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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
CATHOLIC GIRLS TO OPEN
WORKING GIRLS HOME
Welfare Organization Will Provide
Wholesome Center for Social
Service Purposes

The Working Girls Catholic Club. 2si1
Green street, will open boarding house
for working girls at s2i Pine street to be
known as the St Regis.
This is considered one Of the most worthy
steps the many welfare clubs Of the city
have taken In behalf Of working girls, as
II has always been big problem for the
working girl to find suitable boarding
place at prices she could afford This has
been especially true of young women COM
ing to the city from other places. as they
were not familiar with localities and were
liable 10 fall into houses which they would
avoid If they knew them and the neighbor-
hoods in which they were located
l., There is chain of Catholic institutions
Apnn UpeIatlon @ IN many OF the larger cities.
Is ,he 81 Regis Hotel in Pittsburgh, This
notei accommodates hundreds of guests and
iorms an active center for social sery,re
work ''''"i service
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

der are more satisfactory, as one set Of
children or animals tumbling over the walls
and another set chasing across the draperies
are apt to create II bewildering impression
that is anything but restful and quieting
for the small occupant.
Floor coverings especially suitable for
chldrens rooms are to be found In the
more or less recently revived rag carpet
rugs, either plain or with figured borders.
Almost all are good. but the most appro-
pirate are those with perhaps border at
each end made of a solemn procession or
geese or one that is decorated with fam
lily of bunnies or with some other feature
Of especial interest to children.
Suitable miniature furniture can be had
at any price. 1t should harmonize in color
with the wallpaper hangings.
1t Is worth while to make this room inter
esting to its young occupant. The cost Is
little (the cheapest furniture may be bought
and then painted to suit), and II will add the
final touch TO the completeness of our new
house
wednesday-The Lot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
SCHUYLKILL ROAD WINS
IN SHENANDOAH ACTION
Service Board Dismisses Complaint,
Except One Item-Six-Cent
Fares Discussed

HARRISBURG, July 3O.-The Public
Service Commission In an opinion by Com
missioner Milton J. Brecht has dismissed
the complaint Of the borough of Shenandoah
against the Schuylkill Railways Company
except in one item, In which it orders the
company to replace ties within sixty days.
The opinion contains this discussion of a
charge of six cents for fares:
While it is true that the testimony
shows that on a number of prosperous
railway lines the fare is only five cents
per zone there are. roads where the zone
rate is six cents The rate question is
too complex and includes too many ele-
on the basis of comparing the rate on
one road with that of another. 1t may
be true, as intimated by counsel of COM
plainants, that there Is an inflated or
fictitious value given by respondent to it's
property, but until such fact is disclosed
BY proper valuation of the railway COM
pany's property such an insinuation, how
ever broadly made, will not serve any
useful purpose in finding an answer to
the question at issue.
The commission In a general order makes
corrections in the original cost figures in
the decision in the case of the boroughs of
Greensburg, Jeanette, Youngwood, Irwin
and others against the Westmoreland Water
Company, one of the big water cases de-
cided this year. In other items to which
the company objected, the opinion says that
the commission feels that it's findings were
Just and reasonable. The opinion con-
cludes:
'The fair value of the respondents prop
erty for rate-making purposes, making due
allowances for the items omitted in the sum-
mary Of original cost Is now found to be
$1,125,00 and the allowance for fair re-
turn to the respondent Is now found to be
S7S,750."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
WOULD DRILL MILLION BOYS
FOR FUTURE WAR SERVICE
Congressman NORM, Pennsylvania Has
Bill to Build UP Big
Reserve

WASHINGTON, July 3o--Military train
ing for boys between the ages Of eighteen
and twenty-one is proposed in a resolution
introduced in the House by Representative
John H. NORM, OF Pennsylvania
The resolution calls upon the Secretary OF
War to inform the House Of Representa-
tives as TO the availability in the military
establishment OF men and facilities for the
military training in schools. colleges and
centers of population Of boys between the
ages Of eighteen and twenty-one." and 10
submit a plan by which such facilities may
he utilized without retarding the vigorous
prosecution of the present war, and with a
minimum OF Interference with the scholastic
and civilian pursuits Of the boys so trained y
MIR NORM said tonight:
There must be many retired army on
GERS whom the department cannot call
upon for the strenuous active service con-
nected with war preparations but who
have the training, experience and admin
istrative ability which render them emf
nently qualified TO organize and operate
such system as have outlined.
This proposal has three important OBJ
tectiyeS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
FILM FLASHES FOR THE WEEK

