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line In Xew York up to 10 o'clock this forenoon. Number of Lost Unknown. Willie it has been announced that the number of-those who went to their death when the collision took place was 1303. the fact,is no one knows the exact number that perished. There is .no .absolute certainty, either in New York or London, as to how many souls were on board the Titanic. The first estimate of the London office was 2,385 and -an esF&f Details of Accident Come timate in New Yotk yesterday was 2,210, made up of 325 first cabin, 2S5 second Through 'Air By Wireless/ ,, cabin, 710 steerage and S!>0 crew'. With .the lowest total and the highest list of saved there would be 1,300 lost, and with the highest 'of both 1,500. . ', -.' But no comparison can lessen the dreadf.ul story, of broken families, of ! Joha Jacob Astor, W. T. Stead, aSfl partings sadder thari^the imagination can ; grasp of weak . and . suffering women - Major Archibald Butt Probwrenched cruelly from dear ones whoso ably Drowned. :"' death was a matter of hours. Perhaps it was .easier to die than to live in that short-space'of time while the Titanic stagg'ered in her shroud of fog. Only a few hours before the Titanic shattered her tremendous" bulk tha Cunard Liner Will Be iu CommuniHamberg-American liner Amerika had cation With. Marconi Stanotified her by wireless that there were two large icebrgs a little east and.sdutU tions To-day. . of the place where_ the White. Star colossus was. finally""in collision. That ! was on Sunday and very shortly aft'ir receiving the' news the Titanic herself relayed it to-land. And then there seems 'Six Philadeljhians, Ambcg Them little .reaon to doubt, .the Titanic plunged onward and hurled herself against those yery bergs. George D. Widener, Are Wireless Barren .of Narrative. i Still Missing. .'' i ^ - A shadowy hint ot what' followed then .has come from that area of waters that >' '(Special Dispatch to the Times.) are ruled by fog and frost. The wireless, - New'York April 17-r-Tbe Cunard -modern miracle-- as it .is, could not Line announced, to-day that a wireless achieve 'the impossible and snatch tosave her had been received^.fro'm. the ear.pathia'. ward the Titanic in time " to.were hunpeople the greyhounds that At the time the despatch -was pent the dreds, of miles away. If. has "'not re: '.steamship was 596;.miles east'of.Am-_ counted'at all the epsldoes of the terrible four hours while 'the great ship struck brose channel lightship and will be due from happiness and peace to horror .and at Sandy Hook about 'nine o'clock to- clespair lay. helpless among -the groanmorrow morning. - The despatch said ing bergs. The story,,of the wireless has been', maddening switches, bulletins which that all on board the Carpathia were skimmed the top'of surmise,''a'few flgwell but gave no further details. oires, some conjectures and finally an The secretive' tactics adopted "by the ugly picture of a sea strewn with wreckage. .But between .the flashes of tne While Star Line -were continued to- Marconigrams and with the stories of day, -when after issuing a supplement- the captains who carie too late someary list of the rescued, officials'of the thing- of the tragedy'of the Titanic can be written.'. ' ' . . -- ' ' company denied that. it..had been so, isWhile the greatest of. all ships . was driving steadily westward in the night sued. , . J her with Friends of the survivors on board the toward.a city that-was waiting fine new all .of that city's interest in a Carpathia are demanding that they .be thing Capt. Smith .was 'on. the lofty given information, btit the answer that bridge. .There can hardly be a doubt of is returned is said to . be invariably that for ship masters In dangerous "We have no news of the Carpathia." seasand few stretches' of ocean are trying at the season Henry W.TaEt; brother of the''Pres- more year"to navigators present waters of the than the ident, called at the offices of the "White between Cape Race and Sable IslandStar line early this,morning and said remain on watch .night and day, forehe had been commissioned by the going rest for many .hours.at a stretch. President to 'ascertain whether Major Perhaps, probably, the fos played It's Butt went down'with the Titanic.'The greatest devlL's trick, lifting now, clearing now, always.intangible, .treacherous, officials said they had further Infor- the blanket of invisible evil. Some" ..such mation. shroud must have descended with little It.was announced at the offices of the warning upOT the Titanic and blinded Marconi Wireless Company's offices .to- h e r , t o - t h e fate just ahead. Perhaps a day that a message had been received .whimsy of .the .polar currents, whose from the Cunard liner Franconia. saying pulse has never-been gauged by ..seashei had communicated, with the Car- farers with absolute accuracy, dotted the pathia and that the"latter vessel had great :bergs, squarely'. in- the Titamc's path. ' . '''" . ' reported as -follows: '..' '"' ' ; The wireless'has told of the bitter cold "Have aboard 700 saved from the Ti- in air and sea, the accompaniment of tanic; more than. 2000 lost." the ice packs that tear loose from ArcTliis report is so widely at variance' tic glaciers and sag southward with the with the others that have been received, currents. But no 'warning-chill served however, that the officials think it oust to deflect the ship from her course. She strove ahead as destiny pointed her,-and have been misread. no invention of man or interference of The Commercial Cable Company's ship Providence .,swerved' her from' a fatal Makay-BcnneU, which has been charter- 'course. . , ed by,the White Star line to search for As soon as the.reports of the disaster dead bodies, left Halifax this afternoon, were fully confirmed, President Taft is'carrying a cargo of .coffins and icei for sued orders for the scout cruisers Chesembalming- purposes." It Is denied that ter . and Salem ,to proceed at once to the disaster Vincent Astor has chartered a sealing the scene of Chester was with 'all possible speed. The intercepted last ship to search for his father'. sbody.. night by wireless''Oft Nantucket Shoals The Leyland liner, California, 'which and- immediately put about, and hea'ded has been cruising about the scene of northward. - At noon to-day, .she is probthe wreck, has started, for Cape Race. ably less than 200 miles from the CarIt Is not known whether she has any pathia and is ^proceeding at a speed of about 20 knot's an hour. The Salem bodies or survivors on board. . outsicle of , Nothing'that came through the air was picked up.