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Evening journal., 1910-12-24
P. 0. EMPLOYEES
In XMAS RUSH
Building Flooded With Pres
entS for Delivery Before
Monday Morning

While postmaster. assistant, super
intendonts and over-wOrked employees
are rushing about the Postofhce to-
day, battling with the influx OF Christ
mas presents in every conceivable
kind of package that almost fll the
working floor OF the building, the
whole is a scene OF woll-ordered con-
fusion, and Wilmingtonians are going
to get most OF their presents on time
If the expected present fails TO bc
delivered to your door before tonight
and the thought of waiting until Mon
day 10 see the gifts from your friends
worries YOU don't swear at tho car
rier or the pOstoffico officials, for they
are working with might and main to
segregato the mass of packages and
letters that have flooded Uncle Sans
building.
The incoming and outgoing malls
this year are going TO exceed those OF
last year, which established a record
for the local office.
Each carrier leaving the postoffice is
loaded With packages, parcels. letters
and every known means Of packing
Christmas presents and greetings.
Under the law the carriers can work
but hours a day, but the clerks can
work any number Of hours. Substitute
clerks, however, are roaping their har-
vest these days as well as the sub
stitute carriers. and the full force OF
carriers, clerks, near-carriers and
would-be clerks are working with
might and main to deliver Whining
tonian's Christmas presents by sun
day morning.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT
BY the Rev. Charles 10 Aked,
of New York.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-The follow
ing Christmas sentiment was written
for the United Press by the Rev. Chas.
F. Aked. pastor of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, known as "Rockefel-
ler's church.
The most outstanding fact in the
wide life of the Christian world az this
season is the thought of kindness
which is in the air. It is at once
genial and bracing. II is no soft sem
timentality. II is compassionate, but
IT, Is large clear-eyed. sane. II Is gem
tie as the breezes of summer while in
vigorating as one of our own glorious
winter days under skies Of heavenly
blue.
Family life responds 20 this large
kindliness. That should Christmas be
with our family gatherings, our let
ters from and to loved ones. our mes
sages to distant friends, our prayers
for them and all the kindred emotions
which glow at the thought of home.
II is a time of added tenderness, OF
deepened affection, of the old love that
lives again, fresh and freshening, un-
changed beneath every changing sky
It is time of reconciliation. We bury
old. harsh memories. We forget old
animosities. We remember the friend
Of other days as he was IN other days
before the world hardened and embit-
tered him and he buckled his armor
on.
Our imagination plays us strange
tricks at Christmas time. We see the
mist of vanished years, not the vel
set-up business man, a little too keen
about the eyes, and little too hard
about the mouth, a trile over-anxiou'
when Il comes TO a bargain, but thC
little attractive figure and ingenious
face of the man who started out In life
a quarter Of century ago Instead o
the successful woman of the world, 8
little affected now, a trifie blase, and Il
must be confessed with more than Z
suspicion of artifciality about her, We
see as clearly to-day that eXquisit,
fresh young face which once We loved
as when all the bells of heaven were
ringing in her heart upon her weddiul
morning.
who told you that the eye of the
flesh alone sees right? Seeing is no
believing. The real man, the real wo
man, is the one I look at through
smiles Of love and happiness. It is ml
heart that sees.
And this is the Christmas gift.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
MILLION FROM
STAMP SALES
Estimated Net Proceeds
Throughout Country for
Anti tuberculosis Society
P-TO-DATE BUSINESS
METHODS FOLLOWED

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Dec 23-Up-to-date
charity. conducted on the most mod
ern scientific business methods. is a
complete success, according to Frank
II. Mann, secretary of the committee
on the Prevention of tuberculosis OF
the Charity Organization Society i'm
charge of the sale of the Red Cross
Christmas stamps in New York city.
More than $4,000 will be netted in
New York alone this year from the
sale of these stamps.
1t is estimated more than a million
dollars will be the grand total general
over the United States.
The sale of stamps in New York was
placed in the hands Of an expert man
ager, J. w. Binder, who set about dis
posing of the stamps as though they
were some household necessity. lie
entered into an elaborate advertising
campaign, all free More than $500
worth OF electric signs were used each
month advertising the wares. Subway,
elevated and surface cars carried
glaring posters, calling attention to
the stamps. Billboards were covered
with them. Slot machines were fill
ed with the stamps. Hotel lobbies were
converted into booths for their sale
Ten expert statesmen were employed
to canvass the city, and they disposed
Of 100000 stamps. Nearly 100000
stamps have been disposed of--S50 ,000
has been added to the fund--all by
| up-to-date business methods. There
was no begging, people were simply
asked to buy.
OF the $4,000 thus raised. , 1-2 pei
cent goes to the National headquarters
of the Red Cross. in Washington, tC
pay for the printing and distribution
of the stamps and TO be added to th'
national fund The balance of th'
money will be expended in New Yorl
city in the fight against consump
ton. And every stamp sold hal
been a real bulletin for the fgh
against tuberculosis says the com
mittee of the Charity Organization So
ciety.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
SIX KILLED
in A WRECK
Pennsylvania Railroad Trains
Collide at Nevada, Ohio,
This Morning
EXPRESS DASHING THROUGH
SNOW STORM HIT PULLMAN

