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Evening journal., 1915-11-17

NILMINGTON's CHAIN Gang.

KXT0ULDNT il be wen for city officials strike
" the shackles from the feet Of those poor devils
who have been arrested for agrancy and pressed into
the city's service as manual laborers?
While the public has respect and little use for
the professional panhandler It has respect and SYM
pathy for the penniless who is out OF work. who
wants job and who has enough get-up-and- get to
him to go from city 10 city in search of one
There are many persons in our community who feel,
however, that putting leg irons and chains on a man
who is accused Of onense more serious than va
grancy is excessive punishment and humiliation.
peciaily when the offender thus shaclsed is compelled
to work in public places Those persons feel that
is not pleasant for anyone and especially for young
and impressonable children to see such unforunates
thus shacked and shaving in the city employ with po-
lice guards for their immediate bosses The thought
that those thus impressed into the public service are
not desperate criminals but poor unfortunates makes
the feeling Of public dissatisfaction all the acute
Our understanding is that the objects of tho present
attitude toward Migrants 10 relieve the County
Workhouse from congestion and also to relieve our
community from the opportunities and impostons of
professional Migrants That those objects are commen-
dable TO will deny There are many persons who
do deny. however that the situation is such that it
jusdfes the police in making arrests of men who. are
out OF work and Who lured by stories OF Wilmington
and Carney's Point having two jobs every idle man.
como here in the hope OF obtaining and an act
precedent thereto seek nights shelter In part OF
apart for the use OF such unfortunates.
Certainly the least that should be done for such
men is to give to them the election OF remaining and
working in the streets leaving for some other com
munty more chartaby disposed toward them
II the object be TO rid our community Of Migrants
why resort to the illogical expedent Stacking them
to prevent their escape from such an uncongonia en-
vironment? Why not supply to them every opportunity
to fee the city, instead of placing them in position
that makes flight impossible and keeps them here in an
ignoble situation that is offense to the public?
The vagrant who elects TO remain and work rather
than to leave needs no shackles to hold him. The Of
fender who elects to leave rather than to submit TO
such humiliation, should be permitted to 60 because
by going he serves the purpose sought to be attained
Wilmington sentiment is opposed to "chain gang"
methods. That opposition is especially pronounced
"hen 1t comes to applying such methods to men whose
worst onense is improydence indulgence and whose
least ohense is inability TO obtain work and desire
10 live while the search for job is in progress
Public sentiment demands that the leg-ron feature
OF the present police crusade against vagrancy he done
away with because It is cruel illogical and an onense
against the better feeling OF the community
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
confidence IN EDUCATION
BOARD LOST. lawyer Says

A sensation was created at the
MONDAY luncheon of the membership
council of the Chamber of Commerce
at the Hotel DUPONT yesterday when
William f. Kurtz stated that the
Board Of Education had apparently
lost the confidence of the community.
This remark was greeted with ap-
plaUse. 1t was made by Mr. Kurtz af
ter Samuel II. Baynard, president of
the Board of Education, had stated
that a crisis had been reached in the
affairs of the Board of Education,
and that fourteen of the schools
were going to be closed by the Board
of Health. He asked the members of
the Chamber of Commerce to exam
inc the condemned schools themselves
and see if the plumbing was defective
and justified the closing of the
schools at once. and If so, urge upon
City Council to provide the Board of
Health with funds to do the work at
once and IL not, to urge the postpone
ment of the work until spring
Mr.. Kurtz stated that the squabble
of the Board of Education with the
other city departments had now
reached an acute stage. He thought
something should be done to straight
en- out the matter.
What was needed, be said, was some
people with common sense to harmon
ize the three city departments, the
: Board of Education, Board of Health
/ and City Council. He said that anger
seemed to have put some of the de-
partments in a position of opposition
and that a lightning rod was needed
! to relieve the situation. He thought
/ that a committee from the Chamber
OF Commerce could act in that ca
pacity. He said a small, sensible COM
mittee should be appointed.
His remarks we're greeted with ap-
plause, and on his action it was de-
cided to recommend to the directors
OF the Chamber of Commerce the an.
pointment of committee to consider
the matter.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
Three MAST Schooner
ALMOST BLOCKS RIVER

