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a of 1 THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1907. BOARD OF TRADE ON SMOKE NUISANCE Hears That Pennsylvania Railroad Is Trying to Abate It COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT Mr. Jennings Says Manufacturers Seek Practical Method of Consumption Prospects are bright for relief in the near future from the smoke evil, which is causing many heartaches for housewives, giving Harrisburg the appearance of a dingy old town and turning Miss Penn and the new Capitol black. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company isdoing excellent work in this direction and the many manufacturers throughout the city are showing a desire to bring about better conditions as as a practical system has been found." This good news was announced last evening at the September meeting of the Harrisburg Board of Trade by a special committee appointed to ascertain the conditions and suggest a remedy from the smoke evil. The committee has been busy and is going about its work in a manner that assures a complete success.

The few members who were in attendance last evening heartily endorsed the work of the committee and added further of encouragement. smoke, The best evidence that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is doing everything in its power to 'stop the smoke nuisance came from prominent officials and employes of the company who were present last evening. The other business transacted was of a routine character. The committee on membership gave notice that during October an effort would be made to get the members together in order that everybody may become better acquainted. Manager and retary James A.

Bell gave an interesting account of his trip to Jamestown and the celebration of Harrisburg day, which was told in The Telegraph last evening. The board of managers in its monthly report gave encouraging news from the local industries and told about the several industries which desire to locate in Harrisburg, one of which is the Hean Molly Shoe Company, of Al- toona. Smoke Report. past." Railroad Men Speak. The report of the smoke committee was presented by Ralph W.

Bovinger, who has spent considerable time in securing data. His report was as follows: "Your committee has instituted an inquiry by letter and in person among the principal producers of smoke this community. "Your committee found that W. B. McCaleb, superintendent of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is actively engaged in the smoke problem.

Mr. McCaleb called into the conference C. H. Smith, read foreman of engines, and W. H.

ton, who directs the instruction of firemen in proper firing. These officials stated that close attention is being given to proper firing so as to produce a minimum of smoke. necessary, they will employ tional instructors to see that the firemen observe the rules of correct firing. "Your committee found that James B. Bailey, general manager, and George R.

Bentley, superintendent, of the Central, Iron and Steel Company, are testing a smoke-consuming device which so far is not successful. They are also giving closer attention to methods of firing. Two boilers of 250 horsepower are being added so as to relieve their other boilers that are now taxed to the utmost. This addition will reduce of the smoke. H.

Patton, president, and, Wiiliam T. Hildrup, treasurer, the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works, are about to add 600 horsepower to their battery of boilers, thereby cutting down the smoke they produce. They are also trying an automatic stoker which assists in keeping the smoke production to a lower point than ordinary firing will permit. They trying various methods of hand firing in search of are, relief from smoke. "All of the concerns written to assure us of their hearty support.

"Your committee has arranged with Frederick W. Cohen, chairman of the lecture committee of the Engineers' Club of Central Pennsylvania, to get Professor Kent, dean of Syracuse University, the expert employed by the Anti-Smoke League New York City, to deliver a lecture in Harrisburg on the causes and remedies for excessive smoke. Other eminent experts will also be secured to lecture. "The executives of the various railroads and mills and the men who do the firing will be invited to these lectures. Besides giving remedies for smoke, these experts will present figures showing the money that has been saved by careful firing." President William Jennings plimented the committee for its good work and said: "It is further evidence that the board is working to bring about a relief from this great evil.

The committee is doing things the right way and should be encouraged in the work. My acquaintance with the various manufactures hag impressed me with their desire, to and they will all be line when there is a practical system shown. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company deserves much credit for its efforts. The abatement of the smoke nuisance is a hobby of mine and I believe that smoke in damaging quantities will soon be a thing of the Road Foreman of Engines Charles H. Smith, of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, said he could not add much except that as the head of the department under which some effort must be made to stop the smoke nuisance he was satisfied that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is doing everything possible to bring about better conditions.

