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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
BIG HOTELS RENTED 4
HIGHWAYS TO TAX|S.
Public Service Commissioners
Hearing Reveals One Cause /
of High Rates
LOWER FARES PROMISED

Lower taxicab rates are promised ad
result of the investigation of taxi
companies being made by Public Servics
Commissioners Samuel NJ. Clement. Jr.s
and James s. Benn.
1T is the intention Of the Public
Service Commission, said Mr.. Clem~
eRt. "to investigate the matter to the
bottom. so that the citizens of Philadel-
phia will have improved service and
proper protection.
The taxicab companies will be placed
under the jurisdiction and surveillance
of the Public Service Commission. and
an end will be put to the practice o.
renting highways byi hotels and other
corporations.
The commissioners have announced
that they will put expert accountants
to work on the books of all the taxi,
CAP companies operating in Philadelphia
for the purpose Of showing up their
dealings with hotels and the amounts
paid for the privilege of parking their
machines outside.
The investigation began Yesterday.
anG the first days hearing brought onS
the fact that large fees are paid ia
n'''io anu rallroau stations for tho
exclusive rights to the streets nearby.
IT developed at the hearing that the
Belleyue- Stratford annually receiyts
about $4,000 in commissions from the
Quaker City Taxicab Company for ths
use of Broad street in front of tho
hotel; that the same company annualiJ
raid the Pennsylvania Railroad Com 4,
pany $4,000 for the taxicab monopoly
at its stations; that the Liberty Taxi
cab Company paid $2400 year to thc
Union Transfer Company for the ex-
elusive privilege at the Reading Ter.
minal. In all, according to. Commits
sioner Clement, approximately $1O0, ,OO0
is paid annually by taxicab users.
through the taxi companies, to corr
porations for the privilege of using
the public streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30

"Judge Patterson can make a speech,
but his speeches amt half so convincin'
as his smile"
The man who said that followed the
Judge last night from one to the other
of three enthusiastic meetings in West
Philadelphia.
When the judges bright eyes wrinkle
at the corners into genial crows feet
and his lips part and frame his strong,
white teeth in generous smile, there's
no denying the judge Who hears and
sees must smile with him.
The thousand or more men who heard
Judge Patterson on the stump last night
felt intimately toward him before he
really got under way with his speeches.
At the first meeting, the committee in
charge carefully timed the judges en-
trance into the room. 1t pushed him
up the crowded aisle just as a speaker
on the platform had reached the climax
of an extended word picture of the Ware
candidate.
Judge Patterson was for a moment
visibly embarrassed by the sudden dra
matte entrance. Cheers dinned into his
ears. And the men who cheered marked
that he was embarrassed.
At the other two meetings, the Judge
faltered trifie when he began to talk, /,
and, as he said, words somehow failed
me. There was much about his that
suggested he was unaccustomed to
political stumpiag.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
SHORE MANAGERS SCORE
Violation Of Antl.Strike Injunction
Alleged Against Union

Atlantic City. Aug. h30.-John II.
Packes. vice chancellor. issued a rule
directing officers of Local Union No. II, &,
International Association of Theatrical
Stage Employees and Moving Picture
Operators of the United States and
Canada, to show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt ON &C
count of the alleged violation of an
injunction issued by him last Saturday
restraining the officers and members Of
the organization from influencing mem
bers OF the local organization to strike.
The. order is returDable this morn
ing ia chancery chambers.
The contempt order was ISSUED on the
courts own motion upon presentation
OF an affidavit by Frederick +. Moore,
vice president of the Nixon Amusement
Company, in which 1t was charged that
members of the local order violated the
injunction in that they induced stage
hands to strike during performance
of the Listen. Lester" company Tues
day night. State hands, II is alleged.
deserted and necessitated the taking OF
their piaees by the manager and mem
bers Of the "Listena Lester" comRany.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
BORDER AVIAT0RS
ARE STILL MISSING
Reports That Mexicans Found
Lost Fliers Prove to Have d.
Been Manufactured

