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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
PUMPING STATION
BOON TO OAK LANE
Sewers May Now Be Laid.
Great Increase in Prop
erty Values

The completion of the Oak Lane sewage
pumping station, at seth avenue and Broad
street, makes possible now the building of
sewers required to develop Oak Lane.
In discussing the Improvement today Di
rector Datesman, of the Department of
Public Works, said:
"The northern and western portions OF
that part of Oak Lane have had their de-
velopment retarded for many years. due to
the ground prevented the extension OF the
city sewage system until such time az a
costly. main sewer could be tunneled
through ridge which forms the southern
boundary of this natural basin. To wait
for this extension would have necessitated
a delay of possibly 10 years more, with its
consequent stagnation of property values,
and loss TO the city OF the natural increase
in revenue which would follow normal de-
veopment of this area.
This acute situation was met by the
city constructing pumping station situated
at seth avenue and Broad street. The sta
ton, which is small ornate stone build
ing, conforming in design to the surround
ing residences and placed in an attractive
setting OF walks, grass and shrubbery. is 20
located and constructed that the city is now
enabled TO build the sewers required TO de-
velop this section.
"The total cost of this Improvement was
$19.300 and to maintain II will require an
penditure has made possible an increase OF
the assessed valuation over this area OF
from $4,000 per acre to 100000 per acre
which, when the entire area Is developed.
will return TO the city an income OF about
$780, per annum, forming striking
contrast to the s1200 which the city now
receives"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24

lowest grade OF feeble-minded who show no
hope of ever becoming socially competent
Fourth. Make the public school system
a clearing house for the discovery and
proper treatment of mentally defective chill
dren.
Fifth. Constitute a great forward step
toward removing the menace to society of
an indiscriminate increase of mental defec-
tives.
More extensive education of the adult is
also contemplated by the associations pro-
gramme. With a population of 100, 900
Philadelphia sent only 3S41 persons on the
average to the vocational courses in the
evening schools, the association points out.
and adds: There should be 10 or 10 times
that many That there are not is not the
fault OF the people who need instruction. 1t
Is the fault of the school system II does not
provide wide enough range of courses.
Philadelphia is great manufacturing and
industrial centre. Thousands of workers in
many trades need the additional training
that they might get In evening classes But
they cannot get 1t, because 1t is not offered
TO themr
In Philadelphia the evening school of
trades comes nearest to the kind OF eve
ming instruction that should be provided
for workers in many occupations 1t has
the widest range OF vocational instruction
and 1t has the largest attendance. There
should be established this type OF evening
vocational school throughout the several
school districts, according to the needs OF
the people. The equipment OF the high
schools and Of the district manual train
ing schools should be put to more demo-
cratic uses in providing additional instruc-
ton for workers of all kinds"
Concerning school buildings, the asso-
citation has this TO say; In many of our
schools conditions are a menace TO the
health OF the pupils and a serious handi-
cap to the work OF instruction--two OBJ
stacles TO the normal development of the
children. The last report OF the Depart
ment Of Medical Inspection shows that In
a large number OF elassrooms In the
schools Of Philadelphia conditions are far
below standard. Philadelphia needs better
elementary schools. There should be more
Fairgrounds about our schools In con-
gested centres, Every school should be
constructed with view to modern uses.
At present in only one OF our 19T eie-
nientary schools Is there a gymnasium or
large room for use as an auditorium.
While we lag behind In this respect. In
New York, Boston and other cities through
out the country schools are being con-
stFucted not only with properly iliu-
minated and ventilated elassrooms but also
with workshops gymnasium, auditorium,
swimming pool and ample Fairgrounds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
CHAPTER XII
Akut, King