Assistant Road Foreman of Engines W. B. Steinmetz, of the Philadelphia division, whose work is in local yards, right where the nuiis most prevalent, and who has 37 years' experience with fireengineers and engines, gave "MONK" IS A THEATRICAL STAR THE MOST FAMOUS EQUIENE STAGE STAR IN THE WORLD WITH "BEN-HUR" BEN-HUR A MASTERPIECE When General Lew Wallace penned his immortal "Ben-Hur" he thought little of its possibilities as a drama of semi-sacred significance; in fact, it was the significance of the Christ's influence on the people and the times in which he walked on earth that General Wallace wanted to show; but in writing his masterpiece the Indianan "builded better than he knew." "Ben-Hur" has made the greatest triumph ever known in the theatre. From the moment when the curtain rises on the impressive tableau of the Star of Bethlehem to the final scene when, amid a burst of triumphal music almost too inspired for the human ear to bear, the drama ends, the action moves with a sweep that reaches its culmination in the great race scene, the most marvelous mechanical invention ever on the stage. The play appeals to all classes and all kinds of people.

The regular theatre-goer is thrilled by the realism of its storm at sea and interested in story of love which runs through the play, and the religious are inspired and overpowered by the reverand wonderment of the subtle influence of Jesus which pervades every line and scene of the drama. Even more this season than ever before Klaw Erlanger have given the production more care and more splendor and have engaged an excellent cast, some of whom and the parts they portray are: Characters in the Prelude- Balthasar, the Egyptian, Alfred Hollingsworth; Gaspar, the Greek, Chas. J. O'Brien; Melchoir, the Hindoo, Charles M. Harris.

Characters in the Drama BenHur, Judah, son of Ithamar, Thurs ton Hall; Messala, Wilmer L. Walter: Simonides, Henry Weaver; Ilderim, William Leyden; Arrius, the tribune, and Balthasar, Alfred Hollingsworth; Malluch, Charles M. Harris; Hortator, Charles Canfield: San ballat, Daniel E. Hanlon; Drusus, Chester A. Lee; Cecilius and Metelius, Dwight Dana; centurion, Frederick Scates; Khaled, George Wilkes; officer of the galley, Walter Markham; Esther, Fannie Hall; mother of Hur, Margaret Dills; Iras, Helen Singer; Amrah, Stella Boniface Weaver; Tirzah.

Meta Green. "Ben-Hur" will be seen at the ceum for three evenings, September 16, 17 and 18, with a special matinee to be given on Wednesday afternoon, September 18. The seat sale opens tomorrow, Thursday, morning at 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS LYCEUM THEATRE. Since Nellie Went Away--This ning.

The Lion and the Mouse--Thursday, Friday and Saturday. September 12, 13, 14. Special Saturday Matinee. -Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, September 16, 17, 18. Special Wednesday matinee.

Seat sale starts day morning. A REAL MELODRAMA. "Since Nellie Went Away," an Owen Davis play, played and presented by A. H. Woods, won much praise at the Lyceum yesterday afternoon and evening.

The various were handled by capable each characters, scoredd a hit. The closing performance will be given this evening. Nellie, the charming heroine, as Mr. Davis portrays her, is a simple, natural creation, who acts and looks as a real flesh and blood girl would do. The other characters are drawn with great skill, especially that of Gabriel Farley.

the Life Saver, Nellie's devoted, but hopeless lover. His faith in the girl he loves never falters, and it is in a great measure due to his unselfish devotion that the trials of the hero and heroine are brought to a happy summation. A. H. Woods, who has this production in charge is too well known for the excellence of his staging to allow of the slightest doubt as to the accuracy and beauty of the stage pictures he presents.

In this instance, he has been at considerable personal effort, as well as great expense, in order to render it perfect in every detail. The scene in the Train in the Grand Central Station shows his painstaking devotion to accuracy in little things, and the home of the elder Thatcher on Riverside Drive, giving a beautiful view of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is one of the prettiest reproductions of a metropolitan point of interest ever witnessed. An adequate cast, in every way competent to do to the complex nature of the characters, they portray, has been secured, safe to prediet for this even more, the popular success invariably attending Mr. Woods' productions. THE LION AND THE HOUSE.