BY United Press Leased SpeciPl Wire
UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio, Dec. "a
Three trainmen and three pas
sengers were killed. and a dozen other
passengers injured in a collision of
Pennsylvania trains, at Nevada, q few
miles east Of Upper Sandusky, early
to-day.
Train No. AS, a solid express. from
Chicago to New York, crashed into
train No. 10. a solid Pullman, enroute
from Pittsburg 10 Chicago. Two engi-
neers, one an extra, in the locomotive
drawing the express train, were kill
ed The baggageman and passengers
killed or injured were all of the Pull
man train.
The west-bound track was blocked
by freight train, stalled by n fraw-
bar, which pulled out. The Pullman
train crossed over to the east-bound
track, a short distance from a signal
tower. and then stopped, according
to signals.
The express train should have been
halted. Il was the duty of the tower
man to hold &C. Whether he did so is
questionwhich railroad officials are
investigating.
The express train was running
through a snow storm az the rate OF
| 55 miles an hour, when through tho
driving flakes it's fireman saw dimls
the headlights Of the Pullman trains
/ locomotive. Brakes were applied
but too late to prevent the smash-up
The huge locomotives crumples un
der the impact of the collision. Thr
first Pullman on the passenger traii
was wooden. Those behind were o
steel. The wooden car buckled. IN
passengers being crushed IN thei
berths. The victims were in thi
car.
The passenger train was filed Wit
persons going 70 their homes 70
Christmas
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
ANTI-JAP STIR
in CALIFORNIA
Labor Unions, II Is Said,
Will Demand Restrictive
Legislation
BELIEVE THAT TAFT
WILL NOT INTERFERE

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.-The
anti-Japanese feeling in California
promises to break out afresh with
the assembling of the incoming Legis-
lature after January /. So serious is
the situation considered that It is
giving Governor-elect Johnson and
! his advisors much concern. Il was
stated on authority today that, as
soon as tho Legislature meets, The
labor element i'm the state will de-
mand that it pass laws prohibiting the
ownership of land in the state by
Asiatics, and excluding the children
of Chinese and japanese from schools
attended by white children.
Three years ago, the intervention OF
President Roosevelt alone prevented
the California Legislature from en-
acting these laws. They were sched-
uled for passage when it was an
anpounced from authority from Tokyo
that such Legislation would be consid-
ed an "unfriendly" act. Roosevelt
promised that if the matter was left
in the hands of the federal govern
ment, he would see that the condi-
tions complained of. such as the at
tendance on the public schools of
grown Japanese youths who are given
seats with the white children many
years their juniors, would be cor
sected
Exclusion League 20 Meet.
This has not been done the labor
union officials assert Because Of this
meeting Of the Japanese Exclusion
League has been called for next week
r It will prepare new bills prohibiting
; ownership of land in the state by
, Asiatics and their attendance at the
public schools. These bills will be
! introduced early in the session. and
! according to the men behind them
will be pressed to passage with con.
tidence. II is conceded that the
: will probably be a protest from The
I Japanese government against th'
bills, but their sponsors assert tha
President Taft will hardly interfere al
President Roosevelt did.
Anti-Land Bill.
The anti-land bill is claimed to bl
b certain OF enactment The unioI
labor party and the farmers and frui
growers associations throughout tn
state are behind this bill The Call
foFnia Fruit Growers Association ha
o adopted resolutions favoring the pas
a sage Of a bill prohibiting ownership q
land by aliens of any nationality
u This association insists that the Jan
e anese are interfering with the whit
e farmers and II has great inhuenc
q with the incoming Legislature.
That there will be another IVA
= scare" following the agitation for th
q bills, seems certain, but those re
d sponsible for them say this fact vii
/ not deter them from forcing thei
passage.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
PrRsE FOR PREACHER.

