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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
THE APPLE TENT CATERPILLAR.

Senator Baldwin, whose home is in
the northern part of Pennsylvania,
has called attention of State Zoolo-
g1st H. A. Surface, Harrisburg, to the
unusual outbreak of tent caterpillars
this year. This is one of the pests
which is beginning to appear in ac-
cordance with the statements pub
lished by Prof Surface, in January,
to the effect that this would be an
unusual year for such pests as
Aphids or Plant Lice, June Bugs and
White Grubs, Cut Worms, Canker
Worms, and Tent Caterpillars.
Senator Baldwin says that
throughout the northern and central
portions of Pennsylvania the cater
pillars are so in evidence upon prac-
t1cally all wild cherry and most neg
lected fruit trees that they are al
ready quite defoliating them. These
pests are conspicuous on account of
the large tents which they make in
the forks of branches, and which
they leave to travel the leaves for
1000. They cause great damage by
eating away the leaves, which for
trees perform the functions of both
lungs and stomach. This causes a.
nv" pSt VI iSofSo W u6N6lOD on new
twigs, which means late growth, a
weakened tree, poor fruit buds, no
crop for this year, special dangers
or winter freezing next winter, and
but little crop for next year, on trees
that are permitted to remain badly
infested by pests this spring.
DR.. Surface recommends DESTROY
ing tent caterpillars by one of the
Following means: /. Spray as soon
as the young worms or larva appear,
using quarter of an ounce of Paris
green or one ounce of arsenate of
lead in fifty gallons of water. 2.
Cut off the infested branches and
burn them. A certain amount of
pruning at this time of year is more
beneficial to the tree than injurious.
3. With brush on the end of a pole
twist out the nest and dip this into a
vessel containing kerosene or any
other oil or into hot water. 4. Load
shot gun with a good charge of
powder and plenty of paper wadding,
but no shot, and shoot them out.
Do not attempt the too common
practice of trying to remove them by
burning the tents. 1t takes only
small amount of heat to injure the
bark of a tree and make it com
mence to die, or permit fatal blight
germs to enter where thus injured.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
AN UNJUST LIABILITY.

The Employers Liability bill now
pending at Harrisburg, however ia
vorably we may regard it's main pur-
pose, has one feature that is clearly
indefensible, illogical and altogether
wrong. 1t is that which makes a citi-
zen liable for an accident to an indi-
vidual worker not in his employ and
over whom he has no control.
Surely it is enough to make an en-
ployer liable for the accidents to his
own employees without piling upon
him liability for damages to the en-
ployes Of some one doing work for
him under contract. The contractor
is himself an employer, chooses his
own men and discharges them if they
do not suit him. The owner Of the
premises exercises no authority or
control over his contractors employ
es.
In fixing the responsibility of en-
ployers the bill should at least stick
to it's purpose and put the liability
for damages squarely on the real
employer and not on one who has no
contractual relations with the man
injured. 1t is one thing to hold an
employer responsible for the injuries
incurred by the men of his own selec-
tion and over whom he exercises di-
rect authority. 1t is quite another
thing and most unjust and wrong to
seek to hold man responsible for
the employees of another man who
is working for the first under con-
tract.
This provision in the Employers
Liability bill has been severely and
justly criticised. There is a second
provision whereby the owner of
premises on which work is being
done under a contractor may relieve
himself from responsibility by post
ing notice on the premises and fl
ing another with the Bureau of H.
dustrial Statistics. But in small and
short operations men will not think
to take that trouble and the second
airy liability stands there as a trap.
The bill is sufficiently drastic without
this unfair responsibility for con-
tractors workmen. 1t hits the
wrong person, is without any merit
and should be stricken from the bill.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
Death of Professor Lamaze.

