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THE LOUISVILLE, MONDAY DEGEM'BER 31, 1917. OUTFIT Noisy Welcome ID FAREWELL TANK EXPLODES, ENGLAND LACKS COLDEST DAY IN ArvUfinir TO DR. WEBB WOMAN KILLED TEA AND MILK EAST'S HISTORY HUNS ATTACK HEAR CAMBRAI WOMEN BUILD MODEL COMMUNITY HOUSES C'ontluuetl From First I'ago.) Will Be Given the New Year Police, However, Will Keep Revelers Within Prescribed Bounds. Saloonkeepers Arrested and Crap Games Raided. High Tribute Paid To Departing Minister.

Dearth of Butter and Lard Denounced By Labor. Capture -Ground At TVvv Points, But Later Ejected. Guest Painfully Injured When Boiler Lets Go. Cement Dam Across Beaver Creek Is Blown Up. afternoon another downward trend was perceptible.

No hope of relief before Tuesday was held out by the bureau, which predicted another day of extreme cold to-morrow. ive deaths due to the cold wave reported. A taxicab driver was found frozen to death in his machine in a garage in Jersey A uaoy found dead in its crib this morning is said to have succumbed to the severe cold, and a traction employe was killed when he became numb and fell to the pavement in front of a street car. Two men were frozen to death in Brooklyn during the day. Scores of persons suffering from exposure and frost bite were treated at various, hospitals.

Big Guns Active In Italian Hill Region. NEW GAINS BY ALLENBY: Mindful of the vast changes in the national life which the past year has brought, and nowhere in a greater degree than Louisville, the celebration of the birth of 1918 at midnight to-night will be none the less hearty because of the fuct that the potentialities ot the coming twelve months are infinitely greater than last. The welcome for the year will be a -noisy one. The scream of whistles, the shouts of revelers, and the music of the (lance will be co-ordinated into one common note of nope, hope for the opportunities which the new year will bring. This noise, however, must be confined within certain limits, and (Col.

Ludlow F. Petty, Chief of police, last night li-'sued a statement to the people of the city, calling attention to the regula London. Dec. 30. There was heavy i fighting to-day south ot Germans made a strong attack on e.

front of about two miles, according Field Marshal Haig's' report from: headquarters to-night. They succeed- a in gaining a foothold at two but later were ejected in part by Brit-- ish counter attacks. The text of the- statement reads: i "At dawn to-day the enemy madf powerful local attacks on a total front of over two miles against bur poal- tion on the spur known as Welshridgt, south of Cambrai. In the center" enemy was repulsed, but on the right, y. to the nortli of La Vacqueries and on tv.

the left, to the south of Marcoing, hi- sjj troops succeeded In effecting a lodg- ij ment in two small salients in our lines. "Our counter attacks have eeoted. the enemy from a portion of these po. sitions, and we have taken a number. of prisoners.

The fighting is uing'in both localities. -'M "Early this morning hostile raldinsr -ig parties which attacked our position in tho neighborhood of Gonnelieu'wrB Made Men Servants of God, Stanley Says. MINISTER DEEPLY TOUCHED When the Rev. Dr. W.

W. Landrmn, master of ceremonies at the farewell service tendered the Rev. Dr. Aquilla Webb, departing pastor of Warren Memorial Presbyterian church, by the Ministerial Association of Louisville last night, in opening the programme declared that, "When I look upon the congregation that Alls this church tonight, representatives of every relig ious denomination in the city, and men and women in every walk of life, I can truthfully say that no minister has ever received such a generous and general demonstration of love during my stay in Louisville," he expressed comprehensively the nature of the eulogistic Godspeed given the man who for a decade has been an important factor in the city's religious and social life. Men of every shade of political and religious belief, ministers and laymen.

beginning with tne Governor of the State, paid tributes to his work and worth and invoked every blessing upon him in his new and larger field of endeavor. Will Leave This Week. The Rev. Dr. Webb will leave this week for Philadelphia, where, next Sunday, he will preach for the first time iu Central North Broad Presbyterian church as its pastor.

He preached his farewell sermon to his congregation yesterday morning, his subject being, "Building the Church." The services in Warren Memorial church last night were arranged by the Ministerial Association as a tribute of the esteem in which lie is held by his fellow Gov. A. O. Stanley occupied a seat on the rostrum, together with former Mayor W. O.

Head and a dozen min isters. The Rev. Dr. W. W.

Landrum, pastor of Broadway Baptist church, presided and the double quartet choir of the church rendered a special musical programme. Following devotional exercises led by the Rev. Dr. 13. L.

Warren and the Rev. Dr. C. W. Welch, resolutions eulogistic of Dr.

Webb's work the community, which were adopted by the Ministerial. Association were read. The Rev. Dr. Dosker.

of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, spoke briefly on the Rev. Dr. Webb's relationship his own congregation and the church at large. C. Lee Cook, who was to have spoken of the pastor's relation as a personal friend, could not be present, but instead sent a letter of tribute, which the Rev.