ohAk, returning from the hunt, heard
AA the jabbering Of the excited monkeys
He knew that something was seriousv
amiss' Histah, the snake, had doubtlesa
coiled his sllmy folds about some careess
Manu-.
The youth hastened ahead. The mon
Keys were Meriem's friends. He would
help them IL he could. He Travelled rapidly
along the middle terrace. In the tree by
Meriem's shelter lie deposited his trophies
OF the hunt and called aloud to her. There
was no answer.
He dropped quickly to a lower level. She
might be hiding from him,
opoh great branch where Meriem often
swung at indolent ease he saw Geeka
propped against the trees great bole What
could 1t mean? Meriem had never left
ueeka w. thus alone before Korak picked
UP the doll and tucked It in his belt He
called again more loudly, but no Merlem
answered his summons. In the distance the
Japperlng of the excited Manus was grow
ing less distinct
Gould their excitement be in any way
connected with Meriem's disappearance? I?
me pare thought was enough. without
waiting Tor Akut, who was coming slowly
along some distance in his rear. Korak
swung rapidly in the direction of the chat
tering mob. But few minutes sufficed to
overtake the rearmost
At sight Of him they fell to screaming
and pointing downward ahead of them,
and moment later Korak came within
sight OF the cause Of their rage.
The youths heart stood still in terror as
he saw the limp body of the girl across
the hairy shoulders of a great ape. That
she was dead he did not doubt: and in that
instant there arose within him a some
thing which he did no try to interpret, nor
could have, had he tried. But all at once
the whole world seemed to centre in that
tender. graceful body-that frail, little body
hanging so pitifully limp and helpless
across the bulging shoulders of the brute.
He knew then that little Meriem was his
world--his sun. his moon. his stars--with
her going had gone all light and warmth
and happiness. A groan escaped his lips,
and after that series of hideous roars.
more bestial than the beasts, as he dropped
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
RAINBOW CLUB
FARMER SMITHS
WE ARE SIX MONTHS OLD

started wonderful
Thanksgiving That makes six
chubby hands our
months old!
What do in those happy months!
suds
Of fwhat they've wonderful club
made happy by
been something to do
nave pen hapPV
doing
We active the IAN
100000 Christmas
nsee.
think of which will help our members we WISH you
down anything not ike
would like hear of that too Ihs ciuo JUST
there
Is nothing for you to do. ,n.
would an EDITORIAL or
this Or write and think editor ought to be " nave
10000 mem
and some dv soon we club spreading all over the un
told that cities all over h
MODELS and they doing that
very
Isn't it grand to be a member of our wonderful club?
thinks a..,u, -, ,.,,-, r,,.ou
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
How Little Girl Learned to Remember

BY RUTH FRANKEL. age II years
Betty Haynes was very forgetfuI little
girl. That was her worst fault She would
come home from school without her books,
and when she reached home would say to
her mother. "Oh mother, l left them In
school," When she was sent to the grocery
store for sugar she would bring butter, and
then say to her mother that she forgot
When she was sent to the dry goods store
for white cotton she would bring black At
last she became 80 forgetful that father
and mother couldn't stand il any longer
They would shake their heads sadly and
say II don't know what will become of
Betty II she soon doesn't get cured of her
bad habit"
The next day she asked her father to
bring her home a Jocketbook Father said
he would but when at night he came home
without IL he said, Betty 1 am sorry, but
l forgot it," When she asked Jane (the
mald) II she would bring her doll when-she
but she came down without 1t and said, II
forgot it," Whenever she asked any one
about the house to get her something she
always got the same answer, II forgot"
She spoke TO her mother. but her mother
answered that she did the same thing to
them and that when she stopped forgetting
things they would too.
The next day when her mother sent her
for sugar she brought home SUGAR. So
when that night she asked Jane for her doll
she received II.
She remembered and they remembered
she forgot and they forgot. At last Betty
had learned 10 remember
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Tie SONOF TARZAN

,,n1a uo.n combatants and the ground about them
were red with gore.
oo,,ueI raeIlen through It all lay stllI and un-
se,.s sonsSIous upon the ground. Al last one
.Su"o tSu permanent hold upon the hirt,Iar Of
she the otner. and thus they went down for
,a .ne last time. For several minutes tbsv
Icy win scarce a struggle. II was the
n,,,s ,saser null who arose alone from that las
sro,,s ne snook l himself. A deep growI rumbled
~ nls hairy throat. He waddled hack
a5 a..5 Iorth between the body of the etri
st atlu tnat OF his vanquished foe Then he
sto sioou upon the latter and gave tongue 10
n. l.s nldeous challenge. The little nonltavs
aUSs, toss,s, screaming, In all directions as the
1S,,i Se,EiIIylng noise broke upon their ears
me gorgeous birds took wing and aed
once again the lion roared this tir,o
at a greater distance
me great ape waddled once moro 20 the
suis SIDE He turned her over unon ber
oaeA, and, STOPPING, commenced 10 sniff
,,. anu listen about her face and breast she
@ nveo' The monkeys were returning. Tbey
Sane e IN swarms. and from above hurled
oown insults upon the victor,
Ine ape showed his dlspleasure bN, herIns
nj ms teeth and growing UP at them. Tban
ne stopped and, lifting the Riri 20 HE
shoulder, Si waddled Off through the iunria
III mis- wake followed the angry mob.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
ruApTER XI-Continued


