Vandals Throw Stones Through Chapel Windows

Pen Mar, Pennsylvania, 1916

Efforts To Locate Persons Guilty Unsuccessful—Blind Man Has Been Preaching

Some low-lifed vandals are at work about Pen-Mar and even the sacred precincts of God's House are not exempt from their ravages. Last week one night some altogether godless degenerates took mountain rocks and whaled them through the windows of Blue Mountain house chapel, completely riddling the large panes in the sash. Some half-dozen of the windows were demolished. They were only plain glass, but if they had been the finest kind of stained and decorated glass the result would have been the same.

For the past several Sundays the Rev. James C. Walker, the blind preacher now staying at Pen-Mar, has been holding services at the chapel and whether the vandalism was prompted by some animosity towards him — which seems incredible — or not is one of the things not yet ascertained. The act, however, was doubtless conceived in pure cussedness and moral depravity.

—The Star and Sentinel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1916, page 6.