Dr. Land- rum read. Ministers and Laymen Speak. On the general subject of his re lationship to the institutions of the city. William Heyburn, president of the 1.

M. C. testified briefly but glowing terms to the hearty cooperation and the aid the institution and he himself had received at the hands of the Rev. Dr. Webb.

Adjt. Fred Ladlow spoke feelingly the sympathetic labors of Dr. Webb in behalf of the Salvation Army and in bidding him Godspeed declared the members of the army love him. The Rev. Dr.

Charles R. Hemphill. clean of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, declared that Dr. Webb's ministry had been of great value to his institution because was the t1rne of man he wanted students to know and "their affections and their prayers go with him." Letters were read from Mrs. C.

Malcolm Bullitt, head of the Y. W. C. the Rev. Dr.

E. Y. Mullius. president the1 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Rev. W.

H. Sheppard. colored minister, all of whom were unable to be present, testifying to the esteem in which each holds the Rev Webb. On the subject of the Iatter's civic relations former Mayor Head declar "The old town is better for your" having lived here; our prayers go with you." Mayor George Weissinger Smith and former Mayor John H. Busche-meyer sent letters of regret, the former being out of the city and the lat- in the midst of the celebration of wedding anniversary, both paying gTacious tributes to Dr.

Webb. The Rev. Dr. Landrum then introduced Gov. (Stanley 'as the man best fitted to tell of Dr.

Webb's relations the Commonwealth. The congregation arose in greeting to the Governor he approached the front of the rostrum. The Chief Executive spoke briefly but with fervid eloquence, paying a glowing to the retiring pastor. 0ov. Stanley's Tribute.

It was my good fortune, he said, to have known Dr. Webb most intimately, a coveted distinction to have been permitted to number him among my friends. Vitally interested in all that pertains the development of the State's the improvement of its edu cational institutions and the ennobling its citizens. I cheerfully acknowledge profound lnue-Dteuness to mm ror time and his wise counsel eheerfully graciously given. Through it all was profoundly impressed with the injunction of the Nazarene "To ender unto Laesar rue uuugs mat are Caesar and unto uoa tne tilings tnat God's." What a boon to religion humanity ahKe, it at tne present "-our and tne ages pasi ana gone, his contemporaries and his pre decessors alike had made this command inviolate ruie ul cohuucl hi an maters civil and ecclesiastical.

The Rev. Dr. Webb abhorred the vretched sophistry that "the end jus tified the means. anrl lie resolutely completes the home by giving it that bright and i-heerfiil air, which really a house into a home. And does it without trouble or work.

Just t'itv gas in the country. AI.1IMHT. 1. TERSTKRGK. SI3 IV.

Main ltilsville. Kv. a I a Bootleggers Also Figure Police Activities. In PATROLMEN IN KHAKI The "clean-up" process ot Chief of Police Petty was productive of numerous arrests Saturday nisht and yesterday, hut this time he directed the efforts of his men to the eastern and outlying districts. Crap sames.

saloons and a few bootleggers figured in the summary. Oneopium outfit was brought in by Capt. Heimerdinger and Plain Clothes Man Buckley last night when a room in a house at 607 South Sixth street was raided. No one was found iu the place. Alleged Crap Game Raided.

It was in the nature of a real Wild West hold'-up that Plainclothes Uaughertv and laird raided a building located at 042 East street, occupied by Brough-ton. after an alleged bootlegger had unwittingly led them to the place whore a big crap game was found to be going on. according to the police. Clad in the uniform of privates and accompanied by soldiers, the two policemen were approached near Floyd and streets by a man selling whisky. The soldiers bought and in a few more seconds the seller would have been under arrest, but as he was being paid he said: "Say.

boys, you look all right; I'll show you where there is a big crap game." This remark "saved his bacon" for the time being. The officers thought it best not to "pinch" him at once, but bring him in with the crap game participants, as he had volunteered to go along. Arrived at the place, Daugherty and Laird say they found a crowd constantly fluctuating by arrivals and departures. The crowd was so large that the policemen decided they needed help. They thought of strategy.

Laird asked permission to go and call "the Captain at Camp Zacharv Taylor" and tell him that he had decided to stay out all night. They fell for this ruse. Thought Police Holdup Men. The Fifth district police machine was called instead and in a few min utes it had backed up at the house. Laird.

who had returned, and Daugherty suddenly pulled their re vol vers and instantly every in the assemblage was raised. The erapshooters for a few moments were under the impression that soldiers were holding them up. The sight of men in police uniform burst ing into the place, although arrest confronted everyone, was relief to the winners, but hard luck for those who were losers and who were racing the additional misfortune of a fine in Folic Court, one man, who said that he was $70 winner. thanked the police for breaking up the game, saving: "Well, even If I am fined $25 I'll still be a 'few bucks to the When the police station was reached the police looked in vain for the man who had sold them whisky. He was not there.

