davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
ANTI-sUFFRAGIsTs' FUND
Subscription List for Red Cross Euro
pean Work Grows.

Mrs Austin NJ. Purves, chairman of the
Womcn's Relief Committee of The Pom
sylyania Association Opposed to Woman
suffrage, at meeting at the headauar-
ters 2Gl South Fifteenth street, TODAY an
nounccd that the fund for the Red Cross
work in Europe. for which she made a
public appeal several weeks ago, is rap
idly growing
IN response TO Mrs. Purves' suggestions.
an immediate subscription list was start
ed by the -suffragists, and sub-com-
mlltees headed by Mrs. Purves. Mrs.
charles Bingham Penrose, Mrs. Hector
Mcneil Miss NJ. Pitt ana Miss
Laura NJ. Sloan are busily collecting
money for the destitute families of Eu-
can Red Cross fund.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
ARRESTED FOR BARREL THEFT

Charged with the theft of load OF
waterproof barrels, three young men
we're held last night In $500 bail by Mag
istrate Pennock, of the Central police sta
t,ar They are Charles Ellis. q years
IA of 1913 Point Breeze avenue: Howard
Pmhy is years old. of 21st and Tasker
st-ssts and William Mclaughlin, II
,.aaTs old. OF 1920 Christian street The
ibeft was reported by the night watch
80 ~ The Reading Railroad freight sta
.ia located at ed and Arch streets
md the youths. who were taking the bar
SO away in a moving van. We're arrest
"a dst I'd and Tasker streets BY Special
Poltesmen Black and MeGInGy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
CAPTURE ALLEGED RoBBER
Taken After Chase on Charge of As
saulting Pedestrian.

After an exciting chase on Sixth street
early this morning, John Letter, of I2l5
'"ltman street, was captured and turned
over 10 III" police, facing a charge of as
sault and battery, preferred hy James
Cummings OF io9 Ryers avenue, Chelten-
ham.
According 10 Cummings, he was walking
down Sixth street near WiIIoy 80
Letter attacked him with n lead nina
Knocking him to the pavement and rob.
hing him Of 50 cents. Completing the ar.
tack Letter fled, and Cummings. ioined hv
pedestrians, attracted to the spot bv b,s
cries gave chase, finally capturing the
man AZ fiTard avenue. Letter is heing'
hold at the Central police station u,tbn',t
bail to await further hearing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
HOUSE ROBBED OF JEWELRY

Jewelry and trinkets valued at $50
We're stolen from the residence Of D5.
Joseph Head, t22 WeSrvicw street Ger
mantown during the absence Of the fam
ily. The theft was committed last night
The intruders entered a bedroom on the
second floor and raRsacked "A bureau
drawer in which was kept family val
uables. watch, pair of cuff links and
scarf pin Bers among the things taken
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
Charged With Kicking Boy

Magistrate Grehs scored Charles Mol
lvr.sn 50 years old, Of 26G Roberts ave-
nue.. today ia holding him for court on
a charge of having kicked 7-year-old Ed
ward Maccione. MolleTlsh said Maccione
and ether Boys stoned him as ne passed
tAem carrying a railroad tie. but Mac
clone denied molesting him. The man
was held under 500 bail
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
TWO PRIESTS TRANSFERRED
Attaches of St. Rita Are Given
other Charges.

Two priests. attached to the cathots ~
Church OF ST. Rita were sent today !"
other charges.
The Rev James McGowan, o. 3 a.
rector OF the church. which he orgsniIs55.,
was transferred TO st. Joseph,s ChI,sv psv
Greenwich, y. Y, by the Very nsisi
Nicholas j. Murphy. o. S A., PIovllSsifs. Sis.
of the Augustinian Fathers Father ,;srs
Gowan will be succeeded by the .,,s
Rev. Charles \. Driscon who will COM
here from Greenwich. ,,ba
The Rev Mortimer A. sullivan 80
has been the first assistant TO ssill
MCGOWAN for the last four years con.
go TO the Church of the lmmacuiat,S- s. ,bsf
ception. Hoosick Falls, \. Y l., Or.
Rowland. o. S. A., who was reeeh"
dained IN Rome. will succeed him
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
BRITON OBJECTS TO GERMAN
FOOD AND GOES TO JAIL
Sauerkraut Anglers Him and He Is
Arrested After Family Quarrel.

