Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-26
CITY News in Brief

CITY APPOINTMENTS today ineiuds
Charles r. Belts. 1880 Parrish street pay
master. Department Of Wharves, Docks
and Ferries. $4,000 n year; Antonio Ac-
chione. ests CalIowhiii street, payer
Bureau OF Highways $3.TB a day; Mary a.
Warburton, seas Chester avenue, special
agent Bureau of Charities. $1,000 Cecilia
r Kennedy I5B South Eighteenth street.
visitor, Bureau OF Charities, 1850 Edwin
r. Bockrey. 20i RodmRu street. assistant
foreman, Bureau Of Highways. salary 80
day Thomas Hogarty. 1893 Sherwood
street. fireman. Electrical Bureau. f2,75
day George Stewart, t743 Plum street.
coalpnsser. Bureau OF water, s72O a year
Mary A. Devlln. 2i0s Pierce street Mary
Murray. t10 North Fifty-frst street: Elsie
b. Smith. 9is North Twelfth street; Flor
ence Scheotz. 1919 Wallace street Maud
Boyer. 2523 North Thlrty-nrst street
Emily Handley 1899 North Sixth street,
and Julia v. Ho6, is2s North Tenth street,
typewriiers, Bureau OF Water. $3.50 a day,
and Robert VI. Patterson, 1888 Waksling
street stenogrspher, Bureau of Surveys,
5000.
BLAZING CHRISTMAS TREES In
store at 525i Market street damaged the
building 10 considerable extent and
caused a great deal NJ excitement in tho
vicinity OF Fifty-second and Market streets
thS morning. The trees were the surplus
stock OF Frank Lusso, who conducts fruit
and provision store at the above address.
In some undetermined manner fire started
among the trees which were stored on the
iirst floor Flremen extlnguIshed the flames
after carrying sthe trees into the street.
The loss Ia several hundred dollars
a WARNING AGAINST smallpox has
been Issued by the Board Of Health in
bulletin which points out the danger Of
spread OF the disease while students arc
home from school for the holidays Vacci-
nation Ia urged.
A TRAIN WRECK was narrowly avsrted
on the Pennsylvania iiailroad at Llddon-
leld station. east Of tIolmesburg Junction.
last night when the engineer sighted two
derallod freight cars few hundred yards
ahead OF his train, returning with belated
Christmas travellers from New York. The
engineer applied tho emergency brakes and
the train had reduced to such low speed
by tho time the cara were struck that the
passengers barely felt the 5nock OF the
collision, An investigation is being made
to determine how the cars happened to
have been derailed there.
FIRING SHOTS IN THE AIR was the
wavarly street, celebrated Christmas. He
was locked up by the police OF the Twelfth
and Pine streets station.
SHOT IN THE HEAD by Policeman
William Bunting stopped Fred Webb.
negro OF Rodman street near Twelfth, who
attempted to escape after snatChlng wom-
ans purse at Eighteenth and SAMSON
streets. The prisoner was taken to the
Jefferson Hospital The police are search
ing for the woman whose purse was
snatched.
AUTOMOBILES STOLEN over the week
end were fifteen In number. Four were re-
covered by the police. The owners were w
O. Kent. OF 1891 st. James street; Harry
McDevtt of 1905 Chestnut street Or, V.
l.. Baker. OF 1922 Foukrod street; S. q,
Biddie. of 2Oi7 Pine street; A, G. Harris of
395S Aspen street Arthur A. Share OF 1915
Monument avenue Or. Joseph Goldstein,
of 2t37 West Lehgh avenue; Oscar Il An
derson, of 1915 North Broad street J. n
Furlong OF 2i4 South Eighth street: Henry
s.. Foster. of 2O4 Washington avenue: II, j.
Sweeney Halnes and York road: l., b.
Portel. OF 3413 Wallace street: william S
Footerall, Torresdale. Pa; Or. Eugene G,
Murphy, of 220i Spruce street, and Samuel
Goson, of 32tS North Broad street.
DIR. HENRY Il. wARRINER. chief resi-
dent physician at the Chldren's Homeo-
pathlc Hospital, Ia critically III with pneu-
monia. The doctor, who is n fayorite with
the patients and stan OF the institution,
became Ill Thanksgiving Day.