Professor Edouard Lamaze, form.
erly OF Scranton, died at his resi-.
dence, Boulogne-Sur-Seine, neal
Paris, France, on Monday of last
week. Until two years ago before
his leaving for France, he resided
on Myrtle street, Scranton. He then
moved to Clark's Summit, where he
lived a short time before leaving fol
France.
Born at Fraize, Vosges, France
hfty years ago, he received a college
education and prepared himself for
teachers career. Professor La
maze obtained considerable expert
ence along this line by teaching al
the High school at Epinal, Vosges
and the College of Remiremont
France. When he was thirty-five
years Of age he went to Montreal
Canada, where he lived for a few
years and then went to Scranton in
1898.
In Scranton he became prominent
as a private teacher of the French
language and entered the service OF
the International Correspondence
school March 8, 1901, in the capacity
of principal of the school of French
At that time the schools were con-
sidering the advisability of teaching
modern languages by a new up-to-
date system and Professor Lamaze
was engaged for this purpose.
In 1912 the schools established a
branch in France for the teaching OF
the languages. Professor Lamaze
was sent to Paris, where he opened
an office for the schools for the pur-
pose Of preparing courses in Ian
guages to meet the needs of France,
Spain and Germany.
The death Of Professor Lamaze
as he was Familiarity and lovingly
called by his hosts of friends, will
be a distinct loss wherever the Ian
guage department of the I. G. S. has
penetrated; and this is in almost
every civilized and semi-civilized
country, thro' his efforts and those
of his able assistant, Senor Jose
Navas. Senor Navas is a cultured
Spanish gentleman, in every best
sense of that term, and will no
doubt succeed to the management
of the Language schools.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
ID. & H. is SUED FOR $4,000, 900.

A suit to recover $6,000,000, the
value placed on coal alleged to have
been removed in the last forty years
from number of mines under Scran-
ton, Pa, has been filed against the
Delaware and Hudson company, it
developed Saturday, through pro-
ceedings in the Supreme court.
Eleven property owners of Scranton
were asked in an application to JUS
tice Gerard to make their complaint
more definite and to bring action
separately. Decision was reserved.
Mine lands were leased to the de-
fendant company in 1861, when there
was no market value for smaller sizes
of coal, counsel for the plaintiffs told
the court, under an agreement by
which the company was to pay twelve
cents a ton for all coal that would
not pass through an inch square
mesh The coal that did not pass
through was regarded as worthless
and no mention was made of it in the
contract, said counsel.
"In 1872" he set forth, smaller
sizes of coal became not only market
able but more valuable than the
larger sizes. Then the defendant
company reconstructed their appara-
tus and the coal was Intentionally
broken into pieces small enough to
go through the inch square mesh.
Thus they received higher price for
the coal and could avoid paying the
twelve cents per ton to our clients"
The court heard argument oppos-
ing the defendant company's motion
to have separate action brought by
the plaintiffs, who are Katherine
Saltonstall Wells, Catherine F. Sher-
wood, Helen Ecob, Frances A.
Denny, Caroline L. Gilbert, Cath
crime G. Francke, Henry L. Gilbert,
Gilbert Butler, Elizabeth Cox, Eliza
beth G. Colt, and CATHERINE G. Riggs.
The mining operations on which
the eleven plaintiffs in the suit
against the Delaware and Hudson
seek to recover the royalties under
lie North Scranton. They are what
is known as the old Rockwell tract,
and the claimants are heirs of the
Rockwell estate.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
The Wayne Citizen
Renewing Its Youth.

ERY newspaper does not
have the happy experience
of that well-known Wayne
county publication, The Cit
izen, which was started in
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
MAY COMMON SCHOOL EXANIINA.
TIONS.

The following applicants were sue
cessful:
Warren w. Doney, Seelyville.
Clarence w. Erik, Seelyville.
Richard A. Linke, Seelyville.
Edwin G. Ordnung, Seelyville.
Dorothy F. Flanagan, Clinton.
Walter Ross, Dyberry.
Lottie Lintner, Paupack.
Harriet Cramer, Paupack.
Eliza Cramer, Paupack.
Loretta Rode, Texas.
Alice May, Texas.
Arnold Smith, Texas.
Clarence Mundy, Texas.
Anna Mullen, Texas.
Anna Langhans, Texas.
Anna O'Neill, Texas.
Harold Tallman, Texas.
Paul Schweisinger, Texas.
Anna Seelig, Texas.
Adelaide Murtha, Texas.
Loretta Weidner, Texas.
Marie Brunner, Texas.
Wilma Bennett, Texas.
Carmel Smith, Texas.
Marcella West, Texas.
Julia McGinnis, Texas.
Harriet Goodman, Texas.
Rose Donnelly, Texas.
J. ]. KOEHLER,
Co. Supt. Of Schools.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
OBITUARY.
Death of George Vogt.

