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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
Vessels Arriving Today

STR Thorsa (Nor), New York. ballast, Ber-
vvvnd-N White Coal Mining Company
SIR Persian. Boston, passengers ana mer-
sndfse Merchants and Miners Transporta-
SIR. IeHinEtoA, Jacksonville, etc, passengers
and merchandise. Merchants ana MINERS
ST. Goneettina al oiorgio (Nor), Sama,
fruit Atlantic Fruit Company.
a. Kentucky CDen.), Copenhagen, merchan-
atss gcandinaVian- American Line. -
str Rochelle (Br), Maeoris, merehandise' L.
hseSIi seSr frank Brainsrd. New York ballast. A.
n fummlIs 4 Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
BREAKS NECK AT BALL GAME
Spectator Dies of Injury Received in
Fall From Grandstand

George Merkel 80 years Old, of 1868
Granite street, died in the Frankford
hospital today as the result of a broken
neck received while watching a ball game
Saturday afternoon.
At the time of the accident MerlSel was
seated on the rear seat of the grand
stand on the athletic field at Richmond
and Buckius streets. Suddenly the team
for which he was roofing scored home
run and Merkel became so excited that
he fell backwards from the seat to the
ground, a distance of about Is feet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Mrs. Anna FLYNN

Mrs. Anna Flynn, AZ years old. of Sl7
Florist street, was found dead in bed early
today by her husband when he awoke
The woman complained OF pains around
her heart before she retired last night
Physicians at the Roosevelt Hospital.
where the body was sent, stated that heart
disease was the cause Of death.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
U. S. Weather Bureau Bulletin

obseryatlons taken al A. N. Eastern tin
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Charles Waddell Katz

Funeral services for Charles waddell
Katz, a lawyer in this city since 1870 and
a veteran of the Civil War. will be held
in his native town, Smyrna, Del, at 2
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr., Katz
died yesterday In the Hotel Edgewater
Atlantic City. Mr.. Katz's city residence
was formerly at 141 North 18th street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
viii Attend to Business as Usual

John Wanamal1er is suffering from a
cold which he contracted several days
ago. His illness, however, will not pre-
vent him from attention to business to-
day, 1t was said at his office Mr.. Wana-
maker went to Atlantic City yesterday,
feeling too indisposed to preside at a
meeting Of the Brotherhood of st. An
drew and Philip, of the Bethany Presby
terian Church.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
MOTORBOAT MAKES 62 MILES
Disturber w Sets New Record in
Speedboat Dash

CHICAGO, Sept. 13.-Disturber Nv.
owned and driven by Jim Pugh, Chicago
millionaire sportsman, set another
worlds record yesterday in the speedboat
dashes on Lake Michigan. She clipped
off a G2-mile-an-hour pace In Lalf-
mile dash, and negotiated five similar
dashes around the 60-mile clip.
Miss Detroit, of Detroit, Mich, won the
$500 Pugh cup trophy in the l0-mile race
in the morning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Professor Beglns a5th Year Of Work

Prof william II. Thorne, a director of
the Franklin Institute school OF Meehan-
ical Arts. VIII begin his a5th year as pro-
fessor OF mechanical drawing when the
school opens its e2d year tonight. The
night classes IN mechanical. architectural
ana free-hand drawing, mathematios and
mechanics will be supplemented by visits
10 Industrial and engineering establish
ments.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Ilalv Places bic War Order

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept ls 90 The
italian Government Is reported TO have
nIsoed an order for $4,000 worth of
Ammunition with Swiss firms at Chaux
de Fonds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Mexicans Wound Three Americans

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept. 13.-Three
American soldiers are reported to have
been wounded in a battle with Mexicans
near Los Indios. Details are lacking
and the extent and Importance of the
clash are not yet known.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
NEW YORK MEN WIN
ON SEA GIRT RANGES
Capture McAlpin Rifle Trophy
After a Spirited
Contest

