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tic, and one yard on the Pacific coast
In q time of national crisis this
capacity of all our navy yards to do
actual construction as well as repair
work will be Of inestimable value"
The secretary showed that while
dreadnaught are TO be constructed at
the Brooklyn yard. destroyer and
GOLFERS are being built at the Mare
Island yard. The largest transport
ever authorized by Congress is about
to be constructed at League Island.
Philadelphia, its keel being laid today.
At the Bosten yard a supply ship is
under construction and submarines
are to be built at Portsmouth, y. H.
He added that the eleven battieships
now under construction or Just COM
pleted makes a very credible show
ing for the American navy for one
year.
Range OF Twenty Miles.
The Arizona will be able 10 throw
from her dozen fourteen-inch rifles a
broadside OF $1,000 pounds distance
OF twenty miles, and make good tar
get practice at twelve miles.
She will displace 81. 400 tons light
ana more than $4,000 tons when fully
equipped and manned. The nearest
approach TO such a tonnage is made
by the four new dreadnaught being
turned out for Germany and the four
under construction for Japan. These
ships displace about $4,000 tons.
On the water lire she will measure
SOC feet, and will have an overall
length Of sos feet Her beam is
rlinety-seven and a half feet. and her
mean draft almost twenty-nine feet.
She will have Ave decks. with bridge
and two platforms. There are twenty
four main traverse watertight com
partments. and about four hundred
compartments In all. She will develop
about $4,000 horsepower. and make
almost twenty-five knots.
Arnored On New Plan.
The Arizona lie armored according
to a new and entirely American plan,
which la also used on the Oklahoma
and the Nevada. soon to go into
commission. The arrnov is concen-
trated along the water line and
around big guns. The turret armor
Is TO be eighteen inches thick. The
details Of the armor are kept a secret.
but 1t Is known II will be heavier than
that on any foreign battleship.
Her fourteen-inch guns fire a pro-
jectile Weighing 400 pounds, They
are arranged in four turrets of three
guns each She can Are all these guns
In a broadside and half of them either
ahead OF asfern.
The big battleship will have COM
piement of sixty-ffve officers. ssS sail
ors. and seventy-four' marines. The
cost, exclusive of armor and arma-
ment, is &7,425,106. and when she
goes into commission this will have
reached about $4,000. 900.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
THE WEATHER
Washington.

Washington. d.
c. June 1s.--vair
" . ath err. with
hi g her tempera-
ture is the wealth
Or prospect for
Sunday and Mon
day in Virginia
and North Caro-
lima Sou tn . riy
winds will prevail.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
FRESH AIR CAMP

Mrs. Mary 8. Danner. secretary. H "
D. 7, South Richmond. Va
The aarretarysa beautiful Service.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
REPUBLICANS FILE
CONTRIBUTIONS REPORT
Total Amount Received by
State Committee During 1915
Was $5S,290.66

Charles Johnson, treasurer of the Re
publican State Committee. today filed in
the office of the Secretary of the Com
monwcalth at Harrisburg his financial re-
port for the year ending December 2
1915. The report shows in detail the
names of all persons who contributed dur
ing the entire year The total contrihu-
tons amounted to s5S,29O66. The persons
contributing 500 or more are as follows:
James u. McNichoi, $1,000: Fred r Chandler.
Charles ScEcr, W. H. Clarke John y. Head.
J. Henry Williams and Harry c. TreXler. each
each $500; George B;, orlady, and a, W. Mel;
lon, each 5000 C.. F., wright $3.50; samuel
Charles II. Mckee Henry Houck. II, ]. Cum
ninrham and John Price Jackson, each S26O.
W mhlSr $2l9 = 2 hs G9t22 ~ ~ rGT-
cr, ,' each SS, 5000 George rye il. Riies $Iso Thcmas
j. Stewart gnd j. l. baldwin; S each $iT3 ,G,oE f. T.
James \. Moore, Coleman J. Joyce, James $
Rodcrick and James 4. carey, each $50:
GiRair'S'2nIc'c GRi''2I' j. J. Marshall, ~ j. R@ncy samuel v.
McCulloch and Charles D. Wolfe each $40;
and mgi' games A. istSE stccscs each $io5 c. A. Ecr.
son. Jr,,, Edward A. ncvllp. c.: A. LiEhGIS y,
Smith GSGTFSS Sprou, {2hH ESnbnrt N%nrGe M f.
Hinder. William Powell Wilson, nathan G.
Schacffor. Robert Won Mosch2iskcr w. A.
wynno, John s, SGcer B. Er4nllin, Rm2ycr, Re i, L.
son, each 800.
The money collected was expended in
liduidating the deficiency left over from
the 1911 campaign, the maintaining of the
party headquarters and publicity work
in connection with the committee.
The receipts and expenditures are as
follows:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
TWO DEAD in BLAST
FEARED TRAGIC END
PhiIadeIphians Killed in Pow
der Explosion Had Fremont
ton of Disaster

