mmmmmmm BUSINESS MEN SEEK HEARING ON DELAYED 1 6AS LAMP ORDINANCE HK-mllc.' Faillirn tn Art nn Proposal Evokes Protest of Market Street Associa tion. ft Councils' delay of 10 montlin In consld- ting the orainanco nutnorizing tile United 0 Improvement Company to Satific 11.000 gasoline lnmps to gas, there- saying tho city MMXW annually and 'rovldlng at the present time consldcrnblo ork for the unemployed, without a cent (t cost to the city, lias aroused the Mar. Kt Street Business Men's Association to Eemand a. puhllo hearing. Nearly two weeks bbo a commltteo rep- esentlng tho association wroto to John P. Connelly, chairman of tho Finance Com mittee, where tho ordinance has been lying since March 5, Mil, and requested that the Flnanco Commltteo nrrntigo a 'AtlK for a public hearing In order thn lbs merchants might learn what reasons Ulero mv, 11. wij, n mu uiu anouiu not le passed. frAftor waiting a week without hearing ,ny word from Mr. Connelly, Tliomns JTirtlndale, representing tho association, lias written a second letcr pointing out tho neglect of the committee to ncknmvl. Edge 'ho suggestion of tho Market street merchants. Mr. Martlndalo todny snld that ho was nt a lost to understand the motives behind Councils' Inaction. SIR. MAItTINDALC'S LETTEH. KTho letter to Mr. Conntlly follows: "On January 18 a commltteo of the llirket Street Business Men's Assoel.i- lltoa sent you a letter, to which so far ; have had no answer, asking you for a puDiio ncaring on mo mil to change 11.000 gasolino lamps to gas at a. snvlnr of 170,000 approximately a year, and to nrovlde for the addition to thn nlnnr rt Itho Philadelphia Gas "Works, approxl- wately JJW.wo or value, which will ulti mately become tho property of tho city. f'Tho ordinance covering this matter as referred to your committee on March , J9H, but so far no nctlon has been taken. L JI snall b0 Pleased If you will fix a ate for a hearing on the said ordinance, 'as we, tho Market Street Business Men's" Association, ueem tho matter of lm sortanco to the business men and manu facturers of tho city.'. explanation NOT FORTHCOMING. 1 Chairman Connelly, of tho Flnanco Committee, refused to bo Interviewed on the matter. Select Councilman Segor, chairman of the all-powerful Subcom mittee on Finance, which frequently Wvcs as a "smothering" or "grave yard" committee, also declined to explain the delay, merely stating that tho ordinance had reached the subcommittee 1 Tha prompt passage of the ordinance. It was pointed out, would mean work for a large number of the city's unemployed without an cost to tho city, for under the terms of tho agreement with tho United Gas Improvement Company tho latter would have to spend approximate ly $130,(100 for the necessary extensions of gas mains and other work incidental to making the chnnges. The United Gas Improvement Company u on record as approving tho changes, and In a letter to Director Cooke tho Jjompany some months ago expressed its Wil!lngncss to proceed with tho work as loon as Councils have passed the neces ary legislation. Samuel T. Bodlne, pres ident of the company, several weeks ago 'declared that tho attltudo of the com pany had not changed In the least. ACTION URGED BY MAYOR. RMayor Blnnkenburg has written three Bipedal messages to Councils urging nc tlon. Each time he has pointed out that the city would save approximately ?"0,000 annually by the passago of the ordinance, ind, further, that tho property, which would revert to tho city in 1927, at the termination of tho gas lease, would bo increased In value "to upward of 500, W' by the changes. Neither Councils nor tho members of (he Finance Commltteo have offered a Ingle eAsuse for tho Inaction. When questioned about their neglect of Thomas Martlndalo's letter, it was said that the committee has not met for two weeks. ana tnereforo has had no opportunity to consider tho advisability of a publla tearing. EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY JANUARY 29, 1015. f m JOHN W. CONVEKSE TO SAIIi Bint That He la to Fulfil Diplomatic Mission in Europe. BJohn W. Converse, mllllonalro sports- Ban and clubman, son of tho late John fl. Converse, for many years president f the Baldwin Locomotive Works, will all for Europe tomorrow, - It Is hinted that he Is going abroad to fulfil a diplo