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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
ANTHRACITE MINERS
URGED TO SPEED UP
Acute Coal Situation Discussed
at Conference of Operators
and Workers

Conferences are being held this
week. in the anthracite region between
operators and mine workers in which
the present acute coal situation will be
gone over from every angle and the
question of output be squarely put up
to the men as patriotic duty.
Importance of full time work and
no lay-offs will be urged. One custom
that retards production is the attend
ance of funerals by mine workers Last
saturday 500 employees of the Lehigh
and Wilkcs-Barre Coal Company quit
work for funeral and forced colliery
to remain idle all day. entailing a loss
of hundreds of tons of production. These
practices have resulted in much loss in
shipments to market. It is believed that
real heart-to heart talks will remedy
these conditions.
The operating companies are making
a strenuous good fellowship" campa gn
and seeing to it that every possible
means for recreation and enjoyment Is
had by the men in their own time. Pa
triotic effort is being sandwiched with
practical ideas of thrift and economy. In
this connection. the Cranberry and Ear
wood Coal Company has taken the lead
with every employe being pledged to
war work and monthly payment Of
$1,000 has been assured the War Chest.
The general loyalty of the miners is
illustrated in the Coaldale colliery OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com.
pany, which waves service flag of 169
stars.
Last week 41.96O cars loaded with
anthracite were moved to markets near
and far. That was a big movement OF
coal, but every ton of it has already
gone or is going to ultimate consumers
The demand for anthracite is outrun.
ming the power of production with the
present greatly shortened labor force.
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TO mine BARRIER PILLAR
Companies Unite, So Injunction
Case Is DrOpped

Pottsville, Pa. June 25.-To help win
the war the famous barrier pillar
between New Boston and Mill Creek
collieries. which contains half million
tons of coal, is to be mined.
Court was informed that the litigation
which has been in progress twelve years
to maintain this great pillar is ended.
The trouble began when Mine In
spector John Curran got an injunction
against the coal companies to prevent
removal of the pillar. as otherwise the
lives of hundreds of miners might be
lost through the sudden inrushing of
great subterranean lakes. But both col
lieries are now to be operated by one
big company and State Mine Inspector
Evan Evans informed the court that
under the methods proposed continuance
Of the pillar is unnecessary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
DOGS ARE SOME DOGS NOW
New License Law in Effect and Home.
less "Mutt" Is Doomed

Homeless terriers and hobo hounds who
live here and there had better get out of
the State, for today new dog license
went into effect.
Every dog owner must get a license
from the station house of the district in
which the dog lives. The license costs
ST. Any dog not bearing such license
will be seized by the police and held
ten days for Identification. Should the
owner not appear the dog will be killed
Although the law goes into effect to-
day, owners will be given two weeks to
comply with 1t. The license for female
dogs Is 50. Kennel licenses are some-
what more reasonable. They may be
obtained for IS for ten dogs or fewer,
$40 for more than ten days.
Should dog be moved to another
county 1t will cost twenty-five cents to
transfer the license.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
MOTORISTS ON SEASHORE TRIP
Three Hundred Cars i'm Phila.
Garage Association Run

About 400 motorists sped away from
Broad and Diamond streets at 8 80 this
morning on the Philadelphia Garage AS
sociation's sociability run to Atlantic
City.
: A good time and not speed records
was the purpose of the trip. Numerous
prizes were awarded, but they were not
prizes for speed or endurance. They
were simply for the best estimates of
the running time fixed by the committee
in charge. which remained secret
until the run was over.
The motorists went down Broad street
and Chestnut street and took the White
Horse pike route to the shore. They
checked in at 1915 Pacific avenue, Allan
tic City
George G. Blind was chairman Of the
committee and John r. Fox secretary.
Other members were Richard Lussee, l..
+. Pfeifer and Michael Waugh.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25

where he could do no more harm to the
British or any other hospital corps"
Lieutenant Kalodner, who is twenty
nine years old. graduated from Medico-
Chi in 1908. Previous TO the entrance
of this country in the war he was a
surgeon for the Chile Exploration Com
pany. at Rancagua. Chile, where the
company has a large copper mine. As
soon as he heard of the declaration of
war. he resigned his position and left
Chile on April Z, 1917. arriving in this
city three weeks later, when he imme-
diately enlisted in the medical reserve
corps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
WAR FAR OFF IN MAY. WOUNDED
Haverford Marine Lieutenant
Nearer Front Now

