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Evening journal., 1910-09-29
EPWORTH LEAGUE
CONVENTION WORK

RISING SUN, Nd. Sept 29-At this
mornings session of the Twenty-iirst
annual convention Of the Wilmington
District Epworth League in James NJ.
f. Church, Mrs n. c. Brown spoke on
Mercy and Help, and Miss Mary
Haines on Who's Responsible" The
Rev. f. l.. Hoffecker, d. D., made an
address on THE Relation of the
League to the Liqu& J Traffic" Mrs.
II. A. G.. Westerfield, wife Of the for
mer pastor Of Asbury NJ. r. Church,
Wilmington, sang a solo. after which
question box was conducted by the
Rev. L. +. Carpenter. The devotional
exercises were conducted by the Rev.
c. w. Moore.
The program for this afternoon and
evening follows:
Afternoon, . o'clock-Devotional ex-
ercises, conducted by the Rev. VIII
! liam II. Biggs; election of officers; re-
ports of committees; address, the
/ Rev. j. L. Bickerton, ID. D., of Phila-
delphia; Junior Hour, conducted by
( the Rev. w G. Rooms; reports OF
Junior Superintendents, exercises by
Rising Sun Juniors. Junior Confer
4 ence-'A Touch OF the Live Wires,
l Junior Question Box.
Evening L3O--Song service, uniln
ished Business; address. the Rev. J
R. W. Sumwalt of Washington, ID. c.
What Are We Here For?'
The convention will end this even
ing. Yesterday afternoon addresse
were made by the Rev. J. w. Jones
Edwin S. Haines. Miss Virgins
Abrams, the Rev. J. r. Bicking, tn
Rev. +. w. Mcdowell, the Rev. T. r
VanDyke and the Rev W. z. Green
field. In the evening the Rev. Georg
II Buckley, ID. d., OF Olney, Pa, spok
on 1.-THE One Talent Man" A socia
hour followed
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
new PLACESFO
UNCLE SAM MEN
Re-ASSienmeut Of Lighthouse
Employees indicates Pass
ing Of Local Office
TRANSFER HANKINSON
TO FAR OFF ALASKA

The Office force of the Fourth Light
house District here is gradually be-
ing lessened. Since the transfer of
Superintendent Arledge to Honolulu,
several DAYS ago. others i'm the light
house Office have daily been expecting
TO hear of their removal from the
district. To-day three such notices
were received and Il was remarked
that there would be something do
ing every day until only the Office
remained 20 Delaware.
Ray l.. Hankinson, another superin-
tendent IN the lighthouse service, has
been offered a position as superinten-
dent of the Sixteenth district in
Alaska, and has the offer under con-
sideration. He expects to go to
Washington tomorrow His home is
in Evansville, Wis.
Harry +. Morton, of Philadelphia,
who has been record clerk since the
ONCE was brought to Wilmington
from Philadelphia, and Harold NJ.
Rhoads, Of Pottstown, Pa, steno-
grapher and typewriter, have re-
ceived notice of their transfer TO the
Bureau of Lighthouses, at Washing
ton. d. c. No time has been set for
the change. but It will be sometime In
October Mr. Morton's home is In
Philadelphia, he making the trip to
and from the city every day. Mr..
Rhoads and his family make their
home in Wilmington.
It is thought that it will not be long
now before the local Offices are moved
back TO Philadelphia The. announce
ment of this change was made in THE
EVENING JOURNAL several weeks
ago.
The tranfer of Mr.. Arledge to Homo
lulu, which has very warm climate,
and Mr.. Hankinson to Alaska. one OF
the coolest stations, was freely com
mented upon by the Office men to-
day.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
CARDINAL VANNUTELLI
IN WASHINGTON

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Passing
through rows of thousands of Catholic
Sunday school children. singing the
national anthem. Cardinal Vannutelli,
personal Representative Of Pore Plus
X arrived here to-day to be the guest
OF the local Catholic clergy until Sat
urday.
Thousands Of Catholics of this city
were gathered 10 welcome His En-
inence at the Union Station, where the
presidential room had been opened %
receive him. The cardinal and his
secretaries went Immediately 10 the
papal legation as guests OF Monsignor
Falconio. papal legate.
! The visit 20 this city is OF especial
/ interest because 1t had been arranged
for President Taft to receive The
cardinal.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
WOULD COST ROADS ss5,OOO,OOO.
Protest Against the Law for Standard
Safety Appliances.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Declaring
that the plans for standard safety ap-
plisnces for railroad cars, as submit
ted today by the Interstate Commerce
Commission would cost over S55,000,-
600. Hale Halden. representing west
ern railroads. made a bitter protest.
Holden demanded that the standards
be established at conference Of the
persons interested. instead of a public
hearing. Representatives Of the rail-
road mems unions. opposed this, and
disagreement Immediately arose.
The new law requires the commits
sion to complete the uniform system
by October IA, and provides that all
railroads must comply with IL before
July /, 1911.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
CURB BROKERS
ARE RAIDED
Police SwOOp Down on House
Of SCheftIetS and Company
in New York
BRANCH OFFICES In
OTHER CITIES CLOSED

