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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
GER MAkTOWN

Miss Ruth Parvin Maurer, Of the
Wood : Norton Apartments. is spending
week at Ocean City.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Maurcr. Of
the Wood Norton Apartments, are
leaving on motor trip this week for
Montreal. Lake George, Lake Cham
plain and Quebec, and expect to be
gone two weeks.
Miss Jane Wightman, Of Pittsburgh.
is the guest of Mrs. 3. w. Miller, OF
SOI East Washington lane.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Tomlinson. of
500 East Washington lane, entertained
at dinner last evening. Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. William s.
Mcintyre, Of Ardmore; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Gorham and Mrs. William X.
Gorham, of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hess, of Ger
mantown, are visiting in Cape May for
a few days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

resolution was received from the Jury:
Resolved, That the Art Jury disap-
proves of the design and location for the
iron fountain for horses at the north
side Hunting Park avenue, 90 feet east
OF Fox street, as shown in print in
dorsed by the art jury in part" ..
No definite requirements have been
given to the society showing where a
fountain may be erected or what design
the art jury might approve of.
What the Jury Does
When John +. 'Cozens. superintend-
ont for the society, tried to find out
what would pass the Art Jury, he was
told that the object Of the jury was to
remove all distractions from the side
walk even to poles, FIRE boxes, etc.
Fireplugs would also probably be in
cluded in the sidewalk obstructions.
According to the information received
by Mr.. Cozens, these necessary sta
tions should be placed on the walls OF
the corner buildings.
The charter of the society provides
that fountains may be erected. THE
objects of the said society" says the
charter, care to provide effective means
for the prevention of cruelty to animals
throughout the state of Pennsylvania
and for the enforcement of all laws
heretofore or hereafter enacted for their
protection of dumb animals. The said
society is also empowered to erect and
maintain fountains. tanks, trougbs or
other receptacles Of fresh water in ell
gblc localities for gratutitous distribu-
tion to the dumb creation
Because permanent fountains are not
permitted, the society has had to es-
tablsh a number of bucket stations
which seem to be more of an obstruc-
tion than a permanent fountain and
which take more time for watering
horses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
COME ON LET'S GO! BRING
A CHECKER BOARD ALONG
Cry Youngsters Friends Neghborood Guild Playground
Loue the Showers n Everything

Friends Ncighborhood Guild play T..
ground All of the older boys who
haunt the place are eager to excel in
athletics aad Albert w. Eastburn,
who has charge of them. breaches ''you
can't be good athlete and smoke
cigarettes.
Baseball, Too
Baseball and other organized games
attract the older boys, and they have
teams that meet teams from other play
grounds in contest. This play is usu-
ally in the late afternoon and evening,
During the earlier hours the grounds
are kept safe for the little fellows who
come. Many of them are brought bv
thelr mothers, and even some fathers
ike to come in to watch and to suggest
new games.
we enjoy seeing the change wrought
in many of the children who come cach
day to the playground" said Miss
Louise Lawton, director of the centcr
"A clean face is the card of admis .
sion, and we strive to teach cieanli .
ness in every other way. Then tho
Youngsters learn fair play-that Others
have rights that must be recognized
Through the clinics which are held here
twice a week, and through our first aid
we teach something of the care of tho
body. Throughout all the games and
the fun there are lessons in courtesy
and good citizenship that the children
are unconsciously learning"
Have Sand Pile
A long sand pile at one corner of the
grounds furnishes amusement for n
molly crowd of boys and girls. There
are sand buckets and spades and cum
ningly shaped ''pie pans for the little
ones, and those old enough busy them
selves making houses and figures in the
dampencd sand.
Miss Frances Hershey directs the
games of the girls. In the afternoon.
when the playground is most crowded.
she takes the older girls into the rest
house for story telling or for indoor
romps. That relieves the congestion
about the swings. see saws and sand
pile, and gives the older children IA
chance to learn organized games. Miss
Hershey makes herself one of the chill
dren in the plays, and screams of de-
light resound from the long playroom.
1--WE don't like new games much"
volunteered one Of the girls who had
been playing little mother to two
younger sisters she had brought to the
playground. ''We'd rather play the
things we know, but Miss Hershey
shows us lots of fun"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

