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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
132 TRAINS HALTED
TOCONSERVECOAL
Greatly Reduced Service to Con-
tinue Week, Even If Strike
Is Called Off
MUST ENFORCE RESTRICTION

Temporarily reduced schedules on all
railroads, annulling 132 trains made in
order to conserve coal, went into effect
this morning.
Even if the coal strike is settled to-
day they will remain in effect at least
n week. Other restrictions ordered by
L. f. Baldwin, regional director of
railroads, as coal conservation meas
urcs also become effective today and
will remain in force for a week at least
even if the strike is settled.
This is according to officials con-
nected with the regional coal commit
tee of the railroad administration, the
body to which has been delegated the
task of devising methods of saving the
fast-dwindling supply of bituminous
coal.
Lack of n fuel administration here
may cause difficulty in enforcing Fuel
Administrator Garfeld's orders.
State Must Aid
In the absence of an enforcing body
it is expected that governors, mayors,
sheriffs and other state, county and
of the railroad administration will be
called upon to help enforce the order.
In cases where violations are reported
the offenders will be reported to the
federal district attorneys for action.
Joseph B. Mccall, president of the
Philadelphia Electric Co., said yester-
day that his company was working on
plans and is ready to carry out restric-
tions as soon as ordered. There will
be no formal notification to consumers,
newspapers being depended upon to in :
form the public.
Coal restrictions for trolley companies
were anticipated by the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company, which began
to conserve at least 20 per cent of its
coal by discontinuing heat in cars dur
ing rush hours before ordered to do so
by Doctor Garfield.
Baldwin's Statement
| Regional Railroad Director Baldwin s
latest statement regarding the curtail-
ment of use of power obtained from
bituminous coal follows.
"All producers of light, heat or
power should familiarize themselves
with the new regulations, as published
in the daily newspapers of Tuesday.
"The federal managers throughout
the Allegheny region have been urged
to use every means within their power
to enlist the cooperation of all con
sumers in the use of coal until such time
as increased production justifies the re
moval of the restrictions now in force. p"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
"N0T LOST" SAYS DOCTOR
Explains He and Cunning Partner
Merely Sought Shelter From Rain

Explains He and Cunning Partner
Merely Sought Shelter From Rain
Wasn't lost at ALL" said DR.. Will
liam ]. Fitzpatrick, 364S North Broad
street, who, with Fred Simmons, 7llo
Tulip street, was said to have been lost
in the marshes near Brighton, n. D.,
while on a cunning trip Saturday.
"The story Of our disappearance was
greatly exaggerated" continued. Doctor
Fitzpatrick. 1--WE got out of the boat
at Seabreeze to stretch our legs. 1t
was raining. Before we had chance
to return to the boat the rain came down
in torrents. We sought shelter in a
trapper's shanty over night.
"fiou Sternhauser, who was left in
charge of the boat and who fell asleep,
should have known that we weren't lost.
In fact, we supposed that he would hunt
out n shanty himself with the deluge
flooding him.
"And he certainly shouldn't have
suggested to anybody that he suspected
we were lost, because we know that
country as well as he does
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
THIS BANDIT coNSIDERATE
Hiehwayman courteously Delivers
Packages Boy Victim Carried

Highwaymen are becoming more con
siderate.
After a bandit knocked down four
teen year old Charles Shubin yesterday
at Overbrook and Lansdowne ave-
nues he courteously delivered the pack
ages which Shubin was carrying to GUS
toners of Rosenbach & Co, antique
and silverware dealers at 1920 Walnut
street.
Shubin, who is an errand boy for
Rosenbach & Co., had seven packages
in his arms when youthful stranger,
wearing light colored overcoat, ap-
preached him.
The stranger suddenly struck Shu-
bin blow with some blunt instrument.
When Shubin regained his senses the
packages and the stranger were gone.
Shubin went to the police station at
Sixty third street and Lansdowne ave-
nue. and reported the attack and theft.
Policemen received jolt this morn
ing when they learned that the custom
ers of Rosenbach & Co. had received the
packages intact.
1t was said that none of the articles
Shubin was delivering was of any great
value,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
TO WEIGH XMAS PACKAGES
Bureau Announces Hours to Pass on
Purchasers Complaints

