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EVENING. EEDGEK PHIEADEEPHIX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1018:
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WORKING PEOPLE WILL SAVE
TIME AND MONEY BECAUSE
! OF TAYLOR HIGH-SPEED PLAN
Thousands of Hours a Day to Be Gained
by Transit Improvement of City
Administration Impetus to
Economic and Social Life.
Written especially for the Kttnlng ledger and ruhllc Ledger.
ONE stellar accomplishment of tho Blankcnburg administration that cannot
be denied by any one Is the actual start of construction of the new high
speed transit lines. Over successive barricades, thrown up by mercenaries of
nn Invisible and powerful opposition, A. Merrltt Taylor, Director of City
Transit, carried to success his determination to give citizens n proper means
of egress, north and south, from the
downtown business district. Contracts
havo been let, and the dirt Is flying
That an essential portion of Mr. Tny
lor'slor's comprehensive transit system
has been lost for the moment to the
public Is the great achievement of
Councils, that millstone of deadweight
hanging for the last four years upon
the neck of every effort in the publla
good put forward by Mayor Blanken
burg and his associates.
The Broad street subway will save
21 minutes In the tlmo required to
travel from City Hall to Broad street
and Olney avenue, reducing the Jour
ney from 43 to 22 minutes. It will save
11 minutes In getting from City Hall
to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, reduc
ing the trip from 28 to 17 minutes.
Tho Frankford elevated will cut 25
minutes oft the time necessary to reach
Frankford from City Hall, reducing
the time one way from 65 to 30 min
utes. Mr, Taylor estimates that the
Broad street subway will save 25,000
hours per day to about 930,000 people,
while the Frankford elevated will save
11,000 hours per day to about 368,000
people, enough money having been
appropriated by Councils to begin tho construction of these two lines.
"Employer and employe benefit alike whenever a larger number of persons
are brought Into closer contact with more places of employment," Mr. Taylcr
said. "This Is the great advantage of high-speed lines to the economic life
of an Industrial city. The rapid Increase In the area of the built-up sections,
and the corresponding Increase In the distance people must travel to their em
ployment, has Imposed burdens upon the existing surface railways which they
are incapable of handling with economy and dispatch.
More Persons Will Be Able to Own Homes
"But the benefits to the many more than make up for the temporary losses
to the operators of tho surface lines. For one thing more people will plan to
own homes, and they will start buying, for they can Invest In the certainty of
ccntlnuous emplo. ment as the field of opportunity for their employment at
rolnts remote from their homes will have been broadened. On the other hand,
this increase in the amount of permanent labor will servo as .an Inducement
for new manufacturers to locate In Philadelphia, as they know they will be
able to draw readily from sources of labor In sections of the city remote from
their plants."
Mr. Taylor believes Philadelphia Jias passed out from the era of narrow
ommunlty life; away from that gray, dull existence of the old world where
workingmen lived In the shadow of tho shop; their amusements, their devo
tions and their whole cycle of living confined to a restricted area.
"Such a colorless, dependent life Is not in keeping with the ideas of the
modern free American worklngman." he said. "He wants to use the city's
amusement parks, all of them: he wants his children to have the full advan
tages of educational Institutions, those distant as well as- nearby, and, when
laid off during slack times, he wants to be able to sell his services elsewhere,
mid still live at home. High-speed intefurban lines, with a five cent fare, does
this for him. Then, when his children grow up, and go out to work, no mat
ter how far off tholr place of employment, they are able to come home, and
the family is kept Intact until the young folks marry and set up their own
homes.
Population of 2,000,000 in City and Nearby Suburbs
"Within 16 miles of City Hall Philadelphia has a population of over 2,077,287
one-third as large as New York, the equal of Chicago and one-fourth greater
than Boston. The land area available for development In Philadelphia exceeds
that of New Tork, of Chicago, or of Boston. At the present time we have an
Insignificant stretch of high-speed transportation, compared with that of other
great cities the single line out Market street, which comprises about 15 miles
of track, and represents an outlay of barely $17,000,000.
What Mr. Taylor planned for Philadelphia and what the city got because
of the blocking tactics of Councils forms an interesting comparison. Let us
briefly glance over his original' program for rapid transit development with uni
versal free transfers, a universal five-cent fare.
