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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
IDENTIFY WOMAN
JUST AS SHE DIES
Had Been Unconscious in Hos
pitaI Since Tuesday, When She
Was Hit by Trolley Car
MANY OTHERS ARE INJURED

Because she never rcgainrd conscious
ness after she was injured i'm street
accident. Mrs. Sophia Gadonsht, Of 27l4
East Albert street, narrowly missed
burial as an unidentified person. She
was not recognized unti few hours
before her death last night mt the
Womcn's Homeopathic Hospital.
She was injured last Tuesday night.
when she was knocked down by troll
ley ear at Twenty second street aud
Indiana avenue. Her skull was fractured
and three days passed before relatives
found her in the hospital
When picked up after the accident.
Il roll of bills amounting to more than
5000 was found IN her pocket
Six other persons are in hospitals to-
day as the result of street accidents
Two of the injured are in serious con
ditiOu
While crossing Broad street at lie
high avenue, two Young women Wrr"
struck by an automobile and seriously
injured. Both were taken to the
Womcu'S Homeopathic IIospital for
treatment. They are Miss Florence
Ralph. twenty one years old. 951l
north Sartain street, aud Miss Mary
Quigley, twenty Years old. 252G North
Franklin street
The driver Of the machine. Edward
Walter, $40 Spruce street. took the in
iurcd women to the hospital and then
drove to the Scdglcy street aud Hunt
ing Park avenue police station. where
he surrendered to the house sergeant.
lie will have Il hearing today.
Two other women were seriously in
,iurcd early last night when their auto
mobile aud II freight trolley ear col
lidcd ut Thil1cth street and Girard
avenue.
Mrs. Lewis Hepburn. 35l4 Race
street. driver Of the auto. suffered a
broken leg and severe cuts and bruises.
Her companion, Mrs. Margaret lar
mcSScn, lO3 West Mermaid lane. suf-
f"rcd internal injuries and severe
bruises when she was caught between
the dashboard and the seat of the auto
They are in the Lankcuau Hospital
According to the pedestrians who
saw the accident, the auto was cross
ing the tracks in front of the ear and
was struck fairly in the ccutcr by the
heavy trolley. The machine was almost
broken in two by the impact
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
CREW FLEES FIRE
ON BOARD TUGBOAT
After Fighting Blaze for Five
Hours Forced to Leave in
Lifeboats
VESSEL OFF NEW CASTLE

Fighting fire on board the tug
Michael r. Barrett for more than five
hours, during which time there was no
response to repeated calls for help, and
in weather that made aid from the
shore impossible. Captain Earl Carlisle
and the crew were finally forced to take
to lifcboats and watch their craft burn
to the waters edge off New Castle. Del.
The fire. believed to have been caused
by an overturned lamp in the mess
room willie the cook was preparing sup
per, occurred Thursday night. Yes
tcrduy the charred hull was bcachcd by
Delaware fishermen near New Castle.
The cook discovered the fire and gave
the alarm. With buckets, the crew
| fought the flames, which had spread
/ over the mesSroOm, and stream was
directed on the blaze. Fighting in dense
smoke for two hours, il was finally
| believed that the blaze was conquered
and confined entirely To the mcssroom.
/ However, II few minutes later ii broke
ont again and gained rapidly despite
| the Efforts of the crew to check it,
Calls for aid sounding from the tug 5
| whistle attracted spectators ia tho
rivers banks. but failed to attract aid
from any vessel. no craft being within
hearing distance. Rough weather made
| it impossible for the persons along the
shore to aid the crew,
For three hours moro the men. di %
rccted by the captain, fought the fire,
retreating step by step as the flames
made hcadway despite their efforts.
Finally, when the tug was aba2c from
stem To stern, seeing that the fight was
| hopeless, Captain Carlisle ordered the
men TO the boats
Last to leave the burning tug as
the flames were threatening him. hc
jumped Rough weather mad" him
miss his footing and he fen into the
river and was rescued by the crew.
The exhausted crew with the wet and
shivering captuiu rowed TO New Castle
whore warm clothing was supplied the
captain.
The owners Of the tug, Peter Ilugar
x Go. of this city. say that th" loss
is more than $4,000. 1t is doubtful
! if the hull il of amy value.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
ROBBERSUS TRUCK
IN CLOTHING Theft
Goods Valued at $4,000
Taken by Thieves, Who
Make Escape
LOOTED GlRARD AVE. STORE.