Announcement has been made by the
Bureau of Weights ard Measures that
the offices in the Parkway Building will
remain open to receive complaints and
to reweigh purchases of Christmas shop
pers on December 20, % and y, from
o n. m. until 10 p. m. and on Decem-
ber "a. from a. m. to 4 p. m.
A crew of inspectors will be on duty
with motorcars to go anywhere in the
city upon receipt of legitimate com
plants of infractions of the weights
and measures laws.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
$5,500,0OO REALTY DEAL
Stanley Co. Acquires the Allegheny
Theatre and Convention Hall Site

Another big realty deal, involving
So 800, 900, was announced yesterday
by the Stanley Co. of America, which
stated that it had purchased the ALE.
gheny Theatre, Frankford and Ale
gheny avenues, and the plot at Broad
street and Allegheny avenue recently
occupied by the temporary Convention
Hall.
On the Broad street site theatre to
seat 5000, six story apartment house
for 500 persons, dance hall with a
capacity of 5000 and a row of eighteen
stores. will be built, the whole opera =
tion to cost about S5,000,000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
EVENING SCHOOLS BOOM
Vocational and Technical Training
Is Belnu Emphasized

Vocational and technical training is
being emphasized in the evening public
schools. according to Louis Nusbaum
associate superintendent in charge of
night schools.
There is a persistence in attendance
in the evening schools this year never
noted before" he said. ''In former
Years the enrolment would be good in
the beginning and gradually drop down
to small numbers. This year the at
tendance has improved as the weeks
PASS, instead of decreasing. The en-
rollment in the higher evening schools
is much larger than it has been for the
last five years"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Deaths of a Day
SAMUEL S. THOMPSON
Retired Wholesale Grocer and Fin
ancler Was 81 Years Old

dnCleV las OF ICdTS Siu
Samuel S. Thompson, retired whole
sale grocer and fnancier, died last
night at his home 2020 Spruce street,
from catarrhal pneumonia. He was
eighty seven years old.
He was an officer and director of more
than twenty business and charitable in
stitutions and was principally active in
the wholesale firm of Mitchell, Fletcher
& Co.
Mr.. Thompson at one time was
president of the Hatboro National
Grove Turnpike Co. and director of the
Rittenhouse Trust Co., Consolidation
National Bank, Northeast Pennsylvania
Railroad. Wholesale Grocers' Associa-
ton. Northern Dispensary, Friends
Institute, Friends Historical Society.
trustee of the Hatboro Library and for
twenty five years trustee of the State
Hospital at Norristown.
Mr.. Thompson was an orthodox
Quaker, born in Chester county. Octo-
Der %, 1894. son of Daniel Bernard
and Mary Hayes Thompson. He attend
ID the Friends Academy at Westtown
lie N;s married three times his first
wife. Annie +. Mitchell. daughter OF
George Justice and Tacy Iredelf Mitch
ell, died in 1872. The second wife was
Hannah Iredell Comfy. who died ir
1880. and the third wife was Mrs
Emma Lukens Hall. who survives. to
gether with three children. Miss Mary
|. Thompson. of Santa Barbara. Calf.
! Mrs. Antoine Bournonvile. and Justice
NJ. Thompson. of Philadelphia. Mrs
Franklin Phillips, of Newark. daugh
ter of Mrs. Thompson, is we'll knowr
here.
In addition to his Spruce street home
Mr.. Thompson had summore homes al
Hatboro and Pocono Manor.
The funeral will take place Friday
afternoon at 1 o'clock. from his Spruc,
street residence. Interment will be pri'
vate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Christmas Art Sale OPENS

The annual Christmas exhibition and
sale of works by members of the Art
Alliance, Rittenhouse square. opens to-
day and will continue until January 2.
Small things chiefly are to be shown
sketches, notes, thumb box jottings.
statuettes, craftswork-all displaying
the lighter .side of artists spirit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Lady Beaverbrook Not Candidate

London, Dec. 10.-(By A. P.)-
Lady Beaverbrook, who before her
marriage to Baron Beaverbrook, owner
of the Daily Express, was Miss Drury
of Halifax, n. s.. has declined the in :
vitation of the Unionist committee for
Ashton Under Lyme to become a can
didate for seat in the House OF
Commons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Henry C. Cater

