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The Pioneer Press. Department of Archives. ESTABLISHED 1882 AS PRICES RISE HIGH COST OF LIVING HITS THE RAILROADS Service Will Be Crippled Unless Relief Comes Soon. EXPENSES UP, RATES DOWN Wasteful and Conflicting Regulations Hamper Railroad Credit, While Advance In Labor and Materials Outstrips Revenues, Chairman Kruttsohnitt Tells Congress Committee. Unified Federal Control Will Improve Conditions. Washington, April 2.—The condition in which the railroads find themselves as a result of constant increases in wages, prices of material, taxes and other expenses, while their revenues are restricted by legislation, was strikingly described by Julius Kruttschnitt, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Pacific Company, in his testimony during the past few days before the Joint Congressional Committee on Interstate Commerce, which is making a study of the question of rallippad regulation. Mr. Kruttschnitt urged the committee to recommend a plan of regulation which will center responsibility for regulation and its results in the federal government, so that conditions affecting both expenses and revenues may be made subject to a uniform policy instead of the wasteful, and often conflicting policies involved in the system of combined state and federal regulation. Why Reads Need More Money. Mr. Kruttschnitz's testimony also had a bearing on the reasons for the application of the roads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general advance in freight rates. He showed that while the price of transportation has declined in recent years, the cost of producing transportation, like the cost of almost everything else, has rapidly advanced. This he illustrated by showing that freight and passenger rates had increased during the past twenty years in the same proportion as average commodity prices the railroads of the United States would have received $1,654,000,000 more for transportation in 1915 than they did receive. This saying to the public was effected, in spite of an increase of 93 per cent in the cost of operation of trains, by a reduction in the average passenger rate per mile from 2.04 cents in 1895 to 1.98 cents in 1915, a decrease of 3 per cent, and by a reduction in the average freight rate per ton mile from 8.59 mills in 1895 to 7.3 mills in 1915, or 18 per cent. During the same period the cost of operation per train mile rose from 92 cents to $1.78, almost denbiling. At the same time the average price of 244 commodities enumerated in a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture increased 115 per cent. Transportation is practically the only commodity in general use that has not increased tremendously in price during the past twenty years, freight and passenger charges being lower than they were twenty years ago. Big Saving to Public. Big Saving to Public. If rates had risen proportionately to the increase in the cost of other articles of ordinary use, Mr. Kruttschnitt told the committee, the average passenger rate in 1915 would have been 2.95 cents a mile, or 50 per cent higher than it was, and the average freight rate would have been 1.21 cents, or 66 per cent higher than it was. The saving on the public in passenger fares through this difference was $314,000,000 and in freight rates $1,340,000,000. Universal railroad bankruptcy under this reduction in rates and increased cost of operation, he said, was avoided only by heavy expenditures to obtain increased and less train movement, making it possible to pull more tons of freight per locomotive. This had reduced the average cost of hauling a ton of freight, but the decline in the average freight rate had reduced the net revenue of the roads from each ton hauled. If the operating costs of the railroads, including the prices of cost, labor and material, continue to advance at the present rate a lot of railroads will be in the hands of receivers by 1918 unless some relief is afforded, Mr. Kruttschmitt told the committee. "Owing to the rise of commodity prices," he said, "the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen 55 per cent and the railroads are in the position of being compelled by law to accept payment for their service to the public in currency worth 45 cents on the dollar. Public's Chief Interest. "The public's greatest interest is in adequate transportation facilities and not so much in low rates. As to most commodities freight rates form a very small proportion of their cost. Excluding low grade commodities, the percentage of the freight rate to the cost is so slight as to offer no justification for any substantial increase in prices to the consumer. It may be stated with little fear of contradiction that the consumer, seldom, if ever, profits from a lowering of freight rates. "Extortionate charges are a thing of the past, and under the attempt to cut rates to their lowest possible figure the interest of the whole public in the character and standard of transportation is subordinated to the interest of that part of the public only that profits by lower rates—that is to say, the shipers and their agents and not the general public, the ultimate consumer." THE DECISION FOR WAR (From the New York Evening Post.) All Americans must be able to their President, in asking rights to resolve that a slight between the United States and Germany, called upon the nation to strengthen itself in high-minded purpose. Selfish ends—conquest, dominion, material compensation, indemnities—the bids us tear out of our hearts. "We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them." These are lofty sentiments. And in the same vein are Mr. Wilson's words of magnanimous devotion to the cause of democracy all over the world. They are certain to reverberate throughout Europe. In especial manner will his eloquent reference to "the wonderful and heartening things" recently wrought by the Russian people be hailed in Petrograd as a reinforcement against autocracy mightier than an army. They will afford a new buttress to the Russian Republic. And his plea for "the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments" will help to bring nearer the day of world-democracy. The whole address, in fact, once accepting the President's premises, is conceived and expressed in a way to command high admiration. Most generous and gratifying is the language which the President uses of the German people, here and abroad. He expresses the largest confidence in the loyalty of German-Americans. This is already justified in the response of the German-American press. But Mr. Wilson goes further. He summons native-born citizens to embrace eagerly the opte protection of their pensions and postunity to show friendship and trust toward "the millions of men and women of German birth who