Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-02
City News in Brief

TWO TOURING Cars were found aban
ucnfd IN the northern section of the cts
BY the police 81 the Fourth and York Htreoti
station. The cars had been stolen BY Joy
riders, driven and then deserted. a lnrR,
! FaiRq touring car was found NJ Oakdais
and Marshall streets hearing n Pcnnsyl
vania license number $3.50 and the Initial,
| ~ II. r." on the door. The second fna.
chine was q Buick touring car bearing n
| Pennsylvania license number 52377 and tho
initials ~ y B.." found At Ninth street
and Germantown avenue
PROVOST SMITHS HOME purchase
! fund. 10 buy the hOuEe AZ t037 Pine street
| for hIa use, suffered q luil during the past
week and tho nmount collected 30 far re-
/ mhined nj $4,000 The mark w set NJ
100000. Campaign managers said the In
| activity was due 10 the approach Of the
Christmas holidays
BURTON HOLMES "personaiiy con
Quoted" a large number Of tourists" ln tho
Academy " Music last night on n trip en-
circllng the globe. but visiting only tho pos.
seealong of Great Britain Starting NJ Lon.
don and rural England. the home ~ Shake
srenre and tho various castles the tour
lists" were conducted through Scotland.
where fields of heather and Loch Lomond
wero among the many interesting features.
AMERICAN TIuHTING ABILITY wac
praised aa every bit equal 10 that of Cana.
dlnnE and other members of the Entente
ALLIES in a speech at Toronto by General
sir Sam Hughes, denying reports that
Americans nghtinE for the Allies were not
quite up 10 tho mark Sir Sam Hughes
mentioned Corporal Joseph y. BnteA for
morly Of Germantown, as an example ~
American gallantry IN action,
A FALL FROM THE wAGON he was
driving killed Patrick McGicnn on Old
York road near OEoutz The wheels or
tho wagon passed over McGlenn'a neck
PHILADELPHIA DEMOCRATS spent
SiI,s7l.9g In tho recent campaign In the
city, the account ied by Edward T., Ben
nla. treasurer with tho clerk Of Quarter
Sessions Court shows Contributions to the |
fund amounted to {i3.7i0.
MOTHERS SUIT TO recover the Gus
tody ~ her child, who disappeared twelve |
years ago, has been instituted In the New
Haven, Conn. courts by Mrs. Florence Pad
more. formerly OF Philadelphia, She de-
clarcs nftcon-yenr-old Dorothy Bricklcy, OF
New Haven. who has been taken care Of by
Mr.. and Mrs, lGli Brickey iB the daughter
Hho has been searching for In six States
JOHN II. McFADDEN. noted PhIladcI-
phia art collector, IN recovering In Atlantic
city from an Illness that was at FIRST thought
10 be serious. Mr. McFadden In under the
care OF nurse, but improved so rapidly
he was able to receive friends yesterday
H0BERT n. HARPER, who was Injured
asst Tuesday by the explosion OF n gas tank
n the cellar or the pharmacy Of Fnrrow
Brothers. Twenty ninth street and Column
'ln avenue, died this morning In the Ger
nan Hospital Harper was twonty-scven
ears old and resided at Twenty y-cghth and
)xford streets.
THE CONDITION OF Magistrate zoe" {
'all whB reported az critical today lie {
hssod poor night and friends are appre- [
ensiys.
CITY APPOINTMENTS today include :,
con Plhtowsky, 1927 Susquchannn avcnue
Inspector Bureau OF water. salary Of ,
1000; Bernard Mogu 1928 South Seventh .
lreet inspector, bureau Of water, $1,000: | =
ohm G. Chain. COS North Forty-oghth y
treot clerk, Bureau OF Water $500 and
ohm Patterson. 22l5 North Ubcr street. .
xtra clerk Department OF Supplies, So "A .
ny.
STEALING DRESSES was the nceusn-
on against Joseph Price. 1861 wilton n
rect, when he was arraiRncd today before "
Magistrate Beaton In Central police court. II
watchman employed by S Beckman a. Il
o., on the nth floor OF tho Gilbert Build b.
", Juniper and Cherry streets, testified
int he caught Price bundllng up the fl,
-essea last night Magistrate Beaton held -,
e prlSoner for "A hearing In $500 bail. a.