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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
CONSERVE COAL
IN CELLAR, EPLAN
Administrator Potter Pre-
pairing to Show Consumer
How to Save
WILL SOON OPEN OFFICE
City Dealers Getting Ready to
Announce Revision of Prices,
Following American Ice Co.

The new Federal fuel headquarters Of
State Fuel Administrator William Potter
will be located in the heart Of the city,
in the neighborhood Of Broad and Chestnut.
and will be opened this week, It was posi-
lively stated today
Up TO date It has taken most OF Mr.
Potter's time keeping appointments here and
in Washington, in addition to digesting the
mass of data involved in the gigantic task
confronting him. a task to which he brings
only the broadest administrative experience,
no special previous coal knowledge.
But after this week he may he conf.
IDENTIFY looked for presiding in his new Of
fees, where all coal abuses. grievances
rate-fiXings, suggestions-in fact, coal prob
lens of every sort may be brought to him.
IL it is fuel that is going to win the war
it is equally the citizens who must help
to win it. Coal conservation in the indivi-
dual cellar is said TO be the keynote OF
Mr.. Potter's Campaign which viii bring
him very close to the hearts of the people,
through the most direct path, their pocket.
books.
If his wcll-lnown policy in the conduct
OF his own business be taken as example,
Mr.. Potter will be easy OF access. No one
who seeks him on coal business will be
turned away.
plans to adjust their new price schedules
in accordance with instruction received
from Doctor Garfield, National Fuel Ad-
ministrator Efforts also are being made
by members OF the Coal Exchange TO deter.
minue a schedule of prices that will con.
form to the ruling of Mr. Garfield and yet
allow fair profit
While the American Ice and Coal Com
pany has announced that it has put into
effect new schedule Chowing reductions
of from 20 to 75 cents on various sizes of
anthracite, several other dealers said they
were not ready as yet to announce new
schedules but that it would only be a
question Of a day or two before these would
be adjusted.
George w. Edmonds. coal merchant,
said:
81 understand every effort Is being made
on the part Of the various members Of the
Coal Exchange to determine at what prices
the several grades Of coal may be fixed
so as to allow the dealers sufficient profit to
continue in the business and yet conform to
the rules set by Doctor Garfield. The work
involves the serious study Of a mass OF
accounts and takes time. This work IS
nearly finished, and I expect the announce
ment Of the new figure shortly"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
WTLLEXEMPT MANY
i. U.OFP.STUDENTS
Furloughs Granted to All
Taking General, Medical
and Veterinary Courses
OTHER CITY NEWS BRIEFS
Five Hundred Men Answer Call
for Enlistment in Aviation
Section of Signal Corps

Word was received at the University of
,opnsylyania today from Washington that
all students in Uncle Sans service who
we're taking the general medical and vet
crinary course would be permitted a fug-
Tough TO finish their studies. This action
will exempt many of the students from
service for three or four years.
THE war has had disastrous effects in
rogard TO enrolments. only 173 students
ara registered in the dental school, as
somnared with 800 last year. At the law
school only sixty-four have been enrolled.
In view of the small attendance, it has
been decided for the present to drop some
nf the courses from the curriculum.
Among those to be dropped are equity,
suretyship and those affecting the sub
iect of trademark and copyright damages.
In the upper classes the number of stu
dents enrolled is about the same as last
year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
BAN ON NEWARK ZEITUNG
New Jersey German Paper Loses Sec
ond-Class Mailing Privileges

=, NRWARK. ". j.. Oct g. - Edwin s.
brleth. publisher of the New Jersey Freie
leltung German language newspaper
mas been notified by the Postofiice De-
Dariment that the papers second class
mailing privileges had heen revoked on the
ground that it had violated the provisions
NJ me espionage act by publishing matter
held n he seditious
The plant Of the newspaper was raided
Nv FEDERAL agents last week
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
No Tax on Orchestra Tickets, Belief

Purchasers of tickets or subscribers for
the Philadelphia Orchestra will not be re-
qured to pay the war tax on tickets, ac-
cordng to the opinion expressed by Arthur
Judson, manager of the orchestra He be-
lieves the exemption will be based on the
fact that the work of the orchestra is edu-
cational
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
500 Men Answer Call for Army Clerks