-by wireless immediately Hampton .Roads, and she yesterday and last night from the fog- started.tfor the Grand" Banks. smothered seas mitigated in any deThe wireless apparatus on the Chesgree the pity and. the horror of the ter is one'of the highest powered, in the Titanic tragedy, except as individual navy and' is' capable of sending a mesdistress was abated by the gradual-ad- sage 1500 miles, She is expected to pick Carpathia at any time and mesdition-of names to . t h e - l i s t of tfie up 'theare -momentarily expected giving sages known, survivors. At . daybreak this details of the disaster and a complete morning it was .practically certain that list of those who were taken from there are no survivors except those on Titanic. Interest to-day is centered In the board the Carpathia. .The Virginian was too late and found none. No .other Carpathia, which is now 'slowly apship has .reported finding any. proaching New York. The steamship's In the icy waters which cover the course fcrings her 45 .miles south ot Grand Banks of Xewfoundland expos- Nantucket Island, where she is due ure must soon have destroyed all those to .arrive early to-morrotv 'morning. whose only hope for life lay in their She will .then be in touch .with the life ,belts or wreckage, when the life- powerful wireless station at Siasconboats, had gone and no help had come s'ett, and details should begin to come and, the great steamship had found- in at that time. . On her way to New ered. The cabin lists, show. 195 surviv- York;.'the Carpathia will also be in ors from the first cabin and. 166 miss- communication -with the wireless staing-; 116 survivors from the -second tions at Sagapdnack and Fire Island. cabin and,205 missing; total, 3il sax-ed The' Carpathia is expected to dock and" 371 missing a grand total of 682. early Friday morning and the TreasThe totals do not tally with any pre- ury -.Department through the Customs' vious estimate of the number of pas- office, has given orders that the landsengers.in. these cabins and it may-be ing of the survivor's of the Titanic' that some of the" steerage passengers 'shall be expedited in every way 'and have got into the list of the survivors. t h a t ' t h e y ' b e aided .in meeting-their The1-indications' this morning are that friends; Customs .regulations have several hundred steerage, passengers been suspended- and th p. officers-.have were saved, together- with 100 or-more been ordered to aid tlis survivors .to of the crew.' . . / . ~", . . meet those who are searching for Prominent Men Perish. : them. Every- person who is looking It is practically a certainty now. that for a survivor will be assigned a space nearly all the men oiuthe Titanic went under his initial at the pier and he or down with the ship when she plunged she for whom he is looking will be dirtwo miles to the floor of the ocean or ected there by the offlcals. It is hoped that tHey.perished while clinging to life in this way to avoid confusion at the preservers or wreckage in the icy pier.- . , a . ' . - ."' . '-, ' waste that tetrayed them. They gave Six Philadelphians.Missing. . - ; up their lives within -sight of ; the Reports received up to noon to-'flay rocking little boats that held their wo- indicate, that of "the thirty-four Philamen, and children. " -;':.,; . . .u. delphians known to have been aboard the It cannot'be doubted.-.thar among Titanic six are unaccounted for and. are 'these tvefc Col. John .Jacob ..Astor, supposed to have been drowned. Tljey '.-. '' ,> Isidor Straus, . Major.. Archibald';. ~W. are: GEORGE D. WIDENER, financier, of Butt, *d..to President Taft; .George D. Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park. Widener of Philadelphia, Col. and Mrs. HARHY ELKINS.'WIDENER, son' Of "; Washington : Rpebllng, Jacques Futrelle. "-"Mr. Widener. the writer; -William T. Stead,.the Lon- WaE/LIAM C. DULLES,-attorney,-of. 310 : don editor; Francis :T>1 Millet, 'the ,C.-South Twelfth street. attorney, a forDUANE WILLIAMS, 'American artist, and . many, v'many mer resident of Philada,, on way here to visit Richard N.-TOlliams, a biothmore who were known on both sides er, in Chestnut Hill. , of the Atlantic.. . . ":.,..' ARTHUR" RYERSON, of Haverford. The first message 'that fUterfed -through DR. ARTHUR JACKSON- BRBW13, phythe stormy airs early 'this morning consician, of 'the Netherlands, 44tl) and veyed the Information that Washineton. Chestnut 'streets, believed to have Do'age, a\ San Francisco Millionaire,: with been aboard the Titanic. his wife and -child were among, the sur- LOUIS GUSTAVB, valet of T. D. M. vivors. Although the report-camo from Cardeza. the Capt Sablo station by wiralew. EDWARD KOEPING, valet of George D. Widener.nothing was heard from the, Carpathia. A second: wireless message Mr. and, Mrs.: Arthur P^yerson, of : from Kewport, R.; I.,',conveyed the Gray's Lane, Havarforfl, aro among the survivbra, .s are also.Mr. and Mrs. John Information that the scout cruiser Chester was.-proceeding toward the Carpatliia B Thayer and their son, John B. ThayBtiispsed of fifteen knots an hour. These cr. Jr. Mrs. Emma Ward-Buckncll. of two messages wore all that had been re- Fhllada., Is also among- those on board ceived at the enicos ofcthe White Star the Carpathln.