Some of those taken into custody rave the following nanrfes: Edward Hoth. Bernard Casticle. Charles Wright. Tv Moore. John Knopp.

Tim Givnn. Chnrles Hortz and James Walton. Names given by some are said to be fictitious. One-legged Man Caught. Single-handed Plainclothes Man Wilgus raided an alleged crap game on Preston, near Chestnut street, late Saturday night.

Thirty negroes and one white man were In the game, he says. Ho was able to hold only two negroes. The other twenty-eight blacks were' able to make their getaway. However, the white man was not so fortunate. He was a one-legged man and suffered the worst kind of tough luck.

Just as he started to sorlnt his woode- lee fell off and Wilgus. holding a negro with each hand, stood on the man's wooden leg. The white man gave his name as .1. P. Davis.

He was charged with disorderly conduct. The negroes registered as John King and Tom Taylor. Tavlor is charged with set-ling' up and running a game of chance. SALOONKEEPERS ARRESTED. Several' Are Charged With Violating Sunday Closing Law.

Arthur O. Pfieiderer. proprietor of a saloon at 1432 West Chestnut street, was arrested yesterday morning by plain clothes men Moss and of the Seventh district. He was charged with violating the Sunday closing law. According to the arresting officers, they sent two men into the' saloon to purchase drinks.

The saloon of Elmer E. Sparks, 1325 South Preston street, was raid ed at 11 o'clock yesterday morning by Plain clothes men Archer and Mc-Gill, of the Fifth district. Sparks was Placed under arrest charged with violating the Sunday closing- law. Philip Beattie, bartender, was arrested charged with disposing of liquor on Sunday. Burley Ballinger, a negro, was arrested charged with disorderly The officers after entering 'he place called District Detectives Yent and Stein and Capt.

Ira Hutchison. J. D. Evans was arrested as lie emerged from a side door of the saloon of M. Burgy Son, .1700 West -Magazine street, by Officers Browning and Autrey.

He was charged with disorderly conduct. According to the officers, Evans had three bottles of beer under his arm. Kver.v large farm or factory has a repair Miop 1 very smnll establishment "will find profitable to have at least a frw tools driven by G-E ELECTRIC MOTORS ye ideal for repair shop work. Wholesale Only. HdW.

Eg. 80. -V" of of 14 at of Bread Plentiful, Price Meats Reduced. of FOOD SHORTAGE NOT ACUTE London, Dec. 30.

The demand made by the Labur convention that the Government secure a more equitable distribution of 'foodstuffs arose from the constantly giowint' difficulty experienced, especially by the poorer classes, in obtaining a few sta-ple articles. No difficulty has yet been experienced in obtaining bread, which, under the Government subsidy system, is the cheapest food on the market. Potatoes and fresh vegetables also are plentiful and comparatively cheap, while meat, although less plentiful than formerly, still is In fair suppy and at prices ranging below those of a few months ago. This is due also to Government control. Fruits, fresh and dried, for which the.

country independent uiion imported supplies, are still obtainable, but at higher prices and in limited amounts. The articles most difficult to obtain and which has caused quite a scandal are tea, butter, lard and margarine. It is almost impossible to purchase butter. Scarcity of milk is noticeable only in the poorer districts of the big towns, Milk Imports Reduced. Tin.

lack of milk is due to reduce! imports of concentrated feeding stuffs, and the' plowing up of -pasture land for the or cereals. The shortage in milk is beinjr partly met by the prohibition to use milk or cream in the manufacture of sweetstuffs and the stoppage of the sale of milk as a bev erage in restaurants and pther places. The price of milk, however, is high and th6 Government is being urged to take steps to secure a cheaper rate to poor nursing mothers and children. The tea scarcity showed itself very suddenly, and many persons suspected that this was a trade dodge to divert the people to coffee, of which it is believed there are ample supplies in the country, especially as it is noticeable that there never is any difficulty in obtaining tea as a beverage in restaurants, luncheon- rooms and tea rooms. The British, however, are not a coffee-drinking nation, and the Government has been able to fix the price of coffee at the nearest approach to the pre-war standard of any article of food, namely, IS pence per pound.

Tea is still in very limited supply and at high prices, but the Government promises greater supplies within a couple of months, when it is hoped that the requisitioned Ceylon and Indian crops will be marketed. The worst shortage has been in butter, margarine and lard. Most of the hotels and restaurants have been obliged during the past fortnight to refuse to serve butter with dinners and luncheons. The shortage in these fats is due to. die cessation of supplies from Holland and.

Denmark. It lias been particularly nOsticeable since Great Britain and the ynited States applied greater pressure lo ueuirai countries ami since the food controller fixed prices for these commodities on a scale that made it more profitable for neutrals to trade with Germany, if they were able to spare anything from their own require ments. Food Cheaper In England. It has to be remembered that food is dearer in almost every country of Europe than in England, and that almost every other country already has adopted some system of rationing. England's difficulty was enhanced recently by the adoption of a system of sharing supplies with trance ana Italy, and tne whole situation naturally is governed by the tonnage difficulty.

