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FIBES RECALL
DEEDS DE VALOR
Old Soldiers Sit Up All Night to
Tell Stories, and Everyone’s
a Good Listener.
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up the third day, rendering p>aeam
enough the reunion weather
The veteran* exulted in that storm
They were in snug tentr. and they
were soldier*. When the storm began
to rage, they fastened the flaps of
their tents as they had learned to do
Bo well With all the heavy wind
not a tent was blown over, nor even
were the laahings loosened
Conversation Never Lags.
Within the tents there wiui al
ways conversation. Not even in the
dead of the night did it cease. The
talk was of charges and of retreats,
of maneuvers that have become more
and more heroic now that the years
have passed but mostly, as is the
*ay of veterans the world over, of
personal prowess and adventure
Camp fires were lighted In rows
that stretched for miles and miles
along the streets between the tents
Around them men sat. talking Co
der the tents men lav on the cots,
talking There was- little sleep, es
pecially the first two nights, but ;
voices everywhere through the night i
Voices that were steady and numer
ous. with a sort of staccato effect that
tame with the intermittent puffing!
of thousand of corncob pipes
Every veteran was his own best
listener Naturally, with everybody
talking
There was so much to tell, so many
deeds of valor, so many heroes, so
many beloved leaders who now are
demigods
Some of th* leaders were present
Most spectacular and attractive fig
ure. perhaps, was General Daniel E
Hickles, of New York, the sole sur
viving corps commander of the Union
army who participated In the battle
of Gettysburg
Every day of the four naw a stream
of visitors to his quarters, men wh? '
cried like babies as they shook
hand.*, and who had h hundred stories
to tell him. The <»ld general cried
himself, and at one time wnn ordered
kept from the visitors. More than
3.000 men. It is estimated, came to see
him and to shake his hand on the first
day of the reunion, and he held a
veritable court as he sat In an arm
chair on tti<- porch of the Kodgers
home. . battlefield landmark.
Young Leaders Soorn Beds.
Othr s of the leaders, younger and
m<re vigorous than th. aged Federal
scorned ♦he proffered beds and snug
chambers that had been reserved for
them. < h »o. Ing Instead the tents and
cots of their 'omrade* Ont; of th-»«e
mm was Gmf •al A J West, of Geor
gia. uh<» later vas presented with a
loving < up by the men < » his State
Another was General " lix H. Rob
ertson. of lexftH. vho throughout the
jrriot of reunion a resplendent
figure in his g<-Id-bmlded uniform nf
a Confederate general. Hl* chief gl •
rv was the fact that he had been et
Fort Sumter when the first gun of the
war was fired.
General Bennet ?! Young, of Louis
ville, < otnmandtr-ln-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, was at •
other hen. When he addressed the
*■ ■ ■ ' • ' - • 1 . first las his ow n
gray veterans greeted him with a
lusty rebel yell that was rivaled In
vjgot by the sincere cheer which camo
from ihe Union veterans
Confederate generals present were
Robertson. Toxas. West. Georgi...
Chaffer, Louisiana. A. D Williams.
Florida; Lav, Florida, and Carr,
North Carolina.
Mrs H D. Longstreet of Gaines
ville, Ga . widow of the great Con
federate leader, wns here and was al
ways the center of a reverent crowd.
Many men who fought under h i hus
band followed her day after da> tell
ing of incidents that occurred during
the war
The first night at the battlefield she
could find no quarters Everything
was reserved. and Bhe was forced to
sleep on the floor of a farmhoust. The
next morning, however, she found
that a tent had been reserved fnr her
by Genera! Sickles.
She went to the pump of a farm
house to get a dYlnk of water. »nd
there met an old soldier. She ask 'd
him under whom he fought, and he.
ignorant of her identity, replied.
•'Longstreet "
“And are you glad or sorry that
the war ended a» it did’”’ she asked
him.
“I am glad.” he said, emphatically,
“so far as the war itself Is concern* 1.
but not for the reconstruction days.
