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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
TEACHERS SESSION
ENDS HERE TODAY
Election Of Officers Will Be Last
Business of Convention
Of Educators
WOMEN FAIL IN CAMPAIGN

Officers will be elected by the Penn
sylvania State Educational Association
before the adjournment today of the
SEVENTEEN annual convention at the
Central High School.
Women teachers have apparently
failed in their effort to bring about the
election of woman as president of the
association. but they believe that they
have paved the way for a woman leader
in 1921.
The committee on nominations will
make its report today, and the election
will follow.
Recommendation that management of
the association be brought directly under
the control of the teachers was made
in a report yesterday by n special com
mittee on revision of the constitution.
One of the members of this committee
is Miss Margaret T. Mcguire, principal
of the Mccall School.
The committee reported that only
Is, 900 of the $4,000 teachers in the
state are members. 1t added that there
was necessity of having an organi-
zation that would provide means of
having the classroom teachers take a
more active part in the business and
educational discussions of the associa-
ton" and of having an organization
that would be .'more democratic" and
"nore representative of the present
democratic spirit Of Americanism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
MAY RID WORLD
OF YELLOW FEVER
Japanese Scientist Working on
Serum to Eradicate Con-
tagious Disease
INFLUENZA HAS "RECESS"
BY the Associated Press

st. Louise, Mo-, Jan. 1.--Science has
not discovered a preventive of epidemic
diseases, but serum is being formu
lated that may eradicate yellow fever,
according to delegates attending the
convention of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, in ses =
sion here.
Delegates warned against influenza,
spinal meningitis and infantile paraly-
sis These diseases have not been wiped
out, but are having "a recess" dele =
gates asserted.
DR.. Simon Flexncr. of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, and
president of the association, explained
that scientists were progressing in their
tight on cancer, saying that medical re
search gradually was getting into a
position of strategic superiority" in its
attack on this malady.
1T seems possible that yellow fever
may be the first disease to be eradicated
by science" he continued. 1T is in
sect. borne by particular kind of mos :.
quito. DR.. Noguchi, japanese scien-
tist, is working on serum that may rid
the human race of this afliction."
Speaking before the anthropological
section, DR.. W. w. Graves, of St.
Louis, said there had been no discern
ible change in mans shoulder blade in
the last six thousand years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
NEW COUNCIL ORGANIZES
Gloucester City Body convenes a
Noon, as Do Others

The new body of Gloucester City
council which will organize at noon to-
day will have eight Republican mem
bers and one Democrat. The lone Dem
ocrat is Thomas +. Kelly, who is the
superintendent of the Pusey and Jones
shipyardsi The three new members are
Robert c. Anderson, First ward !;
Charles Mailey, Second ward. anG.G.
William Barnard, at large. They are
all Republicans. Chester Pancoast will
be reelected president. Other officers
who will be elected will be as follows |:
City clerk, Allen w. Redfield; member
board of assessors, Abbot Fielding !;
members board of health, Walter Con.
nolley, Edward White; street super
visor, Robert A Lincoln; chief en-
ginecr water works, John Arms.
There will be three meetings of CONN.,
Gil held today. The old body will meet
and adjourn sine die at II 30. At noon
the organization will take place and
tonight the regular meeting will be held
Gloucester faces a much larger fax
rate next year and the members of tbe
new body will practice economy during
the year. The city will lose sis 500 in
saloon license fees and also the taxes
from the new shipyard, and it will be
this that will cause higher tax rate.
The new city council will also organ
izc in all other cities in South JERSEY Mt
noon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
TW|N|NG RETAINED !.
TO ASSIST MOORE.
Director Consents to Stay Until
February--Webster to Head
Survey Bureau
WAGNER WlNST0N'S> AIDE

Three city engineers under the Smith
administration have been offered posi-
tions in the official family Of Mayor
elect Moore.
William s. Twining, director Of
transit, has been appointed and con-
sented to stay in that position during
the month Of January until the transit
muddle is somewhat cleared up. :,
wharves, docks and ferries, has been
appointed to succeed Chester 70. AL
bright as chief of the bureau Of surveys.
Director Webster formerly held that
job, and is expected to take the ap-'
Joseph q. Wagner, surveyor and
regulator of the Germantown district,
has been appointed by John G. Winston,
recently appointed director of public
works, as his assistant director.
The retention of Mr.. Twining came
Moore said that the transit question Ia
such a vital financial and engineering
problem that he intends to give it his
immediate attention and he desires the
service and advice of a man familiar
with all phases Of the situation.
"For that reason I have decided not
to try and hurry along my choice of
director of transit" he said. ''It is
too big q matter to be settled during
the rush and hustle of the holiday sea
son. For that reason I went to Di-
rector Twining today and asked him
to remain until February. 1t was the
first time that had seen him, and
while he was not feeling in the best
of health and contemplated trip, he
willingly acquiesced in my request and
will remain until his successor can be
appointed"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
MUMMERS' CLUBS
GIVE ANNUAL BALLS
Hundreds Dance Until Early
Hours to Be on Hand for
Big Parade
VETERANS ARE PRESENT