BY United Press Leased Sperial Wire.
NEW YORK, Sept 29.--The brok-
erage firm of b. H. Scheftels and
Company, ono Of the biggest curb
houses IA the country was raided BY
the police this afternoon. Scheftels
and haif dozen OF his clerks were
placed under arrest and taken away
in patrol wagons. a II was stated that
the arrests We're made at the IN
stance OF the post Office authorities
The information in the case was is
sued by the bureau of investigation Of
the Department Of Justice at WASH
ington. The charge Is violation Of the
anti-bucket law The firm has
branches operating in Chicago. Phila-
dolphia, Boston, Detroit. Milwaukee
and Providence, all Of which were
raidcd
George Graham Rice. an ex-convict.
the leading spirit tn the Schcftcls
firm was also placed under arrest.
The charge against the men Is using
/ the mails for fraudulent purpose. ~
The raid was spectacular.
The curb market, evidently 80 "
tip OF what was to happT
the throes. of excitement wv -
mining stock, in which GU wafer
. firm was Interested wlry. Season
al 3 cents. Jrribogepper. When
SO and eli Central. the IRE and All
Y stock was going ~ top OF each
/ drops were unprec' acrumbs- Ar
o curb was VIVID with, . an9anlacs in
ID lation. A big pat AMz * ~ ninn
l. through the Rac kseEroad street al
r halted IN the 4idst Of the scramolir
brokers, In from the Schaftel's nrn
B. A squad of policemen. led by pol
-. ] - frr fnf 81
q Offices made the arrests and seize.
every book and paper IN the place DO
+ fore the Office safe could be closed.
The post Office inspector. who made
the arrest declared the arrested men
would be arraigned before United
States Commissioner Shields this
afternoon.
Arrest Followed Wild Trading.
It was stated al the Office Of the
United States district attorney that
nine men IN all would be arrested in
the New York Offices Of the company
Seven OF them we're captured IN the
Broad street raid and Central Office
men with post Office inspectors were
sent to others parts OF the city 10
capture the other two men sought.
The arrest was followed by wild
trading on the curb all the interest
CeultIluE Oh Nh' MINUS oN'Nho h"iiN
led BY the Scheftel's firm and boosted
IN every section OF the country by
means OF a daily market letter. which
ia supposed to have been the cause Of
the arrests.
The Scheftel's issues were offered
freely without any kind Of support
Jumbo extension sold down TO 80; bli
Central down to So. and Rawhide
, Coalition down TO cents. Other curb
mining stock we're down far below the
normal and the curb market was the
sight OF feverish selling.
I Baehcaded brokers. with clothes
, disheveled and hats gone. fought like
mad around the roped in confined OF
q the curb market. and brokers from the
, stock exchange. who are used to SONS
4 hurries themselves looked on IN
4 amazement
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
LAD DIES AS RESULT
OF KICK OF HORSE

SMYRNA, Del, Sept 2a.-Robert
Conner, aged about IL years, living
with Henry Hoffeeker on bis farm
near Eagles Nest, died Tuesday even
ing as the result Of being thrown
from his horse. He never regalneo
seriousness. The lad left the mouse
al $50 o'clock In the morning ana
MOUNTING q horse went 10 me pas
tine asla 70 bring up some horses
f55s hot appearing FOR breakfast caus-
~ re- family 10 wonder that had be-
come of him. Upon investigation,
fhev found the lad in pool OF blood
down the road The boy had been
taken from home and was sxceed-
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
LODGE TO BE REELECTED.
Butler Ames Fails to Make Decided
Showing Against Him.

