Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-15
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- pears III print, george y. lSleIs WtO PaO-
duced THE Garden of Allah" lays in a new
supply of sackcloth and ashes and excaims
"Mea cupa; mea maxima culpal" And incl
dentally, he says unholy things about a GER
tain eX-dramatic critic now a resident of
Philadelphia. 1t all happened in the days
when Tyler had just turned the financial cor
ner with "The Christian" The dramatic
road had been full of hard shedding, and his
first big success had increased his bank ac-
count to mans size. Then, into the verdant
and unsophistcated 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-
Wills 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
subsequent events proved was bitten, for
when the play closed after while, Tyler's
aforementioned 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 matrlmony. 1t
took him % years to get married 1t never
took him 73 seconds to reach any other
decision. In fact his precipitancy has peen
notorious on two continents. This is pest
exemplhed by a happening one Thursday
morning without warning, the New York
office received a 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 aul then-there came
another dispatch to resume the publication.
Since then the Evening Telegram has be-
come Bonnett's best paying property.
HNIIE next time some British friend reminds
i 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
mo" yet John Porteous was hanged by
mob in 1856, 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 90 injured. He
was placed on trial for murder and found
guilty. \ reprieve was granted and Porteous
was placed in the Tobooth. on September
mob formed, took the keys from the
taller, set all the prisoners free and dragged
Porteous to tree and hanged him, after
first torturing him
DURING the last strike of the cloak and
~ suitmakers in this city, there came an
influx of gunmen from New York city-real
bad men" Of the "eat-'em- alive" type
Stories of their prowcss and fire-eatng pro-
penslties were spread broadcast to scare
away strike-breakers until Detective Isaacs,
of the Central Office appeared on the scene
Single-handed he marched up to the three
leaders of the gunmen. Taking one 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
thcless, that it would be wise 20 beat it"
before real trouble ensued.
Since then Philadelphia has been free from
gunmen, and the Philadelphia police force
has q reputation among New York gangsters
Of being brutal in the eXtreme-impolite, in
fact
ALL ye housewives who make your hus-
n bands get up early these chill mornings
"a lghu the kitchen fire take note that the
man who invented tho kitchen range as con-
st!tuted at present was one Benjamin Frank
lin. native Of Philadelphia and said to have
been intimately connected with certain Incl
dents of our Revolution Franklin first in
vented n stove to burn btuminous coal
which consumed its own smoke, having a
downward draft Later. he devised another
design which had q basket crate and NOV
able bars at the top and bottom supported
on q pivot. The top would be filled with
kindng then the basket would be inverted