EVENING LBDaB-PHILADl3LPHlAt WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916. '
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KISIUNG AUTO TRUCKS'
GROWING DEATH TOLL
ROUSES COPS TO ACT
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Business Associations unite
With Ponce in uemanu lor
Arrests of Drivers Who
! Violate Law
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MORE
THREI
VICTIMS
Coroner Declares War
on Reckless Chauffeurs
"These killings by automobile
trucks must stop. Most of the fn-
, .mi., mo iltin in rnrnlrsanpss on
Lh cart of the drivers. I Intend
the near future regarding the
framing of legislation which will
orovlde more drastic punishment
1 ..lla rVinllfTptirS.
"Heads of industrial plants '
should prohibit helpers from rid- .
Ine on the scat --with drivers of
. ..-1 Tit pnnl.'prsnt inn llincin
helpers distract the nttcntion of
the driver from his work. The
helpers should bo made to ride in
the rear of the truck.
"Many of the drivers employed
by industrial plants are incompe
tent men. It would pay In the long
run for these plants to pay higher .
wages and get competent men.
Drivers of trucks should not for
get that pedestrians have the full
right of way on crossings." Cor
oner Knight.
Concerted ncllon on th part or the, po
lice powers of the city and the vurlouH na-
" relations of business men Ih licltijc urKed
In an effort to check the dully toll of Uvea
1 being exacted by reddens drivers of de
livery trucltt In the ntreets not only In
t the mercantile centrps. but In the residen
tial sections where the tnilllc laws do not
appear to have leached
Time nnd npiln Inquests before the
Coroner have developed evidence, that the
, rules of the road lmvo been disregarded
and even deliberately tainted by truck
drivers In their cffoits to c.Uch trains or
' ferry boats, or In other cases to completo
a day's deliveries nnd ce-t back to the
garages as early ns possible. The price
of uch speed Is belns paid by Innocont
children's lives, and men nnd women nro
being sacrificed to nn extent that now
appals tlfts municipal authorities.
'I' RAfiRHVESS TO "MAKE TIME."
i Pnroner Knlmht has exiiressed himself
1 I In Rtrnne denunciation of tho carelessness
and Superintendent of Police Itoblnson has
Issued stringent orders to the traffic
squad and to the patrolman of tho soeraf
districts that onenclors aro to be arrested
forthwith. Still tho fatal eaRercss "to
make time" nnd to "speed up" on humanity-crowded
streets haB been pursued with
fanabated Vigor until the patience of Coro
, ncr and police heads has been exhausted
and the business men's associations uro
preparing to take a hand In compelling a
cessation of the deadly practice.
The matter wns brought to a focus to
day by tho report to the Coroner of thrco
fatalities occurring within a fow hours
yesterday. Tho victims of yesterday's
; 'taotortruck juggernnut" were:
Miss Ida E. Packer, 47 years old, 3635
North 19th street, a teacher In tho Com-
tnodore John Barry Public School.
JIr Anna Khllie. 1710 Dowers street,
struck and killed bv nn automobile at
7th street and Woodland nvenue.
William Franklin. 50 years old, 3612
Jfrrth 8th street, who dted In the Hahne
mann Hospital last night after being
struck by a motortruck at Broad and
recti streets.
Harry Muzlln, 4 years old, 341 League
strict, was killed by an autotruck at 4th
I and League streets Sunday
f. Mrs. Mary Cohen, 25 years old, 1715
-. North Eighth street, was knocked down
, and Injured this morning nt Seventh and
f Market streets by n speeding truck. She
3 was taken to Jeffcison Hospital and Is In
s. a serious condition
Arrests of tlfi drivers of the vehicles
involved In the accidents wero made
t promptly and the prisoners are awaiting
f the Coroner's action In those cases where
death resulted.
In addition to these cases, all occur-
i ring within tho last 24 hours, another
automobile fatality Is still under Inves
tigation by police nnd coroner. Harry
Muzlln, 4 years old. 341 League street,
was run over nnd killed on Sunday within
, sight of his home. Sb Infuriated were
' witnesses of this killing that the driver
of the truck was being roughly used by a
mob of more than 500 persons when tho
police came to his rescue.
