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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
SAFETY COMMITTEE
GETS $4,000 MORE
Appropriation Made by State
Defense Commission for
Specific Purposes
ADDED TO $4,000 GRANT
Allied Bodies, Food Supply Civilian
Service and Labor and Other
Departments Designated

The public safety committee of pennsv,
vana was voted an appropriation of sa7 nm
yesterday at a meeting held in the Can,,o,
by the state Defense Commission rb,, a.,
in addition to recent appropriation %
| 100000, Of which $5O,O0o has already hear
spent.
Disposition of the $4,000 among the sev-
eral subdepartments of the public ssfo,,.
committee is to be made in the folowin.
manner
one thousand dollars will go TO the al,,.a
bodies department, Of which Or. S. Il. Nc.
Cormick. chancellor of the University n,
Pittsburgh, is director. The activities of this
branch are quite numerous. the most i'm.
portant one being the erection of a channe,
of communication between the general com.
mittee and the citizens of the Common.
wealth.
Ten thousand dollars will be accorded ,ho
food supply department, which has been
very active in the propagation of food con.
servation and the enrolment of women in
the Hoover Army" The number of women
enl sting their services for food economy in
this state has reached total of 500. 600 an
excess of $4,000 more than the number of
any other State in the Union. This de.
partment also is occupied in mapping out
the crop lands for next year.
Ten thousand dollars will be awarded IN.
civilian service and labor department. Of
which Edgar c. Felter, retired president NJ
the pennsylvania Steel Company, is drec
tor. The enlisting of boys, whose age or
physical deficiencies render them unfit for
military service, to serve their country in
this war emergency, was recently inaupu.
rated by this department.
The civic relief department. of which
Louis j. kolb is director and Albert Cross
vice director received an allotment of s5OOo
The preservation of health in the cities
and towns in the district and the general
educational problems are the chief activitie.
Of this branch.
The committee on naval service re-
Gently closing very successful campaign
OF naval and marine enlistments amounting
to 5000 men. of whom 1000 are already in
the field and 5000 awaiting call to action.
received an appropriation of $4,000.
Five thousand dollars is the amount sivsn
to the guards, police and inspection depart
ment. There IL movement on foot in this
department, originated by Major Groome
to utilize the various home guards in each
community for police guards of their re-
spective communities
This plan was submitted to the Governor
Tor ratification and is now under consid.
Grafton.
An extra assignment of $4,000 was also
made for the August salaries of secretaries
connected with the seventy executive com.
mittees in the sixty-seven counties through.
out the State.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
RECOMES HYSTERICAL IN
FIGHT FOR ADOPTED SON
Woman Taken to Hospital in State Of
Collapse After Fight in Which
She Is Unsuccessful

Mrs. Louise Schelhorn, twenty-four years
old. of Manayunk avenue near Harvey
street was taken TO st. Timothy's Hospital
today suffering from Mysteries, sad to have
been brought on by vain physical efforts
to secure her four-year-old adopted son
Vincent
According to the statement of Charles
Schelhorn. her husband. the child was
adopted by him and his wife when he was
about fifteen months old Shellhorn said
he and his wife were separated three weeks
ago and the child accompanied him to the
home Of Louis Scheerer and Mrs Scheerer,
10s Hermit street, where they were board
ing
This morning Mrs. Schellhorn said in
the hospital as she was on her way to her
home from church, she saw the boy with
Mrs Scheerer on the front step. Mrs
Scheerer said Mrs. Schellhorn, after trying
to persuade the child to go with her picked
him up in her arms and started to run
across the street. Neighbors said a tug-of
war took place for possession of the child
in the middle Of the street and that Mrs
Scheerer finally ran into her house With
him and locked the door. Mrs. Schellhorn,
II is alleged, broke into the house through
the rear door and fight followed between
the two women. Neighbors finally entered
the house and separated the women and
Mrs. Schellhorn collapsed She was taken
to the hospital strapped to a stretcher, at
tendants said to keep her from attacking
them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
MRS. HORWITZ, MAYOR,
SITS IN MUNICIPAL COURT
Widow of Philadelphia Lawyer an In
terested Observer in Misdemean-
ants Branch

