nmMMgn"."' immmmmmm & ft : f' m fclr " l m I ' S I ? ;,IB 1 H f$e r'. Wm '$ ' 1 rB U v r ft Wl V tai WORK ON $6,000,000 GENERAL HOSPITAL BLOCKED BY POLITICS "Perpetual Contract" of Philip H Johnson Impels Director Hartc to Hold Plans in Abeyance. Reconstruction of the Philadelphia Gen eral Hospital 'will not toe started until the rjucstldn. of what architect shall draw tlio plans is satisfactorily and definitely settled. That Is tho announcement of Dr. It, 11 Harte, Dlrectdr of the Department ut Health and Charities, who lias evolved ptans to transform the antiquated and overcrowded structures of Blockley Into a modern $6,000,000 Institution. Thero Is nn Item of 11,000,000 for the beginning of tho Work In the $11,300,000 municipal loan Fused at the last election Tho 1,OCO,000 will be rmido available, by Councils within me pext lew weens. Criticism, directed against Doctor Harte, because of Ills willingness to have tho ptuh drawn by Philip 11 Johnson, a Political architect, who holds by Organi zation paner a perpetual monopoly oer alt contracts In tho Health Department, has impelled tho Director to announce that itp shall hold his plans In abeyance Director Harto takes tho stand that the courts have decided that Johnson shall be the architect of tho Health De partment Tho Director contends that he Is bound legally to allow Johnson to supervise, tho work, and that an effort on his part tq employ any othor archi tect would tie up a project that Is hu manitarian and should be completed as early as possible, It Is further contended by Director Ilarto that nil plans for the hospital have been evolved by hlmsolf and approved by eminent medical au thorities, and that tho work of tho archi tect will bo merely reducing to working plans on paper designs submitted to him, Realizing this attltudo of Director Harte, tho Organization leaders of Coun cils, chief among whom Is Charles Seger, chairman of the powerful Subcommittee on Appropriations, have shown a willing ness to let Doctor Harte "have what ha wants" -Ior tho Health Department, ex cepting1 the new Division of Housing and ' Sanitation. Tho leaders In Councils re alize that Johnson, tho favorite architect of 'the Organization, will get at least WJ0,000 us his personal 6 per cent, share from tho $,000,000 reconstruction work at Blockley. Director Cooko, of tho Department of Public Works, has, according to Director Harte, asserted that tho reconstruction of Blockley should be performed In the Public Works Department to the com plete elimination of Johnson, tho "perpet ual architect." Doctor Harto says under the law such arrangement Is Impossible The Director now fears, however, a tax payer's suit or other legal action aimed to annul Johnson's right to perform tho architectural services of rebuilding Block ley at the rich fee of $300,000, If the work Is started. Philip II. Johnson, tho architect, the cause of the controversy and the present Impediment to a greater Philadelphia General Hospital, secured his grip on the Health Department construction work In 1303 during the Administration of the late Mayor Ashbrldge. Under the city con tract Johnson then secured, by orders of the Organization, ho has virtually a per petual monopoly on all work that will ever be instituted by the Department of Health and Charities. Johnson and the late Israel W. Durham, former Bepuhllcan political boss, wore brothers-in-law. The present architect was a former rodman In tho Philadelphia Survey Bureau. HJ "perpetual contract" with the city his, been upheld by President Judgo Mayer Sulzberger, of the Court of Com mon Pleas No. 2, in tho followlrig lan guage: "The contract of March 30, 1903, with Philip II. Johnson, was therefore a valid, subsisting contract, and the City Solicitor was right In refusing to draw and approve a contract with another architect In 1913 for a part of the same work." That decision followed an effort on the part of city officials to employ other architects on work stipulated for Johnson under his "eternal contract " Until the argument Is settled one way or another regarding Blockley, Doctor Harte asserts he will take no further ac tion. He contends he Is not a politician and has no at.lllatlona with the Organiza tion, although Administration adherents say they -can see a tendency In that direc tion. ACQUIT ASYLUM ATTENDANTS Four Hen Exonerated of Blame for Patient's Death. Indictments charging James Dallas, Martin Olbbln and Michael Connelly, at tendants at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, with manslaughter In causing tb death Of Henry P. Hummel, a patient, were submitted for verdicts of not guilty and a Jury acquitted Arthur Oreenway. another attendant, before