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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
BLIND GIRLS "SEE"
MIGHTY BATTLESHTPS
ATLEAGUE ISLAND
Their Verdict Is That a War
ship Is Like House-Deft
Fingertips Their Weapon
of Discernment
PLEASED WITH VISIT

y battloship is like a house.
This verdict was rendered today by a
majority of 30 blind girls from the Penn
svlva0la Institute for the Instruction OF
the Blind. at Overbrook after sight
seeing" visit to tho navy yard. They had
never "seen" hattlcship bcfore, but, in
spite of their inability to behold the gray
hulks with their eyes. their description
of the seanghters is much more minute
and panstaking and accurate than that
rendered by many n giddy girl whose
pretty eyes roguishlY wander over the
outlines uf the vessels and record moth
ing ON the brain.
Feeling their way over a ship. touch
ing here n gun, cutlass there railing,
a sample of powder, running their smooth
hands swiftly over iron walls and port
hole frames and lockers the girls slowly
but surely 81 med conception OF the
battleship--a house, three-story house.
Swiftly the trained nerves sent the I'M
pressions from the &c I nnce.tpf tn the
brain, and when the tedious journey over
the ship was finished there was recorded
in the ever-active brain an image OF the
warship-a three-story house with stair
ways and many rooms, There are lock-
ers. too, and hammocks with hooks, and
stoves in the kitchen and n bakery.
The steel masts, gray and towering;
the tunnels, the ventilators, the broad
eNp1nSe or water, with mere anu lutIt
little whitecnp; the flag napring i'm the
brecze-thesc they could not See" All
that was beyond the grasp of the 1.-THE
fingers was lost The individual parts
they could see" but not the ship, as a
whCle.
~ suppose the masts must he very
tall said n 17-year-old girl, who had
been blind from birth. She said 1t smil-
ingly and not bit wistfully. "I haven't
a very definite idea of what a mast looks
like: but, from what I've heard. 1t must
be like the pole we slide down in the
gym. l have helped haul up the flag on
our nagpole, too, and know that 1t is
tall"
Just what "tall' means to her we can
not conceive
TT is, after ALL useless to ask a blind
person for conception of an object as
representing the conception of all blind
persons" said p. II. Burritt principal of
the school. mo two seeing persons con-
ceive of an object in the same manner,
and so 1t is with blind persons. And.
after we have heard their conception. do
we understand it?"
The girls. under the care of teachers
have recently made several trips to
League Island. where they are especially
honored guests. The tours are part of
their education. n model of a ship being
shown them before the visit and writ
ten accounts, in the Braille system, being
required in the classroom after the trip
is finished
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
CAMPAIGN CLOSES WITH
DONATIONS OF $3OS,O53
Fund Short $191, ,946 of $5O0,000
Mark, but Managers Say
1t Will Be Raised by
End of Year
ARTICLES TO BE SOLD

with approximately 5000 individual
subscriptions, ranging from $4,000 to the
rennv of newsboy. the campaign to
raise half million dollars in 10 days in
o,d of the Children's Hospital, of Phila-
delphia. closed last night with dinner
a, the Adelphia Hotel sl91.oi6H short OF
tbe amount aimed for
Tho grand total turned in in 10 days
amounted to $685. SO.
Roniamin Rush, first vice chairman of
Tho campaign Committee. who presided
hecouse T.. 4. Stotesbury had been called
60 chicago on business, pronounced the
campaign an unqualified success, despite
tho fact the full amount had not been
raised in the time specified. Mr. Rush
said the balance needed, n little less than
Sooo 600. would be obtained before the year
ioth closed, and that ground would be
broken at the 18th and Bainbridge streets
site. on November %, which will be the
s0th anniversary of the founding of the
Children's Hospital, at 4os Blight street,
with Is beds.
Mr. Rush announced a subscription OF
$4,000 from John Wanamaker and a
virtual assurance from him of the last
Sos 900 which will be required to round
out the full half million. He said also
that woman, who in the last three
years had given S125,OOO to the hospital,
had told him during the day that a
little later she would be asked to make
an additional important donation, and
asked what could be built for $4,000.
There was no doubt whatsoever, Mr.
Rush said, that the group of buildings
would be completed and In use according
70 the original plans before the leaves
began to fall in 1916.
II was intended to auction off for the
benefit of the hospital several articles, in
Guiding Ellen Adair's German shell, upon
which rests bid of $3.50; four rare United
states gold coins, two pieces of furniture
made and donated by the inmates of the
Eastern Penltentiary and n doll made and
dressed by the nurses of the hospital,
hut Mr. Rush decided that the only auc-
tion would be that of the doll, and that
the other articles would be placed on dis
play in the establishment of Baily, Banks
& Biddle there to be sold for the benefit
of Ne fund.
.Jev9ttry. consisting of diamond rings
braceleAs and n laveliere, valued at S20O0
will be placed on exhibition and sold
with the shell and other material dona-
tions. This jewelry was donated to Team
A, captained by Mrs. j. Ernest Richards
1t had been the property of Mrs. Fred
erick A. Riele and been placed in de-
poslt vault since Mrs. Riele's death, is
months ago. Mr.. Riele, who lives on
De Iancey place above 22d street, de-
cidcd 1t would be of more value turned
into cash for the benefit of the hospital,
and gave 1t to Mrs. Richards.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
BOYS PLAY REVEALS
HIDDEN EXPLOSIVES
Found in Shack After Lads Are
Discovered Hammering
on Caps