You may be a Northern woman, and
If you are. you can t Imagine what
wr went through not in the war
when the soldiers fought us. but In
the days afterward, when the poli
ticians governed us Rut Ini glad ti;e
war ended in a united nation ’’
Wore Badge of Union.
Mrs Longstreet saw everywhere ex
amples of the reconciliation that th*
Gettysburg meeting hat brought
about. She met a soldier wearing a
gray suit but decked with a badge
marked Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry. She asked him why he. i
Union man. should wear a gray mil;.
“Me?” he said, surprise*? I am
not a Yankee I fought under Long
street, and I'm from Mississippi.”
“Why do you wear that badge,
then?” she asked.
“Why." he said, "a Yank came
along to-day from the Fifth Pennsyl
vania and asked me of I’d trade
badges with him. after we’d had a
talk and found out where we were it
Gettysburg. So we traded. He’s
wearing my badge now—Fifteenth
Mississippi. Says lie’ll keep It as long
as he lives."
Reconciliation is sincere. There was
even talk during ’he four days of an
amalgamation of the United Confed-
[Mountain Excursion
Western North Carolina.
Land of the Sky and
Sapphire Country.
Thursday, July 10.
$6.00 Round Trip $6.00
Return limit July 20.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
The Georgian-American Pony Contest
VOTE COUPON
Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian
Pony Contest Vote Coupon. Sunday, July 6, 1913.
GOOD FOR 15 VOTES.
Voted For
Address
Voted By
Carriers’ and z\gents’ Ballot.
Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian
Pony Contest Vote Coupon, Sunday, July 6, 1913.
GOOD FOR 15 VOTES.
Voted For
Address
Voted By
School Boys’ and Girls’ Ballot.
SIS,BOH HOUSE
FDR CATS ONLY
BEING ERECTED
Apartments to Have Janitor, Heat
and Clam Chowder for Wom
an's Fifty-three Pets.
NEW YORK. July 5.—A »15.00<)
apartment house for cats, with jani
tor service, hot and cold clam chow -
der in every bedroom, a catnip bed on
each fire escape and ample fence room
for nocturnal promenading is the
latest building note to come from
Greenwich, Conn
Mre Clifford Harmon, wife of the
wealthy amateur aviator, and daugh
ter of Commodore E. <’ Benedict, has
broken ground on the Benedict eatate.
outside of the Connecticut suburb, and
before Ihe summer Is pant Mrs Har
mon’s 2k cats and 25 nlooded kittens
will be enjoying the dizziest high cat
life in America
Each of the nineteen rooms In the
new establishment will be assigned to
one cat family and only the heads of
the various* households will be pro
vided with latch keys Hardwood
floors, hot water heat, vacuum clean
ere with wall oorket attachments, and
built-in cradles for kittens, will be
among the appointments provided bj
the careful architect.
Quite modest In contrast with the
315.000 catterx will be the adjoining
rot 1 ages, erected to accommodate Mrs
F. V Mathies, the cat expert who Is
to be employed as n permanent chap
eron for Mrs Harmon's cats
crate Veterans and the Grand Army
«»f the Republic under the name. “The
United Veterans of the United
States.”
One correspondent, writing to a
New York paper, said nf the proposi
tion
“The Confederates are wild for it
It Isn't good merely good-nature ]
talk, they mean it."
Individual reunions between veter
ans of the North and South were nu
merous Numbers of them found that
they fought almost face to face in
the* conflict at Bloodv Angle, scores
recalling Incidents of personal com
bat. Over every such discovery there
were handclasps and assurances of
friendship.
Mrs Longstreet was not the nn’y
woman prominent in the reunion
crowds. General A. P Hill started
the battle of Gettysburg. His daugh
ter, Mrs Lucy Leq Hill MncGill. was
here to lead a genuine rebel yell for
Governor I vner of Pennsylvania,
loading It with a will. She beckoned
the Confederate veterans to their feet,
and they cheered, standing The Un
ion men listened, hardly able to re
strain themselves, and cheered wildlv
for severs’ minutes when the gray
wh-rans sank into their seats.
Old Nurses Open Hospital.