The regular week end robbers who
have been paying Friday TO Monday
visits to this city called at the store
Of Godsteiu. GrosSnan & Hcrbach,
TO3 Girurd avenue. early yesterday
morning and stole clothing valued at.
$50 900 The theft was reported to The.
police today
Entrance to the store was gained
through II trapdoor in the roof A big
mutortruck. il is said, was used 10 haul
away the loot.
II is believed that Mt least half a,
dozen thieves were engaged in the oper-
alton. rs about 500 suits and Other
odds aud ends Of mems and womep'si
apparel were stolen.
According to members of the firm.
the thieves came well prepared and car
ried their own wrapping paper and
twinc. Pieces of paper, twine and rope
were scattered over the upper floors. II
WAS evident, too, that the robbers had
little fear Of police interruption.
They worked lciSurcly. selecting only
garments OF the best quality and the
latest cut Many suits. which evidently
did not strike their fancy. We're cast
aside and hcaped on the floor. The loot
wa. carried through an alley to Seventh.
street, where. ready for action, neigh
bor~ say they heard the chugging Of the
motor, but attached no Importance to
it, presence.
The police believe the robbers were
members Of the same gang which has
luotcd several mills in different sections
of the city recently in a similar man
upT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
WOMEN AND KANE
T0F|GHT PRICES
Federated Clubs Will Make Fair
Price list-U. S. Attorney
Will Aid
LANDLORD DEFIES BOARD

Thousands of Philadelphia women,
banded in one organization. will wage
systematic war on the high cost of
living.
\ fair price committee" is to be
formed at once, and will have the back
ing and operation of the Depart
ment of Justice and the department $
bureau of investigation. With it also
will co operate the Philadelphia market
commission.
Plans for the committee were made
yesterday at conference in the office
OF United States District Attorney
Kane, attended by federal officials,
agents of the Department of Justice,
food experts and members of the mar
ket commission. After the meeting,
Mrs. Harry &. Boden. head of the
women's division of the fair price com
mittee during the war, announced the
plans for the committee. She and Clyde
l.. King, food expert, and Captain
Arthur Sewcll. who was chairman of
the investigating committee of the food
administration. form the nucleus of the
new committee.
IHc movement Will DC lCu ny tnc
Federated Womcn's Clubs Of Philadel
phia, and il is expected that in It
thousands of women will he enrolled
Weekly fair prce bulletins, with sug
gestions for marketing, will be circu-
lated, food prices will be investigated
and fight will be made on protitccrs.
1.-THE committee has been designated
to become permanent institution
said Mr.. Kane. at will certainly have
the backing of my office.
Yesterday the first real estate owner
to refuse to accept recommendations
of the state welfare board in its fight
against high rents appeared before the
board He was Joseph Feldman, 1881
Bainbridge street.
Feldman's property. which was the
issue which called him before the board,
comprises six dwellings from 333 TO 343
North Sixtieth street. Feldman re-
fused to agree to n compromise by Civ
ing six months lcacc and fixing the
rent of each house Mt S26 a month l.,
after the board wanted it fixed at S24.
He insisted that he will demand $50
and thirty days lease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
ONLY AIDED GIRL,
SAYS MAN IN JAIL
Brakeman Declares He Took
Her to His Wife in Washing
ton for Care
TRIED TO VERIFY HER STORY

With the mystery of the disappear
ancc of Beatrice Oxman. twelve years
old, cleared by the arrest of George
F. Garnet, forty years old, Of Wash
ington, the police are dcvoting their
attention today to study of Garnett' $
story of how he came to take GUS
tody of the child after she ran away
from her home at 4O7 Gasllil street.
last Saturday
Garnet will have n hearing in thc
Central Police Court today.
The child will also be brought bacl;
from Washington. She is in the Swnrt .
zell Methodist Home, where she was
placed by Garnctt.
According to Gurnctt's story he
tried to help the little girl after hear
ing her tell of unpleasant home sur
rOundings.
1t was while he was trying to as
certain whether the child was telling
the truth that he was arrested. lie il
n brakeman running on train be
tween Philadelphia and Washington
and while here yesterday called at the
ONmHn home aud at places in the neigh
borhood, ASKING questions about III,
child.
Miss Margaret r, Maguirc. principa
of the Mccall School, Sixth and DC
Lancey streets. heard of the man pres
encc in the eighburhood. She induced
him to go to police headquarters with
her. There he was placed under ar
rest.
Garnett told the police that he first
noticed the OXman child in Broat
street station. She was talking to sev-
eral persons standing in the trainshed
1 81 overheard her conversation, h,
| Informed the police, ''and this led me tC
| believe she had been i'll treated AT home
Il suggested first TO her that I shoult
take her TO her own home, but She tolC
me that was the last place whore she
wanted to 60,
Garnctt said that she passed that
night in his home in Washington under
the care of his wife. The following
day he said he took hcr to the or
phanagc.
Gnrnett did not explain. the police
say, why he took the girl to Washing
ton to place her in Il home, instead o
notifying the matrou of Broad street
station or letting local charitable or
| ganizations know of the girls prcGica
ment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08

