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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02

believed to be dead as the result of a
gas explosion and fire which at ]
o'clock itlffs morning destroyed q three
STORY hi.ick tenement In Abe heart OF
the west side ghetto district.
AS the burning gas prevented search
OF the ruins at daybreak only two
bodies had been recovered those Of an
unidentified man about so years old,
who was crushed when the walls
crumbled, and Of Mrs. Charlotte Stit-
ley.
Firemen attacking the. covered
mass of wreckage penetrated thru the
outer crust and declared they could
distinguish what seemed to be voices
beneath them. Ambulances were sent
for in the hope that victims still alive
might be rescued.
Explosion Heard For Miles.
The explosion was heard for miles
BY some freak of the shock buildings a
few yards away were unchanged,
while windows were broken many
blocks distant. Tenants of the build
ings rushed to the street scantily clad.
The explosion wrecked one end of
the building, which contained twenty
four flats. sixteen of which were occu-
Pied When firemen arrived they were
able to rescue few children who were
dropped by their parents from upper
windows. Some adults were also
saved in this way.
A group of railroad switchmen, who
arrived before the hremen, rescued fif-
teen children.
Like Iceberg on Fire.
Fire Chief O'Connor said the roof
was so hot it would be hours before
search OF the wreckage could be made
and an accurate account of the loss of
life ascertained. The water thrown on
the ruins froze almost as fast as it fell
and the burning gas which remained
alight presented an unusual spectacle.
much as If an iceberg were on fire.
Employees Of the gas companies scatter
ed thruout the neighborhood to prevent
other leaks added to the alarm felt in
the district. For this reason many
whose homes were in no danger from
flames carried their household goods
into the streets.
Streets were Uttered with tables,
chairs, cradles--mcager exhibits testi-
flying to the poverty Of the neighbor-
hood.
To completely extinguish the fire
1t was necessary to ig down to the
gas main. This was slow work and
seven hours after the explosion the
main had not been reached.
Caught like Rats in Trap.
Those driven from their homes found
refuge at the Hull House settlement.
hospitals, the police stations and in
stores.
Patrick Donohuc, an assistant fire
marshal, said that when he reached the
scene great flame Of gas was leaping
across West Fourteenth Place.
iie IA lot OF those people" he said.
'must have been caught like rats in a
trap. They were in bed and asleep and
had no chance to escape Failing stair
ways and crumbling wallis cut them
of"
5 A score or more Of persons were In
jured in adjoining structures by flying
glass or in their mad haste to escape
into the streets. Most Of these were
cared for at the county hospital
-; ;St:s;.ssTrSr;siiiEsfs
wreckage where the means came from
firemen came upon o man and woman
In q unconscious condition. Fire
men said the voices were palmer and
many persons seemed imprisoned in q
wrecked grotto arched' over by falling
timbers.
9 Forty unaeeountsd For.
= A ianitor of the building said that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02
Lansing Announces No
Note Has Been Dis
patched to Berlin.
MESSAGE TO GERARD
PROBABLY SENT
lansing Does Not Dsny Cable Has
Gone Forward % United statss AM
bassader officials Close 20 Admin
! ;strstion Frosty Admit That ssver-
Stanes Of Diplomatic Rslatiens 10
|sPrebabIs.

washington, Feb. 2.-After the
time the cabinet assembled this aft
aernoon there had been no outward
change IN the submarine crisis.
The only definite development OF
! the day thus far was . nat state.
'|ment ~ Secretary Lansing that no
communication had yet been sent
to Germany. Back OF the general
|sly, accepted view, which prevailed
elalmost everywhere in official quar-
tiers. that President Wilson had de-
,lcided upon his action and that It
ESwould be diplomatic break. even
\ tho DELAYED by some preliminaries.
was a. hint Of some sort Of action
Iof which there has hitherto been
mo intimation. It was a minor note
and indefinable but seemed to
command some attention.
The Group which had been urg-.
ling peace moves professed to be-
dieve President Wilson's first step
Hwould be . last bold stroke for
lpeace ana severance Of diplomatic
,relations would be last resort
f Another group which admitted
that the German note left no doubt
rttiAt Germany,s pledges to the
United States would be violated in
|sthe new campaign OF ruthleSsness.
held fast to the opinion that the
president would not act before
&so1ne 0ySFt act had been committed
AssinstS AmericaM rights
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02
Germans Take Ru,, Trenches.

