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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
GYPSY GIRLS JAILED
Two From Chester Sentenced
Camden for Fortune

Edith L.acarvich. twenty seven Years
old. and Mary Mitchell. nineteen years
old. both of Chester. Pa. were SEN
fenced to thirty days each in Camden
county Jail today by Recorder Stack
house. They are charged with dsor-
derby conduct and telling fortunes. Both
are gypsies.
city Detective Murry testified that
Mrs. Mary Henry. of l3J Chestnut
street. had been swindlrd out of S2SG
by gypsy fortune telers and he thought
the defendants were the same persons.
Mr.. Henry was called on the witness
stand. but could not identify these two
women as the ones who swindled his
wife It was explained that gypsy
called at his home and told Mrs. Henry
she was under spell and offered to re.
lievs her Of the horror. Mrs. Henry
gave her $2S6. which was to have been
returned, But the gypsy disappeared
with the money.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
LEADERS WILL SEE
PENROSE ON MOORE
Conference in Washington Will
Consider Mayors Relation
to County Ticket
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM UP

Indications are that the conferences
to he held by Senator Penrose in WASH
ington tomorrow will consider the re
lation of Mayor Moore to the framing
of a county ticket for this falls cleo
tion as we'll ms the more immediate prob
lem of reaching an agreement on the
Legislative program for Harrisburg.
Governor Sproul and State Char
man Crow have an engagement with the
senior senator to talk over Harrisburg
matters. II was learned today. how
ever. that Thomas W. Cunningham.
President Judge Brown and probably
George W. Coles. chairman of the Town
Meeting party, viii also call on the
senator.
Although the date for the fall elcc
ton is n considerable distance off. the
combine leaders are already discussing
the county slate They do so in thu
admitted knowledge that Senator Pen
rose will have the final word. The
recognize also that the senator is anX =
ious to maintain harmonious relations
with Mayor Moore. This indicates that
when the ticket is made up, it is likely
TO be as much an agreement between
city administration leaders and Senator
Penrose as between combine leaders ana
the senator.
1t is apparent. according to polti =
clans, that change is coming over the
minds of the combine leaders who some
time ago put forward a tentative com
bine slate which represented n sort OF
a fifty fifty proposition between Pen,
rose and Ware ward leaders and left
the Mayor out OF consideration. Com
bine leaders now frankly say that nc
slate will be agreed on until the held
has been fully canvassed. They have
in sense repudiated the earlier fifty
fifty slate and are now awaiting th'
result of further talks with Senator
Penrose and the expression of views on
the part of Moore leaders.
Moore leaders now are talking fight
against the combine. which they holc
will be good strategy. For with Moore
leaders talking fight and with Senator
Penrosc considering the desires of the
Mayor, the combine is being forced t'
stop, look and listen. Combine lead
ers confirmed this view of the situation
today when they frankly conceded tina
they were listening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
LABOR RESENTS INDICTMENT
Government Equally Guilty With
Miners, Green Asserts

Washington, Feb. De- by A. P.'--
The executive council of the American
Federation Of Labor met here today to
consider the action Of the government
IN prosecuting officials of the United
Mine Workers of America for alleged
violation of the Sherman ANTITRUST act.
Before the meeting began William
Grecn, secretary Of the miners union,
and one Of those indicted yesterday at
indianapolis, issued formal statement
declaring that il the union officials were
guilty Of conspiracy, "th" government
itself is party thereto" because tn"
miners had been subject to government
'"gulatiOn and control for the last three
years.
Matthew Vol, vice president of the
american Federation of Labor. de-
Jared the Indictment of the mine union
'lhrcrs was "a part of the nation wide
Ifopaganda to destroy the trade union
Movement"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
BEAT CLERK. STEAL MAIL
Believe Bandits Made Big Haul az
Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh. Pa. Feb 2G.--(By A.
PD-J. l.. Mccullough. governmenk
railway mail clerk, was found beateS
unconscious at the Pennsylvania Rail
road station a few minutes before tie
train was scheduled to leave Union Sta
ton for Washington. Pa. Two pouches
of mail are reported missing. McCul
Tough is said TO have suffered q com =
pound fracture Of the skull
George V. Craighcad. postal inspec-
tor here, said that Mccullough had gone
10 his car 10 write up the registered
mail, and while he was doing 80 he was
hit from behind with coupling pin.
The bandits then gathered up the loose
registered mail, the value Of which, the
inspector said. probably will run high,
and made their escape
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
JOSEPH VI. STODDART
JOSEPH M. STOODART.
PUBLISHER. DEAD AT IS
Former Magazine Editor Passes
Away at Eikins Park Home

