Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-05

Louis HUT Assistant city Solicitor and
former Select Councilman from the Twenty
ninth Ward, was fatally injured in an auto
mobile crash at midnight, dying early to-
day at the Iankenau Hospital
His Wife Mrs. Jennie HUT; his daughter,
Miss Elizabeth HUT; Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Jacobs. Of Thrtieth and oxford streets. and
Israel Samuel Titemar. 1929 oxford street
proprietor of the Puritan knitting Mill,
received minor injuries in the accident,
which occurred at Twenty second and OK
ford streets when their motorcar collided
with a small taXicab operated by a negro
chauffeur.
Mr. Hutt. who was fifty-two years old.
died seven hours after the accident having
received a fractured skull and broken hip.
He was thrown out of the machine
The car in which Mr. HUT was riding
turned two somersauts in the crash and
was completely wrecked.
The high-powered car. driven Ey Mr.
Titelman. whose guests tho party had been.
was going west on oxford street. Coming
south on Twenty-second street a small car,
driven by William II. Bass, negro. 1856
North Warnock street ran directly in the
path Of the big mlchine Both drivers
turned TO avoid a collision, but the cars
came together with loud crash. The small
car "tripped" the Titelman machine. which
TO the street.
The injured were taken to the Lankenau
Hospital, where Mr. HUT died. The others
were sent to their homes later.
Bass, who was not hurt, was arrested by
the police of the Nineteenth and oxford
streets station and was held without bail
by Magistrate Collins for the Coroner's ac-
ton. The taXicab that he operated for
Krause Brothers, 1915 Susquehanna ave.
nue. was not damaged.
"The big machine was going so fast I
couldn't get out of the way" he said We
both tried to dodge, but there was no
time"
Mr. HUT, who lived at 1924 oxford
street, was a prominent leader in the Nc
Nichol wing of the Republican party. He
was one of the Select Councilmen who ac-
companied the Liberty Bell on the historic
trip to the San Francisco Exposition in 1915.
His law Offices were in the Bulletin Building,
Mr.. HUT was native Philadelphian, hav-
ing been born on the 18th Of November,
1865, his birthplace being on New street,
east of Third in the old city proper.
The family. when Mr.. Louis HUT was
an infant moved to st. Johns and Wood
streets, where a milk business was founded
and successfully pursued for many years.
There were many mouths i'm the HUT fam
lily, the children numbering ten. and az
they became large enough to assist in con-
tributng to the general support they were
put to work.
Louis was permitted to attend the Old
Northern Liberties School Third above But
Ter, until he was fourteen years old. when
he secured employment in the law Offices of
Sharp Aleman. who then were at the
head of one of the largest law collection
agencies In the city.
S. Horace Aleman, a member of the bar
took an immediate interest in HUT, and rec
ognizing that he lacked the opportunities for
acquiring an education generously took this
task upon himself. Mr. Alleman had been
n school teacher and he was childless He
provided him with books and all the spare
time in the office the youngster devoted to
the study OF his lessons. In the evenings
HUT would go 70 the rooms of his pre-
ceptor at the st, George Hotel and recite
his lessons and be "quizzed." During these
years while he was studying law he was
not permitted to neglect his affairs at home
and did his share I'm his fathers milk busi-
ness.
4 cruel blow visited the HUT family
when HUT had reached eighteen-his father
died and the 6are Of the mother and fam
ily he being the eldest child, devolved
upon him. While directing the milk busi-
ness he still pursued his law studies, and
shortly after his fathers demise he was
prepared for his preliminary examination
for admission TO the bar lie passed with
high credit an old-fashioned examination
Alleman entered the office of William
G. Foulke, general practitioner. At the
age of twenty-one he passed his final exam
ination, the Hon. Benjamin +. Brewster
being on the board
Immediately upon his admission to the
bar Mr.. HUT struck out for himself and
took a desk in the office Of Charles III.
!, NJ ltthews where he remained for some
I years until he established himself in his
| present office at 1432 South Penn square
HUT was the legal representative of the
! Republican Organization Of the Twenty.
| ninth Ward for number Of years, and had
| given his services freely and gratuitously
| He was a stump speaker
He was prominent member Of the Ma.
sonic fraternity. a Past NJ ister OF Stepher
| Girard Lodge, Chapter No. 81, 81. Johns
1 Commandery No. 4, also a member Of Lu Lu
Temple and the Mystic Shrine. the Artisan
| order, the Mutual Protective order, tn,
| Schoch Beneficial Association. the Cont
mental and the Twentieth Century Clubs and
the Cannstatters' Volksfest-V -Verein.
He is survived by his wife and thre,
children, William HUT, Florence HUT ant
Elizabeth Hutt.