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VOLUME XVII N'
LOCAL NEWS OF THE
WEEK CONDENSED tore armas Conan, incorpo-| HARD RUN TO NEWYORK
2,000.
0. 2X
BUSINESS EXTENSION
ARDMORE
| AUTOCAR COMPLETES ‘WORLD'S FIFTH
PA., MARCH 23, 1907
| EASTER CANTATA
8.8. CONVENTION ssn School Chorus Will Preseat
1e Risen King.””
| Early Recollections of Ardmore
S. Pea
By Josi
The grading of the old Lancaster Famnpike was not a matt
cor
ter
Kn ith
. . ther cost olive toeal to the incorporators. The hills i
Notes of General Interest ree in line wane me sm to be «| Officials ‘Test Car Under Ad-|Dr. C. R. ‘Blackall, of Ard-| On the evening oe April 6 the chorus bum mps appear e been purposely rai ied by the addition of the
Gathered Here and There a general expansion of busines verse Weather Con- | more, is the Director lot Lower Merion High School wn pre- | piking meri, ee all the hollows and depr ressions were evidently
Around ‘Tow rise in Ardmore is the John Ber “ vis ter cana, treated with the ble coat of
Around ‘Town. Tse heace Company. A firm, backed ditions, General. “For some time pas the same nay ‘De said of all the roads nad ste ty the people of
; Philadel tohia {ganial to the exten sc ee Ichorue under the dives | ft ty years ago, fie if any attention being estowed
BRIE ONAT, ME been incorpo ated 26 TMLyasys MACHIN ATIMED|A GREAT EX posrtionk “, have been Non of making 2 oad, while all the stress
Artin has be ven vhich was giv- of getting from 4 point to point on the axiomatic ae rnciple ‘of the
Palm n-morrow. J : year The straight tine. It is to be regretted that, in the case of the turnpike,
Palm Sunday to-morr Mr, J. L. Rose- inmost Within little more than two. south P)
My ad Me eed ial Eeilee by Poca ath Sueday schoo conver f the piece will consume fit-|the new owners were so well satisfied with the work done » the Qi
ng is upon us heey, who ig oxic sve inter 1 in] Erie te President HA, Gillis" and te held at Romney Teatyy and in| than an hear and Sell be well nal engineers that they proceeded to spread thousands of dollar:
‘The bacebatt season with soon be p ar} al Sales Manager Fred. P, Brand Pea tani worth the small admission fe charged worth of modern road surfacing on the “Old bed without materially
fe haseba treasurer, ¢ Autocar Company. han a month Dr. C: lackall, | ‘The High School choru: # Wa four part «
. . reducing any of the too numerous and xery vary ving grades, so that it
here. ‘The company contemplated large al ng to testa new mode Antocar, | pre, in company with his wile assembly of a hundred and twenty-five | 5 yet and possibly always will be a hill
“Wher > ations and rection of an addi-|they decided " Ht take an active part. i this ith exe y tL ‘ay
a eh bs the title ofa | teins de site of the Etborn|ex 2 ally so nvention, Dr. Blacl is the we Cote ie able “Sreeto aot mparatively recent date the only turnpike or
comedy w Je young people of | FT ste stare. However, the store]|prevailing, and left Ardmore early in the |director general of the ex position, and Sta y made a very eens we stoned road in the township, and being a main oad to the West, and
ihe Tetheran | church hope to Pre-' Kuitding adjoining, formerly Mr. John|morning in a now and hail | his house on St. tee road has become | sentation ns r, and it is saie to say practically the only one with the exception the caster
sent early i Hughes’ men's shop, being left va-is:orm for a trip to ) ve nd retain ne of the points fr the |that even a lange measure of success will |RO%, Which paralleled it, was a much traveled ‘nigh. Even the
is te Jeant by the sale oe the ets fnrnish [The toads were fount to be worst nt of mater Cat i attend this rneton, rough roadway of stone Was preferable othe: rd of the old road, so
Mr. Merritt Sen was ten on Vinge toa cern, the posible condition, ane ‘pes the| exc at this convention. that for many years the turnpike was th t used road. The ol
dered a Post card surprise on : ‘ f the con IL road, now Nontgo Mery etic, continued 1 to ‘y road until
en, | new company has leased this store. Mr. oming up over the hubs, of the convention wil ° “ ue