It is hard to see how the butter situation can be surmounted, but the Government is doing its utmost to foster the home production of margarine. Here again the food controller has fixed prices for needful raw materials at such rates as fail to encourage imports of them. For the moment food prices, which were rapidly growing to be the feature of urban life, have somewhat disappeared. They were the outcome of bad distribution. Large supplies, especially of margarines, were in the hands either of the margarine manufacturers or other big concerns owning large numbers of what are known as "multiple shops." Under the powers granted by the Government local food committees have seized the supplies in these shops and diverted them to other shops for distribution.

DEFENSE SOCIETY TELLS OF BLOCKING HUN PROPAGANDA Washington, Doc. 30. In a report submitted to the Committee cn Public Information to-day the American Defense Society outlines its activities for the past year, emphasiZing- the success of its campaign aprn'mst pro-German box" orators. I of disloyal residents and reporting of evidence of German propiiparida is carried on by 150 vicri lance corps throughout the country. TELEPHONE GIRLS GRANTED RAISE; STRIKE AVERTED Eoston.

Dec. A threatened strike of telephone operators of the Xew lOngland Telephone Con. puny in this city and nearby districts was averted to-night when the principal wage demands were granted by the company. The settlement was announced after conference between a Federal mediator and representatives of the company and the young women of the operators' union. FARMER IN FEAR OF DRAFT KILLS WIFEjJBABY, AND SELF Dec.

30. Fear of the draff is thnuiit to have prompted Ohmies Lofrnn. a farmer near McLain. to kill his wife and babv last niprht, set (ire to the house and then cut his own throat. This theory of officers who returned to-day from the scene disposes of what was supposed at first to be a murder for purposes of robbery or revenue.

Lojran iounn Kneeimj oesiue a couch with charred bits of a qur stionnaire which he should imve tiled in his hands. 50 PASSENGER SCHEDULES ON P. R. ROAD CANCELED Philadelphia. Dec.

3ft. The Philadelphia Reading Railway to-nisiit announced the annulment of more tha: fifty passenger trains, effective Janu ary Most: of treni are locals, running' between this city and un-Sta-points. The action, it was stated, was to facilitate the handiiiiEc of Government material and troops. BOLSHEVIK DISORDERS AT VLADIVOSTOK REPORTED Dec. 30.

The North China Daiiy the situation Harbin, Manchuria, is says also that Bolshov: lisorders have occurred at tok, and the Chinese are endeavurlnj, send troops there. RADCLIFFE COTTAGE. Ivis. Dec. SO.

In such a remote region of the Kentucky mountains that there is not even a mail service, there is a "Radcliffe Cottage." which is just completed and occupied as administration headquarters of the Caney Creek Community Center, the nearest post-office to which is Ivis. Knott county. It is called "Radcliffe Cottagn" because the funds to build it were solicited by a Radcliffe girl, Mrs. Mice Geddes I.loyd, from Radcliffe girls. Lloyd is one of th--.

founders of this pioneer settlement, and she conceived the idea of building "Radcliffe Cottage" by means of from as many Radcliffe former students as would respond to an appeal. Enough rallied to the call to eomplete and heat the building. The Caney Creek Communi tv Center reaches approximately 1,400 persons. Its entire aim is regeneration ot the individual, the family, the home and the community. Its methods are sanitation, pure water supplv, prevention of disease, higher type of cabin life by means of model homes, civic clubs, health and social survevs, community ngitation for roads, education of adults.

After Radcliffe Cottage was assured other college girls became interested. The Smith present and former, students have a Smithumpton Industries Building boarded in and partly roofed: and the Wellcsley present and former students have a fund under way. in S2. for a Welleslev Recreation Hall. Another college, for the present anonymous, albeit unofficially, is starting a plant to raise similarly enough to build a road from the Caney Creek Community Center to the railroad in the next county Calls Perry on the Susquehanna River is hourly becoming less because of the increasing ice in the river and its tributaries.

Electric power allowances for the Maryland Steel Company and the Baltimore Copper Smelting Works and other industrial plants has been curtailed. Officials of the Bethlehem Steel Company's plant at Sparrows Point admit that the situation is grave. If the reduction in power continues more men will be laid off and the tin mill may suspend. All trains on the Pennsylvania and Baltimore Ohio railroads are from one to three hours late. All the water transportation lines are badly crippled.

Practically every river in the State is frozen over and it is impossible for steamboats to make landings. Truck In South Killed. New Orleans, Dec. 30. All cold weather records for December In this city were broken to-day when the weather bureau thermometer registered 19 degree's above zero at 7 a.

m. A bright sun caused a gradual rise to 32 above at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Virtually all farm and garden trucks in the New Orleans territory was believed killed last night, although in some of the lower coast sections growers were able to save their truck by heavy coverings. Outdoor flowers and decorative plants In the city were practically all killed despite coverings. The better grades of oranges all have been picked and the loss was principally for truck.

