The Ambler Gazette 19010801

              the ambler gazette vol xix.-no j4 ambler pa al a st 1 1001 si 2.5 a year norristown letter weekly review of recent happenings by old friend hi <!.«¦ sml sen ivnvri at atlantic city comjthriflfm of til knmtrt — clmn|{p in the llnteln keyleiv of nun-work fur the l'nlltl«-liiim atlantic city n..i july 26 1901 i left noniitown after the racking scenes of tuesday's convention at the close if the election of the n i n delegate t«i the state convention and of oonrse i needed rest 80 much agitation in hot weather is very hard on a sensitive creature like your correspondent i re vived soon after my arrival on the seti alii short and sought refuge in this de lightful retreat when i can see the wild waves dashing witli ceaseless moan and roll on the sandy beach of jcisey i met many montgomery county people ool boya and mr danehower of the bar mr thomas of the montgomery national bank mr rambo and wife and several other ladies if bridgeport we can leave xorristown at h p ni run into broad street station jump intu an other car and ride straight through to atlantic city without change and with out i pause except at germantown junc tion just before we cross the delaware and arrive here at n.:su p m it was very hot when i left home but on thursday it became cold and windy i was on my way across the hay from ocean city in a steamboat when a tierce storm of cold wind arose and pierced us through and through the transition was so sudden this city is between six and seven miles long by the beach line and the boardwalk is being extended the whole length of the city south atlantic and chelsea 1 don't think that ocean city compares in any way with this place in a more favorable light at any rate with one exception ocean city has two cows j did see one here but milk is plenty and very good the rudolf is the stunning attraction as the newest public house fronting the ocean it is a beauty on a grana and lofty and most commodious scale mr haines lornierly of the tirin of brown & haines of " norristown has the hotel morton the name hotel is given here to many indeed the major ity of establishments where there is no bar or liquor bartered this is true of the princeton were i stop admirably kept by 2vir corcoran on virginia avenue " while 1 do not think that any of the fully equipped inns of entertainment here equal the stockton at cape may which is the monarch of the atlantic ccjaft there are however places in that city n't for princes on all the leading lee fion maine to mississifpi ire all numed af'ei the of it - i n - are tilrr h mat'i • iisdale and otheri the tbr bg il is-1 the wonder iff thet world tens of thous ands of fliiladelpbiansrand other penn sylvanians clean to pittsburg seem to live here in summer especially in that part of the day from sun set to sun rise and the trainb run full in long lines of passenger cars crowded with a rush as they sail out from the delaware it is a daily and nocturnal excursion many old holsteries have disappeared not even a stone remains to betray where once their very ruius lay where stood the united state hotel an infrequent visit or can scarcely point out for atlantic citygrows against the ocean by squares whole miles of city where once was sea in my brief memory of hi years of the location who can doubt that jer sey from the delaware to the eastern shore has not all been made in the pro cess of the ages in this silent accretion of the eand and weeds and wrecks thus drifted westward by the eternal waves but many tine old places indeed the noblest looking of them all once the abodes of the rich the powerful and the officeholdiiir class are now tenant less and markel for sale death hath wrought many changes wealth has vanished but the broad piazzas the grecian columns the trees tell where once art taste genius grandeur and fortune triumphed in terrestial homes not surpassed in any city in the conti nent the newspapers constitute the eircu lating library of atlantic city they come here by the tons people discuss at this safe distance from the locus in quo the resignation of donnelly and the election of pattison as the leader of the democracy of the metropolis of peon sylvania the rivalry between the mili tary men like miller and governor gob in and the dash of the naval comman ders schley and sampson and the com ing nomination in pennsylvania foi justice of the supreme court and state treasurer as the last legislature appro priated all the money in the treasury perhaps no one will want the ottiee or nt least the tribulation of the treasurer the rival rings of the rival factions will name the respective candidates for the people if the two parties to ratify and then will ooma the perfunctory perfor mance uf the electors going to the polls and making their murks all is done by machinery now and vet we will be called upon to put in the constitution