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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
FIND HALF A MILLION,
FINAL ORDER OF MAYOR
smith. Off for Another Vacation,
Tells Cabinet to Make
Transfer

Before leaV,ns n1a,.or sn,,,h todav in
tion IN his cabinet members to find" by
struc,eu ,aIf million dollars to pay bills
tansles during his administration with
incur,eu oI,n,anic approval. The money Is
OUT "so,,nd" during his abserce, so that
70 W ,,s return he will be in a position to
upo'i ssss A26 appropriated to Increase the
nave ,,es7 laborers and 1898 classified en-
pay from April l.
pTysa task set the department heads is
d,a,cult one, as when the annual appro-
rriatons were L.ade up Tor III IL was de-
sIared that the sumo allowed py Couhclls
would be barely sufficient TO cove: needs
~ transfers are now made from payrolls
nd supply items to pay deficiency bills the
svreling is bound TO result in temporary
Ia by Councils in the fall. If Councils
~ November borrow $l,2000o0 to make up
A.. transfers it will leave that additional
an, 10 be cared for in 1918, and the much
Sragged-of pay-as-you-go system will have
been aban'oneu
At the present time there Is a surplus
IN the city treasury of more than $500. 900.
but bills incurred by departments will ex-
haust this money which 1t was first planned
to use in salary increases this spring. Many
Of asking Councils approval were in the
nature of emergency ones.
HIGH-PRICED COAL
This Is true OF the approximately
ssoo nm worth of coal bought Mt treuen-
t'Vv'oVV IL ,..s. -, ~, ,,.H,,
dOus prices tnls winter OH tne donation
nlan Councils last year failed TO provide
= ,ho ,,iptor cool ,ten, with tba ras,,i,
Tor tne M'''e' 80 -. 49, 'i'e i.9"it
that the Department OF supplies went beg
.,po in the omen market for credit Tho
knis III Wv ,it, H. -. tt "
credit was optalneu III many instances at
twice the regular prices asked of customers
w. hannonod to have the casb 20 ,,,,
VINO hdppeheu '" ia'e 'he 'aSH u pay
down.
Last summer nearly s5,001000 was bor-
rowed to pay deficiency bills and it was an
nounced at that time that no more such
bills would be incurred. The answer Is the
present situation. where the Mayor finds
himself unable to authorize any salary in
oreases, even for the lowest classes of city
employees. without resorting to juggling that
would never be permitted In the finances Of
well-regulated business house.
INCREASES PROVIDED
,r,der the revIsed scbedule u,htoh A..
.oyor mans nIIttino into ofeec. -, t',e tiio
.a.,,rn hut which erst hos tn bo ann, t,s
~ cn,,ncils Tho foIIowin, ,rouoappl y, 'i GU
py "a Iou11as. snr ''e io''o"i"s increases are
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
DIES TRYING TO SAVE CHUM
Lad Falls Through Ice and browns
With Friend

NEW YORK. Feb. s.-Joseph, the eleven
l-oid son of Clarence Garris. sacrificed
} 1s own life at Hackensack, ". j., yesterday
IN endeavor to save his chum, Otto Baar
~, aged nine, who had gone through the
''e on the Hackensack river.
tney We're shedding. and Baar went out
sa sa INN Ice. Young Garris crept up to the
suke OF the hole and after two vain at
nj .s'hpts TO pull his chum out also went in
na nnsr companions could not aid them. The
pas boy was son of Police Sergeant
eeiock last night
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

hind II we lay fiat, close together, under an
Immediate tire de barrage" from Boche IT.
centimeter gun that before moment had
passed tore the bridge to spllnters
The tire do barrage" is a method Of
artillery fire the Boche has copied from the
French, who are driving him out of holy
land. the only difference being that the '75"
has II all over and some more" the
enemy II.
II consists In shifting the radius OF
given range so that shells fred at the rate
or twenty minute drop each one after the
other at from ten to more Yards apart within
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
HER SKIRTS HIDE WHISKY
Wife Of Alleged "Moonshiner" Tries -
Deceive Officers

