Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
WIND SMASHES STORES
WINDOWS AND SIGNS IN
CITY'S CENTRAL SECTION

Damage that will cost thousands of
section OF the city The cost OF bulk
| windows smashed alone will be enormous.
| That more were not destroyed was due
to the action of the department stores
in having gangs of carpenters brace their
big show windows.
Three windows OF the Wanamaker store
were blown in, one in Juniper street and
two in Market street. Gimbel Brothers
lost two in Market street, and windows
on the first, second and third fiors of the
Berg & Berg store were smashed
All the windows of the Kresge five
and 1O-cent store 927-935 Market street,
were smashed while the wind was it its
! highest. Bulk windows also were blown
| in at the following places: 319 North
Broad street, cath and Walnut strets, 1917
! Callowhill street, 1S41 Vine street, 26
South 18th street. 2l3 Market street, 18th
and Chestnut streets and Berg Brothers,
18th and Market streets.
| At Berg Brothers cooking utensils on
display in the window were scattered all
over the street. Policeman Rosenberger
was badly cut by glass at Wanamaker's
after the first window was blown in.
when he stood on guard warning passers-
by OF the danger. He plunged into the
window in spite of his injury, attempting
to get the stuff on display to a safer
place and managed to prevent much de-
structon. Rosenberger also did good
work at the other stores along Market
street near his post.
big tin and wood sign was torn from
the Berg & Berg building and hurled into
the street Several persons narrowly
escaped being struck by it, Pastering
was torn from the cornce of 2l4 Market
street by the wind. and Harry Cummisky,
of 231 East Edgemont street, was struck
by a section, but refused to go to a hos
pi.al.
Awnings or signs were torn from the
fronts of. 7O4 Market street. iS6 Market
street, 3 South sth street, the Renford
Jewelry Company store, 932 Market street,
and Starr & Reeds store, l02s Chestnut,
Two women hurt in the central section
of the city are i'm the Pennsylvania Hos
pitai They are Jennie RoyOkaski and
Josephine Serufska, both of 1923 Liberty
street. Camden. While wind and rain
forced them to keep their umbrellas down
over their faces they walked into a
trolley car at 9Th and Cherry streets,
Tho big skylght In the Eastland Studio,
9li Chestnut street, was blown in by the
wind with a terrific crash that brought
policemen and pedestrians running from
all directions, and great damage in the
studio was done by the rain
DAMAGE Al CITY HALL.
In City Hall courtyard the building be-
ing used to house the "Know Your city
Better Exhibit was damaged by the
wind, part Of the cornice being blown
off. A bay tree was broken off and rolled
about the courtyard. II was almost im-
possible to walk through the courtyard
because of the wind. The front of
small house at Smith Court, near 10th
and Pine streets, was blown in
Electric lights i'm Chestnut street We're
out for 10 minutes last night, and various
other wire troubles We're experienced in
the district owing to the storm.
A plate-glass door of the StrawbridSe
& Clothler store was blown away at
the entrance at Sth and Market streets.
A 9O-foot tree snapped In front of the
home of Select Councilman John +.
Flaherty, OF $50 North Sth street. The
tree fell forward against the windows of
the house Members in the Flaherty fam
ilv were aroused. Mr. Flaherty hurried
his wife and daughter out OF the house.
Windows of several houses on the same
side of the street were shattered by the
branches OF the tree,
A chimney on the roof OF 425 North 10th
street caved in Occupants of the house
became panic-stricken, They hurried out
OF bed. No one was injured
A fiag-pOle in the yard OF the Wistar
Public School. sth and Parrish streets,
was blown down.
Telephone service at the Electrical
Bureau In the City Hall was badly
hampered. Wires were reported down In
al; parts of the city and the operators
at the bureau worked under difficulties
all night They kept fire engines on the
job, however by relaying their calls
Roofs on several buildings on the east
side of 10Th street between SAMSON and
Walnut streets were blown OFF and the
police of the 18th and Locust streets sta
ton have roped OFF the whole block on
the east side of the street
A large sign fastened 20 the ifth hoor
of the building at 93l-35 Market street
was loosened By the wind and fell to the
street but no one was injured. Many big
signs on the roofs OF buildings along
Delaware avenue were blown down, and
a 10-foot Sign on building at 1908 West
GiraFd avenue was blown into the street.
Awnings all over the city We're blown
down and carried away. The police re-
ported that awnings at the following
places had been damaged by the storm;
n. Levingstein's store. 1903 North 7th
street; Keystone Upholstery Company,
1924 West Glrard avenue; Walt & Co,
927 West Girard avenue; Georges gro
Gerry store southeast corner Of 10Th and
Montgomery avenue; Exchange Storage
House. if2s North sth street; stores OF Il.
Rubenstein, southwest corner Of 9Th and
jefferson streets, and Louis Schwartz.
SIS dlrard avenue.
The front windows and 8 part of the
roof Of the furniture store 81 OTTO
sehlaEel ssi-s oxford street. we're