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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
ARMY TRUCKS
IN PARCEL POST
SERVICE HERE.
U. S. Motor Transports to Travel
Between kennett Square
and New York

Army motortrucks will be drafted in
rural parcel post service for the first
time east of the Mississippi tomorrow
afternoon, when F. j. Mullin, assistant
superintendent of the division Of mails
in the local postofflce, will inaugurate a
motor transport Service between Ken
nett Square West Chester, Doylestown
and New York. =
Announcement of the taking over of
two army trucks for this purpose was
made by assistant superintendent Null
lin today. The drafting of the two
trucks is but the beginning of plan
to transfer many of the heavy army
vehicles to service in the postal depart
ment. This motor transport service
Is to be installed in all sections of the
country.
The new route from kennett Square
to New York was made necessary by
the inability of the present facilities
to take care of the increasing shipments
from the points touched. Kennett
Square, West Chester and Doylestown
are great mushroom growing centers,
hundreds of pounds being shipped daily
from those points to New York by par
Gel post.
The only place in the country where
army trucks have been put to such
work already is in Utah The trucks
there are in charge of soldiers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
E. F. &. SWITCHBOARD ROOM
is BUSY HIVE OF EFFICIENCY
Despite Average of I45o Calls Daily Shipping Board Office
Here, T,Uenty-sir Hello Girls Are Meier
Snappish or FIurred

in the United States have gone over the
wires under her supervision, and thanks
largely to her direction the Emergency
Fleet switchboard has become one OF the
most efficient in the world No call.
however long distance: no complication
of calls. however snarled up in faulty
circuits somewhere south Of Norfolk or
west of st. Louis. can bring a shadow of
panic into the steady blue gaze that
sweeps the board and its ever-rushing
pairs of hands. 1t requires special
kind of genius to accept responsibility
for 979 lines and extensions, any 800 or
500 of which may spring into conver-
sation at the same moment.
But quick work is hobby with these
operators. They probably hold the
worlds record for swiftness in putting
through long-dstance messages. Direct
lines are responsible in part for the
swiftness-four to Washington, three TO
New York and the other 343 to ship
yards in far-away towns. But in large
I part the nimble fingers and the trained
brains that never get foggy are what
make it possible to put long distance
through in less time than 1t often takes
for an ordinary local call on an ordi-
nary phone.
Not much more than ten seconds are
needed for the switchboard 'informa-
tion's" reply to any query about way
ward and elusive members. Six months
ago information" was one young wom-
an with a tiny brown book In which were
jotted. down some few-score Informative
lines. Today Information" is two
Young women in front of a revolving
file which contains 1000 neatly indexed
bits Of knowledge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23

Of the organization was fixed AZ i've
years after the proclamation of peace. 4.
That is all right" he added. but
unless we get money we shall become
legally alive but actually dead. Pet-
haps we shall be able to make ships foi''
private order, but that Is entirely prcb-
lematical.
Contracts which have been arranged
call for the steel shipyards to keep busy
all Of 1919 and into the end of the first
quarter of 1920. This, of course, II they
are to be permitted to work on nor
NAL peace-time basis. The wooden-shfp
program is expected to Continue during
all of next year.
When those contracts expire and the
ships are delivered the Presidential sp-
preparation is expended, and unless Con-
gress provides for further work or we
are given contracts to build for other
ownership. the yards will have to stop
work. The entire fate of the corporation
rests with Congress
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
WATER SHORTAGE
ALMOST CERTAIN
Belated Activity to I'M
prove Facilities Can't
Help This Winter
SHIPYARD DEMANDS BIG
Growth of City Increases Re-
quirements-Gaffney May
Call Conference Soon

