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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

There's big money in player-pianos,
Birsky, because while in former times
people wouldn't take piano as a gift
on account of giving their children
music lessons to get the use out of it,
nowadays they could pay large price
for a player-piano and send their
girls to business college, and still save
money on it, Consequently the de-
mand for player-pianos is enormous,
particularly as here just lately they've
got 'em working by electricity which
could run for ten cents the kilowatt
hour some of the heaviest things that
Paderewski gets off at five thousand
dollars a concert"
Brsky shrugged his shoulders
again.
What you understand from art,
Zapp" he exclaimed. "A Schwarzer
from the Cannibal Islands which don't
even wear athletic underwear knows
more about fur overcoats than you do
of pictures, Zapp.'
Listen, Birsky," Zapp retorted,
"if them millionares which is buying
these here high-priced pictures knows
as much about their art investments
as the public does about fur overcoats,
you could take it from me, Birsky,
when them millionaires' heirs comes
to settle up the estate, Birsky, they'll
find that instead of five hundred
thousand dollar Mill, the old man got
stuck with hundred dollar sweat
shop. When you come to compare
pictures with fur overcoats, Birsky,
you never spoke a truer word in your
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND FROM ART ZAPP! A SCHWARZER
FROM THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS KNOWS MORE OF FUR COATS

Widener Selig, the Philadelphia mil
lionaire, and he is paying for picture
of a mill one half million dollars"
What kind of a mill ?" Zapp asked.
Whats the difference what kind of
a mill?" Birsky said. 81 believe it
was a flour mill"
"A flour mill he pays half million
for its picturew Zapp said. "Why
for a quarter of the money plenty peo-
pie would have been glad to sell him
a rolling mill, and throw in a dozen
pictures free"
"And yet you say Max Maihafer
should make from his boy a button
hole maker" Birsky continued. "Take
that picture painter which turned out
the mill, understand, and if he gets
only one order when he's a new be
ginner, understand me, business could
be bad with him for the rest of his
life"
"You may be right Birsky," Zapp
said. "but | don't believe picture
painter gets anywheres near the re-
tail price of his goods. because the
profit to the retailer must got to be
enormous, otherwise he couldn't live
at all. A retailer which handles them
mill pictures runs an awful risk,
Birsky. It's the same like he would
he carrying a line of steam yachts. If
he's only got two on hand he's over
stocked bad already"
"Sure, know" Birsky said, "but
such a retailer also stocks line of
medium priced pictures, too. For every
mill picture he sells, bet yer he gets
rid of dozen Horse Shows oder
Angeluses."
"Of course. if the feller carries
Angeluses as a side line, that's some
thing else again, Birsky," Zapp said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

now there is feller by the name
Riley which from only being poet is
now owning most of the gilt-edged
real estate in the city of Indianapolis
"Sure, know" Zapp declared, "but
this here Riley was an old established
poet when Hart, Schaffner & Marx
and Kuh, Nathan & Fischer was new
beginners already. Then again, there
is a bigger opening for poet than
there is for a picture painter. Take
the canned soup business, the break
fast food business and even some rail
road companies-all them concerns
has got working for them poets which
they already pay them good yearly
salary, whereas a picture painter must
got to work piecework, and what for
a wages could pieceworker on pic
lures make when with my own eyes
see it bill from wholesaler in
Weltfsch's art store, which Weltfisch
buys | 6-l2 doz. assorted oil paint
ings in small sizes for $3S.75 a dozen,
including shadow boxes and frames,
terms ten off sixty days, ninety days
net. Tell me about picture panters!'
"Say, there is a popular price line
Of pictures and then again there is
high-grade pictures" Birsky said.
even So" Zapp rejoined. you
must got to admit that a concern like
B. Altman & Co. carries a high-grade
line of goods, and when B. Altman
died the stock was good, up-to-the-
minute stuff in every department eX-
cept the picture department, and when
it come to the pictures they closed 'em
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