PremonitOns of disaster preceded the
death of the two Philadelphians who
were among the 30 wCrkmen blown to
pieces in the powder explosion at the
Henry Clay plant of the +. l. du Pont de
Nemours Powder Company near VIII
mington, The two young men left behind
them two women, young wife ana
sweetheart, who today are in serious con-
dition as a result of the tragedy.
The wife, Mrs. Elijah Clifton Springfield
is not expected to live, as her condition
is delicace. Her husband, barely % years
old, was compelled to take the dangerous
job through force of circumstances, IN
spite of a premonition that it would cause
his death. He had been employed at the
packing house only "a hours before the
terrific explosion occurred. lie lived at
1888 North 5Sth street,
The sweetheart of Wesley Simpson, 2i
years old, of AIS Woodland avenue. the
other Philadelphian who met death In
the powder blast, is Elizabeth Mclienry,
OF I5l4 Gray's Ferry road. They were TO
be married Christmas week. after he had
saved enough money to quit his danger
Gus occupation, as demanded by his
mother Mrs. Catherine Simpson, who
was haunted by forebOding of disaster
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
100 LIVES LOST IN MYSTERIOUS
MUNITTON PLANT FIRES

hundred approximately been
espIosions
I9I4Du Nennours
~ j.; explosion; killed
f9f5-Buekthorne John A. Roeblnss
Company Trenton NJ j.; fire; Io.s SI5oo,0o0
de Nerours poWder plant, HASKELL ~ j.;
plosion; foe
Equitable pouder factory Alton, explosion;
killed
suncoton waehoue Wellington, N. j.;
piosion; killed.
I5-Du house, Carneys Point,
explosion; injured.
7-Hnson Brohers benzo factory, Philadelphia
s500,000
16-Aena Pouder Works, Snnemahons Pa; explosion;
fVc killed.
Auqust I9-Du Pontpa Wilmington, Del; explosion.
PoDder
explosion
Wilmington, Del; espooni killed
National Conduit Gable shell factory,
Hastings, NJ Y; explosion
Poude factory, Emporium P Splosion four
killed
warehouse, Seattle Wash; fire;
loss, 100000.
I0-Behehem Steel Compny ordnance plant Bethle
hem, Pa fir 81, 100000 (estrdted)
f0MdVale Pa) Steel and Ordnance fire;
buildings destroyed.
0Balduin munitions Eddysone, Pa;
fire. loss, $4,000
I-Roebnes steel NJ j.; fire. loss,
100000.
powder plant Wilmington DeL epoonj
30 killed. injured
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE
NOW A GRANDFATHER
millionaire Baby" Born to Mr..
and Mrs. Angler Buchanan
Duke in New York Home
Another "mlilonoIro baby has arrived.

Another "mlllIonalrc baby has arrived.
He Is the son of Mrs. Angler Buchanan
Duke, who was Miss Cordcia Biddle,
the debutante. of this city whose mar
riaEe on April 2S, of this year, at tho Holy
Trinity Church, was the most brilliant
event Of the year.
The new arrival was born at Mr.: Duke 3
home at 1909 5th avenue, New York, Mt
5 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The event
caused great excitement in both the
Duke and Bddle families. and both Mr..
and Mrs. Anthony j. Drcxel Biddic. the
parents of Mrs. Angler B. Duke. immcdi-
atcly hurried to New York that they
might behold their new grandchild as
soon as possible.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Duke have been living
at the 5th avenue address since October
I. Last Saturday both attended the Army
and Navy game, and Mrs. Dukes beauty,
as usual, excited no end of comment
among those who were near the bcN she
occupied.
Tho news Of tho birth OF n son to Mrs
Duke has renewed talk of her wedding
in this city when she received. among
her wedding gifts, jewels valHcd at
S?OOOOn. These included a diamond neck
lace vnued at $1,000 from her husband
and Il pearl necklace valued at $4,000
from her father and mother. Her hus-
band is the son of Benjamin y. Duke
former treasurer of the American
Tobacco Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
POLICEMAN'S SHOOTING
CAUSED BY POLITICS
Detective Says Thomas j. Far
ley Was Wounded Trying
to Stop Fight