The Christiana river at Market
street bridge this morning suffered a
congestion when the three-masted
schooner Thomas Winsmore, under
Captain b. r. Bragg arrived at the
Shipley street wharf with $4,000 as
phalt bricks consigned to the Topeka
Paving Company for use on the city
streets. The schooner takes up over
200 feet of the wharf and there is about
four feet clearance from the draw of
the bridge. She will be there prOba-
bly, a week unloading the brick.
Whether the presence of the boat
will interfere with the leaving of the
Silver Shell from the Harlan and Hol
lingsworth plant is not known as il
will DE a particular piece of navigat
ing to get the big tankers safely
through the bridge, while the bic
schooner is in.
Captain Bragg formerly lived in
Wilmington, leaving here about TWEEN
" years ago. At that time he lived
with Captain William Clark at No. 909
Kirkwood street He was a member
of the Mary S. Ewing. a Wilmington
schooner.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
NOW is THE TIME

nELAWAREANs should delight to honor the memory
~ of Caesar Rodney.
II is reproach to them that they have not long ere
this reared a monument in his memory.
His services TO the State and to the nation were of
transcendent importance
1t was he who. in the face OF illness made the men,
orable ride to independence Hall in Philadelphia
II was he who swung Delaware in favor of the
Declaration Of Independence
He the only native born Delaware signer OF that
historic and epoch-makng document
1t is encouraging, indeed note that General James
H. Wilson and those who associated with him in
The laudable enterprise Of rearing on Court House
Square, this city. equestrian in honor OF the
memory Of Rodney making such substantial
progress.
They nave aroused public interest in the project
They have stimulated the patriotic feryor of the
people.
They have done much 10 crysiaze public sentiment
They have gone far toward arranging for that CON
cert OF action that is essential to success
Ihey now have reached that stage of the work that
uenanos conference composed Of representatives of
All the patriotic societies in city and State That
conference to be held in this city on November %
should be we'll attended the end that DESIGNS for
the statute may be passed upon; that a renresen,s
i've executive committee may be formed and that
comprehensive plan for the secnreznent Of funds
may be outlined. There should be no holding bacl IN
any patriotic quarter. Now is the time of AN ,,,o -
put the project through "
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
women Save So
USING GASOLINE
Dry clean your dresses, suits. silks,
yokes, gloves, draperieS, etc.


Save IS to $40 by doing your own
dry cleaning. Here is simple and
inexpensive way to clean and
brighten children's coats. suits. caps,
wooden garments, Swiss. lawn. organ
die and chiffon dresses, kid gloves
and shoes. furs. neckties. ribbons.
silks. satins, lace, Jokes, silk shirt
waists. draperies, rugs, in fact, any
and everything that would be ruined
with soap and water.
Get two ounces OF sOlvite at any
drug store and put il in two gallons
Of gasoline, where il readily dissolves.
Then put in the goods to be cleaned
After a little rubbing. out they come
looking as clean and fresh as new
You will find nothing fades, shrinks OF
wrinkles, requiring no pressing
ANY woman can do home dry clean
ing in a few moments at little cost
and save lots of money. II is as sim
ple and easy as laundering, and you
can't make a mistake. Your grocer
or any garage will supply the gasoline
and your druggist will sell you two
ounces Of solvite which is simply a
gasoline soap. Then a wash boiler
or large dishpan completes your home
dry cleaning outfit
As gasoline is very inhammable be
sure to do your dry cleaning out OF
doors or in a room away from fire or
lame, with the windows left open.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
Degrees of Offending
(From the New York Herald.J

A correspondent whose letter Is re-
printed on tits page is disposed to take
the Herald to task for failing to con-
denim "the injustice, the high-handed-
ness and the unlawful proceedings OF
the English government" in connect
tion with neutral commerce.
The letter is apparently written in
good faith and is entitled to answer,
which is that the Herald has always
insisted that the President should
protest to belligerents whenever they
infringed international law to our
disadvantage. AS to falling to get
more profoundly agitated about the
British aggressions. the Herald enters
the plea of guilty. because, while il
has been fully alive TO the fact that
American commerce has been impeded,
sometimes without warrant of inter
national law, il has also been occu-
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
LOCAL Mia en- dele.

