing i<ext Monday even-ing.
In default of bail he was com-mitted
to jail. The other men were
committed to Jail in default of $6Q»
bail for a further hearing next Wed-nesday
evening.
There aie warran's out for James
and Garrett Fogarty and Michael
Kennedy charged with the theft of
the iron. Neither of these men have
been captured. On Wednesday night
the officers had a lively experience
when they had planned to capture
the Fogartys. Offlcera Ruth, Masoe
and P. K. Officer O'Donnell went to
the Fogarty home, at Connaughtowe.
O'Donnell kept a watch outside and
Ruth and Mason entered the house.
They search every room and the»
went to the atti>c. Here they hear*
a noise and opening the trap door,
they found some one had just disap-peared
through tiie tiup door opening
on the roof; It was James Fogarty.
Fogarty saw the rear of the bouse
was unguarded ami he slid from the
roof to the ground. .He landed with-out
injury and quickly made hie es-cape
in the darkness. Kennedy anl
Garrett Fogarty escaped, Wednes-day
afternoon.
At the hearing, Officer O'Donnell
testified that on the morning of
March 8th, Erie car No. 17025 aad at
one o'clock A. M. March 9th L. V. car
No. 25379 containing scrap iron ane
steel, were placed en what is known
aa Beatty's siding, «n the Plymouth
Railroad. He said tae cars had bees
tampered with and some of the con-tents
removed. The material takes
was found at the junk store house sf
William E. Montague, Third avenue
and Harry street
William B. Most ague, proprietor of
the storehouse, was the next witness
and testified that oa Monday a mas
came to his place of business and
said that he had some iron which he
wished to sell. He said the Iron was
piled in a lane off Elm street, near
the Plymouth Railroad. Montague
said he asked the man if he owned
the iron and he replied: '|Yes." Moa-tague
said that he had not time te
look at the material just then but he
would come for it during the after-noon.
Montague, during the after-noon,
went to the place designate*
and there found throe men and the
pile of iron. The men loaded the iro»
on the wagon and Montague brought
it to his storehouse. When he left
the lane, the men started off in as-other
direction sayirg they would
take a short cut. Two of the men
were at hie shop whan he arrived. As
the Iron was beLig unloaded, Officer
Mason appeared aud told him (Mon-tague)
not to buy the iron but to pll*
it in a separate pil».
Montague also testified that WilUais
and Frank Ranker i.td been ta his
place earlier in the cay and inquired
what price he would give for old pa-pers
and "Bill" braced him for the
price of a drink. William Rinker
was at his place while the iron was
being unloaded, but could not sey
that he was with the men wheo he
met in the Held wi-.h the Iron. Jl«
said he could easily identify the mas
who negotiated the bale and that hat
would not buy material from eueple-ious
characters.
Joseph F. Montague testified ttat
he worked for his brother and corre-berated
his brother's evidence ae is
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