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 29.-That in
surgency in Massachusetts, so far as
II affects the chance of another term
for United States Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge, at least, has not gained
dangerous proportions. is the general
verdict here today following Republic
can caucuses all over the state. except
In II towns, which were polled before
jointly with the Democrats.
Only the northeastern part of the
state, and especially in the Merrimac
valley cities, was there any great show
Of support for Congressman Butler
Ames, who is fighting Lodge. Lodges
adherents today declare that when the
senior United States senator comes up
for reelection there will be no oppos-
ition of consequence.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
INDICTMENT DROPPED
AFTER COMPOSING,

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
CHICAGO, Sept 29.-That State
Senator Holtzlaw's confession that he
received $4,000 for his Lorimer vote
was infiuenc6d by the oder that an
indictment against him charging per-
jury would be Cuashed was developed
to-day BY the Senator Investigating
Committee.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
DESERTED HUSBAND
GETS DIVORCE DECREE

In Superior Court today Maxwell r
Jester asked for a divorce decree
from his wife Myra c. Jester, on the
ground of desertion dating from May
2, 1908. The couple had been married
three years. Jester told the court
he had tried several times to get his
wife to live with him and she has
continually refused. The court grant
ed the decree.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
DIR. KELLOGG AT PRINCETON.

The Rev. Dr. II. W. kellogg, pastor
of Grace NJ. T.. Church, visited his
son at Princeton Univeraity today.
The Rev. DR.. Alfred Craig, who will
succeed Dr. kellogg as pastor OF
Grace Church, will arrive here on
Saturday, and preach IN Grace
Church on Sunday morning and even
ing
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
What to Do for q
SickIy ChiId-TriaI Free


II has always been mooted question
just what TO do with an ailing child. for
mothers disagree and few doctors spe-
cialize In it. But this much IL certain
that In the majority Of cases faulty bowel
movement Is at the bottom Of the trouble.
The FIRST thing then. to 20 with a COM
planning child Is 10 give Il a laxative, not
a mere fruit-stew or such thing hut a
genuine. scientific laxative. Many are
recommended but few have been found
worthy. Among the latter none stands out
more prominently than DR.. Caidwelra
Syrup Pepsin. which mothers In all parts
OF the country have used for a generation.
It can be obtained Of any druggist at
fifty cents and one dollar bottle. No
child will refuse Il as Il Is not a bad
tasting and violent cathartic pill. but a
mild, gentle. non-grlping liquid. II has
DIR. Caldwell does not feel that the pun
has specialized in stomach, liver and bow
pleased TO give the reader any advice on Il
write him. Whether for the medical sdvi
Caldwell, 54l Caldwell Building, Montie'
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
RUILDING pERNIT IssUFn.

Building Inspector Cassidy issued a
permit to-day to s II. Mccoy. 10 erect
two dwellings on the north side Of
Jefferson street. between Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth. It a cost Of $4,000
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
SHERMAN NOR BITTER.
But Saws the Platform Is Not Plain
On Dlroet Primaries.

By United Press Lease5 Special Wire
UTICA, Ns W Sept 2a-I am en-
tirely content with the result Of the
saratoga convention The platform
is exceptionally strong and the ticket
IS excellent l shall certainly sup
port g." declared Vice-President
Evening journal., 1910-09-29

Recent tests have shown that coal
in bulk or as dust Is not a good con-
d,,ctoy If electricity. while coal dust,
Evening journal., 1910-09-29

also tonic properties that strengthen and
tone the little stomach and bowel mus
Giles so that they begin 70 do their work
naturally again. Mrs. Ella N. Williams
OF Wathena. Tas and AIrs. Emma Blaken-
ship OF Bedford, Ind, always give their
children Syrup Pepsin.
II you hesitate to get even a fifty cent
bottle and do not care to ask your neigh
Dor about Il (who probably Is a user OF
Syrup Pepsin). then write DR.. Caldwell
and he Will cheerfully send you a sample
bottle free Of charge. and IN this way You
can make test without personal cost.
Simply send your name and address 10
the doctor, A great many thousand moth
ers have had n free sample In recent
years. gave Il 10 the children according
to directions and now have healthy. romp-
ing youngsters.
;hase OF his remedy ends his obligation. He
i diseaes for over forty years and will be
. subject free Of charge. All are welcome to
. or the free sample address him DR.. w. b.
10. I'll.
Evening journal., 1910-09-29
Begin 10 Erect city Hall Stand.