Appeals To Wilson For Coal. Lansing. Dec. 30. Declaring' that Michigan to-night has not suf ficient coal on hand or in sight to keep the homes warm.

State Fuel Ad ministrator Prudden has wired a per sonal appeal to President V.Tilson for aid. The State Kuel Director also said in his telegram that the continued operation of all industries is threatened unless immediate relief is received. He urged the President to give coal shipments priority over ev erything else. Appeals for fuel poured Into the State Fuel Director's office to-day from cities and towns throughout the lower peninsula. The cold weather continued throughout the State to-day.

Ants that cultivate fungi within their nests for food have been discovered in Madagascar by French scientists. COURIER-JOURNAL DIRECTORY. FOURTH American Sales JSooftc Ltd. Eales books. Store Syaiema, Manilo'0 supplies ot An Kinds.

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Tailor. Rooms iHS SU. OTHER KENTUCKY NEWS Special to The Courier-Journal. Frankfort, Dec. 30.

Overheating a water tank connected to a coal range before the pipes had thawed, caused an explosion at the residence of Nash Atkins to-day, and Mrs. Edna Atkins, his daughter-in-law, was killed. Miss Anna Wigginton, of Stamping Ground, sister of Mrs. Atkins, who was visiting her, was seriously injured. The children at the home were seated around the stove, but escaped uninjured.

Mrs. Atkins is the wife of Ford Atkins, foreman at the Hoge Montgomery Shoe Company. Dam Blown Out. to The Glasgow. Dec.

SO. The large 'cement dam across Beaver Creek, three miles north of Glasgow, was blown up with dynamite or other high explosives some time last night. The dam was a new one, the property of the Beaver Creek Mills. Fifteen feet of the dam was blown away near the center of the creek, and waterpower of mill is temporarily destroyed. Because of the cold weather the dam cannot be repaired until spring.

The mill was under Federal license, as provided by the Food Administration. Suspicion is aroused, but no arrests have been made. Averts Panic In Movie Theater. to The Winchester, Dec. 30.

A panic was narrowly averted last night at the Pastime Theater when fire was discovered in the engine room at the rear of the building. The electrical equipment was affected and the building was suddenly plunged in darkness. A rumor of fire spread and the people hastened toward the exits. Patrolman Wallace Strode was present and succeeded in quieting the crowd. The fire department soon arrived, and extinguished th? blaze.

The loss is about $350. Will Meet At Louisa. Special to The Couri-er-Journal. Pikeville, Dec. 30.

The Eastern Kentucky Mountain, Life Conference, the first of its kind ever held in this end of the State, will be held in Louisa, Lawrence county, January 10-12. This conference is called together for the purpose of working out the rural problems peculair to the hills. There will be four sections of the meeting, rural school, roads, rural church and agricultural. refused at all times and under alt cir cumstances to descend from the ntffh place he occupied as the vice regent of the Most High God, however unetious might be the plea or tho claim of the Pharisee who sought to delude or to use him. He acknowledged allegiance to his church and to his God alone.

Always the champion of a noble cause, he was never the henchman of a political boss. He permitted not the storms of faction which trouble the turbid and unclean waters of the political sea to threaten the peace of his flock. His purpose was to make men the servants of God rather than tho partisans of men, however good or holy those men might proclaim themselves to be. Bids Fond Adieu. Those who professed his faith, who shared his councils, who sat at his feet, are to-day a great and a united congregation, wiser by his u-ifidpm, stronger by his strength, nobler by his holiness, and beyond the circle of his church all men who came within the widening radius of that magnetic and splendid personality Protestant and Catholic, saint and sinner share your sorrow and your regret that we are called upon to bid a fond adieu to this gentle, noble, manly man.

and they too, your pride and your joy that our loss is another's gain and that a wider vista of usefulness opens to him in the service of the man be loves and of the God he adores. Following the Governor's address, pastors of various city churches added brief tributes to the Rev. Dr. Wrebb's relations with his brethren In the ministry. The Rev.

Dr. John T. Thomas, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, declared him to be "the most loyal man to Louisville I ever knew and the best fellow in the world." The Rev. n. S.

S. Walz, pastor of the First Lutheran church, declared "there is on'iy one place Dr. Webb could go where he would more beloved and nobody wants to go there just yet 'that Is Heaven. But in the evening time of life come back to Louisville where everybody loVes you, and 'in. the evening- time there shall be The Rev.

Dr. L. Powell, pastor of the First Christian church, said: "He takes with him the hearts of everybody. I 'love him because he Is natural. He i.iri nm be artificial or professional.

He is is just Webb by the grace of God." The Rev. Dr. I'Tana an. xnom- nastor ot ourui-aveuue dist church, declared the Kev. Dr.

Wbb to be a man of rare heart and great love. When we stand by the golden sea of memory we. shall remember him for his goodness, his great heartedness and the sunshine of his smile. Dr. Webb Deeply Touched.