There is nothing sensational about Lion and the Mouse" the successful drama of American, political and social life which Henry B. Harris will present at the Lyceum Theatre, for a three nights engagement beginning Thursday evening, September 12th, except the tremendous popularity which the play achieved on the night of the opening performance and which has since grown in volume until it has reached all parts of this country. The drama was written by Charles Klein, authory of The Music Master which has made David Warfield the leading character of this company. Lion and the Mouse" was seen in Harrisburg last season for four performances breaking all records in the history of the Lyceum Theatre. Indications are that the records will again be broken this season for the open sale yesterday was large and the demand continued all day.

BEN HUR. In General Lew Wallace's romance of "Ben-Hur." the seat sale for which opens tomorrow morning, the tremendous betting that precedes the famous chariot race at the Circus at Antioch between Ben-Hur and his Roman Rival, Messala, seems to be almost incredibly heavy. The records of ancient times clearly reveal, however, that such enormous laying of odds and risking of whole fortunes upon the outcome of a single race was by no means the ception to the rule but almost the rule itself. The sensational chariot race Detween Ben-Hur, the young Jewish prince, his daring, if wicked Roman rival, and the other contestants, presents, indeed, a signal illustration of the excessive extreme to which the Romans carried their thirst for the fierce pleasures of the race course, with its accompaning extravagance of high betting. The production this season is one of surpassing beauty and on an unparalleled scale scenic grandeur.

The cast is one of great strength and excellence, including Thurston Hall as Ben-Hur; Wilmer L. Walter as Messala: Henry Weaver aS Simonides; William Leyden as Sheik Ilderim; Alfred Hollingsworth as Arrius and Balthasar; Charles Canfield as Hortator; Daniel E. Hanion as Sanballat: Helen Singer as Iras: Margaret Dills as the Mother of Hur: Stella Boniface Weaver as Amrah: and Meta Green as Tirzah. Four performances will be given commencing Monday next and including a Wednesday matinee. BADLY HURT AT FUNERAL Ceiling Decoration Falls, and Two Mourners Are Injured Reading, Sept.

services were being held yesterday afternoon in Friendship Mission church over the body of Mrs. George Fair, an ornamental piece of ceiling decoration weighing 25 pounds fell into the audience, creating consternation. Several women fainted and were carried to neighboring houses. The decoration fell on Mrs. Annie Heckman, breaking her shoulder.

Mrs. Angelica Graul's hand was lacerated HOOPSKIRTS AND CANDLES. Store Stock, Shut Up Thirty Years, Attracts 1,000 at Auction. Colebrook. Sept.

to light after being shut up for over thirty years behind the locked, barred and shuttered windows and doors of the store of the late John S. Wheeler, of Colebrook, merchandise of all sorts, from scrap and tallow candles to hoopskirts and cigars, was put up at auction before a crowd of more than 1.000 persons, who came in teams. automobiles and on foot from neighboring summer resorts, towns and farms. Following are samples of the prices at which various articles were purchased: Cigars, thirty-five years old. from $1 to $1.30 a box: old-fashionned tallow candles, 81.50 A box: leather boots, with red and green tops and brass toe plates, $2.50 a pair: hoop skirts and stove polish, 50 cents.

Wheeler was attacked and robbed at the store late one night over thirty years ago, and following that expertence shut up the store and never entered it again, nor allowed it to be opened. He died last spring, It's in the Blood! form of skin disease denotes poison in the blood--some imAny purity seeking release. DR. TAYLOR'S GREAT ECZEMA REMEDIES will remove all impurities, and do it quickly, They will positively destroy the germs in the blood that cause ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, BOILS, BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES Dr. Taylor, the father of these remedies, was one of the most successful specialists in all skin diseases in the United States.

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COAL MINERS LABOR Yes, and labor hard! "Down in the coal mines" they labor for you, producing "black diamonds." Apropos of this thought, how is your supply of "black We're here to fill your coal order on short notice. 'Phone, write or call. H. M. KELLEY CO.