No British. French or Belgian wife
Should serve her husband German dishes;
For Frankfurters may lead to strife
And make a peaceful husband vicious
And hub may lose all trace of common sense
II he's iLcensed by saueTkrauts incense.
Real German sauerkraut placed be-
fore Henry w. Bunnie, an Englishman,
of 3l09 North Thirteenth street. as the
piece de resistance of his egening meal
drove him to such boisterous objection
on racial grounds that his wife sum-
moned a German policeman, who took
the Englishman before a German mag
istrate. who sentenced Bunne to 10 days
in the county prison.
When Bunnie was arraigned before
Magistrate Finely at the Park and Lee
high avenues station this morning Mrs
Bunnie testified he has been unmanage-
able since the European war started
She said he came home last night in
tOxicated
Urnthinkingly she had prepared a meal
of German viands, to which her husband
objected. Mrs. Bunnie then ran into the
street and summoned Policeman Zeps.
who arrested Bunne
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
HIGHWAY BRIDGE WILL
ELIMINATE CROSSING
Steel and Concrete Structure for
Glenwood Avenue Near Seventh.

steel and Concrete structure tor
Glenwood Avenue Near Seventh.
\ steel and concrete highway bridge. to
cost approximately $4,000. will be con-
structed on the line of Glenwood avenue
near Seventh street over the tracks of
the Richmond Branch of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway Company
Plans for the structure are being pre-
pared under the direction of Chief Web
ster, Of the Survey Bureau, and, follow
ing the approval by the Public Service
Commission and art jury, bids for con-
s,ruction OF the bridge will be received
Money for the bridge is available from
"a municipal loan.
Residents of the section where the
fridge will I've erected have been appeal
INK for months for the structure that will
eliminate a dangerous grade crossing that
must be passed daily by children on
their way to and from school.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
ROBBED EMPLOYER is CHARGE

WEST CHESTER, Pa, Sept. l5-Efiie
Eastman, the common law wife Of John
cakes, cDIorod, Of Glenloch. vas locked
up here today on the charge Of having
taken a large amount Of silverware from
the house Of Jacob Hamilton, of near
Marztetu, while employed there as a
domestic.
OHIgers searched the home last night
and recovered the property alleged 10
have been taken by the woman
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
DRIVEN FROM BUILDING
BY DEADLY AMMONIA GAS
Fumes Escaping From Valve Make
It Hazardous to Enter.

How building is to be freed from the
deadly gases of escaping ammonia Is the
problem that confronts the ]. NJ. Morris
Company poultry dealers, located at POP
South Second street. A leak in one of
the valves of the refrlgerating system has
flooded the building and street with fumes
so overpowering that no one dares enter
to close the valve. The company Is In
qlandary as to how the difficulty is to
be overcome. although it has been sug-
gested that submarine diver might be
successfully employed.
In the meantime the immediate neigh
horhood is deserted and pedestrians are
Obliged to use the other side of the street,
even at that distance being choked by
the punEent fumes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
EXECUTOR UNDER ARREST
One of Heirs of Estate Alleges Mis-.
appropriation Of Funds.

Trouble over the handling of funds he
longing to the estate of Joseph Bvrna
today resulted in Magistrate GreIis boId.
ing William Mcbride, 60 years old. the
executor, in $500 bail for court
Joseph T, Byrne, one Of the heirs. made
the complaint. lie said $3.50 had bsan
misapproprIated by Mcbride, who live.
at 3li6 Stllman street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
FATALLY BURNED AT GARAGE

HARRISBURG. Pa. Sept. lg-Norrlg
Brehm, eyed lS years. of Penbrook was
fatally burned today when a gasoline
tank exploded al the Mt. Pleasant garaFs
His death is expected before night. -Four
men sustained lesser injuries.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24
Letter From Reserve
Officer To His Mother
rs INSTRUCTIVE AND THROWS AN ILLUMINATING LIGHT
ON SUBSISTENCE CONDITIONS IN GERMAN
FORCES NOW IN FRANCE.