A band of devoted women were the
survivors of the corps of nurses who
served during the battle Mrs Sa
lome Stewart, leader of the band, was
here to open the' old hospital. Others
of her staff present were Mrs Charles
F Pye ami Miss Cornelia Hancock,
of Philadelphia; Miss Margaret Ham
ilton, Wakefield, Conn . Mrs Mary
Stevens. Peabody. Conn ; Mrs Annie
Irving. Newburg. Mrs Helen Cole,
Sheboygan. Wis. Women of the fam
ilies of General Meade, General Pick
ett and General Hill were present, too.
Women sang the old songs and the
old hymns, and never were there ten
derer moments during the reunion
than when they sang with broken
voices. They were schoolgirls and the
sweethearts of soldiers 50 years ago.
and every speech made during the re
union bi>re a reverent tribute to them.
Many of the w omen present had head
the roll and thunder of the battU.
and had lived through the tense mo
ments that <»ame during the week d
1563 after Pettigrew's men had dis
covered Buford's cavalry In the little
town and after General A. P Hill or
dered the first movement of the battle
There were reunions between sur
vivors of Buford's division of Meade’s
army, and Wheeler’s division of
Lee's, and. at the Bloody Angle, be
tween Meredith’s Iron Brigade and
Pettigrew's men. It was these latter,
according to the history of the fight,
who saw th* fiercest struggle
Not in all the story of the reunion
is there the breath of an unpleasant
ness among the veterans. A serious
tight occurred the second day of the
meeting, when Seven men were stab
bed. The fight, however, was precipi
tated by several young men who.
abusing Abraham Lincoln, aroused
the angei of a Union veteran. None
BALDPATEDSED
TO SHOW HE 15
PLUCKED CLEAN
Husband Tells Court His Wife
Made Him Cook and Then
Complained of Smoke.
NEW YORK, July s.—Benjamin F.
Friable, a St. Nicholas Avenue real
estate operator, wrote of his marital
experience that he had “been plucked
clean, not a feather left on him,” and
his bald head In the Supreme Court
yesterday seemed to bear out his
statement He testified in his own de
fense against his wife’s plea for a
separation. Justice Blanchard re
served decision.
Mrs Friable objected to “the
names" her husband called her and
he didn't like her neglect of house -
hold duties. Rhe complained that “he
would brealc the heart of a wheel
barrow” and. he said she made him
co<»k his own steak for dinner and do
Other household tasks.
Didn't your wife lend a hand at
cooking the steak?” he was asked
"She only sat down and com
plained about the smoke 1 made," he
ans we red
Mrs. Friable said after she sepa
rated from her husband he hired a
house girl "about three feet" from
her home*. He never spoke to her,
but w henev* t he paid her allmonv he
announced It so she and their neigh
bors could hear.
Mrs Friable inherited about 310,-
000 from relatives. Friable owns
many houses.
of the seven injured was a veteran.
But among the veterans of the two
armies there was only friendship and
serenity. Blue and Gray swapped
coffee and tobacco, just as they had
done during the war. swapped remi
niscences, and. most of all, traded as
surances of having forgiven and for
gotten the bitterness and the strug
gle of half a century ago
President Follows Lincoln.
Tuesday of the reunion was’ Veter
an®’ Da\, given over to a great meet
ing of all the old soldiers, with ad
dresses by representatives of both
sides. Wednesday was Military Day,
when younger soldiers were on dis
play. Thursday was Civic Day, when
Governors of States, representative*
of the national government, and
other civil authorities made ad
dresses Friday was National Day.
marked bv the address of President
Wilson.
The President spoke only briefly, as
had his great predecessor, Lincoln.
The speech was one in which breath
ed the spirit of a united nation, with
scars all healed and differences for
gotten A wonderful demonstration
marked its delivery.
Governors of States present were
Sulzer. New York. Mann. Virginia;
McGovern, Wisconsin; Clarke. Iowa;
Ralston. Indiana. Hanna. North Da
kota
Governor Mann’s arrival was mark
ed by the most splendid reception of
the reunion, given by men of Vir
ginia who were here. The Virgini
ans.’about 3,000 in number, were the
most enthusiastic of the reunion
crowd. Prominent men of Virginia
were here, many of whom were too
young to take part in the great fight.
