Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-18
City Ne1ps u, Brief

Phineas Green, an oficiaI Of westmore-
| land township and for many years super
visor OF the suburban estate Of Captain
| w. w. Frazier. Is in the Arlington Memo
raial Hospital suffering severe decorations
and internal injuries received when he
| cranked his automobile last night near Will
| low Grove and forgot to take the machine
| out of gear He was pinned between the
machine and telegraph pole until rescued
by several pedestrians.
Chief Connell, Of the Bureau Of High
ways, finds that he is encountering the same
problem that Industrial and manufacturing
chiefs generally are meeting To get work
done today is costing Philadelphia 40 per
cent more than year ago, and even so,
he said, It Is difficult to get enough laborers
to do the work. which Is subjected.
Recruiting at the Union League station
Is picking up" Major Hess, who is in
charge, is arranging for noon conferences
with prominent League members as speak
ers He will keep the station open until
the middle Of September. OF the eight men
who applied yesterday all were found
physically At when inspected at the First
Regiment Armory, and soon will be on their
way to the Mexican border.
Lieutenant Carl A. Baehr, U. 8. A., for
the last two years professor OF military
science and tactics at Chester Military Col
lege, will take up similar work at Pennsyl-
vanla State College, Meanwhile he will
stay at Plattsburg and train rockies"
He has been there all summer 1t Is the
practice of the Government to detail regular
army officers to military schools and State
colleges where military training is given
Lieutenant Baehrs successor at Chester
has not been chosen
Magistrate Imber today held In $1,000 ball
for further hearing Sunday three men ar
rested yesterday on suspicion of having
contraband drugs. The formal charge Is
dlsorderly conduct, but the finding OF some
counterfeit nickels on one of the TITO led
to the postponement of hearing until the
Government agents have investigated more
fully. The three are Ernest Soil, 1421 Mole
street; Louis Marchesino, 1919 Mount Ver-
non street. and John Troilio, 153 South
Juniper street.
Residents living In the vicinity of Edge
wood street and Westminster avenue last
night proved able assistants to Engine Com
pany No. Al, of Sixty-hrst and Thompson
streets, when they. left their beds shortly
before midnight and organized n garden
hose volunteer fire company to combat the
flames that destroyed large shed in the
rear of the residence of Amos Blade, 412
North Edgewood street.
A message was received by David j.
Hogan, member Of Aerie No. AZ, Fraternal
Order of Eagles of this city, last night
that the aerial won the $1,000 prize offered
by the National Council for enrolling 1000
new members within a single month. The
award was made yesterday at the fra.
ternty's national convention In Savannah.
Ga.
The ffth annual conference of the Penn
sylvania Association of Sealers of Weights
and Measures. embracing every county in
the State, will be held in Harrisburg from
September 12 to IA, according to notices
sent out yesterday by the secretary, Ben.
jamin f. Sharp, member of the bureau
here. The selling Of gasoline by means of
pumps and greater uniformity of action
among the different county bureaus are
two Of the questions to be taken UP.