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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
INCREASE IN FIRE
INSURANCE PREMIUM
COLLECTIONS HERE
Gain of $46,l 1872 Noted in
Receipts of All Companies
in First Half of Year.
Total Exceeded $3,000,-
900.

Gain of $46,1s2 is recorded in the amount
of fire Insurance premiums collected here
during the first six months of this year
by all of the companies doing business
In Philadelphia. Total collections for the
period aggregated s3,Oo1.5A. as against
SS,O454O2 In the first half OF 1913.
or the total collections between jan
uary and June 30 this year, income of
Philadelphia stock companies totaled
s56O,11S; Philadelphia mutual companies,
$lO6,4s7; Pennsylvania State companies,
Sl27,7S2; New England companies, S452, ,213;
New York companies, s7O2s24 New Jer-
sey companies. s1S5,6s9; Southern COM
panies, S64,O62; Western companies, $780,
$780, and foreign companies, 1853, ,459.
Liverpool and London and Globe Com
pany, foreign corporation, heads the
list of individual companies, with income
receipts during the period of S11759O. Fire
Association of Philadelphia is second in
the list, with recorded premium income
of S113,6o6.
The following table gives a record of
the payments received by Philadelphia
stock and mutual companies during the
period, compared with income for the
first six months of 1918:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
EUROPE WARRING FOR NO
IDEALS, SAYS KRAUSK0PF
Jewish Rabbi Declares Struggles Not
Worth Shedding of Blood.

WOiIh oneuulnB OF blOOds
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Krauskopf, at the
New Year service in Keneseth Israel
Synagogue this morning on THE Climax
of Materialism," declared there was not
single worthy object or a noble IDEAL
worth the shedding of a single mans
blood, included among the causes ad-
vanced by the belligerent nations of Eu-
rope as tustifable for war He declared
the war was the outcome of material am
bitions, and added that 20 centuries of
Christianity have failed to soften the
hearts of men and have not inspired them
to other than material strlvings
DR.. krauskopf spoke in part as fol-
lows:
In all the official statements that the
oeiligerent nations advance as justifabe
causes for the war there Is not a single
worthy object, not a noble ideal worth
the shedding of a single mans blood. The
nations are actuated by the grossest kind
OF material ambitions, temporal or conn
mercial. Europe is hanging on the dark
abyss of the Middle Ages. It has reached
materalism. VI
Judaism seems to be the ono prest
spiritual force that still remains in the
world twenty centuries of Christianity
nave not softened the brutality in the
hearts OF men and have not inspirited
their souls with other than material
strivings. The dominant religion has
utteTiy ielIed as practical guide for
the idealism of the warning nations Even
oriental heathendom has learned the
lessoh from Its western allies, to bite
with Its teeth, while its lips pray and
cry, Peace.
Never before was Gods purpose with
the Jewish people more definitely shown
than In this, civiization's crisis. Never
was the presence of Judaism more re-
auired In the world than in this reversion
10 cory oarbarism. Never before did
mankind need to heed the clarion call of
Jewish ideals more than at this hour of
It's most colossal calamity. For Jewish
Ideals are to the world what the soul Is
to the body. Without the prophetic hopes
OF justice and righteousness among men
and nations of brotherly love and uni
versal peace, races and peoples must de-
cay and die as does the clay of the mean
est beast. Had the warning nations been
dominated by these ideals, to which the
Jews have been witnesses from the time
when God first inspired the prophets to
reveal them, the spectacle of barbaric
horror, into which Europe Is now trans
formed, could never have been staged.
ut Is good to be Jew and to hold
aloft the banner of Judaism in neutral
nation like ours. Better still, in these
sorrowful days is 1t to be a Jew on the
battle line, to die I'm the carnage which is
the climax of materielism, and to pro-
claim with the last breath the slogan
that Ia to save mankind from the ma
teral.stc death, Hear. o Israel, the Lord
our God Is One For, in this sign alone
can men conquer their passions and their
rage. In this faith alone Is the practical
idealism of brotherly love and universal
peace"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
NOTED COMPOSER :-GHTS.
BUT Is SHOT BY GERMANS
Alberto Maynard Seized in His Gar
den and Killed.