~ All -..of the New Year clubs gave
balls last night. which continued un-
I'll early this morning. In some of
the halls, gay crowds were still dane
ing after 4 O'Clock.
The mummers wore the costumes pre- =
pared for today's parade. They were
up all night and left the dancing floor
10 20 to the rendezvous of their clubs
TO take their places for this morning S
march in Broad street.
All night the streets we're made
additionally picturesque by the bril-
liant costumes of the mummers, as
they moved from place TO place. Some
Of the indefatigable veterans of the
New Year clubs made tour of all the
bathrooms. to show their gorgeous cos
tunes, see the pomp of rivals and meet
old friends.
In many places prohibition was for.
gotten for the night.
At the Musical Fund Hall, the Sill
yer Crown New Years Association
held its forty third annual masquerade
ball. Promptly on the first stroke of
midnight, Hugh Boyle. the grand con-
ductor, gave the signal which started
the grand march. Behind Boyle were
y. G. O'Keefe, Thomas Small and
4 William ]. McCrea, who acted as as
sistant conductors. The ball commit
tee included James McGlinchey, chair
man; Owen McGlinchey. Thomas
Franklin, NJ. Quigley and John Kelly.
4. The Lobster Association held its
sixteenth annual ball at the New Audi
torium Hall. Fifty six members of the
Organization, who were in the service,
had places Of honor in the grand march
which was led by Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
(. Chambers. Chambers is captain of the
club. The committee in charge iu-
cluded George Dougherty, John o.
Crozier, Harry Cox, Emil Kinkler,
Joseph Martin and William McFet
ridge.
The Charles Klein New Years Club
held it's annual ball at the Parkway
Building last night. Captain John J.
Shields led the grand march at mid
night
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
C[UBDOM ENJOYS
HOLIDAY REPAST
Chefs Of Social Organizations
Prepare Works Of Art for
Members Tables
ANNUAL RECEPTIONS HELD

This is a day of hospitality and feast =
ing in the big clubs Of the city. Reccp-
tions and elaborate dinners will be the
features of their New Years celebra
tions.
The annual receptions and dinners
will be held at the Union League. the
Racquet Club. the Philadelphia Club.
the Manufacturers Club, the Art Club
and the Markham Club. New Year s
Day has always been great holiday
festival in these old clubs and the occa =
sion of gatherings of the members and
their families.
One of the distinctive features in
most of the clubs has always been the
extra care bestowed by the chefs on the
food and the table decorations for the
New Years dinner. For days they have
been busy preparing to outdo their rivals
and their own records of past years.
The chef at the Philadelphia Club,
Thirteenth and Walnut streets, has ar =.
ranged a splendid table array. He has
nodded figures out of suet and tallow
and carved vegetables into the shapes of
flowers and animals. He has been
aided and abetted in his table landscape
by the engineer of the club who has
built an ingenious electrical toy wind
mill which will form the centerpiecc
of the display.
The chef at the Union League is
another table decorator of merit He
has evolved some new Celebrations on
his plans for scenic table effects that he
has heen using for several years.
The chefs of the various clubs are
working on the idea that things of
beauty are undeniably joys forever
especially if they are edible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
AS AND HO| POLLO|
JAZZ WAY into 1920.
Orchestra Had to Be Paid, So
Social Barriers of DoyIes-
town Are Lowered
ANOTHER FLY IN OINTMENT