r GAVE slowly at first Then there was
r,npine as IL parted from the trunk. Re.
,..,,ne her hold, Meriem dropped among
,he foliage beneath, clutching for new
,unnort. She found II dozen feet below
The broken limb.
che had fallen thus many times before
- that she had no particular terror of a
ssu--,t was the delay which appalled, her
r,oos, and rightly, for scarce had she
.or.mbled to place of safety than the
hody OF the huge ape dropped at her side
snd n great, hairy arm went about her
waist ..,,,.s liz
conpanions side. He made a lunge at
Verienn. but her captor swung her to one
eide barred his fighting fangs, and growled
ominously. CT, ..,.
Al the hairy breast and bearded cheek. She
fastened her strong, white teeth IN one
viclously across the face, then he had to
turn his attention to his fellow, who quite
syidently desired the prize for his own.
The captor could not fight to advantage
upon the swaying bough, burdened as ne
was by a squirmlng, struggling captive, so
he dropped quickly to the grouna peneatn. a
The other followed him, and here they
fought. occasionally abandoning their duel
N pursue and recapture the girl. who took
avery advantage of her captors' preoccupa-
Stion in battle to break away in attempted
ssoape. but always they overlook her, and
6rst one and then the other possessed her
as they struggled to tear one another to
pieces for the prize
often the girl came in for many blows
that were intended for hairy foe and
once she was felled, lying unconscious while
bthe apes relieved of the distraction of de-
tanning her by force, tore into one another
In fierce and terrible combat.
& Above them screamed the little monkeys,
racing hither and thlther in frenzy of
bysterical excitement. Back and forth over
the battlefield flew countless birds of gorge
GUS plumage, squawking their hoarse cries
Of rage and defiance. In the distance a
lion roared.
The larger bull was slowly tearing his
antagonist to pieces. They rolled upon the
ground, biting and striking. Again, erect
upon their hind legs, they pulled and tugged
like human wrestlers. but always the giant
fangs found their bloody part to play, until
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
The Question Box

Dear Farmer smith;-What Is the
shortest way to get TO buffalo BlIrs show
without getting Into q very. big crowd?
JOHN HAYES. 2027 Pine street
The shortest and least-erowded routs to
sBunalo Bilrs SHOW" from your home is
zs follows Walk to goth street, take the
ear marked II and ask for transfer when
paying your fare Get of at goth and
Market streets. Walk one block north on
zoth street 70 Arch street Here on the
aortheast corner OF goth and Arch streets
IKE car marked ss. This car turns up
zath street. Stay on until you reach 18th
street and Hunting Park avenue. Then
hop of Right there. spread out before
zaa - that Tou cant possibly Ialss i. xou
- #ad e8uaale Hlllz sho#-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Clean-Up Week Orders!

Dear Rainbows-Cleanliness and beauty
go hand and hand, so now that were clean
we're going TO be beautiful. The most
beautiful things I know of besides clean
faced girls and boys are gardens, ! want
lots of gardens in my great big house and
YOU are going to make them for me- They
are going to be Rainbow gardens In honor
OF your great and wonderful club. 1t will
take two days to make them.
Here are your orders for tomorrow;
First / sneak to the children who wish
to have box gardens. Get baskets spade
or an old knife and go to the nearest
vacant lot. Dig deep and get good quan-
tity OF soil as black as you can ma IT,
Come home Bore a half-dozen holes IN
the bottom OF the box you found today
Put In a few inches of small stones OF
coarse ashes to promote drainage. NOW.
mix with your soil third proportion OF
ashes that have been thoroughly sifted SO
that there Is not a single elinker in them.
II you can possibly procure or 10 cents
20 to a hower seed store and buy that
much worth of bone fertilizer. This you
must add TO the soil and the ashes. Level
the mixture neatly in your box ana your
task is finished for today
Dig a bed 1h or feet wide ana as long
as YOU choose TO make IT, Dig deep ana
turn the soil over a good many times. Mi4
thoroughly with il a bucketful OF ashes
thst nave been hnely sifted and freed
s,o,, clinkers. Buy or 10 cents worth
Of bone fertilizer at dover seed store
NIX well with the soil. Your task Is nn-
Ished Tor today Oh, no. Il isn't
Ask daddy for 10 cents tonight be-
.a,,sa the day after tomorrow you are
LING to buy seed that will make aowers
most every color Of the rainbow
q1ateh ms space tomoFro. night and
,,a,l VII ZEE # / haven't told yoa The truth.
aanpay looking forward . a.4 sAEeslis.
---+z' AADAHE FHIl-aQE. Eli tIIA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24

