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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-09
OBITUARY..

JOHN WILKINS, SR., of 905 Luzerne
street, died at the family home at 1875
Thursday night. His death was due
to an illness of several months, from q
complication of diseases. He was borr
in South Wales, May 6, 1888, and lived
there till early manhood, coming to
this country in 1869. He was employed
as pattern-maker in the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western machine
shops until 1901, when he became an
employe of the American Locomotive
works. Mr.. Wilkins was an earnest
and consistent member of the Ply
mouth church. He is survived by his
widow and the following children:
John and Walter Wilkins, Mrs. w. D.
Morgan, and Mrs. Isaac Marshall, of
Washington, N. ]. The funeral will
be held from the late home on Sun
day afternoon, Rev. ID. P. Jones Off
ciating. Interment will be made in
the Washburn street cemetery.
CLINTON CHARLES STEVENS,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Stevens,
died at the family residence on Adams
avenue. Dunmore, yesterday afternoon
about 5 o'clock, after an illness of sew
eral months duration. He was born
in Sterling, Wayne county, twenty-six
years ago. Previous to his illness he
was engaged in the general store of
his father. where his genial and happy
disposition made him prime favorite.
He was a member of st. Stephens COM
mandery. knights of Malta. The fu-
neral will occur on Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock from the family residence,
1412 Adams avenue. Dunmore. Inter-
ment will be made in the Dunmore
cemetery.
MRS. MARY WILMORE, Of North
Chestnut street, passed away at the
home of her daughter. Mrs j. S.
Loucks of West Mountain, at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. She is survived
by her daughter and son, Lewis and
Charles Wilmore. Funeral announce
ment later.
MADELINE SCHAFFER, the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Schaf-
fer. died at the family residence in
Neptune court, last evening The fu-
neral will take place tomorrow after
noon. and interment will be made in the
Pittston avenue cemetery,
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DOMESTIC SCIENCE.


Don't set your broom down on the
brush end. Hang 1t up when not in
use. II will last twice az long. q
Don't use your CARPET broom to
sweep the cellar and scrub the kitch-
d, cn,. Keep a clean fresh broom, for
carpets.
Don't use broom splints to test
cake. II is not cleanly habit, to say
nothing of the danger of getting poi
soned from the arsenic used to color
the broom. ~
Don't economize too much in
brooms. A stub broom wears your
carpet, takes more time in tho sweep
ing and tires you out. ,
Don't sweep with your back. Use
your arms.
Don't forget that your broom needs
an occasional bath. On washing day
before the rinsirg tub is cmptied
throw n little salt In. then 'douse'
your brooms up and down. shake of
the supernuous water and set on end
out of doors to dry. The good work.
woman is careful of her tools.
The best sauce for beefstcak is con-
sdered to be maitre d'hotel butter.
This Ia made of u heaped table,
spoonful of the best butter. to which
the Juice of half a lemon and half n
teaspoonful of minced parsley have
been added. I
Onions fried crisp and tender by
soaking in cold milk previous to
plunging them into hot fat are rel
ished by many as n garnish for steaks.
While there are cheese straws and
cheese straws. this recipe given by n
New York cooking school teacher will
he found exceptionally good:
Put one cup of flour in bowl make
hole in the center put in two ounces
of butter and the yolks of two eggs
and work them gradually together.
Then add two tablespoonfuls sweet
cream or milk. n dash of cayenne,
and. when we'll mixed. four ounces
of grated cheese. Form into a ball
and set away on the ice for an hour.
Then put the paste on a Toured
board, roll 1t out an eighth Of an inch
thick brush over with beaten egg and
cut in small strips.
Rinse out some pans with cold wa
ter. put In the straws and bake a
delicate brown in quick oven. A lit
tie fine salt sprinkled over them Just
as they are taken from the oven in
considered to be an improvement by
many.
With green corn at its best, try this
old Quaker recipe for green corn pud-
ding:
Prepare one pint Of grated corn. or
cut with knife through the center
OF the rows and scrape out the inside
of the kernels. Add to the pint Of
prepared corn one pint Of milk. two
tablespoonfuls Of sugar. two beaten
eggs and one teaspoonful of salt.
Bake in buttered tins about two
inches thick. 1t will require about
three-quarters of an hour.
Corn grlddle cakes may be prepared
in much the same way. To two cup
fuls of the milky pulp allow cup Of
sweet milk. two eggs. tablespoonful
of melted butter. half teaspoonful Of
salt and quarter spoonful of soda,
with just enough flour to make thin
batter.
Bake like griddle cakes and eat with
butter and syrup.
Corn that has been boiled can be .
chopped fine and added to any good
griddle cake batter.
EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
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STILL ANOTHER UNION.
on-Union Trolley Men Effect an
Organization,