authority for more meohaniim in the exercise of election franchise out with it down with it all the whol system is i contraction ol individui liberty and enterprise we must comi back to the principle that every votui ran prepare his own ticket and uverj man can run for office oi be run with out asking any other person oi ; for the pi i il l hum a gentleman from witshiu 1 1 i '. . and asked him why the the district of columbia novel move ti iiiitu-il ga i state instead of re niog in a territorial condition "> we i net want t uiul tbev would till all i prefei our cond poor oo i t<l i i level in wai tli .. i resident i n i thai many people here from our think then will be a revolution in ny districts in pennsylvania thin aatnmn montgomery may catch the rantrgion from pennsylvania bat much will depend upon the repnlt of our com ing county convention wisdom may cert her supremacy and put a sot pension bridge over the abyss btronger ihan the ligaments that let down the lilre if trunk i vn bridge old k1mkm willow ir.iv on the last friday night of damrosch's ingagemenl here fie stave a dinner to " orchestra at mineral spiitiifs hotel luke twohy who is employed on the w vv krazier faun was severely injured recently twohy was passing under a pulley which was fastened in the roof of the hirgebarn when in some way the pulley fastening broke striking him on the heiul it cut a deep gash dr watson wa called in and sewed it up but he was ho badly injured it was necessary to send him to the jewish hospital where he is getting along nicely thieve made a raid on the residence of william onbberlv living on the doylestown pike above the village one qlght recently i hey affected an en trance by boring a hole through the window sash and removing the catch at me of the side windows they ran sacked the first floor securing 15 in money nearly 96 worth of postage stamps a clock some clothing and three pairs of glasses in all they got away with about 100 worth of boaty w l kentner will close his black smith shop on saturday aug 17 as that is the day of the horseshoers pitinic kronri axe gertie swaincott of norristown is spending some time with her uncle liere miss boggs of uermantown is the guest of mrs e weiss during august miss maud mccool is rapidly improv ing in health and her many friends are grateful c s baker jr spent tuesday in chestnut hill miss emma plant has returned to camp hill frank horn and charles streeper took a trip on their wheels to norristown on sunday the silo at spotswood farm is about completed and is a tine addition to the farm issaac sheppard has quite an extensive route in produce he is not taking any boarders this year ira d freas of phiadelphia is spending some time here with his father daniel freas john dutton who formerly was hostler for t k taylor at the inn is anain living in our midst working for john o'donnell mr george reed and sister and jay madden are visiting john mccormick mrs m b horn has corn over nil feet high which is the largem in tl horace hell ings has purchased a new wheel mr morris stout of norristown who has been helping with the harvesting for his father has returned home leslie c barnes had a fall last week from a hay wagon and was badly in jured al reynolds has tunred out a hand some job for k j stannard he shod 10 horses one day last week mr chew is proud of a pet crow that is rapidly learning to talk mr george s fister lias made im provements to ellendale several parties have been looking at it with a view of buying fred detoc has been appointed gar dner for mr o w bergner in place of mr kennear deceased mrs m k hegley has been very ill during the past week mrs stout visited in philadelphia last tuesdav george w hellings killed 12 beeves on monday morning uorehau charles webster and walter ambler are now living at their homes going back and forth to business each day in stead of hoarding in the city misses laura and sarah reed of kansas city mo and miss phoebe k chandler of philadelphia are the guests of j lredell coinly and family miss margaret morris who has taught in the public schools in new jersey for several years is spending her vaca tion at the home of her father silas c morri6 slut has accepted a iwsition in the friends school here for next year deborah 8111 aged 80 years was bur ied saturday from horsham friends meeting house she had long been a resident of the township and was a very estimable ladv two sons davis and george w sill and one daughter mrs charles 8 kinsey survive her thomas c'omly of penllyn has been spending some ume with horace gea trell and family miss florence haaertv is spending a few weeks with relatives in new york george marple has erected the fence along the new pike for the traction company mr and mrs edwin 8 wood are entertaining mr and mrs hukel of delaware anothony marjaruin has made repairs tn his wagon house in sunday frank ritackhouse ami wife utei taiued the jallowiut relative facoh buckman aud wife narcissa thomas coiiard mul wife maple gleu mrs uarj leuhart philadelphia iina hutvej couwav and wife oi >.'