matic mission for tho United States in ae of the Balkan States. Kecently, Mr. gonverse took an examination for tho Ijrps, In which ho waa successful. Ho re fuses to disclose the nature of his trip to Europe, Reports that ho was to bo named for a Jlpeclal mission to tho Balkan States wera yvuca in Washington. It was suited mat J'ter and thero was no demand at this ume by the Government for a special rep jfjentatlve. If Mr, Converse obtains an appointment it will probably bo of a sec Sbtarlal nature. Mrs. Converse will sail Ith him. SECOB.D TBIP TO SICK WIFE Mward Crozer Charters Special Train when Notified of Operation. LfS. Edward Clrnr.ar 9I5.1 T.nnimt street. ffu reported to be resting easily today ;tr an operation for appendicitis, per 'ormed at the University Hospital yes- K"r aiternoon. If"", Crozer. who mnrtn rf-nrd-break- Sf trip to this city, was at his wife's w during the operation. Ho was notl Sa of her serious Illness while on a ffun trip In tho South, and charterod Pedal train In order to rnaka connec- ttj with an Atlantic Coast Lino express Ohla city. PEN'S ATTXILIAJtY TO DINE p- r -, auxiliary 01 mo wait a.umq 18!! "ertai Church will hold Its eighth IK! banquet Bt tho church tonight. twicers will bo Judga John M. Pat- CO, Director Pnrtor. nf thrt Donart- jtftof PubUo Safety; Edward J. Cattell, ustiwan, Harrison S. Morris, and - BtV E J. Riimuton. n.-istnr of tha KWCh. Edward XT Ahhntt nn-alrfant of OaV ia,ne improvement Association, - -t as toastmaster. B1shop-elect Considering Call SwrON, Mass.. Jan. 29. A conference w held tonight between tha Rev. !Mr Slann. rector or Trinity Church ' pjently called to Now Jersey to b- euaragaa Bishop of tho Newark nu ft dolegHtlon of clergy ana At this conference the Rev. Mr. lW consider whether or not he will 4 ft- min. I ! -JCSXSrCsSif ciw riA SSn (oaJ EATS HIS HEIGHT IN FOOD HUNGRY MAN EATS NEARLY FIVE FEET OF FOOD Counting Feathers His Favorite Job. Sent to Chicken Farm at Correction. The hungriest man In Philadelphia probably Is Jimmy Magco Ho said to dny that If ho could smelt the odor of fried pork chops mixed up with the allur ing aroma of a cup of Java and hear the crunching sound of a Vienna roll on tho side-that would bo tho nearest approach to heaven In this life. "I know you won't bcllovo me," ho snld to tho aeigonnt nt tho Front and West moreland streets pollco station, "when I say I ain't et slnco ylstlddy, but I kin provo it If the opportunity presents It self." 'Ho you think you could cat your own height In food?" asked Magistrate Camp bell, who sns doling out Justice. "I could eat nine aids a grub right off tho reel," said Mngcc. Policeman Davis, who brought Magco from tho street, measured him und found that ho was exactly four, feet eleven and a half Inches. "If I enn't cat overy Inch of mo own height," declared tho hungry man, "I'll work a week around hero for nothln.' " Tho Judgo stood for tho cost, and two bluecoats wont to a restaurant nearby, where they got enough food to equal the altitude of Mngcc. It consisted of one can of corn, ono of peas, another of oys ters nnd tomntocfl, three loaves of bread, 17 potatoes, one raisin pie, thrco ornnges, ono triplo-dcclc layer cake, six pork chops and thrco cups of coffco. When It was" piled up In uncooked form the feast measured Just four feet eleven nnd n half Inches Magcp stnrtcd In with tho coffee and went all tho way to tho canned goods without losing a moment. Timed from tho llrst bite, or, to bo cor rect, from the first sup, ho marie tho dis tance In 11 minutes nnd 21 seconds. Ho wns rewarded with a good cigar. After ho got his breath, ho said, "This makes mo feel like hingln' fcr mo valet." "How would you llko some light work?" asked tho Judge. I'd llko something llko counting feathers or on thnt order." "All right, you for tho chicken farm at tho House of Correction." CENTRAL COPIMITTEE MAY DRAFT ALL SUPPLY BILLS Change Suggested in Method of Framing Appropriations. WASHINGTON, Jan. M Creation of a central appropriations committee to han dle all supply bills In tho House was a piospcct today, as tho result of tho Ad ministration's latest economy dictum. Chairman Fitzgerald, of the present Appropriations Committee, Is favorable to such a plan, It Is understood, and thero Is strong probability thnt it will uo