auniversary of his birthday SaTaes| Hughes, who has thus re com bus- | others i as amass of garng kao ‘orth ina practical and winning manner| NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES | the late seventies. The width prescribed in the original “road order
day, id was remembered by a large | iness, has a lease on it until April 1,}else a sheet of ice covered by a thin the various ating n operation, espe- —— issued by William s fifty fect, but when it became Montgom-
number of friends in Ardmore, Phil-| when the John Elborn Company will | blanket ou snow. The machine n |cially of English-speaking coun vet BAPTIST CHURCH. ery avenue it was wi widened to ne Peer dimensions by the township
adelphia, and other places. take possession. The partition betw charge of Joe Brown and Walter x 5, {inclusive of other. ‘ands Sheehy he} The junior choir of the Baptist ands Soon there: after “gobbled” rivate corporation on and mm cad-
the stores as at present will be partial-|+wo of the most experienced Sere roy world’s great work of evangelization is | Church ss s been a The o original widen a fie ty feet was not ned in
Misses Marguerite and Haze Sie remove leaving a broad arch con-|the Autocar Con ith, Me. being carried on largely through the ef- | mente the en time, the road being in many Places much 'n narrow -, for
Harlan gave a party on Wednesday | he two. departments, Brand and Mr. Gillis ‘ole, ;forts of the Sunday schools. Dr. Black- » | then the farmers farm ned all they cou! ibly get behind. “their
night at their Philadelphia home, | "The ees Stock of hardware and| me of the Amtocar engineer . fall on account of his excellent work fences. he only old cross roads tien in the village were te Church
which was attended by a large mim | houseiunnishings will be areatly in-| The first stop was near Metuchen |long similar lines at conventions at | bei road and the two Ander: lai f which ii w Anderson
. ne demands of the} When uni in oor ‘curve a sheet of | Pittsburg and Toronto, Sana was R hvenwe "and the other Glenn's tenes hone “ot which we were» macadamized,
her of Ardmore people, sed if t °
ee trade, ‘The new company has every rea-Jice wa: ek, causing the car to [requested to become the director of this ri In fact, prior to the time when M Cassatt consented to fill the
Early next month the members| con to anticipate succes P01 lexpesiion in Rome to beheld fom Na BI n of Township Sapercisor “under the old f ff Township
‘of the choir of the Methodist church ee g- | 20 to 08 jay 23. In this work the director | Si mort e government, thet re no stone roads in Lower ovion Township,
expect to present a comedy entitled ape of the passengers was miraculous, | ite os ‘sted by Mr. Allan Brotherhood meeting in, the morning.) othe an those 1 nen which felt was charged, and they were such as
“Aunt Hannah's Quilting Party.” INDIAN ASSOCIATION jas the car at one time Mr. Peter, | taking for his subject a thorough stud; vould to-day of the township.
It is under the direction of Miss land then on its side, but quickly recov- manager in Rome. of the life of Jacob. An interesting fea s the pioneer of good ‘Toads in Eastern Pennsyl ania and,
ie McClintock Bryn Mawr Branch Moots, Trausrets fered itself, and righted in a deep snow- oe on will cauorise cieen ture of last Sunday afternoon's service } to his “efforts not only Lower Merion, but the State owes a debt of
Jessie Met Buisness and He: Repert. dviit. A pair of horses were procured, ‘or more different sections ative of the enrollment of a new member pratitud that will remain unpaid. Tn the face of the most stren-
‘The award for the prize essay on) The Bryn Ss In but they were unable to budge it. Fin- | the work of the world’s Sunday schools, Jon the cradle vol roll ty pe Pema Dew sition he compelled the farmers to have good roads con-
$a partment of the
“Benjamin Franklin as a
“ Pennsylvania,"*a ogriive offered
y the sylvania Society 0
Conta Dames, will he made pub-
licly at the High, ‘School on Mon-
day afternoon, April 8
The cli ining arty | be at the)
residence of 3 old, on!