The lines to be constructed, equipped and operated under an agreement
with the management of the existing surface and elevated linos were:
First. The Frankford elevated line from a point of connection with the
present Market street subway elevated at Front and Arch streets to Frank
ford. Second. The Darby elevated line from a point of connection with the Mar
ket street elevated line at 30th and Market streets to Darby.
Third. Tho recommended Broad street subway, with such branches as may
be determined upon, and the delivery loop In the heart of the city.
Fourth. The Camden tube from a point of connection with the present
Market street subway at or near Front and Market streets to the Pennsylvania
Terminal in Camden.
Fifth. Later, when the delivery loop Is ready for use, the northwestern
Bubway-elevated line, extending from the City Hall station, thence beneath the
Parkway to a point near the Green street entrance of Fairmount Park, thence
northwardly over 29th street to Henry avenue, out to Hoxborough.
Sixth. If needed by reason of failure of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company to co-opera to by permitting the use of the Market street subway
elevated to connect up the Frankford and Woodland avenue elevated lines, a
Chestnut street subway for that purpose.
Straight Five-cent Fare Part of Project
Mr Taylor aUo planned for the operation of the existing and new transit
facilities of the city ob a unit, and, with tho exception of the Camden tube,
the issuing of free transfers wherever tho t-urface lines Intersected the high
speed lines. Ills Intention was to insure for the public a five-cent fare for any
Complete forward Journey between any two points within the city. Exclusive
of the Camden tube, the cost to the city of the new lines recommended for
immediate construction was estimated at $45,682,000, and in lieu of the right
to operate the new lines In connection with their present lines, the operator
Was asked to spend $11,996,000 for equipment.
No use to cry over spilled milk, but it is worth recording that, had Coun
cil Joined hands with Mr. Taylor and they presented an undivided front in
the city's interest, the original plan would have gone through, and the future
cf a universal five-cent faro been guaranteed to the public. Instead, Councils
authorized makeshift program which prevented Mr. Taylor from effecting
definite arrangements for future operation of the lines.
Councils only appropriated the necessary money for the beginning of con
struction of the ".road street subway and the, Frankford elevated structure.
1'heie were also changes effected In the routes, one being to extend the Frank
tot& line Into an "nen and undeveloped district, increasing the estimated cost
of the whole line from $6,610,000 to $8,310,000. The Darby line, tho Roxborough
Mne and the Camden tube were killed entirely, as was the delivery loop In the
downtown business district, Clearly the powers Jn Councils aimed to defer
the nal settlement of the city's rapid tramlt problems until such time as the
Mayor and his Director of City Transit were- under the control of Jim and Ed
M Mil.
If PMlsMelefcta elree to let the same men who gave away the city's
CM works adjust for all time to come its transit problems, then the coming
election ' of minor importance from a transportation standpoint. But if
'Philadelphia alms to protect the future of Interurban transportation, then
eattxena had best opk to the election of a mayoralty candidate who Is pledged
to keep ufc th nht for B-cent fare and the abolition of the extra-fare
esctang tleeeet Jec eae rkU lj a forward direction.
The ctrycW of the delivery Joop, which was hatted In Councils,
practically guaranteed a S-cent fare from Frankford to League Island. No
intreneh4 Mnefnent of existing lines In any city is likely fp deal fairly
wtih the public unless it fears the possibility of a competitor. The delivery
h'(v was Important because It Insured a competitor operator, as it was
dns-.1 to connect tbe new Frankford line an the new Broad street subway,
Wuuout, the construction of a connecting Jlak fcetweim the Hew line the
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A. MERRITT TAYLOR
Director Department of City Transit.
CtmUmt ea Tmtj TfcltfaM, Wwlwl
MELLEN, ON STAND,
BEGINS HIS STORY
OF HIGH FINANCE
Government's Star Witness in
New Haven Conspiracy Case
Called After Waiting
Half a Day
GREETS LATE ASSOCIATES
NEW YORK, Oct. lO.-After figura
tively "champing at the bit" for half a
day, Charles S. Mellen, star witness for
the Government in the New Haven con
spiracy case. Anally took the stand to
ds In the United States District Court
and launched Into his amazing story of
stock manipulation and high finance that
may land his one-time assistants In
prison.
