Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-20
City News in Brief

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night were reported TO tho police today
Burglars forced window at the rear oi
Harry KanevEky's store. at s24 South Third
street, and Rtolc 700 ynrds Of overcoai
cloth. valued Mt $1,000. Breaking tho glass
In the front OF Abraham Tansman'a store
at 2GO South Fifty-second street, burglars
etoc a quantity OF furs. valued at 500
STRICKEN WITH APoPLExY on q
trolley car. Joseph Hartley, the conductor
Is in ST. Agnes's Hospital. where his condi-
tion IN said 10 be critical Hartley was
taken III at Nineteenth and Mexican street
and the motorman made quick run to the
car barn, Sixteenth and Jackson streets.
Tho hospital had been notified and an am
bulance was waiting to tako the man there.
THE woRKMES's COMPENSATION
Board today ordered II. Guy Meyers & Co.
| Inc. 10 pay compensation amounting to
| 1875 to Tony Forrott Of Philadelphia,
| covering period OF 500 weeks Through an
| accident Forrott was made n permanent
| cripple and by agreement OF both parties
he win bo given the money in bulk and sent
| to his home In Europe. where the money
VIII be OF more value to him.
pn. SAMUEL q. DIXON. Commissioner
| Of Health OF Pennsylvania, was elected
president of the Academy OF Natural
| Sciences for tho twonty-firat consecutive
| year at the l0ith annual meeting Of the in
| stitution last night. Other officers elected
were Nico presidents, John CadwalRder
| ana DR.. Il. q. Conklln; treasurer, George
| Vaux: librarian. DR. Edward j. Nolan ;
corresponding secretary, Dr. j. 4. Moore f;
curntors. DR. S. c. Dixon. II. A. Pilsbury
Henry Tucker and Wilmer Stone,
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD station
agents viii become employment agents.
| hiring all the labor needed In their dis
tricts When they are through with the
men tho workers will be sent to n labor
clearing house to be established in Broad
street Station. This plan was announced
by the railroad following the scarcity Of
labor. as n substitute for the importation
OF men from southern States
INTERNED GERMAN SAILORS at
League Island Will receive Christmas boxes
from Humboldt Chapter OF the Masonic fra
ternity About 7l5 boxes have been pre-
pared, The German liners In port are the
Prince Eitel Friedrich. kronprnz wilhelm,
Rhactia and Prinz Ostar.
BLIND MISSIONARY. who will 60
to India in the footsteps of his grandfather
and father. was ordained last night into the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church. lie
In the Rev. Ernest Paxon Janvior. The
Rev. DIR. w. Courtland Robinson. moderator
)f tho Presbytery of Philadelphia offlciRted
at the ordination service In the Hollond
Memorial Church, Broad and Federal
streets.
THE FRENCH BENEVOLENT Society
of Philadelphia nt the annual meeting in
the Manufacturers Club elected the follow
Ing officers for the ensuing year: Pres-
dent, John T. Lafore vice president Emile
Lefevre; treasurer, Jules Dehon secretary
f. Blanc; directors a. A. Petitcolin. Paul
H. Cret, Ateleo Douredoure. John Marie
Campbell. Luclen Hart Emile de Mey.
M lula A
Daus
CHARLEs GRoOME. son Of Major John
c. Groome. of the State constabulary, Is in
Jefferson Hospital, where he will undergo
an operation for an affection of the throat
lie is n private in the First Troop, PhiIa-
delphia Cavalry, and has been stationed at
Camp Stewart
GEORGE &. 0TBsoN, assistant chief Of
the Foreign Trace Bureau of the Phila- |
delphia Commercial Museum and an expert |
on foreign trade matters. In conyalesclng |
from an operation for appendicitis.
THE ROTARY CLUB will dIstrIbute n
ton of candy and gifts TO the poor this
Christmas. Automobiles will be used I'm |
the distribution. and the packing and wrap.
ping OF the $500 packages will take place
Friday and Saturday at $40 Chestnut
streets George A. Heinrich is chairman
Of the Santa Claus committee.
MR. AND MRS. +. T. sTOTEsBURY and
the latter's son, James Cromwell will give
a Christmas party next Saturday night at
the Starr Garden Recreation Center, Sixth
and Lombard streets, for the children OF the
There will be a Christmas
tree and gifts viii ba distributed.
HENRY II. HOUSTON. ed. son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel f. Houston. OF Chestnut
Hill will sail for France on January G 10
Join the American Ambulance service as an
driver. He will be accompanied
by Wharton Allen, a junior at the Uni
verslty of Pennsylvania. The young men
expect 10 serve six months In the American
Ambulance Corps.
THE SOUTH sIXTIETH street Improve
ment Association gave a Christmas enter
tainment to ESQ children at 25s South Six
tieth street Santa Claus distributed gifts
from Christmas tree
CITY APPOINTMENTS today included
Frank Kroh. 574O Beechwood street in
spector. Department OF Supplies salary
$500; Charles A. Quinlan. 2lO4 South
Eleventh street clerk, Department of Sup
plies. 5000; Joseph III. Green. 2T East Lou
den street, transitman, Department OF Sur
veys, 5000; Charles Davis. 61a1 Marsden
street. engineer, Bureau OF Water. $1,000
Edward II. Jenkins, 2430 West Thompson
street. transitman. Surveys. 5000, and Mary
e. Stuart. 2420 Lombard street. clerk. Blu
reau of Water, S2.b0 day,
FOX WAS CAUGHT In the lumber
yard OF Edward f. Henson, Delaware ave-
nue. and Poplar street, after trap, balted
gith a live chicken, had been set for H.
The animal ID gray and weighs thirty |
pounds, 1t Is believed that he came here
IN a lumber barge from Virginia.
JOURNALIST DIES AT BORDER
Robert E. Gonzales, South Carolinian,
Son Of Minister to Cuba