Just as If the city of Scranton
couldn't have trouble enough with one
street car mems union, the nom union
employees of the trolley company met
yesterday morning, after working
hours, in Seth Jones' hall, and or
Sanized another union.
1t was decided to style it Division
1866, Ancient and Illustrious Street Car
Employees of Scranton. Robert Shaw
was elected president; James Sontag,
secretary, and James Whitman, treas
urer.
After effecting permanent organ
ization, the n-unionists discussed
the award of the arbitrators in the
dispute between the company and the
union employees and resolved that 1t
was an unsatisfactory award. How
ever, they agreed to accept it's terms.
Division 16S, Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street Railway Employees Of
America, composed of the union troll
ley men, also met yesterday morning
In regular session and discussed the
arbitrators award. No formal resolu-
ton was adopted, but the sense of the
meeting was that the award was fair
and just, under the circumstances.
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CLARK'S SUMMIT.

Rev. ]. s. Custard and family are visit
ing relatives in Stroudsburg. Mr.. Gus
tard will be absent over next Sabbath,
his pulpit being supplied during his ab-
sence by another minister at the morn
ing service and special programme in
charge of DR.. Merrill In the evening.
Misses Emma Won Storch and Matte
Warnock have returned from Hartford.
where they spent week with the lat
ter's parents. ,upp i)n
Workmen are removing the tile Jfrflm
the condensing drain, which gives pretty
good evidence that Clark's Summit Is
through with condensing milk for a long
time TO come. '''.'"'' ''
A social was held by Mr.. +. j. Walkers
Sunday schol class at the homrof Mr..
Eugene Myers on Tuesday eyening.1"V
NJ. NJ. Hufford. of Stroudsburg. was in
town calling on friends few days ago.
Regular weekly drill on the cantata.
"Our Flag with the Stars and Stripes
will he held at the Methodist Episcopa
church each Thursday evening at |
o'clock sharp. '"''
Miss Melburg, of Scranton, Is visitip
her sister, Mrs. b. Il. HOLSTER.
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DEATH OF CHARLES D. WINTER.
He Was One Of Jermyn's Most
Prominent Citizens.

