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VOL. I NO. 23
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER !), 1914.
Conwont, 1014, ST THE Pcblio Ledger COMMNT.
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STEVENSON JUMPS
TO PENROSE "FROM
FRYING PAN TO FIRE"
So Political Observors View
Washington Party Magis
trate's Switch to Support of
Liquor Candidate.
COST OF LIVING
BUSINESSMEN CALL
FOR A NEW SCHOOL
IN CHESTNUT HILL
Buildings Now in Use Anti
quated and Dangerous and
Mass Meetings Will Voice
Protest.
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Magistrate Mnxwell Stevenson. Jr , who
was elected nn the Washington part
tloket, has announced that he will sup
port Senator Penrose Political nbscrvet
ay lie has Jumped from the frying pm
Into the (Ire.
Magistrate Stevenson's explanation '
supporting Penrose, the candidate of tl
Organisation and of the liquor Interns"
Is that he "refused to be dominated '
tho Van VnlkenburE-PlInn machine
Three pictures of Senator Penrose n
hung Up In the Magistrate's courtroom i
East Glrard avonue and Mnilbnrougl
street. One picture Is pasted on t .
window. On the wall of Manual
Stevenson's private ofllce nm two ot
pictures.
Magistrate Stevenson has appoint" 1
Otto Zimmerman, an Organization mnn.
as his constable. Zimmerman Is a. mem
ber of the Board of Governors of the
Union Republican Club of South Phlla- J
delphla. of which Senator Vare Is th
president
Magistrate Stevenson uld that he did
not believe the liquor dealt'!. s ot 1 enn
sylvanla were behind Penrose He said
he would "rather be a member of the
Organlratlon than belong to a parti when
wns being domlmted by two bosse
whom he described ns Vnn Vnlkenburg
and FHnn
When Magistrate Stevenson was intei
vlewnd todav In hU otllce. he said he was
Justified in deserting the Washington
Party. He said that Instead of helping
him to be elected Van Valkenburg and
Fllnn through their agents, did their
best to "knife" him at the last election
"I Hm for Senator Penrose first. Int
and all the time, ald Mnglstiate Steven
con. "I cannot see where Mr Plnchot If
elected, will be able to do anything. Mi
Pinchot has never been Identified with
business or labor interests here
"Have von received anv overtures from
the Organisation to support Senator Pen
rose'"
"I have not," replied Magistrate Ste
venson.
"Have you held anv conference with
any of the agents representing the Pen-rose-McNichul-
are machine''
"I have not ' he said.
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QUENCHER IN EARLY TIMES
The Soft Drink Is Not n New Di
version. The soft drink 1 no new diver-dun and
tho Inference from this fact might be
drawn that not ail dwellers in the dim,
remote past were hard drinkers of liaid
stuff, a fact w lilch would seem to con
travene much literature descriptive of
the habits and thlist of our ancestor."
A suggestion or, perhaps, a taste, of
some of these verj old soft drinks and In
nocuous tipples ma be had by reference
to the advice given tils patients by a ven
erable physi iau who lived when our pres
ent business foim- and social customs,
which mam nr pleased to call civilisa
tion, were joung. or perhaps unborn.
The name or that physician Is now of no
especlny Importance, but if the rendr
lnslstspon having It, whv here It Is:
His name was Sangindo, and he was a
Spaniard No doubt there are old thion
lcles which will give, moie information
than that relating to him. He was a great
believer In the etllcaiv of pure water as
a potion or potation, and he wrote this:
"Health consists In the suppleness and
hunecation of the part.s Drink water In
great abundance. It Is a universal men- '
Strom that dissolves all kinds of salts, l
But If thou feeletft in thjself anv reluc-
tnnce to the ilmplo. elument. there are In
nocent aids In plentj that will support
thy stomach asaitist the Insipid taste of
water. Sage, for example, and balm will
give It an admirable flavor, and an infu- '
elon of cornpoppy, gillflower and ros
mary will render It mom delictum. "
Before the virtues and the vices of the
prape were suspected, before the liend
aches, quarrels and good-fellowship were
distilled from the peach or cherry, and
long centurlu3 before the Intoxicating
possibilities of barley, rye and corn were
recognized, a home and homely tipple
was made of honey and water It satis
fied the same kind of a thirst which
many old-fashioned ihildren of a recent
ags slaked wth sugar ami water
sweetened water nothing else Honey j
watr goes back to the. youth of the
human family, for huney as a sweet
nd as a "dulclfler" long antedated the
sugar ot cane
Water flavored with the essences of
flowers, harks and root were common
family preparations. To them was
ascribed medical qualities, but It was
easy to confer this repute upon things
jrrateful to the taste ft was good for
the palate, and therefore good for the
rest of the body Today men ascribe
curative properties to certain liquids,
while other men and women cry them
down as poison Perhaps there was a
' Very widespread belief that the pala
table preparations wer remedial for
many of the Ills of the flesh, but they
wero copiously drunk because they wero
wet and agreeable
Sage tea was an old beverage and sas
safras tea had a great vogue, a vogue
which lingers to some extent among us.