San Diego, Calf, Aug. 30.-(By A.
P.)-Lieutenants Frederick Waterhouse
and Cecil Connolly, army aviators from
Rockwell Field, missing since August
20, have not been found. Previous re-
ports were that troops of Governor
Estaban Catu, of Lower California,
Mexico, had located them.
Denial Of the early repprts was
brought here late last nightSy Major
G. Hartwell, commanding American
border patrols, who have been search
ing for the missing men.
Major Hartwell said he obtained his
Information direct from American Con
sui Sidney Smith, at Ensenada. Lower
California, who telephoned him that
Captain Trujillo. who was reported to
have Informed Colonel Barranca that
the men were safe, knew nothing of the
affair. Smith told Major Hartwell
Captain Truiillo was sitting in the
American consulate when he read re-
port of his message in the American
papers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
CANADIAN PLAN CHEAPER
Depended on, Regular Lumber Induss
try for Alrplane Spruce

Portland, Ore, Aug. 30.--By de-
pending on its logging and milling in
dustry for it's airplane production,
Canada procured twenty six and one,
half million feet of airplane lumber
between April and November, 1918,
Frank r. Pendleton. former superin-
tendent of aircraft production for the
Canadian Government. told the meme
bers of the Congressional subcommittee
iHvesti"nting aircraft spruce expendi-''
lures here.
The testimony, it was said, was in
tended to show the Canadian system
was superior to that employed by tho
United States Government. which EN-
barked in the spruce production besi-
ness itself.
Both the logs and the lumber for
Canadian airplanes were obtained from
loggers and mills. on contracts and no
soldiers were employed in the oper
atoms. Pendleton testified. With the
exception Of six miles of railroad, no
construction was undertaken by the
government and when the operations
closed, the government had no equip
ment or properties on its hands to
dispose of, he said.
According to figures produced By.
Pendleton, airplane lumber was pro-.
duced more cheaply for the CanadiaE
Government than for the United States
Government by this plan. AZ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
STEEL STRIKE IS PUT
UP TO PRESIDENT
Workers Defer Walkout Due To-
day Until Wilson Has Op-
portunity to Act
G0MPERS AT WHITE HOUSE

Washington. Aug. 29.-Action look
ing to the calling out of organized steel
workers, scheduled to take place today
will be deferred until President Wilson
has an opportunity to prevent the
threatened strike.
The committee of the steel workers,
which had until August 30 to nego
tiate with the United States Steel Cor
pOration for adjustment of the men s
demands before putting into effect the
strike voted by the union forces in the
industry. decided to await the action by
the President after they had been
House yesterday afternoon.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor and hon :
orary chairman of the steel workers
committee. accompanied the committee
to the White House, and while special
mphasis was laid upon the threatened
steel strike. Mr.. Gompers discussed with
the President the general industrial sit
uation as it has been presented to him
since his return to the United States
this week.
Mr.. Gompers's visit to the White
House so soon after his return came as
a surprise in many quarters here. That
he would confer with the President al
most Immediately after his arrival in
Washington was forecast in PUBLIC
LFDGER disnatches.
No formal statement of the issues
discussed at the conference was issued
by Mr.. Gompers. He referred inquirers
to the President and Secretary Tumulty
declared that no statement by the Presi =
dent was to be expected today.
1t was learned. however. that Mr..
Gompers reiterated much of what the
President already had been advised with
respect to the extent of industrial I'm =
rest. especially in the West and North :
west where radical agitators are re
ported to have gained a foothold.
The California railroad strike was
indicated as representative of the ex
treme radical tendency coming to the
service among the workers on the Pa
cific coast.
The President was represented as
believing that strike in the steel in .
dustry at this time would aggravate
the existing industrial and economic
situation to such a degree that every
possible thing should be done to pre-
vent it. The steel workers were held
to have made no effort to disguise the
fact that they held a similar belief ant
they told the President some facts as to
the agitated frame of mind of the mer
at present.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
$1,000 POUNDS OF FISH
CONDEMNED IN JERSEY
Testimony at Seaside Heights
Tended to Show Part Of Food
Stored in 1917