<¦» fork waltei kueezel i*1"1 sunday with mr und hi clark ol hcjyl btowu ktuhryn m i'lurk lm returned home time m hatboro kev william i ftttell preached in the methodist school room on sui i inlay with ¦ mrs edward mule 	 d with ii p i til ii v i 8 will m.,|.l '¦¦ equity suit postponed trolley past dr denckla's held ur till september no trnck will lie i.alcl tim imul dwofdn ut^riai diitrtbiitil i>r damkhv ilrnuu.l for wlthliol'ling bfl kikiii f way the equity stilt nought by dr h a denckla if near springhoust to compel the inland traction company t<i show cause why an injunction should not be granted to restrain them from laying their trucks on the turnpike winch divides his property was postponed wednesday until the september term of court dr denokla say he lias the company's promise not to attempt to build the road along this disputed strip until the ease is decided ur denckla a opposition l based on the followina i the turnpike is ton narrow for the trolley line und such road would endanger the pleasure of driving and carriage riding 3 it would endanger the lives of children going to and from the neigh borhood sunday school •). the trolley would depreciate the value of property by driving from the real estate market city people who de sire hoineh where they mny be awav from the noise of street cars i this right of way is wanted without the trolley company paying anything for it s the cheapness of fares will draw trumps from the city and atlord them a speedy means of escape after they have committed their depredations dr denckla said recently that his stand was not taken for the sake of op posing the other people along the pro posed line in fact he would like to see their wishes for a trolley line gratified if the line could be built by some other route he simply wanted to protect himself he feared that the turnpike as a driveway would be ruined if the line were built and cited instances to support hia fears he was also of the opinion that rowdyism would break out at a resort near his farm and that tramps would infest the neighborhood in the meantime the work of distri buting material along the road except in front of the properties of dr denck la joseph havwood and isaac k amb ler has been completed north of fort washington mr ambler desires the rails laid in the centre of the road and wants the company to use the girder rail such as is laid in ambler through an oversight ties and t rails have been distributed along a portion of mr amb ler's property although the release has not yet been secured mr ambler has pi i-ii his in1 rests in charge of joseph t fo ¦ ilar the last of the • 1 at ambler station off n'os-'cnt iil*r i ys/rfr mi whence they are be'fug distribute fcy l y davis teanis it now turns out that the tails in ambler are only 57 inches apart where as the standard width in philadelphia is 02 inches allowing wagons to use the tracks for travel oat of the em ployes said on saturday the reason of this is that the ambler loop is a por tion of the jonhson fast line which is expected to secure an entrance of its own in philadelphia the tracks at north wales are of standard guage this line to 1'erkasie is owned by the inland traction company who eventual ly will build another line to wheel pump and there connect with the union traction company mr h e crilly of allentown on ihumlay was awarded the contract for the construction of the trolley line from that city to quakertown via coopers burg and centre vallev mr crilly tirojected this line a year or two ago mt sold out his rights to the lehigli valley traction company this road will be part of the fast line to philadel phia which the late albert l john son announced several months before his death that he would build the section that mr crilly will build will be about 18 miles long and will be gin on the lehigb valley traction com pany's emaus branch near the mohry ice houses salisbury and will cross the lehigh mountain folllojving the turnpike in gome case but being far away from it at a number of places the line is to be as short as possible in order that fast time can be made at quakertown it will connect with the inland traction company's system which extends to ambler and which will be run up to chestnut hill phila delphia over the chestnut hill and springhouse • turnpike a distance of nine miles from the philadelphia fast line however it is intended to run an independent line almost parallel with the inland traction company's system and eventually to enter the quaker city by a traffic arrangement with the union traction ooinpan much of the material for the allen town an«l quakertown line is already on the ground and mr crilly will push the woik as rapidly