PARIS, Sept. 2l.-A painful episode OF
the recent German occupation of the
country near the Agle Forest is the
death of the musical composer, Alberto
Maynard. author OF "Berenice" and other
operas He was a son OF the late Francis
Maynard, for many years chief editor
of lie Figaro
Alberto Maynard was residing at his
villa at Baron, near the forest, when
Two German Cavairymen burst into his
garden. Maynard was armed with
rife. He fired and killed both the Ger
mans.
Soon afterward a squadron OF Uhl. "a
arrived. Maynard was forthwith seized
and placed against a wall in his garden.
There he was shot dead.
The composers son-in-law, who passed
himself off as the Maynard gardener,
escaped.
Magnards villa, containing pictures,
statGary, old porcelain, eighteenth century
miniatures and other objects which
Francis Maynard spent 80 years OF his
life in collecting and which were valued
at $4,000 was sprinkled with petroleum
by the German cavalry and set fire to.
II is now heap OF ruins.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21

go slowly. The street is narrow. Gabriel
Prinzip stands there. Just as If destiny
itself had its hand on the wrist of the
auto driver, the car slows UP as II nears
Prinzip. The bullet flies. 1t enters the
archduke's head and kills him. 1t also
killed the peace of Europe, but the Kings
and czars and emperors of Europe don't
know it-yet All Of them feel sorry for
the little children who are left orphans
in the palace at Vienna. Emperor Will
liam of Germany and his wife telegraph
to the little children, 1--WE can scarcely
find words to express to you children
how our hearts bleed To have spent
such happy hours with you and your
parents only two weeks ago and now to
think that you are plunged into this i'm
measurab BILE sorrow"
The Emperor didn't know then that
million times four children probably
would be plunged into mmeasurable grief
before the effect OF the flight of that
one lead bullet had died away.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
WOMAN BEGS FOR TEETH
BEING HELD AS EVIDENCE
Can't Wait Until Men Are Tried fol-
Alleged Theft.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, Sept. 2l-Soup as a
steady diet pals on Mrs. Minnie Wer-
ner. A good, thick beefsteak, celery.
corn on the cob and such substantial
vands would make a welcome change.
Mrs. Werners appetite is all that she
could wish, and she makes a comfort
able living from her store at CLOS South
state street; yet she has been obliged to
subsist on invaid's diet for four months.
The secret is that Mrs. Werner has no
teeth. She had teeth once. but the
States Attorney has them now as an
exhibit A against two men under indict-
ment for burglary. Mrs Werner, how
ever. would rather turn all the thieves
in Illinois loose than go without a real
meal much longer.
The teeth We're stolen from Edward c.
Brown, Of CLOS South state street, where
Mrs. Werner left them TO be repaired.
Walter PolasH and Frank Duraski We're
arrested as the burglars and the loot was
recovered. 1t was all turned over to the
states attorney, and yesterday the men
were indicted for burglary.
When Mrs. Werner learned of the in
dictment she went to Captain John
smith, al Englrwood station,
I've been patient long enough" she
declared. Il want my teeth, and | want
them before l starve TO death"
The Captain pondered.
"Will you promise 10 exhibit them at
the trial. he asked.
Il would promise anything 10 get my
teeth back" Mrs. Werner assured him.
Then l will get them frim the States
tomorrow he said Today
Mrs. Werner will dine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
CARRIAGE SALES
: BIG, DESPITE THE
ADVENT OF AUTOS
Builders Declare Business Of
l9l3Largest in Trade His
tory-Convention to Meet
in Atlantic City.

The impression has gained currency,
| because of the popularity of the auto
mobile that carriages are no longer
manufactured in very great quantities.
Yet the committee on statistics at the
convention of the Carriage Builders
National Association, which meets in
Atlantic City, n. j., September 18th to
October I'd. will show that considerably
over one million horse-drawn vehicles
were built in this country last year.
Large as is this figure, it does not in
clude business. farm or trucking wagons,
but takes account only of such vehicles
as the buggy, surrey, and other light
carriages.
Statistics show that there were made
on an average of million to million
and a quarter horse-drawn spring We
hicles each year for eight years prior to
January /, 1918. and during the year
1918 the number exceeded 10000. These
figures, which are partly due to the in
crease In population, naturally inspire
confidence in the present and the future of
the carriage and wagon industry
1t Is fair TO assume that the vehicle
product of 1918 was sold for more than
$50, 100000. A minimum of S35, 100000 IL
invested In carriage factories in this
country, to say nothing of the enormous
capital involved in the wagon business,
while the investment in manufacturing
establishments making materials and
parts exclusively for horse-drawn We
hces is probably as much more.
The coming Atlantic City convention
Is the 42d to be held by the vehicle mems
organization, which was instituted in
1872, making 1t one OF the very oldest
trade bodies in America. The associa-
1E,l At
action In labor matters; its functions
are mainly directed to the uplift and
advancement of the industry, and to the
promotion of a friendly spirit among its
members.
The Carriage Builders National Assoc
citation has been favored In past years.
at their conventions with the presence of
number of prominent men, who, al
though not in the vehicle business never
theless were pleased 10 address the car
riage builders on subjects of interest to
them. Among these men have been the
late President Mckinley. General VIII
liam TecumSeh Sherman, oliver Wen
dell Holmes, the poet. and others of
almost equal fame. This year, Hon.
John Barrett director of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union at Washington, and formerly
United States Minister 20 several South
American countries, will address the as
Fsociation.
will be held am extensive exhibition Of all |
materials, parts ad machinery used in |
vehicle building, which will bring 70 the /
attention OF the 1900 delegates all that Is /
new in these lines
There is much room for optimism in |
the carriage business and il will be a I
contented and. enthusiastic gathering Of /
prosperous manufacturers that will crowd /
the Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic city /
during the last week in september
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
WHEAT AT CHICAGO
OPENS STRONG WITH
LIGHT OFFERINGS
States Continues to
Furnish Bulk of Worlds
Requirements - Winter
Crop Thrifty.