4 water shortage in the central and
southern sections of the city this winter
ia little less than certainty. Two
factors enter into the situation. One
is Councils failure TO supply money
for extensions and the other Is the
rapidly increasing demand because OF
the cty's growth.
twice each year the Bureau of Water
finds itself unable to keep supply equal
tn demand and the arrival or colo
weather will probably result In an even
greater shortage than experienced last
winter when opening hydrantS to keep
pines from freezing was the reason
given for the inadequate supply. EX-
treme hot weather usually results In a
similar condition and at both seasons
the Bureau OF Water Is hooded with
complaints from business houses and
residents in the central and southern
section Of the city.
Even though Mayor Smith and other
city officials have awakened to the need
for water plant extensions, Chlef DAVIS
this winter has very little money avail
able for repairs to antiquated machin
ery. Capacity at these plants means an
outside limit of less than 350.000,000
gallons
nroves Inadequate to a marked degree.
The usual consumption has been aug
nented by a daily demand for 5O.OO0.000
Gallons for new and enlarged plants and
shinhu,lding centers. ind 1t Is to insure
tbis supply that extensions are at last
ha,nv considered seriously by Councils.
when. early in the Smith administration,
STA OOO. 900 in loans was authorized,
the water situation was intentionally al
Iowed TO go unrecognized despite de.
noands by Chief Davis and others for re-
lief.
CITY engineers have already made a
+ontatiye study of conditions along the
headwaters of the Schuylkill River with
n view to establishing basins along that
stream From, their Investigations, ir
advance Of any councilmanic inquiry
thew have been led to believe that 1t Will
h. advisable to select the Schuylkih as
a future supply ratn"r than TO depend
unon the Delaware River. that may ul-
t,mately be affected If sea-leVel canaI
Is built from New York across New Jer'
sey.
oils, Finance Committee, has called nc
rreet,nu of the Finance and Water Com.
mittee members to take up the genera
subject of improvements. He Is ex
nected 10 issue a call within the mex;
few weeks so that consultant expert.
can be employed by the city to go ovel
the plans for extensions.
The winter months will probably b,
employed on framing and considering
nlans 30 that the actual construction
work cannot be started before spring
| too late to avert a water shortage, sucl
as formed a part of the inconvenience
| OF last winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23

TTOW would you like to be one OF y
Il committee Of twenty-six to talk to
11.45O people daily? Could you keep your
temper serene and your brain clear?
You could IL you were one of the
telephone operators on the United states
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Cor
poration switchboard, which is in the
home offices at 140 North Broad street.
Philadelphia. The twenty-six young
women in the dark.blue skirts and crisp
white waists are never snappish never
fiurried Their voices always come
smoothly over the wires. even at the end
of a perfect day. And a perfect day on
this particular exchange means the final
plugging through-going out or coming
in-of the 350th long-distance call. the
6OOth information call and the 10,500th
local.
Strictly speaking, the switchboard day
has neither end nor beginning. 1t Is
such very perfect day that 1t lasts for
twenty.four hours and is set in year
perfect enough to have 365 of these days
in 1t. Not even on the Fourth of July
or on Christmas Is the switchboard voice
less.
A long, narrow room on the roof--a
long room filled with clickings, with a
constant murmur of numbers repeated,
with an atmosphere Of electric briskness
this is the room where the switch
board stands like wall of cleaning
buttons and little. sparkling lights. There
is no hour when the lights fail to fash
many times. But in the busy hours.
from a. m. to noon. they play with
the incessant glimmer of heat lightning
on a summer night.
Six months ago. when MIS-. e. F..
Chandler became chief operator. the
| switchboard across which thousands Of
war-winning messages are spoken each
month was crammed into one corner Of
| an office and employed eight operators.
So swiftly came the calls. however-so
frequently did Omaha and Newport News
and Galveston want Mr. Schwab or Mr.
Piez-that nowadays the board has
| nearly a whole floor to itself and keeps
eighteen operators busy from 8 a. m.
to p. m. with two added in the hectic
hours between a. m. and noon. The
other members Of the staff of twenty-six
include Information" long distance"
supervisors and record clerk.
No small responsibility rests on the
slender shoulders of Mrs. Chandler, chief
operator. Some of the most vital calls
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
CARRIER CHAMPIONS
CAUSE OF TEACHERS
Superintendent Of Schools in
Harrisburg to Aid Salary
Increase Campaign