, COPS ASTOUNDED.
j The police say they are nstounded by
the wilful disregard of ordinary rules nnd
precautions exhibited by the motortruck
". drivers. It was brought out In the case
of Miss Packer, for whose death Fnnk
k, Phillips, 21 years old, 1208 South Marshall
street, was committed without ball by
f Magistrate Pennock, that direct violation
i of traffic rules had resulted In her death.
Miss Packer was on her way to visit Mrs.
Louis Mlddleton, at 2207 West Venango
street. She had alighted from a north
bound 22d street trolley car. She was the
first pasenger to get off and hutried
around the front end of the car. In doing
o she stepped directly In ffbnt of the
truck before the driver had time to apply
Jne brakes.
1 Tho police declare this fact does not
vm,& numi . -
I' r " 4-umiiiis, us ine jaw expressly en-
juwB ji-ucks, automobiles and wagons to
is op wnen running parallel, with trolley
when the latter stop:
CAMDEN HAS "WHITE WAY"
Broadway Flooded With Light From
66 Electric Arc Lamps
Camden's long planned "White Way"
J at last a reality, Last night Broadway
worn Vetera! street to Kalghn avenue
Illuminated by E6 aro lights which
Jjl been placed on that thoroughfare by
J"rpn of the Lighting Committee of
WO Counclt.
The lights were put up by the Public
ft . c? treo or cost o the city. When
in switch controlling the light was turned
r4 Per&Ona Slnnr tK atrAat nfiM nmovaH
f ? "Bht. as the street was briirht as
; oayught. y
7 ' .kP'nK t0 the reat dfmand for iron the
I Kipm!nt or th ornamental poles has
f if!nii'lelaye'1- When they are received
s JM!ht3 will be taken down and erecte4
7Jr r "w Ple The lights will be oper
" a cost of 73 a year.
NURSES GET DIPLOMAS
Sir Graduates at Commencement of
Lying-in Charity School
),?. t ?"aduatln cIa the Phlladel
Pni Lylng-ln Charity Nurse School held
lr nuuencement exercises last night In
Uth UthVtVeet aW' ' ' "
hJS ma" were presented by Q. Coles
IrJ7 Curves, president of the Instltuilon,
SLf? following nurses: Anna Margaret
w?f 2i ther Florence Oreir. Mary Ann
I2r?"r' Mollla Hollenbach Schaef
r, zuna Roseanna Kverett and Anna
wayme Peters.
Woman Dies AfteV Eating Supper
iiTir'.Uary Kennedjf, 45 years old, of
if', orth Delhi street, fell deaa last
?V6t tamecUately after she had eaten A
rty meal He't body wa takea to the
i T?,? IlomopathUj Hospital, whr U
GIRL WHO WAS LURED
INTO AUTO BY YOUNG
MEN WARNS OTHERS
May Naphy, Who Jumped From
iuacnine, uives Advice to
Sisters From Hospital
Bed
ON" 'WAY TO RECOVERY
MAY NAPHY
"Don't go out with a joung man 5ou
uon i Know jusi necausp nn automobile nnd
nice- clothes make you bellee ho Is re
spectable. Von nre Inking n long chnnce "
Tills advice to girls wns gldn today by
May N'npliy. of 1822 South Front street,
the 18-ycnr-old girl who cry nearly killed
herself leaping from a speeding automobile
to escape tho Improper proposals of n
youth who hnd "plckod her up " She Is In
the West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hos
pital recovering under skilful Uentmcnt
from a fractured skull nnd Internal
Injuries.
As May views It. she took two "long
chances. April 1!). the night she and Mary
O'.Malley went automobile riding with two
"fellows." TIim tint wns when sho en
tered the automobile nt Broad nticet anil
Columbia avenue, the second, when she
Jumped out at Uelmont nnd City Line nve
nucs, while the machine wns tearing along
through the darknoss nt 40 miles nn hour
Would she take the first chanco ngaln?
"No, 1 would not," wns her emphatic
reply.
The second"
"Yes, I would," she answered, In n volco
low but Just ns decided. Sho was prop
ped up in her bed In tho women's ward,
silver crucifix was pinned to her bosom,
nnu nor cnesinui nair, nanging loose,
framed her pretty, bruised fnce.
"I did wrong nnd I know It," sho said
frankly. "And I will not do It ngaln.