live among us and share our life." An attitude of coldness and suspicion toward them would, sow discord where there ought to be comradeship. And even as respects alliens on our soil, the President asks his countrymen not to confuse a "lawless and malignant few" with the great body that we may reasonably expect to submit themselves quietly to the laws of the country and to conform to the proprieties of the situation in which they find themselves. Panic fears about their possible treachery, with all apymanis, the President would have us banish far from us. Wilson seeks to make broader a distinction which he hinted at in his address to Congress at the time of breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany. We mean, of course, the distinction between the German people and the government that makes for them. It is only with the power to have our counsel "We assert, "the sincere friends of human people." Only that it has enabled the govern-ment of the United States to bear long patience the acts of their rulers. It is merely against an SOLDIERS ARE NOW GUARDING BRIDGES ALONG POTOMAC DETACHMENT PASSED THRU CITY LAST EVENING FOR WILLIAMSPORT HARPERS FERRY BRIDGE AND B. & O. TUNNEL ARE NOW UNDER GUARD NORFOLK & WESTERN BRIDGES AND C. & O. CANAL LOCKS Six soldiers, members of the Maryland militia, arrived in the city last evening on B. & O. train No. 39 at 5.24 from Baltimore and left shortly afterward over the Cumberland Valley for Williamsport, where the Cumberland Valley railroad bridge, mapping the Potomac river, will be guarded. A detachment was also stationed the Western Maryland bridge at Brownsville at the Norfilk and Western below Shepherdstown. Other railroad bridges along the river, it said, will also be placed under guard. No one without a pass is allowed to cross the bridges. Troops arrived yesterday at Harps Fryt to guard th B. and O. railroad bridge and tunnel at that point. The troops are camped on the old armory grounds near the John Brown fort. The bridge is one of the most important on the B. & O. system and it will be closely guarded from now on. The bridge and tunnel are patrolled by the troops day and night the same as other bridges in other sections of the state. The tunnel extends from the C & O. Canal lock at Sandy Hook nearly to the bridge across the Potomac. No person is allowed to pass through the tunnel or cross the bridge unless they have a pass, and then they are escorted by troops. The guards were ordered placed by Governor Harrington who was recently appealed to by Maryland citizens. As soon as war is declared it is believed that similar action will be taken in regard to the West Virginia side of the river. ALIENATION SUIT UP When Federal Court convened this morning the allegation suit of Charles Harper against William Harper for $25,000, was continued, and up until 3 o'clock this afternoon the defense had not been finished. The defendant was put on the stand shortly before noon and again at 1:30 and testified for nearly two hours. The case will not be given to the jury before tomorrow. "irresponsible government" in Germany, which has "thrown aside all considerations for humanity," that the United States assumes a hostile attitude. What effect these utterances will have in Germany when they are known there—it is impossible to say. They may stimulate the popular resentment, already manifesting itself, against the Prussian autocracy. But it is plainly possible that they may be taken, for the time being, as only adding insult to injury, and actually stiffen the German resistance. Which way the result will lean, only the event can determine. But all must be grateful to the President for saying what he did on this subject, both because it truly mirrors the feeling of Americans, and because it further serves to place American aims and hopes in going into the war in a correct light. LEAGUE FOR HOME DEFENSE FORMED HERE LAST NIGHT CITIZENS RESPOND TO MAYOR LEITER AND FORM AN ORGANIZATION OFFICERS ELECTED AND ACTIVE STEPS TAKEN AT OPENING MEETING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL STUDY SCHEMES FOR AIDING PEOPLE A rousing meeting that was held at 8 o'clock Wednesday night, Firemen's hall, when about thirty-five prominent business and professional men gathered at the request of Mayor P. W. Leiter and perfected an organization to assist the families of those who go to the front to fight for their country. Explans the Purpose. Mayor Leiter opened the meeting and explained its purpose—to affect some way to help and protect the families of those who enter the service of the government to fight for the flag, stating that while he had called the meeting, he had decided upon no definite plan as to how this could be affected but would like to have suggestions. Made Permanent Chairman. Before any steps relative to and definite action were taken, a motion prevailed to make Mayor Leiter the permanent chairman. Other officers were then elected, as follows: Vice-President—W. R. Caskey. Secretary—L. Dew Gerhardt. Treasurer—H. M. Emmert. A motion prevailed that the organization should be given a name, and it will be known as the "Home Defense League of Berkeley County." Suggestions are Offered. The chairman then asked for suggestions and quite a number were offered, many being made by Max von Schlegeil. One suggestion which appears to be worth considering is that of asking the people who own land on the outskirts of the city, and who are not making use of it, to let it be put in the hands of the organization, who will select some one to cultivate it. small initiation Fee. For fear some people may contrue the idea that only a few of the citizens of Martinsburg and surrounding territory are members of the association it may be well to let it be known that those in charge want every citizen of the city and county to join. An admission fee, a very small one, will be charged. The Executive Committee. After a number of short addresses it was decided to place the matter of deciding upon a fee, and also some more suggestions and plans, in the hands of the executive committee, which is composed of the following: Max von Schlegell, H. P. Thorn, Wade C. Kilmer, Dr. W. T. Henshaw, Lewis H. Thompson, Edward Sigler, C. B. Nickelson, John W. Stewart, C. M. Seibert, Edward Rutledge, J. R. Poland and Charles W. Kilburn. The officers of the organization are also members of the committee. Another meeting soon. The chairman was given power to call a meeting at any time, and it is hoped that this will be done in a short while, all are interested in the work of the organization and in favor of quick action. Many Offer Land. At the conclusion of the meeting several offered the chairman landying near the city limits, who will put it to its best use. # WITHIN 12 HOURS THE ENTIRE GUARD WILL BE CALLED AS SOON AS WAR DECLARATION IS PASSED PRESIDENT WILL ISSUE CALL. TROOPS LIKELY TO BE SENT BEYOND THE UNITED STATES ```markdown ``` WASHINGTON, March 5.