Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-10-18

              1 ■% ■f* » ' ■ ' 9 , , FUTURE CONGRESSES WILL INCLUDE CATHOLIC LAYMEN PRICE 1 CENT MINING VILLAGE SUFFtRS LOSS OF TWELVE HOUSES LOSS IS $60,000.00 PROF. A. M. HAMMERS, Toast master at Last Night's V. M. <\ A. Banquet. (0 Cheero C^ffeo 8. A. WNN, % Feast Prepared By Ladies of the Town One to Be Remembered. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1907 VOL II. No. 28 NEARLY 300 BUSINESS MEN . OF PUNX'Y ATTEND BANQUET AT AUDITORIUM LAST NIGHT New Mi Priests' Eucharistic League Concludes One of Most Sue cessful Sessions Ever Held in This Country. it on Foot. stroyed By Fire. Carrollton, Opposite Monongahela City, Almost De- In this manner was summed up the results of the three days' proceedings j of the Fourth American Congress of I the Priests' Eucharistic League, ! which concluded yesterday afternoon with n-otable services in St. Paul's | Cathedral. lit. Itev. Camilus Paul I Maes, bishop of Covingt on, permanent president of the league, and! presiding officer at its sessions in Carnegie Institute, voiced the most concrete of all the results of this gathering in the statement that the next congress will see the laity participating, If cn.ough organizing work can be done in the meantime. Every American congress has been limited to the clergy, but Pittsburg's interest in it was so thoroughly in accord with the movement | PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 18.—"The decided' success of this congress has brought to maturity and shown the wisdom of Immediate action in preparing for the extension of organizations of the people so that future congresses of the Eucharistic League will be composed of all Catholics— people as well jus priests.' BAlLOONiSTS COMING EAST The loss to the hotel owned by Ja>b Snyder will be about twenty-five thousand dollars. The local fire department was sent to the village, which is located jus? across the river from here, bur the hose was not long enough and the buildings had to be left at the mercy of the relentless llanos. The fire started in a grocery store and before i: could be brouKht under control spread like a flash to the Hotel Artz, and then to the adjoining houses which were occupied V foreigners. the loss of sixty thousand dollars' •worth of property, including eleven buildings. My United Press. MONoNGAH HLA, Pa., Oct. 18.— Carrolitown. a mining village near here, was early this morning visited by a disastrous fire, which resulted In It will be two years before another congress is held and the time and place are to be fixed at the Notre Dame conference. "This was not the largest eongr ss in point of numbers which the league has had," said IJishop Maes "but 1 do not think any was more representative of the country. There were priests here from Canada and from Florida, from the New England States and from the Par West. The devotion of the people shown in the different churches where Hishop Canevln designated that simultaneuos services , should be held and of the children | from the scho »ls was a most edifying feature. I regret evceedingly that arrangements had not been made to have all the people participate in the congress itself. That is the way it is done in Europe and at the next conference next summer at Notre Dame, Ind., I am going to take steps t> carry out the unification of the league among people and priests so that the next national congress of the Eucharistic League will be one for the laity j and clergy." that the bishops wish to have the pe pie take part hereafter. ARBOR DAY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS One Drop* in Stat*' of Indiana—Other Crossing Ohio at Karly Hour Today. Pupils of High School Ad dressed This Afternoon By Prof.S. B. Elliot. Will Help to Make Big Republican Rally Tonight a Success. REPUBLICANS ARE GOING 10 INDIANA MANY GOOD SPEECHES Punxsutawney Iron Works Heads List With Gift of $10,000.00. IEI BWUNG PROJECT UONCNED By United Press, ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 18.—Two balloons nailing: through the air toward Ohio, left hero late yesterday, ono containing J. <\ McCoy anil Captain Chandler, and the other, Alan n. I Haw ley and Augustus Post. The McCoy balloon la after tho medal which In now held by Lieut. Lahm, and expects t3 cover four hun- I dred and two miles. Hawley Is not after a record. I LONDON. Im1>.. Oct. 18.—The Haw- Icy balloon landed near here at 6:30 o'clock this morning:. Post said tho night trip through the air was delightful."Six a. m., over Hillsbor, traveling fast, southeast." Signed Chandler and McCoy. LEESBURG, O.. Oct. 18.