Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-09
City News in Brief

CITY APPOINTMENTS today Includcdi :
Dr. william j. Ryan, 21O3 North Howard
| street, assistant ophthnlmologist Bureau OF
Health, salary 5000 year Jacob $ Haas.
| 929 North Sartain street. fireman. Bureau
| VI water. $500. Edward Roger. 45i0 wilde
street. oler. Bureau Of Water $500 James
| y Keller 1881 jackson street painter
| Bureau Of Charities. 50 day, aud charles
| Coleman, 1853 kerbaugh street, fireman
Bureau Of Water, $500
| NEGRO LABORER. who stabbed the
| superintendent Of q pier at the foot OF
! Washington avenue In nRht last night,
| was held under $500 bail for court by the
| police today. He IL Isaac Green. twenty
nine. Of $40 Locust street The supcrin-
tendcnt. Joseph Payne, twenty-five. Of 81
| Norih PaNon street, Is In serious cond
| tion.
THOMAS A. DAILY Evening Ledger poet
and humorist, lectured in the auditorium
| OF the liuoy Public School. Fifty-second
| ana Pine streets, last night. New Neigh
bors' was tho title OF Mr.. Days lecture,
IN which he rccIted some OF his Italian
ana irish dialect verse.
CONCERT TOUR through PcnnsyI-
vana, New York and New Jersey viii be
taken by Louis sobelman the violInist, and
Flavius j. Lutz as his accumpanlst Mr.
his return here In February.
THE OVERLOOK ASSOCIATION has
nominated officers as follows state Sena-
tor John J, Coyle. president; Louis Jones'
Jr.. and Daniel Crawford, Jr., vice prcsi-
dents: the Rev William r. Lampe. cor
responding secretary Robert a, Begga, Jr,
recording secretary, and T. Scott Lower.
treasurer.
A BURLEsQuE on folks who do not
know how to bank was n feature OF the
entertainment given by the Employees Asso-
clatIon OF the Philadelphia Trust Company
In the Phlomusiau Club The cast in
cluded John X Chaplin, James J. Ncely,
John G. Sims, William j. Tosh, Miss Nettle
MacNieoll. Harold Byerly and J. Harvey
Patterson.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD missing hoy has |
returned to his home, after an absence OF
more than twelve hours He la unable to
say where he had been. He is Herbert |
Robinson, Of 1929 Susquohanna avenue.
THE EMBARGO on POTATOES estab- |
llshed by the Philadelphia & Reading Rail- |
way last Wednesday Is still In force There |
are seventy-seven cars In the Second and |
Master streets yard, and twenty three out |
side waiting for admittance The embargo |
was placed It was said. because OF the |
slow movement Of potatoes along the rail
road.
PRESIDENT LINCoLN's former body |
guard. George q. Pierre of the Registra.
tlun Commission. is making a visit 10 |
1851, when he defended she capitol as a
member OF the Seventeenth Pennsylvania |
Regiment with the late William Dawson
another Philadelphian, he was hodyguard
to President Lincoln al Colonel Ellsworth's
funeral
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS win he dlstrIb-
uted this year TO approximately 1000 chill
dren by Mrs, Mile Gin OF 22ll st Adams
street known as the Santa claus Lady"
Mrs. Gin said that she was hesIeged with
letters from children seeking presents. The
distribution viii be made from her home
beginning on December 80 aud viii con-
tinue until Christmas Eve.
THE GERMAN FATHERLAND." IA
travelogue In two parts, presented last
night at the Academy OF Music by Burton
Holmes. The scenes depicted in the first
part were those Of peaceful Germany, or
Germany before the war In the second
part however glimpses OF life on the west
arn front were shown,
JUDGE JOSEPH 4. ROGERS, Assistant
District Attorney william Findlay Brown
and Attorney Cornelius Haggarty. Jr.. are
4 trio OF nimrods who will help depopulate
he woods and mountains OF North Carolina
II birds and deer during the next few days.
THE PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC
Company cup for the best-liRhted window
display OF the members Of the Walnut Street
Business Association during electrical week
ust closed was awarded 10 the Sonora
nhonograph Corporation, Fifth avenue
'oneern which Was recently established at
3ll Walnut street. Honorable mention
vas made OF the illumination displays OF
]. j. Habermehl Sons. stones, H. 4. Pat
erson & Co, and the Vile de Paris
THE. GLASS or 1850. Central High
school. win hold it's reunion dinner tonight
I the Rittenhouse Hotel FoEty-six OF the
iS men who graduated that year are still
wing,