Politics was at the bottom of the shoot
ing of Policeman Thomas ]. Farley OF
the 2Sth and oxford streets station, who
was dangerously wounded last night IN
a fight between Christian krauss, of the
crew of the police boat Stokley, ana
Louis Tref2, This statement was made
today by Detective William Callahan,
head of the homicide squad, who is in
vcstgating the shooting. Physicians at
st. Joscphs Hospital, where Farley was
taken, said today he had n slight chance
of recovery. Farley was shot outside the
20h Century Republican Club, at 26th
and oxford streets Krauss was held
this morning without bail.
From the information gathered we
have reason to believe that the shooting
was deliberate" Callahan said 'Krauss
had resigned from the club when the
Blankcnburg administration went into
power because the administration wished
the police to stay out of politics. Not
long ago, when Krauss was proposed for
membership, TrefZ. who is clerk in the
PrOthonotarys Office. and lives at 2T34
Master street, is said to have made an
insulting remark in asking why krauss'
name was proposed
"Krauss heard of it. and when the two
men met in a saloon an argument and
fight followed. When they reached the
street Farley attempted to act as peace
maker and was shot in the miX-up. When
Krauss told Lieutenant Tate that the
shooting was an accident he was re-
quested to tell all the incidents that led
to the shooting, but declined"
Krauss made statement in his cell in
City Hall after the shooting and admit
ted drawing his revolver and shooting.
but he said the woundinS of Farley was
accidental.
In statement to Magistrate Morris,
the wounded man placed the blame on
Krauss.
In his cell Krauss refused to talk
until Captain Cameron sent for former
Captain Souder This was done and then
Krauss told the story of the argument and
Farley's attempt TO play the peacemaker.
Farleys home is at 25ii oxford street.
Krauss lives at 1921 Dover street. Ac-
cordinE to Policeman Douglass Clegg, of
the 2Sth and oxford streets station,
Krauss has been on the force three years.
He was at the 18th and oxford streets
station for two years, and then was sent
to the 2Oth and Buttonwood streets station.
Only recently has he been on the police
boat. Clcgg said Krauss is of very eN-
citable nature.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
FORD AT THE HELM
OF PEACE SHIP OSCAR II
He Arrives in New York and
Says Liner Will Sail
Saturday

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-Henry Ford re-
turned from Detroit today and began to
put his peace expedition to Europe on
business basis. He declared that the liner
Oscar II would sail promptly at the hour
set 2 o'clock, on Saturday afternoon,
with the American contingent Of peace
pilgrims.
The first leg of the liners voyage will
take the Ford party to Chrstiana, where
the Americans will be joined by peace ad-
vocates from other neutral countries.
Mr.. Ford said he expected delegates
from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iol-
land switzerland and Spain. As these
delegates will not officially represent their
countries, Mr. Ford will pay their ex-
penses as well as those OF the American
party. Each of the seven national groups
is to select five persons as its leaders.
These 30 persons shall constitute n per-
manent neutral council which shall re-
main in existence until the war is over.
or until neutral nations have formed an
official council.
This council, Mr.. Ford explained, will
not make any suggestions of peace to
the belligerent nations, but will. instead,
await suggestions from the powers in
vOlvcd in the war.
~ Vc peiieve," sale T1r. Ford, that the
beligercnts are only waiting for such a
board through which to make a move We
believe they are anxious for peace and
are deferred from suggesting the terms
only by the fact that the present inter-
national machinery furnished no cffcctual
intermediary machinery"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
Building Bought for Synagogue

The building at the northeast corner
Of 18th and Parrish streets, will be used as
a synagogue by the Congregation Gillas
Israel which has purchased the property
from Louis Ncreshefsky. Conveyance was
made subject to mortgages of $500
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
MASONS OF PENNSYLVANIA
ELECT OFFICIALS TODAY
officers of Blue Lodges to Be Chosen
Within Next Week