"Do you think the people which B.
Altman collected them pictures from
gave them TO him for nothing?"
"Why not?" Zapp said. Last week,
Birsky, your wife comes round to my
wife while | am downtown and says
she is collecting for an immigrants
home old clothing, y'understand and
my wife gives away on me two suits
and an overcoat which | wouldn't be
ashamed to wear getting an accom-
modation at bank. so bekovet they
looked"
There's collecting and collecting"
Birsky explained. when say b.
Altman collected pictures. mean he
bought them and paid his good money
for them"
"And the people which he collects
from makes profit on the transac-
tion?" Zapp asked.
makes a profit" Birsky said 81
should say they do"
"Then that is the first time hear
such a thing" Zapp cried. Because
when some one tells me down at the
store that there is collector outside
wants to see me, it don't make no diff
ference if the collector is collecting
for bank, hospital, the cloth
sponger, home or the landlord,
give my bookkeeper instructions she
should say just went over to
Newark"
"Well, pictures is different" Birsky
continued. "A feller which collects
like B. Altman sometimes pays enor-
nous prices. Take for example Mr..
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expected a child and had only small in
come of her own.
Keller. shortly after this, went to Mr.
Hcpburn's office, according to the attor-
ncy. and told him that Mrs. Wade was
''harhoring" McNichol Keller's attorney
and Mrs Keller said yesterday that Nc
Nichol deserted his wife. This Mr. Hep
burn denied; lie denied that McNichol
drank to excess and he denied that Mrs,
Wade. McNichols Eodmother, had har-
bored McNichol or had objected to Mrs.
McNichol OF had gotten the young man
to leave his wife.
KELLER on SMALL SALARY.
Keller and McNicho, after Mr.. Hep
burn forbade more mortgages. called on
james Francis sullivan. president of the
Market Street National Bank. to get
loan, but failed TO obtain money. All
the men in charge of the leather business
were working for nominal salaries, Kcl-
lcr's being only $ll "A week.
The affairs of the bankrupt company,
after McNichol disappeared, were settled
oy David j. Smyth, former Director of
Public Safety and NJ. \. COyne, his
partner. With the exception of one per-
sonal claim, every obligation was set
tied out of MCNichols estate. The COM
panN was not incorporated.
The detectives are conducting an in
vcstigation to learn where Keller got the
$3.50 with which he went into the laundry
business with Connery. Mrs. Keller says
il was taken from their savings. She
has been fOrewoman in the textile mill
OF John Norris in Kensington for years
and Mr.. Norris is undertaking to pay for
kellers defense.
Coroner knight and Doctor WadswOrth
Coroner's physician, had a conference
today in regard to the notebook which
was found on the body found in the
trunk. It was identified as McNtchols
Wadsworth applied. on Doctor Wads-
wOrth's testimony an important part of
the Identification evidence depends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
out to the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art for practically nothing"

out to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art for practically nothing"
Birsky shrugged his shoulders.
"Say, what is the use arguing with
an ignerammus like you. Zapp," he
said. Don't you know that them pic
lures which B. Altman left to the
Metropolitan Museum wasn't taken
out of stock at all? They were private
pictures which he collected"
$50 he collected them ?" Happ COM
mented. well, that's the way it is
with them rich fellers. A big con.
cern like B. Altman gets the credit
for giving them pictures to the Metro
politan Museum. understand, where
as the people he collected them from.
nobody never hears about at all It's
the same way with them charitable
roshoyim which is running all them
orphan asylums and homes. They
bother the life out of you you should
give 'em for ten or fifteen dollars to
their asylums, and when you come to
look it up in the annual report so
that you can prove to customer that
you already paid out more than you
can afford to charity, y'understand,
all you see is: Collected through
Felix Geigermann $lO2.5O,' and the
customer sticks you another ten dollars
for free soup society before he would
buy from you another dollars worth
goods"
$50 that's the idea you got when
tell you that B. Altman collected the
pictures and give 'em to the Metro
politan Museum Birsky exclaimed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