1 Petrograd, via London, Feb 2.Ger-
man troops dressed in white overalgs
yesterday broke thru the Russian first
line trench positions at Solotvina,
southwest Of Brzezany, says the official
statement issued today blythe Russian
war department. The Russians, how
ever launched a counter attack and
drove the Teutons back into their own
entrenchments. d
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02
Tenanted Apartment in
Ghetto District Wrecked
by Explosion.
RESCUE EFFORTS
MADE DIFFICULT
Burning Gas From Broken Mains and
intense Cold Handicap Firemen's
Efforts-Water Freezes as 1t Falls,
Creating Scene Like Blazing Iceberg
Cries Of Injured Heard in Ruins
Twenty. six Believed Dead.

Chicago, Feb. 2.-An estimated
total of forty dead in the gas ex-
plosion and fire In a tenement
building In the west side ghetto at
1 a. m. today may be materially
reduced.
Many hours later the removal OF
debris enabled hremen to rescue
three unconscious adults and. to
hear means in two different parts
of the ruins. Firemen, police and
laborers, encouraged by the sounds
which indicated life. worked fran
tically to remove the wreckage.
At noon, elcgen hours after the
! explosion and fire. the police an
nounced that twenty-siX persons
were missing and probably dead.
6s Ninety-one persons resided in the
building, according to the agent re-
porting it. The janitor accounted
for nineteen of these as being away
at work. leaving 72 who, he as
stunned, were in the building at the
time Of the explosion. These the
police accounted for as follows:
Known dead, 2: injured. q;
missing, probably dead, 26; known
rescued or accounted for, %.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02

wreckage where the means came from
firemen came upon o man and a woman
in q semi conscious condition. Fire
men said the voices were palmer and
many persons seemed imprisoned in q
wrecked grotto arched over by falling
Tim hers ffs- 4. All 9sr9 fig% e
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02

Forty Unaccounted For.
A janitor of the building said that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02

dcials however, declined to commit
themselves. While yesterday it was
said fatty that no announcement
would be made for the rest Of the day.
officials today refused to make any
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
LEGAL NOTICE
Estate of Noah D. Congo, dec

Estate of Noah d. Congo, dec
eased:
Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administration upon the
Estate of Noah D. Congo, late of
Pencader Hundred, deceased, were
duly granted unto Howard D. Con-
go on the Twenty-frst day of April
A D. 1917, and all persons indebt-
ed to the said deceased are re-
quested to make payment to the
Administrator without delay, and
all persons h az wing demands
against the deceased are required
to exhibit and present the same
duly probated to the said Admins
traitor on or before the Twenty
first day of April AID. 1918, or
abide by the law in this behalf.
Address: Charles B. Evans, ESQ.,
Attorney at law, Wilmington,
Del.
Howard D. Congo,
Administrator.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
STRAWBERRY FESTI-
VAL AND DANSANT
Special Children's Program
Planned

Ladies Of the New Century Club
are planning for a strawberry
festival and dansant, to be held in
the club house on Friday and Sat-
urday, May % and 26. There will
be fine homemade cakes, candy,
coffee, and sandwiches, for sale.
Each evening there will be dane
ing; price of tickets, twenty-five
cents.
On Saturday afternoon there
will be special entertainment for
children, under the direction of
Miss Rich of the Women's College,
No admission will be charged, and
all are welcome. Doors will open
each day at three-thirty.
For a week beginning May goth,
the ladies will also hold sale of
secondhand house furnishings as
we'll as clothing. The sale will be
held in the basement of the club
building. Any who wish to con-
tribute articles for the sale should
notify Mrs. A. T. Neale, Miss Elsie
Wright. or Mrs. L. X. Bowen.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16

finds the democratic powers act
i've. We should be challenged by
a triumphant Germany not i'm
mediately, and at our own sea
gates, but eventually, and in South
America or the far East, or wher-
ever our interest, commercial or
political, might lead US. The pre-
tence that Germany is democratic
because the Imperial Reichstag is
elected by universal suffrage
should deceive nobody. If the
President of the United States
were a hereditary life ruler, con-
trolling the Senate, and able
through such control to dissolve
the House of Representatives as
often as he chose, and if that
House of Representatives were
chosen in districts Of unequal pop
ulation, and seats were distributed
so as to assure a majority to the
petual president, our Federal Gov
eminent would strongly resemble
the Imperial government of Ger
many. With such a power uncurb-
ed democracy will be checked in
its spread throughout the world,
and all nations will be condemned
for long years to that form of war
called the armed peace. Our duty
is plain enough to help the Allies
of the Entente not merely with
credit and material, but with men.
E. n. Vallandigham.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
PEOPLES COLUMN
The New American Frontier