Wolfsten will be his brothers. best man.
MIR. and Mrs. Mayer returned last week
from the coast of Maine.
The Rev. v. G. Gutelius, pastor Of
the Grace Reformed Church; Mrs. Gu
telius and their family have removed
from 2720 North Eleventh street and
are at home at 2731 North Thirteenth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. s.. LAUDER are oc
cupying their summer home in Atlantic
City.
The Rev. William o. McCurdy, Of
1SOS North Camac street, has gone to
Cape May for part Of the month Mrs,
McCurdy and their children left early in
the summer to visit relatives on a
ranch in West Virginia.
Mrs. George Dunn has gone to Spring
Lake to remain through August.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
WISSAHiCkON

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank S. Whitcomb,
of 24S Rochelle avenue. have returned
from an extended trip to Niagara, the
Great Lakes and White Mountains.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Whit
combs sister, Miss Lucy Fox, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Fox. of 233
Rochelle avenue. Miss Fox left yester-
day TO join a camping party at Milton
on the -Susquehanna river.
Miss Myra Wartman. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Norwood Wartman, of 300
Rochelle Avenue, with her guest, Miss
Dorothy Allen, of Birmingham, Ala, q,
will leave on August Is for trip to
Boston by the way of Fall River and
will spend fortnight in Massachusetts
visiting friends. Miss Wartman and
Miss Allen recently returned from
Salem, n. j.. where the former was
hostess at a house party for a mum
Der of young people from Wissahickon
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

Kingsley street. who spent the early
summer at Wildwood, have returned
home.
Mr.. Wilson McClanaghan. of 317
Krams avenue. is spending several
weeks in Ocean City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lins. of 6730
Ridge avenue. with their daughters.
Miss Alma Lins and Mrs. NJ. +. Brad
ley. have gone to Atlantic City to re-
main until the middle of September.
Mr., and Mrs. Charles A. Wright, who
have returned from their wedding trip.
will accompany them. Mrs. Wright
was Miss Ethel A. Lins before her
marriage in June. Upon their return
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright will live on Ridge
avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
ENID v. ROWLAND TO WE'D
Lady Edgar Speyer's Daughter Be
trother to J. 3. Hewitt

New York. Aug. 13.-Lady Edgar
Sprycr. of 30 Washington square. New
York. announces the engagement of her
daughter. Miss Enid Virginia Rowland
to J. Robert Hewitt. also of this city.
Miss Rowland was educated abroad
but has been in this country five years
and is now with Lady Speyer at her
country home at Lake George.
She is tho daughter of Louis Mcr-
edith Rowland. of Paris and New York.
Her mother was formerly Miss LconOra
Won Stosch. a violinist and composer,
the daughter of Count Won Fcrdi-
nand Stosch and the Countess, who was
IL New England woman.
Mr.. Hewitt is n graduate of Williams
College and an ensign in the United
States naval reserve force. The mar :
riage is planned for an early date.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells of the Doings of PhiIadelphms in
Ne,Oport-She Speaks of Several Old Houses in
the Suburbs-A Telephone Sufferers Threat

had Mr.. Clinton Gillingham as their
guest over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. Evans Roberts.
OF 1890 De Lancey street, will leave
for Bar Harbor tomorrow for the re .
mainder Of the summer. Mr.. Roberts
has recovered from his recent illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gates and
their family. of st. Martins, are spend =
ing a few weeks at the Hotel Chelsea
Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Mather had as
their guests over the week end Mr..
Phillcr Lee and Mr.. Alden Lee, Of Hav
erford, at their summer home in Cane
May.
Miss Louise Harding, .dd1ghter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur s. Harding, left
Cape May last week to spend few
days in Atlantic City with her grand
father, Mr.. Charles II. Harding.
Mr.. Samuel Bispham had Mr.. Brice
Blynn as his guest over the week end
in Cape May. Mr.. Bispham's sister.
Miss Eleanore Bispham, of 2306 De
l.ancey street, who has been abroad
for year with the Y. NJ. G. A., is at
present doing canteen work in Brcst,
France. but will return home some time
in September.
Mrs. Edward d. Page is visiting
friends on the Eastern Shore Of Mary
land.
DIR. Robert Kilduffc and his daugh
ter, Mrs. w. l.. Hirst Bergen, and her
small son, w. i. Hirst Bergen, Jr..
and Miss Kilduffc, of Lansdowne, have
taken a cottage at Stone Harbor, where
they will. remain for three. weeks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

