Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-02
City News in Brief

FIRE, which Is believed to have had
incendary origin, was discovered early to-
day in the poolroom of Warren Spear, at
Berks street and East Girard avenue, by
Policeman Wilkinson, of the East Girard
avenue station. A pile of papers and rub
bish were ignted beneath pool table,
which Spear asserts was placed there during
the night. The loss was trifing.
FRACTURED SKULL was suffered by
Robert Dougherty. thirty-one years, of
1914 Mountain street when he fell in the
street at Point Breeze avenue and Dickinson
street last night. Policeman Mctlevery. of
the Twentieth and Federal streets station,
had the injured man removed to st. Agnes's
Hospital.
FAT BOILING OVER on "a stove caused
slight fire in the home of Isadore Seden,
2200 Cantrell street, today. Selden put
the fire out by throwing water on the
blazing fat. The damage was about $50.
BOYS IN THE dispatcher's Office OF the
Reading Railway who struck for more
money Wednesday are back on the job.
They stuck it out until parents started COM
ing around to see why their youngsters
weren't working.
HORSE THIEVES have not visited Ger
mantown during 1916, according to the re-
| port of the Rising Sun Horse Thief Associa.
| tion, which met In the Vernon Building,
Germantown and Chelten avenues. The
organization was formed nnety-three years
| ago, when the horse thief was the bane of
/ the farmers who lived in the district.
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL supporters
gave benefit ball at Danceland, Twentieth
| street and Montgomery avenue. About 1900
| persons were present. The decorations were
donated by Lit Brothers, and the Philadel
| pha Electric Company contributed the nov
| elites i'm lighting Among those who made
| arrangements for the ball were John Y
| Wolfert Miss Cecilia Levin, Miss Rose 1-eib
| ster. Miss Estella Kaltin, Miss Cecilia Ros-
enthal, Miss Minerva Rosenthal and Miss
| Irene Lipitz.
|, TiOGA IMPROVEMENTS are at last tc
| be a reality. Announcement was made last
night at a meeting of the Tioga Business
| Mems Association that the city Is to re-
| build the firehouses at Germantown avenue
| below Venango street. repave Germantown
| avenue from Allegheny to Erie and build
music pavilion in Hunting Park.
wOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE o
Pennsylvania is seeking to raise its endow
ment fund to Sl,000,000. More than 1O'
workers have started the campaign. The
fund already totals 100000, but it II
planned to increase 1t to the million-dol
lar mark.
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Is teaching tn
| care of the feet. A new course In chi
yopody has been established with corps o
thirty.five instructors. free clinic ais
has been formed in connection with tn
classes The department is under the hea
of Dr. Frank A. Thompson.
AMERICAN ONCOLOGIC HOSPITAL
has raised nearly $500 for the purchase o
radium by a dance given in the Rittenhouse
war conditions have greatly reduced tn
cost of the precious mineral, according I
Mrs. Walter C. Hancock, one of the mem
hers of the board, and the hospital now ha
, supply
HARRY THAw had a change for tn
, worse, according to the physicians at 81
j Marys Hospital. and his mind Is an apso
ute blank. His mother, Mrs. Mary {
rbav ia constantly at his bedside. n