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Middletown transcript., 1915-04-10
THE NEW CLUB HOUSE

THANKS to their own industry, to
their large faith in themselves
and to their belief in their organiza-
tion's mission as already demonstrated
in the past ten years of its history, the
women of the New Century Club of
Niddletown feel warranted in building
on North Broad street their greatly
needed home.
1t is to be handsome structure cost
ing $4,000, and fitted with every mod
ern appointment designed to minister to
comfort and utility.
The site for the Clubs building is a
very liberal donation from Mrs. G. F.
Brady and consists of lot fronting IS
feet on North Broad and extending
eastward to depth of $50 feet-which
will afford ample room for all future
additions and enlargements.
Their superb record in many fields
of private and public service justly en-
titles the New Century Club, of Mid
dletown to receive the appreciative
support and cooperation of all the citi
zens.
The fact that this Club House i.
provided with an auditorium seating
500 people; a large stage with thu
usual theatrical accessories, which ma.
be used by the general public for lee
lures, addresses, home and other plays
and that moreover, its membership
which is already a representative on
quite devoid of any class distinctions
is to be greatly enlarged by appealing
to the scores of intelligent women in tn
town and around it who have as yet no
realized that their help also was needed
in a word, the fact that it is to be Il
some respects a real "Communit
Building"-all these things are factor
which should raise up for it earnes
advocates among all classes IN ou
town society, the old not less than tn
young. Therefore every man, woma
and child in Middletown that takes
proper proper pride in everythin
promoting civic usefulness and redounC
ing to the honor of the town, shoul
heartily rally to the financial support {
, so meritorious an institution.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-10
ban ring Or the coekpit.

bull ring or the cockpit.
It is to the credit of cur country that
in but few of the states, if in any, are
these beastly prize fights now per-
mitted-they have generally been out
lawed along with other evil things like
slavery, gambling and lotteries.
A lady remarked that there were
three degrees to the infamy of this per-
formance l. The black ''nlgger" who
shames the black race, 2, the white
''nigger" who shames the white race
8, the ruffians who for money promoted
the unseemly affair.
The hundreds of American men who
went thousands of miles and paid out
much money to see the brutal bout
simply have low, tough tastes.
This huge beast johnson, has beer
convicted of violating the Mann "whit'
slave" act and has defaulted his bail
Let US hope he will be caught ant
put where all his kind, black and white
belong-in the penitentary.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-10
TEN MEN DROWN In STORM

LEwEs, DEL, April 4. Yesterdays
coast storm claimed ten victims in the
vicinity of the Delaware capes. They
were the crews of the Consolidation
Coal Company's barges Nos. 6 and 8,
bound from Baltimore for Boston with
coal, who were drowned when their
craft foundered on Hen and Chickens
shoals, near Cape Henlopen, and went
to pieces in the gale.
The barges, which were in tow of the
tug Cumberland, broke adrift early in
the day. Despite heroic efforts in the
face of bin ling snowstorm and a
sixty-mile gale, the Cumberland's crew
was unable TO get another line to the
barges, which drifted helplessly for
some time, finally going aground on the
shoals.
For hours the tug stood by, but be-
cause of the fury of the sea found il
impossible to render any assistance
About noon the barges broke to pieces
and sank with all hands aboard. The
bodies of Captain johnson, Baltimore
Karl Larsen, a Swedish subject, an(
Dempsey Jarvis, also of Baltimore
washed ashore late in the day and were
recovered by coast guards.
The wind during the storm averaged
sixty miles an hour at the breakwate
and at one time attained velocity o.
more than seventy miles. Coast guard
and life savers of the Lewes and Reho
both stations made repeated efforts II
launch life boat when the plight o
the barges was discovered, but foun,
it impossible to get through the boilinl
surf.
A third barge, which was also bein
towed by the Cumberland, was brough
safely into the harbor at the breakwateI
The new Argentine battleship Moren
was also reported to be one-half mil
: off Rehoboth Beach this morning an
5 life savers reported her to be in trouble
, Nothing else has been heard of her, bC
it is probable that she is lying at anchC
some distance off the beach.
: Other wrecks were also reported alon
d the beach. Small craft anchored in IL
i. breakwater have had hard time hol,
y ing their anchorage, and several launch'
and rowboats have been thrown upC
4 the beach. The high tide is washir
n over the piers on the beach and Il
+ beach land between town and the beaC
e is flooded to depth of several feet.
Middletown transcript., 1915-04-10
mrDDLErOwN, DEL, APRIL 10, 1915
FOREIGN INSULTS

