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Evening journal., 1916-06-12
LAFAYETTE Alumni
attend CLASS REUNION

County Engineer James Wilson is
attending his class reunion at Lafay-
cite College, Easton. Pa. While away he
will inspect the new concrete road be-
ing built on the old turnpike between
Easton and Bethlehem by the high
way department OF the State OF Penn
sylvania and the Cement Association
on the invitation OF Chief Engineer w
ID. Uhler. State highway department
AS the conditions OF this road are
very similar to the conditions OF the
roads adjacent TO Wilmington. the
data gathered should he very valua.
BILE. DR.. willard Springer and j
Frank Biggs. alumni Of Lafayette. are
also attending their class reunions IN
company with Mr. Wilson.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
HANOVER choir TO SING
AT SUNDAY PARK SERVICES

Hanover Presbyterian Church is
making elaborate preparations for
the series of Sunday evening evan
gelistic services which will be held
in the park at the north end OF
Washington street bridge beginning
next Sunday week. A committee OF
which H. W. Hobson is chairman,
and Mrs j. V. NJ. La Rowe is secre-
tary. is working with the pastor, the
Rev. r. l.. Jackson. in completing the
arrangements. II is the plan TO have
a volunteer choir Of so voices sing at
each service The choir is now be-
ing organized.
The services will be held in con-
junction with other churches OF the
city and give promise OF being sue
cessful.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
smith Held ON CHARGE
OF RODBINC House

Rexford Smith was arraigned in
City Court today on a charge OF being
intoxicated, and fined 81 and costs.
He was then arraigned on a charge
of larceny and held under $1,000 bail
for Court Of General Sessions. In the
larceny case Smith was alleged to
have taken a gold locket and a neck
chain valued at $40 from the room of
Frank O'Brien, at No. 10S East Third
street.
Smith was also alleged to have ad-
mitted knowing where the articles
were hidden in his room at the same
address. In court he pleaded that If
he were let off he would make it "all
right"
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
CONDEMN ACTION OF
BRITISH Government

At meeting in Irish-American
Hall yesterday afternoon, action was
taken on affairs in Europe. Resolu-
tions condemning the action of the
British Government in Irish affairs.
were adopted. A committee. consist
ing of John +. Healy, Patrick Null
rooney and ]. J. Herley, was appointed
to prepare a circular to be sent to
leading people Of the city for contri-
buttons for the widows and orphans
of those who we're killed during the
trouble in ireland.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
URSULINE ACADEMY GARDEN
PARTY TO BE HELD TOMORROW

The garden party OF the Ursuline
Academy, which was postponed from
last week, will be held on the lawn
tomorrow afternoon and evening. In
addition to an exhibition Of fancy
dances, there will be a presentation Of
Midsummer Nights Dream" by chill
dren, and other attractive features.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
HARRINGTON VOTERS
PICK their POSTMASI Ter

HARRINGTON. Del. June f2.-At
an election held ON Saturday by the
Democrats Of the town and sur
rounding country. to decide on the
choice of postmaster as suggested
by Senator Salisbury. SIS votes we're
cast Emory r. Harrington received
2SS, and former state Senator John
w. Sheldrake 227 votes. giving Har-
dington a majority Of 81. Harring-
ton will be favored by Senator sauls-
bury for the office.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
EXCEPTIONS OYERRuLED.

Chancellor Charles NJ. Curtis, this
afternoon handed down an order over
ruling the exceptions filed by the re-
ceivcrs OF the Arlington Hotel Com
pany against the p. B. & w. r. r. Co.
This is a claim Of Sal ,S5S, by the rail
road for unloading and storage of
structural steel intended for the hotei
in Washington, d. c. When the as
sets are divided under this order of
the chancellor. the railroad company
will get its proportionate share with
other creditors.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
COLORED MAN falls
TO death IN RIVER

Losing his balance while at work
unloading coal from a barge near the
Wilson Line wharf about 9 o'clock
this morning, Richard Purkins, color
ed. aged As years. OF Ocean City. n. J,
was drowned. Purkins body was re-
covered by fellow workers with boat
hooks and removed to the morgue.
Although the man was drowned
early this morning, no report Of the
case was made to the police depart
ment by the coroner's Office up to
early this afternoon. When informed
by newspaper men of the drowning.
the police detailed patrolman to Sc
cure Information about the case.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
Retreat OPENS FOR
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

A large number OF knights Of Col
umbus members attended the open
ing OF the retreat at the Cathedral
last night. which will be conducted
each night this week for the order
The Rev. Alvah W. Doran OF Phila-
delphia, will speak each evening. Hi;
subject last night was The Flaw n
Our Civilization" +" Tonight he will tall
on Disease Science Cannot Cure"
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
GLUCKMAN-KANOFSKY.

