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CITY FINANCIERS FEAR
0(W)NENTS WELL KILL
GENERAL LOAN BILL
IffVENiyf T ''" ,n ' if M ' 'OLPIir.N, MONDAY, APKiL 10, 1016.
JForces Hostile to Administra
tion May Defeat $47,425,000
Measure in Councils
or at Polls
22 "REBELS" INSISTENT
iWcst Philadelphia Councilman Do-
mnnd Share In Improvement
,( Program
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Fear that the $47,425,000 municipal
loan wilt bo defeated either In Council!) to
morrow or nt the polls on May 1G, was
expressed today by councllmanlc finan
ciers. Tho greatest danger to the loan's
success lies In the political strength of
Organization factions anxious to hamper
Jtayo'r Smith's administration and In the
determination nf 22 West Philadelphia
Councllmen to have their districts Included
Jn tho Improvement program before favor
ing tho measure.
Tho West Philadelphia fight reached a
head today when members of Councils
from that section of tho city lying west of
tho Schuylkill Illvcr. for tho third time,
called tho Mnyor's attention to their de
mand for money for the Improvement nnd
extension of Cobb's Creek Park nnd for
raying for other highway Improvements In
ho six wards .west of tho rlcr.
Tho general loan bill provides for all
Inunlclpnl Improvements other than transit
nnd port nnd for rftalntninnro Items, as
We as deficiency bills for 19 IS. Should
,Jt, for nny reason, go' down to defeat,
the city's financial condition would bo
chaotic nnd the Mayor and his directors
would find themselves uunbto to proceed
With cvcAi tho most necessary Improve
Incuts, let nlone nny consideration of Art
Museum, Public Library nnd other under
takings. It Is tills result that tho Mayor
fears and that his political enemies nro
lioldlng out ns more than a possibility
Unless lie makes concessions both In the
' ptnto and municipal political situations.
West Philadelphia's demands ns placed
Jieforo tho Mayor today for tho last tlmo
Include- h total of $2,020,000 for needed
improvements. 'Hie nltowanco In tho loan
that cornea up 'for passage by Councils
tomorrow Is $30,000. Should preliminary
loan legislation require a two-thirds voto
in both brnnches of Councils, ns Is tho
case when tho tlmo arrives for tho final
Appropriation of the money, thcro would
uo grave doubt of tho ccncrnl loan pass
ing tomorrow. As a matter of fact, tho
first councllmanlc action, signifying tho
intention of tho city to Increase Its bonded
indebtedness requires but n majority vote,
nnd thnt tho Vnre-Smlth forces In both
branches of Councils can easily forco In
lino.
Pow, If nny, of tho 22 West Philadel
phia Councllmen will, in advance of tho
meeting, go on record ns ojiposlng tho loan
to tho extent of voting ngalnst It even
nhould their demands todny recclvo no
tnoro attention than they havo"idown to
dato. When Ira D. Oarman, Select Coun
cilman of tho 46th Ward and president of
tho West Philadelphia Councllmanlc As
sociation, was nsked If his delegation
would voto solidly against tho loan ho
said: "No. I won't go thnt tar, but I
will say that wo mean to stick to our
demands for street improvements and for
improvements to Cobb's Crock Park."
Tho Vnro-Smlth Organization forces in
loth brnnches of Councils have a majority
voto, and In view of tho nttltudo of tho 22
West Phlladelphlnns It is likely that both
loans will got safely under way tomorrow.
On tho othor hand, tho Ponrosc-McNIchol
forces nro freely predicting tho defeat of
tho goner.il loan at tho polls, nnd tho
threat lias been openly made round City
Hall that this will bo .dono unless Mayor
Enltli agrees to political demands made,
upon him relative to tho Stato political
fight.
HIS NINTH YEAR OF BUSINESS
The ninth anniversary of 17-ycar-old
Edward Buckley's "RoinR in
business" will be celebrated with
more than the usual ardor this
year. According to John, Ed
ward's 12-year-old brother, who
nets as his chief clerk, Edward's
profits have materially increased
and this has como about be
cause of the growth in popu
larity of the Evening Ledger.