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR * INSTALLED IN OFFICE

Banquet Followed Impressive Ceremonies at Chester Commandery Last Evening. * '

OUT OF WORK, BOY , STARTS 60 MILE WALK

Fourt'en-Year-Old Lad Bravely'Turn ed His Face Toward Smyrna, Del. Home. Alvln Anlba, a'fourteen-year-old boy Mrs. Hattie L. Mallon Wins Suit of near Snft-rna, Del., left this city yesAgainst Darby Man, terday cnroute for his home- Tlio br-

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RESCUED ON CARPATHIA

NOW IN WIRELESS ZONE'

Merchants' Association Takes Stand Chester Commandery No. 66, Knights Templar, held its annual installation ' _, in Improving" Streets. last night in Masonic Hall, Fourth and Market streets. In addition to many SEEK COUNCILS' -AID of its-own members being present there was also a large number of disPaving of Morton. Avenue Will Take tinguished guests on' hand, among them being 'Eminent Sir .-^Howard -^, , Traffic and Business From Thomas,- Grand Captain General of the Grand Commandery ot- Pennsylvania; , " Edemont Avenue. Eminent Sir Carl A. Sundstrom, Com. At an enthusiastic meeting of the. niembers of .the .Edgmbnt Avenue Business Men's Association, which was "held yesterday afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association, Seventh 'street and Edgmont avenue, the need of the re-pavement o Edgmont avenue was brought up for discussion, Alter a controversy of more than an. hour and a half, during which time all <ji. the members expressed their views on the project, it was finally decided to appoint a committee to confer with .the Select and Common Councilmen from the Fourth Ward. About 30''members all representative business men of that thoroughfare, were in attendance President James R. Bagshaw presided over the meeting. - ' The business men were unanimous in their indignation jat .the fact that the city authorities have proposed the paving, and, re-paving, of side streets and by-ways of comparatively little importance, ignoring" entirely, apparently, the urgent need of new pavement on Edgmont avenue. On two previous occasions,: the organization presented 'petitions- to both WALtER M. JONES. the Select and Common Councils urging that they take the needed initiative, Eminent Commander-of Chester Commandery, Knights Templar. and order the re-paving of thisithoroughfare, but without result. . The-merchants adduced the fact that the present paving stones in the road- mander of'Division No. 1, Grand Com-bed of Edgmont avenue were laid mandery of 'Pennsylvania; Right Emmore than 25 years ago, and that-then inent Sir Edward B; - Spencer.. Pasft they'.were laid at'the expense of the Grand (Commander -of Pennsylvania ;' property .owners. They aver that it is together with twenty members of the time-.for 'the city to takeTthe matter in Past Commanders- and Line Officers han'd now, as Edgmont avenue is the Association of Division No. 1. principal -artery leading from the' city The visitors installed the following to'the county, and that more traffic' officers of Chester Commandery who follows the route of this 'thoroughfare were elected to ; serve* during the .enthan'any other -street in the city, s.o suing 3-ear: , that it would-be in the interests of Eminent Commander, Walter' iM. the entire city as well as of the ..Edg- Jones; ^Generalissimo, William' .-T, mont avenue dealers to replace .the Ramsey: Captain General, Harry .L. woraout anoV gully-ridden pavement Goff: Recorder; William H. Call; now in.that thoroughfare.; , '-;. . Treasurer, Harry B. Bloom; - Trustees. The merchants assert that the pro- Robert. J. Knott, .Edmund J. Oliver and posed repavement of Morton avenue - fronv'the Pike.to-the cityjine -will-di- Stacy G. Glauser.installation ceremon Following .the vert traffic and trade, from Edgmont ies the members and, visitors a-djournavenue unless it is brought up to the ecL. to the beanitifully decorated bansame standard. The merchants advo- quet hall. The menu. _which was-arcate the re-pavement of the avenue ranged Tjy Caterer William H. 'Morfrom Third to Twelfth streets', with rison, was as-follows: sound, smooth paving- blocks. Radishes .A committee consisting of James R. . " Bagshaw, Willliain Regester, and Tho- Gerkins . - ' C l a.m Chowder Scullions mas J. Crumbie was appointed to con- Green Peas ' , . Potato': Cro.quets fer with. Select .Councilman X). -. W. --'-" Planked* Shaa Jeffris, MT. D., and/..Common Countil:., Blsctilta 'men John A. Birkmire. and W. Harlan Vienna Rolls - .^'Coffee . . . -.' Rigby. / : ' , -; ;. -Ice Cream : .. Strawberries - . Cigars -' . -:,'- Tho Commandery Orchestra'.^played RUNAWAY CAUSES music during'the evening. _Mucn credto of IH'e PANIC IN WEST END it is due. the-the successStewards entire event to* Board of ..comprising Eminent Sir Robert J. icnott, Horse Attached to Steinberg's Bakery Eminent Sir Samuel C. Chase. Bniineht Sir Wesley R, Morgan, Eminent Sir Wagon Frightened-by Passing Edmund J. Oliver, Eminent. SU Albert Automobile. H. Baker. . / . t ' "'
Residents and pedestrians in. the vicinity .of Third and Engle street were thrown Into a panic shortly after nine o'clock this- morning -when the horse attached to- a wagon belonging to J. Steinberg, of 625 Kerlin street'became ffiglitened at a passing automobile and bolted. When the motor,, a .largo tourIng car, snorted past the team, the high spirited animal reared and. flashed madly up West Third street, despite the frantic efforts of the driver to prevent it. . - -' . ' Had it not been for courage and-cooU nes displayed by Harry G. Witsil. ot 1910 West'Fourth street, who ran into the street and grasped the bridle 'of the animal bringing it to' a halt, several small children would have been, seriously injured or killed" as they were playing in the street directly in the path of the runaway. . i RUBBER SOCIAL IN WEST END. South Chester M. E. ^Churcfi Folk Hold Novel Benefit.'