After having once been called to the
stand, only to be side-tracked while the
Government Identified some 970 document
ary exhibits, Mellrn, who had sat since
opening court among the accused mil
lionaires, most of whom greeted him cor
dially, showed visible satisfaction when
flnnlly called. Tho morning's delay,
however, seemed to make him 111 at
ease when he took the stand.
"What Is your occupation?" Mellen was
asked.
' Grass grower."
"Whatr
"Farmer agriculturist." explained
Mellen. with a smile.
He then was asked to detail his rail
road career, which began with a clerk
ship at Concord, N. H.. In 1863. In 1892
he went with tho New Haven as vice
president. Later he was summoned by
J P. Morgan to become president of the
New Haven.
Mellen was asked to point out on the
maps all the New England transporta
tion lines, steam, electric and water, with
which the New Haven ever had dealings.
R. V. Llndabury. counsel for Rocke
feller, will cross-examine Mellen, and the
accused directors were predicting that the
fur would fly when Llndabury put Mellen
on the grill. It was clear to be seen
during Mellen's testimony that the de
fendants and the defense lawyers were
keen to get at him.
Delancey Nlcoll. counsel for Lewis Cass
Ledyard, arose and shook hands heartily
with Mellen, who entered court unat
tended shortly before the proceedings
began, and slapped him on the back.
Llndabury took no notice of the former
New Haven president. ,
Mellen chatted with the defendants,
Robertson and Hemingway, until court
convened. The Government's star wit
ness took a seat within the rail.
The Government began the presenta
tion of evidence by calling Arthur Clark,
for 25 years secretary of the New Haven,
to Identify books and papers, check
stubs, etc.
50 KILLED IN PARIS
FACTORY EXPLOSION
Bodies of Many Women Taken
From Destroyed Building in
Heart of' City
PARIS, Oct 20j Many women were
killed And wounded when a large Govern
ment factory In the Rue Totblac was
Wown up this afternoon. When news of
the disaster was received at the Govern
ment buildings Tremler Vlvlanl hastened
to the scene.
Fifty bodies had soon been taken from
the debris.
The explosion occurred In one of the
most populous quarters of Paris. Presi
dent Polncalre vlMted It shortly after the
explosion occurred,
GIRL BEARS GRILLING
IN SUIT AGAINST MAN
Continued from Page One
became engaged to a young man at a
tlmo when Gasklll, whom she loved, waa
undergoing a periodical revulsion of feel
ing for her. She said he returned to her
September, 1914, and asked her to marry
him. At times, she said, he complained
bitterly of her accepting attentions from
the younger man. He reminded her that
if Bhe married him she would receive
every comfort of life, could travel, live
with him at Mount Holly and wear ex
pensive clothes, while If she married the
young man she probably would have to
take In washing. She turned the "nice
young man down." The following April
Gasklll again asked her to marry him,
she said, and after considerable urging on
the part of the lawyer her parents con
sented to the marriage, which waa to
take place soon.
No attempt has yet been made to Intro
duce as evidence the 77 letters and postal
cards which Gasklll admitted yesterday
he addressed to Miss Abrams. Some of
these were addressed to "My darling
Kathryn," "My dear Kathryn." and
were signed "Your Uncle Bob," "Your
lover B."
SYNOD TO FIGHT RUM
Reformed Church Organization Allies
Itself With Anti-Saloon League
The Eastern Synod of the Reformed
Church In the United States today voted
to become an ally of the Anti-Saloon
League In Its fight against liquor on the
recommendation of the Social Service
Commission at the 169th annual meeting
held at the Trinity Reformed Church,
Broad and Venango streets. The Rev.
Dr. Theodore F. Herman, chairman of
the commission, recommended that one
clergyman and one parishioner be ap
pointed as trustees of the league.
Members of the Reformed and Luth
eran churches were scored by the Rev.
James M. S. Isenberg, pastor of the Trin
ity Church, for "trailing behind the
brewers and helping to elect liquor men
to the Legislature," Heretofore, the
Church has regarded the liquor question
as an Individual matter.
The Rev. Dr. D. E. Souders reported
S000 accessions to the church from among
the Hungarians miners in western Penn
sylvania. The Rev. E. ,L. McLean, secretary of
the ministerial' relief fund, urged con
tributions, The Rev. W. J. Mulr, dean
of the Allentown College for Women,
urged Pennsylvania girls to attend the
college Instead of going to New Eng
land schools, where, he said, they be
came infidels. The meeting, which opened
Monday, will continue tonight and tomorrow.