Superintendent Of Schools CARRIER went
TO Harrisburg today to help plans of
school teachers. throughout the State OBJ
tain legislation granting them an increase
Of salary of 25 per cent. Two other
points which he will urge are moving-up
limits for school taxation and the crea-
tion Of a fund to start the Statewide
teacher retirement plan.
Unrest among teachers all over the
State because of low salaries is grow
ing. 1t is shown by a letter from Frank
b. Shambaugh, Dauphin County superin-
tendent of schools, to a committee of
women teachers. He objects to section
of the proposed salary increase bill,
which teachers here want amended,
Mr.. Shambaugh closes his letter as
follows:
Il wish to state that the members of
the Assembly from Dauphin County will
support educational legislation. Mr.
Zimmerman, my assistant, and I have
a wide acquaintanceship throughout
central Pennsylvania, many of the men,
bers of the Legislature being close per.
sonal friends. We are trying to arrange
our work so that. we can spend n con-
siderable portion of the time that the
Legislature iS IN session in looking after
the interests of the teachers.
/ frankly, 1 am not very keen for
the bill providing for the salary in
crease as 1t now stands. On the basis
of fiat 20 per cent increase for all
teachers the higher -salaried teachers
will receive the lions share while the
elementary teachers will not receive the
increase they justly deserve. The teach
ers who were loyal to the schools when
they might have gone into the indus
tries at far greater salaries should be
amply rewarded by the State in q finan-
cial way. ] have always been a cham
pion of higher salaries for the grade
teachers and I feel that rs per cent IS
not enough.
III there Is anything we can do at any
time to promote the interests of the
teachers, please do not hesitate to COM
| mand our services. l am not saying
this boastfully, but you will appreciate
that by reason Of our location. we have
peculiar opportunities for service"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23

Housewives and club women of Wood-
bury, N. j.. have started boycott
against servants who ask high wages.
In order to combat the servant prob
lem now and meet other domestic emer-
gencIes later, housewives league has
been formed with more. than 800 mem-
bers They resolved to pay not more
than So a day for maids working eight
hours a day. This ruling will go, into
effect Monday.
Many of the women have been doing
their own work rather than pay the
prices demanded by domestics. With
the coming of peace many of them be-
lieve the servant PROBLEM. will soon be
solved. as many women workers will
be released from munitions and other
war work plants
"But the servant question seemed the
one of greatest Importance at the mo-
ment." explained one of the new league
members land we want It worked out
TO a satisfactory basis before we at.
tempt anything else, Our organisation
expects to take care Of many other
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
CHURCH us YEARS OLD
Second Presbyterian to Hold
Nine Days' Celebration

Nine days of special service will mark
celebration by the Second Presbyterian
Church, Twenty-first and Walnut streets,
of it's 175th anniversary.
Sermons by noted preachers will
feature the program which opens De-
cember / when the Rev. DR.. Alexander
MacColl, present minister, will preach
historical sermon at the morning service.
The Rev. Dr.. Charles Wood, only sur
vivor of former pastors, will occupy the
pulpit in the evening.
Ministers of nationa! distinction will
preach at special services on Tuesday
Thursday and Friday evenings Their
general theme will be THE Church In
the Era of Reconstruction" The speak
ers will include the Rev. DR.. Hugh Black,
Of Union Theological Seminary; the Rev.
DR.. Charles r. Brown, dean of Yale
School of Religion the Rev. DIR. Henry
Sloane Coffin. Madison Avenue Church.
BriarcliT Manor, n. Y. and the Rev
DR.. Ernest NJ. Stires, of st. Thomas's
Church, New York. The Rev. Reuben
A. TORY, Jr., will preach December !
at the morning service. He is one OF
the missionaries in China supported by
the Second Church.
The Rev. DR.. J. Frank Smith, OF
Dallas. Texas, moderator of the Genera
Assembly. will speak,, probably, or
Thursday evening. A congregations
reception on Monday evening, December
9, will close the celebration.
Second Church dates from a743, wher
14O persons inspired by the preaching
of George Whitefield organized a con-
gregation, worshiping in the old acad'
emy, on Fourth street south of Arch
Subsequently buildings at the northWes
corner Of Third and Arch streets and or
Seventh street south of Arch were oc.
cupied, the present .edifice being opened
| in 1872. The congregation is larger than
| at any time since 1895. Motherhood tc
six other churches, a city mission work
| Beth Eden at Brown and New Marke
streets, and support of three mission
aries in China attest it's activities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
SHTPYARDSL LIFE
UP TO CONGRESS
Piez Says Hog Island Will
Die Unless Cash Is
Given
ENOUGH FOR Is MONTHS
Appropriation A Will Be Needed
by March, 1920, to Main
tain Fleet Corporation