Miss Sadie Gluckman. daughter of
Magistrate and Mrs. Barnet Gluckman,
and Joseph Kanofsky, son Of MIR. and
Mrs. Hyeman Kanofsky. we're married
yesterday in Philadelphia. Both the
bride and groom are well known in
the younger Jewish circles of Will
mington. Mr. Kanofsky is employed in
the real estate department of the
Atlas Powder Company.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
MISS VERNON COMING HOME.

Miss Mabel Vernon, national Con-
gressional Union organizer and secre-
tary of the Woman's Party. a recently
organized women's political party, will
arrive in this city on Friday of this
week to spend her vacation with her
mother, Mrs. Mary Vernon, No. 703
West Nineteenth street. Miss Vernon
will come from st. Louis, Mo, where
she will attend the National Demo
cratic Convention. Miss Vernon spent
the last week in Chicago, where she
attended the first national convention
of the Womans Party and the Ma
tional Republican Convention.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
CALL ATrENTloN TO BAZAAR

In many Of the Catholic Churches
yesterday attention was called TO the
Red Cross Charity Bazaar being held
this week in Turn Hall. The congre-
cations we're told that regardless of
feelings in the matter charity should
prevail to its utmost.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
FIvF RFCOME NATURALIzEp.

Tn United States District Court this
morning the following were granted
their final naturalization papers; Stan
islaw BaDarz. George Cockerill, Max
Zutz. Wladyslaw Borowski and Michael
Kuczapsk.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
NATIONAL THEATRE.

Mr. Hopkins will have one Of the
biggest attractions ever in the city,
Wednesday. Thursday Friday and
Saturday The Big Colored Smart Set
Company. ny.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12

Many housewives either answer ep.
peals Of domestics out Of work. or send
for them themselves through a Want
Ad OF their own. They are always
satisfied II they use the Want Ad
method.-AdV.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12

Jaundresses are hard TO pick up
every day. your friends tells YOU. but
you can tell her. that is II you are
really up-to-date. that they are being
picked up every day by those VINO
read and use the Want Ads.-Adv
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
annual REUNION OF
CIVICS ASSOCIATION

Members OF the Civics Alumni As
sociation Of the Wilmington High
School will hold their third annual
reunion and dinner in the rose room
OF the Hotel dupont Monday even
ing. June 90 The affair will also
celebrate the fftieth anniversary OF
the class OF 1911 Among the speak
ers will be Judge William S. Prick
EFT Members Of every class since
1911 viii be guests. Following the
dinner and speech-makng there will
be dancing The business meeting
will be held at o'clock, at which
time the members viii take action
upon the death OF Edgar Malin
Hopes. Sr.. an honorary member Of
tho association The February and
June class of 1916 will elect their
permanent yce-president.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
MIR. WARD IMPROVING.

Former Attorney General Herbert
H. Ward. who has been in for some
days with pneumonia, was much i'm
proved today.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12
ANoTHER MARIE eRApY.

Marie Brady. Of No. 749 Maryland
avenue desires II known she Is not
the Marie Brady who was a witness in
City Court on Saturday.
Evening journal., 1916-06-12

The Want Ads are full of all sorts
Of offers for the buying and selling
of good business propositions.-Adv
Evening journal., 1916-06-12

Quick results are certain II you use
the Want Ads. and you will find this
Ia the verdict of every one who has
ever tried them.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
Mir. Harding's Speech

Although W. P. G. Harding, in his speech on the cotton situation, deliv- cred at the Tutwiler last night by in- vitation of the Chamber of Con- merce, dealt largely in statistics, he was listened to with profound atten- ton from beginning to end, for he IS recognized throughout the south as high authority on the south's great staple. It was an exceptionally ln- formative address and his advice to the farmers to extend the cultivation of food crops and plant less cotton was given with distinct emphasis4
 "The fact is realized in all the cot ton markets of the world," said MT. Harding, "that the course of prices depends primarily upon the supply, and for the next three months at least, estimates of supply will be based upon the new crop acreage. What this acreage will be in America depends upon the farmers of the south. Should they decide during the next few weeks to produce their food stuffs at home and to plant cotton as money crop, their position will be secure, but if, disregarding all the warnings and portents of the times, they decide upon policy of all cot ton, they will be taking tremendous risk which no prudent business man would care to assume"
 MT. Harding's speech, printed in full in today's issue, will be widely read. It should find it's way into the hands of every cotton farmer in the south. Not to heed MT. Harding's warning against the danger of large planting would be worse than foolish.
 Crop diversification in Alabama made a fine start last year. In con- tinuing the diversification practice even a higher record should be made this year. It will be so if the farmer will listen to MT. Harding, Mrs. Mathis and the Alabama Bankers association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Like his great Italian cotemporary. Sal vini, who died short time ago, Jean Mounet-Sully, the eminent French trage- dian whose death occurred last week, had been retired for sometime, so that his passing will tend more to evoke memo ries of greatness than cause mourning TOT direct loss to the theatre of today. Sev- enty-fve years old, he had been for the better part of half century one oi the notable figures in that theatre world where, if higher honors are accorded the artist, they arc won only by the highest talent and the hardest work-the French stage.
 It might furnish another illustration tc those given to moralizing that when young Jean nrst manifested passioi for the stage his parents strongly op- posed such a step. He turned to liter nture for time and brilliant future in that field was predicted for him, but the wlr intervened and after his service for his country the call of the theatre prevailed. It was only 8 matter Of 8 few years when he was ranked among the
 
