Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-11
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Railroads consested by Automobile
Shipments - Gossip About Fred.
erlck p. Gutenberg, lsadore
Stern, Louis n. Eisenohr
and Others
Washington, Oct. IL.

- be due largely to the inability of the
railroad companies to get men to make nee
essary repairs; but this is only one Of the
many reasons advanced by way of explana-
ton. Oddly enough, Philadelphia motorcar
companies have been among the leading
complainants about the failure to deliver
freight. An inquiry by Philadelphia con
gresham on behalf of one of the companies
brings word from Manager Kendall, of the
division of operation, car service section,
United States railroad administration, that
there have been very heavy shipments of
automobiles recently, and that one company
during the period from September 2 to 20
was furnished 240 cars and is demanding
that more be sent into Detroit to relieve the
situation. All of which goes to show that
the automobile, while itself an important
factor in transportation, is helping to crowd
the railroads.
DR. FREDERICK P. GRUENBERG,
~ director of the Bureau of Municipal Re-
search, gets good deal of information from
Washington in support of the Philadelphia
Housing Association, the Public Education
and Child Labor Association, the Civil
Service Reform Association of Pennsylvania
and the Bureau of Municipal Research,
which are conducting a civic campaign for
improved conditions in Philadelphia. 1t is
the contention of the Bureau of Municipal
Research that the city needs at least % 900
more houses at once to accommodate the
recent increase in population due to our war
activities. 1t is also asserted that thou
sands of tho houses are now unfit for habi-
tation and that an intensive campaign is
necessary to protect the health and happi-
ness of our people. J. Henry Scattergood,
who is chairman of the civic campaign COM
,- frnr ". .l, -,,;,
is John II. Mason, treasurer of the com
mittee, who connects here once in a while
with the treasury officials.
TOHN PAUL JONES is mighty good old
- American name, and it happens in this
year of our Lord to belong to the son Of
Congressman Evan J. Jones, of Bradford
Pa, who first saw the light in the town of
Shamokin. Young Jones is a student in
the Wharton School, University of Pennsyl
vania, and is magnet that attracts to
Philadelphia occasionally the member from
Cameron, Center, Clearfeld and McKean.
The son is graduate of the Bradford High
School, was president of his class and cap
tain of the football team. The elder Jones
is a member of the committee on agriculture
and had a great deal to do with shaping the
cold storage bill which recently passed the
HOUSE, AHUlUcE one OIL HIS DONS Is IL SODuO-
more in Cornell University.
COLONEL JOHN z. NICHOLSON, of
~ the Loyal Legion, who has been chair
man of the Gettysburg National Military
Park Commission since 1893, sends an an
nual report to Congress. The latest comes
under date of July 1 and deals with several
matters of interest to Phiadelphians; for
.I,o, >F tl,o, 81 oh
let OF the United States signal corps, which
has been the pet hobby for years of Colonel
Jacob Hyneman, of the Union League. DR..
Fred w. Owen, of Morristown, n. j., who
was on General Webb's staff, was another
of the signal corps veterans. Colonel Nichor-
son treats also of the Pennsylvania state
statues to Generals Geary, Hays and
Humphreys, several memorials for which
were postponed for a time because of the
death of General H. S. Huidekoper, chair
man of the Pennsylvania commission.
WHETHER the plan to make Thomas
w Robins a congressional candidate in the
Second district works out or not. there are
indications that that district, now repre-
sented by former District Attorney George S.
Graham, will be contested. Isadore Stern
who was the star witness in the Fifth ward
murder trial, let it be known in Washington
on his last visit that he is thinking of run
ming for Congress. Isadore does not now
live in the Fifth ward, but has taken I'D
his residence in the Second Congressional dis
trict Mrs. Stern. who went through all the
Fifth ward trouble with her husband, is
one of the active spirits in the Philadelphia
section, Council of Jewish Women, headed
by Mrs. e. A. Margolis,
VNHE Civil War volunteer officers retire
l. ment list is still hanging fire. 1t brings
many letters to senator's and congressman
from the old fellows who wore the blue.
One of the latest is from William H. Myers.
formerly captain, Thirty fourth Regiment
New Jersey, United States Volunteers.
Myers now lives in Rosedae, Kan, but he
keeps up his interest irf PHILADELPHIA af-
fairs, where he was once employed by John
Wanamaker at Oak Hall The veteran, who
is now past eighty years of age, participated
in the union of the Blue and the GRAY Mt
Gettysburg when the fftieth anniversary
was celebrated several years ago.
q much of his life to the Improvement of
civic conditions in Philadelphia, keeps
sharp eye on the worlds production Of books.
best sellers, and particularly such American
authors as attract attention abroad Mr..
Winston's knowledge of men and books, for
he is a big publisher himself, may account
for his ability to draw strong men together
for public work. He tells an interesting
story of the timidty with which he first an
preached one of Philadelphia leading men
who lived quietly in handsome house ON
one Of our leading streets. Three times, he
said, he passed that mans door before he
made up his mind to try visit. Then he
went in and found the citizen bubbling over
with appreciation Of the visit and prompt to
make substantial donation for what he
estimated to be a worthy cause. Philadel-
phia has many big men and many who think
clearly upon civic affairs, but evidently
many of them avoid the calcium light.
COLONEL JAMES ELvERsoN, owner
" of the yacht Allegro, which was built at
Essington for George Thomas, the banker,