To the Editor of The Post
Sir: Delaware, | see, is slow in
furnishing recruits to the army.
My notion is that the advocates of
preparedness" greatly overdid the
campaign Of hate and fear. We
Americans are not bitter and not
a timid people, and the appeal to
hate and fear served to disgust
and anger many who might have
responded to the appeal to reason.
We need not hate the Germans, in
spite of the evil done by their
ruthless soldiery, and we have not
now, as we never have had, any
good reason to fear them. The AL
lies of the Entente could never
have afforded to submit to defeat
at the hands of Germany, and the
nightmare Of a German fleet before
New York ready to lay the city
under tribute was only a night
mare. We are into the war now,
however, and service abroad is
plainly home guard duty, for our
frontier has suddenly crossed the
Atlantic. The German war ma
chine is the most dangerous enemy
that modern democracy has known,
not because it expects to conquer
us, but because it contemplates
turning back the hands of the pol
itical clock, and eventually chal-
longing democracy wherever it
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
Scouts Hold Meeting

After the meeting of Troop 2 of
Newark the members enjoyed a
short hike to the Red Mems Home.
The scouts enjoyed many planned
scout games on the lawn in front
of the home for two hours.
At the regular meeting that
evening most of the time was
spent in drilling and signal work.
Robert o. Hayes, Scribe.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
NEWARK OPERA HOUSE
PROGRAM WEEK BEGINNING

Margarta Fischer who such wonderful interpre-
taton of Miss Jackie of the Navy" will be seen in
THE BUTTERFLY GIRL"
5-ree filmed San Diego, CAL Therefore full of
beautiful The story highly imaginative but
fascinating This of the pictures that all will enjoy
Friday 18th
Mary Pickford in
poor LITTLE RICH GIRL
This picture affords the inimitable Mary Pickford
which allows the foremost favorte ample
opportunity portray touching situations only she
For the benefit of those who wish attend the
ty meeting will the first show at 100 o'clock second
show at $780,
Admission this special attraction Adults l5c; chill
dren, 1Oc.
Saturday 10Th
Florence La Babe in HER LIFE AND HIS, in parts.
"Pathe News" showing latest important events of the
world.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
HOW BUSY FOLK
MAY HELP
Let The Red Cross Work For
You

Many Newark women who share
the feeling Of Americans every
where, in their desire to do some
thing to help in the national crisis,
hesitate to join the Red Cross,
feeling that the home duties with
plans for gardening and canning,
make membership impossible. To
all such the letter issued by Mrs.
Henry B. Thompson, chairman of
the membership committee of the
Delaware Chapter, will prove in
teresting. Mrs. Wilson says:
If | join the Red Cross will |
have to do any work? No!-the
Red Cross will work for you!! The
Red Cross, through the help you
give by becoming an annual sub
scriber, on payment of 81 90 a
year, or to be exact. l-3c a
month, has agreed, to see that
your money is spent in the best
and most efficacious manner pos
sible in relieving the sick and
wounded men in time Of war and
to carry relief to those suffering
from pestilence, famine, fire, floods
or other calamities.' Should you
wish to communicate with or To-
cate, sick, wounded or imprisoned
soldiers" during the present war,
the Red Cross by your aid in sup
porting it's organization will be
able to do this for you. Any work
you can do will be gladly accepted,
but it is purely voluntary. THERE
is NO OBLIGATION.
PRESIDENT WILSON IS PRES
IDENT OF THE RED CROSS.
1t is run on a business system,
all accounts being audited by the
War Department.
Money designated by the givers
goes to the cause for which it is
given.
The organization is kept up by
the annual subscriptions of its
members.
Every year the calls upon the
Red Cross become greater and
more urgent-to meet these de-
mands a larger number of sub
scribers is needed. With a popula
tion in the United States Of one
hundred millions, we should Ger.
tainly have five millions of mem
bers for the Red Cross.
That is why we are having {
campaign here for larger mem
bership-that is why the signs
JOIN THE RED CROSS,
YOUR RED CROSS NEEDS
YOU" are everywhere in our city
today. 1t is your Red Cross, my
friends, and it will work for yol
when your son or your brother ha'
left home to go to France to hell
our Allies win this War for Lib
erty and Civilization-it will b.
the one way that they can get tn
little loving tokens you will sen'
them from home and your $i.0
will mean a lot to some one else
boy at the front if you haven't go
one there of your own.
SO don't hold back now-give VI
some trifle or make a real sacrific
and deny yourself some pleasure
BUT JOIN THE RED CROSS TO
DAY!
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
Entertainment And
Strawberry Festival

The ladies' missionary society of
the Presbyterian Church will give
an entertainment followed by a
strawberry festival on the evening
of Friday, June first, in the lecture
room of the church.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-05-16
OTHER FOLKS
The Way They are Meeting
The National Crisis

