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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
FIVE DIE AS RESULT
OF DAYS ACCIDENTS
A Suicide Also Reported to the Police
Department.


Department.
Five persons are dead today and ~ ar,
In hospitals as the result OF a series o.
| accidents since Saturday night.
One of the deaths was caused by illu
minating gas. little boy was burned tC
death after his clothing was ignited by
bonfire, one man was Killed at Crozlers.
Vile when his automobile skdded ovei
an embankment into the Chester Creek
n Negro died as the result of burns
caused by a lighted lamp thrown at him
the police say, by his wife. and man
supposed to have been intoxicated died
after being taken from a cell at the Goth
and Buttonwood streets station.
In addition to these fatalities the suicide
Of man was reported to the police.
Three of those in hospitals were over
come by gas six were hurt in automo-
bile accidents. II little girl was shot by a
constable defending himself from an at
tack of n crowd Of young men. and
Henry Bear. an Indian, who fell into the
Delaware River. and his rescuer, Police
man Haug, of the 4th and Race streets
station, both are suffering as the result
of exposure.
The suicide was William Harner, OF
2505 Philip street and the police are in
vestigating n note found pinned to the
mans coat when he was found in a
rooming house in Race street between
Sth and 9th. as the mans mother, Mrs.
Hannah Harner, says he is able to write
only his own name. The note read:
''She is the cause Of me doing 1t. She
drove mo to it. I swear it. l wouldn't
have done II If it wasn't for her.
The name OF a woman and a fictitious
address also were given In the note. Har-
ner's former employers told the police
that a woman with whom he worked fire.
quently quarreled with him. The woman
was discharged and a few days later
Harner left his place. Physicians at the
Hahnemann Hospital found the man had
taken poison.
Two-year-old Thomas Young died at the
Pennsylvania Hospital as the result OF
burns received at his room. In the rear
of 237 Race street. while playing with
matches.
the man killed In the automobile smash.
His car took a 20-foot jump into the
Chester Greek near the Methodist Church
in Crozierville. James w. Carroll. who
was driving the machine, was thrown out
as the car plunged over the embank-
ment and escaped without injury. Sena-
han was crushed under the auto in the
creek bed.
The woman killed by illuminating gas
was Mrs. Mary Nolan. "A years old. OF
429 North 18th street. Investigation
showed that she was stricken with ver-
tigo, and in falling severed a gas tube
leading to a stove. She died at the Gar
rettson Hospital
Constable Max Lieber, who shot 9-year-
old Mary Cuneo. of 2i2 Queen street was
held IN $500 bail for a further hearing by
MacFarland. to await the re-
suit of the childs injuries, Leiber was
about to fire into the air TO frighten off
a gang Of roughs, he testified. when some
one struck his arm, the bullet hitting the
child in the neck. She is In a serious
at the Pennsylvania Hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
PUBLIC SERVICE
POST FOR GATHER
BELIEVED ASSURED
Governor Expected to Name
His Private Secretary as
Member of Commission
Before January !.

Walter II. Gather private secretary
to Governor Tener, is scheduled for an. Il,
pointment to the Public Service Commiu. (
sion, according to members of the com
mission and political leaders. His ap- /
pontment is expected to be announced
by Governor Tener before January /.
Mr.. Gathers name has been frequently
mentioned in connection with the vacancy
which has existed in the Commission
since the death Of Judge Nathaniel Ewing !,
on March % last. Members of the com (.
mission and others who have been in
close touch with the situation today as
serted that 1t was Governor Tener's in
tertlon to name his private secretary s
for the place before the first of the year.
Another vacancy in the commission 10
expected to develop soon through the
resignation of Frank M. Wallace. of Eric.
Mr.. Wallace politicians said, has fire.
auently signihed his intention of retiring
from the commission. He has not at i
tended any meetings for some time,
among them the rate-increase hearing +.
held in Philadelphia last week. Secretary
OF the Commonwealth McAfee will be ap- (
pointed to the second vacancy, said po-
litical leaders. IL Governor Brumbaugh =
fails TO reappoint him.
Ex-Governor Samuel w. Pennypacker, I.
who has been acting chairman of the q
commission in the absence of Mr.. Wal Z
lace, is slated for election as permanent 2
chairman when the commission reorgan-is
ICES after the vacancy or vacancies have
been filled. The appointment of Mr..
Gather would have been made two or
three weeks ago, had not considerable
opposition to his selection cropped up,
political leaders said today. Independent
members of the last Legislature, which Z
passed the act creating the commission.
have frequently voiced their opposition
to any possible selection of Mr.. Gather
for the place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
RAEs DE IN EIEoEnIo cHAIR
Animals Expire l-Ioo Of a Second
After Current. Is Turned On.