Judge Davis in Quarter Sessions Court today. Hummel died oft October 5 as the result of hemorrhages caused by bruises of tho abdomen It was the Commonwealth's contention that the defendants had used undue violence, but there was no testi mony to connect Dallas, Glbbln und Con nelly with the man's death. TI1E WEATIIEIt Official Forecast WASHINGTON, Dec. H. For eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer seyFair and much colder tonight and Tuesday; strong west winds diminishing A disturbance that was Indicated qn the middle Gulf coast yesterday morning moved northeastward at a phenomenal r(e and merged on the north Atlantic Sleptt last night with another disturbance that moved southeastward from Iake Superior These two formed an energetic storm that Is central over Maine this morning. They caused genera precipita tion from the Mississippi Itlver eastward Snowfall was heavy In the Allegheny Mountains, but foi innately temperature rose suddenly and changed the precipita tion to rain along the Atlantic slope. An intense cold wave has overspread the eMfal valleys and the Lake region at th year of the storm. j U, S. Weatjjer Bureau Bulletin O&srratleKS 4s l - ta. utttra tine. Git Kiln- Veloa. 8 .m. n't. UU Wind. ttr.Wtatiur 2 UBMB. 1X . J V nJU TSSs. 0 . W 11 w at jSmt Knr 41 -At B 3r BiiMirr- fi cu 1.W hw m gJU BTaT Eg. sSr B&..Ji3 laK83B' J : 1 1 8 i fte; l-wtlMil -- 8 85 ' SW "U""1 f tSnifis, W" ' 1 ( '""" ' A JtaJlMla -H !f It a ji T-uchfv - 1 )mm-. W m VI Hm iff iTouHj :-( aa .. mis s ciau tBEe sf. jK sHTTO. iaaala&lek. a FREDERICK SCHWARTZ, JR. Common Councilman of the 45th Ward. He is also opposed to the Taylor plan of rapid transit. FIVE DIE AS RESULT OF DAY'S ACCIDENTS A Suicide Also Beported to the Police Department. Five pertons arc dead today and 13 nro In hcMpltals as tho result of a series of accidents hinco Saturday night. One of tho deaths was caused by illu minating gas, u little boy was burned to death after hin clothing nas Ignited by n bonllre, one man was killed .it Crozlers vlllo when his autcmobllo skidded over an embankment Into tho Chester Creek, a Negro died as tho icsult of burns caused by a lighted lamp thrown at him, tho police sa by his wife, and a man supposed to havo been Intoxicated died after being taken from a celt at tho 20th and Buttonwood streets station In addition to theso fatalities the sulcldo of a man was reported to the police Three of thoso In hospitals were oer como by gus, six wore hurt In automo bile accidents, a little girl was shot by a constable defending himself from an at tack of a crowd uf young men, and Henry Dear, an Indian, who fell Into tho Delaware River., and his rescuer, Police man llaug, uf the 1th and Itace streets station, both aro suffering as tho result of expeteure Tho sulcldo was William Hamer, of K03 Philip street, and tho police are in vestigating a nolo found pinned to tho man's cout when ho was found In a rooming house In Race street between Sth and 0th, as tho man's mother, Mrs. Hannah Harner, sajs ho Is able to wrlto only his own name. The note read: "She Is tho cause of mo doing It. Sho drovo mo to It I swear It I wouldn't havo done It if It wasn't for her" Tho namo of a woman and a fictitious address also were given In the no'to. Har ner's former employers told the pollco that a woman with whom ho worked fre quently quarreled with him The woman was discharged and n few days later Harner left his place. FhBlcIani at tho Hahnemann Hospital found the man had taken poison Two-year-old Thomas Young died at tho Pennsylvania Hospital as tho result of burns receivej nt his room. In the rear of 237 Ilace street, while playing with matches. Martin Senahan, of Olen Riddle, was tho man killed In tho automobile smash. Ills car took a 30-foot jump Into tho Chester Creek near the Methodist Church In Crozlervlllo James W. Carroll, who was driving tho machine, was thrown out as the car plunged over the embank ment and escaped without Injury. Sena han was crushed under tho auto In tho creek bed. The woman killed by illuminating gas was Mrs Mary Nolan, 71 years old, of 4J9 North 19th street Investigation showed that sho was stricken with ver tigo, and in falling severed a gas tube leading to a stove. Sho died at the Gar rettson Hospital Constable Max Weber, who shot 9-year-old Mary Cunco. of 213 Queen street, was held In $000 bail for a further hearing by Magistrate MacFarland, to await the re sult qf the child's Injuries. Lelber was about to fire into the air to frighten off a gang of roughs, he testified, when some one struck his arm, tho bullet hitting the child In the neck. She Is In a serious condition at tho Pennsylvania Hospital. NEW CHANCELLOR