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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11

What do you mean, a beacon?"
asked Jimmy.
"A beacon is one type Of lighthouse.
BY the way boys. have l ever told you
about our lighthouse service?"
NO" answered the boys in one
voice.
well. this is a good night for it,"
said Uncle Harry, "fOr on nights like
this mariners at sea appreciate what
the United States Government is do
ing for them by keeping up a system
of lighthouses and lightships which
enable them to know just where they
are. You can imagine what it would
be like. navigating a big steamer on
a wild night at sea, with the lives OF
thousand passengers in your keep
ing, and with never a light to help
you find the entrance to the harbor
you are seeking"
Tell us about the lighthouse SER
vice, Uncle Harry" said Joe.
"All right" Uncle Harry thought a
moment Then said:
ITO guide vessels, at night, Uncle
Sam has built lighthouses on most OF
the principal points and promontories
and reefs and has anchored lightships
lighthouses. These lights are not
only on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. but on the shores OF Alaska
the Hawaiian Islands, part of the
West Indies and the Great Lakes
Altogether it requires $500 men to
conduct this service; you can easily
understand this when say that there
are $4,000 lighthouses, lightships,
beacons (Which are small light
houses). buoys Of various kinds and
other helps to navigation"
Are there lighthouses on every
point? / remember we could see a
great many lights that night last
summer we took the boat from New
York to Boston through Long Island
Sound"
NO" said Uncle Harry. "In GER
tain parts Of the coast where the
shore is intricate ana there are very
many ships plying by, lighthouses
and lightships are numerous. For
instance, at one point just off New
London fourteen different lighthouses
can be seen at once. But where the
coast is not so rugged and there is
less traffic-that is, fewer ships
lighthouses are placed only on the
prominent poillto ~ lldA tue mdllHti
can take their bearings and work
their way from lighthouse to light
house.
But how do the captains of the
ships know where they are? When
they see a light at night how can they
tell which lighthouse it is?"
THAT is very good question, Joe,
answered Uncle Harry. Each light
has certain characteristics of its Owl
which the captains recognize. Some
are fixed lights. Some are 'occulting
lights; that means they flash every
few seconds. Some are white lights
Some are red lights For instance, i
a steamer is approaching the entrance
to Long Island Sound and on thu
starboard- means TO the right
the navigator sees a white light tina
flashes every fifteen seconds. he viii
know that it is the big lighthouse oil
Point Judith. But il he sees a stead
white light to starboard. he will know
hat he is further along than h
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11

Uncle Harry, what kind of fuel do
they burn in the lightships and light
houses?" asked Jimmy.
I'm old times oil-burning wick
lamps we're used entirely, but nova
days they use 'oil-vapor' lamps which
have nantes like the gas reading
light your father has on his reading
room table, only much larger. These
lamps give different amounts Of light
the big ones as much as $500 can
die power. You can get an idea of
how much light that is by comparing
il with the electric light in the parlor.
which gives Is candle power. These
oil-vapor lights. too. use very little
oil and are inexpensive 10 maintain"
But in fog, Uncle Harry" said Joe,
'navigators cannot see these lights,
can they? I should think It would
be dangerous to run at all. Suppose
a ship should run ashore at the very
foot of lighthouse"
when a fog sets in" answered
Uncle Harry, each lighthouse and
lightship starts its automatic fog
horn, which blows every few seconds
and can be heard for miles. The
length of the blasts and the intervals
between the blasts enables the marin
ers 10 identify the station where the
horn is being blown. For instance
that navigator approaching Long
Island Sound. If it were foggy, would
know that he was near Point Judith
when he heard blasts five seconds long
every forty-fve seconds The light
ships have submarine bells as we'll.
by which they send out sounds
through the water which are picked
up by passing ships with special in
struments for that purpose.
"Oh. Uncle Harry. don't stop" said
the boys. as Uncle Harry rose to put
on his raincOat
ct must, boys. although assure
you 7 would rather stay here beside
the fire and talk to you. It's not a
very pleasant night to be outdoors,
but I can comfort myself with think
ing how lucky ! am IN being on shore
instead Of on the deck OF some vessel
at sea trying to find her narbor."
A guest of wind and rain swept
round the corner as Uncle Harry
opened the door and stepped out into
the night
Good night. boys" he shouted
back. "rll come over Thursday even
ing for another talk"
Copyright 1915 by The NC Syndicate
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
LEFT HOMELESS AND
PENNILESS BY Flames

