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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17

hardly begun to fight when he was
struck down by a blackjack and the
two thugs, survey in hand, made their
escape. They crossed the lawn, gained
the shrubbery close to the gate, and
in the distance saw the headlight of
the midnight passenger train. Signal
was not n of it's stops, but the safe
blowers ran hard for the station and
taking a long chance for their get
away they recklessly but safely board
ed the running train as it slowed
somewhat for the bridge.
In the confusion within the house
hold Helen had been released. She
had Historically told her story and as
she and her friends rushed down
stairs she encountered Storm, who had
helped her dazed father to a chair.
Are you hurt, daddy?" asked his
daughter anxiously.
NO." he cried, and I've given one
of them a jolt he'll remember. But
Helen!"-in his agitation he laid his
hand heavily on his daughters Shout
der-"those damned scoundrels have
got our survey"
Then they shall never get off with
it," exclaimed Helen with flashing
eyes. eve will catch them If it
kills somebody"
She gave her orders right and left
for caring for her father, calling the
police and for making the pursuit.
The boarding Of the moving pas
senger train by the two men had not
escaped Storms eyes, and a few
words with Helen were enough to clear
things. The flyer was gone and the
burglars with it, but there was a
chance yet to get them. Fastening
with Storm down the hill, Helen told
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17

tied him into anger. He baked incon-
tinently. Il won't stand for safe blow
ing" he muttered.
Nothing of the kind suggested" re-
turned Capelle, undaunted. And with
the whining smile that marked his
face in argument, he continued: "Tn
have two good men here by 1870 to-
night, if you say the word. One of
them can open a safe by the mere
click of the tumblers. All we want
out of it is a copy of the cutoff sur
vey. II we can get hold of that we
can get hold of their right of way
most of it must come from Washing
ing on. I'll make the copy of their
survey myself and return the original
to the safe before morning with no
n a bit the wiser. Why, see here!
You're staying right in the house. All
you have to do is to let them in to-
night. Are you game? Or are you
a whipped dog right now?"
Seagrue listened with set face. The
low-toned conference lasted longer.
At its close the two separated. Short
ly afterward, Capelle, in Seagrue's
motor car, started rapidly for the city.
At nearly twelve O'Clock that night
some time after the house was quiet
Seagrue, leaving his room, went down
to the library. He unlocked the ter
race doors. Capelle's men were out
side. They entered and Seagrue led
them before the safe. The criminal
expert of the pair made hardly more
than a pretense of dropping the tum-
blers for an opening. He had come
prepared for any eventuality, and the
moment he saw the mechanism of the
lock was unassailable he directed his
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17

companion, Hyde, to connect up the
drills: his orders from Capelle were
to open the safe.
Upstairs, Helen, in slumber, was
half-awakened by a whistle signal.
Storm was bringing a freight train
down the hill to wait for the midnight
flyer. The rumble of passing trains
rarely disturbed her. This night a
much lighter but an unusual sound
woke her completely. She sat up a
moment, listening. 1t seemed close
someone was in the house. Turning
on a light and dressing hastily, Helen
opened the hall door of her room.
She had been careful not to make
the slightest noise In her movements.
Unfortunately the light behind her sill
houetted her figure on the floor at the
foot of the broad flight of stairs
Spike, keen-eyed, in the library, saw
it. He touched Hyde. "Douse it,"
he muttered. Hoyde extinguished the
light. The two paused, listened, walked
into the hall and paused again. Then
they started n~oiselessly up the stairs.
Guarded as they had been, Helen
felt their presence With fast-beating
heart she raj to her window. Out in
the night she could see the light of
a torch. 1t was Storms light, car
ried as he worked around his en-
CINE. Catching up a small serving
bell she ran out on her balcony and
tying the bell to the telephone wire
that connected with the main line
wires, she started the jingling mes
senger off for help.
The engineman, busy with his work,
presently heard the slight jingle, but
only to wonder for a moment what
it could be. The two criminals had
entered Helen's room. The instant
she stepped in from the balcony they
caught and overpowered her-stiied
her screams, and in spite of her con
tinuing struggles, rudely gagged her.
The bell again attracted Storms at
tentiOn, and he was puzzled to deter
mine what it might mean. Looking
towards Helen's home he saw a bright
light in one of the upper windows.
Then, of a sudden, he saw more-sil.
houetted against the pane, a woman
and a man were struggling. He
alarmed the crew and ran swiftly up
the hill for General Holmes house.
In the interval, leaving Helen help
less, the safe-blowers descended the
stairs. Holmes and Rhinelander had
likewise been awakened by the muf-
fled sounds of the struggle and the
two appeared in the upper hall. Sea-
grue joined them and with his uncle
hurried into Helen's room, where she
was trying to release herself. But her
father, turning downstairs, had in
t~errupted the two safe-blowers at the
very library door. The old soldier
was no match for the two men, but
he tackled them together. He had
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17
tut, tut. Earl" protested Rhinelan.