Trenton, n. j., Aug. 30.-The Ocean
county court was moved temporarily
from Toms River to Seaside Heights
yesterday by Judge William II. Jeffrey,
who conducted proceedings resulting in
the condemnation of about 1000
pounds of fish stored with the Barne-
gat Power and Cold Storage Company
for more than a year.
Although the fish had been in storage
IN New Jersey for the full maximum
period of year, marks ON some of the
packages indicated they had been stored
in other states since August, 1917.
The proceedings to condemn the fish,
whose wholesale value was placed at up
ward of $500, were filed by the state
health department on the ground that
the fish was unfit for food. Preceding
the hearing Judge Jeffrey visited the
storage plant, where the temperature
was II degrees above zero. A number
of the fish were split open in his pres
ence with axes and then were taken to
court where they were allowed to thaw
out. A perceptible odor, indicative of
putrification, came from the fish as the
thawinR out process progressed.
DR.. r. b. Fitzrandolph, director of
the state laboratory of hygiene, and
William G. Tice testified to the results
of analysis made at the laboratory.
These indicated that the fish partly
were in state of decomposition. Doc
tor Fitzrandolph had some of the fish
cooked, but testified that he could not
eat it. notwithstanding he is far from
being squeamish on such matters.
Neither the owners of the fish nor
representatives of the cold storage ware
house made any defense. Judge Jeffrey,
therefore, made an order condemning
the fish and directing Sheriff Harry
Chafey to sell them for fertilizing pur-
nnSpS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
JUDGE PATTERSONS SPEECH
NOT SO CONVLNCLN AS SMILE
Candidate for Mayor Has "a Way Says One Man Who Fol-
o,Oed Him Around Three Meetings and Helped Applause

'I'll try to be an ordinary human
being doing the best I can" he an
nounced.
II don't intend TO be bullied and
Erowbeaten from the right given me
IA years ago. Nc. contractor is 60
ing to own me-" and he bit out MS
words with a slow thoughtful delibera =
ton. "I'll let one man own Inc, and
only one! That's Billy Penn. He's
dead but he was honest and his won
derful ideals for this great city still
live"
The judge made few gestures. For
the most part he stood with his hands
clasped behind his back, his body as
straight as a sapling-only his head
moving, emphasizing each word as il
shot from his lips.
His three brief addresses were mol
punctuated by repeated bursts of ap-
plause. The men listened, smiled wher
he smiled, and shouted and clapped
their hands when be ended his talk.
There is such a thing as talking
oneself into defeat. I'll let the Other
side do that" he said.
When he left each meeting, his eyes
twinkled at the men who had listened
to him, and he waved hand and sale
Good night
And they answered Good night !"
in friendly, happy, awed. almos
wistful fashion as children sometimes dt
when they are bidding goodbye to theil
,Own particular BRAID 2f hero.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
VAUGHAN HORSES WIN
Make Virtually Clean Sweep In tho
Championship Harness Glasses

Newport, r. l., Aug. 3O.-The
championship classes were the prom
inent feature in the closing session Of
the twenty third annual Horse Show at
the Casino and the judging in these
classes was very close.
Miss Constance yauclain, of Rose
mont, Pa. practically made a clean
sweep in the championship harness
classes, taking both championship and
reserve in large harness horses with
The Whip and Lady Dilham; then with
Dragon Fly and The Wasp she won
over Miss Isabella Wanamaker's War
wick NIatchless and Willesden Witchery
in the class for champion pairs, while
in the champion hunter class she also
made clean sweep with her Arbite and
Ennis Thorpe.
I. II. Clotliier Jr. Judge captured
first place in the class for jumpcreS'
open to all.
Miss Vauclain, one of the largest ex>
bibitors this year, had her day yes
terday, for her entries took ribbon.
after ribbon outside of the champions
ship classes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
ACTORS STRIKE OFF
At n. Y. H|PPODROME
Conference With Stage Hands
Permits Biggest Playhouse
to Reopen Monday
MANAGERS ARE CRITICAL