RIFLE RANGES, Sea Girt. Sept "a
Three matches, one team event and the
others individual shoots, are the features
on the Sea Grt ranges today, the fourth
Of the big ten-day shoot
The McAlpin trophy match at 200. 600
and 1000 yards opened at s o'clock. The
Rogers match, at 600 yards only, was shot
at 10 O'Clock
New York rihemen took a spurt I'm tho
McAlpin Trophy match this morning.. and
at the end OF the second stage az 600
yards led the United States Marine
Corps by eight points. fNew Jersey suf-
fered n slump on the 6O0-yard stage
New York won the McAlpn trophy with
a total score of 11O7; second Marines
with 1895 third, New Jersey. with 1866,
and fourth, District of Columbia. with
1929.
The team score at 1000 yards and totals
follow:
New York, $50. i107
New Jersey, 32l, iOh5.
Marines. 34I, tO95.
District Of Columbia. 292 1923
The most novel match OF the entire
schedule, the Keller match, is the attrac-
tion this afternoon. In this event each
entrant must shoot 20 shots with pistol,
20 with revolver, 20 with .22-calibre rife,
20 with .30-callbre rife at 200 yards @
with .S0-calibre rife at 600 yards and 30
at clay targets with a shotgun. The tro-
ply is presented by Captain Thomas A
Keller. of New York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13
Andrew i. Harris

EATON, Ohio, Sept. l8 Andrew l..
Harris. former Governor Of Ohio. died
today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-13

1887 Attend Public Baths
During the last week the attendance at
the various lighthouses of the city to-
tailed 1s6.377.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
Importance of Road Maintenance
Where Highways Are Built With
Borrowed Money.

Washington, ID. Chat highways
constructed with borrowed money
should be strictly maintained, is the
keynote, of a chapter in Department
of Agriculture bulletin No. 1876, deal
ing with highway bonds. 1t has not
been customary for officials to face
frankly the cost of the maintenance
and repair of bond-built highways at
the time the bonds are issued and be-
fore construction begins. In fact, the
authors of the bulletin point out, in
the majority of cases where bonds
have been issued by local authorities
there has been no provision whatever
for maintaining the roads when built.
This is perhaps the greatest defect
in the method of building highways
by issuing bonds.
Maintenance, the highway experts
of the department point out, is neces-
sary in order to insure to the com
muHity the maximum economic serv-
ice by the road, and also to preserve
the investment. The cost of mainte-
nance and repairs must, therefore, be
studied at the outset. In the absence
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

nous-macadam roads doubtless re-
quire resurfacing at intervals. The
cost of such resurfacing is not yet
known.
The average cost for repair and
maintenance Of 1900 miles Of high
way in Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey and Rhode Is
land for the year 1912 was about $500
per mile. A large part Of this money
was expended for bituminous resur-
facing and bituminous surface treat
ment. There is some question wheth-
ed the expediture correctly measures
the average cost of repairing and
maintaining bituminous macadam
roads. In the state of New York, how
ever, for the years 1911 and 1912 the
average cost for repair and mainteH
nance was $724 per mile upon total
average of 1851 miles. The annual
cost of repair and maintenance on
Massachusetts state roads for the
years 1910, 1911 and 1912 was, re-
spectively, $642, $647, and $676 per
mile for about $50 miles. For the
most part these figures for New York
and Massachusetts represent the cost
per mile of resurfacing with bitumi-
nous material and of maintaining BIZ
tuminous-macadam and water-bound
roads by surface treatment
with bituminous material. 1t is clear,
therefore, that 500 per mile is not an
estimate at present for the
annual cost Of all repair and maintc
nance of bituminous-macadam roads.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
Light Weights, Heavy
Weig hts and So p
State Food Commissioner Helmc
Offers His Advice From In
vestigatiOns Made.

