Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-18
CONGRESSMAN MOORE,S LETTER
Auditor General Snd Hit WahngtonDeghts and Responsible
tiles Large FamiesCheqer Baldi His Len,on-Per
in Eating Terrapin

about the Christmas party in Saginaw that
is likely to celebrate the Homecoming of
the boys Of his family who had gone to
france and which Is to be attended by
thirteen of the Fordney grandchildren.
Governor-elect Sproul listened and then
said sympathetically. What more can a
man desire" But there are other ways of
looking at the large family problem
practical ways like those of the late Sena.
tor McNichol in seeing that the sons are
properly placed With James J. McNally,
the barge ov ner, the situation is somewhat
different, since most Of his family of ten
are girls. How did McNally meet the stu
alton? Very simply. AS each child was
born he built a new barge and gave it the
name Of the child, thus building up a fam
lily and business at the same time.
CHEVALIER c. c. A. BALDI, who is
~ recognized as a spokesman for thou.
sands of Italians in Philadelphia, is another
large family man. There are seven chill
dren in the Baldi group, but what pleases
the chevalier most now is that three of
them have acquitted themselves with honor
in the war service. One Of the sons,
Virgil, nineteen-year-ol youngster, Is a
yeoman on the Oklahoma, which has at
tanned distinction in connection with the
Presidents trip abroad. Joseph Baldi I'd,
is a lieutenant In France, whose captain
has recently complimented Lin for service
and gallantry. A third son, DR.. Frederick
s. Baldi, is in the aviation service.
Charlie" Baldi as his friends best know
him. came to the United States poor boy.
He recently said he arrived with forty
cents in his pockets, and begaL his career
in Philadelphia selling lemons from a bas.
ket In addition to his other services
during the war, all Charlie Baldi and his
firm did, as the story goes was to sell
about 100000 worth of Liberty Bonds
Some record for boy landing with forty
cents, who has since been personally hon.
ored by the King of Italy!
VOU can never tell. Sometimes man is
l. sick when he doesn't know 1t, and then
again he is not sick when people thiEk he
is. William Rowen, of the Board Of Educa-
ton, who loves Kensington as the people
of Kensington love him, and who once
coughed a great DEAL was assigned by his
chums in Select Council to ''wind-up" il
some haven for tuberculosis. But William
fooled them. He was trying one day to
get the lowest coffin from under the tall
pile in his establishment. He strained :.
little and found something clog his throat
which he thought to be tooth. He has
tily put it in his pocket, but on finishing
the coffin Job and returning home exam
ined it to find that 1t was only a small ter.
rapin bone that had lodged In his throat
about six months previously. This was
what caused his throat trouble without his
special knowledge. 1t appeared that he
had taken In the bone at a dinner given
for him and some of his colleagues at the
Elkins home on North Broad street. Fol-
lowing his discovery, Of couris. William
stopped worrying about his throat and
chest and Immediately resumed his physi-
cal status, much to the surprise and d:light
Of his colleagues.