Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-20
City News in Brief

DIAMONDS WORTH 5000 we're stolen
from the homo OF Mrs Hannah Wolf, AZ
1887 North fifteenth street. ana q negress
employed az n servant in the Wolf home
has been arrested in Baltimore ny Phlla-
delphia detectives. Her husband. who is
believed TO haze assisted her, has also been
taken into custody. ..r
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD employees
will be Informed as TO the modern deNelop-
nlents in the electrincaton OF steam roads
by an exhibition OF specially prepared
motion pictures 10 be given tonight AT une
I. II. r. Y. NJ. G. A., Forty-fitst street ano
Westminster avenue. An extra eNhiDltloh
for the benefit Of men on night duty VIII be
given TOMORROW morning at o'clock =
TEN PHttADEIPHIANS successfully
passed the examinat ions before the state
Pharmaceutical ESamnlng Board at viii
Transport, Pa, on September and 2 inc
successful Phlladelphaus are Albert ", A.
Bailey, Ada NJ Dornstcll, Paul v, Buey-
master Benjamin s Corson, Leopold ".
IIelfand, Jay A. Smith, Michael Stolon anu
Benjamin J. wexlar: assistant pharmacists
Peter Crsmer and Della NJ. Cooper. the
next examination will be held in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh. November II and ls'
PAYMENT WAS stopped on con-
tractors bill for n park Improvement pay
able 20 Edward Fay a Sons, by the city
Controllers office on the ground that the
contract specifications had not been com
piled with The warrant for final payment
was S1375 The Department OF PUBLIC
Works let a contract for improvement and
development of Cornelius Park, Frankford
avenue and Comfy street, for $4,000, in Sep
tember 1915. The specifications required
that the work be finished in sixty days and
= penalty of $40 n day was to be enforced
until the work was completed The job. II
was said. was finished only recently and
the penalty amounts apparently to $1,000.
FIGURES ARE NOW AVAILABLE for
the tonnage moved into and out of Phila-
delphia by the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
and Reading and Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
roads for 1915. According to statistics
furnished the Chamber Of Commerce by
these railroads. the three systemshandled
a4,642,741 tons of freight into and out of
Philadelphia during 1915, This Is a gain
Of more than 100000 tons over the previ-
Gus year. ...,..... .-..'
GEORGE w. SoRRIs has resigned ms
president of the City Club because of his
duties in connection with the new Farm
Loan Commission. The board Of directors
accepted Mr.. Norris's resignation with a
resolution of appreciation and regret, and
| decided TO give public dinner TO him upon
his return from the West.
A TA,t OF $4,000 has been paid to
| Auditor General Powell by the estate OF
| Edward Bromley, OF Philadelphia, valued
| at 81, 900 900. The estate of ID. T. Watson,
| the late Pittsburgh attorney. is estimated
| Of $2,5O0, 900, all subject to collateral in
| bertance tax. A check for $1,000 was re-
| deived yesterday from the estate of Lord
| James w. Doughlass Compton, of Eng
| land who died last year. owning property
| in Mexican county valued at $22,0OO .s 3
THE FEDERAL trial OF the Rev. George
| Chalmers Richmond. suspended rector of
| st. Johns Episcopal Church, has been post
| poned until December, pending the result
! of the clergyman's trial before the eccleSi-
! astcal board of the Episcopal Church. The
| criminal charges against the rector resulted
| from letters he wrote to E. Howard Neu-
| mer, former parishioner and ex-convict, IN
| which he Is said to have demanded money
Before pressing Doctor Richmond to tria
| on these charges United States District
| Attorney Kane said he desired the eccelesi'
astical charges to be adjusted.
| A RECITAL FOR the benefit OF the chill
| dren orphaned by the war will be given this
afternoon In Newport at the home of Misi
Martha Goldman, on Bellevue avenue. Th'
comedy, THE First Lady of the Land,
will be given, after an Introduction by thu
author and lecturer, Mrs. Ida Louise Gibbs
The affair is given under, the patronage o
Miss Goldman, Mrs William Howard Taft
Mrs George Peabody wetmore Mrs
Livingston Beekman, Mrs. Samuel w Nc
Call, Mrs Perry Belmont Mrs John II
Drexel Mrs. Maude Howe, Elliot and Mrs
Larz Anderson.
oUARRELING WITH his wife, FrsnI
Shinn, forty-hve years old, 40S Nortl
Percy street, became violent the police say
Mrs Shinn was taken to st. Joseph's Hos
pital today. Policeman Fox, OF the Tent
l u. nNd OF OF
ambulance drive away. inquired about tn
| trouble and then arrested Shinn. He wa
arraigned before Magistrate Beaton toda,
, | and held for court in $1,000 bond.