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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
FUTURE OF OXFORD
STREET DEPENDS ON
TRANSIT PLANS
Section Between 10th and
18th Streets, a Weak
Realty Market, Will
Grow With Subway Con-
struction.

The sale of the property at 1914 North
10th street by the Philadelphia Trust In
suranoe and Safe Deposit Company to
Kathryn r. Keinle, lot 23xt72.1O, assessed
s105OO. for s95OO, represents falling Off
in value, largely caused by the fact that
properties on the west side OF 18th street,
north of oxford street, are large dwell
lngs containing rooms with high ceilings
and are in a condition which makes their
alteration very expensive.
The advance in transit and the free
use of the automobile have been felt and
the street is in transition period. Buy
ers and sellers are as yet few, and where
sales are urgent lower figures prevail.
An advance in prices in this section will
begin when property gets into stronger
hands.
A GLANCE AT PRICES
1908, July 5-1525 North 10th street,
sold by $. T. FREEMAN s Co..s......, $1,000
lot 2lxiT2 10, sold for, or,.....,..,....,.,. :. 24OOo
lot 23Ii72 10. sold for. or.......'.,..,...... 1o250
Dornan 10 Mary NJ. Ziegler. .,........ 5000
!SSySo !SSy 70 lee N X MSFariahd cAssedSsd ,ooo
1911 COV November I1 tSi ii.1e2o North i6th iiVVV
street. lot 23x172.1o CAssessed $4,000 -,
tor lslo) ..'........'.....t.....' ll,OUV
DULLNBss ON OXFORD STREET.
Conditions are dull on oxford street be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. and in the
last two years concessions have had to
be made to make sales, as shown by the
following:
1907. Noyember 4-1711 Oxford street,
1916 April 7.i7as oxford street, lot SoOVV
- May s-I734 oxford iii street lot 'O0"
w May al-iiaa oxford street, lot UO,V
In isi2 i6Si oxford street was ofreTeI aHST
for sale, lot 10 by 100 feet. for $780, 17O1
Oxford street for $1,000, and 17o5 oxford
street or $1,000.
There are prospects, however, that con-
ditlons will improve with the develop
ment of the transit plans and the con-
struction of the Broad street subway.
NOTES OF THE STREET.
The Board of Viewers is making sub
stantial progress with the section of
the Parkway from 10Th to 22d street. Two
hearings a week are now being held and
eight to ten cases at each hearing are
presented.
Plans for 63 two-story houses, to be
erected at A street. Lippincott street and
Allegheny avenue are under way. This
Will bring the number OF dwellings erected
at this point up to nearly 200. The de-
mand is still actively in evidence.
A tour of the trust companies shows
that mortgage loans are being very care
fully looked into. The large number of
properties sold under foreclosure of mort
cages by the Sheriff has made this ex-
tremely necessary. All offerings we'll Sc
cured can be accommodated at 5 4-10 per
cent.
Building associations are as active az
ever, loans to owners of properties who
reside In them being given the preference
The heavy downpour of the last few
days has been a severe test on roofs
and windows. Workmen are busily EN-
ployed on repairs.
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Big Rise In Exports From Here

Exports from this port during the week
ending January l6 were S1.s57,OO0 more
than the imports. according to the figures
issued at the local customs house today.
The total value OF the exports was 50 S9s.-
900 and the imports sl.6s6OOO. The duties
collected in the same period amounted to
Si52,0O0
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
81 ,2Os, ,os6,4a2 WAR BUDGET
France Prepares for six Months 1915
Finances.

PARIS. Jan. 20-Provlsional credits ap-
niieabis TO the first six months OF 1915
amount to s.b25, ,2s4. .407 francs (about 81, ,705,-
e52.ssl) for the general budgets and 473.
~. 3s2 francs (about S94. .sss, ,252) for sup
pIsmentary budgets-a total OF s1,7s9 ,74l 1873
according to a statement published in
she Ofaclal Journal today.
The military expenses naturally call
for the largest credit. the Minister OF
Wars budget being estimated at $780,
4s1lsz francs (about 81. .0s6, 4s2). The
principal sums in the war budget are for
artillery materials, aggregating Liza
zaz.so9 francs (about s29L ss2 500 and for
the subsistence of the troops 1.133. 1855 go
1Fancs about t226. .693 ls4).
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Hebrew oharity Ear Tonight