In scant attire Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
l.. Beerman. an aged couple, we're
driven from their home, near Christi
ana, about 2.3O o'clock yesterday
morning when fire destroyed their
home. Beerman had time to selze
only coat and trousers and all Mrs.
Beerman could get was a wrapper
They saved nothing else, and as they
had no insurance on the house or tur-
niture they we're left homeless ana
penniless by the flames.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11

Soap and Ointment advertisement ard sent
for a free sample. and afterwards bought
some. In months time was completely
healed" (sgned) Mrs Noble Smith.
s6O7 suffolk Avenue. Philadelphia. Pa.
March is. 1915.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
CITY Carpenters Want
WAGE Increase IN May

Members OF Union No. 626. Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners. at
meeting on Saturday evening, voted in
favor Of a ffty-cent an hour wage
schedule. which is an increase OF ten
cents per hour. The new scale is not
TO go into effect until next May but
the demands for the increase will be
made on the employers within the
coming few months.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
GRAVEL CRUSHES
Quarry FOREMAN.

CHESAPEAKE CITY. Nd, Oct. IL
Harvey Jack. aged 3S, was crushed
to death Saturday in a gravel quarry
near Woodlawn when an overhangiag
ledge fell unexpectedly. Jack was
foreman of a number of mel who
were getting gravel for the county
road and was the only one caught
His skull and both legs we're broken.
and death was instantaneous.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
AUTOs HIT HEAD ON.

Through a misunderstanding Of sig
nails two automobiles owned by Cliff
ord Prickett OF No. 900 Franklin
street and Warren Krussman OF 700
French street. collided at Ninth and
Washington steets yesterday after
noon. Both cars we're damaged but
no one was injured.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
TWO Are IAILEp on A HOLD.uP.

CAMBRIDGE. Md. Oct. 11.-Dela-
ware Paynter. one Of the colored men
who on Thursday night is alleged to
have robbed John Burnett near Fed
eralsburg. and who was arrested at
fredericksburg, was brought TO Cam
bridge Jail Nehemiah Mcbride was
identified in Cambridge by descrip-
ton furnished by Paynter and picked
nm
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11

Postmaster English has received a
number OF parcel post zone keys
which will be given to those holding
the parcel post guide on calling at the
Federal Building. The keys take the
place Of the postal zone maps now In
use.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11

50 thin that | wore a
switch. Small pimples
also broke out over my
face and gradually swellod
into hard, red pimples.
Sometimes the itching was
so intense that I scratched
until they bled. and I was
kept awake at night.
81 read a Cuficura
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-11
SCALP ITCHED
HAIR FELL OUT
Thin Scales On Scalp. Hard,
Red PimpIes On Face. Kept
Her Awake At Night.
HEALED BY CUTiCURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

There were very fine. thin scales on my
scalp and my hair fell out and was lifeless.
My scalp itched terribly and my hair wa
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Successes Are Claimed
by British Officer in
Smyrna Naval Fighting

LONDON. March 9-The admiralty
announces that the commander-in-chiefi in
the East Indies, Vice Admiral Sir Rich
ard Pierse. has reported further on his
operations before Smyrna.
From the report it appears that, hav-
Ing bombarded Fort Yeni Kale March 5
and severely damaged it the admiral
proceeded the 9Th to sweep his way
through the mine fields. until he drew
the fire of several subsidiary batteries
one containing four six-inch guns, near
Paleo Tabia point, another with five AZ
guns $50 feet up the hillside and three
field guns in the earthworks in the
Chieflilk guardhouse. There also were
several smaller guns concealed along the
shore to the eastward.
These positions were engaged by the
ships at from 1000 to 5000 yards The
batteries replied vigorously, but after one
hours firing all were silenced In the
afternoon the ships steamed in to a
closer range and engaged the PaIeo Tabia
battery and the other batteries on the hill
The fire was continued until all were put
cat of action.
Vice Admiral Pierse reports that the
ships were hit by six-inch projectiIes and
that the mine sweeperS were struck by
fragments of shells. but that the British
casualties were slight. The admiral says
the operations are continuing
Evening star., 1915-03-09
ALLIED WARSHIPS DAMAGED
IN FORCING DARDANELLES
Little by Little Great Fleet Presses Toward
Constantinople-Two More Forts
and Battery Silenced.