gineers who was richly endowed with a
sense of humor was crying. "Shure have
ye seen our Enniscorthy Emily back there
Tis handsome colleen that she Is, though
rather loud in the matter o. talkin'!'
And then II was that terrible Emily ap-
peared into view She was a huge 15-
FOUNDER. calculated to blow up an entire
village IL need be. her great gray nose
cooked skyward in tipsy fashion. must
confess that the sight of Emily made my
blood run cold. There was such an in
tensely businesslike air about her, as
though her bite would be even worse than
her bark.
1 understand that Emily and the armored
train between them, when they finally
reached their destination, broke down the
confidence of the rebels, who surrendered
Nor couldN one wonder at Il! And the
weird.looking train steamed slowly back, a
strange gray shape on the glorious green
of the Irish countryside. Its deep rumble
died Off in the distance. and the only sound
was the gentle gurgling of little brook
in whose waters the speckled trout were
leaping. Forget -nots and primroses made
the tall grass on the banks one dazzling
blur of blue and yellow. The priests forgot
their curiosity and resumed the telling of
their beads and their daily vocations The
Irish peasants went back to their cabins
and took up their simple tasks.
SADNESS AND FOLLY.
The real note of the Irish insurrection
as It strikes me today is its inexpressible
sadness and folly. Ireland is now, as ever,
the most unhappy country in the world.
Neither Belgium nor Serbia have histories
one.half so mournful II one only studies
Irish history, one reads with many shudders
the tragic recital of suffering and pain.
A few months before the outbreak of war
the country seemed to be irradiated with
the light of a new dawn. 1t was the dawn
of a new prosperity, arising chiefly from a
cooperative movement in the rural districts,
One was informed in all sincerity that, In
20 years time, Ireland would be the most
prosperous country in the British Empire
Today 1t is sad, indeed, to reflect that
Irishmen themselves have shattered the
glowing prospect which was gradually un'
folding before them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
THE FROGvILLE SCHOOL CLOSES
BY Farmer Smith

This is going to be a very funny story,
SO sit up straight and get comfortable, for
no one can laugh who stoops over,
Well, the day had come for the Frogville
school to close and Willie Hop Toad was
to speak his piece right after the Frog
Vile Chorus sang their little song.
The Frog Boys had 1t in their heads that
they were going to make things interesting
for Willie and when he got up and cleased
his throat Jack Frog snlckered and Miss
Francs Frog the teacher, pounded the
desk SO hard the electric light shook When
, everyt' lg was so quiet you could have
heard pin from your grandmother's work.
basket drop from the Washington Monu-
ment Willie Hop Toad got up and recIted:
Once upon a time there was a little boy,
and he went out into the woods and he met
lion. The lion opened his mouth to eat
the little boy and the little boy put his
hand in the lions mouth and grabbed him
by the tail and turned him inside out"
Wasn't the lion brave to let him do It?"
whispered Jack Frog so loud every one
heard him.
After singing FLY Time is Coming in the
Merry Month of June" the school was dis
missed.
BUT the Frog Boys were busy all sum-
mer and you shall hear about their pranks
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
PARENTS ASK DAMAGES
FOR DEATH OF CHILD
Sue Estate of Man Dhose Auto Fig
ured in Tragedy