On Wednesday evening friends OF
the Rev. Charles F. Lewis, Of tho First
Baptist Church, of New Castle, who
has been holding service at the State
Road Chapel, paid him visit. As a
token of their esteem they presented
to him a purse and a lot of produce.
The party was entertained by Mr.. and
Mrs Lewis and their daughter, Miss
Vera. assisted by Captain Coheld with
music, singing and speaking Among
those present were Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Denning, Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Hance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas LeFever, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lester. S. B. Miller, Clay Sterling
Elsie Biddle. Clara Sterling. Maud aud
Myrtle Deuning. Mary, Ethel and
Bertha McCallister.
Mr.. Lewis will hold service in the
State Road Chapel on Sunday Jam
uary /.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
CHRISTMAS DAY
FAIR, The PREDICTION

Christmas Day is 10 be fair and
moderately cooler. Beyond this state
ment the weather man had nothing 10
say to-day. Yesterday darkened skies
filled with gloomy clouds and a few
ilurries Of hail filled the little ones
with delight, and their elders with
apprehension, for n snOWStOrm was
predicted ON every hand. II failed TO
materiallze, however, although the
skies continued threatening all day.
The rain which fell last night and this
morning only served to cOmplicate
matters.
The odds are in favor OF a clear
day, however, but nothing Is certain.
We may have worse snOWstOrm
than last Christmas when nine inches
fell and a bowling biting wind kept
people indoors all day.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
AND ITALIAN
KILLED IN RUNNING FIGHT I

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
CHICAGO. Dec. 24.-After one cf
the most spectacular running fights
seen here in months. Grego-i Gracio,
an Italian, and Detective Jesse Gill
man are dead. Gracio fell to the re-
volver of Detective William Burns,
after he (Gracio) had employed his
gun.
Both detectives were after Gracio for
an attempt TO kill a fellow Italian.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
MONDAY THE
HOLIDAY FOR ALL

Monday will be observed as Christ
mas Day and legal holiday at tho
postoffice. The windows at the postof-
fice will be open until 8 o'clock. Only
one delivery of mail will be made
starting at 7SO o'clock in the morning.
There will be no collections all day.
The windows at the postofflce will
open at $50 o'clock as usual on Sun
day, tomorrow, and remain open as
long as necessary.
All the state, county. city and fed
eral offices as we'll as banking insti-
tutions will be closed on Monday.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
HOLIDAY CHEER
In INSTITUTIONS

Christmas will be observed at the
workhouse, Ferris School and county
and state institutions tomorrow. when
big dinners will be served in all four.
At the workhouse a special meal will
be served, but It will not include fowl,
roast meats taking the place of
poultry.
At the State Hospital for the In
sane the usual turkey dinner with
other necessaries for a Christmas
dinner will be served. Chicken, cram
berry sauce, sweet potatoes, vege-
tables, fruit, nuts and mince pie will
make up the menu.
The Ferris School boys will cat
chicken and everything that goes with
It. On Monday there will be a Christ
uaS tres entertainment
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
TURKEY PRICES
LOWER TODAY

Turkey prices vary to-day, birds
selling for from 25 10 80 cents a
pound, but later in the day there
promises 10 be a slump in the market
that will bring the fowl down TO a
comparatively low price.
There seems to be a plentiful sup
ply of the birds and dealers in order
to relieve themselves OF them, will
undoubtedly dispose Of the ones left
late in the day at a very low price.
Chickens are retailing at the same
average price Of 20 cents q pound that
has marked the market for the last
few days, but It is altogether proba-
bic that slight slump vii be no.
ticeable in these birds also.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
COLLECTORS SUE
FOR COUNTY TAX

Joseph IL. MARITIME, tax collector OF
Brandywlne hundred, and Edwin HUI
son, collector for Christmas hundred,
are arranging TO levy on tax delin-
Quents for 1909 and one of the local
magistrates has been given the ac-
counts. Although both collectors
have been persistent In their calls
upon the dclinqucnts they have madc
no effort 10 pay the taxes The coll
lectors say that they have been too
lenient and that now the law must
take it's course.
The amounts outstanding in each
hundred is about $4,000.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
CITY JUDGE GIVES
OUT FREEDOM GIFTS

There we're seven men before the
Municipal Court this morning on the
charge of being drunk Judge Coch-
ran was charitable 10 the extent Of
giving them a chance 10 go--and not
come back. Three Of the defendants
we're young men, one being sixteen
and the other nineteen years OF age.
They met five other young men last
night and had drinks TO excess.
William Brittingham slapped his
father last night and IL cost him 81
and costs.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
Tar. Mn Carry Packages.