Two large deer, which have been
hanging in front of johnson & Bros.
place of business, Seventh and King
streets, during the past few days,
have been attracting considerable at
tention.
Both of the deer were shot by local
sportsmen in Maine. Winthrop B.
Wood, of No. 2214 Gilpin avenue. shot
one, and J. Edgar Rhoades, of No.
2211 Shallcross avenue, the other
The deer were shipped to Johnson
G. Brother to exhibit and tomorrow
they will skin and dress the meat for
the owners. They are two as fine
specimens as have been seen IN this
city in a long time.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
r. HENRY YOUNG.

II HENRY YOUNG identified prominently with the
1Ns Every Evening for many years had such a large
circle OF friends that his death has caused widespread
regret He especially popular in Masonic circles
having been identified for several decades with that
craft. The odd Fellows also well pleased to
claim him for an associate
In the newspaper field his work restricted largely
to the mechanical end. In that he displayed marked
ability We extend to the members OF his family and
to his former associates the Every Evening our
heartfelt sympathy for the loss they have suffered
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

pied with the graver question of the
destruction of American lives and the
threat TO race freedom connected with
tie Teutonic manner of provoking and
making war.
II is important that International
law should be observed. But in this
war offences must be divided into two
classes and grades. First is the ordi-
nary breach Of the rights OF neutrals
and second the extraordinary breach.
Crimes call for greater vigilance in
righting than trespasses, and the
Herald has felt that 1t might be for
given by those Of academic tendencies
If 1t did not harp so much on the tres
passes of England so long as crimes
were still unattended to. especially
since its contemporaries were usually
busy attending to the case Of England
and forgetting that Of Germany.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

In the CoSrt of Chancery, bill has
been filed in the case of Helen II.
Townsley VS.. State Trust Company, a
corporation of Delaware. The bill sets
out that the defendant was incor-
porated as the National Stock Trust
Company and later amended its char
ter and changed its corporate name.
The orator says she is the owner of
1898 shares of the capital stock Of
the company. at par value of $40 a
share, and prays for the appointment OF
a receiver for the company. The case
will come before the chancellor in a
few DAYS
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
old Steel MILL WHISTLE
blows after II Years

For the first time in eleven years,
the whistle Of the old Diamond State
Steel plant was sounded at noon today
for the men to leave their work and
then again at 12.45 for them to re-
sumo their labor. Work has not as
yet been started over the entire plant
but steam has been gotten up, the
fire has been started in the blacksmith
shop, and men are getting the place
in general working order.
Employees Of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio company are drying out the old
larmatures of the cranes and many OF
them will have to be rewound. The
men are getting the entire plant in
readiness TO start operations.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
COMMENTARIES LEVY COURT ACTION.

view of what has occurred in the past Richardson
Park folk have done well in impressing upon the
Levy Court the imperative need for a special policeman
in that attractive community and securing the ap-
pointment OF such an official
There many fine homes in Richardson Park
They peopled by men. and children who are
entitled to adequate protection against burglars and
other eyildoers. Our Levy Court Commissioners have
acted with commendable judgment and expedition in
granting the petition submitted by prominent citizens
OF that community.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

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Mrs. A. M. MYERS, Cor
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"I took Lydia z. Pink
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81 prais e the Com
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Florida.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
EQUAL SUFFRAGE MEETING,

The Equal Suffrage Association of
Wilmington will hold its regular meet
ing tomorrow evening at the home of
the president DR.. Josephine NJ. r. de
Lacour. No. 706 West street. The bust
ness will include the discussion of
plans for a public meeting and discus
sion of new headquarters.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
TROLLEY MEN I'm MTsTRFLs.

