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The citizen., 1914-01-09

of the Art club, whom Gramlich has
shaved for "A years; Samuel Campbell.
the cashier of the Tradesmens and
Manufacturers bank. whom he shaved
for 40 years, and Dan Cobb, of Broad
and Miflin streets, who appears three
or four times a week after a loyalty
that has lasted as long as Doctor Cess
lers.
The veteran has no boasts to make
of the old days
When / learned the business, bar
bers did cupping and leeching; but
they were out for the cash ahead of an
easy shave. 1t was lick and promise
for the customer then, and many a
face was sore after the barber got
through with it.
THE regular price then was a ftp
five or six cents-for a shave, and a
! levy-ten or twelve cents-for a hair
cut When you got into a good, high
class shop, tips were the rule, Just as
they are now. The tip at the Cont
mental was from 10 to 25 cents, and
that money counted by the time your
week was up. Billy McGrath, who was
the president of the Union Street Car
line, gave me tip of five dollars every
six weeks. The prices then in tho shop
were 20 cents for shave and 40 cents
for haircut. But we aimed to give
shaves and haircuts that were the
finest in the city, and a man had to be
one of the best in the business to hold
up his end in handling the people who
came to us. 1t was fine shop, but l
wanted to be in business, so ! started
for myself as soon as | thought | could
make good in the old First ward.
when will quit? Oh, don't know.
I'm feeling as well as ever, and l like
to have something to do People keep
right on coming to me, and may as
well go on shaving them. Some time,
maybe, III take little place out in the
country. Say do you know any suburb
where there are some right good pc
nuchle players?"
The citizen., 1914-01-09
COLD STORAGE
TRAIL WARM
Officials Believe Developments
Will Lead to Prosecutions.
VIGOROUS PROBE KEPT UP.
Combination Alleged To Be Among
Commission Merchants and Pro-
ducers, Not Plant
Owners.

Washington. Investigation of the
cold-storage trust by the Department
of Justice has progressed so far that
officials are confident they have found
trails which eventually will lead to
prosecutions in the courts.
Although the operations of the deal
ers, believed to be leaders in the COM
bination, have been confined to sew
eral large cities, the department has
redoubled it's yigor in the last few
weeks. Officials expect to uncover
evidence which will connect these
dealers and make them amenable to
the Sherman Antitrust act.
Within the last few days requests
have reached Washington from several
United States District Attorneys for
help to carrying on the Investigations.
Several special agents have been de-
tailed for this work. Their reports
probably will be made to Washington
in the next few weeks and the Attor-
ney General and his assistants will
determine the advisability of beginning
antitrust proceedings.
Although department officials are
unwilling to discuss the cold-storage
investigation, ii is known that the gen
eral impression that the owners of
cold-storage plants are involved in the
alleged combination is incorrect. In
only few instances do the owners
make use Of their plants for storing
their own products. In practically
every case commission merchants and
producers themselves rent cold-storage
space. The combination which the
department will prosecute if sufficient
evidence is forthcoming will be among
the commission merchants.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SAW a. GREAT -GRANDFATHERS
The Long Lived Forbears Of an Ore
gon Boy - Only One Has
Succumbed to Death.

Albany, Ore.1When Luther White,
a Linn county pioneer, died at his
home at Brownsville he was the first
of the four great-grandfather of five
year-old Luther Burnelle White of
Harrisburg to die. The boy has the
distinction of having seen each of
his great sires.
The boy is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Connie F. White of Harrisburg. His
father is the son Of eX-Sheriff and
Mrs. Robert L. White of this city.
Mr. Whites father, Luther White,
died at Brownsville only a few days
ago at the age of ninety-nine years.
The father of Mrs. White, Sr., is Jer-
ry Hay of Harrisburg, seventy-three
years old.
Mrs. Connie White is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D. Bussard of this
city Mr.. Bussard's father is w. H.
Bussard eighty-three years old, OF
Benton county. Mrs. Bussard's fa'
ther is L. r. Mackey, seventy-nine
years of age, of Akron. o.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
MORGAN BOWS To
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
WithdraWs From More Than a
Score of Great Corporations.
G. F. BAKER TO FOLLOW SUIT
Though Members Of Morgan Firm
Resign From Twenty-SeVen Cor
porations, They Are Still In Di-
rectorates Of Many Concerns.