that utter disregard OF the
rights of other nations which has al
ways marked its course, England has
again issued its Orders in Council, and
declared another paper blockade" that
virtually forces the ships of all neutral
nations off the seas of Western Europe,
even though such ships be going to. or
coming from, neutral ports
To cap this insolence, England has
further declared its purpose to seize and
requisition for war purposes, any
neutral ships it pleases, and is making
good its threats by daring to seize
American ships en- route to neutral
ports !
For declaring like ''paper blockade"
and for committing similar outrages,
our fathers had the courage in 1872 to
give England the soundest walloping it
ever had on the high seas-worse even
than that the Dutchman Won Tromp
gave the English navy when he boast
fully sailed up the Thames with broom
nailed to his masthead.
This cowardly, un-American Ad-
ministration has abandoned the
principles IN defence of which upon the
ocean our own Delaware's son Nc
Donough, Perry, and other nava
heroes, won imperishable renown, anC
comedies the right of England at will
to establish, in violation of all accepted
international law, such a "pape
blockade!
But worse still, this weak and spine
less Bryan Wilson Administration i
tamely suffering barbaric German.
with her under-sea assasins, to blov
American ships and American citizen
against the moon
Indeed, these mushy Democrat
statesmen u truckle so low to tn
'German-American" vote as to we
come a German warship, the Prime
Eitel, that had just blown up a
American vessel, and after repairin
and coaling the offender, instead c
holding it to account for it's piracy
offers to send it forth fully equippe
to blow more American ships sky higf
This weak policy that seeks peace {
any price, even at the sacrifice {
American property and American live
is shown in every quarter. The trut
is this cowardice of Bryan's ar
Wilson's has invited, and encourage
the perpetration of these outrages. A
the world knows this milk-and-wat,
outfit at Washington has neither tt
capacity nor the spirit to prote
American citizens in life or property.
Even in wretched Mexico they hay
for years been safely robbing and mu
dering Americans. Any half bak,
Greaser bandit-general thinks he CT
with impunity tweak Uncle Sam
nose.
Oh for but one week of the fir
self respecting American policy tn
Roosevelt showed when he called t
Jap bluff that had impudently order
our warships to stay out of Paci
waters, by sending around the wol
the biggest navy that since magellan
day ever circumnavigated the globe.
Had we a red-blooded Americ
president, the country would be spar
these endless outrages at the hands
England, Germany and Mexico
But, no, we must grin and bear it
for eighteen months longer
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
SENATORS TO Divide
The maryland JOBS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.--The
President said yesterday that the con-
troyersy over appointments in Maryland
would be settled within day or two,
and that he hoped by the end Of the
week TO send complete slate TO the
Senate. On the theory that Senator
John Walter Smith was not a Wilson
man in the preconvention campaign,
Senator Blair Lee has insisted that all
the appointments should be dictated by
him. For the sake of harmony, and
with a desire to deal Justly in the mat
ter, it was said yesterday that tho
President would divide the six impor-
tant appointments equally between the
two senators. Smith men arc to be
named for the collector of the port of
Baltimore, United States district attor-
ney and appraiser Of the port. Senator
Lee will name the United States mar
shal, the surveyor and the subtreasurer.
1t is believed the slate will stand as
follows: Samuel X. Dennis. district at
torney; w. w. Stockham, United States
marshal; William P. Ryan, collector
Walter II. w. Warner, appraiser; Rob
ert G. Hilton, surveyor; Guy w. Steel,
subtreasurer.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
One Dead, 700 Suffer From
Shock and Smoke in Blowout
That Fires New York Subway