The nth annual Charity BAN OF the He
brew Ladies' Emergency Society win be
held in Mercantile Hall, Broad and Mas
ter streets. tonight Owing to urgent
need among the poor this year. a special
EFFORT has been made BY the committee
Of which Mrs. II. z. Fineman Il chair
man. TO make this bail a success The
ofneers OF the society are Mrs. Isaac Du-
brow. PRESIDENT Mrs. J. Jacobs, vice pres
identi Mrs Charles Lipshutz. secretary.
and Mrs. David Feldman, treasurer.
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1000 PrsventabIe Fires Here in Year

tRubbish heaps. lace curtains near gas
5sts. defective hues. hot ashes IN wooden
boxes ana many other preYentable causes
Were responsible for 200 fires Ia Phila-
aelphia last year" said Fire Marshal
asaraa ". Elliott IN an address before
he Fhiiadeiphi2 Safety Council at the
Eranklln Institute last night Within the
<sAH the department. has made l5.sfs in
znzeIIens. All Falnspeetions and go. 5sl
zzanFoFen1snts 10 prevent IRE. Onleera
elected - the council we're Dr.. Francis
q Patterson. president; John Hailsy. vice
n1azldents Charles Black. secretary, ana
1azzph s Mallory. treasurer.
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ROTARY PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Do Your Duty Toward Your City
Saws Speaker,

Il have no use for the individual who
knocks the place where he resides. Let
him meet his responsibility and help set
tie the problems that confront his town,
said Frank L. Mulholland, Of Toledo, o..
president of the international Associa.
tion of Rotary Clubs in an address at
the dinner of the Philadelphia Rotary
Club last night.
There is a place for all in this great
onrushlng movement Of Rotaryism that
is uplifting our municipalities" said the
speaker. BE the errand boys OF the
chambers of commerce or the boards Of
trade or any such organizations, II Il
will help your town. True Rotarians are
optimists They should dream and boost
and do"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
MISS M'ADoo,, WAR NURSE

WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.
Miss Mona McAdoo, elder daughter of
Secretary McAdoo. soon will start for
Europe. where she will become a member
of the nursing STAFF at a convalescent
hospital at San Reno. Miss Catherine
Britton, elder daughter of Mr.. and Srs.
Alexander II. Britton. will accompany
Miss McAdOo.
Colonel Edward NJ House, of Texas
and New York, and Mrs House will chap
eron the young women, and accommoda-
tions have been engaged on board the
Lusitania for January 30.
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U. S. SOLD $2,425,745
WAR MUNITIONS IN MONTH
Enormous Exports Shown in Red
field Report.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The report OF
SECRETARY Redheld to the Senate on the
exports OF munitions of war and firearms
20 foreign countries during November
shows that there were shipped:
To Francs-Cartridges 1886, All; firearms
~. .2I2.
TO the United Kingdom-Cartridge
e9l9 0i5; firearms, Ss5, ,455.
To Canada-Cartridges, sT.542; gunpow-
der. 1885 pounds; firearms, s96,66s
TO Japan-Firearms, SIS.
To Russia in Asia-Firearms. s625, 600.
To all other countries-Cartridges. $685.,
81; gunpowder. 1899 pounds; firearms,
s5oT 1z7.
Total export for month-CaFtrldges
q 20. .2s5: gunpowder. 1904 pounds; fire
arms, tl,1si,5l0.
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JUDGE LovETT I'LL ON TRAIN
U. P. Chairman Unable to Attend
Talk-Speeds to California.