" A LII that glitters is not gold" is wall
4 KNOWN Here's new one: "All that
snines ses isn't silver" However the son Of n
Sn.er uoes shine, and brightly, too. II is
vi NAT ii. Silver that we speak
borh IN London, England about twenty
W. years ago, he came to this city some
.weNe years ago When IL came time for
MN 10 go 10 work he began by ushering at
MarKet street movie. That was seven
sears ago Since then he has been cashier
ior every theatre along that movie Rialto
FOR two years he was assistant stage man.
ager at the Palace. when that theatre
onereo vaudeville. When the Stanley
opened he was transferred to that house
pu' MS apiiity as manager was recog-
hized by Stanley V. Mastbaum. and he wa
put IN charge Of the Imperial, Walnut below
SlNueth street where he now has complete
cmarse. lie Is the youngest manager in the
eny. "hen asked about his future pros
peets ne SAID that 1t was his ambition to
De a big film man. Whether he meant phy-
sically or financially was not disclosed.
D. H. Murray, in Paste Pot and Shears
weighs In with this recipe. which he says
is used at least once a week by one COM
pany or another He says its sure-fre stun
MIX the following ingredients well. cut
10 the fve-reel length and watch the
ardent hlm fan hungrily gobbe 1t up:
one poor but honest husband
one stunning and ambitious wife.
one millionaire (unhappily hooked).
One S0-h. p. gasoline buggy.
One keyhole-peeking housemaid
one intercepted letter (ah, don't forget
the letter..
One cafe side room.
One officer.
One revolver
One fade-out.
Mirrors play a large part in the artistic
scenic success Of Madge Kennedy's Baby
Mine" Hugo Ballin, who presided over the
art direction of the farce comedy believes
there are hundreds of ingenious ways as
yet untried that mirrors May be used in the
cinema art.
The manager of the Park and jefferson
Theatres a recent Benedck will show a
series of pictures, do Children Count? q
He will also give away free for nothing two
regular cyclecars to children.
The s. p. c. A. should appreciate the
Keystone comedies in which Il number OF
dogs are the leading players.
A delightful blending Of fantasy and tn,
realistic Is evidenced in THE Primros,
Ring" with Mae Murray, the Frankfordi
offering today Other stars of the week a
| that playhouse include Blanche Sweet. S
John Hare in charming adaptation o
| Thomas w. Robertson's Caste" Rober
Warwick and Pauline Frederick.
vitagraph, Metro and Fox will furnsl
the amusement fare at the Regent, witt
| Anita Stewart. Harold Lockwood and Mir
| lam Cooper as stars. THE Message Of tn
Mouse" THE Hidden Spring" and 9TH
| Innocent Sinner" are the bills for the thre
| two-day divisions of the week.
An erstwhile highly popular screen actor
who has played opposite Mary Pckfor
and other big-type people will return to hi
| former love-the cinema-in THE Stacker.
| This is Walter Miller. Fans who reca
| Biograph in the days of its glory will re
member Mr. Miller's telling work wit
| Blanche Sweet in Deaths Marathon,
with Mae Marsh in His Mothers Son,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