Election of officers in the Grand Chap
ter of tht Grand Lodge of Royal Arch
Masons OF Pennsylvania will be held to-
day. Officers will be elected in the blue
lodges throughout the country within the
next week. The officers will be installed
December q along with those elected last
night at the quarterly communication in
Masonic Temple.
Louis a. Watres, former Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania. was elected
right worshipful grand master, and Abra-
ham NJ, Better junior grand warden last
night.
Other officers elected We're: James B.
krause, deputy grand master: John 5.
Sell, grand warden William b. Hacken-
burg, grand treasurer. and John a. Perry,
grand secretary.
The records show that there are 1900
members in the Pennsylvania jurisdic-
tion Reports of the Committee on Ma
sonic Homes detailed the construction of
new hospital and two new cottages at
Elizabethtown, where there are $50 guests,
The new buildings will accommodate so
additional guests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
BERGDOLL MODEST
SPENDER, WITNESSES
IN SUIT TELL COURT
Tail Warden, Chauffeur, Two
pretty Girls and G. P. Wynne
Testify for speed Fiend"
in Sanity Trial
SAY HE is THRIFTY

c.ooer cleveland Bergdoll was mod
act spender despite the income from his
Toto of nearly 100000, and never paid
oro than 25 or 80 cents for his meals
lille on automobile trips according to
..,,nasses who testified in his behalf to-
say before Judge Shoemaker in the Court
~ Common Pleas No. l.
r,,bt witnesses, two of whom were
.lr,s were called by Growers attorney.
~ II T.arzalere. to refute the allegations
- bts brother, charles A. Bergdoll, who is
..,irg the court to appoint guardian
,or Grover on the ground that he is mem
,o,,v incompetent to manage his large
estate.
one Of the witnesses, Lemuel Roberts,
Garden of the Norristown jail told the
coart that Grover was model prisoner
While confined at that institution for %
dsvs as a result of conviction for assault
and battery He frequently instructed
,be other prisoners, Roberts told tho
court. when the regular tutor failed to
turp up at the prison night school.
Thomas IL. uftNt WHO nus Dt'll btlP-
doll's chauffeur and mcChancian for three
vears. was the first witness called. He
said that when they were touring the
country Grover instructed him to get a
list of the hotel prices in every town they
sfopped. These lists, he said, were gone
over carefully and the cheapest good
boxing hotel picked out.
"Grovcr never spent much money" the
witness said, land never paid more than
q or 50 cents for his meals. If the hotel
charged too much we always got our
meals outside
This testimony was Corroboratcd by
George Macdonald, OF sos Lansdowne
avenue, a personal friend of Bcrgdoll,
who added that Grover never drank
anything stronger than beer, and then
only two or three glasses"
Miss Emma Strong, of 6l0O Haverford
avenue. and Catharinc Weber, of Bryn
Mawr and Wynneiield avenues. made
quite an impression when they took the
stand. Both of the young ladies are
pretty and each caused n laugh when in
summing up their opinion of the young
man they used the same expression, HE
is a perfect gentleman and perfectly
sane"
Joseph T. Conncll. of IIavcrford town
ship, Delaware County, characterized
Bergdoll as "onc of the brightest young
men l have ever met" Clarence r.
wynne, former president of the Aero
Club, also testified in the young mans
behalf
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
FORD TO SHUN WAR ZONE
His Secretary Says Trip Will Be tc
Neutral Nations

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-Oncal an
nouncement was made at the state De-
partment today that Henry Ford's sec
retary, in letter to Secretary Lansing,
made it plain that the peace pilgrimage
intended to visit only neutral countries.
The letter said that passports therefore
would not be wanted for the countries Mt
war The officials added, however, that It
had been decided any way to issue the
passports TO the party only to neutral
nations.
Twenty-Five requests for passports had
been made by prospective members of the
Ford party at the passport division to-
day. This number did not include Mr..
Ford or any of the so-called leaders of
the expedition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
POLICEMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL
John Mcmahon Underwent an Opera
ton a Month Ago

