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S0z0DoNT T
TOOTH POWDER
For 5e years the Dentifrice Of
Quality. Absolutely Non-Acid
10 Waste. No Grit ar.
nsw Patent Top Can Eos
DITCHED AN EXPRESS TRAIN.
Swift Gilman Did 1t 10 Avoid . Collision
No One Hurt.

SCRANTON, Pa. June l3.-The presence
of mind of Martin II. McMasters, a signal
man at the Carbon street crossing Of the
Delaware and Hudson road. prevented
serious collision to-day. 10 do this McMas-
ters was forced to ditch a passenger train,
the Saratoga Express.
AT Carbon street there is switch which
all passenger trains on the Delaware and
Hudson road take in order to reach the
Lackawanna avenue station. The ex-
press, south bound, was backing out
of the siding. fast freight train, north
bound, was approaching. The express to
reach the south hern track had to cross in
front OF the freight.
The signal man threw the signals against
The passenger train, but they were not
not iced, and it came on. McMasters as a
last resort dtched it. The two last cars to
the train were extra, and they went over on
their sides. Only tranmen were on them,
and they escaped by jumping. The passen-
gers in the regular coaches were badly
shaken and scared, but no one was hurt
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Obituary Not e..

progressive citizen Of Port Jeryis' died on ,n
EbTda ns = 'as % o
the ei liver e after i've weeks illness. at the go
of 80 years. He was, of an old and IN IN
in the Port Jervis National Bank for several
library and custodian Of the 5000 contri-
library building direct or OF the Barrett B:id dge
Company and director and treasurer or the
Port .,Jervis Telephone Company, He leaves
a widow and son.
James H, Hamlen. one of Maine wealthiest
cooperace and exporting firm OF j. Fl; Ham.
tansive n.nE; "f plant " in little Rock Ark and It's
GsTs ans Sew oU
He leaves widow son and daughter.
Marion Martin. at one time Democratic
lea der in Texas. is dead az his home near Corsl;
s@verni terns in ench of tho branches OF the
Texas Iepislat md was elected Lieutenant-
Governor on the Democratic ticket. ne went
over to the Populsts and became their candi-
date for Governor. which fact destroyed him
politically.
James Hdreth died Yesterday at his home,
S,' Years 9"d' old He was born in England came
10 this country When ylm;, yonm;K man Wr mha or, Dr.,
hann i'll for two years He leaves n widow and
two children.
DR.. Edward p. Luce died on Friday night
Mt his home. 4a5 Avenue d. Bayonne. y: j.,
mt tho age of 10 He is survived by widow;
var war 'S h, Vas n surgeon in the United States
Army. 4 few months ago. DR.. Luce and
his wife celebrated their golden wedding.
Mrs. Deborah Ten Broeci of bergen Point
died on Friday evening at her home. Avenue
G and Fourth street She was q years old
and was the wife of Robert Ten Broeck
Her son, r. Morris Ten Brock, is we'll
known Republican,.
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HOWLED SWI7CH ENGINE OVER.
Express Train Hits II OH the Bridge APP
prOaCh at New London.

NEW LONDON, Conn, June ls.-The pas
senger express train known as the -.
bound from Boston for New York, had =
close call from being wrecked on the ap-
proach to the Thames River Bridge this
evening The train. which left Boston at
8 o'clock. was in charge Of Conductor KEN
yon and Engineer Reed who reside in New
Haven. 1t had just passed over the big
bridge at a fair rate of speed at $40 O'Clock
when a switching engine run by Engineer
Baker, oomed up in front Of the train and
In an instant there was head collision
The impact was so great that the lighter
engine was picked up bodily and thrown
down the cmbankment. The fireman
jumped, but Engineer Baker stuck to the
throttle, and his chances for escape alive
would have bsen slight had not the switcher
collided a second time with q telegraph
pole The jolt threw Baker headlong out
of the cab and out Of danger, his only injury
being deep cut in his head and general
shaking up.
The locomotive drawing the express was
badly damaged in front and was thrown
across the east track No one aboard the
express was in njurcd.
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ELIz ABETH c. ADAMS DEAD.
Last Surviving Granddaushtcr OF the
Second President Passes Away.