More than 500 men besieged Captain r.
u Mills. at Room III, Commercial Trust
building, yesterday in answer to the call
for 100 stenographers and 100 clerks for
service with the aviation section of the
United states Signal Corps abroad. Cap
taiu Mills said he will enlist photogra piers,
draughtsmen, mechanics. expert Office men
and electricians if they iii the require
ments. The recruiting will continue both
today and tomorrow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09

There viii be no reduction OF the faculty
OF the University on account of the war
for the present. at least This announce
ment was made in answer to many rumors
al the first fall meeting Of the trustees
Of the University
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Railroads Need Help of Public

American railroads need the help OF the
general public especially at this war time,
according to George Dallas Dixon, vice
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
who spoke at the dinner of tie Traffic
club I'm the Bellevue-Stratford. The pub
lie must expect further curtailment OF
Messenger service and do all it can TO help
the cause Railroads viii be big FACTOR
I'm winning the war he said.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Captain Thanks Red Cross Here

Mrs. Henry b. Coke, chairman OF the
executive committee OF the American Red
Cross Of Philadelphia ia In receipt of a
letter from Captain Robert A. Eaton, 'of
Battery G, 10th United States Field Ar
tillery, now stationed at Camp Mcclellan,
Ala, thanking the Red Cross for its kind
ness when Battery c passed through Phil
adelphia on it's way south last Monday
night "The men Of this command are all
volunteers and are making many sacrifices
for our common cause, and can assure
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Snow Falls in South Dakota

DEADwooD, s. D., oct. 9.-The ex-
tended drought in the Black Hills region
was broken Sunday by a heavy snow.
Two inches OF snow fell here. forest fire
which had been burning north Of here fE
number OF days was extinguished.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
PhiIadelphian Again Decorated

Lieutepant William Yorlle Stevenson. Of
the American Ambulance Service in
France. again has been decorated for
bravery near Nerdun, according to re-
cent dispatches. He received the Crox
de Gucrre last August.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09

In the presence of his bride of a month,
Robert Yheauon, of jefferson street near
Twenty second, was held in 5000 bail for
court by Magistrate Pennock, accused of
rObbing telephone boxes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Predict SaIoonless Nation Soon

More than 400 members Of the Sons Of
Temperance attended the jubilee banquet
OF the association at 1920 North Broad
street last night. Several speakers pre-
dicted that the nation would be salooness
by the end of the war
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Miss Ingham Refuses "7O's' Plea

Miss Mary L. Ingham. Of the Pennsyl-
yania National Woman's party has de-
cned to aid the Committee of Seventy I'm
its campaign for bettering political condi.
tons The reply was made in answer to
request for financial help. She said that all
her efforts and any financial help would be
given for the enfranchsement Of women.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09

you," writes the captain. shat such acts as
yours, bespeaking your willingness to do
your part in this crisis, makes such sacri-
fees willing II not enjoyable"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Happy Summer For Many Children

Many children have had a happy sum-
ner. thanks to the Children's Country Week
Association. according to the report of the
made at meeting in the
New Century Club. The association has
fourteen camps and these were filled each
week with poor children.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
More Students Exempted From Draft

More students have been exempted from
draft The latest ruling by President Will
son eXempts both dental and veterinary
students. Those in that class who have
gone to draft camps will be sent back to
school
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17

ern age, we are too apt to forget the won
ders of yesterday in the miracles of today.
Harriet Quimby's most spectacular exploit,
the flight over the English Channel,
showed as much genius as Ruth Laws
flight from Chicago to New York, and may
hap more courage, for although the latter
feat was equivalent to twenty or thirty
English Channels laid down side by side,
aeronautics was a toss-up affair in those
days, whereas now it is becoming quite
routine matter But for the Quimbys, the
Hamiltons, the Moissants, and the other
forgotten pioneers, whose exploits are be-
ginner's work now, the Laws, the Saufleys,
the Carlstroms, the Raiders would no more
be able TO fly with safety and science and
gertrude than the transcontinental express
would be able to span the gorges, climb the
mountains, cross the deserts, leap the rivers
from the Atlantic to the Pacific in fewer
hours than it took the wagons of colonists,
within the memory of man still living,
weeks and months.
Had Harriet Quimby proposed the Chi
cago-New York flight, she would have been
thought mad Now when transatlantic
flight is mentioned, it is taken as a matter
of Interesting, but nothing espe-
cially>out of the ordinary.
As with aviation so with science, skill,
industry, business. Everything bigger, bet
ter, greater than ever before!
VIII the exploits of today be considered
as trivial, ten years from now, as those OF
! ten years ago are today?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
BANK OF ENGLAND is NOT
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION

