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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

Horrors! IT contained nothing but
catnip
The water was squeezed out of the
swollen leaves. the package rewrapped
and marked Inspected by the Post
office" and deposited in the electrical
bureau an hour later.
There is one peeved cat in the City
Hall today and an angry operator in
the fire operating room. The cats
name is "Strike." Its owner, Jimmy"
Reilly, is the operator.
Strike. whose fame is known the
state over. was used as brickbat by
a woman during the trolley strike of
1910. The grey tiger cat was only a
few days old when it was hurled at a
strike breaking motorman at Tenth and
Girard avenue. Later it was Exhibit
A" in evidence which convicted the
woman of melting to riot, and Reilly
in kindness took "Strike" after the
trial. fed it milk with a fountain pen
dropper and brought it up to be the
boss" rattcr of City Hall.
When its fame was spread to the
world through magazine in 1914
Lancaster woman rewarded it with
nice fresh box Of catnip. Each year
she has sent the weed and this was
Strikes annual treat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
"Dandy First Boys Hold
Chateau-TMerry Record

Company l.. of the Tooth Infan-
try. Philadelphia old Dandy
First" holds the record of having
been the first American unit to enter
the fighting at Chateau Thierry.
Company NJ followed L company
closely into action, and both suf-
fered severely from the machine gun
Are of the Germans. Company T. is
aboard the Maui, due to dock today,
but Company NJ will not arrive in
this country until newt week, when
it will dock at New York.
The heroism which marked the
fighting of these two companies at
Chateau -Thierry exemplifes the
work of the entire regiment at that
point and elsewhere In France.
The War Department replacement
figures show that of the eighty four
officers and 3491 men aboard the
Maui. 2497 are from other states
than Pennsylvania, and will not be
sent to Camp Dix for demobilization,
but will be sent to camps nearer
their homes. y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
10000 WILL MARCH IN
NORTHEAST PARADE
Ciric Organization Joins Serr-
ice Men in Demonstrations

Women Victory Loan workers in the
northeast district. headed by Mrs. John
W. MOyor and committee from the
Y. VI. G. A.. have planned n street
parade and reception to returned sailors
and soldiers this afternoon in Frank
ford.
More than 10000 marchcrS will com
pose the parade. which will start at 3
o'clock from Nandyke and Paul streets
Under the direction of Chief Marshal
j. II. Schumacher. they will march up
Pahl street to Oxford avenue, and on
Oxford to the Boulevard. The dare
devils and marine circus are expected
to take part in the street demonstration
on Harrison street between Castor road
and Horrocks street. There will be
rcgimental review of 1900 Philadel e
pha Home Defense Reserves on Com
munity Field after the parade.
Fratcrnal organizations Of the north
east. in addition to dctachmcnts from
the regular army. the FrankfOrd Ar
scnal and the Home Defense will march
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
CERNANTOWN SCENE
or MANY GAY RALLIES
Big Parade Starts at Upsal
ST. and Germantown Are.