Ardmore avenue, on *twureday |
evening, wnder the auspoes of the
Christian Endeavor $ y of the!
Raptist church, was a ‘sigh
affair. A featw
the reveitation ofa comedy,
Banch of Roses.
jon Fire Company will hota
itg annual meeting for the election | *
of officers, in Merion Title Hall,
next Wednesday night
Mr. and Mrs. R, D, Montgomery,
Cricket avenue.
The choirs of all the churches are
in active rehearsal for the slaborate
mwas programs which will be
Easter Sunday in ihe vari-
ene churches
The members of Pluto Degree
ot Banyan Tree Lodge, No. 378,
0. F., held a supper in Merion
title Hall iast Monda night
My. and Mrs. Arthur P. Baugh,
who have been spending the winter
will come out today t
Hill,” their home at
Francis H.
of the West Chester St
Green,
‘ate Norma
School. A general invitation is
extended to the public to attend.
. S. Paterson, who recently
the houseand removed there during
the weck,
Miss Mary Prichard entertained
a pumber of her friends from A
more at Iuncheow at her wes in
Narberth,
Mr. William H. Russell and fam-|
ily removed on Wednesday to cor:
ner of Athens avenue and the tral-
ley road
Miss Sara Abbott and Mr. Wil-|
g
2
a
3
z
Sts. y and
allen “Abbott, Mr. Nitin Abbott
is a student at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Misses Katharine and Margaret
T.andless and Miss Bertha Devere,
of Philadelphia, were visitors in
rdmore over Stn
Mrs. William Meyers will a8
the solo parts ofthe a nthe "Prai
the Lord,” and Mr. C, M. Cassell,
of Toietciphine will sing a solo,
“The ’ to-morrow evening
ab Mathew Simpson MLE. Church,
of |
| the
| Baptist Church met on Wesnesdey
met with Miss
on Tr
site ofa w
A, letter fror it
ithe resident, Ate HL
ntaining her failure to be pr
interesting repos
swit
rt of the ork and
wey
ally, four horses were hitched on, and| ‘These departments aré represented b
eas eae ‘and amount to
sprang forward on th a
Master
Sun ool.
m Scheffield Grtack is the new
OF they mmanaged to pall it out of the ditch | ceriodicals, maps books cr print, Mv
to the nee ed matter, showing the nets in which | BERDCE
After. ms ing: vested. in the snowdrift [i work i one i in the schools. All} Tomorrow's services in the regular
upon throwing on the these exhibits are mounted on large | O¢der: | Brotherhoo 105
pon com - Pain Sunday sermon by the pastor. x
unday school at 2.30; Christian
Si
Endenvor, led by Miss Vivien Ingle, at
st
Jaims of the Indian Indust ts oa re has! = hee a
was read. This league has b x the car, besides having been in Tae, £0008 | 5" evening service
tone for several years and is ct the sow wi Shoe iar hed keen sub. i sed ge oad res
ic to do much for the benefit of the ected to many heary jolts snd knock | material, all carefull cat-| METHODIST CHURCH,
jlan, especially in jon ot Wie : nt Gillis and Manager ‘Brand stosved and mnie eoneecutively and) Rev, Simpson brought
ing his work to bile notice, aie dS wore “Te cise over iis sonderfal in series, all ready, as the doctor ex- | close last. Sunday the fifth year ot hie
| tl to the Rich Ine and 1 ching 3 York | plained to a representati ‘ninistey ai ¢ Ardmore M, E. Church:
* read by Miss Bowman, show- : ie vem ; ii (fer placing on exhibition hhe took for ‘ie text the same one with
ir growth isc _Srosations a and. also won ‘te Mote “ sore where oi | mich | bean is his min try he res
om an address hy Ms. Precost of WoFk | Car. Company ff New Jer The fr ot is at of petits regaedng the "church “ership
among the Alaska Indians were of a om thelr. retwwn jou The cole Soe Tat te Sere [iene gece church membership