able were rushed to the scene. The
streets in the vicinity resembled a
battlefield. Unconscious forms were
stretched out everywhere while up
and down the line the doctors hurried
administering first aid. Some we're
able to go home. Others we're made
comfortable in theatres, garages and
private houses. Yet as an evidence Of
the magnitude of the disaster, the
hospitals contained emergency pa
tients this afternoon as follows:
In Polytechnic Hospital. 65 patients,
of whom six we're in serious condi-
ton.
In Bellevue Hospital. five women
and three men, of whom two women
we're in a serious condition.
In Roosevelt Hospital 25. of whom
five were in serious condition.
In the West Side Y. NJ. c. A. 10.
The one death. was a woman not
yet identified who died shortly after
being taken to the Polytechnic Hospital
The situation around the seth street
station was the worst on the subway
system, but under Central Park, where
the tunnel is narrow and low, hundreds
OF women tainted and there we're SER
ious panics. There was no smoke
panic here. however.
This afternoon, it was feared thai
the subway cannot be put in full oper
alton for Et least a week. Trains are
running from Van Cortland Park tc
Broadway and 137th street on the
Broadway line and from Bronx ParT
TO 149th street on the Lenox avenue
branch. but no one was prepared tC
say when through service can be re
sumed.
Fire Chief Kenlon, who led the res
Gu. york at 55th street. told a graph,
story OF what took place under IN,
ground.
1T was chamber Of horrors dOwi
! Continued on Page 8.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
EDEN LODGE AFTER MEMBERS.

Eden Lodge /. o. o. F.'s member
ship committee will meet tomorrow
night to map out plans for their COM
ing class night. Last year the lodge
had one of the largest classes ever
taken into local order.
The committee will report to the
regular session of Eden Lodge on
Thursday night. Those on the com
mittee are: J. Willard Reed, Ernest
c. Parks, Chester J. Moore. Stephen
F. Jackson. Arthur p. Hudson. Mar
shall Yeatman. Horace K. Weaver,
Homer Day, Harry w. Chairs. w. c.
Press. Howard Ward. William Taylor
Abram Bachrach. John Moore. W. j.
Beatty.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
N KINNEY RAPS
luke WARM MEN
IN THE Church
COateSville Pastor Declares
PigmieS in Pews Make
DwarlS in Pulpit
SAYS The CITY needs
OLD TIME REVIVAL

In connection with the revival now
being conducted by the Methodist
Episcopal churches OF this city, an
other enthusiastic meeting was held
last night i'm St. Pauls NJ. +. Church,
at which the Rev Dr. Thompson W.
Mckinney, of Coatesville Pa, was the
principal speaker. Dr Mckinney,
who took an active part in the re.
vival meetings held in his own city
at which there were 2,20S conversions,
made a stirring and forceful address
in which he declared that out OF this
revival there would arise a tabernacle
meeting which would crowd the
churches Of Wilmington. adding that
what the people needed was TO have
little less starch IN their religion.
After tho offering the speaker. Dr.
Mckinney. was announced. His
fame as a revivalist had preceded him,
so his appearance and mannorisms
We're noted. A man of medium size,
florid complexion and wearing spec
tacles.
The text was I Kings XVIII. 45;
And II came TO pass I'm the mean
while that the heaven was black with
clouds and wind. and there was a
great rain"
The exposition Of the text was
not remarkable, but the sidelights oi
common sense. homely wit, glimpses
of every day life. insight into foible,
and follies that men indulge, wer,
quantity set forth.
Some OF his gems were:
"Pigmies in the pew will max.
! dwarfs in the pulpit"
THE weakness OF the Church arises
from the Inconsistencies Of th'
Church.
How many Of you knelt with YOU
families in prayer today?"
How cany Of you have spent eevl
a few minutes I'm reading your Bible? ?
How many OF you have spent eve
ly prayer meetings of your churcl
and pray when you are there?"
How many Of your people atten
the class-meetlngs of your church
And yet you wonder why Go
does not send you a revival Wha
4 Wilmington needs, more than an.
thing else IN the world. is to get
whole lot Of you church member
converted 10 God When the churc
members OF Wilmington get convert
ed to God so they will spend as muc
of their time planning to lead thei
neighbors to Christ as they no
: spend In planning for bridge-whil
and theatre parties, or In scatterin
scandal by back-biting one anothe
there will be the biggest revival wi
] mington has ever known"
"It Is a hard task 10 preach 10
Continued on Page 8.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
FAMILIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
LEAVE HOUSES OUT OF FEAR