Germantown was Gayly bcdcCkcd for
its great Victory Loan parade and
demonstration this afternoon and this
evening with thousands Of men. women
and children participating. Mrs. W. r.
Gurlcy is chairman of the district.
James Il. Corycl served as chief
marshal and William III. Emhardt as
chief Of staff. The parade started
at = 40 o'clock this afternoon from
Epsal street and proceeded south on
Germantown avenue TO Seymour street
then west to Greene and north on
Greene to Vernon Park, where it dis =
banded.
There wcrc seven division. includ-
ing Civil War. Spanish war and world
war veterans. several bands. members
of patriotic orders, church and welfare
organizations, women's clubs, Girl and
Boy Scouts and industrial workers.
William II. Broadhcad was mar
shai of the first division, which, in .
cluded: Ellis Post, G. a. r., in au
tomobiles, Ellis Post Band, two com
panes Of United States marines one
signal corps, one search light detach
mcnt, one tank, Mutual Band. officers
and enlisted men who served in the late
war with Germany, home. defense re-
serves, Spanish war veterans, Ellis
Camp, s. of V.
I'm the second division were Thomas
f. Clemens, marshal, and aides; lie
high Band, Junior Order United Amer
lean Mechanics, Independent Order
odd Fellows, Order Of Independent
Americans, Improved Order of Red
Men, Foresters of America, the Fra
ternal Patriotic Order of Americans
Knights of Golden Eagle, Stone
men, Knights of Pythias. Order of
Owls, p. o. S. of A. Columbia Band
Holy Name societies, Italian societies
Wister Park Band, Fast Germantown
Improvement Association, CIveden I'm
provement Association, Belfield I'm
provement Association, Chestnut Hill
Business Mems Association, German
town Business Mems Association.
Third division, Mrs. Ernest Toogood
marshal, and aides Liberty Band, ex
ecutive committee, churches, Light Stal
Colored Band, colOred women's section
Permanent Emergency Association o.
Germantown, National League O
Woman's Service, Italians, Chestau
Hill Y. w. c. A, suffragists, J. an,
]. Dobson Drum Corps, Falls o
Schuylkill Emergency Aid, Emergenc!
Aid of Germantown, Woman's Club
Mothers in Council, Colonial Danes
! D. A. r., house to house canvassers
Red Cross, Camp Fire girls.
Fourth Division, Holman White
marshal, and aides; Boy Scout Band
high school section, including privat
1 schools, Washington Band, elementar
school section, Firemen's Band. paro
Ghial school section. 49,.
Fifth division, William II. Belts
marshal; and aides, Boy Scout Band
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts.
Sixth division, William c.. Wright
marshal, and aides;. Logan flute an
drum corps, ministers of churches
Bible classes, Sunday schools, Keyston
Colored Band, colored churches wi,
j. II. Crump as marshal.
Seventh division, Norman Mello,
marshal, and aides; band, Midval
Steel Company, American Pulley Com
pany, Link Belt Manufacturing Com
pany. Edward G., Budd Mapufactur
ing Company, j. 4 u, Debs,n, Inc
lIvens Tube Works, Leeds 4 JsolthruI
4. II
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
CHARLES C. HARRISON
ACTIVE AT Is YEARS
Birthday, Finds Former Provost
of University Of Pennsyl-
vania at Office

Charles Gusts Harrison. former pro =
vost of the University of Pennsylvania
in the days when the fathers of the pres
ent students were undergraduates there,
celebrated large part of his seventy
fifth birthday anniversary today in his
Office, 400 Chestnut street.
His hair is slvered. but he still re -
tains the rosy vigor Of an active man.
Today he received n few callers and
transacted the usual Saturday business.
He said he had no special anniversary
message for his fellow citizens. But
he desired to spend the rest OF the day
quietly at his farm near Devon, in
Chester county.
Mr.. Harrison graduated from the
University of PENNSYLVANIA in 1862.
lie served for sixteen years rs a trustee,
and then succeeded DR.. William Pepper
as provost. During his term in Office he
added equipment and endowment + he
University to the amount of $50. 900,
600. Since his retirement as provost
his interest has ccntercd in the Univer
| sty museum. which, under his charge
has expanded to valuation Ct
s.. .OOO. 900.
Recently reslgning as manager of the
Reading Company. Mr.. Harrison is now
director of the Federal Reserve Bank
and has other extensive interests. IIt
headed the movement which eliminated
in the erection Of the Washington Me
mortal Chapel at Valley Forge at a
cost of 5000, 900. whirh is considered
one of the most beautiful specimens OF
Gothic architecture in the world lie
sent the first American commissioner
to Belgium after the invasion by the
Germans to investigate conditions there
and raised large sums of money for
relief.
Mr.. Harrison is scholar deeply
verscd in Babylonan and Sumcrian lit
erature.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
ON WITH YOUR HAY LID!
And II You Are Mule or Bolshevik,
Stick Your Ears Through
Mules and horses, boys and men!