MANY AT NEW CAFBJ OPENING
Mayor, Penrose and Associates Guests
of Widener Building Restaurant
Many men of prominence attended the
private opening last night of the New
Arcadia cafe in the basement of the
Widener Building as guests of the man
agement. Among those present were
Mayor Blankenburg, Senator Pan rose.
Former Governor Stuart, George 8, Ora
ham. Receiver of Taxes w Fretlan
Kendrirk. Assistant )lstrlct Attorney
Jpseph P- nogers, Vr Joseph Neff, Barn
uel B. Btetson, Edwin R. Widener,
Horace Trvmbauef, Moward B. French,
H R Hollingehead, Judge W If. She,
maker,. N- Br Kelly, Judge Jehn M. Pet
terser), Jle W- F Ferguson h4 Jn4e
tfprrle ft .Bemtt. f-
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CARNAGE AND RUIN MARK
GREAT CHAMPAGNE BATTLE
German Soldiers and Defenses Alike
Crushed to Dust by Bombard
ment Living Buried Alive and
Dead Brought From Graves
Vivid account of the carnage and devastation caused by the terrific
fire of the French artillery in the recent victorious offentlve in the 'Cham'
pagne, at witnessed by Frederick Palmer and William Philip Simmi, were
received today. These correspondents were the only Americans to visit the
battlefield, where what was probably the greatest battle of the War Wat fought.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
(Copyritht. 1015, by United Press.)
PARIS. Oct. . In the middle of the
Champagne battlefield my first Impres
sion was that Judgment Day had come!
that I had been left behind to roam the
disrupted earth alone.
As far as the eye could see undulated
one vast pitted waste of chalk, with
snags of annihilated forests sticking up,
gaunt and white and covered with dust,
against the skyline and with arms and
legs 'and other fragments of dAd men
lying like common garbage on a titanic
dump.
This was the work of the French ar
tillery. Here the Germans had been.
Here many were still rotting.
Hell's furies seemed to have been fore
stalled and outdone.
For three days I was permitted to wan
der over the ground recently won by the
French.
I had talked previously with many offi
cers and men concerning the efficacy of
the French shellflre. but even thus pre
pared, and despite what I had hitherto
observed personally, I waa totally sur
prised by what I saw.
Over tens of square miles virtually no
vegetation was left. Even the rabbits
and' rats had not escaped.
3,000,000 SHELLS FIRED.
Almost 3,000,000 shells were hurled Into
this area In three days, digging pits from
6 to 75 feet deep, the latter 130 to 150 feet
across. As a result of this concentrated
fire the whole tountry was covered with
a white powder.
A general told me the German troops
were so demoralized that droves of pris
oners the French took were sent to the
rear without other escort than a single
guide; that many were almost Insane for
days.
Numerous entire French regiments
have been trying to clean up the battle
field ever since the struggle, but with
out seeming to make'headway, so vast Is
the undertaking.
Excavations bring to light dally fresh
war stores or huddles of putrlfylng Ger
mans, as If this were some new Pompeii.
What I took at first to be the stump
of a shell-torn bush turned out to be a
crisp red hand on a human arm pro
truding from a caved-ln trench. What
seemed to be an old sack had a human
foot Inside. A discolored blue sweater
had a man's trunk within It.
This man-made earthquake shows what
Is now necessary if on advance is to be
made. Without the earthquake the ad
vancing infantry would be paralyzed by
the German guns formerly used against
the Gallic forts as the French soldier
clerks and farmer boys struggled with
the enemy's barbed-wire defenses.
Tho Germans had woven entire forests
with this barbed wire, under cover of
which they had dug trenches which zlg
zsgged eight feet deep along the entire
line.
GUNS IN STEEL TURRETS.
The front was supported by a multitude
of machine guns and many four-Inch,
steel turrets with revolving tops, all save
the tops embedded In the ground. These
held each a E0-mllllmeter rapid-fire can
non, and to serve It, three men who, the
French say, were locked in.
I personally Inspected a captured turret
the doors of which were fastened with
chains outside. The captors declared
that three unwounded but unconscious
Germans were found Inside.