"Tut, tut. Earl" protested Rhinelan.
der. That's nc way to talk"
I'VE will fight" echoed Capelle,
equally wrought up. "Seagrue is right.
If we are to be treated in this way
we'll parallel your tracks!"
Rhinelander, Holmes and their as.
sociates tried in vain to pacify the
two; their efforts were useless.
Hard words passed and more threats
were uttered; the meeting broke up in
disorder.
Seagrue and Capelle retired to an
adjoining room. Helen passed before
them down the hall. Capelle glanced
at her and looked toward Seagrue. His
face stretched into one of his hollow
grins.
bad business for you, Seagrue," he
said to his companion. IF you can't
unload your Colorado and Coast hold
ings, this thing will put you pretty
near out of the game"
Unload" snorted Seagrue, wrath.
fully. when that cutoff is announced
Colorado stock won't sell for waste
paper"
Helen repassed the hall. Capelle
nodded toward her. There's your best
bet, Seagrue. Holmes would give his
s~on-in-law anything"
Seagrue looked glum. He limited he
had already tried that out, and fruit
lessly, but spurred by his friends sug.
gestion, he determined on a further eff
fort. After luncheon he attempted to
renew his addresses.
But there seemed about the self
willed girl a certain barrier of indie
pendence, which, try as he would, he
could never penetrate. whats the
matter, Helen?" he demanded at last.
you seem to take everything l say
as a joke"
She repressed a little bubble of
laughter. That's the spirit it's meant
in, isn't it?"
He was too irritated to be patient.
Toward evening he assayed to be Sc
rious again; again she lightly evaded
his advances.
Late in the day, when walking past
the doors of the library, he saw
Holmes, finishing a conference with
Rhinelander, once more roll up an i'm
portant document and place it within
his safe, set inside the library wall.
Seagrue knew too well what it was
the survey of the cutoff, the building
of which, by Gripping him financially,
was Eka1v tn Wrack hiC hOnpa Of q
career.
1t was in this sullen mood that Ca
pelle, a few moments later, encoun-
tered him. They had been partners in
more than one INSCRIPTIONS enter
prise and had learned to set value on
audacity. A guarded discussion fol
lowed. Seagrue modify rejected one
after another of the suggestions of
the resourceful Capelle, until one star
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17

him. Take both banks of the river ~
With one of the fremen left 10.
guard Hyde. Storm and the other fire.
nan hurried down one river bank as
the passenger engineer took the other.
Neither side afforded more than a
slight chance of concealment and
Spike, starting from where he had
cached his stolen document, was
bounced on by Storms fireman. But
Spike, a powerful man, had almost
fought out for himself a second chance
for escape when Storm bore him down
to the earth. Helen ran up. where's
what you have stolen?" she cried furi.
ously as Spike stood prisoner. Storm,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-17
AUTHOR OF WHISPERING
SMITH," 1.-THE
DIVIDE, OF
GREAT RAILROADS" ETC.
SYNOPSIS.

Little Helen Holmes, daughter of Cen
[eral Holmes, railroad man, is rescued
From imminent danger on a scenic rail-
Road, by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown
to our womanhood Helen make a spec
.~facu1ar double rescue of Storm, now a
fireman, and of her father and his
Friends, Amos Rhinelander, fnancier, and
Robert Seagrue. promoter, from a threat
=ened collision between a passenger train
and a runaway freight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

GREATER RECORDS EXPECTED
IN COLLEGE TRACK SPORTS
Few Point-getters Are Lost in Intercollegiate
Ranks for 1916-Meredith Has One
More Year at Penn

