Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-10
city Netps in Brief

/ beam Of "a feet The christening was done
| by Miss Celestina A. McNally, Of this city.
| The barge will have capacity for $4,000
| feet Of lumber.
The Presbyterian Church in the United
/ States has 300 communicates, accord
| Ing to figures Just published by the Rev. DR..
William IT, Roberts, stated clerk OF the
| General Assembly. During the year. there
| was a net Increase in membership Of
| 46,769. Presbyterian Sunday schools have
| an enrolment of 1,412,3S7. More than
| $4,000 new members were added to the
| schools during the year.
The total contributions Of 1858 Presby-
terian churches for the year amounted to
| s2S,192,426. Contributions for the previous
| year were $277S5.036. More than S20,-
| 100000 was given for congregational ex-
penses The offerings for home missions
passed the $4,000 900 mark. Gifts for
foreign missions dropped from I.sl2,esl
in 1915 TO ti,73si25 in 1918. Contribu-
tions for the Board OF Ministerial Relief
and Sustentaton Increased from S249,OO2 u
i311,443,
Reynold wollschlager. of New York. was
held up and robbed of 40 cents at Juniper
and tTllbert streets early today by two men
who took him into an alley and beat him.
The hold-ups were arrested, arralgned ana
held for court.
Charles Brink, a farmer Of Rosemont,
N. j.. was held up and robbed Of 81 at Mar
shall and Wood streets. The two hold-up
men we're caught by policemen as they
attempted to escape. They were arraigned
and held for court
There has not been an automobile
accident in this city since the new traffic
rules went into effect last Monday. In
this fashion Captain william ID. Mills. Of
the traffic squad, summarizes the imme.
diate benefits of the so.called drastic regu.
lations
Tho difficulties OF shoppers will be OBJ
waited by new signs giving the nearest
parking places The 500 signs will indicate
which are "one-way" streets and also will
give the speed limits Almost all theaters,
clubs, department stores and hotels are
near small streets where cara can be
parked A study Of the regulations, which
will be distributed by the Department of
Public Safety. will show these streets. For
instance, the South Broad street hotels have
Locust Chancellor, Thirteenth, Fifteenth,
Moravian and SAMSON streets for parking.
Vincento Cervera n stowaway found in
the hold of the fruit steamship Jose when
she docked at Pier North on arrival from
Santa Marta Monday, will not have to go
back to Colombia. Philadelphia banker,
having read his story, how he had been out
Of work and how his wife and two children
in Cartagena. Colombia, were in need, came
to Vincentos rescue. The man Will be al
lowed to stay in the United States. will be
given employment and he and his family
will be cared for unit! the spanIard be.
comes self.supporting
Four suits in divorce were filed in Com
mon Pleas Court No . today, as follows:
Mary S. Beaman vs. William M, Beaman,
Josephine Valentine vs. Joseph Anthony
Valentine. George c. A. Haller vs. Anna
Bertha Haller and Harry Klinger vs. Car
rie ID. Klinger,
Two petitions asking for charters were
filed today in Common Pleas Court No 2.
The Ware Republican Association of the
Twenty fourth Ward and n sick and death
beneficial association, to be known as the
"Fatherland" were the applicants. The
purpose of the Republican association Is
to promote and disseminate the principles
Of good government" the petition states,
William Il. f. Radell 1927 Spring Garden
street. Is president Leopold Rutkowsh,
1924 Priscilla street, Ia president OF the
"Fatherland" society.
An unidentified white man. about feet 9
inches tall, 60 pounds in weight and As
years old, was killed this morning about
6 o'clock at Twenty-fifth and Wharton
streets by Pennsylvania Railroad train,
the crew of which was arrested, but re-
leased upon the promise of railroad officials
to produce the men upon order of the Cor
oner. The man was seen to staBger on
the tracks, suddenly become bewildered
and fall under the cowcatcher. Death was
instantaneous.
Anthony Lennon, q boy whose arrest in
MONTGOMERY County started a controversy
between the Juvenile Court and the author
tiles In Norristown because the Montgom-
cry County officials threatened to hold the
ward in jail there until the October term
of court, was brought back to the city
| this afternoon. j, Aubrey Anderson, Dis
| trict Attorney OF Montgomery County, re-
| signed the custody of the boy and the case
of larceny against him to the Juvenile
| Court.
The thieves who ignited Solomon Sher-
mans candy store and dwelling at 1900
| South Seventh street early today also gave
| the alarm to the sleeping occupants of the
| two floors above the store. Sherman. his
| wife and their six children. the oldest OF
whom is II years, together with Tony La
| Mastra his wife and three children fled
to safety down a rear stairway. The flames
ruined about $500 OF Sherman's stock.
Sherman blames rats for the fires origin.
| They have been feRsting on matches and
| other articles kept in the store. he says.
and have helped themselves so literally to
| various dellcaeies that sherman was or
| opinion that human thieves were at work.
| When he round rve pounds OF sausage
slowed away behind tho soda fountain his
| suspicious fell upon rats.
The production of cigars and cheroots in
| this district for the fiscal year ending June
| 80 was sol .662, 700. an increase OF 5l,469,-
| 500 over the previous year, according TO
| Ephraim Lederer Collector OF Internal Rev
enue This is the largest production of
any district in the country, the second being
| the Ninth Pennsylvania, with headquarters
| at Lancaster In which the production was
| 667, 7,O26,473. The third largest production
was in the Third District Of New York,
which was 449,564,l10,
Their share OF an endowment OF Sl,-
| 900 900 10 care for retired ministers and
| widows and orphans OF ministers will be
/ sought by the Methodist Episcopal Church
| in tho Philadelphia, New Jersey Whining
| ton and Delaware conferences this fall
| The Rev. Dr. Joseph NJ. Hingsley. OF Chi
| cagO corresponding secretary OF the board
| Of conference claimants, will come TO Phila-
| delphla this week to confer with ministers
and laymen Of the four conferences on the
nationwide campaign.
Abolition OF Ford automobile branches
now maintained in 81 cities and the turning
| over OF their business 10 large number OF
/ dealers with garage and repair facilities,
| in order 70 make II more inexpensive TO
| own a Ford. win not anfect Philadelphia.
| Il was said here today, because OF the