Jury .is Out Considering Action Brought By Vulcanite Company.

LIFE WAS THREATENED

.Woman Suffered Many Indignities 'According to Her Testimony and Master Recommended Divorce.
The Court has granted a divorce to Mrs. Hattie L. Mallon in her suit against Arthur: Mallon, Jr.. who hus charge of" the Scott; estate at Darliy, on the charge of ill treatment. Mrs. Mallon resides at 1119- North Fortieth street, Philadelphia, and is tho daughter of Mrs. Martha J. Lilley. of 532 East Eleventh street, this city. The suit for-divorce was begun June 23, 1911. On March 13. 1911, Arthur Mallon, Jr., began a suit for divorce i n ' w h i c h he named Augustus A. Fuguzzl, a music teacher in Philadelphia, as co-respondent, buf he discontinued the ault on May lei. 1911. The divorce proceedings under which Mrs. Mallon secured- a. decree at Media - iva's ' .heard before U.- M. Johnson, former Mayor of Chester, as master, and he recommended .an absolute decree. ;-Mr. -Mallon: did not appear at the hearings, although he. had flled an anb\\er to the charges made in the libel. John: .M:t: Brbomall was attorney for Mrs. Mallon, and L. L. Smith for the respondent. Ihe couple were married .April 28, 1592, at Atlantic .City, N. X, the ceremony being performed'by Rev. J.- H. PayraiV. Mrs. Mallon was then a resident -of Chester. Subsequent to. the marriage. they resided at 4347 Hoopes street, Philadelphia:1, T-Vest Collirigrswood, Iv. J.; Fisher's Lai'and Wyoming ave' hue, Philadelphia; Kosemont. Delaware county; 6113 .Upland street, Philadelphia, .ana Darby. Mrs...Mallon left her husband, finally oil January 24, ,1911. l Mrs. MaUott's Claliae. . In testifying before the Master-Mrs, Mallon said: ' "Tho whole eighteen years we. were man-led he used'vile and-insulting laric-uaee to me. He kept treat!ns me .worse arid' -worse until finally in August, of 1910, he started 'this''cruel, treatment with' threatening niy lif? with revolvers .and razors." ,. - 9 :Sho also declared: "The seventh of October he. had gone, to Darby. Took my little girl down there and when he canie laome he told me that a. Mrs. Newcomb, lu Darby, a womanY that ,1 have never, or he had-never seen, that I (CONTTNTJED ON THIRD-PAGE.)