Nw York. Aug. 30.-Following the
resignation of Charles B. Dillingham;
as managing director of the Hippo
drOme aud conference with union rep
rcsentatives from the stagehands who
walked out. the owners Of the huge
house announced they would reopen
"Happy Days on Monday and save
their box Office from more unhappy days
lading out dollars to ticketholders. The
Producing Managers Association. it
wac said, also had plans to bring other
productions out of the strike early next
week. and statement on those revivals
is likely today.
Marie Dressler claimed all the credit
there was for this peculiar walkout,
saying she led the chorus girls out on
her own initiative and the stagehands
followed as an answer to George Nj.
Cohan's offer of S100 900 to the Fidel-
ity League. The management. however,
denied her this glory, saying the stage
hands were the sponsors for the walk
out.
In addition the managers have made
their first acknowledged attempt TO lay
their side of the strike situation before
Samuel GomDcrs. with the hope that
the head of the American Federation of
Labor, having heard the actors side,
would be able to reopen the TWENTY
three closed theatres on broadway. The
ProGucing Managers Association last
night announced that Arthur Hopkins,
head of the managerial publicity works.
and George NJ. Cohan. rs president Of
thc new Actors Fidelity League. went
tn Washington on Thursday night and
smoke their pieces to Mr.. Gomncrs with
n view to settlement of the broadway
auarl.
Declaring that actors are among the
highest paid workers in tho world. and
have shorter hours than those Of any
other occupation, the Producing Man
ayers Protective Association last night
issued the statement defining its anti
labor position in the actors strike.
''The strike is neither founded upon n
demand for increased wages or for
shorter hours" says the statement.
"and as these demands are the primary
inducing causes for the formation Of
unions and affiliation with other unions,
il is evident the actors are strangers to
the fundamental needs of unionism."
"From the standpoint of the en-
ployer the chief hardship of unionism is
the closed shop" the statement adds
"The actors agree that the closed shop
would be a serious menace to the
theatre.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
VENICE AND THE NILE HAVE
NOTHING ON THE DELAWARE!
With Moon Searchgt of the Skies and Mole and Jnm,
Happy-Gee, It's Great!

They're alone then, all right. In
spite of the crowds around them. And
they don't worry much about twitching
bunicns or the high cost of living or
the coming election.
The old cracked penny in the slot
organ below decks with its tin -panny
jazz seems just as sweet to them as
could ever the softly plunking guitars
and the sugary top -tenors of the Vene-
tian barcarolers Then the bottle of
pop and the box of crackers that scout :
ing Dad or Jimmy uncoyers are sweet
nectar and ambrosia of the gods.
And the gentle nothings whispered
and the sly caresses of Sarah and Paul
and Nom and Pop seem the epitome of
all that is wonderful! Rummy and
Julie all over again. Shades of Iris :
tan and Isolda Gentle memories OF
Paola and Francesca Was moon ever
so kind and love so orangeblossomy
Oh, gosh
Bargeing down the river Nile aud
gonGolaing on Yenetia's silvered waters
aren't one, two, three with moonlight
I ing on the Delaware.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
ALLIES PUSH TEUTON TRADE
Banker Finds British and Germany
Opening Business Channels

Cincinnati, Aug. 30. = Amazement
over the sentiment of British and
French financial interests toward Ger
many is expressed by Edgar Fried
lander. local banker and broker. who
has just returned from a two months
visit abroad. where he established bank
ing connections.
1.-The big men abroad take the view
that the war is over and that we should
get back to normal as soon as possible
he said with this sentiment in mind,
they seem to be ready to DO business
with Germany at once. They expressed
surprise when / told them that feel
ing in America toward Germany was so
bitter that it might serve to prevent
business relations for years.
The British and French believe the
indemnities cannot be collected from
Germany unless business relations are
re established and the Germans given
an opportunity to earn the amounts of
the indemnities in trade"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
AMBLER TO ACCEPT
WARRANT SERVICE
Former Insurance Commission
er Will Be Arrested on Tues
day as Embezzler
PRO MISSES TO APPEAR