—The entire National Guard of the United States will be called to the colors probably within 12 hours from the time President Wilson approves the declaration of war against Germany. About the same time the naval militia of the country will be ordered to mobilize, and all the reserves of both services not now under arms, will be summoned to duty. President Has Power. These steps may be taken without further legislation by congress or any further grant of power to the President. All that he is now waiting for in the passage of the resolution which gives this country a definite, belligerent status. Other steps for the creation of additional military forces will be considered by congress while the guard and the naval militia are reporting for duty. As soon as acted upon the war program of the administration in this direction will be put into effect with all possible dispatch. As soon as the state troops are mobilized and mustered in, a whirlwind campaign will be launched to recruit these organizations to full war strength. This campaign will be along much the same lines as now followed by the navy and the marine corps. Plans Formed. Long Ago. Plans Formed, Long Ago. It was learned, moreover, that the administration has had in view from the beginning the complete mobilization of the national guard and that the only reason why all of the troops were not called at once-after war was seen to be inevitable—was that the war department did not want to muster in state organizations faster than the regular army officers could equip them. Much experience was gained in this direction when the guard was called to the colors for service on the Mexican border. The war department was literally overwhelmed by the task of providing food, clothing, camp outfits and other field equipment for 125,000 soldiers. There was no parity or even confusion in the department, but the job was enormous and one which had to be performed by degrees. In the light of this circumstance the general staff has advised the administration to call out the groups and this policy has been followed with the result that the several commands now in the field have been equipped, inspected and mustered into the federal service with a dispatch hitherto impossible. Naval Militia Due Soon. The naval militia may expect to get an order to mobilize about the same time the national guard is called out. Secretary Daniels and Secretary Baker have conferred upon these questions and it is stated that they are prepared to issue the mobilization order to each branch of the reserve just as soon as the war resolution is passed and signed. Details of the recruiting campaign, designed to bring the national guard up to war strength, have not been discussed except in general terms, but the understanding is that this campaign will be carried on with great vigor and the result will be used as an indication of the willingness of American men to volunteer for service in the war. If few men offer themselves for this service, the fact largely will guide the administration in its plan of creating additional THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 89 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1917. AN EASTER MESSAGE. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead? Things all around us suggest it. The blossoming woods, where love delights to make his bower, are reclothed in beauty with every spring. Out of what grew all of these flowers? Out of mold and the earth. Resurrected! The radiant butterfly, where did it come from? Out of the loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with its wing, where did it come from? A senseless shell. Resurrected! In France, in a Celtic tomb, under a block, were found flower seed that had been buried 2,000 years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted it; it bloomed in Bluebell and Heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected! A traveler found in a mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there three thousand years ago. He brought them out and planted them, and in thirty days they sprung up. Buried 3,000 years ago, yet resurrected? Where did all this silk come from—the silk that adorns your persons and your homes? In the hollow of a staff, a Greek missionary brought from China to Europe the progenators of the very worms that now supply the silk markets of the world. The garmented procession down the streets and in the churches on Easter Sunday will be only the blazing out of the resurrected silk worm. And why be surprised that out of this insignificent earthly body we shall unfold into something worthy of the coming eternities? Put silver into nitric acid and it will dissolve and disappear. Is the silver gone forever? No! Put in some copper and the silver reappears. If one force eissolves, another force resurrects. Every year there is a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not, some day, a resurrection amid all our graves? The far-up cloud, higher than the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops of water from the Atlantic, others drops from the Mississippi, other drops from the lakes and stagnant pools—all up yonder there, and embodied in a cloud, and the sun kindles it. If God can make such a lustrous cloud out of water drops, many of them soiled and impure, can he not transport the fragments of the human body from the earth, and out of them build a radient body.? Then, all hail! Easter, queen of the royal court of the Sabbaths. There are fifty-one princes in her househole, but Easter is queen. She wears a richer diadem, and sways a more jeweled scepter, and in her smile nations are irradiated. She holds high up in her right hand the wrenched-off bolt of Christ's sepulchre, and she holds high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries of Christendom. All hail! Easter. If some of those who talk so much about religion would only live a little more of it, it wouldn't be so hard to convict people of sin, and righteousness and judgment. There is entirely too much worry about death and the reafter, with professed christians. The main thing to be interested about is your living—that, when it is right, takes care of everything. We sometimes doubt whether any real good was ever done by mere preaching. All the moral maxims in the world are poor and weak beside one good life. Preachers anxious to save souls would do well to keep this in mind, seeing that there is no real saving that ever has been or ever will be done that is not the result of the influence radiating from a good life. --- We have been bawling about Christianity, building churches, airing professional