Virginia camped within a stone’s
throw of Seminary Ridge. Every
night Its camp fires blazed near the
wall over which the cannons point
to-day as they did fifty years ago.
Every night the veterans sang the
old war songs through, and repeated
on the chorus. The entire encamp
meat of the Gray veterans in the
vail* y below the ridge joined in. until
a chorus resounded that was thun
dering even in the vast spaces of the
battlefield.
The songs were more and more ex
ultant as the evening wore on. Now
and then the rebel yell punctuated
the melody. The sound spread to the
Blue army, and was there augmented
by the voices of the Union veterans
until the battlefield became each
night a vast theater for the recrudes
cence of the most wonderful martial
spirit of all age*.
F*xv Sordid Spot*.
And so the reunion was held, a
great demonstration of peace and
reconciliation. A few unpleasant
notes were struck—the tragedy In
the deaths, the sordidness of pick
pockets the debate that was really
bitter at times over whether the bar
rooms should be closed But these
features were Insignificant, and were
lost in th<» great swell of enthusiasm
and affection toward all the world.
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY. JULY 6. 1913
PANAMA-PACIFIC
FAIRISSDRETD
OfENDNW
Promise Made One Year Ago Now
Certain of Realization—Work
Far Advanced.
Th.* Panama-Pacific International
Exposition will open on time! More
than one year ago .h!« promise wa,
made. To-day its realization is cer
tain.
When the great gates swing wide
February 20, 1915, the grounds will
be tn order, the vast buildings com
pleted. the exhibits Installed, the
amusement features in operation, ev
ery detail of the colossal enterprise
perfected This is not only a con
viction of the present; It will be the
pride of the future.
Five of the largest and most im
portant of the thirteen exhibit pal
aces are now under construction. Ma
chinery Hall, the largest wooden
building in the world, and the pal
aces devoted to education, food prod
ucts, agriculture and liberal arts
Construction Work Finished.
The construction work Incident to
the planning of the exposition may b<-
said to be finished. The design of
the Administration Tower, or colos
sal Tower Gate, the dominating fea
ture of the architectural scheme. Is
selected and approved. Artistic con
ception for courts, groups of statuary,
fountains, columns, arches and orna
mental details have been evolved by
the world’s masters, all of which
have commissioned and many mod
eled. The color scheme by the fa
mous painter. Jules Guerin. Is fully
wrought out. The engineering
mechanism and marvelous effects of
the illumination are already pre
pared. All the remaining exhibit pal
aces have been designed, and will be
under construction by tlme-Ilmlt con
tracts before th» end of July. More
than 116 congresses and conventions
have been secured The Service
Building on the grounds Is completed
and occupied In this, and in the
large office building In the city the
drilled and classified forces of the
executive divisions are at work. The
whole great plan moves forward rap
idly, surely, orderly, to the certain
fulfillment of Its beneficent purpose,
an exposition unrivaled in the his
tory of the world
That the exposition will be Interna
tional in character Is also assured.
Official acceptances of the invitation
of the United States to participate
has been received from twenty-seven
nations. From the orient will com.'
China and Japan. From the South
American Continent. Bolivia. Ecua
dor. Peru. Uruguay. Argentine Re
public. Chile and Brazil. From Eu
rope, France. Holland, Portugal. Swe
den. Spain and Denmark will send
exhibits. Cuba, Costa Rica, Canada,
Dominican Republic. Guatemala. Hai
ti. Honduras. Liberia, Mexico. Nica
ragua Panama. Salvador will be
represented by the order and appro
priation of their respective govern
s ments.
Two great European commercial
nations have not yet sent their offi
cial acceptances, owing to consider
ations of space. But it Is confidently
anticipated that every commercial
nation of the world whose trades will
be affected by the opening of the
Panama Canal will ipprcclate the op
portunity afforded and officially ex
hibit Its resources. In addition to
this, private exhibitors will come
from all parts of the civilized globe.
