davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
WITHDRAWS AS CANDIDATE
Charles chIsm Not to Enter May
orally Fight In NatIonalr rHark

The contest for the Republican nom.
ination for mayor of National Park,
n. j., is now between the present
mayor, Edgar Waters, and Councilman
Harry Ulrich. Charles Chism. the
borough recorder and justice of the
peace. who was supported by the
church people, has decided to Withdraw
as candidate.
Waters and UIrich are both favor
able to liberal Sunday, and the con-
test between them is going to be close.
National Park has come into prom
incncc AS a week end pleasure spot for
the people of Philadelphia and vicinity
since Mayor Waters was first elected
four years ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
WOMEN TO STUMP
viii Deliver Addresses Tonight in
Support Of Patterson

Women will go on the election stump
tonight for Judge Patterson, it was an
nounced today at the headquarters of
the committee of one hundred. To-
nights spcechmaking will be at Fifty
second and Spruce streets, Fifty second
and Market streets and Sixtieth and
Markets streets. The speakers will be
Mrs. Eleanor Hirsh. representing the
Hosiery Workers, Miss Cecilia T.
Bass, a woman lawyer, and Miss Nancy
James.
Mrs. A. W. Harmon, chairman of
the women's committee, said today that
the pOStoffice was TO blame because only
twenty women attended the meeting
yesterday. Six hundred letters notify.
ing women of the meeting, she said
were held up in the postotfice because
of the Labor Day holiday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
ELECTRICAL BODY CONVENES S
Delegates Meet for Annual Session
at Bedford Springs

. "a General Exchange of Ideas" held
the interest Of delegates to the twelfth
annual convention of the Pennsylvania
Electric Association at its first meet
ing today. The convention is in session
at Bedford Springs.
A feature of the opening of the con =
vcntion was large exhibition of new
electrical appliances. The idea of the
convention is to provide basis for
settling down again" after the war
and a discussion of the needs of the
country, particularly the Keystone
State.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
INCOME TAX DUE SEPT. Is
Third Quarterly InstaiIment Should
Be Paid Collector

The third installment of the income
tax is due before September Is.
According to Collector Lederer about
20 per cent of those affected by the
tax have paid all their installments
already, although corporations and
large factory companies are accept
ing the opportunity to pay by install
ments. This means about 800, ,000, 900
is yet to be collected in the Philadel-
phia internal revenue district, he said.
All bills for the third installment
have been sent out by the collectors
office. The fourth and last instsllment
of the income tax must be paid before
December 10. .r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
ALLEGED BURGLAR ESCAPES
After Arrest Attacks Three Police
men and Jumps From Patrol

An alleged burglar escaped from the
police today after he had been cap
tured while trying to rob the home Of
Albert Little. 1415 Montgomery avenue.
He was captured in an alley after sew
eral shots had been fired.
BY way of showing his displeasure
the prisoner attacked a police sergeant
and two patrolmen while on the way to
the Twentieth and Berks street station,
and jumped from the patrol.
Before the police recovered from the
surprise attack the man had disap-
peared.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
Today's Program for
Letter Carriers Convention

q a. m. to IL m, to 3 p. m. and
to 9 p. m.--Business sessions,
National Association of Letter
Carriers, Moose Hall.
0 a. m. to II m.-Business session,
Ladies' Auxiliary.
/ 80 and 3 30 p. m.-Automobile
ride, seeing Philadelphia.
s p. m.-Band concert, Strawberry
Mansion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
NO DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES
Republicans Running for Gloucester
., Councils Are Not Opposed

Democratic candidates are wanted to
run for councils in Gloucester. They
must have good platforms and be good
runners.
Up to noon today no such candidates
had appeared. As this is the last day
for filing nomination papers it is possi-
BILE the Republicans will have no op-
ponents for these Offices.
The Republican candidates are Robert
Anderson, First ward Charles Maniey,
second ward. and @, w. Barnard, for
at large.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
HELD FOR SHOOTING WOMAN
Woman Moved Once to Escape Him,
She Saws