as possible the contract calls for the completion of the line by dec l 1901 the construction will be of the beat 90-pound rails be ing oaed ar i i e farmers in tho neighborhood are on raged by the injury to hie tops very much of the wheat is spoil - id the oats are almost wort • of the potato patches are all without any tuber the tomatoes mi reported to ne in n similar cond iinnieii'-e vinffl bot hardly anv plymouth school board will put steam leat in the high sohool during the va cation \ mr mccann of oonshohocken nto a wagon on sunday night he riding down the mad from cold point after church he was thrown from his wheel and had his shoulder blnde broken the correspondent who wrote the i»em appearing in the sunday papers saying that a meteor had fallen at ilick rirytown on thursday morning it :! and was dug out of the ground by mr mailman etc drew very largely ii his imagination tho cold facts are the said person who i hostler at rlickorytown hotel fonrid a wedge shaped object on top of the ground nrrl mined in it which from t lie descrip tion given bv mr marple to your cor respondent might be supposed to be a meteorite he said it appeared to be i mist soild iron and weighed about seven or eight pounds being very heavy for its size the description he gave answers to that of a meteor etc with one exception it is on exhibition in norristown some scientists who exam ined it pronounced it to be iron ore foreign to the united states a partv of 28 friends went from nai c issa to willow grove in thursday they had a pleasant time and judging from the noise they made must have feovpyed it hugely ¦ the talent social of cold i'oint church came off on saturday night it was well attended and about 540 were added to the church treasury ltiiifltlale lightning has struck six times so far an lansdale this season but doing no great damage the most serious strokes i'eli upon the bell tower of the lutheran fc:hurch and the house of lawrence e pebraeder • the lanpdale baseball team went to perkasie on saturday to play a game rith the menlo company the latter on by a score of 13 to t5 during the absence of f w johnson in sunday rev mr harris supplied the pulpit of the baptist church va other clergymen will be present hiring august sundays when the pastor ¦, ill be away on his vacation in chester y 4 freed eo long a hotelkeeper !, is now conducting a club house at jgport near atlantic city milling klder rev j w smoyer hed in the evangelical church on lay evening bins passing through j uisdale oi ay evening iah • ' dui <• ^ rive homes tlfhrsda1 ia.^t f\aj td '•.'- day and the closing l;iv •' the vfref-k for visitprs the merchants of this town have noti fied their customers that their stores will be closed on monday wednesday and thursday evenings the exception is j s geiler edward r oerhait a young man who had been residing here died on friday last from consumption he was 23 years of age the son of milton c moyer he formerly was a salesman at kepler's store north wales his fnn eral was on monday legal fight to go on facts of the recent decision af fecting the k & m co l'i ii i'.i 1 1 1 •> kfgnlnr aii'l kftpwtftl hi hfottfmm entirely butltfled with tli onl onmo—om tn u til ken l'i in i7iml mlllllht lii reference to the reported legal vic tory of the philip carey maunfacturing company over the keasbey a mattiion company of ambler in last week's is sue j>r richard v mattlson president of the latter company savsr hiage lacom be denied our application for h temporary injunction which ii always the first move ill such cases and which h very seldom granted as most judge desire that testimony shall be taken and the cane proceed in the regular way w fore they will decide in these pre liminaries the evidence is only by affidavits averring ho and so the case will now be taken up in the regular manner and the suit will be vigorously prosecuted it will probably be many month before all the testimony is taken in its entirety the suit has only been started and there is more to follow judge lacombe denied the motion for the injunction in tl.e following words aud advised that the matter be left fur final bearing this is a motion for an injunction pendente lite to restrain defendants from niakintr or selling certain non conducting coverings or jackets com posed of a major portion of carbonate of or calcined magnesia and asbestos the motion is based on three rounds lirst — that the defendant's product infringes united states patent no 346 843 july 20 1886 to ii m hanmore and others now owned by complain taut ; second that defendants in selling such product designate the same as 85 per cent magnesia which is alleged to be unfair competition and third — that defendants have cut or reduced the market price for such mag nesia covering and have thus unfairly broken in and trenched upon plaintiff's business the third of tlies.o propositions is