The largest appropriation so far
made by a foreign country Is 5600,000,
by Japan.
25 State* Represented.
The States and Territories of the
United States have responded
promptly and generously, and there is
no doubt that every one will be rep
resented. Already 35 have made ap
propriation? and selected sites, as
follows:
Arizona. Colorado. Hawaii, Idaho,
Illinois. Indiana, lowa. Kansas. Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland. Massa
chusetts. Minnesota, Missouri. Mon
tana, Nebraska, Nevada. New Jersey.
New Mexico. New York. North Dako
ta. Ohio. Oklahoma, Oregon. Penn
sylvania. the Philippines. Porto Rico,
Wisconsin. The largest appro
priation made by any State is S7OO -
000, by the State of New York. Ap
propriations by 17 States aggregate
$3,600,000. Large displays also wit
be made Independently by commer
cial bodies from many of the States
and large cities.
Applications for exhibit space are
overwhelming, and it would be possi
ble at this date to allot available area.
Many of these exhibits will be costly.
Involving an expenditure of from
$250,000 to $300,000.
Applications for amusement con
cessions have been received from all
parts of the world, and ‘the manage
ment Is confronted only with the im
portant task of selecting the most
moral and entertaining. So far more
than 6.000 applications have been re
ceived. Only 75 have been granted,
but these involve an expenditure of
$350,000. The total estimated outlay
on concessions is placed at $10,000,000
to $12,000,000. and it is computed that
7,000 persons will be employed in the
65-acre district devoted to amuse
ments.
Based upon a review of all depart
ments. and by comparison with other
world’s fairs of lesser magnitude, the
comptroller of the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition estimates that
its initial cost will exceed $80,000,000.
exclusive of the Intrinsic wealth rep
resented in the exhibits
Wife Tires of Tent;
Seeks Her Freedom
Woman Agreed to Live Twelve
Months Under Canvas, but After
Six Years Institutes Suit.
INDIANAPOLIS. July 5 The nov
elty of six years' life in a tent on a
lot on Tecumseh Street, near St. Clair
Street, has worn off for Mrs. Clara J.
Buck and she filed a suit for di
vorce from Leland N. Buck, who is al
leged to have compelled her to live in
the tent.
According to her attorney, John P
Leyendecker, Mrs Buck consented to
live in the tent the first summer of
her married life with Buck. When
the usmmer ended Buck Is said to
have made no effort to move from the
tent into a house and. when his wife
remonstrated, he told her to move if
she desired, but he intended to re
main in the tent Leyendecker says
they have had several tents in the six
years.
White House Betrothel Gives Society a Thrill
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Democrats Sure to Revive Days of ‘Alice Blue*
Bride-elect and her sisters and mother as they frequently ap pear in family party. Reading
from left to right they are Miss Eleanor Wilson, Miss Jessie Wilson, the next White House bride;
Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
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Washington Fashionables Now
Look for the End of Rigid
Simplicity.
WASHINGTON. July 5. —Announce-
ment of the betrothal of Misa Jessie
Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of
the President, to Francis Bowes
Sayre, a young lawyer nt I-ancaster,
Pa., has given Washington society a
stimulus that the fashionables sadly
needed through the long summer
months and the unending sessions of
Congress on the tariff measure.
In fashionable Washington, the an
nouncement that it was to be a White
House wedding in November gave
another flurry. White House wed
dings have always been a relief to the
semi-formal round of social pleas
ures at the Capital. The wedding of
Alice Roosevent and Representative
Nicholas Longworth is still vividly
and pleasantly remembered by Wash
ington society.
May Unbend Simplicity.
By some It Is believed that the wed
ding will mean the unbending to an
extent of the rigid simplicity’ in social
things so strictly adhered to since the
Democrats took charge of the Gov
ernment and the nuptials are thereby
doubly hailed by the society leaders.