Michael Rays, 3242 North Fifteenth
street, was held in $4,000 bail for court
today by Magistrate Baker on a charge
Of aggravated assault and battery and
carrying concealed deadly weapons. He
is alleged to have shot Mrs. Alberta
Pugh, Segal street above Twenty sec
ond.
Mrs. Pugh said she had moved once
to escape his attentions, but that Kays
followed her to her new home. When
she tried to escape from him and fed
into the cellar, she told the police, he
fired two shots at her. She is in a
serious condition in the Methodist Hos
pital. LN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
SHIP OWNERS FOR MOORE
A. F. Brown, President, Sees Bic
Growth for City

Endorsement of Congressman Moore
for the Republican mayoralty nomina-
tion was given today by A. +. Brown,
president Of the Vessel Owners and
Captains Association.
He urged the support of Mr.. Moore
by business men and declared that the
congressman had put Philadelphia on
the map" He predicted that, under the
direction of Mr.. Moore, Philadelphia
would be the leading city of the United
States.
The Endorsement was given in letter
to the Moore campaign committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
$4,000 NECKLACE IS LOST
Wife Of Gerard's Former Secretary
Seeks Police Aid

Bernardsville, n. j.. Sept. 3.-Mrs.
H. Rivington Pyne, Of New York, re-
ported to the police here yesterday the
loss of $4,000 pearl necklace, n gift
from her grandfather, John r. Belair.
Mrs. Pyne said she visited friends
last Thursday in an automobile in the
mountain colony and remembers while
on the Mine Mount road that she leaned
out of the machine several times. She
thought it likely that she lost the neck =
lace in this way.
Mrs. Pyne's husband was private
secretary to James w. Gerard while the
latter was ambassador to Germany.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
BUMM GOLF VICTOR
Captures Disston A. A. Handicap
Tourney With 1O1 Gard

William Bumm won the DiSston 4.
4. handicap golf tournament over the
TOrresdale links yesterday afternoon.
He had gross score of H.. His handi-
cap brought his net score to 1O1. c.
r. Whitaker finished second with 1O3.
G.. +. Evans was third. and +. f.
Cooper fourth. The SCOPES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
MACKEY WARE MAN? MY, NO.!
Indepe endents His Friends, AVows
Forty.sixth Ward Leader

Harry Mackcy d Ware leader?
Oh. my. mo- Perish the thought !.
Mr. Mackey dsclaimed the idea to-
day in denying that the heavy registra
ton in his ward. the Forty sixth. in
dicated victory there for Congressman
Moore.
Il am not a Ware lieutenant. and |
want to set the people right on that
score" Mackey said. Il am under no
obligation to any political leader.
have always lived side by side with the
Independent voters of this ward. and
consider them my friends.
''The independents choose to think OF
me as a Ware lieutenant. I have ia :
vored Ware only because ] believe him
to be right, and on the other hand ]
know Pcnrose to be wrong
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
?. R. |. MEN PICNIC
IN RAIN AT GROVE
Outdoor Athletic Events Post
poned as Two-Day Carni-
val Opens at Park
CROWDS. AT; INDOOR EVENTS
Events of the Day at Picnic
Of }P.RT.Employes at Grove

Athletic events during afternoon:
Junior prize awards. p. IN.
Senior prize awards, 4 n. IN.
Sousa concert. . 80 p. NJ.
Sousa concert. 80 p. M.
Get together meeting, . 30 p. IN.
Sousa concert, I :45 y. m.
Sousa concert, 9:45 p. m.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
TRY TOF|X BLAME
FOR FATAL BLAZE
Coroner Hears Theory That
Warehouse Where Six Lost
Lives Was Overloaded
CHARGE DENIED BY FIRM