 tinued tc, the end. Not so familiar to Americans ss his Italian cotenlporary he was the Italians peer in romantic and tragic roles, while in the Greek clas- sics he stood supreme. He was in way a pioneer in portraying repressed or con centrated passion, a method more 1T vogue in these days than it was in earlier years.
 A look at his biography recalls that il was in 1876 Mounet-Sully appeared with Sarah Bernhardt in 'Hernani," and with her created a veritable sensation. an ap- pearance which fixed his status as one of the brilliant stars of the National the atre Salvini and Mounet-Sully are dead after an extended and dignified retire ment The divine Sarah sans one leg, but with all her indomitahle spirit, still tours the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
GROWTH OF RIVER TONNAGE

From the Mobile Register.
 The @ is much to encourage Mobilians in the report made through the Tusca- loosa News of the tonnage developed on the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers as the consequence of the improvement made in these streams by the federal government.
 In many instances the money spent in river improvement appears productive of no good result; and the writers for the magazines are busy showing how much waste has been perpetrated. The Warrior Tombigbee improvement, how ever, is like the improvement made in the navigation of Mobile bay and river followed immediately by commercial development.
 The development in the upper river business is not large in figures. but is steady and at good strong ratio. It must be borne in mind that new condi- tions present novel problems and that capital is cautious, waiting to see how experimental efforts turn out. We be- lieve that what has been accomplished in less than one years time is truly remarkable, all the circumstances be- ing considered; and that it promises much for the future. Take the News figures that show 10 months of the ac- tivity of Lock IF. that was opened last May, and a similar period of the ac- tivity of the lock lower down. at Dem ono1is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11

Mekinez, Morocco, said to have been recently visited by an earthquake, is mass of gigantic masonry and crumbling ruins, inhabited chiefly by bats and owls. About coco poverty stricken people still re- side in the city which formerly had population of 100000. The crazy Sultan. Muiai Ismail, dwelt in Mekinez. He had a mania for building. He caused great walls to be constructed about the city, pierced by many gates, and among numer- ous ether products of his extravagant fancy was an elevated boulevard 200 miles long, on which he could ride from Me- kinez to Morocco safe from marauding bands. The Sultan was a famed horse man and built three miles of stables TOT his 12 900 horses. It is said that he could leap on a horse, whip out his sword and decapitate the slave who held his stirrup in one graceful movement. According to his way of thinking, death by the 1m- perial hand was a passport to paradise. During his reign he IS said to nave Gu. of the heads of 10000 of his subjects. lie fed his lions on slaves and kept 40 cats' which were better cared for than his cnli- dren. He claimed to be the father or 7O0 sons reaching an age when they were able to mount a horse and had 2O00 wives. These are some of the wild tales toid about the crazy Sultan who was con- temporary of Louis XIV, and wore out the lives of his subjects in vast building op- eratiors which stand today melancholy witness to his folly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
Library and Auditorium

A library building worthy of large city has been one of Birmingham's dreams for many years past. A num- Der of public-spirited citizens joined in securing a suitable site with the hope that fund of $150,000 or $20O,- GOO would be raised by popular sub scription to erect the edifice. That was several years ago and, conditions then not being propitious for starting the library canvass, the project was dropped and the library quarters on the fourth floor of the city hall were enlarged and improved to an extent adequate for temporary purposes.
 Two or three years ago Birming- hams public library was well stocked with books, especially reference books, with money contributed by citizens in response to an appeal by its board of directors, and while the number of volumes is below that of many other cities of approximately Birmingham's size, the exceptionally efficient serv- ice more than offsets any lack in other respects
 The city makes small appropria- tion for the maintenance of the library and the thousands of people who ire ouent the reading rooms and make use If the books can but feel grateful, md. in view of the small pecuniary 6ntlnv. marvel at the excellent man.
 Sx in which the public is served.
 me only way, perhaps, that Bir- 1,in~ham might expect to have a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
The National Guard