Haverford. Pa. June 25.-"Thc war
Is pretty far off for us wrote Lieuten-
ant Max Fleming. of Harerford. to his
mother. on May 2S. from France. wv g
hear less about it here than we did IN
America. expect to go to an officers
school shortly"
Today Lieutenant Fleming's mother
has a cabegram from her son: wound
ed slightly in the leg. Don't worry
Lieutenant Fleming is in the marine
corps His mother is Mrs. Elmer II.
Fleming. of Lancaster avenue. HaNer-
ford. He entered the service about a
year ago and reached FRANCE with ms
regiment only few days before he
wrote on Nav 2S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
KILL FISH TO SAVE OYSTERS
Owners Of Coast Beds Use Dynamite
on Proving Drumfish

Their beds menaccd by great numbers
of drumfSh. oystermen of the New
Jersey coast have resorted to the use
of dynamite to exterminatc the fish
and save millions of young oysters
The drumfish have appeared in un-
usually large numbers along the New
Jersey shore this season. When de-
population of the oyster beds became
seriously threatened by schools of the
marine vandals, small boats were sent
OUT loaded with dynamite. which was
exploded among them. Thousands have
thus been killed and others frightened
OF
owners of the oyster beds have en-
deavored to interest officials of the
Federal food administration in the
possibility of making the drumfish avail
able as food. Heretofore. they have
been used almost entirely for fertilizer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
BISHOP BERRY ILL
Suffers Nervous Breakdown at CoIum.
bus. O.. Due to Overwork

Bishop Joseph j.. Berry. of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. is at his sum
mer home, Bemus Point, ~ Y. suffer-
ing with n nervous breakdown which
was caused by overwork attendant on
the many conferences of churchmen in
which the Bishop has been participating
He became i'll while in Columbus
Ohio. at the joint session of the Cen
tenary Commission and the Bishops
Conference His condition is regarded
as serious, and ii is believed he will
return to his Philadelphia home the
last of this week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25

of New York, representing the inter-
national committee of the Y. NJ. G. a.
and the National War Work Council
came to Easton to organize and I'M
prove the war work in Talbot county.
At n meeting of citizens a Red Triangle
League was formed with these officers:
president. j. Roscoe Wheatley: vice
president, James G. Goodwin: secretary
and treasurer. william T. Lednum.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
NEAT DROPS-IN MISHAP
Spills on Sidewalk When Axle of
Wagon Breaks

A drop in meat drew a crowd to-
day of several hundred persons in front
of the West Philadelphia station. The
meat dropped" when an axle broke
under one of the big delivery wagons of
Armour & Co.. a North Delaware ave-
nue..
The collapse of the wagon dumped a
side of beef, several legs of lamb and
a number of pieces of veal on the side
walk In front of the station. Reserve
Policeman McGuigan guarded the meat
until another wagon could be obtained
to haul 1t away
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
INDIAN KILLS HIMSELF
Religious Fanatic Commits Suicide il
Carlisle Street

Carlisle, Pa. June 25.-Isaac Long
shore. a Sac and Fox Oklahoma Indian
youth, twenty-five years old. committed
suicide on the street here by shooting
himself through the head, after pleas
antly bidding a passing little q ri good
by.
Longshore, who was visiting Carlisle
friends, was abnormal on religious top
les. He lately applied for work here
having come recently from New Jersey
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
To Entertain Service Men

Two hundred and fifty members Of
Companies X and l., Twenty-secend
United States Infantry. stationed at
Gloucester immigrant station and at the
Pennsylvania and New Jersey ship
Yards. Gloucester. will be entertained in
the Gloucester City Hall this evening by
the men of the Gloucester Baptist
Church, under the leadership of the pas
tor. the Rev. T. Keith Cherry. After
the entertainment lunch will be served.
This will be the first of a series of en-
tsrtainments for all service men in Glou-
cester by the Baptists.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
MAN FALLS FIVE STORIES
Probably Fatally Hurt in Drop al 1lh
and tilhcr;