hopeful nature. After an enjoyabl wi home was tmeve nfl ‘ arriving day et periodicals sritened ‘eon church membership was bout one hun
sociat Bat howe the meeting ran re that afternoon, The Ato- lout the work These are mounted on lared and twenty. Thirty of that mer
to meet at the home of van a = ny feel very proud of the|the cardboard, as are all the rest, and |bership are still members of the church
is Rosemons in Apr 5 jrmance of thir Tntst sod, ake a surprisingly attractive feature, and sere is still about a inindred. and
Psa the fact tat a car could make this h sh, French | str, showing in oa
; ; [tip ser pen trying ¢ endiions “ ‘th r ninety fe new members have been receive
oe Tam a he a lout a bit of wood or ples rial, Burin are devoted |into. this church during the past five
Rosemont, are about completed. |i" damage sped very a tthe lo ape ao chats na large variety, |years, In the evening the members of
rhe office has been removed to latest Anna once more roving ao which are used as aids in teaching Bible | Cassia Lodge attended the services, Th
e second ‘loo: r, js much Autocar reli a tat and not a /lessons and oneing Sunday school Methodist Conference exercising juri
linger fund. more convenient than |?" essions. ‘The fourth de epartment is that jd fis church ha
| was the old offic — of lesson picts, and as there is any |sesion dloring the past. wel the
‘CLIPPING PARTY. sore of these and. mos are [charge to which Mr. Simpson has been,
| charles Baylis, who left Ard-
ore what two years ago to enter
the service of Uncle Sam, has re-
n appointed sergeant in
| cently beet
the Marine Corps. His company
is now stationed at Bremerton,
| Washington.
Mr, and Mrs. John sips ans
i bright little son wil
day in New York
ends.
The Sewing Circle of
Jafternoon at the residence of Mrs.
HLA, Amold, on Ardmore avenue.
Chief Chambers
will shortly 0c
and his family
use at
cup:
,| the corner of Spring and Ardmore]®
vent
Mr. Stanley Smith, who bas
‘ing relatives im Ardmore,
alte ye vvesterda? for New Yorl
Mr. W. W. Woodruff and family
\have
t
103 Linwood avenue.
ter igh School cancelled its basket
ball game with Jower Merion last
the time for the game. This was
lto have been the forwal closing of
Lower Merion's basket ball season,
and the unfortunate action of the
West Chester management caused
considerable disappointment.
‘The set of dishes, containing 100
pieces offered by Blue Jacket Tribe,
. R. M., was won by Mr. John
Blake, of Ardmore, at the drawing
Thursday night. The local Red
Men will celebrate tacir anniversary
[with a big pow-wow in April.
moved from Athens avenue to ,
| the last moment West Ches- |
the receipt of the cancellation and | ¥
the exposition, The conseentive
‘Young People ot oh Christian Endeavor °
ety Hat
‘the elipping party and faree somedy
of
tenth vScpatment is tat of the national
resitence of Ds: HE.) State and provincial method oe organ
Arn jore avenue, and the
Fipiclerh ee was well filled by
the number of people who attended the |material, classified oy departments and
affair. ‘The first part of the evening | attractively mounted for examination, In
as Iaken up with the pre station ofa f the gen
farce called “ sociations, sucb
ke john Adams, “ie ‘Vivien Tn rons iva Smita Sun
7 ay School Association, is sot
Charles Ingle, M n Smith, Miss | practical manner by sampl
Marion H. Har cat and Mr Clifford jused in management and development
the London Sunday Sebi
“ ie suceess on Thursday ne
wea held atthe
rnold participated, and these ama-|The w 00!
