Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-28
City News in Brief

CITY APPOINTMENTS today include
Harry Taylor, s27 Richmond street Elmer
w. Heller 1888 Toronto street: Richard -
Donahue s0s9 weikei street; John NC
Laughlin. 2iii Gross street Theodore r.
Neibauer. 4It0 Parrish street william j.
Hamilton 1918 South RinREold street !
George Long. 230s W. HUNTINGTON street /;
Joseph r. Farley 56lS Race street VIII
liam HarrlFan. 1853 Carlton street, patrol
men, Bureau OF Police. salary 4Z2b day'
and Edward Blaustein. 1898 South street
bookkeeper. Department Of Supplies. *llOO.
MILK PRICES will not be Increased the
next four months This was determined
al a meeting Of the Interstate MIX
Producers Association. held at the cham
Der OF Commerce. In the Widener Huliuins
MRS. MARY y. HoBART. who was
knocked down by an automobile at Eight
eenth and walnut streets last sunday
while returning from church. Is IN critical
condition in the Medico-Chi Hospital Her
skull Is fractured and she is suffering from
Internal injuries Mrs Hobart is the mother
OF Mrs W w Porter, 1S5 South Eighteenth
street wife Of the former Judge OF the
Superior Court
A HOSPITAL COURSE OF two weeks
each year for all practicing physicians was
recommended by DR. John y. Roberts In his
address before the Philadelphia County
Medical Society. Doctor Roberts said such
n course would be beneficial to the
physicians themselves as well MS TO the hos
pital intorneH,
CITY COLLEGE. In connection with
the Central High School. was advocated
last night by Dr. John Louis Haney, at n
banquet Of the 125th class of tho Central
High school other speakers also favored
the project
PENNSYLVANIA SUGAR COMPANY.
of i050-5o North Delaware avenue, has
bought the adjoining wharf property at
1868 North Delaware avenue for n nominal
sum and a mortgage Of $4,000. The COM
pany announced that II needed more wharf
gge to handle lts business.
HERBERT w. CHowHURsT. Of this
city, Is the Latest Phiadclphlan to Join the
American Ambulance Corps I'm France, He
has applied for his passports and win sail
G.. the steamship Espagne, from New York.
on January 0.
4 36,OOO-MILE JAUNT from Burnos
Aires TO New York city Is being completed
by Humberto Peyronel. The pedestrian loft
today on the last leg OF his journey He
began the tramp on March g. 1910.
CHESS PLAYERS Of the University Of
Pennsylvania played true to championship
form ana uefeateu the cornell team by n
score OF 3 TO In the second annual tour
nament of the triangular College ChSas
League. played In the rooms OF the Man-
haitian Chess Club in New York city. Penn
has good chance TO capture tho cham
ponship.
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS will he
distributed to tho employees of the United
Cigar Stores Company In addition to the
amount given In December. 1916. The
amount represents the increased earnings
on sales which have been made in the stores
of the company.
STRUCK BY TROLLEY CAR Mt Al
legheny avenue and + street George Myers.
fifty years old, of $40 North Water street,
received probable fracture OF the skull.
and Is reported to he in n serious cordi-
tion at the Episcopal Hospital Myers is
said TO have attempted TO cross In front OF
the car. which was moving at rapid rate
OF speed.
TwENTY-ONE YEARS OF service as n
telephone operator in the Electrical Bureau
exchange In city Hall will be closed on
January by Horace T. McClintock who
sent in his resignation to Chief Mclaughlin
today. McCllntock was in charge OF the
operators. He leaves to take another posi-
tlon. McClintock was appointed in 1895.
when the telephones were first Installed.