It is pointed out that while Presi
dent Wilson could himself easily
forego the pleasures of the inaugural
ball and while Secretary Bryan could
deprive himself of wines at his own
festive feasts, it Is hardly likely that
Miss Wilson will wish the same sim
plicity to extend to her nuptials It Is
entirely likely that she will wish the
same sort of elaborate affair that
other White House brides have had.
On the other hand, it is pointed out
that Miss Roosevelt had entered ex
tensively into the gayeties of Wash
ington society, while Miss Wilson has
gone out comparatively little. She
is a deep student, tremendously in
terested in politics and in household
affairs.
Her fiance, It is understood, while
a man of considerable personal for
tune. is also of studious habits and
is active tn his work of becoming an
assistant In the office of District At
torney Whitman, of New York.
Democracy Sure to Celebrate.
But the wedding is sure to revive
the days when Alice blue was ths
prevailing color of fashionable gowns
and when presents arrived at the
White House tn carloads. Democracy
is sure to celebrate the event. There
have been but two Democratic Presi
dents since the war between the
States, Cleveland and Wilson Cleve
land became a husband in the White
House, while the first of President
Wilson's daughters will wed there.
While close friends of both families
have known of the engagement for
some time, announcement was with
held until the first anniversary of
Mr. Wilson's nomination at the Balti
more convention.
White House officials accompanied
the brief announcement with a biog
raphy of Mr. Sayre. He is 28 years
of age. and after preparing at the Hill
School at Pottstown. Pa., and Law
renceville, N. J., graduated from Wil.
liams College in 1909. He was man
ager of the football team there,
valedictorian of his class, and inter
ested in Y. M. C. A. work.
Spent Summers as Missionary.
He spent two summers with Dr
Alfred T. Grenfell in his mssfonary
work on the coast of Labrador and
studied law at Harvard Law School,
where he graduated last year, “cum
laude.” He has traveled extensively
during his vacations, spending last
summer in Alaska and eNorthern Si
beria.
Mr. Sayre comes from a collegiate
family. His father was the late Rob
ert Heysham Sayre, for a long time
president of the board of trustees of
Lehigh University, and builder of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad. His mother
was Martha Finley Nevin, a daughter
of John Williamson Nevin, theologian,
and president of Franklin and Mar
shall College at Lancaster. Pa. She
is descended from Hugh Williamson,
of North Carolina, one of the framers
of the constitution.
She is a sister of Robert J. Nevin,
head of the American Church of
Rome, Italy, and a first cousin of
Ethelbert Nevin, the composer.
Miss Wilson Is 24 years of age. and
was educated at Goucher College.
Baltimore, and specialized in political
science. She has done much settle
ment work in Philadelphia and has
been actively identified with the Y
W C. A . having recently made many
speeches in its behalf.
■EWH
ID SNE MAN’S
LIEE SUES HIM
But Woman Who Repents Action
Is Denied a Divorce Decree
by Court.
LOS ANGELES. July s—Which?
Marriage and the saving of a human
life or refusal and the moral respon
sibility of its loss?
This was the question Mrs. Dorothv
Lander, a pretty 20-year-old nurse,
faced in the operating room of the
Clara Barton Hospital when she
agreed to become the wife of Kirk C.
Lander, from whom she now seeks
her liberty.
She testified in Judge Monroe's
court that she married Lander to sava
his life.
This strange romance was revealed
by the young woman as a witness in
her own behalf. Her husband, shs
said, was a patient at the Clara Bar
ton Hospital. She was his nurse and
had attended him for ten days.
He suffered a relapse and an opera
tion was declared by the attending
physicians to be necessary to save his
life. He was placed upon the operat
ing table, but refused to submit 'o
the operation until he had seen his
nurse.
When she appeared, he told her that
he loved her —that life without her
was not worth living. If she prom
ised to marry him he would submit
to the operation necessary to save his
life, he said, and if she refused he
would die.
The operation was successful and
two days later the couple were mar
ried. Sirs. Lander sought a divorce
on the grounds of non-suppert, al
though she admitted that she had
never lived with her husband, who
contested the action.