Mayor Mrs Marian y. Horwitz, widow
of George Quintard Horwitz. Philadelphia
attorney. today sat on the bench with Judge
Brown In the Misdemeanants Division OF the
Municipal Court. She took notes and lis
tened attentively to testimony in the cases
of several women and men who were ar
raigned for sentence. Mrs. Horwitz now
is the Mayor of small town in Florida
Some Of the prisoners arraigned were
women arrested in vice raids. She looked
down sympathetically on some OF the
women who were barely out of their teens
Frequently she turned to Judge Brown and
asked for details of the prisoners career
After leaving the bench, Mrs. Horwitz
said that the magistrate system in Phila-
delphia did not appeal TO her She added
that more could be accomplished for women
arrested in raids by arralgning them in
the Municipal Court than before magis-
trates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
DEFIES DRAFT BOARD
Am Not Going to War; Says Dir Gianco
When Called for Examination

Carrissmo hi Gianco, of 1920 Farson
street walked into the Forty-sixth District
examining station today and refused 10 SUD
ject himself to any Of the examinations OF
questions Of the board.
Di Gianco stood mute when the doctor
in charge asked him to take off his clothes'
Some one called for an interpreter, but
hi Gianco said. in English: Il won't DO H.
| am not going to war
The doctor then informed him tnat ne
would be automatically drafted into the
army.
well. you will have to send the whole
police force to get me-
He then stalked out of the room.
Bishop McCort of Our Mother of Sor-
rows Catholic Church which is opposite
the Forty-sixth District station. is daily
observer of the draft proceedings. The
names of all members of his parish V'o
are accepted for the army and do not cl0im
exemption are posted in the church vesti-
bule.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
MONUMENT DEALERS GO
in FOR ART, REAL ART
No More Unsightly Tombstones
to Be Allowed, They Decide.
Kick on Freight Rates

Members OF the National Retail Monu-
ment Dealers Association have gone in
for Art with a capital A.
No longer are cemeteries throughout the
country to be defaced with inartistic monu-
ments and shafts il the delegates to the an.
nual convention of the association have
their way.
An art jury, to be composed Of eminent
and high salaried sculptors. will have to
pass on the design of every mausoleum,
crypt, monument, shaft, or whatever me-
mortal it may be desired TO erect to the
dead. and II II does not meet with the ap-
proval of their sense of the beautiful, the
crestfallen dealer must prepare a new de-
sign or employ some one to do It for him.
This all came out this morning at the
second days session of the convention In
the Adelphia Hotel 1t was also proposed
that the services of the art jury, as it were.
are to be placed at the disposal of COM
munities, municipalities, and may be used
also In preparing designs for war memo
rails to be erected to the memory OF SOL
diers who may be killed in battle
An effort was made during the morning
session to have the convention place IT.
self on record regarding what action the
association will take in taking up the de-
Tense OF seventeen Of it's officers or ex-ofh-
GERS who are under Federal Indictment for
alleged violation OF the Sherman antitrust
laws. but discussion on that matter was
postponed until routine business had been
disposed of.
Freight rates charged by several eastern
railroads also came in for discussion and
attack. and appeal to the Interstate Com
merce Commission was threatened.
In the afternoon Pompeo Coppini a noted
sculptor, gave an exhibition Of his skill.
using as models two beautiful Titian-haired
girls. Hardly a delegate to the convention
missed this part of the days program
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
NSTT LEASE ABOUT
lnEADY FOR COUNCILS
4erees of City and Company
Go Over Printers
X Proof
) BE OFFERED FRIDAY
'o4t Completed After Prolonged
\ ussting at Which Verbal Changes
Are Made

4 a conference between city and Phila
14lphla Rapid Transit Company representa-
I. tfvoA perhaps the last one before the new
1ease win be submitted to Councils on Fri
day was held today In the once OF Di'
( ssctor Of Transit William S. Twining.
n Following tho conference II was said
that the conferees had gone over the print
Y Qfrs proofs Of the lease TO ascertain that II
vns correct before sending It to Councils.
VI ( Mayor Smith, accompanied by Thomas r..
flitten. president Of the philadelphia RAPID
Y Tfansit Company, went to the homes OF
Director Twin,ng and Chief Engineer Drum,
4 u the Transit Company In the automobile
Furnished the Mayor by the city, and took
Them to Twining's office In the Bonrse
Building. where the conference was held
Mayor Smith and Mr.. Mitten did not attend
the conference Later William Draper
Lswis, legal adviser of the Mayor on tran
I'll matters, arrived at the Transit Direc-
tors office and conferred with the director
and Mr.. Drum.
The draft of the lease was completed late
yesterday. after twenty-eight hours OF al
most continuous conference between Dlrec-
Tor Twining, william Draper Lewis, A. Il.
Drum. chief engineer for the philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company, and George T. At,
kinson. assistant transit director.
Nearly every paragraph of the original
draft Of the lease was changed and re-
Worded but only ia a minor way, said the
conferees To-Day
30 minor are the changes the Mayor
said, that In all probability II VIII hot even even
be necessary to submit the lease 10 Ity
solicitor Connolly before 1t Is gwen 10
Councils to act upon
.Mr Connely is as familiar with the terms
Of the lease as ] am" the Mayor SAID.
"He IA in as close touch as | with the
changes that have been made | see no
reason why the new lease should be sub
xsst,sd % h,n, az o, Tho onIv changes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15