1 N. Third St. 2nd Floor Tenth and State Sts. Both 'Phones CAPITOL HILL GOSSIP To Analyze Breakfast Foods Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust has sent to Prof. Frearer, of State College, samples of seventy-five brands of breakfast and other foods for analysis.

These samples were taken as the result of an agitation to know what is in them, which sprung up some time ago, charges having been heard that some were not in order. The samples were secured all over the State, every brand known having been taken and Prof. Fear will ascertain if they are true to name, if chemicals have been used, whether they are bleached and what they contain. Requisition Issued Governor Stuart this morning granted a requisition on Governor Hughes for the return to Philadelphia of George W. Payne, under arrest in New York.

He is accused of stealing $43 from Madelaine Schlegel and attempting to kill her when efforts were made to stop him. Senator Hall's Trip Senator and Mrs. J. K. P.

Hall, Judge and Mrs. Harry Alvan Hall. of Ridgway, and several of the colleagues of Senator Hall in the Senate, will leave next Monday on an extended tour of Mexico. The Senators will be his guests. Basement Flooded The heavy storm this morning caused the basement of the Capitol to be partially flooded, the sewers from the building being too small to carry off the terrific fall of water.

The Capitol has two large sewers, but they drain into city sewers which are inadequate. The storm also caused one of the newly erected walls for the improvements at the Executive Mansion to topple scattering brick all through the cellar. The Feedstuffs Decision Secretary of Agriculture Critchfield said this afternoon that no steps had been taken about making further test of the feedstuffs law which Judge Audenreid declared unconstitutional. This law relates entirely to animal feeds, and Mr. Critchfield said that while he was no lawyer It was his idea that it applied only to that section re lating to bran and middlings and would not interfere with the law passed by the last Legislature.

The agents started out this week on sampling of horse, cattle and chicken feeds, and will continue sampling throughout the State. The State Sued The State has been sued for $416.67. alleged to have been deposited Pennsylvania Savings Fund Society in 1862 by John Campbell and which remained unclaimed for thirty years, when it reverted to the State under an escheatment proceeding. Now Mary Campbell has brought suit for the money for the use of John Campbell, heir of the depositor. The money was Remanded recently, but It was found that the only way to get it was to sue the State.

General Snyder' Condition Long -distance telephone reports received here to-day from Spring City state that the condition of ex-Auditor General Snyder is serious. He is reported as suffering from sciatic rheu- matism. CRAZED HUSBAND KILLS WIFE. Mad With Jealousy, He Fires Over Pleading Child, Killing Mother. By Associated Press.

Weatherfort, Sept. 11. Crazled by jealousy and Ignoring the plea of his little daughter, who was (ing to his knees, Lee Leedy, proprietor lof a hotel here yesterday fired three into his wife's body, killing her instantly. Two hours later Leedy was shot and killed by a posse of citizens, who surrounded him in a canyon a mile from town. After the inquest the Coroner's Jury waited upon S.

D. Fry, a piano tuner, and ordered him to leave town. MAY OUST TAX COLLECTOR. Object to Notices Posted on Street Corners. Orange, Sept.

11. A large mnjority of the towns people are much Incensed over the method taken by (Tax Collector T. 8. Mann to collect the town taxes, and they threaten to hold special town meeting and oust him AM A means of Impressing the tax (from office, obligation upon delinquents he has caused "that tax' to be the painted sidewalks in Sarge white letters upon of every street corner. STEELTON TOWN STORMSWEPT MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY WATER.

Sewers Torn Up and Mud and Stoues Washed On Front Street. One of the heaviest storms ever witnessed in this section passed over this place last evening, continuing until 1 o'clock this morning, and did much damage. At Chambers street the water tore out the large sewer in that section of the street, flooded the ments and filled the cellars of all the houses on South Second street from Hoffer to Bodmer alley, and houses, on Front street from Hoffer street to Bodmer alley. The streets in that neighborhood is covered with mud of the Oberlin line Central Pennand stone several feet, deep. The tracks sylvania Traction Company in that seetion of the borough are covered with mud nearly two feet deep.