James they have discovered that when
a tired business man cant find anything
better to do he will eat. They have made
the bar into grill room,
The Bellevue Stratford is using its
bar as an ornament aud memorial
The room always was used as grill.
The old Adclphia bar is now coffee
shop. The Continental bar is Il lunch
counter. The one retainer at the Wal
ton OK bar was in the depths of an i'm
measurable despair today. He didn {
know what was to become of his bar.
1t was just as it fell on the LIST of
July. No soda fountain effects. no
restaurant tablcs> 1t had lived and
died barroom,
Are they going to rent this bar to
any one for.any other - the last
of the great white coated fleet was
asked
'Do you want TO rent it?" he asked
in return, and fell into meditation in .
tinitely removed from this dry earth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
STUDENT MAY SAVE ORPHAN
Gives His Blood TO Tiny Sufferer
From Anemia

A friendless little orphan Stanley
Innzski, nine years old. has tirmer
grrp un life 'o0ay at the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA Hospital.
And this j. because q young student.
Albert H. Steiner, who intends to be a
doctor. has given a pint Of his blood in
an effort e. save the boy.
Ntmg steiner is a sophomore AT the
University and attends the clinics, lie
heard call for IL volunteer who would
yNc blood for TRANSMISSION to the or
phan. who is suffering from acute one-
mia. lie offered to submit to the oper-
aion. Both the student and the boy
are sand to be in good condition today
al thc hospital.
Tie lnnzski hoy was brought here
from Shumokin Pa for treatment for
pucmia and diSIocution of the hip.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
GIVE SALARY INCREASES
Western Union Telegraph Co. EN-.
ployes Get Surprise at Dance


Employees of the Western Union Tele
graph Co., who attended, their first
dance at Lu lu Temple last night, We're
given pleasant surprise by the man
agemcnt in the form of an announce
mcnt of salary increases.
4 straight II per cent increase in
salary the first Of the year, bonus on
December 81 and Il profit sharing plan,
in which all employees will participate,
were announced at the function last
night. The announcements were greeted
with prolonged cheers.
The entertainment was under the
auspices of Philadelphia Local No. II
of the Western Union employees.
Speeches were made by II. w. Carroll,
general commercial manager of the
eastern division; s. Il. Ilaig, division
traffic superintendent NJ. c. Allen,
division plant superintendent, and G..
Green, division auditor.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.
recognizes the right of collective
bargaining. and conferences take place
regularly between the company and
representatives of the employees as
SociatiuuS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
MAGISTRATE "PLAYS SAFE"
WrieIey "Passes Up" Contradictory
Case of Domestic Dscord

Mrs. Amelia Lizut. Of 1925 Ruffncr
street. appeared today before Magistrate
WriglcN in the Germantown avenue ami
Lycomng street police station as nc
cuser of her husband. Her bill of com
plaiut contained three counts:
First. Lizut will not work.
Second. He beats her.
Third. He acts rs though he hasn t
right good sense.
After Mrs. Lizut had told her story
the husband filed his counter complaint,
containing the following items:
First. He does work.
Second. Mrs. LiHut does not save
what he earns and has put nothing in
the savings bank since 1917.
Third. She had told him that She
can get ''bettcr man" without trouble.
After hearing the two sides Magis-
trate Wrigley held Lizut under $500
bail for trial on II charge of assault
and battery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
WOMEN AT BRYN MAWR
Delegates to International Congress
Will Spend Today at College