NAMED The. Ilev. Edmoud Fltzmaurice Ap pointed Successor to Monslgnor Kayanagh. The Itev. Udniotul Fltzmaurice, D D, for nearly 10 years professor of dogmatic theology at St Charles' Borromeu Seml narj, Ovorbrook, has been appointed Chancellor of tho Philadelphia Diocese Announcement of the appointment was made by Archbishop Prendergast. The Itev, Dti ritzmaurlc succeeds Morslgnor Charles P. Kavanaugh, who recently resigned because of 111 health. The new chancellor will assume his duties before the first of the year. Horn In Ireland, Doctor Fltzmaurice re ceived Ids education at IxAivaln and Home. He distinguished himself as the prize winner in Scripture while a student at the American College In the Imperial City. He also wus a medalBt In dog matlo theology and a. winner of the sacra ments prize. Sues Doctor for Blacked Eyes NBW YORK, Deo. 11,-CharIes Inneo, an aetor, has sued to reeover 3O,00O dam ages from Alexander Lavtgne, an eye specialist, upon the ground that the doc tor gv him two Mask eyes Inns went to the doctor for treatment He alleges the doctor caused ' two deep, wide, ex Unlv circles" to form about the eyes of the plaintiff, "giving the appearance that his eyes had been blaekened " Decapitated In Elevator Shaft NEW YORK, Dec H.-Wllllam Taylor was decapitated yesterday in the elevator shaft of, the Dearborn Apartments. 860 Wst 66th street, wbare ha waa Mnploysd as a porter. 14ntrlng the shaft to close a window, he was looking out of it when the bvy eounter-batanee weight de oeodtd upon Mm, TODAY'S MARHIAGB UQENSBO Arthur If. Cloves, & Jmm 's " WW u. n Or Murtc Browi UlUaoK. Holt, S 4 s4 snd WtUUm J Haw. U Onwe P DUamick, nunwu n rv sauey 413 N Uarakill at f it?.?- ww MS Hum4 t.. sad Mlruw n M. TOHyuak iv. ud Ralph LUU fla . jotta rr2isM&? 5ev4. IJ! sS2S5r"rtfA ruonas urn ui iizi a juupar 4 WllUiau V 0jbr lots OlnW.nMt . mud Oorotbr M atuckley 126 Praatba w llluun H '" r labaaAa "- t Haiti R VVIUUui J Lueh fiaadior Pa. TQOUUMO ft Kuitanlxua TSS N Otb L MHi IKS at ajul Sduy at. tlJj K U litis N.w TarS i.. ! ,J M t t S-iuuti fjal --i j , .1 J xylite Mt betrf " I H ' I. i 3 &ite m mi. io. a & m WtiSSmfr BtUCcr. ym Dakota tl Waet !ArlA mi PaWthwp at ? Sk" .P k: AWu wKuHTit "efw ww swuu Jcaer Mreenspan, itm Hall Lunar VUS Pu EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DEOEHBEB "lADE-IN-AMERICA" BAZAAR OPENED IN BEHALF OF POOR Fine Art of Selling Demon strated by Matron and Maid, Who Charm Money Out of Mere Man's Pockets. Psychologists and other learned people havo been bothering the heads of the poor little snlesgfrl lately with fancy no tions as to how to sell her goods In the best way. All that theso wiseacres have said and much more besides Is being dem onstrated right this mlnuto up at Horti cultural Hall, where the Madc-tn-Amerlca Hazsar, launched early this morning, Is now going at a fast clip. Tho pool unsuspecting malo customer who dropped In there with the charitable Impulso of spending a few spare dollars for the benefit of tho faraway war suffer ers and tho nearby unemployed stood about as much chance of slopping at thoso few spare Hollars as a stag does when King Georgo goes out to hunt. The cards were stacked against him; the dice loaded. The youth and beauty and fash Ion of Philadelphia were lined up to re ceive him. His chance was nil from the beginning. If Miss Paullette Hagenmns In her fas cinating little Belgian cap didn't nab him the very minute ha poked his nose in tho doorway, and pilot him over to the lace counter. Mrs. Paul Denkla Mills or Mrs. Alexander Brown, two. of the most irresistible matrons of tills city. led him gently but firmly to their artistic booths, where all sorts of artistic China articles from cunning white elephants selling at a mere V an elephant to won derful dinner plates to be raffled at U a chance And between a white China elephant, a fascinating Belgian damsel In a fas cinating peasant cap, and two Irresistible matrons, what opportunity of cscapo had a poor susceptible malo person to say nothing of the bevy of othor pulchrltudl nous workers who surrounded him when these had done their worst? FINE ART OF SELLING. They have conceived the art of selling to bo a fine one up at the bazaar, and they havo It down pat. They can make n man pay for anything from a glass of drinking water to taking knitting lessons. In fnct, they aro doing it. And what Is more to tho point, he Is paying cheer fully Taking into account the innate clumsi ness of the masculine digits, Mrs J. Curtis Patterson, In charge of the knitting booth, has Becured as oho of her assist ants Mrs. Adalbert Koertlng-Flscher, a petite and charming little German woman whoso husband has invented