BELLEFOATE. Pa, Dec. IA num-
Der Of rats were eleetrocuted IN the West
ern Penitentiary today IN the hnal tests
OF the new electric chair to be used Tor
the first time on January q
The rats were selected for the tests a.
being the only animal known whose body
offers a resistance % electricity core
spending 80 that of the human body. The
tests were successful IN every detail.
death resulting IN 1-l00 OF a second after
the switch hed been thrown over
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
TO AVERT FUTURE STRIKES,
OBJECT OF COMMISSION
C. w. Mills Tells of Conference With
President on Colorado Situation.

EECblueuL UH NUlOIduO DlIudblohs
Charles w. Mills, member OF the
commission of three appointed by Presi-
dent Wilson to investigate the Colorado
strike and the struggle between the min
ers and the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company returned from Washington to-
day after a conference which the COM
mission had with the President at the
White House.
When Mr. Mills was seen this morn
ing I'm his office in the Land Title Build
ing, he said:
THE commission thus far hasn't dis
cussed in detail any plans which 1t may
propose. During the conference with
President Wilson last Saturday the
President indicated his desire that the
commission concern itself not SO much
with the recent troubles In Colorado as
with the formulation OF a plan for the
prevention of such troubles in the future,
THE commission will undertake to
form such n plan and present it to both
the representatives of the miners and
the operators. We will try to create a
plan by which collective dealings be-
tween the miners and the mine owners
on matters of hours, wages employment,
etc, might be adjusted, without neces-
sarily recognizing the union as such.
"Of course. we might have difficulty in
this, particularly because of the present
state Of mind of the mine owners, who
refuse to deal with the miners collective
ly but We have hopes that. after ap-
preaching both sides in an open-mlnded
way, we may succeed in bringing about
some agreement\by which troubles may
be avoided In the, future"
Mr.. Mills said that the commission
in, Il
would not say whether or not the visit OF
the commission TO New York was for the
purpose of comforting with John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., who Is enc of the princi-
pal owners OF the Colorado mines. The
other two members of the commission are
Patrick Gilday of Scranton, and Seth
Low, of New York
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
DIRECTOR PORTER CRITlCiSEs
COURTS AND MAGISTRATES
Says Police Are Hampered in Work
of suppressing Vice.


Director of Public Safety George y. Por-
ter, in an address before the Reformed
Minister'S Association, at 18th and Race
streets, today, declared the Courts and
the Magistrates the greatest obstacles In
the way Of the Department OF Public
Safety in the efforts that are being made
TO suppress crime and vice in this city.
The police are seriously Handicapped
in their efforts TO rid the city of vice by
the Court of Quarter Sessions" said the
Director THE Department Of Public
Safety has done all in It's power to wipe
out vice by quarantining Il. We have
not succeeded entirely, but we have been
eminently successful in reducing vice to
n minimum. The disorderly houses have
virtually all been closed. our principal
difficulty is now with the street walkers.
When one OF them Is arrested some one
rushes 20 the Court Of Quarter Sessions
and has her released on a writ of habeas
corpus Then the police are ridiouled and
hampered by the court,
Further criticism was made by Director
Porter when he said the courts were too
lenient Eighty per cent. OF the crlmi-
nails arrested I'm the recent crime wave"
he said, were boys and youths. The
courts are entirely too lenient and not
enough attention is paid to home life.
The Sunday-closng law is Joke, and
the police are hampered in their efforts
70 enforce It. In the first place. the fine
is so small that II pays the proprletors
OF stores and amusements TO violate It,
In the second place, Councils have not
appropriated sufficient funds for the po-
lice TO secure the evidence. The police
are in many cases obliged to spend their
own money to get the evidence and then
wait several months to get II back. Last
Christmas ! paid the police more than
1900 to reimburse them for money they
had spent"
The Magistrates were then declared to
be politicians, pure and simple. Director
Porter said that II violators of the Sun
day-closing laws were voters they were
generally let of without a fine. but II
they were aliens 1t was usually found
necessary to impose a fine.
Director Porter advocated a curfew law
and moving pictures in the churches as
4 means Of keeping the children off the
streets and suppressing crime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
PETER S. ATTlCK. SO
Retired Hotslman Celebrating Birth
day in Daughters Home.