There was considerable conflicting
testimony today at the coroner's inquest
into the death of six firemcn who were
killed when the warehouse of Potash
Brothers. 600-13 North American
street, collapsed during n fire on
July 10.
Representatives of the concern con-
tended that the collapse of the building
was not due to negligence Of the firm,
but officials of the fire department. as
serted that bags heavily loaded with
cement contributed to the accident.
Sixty five witnesses were called by
Coroner Knight to testify at the in
quiry.
Frank Capp, superintendent of the
Potash plant, expressed belief that the
weight of water used in eXtinguishing
the flames caused the building to tum-
BILE. He said that all the bags in the
building were empty bags. Some were
old cement bags. he said, but they con-
tanned no cement.
Theory is Contradicted
Ross Il. Davis, deputy chief of the
Fire Department. cJntradicted Capp's
statements. The building, he said. was
blocked with bags filed with cement.
These bags, he insisted, impeded the
firemen from the start and the weight
of the bags, which were stored on an
upper floor. caused the building to
crumble. After the fire. he said, he
counted 200 bags filled with cement as
they were taken from the ruins. Weight
of water. he declared, could not have
caused the disaster, as the firemen
used very little water.
Ross. was supported in his testimony
by Samuel B. Mitchell an inspector of
the Bureau of Housing and Sanitation.
Mitchell said that he had seen bags,
filled with cement stored in the building.
Potash Brothers, he said. conducted the
business at 900, 611 and G13 North
American street without a license, in
1913 and 1919. When told that they
were violating the law, they took out
license for the place at 504 North
American street. Then they were. ar
rected and fined $25 by Magistrate
O'Brien, on May IA, 1910. They did
not pay the fine, he said, but took an
appeal.
No Action Pending Appeal
This interested the foreman of the
jury. George F. Pawling, an engineer
and builder.
'Were no steps taken after they re-
fused to pay the fne?' he asked.
Mitchell replied that the authorities
had waited because of the appeal.
Then Assistant District Attorney Will
liam Findlay Brown, who had been
watching the proceedings for District
Attorney Rotan, said:
''These people should have been ar
rested every day until they complied
with the law" '.
Inspector Gallagher, OF the fire mar
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03

Holland Says Committee Had No
Right to Urge StrikeIess Half Year

Holland says committee Had NO
Right to Urge StrikeIess Half Year
New York, Sept. 3.-(By A. P.)--
James p. Holland, president of the
New York State Federation of Labor,
has repudiateG the report of the high
cost of living committee appointed by
him, which recommended that labor re-
frain from participating in strikes for
six months as means of combating
industrial unrest and lowering the cost
of living.
Asserting that the committee had
ovcrstepped its powers in making the
recommendation, Mr.. Holland said he
would discharge both members, John
F. Pierce and Isadore Epstein. The
two committeeman have been expelled
from the Garment Cutters Union, ac-
cording to a union official, for acting
in a manner detrimental to the inter-
csts of the organization
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03
child Injured by Trolley

Catherine Kelly, six years old, OF
1913 North Palethorp street. was hit
hs trolley car last night as she was
,.foessng Norris street at Second. She
u4s cut and bruised. She is In st.
'1'Inethy's ) hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03

Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather, raining; track, muddy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03

if you aren't familiar with the fashions,
gaieties, and crazes they adore
If you've forgotten how to be social asset,
and hate to be social liability
just fill out, tear off, and mail the coupon
below for S issues--six, if you mail the coupon
row-of Vanity Fair, the one magazine that
keeps you in touch with every new movement;
with every new tendency; with every new,
sport; with every phase Of social, intellectual,
and artistic American life; and Get into step
again with tho world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-03

You knew how to take girl buggy.riding
once. The principles the same ON twelve
cylinders. You kept up with the times when
2:40 was the fast gait. You can do it again.
But now! The chassis of your mind may be as
good as ever-but aren't you wearing an 1897
model tonneau?
il you aren't an courant of what people talk
about today, when they aren't working
If you don't know even the names of the
artists, musicians, dancers, celebrities they
admire
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
2.75Pct. Beer
Will Be Made
Despite Rule
Continued from page /