London, Feb. 16-The Bank Of Eng
land, which is now working night
and day on the war loan, is not, as
many people think, a government in
stitution. 1t is a private company,
and reaps a good profit by acting as
the nations banker.
The remuneration paid to the Bank
of England for the management of
the national debt was fixed in 1906
as a yearly sum at the rate of 325
pounds per million pounds of such
debt UP to five hundred million, and
100 pounds per million pounds above
this amount. On this basis assuming
a total war debt of $500, 100000 the
banks remuneration will reach about
100000 pounds annually from this
source alone, in addition to the 1867
900 pounds in respect to the old
national debt, which, at the beginning
of the war, was about $50 million
pounds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
FORCED TO BACK WATER.

The release of the YarroWdale prisoners
is one of those purely negative concessions,
like Ambassador Gerards passports, that
does nothing to improve the relations be-
tween the United States and Germany. i
They should never have been detained IN
the first place The Yarrowdale seamen
were exempt from seizure, and an ambas-
sador is invested with a sacred character.
Not only was Gerard detained, but he was
subjected to petty indignities besides-such
as his mail stopped and his telephone cut
out Even if matters are settled without
invoking the arbitriment of arms, very
painful impression will have been made
upon the American people, and the prece-
dent will be sure to be remembered should
another crisis arise, even in the distant
future
Germany, as usual, has her excuse all
ready She was misled by lying reports
from England, describing vague enormities
OF treatment accorded German sailors and
the German ambassador to this country.
IF the. government that violated Belgium,
sunk the Lustania, and told neutrals to get
off the earth, believed hearsay from
sources which she has all the time dis
credited, it IS, indeed, sad commentary on
the mental standards of that unfortunate
country.
But even if Germany had been, afflicted
with anything resembling Sayvilleograms,
She would hardly have given them such
iprecipitate credence Governments don't
do business that way They know before
they act, especially in delicate Situations.
Germany would not have taken such a
course Of action had she been as sincerely
DESTROYS. Of retaining the good will OF the
United States, as she claims. The whole
thing, therefore, reduces itself to a delib-
crate attempt to affront the United States
and Germany has been forced to back
water.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
Vox Pobuk.
BLOUNTSTOWN ROAD
PLANS OUTLINED

Editor of The Journal.
| note your mass meeting tomor-
row to try to connect Pensacola with
the Spanish Trail.
I am trying to get highway from
Tallahassee via Blountstown to con-
meet with a highway running from
Panama City to Jackson county line
at the base line. Bay county has voted
bonds and sold them, amounting to
$4,000. They have got their high
way completed from Panama City to
Jackson county line, so I am told
They have agreed to build from that
road to Calhoun county line about
our base line, which is only two OF
three miles. Our county commission
ers are making a 30foot road with
convicts from here now along the
base line towards west county line
and 1 understand will continue tc
our county line. That will give US 6
first class road to Panama City. We
are trying to get the county commits
sioners Of Leon county, Gadsden anc
Liberty to construct first class roaC
from Tallahassee to Apalachicoli
river, which would make a first class
highway from Tallahassee to PanamE
City along the base line. Then thi'
highway could be extended along thu
base line to Pensacola. We intend t.
try and get bridge across the Apa
lachicola river here. Hon. Waite
Kehoe has promised to secure a
much appropriation towards paying
for the bridge as he can. l hope yo'
will, join US in this move and get {
highway as straight as a bee lin
| from Tallahassee to Pensacola.
will appreciate it If you will tax
it up with the people at your mas
meeting tomorrow, and explain tina
they can join US and get the mos
important highway in Florida with
out any cost except getting bridg
across the bay or Escambia river q
such point as they may select.
Yours truly,
J, E. RICKETSON.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
NATIONAL PROHIBITION COMING.