It Is drunk as a spring medicine, but It
is undeniably fragrant and even to some
Ibii-to-date palates has a pleasing flavor
lakes 10 of the things which Impressed the
Kits forllest white settlers In this part of the
Mallnv-mtry. and of which they glowingly
fashion. ote as one of tlte charms and appsal-
hlte at feature uf tho new wotld, was the
siouasnndance ol sassafras.
Wery attread was a temperance drink In early
rjMrrea uope before it was perverted, or Im-
DDon oyed according to the point of view.
iciusse, fermentation It waa honey and
The tar and siii es. and many found In it
r'08 i. . notent llauld. Among early Ameri-
fhecifcis mead was a gentle and flavoring
:liiaitter, usually sarsapanlla.
it
FBOffi FATHEB TO SON
"Well, Bobby," said the minister to
the small son of oua of bis deacons.
what is the news?"
"Popper's got a new set of false tth "
"Indetd." said the minister restraining
a desire to Uugb. "and what will he do
with ths old set?"
oh I suppose," replied Bobby,
'they'll cut "em down and make ine
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BELIEVE MISSING
GIRL IS KIDNAPPED;
WIDE SEARCH ON
Relatives of Elizabeth Quig
ly Believe She Is Abducted
or Injured Worked to
Enter College.
Heaitbroken friends and relatives are
aiding the police In a, search for Elisa
beth Qulgg, 1 .vears old, who. until lier
disappearance on Tuesday, W88 em
ploed at the home of ilerbeit p. White
head". 5S&j Carpenter air. et, as a corn.
pantun to Mrs. Whitehead
The ,ung girt, who was preparing to
enter collage, left the house on Tuesday
ostensibly, to purchase grapes. She
never returned Mrs. Whitehead and this
girl's relatives believe she was either
kidnaped or injuietl
Both the, hiteheads and Mis QuiggV
sister, liar. whu resides at Woodbury,
N J . are grief stricken over the- dlsap
pearanie of the young girl The Qutgg
girls are orphans, ami until the fourteenth,
of last month buth resided at Wooijburv.
Then Kltzabeth came to, live with the
Vi hiteheads
Mrs. bitehesd had heard of the young
woman's struggle to earn sudlcient
monev for hei i allege career, and deciding
to aid misatieth utfeied her u position
as companion
Captuin of fjiUftiv-.a Cameron Is taking
pergonal (-barge, of the tea run which has
been instituted In all large cities in the
Bast HoitpliaU and police stations have
bwen notltle.1 and furnished with a de
scription of the gill
' i cannot imagine what has become
of her." said Mr Whitehiad toda "I
am inexpressibly worried Elizabeth
never had a love affair to my knowledge,
and her sister says she would not look
at a man She had no money when she
left the house last Tuesday other than
just enough to purchase the fruit
"I do not know of any quarrels the
had MUs Wise, her former school
teacher in Camden had a little dis
agreement with Klizabeth some time ago.
but that 'matter was adjusted and the
two are now good friends '
Other friends of the missing girl are
unable to explain her cUr.p-sea'-'o.re Her
sister kirn" of no reasoa iby she should
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ATS PLMU?E A 0CK?f7 ro?JLOW? P?Cr$
CURBSTONE MARKET SOLVES
COST OF LIVING PROBLEM
Housewife Saves $1.10 When She Goes A-buying There
And Dispenses With The Luxury of High-Priced i
Delivery By Uniformed Messengers.