The general commanding the French
4th Army told me that It took two
months to prepare his part of the attack,
lie constructed about 600 kilometres of
new trenches, some wide enough for two
horses to pass, and many new railroads
and dirt roads.
I personally- rofle along a new dirt road
13 kilometres long, laid so that troops
and convoys could pass, day and night,
without being seen owing to cuts and
Improvised hedges.
When all was ready the artillery tut
loose.
The battle which took two months to
prepare was virtually over in one day,
as subsequent fighting was really a settling-down
process. Local attacks and
counter-attacks are still occurring, but
the original result has not been mate
rially changed.
CANNON EVERWHERE.
The cannon seem to touch wheels.
There sre batteries everywhere, their
crews active In correcting ranges on new
enemy positions, in response to telephone
calls from hidden observers near tho
German lines or wireless commands
from specks hovering In the sky.
Aeroplanes on both sides are exceed
ingly busy photographing tho opposing
trenches and plotting them to scale.
Air duels are almost of hourly occur
rence, but usually result In the Invader's
return to his own lines, as he has more
Important work to do than to bring down
an enemy aviator,
The French claim their advance waa
gained with small losses, but considering
conditions, even had the Gallic losses been
enormous, the Champsgne victory would
have been cheap. The country was not
only electrified, but the French troope ire
surer than ever that they are fully equal
to the mightiest blow Germany has to
offer.
My personal impression is that the line
will stick about where It la all winter,
as indicated by the statement of the gen
eral I talked with, to the effect that much
preparation Is necessary to score an ad
vance under present conditions.
One, therefore, is inevitably led to ask
the question! "When will the war end!"
ORATOR DODOES MISSILE
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Ancient Apple, Aimed at C. O. Pratt,
Finds Target on Nose of Man
in Audience'
When C. O. Pratt, Franklin party can
didate for Council from the M Ward,
stood, up In an automobile at the north
plaza of City Hall, at 1 o'clock this aft
ernoon and began to talk to the crowd
tit denunciation of the Organization, a
man op the sixth floor of the building
hurled from the window n object which
Was net possible to analyse or identify
uirtH after the catastrophe.
Homebody sew the ma throw the ob
ject and Mr- Pratt duckad. It wouldn't
hawa Kit him, anyway, but it Hd hit
JhaPMy BhtMeM, who lives on Porter
Street Mar Mth. on the nose. Soon after
that it became cleer that the efeject had
been a rather oM ayple. At Hast small
pieces of matter found in the Immediate
vKinuy or cmemeia as me aujo aaa
Men apple
Mr. Pratt coeUaued speaking, but net
without an occasional glance skyward.
But there were nq .missile from the, void
By FREDERICK PALMER
PARIS, Oct. I0.-AII the ground to the
ridge of the horizon was taken on the
first day" said an officer standing in a
first line French trench in the Cham
pagne region from which a wave of men
fifteen miles long, on the morning of
September 25, dashed forward, winning
from one to five miles before the tidal
rush of soldiery was stopped.
I was the first correspondent to view
the great battlefield. I looked across a
rolling land with groves of dwarf pine
which rise out of almost snow white ex
cavations, chalk burrows, trendies, com
municating ditches traverses and re
doubts, where German military science
and Industry had sought Impregnability
In vain.
The population In the camp of Chalons,
near which the French fought to regain
their old review ground, Is very meagre.
For a year this has been the object of a
relentless sapping warfare.
PERTHES IN RUINS.
Only the village of Perthes was in sight
from where we stood and Its cluster of
houses had become the typical pile ot
ruins which marks shellflre. The cor
respondent, walking over the course of
the French advance, witnessed the results
of the most powerful defense attacked
by the most powerful assault of the war.
The famous hill, the butte of Tahure,
the occupation of which clinched French
success, resembles any small wooded
eminence. To the north shells could ba
seen bursting over the Somme-Pv rail
road. That Important German line of
transportation was cut, as the French
gunfire rendered Jt useless.
An enormous amount of labor was ac
complished by the French In preparation
for their advance. French engineers built
a, transport road 10 miles long. Sappers
jug a winding communication ditch six
reo deep, six feet broad and five miles
long. This trench was cut through chalk
the consistency of soft stone.
GATHER BOOTY.
