Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-15
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/ duced THE Garden of Allah" lays in new
! supply of sackcoth and ashes and exclaims
| "Mea culpa; mea maxima cupal" And Incl
| dentally he says unholy things about a cer-
tain ex-dramatic critic now a resident Of
! Philadelphia. 1t all happened I'm the days
when Tyler had just turned the financial cor
ner with The Christian" The dramatic
road had been full of hard sledding and his
first big success had increased his bank ac-
count to mans size. Then, into the verdant
and unsophlsticated life of Tyler crept that
nefarious critic. In the latters behalf 1t may
be said that he has reformed now and is try
ing to live down his critical past.
At any rate. the critic had Just read zang-
willis children of the Ghetto" then newly
published. Full of misplaced enthusiasm he
went to Tyler and urged him to have 1t
dramatized and produced. Tyler bit" and
as subsequent events proved was bitten, for
when the play closed after while Tyler's
afore- mentioned bank account had been de-
creased by some 100000.
A BOUT the only thing in which James
"A Gordon Bennett, owner and editor Of the
New York Herald. not to mention the Paris
edition and the New York Evening Telegram,
showed hesitation, was in matrmony 1t
took him 73 years to get married; ii never
took him 70 seconds to reach any other
decision In fact, his prccptancy has been
notorious on two continents This Is best
eXemplifed by Il happening one Thursday
morning. Without warning the New York
office received cable dispatch from Paris
signed with the usual Bennett" ordering the
suspension OF the Evening Telegram. There
was no reason given and AS Benefits word
is law, no one asked for an explanation. The
staff was dismissed and then--there came
another dispatch to resume the publication.
Since then the Evening Telegram has be-
come BENEFITS best paying property.
TUE next time some British friend reminds
L YOU that lynchings take place only in the
United States ask him or her If he or she
has ever heard OF an historic lynching in
Edinburgh The reply will most likely be
no yet John Porteous hanged by
mob in 1885, and the entire populace was
delighted beyond words. Porteous was cap
tain of the guard and was known for his
wanton cruelty. In a street riot he had
forced his men to fire into the crowd, seven
being killed and more than 20 injured. He
was placed on trial for murder and found
guilty. A reprleve was granted and POrteous
was placed in the Tobooth on September
mob formed, took the keys from the
jailer, set all the prisoners free and dragged
first torturing him
DURTNG the last strike of the cloak and
~ suit-makers in this city, there came an
influx of gunner from New York city-real
bad men" Of the "cat-'em-alivC" type.
Stories of their prowoss and tirc-eating pro-
pensites were spread broadcast to scare
away strike-hroakors until Detective Isaacs,
OF the Central Office, appeared on the scene.
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leaders Of the gunmen. Taking in his
good right hand and another in his equally
good left, he bumped their heads together
with precision and force. Then he took the
precious trio to Broad Street Station, put
them aboard n New York express and told
them politely and all that. but sternly never
theless, that it would be wise to beat it,
before real trouble ensued.
Since then philadelphia has been free from
gunner, and the Philadelphia police force
has reputation among New York gangsters
of being brutal in the eXtrcme-impolite in
fact
A L. - housewives who make your hus-
"A bands get up early these chill mornings
t. light the kitchen fire take note that the
man who invented the kitchen range as con-
stltuted at present, was one Benjamin Frank
lin, natv" os Philadelphia and said to have
been intimately connected with certain Incl
dents Of our Revolutions Franklin first in
vented stove to burn btuminous coal
which consumed its own smoke, having a
downward draft Later, he devised another
design, which had Il basket CRATE and mov-
able bars at the top ana bottom supported
on a pivot The top would be filled with
kindng, then tho basket would be inverted
and the frr would burn at the base. The
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