Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31

MAYOR SMITH aud 500 cIereymen
: Philadelphia and vicinity will attend II
play Experience" tonight at The Adelpl
Theater. The performance will be a strlctl
private invitation AFFAIR.
CHARLES sPICK, eS years old, OF sei
North Hope street, fractured three left rit
; when he fell from his motorcycle last nigf
at Eleventh and Somerset streets. Spck sal
he had made a wide turn to evade a trolle
car and had fallen into n gully at the sid
of the road. He was taken to the Samar
tan Hospital
THE POLICE arc searching for six youn
Italians who attacked and robbed Mrs
Katie Leonitto accompanied by her so
and daughter. of 1927 Carpenter street, o
S2100 Sunday morning along lonely roa,
between Whites bog and Hanover Farm
station, near Mount Holly, n. J. The thre
were bound and gagged and the daughte
was etherized when she attempted to MAX
an outcry. The men made their escape II
an automobile Mrs. Leonitto did not be
lieve in banks. and It Is thought the rob
bers. presumably Philadelphans. heard o
this and followed her from her home c
the bog. where she picks cranberries.
SAMUEL IREDELL, collector of interna
revenue for the First Now Jersey District
has appointed Clarence Petit, an attorney o
| Atlantic City, as a deputy collector for tn,
counties of Atlantic and Cape May. Mr.
Petit succeeds Harry L. Jones, a Repub
lican. formerly of Camden.
FIRE DAMAGED THREE houses early
today at t320-22-24 lSimball street II was
discovered in the home Of Harry King al
| 1922 but spread to the other two houses in
the rear. The damage was estimated at
| $500
MEGTERV MI baa hnnn iii no
clerks in the prothonotarys Office in City
| Hall and David Serber APPS Girard ave-
| nue, an attorney, remains unsolved. Ser
ber was scanning legal intelligence columns
| of the newspapers yesterday when to his
amazemcnt he read that two judgment
| notes for 500 each had been recorded
| with his name as creditor. They were
signed by Morris Steinberg and Tobias
| Sacks. II do not know either of the men,"
| Serber said, and cannot understand who
| would be so kind as to willingly give me
5000" Serber has taken no steps to collect
the money,
FRACTURE of the right hand was suf-
fered by Acting Lieutenant Elvdge of the
Germantown police station, while arresting
George Kirkwood, of 1874 West Rittenhouse
street. Kirkwood, according to the police
was intoxicated. resisted arrest and in the
scufile that followed the Lieutenant was
injured. KirlSwood was sentenced today
to 80 days In the House of Correction.
CITY AUTHORITIES will force all
vendors and fruit-stand dealers who have
failed to take proper care in screening
their ware from dirt an insects to comply
with the ordinance demanding this precau-
tion. Commissioner Foust, of the State
Dairy and Food Commission. has ordered
Special Agent Robert NJ. SINNERS, of the
commission, who is here directing n crusade
against rotten egg Dealers to watch for
Offenders and to report them to the Bureau
of Sanitation
SENTENCED to see n baseball game
was the punishment" Theodore Albertson,
runaway boy from Seybert Institution,
received from Judge Raymond MacNeille
in Juvenile Court, when 1t was found the
infantile paralysis quarantine in Arlington
township prevented his return. George
Casey, executive secretary OF the Big
Brothers of Philadelphia, took Theodore as
ward.
AN UNDERTAKES charged too much
for burylng the body of a soldiers child
when he found that the citizen soldiers
aid committee intended paying part of the
expense, according to the executive secre-
tary OF the committee, Mrs, NJ. l.. Wood
ruff. The mother Of the child was in
structed to refuse payment until the under
taker reduced the charge The undertaken
did.
CITY HALL APPOINTMENTS today in
cluded Myron E. Fuller. Lincoln. n. J..
assistant engineer Bureau of Surveys
$500 a year; Carl B. zillenzinger 26ls
Montgomery avenue, architectural drafts
man. Department of Transit, $780, and
Robert Il, Lee, 1142 South Fifty-second
street. painter, Bureau of City Property. SO
day
WAN ARETTNTENr a.oor5t,. o.. A.
police, started a quarrel which resulted in
the stabbing of Nicholas Danckea, so years
old, of 1861 Wissinoming street. by a man
believed to be Santo Bruno, 80 years DID, of
3s22 ottman street last night. The injured
man is in the Frankford Hospital.
DENIAL OF A report recently published
that Americans, and particularly Irish
Americans. would meet with difficulty In
entering Ireland, and perhaps even be
barred from landing, Is made in a circular
prepared by and sent out by the Interna-
tlonal Mercantile Marine Company. The re-
ported restriction on travel to Ireland ac-
cording 10 the circular, is not true, in view
Of which an official statement issued by the
British authorities is cited; Each case will
be decided on its merits"
THE WINGS OF THE MORNING" By
Louis Tracy, begins in Saturdays EVENING
LEDGER. 1t is the most thrilling romance
which has been offered TO our readers
In order not TO miss any installment, place |
your order now for the EVENING LEDGER |
with your dealer or newsboy. Because of |
the abolition of the return" system, you |
may not be able TO get copy of the paper |
unless you have ordered II ahead
SCoRCHIHG FLAMES have no terror for |
Fireman Charles McCrory. whose friends |
are eongratulating him today for his act OF |
hsToism in carrying Mrs Sara King. ss |
years old, a negress and Joseph Coleman, |
s2 years old, down a ladder from the third |
floor OF burning house at 1890 Kimban |
street The fire Is believed to have started |
in the kitchen OF 1890 K.mball street but |
attained such headway that the houses of |
13s2 and 1884 were also damaged. The |
total loss is estimated az $1,000.
DYE FUMES oVeFeAms Lewis Stark, as /
years old. Of 1922 Worth street and Frank i
Emery, s2 years old. of 1895 Kensington
avenue employees OF a dyewoFlSs at Torres
dale avenue and Josephine street yesterday
afternoon. They were taken 10 the Frank /
ford Hospital Their condition Is said not
10 be serious.