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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
SINGLE VOTES
MAKE HISTORY.
Famous Incidents Where Bare
Majority Has Ruled.
RECALLED BY CHAMP CLARK.

Speaker Is Filled With "reminiscences
and Loves to Cite History, Which He
Does Readily-Losins $1,000 Week
on Lecture Contract.
Apropos of the deciding vote cast by
Vice President Sherman recently
which saved the Bristow amendment
to the resolution to submit direct cleo
dons of United States senators to the
states, Speaker Champ Clark told of
the historical things that have been de-
cided by one vote. He said that he
could give half hundred Of now his.
torical decisions that have made world
history If 1t were not SO not
General Jackson was elected major
general Of the Tennessee militia by a
majority of one," he said, "and the
victory of New Orleans which resulted
from that election changed the polit.
ical history for twenty-five years and
forever, no doubt.
Martin Van Buren was defeated for
confirmation as minister to England
by one vote, and that action made him
president John G. Calhoun, then vice
president, cast the deciding vote.
Edward Everett was defeated as
governor of Massachusetts by one
vote. This took him out of the list of
eligibles for president,
Thomas H. Benton was elected to
the United States senate by a single
vote. This one majority gave him an
opportunity to show his great powers,
and he remained in the United States
senate thirty years and was one of the
great characters of history.
Kentucky came into the Union as a
slave state. Henry Clay cast the de-
Gliding vote in the constitutional con-
vention. Had Kentucky come into the
Union as free state then Missouri
would have done the same, and there
would have been no civil war.
Election of Hayes.
"Hayes was put into the presidency
Of the United States by a single vote
after the votes of Florida, Louisiana
and South Carolina had been counted
for him in the electoral college, al
though cast for Samuel J. Tilden.
Thus Tilden was cheated out of the
presidency by one vote and Hayes got
the place.
"The act Of union of Scotland, Wales
and Ireland was passed by one vote.
''The Walker tariff bill was passed
in 1s46 by the senate by a vote of one.
George M. Dallas, vice president, OF
Pennsylvania cast that vote"
Mr.. Clark is filed with such remi-
niscences. He loves to cite history,
which he does most readily. Recently
he was the guest of Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer at a little dinner
where it was understood there were to
be no speeches. With the coffee a
group gathered around the speaker,
and he entertained the diners for an
hour or more with what looked to be
set speech.
II enjoyed your dinner immensely"
the speaker told Mr.. Palmer next day.
81 like to eat, but never enjoy it when
you are expected to say something
after you have been fed"
"But you had to talk" retorted Mr..
Palmer.
"Oh, that was one of my Chautau-
qua lectures" smiled the speaker.
1t might be mentioned here that ev-
cry week congress remains in session
the speaker is losing $1,000. He has a
contract to deliver lectures at Chau-
tauqua, courses beginning on June Is
to Sept. Is, at that amount
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
QUARTER NOVELS COMING.
Publisher Predicts Era of Cheap Pa
per Covers.


An eastern publisher attending the
book fair in the Palmer House, Chi
cago, said recently that in a short time
fiction will be served to the summer
reader in twenty-five cent paper Gov
ers.
The pasteboard or cloth bound vol,
ume and editions de luxe of the "best
six sellers are doomed. and according
TO this publishers opinion there will
be no royalty left for the author after
the retailer has deducted 10 cents
profit and the publisher 10 cents.
I'VE are approaching a revolution, -
he said. ''and in a short time there
will be no more 81 and SIPS books
The public will not pay exorbitant
prices for reading during leisure
hours"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
Imports From Korea,

There is no way of knowing just
how much value in American goods
enters Korea from Japan. but in the
last three fiscal years our imports di-
rect from Korea were $3,O45, S2,s79
and $20,1T6. Exports to Korea dwin-
died from $1,563,113 in 1908 to 1920, ,7SO
in 1909 and rose again to $40, ,O66 for
the fiscal year 1910.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
FOR The CHILDREN
A Garden Soma.

Sing a song of gardens!
Time is come for sowing;
Trees are out. bees are out,
Apple blooms are blowing,
Pansy buds. poppy buds.
Spring is here, indeed,
When my man Johnny comes
Along with his seed.
Sing . song of gardens!
Summer sun is burning;
Lilies droop. roses stoop,
Long for nights returning.
Think they see an angel
With a cheek of tan
When my man Johnny comes
Along with his can.
Sing a song of gardensl
All blaze of bloom,
Jessamine and gillyfiower
Elbowing for room.
Summers come, summers come,
Sure as sure can be.
When my man Johnny brings
My flower In to me.
Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
A Mixture of Conposjte.