CHICAGO. Sept. n.-Wheat opened
,,ronp today, with December up Bc.
=, ut4bRt.141s and May UP 1hc. at
, o,ts Offerings were light. The United
e,o,os continues to furnish the great
,,,,, of the worlds requirements. There
u,, some talk of bids here today for
o.sb wheat. which was firm. Receipts
!, the spring wheat states continued
,.syv and a large increase In the visi-
ME supply was expected.
Early sown winter wheat in the United
s,stes is already UP and thrifty. The
acreage Is larger. There Is now suffi-
oient growth in pastures to carry cattle
,,rtn late fall. The disposition now is
~ regard the recent peace talk as being
altogether premature. Stringency In the
r,onev market in Rumania is militat-
ing against shipments. The Argentine
C,overnment has taken steps to exter-
inmate the locusts that are swarming
IN the northern part OF that country.
The crop there Is not In imminent dan
Ger but fears are expressed.
No prices for futures were posted in
Liverpool this morning. Sentiment there
is bullish, with offers light, and cargo
and parcels 3 to cd. higher. The demand
continues good. Stocks at Liverpool are
Iies.00O bushels, an increase of 296, 900
bushels for the week. Shipments from
North America for the week were S40S,-
ooO bushels, Of which Canada contributed
is2aOOO bushels. The United Kingdom
received 2,SO5.OOO bushels and France o.
$4,000 bushels.
Little mention is made OF crop prepara-
tons in Europe, where general heavy
rains, with low temperatures, are re-
ported. In Russia peasants and various
,ocletles have begun seeding In the upper
JIral. Heavy rains would help pastures
in Australia, but would not prevent an
enormous diminution in the average
wheat harvest. The receipts of wheat
at Minneapolis and Duluth today were
slsl cars against 2190 cars a year ago; at
Winnipeg, 2l16 cars, against 2579 cars; at
Chicago. 239 cars, against 66 cars.
Corn also was stronger with offerings
light. Prices opened up Nc. at 7%l5D7314c.
for December and 75c. for May. b. w.
Grow says that the percentage of corn
that can now be damaged by frost is
negligible. He does not believe that the
crop will be much larger than, the Sep
tember Government estimates. Shipments
OF corn from North America last week
we're 112,OOO bushels. The receipts here
today were 81 cars. The stock of corn at
Liverpool Is 1,1s2, 900 bushels, a decrease of
800 bushels for the week.
Oats we're frmer on light offerings.
December opened nc. higher at'5lBq50Ac.
and May up 3sc. at 54hq537sc. North
America shipped 2,634000 bushels of oats
last week. The receipts of oats here to-
day we're 1S9 cars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
CHATEAU OF MONTMORT
NOW MASS OF RUINS
Former Old French Castle Taken and
Retaken Four Times.