"0H. SKINNY! Come on an get
" in line. An bring a checker
board"
That is the call that rings across the
Friends Neighborhood Guild Play
ground Fourth and Green streets, from
carly afternoon till o'clock when the
boys are allowed to take their shower
baths.
That cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness" is taught them directly, indi-
rectly and inadvertently by the super
vsors from morning till night, but not
one of the grimy faced youngsters who
patiently waits. towel conspicuously in
sight. in the lineup before the bath
house doors will admit that cleanliness
is the attraction.
ITS the feel of that cold water
sprinklin' down your spine and slushn
over your shins." explained Bill, who
usually plants himself beside the door
early enough to be first come, first
served
From o'clock on the supervisors are
pestered with the question: isn't it
about 4 o'clock?" A fairly clean towel
is the only prerequisite for entrance to
the showers. The girls have theirs at l!
O'Clock and the boys glory in their
"sprinkle' at 4 each day. 1t is hard
to sit idly in line for an hour or two,
even when there's the prospect of n
shower, and the hundreds of children
who haunt the Friends playground are
of the active sort.
Checkers Popular
That is why, perhaps. that checkers
has become the most popular sitting
down game" Almost any time of the
day. n dozen or more checker boards
NAV be seen spread on the benches,
where boys and girls of varied ages
puzzle over the intricacies of the game.
Esther, oh, Esther! Minnie s
cryin' -
That is another oft heard call, for
many of the older children who visit
tbe recreation center each day play
little mother or guardian TO several
Younger brothers and sisters. Usually
tbev arc remarkably efficient guardians
but once in while Esther or the
other big sisters, venture of into
game with playmates of their own age
and the baby is forgotten. But there is
always some one ready to look out for
the "strays." Some one ,else's big
brother or sister helps out or the super
visor comes to the rescue.
Profanity, crap shooting and cigar
cite smoking are rapidly disappearing
in the Northern Liberties section as
o,,,,t ~ tho camnaipn apainst thnm
carried on by the instructors at the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
Gets RuIkhead Contract

The Department of Wharves, Docks
and Ferries has awarded the contract
for the building of the bulkhead on the
west side of the SchuylkilI river, south
of Penrose ferry bridge, to the Mclean
Construction Company, of Baltimore,
which was the lowest bidder for the
work. Approximately 1l65 feet of bulk
head will be placed along the Schuylkill
river by the contractors, whose bid was
S343. .365.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

Mr.. Charles Sylvester. who is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Crozicr.
is entertaining his mother and sister.
Miss Amelia Sylvester. from Pitts.
burgh. They will spend the next week
at Atlantic City.
After two years Of welfare work Mrs.
Walter Myers, 1916 South Warnock
street. has gone to Wildwood.
Miss Elizabeth d. Mccormick. Of
2334 South Eleventh street, and Miss
Elizabeth G. Regler. of 1913 South
Fassyunk avenue, are spending their
vacations in Atlantic City.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
ALONG THE MAIN LINE

Mr.. and Mrs. Leon S. Dexter and
Miss Dorothy A. Dexter, of 635S Sher-
wood road, Overbrook, have opened
their camp near Camden, Me-, and have
as their house guest Captain Charles
Frazier Vandervoort, who has just re-
turned from France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip A. Castncr and
their children, of Merton, have recently
moved to New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. George p. Singer, of
Carlisle, are occupying their new home
at st. Davids.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