Members of the Employees Relief
Association of the Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company expect
a large attendance at their minstrel
show in the New Century Club tomor.
row and Friday nights. About twenty
five men viii take part, and fine pro.
gram has been arranged.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
XMAS GIFT FOR MIssIONERY.

Members of the Home Missionary
Society of Mt. Salem M. Il. Church
met at the home Of Mrs. George Black,
No. 1916 Delaware avenue this morn
ing and packed box of clothing for
a minister and his family who are at
work in Tennessee. The clothing was
valued at SCI.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
ARGUE ABOUT LAW after
BOTHER Is CONVICTED

While the State has not asked for
sentence on Generosa Verderamo, a
bother, who was convicted OF violat-
ing the license law in selling beer in
larger quantities than permitted by
his license, argument was heard by
the Court of General Sessions yester-
day afternoon, after his conviction
regarding the enforcement OF provi-
sions of the liquor law.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
rNrnRCING cHILp LABOR LAW.

Magistrate Theodore w. Francis
Yesterday afternoon fined Joseph Rem
dine SIS and costs for vio-
lating the Child Labor Law.
The testimony Of Charles II. Grant
land. child labor inspector, was that
Rendine worked a boy under IA years
OF age in his shoe shining store on
Fourth street between Market and
Shirley streets.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

King Constantine of Greece has placed himself in an
exceedingly precarious position. He has defed the
sentiment of the Greek people and played false with
the Quadrupe Entente. Those two ofenses which
likely to bring their own penalties to the small
sovereign who is guilty OF them
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

4nose VINO tnousnt the Russian army had been put
IN the capture Of Warsaw will be surprised nv The
omcal announcement that in October the cars
troops captured 1854 Austrian troops p cannon and
l1s Maxims. The Russian end Of the fighting has ms,
cleyerly begun, with the King and Jack Frost as
powerful allies
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
Cured His Rupture

/ was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk
several years ago. Doctors said my only hope
OF cure was an operation. Trusses did me
no good. Finally I got hold Of something
that quickly and completely cured me- Years
have passed and the rupture has never re-
turned, although l am doing hard work as a
carpenter. There was no operation, no lost
time, no trouble. have nothing 20 sell,
but will give full information about how you
may md a complete cure without operation
II you write to me, Eugene NJ. Pullen. Car
penter. 34-B, Marcellus Avenue, Manas-
guam, n J Better cut out this notice and
show IL TO any others who are ruptured-
you may save life or at least stop the mis-.
an operation.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
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some durable physical arrangement are deprived
of this greatest Of all happiness.
The women whose names follow were restored
to normal health by Lydia +. Pinkham's Vcgeta
bic Compound. Write and ask them about Il.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

reputation is what men and women think of us
Tnaracler is what God and angels know of us
Thomas Paine -
.--.--.-.
Friendship is the great chain of human sociot, a,a
intercourse OF letters is the chefest links Of
that chain-Howell. nuns u
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

The Shah of Persia has decided that good run to
lspahan is better than bad stand in Teheran
Evening journal., 1915-11-17
PARENT-TEACHERS' MEETING.

The Richardson Park Parent-Teach
err Association will meet next Tuesday
evening A number of speakers will
be in attendance.
Evening journal., 1915-11-17