away AT ElklnS fdTk T'oHe
Joseph VI. Stoddart. former publisher
and magazine editor. and tnc friend of
many literary celebrities. died last
night at his home in Elkins Park. lie
was seventy five years old
Among those with whom he enjoyed
close personal friendship were Sir Gil
bert Parker. Sir 4. Conan Doyle,
Gertrude Atherton. Mrs. Amelia \.
Barr, Julian lIawthorn". John lIabbcr
ton. author of "lielcn'S Babies and
many others
Mr.. StOddart was born August 10.
1916 in this city. He was educated
in the public schools and At the Port
Royal Academy. frankford. He was n
son Of the late Joseph VI. S,oddart aud
Eliza Fahnestork StUddart.
He became associated in 1861 with the
publishing house Of J. Il. Lippincott y
Co. leaving It ten years later TO com
mpnCc publir0ton of the Encyclopaedia
britannica. lie also published n period
ical called "StoddHrt : Review
Mr.. Stoddart later was president "f
tGs HSw T;"&;n'i Y"TE' -%s>s-.-sI -s 80. "-. .:
Golfers W""n.y and lat"r became AS
sociatcd with tho publishing houS" Of
Henry y. Coates & Go.
Mr.. StOddart : health failed in 1903.
Since that time he has been living vir-
tualv in retirement. His wife. daush-
tor. of tho later Alfred NJ. lI"rkness,
died in 1900. lie is survived by -four
children. J. \. Stoddart. Mrs. John T..
Stevenson. Sd. Mrs. joel y. Barber and
Curwen Stoddart.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
GROCER BOAT WRECKED
Vessel Owned by Philadelphia
Florida Storm

Edward Grocer. of DDS Locust
street. today is examining the wreck of
his houscboat. the Srurry. to see IL there
is any possibility Of salvaging her, said
DISPATCHES from Palm Beach. The
Scurry was wrecked near Hog IIarbor
south of Marathon and Long Key, Fla,
in northeastern gale yesterday. Regi-
nald Brooks, Of New York, and his
guest, William r. Ferguson. were res
cued with difficulty when the Scurry
went ashor" Brooks leased the boat
from the Philadelphian.
The Scurry was built at a west coast
shipyard five years ago and had been
offered for sale only recently by Mr..
Grocer. She was one of the best known
boats on the Florida coast. and was said
to be valued at about $4,000. Dis.
patches said She might be a total loss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
NO HOUSE BERGDOLL PROBE
Chairman Of Committee Says Execu-
tive End of Government Can Act

Washington. Feb. 2G.-No further
move in the Bergdoll case is expected
in the House. Representative Campbell.
chairman Of the rules committee. said
today. lie declared the remainder of
the session will be occupied with con-
ference reports and other business that
will have right of way.
Mr.. Campbell pointed out that tn"
case is one for the executive end Of the
government to handle. He stated the
State Department could net TO obtain
Bergdoll's return. the Department of
Justice could prosecute and the War
Department could furnish the necessary
information.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
Cemetery Suit DELAYED

!. Hearing Of testimony in the in.unc.
ron suit brought by the GlenwoOd
cemetery Co. against the director of the
department Of Health and other city
nN'horiti"S, to stop them from enforcing
resolution. of the Board of Health.
20 prevent further burialS in the grave
yard at Twenty seventh street and
H.Hg" avenue, was postponed again
Today because of the continued illness
o' Assistant City Solicitor Coyne.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
Arrested on Check Charge

Arrested for passing bad checks.
amounting TO SO. Charles Il. Jones. of
Twenty first street near Montgomery
avenue. was severely rcprimandcd aud
held in $500 bail for further hearing
by Magistrate Price, in the Twenty
second street and Hunting Park avenue
police station today. Jones was ar
rested on Il warrant sworn ont by Will
liam Wolfman. of Twenty second
street near Cambria, his employer
Jones said that he received the checks
from man by the name of "Al"
Kramer. who lives in New Jersey
when the latter asked him to cash
them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
YOUTH HOLDS UP STORE
Backs Camden Woman Against Walt
and Takes $40