Lansing-Dr. Lewis Baker Of Ohio
has joined the Mae Martin class in
Michigan and through advertisements
in the leading dailies is answering all
correspondents, mythical and other
wise, with remedies for most of the
diseases that human flesh is heir to.
In a recent adj Exit" writes she is
in danger of qualifying for a place
in a side show as a living skeleton
and becoming a real kitten and she
suffers from headaches.
The Doctor advices a. rough
course of Hyponuclane Tablets" Our
chemist has examined Hyponuclane
Tablets and was unable to identify
any active drug or drug principles.
These tablets when placed in a 800
solution of Hydrocloric. Acid (Which
is the natural acid of the stomach)
required over 90 hours to dissolve.
1t looks like Exit" might trade off
her headaches for stomach aches.
Ninety cents is the price of sixty
three grain tablets.
"Miss r. r." is evidently afraid
she may qualify as the fat woman in
the side show. She confesses to the
modest weight Of 100 pounds and still
gaining. She wants the Doctor to
carve, medically, 30 pounds from her
robust form. The Doctor advises the
regular use of 5-grain Arbolene Tab
lets. Analysis of these tablets show
that the active principles is the Thy
reid Gland of the sheep. The Ma
tional Dispensatory says that Thy
roid Gland when used in quantities
sufficient to cause decrease in weight
often causes i'll health, changes the
skin to a sallow hue and also causes
wrinkling of the skin. IL "Miss T.
R." wishes to swap her so pounds of
healthy flesh for a skin like China
man and wrinkles like Merino sheep
thyroid gland will probably have a
tending to produce that result. But
Just take it from us, miss I. X"
that if you wish to reduce flesh, just
stop eating. Any Arctic explorer can
give testimonials to that effect.
MAUD" has got real affection in
a bad case of catarrh. Her nose runs
and her breath smells until she is
obliged to eschew all osculatory per-
formances with any gentleman call
ers. But the Doctor has the stuff
for Maud" the afflicted. All she has
to do is to dissolve half a teaspoon
of Villane powder in a pint of warm
water two or three times day and
presto Change" back comes health |
and suitors and the nocket handker-
ohio co,, no ,1cad for q oanl<in
Our chemist says that Villane pow
ders on examination were found to
be composed of common salt 400,
baking soda $50, Borax 152o and
Salicylate of Soda 1910. Selling |
price so cents. Estimated cost cents.
Mix your own dope, MAUD" and for
so cents you will have barrel full
Of solution, enough to cure all the
running noses in an average sized
it works.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
The Cost of High
way Maintenance

| of general data, the reports on main
way departments should be of inter
est to county officers preparing to is
sue road building bonds.
The following opinions as to main
tenance cost represent the results of
careful analysis of state highway re-
ports, as well as much first-hand in
formation gathered by the depart
ment's specialists
Well-constructed gravel roads will
sometimes sustain several years of
traffic without showing marked dete-
rioration, even when there has been
no maintenance. Such roads some
times even improve during the second
season, more frequently, however,
they show ruts or the formation of
chuck holes. 1t can not be expected
that the average life of a gravel sur
face will be greater than that of a
macadam surface. The average inter
val for resurfacing macadam roads is
between six and seven years. If a
sum equal to two-thirds of the origi
nal cost of the gravel surface itself
is provided for renewals at siX-year
intervals, it should be estimated at
from $3.50 to $3.50 per mile per year.
If $50 is then allowed for annual
dragging and small repairs, the total
annual cost of repair and mainte-
nance of gravel roads would be from
$3.50 to $3.50 per mile. The annual
cost of strict maintenance is some
times below $50. In Bennington coun-
ty, Vermont, during 1912, IT'S miles
of gravel roads were maintained at
cost of $20.70 per mile. The annual
cost of maintenance and repair on
sand-clay roads, including all neces-
sary resurfacing at periodic intervals,
should not be fixed at less than 10
per cent Of the original cost.
The cost of repair and maintenance
of water-bound macadam roads has
been determined with considerable eX-
actness from Massachusetts figures
and checked by resurfacing charges IN
other states and in Germany. From
500 to 1925 per year ordinarily pays
for necessary small repairs, such as
patching, cleaning culverts, etc, and
from S400 to S425 per year is the
annual charge for resurfac-
ing at periods varying from six to
seven years. The sum of 1925 per
mile on an average should therefore
maintain macadam roads If
changes and increases of traffic are
not excessive. It must be under
stood, however, that in many instan-
ces where macadam sufficed for the
volume and character of traffic prior
to 1906. it will not withstand the &C
ton of the motor vehicle traffic,
which has developed since that time
MANY miles of ordinary or water
bound macadam road have been resur-
faced with bituminous materials and |
many miles of new bituminous-maca-
dam road have been constructed. The
logical maintenance of such highways
is a surface treatment with bitumin-
Gus material and rock screenings,
clean gravel, or sharp sand. The cost
Of such surface treatment is from
to ~ cents per square ward, and 1T
may be expected to last from one to
three years, according to the density
of traffic and the success of the an
plication. Theoretically, perfect sur
face treatment would constitute alb
solute maintenance for a bituminous-
macadam road. Such maintenance is
seldom or never realized and bitumi-
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness II Would
Bring TO Thousands Of Homes.