urgcu In tho next session of Congress. Such a body tvould bo charged with framing all appropriation bills, instead of the few now handled by tho Appropriations Com mittee. In that way, leaders felt today, proper slicing .of each measure, with respect to tho whole, could be accomplished. What steps will bo taken toward reduc ing ngures In the Rivers and Harbors and Postoffico bills nlrendy passed by the House were today problematical, but In dications pointed to a stnndpat spirit to ward present amounts. NEW TRADE SCHOOL ANNEX TO BE OPENED Present Equipment Found Insuffi cient to Meet Growing Demand. Increases In tho number of boys who are anxious to preparo themselves for a trade are so marked that the Board of Kducatlon will bo obliged to establish an other annex to tho Philadelphia Trades School. Tho old building at 12th and Lo cust streets and tho adjunct school at 17th and Pine btreets have been found Insufficient to tho needs of the students. With a new class to bo enrolled next week, tho overcrowding will bo more ncute, so that tho old Central Manual Training School, recently abandoned, will bo opened as another annex to the Trades School. The Board of Education has not yet formally approved tho opening of Hit, building, but it Is understood that tho Commltteo on Hlementary Schools, which holds authority over such matters, has agreed that such action Is necessary. While additional facilities nro being pre pared for the training of boys for voca tions, various social service and educa tional organizations are agitating tho es tablishing of a trades school for girls. This was recommended by Governor Brumbaugh when he retired fiom the school BUperlntendency and presented his last annual report. Midyear examinations are being held at some of tha high schools this week, and tho semiannual promotions will roiiow. in the elementary schools thero are no mid year tests, but there will bo promotions with tho dally records of tho pupils as a basts. BOYS COMMANDEER AUTO Play nt Mimic War, With Heavy Casualties, in Washington Streets. WASHINGTON. Jan. 29, Two boys with imaginations evidently fired by written accounts of tho execution wrought by war automobiles In Europe are being sought by tho police today, They found tho electrlo runabout belonging to Mrs. St. I. Hollahan In front of her residence and commandeered It. Aiming at a horse and trap belonging to John Beerly. they turned on tho cur rent and7 tha Juggernaut started. Tha machine overturned the horse and car riage, upset a negro washerwoman und tumbled an unidentified man in the mud before it crashed into a tree. Senator Penrose Going to Florida Senator Penrose, who has been confined to his homo with a severe cold for nearly a month past, will be able to leave In tha course of the next day or eo on a trip to Florida to recuperate. His doctors an nounced today that he was well on the way to recovery and U better off physic ally than he has been for some time. ITALIAN GIRL TELLS PATHETIC STORY OF DAYLIGHT ABDUCTION Clara Cozzi's Tale of Vital Concern to Every Mother and Daughter in the City of Philadelphia. It might havo been your daughter or your neighbor's, but It wasn't. It was only a pretty llttlo Italian girl living down In tho Italian quarter In South Phil adelphia, and therefore. If you read her otory at all yesterday you probably didn't think anything moro about it. But Clara Cozzi's story, tho police say todav, Is of vital concern to every one, for In the broad llsht of day, this 18-year-old girl says she was lured Into nn automobile, drugged and whirled away to a boils'1 of bad repute, from which she escaped after eight hours of confinement. That is the story told bv tho girl at her home, Kill South Hicks street. Surrounded by a weeping mother, sym pathetic neighbors nnd p. whole rnft of hamblnos tugging nt her skirts and want ing to know what "Clnr.i la crlng for," the girl told It piecemeal. "I was coming homo from the place where my brother works up on Pino striet," she snld, " nnd when I got to intli nnd Cntherlno streets I noticed this great blp automobile stop still. A lady opened the door nnd 'called me. Then, before T knew what had happened, two men, one of them was dark and looked like an Itallnn, had shoved mo In where the lady was and she said, 'Shut up,' and then put her hand over my mouth nnd no.!C. "In her hand sho held something that smellei! strong. It mnde the whole place smell I didn't know anything nftor thnt until I woke up again. Then I was lying down In a beautiful dining room. I tried to get up, but I couldn't. I henrd tomo girls laughing in the next loom, nnd soon one of them opened tho door and then closed It again real o.ulck My head was feeling so funny I couldn t Ju t say what they looked like, but they had on short skirts. "BlKht after this the man who looked like nn Italian came In In his hand ho had n big bottle that ho put to my mouth. 