Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-10
City News in Brief

SHUT-IN SOCIETY, Pennsy lvania "a
branch. has decided to send orders of gro
Ceries at Easter to as many needy indi-
viduals as funds will permit. special
sale of the articles made by shut-ns will
be held in the Belgravia, Chestnut street
west of Eighteenth, March 2S.
MRS. JOSEPH l.. SMITH, former
Bryn Mawr student has returned to her
alma mater to plead for funds to help the
rescue work Of the French-Amercan COM
mittee for the protection of children. II
costs twenty cents day, or S6 month, to
feed and lodge one chIIu. Contributions
may be sent to Joseph Lindon Smith, 90
Mount Vernon street Boston.
GEORGE r.. NITZSCHE, recorder of
the University of Pennsylvania, has started
a movement to bring the birds back to the
campus. lie suggests that drinking foun-
ains and food houses be placed around the
grounds. War on the sparrows who drove
the song birds away is also suggested.
MIDyALE STEEL COMPANY has pur-
chased a tract of ground at the southwest
side of WissahCkon avenue southeast of
Roberts avenue from the Manor Real
Estate and Trust Company for $72,25O
The ground has become the site for q
large machine shop and Office building,
which have been erected and are now
equipped and ready for commission.
DWIGHT ELMENDORF delivered an
illustrated lecture on flowers and children
at the Academy of Music Youngsters of
many lands were shown at work and at
play. The mysterious process of plant
growth was also portrayed, a revelation
made possible by the motion picture cam
era. The lecture Will be repeated this
afternoon.
CONGRESSMAN AARON :. KREIDER,
| of Pennsylvania, in an address before the
| Superintendents and Foremens Association
| of the Philadelphia Shoe Industry at a
| meeting in the Bourse, declared that an
| adequate tariff wall to protect at least our
| home market for our manufacturers follow
| ing the war is most essential. A merchant
marine which will carry our products on
| terms as favorable as those of other nations
| was advocated
| AMERICAN RED CROSS has organized
| a chapter at Mount Airy. Seventy
members have been enrolled The following
Horace II, Burell secretary, Miss Dorothy
Bepnerman; treasurer. Mrs George A.
| Heinrich.
| q. A. SCHwARZ's toy shop at 1905
| Chestnut street. IA selling out after nifty
| eight years of business. q. A. Schwarz
| senior member of the firm, and Henry G..
| Schwarz. junior partner, announced that
| the cutting OFT OF German importationS was
the chief factor in inducing the firm to
| quit. -
| CHARLES J. BIDDLE. Of AndaIusia
Bucks County, will sail for Bordeaux on
| the French liner Rochambeau today to en-
| list in the field service OF the American Am
| buance for a period of six months. He is
twenty-six years old, graduate of Prince
| ton and the Harvard Law School He has
| been associated with his father. Charles
Bidde, in the law firm of Bddle. Paul &
! Jones. 535 Chestnut street.
FIGHT OVER MILK TAG sent Edward
| Seise, Of 5l75 Ludlow street to the West
Philadelphia Homeopathic Hospital. suffer.
| ing from a fractured right arm. The milk
| tag. wrapped In tin foil. was lying In the
| mud at Fifty-second and Market streets
| Somebody shouted There's a dollar" In
stantly there was a'rush and the fight fol-
| lowed.
EDWARD u. SMITH. JR., son, Of Ed
| ward b. smith. head Of the banking and
| brokaraee flrln or Edward ~ smith y 90.
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