Delegates 10 the UNCONDITIONAL con-
gress of working women are TO spend
today at Bryn Mawr College as the
guests of Miss Helen Taft, the acting
president. The visit has been arranged
10 allow conferences between Miss
Garcia Mocnscholl. head of the school
of social research ut Bryu MaWr, and
the delegates.
Most of the day will be spcnt in this
exchange of ideas, but III the afternoon
the women will be taken on sight
seeing trip, which will include Valley
Forge In the evening some of the
women will address the students.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
EXPENSE UP 4O1 PER CENT
Expert Says City Population Has
Grown Sc Per Cent In 80 Years

The total expense of this city has in
creased 4O1 % per cent during the last
thirty two years, while the population
has increased less than Sc per cent.
This statement was made by Thomas l..
Hicks, municipal expert and statistician.
In his opinion. the figures give u
warning that unless "deadwood'' is
eliminated from the public puyrolls and
maintenance put on n business basis of
a fair days work from every cmploye,
the city will soon be seriously embar-
rassed financially.
'If we are to keep up the present
surprising rate of increased expenses
year after year we must have tax
rate to meet it, Mr. Hicks said.
''For next year I believe the tax
rate must be fifteen to twenty cents
per hundred higher to bring in enough
revenue. 1t must be higher every year
80 long as the ratio sc increase in ex-
penses runs ahead of the ratio of in
come increase
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
CONTINUE COMMUNITY WORK
Service Of War Camp Organization
to Be Maintained by New Body

Community Service of Philadelphia.
which is'thc organization carrying on
the peace time work of the war cnmp
community service. recently dishaudcd.
will continue much Of the work of the
present institutions.
The information booth on the east
plaza of city Hall win continue for the
use of strangers in the city and for the
use of those who want advice ON eco
uumical and social problems.
Twelve weeks courses. closing Feb
ruary lG. 1920, are offered hy the Penn
sylyauia School for Social Service.
These courses are designed to meet th"
demand of volunteers for specific train
ing in service. The courses offered in
rhdc community problems aud organiaa
tion. housing and sanitation, recreation,
industrial problems and child welfare.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
POLICE AID RADIUM SEARCH
No Ordinary Thief Stole $4,000 Tube,
Saws Hospital Expert

Authorities of the University Hos
pital have appealed to. the police in
their search for the $4,000 tube of
radum which disappeared from the hos
pital yesterday. This was learned to-
day when Captain of Detectives Soudcr
announced that photographs of the
missing vial have been sent broadcast
as first step in the hunt for the thief.
DR.. Henry X Pancoast. Il rudium
expert at the hospital, declared his
positive belief that the radium was
stolen, and by no ordinary thief.
The vial contains fifty milligrams OF
the precious substance and was being
used in Il cancer reatment when II
disappeared. Prominent physicians at
the hospital had laid it aside for a
moment after applying it in course Of
u treatment, In that moment, some Que
is believed 10 have entered the opcrat-
ing room and stolen the radium.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
ARRESTED AS STORE THIEF
Man Charged With Holding Ur
Grocery Is Held

\ bandit. apparently inexperienced
in the high cost Of living, entered the
butter and egg store at 362S Long
shore street, Tacouy. with II revolver
early today and urged the proprietor.
Samuel Taylor, to "hand over the cash
instead of the butter and eggs.
But Taylor was too quick for him.
lie yelled Thief" and Lieutenant
Jolly, of the State road and Long
The robbcr. who is about twenty
four years old, was arrested aud will
have hearing at City Hall this morn
ing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
WANTED, NEW USE FOR BARS:
VINO HAS A BRIGHT IDEA;
Passing Thirst Paors Presents Problem Upon Which 4rch
tects Might " ork With Profit to Themselves and
The Public in General

IT'S about as hard to figure out what
to do with the barrooms as what to
do without them,
Many of them are fine places. roomy
attractive and easy of access, and un-
doubtedly the best unfurnished apart
ments in the city. But they don't seem
10 fill n long felt want any more. Not
that the want isn't long felt and then
some. but they cant fill it.
There is bright future ahead of the
young architect who can take one look
at place of departed spirits and re
construct it gracefully.
Signs of the new era are beginning
to appear in the heart of this city.
Tho buffet at the Ritz Carlton is being
turned into fashion salon, where
the J. NJ. Gliding Go. will open show
and sales rooms. This company now
has establishments in New York. Paris,
Duluth. Palm Beach. Cincinnati and
Washington.
Further down the street at the st.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
SUITS HIT P. R. T. MOVE
Northwest Asks Injunction Against
Use Of Exchange Tickets