LONDON, Sept "A correspondent
who has just returned from the district
around Esternay and Selanne gives the
Following account Of hShtinE which took
place there before the Germans were
forced uorthward.
"Ih" famous chateau, Mondemont
probabIy Moutmort, So miles southwest
OF Rh"imSl, was taken ana re-taken four
times. lr had been bombarded for three
Gays, and was left a fantastic mass of
ruins.
"Ine famous old castle at Montmort
was completed i'm the year Of 1850. Near
II stands an old stone church which was
built tn the thirteenth century
The castle was twice captured at the
point of tn, bayonet So furious had
he"n the cauuonade that when the Ger
mans stormed the plateau upon witch
the castle stands, they found that tie
-r"at h,-h iron fence around the grounds
had been twisted and torn hy the shrap-
mel The huge iron gates had been
knocked from their hinges and the rail
lu=s torn asuUaer"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
RAILROADS URGED
TO ADOPT GREATER
EFFICIENCY PLANS
Roadmasters of Country
Want Motor-driven Ma
chinery to Supplant Old
Hand Methods Say Saw
ing Will Be Large.

Larger application by the railroads of
ciples in their equipment departments Is
being strongly urged by the Roadmasters'
and Maintenance of Way Association of
America.
Statistics cal2piled by the association
snow that while the weight OF tracks used
by railroads throughout the United States
mas increased but 81 per cent. in the last
~ years, the unit load hauled over the
tracks has in some cases increased more
than 300 per cent.
Increase in the weight OF track has
necessarily called for the employment
of more men to care for the track under
the heavy loads which it is required to
carry.
The association recommends that motor
driven machinery and tools be used by the
railroads so that a larger amount of
ground can be covered and better care
given the maintenance of tracks
Toward the increase In efficiency, use of
section motorcars is considered an i'm
portant part. 1t Is pointed out that where
motor driven machinery Is used it will
result in saving of cents mile, the
cost of fuel to the motorcars, repairs, de-
probation and wear of car and time of
the men. In view of this It is recon-
mended by committee reporting to the
association that motor driven cars be used
instead of handcars.
Annual convention of the American
Railway Bridge and Building Association
will be held in Los Angeles October 20,
2l and %.
Preliminary hearing on proposed
changes for the next classification issue
will be held in New York tomorrow by
the official classification committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
POULTRY

LINE.--Duli and unchanged Fowls. IT
fine, large, 17alsc.i do, medium sizes. 100
Ice, ducks, old, Bale. do. spring. l4ni5c.
over apiece 7Oc.' do, weighing 1l3a1A los.
S5Reee 55a DID, aSof s seSns gS "eEhRf par
DRESSED.-Desirab BILE stock we'll cleaned
up and tiim. Fresh killed fowls per lb,; Sc
lbs. apiece, 2Ci9ci Weighing lbs. apiece. 2Oc. /;
Weighing 3is lbs apiece, tTdisc. weighing 2
picked. 13i!c.; hroillnE chickens, near by.
weighing tiad2 lbs. apiece, l0d2oc; do. fair
to good 1GH1Sc.. chickens. Western. 3i2ai
lbs and over apiece lac.; do. do, 2isi3 lbs.
apiece 1Gfc1Tc; broilng chickens, Western.
Weighing iied2 lbs, 1THlSc.; do, fair TO
Inr 1fa12 lbs per doz.. s4.15d4.bo white
Weighing DniO lbs. pcr doz. SlT3.75 white
Weighing & lbs per doz, 81 .25N 20; do, do .
: lbs, per doa., Sl.15m2, do. DO. 6a6l5 lbs
per doz: S1.25al.5o; dark and No. 2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
CITY'S BOND TRADING
RULES ARE RELAXED
Houses Permitted to Solicit Business.
Transactions Must Be for Cash.

-SNSSS SIAnlLIeu 10 5OllClJ ouSlheso'
transactions Must Be for Cash.
Under rulings OF the Committee on TN
listed Securities bond houses in this city
VIII be permitted to solicit business by
statesmen or by telephone beginning today
and continuing until further notice by the
committee The official announcement
OF the committee reads:
First. On and after Monday, September
II, 1914, and until further notice, Phila-
delphia houses dealing in securities may
solicit business by salesmen, or by tele-
phone. under the following conditions:
All unlisted securities before being Of
tered must be submitted in writing to the
Committee on Unlisted Securities, who
will place minimum prices at which sales
will be approved. Dealers may offer only
securities which they actually own, and
then only at prices not less than the
minimum prices fixed by the committee.
Each and every sale contaminated, must
be promptly reported to the COMMITTEES.
Second No circulars or lists Of offer
ing6 shall be mailed by any dealers until
further notice, except at the request of
customers.
Third. All transactions must be made
for cash, and no trade based on exchange
of securities Will be sanctioned.
Fourth We wish to emphasize the fact
that offerings made must be of securities
actually owned by the dealers making
the offerings
Fifth. All buying or selling orders in
securities not actually owned must be
submitted to the committee. II the COM
mittee have buying or selling orders in
securities so submitted, they will try to
complete the transaction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
SALES FORCE COMING HERE
Cambria Steel Co. to Locate Depart
ment in This City.