New York.-The withdrawal of j. P.
Morgan & Co. from more than score
of great corporations and the state
ment shortly afterward by George F..
Baker, an almost equally dominant
figure in American finance, that he
soon would take similar action, gave
Wall street generally thrill which al
most brought trading on the stock ex-
change to halt.
While it is probably true that many
of the prominent bankers had infor-
nation foreshadowing this momentous
move toward ending interlocking di-
rectorates, the public and brokers had
no advance knowledge of what was
taking place in the inner councils OF
the greatest of all American houses OF
finance Wherever telephone and
ticker flashed the news about the
street groups of men gathered to dis
cuss what was the all-absorbing topic.
Mr. Morgan, departing from his
firms traditional policy of silence,
made a public statement announcing
the withdrawal of five members of J..
P. Morgan e Co. from directorships in
81 corporations and the intention to
withdraw from more.
Change In Sentiment Cause.
Mr. Morgan's statement follows:
"The necessity Of attending many
board meetings has been so serious a
burden upon our time that we have
, long wished to withdraw from the di-
rectorates of many corporations. Most
of these directorships we have accept
ed with reluctance, and only because
we felt constrained to keep in touch
with properties which we had reorgan-
lied, or whose securities we had
recommended to the public, both here
and abroad.
"An apparent change in public senti-
ment in regard to directorships seems
now to warrant us in seeking to re-
| sign from some of these connections.
Indeed, it may be, in view of the
change in sentiment upon the subject,
tnat we shall be in better position
to serve such properties and their
security holders, if we are not di-
rectors. We have already resigned
| from the companies mentioned, and
we expect from time to time to with
draw from other boards upon which
we feel there is no special obligation
to remain"
The citizen., 1914-01-09

PhiladelpbfAYou tase barber Of
today WeJf never uAiA; no use pick
ling needless quarrsls But they bred
giants In the old FRS. ward when
Charley GFamli,A learned his trade. A
barber b& Tbs I se days, and let's it go
at that. But34iram;ieh, with his rec
ord of afty-six years behind him,
might Se called the Admirable Crich-
ton anaonE 1arbers
Mofnjnns you AN find him in his
shop III 1s516 Aisfsin street, waiting the
early t1istiedc m off some young
kshavex {NhD ha. come to consecrate his
II tb manb, ID under the razor of
Ierable ex, 9ence, or pairing the
lbbIe OF 81 ne patron who has de
sn6ed on l-sh since the Centennial.
6ternoons khe isn't busy he may be
a. III his .dio. painting pictures that
kfreauentls ell for real money. Eve
I nihea. uF IS some special crop of
WhiHkers giows in to claim his veteran
skflE3 inst sad of his assistants, he is
arguing penuchle with the other eX-
perts, for he is acknowledged to be the
champion penuchle player of the First
ward and novices come to sit at his
feet and learn wisdom.
Last May brought around the ami
versary of the day when Charley, the
Bavarian boy of fourteen, was given
his first job in Hertzogs shop, on
Wharton street above Fifth. His wages
as apprentice was 70 cents week and
board with his boss family. Charley
imagined he was fixed for life. But
only eight months passed before Hertz
og shut up his shop and the boy ap-
prentice had to find another job. His
new boss took him on as a half-baked
journeyman at the trade, and paid him
one dollar week, plus board. By in
dustry, patience, frugality, diligence
and the rest of the virtues which were
urged on the toiling masses in that
generation, Charley rose in his calling,
until, in 1859, he was receiving the i'm
posing wage of three dollars week.
board thrown in.
With the outbreak of the war in '61,
Charley claimed the dignity and wages
of manhood. and Gus Goebel-that
very same Goebel by whose official IL
cense so many of us have been permit
ted to marry and pay the happy gas
bills-took him on at $l5 week and
The citizen., 1914-01-09
WOMAN LASsoED THE HORSE
Baltimore Housewife VIII Hold Him
Till She Is Paid for Butter
HE Ate.