The traction company was unable to get its cars to Oberlin this morning owing to the washout near the vineyard, where the track has been washed out. The traction company has a large force of wen at work putting it in shape and removing the mud. At several places in the borough the storm sewers became clogged and ran out over the street. The storm last night was accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning. One of the sharpest cracks struck the flag pole on the roll house of the merchant mill department of the steel works, splintering the pine pole.

Several of the employes of the mill were thrown to the floor. The billet, guide and bar mills of the merchant mill departments. the steel works, were compelled shut down owing to the storm and the mills were off from 2 to 4 o'- clock owing to the muddy water, which clogged the pipes at the rolls. The corn in the fields at the outskirts of the borough was all thrown down. The fire companies of the borough had men at the fire houses until 4 o'clock this morning in case of fire.

HELD A MEETING. The directors of the Young Men's Christian Association held a meeting in the association rooms last evening at 8 o'clock. HAVE ELECTED OFFICERS. The Sunday school board of the Centenary United Brethren held a meeting in the church evening. The following officers were elected: Senior Department Superintendent, F.

K. Waidley; assistant superintendent, George W. Parks; secretary, Clara Hershey; assistant Carrie Parks; treasurer, N. S. Burkholder; 11- brarian, M.

C. Zerby; librarian, William Galbraith; organist, Mrs. Carrie Hoch; assistant organist, Cora Keeney; chorister, Frank Armstrong; assistant chorister, George B. Beidel; ushers, Charles E. Sheaffer, Robert Geesey, James Mentzer, Oliver Barrick.

Junior Department--Superintendent, J. W. Barrick; assistant superintendent, W. C. Hoy; secretary, Elizabeth Myers; assistant secretary, Lulu Garrity.

Home Department Superintendent, W. C. Hoy; assistant superintendent, E. S. Comrey; secretary, Rebecca Rupp.

Primary Department Superintendent. Sirs: Oyler; assistant superintendent. M. C. Zerby; secretary, Eva Peters; assistant secretary, Beulah Shaffner.

Cradle Roll Superintendent, Mrs. John Smith: assistant superintendent, Mrs. William Galbraith: secretary of S. S. Association, C.

E. Farisman. HAVE RECEIVED THEIR BOOKS. The five ward assessors of the borough have received their books from the County Commissioners for the annual assessment which will be taken this fall. The assessors will have until January 1 to make the assessment.

HURT AT THE QUARRY. Stephen Mollte, an Austrian, employed at the large stone quarries of the Estate of George W. Cumbler, was injured yesterday afternoon. He was working along the breast of the quarries when a large stone rolled down the hill upon him. All of the men got out but Mollte, who was thrown to the ground, and when picked up was cut about the arms, limbs and stomach.

He was taken to the office of Dr. Middleton, who dressed his injuries. PERSONALS. Alfred H. Gentrain, Bethlehem, who has been the guest friends in this place the past few days, has returned home.

Miss Mary K. Bentz, of York, who has been the guest of friends in this place the past few days, has returned home. 0. G. Wickersham has returned from a visit to New York City.

Miss Lollie R. Snyder, of Roanoke, 16 on a visit to friends on the West Side. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shay, of Lincoln street, are on a visit to their son, Harry, at Carlisle.

John B. and Thomas Downs are on a visit to New York City. Miss Nora Gaffney, teacher of the primary grade, of the Fothergill school, after taking her annual visiting day, resumed her duties as teacher at her school this morning. Miss Amanda K. Heilman, of Lebanon county, who has been the guest of friends in this place the past few days, has returned home.

William Demeree, of Newport, is the guest of friends in this place. Abel Barnes, of 636 South Second street, who has been spending the summer with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Abel, at Marietta, nas returned to his home. Mike Vehere and family, of South Third street, are making preparations to leave for Austria, which place they will make their future home.

Mrs. Jacob L. Barnes, of South Second street, is home from a visit to Atlantic City. Mrs. J.