press bureau has made the following
announcements:
Sunday our fleet bombarded ZunguI-
dlak. Kozlon and Kilimli (ports on the
Black sea), destroying all structures
and plants for the shipment of coal.
The bombardment was followed by
a terrific explosion and fire. Four bat
teries were silenced and eight steam
ers destroyed. Our casualties were
three men wounded"
Blow to Turkish Fleet.
The bombardment by the Russians of
Zunsuldiak. on the south shore of the
Black sea, and the destruction of the
docks there. as announced by the Russian
naval authorities yesterday. constitutes a
serious blow to the Turkish fleet, since
it is from this point that the Turks
hitherto have drawn their chief supply
OF coal for the navy. 1t is reported semi
officially that in addition to silencing the
batteries which defended the docks the
Russian fleet also destroyed the coal
chutes.
The only damage to the Russian fleet
during the bombardment of Zunguldiak
was slight injury to the cruiser Almaz,
which was struck by a six-inch shell
Six soldiers were wounded. The cruisers
machinery was not damaged.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
THREAT TO IMPEACH MAYOR
New York Baptist Ministers Declare
Sunday Laws Openly Broken.

NEW YORK, March 9.-The Baptist
ministers conference of New York and
vicinity at its meeting here adopted
resolution declaring that the neglect
of statutes affecting the peace and
good order of the city Sundays has
become unendurable and is not in ac-
cordance with the pre- election prom
ises made by the mayor and other Of
iicials."
The ministers demanded that the
mayor and police commissioner en-
force the Sunday closing clauses of the
luuor tax laws and said that In event
of continued neglect they encouraged
civic and temperance organizations to
unite in steps required to impeach the
officials responsible.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
PRAISE OF FAIRBANKS.
Southern Democrat Booms Him for
President in 1916.

SAN FRANCISCO. March y.-Friends
of Charles w. Fairbanks. former Vice
President, were congratulating him to-
day on what they termed his demo-
cratic boom for President in 1916" In
an address given in connection with
the dedication yesterday of Indiana :
pa vilion at the Panama Hacific exposi-
tion. william 3. Lamar. democra,
who is the United States commissioner
OF the exposition. said:
Indiana is still a pivotal state in
the political scheme of the nation. and
who can say but that the nation ma
again go to that state to select its
leader in the person of Mr.. Fairbanks
in 1916. I am southern democrat, but
/ know of nothing that would influence
me more in deserting my party than IA
have the opportunity to cast "A vote for
the Indiana statesman for President"
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Country Children Less Healthy.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Children in
the rural schools are less healthy than
those in city schools. declared Thomas
D. Wood of the Columbia University
faculty in an address last night be-
fore the Society of Medical Juris-
prudence. Nevertheless, he said, of the
$4,000 school children in New York
city, 10000 have organic heart trouble,
1000 are pulmonary, $4,000 have some
form of spinal defect. $4,000 have de-
fective hearing, 100000 defective sight.
350, 900 are improperly nourished and
80 per cent have defective teeth.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
SEES HINT Of FORCE
IN JAPAN ATTITUDE
Communication Embracing
Demands on China So Inter-
preted by the Republic.
NOT RATED ULTIMATUM,
BUT EFFECT DISQUIETING
Early Acceptance Of Part of Toxic
Proposition Expected-English
View Expressed.