Delivery tags for packages are pro-
durable at the Wilmington and Phila-
delphia Traction Company for pa
irons OF the road who wish TO have
packages delivered anywhere along
along the line Of the company be-
tween here and Claymont. Persons
desiring such a delivery can purchase
the tickets for 10 cents each, and tic
II on the packages to be delivered asd
Il will be left where addressed.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24

They found him standing I'm the
shadow of Building Without a
word the italian fired through his
overcoat pocket and Gilman fol- with
a bullet IN his side.
He's got me Billy" Gilman cried
TO his partner Get him sure"
Burns left his partner lying in Tho
street aud after a chase of several
blocks killed the fleeing Italian.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
FOUND SIX ASPHYXIATED
WHEN HE WENT TO CALL

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
KENTON, O., Dec. 24.-Six persons
were killed by gas fumes early today
in a room in the Lintz block. The
victims are Clark Latham, aged 50.
and his wife; Harry Newcomb aged
%; Miss Bailey aged 21; William
Kennedy. aged so, and Kennedy's son.
Pearl, aged "A.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
GIVE EACH OTHER
AS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Magistrate Robertson issued two
marriage licenses to-day, one to a
Wilmington couple and the other to
Philadelphians. The local people were
George T. Smallwood and Miss Glare
E. White. and the Philadelphia couple
we're Harry c. Zollers and Catherine
Anderson. The latter we're married
by the Rev. A. Z. Clay, rector of Old
Swedes, but where the Wilmington
ians were welded was not learned
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
EXPECT SLUMP
IN TREE PRICES

A tremendous drop in the price Of
Christmas trees is looked for late this
afternoon or evening, as there is an
excessive supply in the market
Realizing this many dealers with a
number Of trees left on their hands
hooked horses to their wagons and
went through the city, selling them
from door 10 door.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24

The tragedy was discovered today
when man went to call the Ken
nedys to go to work. They had a
room in the front part of the block.
The others were found in an adioin-
ing room. The pipe Of a gas stove in
the room had been disconnected. Emp
ty liquor bottles lay about
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
nm CHRIsTMAs BRIDEs.

There was a rush of out-of-town
young folks to-day TO get married.
The magistrates accordingly issued
many marriage licenses. Some Of the
magistrates secured an extra number
Of licenses from Clerk of the Peace
Brown in order TO meet the demand
in the next three days.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
FOUR DROP 500 FFTr no DEAIH.

by United Press Leased Special Wire
BEoKLEY. ". Vs. Dec. a4Four gro dead as he re-
suit tho shaft OF Tho New River coere Com
pany. Eeeles w va. bucket ca tho men, an employ
the bravo Contracting compan riding overturned
throwing hyo hundred down the bottom Of the
shaft instant death. tho bodies horribly
crushed and msngied
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
More Claims Against Contractors.

Additional claims for wages were
hled against the Charles A. Sims Com
pany, contractors for the new Balti-
more and Ohio railroad bridge across
the Brandywine, These last claims
we're filed with Magistrate Gluckman
and they aggregate s243. II was said
that the company might make set
tlement with its employees this after
noon.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
New Castle High the winner.

Oficials Of the St Johns Academy
basketball team denied to-day that the
team had been defeated at New Castle
on Thursday night by the Columbia
A. c. third team. St Johns played
New Castle High, the best basketball
team IN New Castle. and lost. n 70 IL.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
Tnrker ninner Ion TroIIeYmen.

AT employees OF The wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company will
be served with turkey dinners at the
offices of the company at No. SSS Mar
ket street on Monday from 10 o'clock
in the morning until 6 o'clock IN the
evening. The feast will be served by
AinscoW.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
Win peclslon in Januar1.

AS the hearing in the Miller will
case was heard in part by Judge Hast
iugs in the Superior Court the decision
is expected 10 be handed down early
IN January. Judge Hastings will re-
tire from the bench next month.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
rTvE DEAD N rBlN wRrCE.