In closing the meeting the Rev. Dr. Landrum turned to the Rev. Dr. Webb, saying: "We are not here to say good-bye.

When you go and wherever you go, you are still our friend and we are your friet'ds, and we shall be with you and you shall be with us in spirit." The Rev. Dr. Webb was visibly af fected when he arose to make ac knowledgment of the tributes shower ed upon him, and though he spoke very briefly, his voice faltered with emotion and times almost failed him. He said: "I confess 1 feel like weeping. So far as leaving rhis wonderful Commonwealth of Kentucky and this splendid city of Louisville and all these wonderful friends, realize I cannot carry such burden.

I know I am going away: know I am leaving home, but I know that the latchkey will always hang on the outside: I know that this will always be my home. My dearest friends are here; to you the deepest affection of myheart is given. I have tried to do my best. God bless Kentucky. It is greater than Ohio, where I was born; it is greater than Pennsylvania, where I am going.

1 love it. and I shall always love this church." At his request the sang as the closing hj'mn "How Firm He then d'smissed gathering with the benediction. In Scotland there been buiit. i -Irawbridgb in which all the work of opening and closing It and guarding traffic over it and through it is done by electricity. at to Driven From Homes By Cold.

Dense clouds of vapor' caused, har-bormen said, by the water being warmer than the air. rose from tne rivers and bay throughout the day, virtually suspending harbor traffic. Ice in the rivers for the first time in many years threw ferryboat schedules out of any semblance of regularity, and tugboats were kept busy during the day breaking ice in the slips. Hundreds of men. women and children, driven from their homes when thir cnn.l Kimolies ran out, took ref uge In police stations.

Many stations were crowded throughout the day. Missions and lodging houses were kept busv providing shelter for the homeless, but it was stated the demands were not near so heavy as in past years, due to the comparatively timall number out of work. Fire Commissioner Adamson announced to-night that all dally records for fire alarms were broken. Many of them were false alarms, caused by frozen valves and stand pipes which disrupted the signal mechanism, he said, but most of them were due to overheated furnaces and accidents with oil stoves. The downward course of the mercury continued up until a late hour, and at 11 o'clock it had fallen to six below -zero.

The W'eather Bureau issued a revised forecast in which it was predicted it would not be "quite so cold" to-morrow night with "vari able winds becoming gentle south." The twelve Keith theaters in New- York and Brooklyn were thrown open to-night to the poor in search of warmth. Coal Shortage Acute. The coal shortage throughout Greater New York was made more acute to-day by the unprecedentedly cold weather. The available supply of fuel at the New Jersey terminals can not be moved, it was said, owing to the Impossibility of obtaining men to handle it during the. below-zero weather.

Another cause for worry to the fuel officials was the probability that the Hudson River would be frozen over and interrupt navigation 1 "The last forty-eight hours have given us cause for much worry," said Reeve Schlev. County Fuel Adminis trator. As fast as the coal reaches here it is consumed, and we have only enough to last us for one day." Mr. Schley said that the railroads have engaged special gangs of men to expedite coal shipments and their determination was mainly to increase the supply of coal at tidewater points. Settlement workers reported much suffering in the tenement districts, where many families were entirely out of fuel.

In frequent cases several tenants in a building assembled In the apartment of a more fortunate dweller and made the necessity of keeping warm a community affair, olunteer workers were touring the poorer sec tions of the city all day and where real suffering was found a supply of coal was at once delivered to the family. The fuel officials received numerous complaints from the occupants of apartment houses that heat was lacking. In a few office Iruildings open on Sunday the tenants found temperatures much below normal, with the prospect that elevator and electric light sendee might later be suspended if the managements were unable to obtain coal. Below Zero In Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Dec.

30. With temperatures ranging from 4 to 25 degrees below zero, Eastern Pennsylvania to-day experienced the coldest weather in many years. There was considerable suffering in many places, due to the shortage of coal. In Philadelphia the thermometer dropped to 4 degrees below zero at 6 a. the lowest since February 10, 1899, and, with one exception, the lowest in the history of the local Weather Bureau.

The record was established in 1880, when 6 below zero was reached. More than fifty small fires were reported during the day, most of which were caused by overheated stoves and bursting water-backs in ranges. Several persons were injured, none seriously. Hundreds of families were without coal and resorted to the use of gas for heating. Reports from up-State points were that the day was one of the coldest ever experienced in December.

Reading and "Harrlsburg reported 4 degrees below zero: Shenandoah, 20 below: Columbia and Pottsvllle. 12 below; Scranton, 13 below; Willlamsport, 14 below, and Hughesville, 25 below. Both the production and movement of anthracite coal was slowed up by the intense cold. Collieries were making every effort to prevent the freezing of workings, but it was feared that a number would be unable to operate to-morrow. 40 Below In Vermont.