PEkING, China, March 9, S:23 pm
NJ. Hioki, the japanese minister at
Peking, In charge of the Japanese ne
gotiations with China concerning the
Toxic demands. has handed to Lu
Cheng -Hsia4g, Chinese minister of
foreign affairs. communication which
China interprets as implying that, un-
less the demands are accepted by
.,.arch II, force would be employed by
Japan.
timatum by the Chinese government;
nevertheless Lu Cheng-Hsiang after
a series of conferences with President
Yuan Shi-kai, has decided to expedite
the discussions with the Japanese le-
cation and to agree quickly to those
of the demands which China con-
siders it possible to accept.
Believes Treaty Will Be Observed.
LONDON, March 9, $50 p.m.-Speak-
ing in the house of commons this after
noon in reply to question, Foreign
Secretary Grey said he had no doubt
that Japan would observe the treaty of
1905, under the terms of which Japan
and Great Britain guaranteed the in
tegrity and the independence of China,
together with equal commercial oppor-
tunities to all nations
Japan Explains Demands.
TOXIC, March 9. 1855 p.m.-The Jap
anese government received not long
ago a friendly inquiry from the United
States calling attention to the differ
ence between the Japanese and Chinese
versions of the series of demands made
by Japan upon China shortly after
Japan ousted the Germans from their
Kiaochow concession, and which for two
months past have been a subject of
negotiation at PekinS.
In reply Japan has communicated d
supplementary note to the great pow
ers in which she summarizes the arti-
cles not included in her first statement
on this subject. She explains that. these
articles oeing in the nature of re-
quests concerning old and long pending
questions between herself and China,
she had not felt previously any obliga-
ton to impart them to the powers.
IT is generally understood in Toxic
that neither the United States nor any
European powers have registered OBJ
lection to the Japanese demands. and
the impression prevails here that Japan
is determined to bring about an ac-
ceptance of most, if not all, of them
Evening star., 1915-03-09
AWAIT NEWS OF COUNTESS.
Report That Former Gladys Wander.
bilt Has Smallpox Is Unconfrmed.

MEM YORK. March 9:-Relatives
here of Countess LasZlo SZechenyi,
formerly Miss Glodys Vanderbilt,
daughter of the late Cornelius Van
darhilt said today they had received
no direct information that the countess
has been i'll in Budapest
a dispatch to the Times from London
states that private advices have been
received there that the countess con-
tr,cted smallpox and has been danger
ously ill for fortnight. Count Szeche-
nyi is serving with his regiment in the
Austrian army and the countess WAS
working in military hospital in
Budapest when she fell i'll, according
to the dispatch
Evening star., 1915-03-09

LONDON, March 9-Little by little
the great warships Of the allied nations
are forcing their way through the
Dardanelles, their objective being the
Turkish capital. Constantinople. Many
Turkish forts have been leveled, the latest
being the battery at Mount Dardanus
and the forts of Rumili Medjidieh Tabia
and Hamidieh-I-Tabia.
Contrary to the first stages of the allied
attempt to force the Dardanelles, several
vessels of the besieging squadron have
been struck and damaged by Turkish
shells. The British battleship Queen Eliz-
abeth. one Of the most powerful of the at
tacking warshipsJ is one of those injured.
Another British armored cruiser was
struck, while Constantinople declares that
a French armored cruiser was put conf
pletely out of action in the fighting of
yesterday.
Russian Flag First.
In order to emphasize the solidarity
of the allied powers, a striking depar-
ture from naval custom marked the en-
trance of the allied fleet into the OAR
danelles. The Russian cruiser Askold
was gracefully invited to take the Rus
sian flag into the straits ahead of the
other flags. The ordinary procedure
would have been to give precedence to
the flag having the strongest force in
the operations.
Turks Not Excited.
BERLIN, via London, March Sin
wireless from Dardanelles. timed 10
o'clock Monday morning. the Lokal An
zeiger's correspondent, in describing
the bombardment of the forts in the
straits, says there is no excitement in
the town Dardanelles.
only few shots have been fired
from the shore batteries" the CORE
spondeut adds. Not one-tenth of the
batteries have yet replied to the allied
fleets fire, as the artillery command
ers have forbidden them to do SO. Yet
the few shots fired have had remark
.hle results. British ships have been
hit twice.
Fires Sixty Shells an Hour.
"The British fire about sixty shells
every hour, and scarcely single shot
finds its mark The heaviest guns on
both sides of the straits have not once
replied Ito this waste of powder by the
British. who have had still less luck i'll
tbeir attempts to land troops Wher-
ever they appear they are driven back
~ the water with important losses.
"aithough at least 5000 shells OF the
heaviest caliber already have been
arad hy the enemy the result obtained
10 only the destruction Of two ancient
,yorks defended by old guns at the
antrance of the strait. The forts proper
of the Da rdanelles are still intact
New Ships Are Added.
Il, an article in the Vorwaerts. the
former London cores ident of the
r.wsn.per in dealing with the Darda-
nelles attacks says:
.The composition of the British fleet
.nnears to confirm the rumor that
Great britain has added two squadrons
~ now ships to her navy since the war
baean The sending of the Queen Eliza
beth tvne vessels to the Mediterranean
shows Tow little is the anxiety the
Rr;tisb adariralty feels concerning its
smnariority in the North sea.
nThe view is generally expressed
,h.t the Dardanelles cannot be forced
,ritho,t a heavy landing party. How
cver this difficulty should not be given
cragperated Importance. 1t is Il great
mistake to view the operations against
the Dardanelles as mere BLUM.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Funeral Of Lillian Cook Today,