Peter s. Attiek. one q the best known
hotel men IN the East who az different
times managed several hotels Ia this city
and the suburbs. Is today celebrating his
s9sh birthday anniversary at the home af
hiE daughter Mrs- Harry ~. Thorn. Hla
Barilg street
alr. Attiek entered the hotel business
more than 20 years ago IS cashier OF the
old lirard House. which formerly stood
at tho northeast corner of sch ana Chest
nut streets. lie remained there 10 years
and then vent 70 Hryn Mawr where he
managed che Brgn HaEr Hotel. then one
of tae most fashionable resorts 4ear the
cil4 He ecled - host q Gearse ~
ctiids. foEner editor ana proplietor of
lha PuaLlc LHpaER. General l'raat Sen
es44 sherman and maI4 eIbef uolablez
SHE 1herzd q fhl.aasshsa during the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
Sue poetor for plaeked Eve

NEW YORK, Dec. 1i.-Charles lines
an actor, has sued to recover $4,000 dam
ages from Alexander Lavigne, an eve
specialist, upon the ground that the doc
tor gave him two black eyes. lines went
TO the doctor for treatment He alleges
the doctor caused two deep. wide, exc
tensiye circles to form about the eyes
OF the plaintiff, giving the appearance
that his eyes had been blackened."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
AcoUlT ASYLUM ATTENDANTS
-Four Men Exonerated of Blame for
PATIENTS Death.

Indictments charging James Dallas,
Martin Gibbn and Michael Connolly, at
tendants at the Pennsylvania Hospital for
the Insane, with manslaughter In causing
the death OF Henry p. Hummel, patient.
we're submitted for verdicts of not guilty
and a jury acquitted Arthur Greenway,
another attendant. before Judge Davis
IN Quarter Sessions Court today.
Hummel died ON October as the result
of hemOrrhages caused by bruises of tho
abdomen. II was the Commemorative
contention that the defendants had used
undue violence, but there was no testi-
mony tc connect Dallas, Glbbin and Con-
nelly with the mans DEATH
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
WAR TAX HITS ELKToN
High Cost of Marrying Increases 20
Cents.

ELKTON, Nd. Dec. 14.-The high cost
of marrying was given another boost to-
day when 1t became known that under
the present law additional war tax stamps
must be affixed to every marriage license
certificate. The cost OF the legal docu-
ment is increased 20 cents. making the
total cost in Maryland Sl.2O, Pennsylva-
nie couples paying the increased rate In
Elkton this morning were:
Alfred e. Hulme and Hilda Kinzler.
William Barber and Minnie Ziegler and
oreste Tampussi and Dovilea Rando. all
of Philadelphia; Frank r. Mcclure, Potts.
vile, and Elizabeth NJ. Jones' Schuylkill
Haven; Raymond c. Fox and Myrtle E.
Wynne, Coatesville, and Ira M. Blant and
Claude o. Ramsey, Altoona.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
WOMAN HYsTERIcAL AT FIRE
Starts Wild Flight With Policeman
in Pursuit.

Mrs. Elizabeth weintraub 1901 South
7h street. became hysterical this morn
ing during a fire at the confectionery
store and home OF her sister, Mrs. Sam
ueI Clyman. 2l4 West Jefferson street,
and led Policeman Midget, of the Front
and Master streets station. wild chase
through the streets before he finally over
took her on the railroad tracks at AmerI-
can and Jefferson streets and Gained her.
She had been summoned TO the scene
OF the fire by an excited neighbor, who
telephoned to her that her sister and the
latters two children were in the house
and in danger Of being burned to death.
She believed the report when she saw a
crowd before the house and she began
her excited flight through the streets.
Mrs. Clyman. AT the time OF the flre, had
just taken her two children to school,
The loss was 500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
THE WEATHER
Official Forecast

WAHHINtTION, Dec, ~.
Hor eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
seg--Fair and much colder tonight and
Tuesday; strong west winds diminishing.
a disturbance that was indicated on the
middle Gulf coast yesterday morning
moved noFtheastward at a phenomenal
rate ana merged on tha north Atlantic
slope last night with another disturbance
that moved Eoutheastward from Lake
Superior These two formed an energetic
storm that Is central over Maine this
morning. They caused general precipita-
ton from the Mississippi River eastward,
Snowfall was heavy In the Allegheny
Mountains. but fortunately temperature
rose suddenly and changed the preeipita-
ton to rain along the Atlantic slope An
intense cold wave has overspread the
central valleys ana the Lake region at
he rear q the storm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
SCHOONER IN COLLISION
The Emily Anderson Arrives With
Damaged Bow.

