Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-30
City News in Brief

/ Inc boy is SulIeIiIlb nun "
| ations He was taken to st. Josephs HOS
| ptal. The driver of the automobne' HOT
| ace Foranacy, 90 years old, OF 2Sl7 SOM
| erset street, was arrested.
HIS LIKING for a fine razor and the
/ desire to have plenty Of small change IN
| his pockets led to the downfall, yesterday,
/ of Angelo Serrante. alias Demaree, y years
/ old, 1175 South Twelfth street he was
| held in S40O bail for court today by Masis-
/ trate Costello at the East Glrard avenue
| station Acting Detective Knapp, VINO
/ placed the man under arrest last night
| said that Serrante obtained position at
the barber shop of William Pinto, 6l2 East
| Girard avenue. at o'clock yesterday
| morning and failed to return after lunch,
! taking with him n razor. The contents of
| the cash register, amounting TO $3.50, also
| are missing.
c. NJ n. CADwALADER, Of Camp Hill,
| a well-known society man and clubman,
was criticized severely and fined $3.50 by
| Chief Hallowell, of the Cheltenham police,
and Magistrate Hellerman at the Ogontz
police station house on the charge of reck-
| less driving through Eltirs Park. The po-
| lice would not allow Cadwalader to take his
car away after the hearing, but friend
who was with him drove the machine, ac-
oompaned by policeman, out of the town.
ship limits,
OF
Schechel around Simpson Memorial Pres
byterian Church. Frankford avenue and
Cambria street, caused his arrest by Po-
liceman Phillips. When Schechel was
searched at the Belgrade and Clearheld
streets station vial containing dope was
found on him, the police say. He was sent
to the County Prison for 10 days by Magis-
trate Wrigley
LOADED WITH $4,000 punches Of bn-
tl,a gNa In
by Captain Amundsen, arrived in Phila-
delphia yesterday. The ship was loaded at
Tela, Honduras, and consigned to the United
Fruit Company here, and Is the first cargo
of bananas to arrive at this port IN many
months Recent terrific storms In the West
Indies damaged the crops and the ships
were forced to go elsewhere for their car
goes.
THADDEUs NJ DAILY, JR., II years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. DAILY, of
507 South Broad street, is In st. Joseph's
Hospital recovering from an operation Tor
appendicitis. He was brought to Phila-
delphia yesterday from the DAILY summer
home at Ventnor, n. j. His father Is
president of the Continental-Equitable
Trust Company OF Philadelphia.
NEGRO GIRLS may be imported from
the South to work in knitting mills by men, |
bers of the National Association of Hosiery |
to statement issued by C. B. Carter, sec
retary of the association, 425 Chestnut |
street.
PENROSE CRITICISM of the Philadel- |
phia Custom House service was answered |
by Collector of the Port Berry today. He |
declared that never in the history of this |
port has the Custom House been managed |
in more business-like and efficient man. |
ner. To refute Senator Penroses allega. |
ha n1 nj n ~.
port filed on August 81, which shows that |
the total value OF all imports in the district |
amounted to S95,801175, which when COM |
pared with S73,94S,013, the figures for the |
previous fiscal year, shows an increase OF
$22,S53,162 The total receipts from all |
sources were $15,121,733, an increase over |
the previous year OF S3,052.S42. The total |
cost of collecting these receipts was S0.0S2 |
to the dollar, as against $0.042 for the pre- |
vious year, or a decrease of one cent on |
every dollar collected. The total value of |
the exports for the fiscal year 1915 was |
S90,516.521, while in the last fiscal year the |
value of exports reached a total of $780, |
00S,814.
MAN HUNTING through the Tenderloin
this morning, in which two policemen |
empted their revolvers at an alleged robber, |
resulted in the arrest Of Louis Daniels on |
the charge of robbing drunken man, |
Magistrate Collins held the prisoner under |
$1,000 bail for a further hearing on the |
testimony of Patrolmen McCabe and Nc
Intyre. The address given by the man at |
1922 Vine street was found to be fictitious
CITY HALL appointments today included:
Joseph H. Thorpe. 4416 Pechin street,
Bureau of Water. salary,
$1,000 a year; William II. Lindsey, 1912
Arrott street tracer, Bureau OF Surveys,
$3.50, and MARITIME A. Buckwalter, 3l40
Euclid avenue, clerk, Bureau of Highways,
$720.
THE BODY of George McKenna, o years
old, of 2617 Wharton street, who was
drowned in the schuylklll River off WASH
ington avenue on Monday, was recovered
by the crew of the police launch Margaret |
today. The boy was in wadlng with some
and stepped into a deep hole.
He sank before aid could reach him.
ROBERT FLYNN, of 1924 North Fiftieth
street, while working on building opera
tion at Fifty-fifth and Jefferson streets was
struck by steam shovel He suffered
broken left leg and ankle and cuts and
bruises. He was taken to the West Phila-
delphla Homeopathic Hospital.
VIOLET LET'S, 10 years old, who has
been living with her uncle, Egbert Stein
hover, OF 1897 Callowhill street, started
yesterday for Ogden Utah. where her par
ents live. The girl was properly tagged"
so that conductors might aid he enroute.
is a lieutenant in the fire de-
partment.
WHILE ASSISTING in the construction
OF an addition TO the plant OF the Barret
Company, in Frankford
Michael Manowitch, 27 years DID, of 47l2
Stiles street, laborer was struck by a 4-inch
pipe. His skull was fractured
and he died.
THE BODY Of Henry T. Darlington, 9 prI-
vate in Company q, Sixth Pennsylvania
Infantry. who died Monday morning in the
base hospital at FL Paso following an oper-
alton for appendicitis, will be shipped East
Tor burial, Mr.. Darlington was 25 years
Did and was a son OF the late f. Diwyn
of Doylestown, Pa At the time
he National Guard was called out he was
an employe of the electrical department of
-he Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company,
Pa. He was an athlete of much
note He is survived by his mother. Mrs.
Kate S. Darlington; a sister, Miss Katha-
-ine, and a brother Hilborn. all OF Doyles-
town.
THE CORONER viii render a verdict to-
DAY In the case OF Sarah Wexford, 40 years |
DID, of ia Falrmount avenue who was
seized with an epileptc ht and was drowned