an entirely novel one and the argument advanced in its support is unpersuasive a manufacturer may certainly sell his product at any rate he chooses unless he lias voluntarily for a valuable consid eration contracted with some one else not to do so as to the second ground the evidence leaves little doubt that defendant's product is substantially 85 per cent mangee.ia if they have the right to rouuui actnre such magnesia in the con dition commercially essential to produce the jacket of the covering and refused to bell to any one whom they had reason i l*-i i ii)'"uded tn use it for that v i had diffilt mi kielulm buton i c.mliiifl to <¦'¦'•¦ iwum with tonslutlt ueorge forcythe uud family ilphla spent sunday with his mother mi maurice idol mr i everal ¦ m ii i wttltem bat taken i ponltlou it the bel uxi haugu in k visiting stunley lieudriul mr i from i will ¦ familt kou at spring mill residents of spring mill near the school house were thrown into a tur moil of excitement thursday evening by the erieb of murder police emana ting from the home george krouse while some one hastened towards oon ehohocken for an om'cer others ventured to the home and found mrs krouse in terror owing to the alleged attempt of the husband to kill his wife and also the son when the officers arrived the man had fled during a frenzy to which the wife claims he has been subject daily of late the man seized a large stone and at tempted to brain his son a lad of 10 the mother rlew to the boy's protection meanwhile calling piteously to her neiuhbors for assistance krouse then fed vowing to return and kill both the husband was formerly a resident of schuylkill haven and according to the wife's statement served a term in the schulykill county jail for attempting in a rage to murder a friend by cutting his throat she alleges he has been most cruei to her and her children about 10 vears ago he figured as the prosecutor of a whitemarsb township school teacher for correcting the boh if<ic;,itti of the covering is difficult and cumbersome the patent beyond a statement of component and propor tions and directions to thoroughly incorporate by stirring " and to mold the suitable paste thus obtained into tiles or sections trives no detailed in structions as to how this high percen tage of magnesia can be made to hold to gether with the small percentage of fibrous material much time attention and money were expended in devising a practical and convenient method of manufacture and as complainant's affidavits show one of its predecessor firm among other things invented a new and useful improvement in ma chines for moulding tubes or cylinders to economically make the said magnesia covering for which improvement he took a patent feb 12 1889 which is now owned by complainant whether the alleged acquiescence was induced by this patent or by one in suit it seems impossible in the present state of the proofs to determine the whole subject had therefore best be left for final hearing motion denied blue ll.l 1 . w l s will meet at the home of miss marie hoover on saturday even ing there will be preaching in union m e church on sunday afternoon by rev w.h gardner miss frances householder of throe tuns in visiting at . i w merrill's union m k sunday schuol will pic nic with the bethel and kulpsville schools at zietu-i'h park on auk ii miss ada hoovei nan returned from a visit tn her sister ai kuieka i line and clarence kelly are visiting grandparents in philadelphia sherman tippin and wife of \\ hickon visited bis parents on sunday hairy nash and family of oreland visited it henry xippin's on sumla mi i ¦ irv h ¦ jarrettnwn daniel lredell and hicks lukens at tended the norristown republican con vention last week as delegates from up per dublin east the upper dublin alumni members are planning a picnie for the near fu ture three copperhead snakes were recent ly killed on m j dillon's farm " samuel l fisher has a line crop of plums of several varieties the trees are bending with the weight of fruit albert tyson has about 00 bushels of fine unions dr t j clemens will till the same lectureship at the medico-clirirugical college when the term opens as he has previously occupied foi some years past dr dray well known in this vicinity will also be a member of the same facili ty raymond ilieel has recovered from his recent aiviilent the fractured arm is now all right lira arthur biddle miss edith bid die and master biddle left tuesday for a six weeks stav at york harbor me mr alfred biddle is spending some time at north east harbor me pr w p wil-'ii who lately pur chased the singexly liomesteadi moved monday with nil family i ii.ll bina ti;is moved into mr welbunk't house wharton huber and mr 1 i howajd are spending ¦ few weeks in ity h marion i wid is visiting friend i ' inter est in : - bag henrietta h illiani !