An eighteen year old youth walked
into the grocery store of Mrs. Hyman
herman. 1925 South Second street.
Camden. at closing hour last night. a
handkerchief was tied to conceal part
Of his face.
Mrs. herman tried to reach the door
TO give an alarm The youth brushed
her roughly to one side. Back up
there and keep your mouth shut or ! II
knock your head off, he told the
frightened woman, and forced her
against the wall.
Then he hurried back Of the counter,
took $40 in notes and change from the
till. and ran. Mrs. Bcrmnn reported
the theft to the Camden police this
morning
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
Thief smashes Window, Gets Shirts

\ thief threw a padded brick through
the display window of Harry's furnish
ing store for mon at 1859 Kpnsington
avenue. at ; o'clock this morning and
escaped with fifteen silk shirts said 70
be valued at $125. Ralph Jones. Of
East Westmoreland street. alghtod
from n trolley car block awav and
heard the crash. lie gave the police
Of III" Belgrade and Clcarfcld strcrt.
station an incomplete description Of rho
thief
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
SAYS FEW WOMEN
RULE n. !. HOUSE
Mrs. Laird Declares War on
'!InVisible Control" by
Wealthy Group
CHARGES D0UBLE.CROSSING

SDcctd' D,SDIicb to E,onu1 PlbHr l.s0J %
Trenton. Feb. DC War has been de
clarcd on the little group Of wealthy
and politically influential women said
TO be dominating the New Jersey Leg
iSlaturc.
Mrs Margaret y. Laird. the usually
grave and unasSuming Newark assem-
blywoman. promises. singlehanded, TO
smash what she terms invisible CON
troll Of the legislators by this cot"rie
of women. representing the welI-or-
ganizcd and prominent women = ReDub
lican organizations.
The woman legislator refuse to take
dirtation from those she considers as
self appointed leaders and At present
guiding the dcstinics Of the organized
Republican womon's clubs. Mrs. Laird
directly attributes her failur" ~ get
action on certain bills 70 the influences
exercised bv women over R"ribhcan
leaders. who apparently see party hd-
vantage in playing into III" hands Gi
women capable OF swinging thousands
Of votes
Mrs. Van Ness said TO BE Favored
Mrs I.nird's pct measures hav" not
been accorded the generous treatment
given thos" sponsored by her colleague,
Mr.. .louni" &. Van Ness. the other nS-
ScmblywUman from the county "I ~
YpX. Mrs. Van Ness is recognized "a
the prot"gc Of Mrs. Lillian +. Fc"K"rt' =
Of I'laintied. li"c chairman of th" Ic'
puhliran state committee and domln
ant factor in the deliberations of the
moro aggressive wom"n'S R"gubIicah
clubs.
Unusual AEI c-7"n Mrs. Van
Ness bv =. --.utut}vcs Of the women ;
clubs in no wise enters int" MrS'
I.aird's promise TO expose n" 'InVISl-
bic rule" uf tn" Legislature.
Her complaint goes deeper. "Xrorl
ating those Republican leaders who nave
succumbrd to outSid" dictation in form
ulating a legislative program. What mas
been going on under the surface came
70 light when Mrs. Laird's bill TO pro
hibit women working in factories 81
night was unexpectedly reported from
committee. although promises had been
given to the introducer that the measure
would be given a public hearing In order
10 create sentiment for 1t.
"Despicable Double Crossing"
At public hearing two weeks ago
bin introduced by Mrs. Van Ness
prohibiting women from working more
/ than nine out Of ten consecutive hours,
was enthusiastically indors"d by the
| Consumers League, State Federation O
! Womens Clubs and the women
branch of the New Jersey Republican
! clubs.
Mrs. Laird at that time agreed with
! the Republican women lobbyists that
/ her bill should be held back in order
| to give the Van Ness measure a chance
of getting through the Assembly first
She denounced the reporting of her no.
night work bill without the promised
hearing as "A deSpicablc piece Of dou
bic crossing.
Mrs. Laird believes IN" women who
have been unsuccessful in their attempts
70 dictate to her purpOsely secured re-
porting Of her bin through misrcnr"
sentation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
Mrs. James Speyer Buried

New York. Feb. 26.-Mcmbers of her
household stats served as pallbearers
yesterday at the funeral service in the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine for
Mrs. James Speycr bankers wife, who
died Wednesday after dcvoting most
Of her life to philanthropic and civic
work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
House Robbed as Family Sleeps

Burglars iimmicd kitchen window.
entered the home Of Mrs. Frederick
Frain, on East Baltimore avenue.
Lnnsdowne. early this morning and
escaped with furs and silvcrware valued
ot 500. Members of the Frain family
we're asleep on the second floor. The
robbery was not discovered until day
light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-26
Monslanor James o'Hanlon