If the Reed amendment, already adopted
by the senate, is accepted by the house,
national prohibition will be an accomplished
fact in half of the United States, and its
spread to the rest of the country will only
be a matter of time.
The bone-dry agitation in so many states,
the unfolding of the Webb-Kenyon law,
and the prohibition of liquor advertisements
in certain states, South Carolina being the
latest, with the passags of the Durant bill
on the 10th instant, are the most immediate
causes leading to the incorporation of
measure that bars newspapers, magazines
and circulars containing liquor advertise
ments from the mails in all dry states, and
makes it a crime for any person in a dry
state to order, purchase, or cause liquor to
be transported into those states or to man
ufacture the same there. Exception is made
only for scientific, sacramento, medicinal or
mechanical purposes. Penalties in every
case are maximum fine of ST 1000 or inn
prlsonment from six months to two years.
Of such legislation, the need has been
strikingly illustrated many times notably in
the case of the express companies, recently
indicted, for establishing virtual pipe line
into Atlanta in the form Of booze deliveries
to fictitious names. Ii
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
The SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

1t is only the color that prevents
our confusing some peoples hair with
pine needles.
Now that a U-boat has sunk a
Greek ship, King Connie may be will
ing to acknowledge that an entente
Qltimatum is safer than a friendly
torpedo.
AS we contemplate the average dish
of scrambled eggs, we incline to the
opinion that "from the frying pan
into the fire" is not without its adj
vantages.
Even war has It's advantages. 1t
Is much better for his own soul for
Johnny to get his gun than to shoot
craps; and for society in general to
throw grenades in trenches than the
long suffering bull in public.
One of the sad results Of the Reed
amendment, making it a felony to
transport or cause to be transported,
liquor in dry territory, Is that we
will never again hear the clatter of
hoofs Of the midnight ride of the
modern Paul Revere.
Our international situation reduces
itself to this: President Wilson has
announced that even if the overt act
is committed, he will not declare war,
but will take necessary steps to Pro-
tect Americans lives and property
That is, the United States will sink
every U-boat in sight, and if the
kaiser demonstrates, Woodrow will
say, Keep cool, Bill; this isn't war;
we are at peace with you" at may
not be war" Bill will answer, "but it
is certainly hell"
The city beautiful contest has To-
cussed our attention on the unsightly
paths worn through some unfenced,
corner lawns, caused by pedestrians
cutting across, instead of using the
sidewalk. 1t Is practice that should
be avoided. AS we were conducting
strategic retirement from our trench
late last night, we attempted such a
cutoff, and fell over a wire entangle-
ment that scraped the bark off our
shin.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
POPULARITY OF
PENSACOLA GROWS

The increasing popularity of PEN
sacola as a winter resort and rs a
place in which to spend few days
pleasantly, If not the entire winter
season, is shown by the necessity of
adding extra equipment - the east
bound train every night to hccommo-.
date those who stop here en- route to
Jacksonville and the East Coast.
Railroad officials stated yesterday
that it is becoming necessary for
travellers who have heretofore passed
the city by, to stop off here for sew
eral days or two weeks, and then to
proceed to their destinations. This
makes it necessary to increase equip
ment and facilities for handling the
crowds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE WITH
GRIPPE.

When a cough or cold thangs on"
and you have aches and pains in
your joints and muscles, it is likely
that grippe is taking hold Of your
system. Mrs. ]. A. Rogers, Switzer,
S. c., says: 81 am susceptible to
colds; often ending in grippe. IN this
case have found Foley's Honey and
Tar to prevent doctor bills" This
sterling family remedy loosens the
phlegm, stops irritation, allays sore
ness and Inflammation and frees the
air passages. Good for children.
D'Alemberte's Pharmacy.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
Q . = . = . . = . = . . . . . =
. REAL ESTATE .