a clever de vice to make knitting easy. Tho device may facilitate the Instruction, but It's Mrs. Fischer who makes Uie lesson charming, and therefore her llttlo niche la fast becoming one o fthe most popular corners In the bazaar. Speaking of popular corners, the South ern Stjle Lunchroom, presided over by Miss Grctchen Clay and a score of Hebe Ilko aides, couldn't get out their dinners with chicken a la Maryland quick enough to suit tho hungry horde of diners -who were drawn thither at 1 o'clock this aft ernoon by the advance reports of tho Lucullan feast to bo served by the city's prettiest and wittiest. And if tho lunch room comes out ahead when the pro ceeds are reckoned up It will be a close guess as to whether the dinners or the waitresses who served It are responsible for the success. Taken all In all, the bazaar Is one of the most picturesque, and promises to be one of the most lucrative ever held here ror a good cause. And one quite worth while visiting, too, but It will be a. wily man, indeed, who gets away with so much as a llttlo red Indian copper in his pocket PET ANIMALS ON SHOW. Tomorrow, instead of Joyous children's laughter will be heard the Joous bark ing of the cream of Philadelphia's canine society at tho bazaar. At 10 o'clock the Pot Dog Show.another of the big features, will be on. Mrs. James Mauran Rhodes will be In charge of the show, and more than 150 prizes will be offered. While the function is officially a pet dog show, other pets will be enabled to display their charms, and the Judges expect a wide variety. Among the entries already made are short-haired cats, long-haired cats, canaries, parrots, guinea pigs,, rabbits and schlpperekes. Each may win a trophy, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton Is chairman of the committee in charge of the bazaar The patronesses of the booths are: Country House-Mrs. J. It, Evans Rob erts, Mrs. P. C. Madeira. French Booth-Mrs. Arturo de Heeren. English Booth Mrs. E, Uurd Orubb. Oerman Booth Mrs, Walter S. Thom son. Belgian Booth-Mrs, Charles Custls Harrison. Mrs. Charles B. Wright Russian Booth Mrs. William E. Scull. Doctors' Booth-Mrs. John n. Deaver. Knitting Booth Mrs. J, Custls Patter son. Mrs. Carrie Roberts, Mrs. Almy, Miss Bell lied Cross Booth-Mrs. William L. Me. Lean. Old-fashioned Kitchen Mrs. John C. aroome, Mrs. Gertrude Heckscher, Mrs. Edward Browning. Miss Clay. Arabian Night Fete Mrs. John It. Fell. Fashion Fete Mrs William J, Clothier. Mrs Harold Hands Dog and Pet Show Mrs. J. M, Rhodes. darden and Black and White Booth Mrs Charles E. Coxe. Candy and Ice Cream Mrs, Voorhees and family Among the society women assisting at the varlpua booths ore Mrs. W, S Arter, Mrs William B Whelen, Mrs. Coleman P. iBrown, Miss Bowie Fisher, Mlsa Leldy, Mrs. William Carter, Mrs Charles B. Penrose, Miss Bullitt, Mrs. William If. Newbold, Mrs Lelper, the Misses Dahlgren, Mrs. Horace Bnney Hare, Miss H Cassatt, Miss Tower, Miss Jean Thompson, Miss Cordelia Btddle, Mrs A. J. Drexel Diddle, Mrs. Joseph Leldy. Mrs, Orabara Wood, Mrs. Howard 8. Reber. Mrs. fl Brlnton Roberts, Mrs, 8. Truxton Hare and Mrs. J. Bldgway Uellly. PETER S. ATTICK, 89 immwnppiias, Iletired JloteJmsJi Celebrating Birth, day In Pughtr' Home, Pw 8 AMIo. ens of the best known Ivotsl iet Id the Bast, who at different tines managsd several hotels Is this oity and the suburbs, la today celebrating his ggti) birthday auaivstatry at t tuw of his daughter, Mrs IHrry W Tiwrs, UJ Uartnf street. Mr Alitek entsred the hotel businsss saws toast M yar ago as eah!w of the aid Qfamtf Bouse. wWob fortosriy stood mi tit nwthnut ura,r of lib ra4 Cbsst nut Ufrt. He f4au0s4 there 19 yeaxs iMd UtM went to Bryn Mawr. when fee a4 the Bryn lis-wr lists, tbjm oae of the HWMK fasWwuJal resorts iar the c'tr H etit d host to George w CUMs former editor suuj prop$UAot of tho Plsui X.sichJb Oeneral .rjut, G 4aU ktenusut o4id wax utktar -" s mtUMssd is MtMWMsk fertile Um DIRECTOR PORTER CRITICISES COURTS AND MAGISTRATES Bays Police Are Hampered In Work of Suppressing Vice, Director of Publla Bafdty George D Por ter, In an address before the Reformed Ministers' Association, at 15th and Race streets, today, declared tho Courts and the Magistrates the greatest obstacles In the way of the Department of Public Safety In the efforts that nre being made to suppress crime and vice in this city. "The pollco are seriously handicapped In their efforts to rid the city of vice by tho Court of Quarter Sessions," said the Director. "Tho Deportment of Public Safety has done all In Its power to wipe out vice by quarantining It Wo have not succeeded entirely, but wo havo been eminently successful In reducing vice to n