life, because while it's an old saying
life nine times, Birsky, nobody but a
fur overcoat manufactures knows
whether the cat is going to come to
life as Persian lamb, Siberian mink,
Hudson Bay seal, beaver, broad tail nu-
tra, ermine, skunk or sable. So if |
would be a millionaire, Birsky, instead
of oil-painted pictures | would go to
work and collect railroads and cleo
panies, because while it's true that
no millionaire ever got indicted on
account of buying up lot of COM
peting oil paintings or making agree
ments with the owners of competing
oil paintings to keep up the price and
limit the output, at the same time,
Birsky, on a 100000 oil painting no
millionaire could float $1,000,000 is
sue of first refunding 5 per cent. gold
bonds of 1885, underlying S1,000,000
of first mortgage 4 per cent. bonds
maturing in 1876, which is a first
mortgage only on the back door of the
mill, and on the rest of the mill is
subject to an issue of Ss,5OO,O0O gen.
wine, all wool, first mortgage 3 1-2
per cent. bonds maturing January 1,
1916. Such things you could only do
with a railroad, and believe me, Bir-
sky, if you got indictments hanging
over your head for the rest of your
lifetime, there's more money in col
lecting railroads than in collecting oil
painted pictures, and don't you forget
it."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

ar seen Max Maikafer in the sub
way this morning." said Louis
Birsky. the real estater, to Barnett
7spp, the waist manufacturer, as they
met for luncheon at the corner table
n Wasserbauer's. "IIe tells me he is
,oing to make from his boy a painter y
"Some people don't give damn
what becomes from their children" +"
zapp commented.
as it such a capora for boy to
be painter" Birsky asked.
seemingly Max Maikafer don't
think so," Zapp replied. "Maybe he
would enjoy it to see his son break
Ms neck from a ladder, Birsky."
"what are you talking nonsense
break his neck from ladder?" Birsky
exclaimed.
"a scaffold is just as dangerous"
zapp went or Yesterday | am see
linz couple fellers painting from the
side of building ten stories high, and
even though one of them was an
ltaliener, / got so dizzy watching 'em
that before could cat my lunch it
cost me 10 cents for some mathematic
spirits of ammonia. If / would got
10 earn my living as painter | would
a whole lot sooner be an aviator, be-
cause while the funeral expenses is
the same as for a painter, an aviator
don't linger long enough to run up
d Doctors bill on his widow"
"You got the wrong idea, Zapp,"
Birsky said. "Maikafer's boy would
be not house painter but picture
painter"
"A picture painter!" Zapp cried.
"And / thought Max Maikafer was
business man. Why don't he learn the
boy trade where he could make real
big money, like a buttonhole maker or
a poet?"
"Ihat only goes to show what you
know about poets" Birsky retorted.
Jake Margonin, from the Fashion
Store, Indianapolis, told me that right
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

magnificent window. the Ogden Memorial,
viii be unveiled In the Holl0ni Presbyterian
democracy in the Church" Will be thu
theme OF q sermon to he preached in the
Episcopal Church OF the Holy Apostles tomor-
row evening by the Rev. Dr. George Hcrber;
TOop. the rector. Special music VIII be given
at both morning and evening services. At y
a, m. Christmas Day Holy Communion
will be Administered.
The speaker at the $3.50 o'clock service At
the Central y. NJ. e. a. tomorrow afternoon
will he Richard j. Bcamish, editor Of the
Philadelphia Press. His subject Will he Pub
lcity as an Artls"ptic.'
Christmas music will be given at the morn
ing and evening services In the Messiah Luth-
cTan Church tomorrow. There will be a ont
meeting Of the Bible school and congregation
in the evening.
The Rev. George Chalmers Richmond has
announced that he will preach in 81. Johns
Episcopal Church tomorrow morning on Tn
Gospel Of the Winter and in the evening on
The Firth of christ and Its Human Inn
portance,'
Bighop Rhnclauler viii preach at the eve
ming service Of the Christ an Association Of
Bryn Muwr College tomorrow,
Christmas sermons will be preached At the
morning and evening services In the TabeT-
Rev. Dr. John Allan Blair the pastor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
RELIGIOUS BREyITIES

The Rev. Gladstone Holm will preach in the
Chur,r Of the Advocate, Gcrmnnt"wn, tenor.
row m. rninE on The Voice of God to Men
and In the evening ON The Angel Visitor,
The latter will be second in the series on
"Paul's Voyage and ShipwrcCk." christmas
morning praise service will be held next sat
uray M rninE at o'clock.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
CmrRCm or TmE Holy APOSTLES