proclamation or in the proclamation Of
January so TO prevent the resumption of
the manufacture of malt or cereal bev-
erages which are not in fact intoxicat-
ing, even though the alcoholic strength
be more than one half of per cent.
Has No Legal Authority
Owe know of no legal authority vest
ed in the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue or in any other executive of
ficer to fix and determine conclusively
what alcoholic content or strength
shall constitute a malt beverage intox-
icating within the intent Of the act of
Congress Of November 21, 1918. The
test of one half of / per cent of alco-
holic strength in the revenue act of
1917 and 1918, is solely for purposes of
taxation.
"The conclusion we have reached,
therefore, is that brewers may law
fully disregard the interpretations
placed by the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue upon the act Of Novem-
Der, 81, 1918, and upon the Presidents
proclamation above referred to, in so
ioi as suCH interpretation would pro-
hibit the manufacture of malt bev-
erages containing more than one-half
of L per cent and not to exceed 2.75
per cent of alcohol by weight, or 33
per cent by volume"
The probability that the government
will attempt to enforce the Internal
Revenue Commissioners interpreta-
tion is suggested by the attorneys,
who advise in that event suit in
equity "to enjoin any wrongful inter
ference with your business or arrest
of your employees" The attorneys ex-
press the opinion that if such suit
were brought the government would CO.
operate to obtain final decision
speedily instead of taking summary
action by seizure or arrest
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
1t. Col. ID. I'll. Scott, of
Gen. O'Ryan's Staff, Dies

Lieutenant Colonel David II. Scott,
of Major General Organs 9th
divisional staff, died here yesterday
of pneumonia contracted recently while
returning to this country on the Levia
than.
The son of Major General Hugh L..
Scott. born at one of the army posts,
thirty-seven years ago, Colonel Scott S
military career had the advantage of a
lifelong familiarity with army at
mosphere and traditions.
Shortly after the declaration of war
with Germany he went to France, and
as member of the general staff was
active in the organization and promo
ton of machine gun schools for of
ficers. On December 81, 1917, he was
graduated with high honors from the
Army General Staff College at Lam
gres, following which he accompanied
his fellow officers of the college on a
post t-graduate trip through the Ar
gonne- Meuse sector. He joined the
staff of the 9th Division toward the
end of January, this year.
Colonel Scott is survived by his
father, General Scott and by his
widow and son, who live in Princeton,
n: j. A brother, who is captain in the
77th Division, is still in France. The
funeral services will be held Wednes-
day in Trinity Church, Princeton, N.
j., and burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery, Washington, on Thursday.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
Kenyon Cox,
Noted Artist.
Writer, Dead
Won World Fame for Mural
Decorations in All Parts
of the United State s

Kenyon Cox, American painter,
whose influence on the art life of his
day has been threefold, through facil-
ity as q writer and teacher, is dead
at his home, 130 East Sixty-seventh
Street
Like his friend and contemporary
the late William Merritt Chase, Mr..
Cox played a familiar part in the
lives of the hundreds of art students
who year by year throng to New York.
Born in Ohio. in 1856, the son of the
late General j. D. Cox, who afterward
became Governor of that state, he
first studied at the academies of Gin
cinati and Philadelphia
When he was twenty-one he went to
study in Paris, where he remained five
years, during which time he worked in
the studio of Carolus Duran. whose in
ftuence he was to reflect somewhat
more than that of Gerome, with whom
he studied longer. At the suggestion
of the sculptor Daniel Chester French,
he executed with ease plastic figure
for detail of the decoration of the
Brooklyn Institute.
Devotes Time to instruction
On Mr. Cox's return to America he
settled in New York and established
himself as leader of the element
which founded the Society of American
Artists. Devoting much time to in
struction in the Art Students League,
he was yet SO productive that public
buildings throughout the country bear
testimony to his prominence as a
mural decorator4the form of art on
which his fame will chiefly rest.
The Library of Congress, the State
HOnco in Doc M Mo;pac +ba Eccav Coup-
ty Courthouse in Newark, the Citizens
Bank and Federal building in Cleve-
land, and Bowdoin College buildings
are few structures which show typ
ical specimens of his work.
Meanwhile Mr.. Cox devoted much
time to writing. When in 1909 he was
awarded the medal of honor for mural
painting by the Architectural League
he had already been for six years a
Design and had written "Mixed
Beasts" "Old Masters and New" and
Painters and Sculptors." "The Clas-
sic Point of View" appeared in 1911
Prepared Paper on German Art
Mr.. Cox was member of the Ameri-
can Academy Of Arts and Letters and
of the National Institute of Arts and
Letters. AT a meeting of the former
on Thursday, the day set for his fun
eral, at in the afternoon, he was to
have read paper on German art
one of series to be prepared by va
rious members dealing with the fail
ure of German Kultur. This paper,
which Mr.. Cox had completed, will be
read by Robert Underwood Johnston,
secretary of the organization.
Mr.. Cox married in 1892 Louise
Rowland King, a portrait and genre
painter, who was a student of Mr.. Cox
before their marriage.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
5S4 Men Brought
Home From War by
Japanese Sc Vessel

