Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-07
City News in Brief

FEEDING GARBAGE to her children re-
suited in the arrest today of Mrs Carmela
Esposita, So years old. OF 423 Monroe street.
| The woman had made "A practice OF collect
ing refuse from the river front. and taking
| II home, cooked IL for her children. on being
brought before Magistrate Coward she ad-
mitted to be true the testimony OF William
| J. WahI Inspector for the Bureau Of Health.
| The Magistrate fined her $3.50 and costs
| ua1er a recent act Of Assembly forbidding
! garbssN 10 remain in uncovered recep-
tacles.
FALSE ARREST alleged TO have been
brought by Policeman John Kraus' OF the
| Front and Master streets station, against
| Abraham Horowitz, resulted today in
| suit being instituted against the policeman
| for $4,000 damages. Kraus Is said to have
attacked Horowitz with club.
THE CITY TREAsURER's weekly state
ment shows that the receipts during the
week ended last night amounted TO S2,9S3-
| 3S9.l3 and the payments S6O1l4b,l4, which,
| with the sums on hand last week. not IN
| Guiding the sinking fund, left a balance OF
| $l6,5S1, ,S60.9S
WHIPPING A HORSE drawing n two
| ton load OF ice cost Howard Brooks,
| driver Of the American Ice Company, SlO
| and costs this morning before Magistrate
| Pennock Agents for the Society for the
| Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals testihed
| that the driver had beaten his horse while
the animal was struggling to climb steep
| hill
| MICHAEL ToORCHUK. 81 years old,
| Second and Fulton streets, was held IN
| $500 bail by Magistrate Collins, accused
| Of robbing the saloon of John Aspert. south
west corner Of Front and Federal streets
| OF S3S3 and 5000 worth of jewelry, Toor-
| chuk was arrested last June on suspicion
Of completely in the murder Of a paymaster
| f,, "a, nN 4 cts md Ind
but was later released.
| 1T COST THE COUNTY Of Philadelphia
| just s57,6s4 to place the names Of electors
| on the assessors lists in preparation for
| this falls election
The assessors OF the 1911 election divisions
| today made their returns to the County
Commissioners and each assessor was given
a warrant for s44 for his services.
| CHIEF WILLIAM H. CONNELL, of the
| Bureau OF Highways, left this morning for
| an automobile trip through Massachusetts
and Maine Clarence Pollock, consulting
| engineer Of the Granite Block Manufac-
turers' Association OF the United States.
| accompanied him. They will inspect gran
lite quarries from which Philadelphia re-
| ceives its street paving blocks
PRAYERS FOR THE public schools viii
be said throughout the United States Sep
tember II. The organized effort for a
national prayer has been promoted by the
National Reform Association and Is in
Philadelphia under the leadership OF the
Rev. r. H. Shirley, Of Frankford. and the
Rev c. B. Alspach. 1888 Winghocking
street.
THE CITIZENS SOLDIERS AID COM
mittee has received contributions aggregat-
ing S36.996 and has expended S22,322 since
1t was organized. according to the latest
figures announced.
SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS will
go to charity through the success of the
forty-third annual harvest festival of the |
Canstatter Volksfest Verein which ended |
yesterday at Central Park, 400 North Fifth |
street The colossal fruit column was torn |
down today and the eight tons Of fruit were |
given to the poor.
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, former AM
bassador 10 Germany, may succeed the late |
Ex-Governor Samuel w Pennypacker as |
president of the Pennsylvania Historical |
Society. As senior vice president he is first |
in succession to the office. Should he de- |
cline the place, Hampton L. Carson, former |
Attorney General of Pennsylvania, will be |
the president during the unexpired portion |
Of the term.
JOHN ROSENHAUN, stone mason
living at 2307 East Huntington street, is |
expected to die from falling two stories |
He was working on building at Granite |
and Ditmsn streets. He is In the Frank |
ford Hospital with a fractured skull and |
internal injuries
sTREET-PAvING CONTRACTS, under
the $4,000 loan bill, recently passed in |
Eddystone, have been awarded by Borough |
Council. The Union Paving COMPANY OF |
Philadelphia. will pave Simpson and Ninth |
streets and the Eastern Construction Com
of Nuil 40 he
Eleventh. Twelfth, Thirteenth and Leiper |
streets .t
PLANS WERE MADE at meeting OF
the congregation OF Adath Zion Synagogue
last night to raise money for the children
suffering from infante paralysis. A cam
paign will be opened on the Jewish New
Year. with an appeal for contributions
THE MOToRBOAT pageant and river
demonstration 20 be held on the night Of
September 49, In connection with the ninth
annual convention OF the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association, Will far surpass
any similar function ever held on the Del.
which made final arrangements public at
the convention headquarters In the Bellevue
stratford Hotel. last night, Revenue cut
tera, torpedoboats. pollceboats and hundreds
Of motorboats and yachts, gaily decorated
and lighted by thousands Of incandescent
lamps and searchlights. will participate An
the demonstration which will be held for six
miles along the river, following the arrival
OF the steamer Queen Anne. the Official con-
vention boat, AZ the Delaware River bridge
from Trenton.
THE POLICE NATIONS committee of
public safety presented a request to Harry
G. Davis. Assistant Director OF Public
Safety. for an increase of 20 per cent IN
wages The matrons, at a conference, pre-
scented the argument that they should be
given the same consideration as policemen.
A BANQUET WILL be rendered tonisht
10 DIR. Toby A. Greco. who was an honor
graduate at Jefferson Medical College last
year and who has just completed the wears
hospital practice required by law The han
quet viii be held at the Continental Hotel
and viii be attended by about 200 persons
John Sylvester will be toastrnaster ana The
speakers include cheValier c. C. A Bald.
Judge John M. Patterson ana Colonel
Thomas Edward Murphy, The father OF the
young doctor, Anthony Greco will makA
the presentation address and will present
his son With . fcli set OF surgical instru-
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