Charles 4. Amber, former insurance
commissioner. will be re- e-arrested on a
warrant charging him with embezzle-
ment of insurance moneys and cOnver-
sion of stat funds, when he appears to
answer another charge, in this city.
next Tuesday. September ..
Amber, Who is already under SIS, =
600 bail may have his bail materially
increased, following his hearing. The
state will ask for $50 900. Strang,
former paying teller of the North Penn
Bank, in Jail under S35 900 bail, which
he is unable to furnish.
Announcement made at the Office of
District Attorney Rotan, following the
issuance of the second warrant for
Amber, was that testimony would be
offered at hi; hearing Tuesday will prove
startling" i'll it's nature. The authori-
ties. it is said, expect TO make prima
facie case against Amber by offering
evidence to show that during his state
insurance commissionership he en-
bezzled "many thousands of dollars
from the state
To Accept Service
Promise has been made the district
attorneys Office by Harry s. Amber,
his brother, who is lawyer, that
Amber would present himself in court,
prior to the hour set for his hearing,
and will accept service of the new war
rant at that time. Such an arrange
ment is satisfactory to the authorities
here who have decided not to even detail
detective to keep Amber, now at his
summer home in Ocean City, n. j., un-
der surveillance over the week end.
The new charges against Amber are
entirely independent Of those on which
he was first arrested and have no con-
nection with his relations with the
North Penn Bank, it was announced.
The evidence on which they are based,
however. was uncovered during the in
vestigation of the crash.
1t is said to indicate that he loaned
certai nsums of the fund to the 6efunct
Pittsburgh concern, of which he, as in :
surance commissioner, was custodian, to
own use. The total involved Is said to
be $4,000.
Text of Affidavit
The affidavit on which the warrant
was issued says. in part:
"The said Charles A. Amber did loan
out, with or without interest or return,
the said money OF the said Pittsburgh
Life and Trust Company in his posses
sion and under his control, by virtue ol
his Office as insurance commissioner oi
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
"And the said Charles A. Amber did
unlawfully and fraudulently embezzle
take, convert and apply to his own us,
and use of other persons, divers large
sims of the aforesaid money of the
Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company sc
received and held by him as aforesaid y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
DIVIDED SOCIALISTS |
MEETING IN CHICAGO
Regulars Favor Sticking to
Vote, but Communists Favor
Rougher Reform Methods

Chicago, Aug. 30-(By,A A. P.)-Ad-
vance guards of the National Socialist
Convention, which opens today, and the
Communists and left wing Socialists,
who will convene communist con
vention Monday, reached Chicago last
night.
New policies of the National Social
ist party are to be formulated, it was
said. The party will continue to urge
changes by use of the ballot, while In
the Communist convention it is ex-
pected many delegates will oppose poIit-
ical action in favor of more drastic
tactics.
The political action question prob-
ably will be discussed before the Ma
tional Socialist Convention. Adolph
Germer, national secretary, said last
night that the party would show an
average of 100000 members for the
year and would continue in the national
political arena, notwithstanding whole
sale membership losses by expulsion and
secession.
The Communists and left wingers
claim to represent at least 80, 900 for
mer members of the National Socialist
party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30

Venice in the moonlight never had
anything on our own Delaware river
when it comes to romance.
And these nights of moonlight ex-
cursions, when the gondolier is a
'crew" of mildly hammered young men
in civies and yachting caps who shout
tickets, please and the gondola a
crowded wooden steamboat, are prov
ing it every day.
The many folks who like the moon
the Minnies, the Armies, the Mollies,
the Jameses, the Harrys, the Mons,
the Pops-are little pushed for space
when it comes to real enjoyment of the
moon, and they are not apparently GER
tain of quiet among the many deck
chairs that line the sides of the boat,
and crowd the salon and every available
square foot of surface.
But--when the lights are low, and
only the moon shines out like o search :
light in the sky. and when the out :
lines Of the moving shores are beautiful
because they are vague, Nom and pOp
aud Minnie and Harry just sit tight
and drink in the JOY Of Il all.