"Jorkins is certainly in a good many
positions at once"
"How so?''
'He is up in the air, down on his
luck. on in years and back in his
taxes. ."-Baltimore American.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
Poetry Making.

Each writes a line of poetry on
sheet Of paper and then passes it on
TO his neighbor, who must write line
that win rhyme with the preceding
one and pass It on 10 the third person,
who in turn win write another line to
rhyme with the one above. and so on
round the table.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
Long Engagements.

Young Man-Do you believe in long
engagements, sir? Cynical Benedick-
Certainly. my young friend, certainly!
The longer the engagement the shorter
the marriage!
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21

No nation can be destroyed while II
possesses good home life.-J. G. Hol
land.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21

Honesty needs no pains to set itself
off.-Edward Moore
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21
Size Of the caspian saa

The Caspian sea would stretch from
New York to st. Augustine and is as
wide as frem New York to Rochester.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-21

| hereby respectfully announce my
self as a candidate for the Office of
County Treasurer on the Republican
ticket, subject to the decision of the
uniform primaries to be held Septem-
Der 80, 1911. AS it will be impos-
sible for me to see all the voters of
the county, 1 take this method of So
Letting your support. If l am the
choice of the people, have but one
promise to make, viz: that l will dis
charge the duties of the office i'm
partially and honorably.
A. w. LARRABEE,
57tf Starrucca, Pa.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

The Ralston Lumber company
started Friday morning having
the snow shoveled off the roofs
of their large sheds and Monday
it was hauled away. Aside from
the great inconvenience. about
thirty feet of shed roof went
down, which makes the effects
of the storm expensive.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

G. V. Jackson came home Mon
day evening on the first C. e. S.
and spent the night with his
family, the first since Wednes-
day of last week. He returned
on the Tuesday morning train to
his work as train dispatcher.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11
STORM-ITEMS GEN.
ERAL AND PERSONAL

R. R. Rodda's sister Mrs. An
ME Nichols of Denver had quite
an experience Thursday evening.
Mrs. Thomas sent her out to Ar
vada to bring something for the
Ladies Aid supper at the M. E.
church. She started out on the
last car that left Arvada that
evening and it jumped the track
at Berkeley. This made it nec-
essary for the passengers to take
refuge in the little crment gro
Gerry near the White City, where
eight of them sat up until next
morning. Prof. Johnson, teacher
of music, was also one of the
party. Mrs. Nichols started out
Friday mornidg at 8 o'clock and
then walked five blocks home.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Josiah M.aloney, found the trip
home from Denver Saturday ex-
tremely laborious as well as haz-
ardous. Mr.. Maloney, who is a
business-getter on the Denver
Post is rather portly and found
four feet of snow on the level
a great impediment to speed as
well as to his respiration. He
reached his home in the west
part of town at 7 o'clock Satur-
day evening, having left Denver
about one.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Monday afternoon, about foul
the people on Ralston avenue OBJ
served what years ago might
have been considered a band OF
Indians approaching the town
from the west. AS the objects
drew nearer a hint of Colonial
days and the pilgrim fathers
suggested itself, for a man lead
ing bull headed the procession.
But no Pricilla sat thereon. The
man was Mr.. Beckett of Beckett
& Greenway, and his followers
a lot of Dry Creek farmers who
came to town to break trail and
buy groceries. They came, some
of them, from four miles west,
and report the snow ten feet
deep in places. They were Mes
srs. Forest, Stanley, Milfred and
Amos Musser, Morris MARITIME,
F. C. Strickland, r. G. Griffith,
Vivian Griffith, Pearl and Fred
Jump, Dewey Morris, E. Saline,
Will Evans, Arthur Markham,
Mr.. Erwin, and Bob Beckett.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Stanley Pierce has been faith
full to the customers of J., A.
Pierce's office. He has been de-
livering coal by sack and wheel
barrow load.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