Three little boys were playing on the
steps of the Colonial Hotel, at Leperville,
near Eddyetone, Delaware county, today.
They had a hammer and they hammered
hard at something. Two men came along
and asked what 1t was. 1t turned out to
he Illuminating caps.
where did YOU get these things?' the
men asked.
"Out to Wards quarry, in the shack,
said one of the children. We've been
playing with the things there in the shack
for two or three days
The two men, John Dunlcvy and David
Woodside, are employed at the Baldwin
plant at ;ddystone. They never heard of
q shack in Wards quarry that had ful-
minating caps in it, so an Investigation
was made. This was what was found in
'he shack:
thirteen sticks OF dynamite
-.Uils of wire.
Equipment for exploding dynamite at
IA distance
Illuminating caps
The boys are George Roberts, years
old: his brother Samuel, T. and Thomas
Kern. 10 years old. They said they were
surprised that everybody didn't know
about the little shack and tho interesting
things 1t contained.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
ALL PEABODY WEEPS AT
FIRE VICTIMS FUNERALS
Seventeen Victims of School
Tragedy Are Laid to Rest
While Thousands Mourn

PEABODY. Mass. oct. SO-Peabody is
mourning today. FLAGS are at half staff,
factory wheels arc still while thousands
of mon, women and children voiced their
grief for the dead in the school FIRE.
Seventeen little girl victims Of III Tor
ribe fire at st. Johns Parochial School
that cost q lives were buried from ST.
Johns Catholic Church with solemn and
dramatic ceremonies.
All of Peabody turned out to witness
the funeral procession and to pay a last
tribute to the victims The streets through
which the hearscs bearing the white cas-
kcts passed were lined with weeping men,
women and children.
OF the four victims not included In
todays general funeral service one burial
will take place tomorrow and three on
Monday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
ACCUSED OF IMPERSONATING
u. s. SECRET SERVICE MAN
Lee Ayres Faces Charge of Passing
as Federal Detective

Lee Ayres of 500 North 18th street, an
emnloye of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
uit Company. was arrested today by Cap
tain Matthew Griffin, of the Secret Serv-
ice, on a charge of impersonating an op-
eratiye i'm the Secret Service denartment
According to officials of the secret serv-
ice, Ayres went TO a department store
in the early part of this month ana, III
an effort TO open an account there, stated
that he was a member of the Secret SerY-
ice. The Governments local office was
informed of the case and the arrest fol-
lowed. Ayres was arraigned this after
noon before United States Commissioner
Long i'm the Federal Building and held
under $500 bail for court.
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THE WEATHER
Official Forecast
WASHINGTON. d. c.,

WASHINGTON, d. C., Oct. 80
For eastern Pennsylvania: Fair AMI
slightly cooler tonight; Sunday fair;
moderate northwest winds becoming vari-
able.
Showers occurred from the eastern por-
tion of the Lake region to the Atlantic
coast during the last "a hours, under the
influence of a disturbance that is central
over New Brunswick this morning. Show"
ers are also reported from southern
Florida and western Washington, Fair
weather with generally clear skies has
prevailed throughout the remainder OF
the country. The temperatures are
slightly above the normal along the At
lantic coast and In the plains states, and
are mostly seasonable elsewhere.
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TUBERCULOSIS AND TYPHOID
Weeks Record Shows Increase of
Both Diseases

Although only 399 deaths were reported
in the city this week, there has been an
increase in the number of transmsslble
diseases. There are 1873 new cases of con-
sumption, us against SO new cases last
week, ana 40 new cases of typhoid, an in
crease OF four over those of last week.
A list of follows.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30