QUINCY, Mass, June l3.-Miss Elizabeth
Coombs Adams. daughter Of Thomas Boyl-
ston Adams, the Oldest son Of President
John Adams, died at her home here tonight.
aged 95. She was the only surviving grand
child of the second President and during
the administration OF her uncle, John
Quincy Adams, spent much OF her time
in Washington where she was very popular.
She was present when Lafayette met her
grandfather and OF her pa, riots at the laying
of the cornerst one of Bunker Hill monument
and was with her grandfather when he
died here in 1926
Miss Adams travelled extensively in
Europe, where she met many distinguished
persons. Her father married Miss Herrod, ,
one Of the bellies of Newburyport and lived
in the little red house on the Braintree
road while John Adams was in Washington.
Upon the latters return Thomas Adams
had to move on account Of lack of room.
Miss Adams had four brothers and one
sitter. Until the last few years her home
was shared by her brother, Isaac Hull
Adams to whom she was devoted. Within
the last year Miss Adams became feeble
rapidly. There are at present none Of her
relatives living in Quincy. but during the
summer her nephew, Brooks Adams, re-
sides in the old family mansion at Quincy
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l)i I',D

HAMILI.-On On Saturday. June is Matilda =
Hnmil. widow OF the Rev, Samuel NJ Hania.
D. ID.
Funeral services at her late rcsd d'ncc IN Trenton.
N j., on June 10. at 80 +. Il.
HlLDRETH.-On SATURDAY, Juac l3, James I'LL
dreth. In his 18th year.
runcral services at his late residence, aN
quincy ST.. brooklyn, on tuesday evening.
June ls at O'clock. intcrmcnt In Nslmi.g-
ton bel. at convenience OF tAc iam!ls
IYON.-At Bath, Stcubcn county, \. Y, on
Friday. June IL, 1903 Robert Moses Lyoi. Ia
the 18th year OF his ngc
Funeral sunday. Jun. a.
STORES.--At Amicns. France. OIL SunGiy May
"a, of pneumonia. Henry, cider so0 ot Walter
c. and Adele Watson stokes. Ia the 18th year
OF hi; age.
Funeral services Will BE- held al his late residence,
% East 5sth ST.. on Sunday. June H. at hal.
past O'Clock.
TEN BRoECK.-At Bnyonne. y, H., on Friday.
June ~. 1908. Zillah C., wi'c OF Robrri H. Ten
Brock. aged 72.
Relatives and friends are iivItcd to attend the
funeral services. at her late residence. lo2
Avenue c. Dayonac, Nd, on Monday, the 10th
inst. at . p. 81. lnlcrmcrl AT CIavcrGch. y. y.
Please omit flowers.
WHITNEY. AT Melford. Pa, Oh FI,day. June ~.
1903 Francis X. son of Deity Il. and ihr lats
william Wni,ney In the Esd year OF his ~.
Notice Of funeral service MondAy.
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OuAKER CITY POLICE SHAKE-UP.
Mayor Weaver OF Philadelphia Suspends
Three Omcials.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1s-Mayor Weaver's
reform administration has begun its long
threatened police shake-up. Following the
suspension OF Lieut.. Edward T. Fulmer, OF
the Eighth district, on the charge of falling
to stop policy playing and other violations
of law in his district. the announcement
was made to-day by Director OF Public
Safety Smith that charges had been entered
against Police Captain &. W. Thompson and
Lieut. Benjamin A. Tomnson Of the Thirty
fourth district and that they had also been
ordered to appear for trial before the Police
Court of Inquiry of which Capt. Thompson
has been a member.
Failure to enforce the reform adminis-
tration orders caused their suspension.
The Eighth district is in the heart of the
Tenderoin. The Thirtyfourth is far down
town. All three men have long been mem
bers OF the force. Two other Lieutenants
are scheduled for suspension.
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BIG DIXIE At EAST ST. LOUIS.
Proposal to Erect Monster Wall to Stave
or Future Floods.