minimum. Tho disorderly houses havo virtually nil been closed. Our principal difficulty Is now with the street walkers. When one of them Is arrested some one rushes to the Court of Quarter Sessions and has her released on a writ of habeas corpus. Then the police aro ridiculed and hampered by the court, fiirtner criticism was mauo by Director j'orter when he said tho courts woro too lenient "Eighty per cent of the crimi nals arrested In tho recent crime wave," ho said, "were boys and youths. The courts nro entirely too lenient and not enough attention Is paid to homo life. "The Sunday-closing law Is a Joke, and the pollco aro hampered In their efforts to enforce It In tho first place, tho fine Is to small that It pays the proprietors of stores and amusements to violate It In the scond place, Councils havo not appropriated sufficient funds for the po lice to secure the evidence. Tho pollco nro In many cases obliged to spend their own money to get tho evidence and thon wait soveral months to get It back. Last Christmas I paid the pollco moro than tGOO to reimburse them for money they had spent" Tho Magistrates were thon declared to be politicians, pure and simple. Director Porter said that If -violators of the Sunday-closing laws were -voters they wero generally let off without a fine, but If they wero nllcns It was usually found necessary to Impose a fine Director Porter advocated a curfew law and moving pictures In tho churches as a moans of keeping the children off tho streets and suppressing crime. NEWSBOYS' "FAKE" WAR CRY INVESTIGATED BY POLICE "Knlser Shot," Yelled Venders, But "News" Wasn't In Papor. Shouts of war sensations by boys In Tioga, West Philadelphia and other sec tions of tho city selling a New Xork Sun day afternoon paper aro tho cause of an Investigation being made today by Direc tor Porter. Purchasers found that tho announcements of the newsbojs were not substantiated in war items carried by tho newspapers, and next Sunday a closo watch will be kept on tho lads "Kaiser Shot," "PollBh Capital Blown Up" and "Big English' Vlctorj," bawled In tho streets by leather-lunged newsboys yesterday resulted In thousands of sales of tho New York paper at C cents a copy. Tho regular price of tho paper Is 2 cents, und in this city it Is generally sold for 3 cents Complaints woro telephoned to police stations throughout the city by angry men and women who rushed out of their homes to buy tho newspaper and found they had been defrauded Trom tho num ber or theso complaints and tho fact that tho bos In Tioga and West Philadelphia residential districts seemed to be operat ing In gangs, the police aro inclined to think that the sale was an organized scheme for quick profits. SCHOONER IN COLLISION The Emily Anderson Arrives With Damaged Bow. Tho British three-masted schooner Emily Anderson, Cnptaln Haughn, with a cargo of cocoanut from Jamaica for this city, arrived at Delaware Breakwater early this morning with her bowsprit und Jlbboom trailing In tho water over the bow It Is believed that tho vessel was In collision with the Consolidated Coal Com pany's barge. No. 23, which arrived In tow of the steamship Charles S Mayer. The Mayer and the barge aro bound from Newport News to Boston. All three vessels anchored off the Break water, 1 WOMAN HYSTERICAL AT PIKE Starts Wild Flight With Policeman in Pursuit. Mrs. Elizabeth Welntraub. 1601 South 7lh street, became hysterical this morn ing during n fire at the confectionery store and home of her sister, Mrs. Sam uel Cljmari, 211 West Jefferson street, and led Policeman Mldgett, of tha Front and Master streets Btatlon, a wild chase through the streets before he finally over took her on the railroad tracks at Ameri can and Jefferson streets and calmed her. She had been summoned to the scene of the fire by an excited neighbor, who telephoned to her that her sister and the tatter's two children wero In the house and In danger of being burned to death. She believed the report when she saw a crowd before the house and she began her excited flight through the streets. Mrs, Clyman, at the time of the Are, had Just taken her two children to school, 4 tie loas was tJuu. PLAN ADDITIONS TO SCHOOLS Superintendent Cook Announces Im provements la Extieme Sections, There will be accommodations for 1M0 school' children when Improvements in. p.