March. 1920, will see the end Of HoR
gency Fleet Corporation. according to
Charles Piez, general manager Of that
organization. unless the next Congress-
appropriates funds TO continue the ship
construction program.
In View of tho senatorial debate on
the woooen-ship program of the corpora
ton. Mr.. Piez said that he would will
lingly enlighten the Senate Committee
on Commerce on that matter, but that
the corporation had no apologies to offer
Tor the wooden-ship program
Mr.. PieZ issued the following official
statement touching on a resolution by
senator Harding offered in the Senate
Thursday:
Shaping Policy Of Economy
Senator Harding. in offering the reso-
luton calling upon the United States
shipping Board Emergency Fleet Cor
poration to furnish certain statements
concerning the number of ships built
and the cost of same, said the resolution
''SP'NN W 'it OF Ut
terances of the president of the Shipping
board and the director general of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation that there
are places in the shipyards now for
100000 mon additional to the present
force That estimate was prepared sew
eral months ago when. under the pres
sure OF war necessities, our demands for
ship production during 1919 could only
be met by a very considerable increase
In the numrer Of shpbuilders.
"As a matter of fact. the board Of
trustees decided early in September tina.
no new contracts for ships or plant con-
struction were to be let that vessels no,
likely to be buA during the early
months of 1920 were to be Cancelled, and
that the Emergency Fleet Corporation
should begin to shape it's policy toward
the end that ships should be built with
economy rather than speed as the sole
consideration. The shipping board has
announced no policy of unlimited ship
construction, but is, In fact. engaged a,
this time In imposing such restrictions
and making such cancellations as will
assist in bringing the shipbuilding indus
try promptly back to normal basis
Fate Of All Yards at Stake
The fate of Hog Island and other ship
yards was explained by Mr.. Piez in a
general discussion Of the future Of TIN
fleet corporation. He said that under
the act creating the corporation the life
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
RIVER LABOR BUREAU OPENED
Government Will Furnish Steve.
dores and Other Marine Workers

The employment service of the United
States Department Of Labor has opened
an office at 1885 South Third street to
supply labor on the waterfront. such
as tongshoremen. firemen and engineers.
and men employed on tidewater boats,
scows haroor tugs. lighters. drill boats
and dredges and dock laborers on the
different terminals.
Applications for help should be made
far enough In advance to give sufficient
time to the central office to secure the
help required. Those seeking help should
give the particular class of work the
men will be required to do, the wages
paid, whether monthly. daily or hourly,
and the particular section of the city
the men will be required In.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
WOODBURY. WOMEN FIGHT
> PROFITEERING SERVANTS
League With 800 Members FIXES So Day for Eight
Hours as Maximum Wage for Domestics.
Many Do OtUn Work

domestic tangles which none of the other
women's clubs handle. For instance, we
have been having considerable trouble
over milk here We expect to. investi'
gate and remedy that some way or other.
Any school or civic problems that closely
affect the Nome will be considered by
the league In an effort to make Wood
bury happier and more comfortable
place in which to live.
Among the women prominent in the
organization are Mrs Clyde Paul. Mrs.
Guy Lee, Mrs. d. Underwood and Mrs
Edward Grippe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
HOTEL EXHIBIT OPENS MONDAY
Latest and Best Equipment for
Hostelries to Be Shown

The second American Hotel Exposi-
tion will open Monday night, to continue
a Wv week, at the First Regiment Armory'
Broad and Callowhill streets. The ex-
nnsItion will be given under the aus
ppices of the PennsyWania Hotel Asso-
ciation and the Philadelphia Hotel As
sociation. The opening will be at 8
O'clock Monday night.
Srhe latest and best of everything per-
tanning to hotel operation, from the
kitchen TO the decorations, will find a
place among the exhibits.
One interesting feature will be a col
lection Of war munitions captured from
The Germans by the American army.
The food administration, war-savings
stamp committee and the war garden
commission will be represented.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
B. AND 0. men RAISE FLAGS
American and Italian Emblems
Unfurled by Yard Employes

Several hundred employees of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad cheered the
raising of American and Italian flags
this afternoon at the company's East
streets.
There was an abundance of patriot
ism at the ceremonies. The flags were
raised in honor of the employees Of the
company who went to war.
The Neapolitan Band added to the
enthusiasm. and officials of the COM
pany delivered addresses. W. Il. Van
Dyke was master of ceremonies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
FOUR POLICEMEN GO TO JAIL
Must Serve Time For Assault on
Two Sailors