The Cambria Steel Company's entire
sales department Is TO be located in
Philadelphia after October 1st, with
main otf1ces in the Morris Building, Chest
nut street west of Broad street.
Al present the sales department of the
tteel plant is located with the FIRMS main
pant IN Johnstown. Pa. In bringing the
ssles department to this city the Gambia
company counts on getting closer to the
markets Of Philadelphia, New York and
the East
II was rumored that the company con-
empiateS opening extensive branch Of
noes IN the more important South Ameri-
T,, ycn cities within the next few months
Mhlle no one connected with the COM
psny IN this city would talk of such
WSn' no denial was made when the ques-
Hon was asked one of the department
,Ta neads who was visiting in Philadelphia
IhlS morning
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
DEEP-BREATHING HABIT
WARDS OFF FALL COLDS
Life-giving Draughts of Oxygen
Flush Lung Cells.

The Importance Of deep breathing cam
not possibly be overestimated Once the
regular habit Is formed. the taking of
deep life-giving .draughts of air far into
the lungs becomes automatic, and the
greatest benefit will accrue to the wise
person who forms this sensible habit.
Fresh air fiushes the lung cells Just
as water performs a like function ex-
ternally. The poisonous gases which
linger are driven out, and the blood
draws its heat and life from a far greater
surface than is available when the lungs
perform but half of their function.
Now in the falltime colds and coughs
are generally rampant. But dsep breath
ing will so fortify the system that those
ailments will meet with a resistance
which will ef'ectually ward them off Gull
tivate this habit then Immediately If you
would pass happy and healthful winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
MAKING GOWNS FOR SHOW
Southern Women at Capital Prepare
for Cotton Exhibition.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Wives and
daughters of the Southern members OF
Congress and the Cabinet laid aside
their calling cards and took up needle
and thread today in the preparation
of cotton gowns for display at the Ma
tIonal Cotton Fashions Show, to be held
here within the next fortnight The
exhibition is intended to boom the use
of cotton in lines that hitherto have
been somewhat neglected.
Miss Mabel Stone, daughter of Sena-
tor Stone, of Missouri; Miss Lucy Hoke
smith, daughter of the Senator from
Georgia; Mrs Champ Clark, wife Of the
Speaker Of the House, and Mrs. James
r. Mann, wife of the House Republic
can leader, are leaders I'm the UNDER
taking. The show is to be held in a
prominent downtown hotel and an eff
fort will be made to have it national
in character.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
Ethel WINS RACE

the eight-m.Ie open boat race held under
the auspices of the Mt. ROYAL Yacht
club, Of Mt. Royal y Y. yestar,la a.
afternoon ON the Mautua River. Ii mn
ished ahead of ; y. g.. owned hy ana
representing the smith Yacht Club. 5 sec
onds and IL seconds on actual running
time. The other seven boats finished
close together
on Saturday the nine craft were sent
down the river 10 Paulsboro and ra-
turn for "a time trial Each boat yrss
given a time allowance taken from rL..
trial rum and the irst one In wins the
prize provided It stay within the i've
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
Clubs to Form Conference

OF ten OF the best known organizations I'm
the country. is being organized To con
duct dual meets and annual competitions
I'm different cities. The sports INDUCED I'm
will include track and field contests, bill
liards' bowling. trap shooting, tennis, au-
tomobiling, handball, TacQuets. SQUASH.
checkers chess and golf The clubs ike
~ to be included in the new organization
are the New York A. c., Columbus a. q,
Pittsburgh A. c., Kansas City A. C., De-
troit A. C.. Cleveland A. c., Milwaukee
A, c., Missouri A. c.. Illinois A. q. and
Chicago A. c.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
WAR AIDS HOSIERY MILLS
Manufacturers in This City and State
Certain to Benefit.

American hosiery, Sc per cent. of which
is produced I'm Pennsylvania. in the be-
lief OF experts, will be greatly benefited
by the European war Whatever benefit
does result from the Made in America"
idea in hosiery, the eastern section of
the State and Philadelphia in particular
will experience the good results Ninety
two per cent of the States hosiery mills
are east of the Susquehanna, and The
output of the Philadelphia factories COM
prises 10 per cent. OF the total production
in the State.
The question of dyes for stockings. deal
ers say, will take care of itself despite
all talk to the contrary.