had been employed'until recently as cash boy In Strawbridgo & Clothier's, store, Philadelphia. 'Being deprived of his'means of earning- a living, the started to walk to Smyrna. : ' ' W i t h his'pushmobllefor the boi could not leave it behind himAlyln started for th<> Delaware town. ; He would pull the ."car," which was. equipped with a brake, horn, lantern, etc., and upon the reur of which he had his trunk strapped, up the; nil's and .then coast the down grades. . ' ' ' , Footsore and weary the lad arrived in Chester Monday night- ..Former .Coroner 15 S Fry, proprietor of the Keystone Hotel Seventh street and Central avenue took the lud in and,cavca;for Mm over night. Mr. Fry aud-befriends raU.o'i J3 for tho lad yesterday mid bought bin his ticket for Smyrna, The boy left 01 the 8.2:! o'clock train for his home. l. pushmobilc, -was also shipped with him

BOTH

COURTS BUSY

Mrs. Whitemore's Damage Suit Against Borough of Morton Nearly CompletedOther Court News.

NORWEGIAN CAPTAIN WAS BURIED HERE

Master of Brynhild, Who Died ^Chester' Hospital," Laid at Rest in Lawn Croft.

The 'funeral- of Captain William Bacho, commander of the Norwegian steamship Brynhild, now docked at the plant of the American Dyewood Company, foot of Howell street, who died in the Chester Hos'piUl early Saturday morning, was conducted yesterday afternoon from the undertaking-;establishment o E. F. White, Third arid Norrls streets. Interment was made in Lawncroft Cemetery., ' ., Services were "held over, the body'at 2.30 o'clock, Rev. A. W. Hvistendahl a Norwegian clergyman of Philadelphia, officiating. The Norwegian consul and vice-consul, together with several commanders of vessels now H port at Philadelphia, and the officers of the dead captain's own ship, attended the services and escorted tne casket to the grave/ 'Fred Havercamp, a photographer, took pictures of the body and lengthy funeral procession, which ~-'" be s^nt tn * ne relatives In Norway. . Captain Bache was forty years f age and unmarried. He is survived by his father and one brother, the former a man ot 'wealth ana position in his native land. He was possessed with a desire to follow the sea when but a youth and ^vas rapidly, advanced from a seaman before the mast to the position ho held when stricken with the fatal attack of pneumonia, ' On Ms deathbed in the hospital, thousands at miles from homo, ho Informed Dr. W. F Lehman oC some of his past life and reciuested that Ills relatives be notified ot his death. ,
SKATER HAD ANKLE FRACTURED George Feeney, Jr., Injured When'Ho

; Progress was mads In the work of Civil Court at Media yesterday. In No. 1 Court, before Judge Johnson, .tria trial of the suit of the Vulcanite Pav": ing Company against tho Chester Trae"' tion Company was completed. The jury, was still out last evening with instruc- " tions to return a sealed verdict, Th \ action was brought to recover money : alleged to bo due the plaintiff for th repairing of asphalt paving alonge th ' trolley tracks on>- certain - streets in "" Chester. The defense^ claimed that ; more work was dona than ordered. C. B. Galloway and. Walter Br-Eaul wers attorneys for the plaintiff, aid J. B. -_V' Hannum for the defendant. Jury view* Property. , *. *j The suit of Mrs. Jane'M, Whitmora .; against Morton Borough was placed-on ' ' :: -trial in Judge Johnson's court and was,; -; nearly concluded. 5 Tha action is to re- , '; cover money for damage alleged to nave ' ': been done to the property of the plain- . " t'ift by the widening of Christian street,' ; Morton. Thexjury was Eentsto view_tha * ' : property. The defensa claims that th' - property was benefitted Instead of dam- " 'aged. Albert N. Garrett Is 'attorney;" l ' , for tho plaintiff, and W/.C. Alexander.- J for the defendant. . s >^ Ca9 Kon-Suttefl. '* ~ '"

The first case taken up In, Judgs Broomall's court, that of John F.'Grady" " to the use of Richard1 T, McSorley. -" against E. P. Tlmmoaa, was non-auitedl '" ' The action, was'bna In assumpslt. Thd',' non-suit waa granted because th eult *. was brought under tat law r covering, ; .brokerage and It Only concerned a oon- '',,. traoi The plaintiff claimed that 1600 I ,; and interest Irom March. 1, 1911, trajl j " '. due from tha defendant. Th defendant)-| (CONTINUED "ON SECOND PAGE.). '

SPENCE HELD ON *: <: f BIGAMY CHARGE'.