George Vogt of Shohola, died of a
complication of diseases at his home
6 o'clock Monday morning, aged
about SO years. Mr. Vogt had been
ailing for about year, but had
been confined to his bed only a week.
The deceased was born at Shohola,
where he spent the greater part of
his life. For some time he was pro-
prietor of a hotel at Narrowsburg,
N. Y. Mr.. Vogt was united in mar
riage to Miss Ella Hess about nine
years ago. One daughter, Margaret,
blessed their home. Mr.. Vogt is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Herman
Myers of this place. The funeral will
be held Wednesday at 1 p. m. In
terment at Shohola.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27

1914 for it actually seems to be re-
newing its youth. 1t recently began
publishing serially "The Root Of
Evil" one of Thos. Dixons strongest
stories, and campaign for new sub
scribers is to be prosecuted vigorous
ly. In order that people of Hawley,
White Mills and Greater Honesdale
may get better acquainted with it, all
of these towns are being sampled for
one month, and that many new sub
scribers will be added to it's subscrip-
tion list as a result is a foregone con-
clusion.-Wayne Countean,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
Death of William Harding.

William Harding, son-in-law of
Mrs. Anthony Clark, of Fortenia,
died from appendicitis at his home
in New York City on Thursday. He
is survived by his wife. The de-
ceased was an engraver in Tiffany's.
Mrs. Anthony Clark and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Clark, of Honesdale, at
tended the funeral, which was held
on Saturday in New York.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27

Isaac Hawker, Mrs. Lee Paynter,
the Misses Manning, the Misses Gill
christ, Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Oliver.
Mrs. Blake gave her paper on the
Endowment House" and Miss Mary
R. Gilchrist read a paper on Nor
monism of To-day" All enioyed the
meeting very much and were greatly
interested to hear from India and
on other subjects.
Mrs. Bennett Chapel, of New
York, is the guest of her father, John
Strongman, and wife.
The Union H. NJ. R. circle will
meet at the home of Mrs. James
Johns on Tuesday, June 3rd, at 2:3O
p. m. Mrs. Yerkes will be the leader.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.

abode;
Go singing through the shadow
and the light
Go bravely on your high appoint
ed road,
At rest in every moment of your
fight.
Edward Markham.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27

A CCOUNT of P. ]. Keary, guardian
IA of Kate Carey, person of
feeble mind, now deceased. Notice
is hereby given that the first and
final account of the guardian above
named will be presented to the court
of Common Pleas of Wayne county,
for approval, on the third Monday of
June, and will be confirmed absolute
ly by said. Court (sec. reg.) on
Thursday, June IS, 1913, unless ex-
ceptions are filed.
WALLACE j. BARNES,
Prothonotary.
Honesdale, Pa, May 26, 1913.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
PEDESTRIAN is ROBBED
IN sWILD WEST" STYLE
Masked Youths With Gun Command
Glands up and Take His
Valuables.

Amateur bandits are blamed for the
robbery last night Of Milton Baum. who
is connected with the r. p Andrews
Company and resides at 1859 California
street northwest. He was on his way
along the road leading from Georgia ave-
nue. northwest to the Washington Subur-
ban Club. when he was held up and rob-
bed of his watch and chain. a fountain
pen and small amount of cash. He
values the property taken at $50.
1t was about o'clock when Mr.. Baum
was robbed. He was walking near par
ticularly dark spot when he was startled
by the appearance of two young men and
the command: Hands up!'
The highwaymen wore red handkerchief
masks across the lower portions of their
faces and Baum was able to tell that
they were young. He thought they
probably were about eighteen years old.
One OF the young men held revolver
pointed at the victim, while the other
was armed with a knife. Nothing was
said by either robber after the Hands
going through their victims pockets was
matter Of only few minutes.
Having obtained the watch and chain,
pen and s. in cash, the youthful high
Waymen departed. Mr.. Baum went in
search of a policeman and found Mounted
Policeman Bryan riding along Georgia
avenue.
The policeman heard the story of the
hold-up and communicated with the tenth
precinct station Soon mounted police
men. bicycle officers and footmen were
participating in the search for the mask
ed robbers. Several suspects We're ar
rested, but each was able to prove an
alibi and was released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
ARRANGE FIRST RACE
OF YEAR FOR PIGEONS
About 500 to Take Part in Fly From
Paw Paw, w. Va, to
Washington.