In the villages and - no stone
remained in place. Some OF our hus-
sars entered them and were treach-
erOusly shot down. The example has
brought good results. We regretted
that we had to do 1t, and now that the
people have been brought to their
senses. further measures OF that sort
have been prohibited.
'In the village of - saw an old
man sit in house which had been de-
stroyed. In front of him stood VEN
cradle gray. old man-the priest-who
surveyed the remanant OF his congre-
cation with sorrow. I entered the viii
lage Mt the head of two battalions, and
when the cid priest saw me he looked
Mt me in way that cut into my very
soul. Then with the sudden motion of
fear he took off his hat and held Il In
his hand, until the last man had pass
cd him. / think he feared that a re-
fusal to greet us would be taken as
nm offense What went on in the mind
OF the old priest would be interesting
TO know. But this is war, and we did
mot want the indesc:ibable misery
which 1t has brought on.
Last night at roll call we heard the
news of the German victory over the
English, French and Belgians. We es-
pecially appreciated the news con-
corning the English. Our hate for those
perfidious fellows Is universal and
much greater than our feeling against
the French. Everybody wants chance
to get at them, and God have mercy
on them should they get before our
rifles-from us they need expect none
"At seven In the evening we heard
the news OF the Russian defeat I hope
that the good tidings will be confirm
ed. We are advancing everywhere.
ut is q beautiful evening, and i will
have to do field duty tonight. The en-
tire village had prepared itself for de-
fe1se. but In the last moment they
lost heart. Just now they brought in
a French soldier who has been In hid
ing five days in u chicken house.
"At my side the captain Is cutting up
a cucumber-oil and vinegar have been
secured after long search"
while the officer is on outpost
duty he continues the letter.
well. / am out in the field. In
front Of US the territory occupied by
the enemy. War Is a terrible thing.
This noon while l was inspecting the
outposts. five French chasseurs on
patrol work advanced towards our 'po-
sition. We were In the woods. Fire
was opened on them at 200 meters.
regretted having to give the command
The officer, 26 years old and married
two days before the mobilization, as I
learned afterwards, was killed. The
others were wounded and taken pris-
oners. We did not a;a, ut the horses
they and the saddles are first class,
and now five OF us will ride. To have
e 4" that sore of thing is distressing,
but what ia to be done. o. est la
guerre!
II have received mail twice SO far,
and every time the post arrives i'm
agine there must be something for
me. What has become of the letters!
We are here far from human aid-have
no tents and are not permitted to make
a fire. My meals so far have consisted
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24
London Paper Discusses
Plight of Cotton Growers
SAYS THE CALL FOR COTTON WILL DUE TIME AND
is ESSENTIAL THAT 1T SHOULD THEN BE FORTH.
COMING IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES.

LONDON. Oct. 23.-(Corresponden
of The Associated Press
the plight of American cotton grow
ers, the Cotton Factory Times, prom
inent English trade paper, says: at
is to be hoped that. for their sakes as
we'll as ours, the planters will get
through without serious loss. The call
for cotton will come in due time, and
1t is essential in the general interest
that 1t should then be forthcoming in
sufficient quantities., which could
hardly be the case If the growers were
ruined or very severely hit at the pres
ent time"
The World Record has prepared a
table, based on figures of the Interna-
tional Cotton Federation, which show
that about one-half Of the cotton pro-
duced in America for the year ended
September 1, 1913. was used by the
countries now at war. Great Britain,
Germany, France, Austria, Russia,
Belgium and Japan are represented
as consuming 7,5S4.S5a bales out of u
total of 14,503,757 bales. Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Holland. Sweden, Denmark
and Norway, which took 1,193,887
bales of cotton in 1918, are also more
or less seriously affected by the war.
much disgruntled by the action of the
Federation of Master Cotton Spinners'
Associations in running short time.
For a time serious labor troubles were
threatened. But conditions in the cot
ton market have now become 80 bad
! that complete suspension OF totttol
manufacturing plants seem immf-
nent unless the government find some
way to offer relief.
Sp:nness ere indignant over the con-
tinued closure Of the Liverpool cotton
market and have inspired efforts to
effect direct business relations be-
tween the growers and consumers OF
cotton, thus eliminating the Liverpool
cotton dealers. The Manchester Guar
dian and other prominent papers To-
Gated in cotton manufacturing centers
while admitting that such rlan might
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24