London. FEB. 2G.-Thc Right Rev
ercnd Monsignor james OlIanlon. vicar
general Of birmingham, died yesterday.
He was born in 1910 and ordained in
1865. Monsignor O'IIanlon was do
nestle prelate to the pope.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

get l could recall every other air had ever
heard, but not that one.
For time things looked dark. almost
wished had not been SO sidey about refusing
that card. Then, just as I was entering the
store, hurdy-gurdy outside screeched out the
very tune. 1t was like an interposition Of
Providence.
Hastily resuming my whistling l entered
the store The clerks, all busy with Gus
toners, glared at 1sla as they nee.rd the shril
music was scattering abroad But ] dared
not stop. Once dropped that thread, knew
it would be lost forever.
Yet drop it I did. A phonograph in the
back of the store began roaring out dance
tune. My slim little ditty could never stand
against that. Away it went, and stood help
less as the clerk approached me-
II want I said, ~ record by Caruso"
"Certainly,' said the clerk, (which one?"
CT am not quite sure"
''We have a great many of them. Would
any do?"
ooh, no. OF course not. Certainly not.
No indeed
"Then give me the name Of the one you
want and I'll see if we got it,"
ell am not quite sure of the name-not
entirely sure"
"Do you know what opera it is from?"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

~ ECAUSE / am known at home as a
~ Person Not To Be Trusted the family
p issued instructions about the record
with the same meticulous care they
would employ in charging four-year rold child
to go to the grocers for three pounds of buck
wheat flour and yeast cake.
Thus ran the instructions
'"The record is La Donna Mobile LA
DONNA MOBILE 1t is from 'Rigoletto.
1t is Caruso record. Don't let them tell you
they haven't got it. Don't let them sell you
Moonlight on Mobile Bay or On the Mobile
Levee.'
Get it on your way down town, and then
YOU won't forget it. Be very careful not to
break it, We must have it tonight without
fail 1t is to be part of amateur theatrcals.
Here, take this card Everything is carefully
written down on it,
/ haughtily refused the card There are
some things which are an insult to ones in
telligence.
| walked down town because | needed the
exercise. About ten blocks from the phono
graph store, after / had left off noting the
proportion of Fords to other cars to be seen
on every block, remembered about the record.
But the record was all that I did remember
about. Its name and the name of the opera
had vanished into an oblivion which constl-
tutes about 65 per cent of my memory for Un-
important Trifes such as piffling errands for
the family.
After five or ten minutes of tremendous GER
ebration I recalled that the record was by
Caruso Then, Eureka! remembered the tune.
The same tune used to be sung in my school
days. We called it "Over the Summer Seas"
I suppose Caruso or Mascagni or whoever it
was that wrote the opera stole it from that old
school songbook.
Well, the tune was secure enough, provided
didn't forget it. And then Bright Thought
occurred to me. If whistled 1t and kept on
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

whistling it till | got to the phonograph store
couldn't forget it. Then all | should have
to do would be to whistle it to the clerk and
the record would be Forthcoming. I wasn't
the absent-minded dolt the family thought me-
Not much / wasn't!
began to whistle. | am one of those peo-
pie who cannot whistle at all unless they
whistle loud. Low whistling dies on my lips.
The breath seems to issue forth, but it wakens
no vibrations that produce musical notes.
l therefore whistled loud. People looked at
me as they passed-looked and grinned. Logs
came up and regarded me curiously, then
barked derisively and made off. A policeman
swung round, followed a few PAGES and
then, tapping his forehead, went back to his
beat. I kept OH whistling.
Three or four blocks down the street
hook-and-ladder truck passed, it's siren wall
ing to the skies. Then an assistant chief in
a little red car. Then an engine. ! stopped
to look. There may be people who can pass
a hook k-and-ladder truck and chief in red
car and an engine without stopping. But I
never met one of them
When the apparatus was roaring and wall
ing far up the street ! puckered my lips to
resume my melody. 1t was gone
Vainly I racked my brain. Vainly tried
to find again the notes of the tune / was to
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