The first race of the year for young
pigeons under the auspices Of the
Washington Racing Pigeon Club is to
be started tomorrow from Paw Paw,
w. Va.
carefully trained the past few months,
are to be liberated for the race home
ward The fanciers who have entered
pigeons are: William Beetham, Will
liam Cricker, F.. A. Butterfield, Horace
Cross. j. H. Donivan. Joseph Enge1
Charles Eckert. Norman Heathcote, r.
B. Lloyd and Claud Offutt.
The method of determining the win
ners of pigeon races is Interesting
Before the pigeons are sent away each
individual loft is measured by an eX-
pert surveyor. so that the exact air
line distances from the liberating
point to the various lofts are known
to the fraction Of mile On the night
of shipment. the pigeons receive a spe-
cial ring, the devices thereon being
known only to the race secretary At
the same time each fancier receives
a timing machine containing two
watch movements, each set at II
o'clock These are carefully locked
and sealed. When the pigeons return
from their flight the owner removes
the special ring and, placing it into
the timer, presses a button and the
movements start. When the timers
are opened at the club rooms a sub
traction of the time the different
movements have run from the time Of
day gives the exact time Of starting
the machine, from which can easily
be calculated the flying time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
EXPECTS $4,000 PUP|LS|
Supt. Davidson Estimates
First Day School
Attendance.

w. M. Davidson. superintendent, esti-
mates that when the schools open again
for the winter, September %. more than
$4,000 pupils will be enrolled the first day.
This number is expected to be increased
by thousands during the school year. The
total enrolment last year was 5S,153.
Pupils who seek to enter the schools
when they open will be required to give
proof of a successful examination. They
must be between the ages of 6 and IL
years for the grades. and must be years
old for the kindergarten. Parents or
guardians must be bona f1de residents OF
the District of Columbia to obtain the
privileges of the free schools. II a pros
pective pupil has ever been a student at
the public schools prior to September q
satisfactory reason must be given for dis
continuance.
Superintendent Davidson declares the
schools are all in good condition.. and
that all necessary repairs have been made
He is enthusiastic over the success Of last
year over all previous years.
Last year LOB teachers were employed.
besides the thirteen supervising princi-
pals and the school officials. The sum
of $3.50. 08.81 was spent for the schools.
covering such items as teaching, ETC., and
the sum of $3.50. 1882 was spent for
buildings and new sites.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
EXCURSIONS TOMORROW.

Chesape Beach-Trains DAILY from
District line, as per schedule Ill rail-
road column.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
ICE SHIPPED FROM CAPITAL.
Washington Able to Aid Philadel.
phia From Reserve Stock.

Washington is SO amply supplied with
icA from the output of the big ice-making
plants of the city that she not only does
not have to have ice brought here to sup
ply local demand, but has enough sur
plus to be able to aid other cities that are
not so fortunately situated Recently
Philadelphia managers of the American
Ice Company called upon the local man
ayers of the company here to aid them in
meeting a shortage in the refrigerating
material at that point, and ice is now
being shipped north.
Thursday three cars loaded with ice
were sent from this city to Philadelphia,
and yesterday five more cars followed.
Other cars ice laden will he sent next
week. and 1t is said that 1t is probable
that q small barge will be loaded at the
9th street wharf and sent to Philadel-
phia by the inland waterways. The op-
pressive weather Of the past week has
made heavy demand for Ice, but II is
said that the output of tho ice-making
plants takes care Of the local demand in
the hottest weather. and the supply being
sent north is from the reserve store,
which amounts to many thousand tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
Bells on Horses.
To the Editor of The Star

~ the f|1itOr or The Star.
Much has been said of late years re-
sarding cruel treatment and deplorab BILE
conditions of humanity and am
thoroughly in sympathy with any
movement to better social and moral
conditions But what are we doing to
lessen the burden of brute kind? True
we have humane societies that are
doing excsllent work. Still they are
not vested with sufficient rights to re-
lleVe brute kind from brute drivers
Is there a picture more deplorable than
that of heavily loaded wagon drawn
by faithful horses with driver
perched upon seat, welding un
mercifully a long whip and the horses
doing all they can? And that is not
all the punishment. In numerous cases
the horses are burdened with large
bells ringing in their ears all day
which If human kind were forced to
bear such punishment would drive them
insane. And why are these bells on?
What good do they do? Is 1t to keep
the drivers awake? If so, such drivers
should be dismissed by the employer
The Humane Society is powerless to
have the bells removed. as they are
not vested with sufficient power, SO
call upon the Commissioners to take
definite action in the matter to re-
lieve the animals of such cruel and
unnecessary burden of punishment 1t
is not only inhuman to horses to have
bells ringing all day long. but it Is
nerve racking to human kind as we'll.
@. PAUL MILLER,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
IT'S BRAHANY OR JUDGE,
JUST AS HE PREFERS
Name of Presidents Assistant Secre-
tary Presents an Interest
ing Study.