Doylestown's "forty five" all forty
seven of them, jazzed their way into
the New Year at the Doylestown Coun-
try Club, while the Rev. G. w. Haines,
their verbal chastiser, conducted watch
night services in his First Baptist
Church.
In addition to the innermost forty
FIVE" there were possibly fifty other
guests at the bal masque, the high social
event Of the year at the club. The
additional persons were necessary evils
tolerated because Of the vulgar fact that
orchestras. especially Philadelphia or
chestras, where this one came from, will
not work for nothing.
A nice mans size fly has alighted
in the midst of the Doylestown social
ointment. The invitations for the As
sembly Ball. one OF the biggest events Of
the Philadelphia social season, are out
and only one Doylcstown person is in
vited
He is George Ross, whose name ap-
pears on the list of the "forty-
FIVE" selected by Leigh Mitchell Hodges
as the elite of the Bucks county town.
Doylestown talks of nothing else ex :
cept the Forty five" Some harked
back to three years ago. when Mr..
Haines preached q series of sermons,
denouncing the exclusive card playing,
dancing and golf playing societies.
Mr.. Hodges. known locally as the
Master of Ootop,' used his pen to de-
fcnd the town.
Then. two years ago. when q ses-
sion of Baptist clergy Of eastern Penn.
sylvania was convened in the Doyles-
town church, the moderator the Rev
Charles F.. Mcclellan. pastor of the
Fairhill Baptist Church in Philadelphia,
invited Mr.. Hodges to speak before the
conference. Mr.. Haines is said to have
objected. Mr.. Mcclellan told Mr..
Haines he was moderator, and that any
instructions from Mr.. Haines concern
ing Mr.. Hodges were unbecoming.
There is much curiosity as to how the
list of Forty five" first leaked ont.
The newspaper correspondent who had
the list has desk space in the Office of
Arthur Eastburn, attorney, who was
not in the Forty five Mr.. Eastburn
knew Of the list before it was published
in Philadelphia. So did Doylcstown
newspapers.
Popular opinion judged that there
was faux pas" in the list. because in
some cases an entire family, as "the
Jadkels," was named, and in other
cases only one member as Henry A.
James"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Nefc Years Program
Has Room for Al

Fifteen thousand mummcrs parade
in Broad street.
Cafe parties day and night
C'dry" and "wet," if you have it).
Open house" at all clubs.
CO. munit ty athletic events
throughout the city.
Girard College annual celebra-
ton, 10 a. IN.
Camden's reception to Mayor
elect Moore.
Gym and natatorium events In
Central Y. NJ. G. A.
Scouts New Year rally, Moose
Hall. 1914 North Broad street, and
presentation of memorial tablet,
2:15 p. m.
Annual New Years reception to
Archbishop Dougherty at the Ca
thedral, 3 p. III.
Reception. Art Alliance, 1928
Walnut street, 4 to Z p. m.
High jinks all day at Thirty first
Ward Republican Club, 2162 East
York street.
Twenty ninth ward welcome home
to soldiers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
$4,000 IN PRIZES
OFFERED MUMMERS
Many Awards to Be Granted to
Marchers in Great New
Years Parade
ALL TO HAVE CHANCE
MISS VENITA FITZHUGH

Prizes amounting to S15 900 will be
awarded to marchers today in the big
mummers' parade.
In addition to the official prizes
offered by the Council joint committee
on New Year celebration. there will be
numerous other prizes tallying several
thousand dollars. which will be award :
ed by business mems organizations in
various sections of the city.
The official prizes follow:
Fancy Division
Best;dressed cIuba.-Tirst prize. $1,000; sec
ond, $500; third. $3.50: fourth. $500: .o,o
sec"nS afiSSsa sI5S: third d4s'"''S' siOO p''"s '
Most handsome, costume. $3.50, .
second $780, thrS fIG~F'rs' s75 prize
Hest-dresscd clown trio: 800.
Bes,-dresscd jockey-First prize $3.50
Rest.drsssed Jockey trio, 500.
Best,tr!mmed suit--zFirst prize. $3.50; sec
Bss,, s,'drssssA Is coyySs!e' $50,
onG GhAEsS;eT EsS tA2d fSPe'EF't sa prize S'OOi
speciel-mention prises-Three of $50
three OF $25.
String Band Division
Best string band-First prize. $3.50; sec
ond. $3.50; third, $3.50.
Comic DiN1siOh
Rest comic club--First prize, $1,000; sec
ond, $3.50; third, 5000; fourth. $500. fifth,
Best comic captain - First prize, 5000
second, $50; third, 500,
Best comic costume, 800
Funniest character. $40.
Funniest group, Sl00.
Funniest couple, 500. -.
Most original character, rs,
Most original costume, SI5
Most original novelty, s7b.
Funniest Juvenile, $50. ASH
Special-mention prizes-Three OF sou
three OF $25.
Floats
Best comic and original 10 First prizs,
Hfth, 500 sixth, $50; seventh. s25.
BriEadea
Special Features
Best comic and oriEinai-First prize $3.50;
second, 1925 third. 800; fourth. s7S; NTH
$40; sixth $50; seventh, $50.
FIRST prize, $751; second, $50; third. s3S;
fourth, $25; fifth, $20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