Edward lives with his mother,
brother and sister at 2525 North
0th street, nnd what money ho
mnkes in the sale of Ledgers goes
entirely to tho support of the
"family."
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TWO MULES, PLUS AUTO HORNS, ONE
COP AND TRAFFIC EQUAL A TANGLE
Animals Hear "Honk, Honk" and "Hike, Hike" at Rapid
Rate on Broad Street, While Chauffeurs Say
Some Strong Words
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'PEEPING TOM' PEERS
THROUGH PERISCOPE
Looked in Windows to See How
Comfortably Some Folk
Lived, He ,Says
MYSTIC, Conn., April 10. Of "Tom
the Peencr" everybody has heard, of
-s course. But this town has Just dlscov-'Brpitic-new
and entirely up-to-date variety,
pamely
"Tom tho Periscope Peeper."
A man who was arrested hero on tho
fcharge of prowling beneath bedroom win
dows of tho villagers, had In his posses
sion, according to Probation Officer Hlch
ard W, Mansfield, n. home-mado con
trivance resembling a cane, which was In
reality a periscope.
With this, through an arrangement of
mirrors, ho was enabled to remain In tho
darkness below tho wlndowslll and yet sco
what was going on In tho room. For
more than two weeks tho police had heard
of a strange prowler, but no complainant
)iad ever seen a face nt tho window pane.
The prisoner said ho was Charles Tot
ton and that his only reason for looking
Jnto the bedrooms of Mystic people was to
pee how pleasantly some folk lived. He
Jiad been sleeping so much In the open
air. and In barns, he said, that he couldn't
resist tho temptation of stealing glimpses
it warmth and comfort.
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Aged Pair Found Dying From Gas
Found unconscious yesterday morning
nt 602 Avon street, Camden, George P.
Walker, 87 years old, and Mrs. Sarah Car
Jnant, 69 years old, were sent to the Cooper
Hospital by members of the household,
nnd were reported In a critical condition
from Inhaling gas. When they regained
consciousness they said that the supply
pipe had been opened accidentally,
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Reading Refunds $1400 Coal Tax
POTTS VILLB. Pa.. April 10. The
'Heading Coal and Iron Company today
will refund SHOO In coal tax to Its em
ployes of the Fottsvllle repairs shops. A
record of the purchases of coal made by
each employe was kept by the company.
Ono cop and two mules twisted Broad
street traffic out' of Bhapo today for
scvral blocks.
The mules looked threadbaro and
homeless. Hut they trudged contentedly
down Ilrond street until they reached
Caltowhlll. On nrrlvlng nt this point both'
wero somewhat dizzy from dodging nuto
mobiles. Tho nnimnls pnuscd and looked aghast
at tho platoon of demon-llko cars which
glared at them In alt directions. Then a
battery of arrogant Klaxons were let
loose.
Tho mules tried to rush down tho right
sldo of Broad street, but tho snorting red
devils, gray demons, nnd even gurgling
Fords barked nt their heels. Then tho
victims darted over to tho left nnd ran
ngalnst tho traffic. Chauffeurs shouted
and horns blew In vain. In a minute
Broad street wns a hopeless mass of
wriggling cars which darted about llko
rats on a rampage.
Policeman Steering nrrlvcd. Ho dodged
between soveral cars and told tho mules
to "whoa". They smiled sardonically nt
Steering and wiggled their stumpy tnlls
to show contempt. Then tho nnimnls zig
zagged down Broad street by. talcing tho
street nnd tho sldowalk nlternatetly.
A trail of profanity followed them no
matter where they turned and spluttering
motorcycles added to tho spirit of tho
chaso.
At Arch street tho mules, nfter a run
ning conference, decided to separate. Ono
continued running ngalnst trnfllc on the
east Bide, whllo tso other darted over to
tho west side.
But some ono had flashed word to City
Hall and a semicircle of machines closed
In on tho mules when they reached Filbert
street.
- Steering grabbed them by their frayed
ropo halters, and true to his name, took
them to tho enst cntrnnco of City Hall
Thero ho was Informed that tho prisoner
would have to bo taken to the van stables.