and with Little Mary In 'The Inrofner." In
rhe Stacker he plays the man who mar
ries to avoid fighting
The Imperial offers an especially we'll
chosen program. Today Florence Reed In
The Eternal Sn," is slated tomorrow
The Land OF Long Shadows" with Jack
Gardner, is on the cards: Wednesday. Hart.
in The Square-Deal Man" Thursday, ION
TriaF; Friday, Miss Suratt in The
Siren; Saturday. the Joyce-Morey COM
binaton, in Richard the Brazen."
One of the most exquisite pieces OF Aim
composition, lighting and photography ever
shot Is coming to the Liberty Wednesday
Need we add that II was directed by Cecil
de Mile, and is called "A Romance Of the
Redwoods"? The star is a fairly we'll
known young woman named Pickford. AM
other capital photoplay is The Flame of
the Yukon" with Dorothy Dalton who has
Just signed under Ince with Paramount,
shown tomorrow a
There are two stellar names on the Fifty
sixth Street Theatres bill for today; Ralph
Herr and Clara Kimball Young. Their re-
spective plays are The Mystery OF No. Al"
and Loves Sunset"
The Logan has a good press-agent man.
ager. Whoever prepares the programs
| should have an extra bit of credit for the
well-written, accurate stories of the films
| to be shown, together with crisp pieces of
information about the players. This is espe-
/ cally true in the case of The Jaguar's
claws with Sessue Hayakawa. to be dis
played Friday and Saturday.
Here are four movie girls from whom you
| may make choice, If you are going to the
Market Street Theatre this week: Miriam
| cooper, Seena owen. Bessie Love and Mol
lie King. Curously enough. the first three
were discovered" and exploited by the
| great Griffith. Miss Cooper played the
Friendless one Miss Owen the Princess
Beloved and Miss Love the Bride of Cana
IN Intolerance Their new vehicles are
| The Innocent Sinner" The Sawdus
Ring" Madame Bo-Pcep" and "The ON
the Square Girl" and will be shown Thurs
day, Wednesday, Saturday and Friday
Here are names to conJure with: Alice
Joyce. Fannie Ward. Pearl white, Ann
remington. They are some of the Ruby's
current stars. The plays in which they are
seen are Richard the Brazen." He
Strange Wedding" May Blossom" ant
THE Little Boy Scout"
The amusing play. The Dummy" with
Jack Pickford and Louise Hun. Is at th
Tioga Thursday. on the stage Ernest
Truck and Joyce Fair were the leading
actors Their screen counterparts are quit
as good
| Vampire Bara will roll those eyes anC
cause general havoc at the Imperial tomor
row. the occasion being the presentation Of
The Serpent" Like sunshine after
storm, however. Ingenue Caprice will fol
low on Friday in Patsy"
} Bryant Washburn has made good in orig
inal ways before the camera. lie doesn'
pretend to be extraordinarily handsome o
a swaggerer, but just fine inte igent co
median. He's at the Stanley the latter hal
! of the week in 'The Golden Idiot"
Charles Ray and William Desmond il
THE Clodhoppcr" and Time Locks ant
Diamonds" at the Great Northern Monday
: Tuesday, Wednesday, Enougl
said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

First. II seekS 70 prepare the y<1<
the country in advance for the r<
,rlgors OF warfare, and TO school t11I
the arts Of war.
Second 1t seeks 70 fortify the boys ~
advance against the temptations OF c4UD
and barracks life by instilling In .e49&
boy a sense of the grave responeibilltK
by the better influences Of his homo o44
while the restraints Of family life ~ ~
school and college discipline still oposnf4
Third, 1t seeks to have prepared f6y
immediate action upoif reaching the a40
OF twenty-one years 1000. 900 young mon
each year, trained in mind and body for
the work OF the soldier.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
MONUMENT TO ORGANIST
UNVEILED AT AMITYVILLE
Hundreds Pay Tribute to Memory of
Prof. Samuel z. Boyer, Noted
Musician and Leader

POTTSTOWN, Pa, July 3O.--llundreds
Of persons for miles around visited the
Amityville Union Cemetery 20 attend the
unwilling of handsome granite shaft
at the grave of Prof Samuel a. Boyer,
known for more than seventy years as n
church organist and choir leader, piano
and violin teacher In Montgomery and ad-
Joining counties. During that period he
sang and played at more than 1000 funerals,
worked with eighty-siS different preachers
and heard 5000 sermons. When he died in
1900 he was almost q nonagenarian,
The money for the monument was col
lected by Pottstowu musicians. Miss olga
Wedner of this place, unveiled the shaft
and addresses were made by the Rev J. j.
Kline, the Rev IL. Il. Ritter and the Rev
H. j. Miller The combined choirs of Swamp
and Amityville churches sang.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
M.rror;t. Camp. Meeting Ends

sHAMoKIN, Pa, July S0'.Menho'h,.eds 'ssd
Of the eastern portion Of the state Slosed ed
an eight. days camp-mee%tlng % az ,y EagswtS ggastors
from AIentown. Easton, Northampton,
Reading, Mount Carmel, this place ana
PottsyiIle
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