Hard to do homework with an ach-
ing back.
Brings your hours Of misery at lei
sure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Bachache pains often come from
weak kidneys,
'Twould save much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
Thousands of grateful users en-
dorse them.
Mrs. Mary J. Conklin, Forest Ave-,
Frankfort, Mich, says: 81 was in a
bad way with kidney trouble. | had
a dull, throbbing pain in the small of
my back. Others of my family had
had very good results from Doan's
Kidney Pills, and | decided to try
them. ] got relief from the first box.
| took about three boxes and haven't
had any more trouble always keep
Doan's Kidney Pills on hand"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Conklin had. Foster ilburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

At the annual meeting of the
Massachusetts state board of trade
the statement was made that $780,
100000 of capital had been removed
from the state to escape "the worst
system of taxation in the country"
Booker It. Washington is quoted as
saying the south is facing the great
est crisis since the civil war on ac-
count of the depression in cotton
American relief already distributed
in Belgium amounts to more than
$10,000,000.
George f. Hayes, a geologist OF
London, predicts that Alberta, Can
ada, will be one Of the greatest oil
producing districts in the world.
John ID. Rockefeller has distributed
among the universities of the United
States the sum of $10,000,000.
The United States government is
arranging to promote extension ex-
perlments IN. the breeding of fur
bearing animals during 1915.
Three hundred and eighty-four herd
of cattle and swine valued at $751;
600. have been slaughtered in Illinois
in the war on foot and mouth disease.
Fifteen butter and egg firms in
New York virtually control the prices
of these commodities in the United
States.
John Katz of Hammond, Indiana
when arrested on a charge of steal
ing chickens, said he had lost his
gloves and grabbed the chickens in
order to warm his hands under their
wings.
A filing fee of 100000 was paid at
when the papers con-
the New York Central and
Lake Shore railroads. The capitaliza-
ton is 100000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
CURRENT EVENTS
BY Paul Leake

British trade statistics show that a
drop In British trade during four
months Of the war was 1851 $50, $50.
The disbursements of dividends and
interest on stocks and bonds listed on
the New York stock exchange for
January will amount to S241, 1893 1903.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has conferred the Red Cross of Merit
on American Ambassador Penfeld,
Rear Admiral Ward u. S. A., and
DR.. Van Dyke, minister to the Neither
lands.
The subcommittee of commerce in
congress will add 100000 to the
rivers and harbors bill, making the
total above $40,O00,OO0.
immigration at the port of New
York is now only about 20@6 of nor
NAL and is composed chiefly of Ital-
ians, Scandanavians and lrishmen.
The cattle quarantine from foot and
mouth disease has been lifted from
ten of the p counties of New Jersey.
The British embargo on hides i'm
ported from Australia and New Yea
land will be lifted early in January.
Reindeer meat from Iceland has
found its way to the markets of Ber-
lin.
A New York bride has offered a
reward for the return Of $4,000
worth of jewels lost from her new
home at Hollis, Long Island.
Eugene Zimmerman, father-in-law
Of the Duke of Manchester and well
known as the man who got the Pere
Marquette railroad company into a
financial tangle, recently died sudden
Is at a Cincinnati club.
All national bank examiners have
been put upon a salary and the fee
system has been abolished.
A New York dealer estimates that
between the hen and the consumer
here is an annual waste in eggs Of |
5000, 100000 a year. due to breakage |
and decay.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
GOVERNOR FERRIS
NAMES DELEGATES

acknowledgements Ferris appoint
ed the following delegates to the
eleventh annual conference of the
National Child Labor commission at
Washington, January and 6. judi
son Grennen, Waterford; c. S. Beadle,
Detroit; President Samuel Dickey,
Albion; Tracy N. McGregory, De-
troit; Ira w. Jayne. Detroit; Jesse b.
Davis, Grand Rapids; Rt. Rev. j. N.
Mccormick, Grand Rapids; Fred A.
Zierleyn, Grand Rapids; Miss Luella
Burton, Lansing; Mrs. +. J. Cornwell,
Saginaw; Miss Kate Carlisle, Sag
NAV.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02
PAYS BIG FEE TO STATE.
The Merger of New York Central and
Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Pays s15O,00O.5O in
Treasury
Treasury.