The first contribution of Japan to
the task OF bringing home American
troops irogn France appeared yesterday
when the Japanese steamship Ava
Aaru dropped anchor In the upper bay
with four officers and 1876 men OF tho
9Th Heavy Ordnance Repair ShoD. h
detachment of rs men from the eth
and three casual companies made IN
o. men from Texas, Virginia and
Massachusetts.
No deaths were reported during tho
voyage, but the vessel had one legs
than the soldier passenger complement
she started, with when she !eft 8or-
deapx fourteen days ago.
The missing man WAS James O'Bricn.
= civilian empioye of the army tug
Gypsum King. which had been en-
KaHed in harb0r work at Bordeaux for
tbs last nine months.
C'Brien Was transferred at sea
from the Ava Maru TO an eastbound
transport, as he was wanted in Bor-
deaux by the miiftary authorities. II IL
alleged that 0'Brieu, who Ia q British
subject, had had fight with fellow
werker on board the Gypaun King,
and In the scuffie his opponent fell
overheard END was drowned. He was
tf'ed oy couytmaysfsi and practically
sozolyed from blame. After his dc.
parsurc 3 E. r. re- was songht By The French
sasusncSitiss, and word vas sent to
saAsAx& &aeH ~ Aend him hack.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
OBITUARY NOTES

CHARLES LITZENBERGER, vestry-
man of the Bishop Littlejohn Mem
orial Church of the TRANSPORTATION
died Saturday of heart failure at his
home, 545 Grant Avenue, Cypress Hills
His death is believed to have been
hastened by news of the death of his
only son.
MRS. THERESA A. MEAD WARD
widow of Ralph Ward, one of the or
ganizers of the Old Home Club of the
Eastern District and daughter OF the
late Henry G. Mead died Saturday at
her home, 105 Conselyea Street
Brooklyn. Mrs. Ward was fifty-eight
years old.
JAMES B. MCCLURE, a member OF
the firm of John j. Mcclure g. Son
died Sunday night at his home, 294
Park Avenue, Summit, N. J. He was
forty-one years old and was born in
Phillipsburg. He leaves his wife and
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John j.
Mcclure.
MRS. CLARA CLARK, of. plaintield
~ j., died to-day at her home on
West Eighth Street. She was born in
Philadelphia, and moved here in 1905.
She leaves her husband, three chill
drren, and her mother, Mrs. Anna Gill
Allen.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-18
MURRAY p. KELLAR

Murray p. Kellar, widely known as
sportsman and champagne importer,
died suddenly yesterday afternoon of
apoplexy, at his home, 200 West Fifty
eighth Street. Mr.. Kellar's father, the
late DR.. James Kellar was surgeon
general in the Confederate Army
throughout the Civil War. The younger
keilar was educated in military aca-
denies, and was, in turn, general pas
senger agent of the Monon Railroad, a
MANUFACTURER Of wagons and carriages,
and large shareholder in the Pom
merry Champagne Company.
IN his earlier years Mr. Kellar was
nationally identified with horseracing
and owned famous horses. In this city
he was member of the Lambs, the
Friars, and the Riding Club, and in
Chicago of various country and ath-
letIc clubs. He was sixty-two years
old, and is survived by widow, a
daughter, and son. Funeral services
will be held at CampbelPs Funeral
Church at o'clock tomorrow