Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-12
City News in Brief

LIGHTED CIGARETTE under
feather bed IL supposed 20 have started
slight Ere In n lodging house, conducted by
Myer Widkin, at 929 Locust street Two
mon were In the house In bed. officer
Hawley, OF the Fifth District. discovered
smoke coming out OF the second-story win
dow and rushed into the house and got both
men out of bed. The damage was trifiing.
Patients in the Jefferson Hospital. square
away, lined the windows and balconies TO
look at the fire apparatus passing in the
street
A HORSE FALLING into q hole in the
street at Fifteenth and Race streets block
ed the cars on Fifteenth street for twenty
minutes shortly before noon today.
heavily loaded wagon belonging to Hender-
son Brothers. Twenty-sixth and Spruce
streets, trying TO get out of the car track,
turned too sharply and the nearslde horse
fell into an excavation dug by plumber.
The crew Of a repair wagon OF the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company got tho
horse out.
ACTING LIEUTENANT JOHN =. DUF-
Fly, OF the Twelfth and Pine streets sta
ton. has been presented with an eighth son.
The newcomer and his mother are doing
nicely at the Duffy home. 1920 Wolf street.
ANOTHER HORSE was stolen by Epie
super, Philadelphia youth, half hour
after he had escaped from the House OF
Detention at Chester, where he was COM
mitted for stealing the horse Of Mounted
| Policeman John Story, of the Tipped Darby
| police last Sunday Super managed to
| escape from the institution and drove away
| in the horse and wagon belonging to G. M.
| Hardman, of Chester. A policeman arrest
| ed him and returned him to the House OF
| Detention.
CAUGHT BETwEEN TWO TROLLEY
| cars whIle he was washing windows in the
Fifteenth and Cumberland streets car barn,
| Robert Phillips, 1925 Oalxdale street. is In
| the Northwestern General Hospital suffering
from internal injuries and several broken
ribs.
STRUCK by MoToRTRUCK which
came from behind a southbound street car
at Ridge avenue and Twentieth street, Nor
timer II Miller eight years old, 2166 Ridge
avenue, is In the Womans College Hos
pital suffering from severe injuries. Lewis
Benharn, 2Obl East chelten avenue. driver
| of the truck, was arraigned before Magis-
| trate Pennock and held In $500 ball for a
| hearing.
AN APARTMENT HOUSE to cost $780,
| 600 is to be built at 153S-35 Spruce street
| Plans for the building prepared by Fred
erick Weber, call for fifteen-story struc-
| ture.
WILLIAM II. VAN LOAN, q blind broom
| manufacturer. fell dead Last night on Mar
ket street near Fifty-eighth He was sem
TO the West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hos
pital. where physicians said heart disease
had been the cause. Van Loan lived at IS
| South Redfield street.
THE NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
| of the pastors OF the III Baptist churches
in this State will convene In the Chestnut
street Baptist Church. october 10. Plans
4 lxarll ha for al twser a..
the membership OF the churches during the
| next five years.
| THE FRANKFORD Business Mems As
ISOLATION will recommend battleship gray
| as the most suitable color for the new ele-
/ waited structure, according to Henry 8.
| Bornenan, president The Kensington
Business Mems Association has also de-
cided to ask that gray paint be used
THE PHILADELPHIA Music Club L.
| planning the Introduction OF community
singing In Philadelphia as a method OF
winter entertainment. II is planned to hold
tho gatherings In recreation centers and
| allow musicians from among the people
themselves TO volunteer TO furnish the
music other expenses will be borne by the
Music Club, which has headquarters at the
Aldine Hotel.
THE SUM OF $4,000 win be contributed
| by Rumanians In this city toward the
nationwide movement 20 raise $500. 900 for
the Rumanian Red Cross meeting will
be held Sunday afternoon In the head
quarters OF the Banatiana Beneficial So
ciety. 229 Brown street, when the cam
paign Will be put in full swing.
COLLISION BETWEEN a motorcycle
and a trolley car sent Mr., and Mrs. George
Nagle, OF 2626 East Gordon street. 20 81
Afary's Hospital where they are suffering
from Internal injuries Nagle drove into 4
trolley car on East Columbia avenue. last
night. trying 10 avoid hitting a dog which
had run In front OF his machine.