at a standStlll this week. Inc
Methodist Ladies' Aid bazaar.
and supper which was advertised
for last Thursday evening was
prolonged through Friday and
Saturday and finally postponed.
A few people were fed Thursday
evening, however.
Perhaps none Of the hardships
experienced by people in transit
were more trying than that of
the people who were marooned
at the junction of the tramway
from Thursday evening until
Sunday morning. There were
three women beside the car crew,
which were enroute from Golden
to Denver and could get no fur
ther. To make matters worse,
one of the passengers, a Mrs.
Frank of Denver, was taken SER
iously i'll with heart trouble and
DR.. Foster was telephoned for.
He managed to get there on a
snow plow and was compelled
to remain there until early Fri
day morning, when the section
men shoveled a path for him to
get back home. Miss Anna Allen
another one of the passengers,
suffered great hardships. After
aiding DR.. Foster in caring for
Mrs. Frank, she herself was
taken i'll Saturday night. The
only convenience aside from the
from the hard benches in way of
a place to lie down was Dispatch
er Keenan's bed upstairs, which
he very generously allowed Miss
Allen to use Saturday night.
Mr.. Chamberlain, the station
master, managed to keep the
passengers supplied with food
from his house nearby, for which
all were very grateful. How
ever, Miss Allen, who is employ
ed in Denver by an abstract firm
and had been in Denver on bust
ness, had friends in Arvada, the
Thos. Hurst family. She tele-
telephoned them and Sunday
morning Mr.. Hurst got couple
of men in the Valley to get Mr..
Newton's pony sleigh and bring
Miss Allen up to their home in
that way. She had fully recov-
cred by Tuesday and took the
tramway for Denver.
Ellsworth Secrest played the
good Samaritan to a number of
school children and the teacher,
Miss Campbell, at No. 3 school
house last Thursday evening, by
going to the school house three
times and carrying the children
on his back to his house, about a
quarter of a mile distant, where
they were we'll taken care OF un.
til the weather cleared. Miss
Campbell was escorted home on
snow shoes.
The first passenger car that
got to Denver View jumped the
track near the Shale Brick plant
on its return trip. Prof. Hogan
was aboard and sprinted to Ar.
vada.
j. j. Wea yer came through
town Wednesday morning with
about half a ton of hay on a slec
and eight horses attached. II
was a good road breaker.
An Idaho Springs special came
through from Denver about 10;3(
Wednesday morning, the frs
train through since the big snow
Inc Central City road was eX
pected to be cleared by last night
Inc special brought pouch mai
for Arvada.
Al cole got separated from hi
& buggy in the storm Thursda.
nent on Ralston avenue and lef
!! sucking in the snow not fa
from his home.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

The Arvada citizen who has
been in the habit of trading in
Denver has had a chance to ap-
preciate the accommodations of
a good lopal store this week. 1t
is to be hoped that the new
order of things will cause them
to get acquainted with our mer-
chants and to conclude that if
they are good enough in a time
like this they are good enough
any old time. All the stores
were well supplied and very
little inconvenience has been ex-
perienced on the part of people
living in town. Deliveries were
made as soon as the roads were
broken sufficiently, and many of
the deliverymen were seen with
sacks of provisions on their backs
before teams could be used.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

the east room OF the High school
building caved in under the
weight of the snow and immedi-
ate)y a group of shovelers were
put to work in order to remove
about ten tons of snow to keep
it from running the interior of
the building. Monday morning
a number of carpenters under
the direction of Chester Lawrence
one of the directors, started tc
make repairs. A section about
45 feet in width was torn out
and it will require an expendi-
ture of $400 or $500 to repair it.
School will be suspended in the
meantime. 1t is probable that it
will take two weeks to make the
necessary repairs.
Clarence Shoop walked from
Denver Thursday night and was
all in" when he reached Yea
gers. He was prevailed upon
to spend the night there, much
against his will. He was given
an alcohol rub and put to bed,
and managed to get home the
next day.
The Moffat Road suffered Sc
verely from the storm, several
car loads of cattle were stalled
above Leyden and a number of
them died. The passenger 'tain
was also stalled while the snAw-
plow was trying to get through a
cut in which was piled about Is
feet of snow. In the meantime
the Tramway coal train had poked
its nose through the cut between
Arvada and the White City and
made it's way to Perry Station
where it picked up about 20 of
the Moffat passengers about 9
O'Clock Sunday night and took
them into Denver. 1t was a sor-
ry looking lot of passengers.
All the horses in town were
pressed into service Saturday
morning breaking the trail on the
main streets. About twenty
were ridden and led through first
and later Evans and. Bennett i'm
provised a "go-devil" and hit
ched six head of horses to
it. Geo. Williams was engag-
ed similarly and Sunday made
the trip to Manchester's green
house in a lumber wagon. Robt
Swadley and Jack Bennett broke
several miles of road Monday.
John Clark, living two miles
northwest of town started to
move Thursday morning to his
newly purchased ranch near Lit
tleton. He loaded his effects into
an auto van and it came through
town about a O'Clock in the after
noon. Mr.. Clark brought his
wife to town and returned to
look after his livestock. He was
marooned till Monday, when he
managed to walk into town for
provisions. Mrs. Clark found
refuge with Mrs. Mailing and
left for Denver on the c. & S.
Monday afternoon.
A. l.. Davis drove his car to
Denver Thursday, put it in gar
age, hibernated in the big town
till Saturday afternoon when he
started for home on snow shoes.
He met A. M. Pitt the dairyman,
, and got a ride part way. Thurs
day evening he drove to Mt.
Clair and brought Misses Davis
and Champion as far as Denver.
They arrived home Monday a. m.
The tent dwellers near Tucker
! Station are said to have had a
tough time of it. Some of the
, tents blew down and fuel ran SC
, short that it was necessary tc
burn some of the floors to keer
r the occupants from freezing te
death.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