Judge Monroe held that the young
woman had failed to make out a case
legally. Mrs. Lander was heartbroken
when the court denied the decree.
No Angles in Houses
On City Corner Lots
Superintendent of Street Paving Set
the Fashion and Contractors
Follow.
CONWAY. ARK.. July 5.—A paving
contractor thrust fame upon this place,
the home town of former Governor G.
W. Donaghey. but Conway folk did not
realize it until visitors told them
A year ago Conway bought concrete
walk* for the entire town The man
who superintended the delivery did not
like angles, so he made every street
comer a curve. There is not a right
angle in the entire system of walk*.
Conway builders caught the Idea, and
those who have erected houses on cor
ner lots since the curves were intro
duced have set them bias of the lot. As
a result the residence faces the curve,
or both streets impartially
Episcopal Bishop
Speaks From Truck
Rt. Rev. Rhinelander Addresses
Throngs on Streets in Phila
de'phia Tenderloin.
PHILADELPHIA. July 5. —Bishop
Rhinelander, head of the Episcopal
Diocese of Pennsylvania, spoke twice
on the streets of the Tenderloin here
from the tailboard of the gospel truck
of the Inasmuch Mission
A; the Tendeiioln meetings men
and women from the lowest homes in
the city assembled in great numbers
Before the large truck "church" left
the "gospel" corners men down and
out ran to shake the Bishops hand.
YOUNG PAGES IN
MOGK SESSION
APE SENATORS
Boys Legislate Against Senatorial
Fire Water and Baneful
“Soak Book.”
WASHINGTON. July T.—Vlsitors at
the Senate wing of the Capitol re
cently saw such a session as they
probably never will see again. It was
the mock session, with the eighteen
pages of the Senate acting the parts
of Senators, while Joseph O’Toole,
chief of pages, presided in Vice Pres
ident Marshall’s place.
The rules provide that pages shall
not be under 12 years of age nor over
16, and their uniform is a white
blouse shirt and knee breeches. With
great dignity, save for occasional gig
gles, they introduced bills “for appro
priate reference,” offered resolutions
and answered to the names of Sen
ators when the roll was called. In
the press gallery notes on the pro
ceedings were taken with becoming
solemnity.
One youngster introduced a bill
that almost broke up the meeting. It
bore the title "To prohibit Senators
from using firewater, and for other
purposes." Another was entitled “A
bill to relieve a bull pup.” It was
duly referred to the committee on
dog fights.
The opposition to these measures
was led by a lad named McCoy, and
he continued his leadership with
great zest until a resolution was of
ferred directing the Sergeant-at-
Arms to "put a Maxim silencer on
McCoy."
The effectiveness of this parlia
mentary stroke was increased when
it was noticed that Charles P. Hig
gins, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate,
was standing in the doorway grinning.
The bane of. a page's existence is
a little volume known as the "soak
book.” in which delinquent pages are
"soaked” with various penalties.
Young "Senator” McCoy was able to
regain all his lost prestige by offer
ing a resolution that the “soak book
be burned with fire.’’
Parrot Cries “Fire,”
But Dies in Flames
Alarm Saves Occupants of House, but
Firemen Are Unable to Rescue
the Screaming Bird.
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO.. July
s.—Although they were able to save
their household goods, due to the
warning of a pet parrot, the hero
or heroine failed to escape in the fire
which destroyed the home of F. E.
Post.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Post were away
from the house, working on the ranch,
when they heard a cry of "Help,
help! Fire, fire!” from the vicinity
of their home. They started back to
see smoke coming from all the win
dows. while the parrot was screaming
at hte top of its voice.
As they arrived at the house the
bird toppled over into the flames, and
when Post rushed into the house he
found Polly dead.
PASTOR LIKES THE “MOVIES,”
SOUTH BEND IND. July 5.
The Rev. John Walton, pas’or of the
First Baptist Church, of Garrett. Ind.,
attributes the success which has at
tended his ministry to popular in
terest in moving pictures.
PARTY POLITICS
ARE ABOLISHED
81CLEVELJNO
Non-Partisan Elections With Pro
vision for Recall of Mayor Pro
vided for in New Charter.