ROANOKE. Va. Feb. s.-John SMALL
wood. alleged moonshiner. is being sought
by revenue officers following a raid upon his
home in the mountains near here yeAtsr-
day. Several gallons Of mountain dew"
were discovered and smaliwood was placed
under arrest. While the officers were search
ing other parts Of the house, however, he e.
capped. t
quietly in her chair. was asked to unlock
a door for the officers. When she arose II
was found she had several pints and ha'f
pints of whisky concealed under her skirts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

on the remonstrances presented to ne oo1I1
with power Of attorney attached. Ju1n.
own hand. He accordingly dismissed lho
exceptions filcd by attorneys for the 90
plicants who undertook to have the re-
monstrances overruled.
The court marked refused" on each
petition. 1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
One Hundred Linemen on Strike

h,nsL LLhEs-BARRE. Pa. Feb. s. - One
hSshured ~, linemen and groundmen employed
ts ~ sne Delaware and Hudson Company be-
str,sn raIsons and this city declared a
~. Ior an iacreas. Of four cents
hour The men deny that the strike
support Of the freight handlers and
80 ot the Delaware and Hudson Rail-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

which is also used for making linen. The only flax
good enough for India paper is grown in Germany,
Belgium and Great Britain. Germany is shut off
from selling her flax Belgiums flax fields are devas
tated, and England placed an embargo on her flax.
Even if the war stopped today, no more India
paper could be had for years. That means that when
are sold your chance for securing it on India paper
is gone. $4,000 sets were sold in six months so you
can see that the present supply will soon be gone
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

a given area. II is a cleanup method. usu-
ally adopted after heavy artillery FIRE and
just before charge from the trenches. But
II is also used apart and alone. as Il was
now being used in our case.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

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VOU the inspiration great minds You nowl
edge that and for back died create
You than Rome learned philosophers
of Greece the of all together You associate intimately
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
ASK IRELAND'S INDEPENDENCE
Socialists Give Kaiser's Peace Terms
at Stockholm Meetinu.

Stockholm.-Political independence
for ireland is one of the peace terms
contained in a manifesto issued by the
organization committee of the Stock.
holm conference. This is the so
called International Socialist peace
party and the impression is general
in England and America that Germany
is sponsoring the conference.
Among the other peace terms" con
tanned in the manifesto are the follow
ing:
international disarmament.
2-International league to enforce
peace.
3-Restoration of Armenia.
4-Germany to restore Belgium and
French soil now occupied.
5-Germany to pay a war indemnity
to Belgium.
Culture of Alsace-Larraine to be
settled by the vote of their own peo-
pies.
serbia to be restored.
S-Finland to be granted indepen-
dence.
9-The Saloniki territory 10 be
placed under common jurisdiction of
Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
MAXIMUM
OUTPUT OF COAL
"coAl SHALL be PRODUCED As
IT NEVER WAS BEFORE" De.
cLAREs ADMINISTRATOR.
ALL TO Be SUPPLIED
GARFIELD WARNS OPERATORS
THAT NATION HAS POWER
TO SEIZE MINES.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Declaring that just
SO long as the power of fuel dictator
was bestowed upon him he purposed
to see that the production of coal in
the United States is kept at maxi
mum, and eve higher, DR.. Harry A..
Garfield addressed a gathering of
mor than 1000 operators from all
over the country here.
Coal shall be produced as 1t
vas BEFORE" he said, and factories
and homes will be plentifully sup
Piled"
DR.. Garfield's address was brief. He
urged the coal men to forget their
differences and put themselves solid
ly as United States citizens behind
the government in its prosecution OF
the war.
Warning the operators of the gov
ernment's power to take charge OF
the mines, he said:
Some persons resent the idea. but
is it more drastic 10 take that action
than for the government to take the
nations young men?"
1t was expected that DR.. Garfield
would when the higher wage
scale would go into effect and also
touch upon some of the details of the
coal business. This he did not do,
saying he wishes only to impress or
the operators their duty to the gov
eminent in this crisis.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
OCT, % DAY OF PRAYER
FOR SUCCESS OF AMERICAN
ARMS IN THE WAR.
President Wilson Issues Proclamation
II Accordance With Resolution
Passed by Congress.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Presiden Wilson BY
proclamation declared Sunday, Oct
20. as a day of prayer for the success
Of the American arms in the war, ir
accordance with the recent resolution
Of Congress. The Presidents procla
nation is as follows:
Whereas, The Congress OF the
United States by a concurrent resolu
ton adopted on the 4th day Of the
present month Of October, in view oil
the entrance of our nation into the
vast and awful war which now afflicts
the greater part OF the world. has re-
quested me to set apart by official
proclamation a day upon which our
people should be called upon to offer
concerted prayer to Almighty God for
His divine aid in the success of our
arms; and,
Whereas, 1t behooves a great free
people, nurtured as we have been in
the eternal principles Of justice and of
right; a nation which has sought
from the earliest days Of its existence
to be obedient to the divine teachings
which inspired it in the exercise of
it's liberties, to turn always to the
Supreme Master and cast themselves
in faith at His feet praying for His
aid and succor in every hour Of trial,
to the end that the great aims to
which our fathers dedicated our power
as a people may not perish among
men, but be always asserted and de-
Tended with fresh ardor and devotion
and, through the divine blessing, set
at last upon enduring foundations for
the benefit of all the free peoples OF
the earth;
Nov, therefore, l, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States.
gladly responding to the wish ex.
pressed by the Congress, do appoint
Oct. 20, being the last Sunday of the
present month, as a day of supplica-
ton and prayer for all the people OF
the nation, honestly exhorting all my
countrymen to observe the appointed
day, according to their several faiths
in solemn prayer, that Gods blessings
may rest upon the high task which is
laid upon us, to the end that the cause
for which we give our lives and treas
ure may triumph and our efforts be
blessed with high achievement"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
Japanese "Iemperaturen Ghosts,