Hugh Murroy-Ca plain William Cham.
bers.
saucr Kraut Band. Of Pottsvile--Captaiu
TED Buschar
Spirits--CRptsln Wolte- Boyle
Sauer Kraut Band Of Gloucester-Cap.
tain Joseph Dickson.
Blue Ribbon-Captain George r. Frlsby,
scrap lrOn--Captuin Harry Rodgers
Hills Sheet Iron Band. of Trenton, n, J.
Captain Edwin A. Hills
Moose Goulhsh Band. Of Shenandoah
Captain John OleRZcwski,
". H. Y.-Captain William c. Schultz
franklin New Year Assocla lation-Captair
Granville v. simmons
Get It New Year Association Captain
Jnmrs M. Delkrs.
The Aronimlnk String Band. OF west
Philadelphia Captain Charles A Donohoe
FrRhllnger String Band--Captain JOSEPH
Ferko.
Trilby String Band-Captain Lewis Sam
uelB.
The Gay Morning Glories Club---Captain J.
). Hines.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
STRIKE TIES UP SHIPPING
Tueboat Men Refuse to Report for
Work When Rise Is Not Granted

Shipping in this port is tied up as
the result of the strike today of several
hundred men employed on tug boats
and lighters. They demand more pay
and a ten hour day.
The men are employed as masters,
mates, pilots. cooks. stewards and deck.
hands. Their demands were made yes
tcrday in the form of a strike ultimatum
to 90 into affect tomorrow if not
acceded to.
But last night when the tugs were
tied up at the piers, the notice was
gwen that unless the demands were
granted at once no men would report
for work today. The owners char
acterize the demands as impossible and
say they will be unable to grant them
mo matter how long the men stay out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
WILSON'S HOLIDAY QUIET
Cabinet Members Sound Optimistic
Note for 1920 in Messages

Washington. Jan. 1.-(By A. P.)--
New Years Day was observed quietly
here today. In official circles there was
the usual round of social functions, al
though ar the White House there was
no formal celebration because of the
illness of the President. Secretary of
State Lansing and Mrs. Lansing were
the hosts at a luncheon for the diplo.
matte corps and receptions were held
Daniels, Secretary of War and Mrs.
Baker and Assistant Secretary of War
and Mrs. Crowell.
The new year received noisy well
come last night from crowds on the
streets, but there were, no public or
formal celebrations other than the
church and home watch parties and
balls. The customary watch party at
the White House was dispensed with.
Messages to the nation we're issued by
Vice President Marshall and several
members of the cabinet, in all Of which
was expressed note OF optimism for
the coming year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
CHAPEL PREACHER QUITS
Congregation Goes With Rev. j. da
Costa Harewood After RESIGNATION

The Rev. ]. da Costa Harewood.
negro chaplain of the Chanel of st.
Michael and All Angels, Forty third
Nnd Wallace streets, resigned his post
yesterday in compliance with the de &.
mand of the Rev. Elliot White He
will stay with friends until he can find
a house to live in. He had been liv-
ing in the mission house at 612 North
Forty third street.
The congregation, which has been
attending the chapel, and which de-
serted it when their pastors resigna-
tion was demanded. will worship in a
hall in the neighborhood of Fifty ninth
and Arch streets, Sunday. The Rev.
Mr.. Iarewood will conduct the serv-
ices
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
COBLENz FLOOD-SWEPT
Seine River Rises Three Feet More
at Paris

CobIenz, Jan. 1.-(By A. P.)-
Lower parts of this city are flooded by
the rising waters of the Rhine. the
river being at the highest stage known
in the last forty years A number Of
army units have been moved to higher
ground, but the loss of American army,
property is small, units along the river
banks being warned in time to move
their supplies.
The city is temporarily without gas
and water, while cellars of hotels and
homes along the Rhine boulevard. in
Guiding the mansion occupied by Cen
eral Allen, are flooded.
Paris, Jan, 1.-(By A. P.)--The
flood in the Seine has risen nearly three
feet more and the depth of the river at
present exceeds that fixed in official
estimates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
WILSON FAILS TO FILE
South Dakota Time Limit Expires
Without Word From President