Tony Tabauico. thirtv-iiv" '..'".
lSi9 South Sixth street, a laborer, fell
today from the iiith Ilsv, 20 ct -... ..
ing under construction at Seventh and
tIlbert streets. He was taken to Jciter-
son Hospital There is little nope for
recovery.
Tabanico was operating lever on a
concrete-miXing machine when he lost
his balance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
HACKENBURG STILL ILL
Merchant and Philanthropist Not Yet
Past Critical Stage

The condition Of William B. Hacken-
burg. president of the Jewish Hospital
Association. who was stricken with
apoplexy in Broad Street Station Sat
urday. was reported unchanged at the
Jewish Hospital today He was a little
better last night and rested well, retain
ing the strength he had gained, but his
condition Is still critical
Mr.. Hackenburg is president of Will
liam B. Hackenburg & Co., Inc. sew
ing silk manufacturers treasurer of
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Penn
sylvania, and a liberal and active
worker in Jewish charities. He was
one of the founders of the Jewish Hos
pital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
League 10 Aid Negroes

The Urban League, an organization
to look after the social and economic
welfare of St Louis negroes. has been
established under the auspices OF the St
Louis Provident Association. II will
assist negroes in every way to obtain
working and suitable educational op-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
Two Courtships Launched

CourtshIps like steel ships, are of
common occurrence in our shipyards.
The Pennsylvania yards hull Depart
ment has posted two more announce
ments. II Gregg is one man and L.
Kelley the other.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25

In lnPhlladelphla
u Price tickets mean
less today than they
have meant in a gen
Grafton. If one store
bought its merchant
disc, or the material
for its merchandise,
at a later date than
another store did its
buying, chances are
that the late conner
met a big advance in
price, and has to get
the difference from
you, the customer.
q Therefore, prices
and price tags mean
nothing to you, until
you have compared
the clothes that are
similarly priced.
l Take these $40,
SIS, $50, $35 or $40
S u m m er Suits of
ours, for example!
We bought the fab
RIGS and materials
early, made them
into Suits carefully
an d painstakingly,
and priced the fin
ished product more
with a view to hold
ing to big Perry
Values than to TAX
ing our legitimate
and regular profits.
q Our early buying
brought us - a n d
you-another advan-
tage. We secured =
splendid selection Of
assortnents in fab
RIGS, in colors, in pat
terms. Some of these
fabrics are the finest,
the most beautiful !;
that have ever been
woven.
q And the tailoring,
the trimming, the
finishing are in keep
ing.
q Therefore - shop
around d, exarnine
compare - a n d
sure to submit Per
,ry's. to the test b.
Wore you put yoe
good money into
Suit of Clothes
this Summer!
Palm Beach Suits.
Breezweve Suits, 40
Mohair Suits. 4.
Coat and Trousers :
Brown or Green Floz
Panama Cloth SUl1
White Basket Weo(
Serge Suit9 ...sz
Blazer Costs
Outing Trouse1e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15
Miss Helen Besler Is
Proposed To by "A. E. F.
''Barkis Is Willin' Attitude
Adopted by Soldiers Fol
lowing Song
lowing SOng

PARIS, Dec 3.-Miss Helen Besler
daughter of the president of the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey, is prob
ably the most proposedto girl in
France to-day 1t all came about be-
cause one night in one of the Amer
lean camps she ran out of "encores
and sang little nursery song called,
of No One Ever Marries Me-" 1t goes
like this:
of no one ever marries me-
And | don't see why they should,
For nurse says l am not pretty.
And I'm seldom very good"
The fate of the little girl in the song
was to buy a rabbit-hutch and live all
alone in little wood But the Amer
lean soldiers saw no reason why Miss
Besler, who is pretty and "petite" and
typical American girl. should have a
similar lot. After they had given her
the three cheers and tiger with which
they usually thank the Y M. c. A. en-
tcrtainers, they hesitated a moment
and then added q purely personal mes
sage.
"Barkis is wllin'," called the A. E. F.,
as one man.
Since then the incident has been re-
peated in every American camp Miss
Eesler has visited. No censor would
allow an estimate of the number OF
proposals she received in that way to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