Authorities)' t ' " .,

Chester Man Under $500 Barf Awaiting ' ;,A_otion'of Wilmington * ,J' s'

CHANGE W DATES NOT DUE TO WATSON

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Highway Commissioner Has Nothing

to. Do With Ash Collections,

He Says. When seen: this morning relative to criticisms which,, hive been directed to.wards him by members of/the New Century Club, Highway, Commissioner Robert Watson stated that tlio change made in tho day for the collection of ashes,and garbage were "effected by the contractors having that work In charge, and that he had nothing to do with it' George D. Armstrong, .secretary- of the Chester Contracting and Reduction Cojnpany, who was present when--Mr. Wat-, aonson waa being- Interviewed, explained that his company lia.d made the charge, which was announced In advertisements and by local notices In the Chester Times and the Morning Republican. He expressed the opinion that the promulgation of the change In these papers was sulficient notice for tho public-i Speaking in behalF of the contractors Mr. Watson said: "Some of the delay in collecting at first was not entirely his fault, the delay being due to the non-delivery of three new wagons which had b_een ordered -by Mr. Armstrong and which failed in delivery in time, the contractor beihg-compelled to hire teams from an outside party when he found he could not get his wagons as expected. The Highway Department is glad to give ear to any and all complaints in regards to failure on the part of the contractor to do his work properly, but some of the criticism which has been directed at the Department recently, to say the least was uncalled for, as we had nothing to do with changing the days for collection."

MISS CLOUD BRIDE OF H. B. WORRILOW

. i. k. . - , '._____ i". ' Pretty Homo-Wedding Solemnized at Home of Chester Merchant Last Evening.

A rubber social was held in the chapel of the South Chester Methodist 'Episcopal church, Third and Jeffrey streets,, last evening under the auspices of the Epworth^ League. A. large number of young people attended the affair and a delightful evening ~was passed. Each attendant was required to bring as much old rubber as possible and when it is disposed of, the proceeds will be devoted to the Mercy and Help Department. A musical and literary entertainment concluded the affair.'
SCAFFOLD FELL WITH PAINTER.
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William Townsend Escaped in Fifteen x Foot Fall. A defective' knot In a rope.holding the scaffold upon which William Townsend, a painter In the employ of B. D. Wright, a. local decorator, was working at Fourth' and Engle streets yesterday, almost caused -the serious injury of the workmen, when the imprbvished platform collapsed and he was hurled to "the ground, fifteen feet below. Fortunately he- escaped with a few minor bruises and lacerations. EXPLODING LAMP CAUSED FIRE. Table Cover Was Ignited and Fire ^-Companies Summoned. The explosion of an oil lamp at the home of Oscar Baylin, Third and Dock streets, set 3re to, a table covering and started a small ;blaze last evening shortly before eight o'clock, but little damage was^done. The fire" companies responded and""there was -much excitement'- In tho neighborhood for a time, but a little chemical from one of thet wagons soon quenched the'fire. . '"".,' ' ENGLiSH-MALONEY WEDDING. Street Girl ^Bride of Joseph English M'onday Evening.. Joseph English, of 417 West Third street, and Miss Helen Maloncy, of 367 Howell street, ,were' quietly married Monday evening in the Church of the Immaculate Heart, Second and Norris. streets.. The ceremony was performed by Bev. Father McMahon. The bridesmaid was Miss NellJo McAl'llrter. . of Lincoln street, and tho sroonnman, C. M. English, of. Gloucester, N. 7. i ' Ho well

Miss-Helen Cloud, daughter of Orlando H. Cloud, a,merchant o Seventh street and Edg'mpg't avenue, and Howard Brooke Worrlfew, of' 1107 Tlpland street, were married last evening at the home of the bride's/ parents, 704 Madison street- The wedding was followed by a reception which was attended by nearly 100 guests. ' The'ceremony was performed by the Rev. William H.'Shaffer, pastor of Madison, Street Methodist Episcopal church. .Only-the immediate relatives of the couple witnessed the ceremony. The room was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Miss Lillian Pierce at' the piano, rendered Lohengrin's wedding march." Frank B. Worrllow, a brother of'the . groom, attended the couple. The gown o the brida was of white crepe meteor^ trimmed with imported Chantilly, Point of Venice and shadow. lace.-' . . The reception lasted-from S o'clock until 9.30 o'clock when a wedding supper was served^ Mr. and Mrs. Worrilow afterwards-, departed .-for, the Pennsylvania Railroad station, where SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE, they boarded a train for the West, where they will' stop, at Pittsburg, Cleveland, Two Special Meetings Will Bo Held Buffalo, Elyria and Niagara Falls. Up- at First Baptist Church To-morrow, on, their return, they will be at home to .their friends at 704 .Madison street. The Rev. E. M. Stephenson, D. D., Field- Worker for Bible Schools and WILL BENEFIT, MANY PERSONS. Young People for the Pennsylvania Baptist General Convention, will conPlayers Club Will Render "patience" duct two, special meeting!? for thosefor Worthy Cause. interested in Sunday school work, to-" A rehearsal of the operette."Patience" morrow afternoon and evening In the to be presented by the Players Club of First Baptist church. Seventh and this : city. in.Washburn's Theatre, East Fulton streets. Teachers and workers Seventh, street, Friday . evening, 'May of other denominations have" been invited and Dr. Stephenson 3, was held in. the main social hall of any questions that may be will answer Tea the Young,, Men's Christian Associa- and coffee will be served asked. from those tion Seventh street and Edgmont ave- a distance who bring, a box of lunch*. nue, last evening-. The performance will be given under the join tausplces of TIRE ON AUTO .EXPLODED. the Philanthropic Work Committee ot tho New Century Club; the Chester Report of-Bujisting Fire in First Ward Playgrounds Association the local ''' Attracted Large Crowd. branch of the Society for the PrevenA tire pn one of the rear, wheels on a tion of Cruelty to nimals; and the ; Chester^Hoapltal. . . _ ,. large black touring car bearing the li* 'L