OMAHA, Neb.. Jan. 2O.-Judge Robert
s. Lovett chairman OF the board OF di-
rectors Of the Union Pacific Railway.
while going TO Omaha from Chicago was
stricken By a severe cold. and Is now CON
fined TO his bed aboard his private car,
which is being rushed TO California
A specialist In throat troubles was sum
moned by telegraph and met Judge Low
ett's train at this city. When he arrived
here Judge Loyett was unable 10 speak
at all.
He was to have attended a conference
OF Western finaneiers. but this meeting
was called on
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
opERATE oN &c, ,ooo LION

NEW YORkl Jan. 30.-klng. the fl0000
trained lion Of the New York Hippo
drome's Winter Circus, Is sick He has.
or did have, an ahseess on his forehead
and a tumor on his leg; so yesterday
morning three doctors, All the supers Of
the show who could be gathered, together
with the trainer. performed zn operation
on King. The result vas = considerable
dlalafhancs n the Hlppodfome building,
which nearly ended Il the injury q asg-
eIal 81 lhe participants.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
loo aaamAH pAPERs aUIT

COPENHAGEN. Jan. speaking Ia
zzzzzI zl meaflHz ef lhs aeEman Ey-
zz rIa4. Doezer uIafz. dlreeter = the
~ Azsnze. admitted - German pa
= EHaH aeIIaezI. - ezHa forced
= $50 4zzII aa eHHz = - Hzx
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
d santos, Mother. in ,euake. safe

De santos Motner, IN quake, SAFE
Dr. ylneenzo ae santo. instructor In ths
Romance Language Department OF the
unlEeTslfy OF PennsylVanla. has received
8 eabiegram from hiz mother. who vas
Il re EARTHQUAKE zone of Italy, aasur
laz hiIa that she ana he entire family
escaped aalnlnzed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
100 MEN ARE NAMED
IN ILLINOIS PLOT TO
CORRUPT ELECTORS
Identity of Buyers, Middle
men and Sellers, With
Other Voting Fraud De-
tails, Revealed.

DANVILLE, ILL.,, Jan. 20.-Names of 100
men who handled fraud money and who
acted as buyers. middlemen, or sellers.
together with details of q corruption
fund which runs high in the thousands
OF dollars, are In the possession of Dis
trict Attorney Charles A. Karch today.
They were given by witnesses who
called upon the Government Prosecutor
or were sent for by him Monday in the
first strenuous day of the Illinois vote
frauds investigation. The prosecutor
spent all day yesterday in mapping out
his line of attack. He declared he was
well satisfied with the work accomplished.
You can say for me that the investi-
CATION Is on in earnest" said Mr.. Karch.
THE American ballot is on trial here
and the ballot boxes In this part of ILL
nois are going to be given a thorough
cleaning II the scope of the law Is sutti-
Client to do the cleaning.
WITNESSES TAMPERED WITH.
ALREADY word has come TO me OF
tampering with prospective Witnesses
and let me say that any one who is
found tampering with Government wit
ness will be prosecuted to the limit This
investigation is not Joke. as some OF
the politicians would have 1t appear for
their own protection; and while have
only started on the investigation I see
plenty of evidence on which to base In
dietments."
Word that efforts were being made to
engage Attorney Joseph Roach, of Terre
Haute, Ind, in connection with the In
vestigatiOn. has caused much uneasiness
among politicians Roach, who at one
time served a term in the penitentiary,
did more than all others to break up the
ring of crooked election officials in Terre
Houte.
The magnitude OF the vote fraud situa-
tion here caused the Prosecutor to call
upon Washington for several additional
investigators and special assistant at
torney
These men will cover the district over
which Prosecutor Karch has jurisdiction,
following up the leads of evidence, Berv-
ing subpoenas, arresting witnesses and
gathering data on the alleged corruption
conspiracy.
DELEGATION GIVES NAMES.
A delegation OF citizens from Paris, Ill,
were among the callers at his office, and
the names OF men who handled the cor
ruption money. those who "fioated"
voters. those who distributed the money,
those who got up the corruption funds
and details OF whole church congrega-
tion which Is implicated in the vote fraud
scandal were given TO the Prosecutor. II
Is stated.
new branch OF the investigation
which threatens to become an important
factor Is the influence which has beer
welded In Illinois by certain Indiana
brewery interests. 1t was declared thli
influence had been used TO eoerce and
| purchase votes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Now and then" doesn't mean
much.
Worry hurts worse than work, and
pays less.
Too often success has gray whiskers
and bent back.
A good story teller becomes a bore
within five or six years.
When a man is in love there isn't
any reason for anything he does.
Once in a while there is a soIoist
who pronounces the words of the
song.
If you expect to enjoy your rights,
don't make fighting for them your life
work.
Another argument against war is
that 1T lasts longer than elections or
the football season.
The fly swatter gets a rest after the
first heavy frost, but the bores are
with us the year round.
When the average man says his
money is tied up depend upon it.,
he hasn't much money at all.
A woman hates TO have her skirt
gaping in the back like a man hates
to nave his socks feel like they were
coming down.
There is no such thing as civilized
methods of warfare, for the same
reason that there is no such thing as
a civilized family row.
A man will stand up OF q platform
and announce that such and such a
meeting will be held at p M sharp,
and no one pays any attention to the
word sharp
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QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record
We are not apt to look up to people
who look down on US.
The more a man thinks about him
self the less he thinks of others
The book that has helped the aver
age man most is his pocketbook
Even the man with a dry humor
might keep some of it for a rainy day
The pessimist never bitches his
wagon to a star because of the clouds.
valuab1es that he never puts his best
foot forward.
The fellow who knows it all
wouldn't be so bad if he would only
keep it to himself.
ference between being a high liver and
living on your uppers.
Blobbs-"He's engaged to Tottie
happily married 2" S1obbs = "They
ought to be. He's one of the best
listeners I know"
Wiggs-"How much did Bjones get
out of his damage suit ?' Wagg =
well, the verdict was $4,000, but the
lawyers haven't decided yet just how
much BjoneS will GET
Muggins-"How did you enjoy your
vacation at the shore?" Buggins-
well, between the charges, the mos
quitoes and the hotel gossip, was just
stung to a pulp"
Conversation between two slight ac-
quaintances-"I can't just recall your
name, but your face is very familiar
Nothing remarkable about that"
WHY" MY name is Clock
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Jayh wker Jots