Ghost stories in Japan develop in
warm weather. High temperature has
raised a ghost al one of the fashion,
able baths In Kobe. About the middle
of June, n woman died in the estab-
lishment. Two days later, another
woman was taken i'll at the same place
and died when taken home. She as
serted that while ut the bath. being
entirely alone, her name was distinctly
called. This call was several times
repeated. This incident, with usual
exaggcrations. became known to the
patrons of the bath and custom almost
ceased. The b~athhouse keeper has I'M
dertaken to restore the damaged repu-
tation of his establishment by employ
ing a street orator who delivers sew
eral lectures daily on the absurdity of
the ghost story. Thus far, his at
tempts to 'lay the ghost" have been of
no avail. Former customers do not
return.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
CHANGES IN DRAFTING SYSTEM.
Nine Million Remaining Registrants
Will Be Divided into Five Classes.

Washington.-A sweeping change
in the machinery of the selective
draft, based on division Of the 9,000,-
600 remaining registrants into five
classes in order of their eligibility for
military service, was announced by
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Details Of the plan, which has been
approved by President Wilson, are
not disclosed. 1t is calculated, how
ever, to do away with virtually all the
complicated machinery of the first
draft. The plan vas worked out at
conferences with local and district
board officials and approved by the
various state authorities.
It's chief features are that every reg
istered mar will know his exact posi-
ton and be able to arrange his affairs
accordingly and that no man deemed
necessary in any important industry
or needed at home to support his fam
lily will be called to the colors unless
the military situation is desperate.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
CHICAGO FOOD PRICE SCHEDULE.
Food Administrator Cuts Prices on
Sugar, Potatoes and Flour.