Baltimore, Md.-The cowpunchers
of the wild and woolly west have
nothing on" Mrs Mary Boyle of Pat
terson avenue when it comes to the
nimble art of throwing lariat.
Mrs. Boyle had spent a busy morn
ing in her kitchen. Finding that she
had over four pounds of fresh dairy
butter left over she placed it on a
platter in the yard to solidify, the heat
of the kitchen having reduced its con-
sistency.
Half an hour later Mrs. Boyle went
into the yard to get the butter, but,
like Old Mother Hubbard in the
nursery legend, when she got there
the platter was bare
In place of the butter. however, was
a large dapple gray horse, whose color
scheme and design suggested the now
almost extinct rocking equine without
which no children's nursery was at
one time complete.
The noble steed was engaged in pol
ishing the platter. But when he
chanced to look up and saw Mrs.
| Boyle the equine hobo gave a success
sion of loud and penetrating neighs
and turned tail.
mot so fast!" quoth Mrs. Boyle. A
moment later a lasso improvised from
the domestic clothesline encircled the
neck of the dappled steed, causing him
to rear on his launches. The unwill
ing captive is being held as hostage
by Mrs. Boyle, who declares that she
will not turn the animal over to its
owner until she receives remuneration
for her stolen butter.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
HUNGRY RACc0ON FIGHTS MAN
Half-Starved Animal Caught in Cabin,
1t Claws Jersey Hunter Who
Trapped 1t.

Meyersville, n. Timothy Carter,
who lives in small cabin in the
woods near this place, had a fierce
fight with half-starved raccoon
which got trapped in the cabin.
No sooner had Carter opened the
door than the animal jumped at him,
clawing and snarling. Garter fought
the raccoon for ten minutes and final
ly killed it, He went to the home of a
nearby farmer, where physician
took four stitches in wound in his
arm and cauterized other cuts and
bruises.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
A BUMPER YEAR
FOR THE FARMER
All Crop Records in United
States Exceeded.
VALUE RUNS TO BILLIONS.
Crop Report Of Department OF Ao.l
culture Shows the Gross commodl,v
Value OF American Farms To
Be $e,75o,o00

Washington.-All past records IN
crop values in the United States bave
been exceeded by 1913, according to
the annual crop report of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture.
The gross commodity production
value of American farms is set at so,
750,000,000. This is nearly half a hi.
lion dollars more than the crop valua
for 1912, itself record year. OF this
huge sum products of the soil amount.
ed to s6,100,OO0000, while the total
value of live stock amounted to So.
650,000,000.
Deducting for crops allowed to re,
main in lands and for consumption
the department places the cash sales
of crops at $2,929, 900, 900 and the cash
sales of live stock at $2,219, 900 900.
1t is estimated that this production
was divided among approximately g.
100000 farms. This makes the cash
income per farm figure 5000, accord.
ing to department experts, who have
employed 144,564 farmers in all parts
of the country in tabulating these esti-
mates. Here follows the various i'm.
portant crops and stock productions in
order of their value:
Corn-Value, s1,692,000,0OO; produc.
ton, 2,447, 100000 bushels.
Cotton-Value, $79S,000,000; produc.
ton, 13,677,OOO bales.
Hay-Value, $797 100000; produc.
ton, 64,0O0,000 tons.
Wheat--Value, S610,000,000; produc.
ton, 1853 100000 bushels.
Oats-Value, $440,000,OO0; produc-
ton, 1922, 100000 bushels.
Potatoes-Value, $228,0O0,000; pro-
duction, 332,000,000 bushels
Tobacco-Value, $122, 2,4S1, 900; pro-
duction, 953. $4,000 pounds.
Barley-Value, 96,000,0O0; produc-
ton, 17S 100000 bushels.
Sweet Potatoes-Value, S43,00O,OOO
production, 59,000,000 bushels.
Sugar Beet Sugar-Value, $34,00O,-
600; production, 5,S34,000 short tons.
Sugar Cane-Value, $21 100000; pro-
duction, 6,150,000 short tons.
Dairy Products-Value, $814,000,00O
Wool-Value, $51,00O,OOO; product
ton, 314,000,0OO pounds.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
NO WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION.
Secretary Of State Bryan's Breakfast
To the Diplomatic Corps.