PRICE M'QUILLEN MAY
RE- ABLE TO GOLF AGAIN
Philadelphia Youth Wounded III
France Will Lose Only
Part of His Leg
ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. Aug. 10

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., Aug To-
price Mcouillen. philadelphia solfer anu
sportsman son of Or. and Mrs, Da'',e' W..
ou,llen. Of overlook, may golf again. De
sn,,e his recent unfortunate experience WIN n
ap ap A merican ambulance unit under German
shrannei fire on the western front In France. e.,
SUI Instead of losing one of his legs IN ns
o,tiretv, the base hospital surgeons nase
found that il will not be necessary 10 re-
n,ove the member above the knee ana lne
phiIadelphia sportsman already Is arrsns,
ira For a wonderfully contrved artiiciai
ii,nb which will make it possible FOR MN 10
Get about with almost the same celer''S do
before. III ,.rorts
Mcouillen. in his cable to his parents
here last week. made light of his injury,
stating that he was getting along nlcey
and expected TO be out in about two weeks
A further cable today corroborated TINS
cheerful phophecy in part. 1t stated that
the Philadelphian is doing hnely'
McQuillen also lost two of his fingers In
the storm of flying metal which fell as
members Of his unit were taking wounded
from tho field.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
Alleged Deserter Tries to Escape

While being brought to the Philadelphia
Navy Yard from Sunbury on "A charge of
being n deserter from the navy, George
Krickbaum leaped from an automobile and
made an effort to escape, but was rear
rested. He attempted his escape between
Sunbury and Shamokin, where he was
taken on the train for Philadelphia. Krick-
baum was formerly an enlisted man of the
regular army
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
L. SPENCER MILLER SAILS
Well-Known Attorney Will Enter Am.
bulance Service in France

f. Spencer Miller, a well.known attorney
of Philadelphia and widely known in social
circles, has sailed for France. where he
will assist in ambulance work, News of his
departure, which was made quietly, was
learned this afternoon.
He will go to Paris, where he has been
assured Of post as an ambulance driver
and will remain there for several months
Mr.. Miller, who Is fiftyseven years old, was
prominent in reform politics some years
ago. He was a candidate for Congress from
the First District in 1906 and for Recorder
of Deeds in 1907. He Is unmarried and
holds membership in several of the prom-
nent clubs Of the city
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15

Aurania, British Str.
Abbie Keast. Brit. Sch.
Alcaea. British Sch.
Asyran. Norwegian Bk,
Absa lom. Danish Str.
Ariadne, British Sch.
Ardmore. Amer. Str.
Aztec, Norwegian Str.
Baltic, British Str.
Burma. British Str.
barcelona, II Spanish Str.
Billeo, American Str.
Brammel Point. Ameri-
can Str.
Bloomfield, British Str,
Consrgo. British Str.
Crsiglven, British Str.
Dorothy. American Str.
Il. X. Venezelos, Greek
Str.
Edward Pierce, Amerl-
can Str.
can Str.
Elva Blanche. Ameri-
can Schooner.
Italia. British Str.
+. 7. Gaines. Nor
wegian Str.
Frederiksborg. Danish
SIT,
Gulflight. Amer. Str.
Herbert Warren Brit
ish Schooner.
Hartney w, Brit. Sch.
Joseph X. Parrot,
American Str.
kanaris. Greek Str.
Ligonier. Amer. Str,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15