W. Wormell, of Johnstown, is on a visit to friends in this place. Miss Kate W. Miller, of York. who has been the guest of friends in this place, has returned home.

George Pretz left yesterday for Baltimore, where he will resume his studies at Johns Hopkins University. Mrs. Sewell and son, and Mrs. Jenkins, Fourth street. have returned from a several visit to Millersburg.

Walter E. Metzenthin, who has been spending the in Maine, is on a visit to his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Metzenthin. South Third street.

He will leave in a few days for Texas, where he is teaching. Miss May Isenberg, who has been the guest of her cousin. Miss Linnie A. Hess, of North Fourth street, has returned to her home in Altoona. Mr.

and Mrs. A. R. Calder, of Locust street, are spending their vacation at Paxinosa Inn, on Weygadt Mountain, near Easton. SPRECKELS OUT OF TRUST.

Can't Recollect From Whom He Bought Philadelphin Plant. By Associated Press. San Francisco, Sept. 11. Clause Spreckels, the aged San Francisco capitalist, was examined before Notary Public D.

Richards by Attorney John W. Hutchinson, yesterday, in behalf of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re fining Company, in its thirty million dollar damage suit against the American Sugar Refining Company. The Information chiefly desired of Mr. Spreckels concerned his sale of the Spreckels refinery in Philadelphia to the American Sugar Refining Company eighteen years ago. Mr.

Spreckels could not recollect with whom he negotiated the sale, but he knew it was for the plant. Mr. Spreekels testified that he is not a stockholder in the American Sugar Refining Company and that no part of the Phladelphia sale price was in "trust" stock. REV. W.

H. PARKER RESIGNS. By Associated Press. Frederick. Sept.

11. Rev. William Hammond Parker, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Frederick, has restined his charge in this city and accepted AL call to the Immanuel Baptist Church. of Cincinnati, one of the most important protestant churches in that section of the city.

the CASTORIA For Infants and Children, Bears sance the Signature had The Kind You Have Always Bought of men, some interesting facts and much encouragement. Mr. Steinmetz referred to his work, which brought him in contact with the men each day, and he said: "I know that every man who works on an engine is doing his best to prevent unnecessary smoke. Already there has been a decrease and the men are willing to do anything to help stop the nuisance. The orissued recently regarding the work of the firemen and engineers is being carried out to letter.

1 am satisfied that since the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has taken a hand there has been a very satisfactory reduction of smoke, and it will continue, for everybody is working hand in hand along this line." President Jennings took occasion to compliment Mr. Steinmetz on his interesting statement and encouraging words and added: "I know the company is everything." William Denebey, chief clerk to Superintendent McCaleb, inquired about the various manufacturers and said he knew that extra efforts were being made by Pennsylvania Com- pany to abate the nuisance. Trying To Reduce Smoke. W. P.

Starkey, assistant genera! superintendent of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company, said: "We're making plenty of smoke at the pipe works, and we know it; we are considering the matter continually and are trying to reduce the smoke. We think that we have succeeded in great part by using automatic stokers. Some of our smoke may result from the continual forcing of our boilers. Six months ago we added 600 horsepower to help with the increased work necessary. but that is not sufficient and now we are about to add 600 horsepower additional.

We don't like smoke consumers; we're afraid of them; but we like the patent stokers." Mr. Starkey further said that it cannot be told how greatly the automatic stokers have the smoke, because the redunder same stack with boilers fed in the old way; it is certain, however, that the volume of smoke has been greatly reduced and the company hopes shortly to reduce it to a point where it will be unnoticed. The following were elected to membership: Allan S. Graham, assistant superintendent of the Harrisburg Gas Company; Richard V. Page, auditor American Union Telegraph Company.

The following were proposed for membership: Dick Olewine, manager New York Life Insurance Company: Wolf Freidman and Max Williams, dealers in iron and steel, and Valentine Lorne Williams, student. Railroad News RAILROAD Y. M. C. A.

PROGRAM. Secretary F. H. Gregor, of the P. R.