WE'D AT MOOSE MEETING
When Cupid stole into the Lyceum
Theatre, Pittsburgh, during the
Moose convention, he shot his little
arrows straight into the hearts of
two Philadclphians, Miss Emma
c. Griffith, 1858 North Fifty-fourth
street, and Charles w. Lawrence,
5212 Locust street. They were
married Immediately on the theatre
stage, with Mayor Armstrong Off
ciating and more than 1000 Moose
delegates as witnesses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

and with Little Mary In THE Intohner" In
The Stacker he plays the man who mar
ries to avoid fighting
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

There are two stellar names on the Fifty
sixth street Theatres bill for today Ralph
Herr and Clara kimball Young. Their re-
spective plays are The Mystery OF No. Al"
and Loves Sunset"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

The Imperial offers an especially we'll
chosen program. Today Florence Reed, In
Ihe Eternal Sin" is slated tomorrow.
The Land Of Long Shadows" with Jack
Gardner. is on the cards Wednesday Hart
IN The Square-Deal Man: Thursday, ION
Trial; Friday, Miss Suratt, in THE
Siren; saturday. the Joyce Morey COM
bination, in Richard the Brazen."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-05-17

uniformity of method and organization
in all the yards engaged in the opera
ton, will hasten results. 1t is estimat-
ed now that it will require about four
months from the laying of a keel to the
pushing of the hull off the ways and
then another month or six weeks for
completing the vessel for her work.
Sails will not be used on the wooden
vessels, not even as auxiliary power,
because the spread Of canvas would
materially add to the visibility. As it
is, one Of these vessels will be visible
from the deck of a submarine cruising
on the surface at least five miles away
under normal weather conditions, and
the submarine can travel seventeen
knots to the cargo boats twelve. How
ever, the chief reliance of this argosy
method of getting food and munitions
to Europe is not to be in the speed or
defensive power of a unit, for many
Of them may be lost, but in the numer-
ical strength Of the feet, the almost
endless chain OF boats doing the need
ed work, submarines or no submarines.
Garry Guns? Of Course.
But they are going to be defended,
too, and therein lies a, great idea OF
Chairman Denman Of making the
wooden, fleet not only serve the mate
rial needs Of our allies, but also having
it confer upon this country an inciden-
tai, psychological benefit by instilling
into the middle west an interest in the
love Of the sea. Each boat will be
manned by crew Of about thirty-fve
sailors, but in addition to them there
will be fighting group Of young men
large enough to man the guns.
CAN attempts in this country to put
through wise legislation for the benefit
Of merchant MARINE" said Mr.. Den
man at the Office Of the shipping board
in Washington the other day, shave
been hampered by the lack of interest
or positive opposition on the part of
the congressman from states away
from the coasts, particularly the mid
die western men. That has been due
largely to the fact that those sections
Of the country are SO far away from
the sea that they have no interest in or
knowledge Of it. The glamour Of the
ocean and the tang of salt air never
get far enough inland to create that
sentiment for the sea that is neces-
sary impetus for building up mer-
chant marine"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-05-17
Each to Cost 100000.

The cost of building and equipping
each wooden vessel will be 100000, or
just about half the cost of a steel YES
sci of the same capacity. To construct
the entire feet of thousand boats will
take billion board feet of timber,
but this is not drop in the bucket as
compared with the country's annual
supply Of new lumber. Something like
40,OOO,O00,O0O feet were cut last year.
New timber of the Pacific coast, says
Mr.. Denman, can be subjected to a
very simple treatment and then put
into vessel in the course of ordinary
time Of construction and serve the pur-
pose almost as well as old, more sea-
soned timber. The difference is so
slight that the timber supply factor Of
the enterprise offers no material diff
Guilty. The wood that will be used will
be Oregon fir in the Pacific coast yards,
long leaf yellow pine in the south and
pine in the Maine yards.
Although the wooden shipBuilding in
dustry in this country long since went
into decline, there are at least one
hundred yards on the Atlantic, Pacific
and gulf coasts petitioning for the
work, and each of them that can quail
ify will get part of the big contract
from General Cocktails corporation,
which has $5O,000,000 at it's disposal
for this part Of the war undertaking.
These yards are small and large, rang
ing all the way from capacity for build
ing one vessel at time to twenty-five.
Much Of the material will be stand
ardized. and this together with some
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-05-17
BIG WOODEN FLEETS To IHNARI j BOATS
SHIPPING BOARD IS RUSHING COMPLETION
Each Vessel Will Have a Capac-
ity Of $500 Tons and Be 290
Feet Long = Will Keep Our
Allies Abroad Supplied With
Food.