'If j on scream I'll kill you." ho fnld, but I hollered as loud as I could, 'Let mo out of here!' "Then he took my head In his arm and squeezed my throat until I almost choked, nnd poured some of tho stuff down mv throat. I think I must havo gone to sleep agnln, for I don't remember; hut when I woko up there was a colored woman hanging over me. " 'Do you want me to save you?' she said quietly "She let me climb out n window nnd run out In the alley. "I remember running. I think It was somewhere on Bace street, near ISth, but my head was so funny, my hair was all hanging down, and I must havo looked nwful funny, but, my Ood, It wasn't funny. After awhile I came to nn old man. nnd I said to him, '.Mister is this 16th street?" and ho said, 'No. llttlo girl, tills ain't 15th street; It's 4th street.' "Then I saw n policeman nnd he took mo to tho police station. The policemen tried to make me say I was lying nnd that I had stayed out late and was afraid of my mother, but, my God, what would n girl want to He about anything like that for?" WILSON FRIEND OF FAR EAST, SAYS NOTED PHYSICIAN Dr. Dugald Christie Discusses Chinese Affairs With President. Ur. Dugald Christie. C. M. G., of Scot land, author of "Thirty Years In the ilanchu Capital," who Is on a visit to this country, yesterday had an interview with President AVIIson In the White House. The Doctor 'has curried medical work among tho Chlneso In Manchuria for more than SO years and has received decorations of the highest order from many sovereigns. Doctor Christie said today that the in terview with President AVIIson was a most pleasant one, and that the Presi dent Impressed him as a man .of wide sympathies. "It wna a most Interesting Interview," said Doctor Christie, "and one which con firmed me In the opinion that the Presi dent Is a true friend of progress In the Far East, All who have tho good of China at heart should be grateful to him for all he has done on behalf of that country." After leaving tho White House Doctor Christie was received by Secretary of State Bryan and Secretary, of the Navy Daniels. l.nter In the day Doctor Chris tie met the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring lilce. Doctor Christie leaves Philadelphia on Monday morning and will proceed, via San Francisco, Honolulu and Japan, to China, where he will continue his medi cal work. Negro Held on Serious Charge Charles Addison, a Negro. Identified as the man who took 10-year-old Edna Ober- holror Into a vacant house at Hi West Coulter street yesterday afternoon, was today two ln lvw u" "' Aiaicioiruie ren- t , the (lArm&ntown uollce station The Noero said be uuw from Bmyn, I painted, AGAINST UV.KGER ARMY T. It. White Saya IT. S. Will Aid in Fixing Peace Terms. The United States will have much to do with the terms of settlement follow ing the conclusion of the war tn Europe, and It should (tot Increase Its fighting force at this time because of that. In the opinion of Thomas Baebum White, who spoka at the annual meeting and banquet of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange last night In the Manufacturers' Club. Other speakers were Judge William II. Stnake. Dr. Francis J I. Green, Prof. Jo teph P. Beromlngton, Howard B. French, Edward Jamea Cattell and Louis II. Davis. TKEFIELD, ARTIST, DIES Josef B. Trefield, an artist, whose paint ing, "Youth," hangs In the Tate Art Gal leries, Ijndon, died Sunday in Dlnard, France, as a result of injuries received in a motor accident six months ago. Ur. Trefield was well known ln this city, hav inir made his home at one time at Wayne. I pa. It waa there that "Youth" was a ogure ui a coy siaraung wun Store Opens 8:30 A. M. WANAMAKER'S Store Closes 