Mrs. Clarence W. Dolan gave a
luncheon yesterday at the Country Club
in Newport.
The marriage of Miss Helen Rus
b sell, daughter of Mr.. Archibald d.
Russell, of New York and Princeton,
and Mr.. r. Lawrence Benson. of this
city, will take place at noon, Tuesday
September 2, in Trinity Church,
Princeton.
Miss Russell's sister, Miss Constance
Russell, will be maid of honor, and the
bridesmaids will include Miss Gwen
dolyn D. Irwin, of Buffalo; Miss Win
throp, Miss Beatrice G. Pratt and Miss
Elizabeth Rumsey.
A small reception will follow the Ger
emony at the home of Mr.. Russell in
Princeton, at IL 80 o'clock.
Mrs. Henry D. 'Beylard has as her
, guest Mrs. W. Murry Black, Jr., of
New York, at her cottage at Cape May.
Mrs. Beylard gave a supper to meet
Mrs. Black after the Red Mill dance
last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred II. Lippincott
announce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Estelle Lippincott, to Mir.
Donald Martin Love, today at noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorr r.. Newton gave
a small dance on Saturday night at
their home in Stone Harbor.
Miss Katharine G. Ogden, of Oak
dene, Radnor, and Mr.. Wayne Vetter-
lein motored from Atlantic City to Cape
May last Saturday night for the dance
at the Red Mill.
Miss Charlotte Balm is the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Rodman Page, Jr.,
at their home in Cape May.
Mr.. end Mrs. William D. Grange
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
MRS. LAURA M0ESTA DIES
Wife Of Former Detective Leaves
Seven Children

Seven Children
Mrs. Laura Mocsta, fifty five years
old. wife Of Frederick Moesta. we'll
known Chestnut street bank messenger
and former detective. died at her home.
2042 North Randolph street, ycstcr-
day. She is survived by her husband
and seven children.
Mrs. Mocsta was a member OF the
following organizations Hannah
Schuyler Home, No. IS, b. of A. ;
Lenni Leuape Council, No. 96, D. of
P: Ladies' Auxiliary, Nineteenth
Ward Stonemen and of the Trinity Re
formed Church.
Funeral services will be conducted
by the Rev. DR.. Izenbcrg, pastor of
the Trinity Reformed Church.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

The EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
will be glad to publish items Of social
interest sent In by the readers.
Items should be written on one side
of the paper only and should bo
signed with the name of the sender
and the telephone number, that they
may be verified. -r.
Address Society Editor, EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER, COG Chestnut
street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
MANAYUNk

Mrs. Carl W. Eichman, Jr., of 141
Green lane, Manayunk, is spending the
SUMMER at Wildwood with her sister,
Mrs. John james.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
Band Concerts Today

Municipal Band, tonight, Belfeld
Playground, Twenty first and Nedro
streets.
Philadelphia Band, tonight, City
Hall Plaza.
Fairmount Park Band, afternoon
and evening, Belmont Mansion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Mrs. George Brook entertained at
luncheon yesterday at Dinard Cottage,
her place in Newport.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

Mrs. Clarence w. Dolan gave a
luncheon yesterday at the Country Club
in Newnort
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13

AIr. s0d Mrs. wlIIian 2. Granss
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Bret CITY News
Have Root Print It--Beacon Press

Have Root Print It--Beacon Press
Electric washers-Burxess-d randen Co.
Doctor Philip sher opens his Of
flee at 400 Paxton block.
Chicago Girl Married Here-Ro-
land Phelps of Douglas, Neb., and
Miss Elizabeth Thornton of Chicago
we're married by Rev. Charles w.
Savidge.
Wife Deserter Returned-Fred
Emmanuel, wanted on q charge of
deserting his wife and child. has
been returned to Omaha from CAL
ifornia by Deputy Sheriff Hall.
Colonel Frost Here-Colonel
Frost, in charge of the s. A. T. C.
at Memphis. Tenn, spent the day
in Omaha on his way to Vermillion,
s. D., having been put on the in
active list.
Maybe 1t Will-The municipal
food store in the Auditorium will
probably be reopened next Tuesday
evening, 1t was announced yesterday.
Four cars of canned goods and soap
will be on sale.
Grain Corporation Purchases
The United States Grain corporation
announces that its purchases or
wheat flour for the week ending
September 16 amounted to 666.290
barrels, at prices ranging from 1915
to $10.25.
Personal Injury Suit-Suit for
200 was filed against the Omaha
and Council Bluffs Street Railway
company in district court by Mrs.
Fred Bendorf, who says she was
thrown from a car when it started
at Sixteenth and Howard streets Au-
gust s.
Receive Damaged Mail-About 100
charred envelopes containing letters
for Omaha addresses. but which
were burned in an aerial mail acci-
dent at Cleveland September Is,
were received at the Omaha post
Office yesterday and are being sent
out, as rapidly as possible, under
government covers.
Standard Oil Changes-R. c. Nc
Irtosh, who has been with the
Standard Oil company of Nebraska
since 1908, recently as treasurer, has
resigned, to take effect September
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Health Department
Head Hopes for New
Hospital Next Yea