preachers, training choirs, singing anthems to the Master, and calling ourselves Christians. Now, why not try some of Jesus' methods for a change? Drop scandal and jealousy and lying and deceit and graft and noise and ignorance and sham. At least, we would come cut some better than we find ourselves now. Talking about Negroes being "too cowardly too fight" show me where one ever faltered on the battlefield. Name a traitor if you can. When the Son of God was on his way to death, Simon stepped up to his side, put his shoulder under the cross and helped him carry it. When a white foe felled President McKinley, a black man felled the tyrant. When at Carrizal, a white officer was mortally wounded, a Negro soldier also shot, grabbed the falling officer and held him up with one hand while he shot at the foe with the other. Braver soldiers never lived, truer Americans can't be found, and by and by justice will be ours. The constitution gives and guarantees to us our rights, but men elected and sworn to give them to us, refuse. Notwithstanding President Wilson has ignored his rights and has never opened his mouth against lynchings and other brutal methods of taking innocent lives of Negroes; and in the very face of his orders that Negro employes of the government should not work, with whites; and made them use separate toilets, wash-rooms and cloak-rooms now when his life is supposedly in danger, our faithful black soldiers are guarding the White House, and its inmates. What a rebuke to the inmates, and what an honor to the oppressed and wronged black patriots of America. They can and may sleep for America's best guards are on duty. To harm the President and his, the dead bodies of those Negroes will be found on the campus of the Nation's Capitol. Used 40 Years CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Sold Everywhere SEVEN WONDERS OF TODAY. They Will Probably Become the Commonplaces of Tomorrow. Not a great many years ago a spectacled and skeptical old scientist wrote a long thesis in which he claimed that the world's great discoveries all lay in the past, that the future had no new wonders to disclose and that all the really fundamental inventions, discoveries and researches had already been made. "For," said the pessimistic philosopher, "there are no more strange lands to explore, no more conceivable inventions for the benefit of mankind. The telegraph, electric light, telephone and electric motor are already here. The camera and microscope, telescope and linotype, printing press and sewing machine, airship and steamboat are already discovered. What else is there left that is really new?" But Mother Nature seemed to have kept her most wonderful secrets for just such an occasion. As if deliberately to disprove the foolish scientist the next ten years brought out the most astounding collection of new inventions and discoveries the world has ever known, for, in the period immediately following the bold claim of this doubting Thomas, Hertz discovered electric waves, Marconi invented wireless telegraphy, Roentgen stumbled upon the X ray, Mine, Curie isolated radium, Sir William Ramsay found five new chemical elements, Edison made his first moving picture machine, the Wright brothers conquered the air, and countless greater or lesser discoveries astounded the scientific world. So the seven great wonders of today will become the commonplaces of tomorrow.-J. S. Newman in St. Nicholas. MOST COMPLEX ART IS MUSIC In the Key of "C" Alone There Are 382 Distinct Soales. With 382 separate and distinct scales in the key of C alone, it is no more than natural that the realm of harmony should be considered as infinite. Yet few laymen are familiar with this, according to Carl W. Grimm of Cincinnati, speaking on "The Realm of Scales." Mr. Grimm lamented the ignorance of the millions who persist in the contention that music is no longer susceptible of a single original note—that in a short time no new tunes will appear because every possible variation will have been made use of. "No great composer"—Mr. Grimm paused a moment and then repeated by way of emphasis "no really great composer, I say, has yet complained that the resources of music have been exhausted. The present day composer fails to realize that any scale may be turned into a monstrosity through improper treatment, which explains the great majority of our popular music. Scales are not the product of imaginative inspiration; each must be considered as a scientific achievement, and its pitch should be carefully and exactly determined through the application of certain fixed laws which form the backbone of all true music." Mr. Grimm made it clear that music instead of being the most primitive has evolved into the most complex art known to twentleth century civilization.—New York Post. Farm Boys Fill the Pulpita If you are a salesman there is little chance your son will become a minister, while if you are a farmer the chances are the best, and if you are a minister the chances are the next best. That conclusion results from the statistical table prepared after investigation by the Association of American Colleges. Thirty-three per cent of all ministers—at least in the northern states, where the statistics apply—came from the homes of farmers and 18 per cent from the homes of ministers. Other vocations furnish the following per cent of candidates for the ministry: Physicians, 2 per cent; clerical workers, 4 per cent; carpenters, 5 per cent; merchants and laborers, each 8 per cent; all other vocations, 20 per cent.—Chicago Tribune. Ocean Currents There are twenty-seven permanent currents in the oceans of the world, and there are nearly as many more of the semi-permanent variety existing at one time. Several causes tend to originate and maintain these drifts. Uniformly directed winds have the greatest influence, and differences of temperatures, storms, polar ice and eddies have each some effect, creating usually the currents of semi-permanent variety. What Life Is Life is not made out of money, and friendship, and talents, and patronage, and family influences, and good chances, and good positions, and good health, and good nature. It is made out of faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly kindness and love.