BUcyRUs Ohio. Dec 2i.-Fhc employees were killed and
many passengers injured critically tho result OF COLI
lsiou Of fast trains pr tho Puusyau Railroad
at Nevada, few miles west hero early today.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
WEATHER.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2f.-FOrecad
tit ) D. mn. t0-mOrr0wi
For Cloudy and cOldef
tonight; sunday. fair and moderate.
" cooler; northwest winds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2i.-The Nests
ern storm area now covers the Atlans
tic States, and during the last twen-
ty-fOur hours Il caused general pre-
cipitation over all districts IRON tho
Mississippi river TO the Atlantic
Coast.
The weather is decidedly colder in
the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and
temperatures are below zero in North1
eastern Iowa, Minnesota, Eastern
North Dakota and Northwestern Wis
cOnsin.
Cold weather warnings are display
ed on the Georgia and South CarOlina
Coasts and storm warnings ON tho
New England Coast.
Evening journal., 1910-12-24
IBooks Open to An The EVENING JOU

Every advertisement in this
paper is worthy of yOui
confidenee-Or il would not
be here
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-11
BIG DEMAND FOR SPACE
IN l6-STORY BUILDING,
Firemen's Insurance Co.'s New
Structure Almost COMPLETED.

More h so per cent. of the space
in the new History building of the
F1remen's Insurance Company at
Broad n Market streets has been
leased and tenants are arranging to
move into the building, which will be
open three weeks from today. A great
er part of the ground floor space will
be taken up by the Lackawanna ticket
office, the Ward-Gehin Company, the
Simon Reigel Cigar Company and
Jacob Krenrich's barber shop The
Firemen's Insurance Company will oc-
cupy the second and third floors.
Offices on the other floors will be &C.
cupied as follows:
Fourth Floor-Dr. George 3. Gale,
medico-legal expert; Dickinson, Grum-
mon & Co, stocks and bonds; Oliver
w. Jackson, real estate and insurance;
DR.. Bernard Dubois, dentist; Ernest N.
Duryea, stocks n bonds; A. Broder,
wholesale jewelry.
Fifth Floor-Sylvester, Schoenoms-
CRUDE & Benny, bonds; American
Surety Company (two-thirds of 1oor);
George E.. Russell, real estate and in
uranc
Sixth Floor-Travelers' Insurance
Company CENTRE floor.
Seventh Floor--Artf1ur r. School, real
estate: Frank j. Book, real estate:
Weequahic Park Land and Improve
ment Company; Samuel W. Geery. real
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-11
TALENTED ACTRESS IN
MRS. BAGG'S BARGAIN DAY.
Clever Performance to Be Given
by Amateurs.

Miss Celena Grischele, who is to takA
the leading part in Mrs. Bagg's Bar
gain Day." which is to be presented at
the New Auditorium on April Is by the
Congress of Newark, Is a talented
actress. whose clever work In this per-
Torrance has completely c~aptivated her
many friends. She is ably supported by
a large and w~ell-trained cast under the
direction of Hubert J. Rowe.
The Congress of Newark is an organi-
cation of young people of Newark and
has been fostered with the Idea of CIV
ing instruction in practical politics, the
rules of the meeting closely following
the procedure of the Senate and the
House Of Representatives at Washing
ton.
The play will be followed by a dance.
The cast is as follows: Mrs. Bagg.
Miss Celena Grischele; Madeline Bagg,
Miss Beatrice Soria; Mrs. Tagg, Miss
Ariadne Leech; Mrs. Ragg, Miss Lydia
Sayre; Mrs. Fagg, Miss May Mac
Dowell; Mrs. Lagg, Miss Ethel Tomp-
ktns; Mrs. Petit, Miss Jennie Stumpf;
Mrs. Short, Miss Florence MARITIME;
Mrs. Grand, Miss Minnie Kelsall; Mrs.
Laete, Miss Lydia Sayre; Mrs. Sloe,
Miss Margaret MacDowell; Mrs. Laste,
Miss Minnie Kelsall; Aunt Louise, Miss
Ethel Tompkins; salesgirl, Miss Phoebe
Moreland; Mr.. Bagg, Frank S. Platts;
Mr.. T%alkhard, Gordon H. Price: Benny
Bagg, William w. Jones; Willie Bagg,
Oliver Brandt; Mr.. Tagg, George w.
Horton; Mr.. Grand, W. Vanard Stans-
bury; fioorwalker, Byron Clayton; par
Gel boy, George L. Liable; cash boy,
Oliver Brandt.