of dry bread and / feared that my sup
per would be again dry bread, but, oh,
one Of my men arrives with tre-
mendous slab OF bacon which he has
found somewhere. My orderly has
managed to get few onions, and we
have succeeded in gathering six Gig
arettes-what glorious supper.
"The field kitchens are fine insti-
tuition. We officers get our food from
them together with the men, and I
will say that usually 1t is quite tasty
and always we'll cooked. You would
appreciate the field kitchen IL for three
weeks you had been obliged to eat the
stuff cooked on field fire.
Tonight there will be no sleeping,
and / wish morning were here. Ais
we'll. Thousand kisses-Otto."
/, There is note on the following day.
ait was terribly cold last night in
the ditch along the highway.
"a thousand kisses.
"THY LOYAL SON."
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24

be desirable, say it would require a
long time to handle cotton direct be-
cause OF the great amount OF machin-
cry required to take care Of it prop
erly and the necessity for the careful
graded which Liverpool d, -'ers
have afforded.
Speaking of the proposed =.
tion OF Liverpool interests from.
cotton trade. the Cotton Factory TIM,
says: Cotton planters in America
have already considered the necessity
for the careful grading which Liver
pool dealers have afforded.
Speaking Of the proposed elimina-
tion OF Liverpool interests from the
cotton trade, the Cotton Factory Times
says: Cotton planters in America
have already considered the necessity
OF protecting themselves against the
Liverpool interests, and II is reported
that they have decided that no cotton
shall be planted next year. This is of
course meant es 3 warning that IL
their stocks Of materials are not taken
off their hands now greatly ehhanc-
ed price will be charged for 1t latef
OF.
Opinions may differ as to whether
some OF the present dislocation OF
trade could not be avoided. but II ia
daily becoming more clear. that there
are too many conflicting interests at
work I'm the business, which makes 1t
vrry difficult for trade to move, and
those interests seem bent on blaming
each ether for some rcr....eG CO The
present unsatisfactory situation"
Thomas Temperly. of Bolton, in a
letter on the plight of the cotton trade,
charges that Liverpool cotton lords
are supported by English banks in
keeping the Liverpool cotton market
closed and preventing mills from get
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, Oct. %. q p. m.)-The ad-
miralty tonight issued a statement
outlining steps that are being taken
to round Up the eight or nine German
cruisers at large in the Atlantic. Pa
cifc and Indian oceans. These crui-
sers include the Emden, which has
sunk or captured twenty British YES
sells to dato in the Indian ocean, the
Karlsruhe, which has taken thirteen
British ships in the Atlantic. The
statement says:
Searching for these vessels and
working In concert under various
commanders in chief are upwards of
seventy British. Austrian, Japanese,
French and Russian Cruisers. Among
these are number of fastest British
cruisers.
"The vast expanse of seas and oce-
ans and thousands of islands offer
almost infinite choice of movement
to the enemys ships. Despite every. eff
fort to cut on their coal supply 1t
mas been maintained. In the face OF in
creasing difficulty the discovery and
destruction of these cruisers large
ly Is matter of time, patience and
good luck.
Our commanders so far have been
occupied in serious and important
convoy duty but this work has lessen
cd and the number OF seaching cruis-
ors is being augmented. Meanwhile
merchant ships must observe the adj
miralty instructions which 1t Is obvf-
ously impossible to specify and use
all precautions which have been Gug-
gcsted. On routes where these instruc-
tions have been followed they h17e so
far proved very effective. On the 9TH
er hand, where they have been. dis
regarded, captures have, been made.
The same vastness of the sea which
has so far enabled the German cruis-
ers to avoid capture will protect trade.
1.-THE only other alternative to the
methods now adopted would be the
Imarshaling of merchantmen In regu-
lar conveys at stated intervals. So'far
1t has not been thought necessary to
hamper trade by enforcing such a
system.
"The percentage OF loss is much less
than was reckoned on before the war,
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24