or homes, the welcome advent of this
jolly saint will be the signal for joy-
Gus outcries. While there will be
plenty of toys and similar presents for
the young, the most interesting gift
provided in large lots will be for men
Of the Allies who have formed friend
ships with our soldiers. This present
will be booklet illustrated with pho
tographs of the wonders of America,
from the skyscrapers of New York to
the canyons Of the Colorado. The prin-
opal reason for the selection of this
>Booklet as gift is that so many of
the British soldiers and some of the
French have expressed disbelief when
told that America had a building fifty
one-stories high or a canyon mile
deep.
The merrymaking and Christmas
mas night when, after the children
have been cleared of furniture. there
will be dance in every centre. In
some huts, of necessity, it will be a
stag" affair, while the soldiers at
other larger huts will be more for
tunate IN having few American girls
to dance with the entire unit.
The swift moves since the Germans
collapsed and American troops began
drawing into larger units with many
being sent home, has necessitated some
changes to the programme arranged,
but on the whole it will follow the
lines laid down. Paris will be in gala
attire for the event, with dances for
the soldiers and the many American
women war workers, nurses, telephone
operators, Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. w. C. A.
secretaries. The American Theatre
will put on Christmas revue
Entertainment on Board Ship
In the base ports, where the facli-
ties are excellent, the Yuletide enter
tainments will be more elaborate than
those in the regions further inland.
There will be bands from the warships
and plenty of lively fun and entertain
ment all day. On board the warships
in the harbors the celebrations will
have all the comforts of a city hotel,
with elaborate Christmas dinner fol-
lowed by boxing and other athletic con-
tests IN the afternoon.
For the men waiting on board trans
ports to start for home, so near and
yet so far from the dear ones, the Y.
NJ. G. A. secretaries viii be particularly
sollcltous, distributing present boxes
and organizing entertainments
1t promises to be the greatest, most
heartfelt Christmas in ages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15
Soldiers Planning to Sho1u
the French Real Christmas

huts and for the 1900 foyers. Others
were shipped to Italy, where the "Y"
maintains Case Del Soldatos, and to the
Balkans, where a few centres were
manned by American secretaries.
Men were sent out to locate and pur-
chase Christmas trees and to make ar
engagements for getting them to the far
flung huts. These trees were trans
planted in tubs or anything else that
was convenient, and on Christmas Eve
will be adorned with tnsel and candles.
Hundreds Of four-foot Christmas trees
were ordered ~far all of the hospitals to
be sent appropriately decked in Christ
mas costume.
Christmas cards were bought by the
million for distribution among the SOL
diers and for their distribution to
friends in France or at home And for
soldiers in out -the-way places spe-
cial cards have been issued, emitting
the holders to a certain amount of
smokes or eats when presented at the
huts.
Toys were provided in abundance
through the Y. M. C. A., on the theory
that the soldiers, deprived of their
wonted celebration with their families
would wish to make presents to the
children in France, finding unusual hap
plness in giving pleasure to these little
citizens of the great sister republic
which has suffered so long.
Entertainment Not Lacking
Because the season is one of real re-
Joicing this year. there is more than
usual appropriateness to the wide
spread presentation of the Christmas
Eve entertainments, with a strong
comedy tinge, provided by the Y
M. c. A. entertainment department.
Every one of the eighty-fve profess
sional theatrical companies playing
ever the "Y' hut circuit will be busy
with as many performances as they can
crowd in, to say nothing of the forty
amateur companies the Red Triangle
/ has developed among the soldiers.
The soldiers will furnish the Santa
Clauses and the Ministries, whose tests
will keep every hut in gales of laughter
on Christmas Eve. And in every hut
will be presented Tom Cushngs
comedy sketch, especially written for
Plenty of dramatic talent has been
discovered and the men have rehearsed
dutifully.
The plot of the comedy has been
kept dark secret, but it is said to
abound with laughs. especially adapted
to the appreciation of our soldiers
overseas. Arrangements were made to
present. the Sketcn IN every hospital
where the invalided soldiers could be
cheered up and made to forget their
pain for the time being In addition
to the. play and the tree, the "Y" ar
ranged to provide all the i'll and wound
ed with real. American ice cream as
part of their Christmas menu
Carols will greet the officers and
men on Christmas Morn, carols sung
from the heart by choruses in khaki.
Special Christmas morning religious
services in the huts will follow, with
the chaplains of every denomination
represented given place on the pro-
gramme. Appropriate addresses viii
be delivered in both English and
French.
Following the services the Santa
Clauses who have been chosen for
that duty will fare forth into the
French communities, distributing the
presents from the American soldiers to
the French children. In schools, halls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