Policeman John Mcmahon, of the 7th
and Carpenter streets station. died in the
st. Josephs Hospital last night, following
an operation for a stomach disease ON
November 3.
Mcmahon, who lived at 2l3 Montrose
street, is survived by his widow and three
children. lie was assigned to the 33d Dis
trict on his appointment to the force, in
April. 1903, and was a familiar figure
around the Washington avenue wharf,
which beat he covered for several years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
PLOTS AGAINST U. S.
ARSENAL FRUSTRATED
Continued from Page One

continued from Rage One
to Washington by Lieutenant Colonel
George w. Burr, commandant at the
post relating a series of mysterious cir
cumstances. As a result small army
OF guards is stationed on the Federal
reservation at all approaches, and no
one Is allowed to pass the sentry posts
Wlthout accounting for his presence.
The report tells of the discovery i'm No
Vember, 1911, that n man who had previ-
ously been ordered off the reservation
was sending secret code messages to a
foreign Government telling what muni-
tlons were stored at the arsenal. 1t says
that In May 1915, an l. w. w. plot TO
rad the arsenal and start a revolution
was discovered; that on August q last a
man In rowboat with $50 pounds of
aynamite was arrested while trying TO
land on the island; that on September 10
was discovered that the fire extin-
suishers at the shrapnel plant had been
.ampered with, and that three weeks
ago when the officers golf clubhouse
caught fire, the arsenal fire department
vas helpless because all its hose had
oeen cut to ribbons.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-Officials at the
war Department today said no report
uau been received yet from Colonel Burr
.. Rock Island. In the absence of Off
sial knowledge of the alleged attempts to
euss II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
NO PARDON FOR swINDLER
Armstrong, of Lumber Company Deal,
Gets Lighter Sentence

A pardon has been refused William
Armstrong, one OF the men convicted in
connection with the International Lumber
Company swindle, according to dispatches
from Washington today. It is Understood,
however, that Attorney General Gregory
has recommended n slight reduction in
sentence.
The Attorney General, according TO the
dispatches, is Of the opinion that ARM
strong should serve n large part of his
sentence as soon as he is sufficiently re-
covered from an attack Of rheumatism.
Armstrong Is the only one Of the con-
victcd officers who has remained out Of
prison.
The report of the pardon attorney OF
the Department Of Justice and the recon-
mendation of the Attorney General have
been sent to the White House, but II is
said that the President will not take any
action in the matter for several days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
FIRE IN BATTERY PLANT
ATTRIBUTED TO INCENDIARY
Several Explosions Preeede Blaze
That Caused 100000 Damage

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 2.-Police and
enleials of the French Battery and Car
ooh Company, of East Madison. today
are investigating the mysterious fire.
shleh destroyed the battery plant, caus-
ing loss of 100000. Several explosions
we're heard by the night watchman just
psiofe the fire was discovered, causing
me belief that it was incendiary.
ihe company has been rushed for six
months filling orders for batteries for
war automobiles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
9O-cent Gas for Lancaster

LANCASTER, Pa. Dec. 2-Ninety-cent
gas begins in Lancaster this morning,
marking decrease of cents. During
the last 12 years the price of gas has
been cut in two. In 1908 it sold for s. a
thousand feet.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
THE SANITARY DISTRICT
OF CHICAGO
BOILERS.
TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals for furnishing, de.
livering and installing two CD five
hundred horsepower water tube boil
ers complete at the Thirty.ninth Street
Pumping Station of The Sanitary Dis
trict of Chicago, In Chicago, Illinois,
will be received by the Clerk of the
Sanitary District at the Office of said
District, Room 700 Karpen Building.
90 s. Michigan Av., Chicago, ILL
nois, until 12 noon, standard time, on
Thursday. August 20, 1915, and will
be opened publicly by the Board Of
Trustees of said Sanitary District At
meeting to be held on that day or
at the first meeting thereafter.
All proposals shall be made upon
blank forms of proposal furnished
by said Sanitary District, and shall
be made In accordance with and to
conform to all of the terms and con.
ditions set forth in the Requirements
for Bidding and Instructions to Bid
ders," attached thereto. The requisite
forms of proposal may be obtained
upon application at the office Of said
Sanitary District
Each proposal must be accompanied
by a certified check on a responsible
bank, or cash. to the amount of One
Thousand Dollars 81 100000.
The Board of Trustees OF The SAM.
tary District of Chicago reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
BY THOMAS A. SMYTH,
President Its Board of Trustees.
Attest.
John McGILLEN, Clerk.
Chicago, August ~, 1915.
The Home brewery 10 not only Chi.
Cages youngest brewery. but It is one
Of her most successful. No brewery
In the United States ever achieved
success In such q short time 40 the
Home Brewery. Its besr already has
q reputation among the lovers Of good
beer % being par excellence. The
Home Brewery also bottles Ito beer
and q case can be had BY calling up
Humboldt Observation-Disclosures