Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-22
City News in Brief

a BBOREN BACK was the Injury suf-
| fered this morning BY Alexander Thompson.
| forty-eight years old. of Wilmington. py
falling on an elevator on which he was
| riding when II became unmannEeabie NJ
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station,
where he was employed Iie was taken 70
the University Hospital
mon COST or LIvtNG ha. prompted
the lrm OF David Lupton'a sons \ CO.. ny
Allegheny avenue and ruiip street, 10 grant
their 1900 employees an increase w saNig
N ten per cent Tho announcement TO tue
employees was made today by the hr'n'
CITY APPOINTMENT today Include
Christian s. Weber, 45st North Carlisle
street engineering Inspector. Bureau OF
Highways. salary $500 a year Whihn'
IT, Haney 222s Paramount avenue, teacher
Board of Recreation, $50 a month buWln
s. S,orka. $40 perslomen street essletan'
teacher. Board Of Recreation. s66 month
Charles A. Johnson 2iSt South carlisle
street. apprentice. Bureau Of surveys soeo
a year. Thomas 4 Mason, it2 League
street; william Ireland b020 keysor street
and Antonio Corfago. l0lb Sonth lenth
street. patrol sersennts, Bureau OF Police
$500 Kreed l., Price. 6ii7 Germantown
avenue; Harry r Kreplin. 3655 German
town avenue. John Robinson. 54i3 Ridge
avenue: Merrill T. Banken. 3a5 Lyceum
avenue Edward 7, CuiTis 19Ai Frank
ford avenue John a. Jones, 24O1 North
Oriannn street George a. Nicol, German
town avenue Torrcsdsle: Horatlo y Me-
cleary. 22t3 Amber street and Charles II.
work, 1913 Ellsworth street Chainmen, Bu-
rcau OF Surveys, $500 year.
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Of the
Stephen Girard Day Nursery Passyunk
avenue and Homberger street, was held
today with a special dinner and Rift-giv-
-. ~. at..t.a A tgWlr
was loaded with presonts--three toys. n
box Of candy, an apple and an orange for
onch child Mrs Burton g. Simon. wife
OF the president OF the institution Mrs.
william s. Ware and Mrs. James NJ Haz-
lett, patroncsscs. had charge OF the dinner
and entertainment
THE NoTAsEAIE HOSIERY COMPANN.
oxford and Maschor streets. will distribute
$1,000 among It's 500 employees tomorrow
Part Of the fund ls made ZIP Of the savings
Of the employees In the cooperative ana
beneficial association Of the company, but
the larger portion la Christmas Gitt from
the firm
UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT COM
pany will give dinner to IT'S employees in
the Second Pennsylvania Artillery on the
border tomorrow night In the Hotel Shell
don, 1Gl Paso.
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY elect |
ed officers for the ensuing year NJ meet
ing IN the Engineers Club. 1917 Spruce |
street. last night. Those elected We're
officer Abraham lienwood, pro- |
fessor OF chemistry In DreNel Institute; |
vice presiding officer james McGowan. Jr., |
assistant general manager of the Joseph |
Campbell Company sccretary-treasurer, j. |
Howard Graham. professor Of chemistry, |
Central High School
n n I,Id f.r |
ers' dinner nt the clubhouse last evening, |
when goo farmers attended. The dinner |
was under the direction OF Walter l.. Rhodes |
and Emanuel Hey. OF the house committee. |
and NJ. Roy Jackson master OF hounds.
THE LITTLE THEATRE must pay $500 |
MS n license fec for 1916, according to n |
dorison rendered by the Attorney Generals |
Department In Harrisburg. 1T may be-" |
tho opinion says. that an organization such |
as the one In question should be exempted |
from tho payment OF the tax, but that Is |
a matter for Legislative considerations"
DEAD IN HIS signal tower nt Front and
jackson streets. George EIsenmRn. sixty |
eight years old OF 2402 South Alder street.
is believed TO have been stricken with heart
disease. The body was found by employees
OF the Pennsylvania Salt Works before any
railroad accidents could occur.
SAFE CRACKERS ars the subject Of
warnings sent to business houses through
out the city by the police department to-
day. In the notice, which tells of the ac-
tivities OF the yegGmen at this time OF |
year is n request that each firm bank It's
money at the end of the, day. SO far this
season very few robberles of this kind have
been reported, according to the police,
SERGEANT WILLIAM oCHER. the
army aviator who few from Mineola. L. L.,
to Washington by way of Philadelphia and
back to this city again. viii complete the
last lap of his journey to Mueola some
time In January, according to his present
plans. He viii spend the Christmas holi-
days with his sister Mrs, August Becker,
2iOS South Twentieth street,
A LOST CHILD has been returned to her
parents after an absence of more than ten
months. The little girl nine-year-old
Dorothy Rossell OF 1905 South Fifty-second
street. was placed out TO board last Feb
-uary during the illness Of her mother. Mrs.
Frank Rossell, The family with whom she
boarded moved, and all trace OF the child
was lost
Carries Children From Burning House
Mrs Mary Contlnskl carried her two chill
lren TO the street early today when fire
iwept her dwelling on tho second floor at
1897 Orthodox street The fire started in