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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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PUBLIC SERVICE
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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
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