Ho mannc'il a motorcycle and towed them
there after several mutinous outbraks on
tho way.
Thcro wns nothing on the mules to lend
to their Identity. Ono of them Is a de
cided brunette, somcwhnt worn In spots.
A portion of his left car Is missing nnd
ho needs tho nttentlon of an occullst.
Tho other Is a sort of dark kotchup color.
Ho has knobs on his front legs nnd his
general nppenranco Indicates n. past, which
wns nono too rosy.
They nre awaiting identification but
don't seem to know It,
TO INSPECT SEWAGE PLANTS
Penrose to Speak at Lancaster
Senator Penrose will go to Lancaster
tomorrow (o deliver an address at a
dinner of the Republican Club of Lan
caster County," While In that city he will
confer with Congressman Grlest, Lieuten
ant Governor McClaln and other Lancas
ter County leaders.
Philadelphia Officials Leave on Trip
to Middle West Cities
Director Georgo K. Dntesman, of the
Department of Tubllc Works; Chief
Chester E. Albright, of tho Burcnu of
Surveys, and W. S. Stovenson, the assist
ant engineer, who will nld In designing
sewngo disposal plans for this city, left
today to Investigate sewngo disposal plants
In Milwaukee, Chicago nnd Cleveland.
Items totaling J3, 200, 000 havo been In
corporated In tho now loan for sewage
disposal purposes In the, Frankford dis
trict. Bids havo been asked for a portion
of tho Frankford creek Intercepting sower,
and It Is the purpose of the engineers
to study tho principles Involved In other
cities before attempting to provide a plant
that will end tho pollution of tho Dela
ware River. The cost of a disposal plant
for this city Is estimated at between
$20,000,000 nnd $25,000,000.
SUNDAY INTEREST WANES
Attendance nt Baltimoro Meetings
Yesterdny Smallest on Record
' rtALTIMORR. April 10. Although the
Sunday campaigners expected that tho at
tendance nnd the number of trail-hitters
would tnerenso toward tho closo of the re
vival ns thoy did In other cities,, they arc
beginning to fear that It will not bo so
here. Tho nggregato attendanco at tho
threo services yesterday was tho smallest
of any Sunday of tho campaign. Ho
again attacked Baltimore people
. First City Troop to Drill
The 1st City Troop will hold a drill In
Its nrmory, 23d and Ranstead streets,
tonight for the purpose of reviewing a
portion of the work accomplished during
tho winter. Captain J. Franklin McFad
den will command.
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EASTER IS NEAR
flood tnnto demnndi that th HnHti r
tnllettn m fragrant of cholrp flow
ers. Fanhton decrws thn Kardenln a
nupen. Our .Oafjlenla Toilet Wutor
Is llkd the flowfr Itself, hut mop
IftBtinsr. In exqtnalte tattle. A.fc and
fl.1'5. Fostpaldito any address.
LLJJVEELYN'S
Philadelphia's Standard Druir Store.
1518 Chestnut Street
Gardenia Talcum, equally choice, 2.1c
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ANNOUNCE NEW STYLES
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Wedding iInvitations
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Visitlnp; Cards
Monograms
Crests
Coat of Arms
Rook Plates
Programs
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Social StQtfoneryjl
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ORIGINAL IDEAS
THAT IIAltMOMZi;
WITH PERFECT TASTE
1121 Chestnut St.
Tea & Reception
Cards
Dinner Cards
Special Menus
Certificates of
Marriage
$12,000 GEMS GONE; WHO
GOT 'EM PUZZLES COPS
Fifth Avenue Dealer Says Dia
ndric! Setter Kept Them.
'Frame-up,' Cries Prisoner
NHW TOntf. April 10. Mystery sur
rounds tho dlsnppearanco yesterdny of a
$12,000 diamond lirooch nnd chnln. Tho
gems nro the property of 13. M. Cattle.
Jeweler, of 630 Eth avenue.
Mr. Onttle hnd given tho diamonds to
Nathan Clreenberg, head of the Jewelry
firm of nrcenberg & Co., In tho same
hullding, to bo reset.