Chicago.--For the first time In the
history of the United States, a govern
ment representative has fixed the
fair" price OF cortein foodstufls. Har-
ry A. Whe Ter, food administrator OF
Illinois, Tuesday announced the prop
er price for sugar, potatoes and flour.
Grocers for the most part have agreed
to put the prices into effect.
Mr.. Wheeler's list gives the price
which the retailer should pay the mid
dleman and the price which the Gus
toner should pay over the counter.
Other prices for staples will be an
nounced as quickly as possible.
The price fixed for flour is from
$2.95 to 1918 for quarter barrel sacks,
for which retailers were asking $3.15.
One-eighth barrel sacks the price was
fixed at $1.49 to SLIGO, as against $3.50
asked by the retailer. Five-pound
sacks were listed by the food admin
istrator at &c to 81 cents, and retailers
were quoting them at 35 cents.
Potatoes jumped in prices overnight,
and were quoted by the food admins
traitor at 43 to 46 cents per peck,
while the grocers were selling them at
40 to 40 cents.
Sugar prices were fixed at IA to Sk
cents per pound, while dealers were
asking 91a and 10 cents. The scare
ity of sugar, however, has compelled
retailers to pay fancy premiums in or
der to get enough to supply their
trade. Sales in nearly all cases were
limited to two pounds to a customer
Strangers going into a store and ask.
ing only for sugar were refused.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
For Blowing Soap Bubbles.

A recent invention has made the
blowing of soap bubbles as safe and
sanitary as drinking p%asteurized milk.
No longer need the youngster steal
the soap from the laundry for his
bubbles. Instead he uses tiny paper
tubes purchased from the nearest drug
store. These tubes contain a small
piece Of sterilized soap at one end.
The tube is dipped in a glass of clear
water. Nor is .these any danger of the
child's cutting himself on a broken
pipe, rs the tube is 50 constructed that
It collapses under pressure.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
CLASS|F|CAT|ONS
FOR DRAFT ARMY
NEW REGULATIONS DIVIDE CON-
SCRiPTED MEN INTO FIVE
CLASSES FOR SERVICE.
GIVEN OUT BY CROWDER
GROUPS NAMED AS TO ORDER IN
WHICH THEY WILL BE
CALLED TO THE cOLORS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Oct. 22.-The five
classifications into which men await
ing draft will be divided, under the
new regulations approved by Presi-
dent Wilson, have become public much
before the time planned by the pro-
vost marshal generals office, and are
here published.
The classifications are as follows
and show every man registered, to
which class he belongs and in what
order the various classificatiOns will
be called to service:
!. Single man without dependent rel
2. Married man Cor widower with
chlldrenJ, who habitually fails to sup
port his family.
,. Married man dependent on wife
for uppor
4. Married man Cor widower with
children), not usefully engaged, family
supported by income independent OF
his labor.
5. Men not included in any other de-
scription in this or other classes.
6. Unskilled laborer.
CLASS ii.
/. Married man or father of mother
less children, usefully engaged but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
ably adequate support during his alb
scncc.
2. Married man. no children, wife can
support herself decentiy and without
hardship.
3. Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary industrial enterprise.
A.. Skilled industrial laborer engaged
in necessary agricultural enterprise.
CLASS Ill.
!. Man with foster children depend
ent on daily labor FOR support.
2. Man with aged, infirm or invalid
parents or grandparents dependent on
daily labor for support.
3. Man with brothers or sisters in
competent to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
I. County or municipal officer.
D. rueIudn Or policeman.
G.. Necessary artificerS or wor men
in arsenals, armories and navy yards.
Z. Necessary custom house clerks.
s. Persons necessary in transmission
of mails.
9. Necessary employees in service of
the United States.
10. Highly specialized administra-
tive experts.
II. Technical or mechanical experts
in industrial enterprise.
IL. Highly specialized agricultural
NP'i 80 sNNNN
or nation.
10. Assistant or associate manager of
necessary industrial enterprise.
IA. Assistant or associate
of necessary agricultural enterprise.
CLASS ".
/. Married man with wife (and) or
children Cor widower with children
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonably adequate sup
port available.
2. Mariners in sea service of mer-
chants or citizens in United States.
8. Heads of necessary industrial en-
terprises.
A.. leads of necessary agricultural
enterprises.
CLASS ".
/. Officers of states or the United
States.
2. Regularly or duly ordained min
listers.
3. Students of divinity.
4. Persons in military or naval serv-
Ice.
B. Aliens.
6. Alien enemies.
Z. Persons morally unfit.
s. Persons physically, permanently
or mentally unfit.
9. Licensed pilots,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
Engineer Killed; Three Injured.