Charles d. Winter senior member of
the well-known firm Of c. ID. Winter &
Co., and a man widely known through
out the valley, died at his home on
Main street, Jermyn, at o'clock yes
terday afternoon, his death being due
to an attack of apoplexy, with which
he was seized while leading a prayer
meeting in the Methodist Episcopal
church on Wednesday evening.
From the time he was stricken down
he remained unconscious and passed
away without being able to speak or
recognize the members of his family.
There has seldom been a death in a
community that has caused such pro-
found sorrow as the death Of Mr.. VIM
ter has to the people of Jermyn. He
was a man who never failed to gain the
respect of those he came in contact
with, and was always the first one to
offer consolation or say a kindly word
when it was needed. Deceased was
born in Blakeslee, Monroe county, May
"a, 1851, and came to Jermyn in 1871,
when he entered the employ of John
Jermyn as clerk in his store, where, by
his faithfulness to duty and business
foresight, which has since served him
so well, he became manager, a position
he continued to hold until August "a,
1884. when he opened up the general
store which has since borne his name
and of which he was the active head.
He was a faithful and devout Chris
tian and carried his christianity into
his everyday life. For twenty-nine
years he had been superintendent of
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school
n In, nj ~
church and Sunday school, being presi-
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may from the humblest position rise
| to the very highest. Therefore, II a
person have assumption, arrogance,
pretension, he may assume to be
great parsonage, and may by his man
| ner hurt the feelings of some humber
persons. We call such a person a
snob and he deserves the name. 1t Is
said that the lady who Is fully aware
of her own good birth and breeding.
who has had respectable ancestors, and
who has always lived in good society.
is never afraid to bow first, to call
first and to speak first. She knows
that courtesy is the most beautiful
virtue: that polteness should be emu
merated among the seven capital vir-
tues, and she is not hurt If the person
to whom she bows does not return her
courtesy.
A great authority on social usages in
this country gives this bit of advice:
"Be not afraid If you are a newcomer
to impress yourself upon a desired ac-
quaintance by acts of civility and by
the most courteous attentions. They
will not be mistaken for snobbery, IL
neither of you are snobs."
The same authority says that 1t is
always proper for a younger lady to
make the first call upon an elderly one,
yet this does not advocate "push."
There are perfect instincts in this mat
ter which should invariably tell where
one should not go first. In Scranton 1t
is safe to say new conner seldom
makes first call.
AS to card etiquette, 1t Is customary
to leave cards as in other cities, upon
all the ladies Of the family, on re-
turning or making a first call, and to
leave two cards of ones husband. An
effort is made to return first calls with
in fortnight AS was remarked be-
fore, rigid rules are not very strictly
observed in this city, and with pa
tience and tact one may almost select
ones own circle Of friends and ac-
,quaintances.
OF course. the turned down corner
of card. like the turned down page
in a life, Is no more revealed here, al
though the price of pasteboard and
block engraving continues to be high.
After all, a certain frankness,, indi-
eating a promise to meet new acquaint-
ances half way Is a passport to social
success here as elsewhere. Fast con-
duct is not countenanced, and the mild
est sort of an escapade Is almost un-
heard of in Scranton society. If these
facts are an intimation of erudeness
In a new city. may it be endowed with
eternal youth. Saucy Bess.
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yet inexpensive, ice cream, here II Is:
The ingredients are three cupfuls of
milk, one cupful of cream, one large
egg, two tablespOonfuls of flour, one
cupful of sugar. one level tablespoon
full Of gelatine Qf you wish to mold IL.
one-half pound English walnuts in the
shell and cne-quarter pound OF figs.
Soak the gelatine in little of the
cold milk and reserve two or three
tablespoonfuls of milk to go with the
sugar, -four and egg. Heat the re-
mainder of the milk in a double boiler.
and when it scalds. stir into it the
flour. sugar and egg thoroughly beat
en- into the reserved milk. Cook u
few moments to thicken, stirring
carefully. Take from the fire. add the
dissolved gelatine, one teaspoonful of
vanilla and the cup of cream. Cool
and freeze. When frozen, remove the
dasher and stir in she chopped wal
nuts and figs, Beat we'll and pack.
If you put it in mold and It shows
signs Of sticking when you come to
turn it out, wet towel in hot water
loosen. Then If the outside seems
soft. set in the ice box a moment to
harden again
In selecting lobster, the rock lob
ster with black spots on the back Is
considered best.
An excellent accompa niment for cold
or warmed over meat or fish is Turk
ish rice.
Wash one cupful Of rice in three
waters. Put in a stew pant with one
cupful strained tomato, two cupfus
cold water. two tablespoonfuls butter,
one teaspoonful of salt and two
ounces finely chopped ham. When 1t
begins to boil push back on stove
where the contents will barely simmer
for about forty minutes. At serving
time turn the rice into a warm dish,
taking care not to break 1t.
Never boil fish in cold water and
never pour boiling water on it. Put
into scalding water mot bubbling).
With white, dry fish, butter sauce
is best.
With the dark fish use sauce tar
tare.
All baked fish need basting every
two minutes.
Don'ts are sometimes easier to re-
member than dos, so here are n few
to commit to memory, just on the
subject of brooms:
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VIEWS OF
' a WOMAN
CHARMING lady writes asking