—This message was dropped from the bul- I >n signal corps: ONLY Mf MO milium OF SlIMm This day having been set aside by I the Superintendent of Public Instruc- I Hon, Nathan C. Shaffer, as Arbor Day, 1 the local schools are today observing ' It In a fitting way. Professor S. B. Elliott, of Reynoldsvllle, who for some years has made a study of forestry and is, perhaps, the best informed man on that subject in this section of the state, addressed the pupils of the High school, and rooms Nos. 6, 7, and 8 in the Jefferson street school auditorium this afternoon. Throughout -the schools programs which have been carefully arranged are being carried out. Th" grounds of none of the school buildings are In condition for 1 he setting of trees and that part of the usual Arbor Day ceremonies has I been omitted. fflfltiEr cms com The Republican mass meeting at Indiana tonight promises to be a great occasion. There will be speeches by prominent orators, a big parade, red fire and plenty of enthusiasm. A special train leaves Punxsutawney this evening at six o'clock, returning after the meeting. It is the special desire of Coynty Chairman Gilbert, of Indiana, as well »us the Republicans of that town generally that Punxsutawney turn out a large delegation on this occasion and help to ma we the meeting a rousing success. Thfc will be the only Republican meeting the people of this section will have a chance to attend this fall, and we had better go over and help our Indiana neighbors to whoop *er up a little. "Mr. Toastmaster, Business Men and Young Men of Punxsutawney: Following is the Hon James Kennedy's address in full: This sally at the rivalry of other (lays was greeted! with a storm of applause, as were many of the speaker's telling points directed at a cause of which is an admitted champion and f.»r he is an untiring worker. Stirring two-minute speeches were made by Dr. T. R. Williams, J. B. Carruthers, State organizer, of Harrisburg, Rev. <\ \V. Miner, J. H. Kennedy and J. B. Eberhart. Mr. Blakcsly told the audience that Punxsutawney had captured the iron works, the State Police h((id« quarters, etc., from DilBjIs, and, in fact, had outgeneraled the Clearlleld County metropolis in many Instances, "Hut, he declared, with emphasis, "You cannot beat (is playing baseball, although we will admit that you made us shake in our boots, sj to speak..' concerning the situation n.nv confronting the local association. Motorincn of Both Cars Killed—One White ami Three Ncfrro Pasgenrs Are Dead. Almost JCiitlre Crew of I>anlsh Ship Swept Overljonrd and DrowiHHl. Landed on (lie Iloc'kn. .Fames Dork's Life Continues to llnng By Thread In Oklahoma Village*— Assailant In Jail. "We are livng in a stupendous time; An age on ages telling; To be livng is sublime. Fhe ladies of the Irving Club and the Auxiliary, who managed the nquet, as well as the four-score who listed in serving it, were complimted by every diner upon having the pace for all future functions 'the kind. The menu, which was t acme of well-prepared and winolejne edibles, follows: lion. Squads of ladles under the mm and ;>f leaders, appeared along e tables as if by magic and a nif►r bit 6t generalship could not well planned than that which kept that ronff busy with knife and fork and oon. Not one of the three huned guests got less attention nor ire his wants less promptly attendto than if he had been in his own me. ieels turned rapidly and with pre- i the Rink. From the moment the gavel sounded for the in>cation until the pronouncement of te benediction three hours later, the anted and by the appointed hour le dllners were ready for the march as a reception room, became an- te project. At six o'clock the auditorium of the I hit Presbyterian Church, which lute assurance as to the outcome of pread, charming surroundings, good fellowship, enthusiasm, speech mating. oratory and last, but not least, Hth a barrel of the kind of "oil" of brand that never fails, in the HOtpe of a gift of $10,000 from the tjlfrxsutawney Iron Works. itwth such a start It Is not to be bndeted at'that the men who have M campaign in charge, last night Kpressed themselves in terms of ab- >re lubricated with a sumptuous it last night gave to the proposition len and there presented. And it was not only diue to the forts \>f gravity that the launching isseti off so smothly. The ways »r« of a landlocked harbor had a more itmplcous launching than that which 'he four hundred or so of enthusiastic rtinxsutawney men and women pres- Never a sloop or ship gliding from the ways into the imperturbed wat- In the spacious East End Auditorium Rink, beneath bright lights, Old Glory and the National colors to greet the eye above and around, beautiful flowers to charm, long tables laden with rich viands and encircled by unbroken cordons of men, the beauty and flower of the town's fair sex to charm and t:> minister, there was launched last night a project to raise $60,000 for a handsome home for the Punxsutawney Young Men's Christlan Association. drowned (luring th« night. Eighteen of tho crew wcro swept from the decks and All efforts to get tho ship lnt > tho water again w« ro fruitless, and it was slowly but ti red to pleet s by the surf KI >1 .\ I'1' KCIII. Oet. IS. -But tlvree out of a crew of twon>ty-ono men have been saved from the Danish steamship, Alfred Krlandson, which went ashore near St. Abbe's Head yesterday. By United Press. The thick fog which prevailed at the time of the accident is assigned as the cause. Ten passengers have been removed to hospitals, some of whom are expected to die. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 18.— Two electric cars collided headon while running at a high rate of speed hero today, resulting1 in the instant death of the motormen on both cars. One passenger died enroute to the hospital and three negroes were also killed. By United Press. WALL STREET FEELING BETTER Wafers TEDDY SEAR IT LAST Bon Bons Crackers ires Celery Salted Almonds lit Punch Stewed Chicken s Cranberry Sauce >et Potatoes Mashed Potatoes Escalloped Oysters iwn Bread White Bread Tomatoes Mayonnaise Neapolitan Ice Cream Pickles Kinaneiers Believe Worst Is Over in Cop|K*r Crisis — lleinzo Will Weatlier Storm. President Makes a Capture Afu*r a Hard Chase of Four Hours. he tables were arranged in two Ions of five cach, the long way of room, an/dl when the guests were tho auditorium was completely kpled. At the plate of each guest | a pink rose, and the tables were Dock together with James Dusch, of DuBois, is with a circus band that u»t the time of the shooting was in Oklahoma. it seems that the Injured man and another man belonging to the band were Infatuated with the same girl' and that at divers times the other man had told members of the band what he was going to do to Dock. The day of the shooting Dock I heard of the threats and upon seeing ' his rival told him to remove his glasses, because he intended -to hit him and didn't care to break the glasses. The man responded with: an ugly remark and Dock hit him. At the same time the man pulled a revolver and tired two shots, one of which struck Dock in tho abdomen. At the time the would-be assassin made a run for It and was not arrested until two days j later. He is njw in Jail In an Oklahoma town where he will be held until the condition of the injured man is fully established. Yesterday \V. H..Dock, of this place, received word from his brother, James Dock, who was shot about two weeks ago. Mr. Dock yesterday learned for the first time of the details of the shooting that is liable to cause ithe death of his brother. The announcement of the clearing house committee which examined .he Mercantile National Bank that that institution is solvent and the positive declaration uttered by th«* lirm of Otto Heinae and Company, to which F. Augustus Heinse has determined to give his entire attention that they will be able to "weather storm, has had a great deal to do with the quieting of the fears »f the Street. By 1'nlted Press. NEW YORK, Oct. IS.—Wall Street is breathing1 easier today, believing that the worst is over in the copper crisis. .Japan's Policy In Corea Very Much lilko Frisco ami British Coluniibia Klots. PERSECUTING ORIENTALS Further details are unobtainable until a messenger comes from the camp. The President, however did not have an easy time of it, as the quarry could not be brought down until after a four-hour chase. There was great rejoicing In camp last night. OHATtA'S SWITCH, (near Stamboul) La., Oct. 18.-.-President Roosevelt has shot a bear at last. By United Press. UITOI SINCLAIR FIRED qucradliiK at the Breakers. Author of "The .Jungle" Caught Mas- CANOE RIDGE (Office of the Weatherworks) — Fair and cooler tonight. Warmer tomorrow. LONDON, Oct. 18. — Japan has laws which are very bit as rigid as those which are in effect in the Unlte<l Sattes against admitting- Continental Asiatic laborers, and the masse* of the Mikado's subjects are makln.g Just as violent manifestations of (heir hatred of tho alien working men as the people In the United States and Canada* According1 to an article which appeared In the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian today, the Guardian accuses the Japanese of assuming the [same attitude tiWard the Chinese and Korean laborers that they execrate when taken toward them In San | Francisco. i By United -Tress. of Hosts at Last Night's Banquet, He is said to have found employment at the Breakers, the seaside home of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and to have worked there unsuspected for several days until a fellow menial caught him recording observations in his note-book and reported him as a spy. He was (then, says the report, summarily dismissed. Just what sort of "society exposure" ths young man Is planning remains for time to tell. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Disguised as a servant, Upton Sinclair, the author and socialist, has been absorbing local color for his forthcoming books by hiring himself out in the service of the rich In Newport, according to a report in literary circles. "If you will bear with me, I would like to-outline some of your duties— duties which you cannot neglect without being traitors to country, to a confiding past and to an expectant future. Under cur constitution we "Many of the poets who have taken their places among the immortal have died before they were thirty-five. Lord Paeon, of whom MaCauley said, 'His was the greates intellect that was ever vouchsafed to man,' had completed his greatest work and had made all successive generations Indebted to him before he was twentyfive years old—he had written the 