An autcmobilist ran down l7-ycar-old
Tessic Jones, S25 North 18TH street. on
Ridge avenue last night and without in
vcstiGntirg the extent of her injuries pro-
ceedod on his way. thus avoiding arrest.
Tho girl was taken to the st. Joscph's
Hospital. Ilor collarbone was fractured
and she received other injuries Of less
serious nature.
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North philadeIphia to Celebrate

North Philadelphia merchants will take
part tonight in an elaborate Halloween
parade and "mardi gras" celebration.
The parade will form at 1880 o'clock at
Broad and Wingohocting streets. The
carnival win take place at 18th street
and Germantown avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
NIANTUA BAPTIST CHURCH, 4ot

MANTUA BAPTIST CHURCH, 10th and
FAirmount ave-, Rev. w. b. SHUMWAY, D.
D., Supply.-9:3O q. M. Brotherhood Meeting;
1890 a. M, Preaching Service. "30 p. M,
Rihle School T:ij p. M Preaching Service
500 p. M, Tuesday Evening Young Peoples
Meeting. 500 Wednesday Evening Church
Prayer Meeting
cd BAPTIST-Helping Hand Glass meets
2:3O, Ith below Gliard ave. benjamin II.
Phile, speaker Friday night Mr.. c. Will
Jams and his Boy Scouts No. 125 Will conduct
the service.
FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
(Dunker), cor Carlisle and Dauphin SITS.
Preachng-l0:80 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
Sunday School-2:30 y.
Prayer Meeting each Wednesday evening.
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RrLrcIous NOTICES
Methodist EpIscopaI-ContInued


GETHSEMANE. Broad 8 westmoreland sts.
Everett u Decker Minister.
Pipe organ dedication -, a..
Splendid new pipe organ used Tor the hrat
N'm.-Rev. L. w. Munhail. d. d.
Prof. W. c. Young organist for the day
Splendid music. large chorus choir and quar-
All former members specially invited. -
Mt. CARMEL, Broad street casino.
ReV. sS"0 0wRf.TER VAN cLEvE STEWART.
iO:3o A. m.-Sermon by the Pastor.
7:45 p. m.-The japanese Evangelist, rev
George Fanyiiie viii direct the singing. APP
propriate program by chorus choir. James B'
HartzeiL director.
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH
Thompson. east OF l2d St
Rev, Samrei Clements will preach 1880 and
s,p. m; Eysning thons; Good C, G,ltizens,hip;
Literal Israel"
Sew Jerusalem (Swcdcnborgian)
THE ZEAL or THINE HOUSE" is the
tRo'i tho Pastor. Tie S;o" Rev. "ciiRRi.Es ~ HAR-
yEY, at the church Of the New Jerusalem,
Sunday lay" school od' at $40, All seats are free
ENerNhody Is welc,me. ------
Presbyterian
WEST HOPE, Cor. preston and Aspen ats
Rev. CHARLES T.. BRONSON. u. D.. Min
istcr. itcv. CHARLES II. WHITAKER,
$50 y. m@iirotherhood Of Andrew and
iG.3a 3, m Morning Worship, 'iiow to Use
2,ao p. ,n.-nbic School Mems bible ciass.
2.a0 D. m..Mr. John c. McKcnncy VIII ad-
dress the Mems Bible Class
100 p. m.-Chrstan Endeavgr Societies
I:t5 p. m.-sacrcd C'r.nta, "Ponitencc. Par
don ;nd Peace" Maundcr.
ARCH STREET CHURCH. 18th and Arch.
Rcv. CLAHENCE EDWARD MACARTNEY
iU.4I-''DOts God Reign ENrthE'
s:oo-"The Wood Of Ziph-The Other Side
7:3o-Rccital on the Turner organ by MIR.
DouEhcrty. assisted by Mrs Howard kain,
Leonard Auty. tenor. and William Miller,
bass.
CENTRAL NORTH BROAD ST. PEEsBY-
TERINN IjRCH. Broad and Green sts.
io;i3 q: m;,-.poEs orr CITY BELONG
: IL ,. m-Addrcss by Rev. Homer W. Tope.
y. -. Americas Greatest shame
Every one Is cordially welcomed,
WEST GREEN, 18th and Green.
m. Preaching 10y Rev. Edwin =. Simkin.
Protestant Episcopal
CHURCH or ST. JUDE AND THE Ma
TINITN. 11th and Mount Vernon.
Rev. LLEwELLYN n. Galley, H. d., Rector
fist Anniversary.
1O:}U Morning Prayer and Sermon.
2.3O p. M Sunday School ana Bible Closes.
T.+5 y. m-Evenng Prayer and Sermon.
The Rector will preach at both services.
Monlay. Nov. /. All Saints Day
O:3O a. m.--Scrvce and Holy Communion.
ST. ELIsABETH'S, 10th and Minin SITS.
ON sunday. Nuv. I, in the octave OF ST.
Elisabeth bay. the preacher at the Solemn
High Mass. at l0:In a. M, will be the Rev.
j. q. 5. Huntington, superior OF the order
OF the HOLY Cross
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH
10th st. above Gle. tnut.
Rev. Carl. T.. tiANIMfR. 5. 7. D., Rector.
D:I5 a m.-Sund3y School. .
IL u. n.-Morning Prayer and Sermon bv the
Rector ,
=. ~. Evening Prayer and Address by the
Rector.
Special music.
OLD ST. JOHNS, Brown st. below 3d-Dr
Richmond breaches tomorrow. 1915 and I:lo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
RELIGIOUS NOTICES