Mules and horses, boys and men!
Put on your straw hats once again !!
Trot out your old hay "lizzie" today,
frisk your wife's, your sisters or your
mother in laws toothbrush, buy a bot
tie Of dirt chaser, roll up your sleeves
and bravelY tackle your annual job.
Then wear the May Day "kelly".
If the mice have been at it and
chawed the brim so that it looks like
the edge of barber's razor feels, or if
the last rain of last summer made the
two inch circular awning sag and dip
like the path of scenic railway, wear
it anyway.
There's nothing that startles the
neighbors to admiration like the dimly
white, tried and true, sun reflector of
forgotten day.
Put band around the crown with a
dosh of color in it. And if you are a
horse or a mule or n Bolshevik, don't
forget to stick your ears through.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
CHARGE REALTY MAN
BEAT WOMAN TENANT
Ernest M. Berry to Face Magis-
trate After Alleged Forced
Entrance to House
VICTIM STILL IS BEDFAST

Charges were made today against
Ernest NJ. Berry. real estate agent of
GIGS Ridge avenue, as a result OF
an alleged attempt to force an entry
| into the home of Mrs. Mary NJ. Lewis.
of 41JO Terrace street, Roxborough.
with prospective purchasers for the
house in which she lives.
Mrs. Lewis was so badly beaten. Ii
is alleged. when she resisted Berry $
asserted attempts to force himself into
! her home. that she was unable to ap-
pear at hearing before Magistrate
Price today.
Mr.. Berry also failed to appear, and
the hearing was postponed until May
| II, one day before the next month S
rent on the house is due.
! Mr.. Berry came here about II
o'clock in his automobile" said Mrs
Lewis today. He had two women and
man with him and asked to show
them through the house. | was wash =
ing at the time and the house was in
disorder, so ] told him could not
! let him go through today. He in
| sisted. however. and I started to shut
the door.
Then 'he"Fushed past me. throwing
me against the door and rushed into
the hall. I grabbed his arm and at
tempted to pull him back and he grab
bed hold of me. forced me into the
| DarlOr and threw me against the min no
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
NO REDS IN THIS BLOCK
Square on 18th Street Boasts 100
Per Cent on LoanS Also S Heroes

Per Cent on LoanS Also 5 Heroes
A block full of patriotic feeling is
Eighteenth street between Nenango and
Pacific streets. Having gone 100 per
cent over the top in the Victory Loan,
every house is now gayly decorated to
welcome home the men of the Twenty
eighth Division, to which this block has
given five hroes, as follows: Sergeant
Joseph Mooney, 10th Regiment (the old
Third of the National Guard his
brother, Sergeant William Mooney
10th; Private Harry b. Herkinel
1O9th told First Regiment; Corporal
Samuel Polloe, Tooth, and Private Roy
Brommer, 1OSth (old Second).
Every house has the red, white and
blue bunting with red, white and blue
keystone, representing the division, over
the door. Not content with decorations
this energetic block has also collected a
fund, through Mrs. Emma Wonder. 36tG
North Eighteenth street, to which every
house has contributed, for the purpose
of giving the returning boys reception
and dance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
More than sixty wounded soldiers
from Cape May will be the guests Of
4 group of Philadelphia girls next
Tuesday evening at play and
dance for their benefit
slMlNGEPE l

Brown Instrument Company, Fox Gun
Company, Frankford Arsenal.
There will be a rally about the Vic
tory statue in Vernon Park at 7 80
O'Clock this evening. United States ma
rines signal corps and signal light de
tarhmcnts will put on exhibition drills,
and there will be music and speeches.
Thomas u. Mccarthy, of New York,
will be principal speaker
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
100000 FIRE IN CHESTER
Flames Starting in Garage Spread
..., to Adjoining Buildings

Chester, Pa, May 3.--Damage esti :
mated at 100000 was wrought here
when flames almost destroyed the Penn
sylvania garage, 11S East Sixth street,
this morning The fire was extinguished
after a two hour battle. Four hours
later the firemen were again summoned
and succeeded in saving the warehouse
of David Davis Company, wholesale no :
tion dealers, which had been ignited by
sparks that are believed to have ema :
mated from the first fire, -.
Damage was alaN sustained to the
stock of Frank. Tollin Company. whose
warehouse also adjoined the garage.
Forty automobiles were stored in the
burned garage. The loss is partly GOV
cred by insurance. z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
'PH|LA. MAN FIRST
AIR TAXI PATRON
~. of p. Filler Enters for Initial
Tryout at Atlantic City
Today
0vER-OCEAN EVENTS LISTED