Washington.-New Years Day in
the capital passed over without a
White House reception for the first
time in more than century-for the
first time since the day of President
Monroe. In the absence of President
Wilson, taking holiday vacation in
the South, breakfast to the diplo-
matte corps by Secretary and Mrs.
Bryan was the principal social func-
ton of the day. More than 300 guests
gathered with the Secretary of State
at his home. Practically all the am
bassadors, ministers and members of
the embassy and legation stats, with
the women of their families, were
present. There we're few excep-
tions, among them the Turkish Am
bassador, who is in mourning. The
French Ambassador, Jules Jusserand,
has become the dean of the corps dur
ing the last year, since the departure
of the former ambassador from Great
Britain, James Bryce. The Central
and South American countries were
brilliantly represented
The citizen., 1914-01-09
THE PRESIDENT
VERY SECRET|VE
Still Considerable Mystery
About Lind's Visit.
NO SHORE LEAVE FOR ENVOY
The President Declares Nothing
Specific Developed At the Con-
ference On the Cruiser
Chester.

Pass Christian, Miss.-With the de-
parture of the scout cruiser Chester,
bearing John Lind, the Presidents
personal envoy, back to Mexico, to
continue his observations of Mexican
affairs, the mystery which has en-
veloped Mr. Lind's visit to President
Wilson was only partially cleared.
Just why the nations chief execu-
tive decided not to permit Mr. Lind to
have any shore leave" and took upon
himself the Inconvenience of being
transshipped four times at sea, has not
been explained. President Wilson
volunteered no explanation, but one
of the suppositions current is that he
did not wish the special envoy to be
subjected to the inquisition of news
paper correspondents. Another theory
is that the President desired to show
Mexico that there is no change in the
American policy and no actual inter
ruption of Mr. Linds mission to
Mexico.
The peculiar movements of the reve-
nue. cutter Winona and the long delay
before the President and Mr.. Lind
actually met were partly accounted
for when it became known that the
lack of wireless facilities on the reve-
nue. cutter had confused plans. When
the Chester reported her arrival, the
Winona's launch had to make a 15-
mile trip to shore and back again be-
fore arrangements could be made for
the Presidents visit
The President was the only source
Of information concerning the confer
ence with Mr. Lind He spoke of il
only in broad generalities, declaring
that nothing specific had been de-
veloped, and that nothing of any
definite character occasioned the
meeting. The President asserted that
he discussed no particular plan of
action.
He referred to the conference as a
"get together talk" He explained that
although Mr. Lind constantly had been
sending dispatches, a conversation of
a few hours had been deemed worth
more than weeks of telegraphic com
munication with the added value of
Altering an exchange of viewpoint re-
garding the situG tion.
President Wilson added that there
had been no special occasion for Mr.
Lind's yisit-no advices, excitement or
new questions.
When asked if he was more hope
full for speedy settlement of the trou-
BILE, Mr. Wilson made it clear that his
personal view CT the situation had not
changed. The President has held that
the Huerta government is slowly being
crushed, not only by the constitu-
tonalist force, but through incessant
isolation, and that inevitably it must
fall
The citizen., 1914-01-09
TO MARRY AT EMBASSY.
Miss Belle Willard and Kermit Roose-
welt Engaged.