The object of this long, deep ditch was
to enable the French soldiers to advance
without being subject directly to the shell
fire of the Germans. Although the fight
ing had been over for some time, there
were still many unexploded German shells
and hand grenades lying upon the
ground. The French soldiers were busily
at work gathering In ar.d sorting the
captured accoutrements In order to com
pile the booty.
Occasionally we come across a shell hole
or a dugout where German dead were
buried. In one grave were 31 corpses: In
another were 16. In some instances the
Inscription upon the cross over a grave
related . that both French and Germans
were Interred there.
Where the graves were so new that
there had not been time to erect a cross
we sometimes saw bottles stuck neck first
Into the earth. Inside the bottles were
pieces of paper bearing the name of the
dead man. Nearly every Inscription that
we saw on the graves of German and
French alike bore the words: "Killed on
the field of honor."
FRENCH LOSS SLIGHT.
Comidering the Immensity of the opera
tions with nt least a million men on each
side, and the fighting taking place over
a narrow front, the Email number of
French casualties was amazing. Officers
who had participated said that the Ger
man losses were much more heavy than
the first official estimate and must havo
been at least IM.000. Twenty-five thou
sand Germans were captured, which was
a very small proportion to the number
killed by high explosive shells and In
trench-to-trench fighting.
The barbed wire In front of the first
line trenches of the Germans was cut
to bits In the preliminary bombardment,
so that It offered 'absolutely no resist
ance to tlie advance when the French
soldiers swept forward.
Soldiers agreed that the rush of tho
first line was a "walkover," as' there
was no rifle nor machine gun Are. due
to the long and violent French bombard
ment. The first serious resistance from
the Germans developed on the second
line. It was impossible for the French
artillery to smash all the Germans' second-line
trenches on a 15-mlle sector and
to blast away all the barbed wjre en
tanglements. Consequently tho advance
had to pause at some places or slowly
cut a way forward.
GERMANS NUMBED.
The most formidable German position
was the redoubt of Troublcot, which had
mitrailleuses on every side, deep, dungeon-like
cellars, and sandbag galleries
which had been pounded Into heaps of
dust by the high explosives. The French
Infantrymen marveled to find a few Ger
mans still alive, but their senses were
numbed by the artillery fire. Occasional
ly a. fragment of dried human flesh and
a bit of green German uniform were still
visible In the wreckage.
"If we can take that with our guns
we ought to take anything the Germans
can bujld," said the French soldiers when
they saw the ruins of the redoubt of
Troublcot.
A significant bit of German strategy
was revealed by the fight. A long ditch
had been dug through the woods In front
of the German lines and the French, In
advancing, naturally took shelter In It,
However, the Germans had a masked ma.
chine gun at one end of the ditch, hidden
by branches, and this was turned upon
the French.
"However, we took the gun." said the
French officer who had led the advance
In that direction.
The roads and light single track rail
ways which the Germans had built to
eupply their trenches all contained good
materials which are now being used by
the French, the old German trenches be
ing turned Into new works for French
occupancy.
Both sides are now holdlpg their new
positions, with the Germans having set
tled Jnwn In front of the new lines of
the French. There are occasional ma
chine gun duels and aeroplane fights and
occasionally a shell bursts over their
landscape.
FrefeaM Tragedy at Target SWUng
LANCASTER, Pa., Oct, 30.-ThU morn-
ing while Harold Shoft and a comnanlon.
of East "Willow, were shooting at a Ur-
get, the nne tn the hand of 4he com
panion was accidentally dlechar,
shooting Short in the back. The shot
pasted through hie body, inflicting a
wound which is btlleved to be fatal.
loqun rot clamhwcatio
" tUUJr 'ANTUr-riCkulC
eey t 1 OUHk. ,.
MEN IN FIGHT OVER SUFFRAGE
Nearly Disrupt Rally Conducted by
Miss Bertha Sapovitz This
Afternoon
A white man and a negro got Into a
lively nt fight In 9th street near Chest
nut this afternoon over a suffrage argu
ment and nearly disrupted a rally under
the auspices of the Equal Franchise So
ciety .Miss Bertha Sapovltx was speak
ing at the time.