ORGhNIsT AND CHOIR BUREAU
Churches supplied. Frederick Il. Davis, Mgr
Voice Culture 1Ili Chestnut St.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30

Baptist
BAPTIST TEMPLE, Broad and Berlts SITS.
ri SSEt.L II CONWELL will preach.
Morning. 1890; Bible School, 230; eve, T:3O.
Special music by the Chorus In the evening.
Organ Recital. 7:+5. w. Z. Twadell, NJ. ID.
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 18th
and York. Rev. THOMAS C. NEEDIIAM. tho
noted evangelist. will preach. Sunday morn
Ing. subject. "If Christ Had Not Risen,
What Then? Evening. Caleb. the Whole
hearted" cordial welcome to all
CHESTNUT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Chestnut st. west of 10th.
GEORGE u. ADAMS, ID. D., Pastor.
0:45 m.-Brotherhood of \. and p.
1890 "A. m.-Worship and Sermon by Pastor.
Conservation of visitors on the "Every-Mem-
Der Canvass
230 y. m.-Bible School.
T:45 p. m.-Reports from the Every Member
Canyass'' visitors.
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rrs1rNAN MErmnnIsr rmrRCn

Thompson. east Of 52d st,
Rev. Samrei Clements will preach. 1880 and
2 n. m Evening theme; Good citizenship
Thursday Mr. Wm. Thomas will speak on
~ itcrai Israel
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Presbyterian

ARCH STREET CHURCH, 18th and Arch.
Rcv. CtAHENCE EDWARD MACARTNEY
iO:45-"Dots God Reign Earth?'
OF Fricniship'
100 -Rccital on the Turner organ by Mr..
pouEhcrtY, assisted by Mrs Howard KAN,
soprano, Mrs Horatio Batc2cll. contralto;
Leonard Auty. tenor and William Miller,
bass
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Universniist


THE SALVATION ARMY. Inc.
Philadelphia Headquarters. Colonial -art
Building. 18Th and Market
Colonel Il. Il. HolS In command.
Telephones Bell Walnut 3T35-6.
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Ncw Iernsnlcm tswedcnborrIanl

THE ZEAL or THINE HOUSE" Is the
subject ~ Inc sermon sunday morning by
tho Pastor. the Rcv. CHARLES w. HAIR
NEY, at tho church OF the New Jerusalem.
22d and Chestnut sts Service at II O'Clock.
Sunday School at a30. All seats are free.
ENerVbody Is welc, me.
The Irish standard., 1915-08-14

Summons.
State Of Minnesota, County OF Henne-
pin. District Court, Fourth Judicial
District.
Florence Effie wiltse. Plaintiff,
vs..
Allen E. Wiltse, Defendant.
State Of Minnesota to the Above Named
Defendant:
You. Allen E. wiltse, are hereby sum-
moned and required to answer the COM
plant Of the plaintiff in the above en-
Titled action. which complaint has been
above named court: at the city of Min.
neapolis. county of Hennepin. state Of
answer to said complaint upon the
Minneapolis, county Of Hennepin. Min
nesota, within thirty 500 days after the
elusive Of the day Of such service. and
II you fail to answer the said COM
plant within the time aforesaid the
plaintiff in this action. will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
Dated August 4th, 1915.
CHARLES F. KELLY,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
1017-20 Plymouth Bldg,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Irish standard., 1915-08-14
THE TYPICAL DUBl|NER