windows were to be seen in the Rock
land paper mills, of the Jessup and
Moore Paper Company. The home of
the late Alfred lie Carpenter, near
Rockland Mills and which is located
near the paper mills also suffered
greatly from the explosion, windows
and doors being broken the same as
they were at the Murphy home At
the home of Hugh McDonough. plas-
ter was knocked from the walls
Company's Statement.
The DUPONT Company authorized the
following statement:
The explosion occurred in a dry house
located in the Upper Hagley Yard. The
house, which was old and OF frame con-
stwction and comparatively small
building. was entirely destroyed.
The building was only partly filled
with powder. There were 200 kegs
containing 1000 pounds of black powder.
The dry house was the only building
damaged in the yard.
There were no men in the building,
but a man who was in the boiler house
some distance away, where steam ~
generated for drying the powder, was
slightly cut by flying debris. He was
able to walk home.
The cause of the explosion has not
been ascertained.
Although no reason has been assigned
by the DUPONT Company for the explo
sion, il was claimed that it was unusua
for a dry mill to explode, and there il
no fire near the building or machinery
in which a spark could be generated
When the small mill exploded today
Mrs Murphy and her family, remem
bering that another mill containing
large amount of powder was near by
left their home fearing that this mil
would be ignited. Their fears wer'
overcome, however, when they reache,
the field near the Rockland road tn
mill not exploding.
The shock of the exploding mill wa
distinctly heard in all sections of thi
city, and many residents were awakened
by the report. Residents of Chester, Pa
and other points north of this city like
wise were aroused and telephone call
to the police authorities here were nu
merous. II was at first reported tha
the mills in the lower yards had ea
Iploded and that there had been consit
erable loss Of life. This was denie
shortly after the officials of the con
pany had hurried to the mill and ascei
tanned the damage done by the explC
/ sion.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
ARMY IN
UTTER Retreat
IN THE CAUCASUS
Russian COSSackS Pursue
Enemy Killing and Wound
ing Many
Commander IS Held
AS PRISONER OF WAR
BY The United Press.

Dg AHN OhAAtu AANoos
PETROGRAD. Jan. 6.-The posi-
tive declaration that the entire Turk
ish campaign in the Caucasus has
failed was made today in an official
reported from Sarykamysh. The en-
tire Turkish army is in disgracetul re-
treat the troops abandoning equip
ment, guns and ammunition, and in a
number of instances their regimen
tai colors in their flight All of the
reports emphasize the extent of the
Russian victory. Il is declared that
already the prisoners number more
than $4,000 men. and that a number
of divisions are now surrounded and
must surrender or he exterminated.
The Cossacks are harassing the de-
feated enemy. pursuing them on both
flanks and killing and woundng
many of the stragglers. Iskhana
Pasha, commander of the Ninth
Corps. with all Of his entire subord-
mate officers are prisoners, and will
be sent TO the concentration camp at
once. The entire regiment around
Sarykamysh and Ardahan are now
held by the Russians. Orders have
been sent to follow up the victory and
not TO allow the Turks TO reform
/ their shattered lines. The Russian
advance into Hungary is also stated
to continue practically unopposed
Only slow progress is being made be-
cause of the desire of the Russian
commanding general to have plenty OF
| fully-equipped men well-supplied
with everything needed on hand be
fore the march toward Budapest is
begun. And owing TO the fact that the
Carpathian passes are blocked with
snow. the task of bringing up supplies
is a difficult one.
In Poland and in Western Galicia, i
is stated that there is practically NJ
change in the situation
Evening journal., 1915-01-06