-oVed by the Board of Education ore completed before the opening of the next school term. J. Horace Cook, superintendent of school buildings, announced today that plans were being drawn for three addi tions to schools in extreme sections of tho city. A six-room addition will be made to the Fitter School, Semcur and and Knox, streets, aermantowni 15 rooms will be added, by a nsw wing to the Southwark School, Bth and Mifflin streets, and & new building with 21 rooms will be added to the I.ongfellcAv SchooJ, Taoony fviut tiu tai Bircvt. J ' I BATS DIE IN EXECTHIG CHAIR AnIroMs Expire 1-JOO of a Second After Currentls Turned On. BBM,BFOXT8. Pa,, Dee. H-A num ber of rats were electrocuted In ttje West ern Penitentiary today In the final tests of the new eleotrle chair to be used for the first tUas on January T The rots were selected tor the tests as being the only animal koown whose body qffra a resistance to eleetriolty oorre spofidujg to that sf to? human body The tests were successful in every detail, death resulting in 1-MO oX a seoeml after the switch bad bn throits over. .iissiai 1111,11 TTsana-garBssBgar USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS A r?J Umbra!) at 11.00. Purt BUk dm brail tot aua or an. klek es atoi, It.W ao4 s.JW. Bxtra fee rv ffflc VatntjxUir a or weawa. tmxi hsU VI, werth MUarso's UmUalUa, sa. We ami INwrvtfeloa la rsasoaael ria. Ut auiadea at auit nmm ns t m - i TaWsWpaf-""1" ""'n iiM i-1 I a I COMMUTERS RENEW THEIR FIGHT FOR LOWER R. R. RATES File Application for Another Hearing Before Public Service Commission, De spite Ruling on Saturday. Declaring that tho decision of the Ponnnylrnnla Public Service Commission In the railroad passenger Increase case Inst Saturday is unfair and Unreasonable to tho riding public nnd that tho Penn silvanln, tho Philadelphia nnd Reading and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Companies nro irlven new opportunities to mulct commuters, Bteps wero taken to day by varloun commuters' ossoclatlons to fight the caso to the limit. Application for a new hearing was filed with the Public Service Commission nt Harrlsburg by Edwin M Abbott, repre senting tho Philadelphia and Heading Railway Commuters' Association, nnd b J E V. Titus, president of tho Bala Cwnyd Improvement Association In addition to this, the United State Attorney General was notified that during the hearing last Saturday officials of the three railroads admitted on tho witness stand thero had been meetings between the traffic officials of tho three roads prior to the announcement of the now schedules. It was further shown that one witness ndmltted tho company by which he was employed had tho proposed tariffs of the competing company In their possession before they decided upon the rate changes which should bo made, Upon this, It was set forth, n charge of con spiracy and collusion should bo based. Upon this testimony tho Attorney Gen eral was asked that. If tho testimony war ranted It, ho begin proceedings nt once against the officials of the Pennsyl vania, tho Philadelphia and Reading and the Baltimore and Ohio Ilatlrnatl Com. panics, charging them with violation of tho proUslons of tho Sherman anti-trust act. COMMUTERS' STAND. In tho petition filed with tho Publlo Service Commission for a new hearing, two specific points In the ruling of the commission nro opposed These are: "That the revised schedule of tho In crease of rates of faro for tho lM.trln commutation tickets on a flat basis of 1H cents per mllo to all stations along tho various branches of the said Phila delphia nnd Reading Railway Company are unfair, unreasonable and unwar ranted. . "That tho limitation of the said now 100-trlp commutation tickets at tho afore said advanced prices on the flat 14 cents per mllo basis, with a limitation to uso for six months, Is unfair, unrcasonablo and unwarranted " "Wo do not proposo to stand still and allow the railroads to mulct tho people without redress," Mr. Abbott declared ught.ght." "W "r0 S0'"B ' flBht' Tho New Jersev Pnhlln Timiti..,, rrr,- mission this morning toop up considera tion or tho rate Increase within tho con fines of the Stato of Now Jersey Severn! weeks ago tho commission ordered the railroads to suspend the proposed rates until March 10, pending a formal investi gation WILL CHANan INTERSTATE RATES. Today counsel for the railroads made formal nrgument against tho suspension, claiming that the companies aro fully wnrrnnted In Increasing the' rate's Coun sel for tho Tennsjlvanla Railroad also announced that following tho decision of the Pennsylvania Commission his com pany would voluntarily put in force on interstate passenger service from points in New Jersey to Philadelphia tho same rates the Pennslvanla Commission has ordered shall be retained there. Under this decision 100-trlp tickets will be placed back on sale In Interestatn travel rt 1 cents a mile, 60-trIp monthly tickets will be sold at nn advance of 23 cents, -trin monthlv tlckotK nt- nn .t- vance of 20 cents and ten-trip tickets at 2 cents a mile. William