'Novum Organum.' Later in life, it is true, he gave system and symmetry to that one of the crowning glories of England—her equity Jurisprudence—but he marred his fair fame by becoming a 'frenzied financier' almost of the modern type, for he took bribes when acting as Lord Chancellor. While thinking of this man, while contemplating the spectacle of so much glory and so much shame, I cannot foibear from voicing the deep conviction of my mind that the hope of our time is In Its young men. "in literature, in philosophy, and among the world's prophets and moral teachers, the grea.ter triumphs have been those of young men The writings of Burns and Byron, of Scott, Dickens, MaCauley, have their sweetest chnrm because we find In them the lire and fancy and enthusiasm of youth. "Young men, you have stepped upon the world's .stage In a history-making epoch. The destiny of that civilization of which you are a part is in your hands. The work of today, the task and problems of the present, are yours to w.>rk out and to solve. Behind you are the struggles and achievements, the failures and the triumphs that go to make the wondrous epoch of human progress from the earliest times until now. It should be an inspiration to you to know that in all the past the brightest laurels have rested upon j the heads of young men. The world's great captains and warriors won fame while yet young. Napoleon never led the eagles «>f France to defeat until he became old; Alexander of Macedor was only twenty-eight years old when he died after having subjugated Persia. Media and Egypt. "I have dwelt on these matters, not pleasant to contemplate, occurring in your own State and in the Nation, to Impress upon you one fact which I wish you always to remember: Theso abuses of power, and privlege occurred under the best government ever devised by human reason, when goo»1 and wholesome laws were on the statute books. "Your State is not peculiar In this regardi. The disclosures >f the way in which the great Insurance companies In New York were being administered stiytled the country from ocean to ocean. There has grown up a system of morals called 'business ethics" w hich any self-respecting man would be ashamed t> avow in dccent society. Its votaries had th" nun; confused ideas about the rights of property. Everything which came Into their possession In a fiduciary capacity, everything which they held In trust, they regarded as their own private property to b»> used for their personal gain. This code of business ethics had made converts of a great number of powerful men, who believed It, If not right, at least justifiable by expediency that they should control the business of the country. They In some Instances built up monopolies by ercting barriers to the free passage of interstate commerce on the railways. They had the power to arbitrarily say to one man, "You can do business' and he would prosper; to another, 'You can't do business' and he failed. We were in danger of having erected in our midst a great commercial feudalism, tyrannical and absolute. I would not have you think me pesslmstic. I am not. I am an optimist. 1 believe the •world is growing better. I believe that the American citizenship has never been equaled in Its intelligence, its nobility, its genrosi'y, its patriotic devotion, by any other people. I believe also that we are even now experiencing a moral revival, a great ethical uplift, that will bear our civilization forward and upward to a higher plane. "A few months ago the civlixed | world was astounded by a story, somewhat exaggerated, perhaps, which was sent out to the effect that your State Capitol had been stolen. A few Sabbaths ago, when the missionary bcx was handed around, 1 thought how strange it was that we in Uliio were sending missionaries to China while such things were actually transpiring In Pennsylvania. "Pennsylvania has little left to be i desired in her laws, little t> be improved in her great puMIc inatltutl. ns, and yet look abou' you. A rerent investigation disclosed the fact j that some :>f th»* great railway com- ' panics of y >ur Stnte, Incorporated by the State as trustees to have In chnrge • the great public railways owne.i by , the people, were alowing the'r serv- ; ants to discriminate In favor of those shippers who had made gifts of stock to the railroad men. by giving cars to ihem and refusing them to their competitors. There was never move wicked piracy on t.io high seas than this. ago the public made a contract .vith a corporation to b :il.l for lis (the public's) use a railroad from Philadelphia to Pu'sbi.rg and in t'.r.t contract It v\os stipulated, lor the f n po&e of securing cheap transportation for the public, that the con- I trt.ct jr building the road should appropriate from the tolls to be collected! only so much as would be necessary to pay seven per cent, dividends on the coBt of ;»»e work. For fifty years, upon one .'also pretense or another, your legislature has betrayed the public by changing or modifying that contract to the disadvantage of the Slate, so that you and your children forever