The British three-masted schooner
Emily Anderson, Captain Haughn, with
cargo OF cocoanut from Jamaica for this
city, arrived at Delaware Breakwater
early this morning with her bowsprit and
Jibboom trailing in the water over the
bow.
1t is believed that the vessel was in
collision with the Consolidated Coal Com
pany's barge, No. 25 which arrived in
tow Of the steamship Charles s. Mayer
The Mayer and the barge are bound from
Newport News TO Boston.
All three vessels anchored off the Break
water,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
peeapitated in Elevator shaft

NEW YORK, Dec H.-Wilham Taylor
was decapitated yesterday IN the elevator
shaft of the Dearborn Apartments. $50
West 55th street, where he was employed
as q porter. Entering the shaft to close
a window, he was looking out OF il when
the heavy counter-balance weight de-
zcended upon him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
PLAN ADDITIONS TO SCHOOLS
Superintendent Cook Announces I'm.
provements In Extreme Sections.

There will be accommodations for 1900
school children when improvements ap-
proved by the Board OF Education are
completed before the opening OF the next
school term
]. Horace Cook, superintendent OF
school buildings, announced today that
plans were being drawn for three addi-
tons 10 schools IN extreme sections Of
the city. A six-room addition viii be
made 10 the Filter School, Seymour and
and Knox streets. Germantown; Is rooms
will be added By a new wing to the
Southwark School 9th and Mifhin streets
and new building with q rooms will be
added to the Longfellow School. Taeony
road and Pratt street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14
Accused Of Dealing in Cocaine

John McGann. alias Pittsburgh, OF 1lth
and Pearl streets, formerly an actor. was
arrested this afternoon charged with hav-
ing cocaine in his possession. He win
have hearing tomorrow before Magis-
trate Tracy.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-25
|NTER-SECT|ONAL
CLASHES feature
Eastern Football to be Put
to Test, Just the Same as
Western Brand.
(By Hugh r. Fullerton }

! Football is opening up with the
promise of the greatest season of the
reconstruction era of the game
With the new rules modified only
in a few particulars in which they
were found not to operate we'll; with
the backs allowed a bit more freedom
In pursuing kicks and forward pass
! es, and the game more open than IL
has been in the east and a trif1e clos
er than it has been in the west, the
outlook for strong teams is excellent
| The chief interest, of course, at
taches to the double meeting Of east
and west. Michigan plays Harvard and
Notre Dame, the sensation Of last year
meets Yale. This rather dims the, i'm
portance of the western conference
championship.
But to football men the game at
New Haven on Oct. II and the one at
Cambridge on Oct. 81 are more i'm
portant than the mere wining or los.
ing Of a contest. They are contests
that will decide the relative import
ance Of the styles Of play adapted by
the sections.
| With the new rules the western
teams at once opened up and COM
menced playing fast, kicking and
passing game. using the open forma-
tions. while the east refused to alter
It's style of play so radically and con-
tinued the line battering and straight
football.
The east, Of course, maintains that
1T is the only football section and the
west heretofore has been considered
OF the bushes. Notwithstanding this,
two eastern coaches in the last two
years. after watching the big western
games. have said quietly that any one
of half dozen middle western teams
/ ~
ton If they used that style of play.
The overthrow of West Point by Notre
Dame came as stunning blow to the
eastern style Of football, and after
that there was a quick change Of tao
tics and modification of the eastern
style. by practically every eastern
coach
Notre Dame will take a team east
that is scarcely less strong than it's
wonderful one Of last year, and Coach
Harper is satisfied that it will uphold
the west. Yost has a team that has
the best veteran. talent Of last season
and, although tf squad is extremely
small for Michigan, the material is de-
clared promisingt
| In the West.
Among the western conference
teams Chicago, Of course, is the favor
ite.
Best stories emanate from Mime
sofa. Williams has lost heavily by
graduation. Illinois has real cause to
be more hopeful. Wisconsin loses four
stars and is gloomy. Neither Purdue
nor Indiana nor Iowa shows much i'm
provement to indicate a chance at the
championship and. while Northwest
ern undoubtedly has strengthened and
developed as a football school, it is
not factor in the race. Ohio will be
much stronger, it is expected.
OF the outside schools, Nebraska
shows a lot Of strength. Some Of the
vets who brought Michigan Aggies
fame last fall are back and the team
will be strong.
The Pacific coast, having tried Rug
by, is not entirely satisfied. Southern
California Is coming back to football
The lapse has caused the coast schools
to lose ground and it will be several
years before they catch up.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-25
FIRST FOOTBALL
GAME TOMORROW
University and High School
Teams to Have Annual
Practice Contest.