The farmers in Maple Grove
district are cooperating with
each other in breaking the roads.
To-day they are working twenty
two head of horses and fifteen or
twenty men on snow plows open
ing 3Sth, 26th and 44th avenues.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11
The merchants have equipped
themselves with sleighs in which
to make their deliveries.

WYE a number of people are
shG.'t on coal and are { compelled
to carry it home by the Sack-full
or borrow of the more fdEtunTe
neighbor. si
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

The Tramway cars were put
in operation again Tuesday
morning about nine O'Clock as
far as Arvada. About two o.
clock a car went as far west as
Tucker station on the Leyden
line.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Mrs. Rodda received a phone
message from her sister, Mrs.
Lena Griffin at Central City in
which she tells of suffering and
death caused by snowslides and
hunger. Three miners were
killed in a snowslide and others
were reported starving at a mine
near Central City. Some men
started with a team and load OF
provisions, but on the way the
team fell into lead and had tc
be killed.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

George Muench had a lively
experience Sunday, which he
will remember for a long time.
In company with Jack Lsrcher
and -Ernest ,Kalar. he started for
Den yer on a bob sled to get 8
load of meat. While driving or
the street car tracks on Quitmar
street one of the runners got
caught and the doubletree snap
ped off, 30 that the team went
on, throwing George headlong
into the snow. In the shuttle
the horses got away and had a
clear track for a couple of miles
down the street, causing pedes-
trians to scatter in every direct
tion, till they got to Zuni street
where Editor Thad S. Sutton and
others were shoveling snow, and
by waving their shovels succeed
ed in stopping the frightened an
imals. Muench and the boys
hailed a car and followed the
team, and going on down town,
borrowed a wagon to come home
in. Monday George took the
wagon home and brought back
the sled. 1t was a hard trip but
Mr.. Muench had to have meat
for his customers and he got it.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11