TTH1Ln 1915 saw intercollegiate track
w and field records in the East pushed
further and further beyond the marks that
seemed to measure the limit OF ability
n decade ago. It is not at all beyond the
realm of possibility that the dRwning year
will inscribe on the tablets stlll greater
achievements in the intercollegiate cham
pionshlp games, which have come to be
more and more the athletic festival par
excellence In Americas calendar OF sports.
with nearly one half Of the point win
ners In tho 1915 meet, among them q rec
ord breaker. swept of by graduation,
there are still left In the college ranks
veterans who will rise to greater heights
than they attained last year. The crop
of newcomers, recruited from the enter
ing classes. gives promise of producing
champions quite as great as those who
have passed from college competition.
The peerless Ted Meredith. captain Of
the University Of Pennsylvania team will
round out his collage career with one
more season on the cinder path, and
Smith. the champion sprinter for Mich
igan, winner of both the century and
furiong dashes last May, will be on hand
to defend his laurels. Potter, OF Cor.
NELL the two-mile champion. win have
opportunity 10 fight another grueling bat
tie with John Overton, Yale's sterling
distance runner and holder Of the inter-
collegiate cross-country individual title.
Worthington, the Dartmouth youth, who
captured the running broad jump, ami
Wesley Oler, of Yale who set n rev rec
ord In the running high jump, complete
the list of 1915 tltleholders who will
have chance to gain more honors In
1915,
OF the men who helped Cornell pile
UP its victorious total OF ASH points in
tho championship games. Windnag gle, sec
ond, and Irish, fifth In the mile run;
Potter. winner of the two-mile run, and
Hofmire third; Starr. second: Gubb.
fourth. and Lukens, fifth in tho high hur-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

dies; Foss, who tried with two others for
first place in the pole vault: Richards
fourth In the broad jump and second in
the high jump, and McI.aren. who tiad
for fourth In the high jump. remain as
n nucleus for Jack Moakiey IN the &C.
velopment Of the 1916 Cornell team.
Harvard will have only three of its
1915 point winners in Teschner, second
in the l00-yard and 200 yard dashcs;
Wilcox, second IN the itO-yard dash,
and Johnstone, third in the high jump.
In addition, the Crimson can count on
half dozen men in the sophomore class,
Ineligible last year, who may more than
make up for tho point-getters who have
been graduated. Then, too. tho Crimson
has Bill Bingham, who was counted as
almost certain to score until he fell III
on the day of tho big meet
Yale will call on three men who made
IA OF its 25 points. These are Tread
way. fourth In the 1OO-yard dash and
third In the furlong; Potter. second in
the high jump. Yale probably has more
men of high caibrc in it's sophomore
class than any of its rivals, with CUR
ney. freshman sprinter Of n year ago:
orr and Walker. pair Of fast quarter
milers. and Clark. a good broad Jumper.
Ted Meredith makos up the bulk Of
Pennsylvania's 1915 veterans. Meredith.
with his 10 points, scored In winning the
quarter and n half mile runs, and Lock-
wood, fourth in the furlong dash, COM
prise Penn's total of u points left over
from tho full score OF II. Nor have the
Quakers any men of real prowess, save
herhaps Howard Berry, to fill up the de-
fciencles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
SQUASH TEAMS
TO MEET TODAY
AT HAVERFORD
Interclub League Games
Scheduled for Late This
Afternoon
MERION is LEADING
sTANpfNG oE TIP cr.trnE.

Four interesting squash racouets
matches are scheduled for this afternoon.
and according 20 form, the Tacauot Club
should take :he lcud IN tho intorcluJ cfin-
petition. The champions, Germantown,
Team a, have very stln task on hand
in meeting Team 4 OF Merton at lIaver-
ford Germantown should undoubtedly
win the match, but the majority of them
should be well contested, and perhaps
Merton may win n couple of contests.
Much depends on how the teams are ar
ranged.
Stanley Rogers will probably meet
Stanley Pearson, the singles champion,
and although Rogers defeated Wallace
Johnson last week and thereby proved
that ne is in good form, Il is doubtful II
his steadiness will he able to overcome
the brilliancy of Pearson. How the re-
naming players will he arranged II is
impossible to say. but much depends upon
how the captains of the teams place their
men. -a
Seeing that the Racquet Club broke
even with the Germantown team last
week. n fairly easy victory should be
gained by the team over Overbrook. The
second teams Of Germantown and Merton
will meet at Mannheim, and although
neither has any chance for the champions
ship. the match should prove an Interest,"
ing one, and the probabilities are that the
teams will break even.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
WHARTON AND
GASTON TO AID
COACH FOLWELL
One Other Assistant Will
Be Appointed in the
Near Future