CLEVELAND. July s.—Non-par
tisan elections, with the absoluts
abolition of political parties, as far
as municipal affairs are concerned, is
assured to Cleveland in the terms ot
the new city charter, which has been
completed. Experts declare the pro
posed charter is a model.
Nominations by petition instead of
by primaries and the preferential sys
tem of voting in elections are to
leading features of the new govern
emntai system of the city.
Will Simplify Elections.
It is aimed to simplify election n**-
chinery and give the greatest possi
ble expression to the will of the vot
ers. who not only are io have tneir
first choice for each office counted
but their second and other choices as
well.
The Mayor and 26 members of the
Council are the only city officials who
are to be elected under the new char
ter All the others are appointive.
Candidates for the elective positions
are to certify their names backed by
the signatures of voters to the Board
of Elections and be placed upon a
non-partisan ballot, carrying no par
ty designations of any kind, and on
which the names are to be rotated.
Mayor May Be Recalled.
The recall Is to apply to all elective
officials. The Mayor may be recalled
upon the petition of 15,000 voters, and
a Councilman may be recalled upon
the petition of 600 of his voting con
stituents.
The Mayor and Councilmen are
elected for two-year terms.
The Mayor Is to have the veto, but
it Is to bo nullified to a large extent
by the provision that any measure
may be passed by the Council over
the veto by a majority vote.
Ordinances may be initiated by pe
titions which contain the names of
5,000 voters, and a referendum also Is
provided for. by which the acts of the
Council are to be submitted direct to
the people.
The executive department is to be
vested in six departments under the
Mayor, directors of which are to be
appointed by the chief executive.
Children Start Fire
Curling Doll's Hair
Father Is Severely Burned Trying to
■ Extinguish Flames Caused by
Play of Little Ones.
aid July 5 —’Harry Qinck,
410 Noble Street, was severely burned
la-’t night while attempting to ex
tlnguish a fire in his home started i'C
two of his children. Della, 11 years
; old. and Harry, aged 5.
They were curling a doll’s’ hair
• "nen a curtain caught fire and spread
to the bed clothes.
’ Qlnck. asleep in another part of the
i house, was awakened by the cries of
' Firemen extinguished
the flames.
Ministers Agree to
Promote Good Plays
i Unitarians Will Help Better Show«
Instead of Criticising “Bad”
Theaters.
.
LOS ANGELES. July s—That the
i church should promote the better shows
given in theaters instead of criticising
, bad shows and condemning the the
aters. was the consensus of opinion at
, ?. fneetlng of ministers at the First
1 Unitarian Church.
I b/tw.LLT. <Je . r l , to J* 1 '? more co-operation
between the churches and theaters it
' in a ?t,» eClded , tha . t some I>f the ministers
‘ e or & anizat lon should go to theat
wVth Th and make arrangements
l with them to have lectures given in
5 ?n U thea e ters n ' h “ better plays > ,resen,e<l
’ ■■wh r nlS n ? rs of . o,her denominations.
e continually harping at the
' rri e tlJr r «^ as . ar L ,nfll) ence of evil,” were
, criticised at the meeting.
AGED MAN MARRIED TO
; GIRL HE NURSED AS BABY
CUMBERLAND. MD.. Julv 5.
1 k’J SS label Reicher, 21. and Abra
. ham Garman. 60, were married here
. by the Rev. George E. Brown. They
' ? re P unkardß and reside on adjoin
’ farms bear Deotate, Pa. The
: bridegroom told Judge Humbird that
‘ k nursed the girl when she was
. a baby and that as they naturally be
’ ta J n l attached to each other they de
cided that they would get married
■H gon
U'BE GAME"J
Don't allow a weak
stomach, lazy liver and
clogged bowels to put
you “in bad." Always
be game, and help na
ture overcome such
trouble by taking
Hosteller’s
STOMACH BITTERS
it strengthens the en
tire “inner man" and
drives out al! Stomach, r
Liver and Bowel Ail- |
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