The university and high school
football teams will get their first test
tomorrow afternoon, when they line
mp for their annual practice game.
The contest will be played on the uni
versity field and will begin at 8
o'clock.
Harry Wells Of the university will
be referee and James Brennan will
umpire.
Yesterday afternoon the university
team was given hard tackling prac-
tice. No scrimmage was held, as
Coach Andy Gill wanted to develop
their tackling. He also gave them
considerable work in running down
under punts.
The players showed considerable
Improvement in tackling, although a
number Of them still are weak in this
feature.
Gill also gave the men some new
plays.
After the game tomorrow, Mr.. Gill
will be able to formulate a program
for next weeks work in preparation
for the Minnesota game.
Coach O'Keefe gave his string a
hard workout yesterday. He is hav-
ing difficulty with the line, but expects
to develop a fairly good forward de-
Tense. The backfleld men are show
ing considerable improvement each
day.
Eight minute quarters are to be
played tomorrow.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-25

Damon Runyon says the Giants now
have a lead Of seven games on the
Braves for second place.
Clark Griffith says cigarettes are
not to be allowed his players next
year. He blames them for losing the
pennant Griffith might just as we'll
fight the whole German army single
handed.
Larry Larson lost his first American
association game yesterday. The
Kansas City gang got twelve hits off
him. Larry can get comfort in the
fact that the Saints got dozen blows
off the Kansas City hurler.
And, then, Larry can slant back at
Marty O'Toole's record. He has lost
more than one since joining the
Giants.
Connie Mack says he's not worry
ing about the Boston Red Sox. And
as long as Connie is not worrying,
sporting editors need not pull the
anxious stuff.
There seem to be a lot Of them,
though, that are trying to worry Stall
lings, for they keep calling attention
TO the fact that Murphy, Oldrinr Col
Inns, Strunk, McInnis, Baker and Bar
ry are still playing with the Athletics.
Somebody even went 50 far as to
print picture of Baker swinging his
home-run bludgeon.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-25

By defeating Pittsburg yesterday,
This team Is likely to give the STALL
ings outfit hard fight
Manager Herzog of the Cincinnati
Nationals has been suspended for
three days. The suspension Is due to
Herzog's objection to ruling by Um-
pire Quigley in the first game o. Wed
nesday's double-header, when Smith
Of Boston was allowed a home-run OF,
a ball which had been touched by a
boy in the center field bleachers.
Dolan's hitting and fielding featur-
ed st. Louis third straight victory ov-
er the Giants yesterday. He put St.
Louis ahead in the seventh when he
tripled and scored on Magee's sacri-
fee fly. After New York tied the
score in the eighth, Dolan drove Beck
home with double in the ninth, win
ming the game.
Washington moved into third place
yesterday, by taking two games from
Cleveland. Pitcher Shaw gets credit
for both victories, as he relieved En-
gle with the bases filled and only one
out in the eighth inning Of the frs,
game and blanked the Maps in the
second.
The Chicago White sox played in
hard luck yesterday They started sew
eral rallies during the game with
Philadelphia, and when the swatfests
were at their height, two men were
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-25
Years Holiday for Northern
League May Soon Be Declared;
Mileage Will Not Be SO Great
(BY BEN.


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European
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baseball other
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pecialy--should considered almost sacriege
believed by ALL should
would be practically impossible Canadian cities
with the proposition
During Winnipeg
baseball
with the national rules
question will be definitely settled " - ~ ~ ~
Mileage Will Not
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of 8 a
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nothing generally
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