| Il CHARMING lady writes asking
| ~ some information about card
| Aetiquette in Scranton, and by this
no chance masculine reader need con-
lecture that she has in mind either
whist, "five hundred" or Bridge.
don't wonder that any stranger coming
to the city is bewildered as to the cor
rect procedure as recognized here, be-
cause, while it is frequently the re-
verse of that in vogue in other cities
1t is a rather please rite at
all times.
The new conner to Scranton may be
assured one one point at least: There
are few snobs here and they are SO
dull and uninteresting that it needn't
distress one. They flock together and
| confine their attentions rather exclu-
svely to their own kind and hence
aren't SO much of an infiiction as If
| they We're more widely disseminated.
The new conner, If she is not pusher
and lives here ten years more or less,
will be pretty apt to acquire very
nice group of friends. Or if she is
lucky and happens to know anybody
who ever knew anybody else in cer-
tain circle. she will find herself re-
ceiNeu Will open arms anu TIE TeSt IL
easy.
There was a time when prompt con-
, nection with prominent church was
an entering wedge to excellent stand
ing in society. but the church people
have taken industriously to saving
their own souls and sewing for the
heather and haven't much time for the
stranger within their gates.
AS to card etiquette. this Is a city
which Is alleged to follow to some de-
gree the customs of New York, and yet
there Is a laxity of social observation
which Is certainly unlike any other
town of pretensions on the map.
There Is very general and genial So
cial intercourse as naturally must be
the case where everyone knows every
one else, and therefore delightful lack
of formalty prevails. The require
ments are not very rigid. If lady
does not meet all her social obligations
with the most painful precision 1t Is
not held against her in the judgment
day of the weighing of good breeding.
Everyone Is so busy here that all sorts
OF allowances are made and all sorts
of improbable excuses are accepted.
One of the oddities of our social life
which interests strangers is the GUS
tom Of "tea calls" Almost everywhere
else the person who receives card to
tea is not expected to call thereafter
as an acknowledgment of the courtesy;
neither Is the hostess. The invitation
is call, the response, whether in per-
son or by card on the day of the tea,
is another. Not SO I'm Scranton. The
guest Is expected to call thereafter as
soon as convenient, and thus compile
cations are added TO the demand made
upon a persons time. Perhaps the
course Is justfiable since most of the
so-called teas are really elaborate re-
ceptions we'll worth a party call. 1t is
rather pity that they have so far
deviated from the original idea of
"Come in and drink tea with me at
four"
1t has been said that we are on a
sliding scale in America and that no
one knows with thorough exactitude
where he stands socially, as every one
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MUSICAL NOTES.

Daniel Frohman has cabled his repre-
sentative that Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the
Russian pianist who is to appear under
his management in America during the
coming season, will start for this country
earlier than was intended, and will make
his first appearance as the principal solo
list Thursday, Oct. 2. at the Worcester,
Mass festival,
II Il II
On next Friday evening, Aug II. will
occur the one hundredth performance Of
the beautiful and artistlcally correct Sam
s. Shubert and Nixon & Zimmerman pro-
duction of "A Chinese Honeymoon" The
cool and commodious Casino has held
many big musical comedy successes. but
none which at this time mark for num-
ber of performances carries with 1t so
many features insuring continued finan-
cial and artistic longevity.
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The Capouse washery of the Scran-
ton Coal company, a branch of the On
taro and Western coal department,
was totally destroyed by fire yesterday
afternoon. The loss is about $4,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but
1t Is strongly suspected it was caused
by an incendiary.
Tie washery was located along the
Keyser Valley branch of the ontario
and Western road about one hundred
yards north of the Capouse breaker,
commonly called the Briggs. 1t was
built two years ago. and was the
largest and best equipped washery in
the region, holding the record for out
put-3600O tons in a month.
1t was thrown idle by the strike, but
on July IA started up with force of
non-union men, mostly foreigners. The
force was increased right along until
1t reached sixty, the maximum number
required to work the plant to it's full
est capacity.
Thursday was pay day, and several
of the men were off or incapacitated.
Yesterday, however, all hands We're on
duty. At II o'clock noon the washery
machinery was shut down to allow the
men to go to dinner, which is served to
them in the colliery carpenter shop,
some distance away. Foreman Elijah
Miller remained at the washery while
Assistant Foreman Peter Bannon and
the men were at dinner. A little before
! o'clock the men came back and dis
tributed themselves to their posts, to
be ready to begin work when the ma
chinery started at 1 o'clock.
SAW THE FIRE.
Assistant Superintendent Bannon
looked about the washery for little
while, after coming from dinner, and
then started down the conveyer line
towards the point where a gang was
engaged in shoveling. He had gone
only 300 feet, when he saw that the
machinery had suddenly stopped. Look
ing back towards the washery he dis
covered 1t belching forth flame and
smoke, and saw the men jumping
through windows and in other ways
making hurried exits.
The fire burned slowly but surely, and
by the time the two West Side fire
companies arrived it was total loss.
At 3 o'clock a pile Of charred wood,
covering mass of what was expensive
machinery, was all that was left of the
star" washery of the upper anthra-
cite region.
The best information obtained by
superintendent J. f. Cummings in
vestigation is that the fire started in
an open space under the "jigs" and
just above the engine room. 1t is evil
dent 1t started some place not gener-
ally frequented, as it was beyond all
control before anybody discovered it.
In this space above the engine room
is found the only dry timberng about
washery. Every other portion of a
washery is continually saturated with
the water used in cleaning the coal A
stairway reached by a door on the
northern side of the washery, used only
by the oiler, leads to the open space
above the engine room. There were
watchmen about the washery, but in
the daytime, particularly, their vigil
lance was doubtlessly relaxed by reason
of the fact that there has been no at
tempt whatever lat interference with
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1NsuLTED WRONG MAN.
Alderman Howe Resented a Young
Mans Freshness.