Lansing-The New York Central
Railroad company paid into the state
treasury $3.50, O00.50 on the authorized
capital stock of 100000. The
$500 was for the articles allowing
the merger with the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern road and the 20
cents was for filing the papers.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

: man from Missouri recently
made himself conspicuous at Wash
ington. ID. c., by declaring he had
been chosen to wed Margaret Wilson
the daughter of the president, or Miss
Mary Watson, daughter Of the con-
gresham of that name from Georgia.
He did not seem to care which. He
is confined in hospital pending an
examination as to his sanity.
Attorney General Gregory of the
United States has given an opinion
that the federal reserve banking
board is Independent Of the secretary
Of the treasury except where special
authority is conferred upon the secre-
tsry by law.
John d. Rockefeller has asked an
Injunction in Cleveland, Ohio, re-
straining the county treasurer from
collecting taxes on $311 DAT 1897 as
sessment by the county tax commits
sion.
Wholesale prices on carpets will be
advanced from two to five cents
yard early in January.
Rome dispatches say that King Vic
tor of Italy will appoint Marconi, the
wireless biography inventor SEN
ator.
Stock yard and government experts
Nice, Mentone, Monaco and Monte
at Chicago. tahin~ census Of cattle in
the United States estimate the visible
supply at less than 35,000,000. and
that meat at 80 cents a pound and
shoes at SO pair are possibilities
of the next two years.
The Michigan Stove Company Of
Detroit has decided to loan money
interest to employees of one
years standing who have been laid
Off. the loans to be repaid when the !
men return to work.
Herman Fusch, formerly chief
chemist of the Standard Oil Company,
who recently died in Paris, left an
estate valued at S5,560,573.
New York fnanciers have financed
the cotton crop to the amount Of $75,-
100000.
Property of $50 German firms in !
Chicago, taking census of cattle in |
Carlo have been sequestered by IL
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

Property of $50 German firms in
Chicago, taking census of cattle in
Carlo have been sequestered by II
French government to be held until
after the war.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

New York fnanciers have financed
the cotton crop to the amount Of $75,-
100000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

A New York dealer estimates that
between the hen and the consumer
there is an annual waste in eggs Of
$200,000,000 year. due to breakage
and decay.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

Herman Fusch, formerly chief
chemist of the Standard Oil Company,
who recently died in Paris, left an
estate valued at S5,560,573.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

All national bank examiners have
been put upon a salary and the fee
system has been abolished.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

A filing fee of 100000 was paid at
Indianapolis when the papers con-
solidating the New York Central and
Lake Shore railroads. The capitaliza-
ton is S300,000,000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

The Michigan Stove Company Of
Detroit has decided to loan money
without interest to employees of one
years standing who have been laid
Off. the loans to be repaid when the
men return to work.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

The British embargo on hides i'm
ported from Australia and New Tea
land will be lifted early in January.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-01-02

Immigration at the port of New
York is now only about 2096 of nor
NAL and is composed chiefly of Ital-
ians, Scandanavians and Irishmen.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-09
STATE HELPS BUILD ROADS
Every County in State Has Built Some
Improved Highway-$8,0 100000
Spent in Three Years.

MadiSOn.-Three thousand miles o.
highway, 5000 culyerts and 1900
bridges have been billt in the state
under the supervision of the state
highway commission, according to
Chairman John A. Hardwood of the
commission, who spoke before the
fourth annual road school here.
wisconsin has about $4,000 miles
of country highway We have just
closed the third year of highway i'm
provement under the state aid policy.
In 1914, 100000 was spent in the
construction of about 1900 miles of
road, 700 bridges and 1900 culverts.
Thus far in Wisconsin there has been
constructed under the state aid policy.
zoo miles of concrete road; 100 miles
of shale road; 900 miles of stone ma
cadam road; 500 miles of gravel ma
cadam road and 1000 miles of dirt
road, total of about 5000 miles
Every county in the state has built
some improved highway under the di-
rection and supervision of the county
highway commissioners. These
changes have been brought about in
only three years at cost of about
$S,000,000