Henry C. Cater, aged seventy five,
a Civil War veteran and member of
the Weccacoe Company of the days of
the old volunteer fire department. died
yesterday at his home. t505 Thompson
street. He had been i'll ten days. Mr..
Cater served through the Civil War
as a member of the Ninety eighth and
196th Regiments, Pennsylvania Volun
teers. He was a pioneer manufacturer
of what is known as tight barrels and
remained in this business until he re-
tired twelve years ago. Mr.. Cater
was n member of the Active Firemen' s
Association. He is survived by his
widow and four children-Mrs. Ed
ward DIETRICH, Mrs. Anna Dwyer,
Thomas Cater, of Fern Rock and
Harry T. Cater, of Germantown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
INDUSTRIAL AIDES TO DINE
Twelfth Annual Banquet of Manu-
facturers' Representatives Tonight

The twelfth annual banquet of the
Association of Manufacturers Rep
rcscntatives will be held at the Bellevue
Stratford tonight.
The function will be informal and will
be marked by number of addresses
on existing business conditions that are
expected to be of unusual Importance
owing to the existing business situation:
The association membership is one of
the most influential business groups in
this city. being composed of representa-
tives of the principal manufacturers of
the nation. f. w. Tallman, with
Offices in the Drcxel Building, is chair
man of the committee having the annual
banquet in charge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
IS LIQUOR MEN ARRAIGNED
Alleged VIolators Of Wartime Pro
hibltlon Face Court

Fifteen saloonkeepers and bartendcrs
will be arraigned in the United States
District Court here today for alleged
violations of the wartime prohibition
act.
The cases were set for hearing yes
terday, and the first one, that of Owen
McGoldrick and his bartender. Con
Reardon. was called. McGoldrick, be =
cause of illness, was unable to appear
and his case was postponed until
March,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

Trenton, Dec. 10.-Declaring that her
father struck her and knocked her down
while they were waiting for train in
the Pennsylvania Railroad station on
North Warren street, Miss Awilda Case.
of Titusville. had him held in $500 bail
for the grand jury. following a hearing
before Police Justice Geraghty in Cen
trail Police Court yesterday. Mr.. Case
pleaded not guilty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
William r. Wilson

William R. Wilson, one time presi :
dent of the National Iron, Steel and
Heavy Hardware Association, died
Monday in his home, S133 Pine road,
Fox Chase. Mr.. Wilson, who was six
ty-three years old, was n member of
the firm of Wilson & Bates, jobbers in
iror, steel and blacksmith supplies,
business January 1, 1919.
Mr.. Wilson was born in this city,
educated in the public schools and was
graduated from the Philadelphia Col
lege Of Pharmacy. He was in the drug
business several years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
William G. Laird

William G. Laird, an engineer on
the Reading Railway for twenty FIVE
years, died yesterday in the University
Hospital. Mr.. Laird, who lived at 1856
East Evergreen street, Chestnut Hill,
had been in poor health for four years.
he was fifty five years old, and is sur
vived by a widow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

There's something doing
every minute that keeps
mind and body keenly alert
during a session with your
instructor.
Let us give you personal
demonstration.
COLLINS INSTITUTE
OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
COLLINS BLDG. WALNUT ST. AT 18TH
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

Episcopal Mission Holds Sale
The Episcopal City Mission opened n
three day rummage sale this morning at
the headquarters, 225 South Third
street. Toys, books, clothing and fur
niture is to be placed on sale.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Or. John LouIs Metzaer, Jr.

DR.. John Louis Metzger, Jr., twenty
nine years old, 4511 East Thompson
street, died yesterday in the Hahne-
mann Hospital of heart disease. He
had been i'll since last March,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
Poems by an Aciress

Florence Nash, we'll known on the
stage from her appearance in some no =
table casts, includes Il number of poems
on the life Of the theatre in hcr vol =
umc Of verse, "Junc Dusk Intimate
and instructive touches mark her poems
about the stage. Mainly, however, her
subject matters arc OF love. the pcrcn-
nial stuff of poetry and drama. She
has one interesting cycle on what has
been called the second psychological
phase Of lovc-the surge of passion that
follows aon cstrangement and scpara :
ton. Miss Nash also has other poems
Of passion which vary between the
modes of Ell Wheeler Wilcox and
Lawrence Hope" She is all for the
roses and rapturcs, and not at all for
the lilies and languors of poctcraft.
Miss Nash is a fervid, passionate and
sometimes hectic daughter of the muses..
JUNE DUSK. BY Florence Nash. New
York: George II. Boran Company. SIPS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
Poems of Life and DEATH

