Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-29
City News in Brief

| road last night. According to the police
the man, who ls subject to heart trouble
| became unconscious while driving the car
and fell from the machine.
RICHfRD RILEY, 1a years old of ais
| Bellevue street is in the Samaritan Hos
| ptal. recovering from injuries received
when he was struck by q locomotive on the
| Reading Railway tracks above the Alle-
| gheny avenue crossing yesterday. The boy
| ran from behind string of freight cars
| to get ball He was struck a glaneing
| blow by the pilot and thrown h consider
able distance.
SEVERAL PHILADELPHIA Catholic
charities become bene1claries because Of The
Interpretation of a priests will by the Or
phans' Court yesterday in Pottsvlle st.
Johns Orphan Asylum gets $1,000; the
Little Sisters Of the Poor get like amount
and so does the Orphans Home for Girls
The will was that of the late Rev. ]. z.
Muldowny, pastor of st. Ambroses Church.
Sohuylkill Haven.
FOLLOWING THE hearing OF testimony
before Assistant District Attorney James
Gay Gordon, Jr., in the case of the murder
of John Bojanowski, baker in the north
eastern section Of the city, Stephen and
John Ciesack were both admitted to bail
today. The Assistant District Attorney
ruled that the testimony OF Mrs. Cleslack
against the two men was weak.
THE PORTRAITS of Hannah Callow-
hill, the second wife of William Penn,
and Granville Penn. his grandson, pur-
chased at the Head sale In London last
month, have been received by the Historl-
cal Society of Pennsylvania. The portrait
of the second Mrs. Penn Is a small can
vas, and there does not appear to be any
information concerning the painter. The
other painting measures by feet and
is by r. Mc1nnes, British painter, in
1887.
A THIEF who climbed on the roof and
later entered the homo of DR.. Walter j..
Freeman, 1923 Spruce street, through a
fourth-story window, took Jewelry and
clothing valued at $40. The robbery, COM
mitted during the absence of the family,
was reported to the police today. Maurice
Gross OF Twenty-second ana Race streets,
found that his automobile had been stolen
when he prepared to drive a friend to her
home last evening after attending per-
formance in theater near Eighth and
Walnut streets.
"ALL GIRLS Of Philadeipfis are wards
in my court" said Judge Raymond Mac
Nellie in crit.cizing q clergyman who pro-
tested he didn't know a certain American
girl was a ward of the Municipal Court
when he married her on July 21 to a China |
man. Judge MacNeille called the clergyman |
to court and severely rebuked him. The |
name Of the man was not made public.
CHILDREN ARE believed to have turned |
in false alarm Of fire from Baynton and |
Rittenhouse streets, Germantown, this aft
ernoon.
CHIEF DAVIS, Of tho Water Bureau, has |
advocated the compulsory installation of
meters to prevent waste. A bill providing |
for such action will be introduced in Coun-
ellis Such legislation, Chief Davis said,
would give the Water Bureau authority to
decide what classes of consumers shall be
to install meters.
JOHN H. BUNCH. general freight and
passenger agent of the Alaska Steamship |
Company who has been negotiating with
the Chamber Of Commerce with a view to
a direct water line between
Seattle and Philadelphia, wires the Cham
ber of Commerce that the service will be
established as planned, and that he will
leave Seattle next week to visit Philadel-
phia to engage a freight agent and to
make wharfage arrangements. He will
make his headquarters at the Chamber of
Commerce.
by the roads OF any county in
New York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey,
according to George E. Datesman, Director
IF the Department Of Public Works, and
Chief William H. Connell, of the Bureau
If Highways who have just returned from
/ trip of inspection of road conditions in
he three States. The State roads In New
York are superior to those in the other
wo States, they say
THE MUNICIPAL BAND concerts this
TeRr, which started on May Is and at
which the open-alr dancing was a feature.
we're attended by 271.600 persons. without
me accident and only four arrests accord
ng to report submitted to Superintendent
Robinson by Sergeant Theodore s. Fem.
Who has charge of the police arrangements.
There were GO concerts with dancing in 81
lifferent locations.
A RESOLUTION urging President will
ion to uphold the principle of arbitration
n the dispute between the railroads and
he trainmen has been adopted by the board
Il directors of the Manufacturers Club.
The resolution, signed by President Nathan
7. Folwell and Secretary Elmer p. Welsel,
vas forwarded to the President, Pennsyl-
'ania members of Congress and the Ma
ional Conference Committee OF Railways
oseph r, Grundy was selected to repre-
ent the club at the Chicago meeting of
that is to discuss the situa-
ion today.
PEALs OF laughter echoed from the
Central Police Court in City Hall this
morning when Mrs. Catherine Sadler, of
gainst her husband George for having
nee come home In an intoxicated condition
irs. Sadler while testifyng never turned
o face the man whom she was accusing
ntil requested to do SO by Magistrate Bea-
on. Turning. Mrs Sadler was amazed to
nd that she had been testifying against
no Joseph Josser. OF 3465 Germantown ave-
ue. who had been taken into custody by .
he police on a charge of breach of ordi-
anee for picking rags. For a moment Mrs.
adler and the rag picker stared at each
thsr in blank amusement and then both
milling, left the stand. The 'rag picker"
'as fined and George Sadler, the husband
I the accusing woman, was discharged.
ERNEST AUFY, y patrOImAn attached to
he Front and WestmoTeland streets police
tation, who, on August 4, accidentally shot
nd killed George Kline, patrolman at
achsd TO the same police station, was held
D await the action of the Grand Jury this
forming before Coroner Knight In holding
-uty Coroner Knight said that his action
ould not well be avoided. although all the
acts of the case so far presented tend to
how that the revolver which was in the
ands of Auty was accidentally discharged,
he bullet striking and fatally injurlng
lime.
HAPPY hansxmoan ,I..a -