Carey Marshall and Edwin G. C. Bleakley. City Sillcltor of Camden, representing the commutors, requested the Commission not to repeal the order sus pending the Increase until March 10. Op posing the claims of tho railroad attor neys, they declared that the proposed changes mean Increases from 13 to 130 per cent. Commuters and other persons who in tend to travel some distance on the rail roads soon fairly besieged tho terminals and tho various suburban stations of the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Read ing and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Companies today to stock up with tickets before the new rates approved by the Publlo Service Commission Saturday become effective. Millie the decision of the commission waB first hailed as a great victory for the commuters, application at the various terminals has proved that rates approved by the commission stand nn n mnr mlse between what the railroads planned 10 put Into effect and what the com muters claimed was Just, The commuters, too. are wondering how It happened that the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the same changes as the Pennsylvania commission two days before the Pennsylvania commission met and why nwe but the railroads knew of it. The first indication that the Interstate Connneree Commission has made any rul Ing on tho rate question came when the following statement was found stamped on the commutation tariffs of the Penn sylvanfa Railroad, which aro to become effective tomorrow; "Issued under special permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission, No. 30113, of December 10, 1911, and under the order of the Publlo Service Commission of the Ceromanwealth of Pennsylvania, December 12. 1H." PRINTED TARIFFS ALL REAQY. Thp fact that the three railroads J,ave the now tariffs prepared in printed form, although the ijaslslon of the FhMIo. Srvte$ CommMOT 1 was not rer-Jsrsd UBUl late Saturday afternoon, i. exciting mWr, able oonwrtent among the conunutart. The question is being askod openly wfcethe! the railroads ready know boforoland what tho aomralwlun intended to do. HLI For Your Mother fs at Urns sge, and yjaata sew W lu tbe ttMMra-LwotKw, Or, U she aw sous favorite u fM, m tod U iSST 1 LLEWELLYN'S Ftattadeleiija'e SUuifcua B( . Ojmw r it mint 14, 1914. WALTER H. GAITHER Secretary to Governor Tener, who is said to have been selected for a place on the State Public Service Commission. TO AVERT FUTURE STRIKES, OBJECT OF COMMISSION C. W. Mills Tells of Conference With President on Colorado Situation. Charles W. Mills, a member of the commission of thrco appointed by Presi dent Wilson to Investlgato tho Colorado strlko and the struggle botween the min ers nnd tho Colorado Pucl and Iron Company returned from Washington to day after a conference which the com mission had with the President at tho White House. When Mr. Mills was seen this morn ing In his ofllce In tho Land Title Build ing, he said: "Tho commission thus far hQBn't dis cussed In detail any plans which It may propose During tho conference with President Wilson last Saturday the President indicated his dcslro that the commission concern Itself not so much with tho recent troubles In Colorado as with tho formulation of a plan for the prevention of such troubles In tho future. "Tho commission will undertake to form such a plan and present It to both tho representatives of tho miners and tho operators We will try to create a plan by which collective dealings be tween the miners and the mine owners on matters of hours, wages, employment, etc., might be ndjusted, without neces sarily recognizing the union as such. "Of course, wo might havo difficulty In tills, particularly because of tho present state of mind! of the mine owners who refuse to deal 'with tho miners collective ly, but we hilvo hopes that, after ap proaching both sides In an open-minded wa, we may succeed In bringing abdut some agreementXby which troubles may be avoided In thdvfuture." Mr Mills said Uhat tho commission would meet In New York tomorrow. Ho would not say whether or not tho visit of tho commission to New York was tdr the purpose of conferring with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who Is cne of the princi pal owners of tho Colorado mines The other two members of tho commission nro Patrick Gllday, of Scranton, and Soth Low, of New York BLOODSTAIN POSSIBLE CLUE Hand Imprint on Door May Reveal Identity of Assailants of Couple. The imprint of a blood-stained hand on a white enameled door In tho homo of Mr. nnd Mrs George DoHaven, 1110 North 20th street, is regarded by the police ns a clue to the'' Identity of the man, who, on Saturday, attacked tho couple with hatchets. Mrs Dellaven Is In the Hahnemann Hospital seriously Injured, but despite this nnd the fact that she Is 61 years old, the phelclans hope for her recovery. Dellaven, superficially hurt. Is being held at tho Central Station. Special Policeman Selbre nnd Dervln, of the 19th nnd Oxford streets station, found blood on the wall beneath pictures Dellaven was taken to the house by the police and his hand and the Imprint were compared. Dellaven said he might have Btaggered after an attack of vertigo and clutched the door. The door was sent to the City Hall for further ex amlnatlon. Mrs. Dusenberry. 