The provision in the military meas ure before Congress for the federali- zation and pay of the National Guard is meeting with popular approval.
 The National Guard association has strongly advocated the liberalization plan, but some critics there were who assumed that it would not be work able without an amendment to the constitution. Some went so far as to refer to it as foolish makeshift.'
 But the military committees of Con- gress by proposing that members oi the National Guard enlist as fed eral volunteers solved the question in a simple, easy manner, and all in. dications now point to a very general acceptance of the measure. In antici. patton of the adoption of the bill con. taining the liberalization and pay provisions the National Guard in sev' eral states already is increasing its numerical strength.
 The National Guard, now number ing not quite 130,OO0, can readily bt recruited up to 100000 the first veal under the proposed new system. Int organized militia, as it is technically styled, would then be part of the regular establishment, to be called tt the colors by the President not only in time of war but in the event tha1 war is threatened.
 Congress should not hesitate to ap prove the National Guard feature o1 the pending bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
HOTEL LOBBIES
A Good Suggestion

It occurs to me to suggest as one fea- ture for the entertainment of the veter- ans at the reunion in May, large chorus of mems voices to sing at the principal gatherings some of the songs which were familiar in the years gone by to those who will gather here for probably the last reunion that many of them will be able to attend" said James H. Hard.
 Those who have seen the Birth of a Nation, have noticed, doubtless, that the orchestra plays many of the old songs and some of them carry us back to the days of 1S61-65, when behind the breastworks during the Hull in the storm the soldiers sand, and While each heart recalled a different name, all sang Annie Laurie.
 There were many of those old songs which are well nigh forgotten, but they are melodious and even when sung to- day will cause thrill.
 A large chorus could be easily gotten together. and it could make such mu- sic as would furnish great deal of pleas ure to the hearers and would be a com pliment to our visitors"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11

stately library building "all to it. self" in this decade or the next, will be for some rich citizen to erect 1t as benefaction or provide for such building in his will. But why wait for such a contingency when the city can have under the same roof, for a comparatively small expenditure, a magnificent city hall, a magnificent library and the largest and most beautiful auditorium combined to be found in all the south?
 As has been pointed out, the Roden hotel property can be acquired by the city for this purpose on easy terms, and the present city hall be trans formed into profitable rent pro- ducer. The Roden hotel corner pre- sents an ideal situation, being diagon- ally opposite the governments mil lion dollar building, for which plans are now being drawn, and only two blocks from the most palatial hotels and many fashionable theatres.
 It is hoped the city commission will acted upon the Roden estates offer as early as possible. Public sentiment should crystalline rapidly in favor ot the plan. Certainly all who have oc- casion to use the library and all who feel an interest in the city's reputation as a convention center should give hearty support to the commission when it comes to taking up the propo- sition for action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
A Heroic Death

Maurice Bokanowski, member of the Chamber of Deputies, wrote to President Poincare of France stlr- ring account of the loss of the Prov ence. the French auxiliary cruiser which sank in the Mediterranean, February 26. M. Bokanowski's com munication was delayed in transmits sion to American newspapers. He IS a reserve officer of the French army and was ordered to Saloniki on the Provence. He was swimming to get away from the suction of the ship when he witnessed the heroism shown by Commandant Vesco of the Prov ence. and the soldiers massed on her forward deck. .sas ...sss.,.
 'Adieu, my boys." shouted the brave captain, who stayed on the bridge to the last and was drowned. His voice rose above the tumult and the soldiers answered with "Vive la France!" cry that has come to sym belize the patriotism of splendid nation. Around the sinking ship were sailors and soldiers, some swimming, others clinging to rafts and still oth- CTS safe in boats. As the ship plunged beneath the water they joined in the shout, "Vive la France!" There is no reason to believe that cowardice was shown by single one of the men who lost their lives when the transport ship went to the bottom.
 In the large number of naval disas- ters occurring during recent years, most of them due to the war and a few to natural causes, the heroism of men who follow the sea has been am ply demonstrated. To go down with his ship is a captains privilege and honor. If he is picked up from the water later, well and good, but his place is on the bridge as long as it remains above the surface.
 Sea captains are given many oppor- tunities nowadays to prove their skill, their daring and their unshaken courage in disaster. Seldom indeed are they found wanting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
MYSTERIOUS BEER PUMP

From the Youngstown Telegram
 Hawthorne made famous town pump. certain West Side saloon, is making another one.
 The pump of Hawthorne stood in the public square and spoAted advice and water. This West Side pump stands in full view in the barroom window. On Sundays the curtains are folded back giving the passing citizen glimpse of polished bar and uninhabited bar room.
 The mystery that the cop on the beat has been unable to solvesis why, when there is no one in sight to start 1t and no one to be seen in the exposed barroom, the pump suddenly comes to life aad pumps away as if thirsty cus- toners lined the bar three deep. Why such cratic action on the part of common beer pump when the cash register refuses to tinkle and the bar mirror to reflect the faces of buying patrons?