curs test th e charming little play Asta the Scottish Na Sab-
ina very cl r Union, the International
001 Union,
The Cinning pot, ‘followed this part jsunay Schoo Association and other or-
ch
se fan p, need=
A cake Sty oie oC ole
i ‘maybe “oe tinappreciated, & 7 ie
mall boy, while
lic schools,
and i
ous lnongrais the pole was tripped theme and have been cli
ofits secighty minutes. zines and similar sources.
Refreshmen vd this part of|the story of “A Mode
the entertainment and the evening end- [especialy good.
ed ost en bl
eral gov
sik
a
z
y in singing and a gen- |count of the Prodical Son as given in th
Bible,
— ‘of everyday American life, show:
Joba J. , Hoes of Ardmore all that he had and journeyed into
F country where he wasted is sub:
bas opened a paint store at 5217 stance in
Talore avenue, Phi lege. of purile
j Mr Hughes will live in the apart: part of this exhibit is the work of pupils
pts over Villiame’ tail
oving establishment.
gs
Continued on third page.
tof them
large, attractive part
, Bibles (printed in about ive
ted
cand Hiustraive tl
r
haracter are | Rey
naps are on the
order of 7 Felicf maps used in the pbs |e 7
and they represent the | 7.43,
ft zentleman of 6 was made te thountainns country of Pa lestine. An+
recipient of a p clots iron: [other division is. tha stories,
he deal So fortune smiled on diferent writen by Sun ysl vil avd
spite of the many humor-[illustrated with picuaes hich fit
al
it takes the short ac-
and with very appropriate nce the pw
s how
riotous An nt | dts
or will be appointed, has not been made
will be no morning service at
Methodist heels to. morrow, as it is
Cine Palm
‘The day cit
oe 9.30; Sanday school at the us-
ur, 2, epartment of
conduct the
ie hor
‘B
ill ‘rs the congrega-
ject of the Wor frit Sun-
day School “Convention to held
Rome during the early summer months,
and to we “ the Doctor and his wife
are delega'
LUTHERAN cure
Sunday will
Palm bea speciat
musical service at the teas ae
of the entertainment, sess the spa: | ganizati a. similar vB, W, Staley will preach an appro-
+ drawing 6 hang a Tong fully represented in this department priate sermon in the mornin in
auded down with neatly tied par-| ‘The departments of normal aad teach Jthe evening the choir will render a song
eis ote every size and shape and variety. jer training, Y. M. C. A. service. During the afternoon te Saw
These all dangled from the pol 3 jperance york are all ih ina man- | day school will hold special vie
baffling, tantaliz’ og manners 2 nominal er si e precedi "The | the crcl Servis i shri Passio
sum was charged for which the guests department of sal von department | Wee Wednes a.