Correspondence OF Associated Press.)
ROTTERDAM, Oct. 23.--The follow
ing letter OF reserve officer to his
mother. publiahed In the Cologne Ga
zetter, on Septefsber 16. thrown an IL
Illuminating light on subsistence con-
dittons In the German forces now in
France. II Is instructive also in q num-
ber of other respects.
1T Is hot mOrning, the men are
busy digging trenches, and now the
crash OF artillery which kept up all
morning is no longer heard. am sit
ting under tree, reading again and
again your dear letter and the re-
mainder of my mail. Indeed, dear
mother. IL Il could be done would
telegraph you eI cry day. But that Is
impossible: So now, while have the
time. will write you as long n le' n
as possible. One never knows W
the future will bring.
"This is very iGyllic spot. Am
disturbed now and then In most
agreeable manner. ripe plums fall
from the tree-most conscientiously /
eat them. / haye breakfast we'll, and
the company barber gave mo q shave
which was needed badly. In addition
have menaged to get some washing
done, and now feel again like gem
tleman.
''As already told you the commits
sary officer Of our battalion and I
went to the same college. have been
obliged to pay for this happy coin
cidence with many q bite needed my
self. But yesterday he told me that
he had managed to get two honest-to-
goodness, real and otherwise bonafide
hams. i lost no time accepting Eng
oh Io vn az - ~
tonight. To the great surprise or the
captain managed to get 1-8 pound
OF butter from farm. But there Is
nothing to smoke. Kindly send me q
few cigarettes and some pipe tobacco.
THE owner of the farm where I
got the tobacco is q woman; thirty
two years old and rather wealthy. She
LETT the place, not because she feared
the, Germans, but the French, as her
manager told me. wish these people
had sense enough to remain on their
farms. We do them no injury and nay
for everything we take, while the prop
erty of those who run away is natu-
rally without owner and thus not pro-
tected.
There Is no evidence here of "volks-
krinS (war carried on by the popula-
l.Yn, as in Belgium.) The people ere
rather afraid and do everything to get
along with us. Everything is upside
down nowadays, dear mother. Master
alone Is the soldier, right and wrong
are matters which he rules on: all
power and responsibility has been
placed on his shoulders. I thank God
that our hands are clean and that our
officers conduct is beyond criticism.
In Y asked woman whether
sbe had O complaint 10 make against
our soldiers. and she said: mo, the
German soldiers are good ladys."
"But with this the burning OF VII
lagos has nothing to do. Most OF tterl
are set afire by artillery fire shells,
and when they are burned down pur-
possiy, Il is done because the inhab-
itspt4 have fired upon our soldiers.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24
Received Half
Million Dollars
fBy Aasociated Presa.l

tBy tABsUCiutSU fItSS.I
LONDON.a Get. 2S.--Q0:50 p. m.)--
The American commission for Bel
gian relief today received half a mill
lion dollars from the Belgian minis
ter in London with which to pur-
chase food ard supplies. This money
Is a part Of the Belgian relief fund
entrusted to tho minister.
Seven thousand frozen sheep con.
trIbuted by Australian colonies en-
route to London. will be transferred
to the American commission. The
Belgian minister has notified the
commissions that funds raised In the
United States Will be entrusted to
the cUmmfssi0n.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-24

ting the supply, OF raw cotton they
need. This is much the same position,
taken by Gordon Harvey. a member of
Parliament, who charged that LIVER
pool interests maintain an artificiaI'
cotton market and even when the Liv-
erpool market is open do not permit
trading unless prices are in their
favor.
Direct importation or cotton to
Manchester by the manufacturers who
require 1t is urged by MIR. Temperly.