A young man, slightly intoxicated
and very fresh, insulted Magistrate
John T. Howe yesterday noon, and
later wished he hadn't. The alderman
was walking up Penn avenue quietly,
after lunch at "a Spruce street restahr-
ant, and the young man was standing
near the st. Charles hotel with a
friend.
AS Magistrate Howe came abreast of
him, he lurched forward and indignant
ly remarked: Say, what In blank
right have you down on this block ?"
He accompanied the remark with an
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Postal Clerk Arrested,

By Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
Paterson, Aug. S.--Ernest j. Meyers,
aged 27 clerk in the postofflce here
was arrested today on a charge of theft.
lie made confession in which he said he
had been stealing letters containing
money for year past. He did not know
how much he had taken but it is be-
lieved that his peculations will amount
to large sum. he said he lost the
money in betting on. horse races.
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cruit, although under age, and without
the consent of his parents. Judge
Archibald granted the writ, and made IL
returnable at Philadelphia, next Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Judge Archibald also received word
from the district clerk at Philadelphia,
that application would be made today
for an order authorizing the sale of
vessel at the, Philadelphia port.
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DOING DOUBLE DUTY.
Judge Archibald Attending to Phila-
delphia Federal Court Matters.

During the absence of Judge John B.
Mcpherson, from the Eastern district
OF the United States court. on his va
cation, care of the federal court mat
ters of Philadelphia has been entrusted
to Judge r. w. Archibald, of the Mid
die district.
Application was yesterday made to
MN for writ OF habeas corpus. to
release Lester w. Miller, who is now
on receiving ship at the Philadelphia
post. The boy enlisted as a naval re-
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insulting gesture, and the fires of '63
burned fiercely in the magistrates
bosom and made him a thoroughly
angry man.
The patrolman on the beat happened
along at this moment, and Magistrate
Howe hailed him with, "Officer. take
that man into custody" The next in
stant the unhappy nebriate was in the
bluecoat's clutch, and hurried to the
Centre street station. He will appear
before Magistrate Howe in police court
tOday
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Republican Conference.
BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Pres,

BY EXCLUSIVE Wire from The Associated Press
New York. Aug. S.-Governor Odell, Sen
ator Platt, Lieutenant Governor Woodruff
and Colonel c. w. Dunn. chairman of the
Republican state committee, held a con-
ference at the Fifth Avenue hotel today
on the political affairs Of the state. AS to
what transpired there the Evening Post
says Colonel Dunn announced that 1t
had been decided that the Republican
candidate for lieutenant governor this
fall should be chosen from Manhattan
borough
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Was the Finest In This Region and
Its Destruction Caused a
Loss Of $4,000.
FIRE Believed TO
BE INCENDIARY

Washery Was Known as the Ca
pouse and Was Situated in Keyser
Valley-It Was. Owned by the
Scranton Coal Company-Fire Was
Discovered Soon After the Men Re-
turned to Work After the Noon
Hour Recess-Building Was En-
tirely Destroyed-Will Be Rebuilt
at Once.
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Eastern League.

Montreal, 8; Buffalo. 2.
Providence. 7; Worcester, &
Toronto-R Rochester: rain.
Jersey City, 4; Newark, I.
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way Of the firemen. Comparatively few
of the members of the crowd assembled
at the fire were adult strikers, although
there are 10000 of them living within
sight of the flames