J. P. Giltner came into town
Monday putting like a rotary en-
gine' on bis way to- his home at
Ihompaon station from Denver
where he had been visiting"
since Thursday. Joe says he
wore out his eyes and all the
films in the moving picture
shows on Curtis street seeking
amusement. He gave it up and
hiked fer home. He was graft
fed to know the tramway motor
had broken the trail for him.
All of the High school pupils
from Denver View did not get
home until Sunday when they
took the ski route. Prof. Hogan,
however, felt the responsibilities
of home ties more keenly and in
spite of the persuasion of his
friends to remain in Arvada, he
plunged out into the storm. As
luck would have it he made con-
nections with a snow plow, or
he might have perished or been
compelled to take refuge some
where.
Luther and Bert Secrest turn
ed Bachelors Hall'' into a
House of the Good Shepherd, !"
taking in all of the juvenile
"outcasts" that could be found
adrift. One little fellow of ten
der years insisted on being taken
home in the middle Of the night.
but moral persuasion tempered
with a snow bath brought peace
and quiet to the household.
Manager Garlick was surprised
while out on a trouble call Sun
day morning to find a beautiful
pheasant dangling from the wires
near Mr.. Chinn's home. The
unfortunate bird had flown a.
gainst the wires in the storm and
one of its wings caught between
the big cable and the wire under,
meath. which is called the mes
senger wire. This proved to bt
the cause of the trouble on tn,
line.
The C. & S. killed two mer
Tuesday night, or at least the,
are supposed to have been killed
about that time. One was at the
Griffin Car Wheel Works and the
other near Utah Junction. The
morning train for Idaho Springs
found the one at Utah Junction
Wednesday morning.
The Arvada Lumber company
has suffered more from the ef-
fects of the monster snow storm
than any other business institu-
ton in town. The mammoth
shed roofs made an especially
inviting place for the snow to
light and not only was the work
of shoveling it off extremely
laborious, but dangerous as well.
Manager Hurst was equal to the
occasion, however, and set about
the task of clearing the roofs as
speedily as possible. The snow
was shoveled off the roofs into
great piles which were hauled
away by teams and sleds to a
vacant lot on West First street.
Mrs. A. j. Recht and Miss
Stella Wiebelt, who had been
stopping at the Oxford during
the inclement weather, decided
to make try for home Monday
and in company with VIM. Wei
belt Of Golden made the journey
from Lakeside on the snowplow.
While the recent storm was
spending its fury over the other
wise peaceful little town of Grif-
fifth little miss of tender age
put in an appearance az the John
Musser home and was hospitibly
received. At about the same
time a youth Of about the same
ace made plajntiye claim To the
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

The Denver newspapers have
made a big sensation Of Miss
Minnie Tyson of Griffith, whom
they were sure must have per-
ished in the storm. Miss Tyson
had experiences much the same
as many others, but she was not
so foolhardy as the papers claim
ed, but accepted the hospitality
of lady living near 44th and
Tennyson, who was on the chr
with her. Her parents of course,
were uneasy but her mother was
not near death from fright. "
She got Mrs. U. G. Griffith, a
neighbor, to telephone the Gold
en- Eagle, where she worked and
when they found she had started
home the parnts' ueneasiness in
creased until she telephoned them
next day.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Five men and one woman, the
names unobtainable, walked from
Arvada to Edgewater Friday.
When they passed the home Of
Nicholas thinner on 44th avenue
he insisted on the woman stop
ping there. but she refused to bc
left behind.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Al Cole got separated from his
buggy in the storm Thursday
nS1it on Ralston avenue and left
II sucking in the snow not far
from his home.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Prof. O. B. Drake shoveled
snow too hard and has been suf.
fering from lumbago this week.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

j. H. Watson and son and A.
Tetzlaff of south Wadsworth ave-
nue., did valiant service in break
ing the road. They got out their
teams Saturday and were the
first to break a trail from their
places into town. Not content
with this, by Monday morning
they had a very good trail broken
as far as 44th avenue. Such en-
terprise should not be passed by
unnoticed.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Mrs. Scholtz of Griffith, had a
most trying and almost fatal ex-
perience in the storm. After
being marooned from Thursday
until Saturday morning in Den
yer, away from her children. she
determined to go to them at all
hazards. She literally crawled
the geater part of the way from
Berkeley to Griffith and was al
most dead from the terrible ex-
posure when she was found and
helped the rest of the way by
neighbors.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. James Gel
ebrated their tenth wedding an.
niversary last Thursday. What
was to have been an evening
party in honor of the occasion,
on account of the storm, devel-
oped into a weekend house par
ty which was a continuous round
of pleasure.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

Some of the farmers have be-
come very impatient for their
mail and some of them have sig
nifed their willingness to meet
the carrier part way and distrib-
ute mail for his neighbors on the
way back. But the cross roads,
many of them are impossible,
and very little has been done to-
ward breaking them. Uncle Sam
does all that is reasonable in at
tempting to make deliveries, but
he does not break roads, and is
sometimes known to take the
route away from sections where
proper roads are not maintained.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

j. G. Orr, who holds a splen-
did position with the Littleton
Creamery Co., swan" home
Saturday to see his family. He
is somewhat of an athlete and
enjoys surf bathing when the
breakers don't break too high,
but the seas between Lakeside
and Grandview were a trihe bill
lowy.
Ray Juchem is displaying some
interesting snow views which hs
took with his kodak.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-12-11

An Idaho Springs special came
through from Denver about 1890
Wednesday morning, the first
train through since the big snow.
The Central City road was ex.
pected to be cleared by last night.
Inc special brought pouch mail
for Arvada.