Chicago.-Engineer Kameron was
killed and Fireman Wright fatally in
jured when the Green Bay special,
inbound on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad, was derailed at North
field, forty miles north of here. The
accident occurred when the pilot of
the engine struck some loose plank
ing at a crossing. The engine. two
baggage cars, the mail car, the smok-
er and a day coach left the track.
Among the injured e Mrs. Isa-
bell Fair and Miss Helen A. Golden
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
FRENCH WIN BIG VICTORY.
Make Two-Mile Advance Through
kaiser's Lines, Capturing $500
Men and Twenty-Five Guns.

Wei " '"S'sy'''S Ne"S'
Paris, Oct. 24.-In one of the swift
est and most dashing blows of the
war, the French troops smashed
through the German lines north of the
Aisne to a depth of more than two
miles at one point. inflicting heavy
losses on the enemy and captured
more than 1900 prisoners and twenty
five heavy guns and field guns. Sew
eral important villages also fell into
the hands of the French, according
to the war office announcement.
Washington. Germany lost one
half of her total effectual fleet of SUI
per-Zeppelins as a result of her air
raid of Oct. 20 over England, accord
ing to cable dispatches received here.
Rome.-Italian troops repulsed a
strong attack by Austrian and Ger
man forces in the Galore region at
Monte Piana.
Petrograd.-The Germans have
made an attempt at a second landing
on the Esthonian coast. but were
driven away by the Russians.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
FOODS 80 PER CENT HIGHER.
Sugar Prices in England Have Been
TrebIed.

Ottawa, Ont.-Beef and mutton in
England now exceed their pre-war
prices by is pence per pound, says a
report published in the government
Labor Gazette. Butter and bacon are
now double their pre-war level. Milk
is IS per cent higher than in July,
1914. These figures and the following
table of per cent increases since the
war are contained in a London dis
patch to the Ottawa agency Of Reu-
ter's limited:
Beef, nearly 100; mutton, 81; import
ed beef, 1872; imported mutton, 1853;
bacon, 10; fish, $50; sugar, 1870; but
ter, 80; cheese, 81; eggs, 100.
In the cost of all items usually en-
tering into the working class family,
including food, rent, clothing, fuel and
light, the increase has been nearly 80
per cent, allowing 5 per cent for the
advances due to increased taxation.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
Women Shot in Food Uprisinas.

MISUNDERSTANDING because of
shortage of food have taken place
among the civilian populations of
many Austrian cities. Official dis
patches from Rome tell of rioting in
Budapest, Vienna and Prague. Many
women and children were killed in
the fighting. Recruits of the 1917
class fired or women and children at
an unnamed city, killing forty and in
juring $50.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
Fiohters to Get Christmas Presents,

Washington.-Every American sol
der and sailor will have the best
Christmas the Red Cross can give him.
will receive a Christmas package, ap-
proximating a value of $3.50 and con-
tanning chewing gum, tobacco, writing
material, games, dried fruit, candies,
puzzles, knives. mouth organs or other
articles. Each package is to be wrap
ped in a k~haki-cOlored handkerchief
and tied with red ribbon.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
l.. w. w. Bound Over for Hearing.

Globe, Ariz.-H. F. Kane, r. S. Cul
yer, r. J. Bobba, j. ]. Oates and w. H.
Lewis, l. w. w. members arrested
here under the espionage act indict'
ments returned in Chicago, were
trict Court by U. S. Commissioner Hin.
son Thomas.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
Fitzsimmons, Famous Fighter, Dead.

Chicago.-In his delirium shortly be
fore he died, Bob Fitzsimmons re.
fought many of his famous battles with
noted pugilists. His bouts with JEFF
fries, Corbett and Sharkey were the
ones he lived over, judging from his
frequent m%utterings concerning Jeff
Jim and Tom" Fitz was born in
the town of Helsten, Cornwall, Eng
land, June 4, 1862. He was 5 feet 11A
inches tall and weighed 165 pounds at
the height of his career.