Boston, Dec. 30. The coldest weather since the Government began keeping official temperature readings forty-seven years ago gripped New England. In this city the mercury sank to its lowest official mark, 14 degrees be low zero, at 5 o'clock in the -morn ing. For three hours it stuck at that point and then began rising gradually until at noon it was 3 below.

The lowest official record previously was made January 24, 1SS2, with a reading of 13 degrees below zero. Xorthtield. retained its winter championship title with 40 degrees below, the lowest official temperature reported at the Weather Bureau from New England to-day. Throughout New England the suffering among the poor was acute. In this city poice and fire stations were thrown open to those who had no coal.

Many churches made no attempt to keep open after the morn- ins services, but others which had sufficient fuel remained open to afford shelter to the hundreds who were unable to keep warm at home. Railroads trying to move-great accumulations of freight were badly handicapped and trains were running far behind schedules. Water transportation vas adversely affected Floating ice and dense vapor made aii shipping difficult and thousands tons of coal badly needed by transportation and manufacturing industries were still held up at various ports of refuge along the coast. Power Company Ifiay Close. Baltimore.

Dec. 30. Zerr weather in Baltimore and vieinit has car.scd widespread suffering fo lack of fuel. I'nless re'ief is irarie dinte the Consoli 'atrd fins Elec Light i-'oif vi' nv and the IJnitei oihrsv. whi'li bos the entirf and s'b''rhan otr service wli; live to Neith more than enough coal to last iortv hours.

The electric current received from the great plant at 5fo tions regarding the use of explosives in lear greeting. "The blowing of whistles and the ring ing of bells is an established custom," iie said, "and I would be disappointed if I did not hear them. Indeed, I am In favor ot giving an extra 'toot' for our boys 'over but the use of firecracker? and explosives is restricted uy an ordinance passed bv the ueneral council on November 16, lslO, and police officers have been directed to enforce it. The ordinance reads as follows: section 1. That no person shall, at any time, discharge or set oft anywhere within the city, or sell or offer for sale, any blank Distols.

blank cartridges, cane ammunition or canes for exploding same, cannon crackers or any exceeding two inches In length by one-fourth of an inch in diameter, or any firecrackers of any size containing explosives stronger than powder; or any Turkish crackers, torpedoes, except the ordinary commercial toy, or any other article loaded with two cnemicais, cnior-ate of potash and sulphur. "Section 2 That any person. Arm or corporation violating the piovisions or tnis ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding $100 for each offense or imprisoned for not exceeding thirty duys, or both at the discretion of the court. Closing regulations for saloons be rigidly enforced and "lid-lifters," he said, would meet no leniency on account of the fact that it was Xew Year's eve. Water-services innumerable will be held over the city, at the churches, at the Young Men's Christian Association and at Rome of the theaters.

A special service will be held at the Salvation Army Citadel beginning at 10:30 o'clock and continuing until midnight. Dr. Gregory Mantle, head of the Pentecostal Publishing Company, will conduct the services, assisted by Ensign Fred Ladlow. The Christian Alliance will unite with the Salvation Army and smilar religious bodies are also invited. Coffee and cake will be served to those who attend.

Although not a watch service, the annual reception of the Louisville Board of Trade will be held at the Inn Hotel from 10 a. m. until 1 p. m. on Xew Tear's.

A brief address will be delivered by Mayor George Weissinger Smith, and other city officials will also speak. Invitations have been issued to the ontire membership of the board. The Young Men's Christian Association will hold open house during the day on New Year's and will present a varied programme. In all the hotels to-night special arrangements have been made for the celebrants and special dinners will be served. A feature which will add color to the watch night services will be the presence of many army officers.

Practically the entire personnel of the officers at Camp Zachary Taylor will be in the city. TURNERS TO "BURY" 1917. Old Tear, Himself, To Be Only- Mourner At "Funeral" Servicec. The 780 members of the Louisvillo Turngemeinde will act as pallbearers at the funeral ot tne uia lear to-night. which will be conducted Dy ueorge Hit len, chairman of the Entertainment Committee, who says that the only real mourner on the occasion will be Old Year himself.

All the others of the funeal party will have a merry old Dr. Ed Jknochelman Has volunteered his services at tne Dirtri of tne New and he also promises merriment when he transforms the pallbearers into trodfathers. Tne turners nave umae extensive reparations for the Sylvester ball. as they call it, and' they and their friends will fill the big hall at 310 East Rroadwav. Two bands have been en- L'aired so there will be no Interruption in aance music.

i ne iiitu itiia utjen uetu-rated elaborately and arrangements have been made to accommodate over 1.000. MAI. GEN. WOOD ARRIVES SAFELY IN FRANCE Ca-mv Funston, Dec. 30.

Army officials here to-nlgm confirmed a report t-hr a cablegram was received say- fner wia. Mai. tien. wood, commander of the S9th Division at Camp Funston, had arrived sareiy in ranee, uen "Wood and his chief-of-staff, Lieut. Col C.