ST. Louis. June l3.-The Mississippi River
is going down at slow rate and this even
ing registered thirty-seven feet. Much
of the work which has been done in East
st. Louis in elevating the streets will have
to be done over again as the water has
undermined many Of them bordering on
the submerged district
II is proposed to build a stone wall forty
two feet high from the bluffs at Alton to a
point several miles below Fast st. Louis,
distance Of over thirty miles
Suffering continues among the thousands
rendered homeless by the inundation,
though every effort is being made to supply
their needs. The damage to East ST. Louis,
not including that suffered by me rail-
roads, is conservatively placed at 5000 600,
More than Il, 900 persons have been driven
from their homes and some 1000 buildings
washed away, wrecked or carried on their
foundations No material Improvement
in the flood situation is expected before
the middle Of next week.
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MRS. SAMUEL W. HA.MILL DEAD.
Her Long Come ction With the Lawrence
VILE School.

Matilda NJ. Hamill, the widow of the
Rev. Dr. Samuel NJ. Hamil, for fifty years
the head Of the school at Lawrenceville,
N. j., died early yesterday morning. She
was born in Lawrenceville. Jan. 2, lSls
and was in her eghty-sixth year. She
was direct descendant Of Jonathan Dick
inson, the first president Of Princeton,
and for one hundred and fifty years her
ia,niy have been closely connected with
the educational interests Of the country.
Her father was Richard Green, who was
graduated at Princeton in 1875. and after
n successful business career retired to
Lawrenceville. She had four brothers.
There was no school in Lawrcnceville,
and the pastor of the church, the Rev.
Dr.. Alexander Brown, relative, started
what is now 80 widely known as the Law
rcncevile School in order to educate her
brothers and five cousins. The school
was started in 1910 and has history Of
ninety-three years.
The present school grounds at Law
rencevle comprise ESQ acres, and there
are 300 boys at the school,
One of the cousins referred to was John
c. Green, who afterward amassed a large
fortune, several millions of which were
given to Princeton and for the rebuilding
and endowment OF the Lawrenceville
School. Her grandfather, George Green,
was president of the Board of Trustees
of Princeton before the Revolutionary
War, and as such wrote letter, now in
the State Library at Hartford, asking the
Governor of Connecticut the privilege of
holding lottery for the benefit of Prince
ton. Since then different members of
her family have sat In the faculty and
board of trustees.
Her mothers father, Col. Thomas Hender-
son of New Jersey, was "A member Of Gen
Washington's staff during the Revolution.
Col Henderson stood by Washington at
the battle of Monmouth and, it is said, 8,
heard the vigorous language addressed
by him to Gen. Lee on that occasion.
Mrs. Hamill was remarkably handsome
woman and of great intellectual force:
She Is well remembered by hundreds OF old
Iawrcnccville boys now living all over
the world, She had nine children, three
of whom are living Hugh II. Hamill.
a lawyer of Trenton. N. D., Mrs E. P. Wood,
the wife of Clergyman of Trenton, and
Samuel A. Hamill for number Of years
prominently connected with the General
Electric Company in Schenectady.
In addition to these she adopted and
brought up five children Of Charles and
Sidney Green, her brothers. She was in
full possession Of all her faculties TO the
time of her death. She never wore glasses.
She devoted the latter years Of her life to
her friends and to reading the general
literature of large and valuable library
which she had collected through long
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RIOT IN "NIXED ALE ROW"
Harlem Block stirred by a Fight Between
Police and q Gang of T0ughs.