5:30 P. AT. Over 1000 Pieces of Mission Furniture (Our Own Standard Grades) From the Stickley Shops Are Here at One Third Less Than the Regular Prices Silll 11 II I' If l ml ml Jwr v'" 11 1 II m I I ill v 50 Complete Period Dining Room and Bedroom in Quality, Pure in Design Are at Half the Regular Fair Prices Putting Down in Black and White the Simple, Inside Facts of the Most Helpful Furniture Sale Ever Started THIRST and foremost it is true that the only deliberately improved furniture obtain able in Philadelphia is in this sale and that this better kind of furniture is priced as low as the kinds in which no improvements have been made; comparatively speaking, lower. It is a simple proposition all through. It is illustrated in a thousand ways. Look at this mahogany chiffonier at $43. It has a rubbed and finished mahogany in terior. Since last year it has been improved by the dividing up of one of the small-top drawers into two compartments and the put ting in of a convenient sliding tray. One of the long drawers has been divided by remov able mahogany partitions into three sections for shirts. Which would you prefer this improved chiffonier or an unimproved one at the same price and with an interior of cheap wood? There is no other choice. Look at this the most improved dining table known. It comes at various prices, but the im proved principle is the same in all. Here is one of oak at $25. See how the different pieces in the top are finished to match each other, not as in so many tables, to laugh at each other! At a glance you can see that this oak is a good, clean growth, sound and well sea soned. But now pull the parts asunder. Notice how that patent lock holds the top together, no matter how much or how little you pull the parts asunder. In extension ta bles of all other makes the leaves have to remain unlocked once the table has .been ex tended. Let it be extended just a bit beyond a certain point, as may happen, and down goes the feast. The sides of these improved tables are equipped with steel bearings, so that they won't bind or stick wth change of weather, but will always pull in and out freely. Open . ing or closing of this improved table is as simple as throwing a switch. Then its socket pins (that fit into the leaves opposite) are of steel instead of wood, . so they won't swell, stick or snap off. This is the only store in Philadelphia in which these ELECTIONS of furniture may be made today or to morrow, in advance of the Sale, and orders given for it at Sale prices, the transactions to date from February 1. improved tables can be had. Qualities con sidered, their prices are at least one-third less than those asked for tables that have as many disadvantages as these tables have betterments. We leave the choosing to your common sense. We leave it to your common sense to judge between these strong, simple oak or mahogany finished bureaus at $14.75 and any others similarly priced, or priced even lower. Everything in these is of solid material ex cept the drawer bottoms and bureau backs, in which three-ply built-up stock is used, be cause it is best for the purpose. The locks are good hardware, not metallic putty, and so they lock and unlock. The mirror, instead of being just put to swing uncontrolled on a pair of pivots, is equipped with screws, which will hold it fast at any angle. We know you might get a bureau for $10 or $12 that would look like this, but it would be what is known to cabinetmakers as "plunder." These low-priced bureaus of ours could possibly be made more showy; they could not be made better and sold for so little. Such betterments are seen everywhere through the stock the largest, the most diverse stock ever seen in Philadelphia. If they mean anything, they mean that this sale is disappointment-proof. The assortments at one-fourth to one- half less than standard prices are the largest and by a good deal the finest we have ever had; all new, clean-cut, excellently made and designed goods, and no job lots of factory left-overs, but Please bear this in mind there are mo better investments in the sale thathe Kin dreds of splendid pieces showing a reduction of only 10 per cent. (Fifth and Sixth Floors) JOHN WANAMAKER L em to Newark. Pt arm outstretched.
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