Washington. Kermit Roosevelt,
second son of former President Theo-
dore Roosevelt, will marry Miss Belle
Willard, the eldest daughter of Col.
Joseph E. Willard, of Virginia, the
American Ambassador to Spain, next
spring, according to an announcement
made by cable to friends of the Am
bassador in Washington and Rich
mond 1t is understood that the we'd
ding will take place at the American
Embassy in Madrid, but the exact
date and place were not stated in the
cablegram. The news of the engage
ment came as complete surprise to
Miss Wizards friends in Washington.
While it was known that she and
young Roosevelt were friends, not the
least idea was entertained that his
attentions were of tenderer nature.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
PHILADELPHIA MAN WHO HAS SPENT
50 YEARS WITH RAZOR AND SHEARS
Cnaey Gamch Veteran Barber Who Has Performed Tonso
rial Work for Some of the Noted Men of His Time, Still
Remains at His Post of Duty Doing Good Work
Has Nc Boast to Make of Old Days.

streets, who, after so years, comes to
him once a month for hair cut and a
shave. When the late Thomas G.
Tasker, one of the founders of the firm
of Morris, Tasker & Co, whose home
was on Fifth street below Tasker, got
to be eighty-three years old, and doubt
ed the sureness of his own hand on his
firm old chin, he arranged with Gram
Itch to come to his house and shave
him regularly at SO cents trip. and
the service continued until Mr.. Tasker
died, at the age of ninety-three.
To Gramlich's shop now come such
faithful patrons as DR.. Charles Gessler
The citizen., 1914-01-09


feed himself, in the old Goebel barber
shop on Moyamensing avenue, below
Washington avenue.
Charley worked for Goebel until
1854, and then negotiations opened for
his admission to that distinguished
station in barbering, job at the Con
tinental hotel. He went there in the
spring OF 1865.
After that no higher glory was at
tainable. The job paid only SIS
week; but a man In that shop was
liable to have the president of the
United States more at mis- mercy than
nHc been posslpie tor the confederate
armies. ana 1Vnat tne Sontansntai bar
peE9 VaiAea <}R1e' re soe z com lnlnisslon
! e 70 -nFr - cups brushes,
teARh oif sinesal e'la.
en< e complies tea, ssAi' y n'al. sy :
snaVe. Tnat aihoeh1eo ~ iouf u Nv
dollars week extra
Gramiich' at the neisnt Oh ms proles,
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Ex-BALL PLAYER MAYOR.
DR.. Albert Daily a Graduate Of Balti-
more Medical College.

New York.-Dr. Albert DAILY, once a
member of Connie Mack's athletics,
was installed as Mayor of Bayonne.
DR.. DAILY is a graduate of the Balti-
more Medical College and the Eastern
League. He played with the Newark
team in 1902. In Philadelphia he
played second base for part of one
season. He bought a half interest in
the Hartford Club of the Connecticut
League the next year and acted as
manager. After quitting the diamond
DR.. Daily took up politics.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
EXPECTS BIG PARCEL RUSH.
Postoffice Department Arranees Tc
Expedite Handling.

Washington. - The Postoffice De
partment is making preparations for
an immense volume Of parcel post
business this year These preparations
include the equipment of mail ter
minals in large cities for the quick
handling of mail sacks and the pur-
chase of thousands of parcel hampers
for retail package traffic. A scheme
is being worked out by which 100000
mail sacks and hampers can be hand
led in New York every hour.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
COUNTY DRY AFTER Al YEARS.
90 Saloons In Delaware County, Pa.
Close At Midnight.

Media, Pa.-For the first time in IL
years no intoxicating liquors will be
legally on sale this week in Delaware
county. The SO saloons and bottIing
establishments and one brewery in the
county closed indefinitely at midnight
Saturday and the county will be dry"
Monday for the first time since 1872,
when, following bitter fight between
the liquor and anti-liquor forces, the
Legislature passed special law stop
ping the sale of liquor.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
SENDS WILSON GREETING.
AstonishineIy Cordial New Year Mes
SAGE From President Huerta.