Special Dispatch TO Evening Public Ledger
N Atlantic City, May 3.-America' s first
'.air taxi service was inaugurated this
I morning. II. F. Hansel, Jr., Il Phil
adelphia banker. and Jack Hubbar,
Pittsburgh manufacturer, were the first
patrons. They were carried to the Sea e
view Golf Club this morning The dis
tance is about eight miles and the trip
was reported made in seven minutes. 1t
( was announced today at the golf club
that an aviation landing field was plan
ned and arrangements are already under
way for its erection.
Philadelphia, the Aero Federation
-4oticials announced today, is to be upon
route No. l of the first aerial map of
America ever officially issued. Route
No. i will extend from Boston. on a
direct line through New York and Phil
adelphia TO Washington and will be
deslgnated Rs main artery. There Is
to be transcontinental route either by
way of New York or Baltimore to Chi
cago as the aerial center of the nation
and thence to Los Angeles on the south
and Seattle on north Pacific coast
The main arteries will be joined With
/, the future transatlantic air lanes
through Atlantic City as the chief At
lantic seaboard airport.
Natty Aviatrix to Contend
Marian Cassidy. of New York aud
Philadelphia, the first aviatrix. natty
hgure this morning in French horizon
blue. will be contestant in flying
events next week. Captain Hugh Will
loughby, University of PENNSYLVANIA
alumnus, is chief of the board Of
Judges for the first tryout of intcrcoi-
legiate events of the Pan American
Aeronautical Congress this afternoon.
Philadelphia may have another un =
expected entry in the events over the
sea in the person of Lieutenant j. +.
HUM, who made good in France Huhn
was out at the air port this morning
begging for the loan of a machine. He
has not tried his hand aloft since he
came home from France. but feels he
never will lose the knack If he flies
with the collegians this afternoon. it
will be as n representative of Havcr-
ford
Lieutenant Jeans Ors. the French in
ventor of the pocketbook parachute for
planes, made his first descent this morn
ing with his odd contrivance. He sailed
down from Eddie Stinson's reclng boat
at n height of 500 feet, landing without
a jar.
L. OF Z. Enters in Eleventh Hour
The University of Pennsylvania is
in as an eleventh hour contender.
The Red and Blue banner will be
carried by S. Raymond Beckwith in an
exciting contest between seaplanes over
an ocean course of thirty one miles
= around stakeboats stationed off the
steel pier. where the aerial scientists
are debating all kinds of "sky high
topics dealing with the technical side
of aviation.
What promises to be the keenest bat
tie for collegiate honors in this newest
line of sporting endeavor will hold par
ticular interest for Philadephians be-
cause Bcckwith, the Red and Blue
delegate, is to match his skill with his
brother. Ensign Alfred A. Bcckwith
flying under the blue banner of Yale,
and each is determined to be the "high
ace of the Beckwith clan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Brokers Expand Association

Plans for the expansion of the Ma
tional Canned Foods and Dried Fruit
Brokers' Association to include every
eligible broker in the United States, for
the betterment of trade conditions and
ultimately the decreasing of distribu-
tions costs, are announced by H. A.
n. Daily. president Of the ASSOCIATION,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
VALLEY FORGE CELEBRATES
Service There Tomorrow In Com.
memoratlon of French Alliance

Valley Forge, Pa, May 3.-Valley
Forge will celebrate the French ALI
ance tomorrow afternoon, when at 3. &c
a patriotic service will be held in the
Washington Memorial Chapel. Lieu
tenant Harry Brownback, U. s. A.,
lately returned from France, and OF
French descent, will be the orator.
Tomorrow's service commentaries the
great celebration of the first French AL
lance which was celebrated at Valley
Forge by Washington .and his army on
June 6, 177S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
McReynolds Loan Rally Speaker

Samuel McReynolds was the principal
speaker at Victory Loan rally lash
night at Broad street and Snyder ave.
nue., in front of the Southern High
School A band furnished music. Troop
$50. Boy Scouts, under the leadership
of Scoutmsster Charles e. Farley, con-
Quoted the loan sales at the rally.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Troops Bach From Var
and Hon,etUard Bound
ARRIVED