7
2lst and ChriHtRn strCCts.
300 a. m.-HOly Communion.
1870 a. m.-Morning PRAYER and Sermon by
&:iG ,. SUNDAY School and Bible Glasses,
2:ii p. m.-EyennE Service and special
Sermon by the Rector on the theme,
democracy In the church The church rs
an agent for establishing Gods Kingdom on
earth as opposed to those tendencies, which
create a chasm between the clergy and laity.
service, Come to My Heart, Lord Jesus" by
Ambrose. Al the evening service %. ord,
My Trust Is IN Thy Mercy X. Hall; send
out THY Light. 80 GOund.
on Christmas Day there VIII he 2 celehra-
tion OF the Holy Communion. with sermon
On sunday. December 20, the special Christ
mas music will be rendered by the cho T;
The usual monthly CantHta VIII be rendered
on SUNDAY January ? and VIII be 'lhe Holy
GIFTS for distribution by the santa Claus
Lady OF South Philadelphia, Will be brought
tn the Sunday School tomorrow ~ 2"O, by
Pll desiring to help bring the Christmas cheer
10 MANY poor children whose lives night
otherwise remain UNTOUCHED by the 1nv or the
Christmas season Those interested are
asked to bring at least a lO-cent gilt,
A series OF study groups are being organized
istTation Huilding. 2lst and Christian SITS
They include n social service group. mission
study. church history American authors,
preparedness and Peace" wlth others 10 oe
organized as need arises, Names OF Hppli-
cants may be sent TO the Rector. Enrolment
fec. ~ cents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

The Second of Montague Glass
Stories of Their Conversation at
Lunch in Wasserbauer's Restaur-
ant They Find Good Opening for
Poets in Canned Goods and Break
fast Cereal Business
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
"a Picture Painter!"
Zapp Cried, "and l
Thought Max Mai
kafer Was a Business
Man"

rbere's Collecting and Collect
ing, Birsky and Zapp Agree,
but Collecting Art Works Is
a Bigger Risk Than Buying
In Railways, Zapp Figures
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18

''Thc Messiah Of the Strcng' vii he the
theme OF q sermon hv the Roy. Charles W
Harvey In tn" church Of the New Jerusalem
tSw"tCnborEianb tomorrow moranE at II
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
HOW TO OPERATE INCUBATOR
Temperature of Place Where Machine
Is Kept Should Not Vary-Use
Only Fresh Eggs.

Care should be taken that the tenn
perature of the place where the ma
chine is kept does not vary. To secure
an even temperature it is a good plan
to place the incubator in an clubhouse,
which should be locked up. thus pre-
venting the opening and closing of the
door as much as possible. The build
ing should be we'll ventilated at the
top and be free from drafts. In the
middle of the house is the best place
for the machine, as this allows the air
to circulate around it. 1t should never
be put in a corner or against a wall,
as fresh air is essential during the
process Of incubation.
The machine should stand either on
a low form or on the floor, as this al
lows the heat inside to be regular. If
the egg drawer is but half an inch
lower at the front than the back, the
front will not be as warm as the back.
Fresh eggs, of course, must be used.
Where it can be managed, they should
be put into the incubator the same
day they have been laid. They may
be two or three days old, but the most
successful results are obtained from
new-laid ones. All the eggs should be
of as near the same size as possible.
And very small or very large ones
should not be chosen, as they often
| prove unfertile.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

take them outside and away from the
others and often in the open, covering
them over with something to keep
the rain off them. This method pro-
vides the seclusion and darkened
place just to suit hen, and then II
the coop rests on the ground the con-
ditions are ideal to her mind, and she
cannot be blamed for preparing for a
three weeks stay Hens will break
up sooner If they are kept in the lot
where the others are scratching and
feeding and are shut in a coop that
will not permit their sitting down and
warming up nest A Slated bottom
located in the scratching shed, with
nests under it, has been used, and
three days was the average time re-
quired to stop them, and they some
times began laying in a week.
Do not let hens sit on the nests a
week or two and then try to break
them up. 1t is much easier to break
them at once the first time they re-
main on the nests at night, for they
are not very determined, and often
will not persist if kept up one day
Then hens that are broken up at
once will go to laying sooner after
being broken up than those that are
left to sit a week first. and you get
the week of extra work also.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