R. Y. M. C. is busy on a winter's program, which will include Star Course entertainments, first aid to injured lectures, timely talks by railroad officials, gymnasium and basketball exhibitions cottage prayermeetings, men's meetings and special meetings for shop men.

It will be one of the best and most interesting programs ever presented. MARRIED AT COLUMBIA. William A. Howard, employed at No. 1 roundhouse, this city, formerly a resident of Columbia, was married yesterday to Miss Edna Lotz.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lotz, at Columbia. The ceremony was a quiet affair. A reception followed at the home of the bride's parents, where the young couple received the congratulations of friends and relatives.

They will leave on a wedding trip to Altoona, Dayton, and Chicago. Upon their return they will reside at Wormleysburg. NEW AIR BRAKE CAR. Will Be of Steel and Is Now Being Built at Altoona Shops. The employes of the steel car department of the Altoona car shops are working on a steel dining car and a steel instruction car.

The instruction car will be eighty feet long, the largest car ever built in the Pennsylvania railroad shops. It will be used to instruct passenger and freight trainmen in the use of air. The car will be equipped with twelve air chambers, six for passenger men and six for the freight men. When completed the car will be stationed at the various terminal points for a few days at a time in order to give the employes a chance to take instructions and learn all about the use of air. FUNERAL OF BRAKEMAN.

The funeral of Charles J. Daum, the Philadelphia Division brakeman who was killed by being hit on the head by the Dock street bridge, took place at Columbia this morning. Interment was made at Mt. Bethel cemetery, Services were conducted the late home of the deceased. 213 Muench street, last evening, and the body was taken to Columbia this morning.

RAILROAD NOTES. Engineer W. W. Brandlinger, of the Pittsburg division, had a narrow egcape when his engine went Into a car at Millwood and turned completely over. He escaped a scratch.

Foreman C. M. Fessler, of the Sunoury roundhouse, has secured a patent on an automatic retaining valve for air brakes. It will hold the full pressure on the wheels until the auxiliary is discharged. T.

B. Marshall, foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad blacksmith shops, is confined to his home on account of sickness. J. Fred. Kramer, clerk in the machine shops, has returned to work after spending some time on a trip to New York and Jamestown.

W. E. Hemminger, an employe of the local shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and wife, have returned from a trip to Philadelphia. E. K.

Ellis and N. R. Yountz, employes of the air room of the Maclay street shops, will leave to-morrow on a trip to New York and Coney Island. Local trainmasters, because of the increase in freight traffic, may keep the movement up over Sunday. The next cottage prayermeeting given under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Young Men's Christian Association will be held at the home of Conductor Harvey Kline, of North Thirteenth street.

SPANISH SOLDIERS ROB French Citizen Complains of Outrage nt Casablanen. By Associated Press. Paris, Sept. 11. Special dispatches have been received here from Casablanca relate a regrettable incident at that port.

A well-known French resident caught two Spanish soldiers in the very act of robbing his house, He sum moned assistance marching and secured off to the and was them the thorities when he met A Spanish officer. This man abused him roundly and forced him to release the soldiers. The Frenchman has lodged a complaint at the French Consulate against both the officer and the men. Reading the ads. is an education which you can turn into immediate cash.

Is all your knowledge of that sort? I CUMBERLAND VALLEY VETERANS OF LEGION ARE VISITING GETTYSBURG. Hagerstown Man Charged With Having Three Times Tried to Poison Woman. Between three and four hundred delegates and their friends, making about one thousand in all, of the National Union Veteran Legion are in 1 Gettysburg today and tomorrow. To be a member of this order a veteran must have enlisted before July 1st, 1863. The factory of the Keystone Straw Stacker Company will open one week from today at Gettysburg.

Gettysburg College opens tomorrow, and already students are flocking in. The Hanover fair this week is a great success. People from all over the Valley are attending it. Charles, son of Edward Eckenrode, of Bendersville, was run over by a horse yesterday but escaped with a few bruises. Charles E.