Last night Clreonberg hnd Kdwnrd Wal
dcr, 27 yenrs old, of 215 West 42d street,
locked up, charged with tho theft of tho
Jewels.
Watder declares ho Is Innocent nnd has
been "framed up" by Grcenberg. Ho told
tho following story to Lieutenant Uurns,
of the West 47th street station, boforo be
ing locked In a cell:
Greetiborg had employed Wnldcr ns a
diamond setter until two weeks ngo.
AValder opened a Jewelry shop nt 215
West 4 2d street after ho left Orccnberg
& Co. On Saturday, U'nlder said Green
berg brought him the diamond brooch nnd
chnin to bo reset. Ho promised to have
the Job finished Monday.
Orccnberg left tho shop, says AValder
but returned again In about flvo minutes
nnd asked for the diamonds, saying ho
wanted to show them to somo ono. Ho
took tho gems nwny, nnd did not return.
Yesterday Orccnberg returned nnd do
mnnded tho gems. Walder said he was
thunderstruck and thought Orccnberg
"uns crazy." Ho says Oreenberg Insisted
that ho had left tho diamonds to bo re
set. The two left Wnlder'n shop arguing,
nnd nt Hroadway and 42d street Oreen
berg asked rollceman Van Hagen to lock
Wnldcr up on a grand larceny chnrge.
Last evening Mr. Galtlo went to tho
West 47lh street station nnd nsked that
Walder be sent to tho Second Branch De
tectlvo Burcnu to bo questioned by detec
tives at work on tho case. Mr. Gattlo
also said another man was Involved In
tho case.
Tho missing gems nro said to hnvo
heen purchnsed from Mr. Cattle by n
prominent New York society woman, who
wanted the design changed
MOTHER ON FRUITLESS
CLUE TO JIMMY GLASS
Haggard After Trip to Ken
tucky Mountains, She Says
Boy Isn't Her Son
Ardmorc Folk to Organize "Army"
Individual members of tho Ardmoro
Civic Association havo started a move
ment for tho organization of a conipnny
of tho Drexcl-Blddlc citizens' nrmy, on
tho same lines ns Hint slnrted at Bryn
Mnwr by Miss Natalie Sellers Barnes.
Hack of the movement nro Dr. Itoss Hall
Sklllern, president of tho nssociatlon:
Henry H. Spademan, James S. Knlpo nnd
severnl others.
Won't Explain His Hrokcn Jaw
Richard Guthrldge. 17 years old, of 1141
Newton nvenuo, Camden, walked Into tho
Cooper Hospital yesterday with a broken
Jaw. After ho had received treatment ho
left, refusing to tell how ho had been
Injured.
LEXINGTON. Ky., April 10. A
woman, hnggnrd from n sleepless 24-hour
rnllwny Journey, nrrlvcd hero Into yes
terday afternoon nnd went to the little
village of I'lnk, lln tho mountains of
Jessamine County, where she believed her
missing son wns waiting for her to take
him home. Sho was Mrs. Charles L.
Glass, nf 13 Llncau plnce, Jersey City,
whose four-year-old boy Jimmy disap
peared last summer while In Greeley.
1'cnn. Onco again she wns following ono
of the fruitless clues which have dragged
her COOO miles across the United States
since her child vanished. She said tho
boy at I'lnk wns not her son.
Accompanied by her husband nnd a
Jersey City detective, Mrs. Glass mado
tho nine-mile Journey nt night over rough
roadi tn I'lnk At I'lnk llvo Mr. nnd
Mrs Link Miller nnd the boy they nro
caring for. They say his namo Is Holly
liny Fnlrchlld. Hut tho child spcakB of
hlmiclf ns "Jimmy."
On May 12. 1915. Jimmy Glass wnB play
Ing In the front yard of his fnther'H sum
mer home nt Oreeley. Then suddenly ho
wns gone. Tho family searched for him
nil thnt day, but he could not bo found.
Ho left no trnce. Tho mother has been
looking for him ever since.
