Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01

CRAP GAME, alleged to have been .un .n
oy Julian Swartz. was the basis OF ~
fine assessed against him today in Centtal
station HIS place at ess Spring GARDEN
street was 'raided last night Eight mei,
arrested there were fined SIS each. Margaret
Nelson. whose dsorderly house was raiueu. n
the other night, was held In $500 bail tor
running the house and $500 additional pe"
for selling liquor without license
WARREN =. BILENBERGBR, oOs South
| Fifty-frst street was held In $500 BAH LOT
court today on charge Of obtaining money
| by fraud from several women by posing az
| an Insurance agent He collected S2z'ou
| from Lulu Bigley. si5 Lombard street !
was testified That was the largest amount
| he obtained
! CRUSHED ny HIS owS wagon, Thomas
| Brogan ~ years old. Of 1892 Sears street,
( was so seriously injured at Front anu
/ skunk streets this morning that he died pc
| fore reaching the Mount Sinai Hospital. ms
| young sister. waiting on the steps OF MS
home to serve his breakfast. collapsed wheh
notified Of his death.
CITY APPOINTMENTS today included
Samuel j. Fisher. 23l1 wharton street
clerk. Department of Law, Sl4Qo year
Ethel H. Brewer i54l South Carlisle street,
clerk Bureau OF Highways S72O; August
Hassemaier, ] street and Lawndale ave
nue.. electrician. Electrical Bureau. S2'OV
n day Charles Il. Grouse, Jr, bl34 heyser
street, and John Macllhenny, 6629 North
Sixth street. rodmen, Department OF IRAN
sit, salaries ssi0.
FIRE RACED for four hours this morn
ing i'm the home of Samuel Finkelstein, in
the center of the Jewish summer colony at
Cottman street and Castor road, FRANKFORT
causing n $4,000 loss.
FRIGHTESED HORSES trampied on
nj
Lawrence street. this morning while ne was
delivering load of coal at FranFford ave-
niue and Stella street. causing him painful
injuries which were later treated at the
Frankford Hospital
STEALING \ TEAM and wagon brought
Edward Kramer and George sutton. both
90 years old, Thlrty-cighth and Brown
streets. before Magistrate Harris In the
Thirty-second street and Woodland avenue
police court today. They were held under |
$500 bond each for the Grand Jury. The
team and wagon belonged 20 the Union Ice !
and coal Company, 3o36 Chestnut street.
FIRE BURNED buggy shed at Ai51
Warren street, the property of the kreutzer |
estate. The loss was 500.
WARE FOLLOWERS in the Third ward
are jubilant today over the action of County
Commissioners in taking polling places away
from friends or Harry lTHllcTt MCsNitHol
leader OF the ward, and giving them to
henchmen OF Charles j. Roney, Ware repre-
The Commissioners granted six
of seven applications. The action was con-
strued as a blow to Trainer, whom the
Wares are endeavoring to oust from leader
ship of the ward.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWN will
probably decide today whether or not II
will be necessary to appoint receiver for
ITVNtg alt gNaNF n ii
cussed the question yesterday with SAM
uel b. Mccullough, of the State Insurance
Department, and some stockholders of the
but no decision was arrived at
SMILES OF HER infant baby whom she
abandoned on the steps of n church have
caused Stella Rattigan. girl-mother, to re-
pent Today she and her baby are being
cared for by kInd-hearted persons i'm the
southern section of the city When ar
raigned yesterday, she had her baby In her
arms. AS the young mother watched her
infant smiling, she broke down and asked
the court to give her another chance. She
will go to work in shirt factory tomorrow.
MOSsIGNOR PHILIP X. McDEVITT
will be consecrated on September 81 as
bishop Of the diocese OF Harrisburg. He
s superintendent of parochal schools in
and was elevated to succeed
he late Bishop j. w. Shanahan.
FATAL INJURIES were sustained by
David Snydre, Z years old, living at 22i0
Ruffner street when he fell from the foot
bridge that crosses the Port Richmond
branch of the Reading Railroad at the foot
Il Blabon street. When several of the lads
yelled for help employees of the
Ildvale Steel Company's plant at that place
picked the boy up and sent him to the
Hospital IL was found that the
'oys skull had been fractured and he died
wo hours later. The accident happened
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INDEPENDENT VOTERS In the Thirty
rst Ward met at 2400 FranlSford avenue +
lst night and formed the Frankford branch S
the Hughes Alliance of Pennsylvania, Il
me hundred and sixty men attended the 4
leeting and so others sent postal cards to "
he headquarters of the alliance applying o
or membership. DR. John A. Prester pre-
ded at the meeting and John Finney was
ected secretary and treasurer 4
MAYOR SMITH viii send IA message to
ouncils when they TecOnyene on September
urging passage OF an ordinance pro-
iding for requirement by the city of the
hole OF the block of property bounded by
enth and Eleventh streets and Rodman | r
nd Lombard streets for recreation center I
nd park purposes.
PLAYGROUSDs WILL be laid out on
roperty in the block from Rodman street
Lombard and from Tenth to Eleventh
rect. Mayor Smith made tour of that
sction yesterday. Ordinances providing N,
IT the Fairgrounds will be introduced in h
ouncils n,
THE CORONER warns all boys against ~
winning where there is no protection 70
Ich as policemen and rescue boats ~
Dzen lads witnesses at the inquests OF "a
lillian G. Mckenna, years old, OF 26iT ~
fharton street sGuseppi Napaliello. .,
,ars old, 1928 Ellsworth street and Charles On
atarina years old S136 Germantown "a
venue, whose deaths resulted from drown OF
g, listened to Coroner Knight tell OF The th
Wful risks of swimming in unguarded ha
aces.
SUGAR AND IRON amounting to 100 co
ms Is being unloaded tndav fron, ~ / On