NEW YORK. March 9.-The funeral
Of Lillian May Cook Of Brooklyn, who
committed suicide in New Haven, Conn.
will be held this afternoon in Brook
lyn. 1t probably will be the closing
scene of the tragedy. which for time
puzzled the New Haven authorities and
Miss Cooks relatives No further in
vestigation of the cause Of her sui eide
will be made, it was said today,
Evening star., 1915-03-09
TROOPS GO.TO RESCUE
IN ALSACE FLOOD REGION

BERN via Paris. March 9.-Flood
conditions in Alsace are steadily be-
coming worse and serious damage al
ready has been caused Communication
between Altkirch and Muelhausen has
been interrupted. The lower part of
Altkirch is under water, as is the viii
lage of Illpfurt and many other places
in the valley. Troops have gone to the
assistance of the inhabitants whose
safety is menaced by the high water
In the upper ranges of the Vosges
mountains the snow is still from six
to ten feet deep and military opera
tions are virtually at a standstilI
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Direct Primaries for Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March 8
Among the more important of the laws
enacted by the sixty-ninth Indiana
general assembly. which closed a sixty
day session at midnight last night, is
the primary law which provided for
direct nominations of candidates for
Congress and for county. township and
city Offices.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Russia Limits Food Exports.

LONDON. March. 9.-The Russian
government has prohibited the export
without special permit in each case
of any article of food or forage. says
a Petrograd dispatch to Reuters Tele-
gram Company. The sale of such ar
ticles to foreigners engaged in the
wholesale trade in these commodities
also is prohibited.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Louyain Fine Arts Academy Reopens

LONDON, March ., SIG a.m.-The
Academy of Fine Arts at Louvain, Bel
cium, was rcopened yesterday in the
building formerly occupied by the
staff of the civil guard, according to
a dispatch to the Amsterdam Telegraat
from Bergen-Op- Zoom. Holland.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
President Wilson's Brief Comment.

President Wilson confined his comment
on the far eastern situation today to say
in. there had been no Representations"
IN Japan or China on Japan's demands
There was nothing new in the situation,
he told callers.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Fears outrages in Capital.

-peakinG of conditions in the Mexi-
":In capital President Wilson referred
10 the fear of outrages there as being
more pressing at present than any
Thing that had already occurred The
fear was, he said, that city would
be evacuated and left without orotec-
tion.
No request had come from any
foreign government, the President said.
for action by the United States In
HtAico. although diplomatic repre-
sentatireS of Two foreign countries had
expressed anxiety over affairs IN the
southern republic.
The President referred only briefly to
The new naval movements. saying two
pattIeships we're going to Vera Cruz
from Guantanamo preparatory to send
Ing others home for repairs. At the
Navy Department il had been said
earlier that none of the ships at Vera
Continued on Second Page.J
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Russians Sink Eight Ships
and Silence Batteries at
Ports on the Black Sea

LONDON, March S.-on behalf Of the
Russian naval general staff, the official
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Receive Silliman's Report.

consul Silliman's dispatches from
Vera cruz, SAYING the American note
was formally presented to Gen. Car
rama III person yesterday afternoon,
arrived just before the cabinet meeting
todaE and were laid before President
Wilson as the cabinet officers assem-
blcd.
Some OF the cabinet members felt en-
coura Eed III the belief that CarrauZa
would give assurances of protection to
foreigners and permit supplies to reach
the Mexican capital, and prevent a
cr1ss- No further word has been re-
ceiFed showing when Mexico City
would be evacuated or whether Obre-
son would leave a small garrison there