The block in East lC3d street between
Second and Third avenues, known as Mixed
Ale Row." was the scene of n small riot
early last evening. The trouble began
In front of Michael Lvnch's blacksmith
shop at 23s East l03d street
A gang Of young men, who, according
to Lynch, have got into the habit of lounging
I'm front of the shop, We're there last evening
and when Lynch warned them to leave
they paid no attention to him. Then he
ordered them to go away and one of them
struck him in the jaw and knocked him
down
Lynch ran back into the shop, picked up
a revolver and fred three shots. He says
he fired them into the ground merely to
frighten the gang. The police were not
able to find that he struck anybody, Lynch
then got inside the shop and barricaded
the door but the gang, headed by Lefty
jim" Reynolds broke the door down.
The shooting drew a crowd from all
directions and when Policeman Steinkamp
came over from Third avenue he couldn't
reach the blacksmith'5 shop. where he could
hear the fight that was going on between
lynch and the gang m hj g,' apJ nIrra sapeJv pI,'@E
summoned the reserves from the East i0ith
street police staten.
When the police arrived in force he gang
and their friends fled 20 lie roofs Of the
houses across ( he g, rect and began o shower
bricks on the heads of he blUecoa's, The
police ran up after them and cleared the
roofs by firing into the air.
They also arreste ed REYNOLDS as he was
climbing down the airs!aft of one OF the
tcnements. Then they arrcstc ed Lynch,
Patrick Murphy and John Ravhing, On
the street they found William Cronin Of 2oo
Fast lO4 h stree, lying unconscious wit a
fractured skull. He was sent to the Harlem
Hospital where it was said that he would
,>roIol, l,y die
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Una .iBELL SUES CORSE PAXTON.
She Can't star With Him and Wants .0OS
lie OncrS so.

Corse \Payton. the Brooklyn theatrical
manager, has broken his engagement with
Mss Una Abel Brinker to star with him
next season. The contract was signed on
March IL, and the first notification that
there was any trouble reached Miss Brinker
one night last week when she saw a notice
in the programme of the Lee Avenue
Theatre that Miss Eta Reed, Corse Payton a
wife, would take the leading parts next
season.
She Immediately asked for an explara-
ton from Mr.. Payton and he informed her
by letter that Mrs. Payton would take her
place in the company
Miss Brinker at once instructed her law
YER to begin an action for si,995 for alleged
breach of contract and she is also suing
in the Third Municipal Court for $500. so
for back salary and $2saO8 for her slare
of the profits from an engagement in
Newark. n. j.
Mr.. Payton said yesterday that he would
defend any suits that Miss Brinker might
st art aud that he believes he will be justified
under part ocular clause Of the contract
in breaking the engagement. In figuring
no his accounts he finds he says, that he
owes Miss Brinker just S9 and that she
can have it any time she comes for ii.
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FIRST SEA SERPENT OF 1908.
Was Chasing q School OF Sllarks-IIad y
Dragons Head and Dls Tusks.

PHILADELPHIA, June 13.-Second Mate
Gray Of the steamer Tresco, which arrived
at Port Richmond from Santiago to-day
with cargo of iron ore, reports having
seen sea serpent of particularly atrocious
kind He is backed up by Capt w. Fl.
Bartlett the other officers and the crew,
all of whom are prepared to make affidavits.
Mate Gray saw the monster first, but
Capt. Bartlett told the story. He said
they were ninety miles north of Hatteras.
and added:
"Mr. Gray saw school of sharks running
wildly. Behind them seemed to be dere
hct. We steamed up. II raised out of
the water and the thing Mortified us. Sup
ported on neck that rose above the water
fifteen feet was the head of dragon, with
two monster tusks. 1t was 100 feet long.
with body like snake, tapering to a
dragon-shaped tail. 1t looked at us and
made off, 1t left a sitting odor"
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TO AID THE JEWISH room.
United Hebrew Charities and Fast Side
Societies 10 COOperate.

Delegates from zoo Jewish societies Of the
East Side and representatives of the United
Hebrew Charities met in the Educational
Alliance last evening to discuss a further
cooperation among the societies working
among the Jewish poor.
Resolutions approving Of permanent
committee were adopted, and a committee
of fifty was elected TO co!lect funds for the
United Hebrew Charities from the East
Side socie,e les. In return the societies will
be represented in the meetings of the board
of mana gers Of the United Hebrew Chari-
ties and will have a voice in the distribution
of tho funds.
Rabbi Adam Rosenberg presided: Among
the speakers were Justice Samuel Green-
baum, Rabbi Adolph Klein, Nathan Blur,
X, H Ssrasohn, the publisher of the Jeuish
Roscnfeldt. DR.. Joseph 2eft and the. Rev.
II. Maslansky, publisher of the Jew'sh
World.
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GEN. COLLIS LEFT !Sl1 400.
Safety Car Heating and Lighting Go. Ills
Principal Investment.