The crowd backed away to form a ring
for the combatants, who clinched. They
were rolling around In the street when a
big reserve bluecoat started to fight his
way through the crowd. By the time he
reached the scene the men had disap
peared. "The antls of New Jersey." said Miss
SapovlU. "may rant of victory if they
wish. We will not object to whatever
glory they can t from associating them
selves with all the corrupt Interests of
the State
PHYSICAL TEST LAW
CALLED DETRIMENTAL
BY TRADE UNIONISTS
Dr. Alice Hamilton Tells
Safety-First Congress Why
Labor Opposes Exami
nation Law
CHARGE UNFAIRNESS
The viewpoint of labor, which fears the
gradual growth of the "safety first"
movement, was told today In an address
by Dr. Alice Hamilton, of Hull House,
Chicago, and a colleague of Jane Ad
dams, before the National Safety Coun
cil, In convention at the Bellevue-Strat-ford.
"Physical examination of workmen as
a safeguard against accidents is what
these men regard as an Infringement on
their rights," said Doctor Hamilton. "It
'scraps' a man more than 0 years old,
or bars him. The workmen feel that this
works an Injustice, for many States have
no Insurance regulations to protect the
workmen. The physical examination law,
they maintain, Is beneficial to the em
ployer and detrimental to the employe.
It Is a step against trade unionism."
Refusal to grant automobile licenses
to persons who drink was advocated by
J. C. Rose, of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, In an address on automobile grade
crossing accidents before the railroad
section of the council.
This action would reduce to a minimum,
said Mr. Rose, the ever-Increasing number
of smash-ups at crossings. The keynote
of his speech was that "booze" Is the bug
bear of business. He said that drunken
automoblllsts are responsible for the ma
jority of grade accidents.
"Not 4S hours ago I stood on the corner
of 15th and Market streets." said the
railroad official, "for Just 10 minutes,
during which time four automobiles came
up to the curb within my view and the
occupants of each In turn got out and
went Into nearby saloons. Would you
want to commit your family to the care
of a person operating an automobile who
had even taken one drink of liquor? I
Insist that a license should not be issued
to a person who Indulges at all In In
toxicants. This may seem drastic, but
If you will tako the suggestion home at
night to your own fireside you will sgree
with me that it Is not unreasonable.
"I have noticed that of late intoxicated
automobile drivers are severely dealt
with In some courts, but the punishment
usually follows some serious damage for
which there Is no redress. Why not
eliminate this hazard by the more cer
tain way of refusing a license to a rum
drinker?"
Mr. Rose said It would cost $600,000,000
to remove all of the 13.027 crossings on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and added
that the Pennsylvania system had ex
pended more than $66,000,000 during the
last 12 years In Improvements, resulting
In the elimination of more than 1000 cross
ings. He urged the passage of a Fed
eral law requiring that every person ap
proaching a grade-crossing should stop
at least 10 feet from the crossing and
stop, look and listen before crossing the
tracks. The penalty for violation, he
suggested, be fixed at $50 and costs.
$1000 TABLE 'SOLD FOR A SONG'
Cost Mayor Reyburn That Sum and
Fetches $7.50 at Auction of
Household Goods
The famous old Reyburn billiard table,
a marvelous creation of mahogany, joined
and Inlaid, and costing $1000. was sold to
a second-hand dealer for $7.50 today, on
the second and last day of tho sale of the
housefurnlshlngs of the late Mayor John
E, Reyburn's home at 19th and Spring
Garden streets.
The tablo, which was rich In memories,
had been used by,tho famous politicians
of the last decade. More than 100 persons
were attracted to the Reyburn mansion
by the sale, which was conducted by
Samuel T. Freeman & Co., auctioneers.
An Oriental rug In the late Mayor's bed
room sold for $300. The administrators of
the estate are Joseph W, Moorehead and
former Congressman W. S. Reyburn.
American Held by British
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 20.-Robert Hamer
aged 60, who says he is an American
millionaire and the owner of much prop,
erty at Washington, was arrested today
for not registering as an alien. He was
remanded for trial.
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AUSTRIANS CHECK
BERLIN, Oct'il
the Russians northeast and Inerts!?!
