Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-29
City News in Brief

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COLLISION between = trolley car and
? wagon on Fifty-second street near Lud-
low early today resulted In Thomas Young
blood negro, Of S13 Poplar street, being
taken 20 the West Philadelphia Homeo-
pathio Hospital, suffering with a fractured
skul' and eoncussion OF the brain.
MODERN SUBURBAN HOMES will be
built on an elghty-four- tract at Spring
Leld' Delaware County, which John J.
Dougherty, broker. SisAy-nlnth street ter
niinal. has sold through Charles j. Hood 4
co The tract is on the eas,erly side OF
Springfield road. and is known as the
teorge q. Powell farm. TtA price paid Is
not disclosed, but land In that vicinity is
valued at $1,000 per acre.
EMPLOYEES OF THE Miller Lock
Company, aFrankford, have received an in
crease in wages OF ten per cent and a re-
uuetlon In working hours. The order went
INTO erect this week.
BAZAAR In aid OF the Catholic Mission
airy Society will be opened today In the
state Fencibles Armory and will close Sat
utdsy night The Catholic Missionary So
city s diocesan institution for providing
Ior the spiritual needs of foroign-speaking
people.
FIRE IN THE Public Library. widener
branch, Broad street and Girsrd avenue.
was discovered by a traffic policeman. The
flames started among some old magazines
In the basement The loss was trining.
CHARLES ID. BURK. n member of tho
firm OF Burk Brothers. leather manufac-
turers, is critically III at his home, it2a
West Allegheny avenue, suffering fuom
double pneumonia,
AN EXPLOSION OF n soda water tank
sent Robert F.. Harper, of Twenty eighth
and oxford streets. to the German Hospital,
where he is suffering with fractured skull
and a broken right arm.
FIRE on AN unidentified sailing vessel.
supposed to have been an American
schooner, was sighted at sea about eight
hundred and Atty miles east-southeast from
cape Henlopen by Captain Ellis OF the
American tank steamship Corning which
arrived here from Savona, Italy.
MEMBERS OF THE Joseph q. Darling
ton Co.'S Saving Fund held their annual
entertainment In the auditorium of the
Curtis Building last night There was a
lecture on South America by Alfred NJ Col
lins, followed by dance.
THE UNITED STATES needs 10000 air
planes, according to DR.. Charles II. Iucks
bla University and engineer to the national
advisory committee on aeronautics, who
spoke to members and guests at the En-
glneers' Club, 1917 Spruce street on the
present and future status of the aeroplane
motor.
THE REV. HERBERT l.. HANNAH will
assume the duties of vicar of the Chapel
of the Holy Communion, Twenty-seventh
and Wharton streets, on January l, sue
tno RprkeleV.
THE BUREAU OF Weights and Meas
ures Is doing everything In Its power to
protect the public from INSCRIPTIONS poul'
try dealers selling under weight. For the
benefit OF Thanksgiving purchasers the bu'
reau will remain open till 10 o'clock 10.
night and thirty-five inspectors are helu
in readiness to be sent to any section OIL
the city to investigate complaints one
poultry dealer has been arrested for SELL
ing short-weght turkeys.
FRAGMENTS Of exploded shells. fired
by the Germans into the French trenches
and made into rings which have been set
with bits Of stained glass from the ruineu me-,
Cathedral at Rheims, are included IN the
list of articles which will be sold by the
emergency aid committee in aid OF crippled
and blind soldiers in France. The sale VIII
be held tomorrow.
A FALL INTO A TUB of scalding water
killed two-year-old Cabarella DanuSio. 6i2o
Carlton street who died a; the West Phiia-
delphla Hospital today.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER has
announced that, as a result Of the Increased
price of material needed In getting out a
newspaper the Sunday edition. outside OF
Philadelphia and Camden city limits VIII
cost six cents after December 3.
THE CONDITION of Frank Cummiskey'
chief OF the Bureau of City Property, who
ia Ill in St Mary's Hospital, is reported TO
be greatly improved today Prayers were
offered up by the employees of Mr. Cum
mIskey's department as we'll as his friends
for his complete recovery
FOUND IN A GAs-FILLED ROOM, John
Il,novitch. thirty-three years old, of 1850
C,antrell street was removed to st Agnes &
Hospital, where he was pronounced dead
According to the police, the man failed to
turn off the gas Jet properly in his ROOM
SEVERAL EXECUTIVE officers of the
Midyale Steel Company, at Nicetown, viii
step out December /, according to report
from authoritative sources, to be succeeded
by officials from the Cambria Steel Com
pany. of Johnstown, Pa