The gross personal estate owned by Gen.
Charles H. T. Coils at his death on May II.
1902, according to the report of the official
appraisers. was but s84,2ls. and payment
of his debts and administration expenses
have reduced this to S48,O76 net. He owned
no real estate in this State.
Among the items that appear in the ap-
praisal are: Cash in hand So, ,035; 185 shares
Of Safety Car Heating and Lighting Com
pany stock, worth $23, sos; bonds of the
Tubular Despatch Company valued at
3l2 500 30 shares of Metropolitan Traction
Company stock, wort h si,3sO, and is shares
Of the Lawyers Surety Company, appraised
at 81 $50.
Under his will the estate was divided
among his wife and thrce children.
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BAR AMBULANCE DOCTOR.
Selxhbors OF Woman Who'd Taken Poison
wouldn't Let Her 10 to Hospital.

Mrs. Sarah Keenan,, widow, Of 544 West
Thirty-fifth street took fatal dose Of car
bolic acid at her home al o'clock last even
ing. The police say she took it with intent
TO kill herself When Policeman Kelly and
DR.. Bull of the Roosevelt Hospital got
there Mrs Keenans sons and daughters
objected strenuously to her removal to a
hospital, and called in the whole neighbor-
hood to prevent It,
Kelly sent n boy after the reserves at
the West Thirty-seventh street police
crowd, but BY this time Or. Bull had got
tired of waiting and left without the woman.
Finally Police Captain Ferris took a hand in
the trouble and summoned an ambulance
from Bellevue Hospital.
The woman was taken away in that
three hours after she had taken the poison.
She died soon after she reached the hospital.
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The Weather.

An area OF low pressure stretching from the Lake
regions down over New York gave showers %ester-
day In the Middle Atlantic and New England States
There was n second low area developing into a
s,o-m ON the west coast OF Texas. Heavy rain was
falling In the southern part of that state and HIGHT
rain In the northern part. Fair weather prevailed
north OF Texas and west OF Chic, High winds
we're blowing or shore on the New England coast
Lower temperature was 'eit IN Gil inc A'iah.'c
ghany Mountains.
In this city showers fell In tho early morning
and showers with thundcrstorms and hall In the
afternoon; wind generally fresh westerly: average
humidity. "A per cent; barometer. corrected TO
read 10 sea level at 4. NJ. "a. 70: 3 T. NJ. 29Gs.
The tempcraturr yesterday. as recorded by the
a, ,h.rn,-,..er IL Showa In ths annex ID table,
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Il. B. Kirk & Co., Sole Bott|ers, W..
Charles AriSlO Arrest Ell for Numbering
Ninc.Year.Old 10y.

James McGann, years DID, of 42l Seven
teenth street. Brooklyn, while amusing
himself with a baseball and bat on tie
street near his home Oh Wednesday last,
accidentally struck a young man, who
was passing, with the ball. The man. as
alleged, rushed after the 10y and beat Lin
SO severely that he had 10. be carried TO his
home in bruised and helpless condit ion.
Patrick McGann, the injured lads fat her,
lad a physician summoned, but the boy
grew weaker steadily and died yesterday.
Charles Arisio, 1s year.. old. OF 1868 Eighth
avenue, who is said to have assaute d the
boy, was arrested last night and locked
up in the Fourth avenue station.
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SMALL LAKE STEAMER SINKS.
The Charles II. Davis Goes Down on the
Entrance to C!cNClaEd's iarbOr.