1803 North th street daughter of Mr. and Mrs. peHaven, was Interviewed awaln by the police today Sho could tell them nothing to assist them. ' Accused of Dealing- in Cocaine John McGann, alias Pittsburgh, of 11th and Pearl streets, formerly an actor, was arrested this afternoon charged with hav ing cocaine In his possession. Ho will havo a hearing tomorrow before Magis trate Tracy, DREFA STATIONERS Ladies' Hand Bags Just From Paris Silk Leather Embroidered Attractive Styles At Moderate Prices 1121 CHESTNUT STREET Diamond Kings unusual designs $35:29 to $4,000:22 Square Gimpnds Sapphire and Diamonds Qm aM Diamonds Diamonds mU Rubies Diamond and Emeralds Marquise Diamonds in earved Platinum Signet Ruig Iitrtle Finger Rm DcKBpreeiauj Stones ia Gold $6,00 to $75,00 VanDusen & Stakes Co. 112$ Cksunut 8trm PUBLIC SERVICE POST FOR GAITHER KK L KVH A HK I Governor Expected to Namd His Private Secretary a Member or commission- Before January 1 . Walter II, Galthcr, private secretary' to Governor Tener, Is scheduled for api polntment to tho Publlo Service Commli slon, according to members of the com mission and political leaders. His dp. polntment Is expected to be announced by Governor Tener beforo Januafy t Mr. Gatther's namo has been frequently1 mentioned in connection with tho vacanc; which has existed In tho commission slnco the death of Judgo Nathaniel Ewlng on March 23 last. Members of tho com mission and others who lmvo been In' closo touch With tho situation today a.iv sorted that It was Governor Toner's In tention to namo his private secretary for tho piaco bororo tno nrst or the ear. Another vacancy In tho commission Is expected to develop soon through the resignation of Trank M. Wallace, of Erie. Mr. Wallace, colltlclans sold, lias fra- quently signified his Intentlbn of retiring from the commission. Ho has not at tended nny meetings for somo time, among them the rnto-lncrcose hearing held In Philadelphia laat week. Secretary of tho Commonwealth McAfee will bo ap pointed to tho second acnncy, said po litical leaders. If Governor Brumbaugh' falls to reappoint him Dx-Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker. who has b?en acting chairman of ths"S commission in tho absenco of Mr. Wal lace, Is slated for election as permanent 'I chairman when tho commission reorgan izes after the vacancy or vacancies have been nlled. Tho appointment of Mr.- Galther would have been mado two or three weeks ago, had not considerable opposition to his selection cropped up, political leaders said today. Independent members of the last Legislature, which passed the act creating the commission, hftVft friml(nHv volrnl thplr rmnn-alflrm to any posslblo selection of Mr. Galther" for tho place. WAIt TAX HITS ELKTON High Cost of Marrying Increases 20 Cents. ELKTON, Md., Dec. H. The hlglt cost of marrying was giyon nnothcr boost to-, day when It became" -known that under the present law additional war tax stamps must De amxea to every marriage license . certificate. Tho cost of tho legal docu ment la increased M cents, making the , totnl cost in Maryland $1 20 Pcnnsylva-? nia couples paying the Increased rate ln.ir. Alfred E. Hulmo and Hilda Klnzl William Barber and Minnie Ziccler and Orcsto Tampussl and Dovllea Hondo, aUJj of Philadelphia; Frank It. McGuIre. PottsJl vllf. Jinrt TUlTnhntV, AT T.nnB Chu. 11.111 Haven: Raymond C. Fox and Myrtle E. ' Wynne, Coatesvllle, and Ira M. Blant nnd , Claudo D. Jlamsey, Altoona I tt The Gift Can Never Go Out ot Fashion V' u "in "It betokens sentiment, feeling, hope and inspires tion." Tho more lasting the eer- .Jj vice of the gift, the more en during is the kindly remem brance of the giver. A warm, comfy Overcoat for "Dad," one of these double-breasted Ulsters in gray or in blue, $20! Or one of these nobby, f close-fitting or seml-close-fit- -. ting coats for the "boy" $15, $18, $201 Come in and let us show them to you I Perry & Co., "N.B-T." 16th & Chestnut Sts. m 1 vj i' - 3sas " t , "' "" " ' "l -. n,,,in, , u ,IL ,.,M , , i 1 j ---
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