The following letter relating the
experience of farmer in Della
ware County, Pennsylvania, testi-
fies to the value of the services of
high school boys on the farm. The
farmer writes:
THE four High School boys
came out on Saturday and | am
bound to say that was very much
pleased with them. When they ar
rived they told me they wanted to
work; and that they were willing
to do anything. AS the ground
was too wet for planting work l
put the boys at cleaning chicken
houses, digging bitches, hauling
stones, rails, ETC., etc. | am so
pleasantly surprised with their
work both as to quality and guam
tity that hope you will send them
to me every Saturday and any
other time that they can come"
The farmer has asked for eight
boys next Saturday.
In response to the Red Cross call
for more Red Cross hospital dress
ings, hospital supplies, etc, Mrs.
G. w. Marshall has reported for
the towns of Milford, Frederick,
Lincoln, and Glendale, two hun
dred members, and a request for
material for Is shirts, so pajamas,
Is sheets, Is pillows, Is towels,
and so operating crowns. The
group has already delivered three
boxes of finished articles. Mrs.
Marshall reports a band Of good
knitters willing to do whatever is
asked of them.
The New Castle branch, Mrs.
julius Dodd chairman, is organ
lied and is hard at work making
bahamas and hospital shirts. The
Wyoming branch, Mrs. R. J. Lin
dale chairman, is doing it's second
batch Of work on hospital supplies
Dover, with a large membership,
has a special surgical supply class
under Mrs. C. B. Hope, and is max
ing bandages and garments
Lewes, Mrs. William P. Orr chair.
man, and Harrington, DR.. Florence
Marshall, chairman, have received
their first consignment of mater.
ials.
An Emergency Association with
about fifty members has been or
ganized at Georgetown, with DR.
Caleb R. Layton, president. Re
ceptacles for the deposit of money
have been placed in several store!
and committee has been appoint
ed to visit the merchants ant
stores and ask that they displa,
the national colors.
, The purpose Of the association
is to supply bandages and othe
, materials needed by the medica
corps Of the army. The room il
the Lacey Building formerly uset
as the Republican Club room ha
, been secured as a place for sew
. ing and stored materials.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
WISH TO CONTROL CEMETERY
Foreigners in Rome Urge italian Gov
eminent to Take Over Burial
Ground Owned by Germany.

War has drawn attention to the fact
that the great Protestant cemetery In
Rome, where are buried many distin-
guished foreigners including the poets,
Keats and Shelley, is the property OF
the German government, and the rent
ais for plots therein are still paid to
German agents.
More than a century ago Prussia
was the only non-Roman Catholic p W.
er represented at the Vatican. There
fore, it was Prussia which obtained
the concession for cemetery to be
used for the bodies of those not Of the
Roman faith, and the property still
remains in the hands Of the German
government.
Prominent foreigners now are urging
that the Italian government should
take over the cemetery and place it
under British protection.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRD.

The quality of being unique may be
given q dwelling of the bungalow type
with no suggestion Of intricacy of. or
namental details. This fact is brought
out clearly by the Photographic per-
spective view accompanying. This lit
tie building is decidedly attractive and
lis quite different from the average
mans ideas of bungalow, yet at no
place in the structure is there any evil
dence of complicated construction. 1t
is not an expensive type of construc-
ton; in fact, it would be rated among
the class of low-cost dwellings, but this
does not imply that there has been any
skimping resorted to in order that the
cost might be kept down.
There are two floor plans shown
for this bungalow. These differ both
in size and in the arrangement and
character of the rooms. The exterior
appearance of the building is practic-
ally the same for the two plans, the
larger plan calling for proportional
increase in the horizontal dimensions
of the exterior, the only variation in
design being the continuation of one
of the side walls back to provide for
an additional bedroom in the larger
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
HOW GREAT WARS ARE WON
II Is Very Rarely That Conflicts Are
Victorious Because Of Superior
VaIor, Says Writer.

The vulgar idea of war Is that the
victory is won by superior valor or
other moral virtue, writes III. Side
botham in the Atlantic. This, however.
has very rarely been the case; al
most all Western nations, at any rate,
are equally brave, though the valor Of
some excels in obstinacy and endur-
ance and of others in daring and elan.
By far the commoner causes of vic
tory and defeat are political or tech
meal.
Sometimes Ito take the domain
of tactics) it is a new weapon that
wins victory on the battlefield, or at
any rate contributes to the ease with
which it is won; sometimes, as in
the Roman and in Frederick's armies,
it is superior discipline, greater physi-
cal fitness, and practice in maneuver
that win the victory. More often it
is some new formation of line. Those
tactics commonly succeed best OF all
which are both new and adapted to
the genius of the people using them.
Thus the Beers in the South African
war developed a highly original sys-
tenn of mounted infantry tactics by
simply using their horses in war time
as they did going about their ordinary
business on their wide sheep farms,
and similarly in the American wars
the woodsmen made ideal skirmisherS.