LANCASTER, May 24.--As a result of a
grade Crossing accident at Leola, Lancaster
County, about year ago which resulted In
the death OF four school children and the
driver of an automobile. BENJAMIN Boose and
his wife, Ella S. Boose, have entered suit
against the Edwin III. Zell estate to recover
damages for the life OF one OF their chill.
dren.
At the time OF the accident Edwin NJ
zell was a wealthy grocer at Leola and
was the driver and owner Of the automobile
which carried five children, two Of whom
were mis- daughters, and himself as passen-
gers. zell volunteered to take the children
home from school In his auto. and, as he
approached the Leola grade crossing, his
machine was struck by a Pennsylvania
railroad train. smashed TO pieces and only
one OF the passengers of the car escaped
alive.
The plaintiffs claim that Zell was directly
responsible Tor the accident ia that he
knew the train 8ss approaching, ana In.
stead q making an effort 70 stop his
machine. endeaFored to beat. the train.
rhe aate eas IA LIE eeulFs q ths tracks
Hhea stfuek
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Education Experts Urge
Promotion iR Subjects

Needs of schools, according to
Public Education and Child Labor
Association:
State aid amounting to S500,000
for physically and mentally defec-
tive children.
Promotion of children in subjects,
rather than in grades.
Care for the city's I'll crippled
children not enrolled,
Segregation in institutions of the
lowest grade of the feeble-minded.
More night schools with widened
, vocational curriculum.
Doing away with the menace to
health of pupils" in many school
buildings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Nv EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author of the Tarzan Tales

SYNOPSIS.
iraoIvltch, the Russian. escapes from
Ayrins to London, bringing with him Akut.
a. ace Tarzan's friend Tarzan's son.
Jsck CLAYTON, who has been kept In ign9r-
runs away with. Akut to africa after the ape
american crook. and the two fee into the
,u11sslsn;no 1ssnno. little daughter Of Captain Jacot.
~ ths ForeiRn Legion, has been stolen by
I've Arabs and Jensen and .Malbihn. two
syyedes recoRntse her In Meriem, supposed
Ssushier OF the sheik, and try to carry her
IN FOR the reward JacQt has offered.
ohrsck duickly hnds his place In the Jungle
.rd rneete his first lion while bunting with
Amt The lad wins the title OF Kornk the
EIiisr, IN many adventures. Both blacks
I'd whites fear him, and drive him away;
A. he finally consents to go with Akut to
fbe great apes. The two approach the VIII
isfs But z even ven the great spes refuse Korsk
and Akut hospitality and, sick At heart the
iad turns once more into, the Jungle. =, He
= rescue Meriem from the Arabs brutality.
One day, while Korah and Abut are alb
way 10 meet them. ehe bears g noise, and
spsigns slunber. Suddenly the great apes
,tbo had driven Korak and Alsut from them
pnofsty puffst afforded BY the upper limbs OF trees,
whic6 are too small TO sustain the heavier
wweirht OF the brutes, just as she Is about
W attain this height she grabs az a limb
vvyhoSe weight she mlejudges and slips back.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24

mind a DIT lookllls a.
10000 children from
the shelter OF the Post
office window. II ism I
half bad. little girl
Rainbows. so please DO
send your pictures,
Catherine Murray. or
Danvllle, Pa, h a 8
promised likenesses OF
herself and her little
baby niece, who has
Just moved to Phila'
delphia. ID orot h y
Haines will send hers
shortly. Miriam koe-
mig favored us with a
x.arv nrattV little snap
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Queen Of Sweden Has Ear Trouble

KARLSRUHE May 2f.--ouaen Victoria
OF Sweden has suffered from . sudden Al.
tack Of aeute Inflammation q the ear.
which necssaitated "a operation Her zen-
sral condition has aaaezaesa zaaee EAz aasH
alien
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Our Postofhce Box

Eva Paul is a shy little Rainbow VINO
Eolldn't dream of meeting everybody all
at once" really and truly. but she doesn't
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24

ahot OF herself and her sister Mary ana
her brother Bertram. Unfortunately II Is
TOO. dim TO reproduce, Won't you please
hif1am. send US another palmer one!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Dodge Ball Scores

Z. NJ. STANTON SCHOOL.
MONDAYS GAME.
Eoooon Eoom -'''''''''''''''''','''.'.t,'' ~
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-02-26
MP. LIMITED HELD
 UP NEAR AUBURN

passengers, number of whom were armed. Several shots were fired by the robbers for the purpose of intiml- dating the crew but no one was hurt
 After compelling the express messen- ger to open his car, the robbers made seven frultless attempts to open the safe with dynamite. They then turn. ed their attention 10 the registered mail and selected four bags after which they made their way to the engine and escaped by forcing the engine crew to carry them several
 miles. The englnemen assert that