place for the lou sum Of ftence

Chinatown contained a Celestial dweller who
had one eye in the middle of his forehead, and
it through claiming to know the habitat
of this remarkable living curiosity that they
won the favor of the museum proprietor and
finally secured their Broadway engagement
In their own expressive patois, they "conned
him along" for two three weeks until the
trick was discovered and they were ignomin-
iously discharged, but in the mean time Weber
and Fields had found themselves on Broadway
The later history of New York is punctuated
with the names of innumerable dime mu-
seums-botl Barnum and Bunnell had charged
higher prices-and, as the bones of Irish SOL
diers scattered about the world in the
soil of the various countries that Irishmen
have served, so were the relics of Barnum's
to be found in nearly every one Of these cheap
places of entertainment. Tom Thumbs car
riage was to be seen, if my memory serves
HE right, in Grand Street; there was an Egyp-
tian mummy in the Chatham Square Museum
and snakes always Barnum speciality, every
where. AS for the "What-Is-It?" who was
merely a deformed negro boy, am told that
half a dozen years ago he was on view in a
tent in Los Angeles.
For time the Globe Dime Museum OH the
Bowery near Houston Street enjoyed phe-
nomenal popularity It's platform was peopled
with fat women, Zuus, skeleton dudes and
dwarfs. 1t was here that l saw the Elastic
Skinned Man, natural curiosity of great
rarity, whose outer skin was separated from
the cutice beneath it, so that he could move
it at will. 1t was simply startling to see
him pull the skin up his chest, as if it
were his shirt. The Wild Men of Borneo, two
undersized elderly men of uncanny facial as
pect, were seen here also in company with
the Dog-Faced Boy, the Turtle Boy, the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

taking the place in the world

the museum ON Eighth Avenue managed by
John r. Doris, and containing at least three
email theaters in which dramatic perform
ances were given. The star of these enter
tanments was Fanny Herring, who had been
in her day an actress of no small note, who
had appeared in Brougham's "Pocahontas"
and been greatly admired by that inimitable
pantonlimst George L. Fox. Miss Herring
stands out in my memory as the most con-
spicuous type Of the actress who 'loves her
art' that have ever seen. At this time she
was fairly well-to-do and the owner of a nice
home in Connecticut, but rather than stop
acting she continued to perform in the Doris
Museum until the last. She had great skill
as an adapter and could present such dramas
as Camille" and ''The French Spy in
twenty minutes, and that, too, without sacrl-
ficing any of the ''big moments" so dear to her
professional soul The museum did not long
survive her retirement.
Huber's Museum, in East Fourteenth
Street, was building many stories in height
and containing many exhibits of snakes, mon
KEYS, bears and other animals. 1t was here
that Dr. Cook appeared with his troop of dogs
and perhaps acquired the tricks of deception
which he afterward performed so successfully
in Scandinavia. I remember the place chiefly
because of its different smells encountered,
like the various strata in a pousse cafe, as
one climbed from floor to floor from the en-
trance hall where the snake charmer handled
her pets to the upper one where the monkey
cages were.
Huber was succeeded by Professor Worth,
man of certain crude scientific knowledge who
endeavored to elevate" his museum by dis
play of what he called "objects Of interest to
the serious mind" Among these was ghast-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

81 did know. But-well, 1t seems to have
slipped my mind
"Could you play it-on the piano."
"No. | can't play the piano--not the
piano.
could you play it on any Instrument"
"No. You see only play the phonograph"
Then thought struck me- The hurdy-
gurdy would rush to it in my hour of need.
Leaving the clerk to stare blankly after me
| darted out of the store.
But the hurdy-gurdy gone It's voice,
if it still was raised, was lost past recognition
in the roar of traffic
Yet association is marvellous thing. The.
mere thought of the hurdy-gurdy brought back
the lost melody Whistling merrily, returned
to the clerk.
That's it, said.
''Whats it?"
"The tune Pm whistng" replied.
ooh" said the clerk. ooh. yes I see."
He disappeared and presently returned with
large red and black record, which he briskly
tied up in brown paper
I kept the record on my desk all day, SO
that / couldn't lose sight Of it. That night
l triumphantly entered the house with it,
Ten minutes later the family stood around
me- more in anger than in sorrow.
"Where did you get that record?" they
demanded.
"At the phonograph store Why?"
Glow did you happen to get it?''
'Oh, that's easy. l didn't even have to tell
them the name. l just whistled it for them
You see it used to be called Over the Sum-
ner Seas when l was boy, and l remem~
bered it and so-"
Something in the faces about me showed me
that this speech wasn't getting over.
"The record you brought home," said one
If my judges, in hollow, accusing voice, is
Over There"
Copyright James ). Montasus.y