Mltau, announced an offldaPrSS'igl
afternoon. "port tKI
Farther south, General vcm n. , JS
is still fighting along "hi Stw ntl1"
and north of Rafalevka t,.Lr.D'
pulsed by the Austrian r . rtf
official statement today. 'isse,
"Rusalann Unlatch In -I. . 'J
torlj.k district have gained tt,
b?"k.f'.h8 Bl"' where an eniiJ2i
conunutB. --
The report dealing with the ,J
theatre of war la as follows
"F1M Mnrfthnt v lli.j... .
advanced northeast and northwL??!
Mltau. General von .Llp.lnreVfi i
contjnues fighting on Ihe Styr ( 5
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AUSTRIANS QUIT CZERNOWm
AS SLAVS BREAK L3
Twnnxt . . r
Owing to the Russians' success in brij
Rlvsr. the latter have 6ttn tu&fi
evacuate Czernowltz, it was saw i. .
Bucarest dispatch today. "
Czernowltz Is capital of the Austria,
Gallcla. It Is an Important tow" m
miles southeast of Lemberg, Th 812
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SLASHES GIRL'S CHEEK
WITH RAZOR; ESCAPE!
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young Woman, Heroine of 'Ki2
napping Case, Attacked
on Way to Work
Miss Alfia Resso was hurrvlnr !.''
the streets of "Little Italy" this bmZI
Ing, fearing that she would be late i
... .,......... .......civ wircre ens is esH
ployed. At the corner oOth and CaV
arlne Btreets a man who was Itialar
aff-alnat a lAn-etAn ..... ... ""?.!
-"-- - -- oymns lor'
whipped out a razor, slashed the aw
and vanished.
As soon as the news reach ik. J
and Christian streets station th mm f
remarked that the name of Alfla xm f I
sounded familiar and looked uo itmZvi
.'(.l,., BhAU.1 tA xlat.. . . 7
had figured In a kldnannln? ,m.I J!!
not a kidnapping nt all, or. at U.rVaat
uuuer mt Bruremng eye ot me law For
when It came to the point, Alfla, ifcM
20 years old, refused to tell anytaew
about the kidnappers, although, j3
maintained, kidnappers they really m1
She had been spirited away to Ls.'
non, she said, and, now that she W
gotten back safely to Phlladlphl,5
details of tho matter were no 'lose
anybody's business but her own, ' d
They taxed the girl with this old ?
fortune when she was treated for tsi'
razor siasn today. Bhe replied thatrV
believed her assailant was one GIusmm
Tottlro, of Marcus Hook, and for Tottira '
Special Tollcemen McGinn snd Fleldita-"
n.latll, tAivn.. 6m basvaI. .dIIKa... turn. ?
ever, the slightest success. i
The girl lives at the southeast cersstl
of Sth and Fltzwater streets. She ei'
treated at the Pennsylvania Hospital ml
then went to her work.
ASQUITH TO QUIT CABINm
LONDON BELIEVE
Continued from rage One
what he considers the aovenunei'i
driving, inactive, undecided policy atts.1
war's most critical stage. It Is knoesl
that he had been thinking of reslfnlef
for a month.
Tho existing Cabinet deadlock, nm
generally referred to as a trues, M
the conscription Question. 11
The plan the pro-conscrlptlonlsts fissW
nereeil nn nrnvlded for exemntlon Of el
workers engaged In munition meWjI.
general manufacturing, exporting, stW9
or railroading, and for districting
country, compulsion being reaortwJJ.
only in districts, falling to furnish
quotas of voluntary enlistments.
They Insisted, however, that a M Ji
this effect be formulated immeanwwj
avoid loss of time if Lord Dtrors i
for stimulating voluntary enlists
falls. This the anti-conscrlptionl. i
fused to concede.
Large Sale of Small Proper!
Another big block of properties w-
old welgntman estate nas urai -
Ann TV TnA1rf and Fr
Cou'rtland Penfield for a price said wj
-u... titnftfln r -.. then 11A tirM-tM
figure in the deal. The estate dljpM
a large part of Ha smaller npnuj-
thls city last year.
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Suits for Boyi
their stylish appearance hut MCj
their wearinc? Qualities.
They hold up under hw
uag"e and preserve their irmi
nets and shape where clothes .wj
the usual sort become worn
lifeless.
And yeu "will le surpriW
their inexpensive - Nor
and Double Bratd Suits tU
at Five Dollars.
All the Mappy and right so
of Bava TTaluretaskerv. SsttnKJ
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