E. Kilboume, have gone ahead to study war problems at first hand, as is to be done by commanding1 officers of each division. FORCE OF VOLUNTEERS LANDS IN FRANCE Paris, Dec. 30. A Havas dispatch dated "Somewhere in France," says that a "contingent of volunteers" has landed there.

The volunteers were re ceived by the general commanding the military district, the Prefect, Mayor and other civil and military authorities. KENTUCKY DEATHS, Lawrence Welch. Speci.il to The Courier-Journal. Paris. Dec.

30. Lawrence Welch, 82 years old, died at the home his son-in-law. James Shea, here lnot nieht from the effects of a stroke Paralysis received week ago. Mr. -j Welch was oom e.i.uiu, Ireland, and came, to America when years old.

Besides his widow, he survived bv a daughter. Mrs. James. Shea of this city, and four sons, Ernest James, Richard and Allie elch, all' of Lexington. Funeral services tuIII he held at St.

Peter's Catholic church in Lexington Monday morninK 9 o'clock. Burial will be in the family lot in the Lexington Catholic-cemetery. Arthur Sublette. to The Versailles. Ky- Dec.

30. Arthur Sub'tte, 79 years old. former sheriff Woodford county, died this morning at his home in Versalles. He leaves his widow and four sons, Dr Romuei O. Sublette, and Frank Sublette this county.

A. M. Sublette, Birdsall. North Dakota. Arthur Sublette Stearns.

and one daughter. Mrs. A. D. Coll.nf.

Lexington. Ky. Thomas J. Peters. Special The Owingsville.

Uec. Friday was buried in the Qwingsvil.e i'v oemetery yesterday. 3 C. to in of he his of a Dr. ed: ted his to as and to of my his and he wis" are and in repulsed with loss.

"C-a the remainder of the front, there was only the usual artillery ac- tivity 6n both sides." On the French front the weather i still cold and this, with the covers the ground everywhere, is impeding operations on a large seals, Attack Hear Ypres Fails. The Germans Saturday nigrht ea-sayed an attack against the British, northeast of Ypres, where for th last several days they had; been lay--. ing down a heavy preparatory artillery fire. The attack, however, was: futile, for the British, ever on tU' watch, raked the Germans with their fire and repulsed them with consider-. able losses.

Likewise, attempts by the German to carry out raids on small posts near St Quentin, Beronrvaux and Vauquieres resulted in failur'. and in addition the enemy lost many! prisoners. There is still ronadderablM Intermittent artiHery activity alon the entire French front. Infantry Idle In Italy. Tn the Italian theater the for the present is idle, but the bljti guns continue to carry out muxuaia bombardments against opposing posi tions in the hill region from, th Asin iro nlateau eastward to the Biver.

This activity is praticulaxly; nronouneed on tine Monte Tomba sec tor and a few miles to the east on both sides of feaeroDoa, near t-neup-ir reaches of the Pi'ave Hirer. The British forces tinder Gen. Al- lenby continue their victorious marca against tne rurits in -aiestme. vou sideraDie iresu prugnssa iiuo made north and northwest of Jer lam, particularly in the oocupatid of Bireh, about twelve mnes to north, where the Turks offered st born resistance, but finally we overcome. OFFICE BUILDING AND GREEN STREETfl Western Union Telegraph Csv! Branca in near ivoooy uAcrmne F.

A. Meder. Dentist. Room 103. Phone City Cans.

J. Merlvretber Designer and Builder. Artistic Homes. Room KB. City Ttaos.

J. NolBJS, Architect. Room lid Dr. orcndort A rSddlesaast Rooms aoi. 204, 305.

Hours a to. to p. ax. a tn 19 i-Mt'v 1424 LToln hi.i ruvuD. .1,, mvi O.

Oil Gas Co. (Incorporated) J. W. Hutchcaun, tin. Rooms 401-402.

City tm kUto INt, Or. I. A. I'enalnrctoa. Dentiat Room 102.

Home Phone city 13m. E. itauebmao. Engraver. Phone City mg, J.

J. Roberta. Building Engineer. Room 4L2. (alcsmonshlp Cluto ot Laalntilm.

H. F- smittaers, Secretarr aljull 478-X. City It. P. Smltbemi.

Sales Agent. Tablet Ticket Transco iSnvetopo Ota Room 307. Splreila Corsets. Misses Park. Room 233.

Pbones: City 66. Uais J7e, Southern Go, Rooms aa-308. Dr. ,11. Selfrea.

Room 303. Office Hours a. m. to i Sundays i m. to 12 m.

fhone City 448g Dr. Vertes. Eye. Bar. Nose and Throat Room -32.

and 4-6 P- tn- City Mga, EI. C. Korfbage. Clocks. Rooms 41-42U-U1.

MUteer Winchester raoaistes. Koom 233 Phone "Haln i-SU-A, Hancock Taylor Ct. Real Elstate. Room Main 4iK-Y City an. Hn.

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