.TERMANY'S unprecedented subma-
NJ rine warfare may have prece-
dent after all, so far as results
go, in the ancient case Of the toad that
jumped up one foot and fell back two
feet every day in it's efforts to get out
Of hole.
Germany is the toad. Her one foot
jumps may be- measured by the ton
mage of the cargo ships she is destroy
ing for the purpose of starving her en-
emies by shutting off their supplies
(Of course the sinking Of hospital ships
does not have any direct bearing on
this problem, because it is merely
matter of arithmetic and not of senti-
ment) The two foot falling back is
measured by the new tonnage that the
United States has set itself to provide
by constructing wooden vessels with
, various notifications on q type long
since abandoned as improbable in an
age of STEEL says the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
Imagine a schooner of the coasting
trade without sails. with her masts
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-05-17
Estimated That Our Shipyards
Can Turn Out a Total Of
100000 Tons a Month, Sufhfi-
cient For Needs, Including Re-
serve Supply.

this steel age, at first secuted and ridi-
culed by the naval architects of the
country as impossible and absurd,
came to the shipping board from two
separate sources almost simultaneous
ly, and the two men to whom the cred
it belongs, are T.. Huntington Clark Of
New York and F. A. Eustis of Boston,
both young mining engineers who had
never heard Of each other and neither
Of whom has had any experience III
the building or operating Of ships.
But each, working Independently as
an individual. American citizen desir-
Gus Of contributing at least an idea
to the work of defeating Prussia, ar
rived at the one conclusion that the
only thing to do was to build ships
and more ships and turn them out so
quickly that the submarines could be
outplayed by sheer force of numbers
Of food carrying vessels.
Clark's first notion was that the
thing should be done in steel; that
quantities Of vessels, made in stand
ardized parts and shapes, could be put
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-05-17
Photos
OF WOODEN SHIPS NOW BEING BUILT

cut down to hosting derricks and
stumpy smokestack sticking up about
midship and you will get mental pic
ture of the proposed emergency craft.
Our Chief Service.
10 build these new ships, as we'll as
to supply the food and munitions they
will carry and the money to pay the
bills, is the chief service which this
country is preparing to render to her
European allies, aside from her actual
military participation in the war. AL
ready plans have been adopted for the
construction Of 1000 of the wooden
vessels and an undetermined number
of steel ships, which will assure the
feeding Of our friends on the other side
OF the Atlantic. Submarines or no sub
marines,' as President Wilson put it
in his proclamation to Americans.
The work is in charge Of the federal
shipping board and it's subsidiary
emergency shipbuilding corporation.
Both William Denman, chairman of
the board, and Major General Goethals,
head of the corporation, are confident
that America has found the right an
swer to Won Tirpitz
The problem, stated as briefly as
possible in terms of tonnage, is this:
The German submarines are now de-
stroying cargo ships at the rate of
100000 tons month, the equivalent
Of the entire Hamburg-Ame feet
according to the latest report to the
British parliament. The estimated
new output from American shipyards
will be at the rate Of 100000 tons a
month in the wooden vessels and $780,
600 tons month in steel ships. That
would still leave a balance Of 100000
tons a month in favor of Germany if
the allies were obliged to depend en-
tirely on new construction.
Great Reserve Supply.
But the case is not nearly so bad as
that. Taking everything still afloat on
the seven seas, there is total world
tonnage Of something over 100000
as a reserve supply to draw upon as
fast as the u boat depredations render
it necessary to divert ships from their
normal trade routes to make emergen
cy voyages for the aid of the allies of
the United States.
Hence the smile of the toad in the
hole
The idea of building wooden ships in