'Fell Monday, George Feeney, Jr., of 025 Crosby street, is confined to his-home sufferng with a fractured left leg .which: ho sustained whence fell In a roller-skating accident near the corner ol Eighth street and Edgmont avenue Monday evening. Though moaning .with pain, tho boy attempted to -walk, but found that he was unable to move the Injured limb. It was at first .feared that ho had sustained a broken leg In tha experience. Hf was assisted by friends to the office of Dr. J. P. -TanKuren, East" Broad street and thence to his home., The X-ray examination made by the physician-revealed a fracture of the leg a. few.lnches above the ankle, . __ CAUGHT 357 P O U N D STURGEON.
Lewis Chesman Lands One /of tho Largest Fish Ever Caught Here.

* * -3 "William' H.1 Spence, AgtH 27 ' ,who states tha\Jja 1 Rural Cemetery, was given a praUhi-^ -Inary hearing: before Magistrate El- ' . ', llott in. ti.- City Hall police court thla morning; on'tha chargo of bigamy. Hef * was "hold under $600 ball for thq "Wll-* mlhgton- authorities.* g Chief o Tolico Vanca received word _ 1 yesterday from Wilmington requesting > him to talce Spence.Into custody. 'The : young man answered the description sent by the police authorities and ho ' ' : was taken Into1 custody at his home. r At the hearing this\niorning Spence: ' Informed tho magistrate that he believed it was his uncle, AVtlHam T. Spence, and not him. who was wanted. He said that his uncle had a wife and child 1n Wilmington, a7id he believed ; that ho was now located In Buffalo, N. T. The chargo aeulnst Spenco is , i brought by the Wilmington Jlrs. c ,i Spence, who claims'Hint her'husband has another wife -living. It is expected that tho Wilmington, authorities will arrive In this city today to take Spence back with them.
ESTABLISHED IN'NEW STORE. Morton C. Stout & C". Now Located at' Corner 7th Street and Edgmont Avenua

Morton C. s"tout.and Company hava taken possession of their new- store in. tha Y. M. C. A. Building, having moved Into the corner, from tha store next door and the Urm now has one of. the llnest place:* of business ;in the city. 'Manager William H. Goodman, who looks after the company's Interests in this city, has the new store finely fitted up and the windows dressed with many Ijnes of spring and summer goods, making .a-splendid display that, attracts the,attention of all passersby. -The. Morton C. Stout Company, has been here less than a year,:.but dur^ing that time, the firm has established: itself on a WILL SING NAMES OF STREETS. Chester/theirfirm business .'footing Jin class of goods, combined with the pleasant, attention' of the ati Trolleymen Are Taking Lessons in laches of the store,, from, tlio : manVocal Music. ager down, making, this store a' leader. Several of the trolleymen '^employed among the local business enterprises. by the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company are taking vocal lessons ,of HURT IN COLLISION WITH AUTO. lato, four of the promising warblers George Watkins Rendered Unconscious being under the tutorship of Mrs. and Bicyclo Smashed, Mary Boylan Kclley, the vocal teacher George Watkina of Central .avenue,' on Welsh street. It is understood that the management of the company is en- an employee of the TJriion Petroleum.' couraging the men in their musical Company, Marcus Hook.. sustained. a. aspirations. fractured arm and badly sprained hip. PRESENTED WITH SET OF DISHES. yesterday when the bicycle he was riding collided w i t h an automobile driven Couple Recently Wedded Remembered by an unknown man at Third and PalBy Fellow Employees of the Groom. mer streets. Watkins was Iwrled' Mr. and Mrs. Howley Hitler, who were a considcr.iUlo distance in tile air. Tiia chauffeur of tho car never deigned to married, in Philadelphia, last Saturday stop and ascertain the result of the afternoon, -were presented with . sit of collision and Watkins was picked -up ,, line dishes Monday evening by Mr. Bit- unconscous by several pedestrians anil ler's fellow employes. Tho bridegroom carried to the - office of Dr. K. B. Is employed by Benjamin D. Wright, the Laughead nearby, and'treatment ad- -" painter and paperhangcr, of Market ministered, after which ha was"taken,' street, near Sixth. The useful gift was home in a carriage. Tha. cycle was i presented In a neat speech by Roy Low- demolished. ' i ' J
ell;-manager of Mr. Wright's'store. THE GOOD*WILL HELD MEETING. Arranging to Attend Big Norristown WITHDRAWS CHARGE _. . Man Charged Wijh Larceny as Bai!s' Released Whe'h Friend, Relents. !