I didn't know thnt night what u chance
I wns taking when Dnbe nnd I got In
that machine." Sho calls Mary O'Malley
Dabe. It was she who found May un
conscious in the road nn hour lntbr, after
the two "young bloods" had ejected her
nnd sped away.
" "Babe' and I had Just come from a re
hearsal when these two fellows came
nlong In a machine and nsked to take us
home. They looked like gentlemen. We
had never seen them before nnd It was
wrong to accept tholr Imitation But wo
did It They stopped at two places nnd
got brinks. I thought It wasn't oxactly
right and began to get nenous, At tho
second placo one of them looked at two
girls at another table nnd he said-: 'There
nre those two bums we had out last
night."
"With that I told them to take us home.
They said they would and we got In. Af
ter a while tho fellow on the rear seat
with me put his arms around me I
pushed him away and then he grabbed
me by the throat. I knew then nnd there
that It. wns to be a battle or jump for me.
He wns Btronger than I am. So I Jumped
'Thnt Jump taught me that u girl
mustn't take an automobile and nice
clothes ns signs of respectability. Sho
Ib taking a long chnnce If she does Ue
fore she goes out with a young man she
should get some one to 'stand' for him
and sho should learn something about him.
"Yes, I might havo.linil to Jump If I
had known the fellow. But I'd have done
It, just the snme. I'd be glad, just as I
am now."
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"OLD SLIM," AGED AlSfD CRIPPLED,
AGAIN LIVES IN CIRCUS SAWDUST
Once a Clown, John Link
Is Lured Every Day Back
to Joys of the "Big
Top"
Call of the Calliope Loud
and Sweet, But John
Can't Go Injured in
Parade
Within reach of the pungent odor of the
sawduit that characterizes the circus,
within hearing distance of the npplnuso
that greeted the fearless bnre-bnek riders
nnd the npplnute which greeted tho en
trance of the clowns; within the charmed
circle of the bnlly-hoo man, ni he brazenly
announces to nn enrnptured crowd of
epen-mouthed boys the wonders that can
be seen for 10 rent, one dime, one-tenth
of a dollar, walked n mnn, premnturely
nged despite his 'compnrntlvo youth of
three decades
I The lure of tho "big top" has descended
I once more on the mind of John Link, once
! circus down As others of ui feel the
, Impulse to get away from stuffy, unven-
tllated ofllces nnd lie down on tho grass
beneath n tree or tnko a tour nlong a road
banked by freshly-plowed fields, so the
magnet of tho sagging tents drew "Jack"
Link bnclt to tho fold. ,
Not today alone, but every day this
week, has seen the samo thing n man
who onco rodo nt the head of the proces
sion when the plnt-plat of the elephants'
feet ushered tho parade Into town hang
ing nround tho circus grounds wanting to
get In ngaln with his former comrades
nnd knowing he will bo unnhle to go with
them to- the next stop through Injuries.
Injuries he receUed while In the profession.
STRIPED ZEBRA COLT BALKS
AT "SUBBING" FOR SACRED COW
Resents Harness Even of Sacred Go-Cart Black-and-
White Streak About Ring Upsets Bicycling
Bruins Miss Dot Vernon Not Hurt
Trouble ngnln with Sing Sing? Well,
rather. Slug Sing Is the toughest, naught
iest, meanest, most stubborn thing in
Philadelphia, nnd no nmount of reforming
could make him pull a go-enrt tho frac
tion or an inch jesterday afternoon. Slug I
Sing is a zebra nnd his stripes suggested I
the name. ' j
Sing Ring hns been stubborn nil of hl
whole year of life. He was born In Bridge- ,
port. Conn, where Ilnrnum nnd Bailey's (
circus has winter quarters, just before the ,
big show went on Its annual tour last i
ear. He was famed then as one of the I
few zebra colts In captivity. As a conse
nuenco Sing Sing was spoiled Just as any
other youngster will be who receives too
much attention. It wns decided this
spring that ho must be taught to do his
sbnre of work In the world nnd he wns
placed In harness He didn't like n bit
In his mouth nor n collar nround 1i1b neck,
but the harness stayed on him despite his
kicks.