—Inninger. "DUCKING" IN BATTLE Little Chance For Dodging Modern High Velocity Bullets. Although under the altered conditions of modern warfare both officers and men take all the cover they can get. It is still considered "bad form" to duck when bullets are whistling or screaming overhead. This is a survival of the old Crimean days, when men were actually punished for ducking bullets in battle. That the service tradition was not always strictly observed even then, however, is apparent from a story told of a grizzled old veteran who, on being remonstrated with by a young corporal for indulgence in this very practice, replied, "It's all very well for you, m'lad, but I'm a family man," and continued to duck at each report. It is on record, too, that Napoleon strongly objected to it, and on one occasion he even went to the length of publicly reprimanding one of his staff officers for stooping over his horse's neck in order to avoid the balls he heard whistling over his head. General Gordon, no mean authority, was of a different opinion, though. Writing in his journal, he says, "For my part, I do not consider judicious ducking to be a fault, for I remember on two occasions seeing shells before my eyes which certainly, had I not bobbed, would have taken off my head." Neceless to say, however, it would be impossible to dodge a modern high velocity projectile in this free and easy fashion. It cannot be seen, and by the time it is heard the danger is past.—London Mail. COMFORT IN THE HOME. A Man's Notion of How the Rooms and Things Should Look. A young newly married man complained recently that he almost dreaded taking a friend home to dinner because his wife, every time she expected company, imagined it was necessary to scrub the house from garret to cellar and polish every bit of silver on the sideboard. It made him uncomfortable all day long to think of his wife giving herself this wholly unnecessary trouble. "Of course, a man likes to see his home looking nice when he takes an old chum into it—and of course the chum does too," he said. "But I'd be far happier if I could convince my wife that a house can look tidy even if it hasn't been gone over that very day. "I like the books to look a little disorderly. You get the feeling that they're being read all the time, and that's what books' are for. And I like the music on the piano to be a trifle disturbed. It books as if we really are the songs, and it gives a room that cozy home feeling that a fellow loves. What if the curtains aren't just even in every window? Things ought to look as if they were touched and were used and enjoyed. If the sofa cushions are dented you know some one has leashed against them. Isn't that what they're for? But if they stare at you in a prim row you're a brave man if you dare to put your back against them—much less your tired head! "And when a fellow comes home at night he usually has a tired head!"—Irish World. Fly Killers. One recommendation of the department of agriculture for getting rid of files is powdered hellebore. This when sprinkled on the manure heaps in which the files lay their eggs destroys the larvae and does not in any way spoil the manure. The Journal of the American Medical Association says the hygienic laboratory of the public health service has found in salicylic acid an eminently satisfactory agent for killing adult files. This, it says, is not an objectionable substance to handle, and there is little danger of toxic effects from accidental consumption of considerable doses of it. A 1 per cent solution of salicylic acid should be sweetened and left in shallow saucers where files will easily find it. "Crossing the Bar." Lord Tennyson's most noble death song. "Crossing the Bar," is one of the three greatest death songs ever written, and it comes to us as a sublime prayer, a humble petition, a sacred belief of a great man. The last lone man A Lily of Asia. The illium chalcedoniuza is supposed to be the lily indicated in the sixth chapter of Matthew, twenty-eighth verse, where it is compared with the gorgeous robes of Solomon, and its color was scarlet or purple. This lily grows profusely in the moist parts of Asia Minor.—Indianapolis News. Husbands. "The majority of husbands complain that their hands are always in their porch." "What do they? Then why don't they find there one letters they have formation to mail for their wives?"—Baltimore American. 200,000,000 TONS OF COAL CONSUMED By the Railroads of the Country During the Past Twelve Months. Bankers and business men who are interested in the price of commodities growing out of war conditions regarded with some concern an official report issued yesterday relative to the possible railroad coal bills for the present year. This report stated that in 1916 the roads consumed 200,000,000 tons, whereas in former years 150,000,000 had been the maximum. This showed that the past year was one of extraordinary demands on the roads and the present year may even exceed it. It is estimated that the cost to the railroads at the mines, which the roads in many cases operated on their own account during 1916, was $1.30 a ton, or near the contract price for supply coal in Pennsylvania. At this rate the railroads of the country must have expended $260,000,000 for fuel outlay in 1916, allowing nothing for the cost of handling their own material. The report shows that the American coal trade taken as a whole, last year amounted to 608,500,000 net tons, including 88,500,000 tons of anthracite produced and 520,000,000 of bituminous coal shipped. This makes a new record for the bituminous output. With these facts before them, it is said to be no wonder that investors look with favor on the stocks and bonds of the successfully operated coal companies. ST. QUENTIN'S FALL ASSURED INTEREST TURNS ELSEWHERE GERMANS MASSING ON RUSSIAN FRONT PREPARED FOR NEW OFFENSIVE. FRENCH TROOPS GET NEAR TO ST. QUENTIN AND FIGHTING IS FIERCE. BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP TORPEDOED AND PART OF CREW LAND- LONDON, April 5.—With the capture of St. Quentin a foregone conclusion, interest has turned momentarily to the eastern line in the belief that the preliminary rumors that German reserves are being massed on the Russian front, though not confirmed, and that the German offensive may be starting there. The first impact of the massed attack forced the Russians to give way along the Stockhod line in the Kovel sector. Fighting Close to St. Quentin. PARIS, April 5.—"The French troops made a reconnaissance of the ground north of Gauchy and Moy during last night as far as the German lines, which they found to be occupied in force," declared today's official statement in describing the closing in on St. Quentin. The report also detailed the intermittent shelling east and west of the Somme. The German counter attacks on the front from Faffaux to Margiyal, and the attacks on the north and west of the Rheims were all repulsed. Relief Ship Torpedoed. LONDON, April 5.