One of the largest sturgeon ot the season and for many seasons as a matter of fact, was- captured, In the Delaware river off this city yesterday by Lewis Cresman, of'Darby creek. The big. fish measured eight feet, six inches in length and xvhen dressed tipped the scales at 356 ,pounds. It- was a sow sturgeon and the roe weighed seventy-seven pounds. The big fish was landed in Chester and later,sold to Dalbow Brothers,' of Pennsgrove, N. J., for $80. Cresman considers it a pretty good day's work* as.the profits will pay for his fishing outfit for the season and a few more catches likaf that will pay for his winter's coal and gratify the ambition of the gas man.

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HEPTASOPHS' FRATERNAL VISIT.

Penn Conclave Attended Anniversary Celebration of Philadelphia Lodge. Penn Conclave, Order of Heptasophs, of this city, was well represented at the anniversary exercises of Lincoln Conclave, held in Philadelphia Monday night ". Tha Chester visitors werq well entertained during: the evening, a lunch^ SMOKE PIPE OF PEACE. eon- belnr. one of the features. Good speeches were1 delivered by officials of Various, Tribes Will Gather at'Wigthe order and an entertaining- program warn of Tuscorora Saturday. was presented. '.. ' ' The members L'of the various tribes CARD OF THANKS? ! of Red Men in this city and district I desire to thank my'-fellbTy-citlzens have formulated plans to smoke the pipe of peace in the wigwam and friends throughout the County corora. .Tribe, Third and Market of Tuswho' voted for me for their kind as- on tho sleep Of the twentiethstreets, Plant slitance. at the polls Saturday, in securing my election as .Delegate to the (April) moonv at the eight run (o'clock). 'Excellent talent has been seState Convention on .May ]st.,..nnd 1 promise <to do my * utmost to represent cured. Following a.'musical entertaintho Interests they d68(re. Tour old ment a social session will lie held and friend, J. j. SWEENEY, better known the festive board will be laden with "Tue'V v , ,.-" . ': corn and vension aplenty. ' ,. ' ft

cense number 18,437, and said to be the property of Dr. R. G. Caaselbury, of Seventh and -Madison jstreets, exploded near the corner of Eighteenth-street and Providence avenue yesterday afternoon. ThesreporCof the explosion drewa large crowd to the scene, but the accident was without ^Incident, the physician driving the, can back to Els garage on the bare rim.../ ' ' . * - ._ .

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Celebration in May. A special meeting of the members of the Good Will Fire Company, took place last evening in the parlors, of the truck house. Fifteenth street <and Providence "avenue.. The 'business' of, the evening was confined to the,discussion of plans for the companys participation in the annual Centennial Celebration to be held in Norristown, Thursday, May 0. The parade badges, were elected. The final arrangements will he completed at another meeting Tuesday evening. May 7.
25th Anniversary. "Onyx" Hosiery is 25 yrs. old to-day, and to celebrate that event. Tho Dcrrickson Co. Is sellingto-day onlyLadies' $1.SO silk hose at $1.00 and Men's GOc silk hose at 35c per pair. So adv. page 4, * i

William Henry Schofleld, or Walling^ ford, .who apiieared .before Alderman , y: diaries Kl Melville, of the Fourth -, ; I,, Friday afternoon, and, swora out ' a: warrant for th'e'arrest of Emory' Bennett, o Eddystone, for alleged lar-, ceny as & bailee,..re-appeared befor' that official yesterday-and withdrew the charge. The defendant, who had jeen released' on his own' recognizance after furnishing security in the sum, of $300 paid.the costs and the case jps,
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(tearing, falling temperatuir'5l<l;''liSlitv northerly and ' northweaterbv'tvlnc{ Thursday, fair, continued cool, HKOt, variable winds, Friday, partly clqudy,. warmer, ,, ', < ' i , . v ,