Yesterday afternoon, between matim-e
nnd night performnnces, Mr Patterson,
of the circus staff, thought It would be a
good opportunity to teach Sing Slug to
piril the sacred go-cart It Is used In the
parades nnd heretofore has been drawn
by a sacred cow of India Patterson
thought Sing Sing might prove u better
attraction than the sacred cow, but when
it camo to being put In shafts the zebra
positively refused to go near the cart
Patterson called In Dot Vernon, a cow
girl connected with the Wild West Show,
and b.v means of a "nose-twister" Sing
Sing was made to stand between the
shafts. Miss Vernon agreed to drive the
sacred go-cart, .and while half a dozen
cowboys held the zebra sho climbed In.
Then they let Sing Sing go and go he !
did! '
It was dimcult to sec Just what hap
pened. Miss Vernon was near the pad
room entiance when she climbed on the
cart, and It seemed only a second Inter
when a white and black streak could bo
discerned in tho arena. The much-tnlked-of
"hippodrome races" didn't have a thine
on Sing Sing for speed. Patterson had
everybody stand back In tho padroom,
and, with Miss Vernon guiding. Sing Sing
went by nt n mlle-u-mlnute clip. i
Hverj thing would have been all right '
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J. M. LINK
It was back nt Syracuse In 1912 that
Link, known to circus folk ns "Slim" or
"Oklahoma Jack," was In his clement
riding a camel down the streets, ns tho
parade wound Its scrpentlno way through
the streets. Tho camel slipped. "Slim"
was unablo to free himself nnd his leg
caught beneath the heavy weight of the
animal. Tho Injuries grew worse to such
nn extent ns to make him forsake tho
"big top"
"Slim" llcs nt 1208 Cleveland avenue.
hnd It not been for Profcsior Wells' fox
terrier Tho dog was nearly run down
by' the flying sacred cart. Ho let out n
jelp ns ho run to the centre of the nrenn.
In one of tho rings theio were thice black
bears learning to ride on n bicycle Tho
approach of the dog frightened one of
the benrs nnd he started for the pndioom
on n gnltop He used bad Judgment In
crossing, bowecr, for Sing Sing nnd the
sacred enrt were on tho homestretch nnd
struck tho bear.
Miss Vernon wns thrown from the cart,
but unhurt. Bruin got the Jolt of his
life; but he, too. suffered no Injuries
worthy of mention. Slug Sing ran into
the ropes nround tho third ring, got
tangled up nnd stopped.
FEES SWELL STATE FUNDS
Money Now Available for Paying De
layed School Appropriations
HARRtSBURG. Mny 3. State Treas
ury receipts yesterdny were the larges In
many months, owing to n number of
largo checks received from Philadelphia.
City Treasurer William McConch sent
In n check for $181,124 for liquor licenses,
and Register James B. Sheehan, of Phila
delphia, paid $108,626 collateral Inherit
ance taxes Another large check was
from Luzerne County for $110,000 for
liquor licenses.
The payments will mean thnt the 1915
school appropriations nnd township high
j-chool money, held up owing to a short
age In the Treasury balance, will be paid.
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COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
WANTS INCOME TAX
PROBE TO LEARN TRUTH
OF FRAUD CHARGES
Representative Keating Asks
McAdoo to Tell Whether Eva
sions Aggregate $320,
000,000 a Year
DEMAND FOR PUBLICITY
WASHINGTON. Mny 3. Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo Is directed to fur
nish Congress with n, statement showing
"whether or not $320,000,000 Is being nn
nunlly withheld from the Treasury by In
come tnx frauds and evasions," In a reso
lution offered In the House today by Rep
resentative IMward Keating, Colorado
McAdoo. by the same resolution. Is
nsked why he has not recommended to tho
President lh.it nil Income tnx returns be
mndo public. In order thnt frnud may be
checked The Inw provides the President
mny order such publicity, on recommenda
tion of the Secrctnry
Keating said ho based his resolution on
charges by Basil M Mnnly, who wns chief
Investigator for tho Industrlnl Relations
Commission
Mnnly, in published statements, has de
clared $101,250,000 should bo rcccUcd an
nually from the Income tax. Instead of the
$80,190,000 actunlly collected.
By tho resolutions, McAdoo Is directed
to declafo whether or not the following
findings of Manly nro true
That of $1C. 000.000.000 paid In
wnges nnd salaries In 1914, $500,000,
000 was paid to men receiving salaries
larger than $300
That more than $300,000,000 a
cnr, nboe the $3000 ecmptlon. Is
received ns Income In tho form of
fees.