The way of the American poets Of this
era Of growing poetic appreciation is
certainly easier to publisher and a
public than for, 10! these many years.
Nor are they zone volume poets,
either. Difficult as it was for n poet to
attain publication in an initial volume
only a short time ago, it was thrice as
hard, and, indeed, almost unheard of,
for the average minor poet to succeed
one book with another. Irene Ruther-
ford McLcoA has reached her third vol
ume of collected poems in Before
Dawn" Readers who appreciated the
poetic substance and spirit of "Songs
to Save a Soul" and Swords for
Life" will find new and similarly lyric
treasures in Before Dawn" Miss Me
Leod is a musical poet, and in that cat
egory not merely a melodst, but an
adept at deep harmonies and at coun-
terpoint of sound ard sense. The grave
and sometimes tragic issues of life and
death provide the material for sonnet
sequence, narrative poem and a
dramatic dialogue in her worthy new
volume.
BEFORE DAwN. by Irene Rutherford Nc.
Leod New York; b. W. Husbsoh. si.sS, rs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26

The thirty-s lyrics included III tn"
little volume. ''chambcr Music, by
James joyce. will add to the fame of
rnr brilliant iriShman who wrote them
They arc the songs of lover to his
mistress and toll of the dawn of love,
the delights of its mutual recognition
and acceptance and the regret at sep
araton. The fourth lyric is TYPICAL
Here it is:
When the shy star goes forth in heaven,
All maidnnlN. dScOrSOlate.
IIrar you amid tie drowsy even
Dne who Is singing by your gate.
His song Is softer than III" dow.
And he is come to visit you.
-, bend no more in revrrE. &C.
When he at cVCntide Is calling.
%or muse: Who may this singer be
Whose song about my heart tS falIinS'
Know YOU this. the lovers chant,
'ris that am your Visitan'
The sequence is distinguished by an
exQusitrncss of sentiment, Il delicacy
Of feeling and a musical quality that
drc as rare as they are delightful.
CHAMBER MUSIC. Authorized edition. BY
James Joyce New York; B, w. Hucbsch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
STRINGS or THE
MUSE OF POETRY
Books Of Verse by american,
and British Writers

Lieutenant Ransom's ''POcms About
Cod is curious book, written with
something of the burr of Thomas
Hardy. Ono secs an out of doors man
"A lover of good victuals-not afraid
to reason about the universe. Ransom
finds no moro Inconsistency in putting
God into a farm kitchen and in letting
Him work thcrC--at mothers elbow
than our grace saying contemporaries
do in bringing Him in for Il guest nj
the meal. The main theme Of most of
, tho verses. the immnncncc Of God in the
affairs of common life, is treated ia
miliarly. but not lightly.
The best things arc not about God,
but about mcn. which is as it should
be- for when tho poet pcnctratcS be-
yond the word as spoken by mon to the
idea behind it his theology is pcrplcX
ing. God helps mother bake blackberry
pic in the Kitchen in 'noonday grace
ten pages later God makes the hired
man vomit behind the COW shed; God
comes to the bed of sickness in n
strong and fine poem and extends Ills
kindly hut Intellectual hand In
Prayer" he lolls back on his fur
nishcd throne like the little boys di-
vinity in Untcrmcycr's poems on God
heaven, and IA holy wOman's prayers
make him so ashamed that he twists
M his face to the horror of the harplng
Scraphim.
When Ransom is off his pct theme,
when he makes mems attitudes to God
,l,, ,or,hutopcc of thCir humanity, he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
H Varied Muse

A varied muse sings In Echoes and
Realities" collection of poems by
Walter PriChard Eaton, critic, novelist
and story writer Blank verse, free
verse and just ordinary metrcal verse
serve as the media Of expression for Mr..
Eaton's impressions of Washington
Square, New England hillsides, Pitts
burgh, and other places. A rich poetic
vein runs through the book May 30.
1917" has fine and brave dignity.
There are a number of admirably COM
posed sonnets of which Quest" repre-
sents the high water mark
ECHOES AND REALITIES. BY Walter
Prchard Eaton. New York: George H.
Doran Company. $I5O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
Wraiihs and Realities