DR.. ]. F. Edwards, health COM
missioner, hopes that Omaha will
have a new municipal hospital next
year. He has no definite ideas on
the subject, but in general way he
believes that the time is coming
when the city council should begin
to think seriously of this project.
This is one of the things I hope
to take up next year and it may be
possible that the council will be
asked to submit bond proposition
at the April election" said the doc
tor.
DR.. E. F. Manning, the former
health commissioner, had a similar
project in mind a year ago. The
idea is to replace the present Emer-
gency hospital on Douglas street,
the city detention home for women,
and also the old smallpox hospital
on the West Center street road.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

were supposed to be out, Jack and
| would hang a blanket over our
window and sit up to study. We
were caught several times and
walked extra tours of punishment
duty in consequence.
In this connection it is interesting
to know that cadets, for violations
of regulations, were given such
tours, which consisted of walking
about the area near their barracks
for a prescribed number of hours.
Habitual walkers, meaning politely
to say habitual offenders against
regulations, were known as "area
birds" Jack Pershing was never
an AREA bird" though there is a
record-Special Orders, No. 81, dat
ed March 16, lSS3-which tells of
his being released from arrest" for
some offense to serve six hours of
extra duty"
General Walcutt told me of to-
bacco being prohibited and how the
cadets struggled it into barracks
and camp and chewed.
II was among the sinners" the
general confessed to me. 81 think
Jack was"
Grant and Mark Twain.
Then he recounted to me stories of
men who visited the academy dur
ing his cadet days, such men as
Grant and Mark Twain.
Especially" the general said,
"does the day Grants body, in a
special train, passed through on the
other side of the river, stand out to
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Pershing as an Area Bird and Twain's
Quaint Stories to West Point Cadets

me. The whole corps, save the
furlough class, were ferried across
the river to Garrison. We were
formed along the track. The fu-
neral train slowed down, and as it
passed the long, gray line of US
stood at present arms. 1t was the
most impressive ceremony l ever
recall. :,
Mark Twain's visits stand out
clear in my recollection, too. He
came to the academy twice while
Jack and I were students there. He
came on Saturdays. On Saturday
night he would lecture to US. On
Sunday he would visit our barracks,
and for a day he would be cadet
with US. What stories he would
tell!
Wonderful days. wonderful days,
those old days at West Point" the
general concluded.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

80. Mr.. Mcintosh leaves at once
for Fort Worth. H.~W. Pierpont
has been elected treasurer to sue
coed Mr.. Mcintosh, and G. p. Horn
assistant secretary.
Sewer Bond Proposition-R. N.
fowl, city commissioner. in charge
of the department of public improve
ments, yesterday stated that he is
contemplating submitting sewer
bond proposition at the November
election. He explains that the money
is necessary to complete several
large sewer projects. He believes
that $4,000 would be sufficient for
present needs.
Return to School,. Wilbur Wolf
| and N. A. Peterson, who maintained
camp at Carter lake during the
summer, have closed the camp and
re-entered school. Mr.. Peterson
left for Maine, where he will take a
200-mile canoe trip through the
Maine woods, after which he will
enter Harvard university. Mr.. Wolf
resumed his work at the university
at Lincoln Wednesday.
Leave for Convention---Linford
Lee of Iota chapter, Phi Rho Sigma
University of Nebraska medical col
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
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Mothers May Secure
Important Facts Free.

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a certain standard of weight. Rough
" speaking, they should weigh as
many pounds as they are inches tall
until they are about six years old.
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