Workman today began the erection
OF the reviewing stand for next weeks
Evening journal., 1910-09-29

GIRL CUTS ARTERY IN HAND.
Hattie Smith. of No. III West Third
street, accidentally cut an artery in
her left hand to-day A physician
dressed the wound.
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racing in Florida chair rolling Atlantic City.
They are like the trained dogs of vaudeville, which
sit up, beg roll over and play dead in time to
music
From the rooms where they may gibber helplessly
before the child s-sze wardrobes in which anything
longer than mans waistcoat will trail on the floor
under lights fifteen feet up in the air that refuse to
shed any glow the more adj acent territory, with
trunks pied up before the one long mirror and the
rest of the room full of bed fitted by the way with
some new kind of concrete self bouncing mattress
they pass and down to the dining room where
life becomes imperative1y classy.
Whether you suffering from despised love
dyspepsia matters little to the parsonage that
approaches you with long gliding motion and
ingratiating expression of repressed feeling, while
he sizes you up, figuring your social status.
ready money and tendency to lberality the
reverse
Max ORell sounded the note of this grand entry
to an American hotel dining in his impressions
of some years ago when he wrote of the in
viii you are bounced upon and led like sentenced
Grim nal the seat the waiter desires you to sit in
rather than you might prefer. AS you 60 up
down across the room you must now adjust your
gait to that of your leader If he gallops you must
at least trot; if he be in noncha1ant mood and
saunters idly, you trail along like pabearer.
Should you by any chance venture to disapprove
of the special chair facing north SOUTH due east
you will be regarded distinctly eccentric This is
one tme-or three times, mayhem the day of the
Grand Trunk Life when what you wish want
how you feel in which direction you might to
look or not to look, matters not two whoops.
There are certain foods that the system DEGREES
you should order at certain times of the day. To
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LEADING THE GRAND
TRUNK LIFE = By Kate Masts9soe

novatons in the way of conveniences which fairly
take away the breath with their scope and daring, as
well their entire attachment to the system rather
than to the individual comfort of the guest.
One of the werdest of these effects mpresses itself
upon you now, when the boy, having grasped your
travelling bag your arrival leads you from the ele
vator through dim hallway where on the car
peed floor always directly in the way, is stretched
dark, gobby, and occasionally convusive tubing of
rubber.
The steam heated air is filled with ebbing
sblance and the whole effect is suggestive of the
garden of Eden that if you are woman you pause
in momentary expectation of having apple handed
to you on the end of forked tongue.
But round the corner you find a man with hoe
apparently scraping the carpet and you realize that
you are in the presence OF of the air brooms
electric cleaners of which there dozens of
varieties to be had
In hotels, where they seem to be in operation
night and day, they are impressive of high degree
of hygenic cleanliness an effect that never could be
approached by maid with a broom. Strangely
enough the inventions do not seem to get under
the beds any better than the old methods, proving
the irresistible power of mind over matter.
Simeon Ford once said that he would rather have
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depart from this rule, to omit the morning cereal
the evening oyster, is to stamp yourself unfit
Should you object to anything as being undone, inn
properly hot, cold plates decayed or dead foods
there is chaos and the head waiter with face wrin
killed. like autumn leaf comes hobby-horsing up
with look of accusing reproach which writes you
down as crank so that all may see.
Now this is the way the woman person alone gets
it when she elects to live the Grand Trunk Life
Men possibly can swear and have what they want.
A close study of this deplorable masculine custom
proves that it is the only way in which certain skulls
are reached and the pulpy mass within agitated. If
Carolyn Wells or Ebert Hubbard would only invent
nice 1adylike curses for hotel use, the womans
would be helped some.
Now, while you daily with the hot milk you
have not ordered while waiting for the cream you
have requested, laughingy observing your coffee
growing cold in the cup inclnng your head in grace
full recognition of the slab of butter
the omnibus doles out to you though it was
Popes blessing you have leisure to study the ornate
gliding of the pillared walls the chandeliers vibrating
from the braying of band that there is no escape
from in the Life. Tumpty-tum! Tumpty-tuml
= At the dinner. hour, the Grand Trunk woman
Grapes herself in costume hangs all the available
junketry she reach on her person, makes up
for theater entrance and with certain gorgeous
goo-goong of the head waiter-a sort of stage bust
of radiant beauty,she slides like the Iron Man
to her base, chair well out of reach, with good
lookout both ways and well in view of all parts of the
house. Tumpty-tum! Tumpty-tum!
This degree this perfect hotel manner is of
Continued page is
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a revolver drawn on him than the whsk broom with
which the hotel hallboy always greets male guest.
Women miss this polite attention. They are never
brushed except when they travel in parlor cars and
then it is looked rather daring thing to
have DONE Men, on the contrary are continually
being broomed off dozen times day. whether they
need it or not.
But women arriving at hotels always used to have
the carpet sweeper projected into their lives before
they had fairly unpinned their wells. A girl would
force entrance and run of the machines play
fully about in the center of the floor 1t sacred
rite which had to be done in your presence and gave
you chance to complain Of badly cared for apart
ment
The patent cleaner of to-day has as symbol al
most ousted the carpet sweeper but the main point
to force the operation upon your intelligence rather
than to conduct the cleaning quietly and inof-
fensively. From Maine to the Gulf throughout the
entire hydra tailed hotel system you trip the
means without particularly luxuratng in any visible
result.
Of course the Grand Trunk Livers have more to
think of than such trhes this rushing they do
from their moose hunting in the mountains to motor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-17