By th Investment of a little energy and
1') cents rarefare, housewives can save
51 10 every time they go to market. If
they yire particular and like to see) pro
visions amid artistic aurroundlnes before
buying, then they must Hive, up hope of
f-ffecting this economy. But if tlmy simply
want tha provisions on thir merits the
amount mentioned can be taved by those
who go to market three time every week.
It Is generally known by those who
hftve, been Investigating markets in I'hll
ndelphU and other cities that the style
and convenience demanded by the people
has been largely responsible for the high
cost of food. For Instance, n, head of
cabbage, which may. be bought for Ave
cents if a wotnon picks it up from ft
baiket and carrlts it home. Is greatly in
creased in price if it U gent home In the
dealer's fancy automobile and delivered
In a fancy wooden box by a uniformed
messenger In such a cns It Is plain to
be seen thBt the cost of the auto, the
wages of the chaufteur aud the cost, of
the gasoline has entered Into tha price
of the simple head of cabbage, which
will not taste spy better than if It were
carried home by the housewife hrsel( or
one of her children
Tho experience of the cabbage applies
to all kinds of food bought In fancy mar-
rkets. If a housewife debir to economize
and get down to simplicity In buying she
I cannot And a better place than the curb
stone market. Thre are several of these
unassuming institutions In this city; one
of the moat rsonable is located on South
7th street, from Dicklnon to Mlfllln
street. Here can be found everything1
in the produce line, devoid of frills, at
low prices.
A reporter for the Evknino I.bdquk
took a trip through this open-ai rmarket
' today and compared the prices of pro
1 visions there with prices at the Reading
Terminal MarKet as most or ine pa
trons of the curbstone market buy in
the half peck and dczen quantities, r
used these measurements as a bfisU jor
comparison It tan be stated incidentally
that many patrons of the tc-iminal market
buy in tho same quantities.
The reporter found that in 17 articles of
food given in the accompany ing table,
the housowifo could save 1 JO by patronlz
tnc the cuibstone market Instead of tho
Teunlnal Market. Deducting 10 cents for
carfare for those who live beyond walking
distance from the curbstone market the
eavitiB would be i 10 on ach trip to
market,
It it fair to assume that the housewife
who buva in euch small quantities Is
obliged tn go to market at least three
times a week, and her saving would be
43 a) a week. This Is not a spasmodic;
condition, and Investigation has shown
that tho tjne margin uf economy could
he effected the year round.
The throngs who patronize this curb
market dally prove that these facts have
gone no me to the housewives, and now
they tome from all sections of the city.
In many eai-es two women market to
gether and help ach other to carry
hume the morning's marketing. This is
why one sees so many baskets on the
tro,le cars bound for the suburbs. The
vendurs of the curbstone market say they
vlll not start tho tending-home system,
for they realize the moment they do that
prices must soar.
The curbstone market was a busy scene
this morning Well-gowned women
i ut bed elbows with the poor housewife
lln shawl and wrapper nnd many of the
former learned a few points from the
poei woman's method of buying While
there are no marble counters ami spot
lessly clad attendants, the curb mer
chants are dressed for their work in
hand, and are courteous, too, for they
want the same tustomera to corne back
again and bring their neighbors
And judging from the business, the
women are doing it. ,
Harriman Slightly Improved
NBW YORK, Oct 9 -J. Borden Harri
man, who Is very ill at his country home
at I'plands near Mt Kist-o, was reported
last night as somewhat improved. He suf
fers with kidney trouble. Oliver and Her
bert Harriman are at the house and
othsrs of the famy. The Rev Dr Wii1
lam 8. Rilnsfnrd, formerly rector of St
(-eorge's, New ork, vva also sent Jer,
BELGIAN PAINTER
EDGAR ALLAN POE'
OF PICTURE WORLD
Realistic Works of Joseph
Wiertz Were in Brussels
Museum When War's
Flames Enveloped Europe.
if when the Belgian Government moved
Itself to Antwerp It did not also remove
to an absolutely cafe place the contents
of tho Museo Wiertz, consisting wholly of
paintings by Antolne Joseph Wiertz, It
was guilty of an Inexcusable oversight
Tho lollettion has been housed since
the death of the artist in 3SC5 In a
great studio which was erected for
ertz by tho Government and was
namtd the "Musec Wiertz." Tor orlgl
lulits of conception und execution It has
nothing like Its counterpait In all the
vvoild It is unique nnd nlwavs held the
Interest of the artists of the world It
has been called "historical, allegorical
Rnd Idealistic," but that falls far short
of i ven a ,uggestlon of the real charac
ter of the collection.