Pertinent suggestion from the Pea
body Herald: Men who live in palm
beach suits should not cast stares.
About the least satisfaction a man
ever gets out of his money is when he
uses it to pay somebody else's debts
with.
Jim Dash of the Usage County
Chronicle suggests thatthe fellow who
put the Ark in Arkansas would be
popular in Kansas this year.
Lots of men never set the world on
fire. observes Jere in the Hutchinson
Reformatory Herald, but they make it
hot enough to be uncomfortable
1t is pointed out by the Troy Chief
that the campaign against unnecessary
noise has not reached these new-fan-
gled scalloped skirts the women are
wearing.
The Rossville Reporter quotes our
old friend "EX.' to wit: Answer this
one: When a minister leaves town,
who gets the vacation, the minister or
his flock?
Weather prophecy, by the Hill City
Republican: According to the signs,
this is a wet moon. Therefore, we
presume that we will now have a dry
SPELL
How about the neighbors? The
South of River and New Hope cor
respondent of the Garden City. Tele-
gram reports: The Winchester girls
are enjoying playing on their piano
these days.
A brace of frog stories as retold by
the Wellington Monitor-Press: dis
patch from western Kansas tells about
the frogs eating the tops off the
wheat, while a Butler county woman,
living on the upland, complains that
the frogs ate all her late cherries.
Twenty-four girls participated in a
slumber party recently at Centralia,
Nemaha county, and the Seneca Trib-
une reports that for fear of oversleep-
hour during the night, ''and after a
late breakfast the tired but happy
crowd returned home
What seems so funny to w. L..
Dickey of the Lyons Republican, is
that, although these harvest hoboes
never have any money to buy any
thing to eat, yet they always can keep
a huge supply of tobacco and pipes
and especially the cigarette. One can't
go past a bunch of these pests with
out being made sick by the rank odor
of tobacco.
A snake story, maybe, from the Nc
Louth Times: The Duff brothers of
Horton have been losing young pigs
mysteriously for a number of years
They have lost 80 this year and have
been led to believe that it is a large
snake doing the work. One man
claims to have seen a snake near the
Duff farm Is feet long and six inches
in diameter. Horton is supposed to be
a dry town.
If all the world is a stage, what be-
comes of the audience? asks the Alta
Vista journal. We must all be actors
And the Journal might we'll have add
ed, and mostly of the bum Variety
AS the Caldwell Advance puts it,
The harvesting of the harvest hands
has reached Caldwell Four Young
men reported to Marshall Fowlie Sun
day that they had been held up Sat-
urday night near the stock yards and
robbed of $70.
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ton; but. let him be proved high
brow and the public will fly from
him as if he were a book agent NOW
the widespread American behef that
knowledge makes a man impractlcal
is responsible for some of this curious
odium; but far more is due 10 our
servilo Difference to mediocrity- Inc
weight of public opinion is usually
against the expert, the specialist the
thinker, the exceptional man In gen
eral, for public opinion, whether rlSht
or wrong, is always med1ocre' anu
there are few among us who 90 not
in this respect yield somehow, some
where, to public opinion. The doctor
distrusts the advanced political theor-
list, the politician distrusts the au-
vanced dramatist, the drainatist
sneers at the innovations or sclehce'
We are all made timid by the ehor-
NOUS majorities which uphold meoi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
MUNITIONS OF WAR BOOZE.