Letitian, British Str,
Mayfiower, British Sch.
Muskogee, Amer. Str,
Str.
Mascotte. Amer. Str.
Mesopitamia. Brit. Str.
Nord Amerika, Danish
Minain. British Str.
Navahoe. Amer. Str.
Norwalk, Mic. Str.
Paris, Danish Str,
Pindar Del Rio. Amer.
Palmetto. British Sch.
Pusey Jones i, Nor
weglan Str.
Ranenfjord, Norwegian n
Reading. British Str.
shonga, British Str.
Speedwell. Amer. Str,
Sasklyou. Amer. Str.
Suriname, Amer. Str.
sarah A. Reed. Amer.
Sch.
Schenango. Ameri Sch,
Twives. American Str.
Ioyamamaru, Jap. Str.
To bar SEQ. Mexican Str.
Tamagua. British Str,
Nesla. Norwegian Str.
Meilesley, Amer. Str.
Willis A. Holden
American Schooner.
Withersheld. Brit Str.
neurut: American STR
Get" fritish Sch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
HEINZ DISCUSSES FLOUR
State Food Expert Seeks Conservation
of Wheat Product

Howard Heinz, chairman of the food
committee Of the committee Of public safety
or pennsylvania, is at his office today to
discuss the conservation of -four with rep.
resentativs flour men Of the State.
Later In the day Mr.. Heinz will meet
group Of men representing the fertllizing
industries Of the State to discuss the best
methods Of enriching the soil for war crops
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
Held as Fugitive From Justice

Henry German. forty-one years old who
gives an address on Rosewood street be-
low Jackson. was held under $500 bail for
further hearing August II by Magistrate
Collins In the Central Police Court TO-DAY.
accused OF being fugitive from Justice
The man, according to the police, ,js under
z 'e,,ess',e ssS "a q. accused o.
ssss.9s 4 x s;isi'ss sss'ssss. ;s'ss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
Accused of Selling Booze to Sailors

When arraigned before United States
Commissioner Long today in the Federal
Building, on the charge of selling liquor to
sailors. Arthur McAnany. of S31 Race
street. was held in $500 bail for court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
CUSTOM HOUSE POSTS
ARRIVALS OF VESSEL, g
Ships Reported at Various Atlantic and
Gulf Ports

The Following list OF the arrivals of yes.
seis from foreign countries at ports on the
Atlantlc coast and gulf of Mexico for
twenty-four hours ended August IA ,,os
posted today in the Custom House:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-09

he most valuable property in
FL Paso on q basis Of average
4 front foot value is the Shell
don hotel block" said William P. B.
AIcSain, city assessor. This prop
orty is worth, according to my
estimate. about $500 a front foot.
The Mills building property is worth
about $4,000 a front loot, and the
same figure applies TO a few other
business sites in the central part Of
the city. We have a map on file
slowing the value Of every block in
the city on a front foot basis in the
business district and on a lot basis
in the residential sections"
The members OF the mining mems
committee are confident that they
viii raise at least $4,000 in the sale
Of Liberty bonds curing the present
week" said 3. L. Farrar. we have
all been given much encouragement
during the past few days in soliciting
the sale Of bonds TO the mining men
Of this city. From reports we have
received we believe that our COM
mittee viii raise an even larger
amount than has been expected. We
have not been compelled 10 beg for
subscriptio Rather, we have our
selves been solicited and the men we
are asking for subscriptions have
sent orders 20 our committee. II all
the Liberty bond committees in Il
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-09
Naval Battles Of The
War
English Aye7ge The Loss of Craddook's Fleet
BY c. KAY SPENCER.

Juan Fernandez on November Is,
heading for Cape Horn and the Felix
lands. Apparently the plan Of von
spec was 70 seize the islands and
destroy the wireless station
Germans Are Fooled.
AS fate ruled IL the Germans sighted
only the Campus cruising lazily along
the coast They assumed she was
alone and the only remaining unit
Of the Inflated fleet Of admiral Grad
dock Won Spec promptly disposed
his squadron to cut OFF the battle
ships escape. The Campus, how
ever, began the action, by an in
direct fire over a neck OF land. Her
12-inch shells were exceptionally
well placed, striking the water di-
rectly in front OF and behind TIE
Gneisenau.
The Germans closed in, firing rapid
~ and with precision At this juno
ture all Of the British armored ant
nation and began to fight and ma
nOeuver for position The action was
disconcerting to the Germans, who,
nevertheless, took on these extra an
tagonists with equanimity, for the
fight. was simply brought TO even
The action was already furious and
apparently evenly contested, when
out through the narrow harbor en-
trance came the long gray forms Of
LAg Two great uaLL4G EE44sGISf EdGl4
with her eight 12-inch guns swung
out for action.
Germans Are Trapped.
Admiral Won Spec realized the ter
rible mistake and the trap into which
he had been lured, and promptly
broke the signal. Small cruisers scat
ter. Major units attack with flag
ship"
Il was tco late, however. the Ger
mans having, in their eagerness 10
finish the supposedly feeble British
squadron, drawn far within the Brit
ish range. The Scharnhorst and the
Gneisenau at once became the tar
gets for the British battle cruisers
salvos, the light German ships being
left to the small British cruisers.
Both German cruisers. though over
whelmed by the greatly superior
metal OF the British battle cruisers,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-09