Thnt $20,000,000,000 Is teceHed ns
Income from ownership of pioperty
and conduct .of business, nboo the
$3000 exemptions.
That Incomes receded by persons
subject tu the liicomo tnx total $20,
806. 000.000 ; that with nil proper de
ductions made, tho llguro should be
$14,525,000,000
That, based on this tntnl, with the
supertax enforced on the l.irger in
comes, tho totul tnes to be collected
would bo $381,260,000
HAS FAITH IN MANLY.
In Introducing tho resolution, Reprc
sentntUe Keating' wild-
"Udo this largely because of my fnlth
In Basil M Mnnly Tlnough bis work
with the Industrial Relations Commission.
Mr Manly hns demonstrated ho is an
economist of the Itrst rank nnd nil In
itetntigjblc iiiM'stlgntor who, In his ro
searches, would display neither fear nor
favor.
Mr. Manly declares that 'approximately
$320,000,000 Is being annually withheld
from the Tiensur of tho L'nitcd States by
Income tnx frauds nnd evasions.' You
may discount Mr. Mnnly's llgures by 50
per cent, nnd still hnvc n sum which makes
nit other frnuds which have heretofore
been perpetrated on the Federal Govern
ment seem Insignificant.
"Tin co hundred and twenty million dol
lars represents tho total Income of GOO. 000
American worklngmen who have labored
every day of the year.
WHAT MILLIONS WOULD DO.
"Tho nation's pension roll Is enormous,
but with the sum which Basil Manly sajs
the millionaires of this country steal from
tho nation every year we could pay It
twice over.
"With this sum you could take all the
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Chttame
of
Electricity, Defied by Afax, Now Harnessed to
Operate "St. Paul" Trains Over the Rockies
The myth of Ajax's defiance of Jove's lightnings was
the expression for three thousand years of the world's
opinion of electricity.
Then suddenly, in a few decades, the terror of the ages
was seen to be one of the most beneficent and most
powerful servants of man.
Its transcendent value to the race is nowhere better exem
plified than in the electrification oV'The St. Paul Road"
for 440 miles from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho.
From the plunging mountain waterfalls it is taken and sent
along the wires to the mighty electric locomotives that
haul the all-steel trains, "The Olympian" and "The
Columbian," and the long, heavily loaded freight trains
over the mile-high ramparts of the Great Continental
Divide, Whether to carry tonnage or to yield the trav
eler the comforts of s.nooth, clean travel, its enormous
power, winter and summer, is wholly at man's service.
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G, J, LINCOLN, General Agent
818 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa.
children out of Industry and place them
In schools nnd give the nation ft verlle
manhood nnd womanhood which would
render It Invulnerable to the attacks of Us
enemies.
"If you wish to use the money to
destroy your fellow beings you could con
struct 20 Atiperdreadnoughts.everjr year
with the - lount Mnnly sa'ys millionaires
nro BtcaJu from Undo Sam.
"Tho American people aro entitled to
know the facts nbout this chnrge nnd
therefore I hne Introduced my resolution
culling on the Trcnsury for Its side of the
ensc. 1 will nsk Iho Committee on Ex
penditures In the Trensury Department to
hold public henrlngs on tho mntter. In
thnt wny Mr. Manly will hne his day In
court and If his statements are questioned
the other side will be given nmplo op
portunity to bo heard "
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House to Keep Cannon'ff Birthday
WASHINGTON Mny 3. House lead
ers aro arranging n spcdnl demonstration
In honor of ex-Speaker Cannon, ijoW an
Untitled member, to be held next Satur
day. Mr. Cannon wilt be 80N years old
Sunday. Speaker Clark, majority leader
Kltchln nnd others are oxpected td make
speeches.
Policeman Cripples City" Fund
READING, Pa., May 3. Daniel Smith,
a policeman, recently suffered a minor In
jury, which developed Into gangrene, and
It wns found necessary to nmputnte his
loft teg near the nnkte. Smith contracted
the Injury while on duty, and the city thus
became liable. As n result, the $4500 In
the municipal workmen's Insurance fund
mny be wiped out. Tho city does not
Insure In tho State Fund.
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