"HOUSANDS of men and women the world over
live in their trunks from years end to the
other; some from necessity, and others,
strangely enough, from choice. They chase climates
for reasons connected with physical well being, or,
through the varying conditions of professional and
commercial lite, compelled to be forever on the
go, packing and repacking boxes and hampers for
cabs, trains, and boats, consulting timetables tele
graphing and telephoning for accommodations
irving, departing, restlessy pursuing an activity
that keeps them at all events, more youthful and
timber muscled than the humans of settled
habitation whose summer jaunting is their only
change from home.
When pleasure and excitement are the desires of
those who take up the hotel existence, there is of
constant following after the joys that offer
in the way of theaters, drives shopping, the enter
tanning of new acquaintance, the furthering some
times of social ambtions,-which often fostered
oddly by life in fashionable hotel where certain
reflected glamour hangs about the and woman
that at home would be quite unimpressive indi-
viduals, -after dinner mapping yawning over the
newspaper, studying, dreaming playing cards, or
doing of the many things that people do to while
away the quiet freside hours loved by home people
sincerely they detested by the typical hotel
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CROWNS no. monster, a tremendous system,
which must call the Grand Trunk Life There is
no longer left a vestige of the oldtme inn In
fact there is little left of the old fashioned hotel to
which people went only when obliged to do so by
the exigencies of travel which old fashioned folks
always avoided by staying with relatives when
their means made it entirely possible for them to
choose any mode of living they preferred when away
from their own homes.
The great modern hotel of to-day stands on diff
ferent basis. So intensely popular has its mode of
existence become that dozens of these gorgeous
places their electric crowns in all big cities
along the avenues, the side streets, up town, down
town, each presenting its opportunity for mita-
ton of ceuloid domesticity that has obligations
beyond the regular. meeting of the weekly bill
and the ordinarily decent behavior required of
civilized persons the world over And no questions
asked!
The hotel being system rather than an inn it
aims in many ways to make impressive showing
We none of us glory in the old fashioned roadside
hosiery except when travel abroad and find these
places so delightfully."- quaint But in Our cities
we run to noiseless elevators porcelain silver mir
rors, brass beds. gorgeous lighting effects and in
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-12
TREASURER JUGGLES
CITY BALANCE SHEETS
Makes Splendid Showing on Paper
But Absent Mlndcdly Omits Refer
cnce TO Outstanding Warrants.

II the city would pay all its outstond-
ing warrants, Salt Lake City would
have to take the bankruptcy act Ac-
cordIng to City Treasurer Gideon Sny-
ders annual report. which was submit
ted to Mayor John S. Bransford tnis
morning. however. the city has a bal
9nce of So 81 .7eo. e i.-sttoo revenue funds,
He neglected. however to include In his
report the outstanding warrants. They
amount to ss43.7sO.S 81. This leaves a de-
flcIt of $3.50. OIL go In the revenue funds
on which the city government Is con-
Quoted
Through schemes of "high finance" the
city treasurer has nothing to do with
the outstanding warrants which are han
died by the city auditor, and thereby he
is saved and the city also. from an en-
barrassng situation OF accounting for tho
debts contracted and not paid. These
warrants are being carried by one OF
the banks in Salt Lake with interest.
A review of the condition of the row
enue funds. given by Mr. Snyder.
shows that there are deficits In four Of
the funds and balances in the other
four. Taking all the funds. Mr.. Snyder
shows an alleged balance OF $77.769. SO.
and the American" administration is
credited with this much money on hand
IN the revenue funds to begin tho new
year on.