The patronymic of Thomas ". Bra
hany. assistant secretary to the Presi-
dent offers a study in Celtic nomencla-
ture that goes far back to the tribal days
in Erin. Mr.. Brahany might have spell
ed his name "Breheny' with equal pro-
priety, except that he would have de-
waited from the photographic form adopt
ed by his immediate forebears. Or he
might have anglicized his name and have
called himself Judge He has cousin
in Washington whose name is Judge, and
they are cousins through the male line
of consangunity.
In the Celtic alphabet the equivalent
for the Roman ''e'' has the Romance
sound like "a in the word phrase. .
and not the English sound of "e" in
beware" So some of that name In
converting it into an English form spell
ed it AS it sounded in the Celtic, Bra
hany." and some preserved the alpha
betical form, converting the name into
the Roman letters. 'Breheny' Others
translated the name into English. call
Ing themselves Judge
Judge" is the meaning of the word
"Breheny." The "Brehon laws of Ire
land were those regulations for social
relations laid down at the ancient coun-
ellis of the judges selected by the Celts
to decide their differences. This goes
back to the dawn Of history In Erin
Go Bragh."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
Educational Theory and Practice.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Adviees from the United States bureau
OF education contain some~xery illuminat-
ing Information as follows:
BOYS in the Ishpeming, Mini. high
school repair the school buildings for
pay, conduct cooperative school, farm
Tor profit, and are about to erect a
gymnasium for their school in the same
businesslike way they have learned to
do other things for themselves and the
community. All this work is under the
direct supervision of the regular school
authorities. For the past six years high
schooi students from the manual train
ing department have been employed to
repair the various city school buildings
During one summer $1,000 was thus paid
for student labor. The BOYS have re-
paired roofs, laid cement floors. built
brick walls and installed plumbing fix
lures. The gymnasium to be erected by
the boys is from plans drawn BY seniors
In the high school,"
How stands the case in Washington i?
How stands the case in Baltimore? Both
cities have rather elaborate plants de-
voted TO vocational and manual training
education is anything being accomplish
ed that even suggests the results being
obtained in this little city away out IN
the Wolverine state?
In Washington, among the coored Deo-
pie for instance. We have the Armstrong
Manual Training High School and the
tardoZo Vocational School these i'm the
public school system, while at Howard
University there is a college of ;applied
sciences. The difficulties encountered by
the youth of what the New York Even
sng Post recently referred TO as this
already heavily disadvantaged race, are
such as to make it Well worth while to
ask what Is being accomplished by the
schools mentioned toward giving the
negro boys and girls some real eu,Iip-
ment for their battle with the world and
its forces. And what is true of the needs
OF the colored youth is also true though
perhaps In lesser degree of the Youth
of the white race. In Ishpeming il
seems. they have gotten down to brass
lacks and are making the thing pay. in
real, solid coin of the realm, which after
all. Is the only thing that makes the
mare GO.
And now abideth Theory and Practice
but the greater-by far the greater-of
these is Practice
JAMES c. WATERS, JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
PARK POLICE ON OUTING.
Prizes Awarded in Athletic Events
at Chesapeake Beach.

Members OF the United States Park
Police Association and their friends, fully
5000 strong, journeyed to Chesapeake
Beach Thursday evening on the first an
nual excursion Of the association. There
were athletic events of all kinds and
prizes ranging from base ball equipment
to furniture We're distributed The events
and the winners were:
F1ftyyard dash for boys under sixteen
First, Richard Hardee: second, Hobson
Hardee. Fifty-yard dash for girls un-
der siXteen-Frst, Miss Rose FreeburS.
second, Miss Louisa Bertzell. Potato
race tor ladies-First, Miss Lille Dow
rick; second, Mrs. Hannah Stakeholder.
Three-legged race for men-F1rst. j. Fl.
McNey: second. r. Rothchild Fifty
yard dash for men over eighteen years
First. j. H. McVey; second, \. d. Bogs.
Fifty-yard dash for ladies' over eighteen
years-Ffrst. Miss Lille Dowrick; second,
Miss Geraldine Lylma. Ladies' ball
throwing contest--Mrs. Fox. distance 40
feet. Mems ball throwing CONTEST.
H. McVey, distance so feet. There was
also an apple diving contest for children.