Pierre, s. D., Jan. 1.--(By A. P.)-
No acceptance of the state Democratic
conventions Endorsement of Woodrow
Wilson to succeed himself as President
had been filed up to midnight last
night, according to an announcement
early today from the secretary of states
office. Neither had Governor Lynn ].
Frazier. of North Dakota, accepted the
nonpartisan support for the same Of
fee
pear on the March primary ballot with
party Endorsement, according to the an
nouncement, state law specifying that
the filing time expired ut midnight De-
cember 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
CHlCAGO'S REVEL WET
ouart-Slze Pockets Burdened With
Rooze=One Party Has Trunkful

Chicago, Jan. 1.-(By A. P)--Chi-
cago's husky young new year, nursed
last night on p-pocket bottles, showed
no signs of being as dry as Congress
and the Supreme Court had forecast.
Hip pocket TASKS were fashionable,
but thirstier ones transported their Sc
lect private stocks to downtown eating
places in suitcases. baskets, golf bags
and In one case even trunk was used.
Police threats of enforcement of the
drastic search law failed of execution
Glum- faced detectives. assigned to
watch the downtown cafes, stood idly by
and with envious eye watched the CON
traband liquor disappear. On the
streets the merry revelers were as nu-
merous as ever in the early evening.
Armed with horns, whistles, gay caps
and confetti they prepared to greet the
new year, but a driving snowstorm
and rapidly falling mercury soon drove
the majority to cover.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
John Dennis

Rochester, N. Y, Jan. John
Dennis, seventy-s six years old, dean of
the newspaper profession in Rochester,
died here yesterday. In a court case he
established some years ago the princi-
pie that IN New York state newspaper
information given him. He passed sew
eral days in Jail on a contempt charge
when he refused to give such testimony
in court action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Deforest Hicks

New York, Jan. 1.-Deforest Hicks,
wealthy broker, died suddenly yester-
day in the waiting room at the Pennsyl-
vania terminal. He was member OF
the firm of Coggeshall & Hicks, treas.
urer of the Peninsular Telephone Co.
and a director of the Western Car and
Power Co. He was a graduate from
Trinity College in 1896 and married
Miss Nancy Benedict. of Athens, Ga.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
DR.. JASTROW CHANGES VIEW
Ride on Much -6eIated Train Reverses
Opinion on Government Ownership

The experience of Professor Morris
Jastrow. Jr., of the University of
Pennsylvania, in riding on trains re :
Gently has caused him to reverse his
position on the question of government
ownership of railroads. At the Amer
ican Pathological Association in Pitts
burgh yesterday he declared that "whilc
he may have been an ardent advocate
of government ownership of railroads,
his experience hns caused him to look
at the matter in another light"
Professor Jastrow was due to sneel,
at the convention at an early hour las
night. The train bearing him from
Detroit was late and he was barely able
to carry out his part of the program.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
MerehantvllIs Pastor Weds

Merchantville, n. j., Jan. /. - The
Rev. DR.. l.. Mench Chambers and
Louisa Eversole Reynolds were married
last night In the home of II. G. Balder-
son, OF Clifton avenue, in the presence
Of few friends. The Rev. DR.. George
Presbyterian Church of Camden, ofici-
ated. Doctor Chambers until his recent
call to Lewes, Del. was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of this place,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Another Dollar for Franks shoes

Still more Christmas mail for Frank.
Another dollar arrived in the morning
mail at the Office OF the EVENING PUB
LILO LEDGER. This makes q total of So
toward the pair of shoes the seven year
old tuberculosis patient prayed for at
Christmas time. He wanted them so
he could attend the tibercular clinics
at the Phipps Institutetiwithout fur
ther endangering his h9llth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
MILLION GERMANS IN ARMS
Treaty, However, VIII Limit Forces
to 100000 by March 81

London. Jan. 1.-(By A. P.)-Ger-
many's armed forces are estimated by
the British war Office to total close to
a million men. These are divided into
the regular army of 100000. the land
forces of the regular navy 12,000. the
armed constabulary 10000 to 10000.
the temporary volunteers or regular
army reserves $50, 900 to 200, 900, civic
guards 800, 900 to 400 900.
Article 1853 of the peace treaty says
Within three months from the coming
into force of the present treaty the total
number Of effectivcs Tin the German
army must be reduced to 200. 900.
by March 81. 1920. at the latest.
the total number of German electives"
must not exceed 100, 900.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Sends $40 to Ledger for Widow

Another Christmas gift. this time a
check for SO, arrived at the EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER Office this morning for
Mrs. Dougherty, 1924 Wood street. az
feel that she needs it," was the inclo =
sure of e. G. Malarkey, of Girardville,
Pa, the donor, Mrs. Dougherty is a
widow with several children. Her
Christmas celebration was an optimis-
tic but not prosperous one.