VIM. T. Hoffman to Lila McAllis-
ter, Feb. 10, 1917; $1.00 and other
considerations; Lot 5, block go, New
City.
F. NJ. Phillips to w. T. Earnest,
Jan. %, 1917; $1,000 and other con-
siderations; Sec. 10, 1-2 of Sc Ia
of Sec. Is, w 1-2 of NE IA Sec. 6,
TIP. 3 N, R. 80 w.
Same to Same, Jan. %, 1917; $1,000
and other considerations; timber on
S 1-2 of Sec. 80, TIP. 3 N, R. so w,
and personal property.
c E Dobson Tr. by Special Master
to Elizabeth P. Lufbery, Feb. Is, 1917
81 10000; Lots ID, Is and e 1-2 Of 10
block 10, North Hill Highlands.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
ChamberIain,s Tablets Doing Good.

Mrs. F. F. Smith, Gloversville, n.
Y, writes to the manufacturers OF
Chamberlain's Tablets as follows: 81
feel it my duty to write to you and
tell you of the good your tablets are
doing for me and many others that 1
have told about them. For over three
years l have been troubled with liver
trouble. l have been under the doc
tors care most of the time, but have
not found anything that has helped
me as much as Chamberlain's Tab
lets" ObtainabIe sverywhers--Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
ONE YEAR MILITARY
TRAINING PROPOSED

Washington, Feb. 16.-A detailed
plan for the establishent of a nation
al policy Of universal military train
ing was laid before Secretary Baker
today by the general staff. 1t differs
radically from that provided in the
Chamberlain bill favorably reported
Saturday by the senate military COM
mittee, in that full year of training
will be demanded as a minimum. The
senate bill is based on six months
training.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
CARNIVAL PINS
ARE DISTRIBUTED

President Hunter Brown, of the
Carnival Association, has presented
the members of the board of directors
with handsome gold-enamel pins with
which to hold the carnival colors on
their coats. The design reflects the
carnival spirit, the chief features OF
the pin being two masks, one at
sk,her end of short bar, upon which
the colors are tied.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
For Children's Colds and Group.

81 have used Chsmberlain's Cough
Remedy in treating my children for
colds and Group with the best sue
cess. We do not feel safe without it
in the house. 1 cannot speak too
highly of it." writes Mrs. Joshua
Nutter, saltwater, N. Il. Obtainable
everywhere.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17

Weather, barometer readings vino
direction and wind velocity at p. m
alon the gulf coast:
Brownsville, cldy, 29,92-NE.
Galveston, cldy, 30.00-S.
New Orleans, clear, 30.02-SW.
Mobile, pit cldy, 30.02-SW.
Pensacola, clear, 30.04-W.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
Daily Weather Bulletin.
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. 16, 1917.

Daily weather Bulletin.
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. 16, 1917.
Pensacola's Temperature Data
Highest on record for February, Is
degrees.
Day temperatures in February us
ally rise to 81 degrees.
Night temperatures in February us
ally fall to AZ degrees.
Highest temperature yesterday, 55
degrees.
Lowest temperature yesterday, 3S
degrees.
Pensacola's Rainfall Data.
Rainfall for "a hours ending P.
m, 0 inches.
Total rainfall this month to p
m. EOS inches.
Total excesa this year to January
/, lit inches.
Normal rainfall for the month OF
February, 4.49 inches.
The following table shows stations
weather, 7 p. M; temperature, 7 p
M; highest temperature yesterday
and precipitation "a hours ending Z
| n M.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-17
TO ACCOMMODATE THE CITY'S
GUESTS.

Visitors have already pre-empted the
ordinary hotel and rooming accommoda-
tons. With our carnival advertised from
here to Tallahassee to the east. and
almost to Montgomery to the north, it is not
boost talk to say that the greatest crowd
in our history may be expected Mardi
Gras, it is stating very serious problem.
Pensacolians will not be doing their civic
duty if they allow a single person to be
turned away as long as there is a hall bed
room or cot in the entire city. This I'M
usual condition confronts us for which I'M
usual remedies are necessary. Private
families who. never thought to take in
roomers, should sacrifice their feelings for
the public veal and list their spare rooms
with the bureau of information opened by
the carnival association at the Woman's
Exchange in the San Carlos hotel
City building is an intensely cooperative
affair, and never was the community spirit
more needed than now. This year will
prove the necessity of greater tourist &C
commodations, but they will be doubtful
investment if, advertising for tourists, we
turn them away as fast as they come.