Mexico City-President Huerta, Oh
Mexico, sent the following New Years
greeting to President Wilson:
To Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President, United States,
Washington, d. G.
The Mexican Republic, through me-
has the honor of wishing happy
New Year to the glorious people OF
the United States, so worthily repre-
sented by Your Excellency.
(Signed) V. HUERTA.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
MAsroDoN's BONES UNEARTHED.
Remains Of Prehistoric Animal Found
Near Roanoke.

Salem, Vas. d. Taliaferro, of
Salem, superintendent of a crusher
plant at Blue Ridge Springs, has un-
earthed the remains of a giant
mastedon. The bones were found 20
feet under the surface. Mr.. Taliaferro
estimates that the mastodon was 80
feet long. Most of the bones were well
preserved, and among them was jaw
bone more than four feet in length.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
MURDERER KILLS HIMSELF.
Letter On Body Found At Flushing
Tells Of Crime.

New York. = The body of John
Monahan was found in the woods at
Flushing, L. l., and with it letter in
which Monahan described how he had
killed his wife. Mrs. Monahan's body
was found with a crushed skull on De-
cember q in the cellar of their homH
in Brooklyn. Monahan had cut E1
throat and by his side lay two bottA
of poison. IA
The citizen., 1914-01-09
How Some Gamblers Are Made.

Chicago.-The influence of mothers
who play bridge and fathers who in
dulge in poker promotes the interest
of children in games of chance and
makes gamblers of them, Mrs. Aria r.
Black told the Chicago Women's AS
sociation of Commerce.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
CONFER ON SUGAR TRUST.
McReynoIds and Marshall Discuss Fed
eraI Suit.

New York.-Attorney General Nc
Reynolds held conference here with
United States District Attorney II.
Snowden Marshall to discuss, among
other things, the disposition of the gov
ernment's antitrust suit against, I
American Sugar Refining Compa> A
which, it is rumored, is seeking teri
for a voluntary dissolution. Mr.. Nc
Reynolds declined to discuss the out
come of the conference.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Some Bio Fish in Florida.

Chicago.-A fish captured at Miami.
Fla, by Charles H. Thompson was so
large that when the tail was in the
doorway of Thompson's store the head
extended over the street car tracks.
The routing of street car lire was
changed until the fish could be taken
indoors.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
Woman Sues saIoonkeeper.

Chicago-Emma Lord is suing Pc
ter He'll, a saloonkeeper. on prom
issory note because He'll refused to
advertise over the door of his place
a whisky in which Mrs. Lord was in
terested.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
HAS NEW FOOD TEST.

Or. stiles Announces Discovery To
American Scientists.
Atlanta, Ga-Discovery of a test
whereby it is possible to ascertain
whether or not a person has eaten con-
taminated food was announced by DR..
Charles w. Stiles, United States Pub
lie Health Service, in an address be-
fore the Zoology section of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science
The citizen., 1914-01-09

Chicago.-Judge Newcomb refused
to believe the plea that damp wealth
er makes milk watery, and fined Ho-
man Michalski, a milkman, SO on
charge of putting water in milk.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
THE MARRIED WOMEN WIN.
Toronto Gives Them the Same Fran.
chise Rights AS Others.

Toronto. Canada.-Married women
are to be given the same franchise
rights as widows and unmarried wom-
en- owning property here, as result
of a popular vote. The proposition
granting equal rights was carried by a
vote of nearly to /.
The citizen., 1914-01-09
FIREMAN KILLED; FOUR HURT.
Caught In Blaze Which Destroyed
Wheeling High School.

Wheeling, w. Va.-John Talbot, a
fireman, was killed and four other fire.
men were seriously injured when a
new high school building here was de-
stroyed by fire. The property loss
was $150,000. The men were caught
under falling wall.