Charles Buck" Wharton and Harold
CASTOR will be chosen assistants to Bob
Folwell, new coach of the Pennsylvania
football eleven for 1916 One more as
sistant will be chosen after Folwell talks
the situation over with the members of
the football committee on Friday,
Wharton and CASTOR have not been of
ficially appointed, but will be asked to
confer with Folwell and the football COM
mittee within the next week Just prior
to the Dartmouth game Wharton an
nounced that he was through coaching
after the 1915 season, but 1t is believed
that he Is so pleased with the coaching
selection for next fall that he will re-
consider his decision.
Throughout the past season IL was ru-
mored that Wharton was dissatisfied
with the coaching and that this caused
him to announce his retirement. II is
tween the coaches last fall and that
Wharton did not approve of the way the
team was handled. -
Bob Folwell admitted today that Whar-
ton would have charge of the line again
and that CASTOR would again handle the
scrub team II they cared TO renew their
contracts. Folwell says that he did not
see the Penn team in action last fall
and therefore does not know just what
was accomplished by either man, but that
the members of the football committee
think so well of them that he is sure
they will fill the bin
There will be no discord or friction be-
tween Folwell and the Football Commit
tee next fall Folwell was agreeabIy sur
prised at the attitude OF the members of
the committee. He says that they have
proven TO him that they are working on
the proper lines and that harmony will
prevail.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
GREAT BASEBALL
|RAFFLE DELAYED
BY H. F.c:;SHNCLAIR
.... a. a., IIs
Oil Magnate Wants to Pur-
chase New York Giants
Before Selling Feds

CINCINNATI. o., Jan. 8. - Harry F.
Binclalrs hope OF becoming owner of the
New York Giants probably will bring
about postponement in the staging of
the sketch. entitled THE Great Baseball
Raffle," which was scheduled to play
.three-day stand here beginning
today. .'
The town just now is glutted with base
ball executives, owners. managers, scouts
and secretaries. VINO came here primarily
4 for the purpose of attending the various
meetings that are to be held here in an at
\ tempt to finally effect the Federal League
merger. But upon arriving here, they for
. got all about routine meetings and sought
out Sinclair in the hope that maybe he
would sell to them Lee Magee, Benny
Kauff, Bill Rariden, Ed Konetchy. Jack
Dalton and the other Slaves" owned by
him.
Sinclair met their advances coyly at
first. He explained that he was In re-
|ceptive mood as to bids for players, but
Significantly added: II don't think I'll do
business for a little while. I'm planning
TO hold on to these players for certain
purpose"
And the purpose? None other than that
Sinclair has decided not to sell any OF
the real stars in his control until he
knows positively whether he can BUY the
Giants. II he can buy the Giants he VIII
Keep for his New York team the brightest
|of the 80 stars and sell or trade the rest,
u he cannot buy the Giants he will sell
them all.
Sinclair declared today that he has not
assumed all of the 81 irOn-clad Federal
League contracts, as has been stated. He
said;
Il assumed the contracts of Magee,
kauff and Anderson, of the Brooklyn
Club, for four or five players on the
Kansas City Club and several of the Buff
falo players, of course, | assumed the
contracts of the Newark players. because
those contracts were made by me-"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
FOL WELLS APPOINTMENT
i ACKNOWLEDGES ABILITY
- AND VINDICATFS HIM
Was Forced to Leave Penn to Prove His Worth
as Really Great Football
Coach
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL

Taking charge of the squad in 1912. he
laid the foundation for n series OF sue
cessful teams and scored triumphs over
Pittsburgh, Penn State, Carlisle. Lehigh,
Cornell and Yale. No other small college
has equalled this record.
So II can be seen that Bob Folwell Is
not an experiment He is one OF the best
coaches I'M the country and II Is strange
that II took Penn seven years to realize
It. Folwell knows football and has the
ability to teach the game to others. He
has a positive personality and inspires
confidence in his men. When he gives
an order. no questions are asked. The
players do as they are told and in the
majority Of cases they make no mistake.
II am right until some one proves that
l am wrong" Is one OF Folwelrs favorite
sayings. while I believe am right
shall stand for no outside interference.
I am boss Of the outfit. and will take
all of the responsibility for n poor
showing"
Never "Alibis"
Folwell is one Of the few coaches who
never resort TO the well-known alih to
cover up mistakes He stands or falls on
his teachings, and drags in no outsiders
to shoulder the blame. This was demon
strated last fall at Washington and JEFF
ferson Nine of the 1914 team had grad
uated, and only two veterans were left to
form nucleus for the 1915 eleven.
IT was hard work getting the squad nf
rockies" into shape, but the coach did
not worry. He put the men through stren-
uous workouts, but no Improvement was
seen In the first two weeks.
One day n spectator sympathlzed with
Folwe,l and said he felt sorry that Wash
ington and Jefferson would have n poor
team
Poor team nothing" retorted Folwell.
why this Ia one of the best squads
showing this fall and I will stake my rep
utatlon on it,
only one game was lost and that to
Pittsburgh, and the eleven was up to the
standards set by the other teams.
The Baseball Pass"
Bob Folwell discovered the baseball
pass in football last fall. and used II
when his team defeated Yale. Instead of
hurting the ball n long distance and taxi
ing chances Of having II grounded or
caught by an opponent, h. taught his
men to use the short snappy throw which
Travelled only four or five yards. The ball
was hurled with so much force that 1t was
impossible to intercept It, and as re-
suit. "a out of 2S passes were successful.
This play later was adopted by Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton for their big games.
With any sort of material, Folwcll will
turn out first-class team at Penn next
fall. He Is sound on the fundamentals
of the game. and with any kind of luck
Pennsylvania will have another eleven
that will take its place in history beside
the famous '04 and '05 elevens and win
hack some of the prestige lost on the
gridiron in the last ten years.
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$4,000 OFFER TO FRED WELSH
FOR MATCH WITH MANDREWS
Frank O'Brien Offers Champion Big
Purse for 15-Round Bout

An offer of $1,000 to meet Eddie Mean
drews in n l5-round match at the Palace
A. c., Norristown. was wired Lightweight
Champion Fred Welsh this afternoon by
Frank O'Brien. matchmaker OF the club.
The Manayunk boxer is so anxious to
meet Welsh over the l5-rounds route that
he Is willing to box on percentage basis.
Twenty-Five Manayunk friends of Me-
Andrews are ready to pool together $1,000.
which they are willing to bet that the
local boy will win from the champion In
the proposed. match. The only stipula-
tion they make is that a Philadelphia
referee should act as third man in the
ring.
If definite arrangements for the match
are completed date will be set in Feb
ruary.
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beautifully without him. This happened
s =, The fall Of 1905 the year after lwell
s had nlayed his last game for the Red and
*Blue. A..
Il rho team was practicing and the
i ooanhos were quite busy when the former
1ssntaIn appeared on the field.
4 .ifs there ANYTHING can do to help the
..om ,hIs year? Inquired Folwell. 81
5save nothing to do this fall and you can
have my services If you want them
! No Room at Penn
4 "sorrv. Bob but I don't see how we
i, make n place for YOU" was the reply.
<,yve have as many coaches as we need"
"But don't want to be head coach"
',rslsted Folwell. 81 am satisfied to be
|nIahtb assistant. or coach the backfield
~ coach the freshmen. | want to help
|out Penn II I can, and any old job Will
do"
.rroo had. but there is nothing doing"
'car,e hnck the reply I'VE cannot possi
IbIv use YOU You had better look for
(something else.
This rundown was the making of Bob
tFolwell Refused n position that probably
would have paid $500 a year, he set out
|to show the football authorities on Frank
hin Field that they made big mistake.
|He got job at Lafayette and turned out
la team that tied Penn and defeated
princeton and Lehigh. He kept up his
good work Year after year his elevens
have been in the foremost rank of the
Eastern colleges. Under Folwelfs teach
|ings they showed themselves to he the
most formidable aggregations In the coun-
TRY and made records of which they are
'justly proud
He Made Good
Bob Folwell has made good. He proved
THAT somebody made huge mistake In
|1sOS. and his appointment as head coach
|of the 1916 football team comes not only
hs an honor, but also as vindication.
But IT was at Washington & Jefferson
that Folwcll made name for himself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
OPENING GAMES
SHOW QUINTETS
EVENLY MATCHED
One-Point Victories f Or
West Phila. and Southern
Indicates Close Race
OTHER SCHOOL N E w S
Scholastic Basketball
Schedule for Today

Mt Camden High.
Brown Preparatory VS.. Catholic HiEh
School, at Charlton Hall, b6th and wv
abusing avenue.
Perkasie High School Va. Innsdale
HlEh School, at Lansdnle.
Lnnsdowne Ush VS.. Chester HlRh
School, at Chester High.