Tho pictures uru often ghastly In their
portrasal of human civilization, In war
und In peace, In lives of the great ones
and of the most humble. Wiertz was the
IMgar Allan I'oe of tho brush In paint
ing within the solitude of his immense
studio he also studied the chemistry of
Pigments, the laws or harmon and con
trast, and he evolved what was called
in French "peinture mate." which means
a dull surface He created a "distemper"
whioh was a secret and which has ieen
the despair of thousands of artlstswho
have, made a study of his work The
great Thorvaldsen pronounced him "the
giant of the iraft," and that has been
u. general urdict of artists and critics,
both In legard to his choice of themes
and his txeoution of them
His largest canvas, SO feet long, de
pltts Homer's story of the combat of
Achilles and Hector over the dead body
of I'atroiius, who had been slain by
Hector, with a dozen figures of heroic
sue in tremendous action 'The Revolt
nt the Angels," another large canvas,
may be said to illustrate the fall pf
I-uifer "The Triumph of Christ" repre
sents tho vanqulsbment of the hosts of
evil, war being one of the evils, and
)t is n r-odiguus satire of the present
socdllioes n AYiertaa native country,
w
Other large ennvases arc "The Carnival
nt Rome," depicting tho extravagance,
luxury and recklessness of this spectacle
In tho city where the artist studied fot
a time. "Napoleon In Hell," picturing
"the Prince of Murderers" in ghastlv and
ghostly caricature, surrounded by (lames
nnd suggestions of tho agony of his hosts
of victims, the contemplation of which
was more horrible to endure than the buI
phurous conflagration. "A Second After
Death" Is a Indescribable fancy of the
separation of a body and a soul. "The
Precipitate, Inhumation" shows rho agony
of a premature burial. "Tho Child
lSurned," "Hungr, Folly and Crime"
and "The Suicide" may be Imagined from
the titles.
Every one who has haunted art gal
leries has seen visitors look through
half-shut hand, or through a tube, to
enhance the effect of a picture. Wiertz
constructed booths for some of his
smaller and ghastlier paintings like those
Just mentioned In the front of the
booth, the canvases being at the bailt.
holes about two Inches in diameter vvpre
made, nnd looking through these the
pictures became startlingly like real lif.
One saw the suicide's head fall batk
and in his hand the smoking pistol.
Wiertz was born nt Dinant In ISrtG At
the age of 10 years, without any Instruc
tion, he painted a striking portrait At
12 he had done soma renmikable wood
carving. At n he was studying under
disciples of Rubens at Antwerp Thenro
he went to Paris, and at the age of ;
vvuu iiib uiku)- coveieu I'rtx de Iloms
which brought him tuition at the greit
school in the Holy City established for
foreign Btiidents After 4 short time a
I.lego. following his return from Home
Wiertz settled finally at Brussels, and
became to the Belgian capital ns famous
a figure during his life as any other of
the great Flemish and DutciT painters
his fame, however, being different in hi
unique individuality
This, the most amazing "oiie-man" art
exhibition In the world. Its honfe being
In tha studio built jfor the artist by his
Government, If oblfterated by the mis
fortunes of war. would utterly extinguish
Wiertz for the reason that the museum
is all there Is of AVlertz Other great
artists have had their pioductlons dis
tributed over tho world, In public gal
leries and private collections. Wlertz's
whole soul and whola work weie in tlie
one place. " ""-
ASTOR WIT
Newport is crediting Vincent Astul ulth
a, -on mot """
.hU 5S"f" t,t Mr -utCM- '""I iumed
tho cold shouldw on an arlstoci alio but
frTed rhim
and received tho telllngeply " Sb'
whom.v.1? "n" complain. Tt.y
In efforts to obtain safe school buildings
for tho children of Chestnut Hill, ths
Business Men's Association lias rtrrangpd
mass-meetings of protest and nppolnted
n, committee to fomlllarlzc the members
of the Board of Education with the dan
geroua condition of the Joseph It. Gilbert
Combined School, 20th etrcct and High
land avenue.