-Four policemen of the Eleventh and
Winter streets station who were sem
fenced in July. 1917. in the Quarter
Sessions Court for brutally assaulting a
sailor and his companion while under
arrest In the station house. have been
denied n new trial by the Superior Court
They were ordered to surrender forth
with to the county prison to serve nine
months each. They are Edward Kee-
gan. Edward Bellerby. John H. Weaver
and Sherman II. Clark
The victims were I've Harris. a sailor
and Walter Hildebrand, employed In
a power plant, who were arrested for
creating an alleged disturbance at Ninth
and Race streets. When the men were
taken to the station. 1t was testified
the policemen went into the cell and
kicked and beat them numerically with
their clubs. The policemen said the
prisoners had assaulted them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
VALUES OF ESTATES FILED
Charles c.. Colladay Left s2,129,382
Frank p. Prichard $l86,358

The personal property of Charles C.
Golladay. In an Inventory filed today. il
valued at $2,129.38243. The personally
includes 1847 shares of stock In the
American Light and Traction Company
appraised at $304.S95; $50 shares in
cities Service Company. valued at $4l,-
$50 and many large blocks of stock in
utility concerns.
Other inventories appraised and filed
today were those of Frank p. Prichard
S186.35S,55; Daisy Mayburry, $50. .662.14
Alice A, Selman, $l5,741.35, and
John Barry. s9560.94. -. ''.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
QUITS CLEANING BUREAU
lanes W. Costello Resigns as Division
Engineer

James w. Costello, 1873 South Sixty
third street. has resigned as DIVISION
engineer Of the Bureau OF street Clean
Ing which pays $3.50 year, to take
effect at the close Of this month. Mr..
Costello has been in this position for
more than Ave years. having been ap-
pointed during the administration OF
Mayor Blankenburg. He becomes en-
eineer in charge Of the street-cleanins
department of Newark, n. j., at $4,000
q year. -
Mr. Costello is a graduate of the Phil
lips-Exeter Aca denny and of the Uni
versitv of Pennsylvania in 1912. Before
his appointment to the Street-Cleanins
Bureau he was employed in surveying
and road-construction work in this city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
US. NOT TOPOLICE FRANCE
Pennsylvanians Lose Chance Z,
Serve Abroad With Croome

II has been decided by the General
STAFF of the American Army to dis
continue to send a military police force
to France.
r. Dawson Coleman. who, at the invita-
ton Of Colonel John c. Groome, has
been assisting in Pennsylvania to re-
cruit such q force. A large number of
Pennsylvanians who have passed the
army age showed great eagerness to
Join this police force and thus get into
foreign service,
The end OF the war makes II unneces-
sary, in the opinion of the General
Staff, to send any more men to France,
and Colonel Groome's police force will
be created from men now in General
Pershing's army.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
Appointed to City Positions

City appointments today include those
of Russell Ferguson. GOA East Clemen-
tine street. guard, Bureau Of Correction
salary 5000: Mabel E. Smith, 5273
Ridge avenue: Lillian Abrams. iii
League street. and Leona Lambert, 2303
South American street. assistant teach
ers, Board of Recreation, 5000 and
Frank Tiano. 1912 Tulip street, fireman,
Bureau Of Charities. 5000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23

IrSS57l ,NOTI ICE.
80 All persons having an unpaid account
against the City of Philadelphia for services
rendered to the City in epidemic influenza
work work or ] foE goods; merehanSise drugs ahs ps
City. In and for Its use in eombating, the
ePidsmticd d, influence; are hereby ,i1s notified to
licate. therefor. to the Directors Once. De-
payment Of Public Health and Charities.
Saturday, Nessmhev Seth 1918. l5t
WILMER KRUSEN, NJ. d.,
Director of the Department,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-23
LE. CALDWELL s COMPANY
PLATINUM RELEASED

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
THAT THE UNITED STATES Gov
EMINENT REGULATION CuRTAL.
ING THE USE OF PLATINUM BY
JEWELERS. HAS BEEN RESCINDED.
PATRONS, THEREFORE. NEED FEEL
No HEsITANCr In BUYING PLA-
TIluM JEWELRY AND WATCHES.