will have to pay seven per cent, on large amounts of stock that represent nothing toit water and clvl: shame, in addition to proper an i legitimate tolls f:>r using your awn I highway. There is no correcting of this now, for this stock which should never have been Issued, is owned by Innocent purchasers, while upon the other hand the public stands n.)t so well In equity for it has been grossly neglectful of its own affairs. "M/ friends, did it ever occrr to you that r o >d laws and beneficent Institution* do not necessarily secure good „» »v-f imi-nt? In a popular gcvernmerr ti e administration of justice never rise? higher ill. n the ideals of those who admlnis'tr i•. •"An 1 now *o the >rk which yen m „.»t do are striving to carry forward to a successful dt'monsfray m the flrsi Kreat .experiment of popular government. We have accomplished much, i W e have, both ie State and Nation, i!ie best laws and the best forms of i-overnment ever de\ised for the regulation of society. If that be true, methlnks I hear someone of you asking. 'What is there so difficult for us to accomplish?' It has been Go Vs plan from the beginn.ng to give t > every gmciatlon of men r» task fully equal to its very best endeavor; and when I look about me over the faces of these sovcr* igns >f my country, there the bope that your dvvottor. t > duty will be like that of the pain<-: fathers w"i > achieved our | indepencicnc» and that of those other heroes win, through :rv* awful atorms and dr3 of civl strife, » reserve 1 us at* j a Nation. (Continued on Fifth Face.) "Where, then, has been the default? The failure has been In jurselves, not In our Institutions or our laws. It has not been the wish of the voter to have unfaithful public servants or to have misrule In any form, but the Austin Blakesley, president of the DuBols Association, being called upon for an address, roused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm by his businesslike and practical suggestions L. B. Mumma. >f Dayton, Ohio, a builder of Y. M. C. A.'s who Is here assisting the local mangemnt to conduct the campaign, gave an outline of the work belns accomplished by the Association in the State and at large, and explained at length the local situation.Judge Henry M .Hinckley, Jf Danville, Pa., who preceded Mr. Rodgers. took for his subject, "The City's Meed; the Association's Opportunity." Seldom. If ever, have the people of Punxsmtaiwney had the privilege of listening to a more gifted, pleasing inspiring orator of the old school than Is Judge Hinckley. The mangers of the campaign and the Association at large could not have found a m 3re eloquent, forcible, better equipped advocate of their cause than the eminent Jurist who last alcht held his audience spellbound for over an hour. Mr. R>dgcrs expressed the opinion that a $100,000 building- would be none too good for Punxsutawney, and those present, having knowledge of the speaker's relations with the town in the past as well as a forecast >f what is to come in the immediate future, save him a rousing reception. Punxsuta.wney's patron saint had good cause for concluding that his Interest in the people of this Own is appreciated. And how could it be otherwise In the light of what is being* done by his com.pany for the general good of Greater Punxsutawney. In the absence of Hon. George F. Huff, of Greensburg, who was detained, W. A. R>dgers delivered an address, taking for his theme the "Prospects for a Y. M. C\ A. Building for Punxsutawney." Mr. Kennedy's on "Our State's Most Valuable Asset," which is reprinted in full elsewhere in this Issue of The Spirit, is a classic in compositon, logic, inspiration and sound comon sense. Mr. Kennedy represents Ex-President William Mc- Klnley's old district, and he Is not unlike the lamented martyr, either in appearance or habits of thought and expression. I The formal addresses were mnde by Hon. James Kennedy, of Youngstown, Ohio, W. A. Rodgers, of Buffalo, N. Y., Judge Henry M. Hinckley, >1* Danville, Pa., and L. B. Mumma, of Dayton, Ohio. * As toast master Prof. Hammers always did excel but last night he out- Hammered Hammers. His introductions teemed with wit, quip and apt Illustrations- and set the speaker to talking- whether he had forgotten his address or not. It was about 8:30 o'clock when Chairman of Hosts S. A. Rinn, rapped for order and after briefly outlining the program for the evening, Introduced Prof. A. M. Hammers. Hidden from view in ah alcove to the left of the entrance Kettering's fam>us Greensburg- orchestra discoursed' appropriate and stirring music throughout I he banquet and at Intervals; music that had power to charm and bring encores. The walls, ceiling and corridors were handsomely decorated with flags, bunting and colors In snch profusion that one could scarcely gafc a glimpse of any part of the building or surroundings that lacked inspiration. artistically decorated with baskets of roses, potted plants and smilax. A huge pyramid of palms and rare tropical plants greeted each eye at the entrance to the banquet room. -Mb • " . • •• • W. ;|HU :  1 f ' ' , *