—The Belgian relief ship Trevier was forded and sunk by a ship ning last evening according to a vain iden dispatch. Two four members of the crew were landed safely, and eight were bounded. The Trevier was aided by an Antwerp concern. Three Villages Captured. The capture of the village of Antwerp by Range and Cologne is reported as follows: British forward movement on the west-ern front. LONDON, April 5. Six allied hospital ships have been mined or sunk by submarines since the opening of the war. Secretary of the Admiralty McNamara told the house of commons today. PROCLAMATION aartinsbirg, W. \a.. Apr. 3, 1917. WHERBAS, the Co.uci! of the City o? Martinsburg, pursuant to the law in sich case made and provided, on the ih day of March, 1917, duly and leg cily passed an ordinance entitled “AX LHINNA OE TO AUTHORIZE ‘TH iSSUANCR OF BONDS OF ‘THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG, AS FOL. LOWS: FIRST. FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND PAVING IN. A PERMANSNT MANNER CERTAIN STREETS IN CHE CIPFY OF MAR- SESUBURD, SECOND. 79 PURCHASE REAL ESTATE, BRECT BUILDINGS AND PURCHASE EQUIPMENT FOR THE USE OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG. THIRD. TO AID IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF A SUBWAY OR UNDER-GRADE CROSSING OF THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD AT QUMEN STREET IN THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG. FOURTH. TO REPAIR AND EX: TEND THE SYSTEM OF WATER WORKS OF THE CITY OF MAR- TINSBURG. FIFTH. TO ERECT, CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A BRIDGE OVER THE BALTIMORE & OHIO TRACKS, YARDS, AND TUSCARO- RA CREEK AT MARTIN STREET IN THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG. SIXTH. TO PUROHASE AND ERECT AN INCINERATING PLANT. SEVENTH. TO CONSTRUCT STORM WATER /'SEWERS - IN +STREETS IN THE CITY OF MAR- TINSBURG. BIGHTH. TO AUTHORIZE A MAXIMUM SPHCIAL BOND LEVY TO PAY THE INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL ON SAID BONDS, which ordinance is in words and figures fol- lowing, to-wit: AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS OF THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG, AS FOLLows: s FIRST. FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND PAVING IN A PERMANENT MANNER CERTAIN “STREETS IN THE CITY OF MAR- TINSBURG. SECOND. TO PURCHASE REAT BPSTATE, ERACT BUILDINGS AND PURCHASE EQUIPMENT FOR THE USE OF THE MIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF MARTINSBURG. THIRD. TO AID IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF A SUBWAY OR UN- DER-GRADE OROSSING OF THE BALTIMORD & OHIO RAILROAD AT QUEEN STREET IN THE CITY OF. MARTINSBURG. FOURTH. TO REPAIR AND EX: TEND THE SYSTEM OF WATER ‘WORKS OF THE CITY OF MAR- TINSBURG. FIFTH. TO ERECT, CONSTRUCT AND MIAINTAIN A BRIDGE OVER THE BALTIMORE & OHIO TRACKS YARDS, AND TUSCARORA CREEK AT MARTIN STREET IN THE CITY 6F MARTINSBURG, SIXTH. TO PURCHASE AND ERECT AN INCINERATING PLANT. SEVENTH. TO CONSTRUCT STORM WATER SEWERS IN STREETS IN THE CITY OF MAR- TINSBURG. > EIGHMH. TO AUTHORIZE A MAXIMUM SPECLAL BOND’ LEVY TO PAY THE INTEREST AND PRIN- CIPAL ON SAID BONDS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUN- CIL OF THE CITY OF MARTINS- ~ BURG: Sec. 1. That the Mayor and Auditor of the City of Martinsburg be, and they are hereby authorized to make, execute and deliver, as hereinafter provided, bonds of the City of Mar- tinsburg to the aggregate amount of $210,000.00, known as “GENERAL IMPROVING AND PAVING BONDS,” the denominations and terms of payment of said bonds shall be as hereinafter provided and_pre- scribed, the proceeds of the sale af which honds shall be appro- priated ard expénded for the fol- wt "“>ses, and none other; that ig to say: . FIRST. The proceeds of the sale of $115,000.00 of said bonds shan be appropriated and expended in im proving and paving in a permanent manner certain streets of the City of Martinsburg, as follows— West King Street from the Bast side of Maple Avenue to the Cum- hortand Valley Passenger Station, REN Gia PINAR Meaeak Waka icc Mec oe ee OWers §=6Street. to Faulkner Avenue, Winchester Ave- aue from Wilson Street to King street, Buxton Street from Raleigh Street to Faulkner Avenue, Fourth Street from Faulkner Avenue to Win- chester Avenue, Faulkner Avenue trom Winchester Avenue to Stephen Strcet, Stephen Street from Maple ‘Avenue to Winchester Avenue, Stephen Street from Queen Street to Circle on Berkeley Place, John Street from Water Street to Winch- ‘ster Avenue, First Street from Win- chester Avenue to Kentuckey Ave ue, Porter Avenue from First Street ) King Street, Samuel Street from ng Street to Burke Street, King reet from High Street to Square, ting Street from: the Cumberland Hey Passenger Station to Tenncs- @ Aenuve, Burke Street from Cem- “ery Gate to Charles Street, Martin ‘treet from High Street to Charles “reel, Race Street from Woodrow “reet to Charles Street, Church ireet from Stephen Street to Race Street, Maple Avenue from Stephen Street to Exchange Place, Boyd Ave- ue to “Stewart’s Addition from Race Street, College Street from ‘cnn ‘$ireet to Commerce Street, South Queen Street from Square to Stephen's Monument, North Queen Street from Moler Avenue to City ‘mits, Spring Street from John reet to Race Street, Water Street from Stephen Street to Martin Street, High Street from Moler Ave- nue to King Street, Eulalia Street from High Street to. Russler Street, Liberty Street. from High Street to Queen Street, Center Street from Ulberty Street to Burke Street, Swartz Street from Burke Street to “ing Street, Pennslyvania Avenue— Queen to Albert Street, Union Ave ue from Queen Street to Second Street, Moler Avenue from Queen Street to City Limits, Albert Street from Moler Avenue to Strine Avenue Third Street from Liberty Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, Second Street from North Queen ‘Street to Pen sylvania Avenue, Hooge Street from Liberty Street to Pennsylvania Ave nue, Frederick Street from Hoog Street to Madison Avenue, Terrace Street from High Street to Queer Street, Adams Street from Queer Street to Hess ‘Avenue, Hess Avenu' from North Queen Street to Eliza beth Street. All said street improvements shal! be mado and all moneys arising from the sale of said $115,000.00 of said bonds appropriated and expended in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of Martins- burg as ammended and none in force. SECOND. The proceeds 0? the sale of $25,000.00 of the par value of said bonds shall be appropriated and expended for the purpose of acquir- ing sites and erection of buildings and purchase of equipment for the Fire Department of the City of Mar- tinsburg. THIRD. The proceeds of the sale of $25,000.00 of the par value of said bonds shall be appropriated and ex- pended to aid in the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of rights- of-way for, and the construction of an _under-grade crossing or subway under the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company at Queen Street in said City. FOURTH. The proceeds of the sale of $5,000.00 of the par value of said bonds shall be appropriated and