¦ glenside and around haarbnll vl«lt>>r siimini-r i»<>itik ii w'lii.lprrnl v til hotim1 ttlram mi lmteotm ill-mi il inff-rcht miss edltll miller returned to h home in west philadelphia last mofl day morning a party of voting people was made up and took in the night af willow ol tuesdav mrs theodore boyei li<'.i last mon day al her home at edge hill after a lirief illness for a few day all infant baby survives misa edltll s mausen of wem.in has been spend i nt the past week with miss elisabeth c<ix at the latter - h at melvern chester county olmslde journeyed to new hope and tried to defeat the fjambertville \. a last saturday they failed dismally it was a sorry crew oy sportbden who returned thai night with the small oad • to i tally the lirst defeat a gay crowd of young folk ^ il con stitute the coaching party which is scheduled to leave ilenside this wed nesday evening for sprlnghouse the party will comprise about 15 couples the coach will make up at the resi dence of mi if iirroll brooke comet l.istnoie and ilenside avenues the kings1 daughters of cartne pres byterian etiurch intend to entertain a niiniber of slum waifs on theilawns of the church this thursday the child ren will be gathered by the mission of the city and brought out to ilenside where the matrons and misses of the vicinity will receive them and try their hands at amateai slumming by attempt ing to please the independent stolid street arabs dinner will be served on the shady side of the church followed by games and various amusements the residents of this vicinity were quite agreeably surprised last week by the announcement in several philadel phia newspapers of the proposed erec tion of a handsome new club house on gtenside highlands for the acoominoda tion of the select circle of patons whom the founders of the organization hope to inveigle into it the two gentlemen who figure the most prominently in this utopean monstrosity are mr todd mil let and mr louis weber of mt cnnuel avenue these gentlemen in their interviews with the representatives of ttu several newspapers painted their scheme in the brightest of colors when investigated however and closely questioned they were compelled to ac knowledge thai their schema is in many respects a chimera as one humorously put it the funds required to build their handsome dub building were by far nearer eight cents than the 8000 neces sary one advantage to the town even if the scheme fails to n.ateralize will be that the announcement has given ilenside i odwderable advertisement mr baberts realized this a fact attested by the manner i w1 th lie offered i hi > cpntr utii i ' > tin iiini the an ibwlvjhfe nuh'.jrmxjt •¦» en : f<bvtajh[flht trley ir a i •> considerable nu i north wales mrs jacob lutz died at hei home on east montgomery avenue on monday after only a few days illness she had been in bad health for some time but no fatal termination was anticipat ed her husband is the veteran sexton of st peter's lutheran church and also f the cemeterv of the same name on south main street the funeral will take place this thursday morning edward r gerhart the young man whose funeral took place at st john's reformed church lansdale on mon day morning resided in this place until his health compelled him to desist from work he was employed for a number of vears in kepler's general store later on in krieble'a grocery and shearer's coal and ice business wire thieves played havoc with trol ley traffic between this place und points above on saturday until late in the afternoon about 300 yards of the main trolley wire was taken from the station on toward the baptist cemetery the baptist church on shearer street on sunday held an election for pastor to succeed kev t b m clausser ami rev mr bird from old bridge n j , was elected the new pastor bus accepted and rented a house on west walnut street he will occupy the pulpit on sunday next austin billiard and wife returned to north wales on sunday from buffalo x y where the former was engaged iii electric wiring at the pan-american exposition they are staying with mr billiard's parents for a few weeks when they will ti to charleston s c where the young man will do the same kind of work for exhibitors at the ex position to open there in december next our local hall team on saturday la.st played tin1 quakertown red stocking l r i'imi and defeated them by a ; h to ' i hia thursday the !¦:. k freed mil ling company mills will pas into the hands of the lately formed trust samuel mater proprietor of the ward house at norristown and wife were tlie guests of his sister at tin custei . e in this town ovei sunday the reading railway company the past week made fl the watch boxes of the crossing flagman and planted '!"• same wit plants jonathan hanah speal sunday . ji relatives in wi — xhouiaij wilcox . i i hobocken was m l jitll 111 till stamp i.uw i ii ' * ' i i i ' ' ¦ * ¦ ' apj t a dlai n 1 ii • on tk held !