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Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-22
ALE Expert Watch Repairing and yeHeIry Work J. 1 SA

national aspirations of the Armenians, pro- posed to create between the Caucasus and the Mediterranean an autonomous Armenian state under the protection of Russia; while at least one-thc "Nov" declared that "after this great war Russia must have her natural boundaries. The terms of peace should give her control of the whole Turk
 sh empire, including Adrianople and Pales- tine, and excepting only Arabia, which lies outside the field of Russian interests"
 With the desire of Russia to have free egrcss into the Mediterranean it is impossl- bIe not to sympathize. She is situated very much as we should be if the peninsula of Nucatan were extended four hundred miles to the norttcastward, 90 as to leave pas sage only three or four miles wide between it and the end of Florida, and if both benin sulas were in the hands of the MeXlcanS How should we like it if our southern neigh bors controlled absolutely the outlet of the Gulf of Mexico? And yet we should be in fnitely better off than Russia IS, because we should have dozen good ports on the Atlantic seaboard as well as free access to the Pacific while Russia, with a population of 10000 CG0 has not q single port on either ocean that Is not closed in winter by ice. George kennan in The Outlook.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-22
WEALTH IN PUBLIC LANDS

The multiplication of Minnesotas talents proceeds at a rate that must leave her sis ters ruefulIy conscious of the saddest words cf tongue CT pen. Her auditors pertinacity in discovering that previous estimates of the public land values were all too low is nothing less than an attempt to rub it in. Last year the prediction was that Mime sota, from her iron timber and farm lands, would ultimately have fund of S200000 GOO; now 1t appears that 1t will be still greater, end may be much greater Her iron lands this year bring in million; by 1920 they should bring in four millions, North and South Dakota are abetting her, moreover, in the humiliation of the remain der of the West. Each Is likely to have in the end a fund above S50,000, ,000-the one having 2,500 900, the other 3,000,000 acres. In painful contrast, Iowa has S4,S00,000 to > show for her lands; Wisconsin has sold all Sbut 16,000 acres, ard has debt; Michigan has sold all and has $5,000,000; Illinois has sold all and has S1,200,000. The original patrimony of each of these states was from 6,0C00 GOO to 9,G00,0 ,0C0 acres. Texas alone is an exception, with an enormous area ex- pected ultimately to accumulate SSO,0O0, 900. All these wastrel commonwealths must now suffer the spectacle of Minnesota buy ing their state bonds and battenlng on the interest.-New York Evening Post,
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-22
LOCATING WATER BY THE
 AID OF "WATTo. WITCH

"Kellogg's Springs" the place is now called. Water has brought life where be fore there seemed only the suggestion of death Pilgrims are forever climbing the hills to view the wonder. The price of hill land has advanced about 300 per cent.
 What I did was entirely simple.' kel, logg insists Anyone might have done it, Since my boyhood I have been using the socaled witch to locate hidden treasurieS of water. 1 have located many wells Ii the work is carefully done there need never be a mistake Of course where no water Is no water will be found but water is nearly everywhere Sometimes the water witch fairly twists out of the hands, so strong is the attraction. The explanation of its prin- ciFle is simple. The water in the ground is under terrific pressure. which causes an inaudible hissing. When you hold the vii low or peach witch above the spot it bends downward because it is vibrating at the same rate as the water note, and the moment they synchronize they are drawn toward each other.
 "The water witch will not work over a lake, tub of water or large buried water main because in either case there Is lack of the pressure necessary to bring out the note. If. however, the water main IS tapped by smaller pipe, pressure is created and that smaller pipe can be followed without difficulty Sunset Magazine
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-22
LUMBER AND TIE CANAL

At period when the war and depression in Canada and the reaction from a general period of over cutting hed thrown the Pa cifc coast lumber a drug on an over glutted market, the AmericanH Hawaiian line, in November, brought a shipload of lumber through Panama and, without breaking bulk, through New York harbor up the Hudson as far as Poughkeepsie, where a Washington lumber firm has just expended s3C0000 on a new plant. For the first time in the history of the United States, river and canal and ocean traffic have been co-ordinated in the cheapest freghts ever enjoyed by the shipper
 Theso inbound shipments are es slgn1h- cant as the outbound. They mean more than cheaper lumber to the buyer. If Pa cifc coast lumber can be brought direct in land on river and canal without breaking b; Il. at the Atlantic seaports, it means that the Atlantic seap2rts are going to lose 9 certain proportion cf their traffic unless they can reduce terminal charges to level that breaking bulk will not add to the buyers price American Review of Re views