4 petition asking that the l.. Il. T.
he restrained from issuing cN"huugC
ticket, in the northwest section of III,
city. and asking that the company be
compelled TO carry all passengers in
the district for five cent fare, has been
filed in the Superior Court.
The petition charges Unfair di rim
ination by the company in the applica
tiou 0C the exchange system. 1t is filed
by the Northwest business Mems As
sociatton. the North K"nsington Busi-
rcss Mems Association, the Thirty sec
ond ward Improvement Association and
the North Penn Improvement Assorla
tiOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
VIOLATED ETHICS; ARRESTED
Ex-Navy Man Suspected of Smash
ina Window Because He Ran

Joseph II. Daley, nineteen years old.
1904 Dounton street, who was recently
discharged from the navy, was taken
before Magistrate Wrigley in the Ger
mantown avenue and Lycoming street
police station today on suspicion OF
having smashed II store window at Ger
mantown avenue aud Staub street.
lie was arrested because he ran when
bc saw n policeman. TIc was captured
nftcr chase Of five blocks, in which
three shots were fired,
Daley explained that he ran because
he feared the disgrace of being ar
rested. He was discharged.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
TO GREET PRINCE OF WALES
Captain John Hamilton Potter is
Placed on Staff Of Secretary Lansing

John Hamilton Potter. former cap
tain in the A. u. +. und at present Il
member of the brokerage firm Of Gas
Sntt u Co., will leave tomorrow for
the Canadian border to meet the rriuce
of Wales when the future ruler of the
British empire arrives in this country.
Captain Potter has been made Il
member of the staff of Secretary of
State Lansing and Major General John
j. Biddlc to accompany the prince dur
ing his stay in this country next week.
He is the only rhiladcIphian appointed
to the staff.
His appointment, il was said today,
was due to the fact that he became ac-
quainted with the Prince of Wales while
stationed in London during the war.
Captain Potter is former athlete of
note and is popular sorialy. He lives
at the Windcrmcro Apartments, Broad
and Locust streets
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
PRISON CHARGES MAY FALL
Charities Board Finds Virtually All
Testimony Supports Warden

Investigators of the Eastern Peniten
tiary are marking time today. 1t is
reported that the inquiry into the
methods and management of Warden
McNenty may be dropped.
What has -causeu the interruption OF
the investigation has not been explained,
the secrecy adopted at the start being
maintained today. 1t is reported, how
ever, that the public charities board
found, after questioning number of
persons, that most of the complaints
against the penitentiary mar ragement
have come from one man, w. A. Dun
lap, an undertaken at Nineteenth street
and Fairm9unt avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
D. A. &. to Send Delegation

The Independence Hall Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolu =
ton is sending a delegation of seven
members to the annual state conference
which will be held in Pittsburgh No
vcmber II. - and Is, The regent,
Mrs. Walter +. Pcet, heads the delega
tion which includes Mrs Frederick
Fowles. Mrs. James W. Fry, Mrs. A..
4. O'Daniel. Mrs. Percy Y. Schelly,
Mrs. Samuel j. Raylor and Mrs, John
II. Washburn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
BOYS ACTION SAVES CLUB
Sees Canoe Organizations Head
quarters Afire and Gives Alarm

Quick action by an eight year Old
boy who discovered the roof of the
headouarters of the Idle Hour Canoe
Club, 4424 Ridge avenue, in flames,
probably saved the building from de-
Struction.
The youngster ran TO the engine
house of company No. 30 and told the
tiremen. They responded quickly and
extinguished the flames. The loss was
about $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
PRECIOUS PAINTING HERE
MilIet's shepherd and Sheep" Sent
Heir of Miss Spooner

shepherd and Sheep" probably the
only painting by Jean Francois Millct
to be on the market, is now in this
city in custody of J. Il. McClccs. 1907
Walnut street. The picture. Is by "a
inches, belongs to Mrs Emily G.. Pot
ter, niece of the late Miss Sarah NJ
Spooncr, formerly of this city, who died
in San Francisco.
Miss Spooner bequeathed her art
works to the San Francisco museum
Her bequest came into conflict with the
state law, which limits charitable be
quests to one third of an estate when
there are heirs at law, and in conse-
quence, the painting was included in
the share of the estate received by her
Philadelphia heirs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
Holiness Association Meets

The Philadelphia Holiness Assoria
tion opened its annual fall services in
the Sialoam Methodist Episcopal Church
East Susquchanna and Girard avenues
Dir. Monroe Nayhingcr, president of
Taylor University, at Upland, spoke
this morning.