Cole Young Rice has garncrcd mum
bcr of his latest poems into the recently
published volume. "Wraiths and Reali-
ties" Mr. Rice is born minstrel. us
ing the word in its old or bardic sense.
IIc speaks in numbers. like Ovid, be-
cause the numbers flow naturally, spon.
tancousIy and beautifully. lie can be
dramatic, lyric, narrative or dcScrip-
tive; he cannot be but always melodi-
Gus. But the poems in this new volume
nrc not mere pretty tunes-they are
the stuff Of pure poesy.
WRAITHS AND REALITIES BY Cole
Young Rice. New York: The Century Com
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
Donald Exams improves

There is more in Donald Evans's lat
est book of verse. "Ironica' than IN
any previous outgiving from this young
man. His appeal, however, is stll'
TO that small and specialized class
which likes bitter and ironical things,
vet there is now and then touch
Of sentiment which has humorous
flavor. If he would cultivate this he
might some day write a book of verse
which would please more people than
il offcnds.
lRONICA BY Donald Evans. New York:
Nicholas l.. Brown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
White IBatiste
BlOClSeS

Lovely waists of soft pretty ba-
tistc are made in many delightful
ways. There are square nccks and
Y nrckS with roll or flat collars.
Some are lace trimmed, some
tucked in a most attractive way,
others have pIcated frillS and still
others are touched with dainty
coloring in pink, blue, lavender or
rose.
Prices 90 from $3.50 to $3.50.
Narkeb
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26

IHp SdIIIt IIITU 50 easy 70 Nre"''
they have much to recommend
them.
White doeskin finish gloves,
pique sewn, with Paris point
backs and one clasp at the wrist,
are $l.75 a pair.
A better quality leather, pique
or outseam sewn with spear point
backs and one clasp at the wrist,
are 81 a pair. These are in white
also.
Doe finish white leather gloves
with strap wrists and Paris point
backs are outseam sewn and So a
pair. Ever so smart with serge
frocks.
(CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-26
Poems BY James Joyce

IRONICN BY Donald Evans. New H"i
Nicholas J.. Brown.
The courier-index., 1919-02-28

-romise for the man who wil9ully evades. wilfully neglects, or wdfully falsifies He is classed withf other law breakers in the eyes of the bu- reau. and is vigorously prosecuted in the courts. No other course is open to the bureau, in meeting fairly and suuarely the demand of the willing tax payer i will-the other man must There is a solemn responsi- bility thus existing between the hon est tax payer and the bureau to lo- cate and punish the dishonest tax dodger. .H
 For decade the drift of federal taxation has been from the indirect tax toward direct payment by each individual of his just share of the cost of government Gradually the circle of direct tax payers has been increased. and under the new reve- me law the extension will mcluoe hundreds of thousands who never before filed declaration with the government.
 We are therefore TOW cohe ' another milestone in national pro gress. We approach new test or the soundness of American ideals oi a government of, by and Tor the naonle Tn. test is whether oir wonderful victory of liberty IS worth the cost as apportioned io tue private pocket book of the peoples repre- sentatives.
 "It is such a big thing. this collec- fion of taxes directly from pr1vate funds and business funds, that notn- ing short of our best American CO., oneratiye efforts can make 1t sue cessful and hence just. The bureau seeks this co-opration of the people in collecting the revenue. It has never been denied or stinted; any thing less than the great, voluntary outpouring of shares in the nationai assessment is unthinkable.
 And 1t is such a big thing that the willing tax payer must have the guarantee of this bureau that the laggards. the jugglers1 and the vio- lators will not escape taxation ana penalties. The bureau is fulfilling It's part of this contract with the people-this contract that means so much in the practical effective and just administration of the internal revenue laws"
The courier-index., 1919-02-28
NO CHANCE FOR
 DODGERS TO ESCAPE
FULL CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PEN- ALTlES WILL FALL UPON MAN WHO TRIES TO EVADE THE LAW.

Washington, Feb. l9-How does Uncle Sam deal with tax dodgers? This inquiry, which was prompted by the severe penalties provided in the new revenue bill, has brought from Commissioner Daniel c. Roper frank statement as to the internal revenue bureaus attitude toward those who attempt to eyade taxation
 Any person who deliberately con ceals tax liability or who falsifies a return in order to reduce or evade any internal revenue tax. or who deliberately abets such concealment