expended: for the purpose of repair. ing and extending the system of water works of the City of Martins- burg. FIFTH. The procceds of the sale f $10,000.00 of the par value of said bonds shall be appropriated and ex. ented for the purpose of erecting constructing. and maintaining a bridge over the tracks and yards of he Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Tuscarora Creek at Martin Street in seid City. SIXTH. The proceeds of the sale £ 82,900.00 of the par value of said honds shall be appropriated and ex vended for the purpose of purchas ing, constructing and erecting an incinerating plant to care for the warbage of the City of Martisburg. SEVENTH. The proceeds of the “ale of $25,0°0.90 of the par value of vaid bonds shall be appropriated ane expended in the construction and. ewers to care for the storm wate: Se On ee en See Mere en (Wiens PDs tall YEA ha ahh SEER eh Tee eT RTE Ne Oe ee effect of interest coupons to be al- tached to each bond respectively; and said bonds shatl be 1 ths Ist day of January, 1917, and sha‘ be signed in the corporate same of the City by its Mayor, eousters'gned by the Auditor asd sealei wii tho Corporate seal of the said Ciiy. The name of the Treasurer of sx 1 City in office when said bonds are issued shall be signed to each coupon, Lui said name may be either printed or engraved thereon, Sec. 11. That H. H. Bmmert, C. A. Miller and John TT. Nadenbousch, who are hereby appointed Commis. sioners of the City of Martinsbur: for the purpose—be, and they ars hereby authorized and empoweres to sell publicly said “GENERAL IM- PROVEMENT — AND PAVING ‘ONDS,” for cash, at not less than their par value, to the highest! pi ev in writing, to be approvat hv uid Commissioners; but before asy ‘such sale shall be made the samo /shall be advertised in some conven ‘ent newspaper or newspaper. a ‘he said Commissioners may ele*', 21 least four weeks previous to su) ule. The proceeds derived from the sue of said bonds, as fast as roaliz, ed, shall be payable to the Treasure of the City of Martinsburg and de. posited by him in the Treasury of said City to the credit thereof in 2 separate and distinct account, known 3 “Genera! Improvement and Pay ing Bond Account.” and said account shall be kept separate and distinct from other accounts of said City and the funds in said account shall not be appropriated or expended for any purpose than that hereinabove spac- ified. Sec. 111. That the amount collect ed from the direct annual tax here- Inafter provided for, remaining over and above the amount necessary to Pay the interest due upon said bonds each year—which said amount shall be ordered by the council paid to the Treasurer to be held in a special funi by him for that purpose—shali be payable to the Commissioners named in Sec. 11. hereof. The Com- missioners shall invest said fund— ‘known at the SINKING FUND—in United States bonds or the bends of the City of Martinsburg, as the council of said City may direet. A record shall be kept by the Cominis- sioners of all investments of suid sinking fund made by them. Said ‘Commissioners shall each furnish a “i johle to the City of Martins- burg. with some good surety com- ‘Pany as surety, and conditioned that they will faithfully discharge their duties under this ordinance and ac- ‘count for and pay over tc the City of Martinsburg, when demanded, ail funds, securities and moneys coming into their hands by reason of their appointment, Whenever the *ffice of any of said Commissioners shall be- come vacant by reason of deatit, resignation, removal from the City, or any other cause, the Mayor shall immediately nominate his successor or successors to the ounc!l, which nominations shall be made and con- firmed as other officers of the City of Martinsburg are nominated and confirmed. The bonds provided for by this Section shall be approved by the council. The amount of such bonds shall be fixed by the council from time to time. The premium on the bonds shall be paid by the City of Martinsburg. See. 1V. The sinking fund herein provided for shall be kept by the Commissioners hereinabove appoint el for the purpose of payius the principal of said bonds, and all ine vestments, of said sinking fund shall be for the purpose of redeaminy said bonds. ard no part of said fund or the investment thereof shall he paid by said Commissfoners exerpt upon the special warrant of the council di- rected to them and specifying that the amount of the warrant i: for the Durpose of discharging #9 much of the principal ef eafd bonds, The Commissioners shail make a report in writing to the Mavor of tho City of Martinsburg om the tet day of July, 1917, and on the tst day of July in each succeeding year until the maturity or refunding of the bonds herein authorized; sail re- ‘port shail embody all things done by said Commissioners up until the date of said report. The report shall bo WeAHAETiGA “Has MENG. Adawan facut year to pay the interest and to pro- Vide such sinking fund: but before the Council shall make itu ad Utional vy, a majority of the votes casi for and against sald levy as provided f4 the succeeding section shall be in awor of such cuthorization. See. Vi. The Stayor shall issue a proclamiiten reciting this ordinance and appoint a day en whieh an cise Hou shall be hetd by the qualified voters of (he said city to determine shether they shall. reject or ratify this ordisance; and he shall also specify in said proclamation the ag- aregate amount of indebtedness of the said City issued, authorized and ex'sting at the date. of the proclama- fon. This proclamation shall be pub- Vere’ fy all the newspapers publish- et ia the City of Martinsburg, at lonst onecea week for four consecut ve owonte, the first publication thereat being of loast™thirty days be fove the date fixed for such special election, and stich proclamation. shall be posted at the sama time at the front door of the ‘County Court Mouse of Berkeley Counts West Virginia. and at the front deor of the City Mall of Martinsburg, West Vir. sini, and at a place withia eaen vot ing precinct the Mayor may desis: rate. The said election shall be held and conducted i the same mannor x other municipal elections of the seid City are helt, and all persons cvalified to vate ot such elections wf Ay OPMLY 1 y others, stellt eat oooh election The porscrs vocdng for the ratifies How of (his ordinanee arl for. the authertvation at the bond issue shail Nave onder er priate? enon thelr Henares Ace Bai flenitan an) the perions vottme agatist sate ralifivovion shalt bave written or prints? appa thetr blots the warts “For Reteetion.” (There shall he print ed on the ticket the followin: “To authorive a maximum snecial bond levy of TWENTY CENTS according to. the ordinance of the Council of the ‘City of Martinsburg. passed on the