after the superb qualities of "The Muir
der of Edith Cavell,' which the same
artist is showing at the Allied War
Salon.
There are other war subjects Mr.
VIII II. Low gives us the formal, aca-
demic Interpretation of the current
theme in his "Nictory," and Mr.. Gill
bert GaUl essays the dramatic in his
battle scene, "Greater Love Hath No
Man" Mr.. Charles S. Chapman is ro-
mantically symbolical in "Thc Dust of
Battle" and very picturesquely eff
fectivc INTO the bargain. His crum-
hllng cathedral ruins make a curiously
haunting composition. With this the
play of ideas comes very nearly to
an end. There are echoes of it here
and there. Mr.. Hawthorne, for exam
PIE, has put a fine, mystical quality
into his brotherhood Triumphant" a
painting IS subtle in expression as it
Is alluring in color. But we come back
soon enough to the decorative motive
aforesaid and to purely technical ex-
crcises.
AS it happens, these latter are now
and then of most rewarding interest.
Mr.. Leonard Knoll detaches himself
from the ruck with eXhilarating vigor
We notice his wholesome assertiveness
first in the case Of the large nude"
which hangs in the centre gallery. 1t
is not by any means an impeccable per-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

Torrance. Mr.. Knoll has been sitting,
perhaps, at the feet of Cezanne Some
strange preoccupation, at all events,
has dlslocated his sense of values. But
If the picture, as a picture, does not
quite hang together there is no
doubling the essential virtues of the
technique lavishcd upon the figure in
it. This is modelled with true BREADTH
with true painter-likc feeling We go
on, carrying the handsome, robust ac-
cent of the work in mind, and then
presently, in the next room, we come
upon Mr. KrolFs portrait, LEO Orn-
stein at the Piano" and see that he
is decidedly in rich, productive mood
lie has color here, color that is
stronger. more resonant by far than
that in his "nude,", and this time his
grasp uron fact is even holder and
surer. More obvious, too, in the por-
trait, is certain vivid pictorial in
ventiveness. Altogether Mr. Knoll has
"arrived." One other portrait in the
show we would mention with his LEO
Ornstein." This is the "Giuseppe Fer
rota." of Mr. Maurice Fromkes. There
is much to be said for the brilliant
black, blue and plum tones in this can
vas, brilliant in themselves and brill
iantly fused in ringing chord. There
IS more to be said for the SCULPTURE
esQuc power with which the figure is
modelled and detached from its back
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

hlbltion which opens tomorrow at the
Arden gallery. 1t is devoted entirely
to portraits and caricatures of the
master, beginning with the famous
painting by Fantin-Latour, and it con-
tains also quantity of miscellaneous
souvenirs. These include autograph
letters and various items of a purely
personal nature 1t is proposed to hold
an evening devoted to short talks by
people who knew Whistler Tickets
for this occasion Will be sold for the
benefit of the Art War Relief The
show will remain open to the public,
free of charge, until January 6.
The Macbeth galleries announces it's
second exhibition OF intimate" paint
ings, WORKS on a small scale by Win
slow Homer, George Inness, Maurice
Fromkes, c. W. Hawthorne, Robert
Henri, Gardner Symons, ]. H. Twacht-
man, j. Francis Murchy, R. L. Newman,
and dozens of other American artists.
At the Whitney Studio there is new
exhibition and sale of contemporary
paintings and sculptures. In the grand
ballroom of the Hotel Majestic more
than hundred American pictures
have been placed or view, pictures by
Blakelock, lnnes, Twachtman, Luks,
Kent, Glackens, Lawson and others.
The native painter, in short, is very
much in evidence just now.
The American Art Galleries an
nounce the sale early in the new year
of the Oriental collection. left by the
late Rufus f. Moore 1t consists of
antique Chinese porcelains, bronzes,
enamels, pottery, jades, crystals and
other objects. The catalogue will run
to good many numbers, the dispersal