Broody hens seem to be a serious
problem for many, and some people
have objected to the Orpingtons be-
cause of this One man says he has
kept both Buff Orpingtons and White
Orpingtons and has never had much
trouble with either of them. OF
course they will become broody, but
it is not hard matter to break up
a broody hen if the right methods
are pursued.
The principle on which all methods
for stopping broodiness must be
based to succeed without real cruelty
to the hens, is to have something
under them that it will be impossible
for them to warm up. The easiest
way to provide this is by having the
coop so open beneath that the air
will circulate up around them. A
hen will sit on a board and persist,
but she will not sit on a nest with a
cavity under it and screen wire bot
tom. She will sit anywhere without
eggs under her so long as the condi.
tions are right so eggs would hatch
if they were under her. but instinct
seems to warn her when conditions
are not right, and she will soon quit
Another thing noticed is that
where hens have been shut up fol
broodiness there is tendency tc
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
DAIRY
SUMMER CARE FOR THE CALF
Unless Young Animals Are Kept Grow
ing During First Year Final
Development Is Retarded.
u3y r. NJ. wASHBURN, Minnesota Ex-
InnrlrnnnI GtnNlnn 1

t3y r. NJ. WASHBURN, Minnesota Ex-
pertinent Station)
The first year of calf's life is the
most important with respect to its
growth. Unless animals are kept
growing during this period their final
development will be much retarded,
and the chances are they never will
reach the scale which their inherit
ance would give them.
On the best regulated dairy farms
calves are born in the autumn and
early winter, and they should receive
skim milk in moderate quantities
through much, or all, of the summer
following birth. On farms having hand
separators there is no difficulty in
providing the sweet milk for calves,
morning and evening; but farmers
who patronize whole-milk creameries
or who still skim by hand should re-
member that after the first few weeks
milk for calves should either be thor
oughly sweet or fully sour, that the
most dangerous condition is the half
sour stage. If milk is fed to calves
when 1t is in this changing condition
it is almost certain to cause indiges-
tion. 1t should not be half sour, nor
sour one day and sweet the next, but
always one or the other.
Clean feeding pals must be used,
otherwise the germs Of fermentation
and diarrhea will be brought to the
infant COW from the slime of the dirty
drinking dish, and with young calves
it is important that the temperature
at which the milk is fed be nearly
that of the body. Older animals may
receive milk Of the temperature OF
the milk-holding tank
While it is very important that
heifers should have free access to
pasture during the second summer, tc
develop strong bodies. the calf need
not have pasture the first summer. In
fact, for calves born after the frs
of the year. pasturing may be a dis
advantage. Most young calves in thi:
country are better off chewing tender
hay in the quiet and half-dark stable
than fighting flies, painting from thu
heat, and cropping tough grass in thu
pasture.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
RIIIboards a Public Nuisance.

Billboards are a public nuisance.
They arc dangers to human beings
who have to live near them. They
present real pcrils from the stand
point of public health, fire protection,
police protection and reasonable safe
guarding against accident.
This is the new and practical prin-
ciple upon which the city council is
now asked to amend Sections 706 and
707 of the present building code.
It is a weapon against the billboard
nuisance forged cut of the perfectly
definite practical rights of the citizen
instead of from that newer metal
known as his aesthetic rights. We
may not have reached the stage when
we have established the fact that a
citizen has the right to be protected
against eye-sores, but we certainly
long ago reached the point when we
recognized that his sanitary we'll be-
ing, the protection of his lifo and prop
erty were charges Of the state.-Chi-
cago Post.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
FEEDING HENS AND PULLETS
Profits Decrease Where Young and
Old Stock Are Kept Together
Provide Separate Yards.

A good many people who might 9TH
erwise be successful with their poul-
try have their profit decreased because
they allow the young and old stock
to remain undivided in the same house
or pen or both during the growing
period.
At this particular time the young
stock needs a great deal of food and
needs to be protected from the old
ones, which, If allowed to do so, will
abuse them more or less. If free range
is impossible, provide separate yards
and always keep the young in sepa-
rate buildings, If possible, or in sep
arate room at least. If you haven't
separate building you can very cas-
lily provide an extra room of some
sort for them to roost in.
Pullets getting ready to lay need
more feed as a rule than hens which
have molted out well, because the
pullets need to finish their growth
and maturity, as we'll as make eggs.
This is another reason why the young
stock and the old should be kept sep
arate. The feed question should also
be considered as the young hen often
needs different rations than the old
in order to produce certain qualities
which the one has and the other has
not.