house party" the dance, the chat in
the hosiery, because he finds life
there free and untrammelled. He
hates all harshness, and his passion
for pleasantness has often left him
open to the charge of insincerity on
the part of those who do not under
stand the high value he sets on har-
monious relations. Even the Dublin
slums have around them an old-world
refinement not to be paralleled in any
other city in the world. Nowhere does
poverty bear it's burdens so lightly or
with so wistful an optimism. 1t is not
the optimism of material expectancy,
but of the consciousness of the evanes.
cence of material things and their in
ability to supply fundamental needs
The mordant wit of the Northern
lrishman is not generally his, but he
has in abundance the saving grace OF
humor, issuing from the heart rather
than the head. The fact that he makes
an unequalled soldier in no way con
tradicts his essential love of harmon
ious relations, for he fights with the
good-humored abandon with which he
filings himself into a football match
In word, the typical Dubliner" i:
preoccupied not SO much with the
things of life as with life itself, which
he contemplates and enjoys with {
certain fine artistic relish. He is +;
lover of life for it's own sheer sake
of the elusive harmony which dwell.
in the eternal ebb and flow of things
Long may he flourish!
The Irish standard., 1915-08-14
Summons.

Summons.
State Of Minnesota, County of Henne-
pin. District Court, Fourth judicial
District.
Nina Jacobson, Plaintiff,
vs..
Aaron Jacobson, Defendant.
State. of Minnesota to the Above Named
Defendant:
You. Aaron jacobson, are hereby
summoned and required to answer the
entitled action, which complaint has
been filed in the office of the clerk of
the above named court at the. city of
Minneapolis, county, of Hennepin, state
of Minnesota, and to serve a copy of
your answer to said complaint upon
of Minneapolis. county of Hennepin,
Minnesota. within thirty 500 days after
the service Of this summons upon you,
exclusive Of the day Of such service.
and II you fail to answer the said COM
plant within the time aforesaid the
plaintiff in this action will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
Dated July 30th, 1915.
CHARLES F. KELLY.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
1017-20 Plymouth Bldg,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Irish standard., 1915-08-14
IRIsH--NbT sCoTcH-|RSH IN REVOLUTION

There were scarcely one-fourth ma
tives of America-about ONErHALF
IRISH-the other fourth were Eng
lish and Scotch.
Now, when we take the ambition
and interest of the Scotch Gas devel.
oped in the Carnegie cult) to be first
in America as they are first wherever
English interest is concerned, and
when with their keen vision they be-
held the beggardly show they really
made on the side of America in the
Revolution, after due consideration
they resolved to claim that large and
patriotic congregation of Irish Prot
estants who so enthusiastically
helped their Irish Catholic rebel
brothers to make up so per cent of
the Continental army. Such Scotch
men as came to Ireland and settled in
the land confiscated by King James
the First, were not long in Ireland be-
fore they became as rebellious as
their fellow Irish Catholics Git must
always be remembered that what is
now Scotland was settled by the Irish
in the third century,, and that it was
their dissatisfaction with English rule
which drove them from Ireland to
America; and these were the Irish,
real rebellious Irish, who not only
helped to swell the army of the Revo-
luton, but who would take it as the
deepest insult to be called Scotch
Irish, for the Scotch in that day were
more English than the English!
1t was more than few times
charged in the English Parliament
that it was the persecution of Irish
men, Protestant and Catholic Zone
politically that lost America to the
British crown.
All these things are and have been
we'll known to the Carnegie cult and
the foreign subsidized American press
and pulpit, but the lying chroniclers
will continue to prosper as long as
gold is potent in our colleges, univer
stiles and newspaperdom.
According to our encyclopedias
Joseph Galloway was prominent law
yer in Philadelphia, and an intimate
friend of Benjamin Franklin, was a
member of the Pennsylvania Assembly
in 1857, and it's Speaker in 1865 tc
1774, but espousing the cause of the
King, Joined the British forces under
General Howe in New York in 1776
He gave important evidence in the
House of Commons regarding the
military incompetence of General
Howe.-The Monitor Newark.
The Irish standard., 1915-08-14
STATUE OF COLUMBUS.

A divergence Of opinion between the
Canal zone government and the Re
public of Panama has arisen regarding
the disposition of a bronze statue OF
Christopher Columbus in the Panama
Canal town of Cristobal. The statue
which was presented to the French
Canal company by Empress Eugene
has stood for many years in front OF
the residence of Ferdinand DeLesseps.
1t is now completely hidden by the
huge $10,000,000 docks under construc-
ton on the water front and it is de.
sired to remove it. The city of Colon
claims 1t as does the Canal zone gov
eminent. No agreement has been
reached.