Frederick (crulserl. at New York, from
Brest. with 1918 troops, including hfty-
ave officers and 1871 men. comprising the
10Th Field Artillery complete (Thrty-sec-
md Division. former National Guard OF
Michigan and wisconsin, Also on the Fred
erIck were two officers and III men OF
the 4G4th Aero SQUADRON and few casua Is
tgan Ohio and New York.
General Goethals, at New York from
Bordeaux. with I4l7 troops including ten
officers and 433 men. comprising a medical
detachment and Companies a, d and q OF
the 32Sd Field Signal Battalion, the Nine
tketh. 181st, 4S7th. 494th and 655th Aero
Ssuadrons the 656th Aero Supply Squadron
aud the 3lsth Replacement and Salvage
Company OF the Tank Corps.
Paiiice. with twenty-nlne casuals, twenty,
one from California and the other scat.
.Sanandaigua. at Boston. from Bordeaux
With 1345' soldiers Included among unifj
on board were 700 officers and men OF the
3O2d Field Artillery o fthe Seyenty-Sixtf
Division. composed largely of New Eng,
land men. Other units were the Head.
guarters Company. Ordnance and Sanltar,
y. 145th Machine Gun Battalion; First Army
Artillery Park Motor Section Headquarters
and Truck Company ID; Photographic Sec,
lions ~ and 23. Air Service. and Casua
COMPANY No. 20.
DUE TODAY
oesn" e's sprii A ss. Vim vi ig4o fSsn Sss from por
Coluuiria, et New York from Aiarseilles.
tofi "A with lops men, Including <New
Jersey &xxuaitx COMPANY. T|
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
DEATHS

sOUTHWITH. = May 2. MINERVAy E.,
wife of Samuel d, southwith. Relatives and
friends invited to funeral services, Mon..
n M l141 s. 8lst st, Int. Newtonvtlle.
Mass. New York and Boston papers please
COPY RiEs May .. MARIE. widow OF Robert
Ries aged o. Relatives and friends in-
vited to funeral services. Mon;,, p. m. st
tFensington ave. and westmoreiand ST.. Int.
Greenmount Gem. Auto seerviee. Remains
may ss Xlewed syn HnY e 70 r p S%ausht.A Il
coVneiia <, and the late John II. Cassedy.
Funeral Tues, IL a. m. 410l Spring Garden
~ Int private.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-12-04
SYRUP FROM GRAPES

To meet the ban on the manufacture
of wine in the great grape-raising areas
the agricultural college Of the University
Of California has developed a practical
method Of converting grape juice into
excellent syrup. 1t is the belief, says the
Scientific American, that converting
grapes into syrup instead of wine will
double the value of the fruit. The esti-
mated value of the crop Of 259,UO tons
of wine grapes. grown annually, is $1,000
COO; if the crop is made into syrup, 1t
should have a value of 100000,
While the experts at the agricultural
college have been working on the prob
lem, an independent chemist and grape
expert has succeeded in producing n
syrup from grapes that meets all the
requirements Of a commercial product.
According to figures that he submits, his
method will produce syrup AT cost that
is slightly lower than that of the other
method.
One of the interested sides of the aues-
ton is the plan recommended by the uni
versity that all grape growers, wineries
and sugar factories cooperate next year
in the interests Of all those Industries. 1t
proposes that the wineries purchase the
grapes Of the vintage of 1919, and extract
and store the estimated 50OO0,0OO gallons
of juice, that the larger sugar factories
receive the juice and concentrate II, and
that they ship. the syrup to the canneries
for use in 1920.
The university has discovered a simple
and inexpensive process OF treating the
juice that will prevent fermentation for a
year. II necessary. The chemists say that
the syrup can be used in place Of sugar
In preserving some of the fruits, and can
be mixed with sugar In preserving others
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-12-04

in land where they could never hear the
merry. tinkling music Of the sleigh bells.
The Vermont lumberman in whose be-
half the sometimes uncivil engineer,
Jack Frost builds roads through bottom
less swamps and spans streams with ice
bridges may wonder at times how his
southern neighbor "lumbers" his swamp
and other impossible territory. We who
boast with John G. SAKE of Vermont
maple sugar and "other sweetness do
not always stop to think that Jack Frost
also helps to pump maple sap through
the tiny pores of the giant tree and to
provide us with one Of the most delici-
Gus luxurles our Green Mountain region
affords.
While some of us are forced by i'll
health or advancing years or inclination
to avoid cold weather. the great majority
Of us have reason to thank God we are
able to participate in all the enjoyments
and health-giving activities Of "wintering
in Vermont"