first performed in the public square
with real bells and cannon me
solemn and terrible hymn, founded on
an old Byzantine ecclesiastical tune
which opens the overture and returns
with empowering effect toward the
close, furnishes q few moments OF eN-
perieuce vivid and inspiring The de-
sCriptiOn OF the battle reminds one
much Of the strife scenes OF Romeo
and Juliet but the folk tune which
represents the Russian people. offers
the composer an opportunity for color
which TsChaikowsky has seized 10 the
full" The introduction OF the RUS
sian national athem at the end IS an
anachronism as applied 70 the Ma
poleonic invasion Of 1912 and does
not fuse well with the rest OF the
overture However, the constan ny
recurring strains Of the Marsellaise
make this overture especially appeal
ing now that the Russians have
adopted that air as their national
Though very difficult. both the
1912 overture and the Macmillan
Robespierre overture by Henry LIZ
rolff were played with. such ease and
finish as would have done credit 70
a much larger band The excellence
Of these PROGRAMS has, no doubt been
due TO the high morals OF the MEM
bers OF the band and to the mutual
loyalty existing between them and
their leader.
The Eighth cavalry band did not
coufiue its selections TO compositions
Of the great masters some OF ne
pieces played were composed by dill
ferent members OF the band and by
the leader. Nor viii people soon Tor
get The Eighth Cavalry Air" which
concluded every program and Win
the inspiring strains Of which the
Eighth cavalry babe farewell 70 El
Paso last Monday morning as they
rode out Of Fort Bliss along the road
| 10 some where" i. L Xeager.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-09

very strange. this manifestation OF
magnanimity on the part OF the
doctors Smallpox is not a contag-
t0us disease but Is strictly infectious,
and IL is impossible for anyone TO
prove that vaccination has ever pre-
vented single case OF smallpox The
claim that vaccination renders the
patient immune is based solely on
statistics, not on science Health
statistics are usually compiled By
men who believe in and thrive By
the operation OF vaccination The op-
pOnenrs OF vaccination admit that the
majority OF people wha are vaccin-
ated never have smallpox The ad-
vOcates Of vaccination admit that oc-
casionally q person who has been sue
cessfully vaccinated, contracts small
The principal claim that vaccina-
rests on the fact that at one time
smallpox was very prevalent but
since the general practice Of VAGINA
tion the disease has practically dis
appeared
In 1880, one-third OF the people OF
London died OF The Plague" Yet
the plague has disappeared without
vaccination or any other known
cause, save the general one thar
/ hygiene Is being practiced through
out the world as il never was when
the plague was prevalent
Walter r Howden. II. d. member
/ OF the London Royal College OF
Surgeons and Physicians, Fellow OF
| the Society OF Arts, and Gold Medal
| list in Medicine and Surgery. says.
las a medical man i assert that
vaccination is an insult 10 common
l sense: that II Is superstitious in its
I theory. that IL is unsatisfactory in
/ theory and practice, and useless and
I dangerous IN its character And
I furthermore. II you are going to COM
nit such a very serious operation
as this. that is. to take this filthy
! virus and inoculate it into the h.
man being. then you must be pre-
pared TO give q guarantee that II shall
produce no evil results ] defy any
I medicine man in the United Kingdom
TO give q guarantee 70 that effect.
and II no guarantee can be given.
I the legislature has no right 70 en-
/ force It"
For my part, I would no more
I think OF having myself or my child
l vaccinated 20 prevent smallpox than
I I would TO have a sound tooth re-
Z moved 70 prevent toothache, or my
nose amDutated TO prevent a cold
/ Vaccination is the relic OF another
I age which we boast OF having out
E grown
shall be glad to have the city a.
I tcrney state his reasons for demand
Z ing the vaccination OF school chill
] dren. and to give assurance that he,
I as well as other advocates OF vac
I cination. viii guarantee no dis
I asIrous effects, such as suggested b.
I DR.. Howden.
Voinsy 3. Leonard