Onco nho traveled to Oklnhomn, certain
thnt tho lost boy held there was her son.
Again, she went to South Carolina, sum
thnt Jimmy would greet her nt tho end
of her journey. Both times she enmo back
broken by tho disappointment.
Saturday Mrs. Olasi left Jersey City
on tho old. bitter trnck which has always
led to nothing. Yesterday, ns sho neared
tho placo whero "Holly Bay Kalrchlld"
wns waiting for her, sho was again cer
tain that this time sho would find her son.
No ono knows who tho llttlo boy sho
wont to meet Is tho Millers no moro than
their neighbors, According to their Btory,
In Juno pf Inst year two women nnd a
man came, to a cabin they wero living In
on Poor Creek, Gerrard County, and left
tho child with them. They remember tho
names tho threo gave Mlnnlo Woody, a
Miss I.ohr nnd I'lcs Barnett.
Distinctive Ideas
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1018 Chestnut St.
J.
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902 Chestnut Stre
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Sterling Sijvep?are
Of Substantial Weight
The Buckle
Leads
in Easter
shoe fashions.
SteMerMft
Z- 1420 Chestnut St.
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There are degree even of
whltenei a fact you will
appreciate when you com
pare the way we launder
your linens with thote laun
dered by ordinary method.
And remember that we ute
no harmful compound to
odbih me ueiicr unim wo
impart to all we with,
Neptune Laundry
501 COLUMBIA AVE.
WuneCAavstAetZtf
Easter
Lighting ' Fixtures
Give your ho
newness for Ea
The New L
dispel gloom--i
liancy that radiates
Retail Display Roomand Fictoi
427-433 NorrJfBroa
of
ixtures
a Uril-
ood cheer.
The
Geo. B.Newton Coal Co.
regrets its inability to advise its
100,000 Customers
of the usual April reduction in the price of anthracite coal.
When an agreement is reached between
Operators and Miners
immediate announcement or me terms ana me resultant price
of coal will be made in the newspapers instead pf -as for
merly by U. S. MAIL, thussajring the Jlmerfecessary for
the preparation of a letter notic " jf
As there is a posstbilityhoweve,' that the Operators
and Miners may not agree, tms prudejjt KousehnldeVSviU do
well to take reasonable precautions against temporary shut
down at the mines. f f J
Sufficient coal is novFin our yajds to meet any reason
able demand; but shouH a "suspEnsion ' occur,lhfjf stock
arlt price
will be rapidly deplet
If you need co
that
keep carefully before you the fact
Newton Goal
Answers the Burning Question
Spruce 1400 1527 Chestnut St. Race3800
This Morning '
Perry & Co. Announced
One Week
of
Intensified Values
in Spring, Suits at
'$15
that is going to make all previous events
of a similar nature pale before this
Week's Amazing Offerings.
This is not an occasion for restraint
upon our choice of language, for the
greatness of the values in these Suits at
$15 precludes even the possibility of
exaggeration. When we say that the
fabrics in them can't be bought any
where under $20, $22.50 arlH $25 the
Suit, we have not half stated the case !
1$ They arc the pick of such goods as go
into higher-priced Clothes only beauti
ful silk-mixed worsteds, plain and fancy
weave worsteds; plain, gray, blue and
black worsteds; blue serges; finest cassi
mcres in tasteful patterns in a tvord, the
popular styles chosen by ninety per cent,
of Philadelphia men.
N.
IAnd it's not a mere handful of Suits nor a
couple of styles we are talking about, but sev
eral thousand Suits in patterns enough to sat
isfy every whim and taste of even the most
exacting
All to Be Sold in
This One Week
of
Intensified Value
at the Uniform Price of
$15
CjThe best advertisement these Suits are going
to get will be the Suits themselves on the backs
of their first purchasers. The Suits that go
out of here every day will have a cumulative
effect on each succeeding day's business, so that
it will grow greater day after day up to its en
thusiastic ending on Saturday.
Come as
in the day as possible!
early
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PERRY & CO.
"N. B. T."
16th & Chestnut Sts.
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Hornf& Brannen MTg Co.
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