Two hundred kegs filled with black
powder. stored in one of the dry mills
at the Upper HagIey yards of tho Z. l..
dupont de NemOurs Powder Co., at
ROckland, exploded at $50 o'clock this
morning The cOncussiOn of the
powder, four thousand pounds OF it,
was felt throughout this city and
county and the shock was even felt
in Chester and other points in Penn
sylyania. At the time of the explO-
sion, John Meredith, a iiremen. em-
plOyed by the DUPONT Company, who
lives at Free Park, near ROckland,
was in boiler room generating
steam for the drying of the powder
at the time the mill exploded. lie was
slightly injured. Merediti's injuries
were minor ones caused by falling
glass, and he was able to walk to his
home. DIR. Joseph p. Wales was
summoned and attended him.
Damage Caused.
While no one was injured. the con-
NuoGiOn VI luE NhUAOnlOu fductu lnutn
damage to surrounding property. The
mill, itself a small one-story struc-
ture, was totally destroyed. while
surrounding property was more OF
less damaged. The most serious dam.
age was done TO the home of Mrs
John Murphy, which is located but q
short distance from the mill. and
along the Brandywine creek
Mrs. Murphy lives with her son-in
law. George Dougherty, his wife an,
their two children and they we're al
tossed from their beds when the mil
exploded. Although stunned Mrs
Murphy grabbed her grandson, viii
liam Dougherty, aged two year
while her daughter. Mrs. Dougherty
carried her son George, aged years
from the house Mrs Murphy an
her son-in-law's family went to tn
home of James Murphy. near by 70
shelter Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Dough
crty, who we're scantily clothed, car
ried with them the clothing of tn
two small children and they stoppe
in the middle of a large field an
dressed the children, who we're SUI
fering from the extreme cold.
There were few houses in the neigf
borhoOd Of the mill that did not SUI
fer in some manner from the el
plosion and this morning shattere
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
FOOD QUESTION NOW
SERIOUS TO Germany
Bv Thc United Press.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Germany
has conquered territory inhabitated by
more than l5,0OO,O0O people so far dur
ing the European war, il was stated on
high diplomatic authority today. This
estimate is based upon the number of
Belgians, French and Russian Poles
living in cities and in the country occu-
pied bv German soldiers. II is because
of this large increase in population that
the food question is beginning TO give
the government much concern it was
declared.
Figures presented by this authority
today Indicate that approximately g.
100000 Belgians are under German rule,
100000 French and 100000 Poles.
Belgium and that part of France held
by Germany, IL was stated are two OF
the most thickly populated portions Of
Europe, while Russian Poland now under
German control, is honeycombod with
manufacturing communities, very thick
ly populated.
Germany would have no trouble, it
was stated. 10 feed her own normal pop
ulation of 65,000,OO0, but when the mum
Der is increased to S0,O00,OOO, it is an
entirely different proposition.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
HORSE Of DEATH
IN SKY BROWN 5
latest Vision
Declares Omen Signifies
That City is to be Swept
by Hand of God
removal OF Bones
AECERS COD. He Says

Surprising in mystery even the
most wierd of the literary efforts of
Robert Louis Stevenson. Edgar Allen
Poe, Sir A. Conan Doyle or any other
writer of fiction, is the declaration
of the Rex. Alexander Brown colored,
who about a year abo created con-
sternation among the congregation OF
a local colored church by asserting
that his spirit had visited Heaven
and communed with the men and wO-
men he had known in the flesh.
Browns statement contains asser-
tiOns of visions and a warning to
Wilmingtonians to repent and prepare
for death He says he saw a sheet in
the East among the clouds.
He says he saw four angels support
ing a sheet among clouds in the East
He was able TO see three faces and
heaps of dead in the sheet. Brown
maintains he also observed another
cloud shaped like horse on which
was seated a man whose name was
Death. There also was a cloud
shaped like a hearse and two black
horses. according to the minister.
He asserts that all Of the above
are omens of i'll for Wilmington. and
that there will not be enough under
takers to bury the city's dead this
year. which ought to be soft for the
undertakers.
Brown now claims that God is to
punish the city's people for removing
the bodies of those buried in the
graveyard. now the site of the new
county and municipal building. He
says the Lord will not tolerate the
removal Of the bones Of the departed
from the cemetery and surely will
punish tn people.
Evening journal., 1915-01-06
By The United Press.

NEW YORK. Jan. 6.-0ne woman
is dead, thirteen other persons are in
very serious condition. and 700 are
suffering from after effects of shock
and smoke asphyxiation as a result
of the worst transportation accident
in New York's history today. In ad-
dition thousands of persons were so
unnerved from fright that they ro-
quired medical attention.
At 500 o'clock a blowout" tied up
the entire system from the Upper
Bronx to Brooklyn. Between Four
teenth street and 96th all stalled
trains were shrouded in darkness.
One hour and forty minutes later. fire
broke out in the block between 50th
and 59th streets. Directly under 55th
street. a northbound express train,
and a southbound local were stalled.
Both were jammed with passengers.
It was these who suffered most.
Trapped in the darkness with the
tunnel filling with the choking smoke
from burning insulation rubber, many
were rendered unconscious. Others,
utterly panc-stricken, tore loose from
the clutches of the more cool-headed
who would restrain them, and at
tempted to find their way through the
dark. smoke-filled tunnel to an exit.
Some fell by the way unconscious.
Others fought their companions in
frenzied panic. That there were not
more than 100 actually killed was
due to the speedy arrival Of the fire
men, who tore open manhOles and
ventilator gratings. lowered ladders
and brought down lights so that the
victims could see
For nearly two hours Chief Kenlor
and his men worked il relays getting
the passengers to safety. Hardl,
one who was brought out was con
scious. All Of the ambulances of the
city and all of the pulmotors avail