Sth day of Mareh, 1917, to pay the interest and provide a sinking fund for the discharge of the bonds now being voted for"; and directly un- derneath in two separate lines shal! be printed the words “For the Levy” and “Against the Levy.” Persons vot ing for the levy shall leave upon ‘heir ballots the words “For the Levy” and persons voting against such levy shall loave upon their bat lots the words “Against the Levy.” The result of the said clection shall be certified in the same manner as the result of the general municipal elections is now certified. See. Vil. The Treasurer shall re- cord the said bonds in the bond led- rer in his office in their numbers, dates, amounts, time when due, the name and address of the purchaser nnd holder so far as known, and file therein the bonds and coupons taken up and cancelled from time to time See. V111. This ordinance shall be in foree and effect from an’ after its passaxe and shall have been ratified at the clection provided for herein as to the authorization of the is- suance of said “General Improvemon! and Paving Bonds” by three-fifths or all the ballots cast for and agains? the same at said election and by a majority of the votes cast for and against the authcrization of the ma~ imum special bond levy of TWENTY CENTS herein provided for. NOW. THEREFORE, TO WHOM ALL THESH PROSENTS SHAL:. COME, GREETING:— Know, yo, that in pursuance of and in accordance with the duty Imposed upon me by the ordinance aforesaid, and under the statutes in such ease made and provided, I, P. W. Leiter, Mayor of the City of Martinsburg, ic hereby proclaim that on ‘Tuesday, the fn day of May, 1917, between’ the hours of «unrise and sunset, a spee- ial election will be held at the reg- ularly established voting precinets {1 ‘he first, second, third, fourth and fifth wards of sald city, by the qual ified voters thereof, to decide wheth cr they will ratify or reject the sai ordinance. At the date of this proclamation the valuation of all the assessable and taxable property within the City of Martinsburg, both real and person al, {sas shown by the last asseasment thereof, for state and count¥ purpos- es. the sum of $8.443.211.74. an which of Martinsburg and the proceeds from the sum of $5,000.00 of bonds, which is therein appropriated and ex- pended for the purpose of repairing ant extending the ayatem of water works of the City of Martinsburg;! or the total proceeds from $30,000.00 par value of said bonds. The pro ceeds of the entire balance of the bonds authorized to be Issued, are appropriated and shall be expended fcr tho purpose of grading, paving, sewering and otherwise improving the streets and alleys of the said city, and therein set out. The aggregate amount of ‘ndebted- ness of said city, issued and author ized at the date of thie proclamation is $146,309.00, consisting of outstand- ing bonds of the amount of $137,000.- 00, and floating debts of the amount of $9,309.00, The amount of indebted- ness which the said city is authoriz- ed to incur in addition to the indebt- edness above set forth {8 $275,856.- 5T. That for the purpose of holding the election provided for in’ the — fore- xoing ordinance, the following named persons, nominated by the mayor snd approved by the council of the City of Martinsburg, on the 8rd day of April, 1917, are hereby appointed commissioners and clerks to hold said election in their respective pre- cincts, to ascertain and declare the result thereof, as provided by law, which said commissioners and clerks shall act at their respective precincts in said city, as follows: Wrst Ward, 1st Prictnet, Com: missioners —W. R. Caskey, Hannon Reed and F.C. MeBee Clerks- C. 8. Thompson and C. B. Kisner. First) Ward, 2nd Preeinet, Com- missioners—John Lloyd, Jas. B, Shipe and Stewart Cushwa, Clerks—K, BR. Chamberlain and J. Prank Seibert Second Ward, Ist Precinet, Com: missioners —C, @. Culler, LL Shaull and C.D. Burns. Mlerks—G, B. Siifer ang Carroll Sencindiver. Second Ward, 204. Preemet, Com: missioners, Ho ‘Thompson, A. Be Nol! and John Gerling. Clerks—Lee Siler and Harry ‘Thomas, Third Ward, Ist. Precinct, Com- missioners-~A, M. Gilbert, J. R. Po- land and Lewis Light. Clerks--Frank A, Minor and EB. ¢. ‘Trout. Third Ward, 2nd Precinet, Com- missioners—Dan Helston, Chas. Selb- ert_and A. Nichodemus. Clerks—Low Young and ‘Thomas Thornburg. Fourth Ward, Ist Precinct, Com- missioners:—Harry Whittington, Jas. Powell and Wm.’ ‘Cumiskoy. ‘Clerks——J. Wm. Kastle, ----——- Lowen, * Fourth Ward, 2nd Precinct, Com- missioners—Jas, Larkins, F. H. Bak- er and W. H. Wright. Clerks—J. Wm, Kastle, Sr., and Thos. Youtz. Fifth Ward, Ist Precinet, Com- missioners—John Oliver, J. H. Lloy.t and Eugene Small, Clerks—Parl Lloyd and Wm. Cage. Fifth Ward, 2nd Precinct, Com- missioners—Id, Brandenburg, J. H. Bratt and J. T. Crawford. Clerks—George Dunn and Roy Va- wards. IN TPSTIMONY WHERKOF, 1, £. W. Leiter, Mayor of the City of Martinsburg, have caused this, my proclamation, to be made and issurt and have hereunto set my hand ant affixed the corporste goal of the Clty of Martinsburg, West Virginia, which corporate sea) is attested hy tae Re- corder of the City of Martinsbars, West Virginia, this 4th day af April, 191% ‘ PW. LEITER, Mayor of the city ef Martfasbnrs. ATTEST: JOHN UW. “RK Recorder of the City ot Mariociue +. W45 1219 25, 8D 1 wm A ee ea Mr. Car! Cole, who ha. been in Coatesville, Pa.. is home visiting relatives and frien ts Four Cars on Eastbound Train De- railed Near Here This Morning —Trains Are Laté, Four cars from an oastbound freight train were derailed about 9:30 o'clock this morning at Rattling bridge, about a mile cast of the Bal- timore and Ohio station, and caused considerable delay of traffic. No. 11, due here at $:56 was several minutes late, which, however, 1s said to have been caused by trouble farther east. No. 16, the fast westbound passeng- er train, due here at 11:16 o'clock, ran nearly two hours and a half be- hind its schedule time, due to trouble encountered near Washington Junc- tion. The wreck caused no trouble to the westbound trains, jet heh ee : : Fd Zz pone, ot Bi 5 CSC 5 ih bit Oe theqes 40: s30gt to mplayer ae ’ e abod WARI “At Keoure All About? De 8 Aas nn ex x: i oe . = egy! sores Ge ae NY Ss wey te 5 ES TR: > i (te ie y 6 Ss; ee aS) : PRR OIA ee Bn Ae ORR Rac 7 Cee ‘AS the whole world gone sters mad over a very feolish and trivial question? Are swords rattling, cannon rumbting, mailed armour |. A glistening just because Russia wanted to shew her love for the little brother—Servia? Tear aside the curtain of Europe's politics and see the iim and sinietdc game of chess that is being played. See upon what a slim, yet desperate, excuse the sacrad livgs of milHons are being sacrificed. 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