could purchase So package ant 3. is one well worthy of special men- sin
This depart ment ‘ow 5 be- |e I, of 01
ig done in Sunday schools to develop in| he a ces. and. the
upil ve drawing and | Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be
"off a pair of pink knit [eanstraction, models and colored work, | adini nero in the morning
rit es, skete and other | ‘The services to-m oro w ! commence
ot her packages contained a box of original work, ne division of this ex: | with ie | Brasher dof Andrew ai
writing paper, each sheet of which was m + is at ot core aul wns made | Philip m in the mornin, ‘oe
sfemete with 8 red heat pierced by a New Jersey jhy Mr. Sains serm
day. school a A vdeavor
ice at
20: Chek
the evening. song se
otter. FB MeDevitt, superin:
ent of | Cathelie parochial
Archdiocese
Paladin ‘nade an official esl
u Mawr Parochial” Sehoo
resterday, and wae much pease
with the pronress wing made by
pil
M ae oon a
erford station, “moved, _deaterday
e the Gaverford wagor
but fe work wae paid fot
uous op
structed Piro thet ‘sr and fort
rot in safety over r6: ws v
walked their horses | in ae and disgust. Lowe: he
first township i in the county and | Hate to adopt the good roads idea,
and that id . J. Cas:
There are many ye of appre:
hension generated in wl of the township by the’ ‘nial effort:
Sassatt to macach nie “he township roads,and the threats what
were made but ni ited to relegate hint t to obscurity at the
succeeding tow aship elec
‘The road leading from Ardmore to Merion Square was amon,
first to be changed Fc rom one of the worst to one of the best of the
township highways, at which time it wa generally believed that
when t pt a was for
iged to sell their
ising Sho
remember the c
8
lected previc ously, which baa Deen ex,
tke dirt, stot s from the sides to the middle of the road,
© be ‘washed. tak agai ‘by the e next rainfall
It ah e beg
change in the township senuinney inning of the move-
ment for potter roads, the Sry jot yet, although it has
gi aver Merion over ney hie of the best roads an Peni
ei eaniae
White Mr. Cassatt was. the first to produce results in road repair-
WZ, as well as in road making, he was not the first to introduce new
methods in regard to’ the Tatte ter.
old plan of patching up the roads as practiced by the super-
vis Thee came decidedly unsatisfantory about th 1868 whe:
a instance f Col. Ow n Jon $, William Sibley, Louis Wister and
5 the tous hip adva rovisions of a special
act ‘of Assembly author
cominissioners who: 'y it became to sell the repairing of the roads
at public auction, to the lowest bidder and to have general supervision
of the work, collect the taxes and pay the successful bidders for their
contracts.
In carrying out the provisions of the act the township was divid-
“ed and subdivided into numerous districts or sections which districts
were regularly put up at auctions which were held at The Red Lion,
‘The Green Tree and The General Wayne Hotels. The auctioneer, of
course, cried the sale backwards sae the lowest bidders were
warded the work. The plan prov worse than a failure and so
were the roads, It was clearly Te onstrated by the method that
the maintenance of one gutter in the middle of a road was no improve-
ment over two suters ¢ on the sides, and that, under the plan, no loss
was ever know e toa Peechaser of a section, no matter how
low a bid had been trade by hin
When many of the roads became almost impassable a return was,
made to the old plan of electing supervisors, which continued up to
the time when, by enactment, Lower Merion township became the
first township of the first class in Pennsylvania and the present
method of treating the public roads to repairs that were in a measure
permanent was inaugurated and is yearly being improved upon
yet it-has to be admitted that the roads are not altogether
oo goo, ‘many of them being no better, if quite as good as when
Mr A. J. Cassatt could not, in any possible way, be defeated for re-
election to the office of road supervisor.
We have referred to the fact that the old Lancaster road was
originally a narrow dirt road, and that it was not infany part a piked
or stoned road until a comparatively recent date, when the road was
widened to seventy-five feet and graded to about its present form.
A number of the smaller crooked places between Haverford and
Merionville were straightened a trifle and at Merionville the road was
deflected to the left as far as the city line, where it was given the
name it now bears. ‘The people were then told that the improvement
would be then and forever the Township Boulevard, but almost imme-
diately a turnpike company was chartered which took possession of
the road and piked it from Ardmore to the city line. It is now owned
by the Philadelphia, Bala and Bryn Mawr Turnpike Company, ae
though the western limit of the road does not approach within a mil
of the latter village.
It is to he regretted that the numerous efforts to have the road
made free and much better have all failed, for at this time both our
main drives to the city are toll roads, maintained at such an expense
as to be altogether unprofitable to their stockholders and not so well
kept as the highway ys 0! the township which are maintained at the
fT expense of the taxy
it may be that the ns in both cases, as an anti-trolley in-
in the Ardmore Baptist Sunday school, Savers “Wie will still continue to. the road for driving.
ari
vestment, is profitable to somebody, who has little occasion to use
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