Laman, of Hagerstown is being hunted by Sheriff Gott, on the charge of having tried three times to poison Mrs. Bessie Laman, so it is alleged. James Palmer, of Martinsburg, was arrested Sunday afternoon on the charge of bigamy. Herbert Rudolph, an old grave digger for Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, was found lying in a field there yesterday morning by a woman. He was unconcious and in a dying condition.

The Electric Light and Power Company of Waynesboro, received a new 300 kilowatt generator on Monday. They are enstalling it now. The season of 1907 on the Blue Mountain near Waynesboro is rapidly nearing its end. Most of the hotels have already closed. A large white oak was cut down on the Doubling Gap road near Newville, which measured three and one half feet in diameter.

The tree will be sawed into planks for bridges. The barn of W. T. Rose on the Watts farm near Bowmansdale was struck by lightning last night and totally destroyed. Everything including five horses were lost.

A wash out about three hundred feet in length occured last night on the P. H. and little above Bowmansdale. The annual meeting of the policy holders of the Allen and East Pennsboro Fire Insurance Company was held at Mechanicsburg, Monday night. Mount Alto will have a new industry, a shirt waist factory, in a few weeks.

The old U. B. church property has been obtained for that use. Malcolm Page Haines, junior member of the real estate brokerage firm of M. E.

Harris and Son, Baltimore, ted suicide early on Monday morning at the home of his uncle in Smithsburg, Maryland. He was twenty-six years old. The monument to commemorate the services of the Culberstons, the pioneer settlers of Culberstons' Row, will be dedicated at Rocky Spring church on the afternoon of Sunday, September 15, at 2.30 o'clock. Personals. Miss Elizabeth Morcross, daughter.

of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George Norcross, of Carlisle, has gone to Oregon where she will teach a school. The wedding of Miss Mary Lenore Embick of Boiling Springs, to Mr.

Flower, of Harrisburg, will take place tonight at the home of the bride in Boiling Springs. Miss Matilda Omwake, of Waynesboro, left for Staunton, this morning where she will resume her studies at the Mary E. Baldwin Academy at that place. The young lady was accompanied by her father, W. T.

Omwake, Esq. R. H. Spahr, who has been visiting Mr. and D.

S. Beard on South Potomac street, Waynesboro, left this morning for Lexington, where he will resume his studies the Washington -Lee University. William Sipe, of E. North street, Carlisle, is new employed by the Adams Express Company. A.

W. Wolf will move from Mount Holly Chester, where he intends going into real estate business. The drillers for the wells on the property of the South Mountain Oil and Development Company arrived yesterday. DEATHS OF A DAY. Mrs.

Elizabeth J. Miller, wife of the late Michael Miller, of Gettysburg, died yesterday morning at her home. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at half past two o'clock, Dr. J. A.

Lutz, officiating. William L. Homan died yesterday at Gettysburg from consumption. The funeral will be held on Thursday afternoon at one o'clock. Mrs.

Rufus Duttera, died Sunday at 2.30 P. M. at Gettysburg. Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 P. M.

Mrs. Mary H. Shartle, died Monday morning at her home in Mesh Run. funeral will take place Thursday morning at 9 A. M.

T. O. Bradley, of Cove Gap, died on Saturday afternoon aged 60 years. The funeral was held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Interment was in Mercersburg Cemetery.

Samuel Albert McClune, of Green Springs, died at his home on Sunday morning. The funeral was held yesterday. John Kepford, of Lemoyne, died Friday aged 60 years. The funeral was held on Monday. Frank Bowermaster, aged 65 years, died at his home in Leesburg on Monday, The funeral will be held on Thursday at 10 A.

M. LEFT $3,000 ON CAR SEAT. Brakeman Saw It and Stopped Train to Give It Back. Wilmington, Sept. the honesty of Brakeman Vansant, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is due the return to a farmer residing near Newark, of $3,000 which he had carelessly left upon the seat of the Philadelphia express due to reach here shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The man had been inconversation with the brakeman and said he had just returned from Baltimore. where he had sold a quantity of wheat. When the farmer alighted at Newark the brakeman noticed the wallet on the seat, and pulling the bell cord stopped thin train and restored the money farmer..