According to .7. H. Webster, secretary
of the Business Men's Association, Frank,
lln Spencer Cdmonds has declared the
school" of Chestnut Hill to be nntlquated,
In a deplorable condition nnd a disgrace
to that section.
"The buildings surely arc antiquated,"
said Mr. Webster. "They have hnd no
Improvements for tho last Zi years. There
arc many cases where parents prefer to
send their children from Chestnut Hltl
to the Allen Lane School in Mt. Airy
rather than subject them to the dangers
of the Gilbert School. This makes con
siderable Inconvenience, becauso tho chil
dren arc small and the school Is far from
their homes.
"The annex to the Gilbert School was
not built for a school building. It Is
practically impossible to ventilate this
building, and ns a result wo have a great
mnny colds and n lot of sickness nmong
the children"
On the main building of tho Gilbert
School there Is no lire escape. For the
400 children In the building there are threo
stairways One of thebe has been sep
arated from the building and makes what
Is called a flro escape. Tho building Is
full of wood panels, and is generally
considered dangerous.
Tho only access to tho second story
of the nnncc on Germantown avenue, be
low Ablngton avenue. Is a narrow stalr
wa. such ns those in ordinary dwelling
houses About 60 6-year-old children oc
cupy tho second story room, nnd In event
of the stairs being cliocknn up In a fire
thoio Is no means of escnpe.
Miss Isabella Mcrarlan, principal of tha
school, luis done much, according to the
residents of the neighborhood, to Improve
conditions In the school Miss McFarlan
snld this morning tli.it in case of fire, with
all tlie stnirs open, tho building could be
emptied In two minutes. With one or two
of the stairs open, it would take four
minutes to empty the building.
Members of the commltteo working to
secure hettei sihonl conditions for Chest
nut 1 1 III Include Dr. Oscar Gcrson, A. K.
Sehock and Autilio.
CREDIT UNIONS
ARE DRIVING OUT
THE LOAN SHARK
Employes of Many Firms
Have Formed Co-operative
Organizations to Provide
Ready Money.
Borrowing monej In small imo'ii ts,
even for necessary uses has been In the
pnst one of the most dangerous as well
ns one of 'tho most difficult things for
tho average mnn to do
I'nleps ho had a friend who sould make
the loan to him on easy term0, he was
usually forced to go to a loan ngeuty.
and from that time his troubles were
likely to be many and serious. He was
faced with the demand for a high, often
times ruinous, rate of interest from the
loan shark, which wns calculated to eat
well into any small incomo that he had.
At tho tnd, If he wns un ible to keep
1 the pace tilth the drain upon his re
sources, he ran the risk of having the
enso taken to his ofllce and of losing his
position In disgrace at tho hands of an
emplover who considered if a sign of
unpardonable moral fault for one of his
men 10 have borrowed money from a
loan shark.
Nowadays, fortunotelv. movements are
j on foot to change all that sort of thing
1 Co-operative credit unions, formed among
. the tmpioyea of the firms with the ap
proval of the managers themselves, are
beginning to drive the loan sharks out
of busimts and furnish a way both of
encouraging tho workers to save money
and a reputabla agency for securing .mall
amounts to meet tmergencies
The firist step. In many cases, has ben
to convince the emDlovors that borrow
j iug was often necebsary for mn of en
tirely respectable and oven thrifty habits,
living on small Incomes, and that it did
not Indicate on Incurable lack of manag
ing ability and character. With this ac
complished, however, the record of credit
unions has been one of popularity and
marked success.
Many big New York firms, among them
a leading Insurance company, a powerful
banking torporatlon, one of the two groat
telegraph companies, a department store
employing thousands, and a rcai estate
firm with a wide-spreading business, ar
preparing to orgamzo credit unions under
the remodeled law which was one ot ths
nets of the Legislature of ,3ii.
There are Indications that other cor
porations, not only in New Xurk, but ei0
Whore, are preparing to get Into line,
and that the near future wil see a spread
of these societies for thrift and honest
loaning which will mark an Important
nw era for the man on a small salary.
AN EXPLANATION
-Every now and then wo read about a
lot of qual" following a hen up the road."
said the ii'mmer boarder
"uVC ,nvli'"X Far" C'orntosscl.
How do ou explain Itr'
Various ways Sometimes the phe
SeoTZ, vU8 t0 h0 5u;t that loti et
on-ii J?i know th d'"n:e between
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