Within a month or so after the war
started German soldiers began TO ma
"Anerican made shells on the battle
fields in the western war zone soon
the cry was rampant throughout Ger
n,anv that American ammunition was
nroloneing the war and denying Ger
manv a convincing victory that would
otherwise be hers. This was taken
up by the German sympathlzers IN
this country 1t was the foundation
on which was laid the vigorous cam
paisn that is being waged throughout
the land against American manufac-
turers selling munitions of war to the
Allies. Then followed in due time
the news of enormous war orders be-
ing placed in this country by Ger
many's foes. And the aggregate ng-
ures of our rapidly increasing trade
balance were also accepted as contrib
utory evidence along this line. But the
statistics of our foreign trade for the
fiscal wear ending June 80 are now at
hand. They show a balance OF TRADE
in our favor that approxinates the ire
mendous record-breaking total of
billion dollars Naturally one would
expect that munitions of war would be
quite a factor in building up this bal
ance. That is far from being the case.
They do not figure to any appreciate
extent in it, The explanation of the
big balance is to be found almost en-
tirely in the fact that the demand for
American foodstuffs has been greater
than ever before. Even the aggregate
export of both crude materials and
manufactured goods of all kinds were
les than they were for the preceding
year. The value, though, of the crude
foodstuffs and food animals shipped
abroad was nearly four times what 1T
had been a year ago, and of partly or
wholly manufactured foodstuffs, near
" half as much again. Undoubtedly,
huge orders for war materials have
been placed in this country by the
Allies but most of them haven't been
filled yet. But for many months of
the twelve of the war the Germans
have been insisting that the defensive
and offensive of the Allies would long
since have been broken down had it
not been for American made NUM-
tions of war. Plain, old, hard, cold
government statistics, however. show
that this German claim is not well
founded.
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THOSE wuruT. Tovs

My house is quite full of such curious
things.
There are blocks that have feet, there are
are books that have wings;
And dolls that can walk, and two old
Teddy bears.
With legs that can carry them up and
down stairs.
And Polly's not sure, and Jimmy can't
say
just how they were made in this
curious way.
We stand each book nicely away on the
shelf,
But somehow it seems to get down by
itself.
And toys that we put every day in their
All scamper about till they're quite a
disgrace
And Polly can't say. and Jimmy don't
Just why we should find them wher-
ever we go.
This morning I called, in voice loud and
So even ered the toys in the attic could hear
IL you're all in your places at bedtime, 1
Bring home something good in my pockets
tonight"
And Polly don't know, and Jimmy
can't say,
But they think that the toys are quite
sure to obey.
burgess johnson, in Harper's Magazine.
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adds to the task of bringing con-
gressmen into agreement towards such
a statute operating on inland waters
so as to override the statutes of the
states. In view of these many OBJ
stacles, the Maritime Law Association.
at its meeting on May 7th. resolved to
instruct its committee to redraft the
bill to limit its application to the ad-
mira1ty court, instead of giving rem
edy, like the Federal employers liza
bility act, which would be enforced in
courts of the state; that this newly
enacted remedy for death should apply
wholly outside of state waters, being
confined to the high seas beyond
marine league from the shores of any
state, but also is to be in force on the
waters of the Panama Canal Zone,
and in the territories and dependencies
of the United States. BY the enact
ment of such measure, Congress will
remedy a grave omission in our legis-
lation. 1t will put our system on
level with that of the enlightened
states of Europe.