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

| blllets the British steamship Anglo
| Patagonan will sail from this port today
| for Bordeaux.
FOR ABOUT TEN minutes last night u
| looked as though fire I'm the plant OF the
| Unit Construction Company l3i South
| Thirty-hrst street would get beyond control
OF the nremen and cause heavy damage.
A quantity Of varnsh caught fire and. ig-
hitting a pile of wood boxes. caused flames
to shoot more than one hundred feet in the
air.
MRS. CAROLINE EARLE WHITE, pres
ldent of the women's Pennsylvania Society
for the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals,
is so seriously III at her summer home in
Nantucket. Mass, from an attack OF heart
trouble that death is believed to be near
A CONTRACT FOR another link In the
Frankford intercepting sewer, extending
form v .ngohocking Creek TO the Delaware
River. will be let by Director Dstesman
this week II will mean the beginning OF
work to carry the big concrete sewer an
other 400 feet eastward toward the Della
ware River to stop pollution Of Wingohock-
ing and Frankford Creeks and deliver the
entire sewage of this district at the disposal
plant about to be established east of Rich
mond street. The work when completed
viii put an end to pollution Of the waters of
the Delaware in this section Of the city.
CHARGED WITH DRIVING her hus-
bands car without a license when It COL
lided with a taxlcab on Radnor road on
August s, Mrs. Mary b Dillon, of South
Forty-nnth street, has been fined $35.73
by Magistrate Buckland at Bryn Mawr.
AS RESULT OF being run down by a
motorcycle Norman Mcqueen, s years old
OF Twenty-second and Curtin streets. is in
the Methodist Hospital suffering from con-
cussion Of the BRAIN fractured arm and
possible Internal injuries. Fred w. johnson,
of Upland. Pa, the driver of the motor
cycle, was arrested.
MRS. HUGH SMITH, of Clio TorresdaIe
avenue, wife of Philadelphia policeman,
is in the Easton Hospital recovering from
Injuries received when an automobile oc-
cupied by party Of Phladelphians over
turned along the Delaware River road at
Lohnensburg yesterday.
MARY +. GAFFEY, 2S years old, of 1897
North Twenty-fourth street, is recovering
from injuries received when knocked down
by an automobile driven by Dr. A. W.
White, negro PHYSICIAN, OF 2123 Jefferson
street at Twenty-frst and Berks streets
last night. The young woman was taken to
the Woman's Homeopathic Hospital, where
her injuries were treated, but was later al
lowed to go home.
THE POLICE ARE SEARCHING for the
crew OF trolley car who ran down Charles
Tooey, q years old of 264I South Sartain
street, last night. at Broad and Oregon ave-
npe. The boy is In the Methodist HOSP. tai
sufferine-f from a fractured skull and possi-
BILE internal injuries.
QUICK ACTION and presence of mind Of
Mrs. ID. b. Tomlnson saved her four chill
dren from probable suffocation in a fire
today at her home. 1855 East Chelten ave-
nue. The woman, who occupied the second
floor, was awakened by the cries of her one
year-od son Edward. She found the bed
room filled with smoke. After opening the
windows quickly she carried the children
one at time to the street. The fire started
on the first floor, which is occupied as a
fruit store by Morris Rosenberg, and caused
about $500 damage
THE BODY OF WARREN HALL evi
IDENTITY dead for several days, was found
IN bed at his home 146 Palmer street, to-
day Nefghbors who had noticed that the
house was strangely silent since Saturday,
notihed the police of the Fourth and York
streets station, who broke into the house
Hail. who was 4S years old, was found an
parently dead Of heart failure. His wife
lett Tor weeks stay at Atlantic CITY last
saturday. Halls body was taken by the
Coroner for an investigation.