CLEVELAND. June lS.One life was lost
and seven men had a narrow escape from
death in the little steamer Charles IA. Davis.
which was dashed to pieces this afternoon
in the shallow. choppy water between the
west arm of the breakwator and the old
water works crib The boats engine had
refused to work. and it became, unman-
ageablc, 1t soon sprung leak. which
caused the sailors to work frantically at
the pumps. The boat soon filed with water
and sank after breaking in two.
Capt Eraslus W. Haskins of BAY City.
Mich, the owner and master of the boat.
was drowned. The remainder OF the crew,
consisting of six sailors and the cook, were
saved by the United States Liic, Saving
crew The steamer was engaged in the
stone trade bet ween Cleveland and kelly's
Island
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Bride. II; bridegroom. lU.

UTICA, June l3.-L,lu l.. Parkhurst and
Vernie b. Walker Of Oneida were married
ON Wednesday, and the announcement
causes great surprise. owing to the ages of
the couple. The bride is IL and her hus-
band two years her senior. Documents
were produced apparently showing that
marriage was with the consent of the girls
parents. The fact that the girls brother
and sister were with the couple tended
further to allav suspicion. The minister
was told that the girl was 10 years OF age.
No complaint has been made by the girls
parents.
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AMERICAN CITIZEN MURDERED.
Tho Rev. q. Il. Chit Sian Killed by Turks In
Odessa. Russia.

WASHINGTON. June l3.-Thc murder OF
the Rev. Quarekin B. titan, an American
citizen, at Odessa. Russia. was reported
by telegraph to the State Depaf, ment
to-day by Thomas F.. Heenan, United
States Consul at that place. Mr.. Heenan
says the murder occurred to-day. 1t was
committed by Turks, who were arrested
promptly
The Rev Mr. Chtjian is an Armenian.
who was born in Harpoot in 1866. He
came to this country when quite young
and settled in Worcester, Mass. where he
studied for the Christian ministry and was
ordained. He became a naturali2.od citizen
of the United States while residing in
Worcester, and left there last September
for Armenia.
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Thieves Partly Burn Down Town.

NEW ORLEANS, June ls.-The business
part OF the town of McCool, Miss, lA.s been
destroyed as the result of a dynamite ex-
plosion caused by burglars. They broke
into the post office and the stores Of I.
H. Beldcn, F. Marsey, NJ E. Fowler and
Seward 4 Faucher. At the latter place
dynamite was used to open the safe. The
building was wrecked.
Az result of the explosion the store
was burned and the fire extended. destroy
ing a number Of other stores with q total
loss OF $4,000.
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MISSING NATE DROWNED.
Reversal OF q ~ 1000 Verdict May Have
Driven william Thornton TO suicide.

William Thornton, IS years old, mate Of
the steam lighter Margaret Holland, lying
in Erie Basin, who disappeared from the
bc a, ON Wednesday night last was found
drowned Yesterday morning in the East
River, al the foot of Clinton street. Brook
lyn. Some months ago Thornton was
severely injured while coffee was being
unloaded from the lighter, and, suing the
person responsible, received verdict Of
1900. The Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court reversed the Judgment and
ordered "A new trial. 1t is supposed the
worry over the litigation drove Thornton
IN suiciCc.
The sun., 1903-06-14

FGr eastern Ncir YORK, party CLOUDY ana r1rmsr
In iou. mir and uGrncr IN hr interior t0-mcrrop:
lyhi 10 fresh southeast to ,scsi rfnds.
For Maryland Delaware and the District OF
Columbia. generally fair to day and to morrow
light west winds becoming variable
FOR New England. generally fair TO day. except
rain In eastern Maine: fair TO morrow: variable
winds.
For eastern Pennsylvania partly cloudy and
warmer 10 day: fair and warmer 10 morrow: light
TO fresh winds mostly west.
For New jersey. fair to day and TO morrow
warmer in interior: light 10 fresh winds mostly
westerly.
For western New York. partly cloudy and warmer
to day probably showers In western port'on fair
and warmer to morrow; fresh southwest WHO'S
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"k,n,Ipcss. Sjngs the Thirteen Club.

The Thirteen Club, 2l3 strong. held its
annual dinner at Luna Park, Coney Island.
last night. DR.. Clark Bell presided. The
diners sat as nearly as possible in groups
furnished by n band of thirteen musicians
san0 scatter Seeds Of Kindness.