B.S. SEEKS TO CHECK
RISING BREAD PRICES;
MILK ALSO WATCHED
federal Trade Commission and
Justice Department ucna ah
- Efforts to Keep Staple
, Co3ls Down
i SUITS MAY BE STARTED
WASHINGTON, Sept 25. Kvery pos
Ale unit of Federal machinery today wan
Tt In motion to meet and deal with the.
advance in price of bread and milk
throughout the country. Through the Fed
eral Trade Commission and tho Department
If Justice, the Government will begin a
Suntry-wlde survey of bread prices to de
termine whether .the causa of the Increase
K legitimate and'to remove It It It Is not.
Complaints nnd petitions against the ad-
. in hrrad prices arc swamping arIout
'nntrnment departments. Many of them set
north only threatened Increases In price, but
If 'justice hae Instructed all their agents
to advlx as soon as any real advances
' Many of the complaints upon which the
Federal campaign hns been based hee
Mfgest'd an embargo on tho export of
irheat and flour,
OFFICIALS CONSIDCn PATlMKIl
' n.alliintr that such an embargo would
result In the widest fluctuations In tho prices
of these commodities. Federal officials are
euoosed to action which would hamper the
-- . ., 1 tnUln tils vuhnnt nfnn
farmer wnu in uutu,,,, ,,,d ". .,,.
ti, first care of the Federal Investigators
.. m rietermtnn whether any combina
tion of bakers millers or dairymen ore con-
wiring io mvicnoB ,o rin-va wfc ..,..
woducts. If any such conspiracy Is dis
covered, summary action will bo taken un
der the anti-trust law, Tho Federal Trade
Commission has full authority to make In
vtitlgtlons under the anti-trust law, and
their Investigators will begin work at once.
Meantime the Department of Justlo has
ordered all district attorneys Immediately
to report any advances in bread or milk
prices.
KCEriNO watch on rnicns
' -u are keeping close watch on bread
and milk prices throughout the country,"
laid Assistant Attorney General Todd, the
Department's trust-buster, today, "but we
liave found no evidence of violations of the
Federal laws bo far. When wo do find
inch evidence, we will be prepared to act
promptly."
It Is probable thnt action by the Govern
ment will be confined to the prosecution
tf iolatlons or eaerai laws.
MEAT, SHOE AND COAL
PRICES TO SOAR HIGHER
Clothing, Hats and Tools Also to
Go to Unheartl-of
Heights
Meat, shoes, clothing all bucIi things that
Lane must have aro leaping upward In cost
Ijust as fast as tha public can stand the
(hock.
Clothing will cost something like twenty-
live per cent more 'before 1917 arrives;
Uts cost elghty-tlve per cent more to mako
than before the war, and that Is an Indi
cation of wnat the consumer is going to
pay If the war lasts; meat Is going way
up, principally because the demand from
Europe Is so great; hard v. are Is selling
from 10ft to 100 per cent above normal;
tost is going to cost about 40 per cent
more a ton than family men are pacing
tow
John Vlrdln. supervisor of the Bureau of
! Weights and Measures, declared that deal
r in foodstuffs are guilty "c highway rob
fcery" and were using the war as their
excuse to boost prices beyond neeuA or
reason.
i. IL E. Drayton, of the D. B. Martin. Com
pany, was one of those who said tra cost
of meat was Being to soar ; David Klr3ch
Uum talked lor the clothing trade; W, 10.
bteigervvalt wan one of the shoe dealers
who sees the prices going still higher;
George B. Welntraub bpokefor the leather
people; Charles M. Biddle took the hard
ware topic; Thomas S.t. J. Westervelt, of
BteUon's, gave the Interview on hats.
"When wln'er gets here the nrlces will
I have risen, ma) be mora than once, they
tell one.
U.S. "VERY SINCERE"
IN BLACKLIST STAND
Ambassador Page Told to Coc-
rectImpression That Na
) tion Isn't Concerned
WASHINGTON'. Sent. 5K Walter If.
Ifage, American Ambassador to Great Brlt-
rain, mis afternoon got final instructions
m to how he shall proceed to correct the
jN Impression In London olliclal cir-'e
t the American Government is not serl-purty-
concerned oer the British black
wtlng- of American business firms. Ambaa
Mr Page, following a long conference with
-iuu iicner, foreign trade adviser, went
Mo final conference wth Secretary of State
-AMOIUK,
The AfnhflKltaff A, uqb sliun AAmnl.l. In-
ISrmatlon Concerning th Inlnrv In Amerl.
J business that resulted from the black
t and the seizures of American malls, and
m Instructed by Secretary Lansing to In
fm the British Foreign Office, Immediately
Won his return to London, that this Gov-
-cni was "very sincere" In Its expressed
wmlnatlon to Insist that measures com
bined Of hn revtrl
The AmlltlHfln ...III I...... T..l.l..!....
M . . . --' -w "Jill lTO IVBBI1II1BIUII
IKI5 t0T New York and will sail for
BLMon on Saturday.
Boy Killed by Runaway Ponv
JJCRANTON. Pa., Sept, 25. Frank 011-
,L u.n ytaT" 0,,i "trapped himself
"? of his father's broncho pony
Je Gillette farm at Ariel, near here.
r"J ran away, Tho straps became
. ine Doy fell off and was dragged
the road. He was dead when picked
EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, TAtta
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S WIFE
to be numEDjroMoimow
Funeral Services of Mrs. John C. Dell
Held In Radnor
wlfUnfr?ie"l!M for M- Jhn C Bell,
died V,0tZ,Miry en'rl n". w"
Twentv.,.L11 , h,r htme' " South
elate a?rt'in?V;r 0f ,he cl,utch- w"' m
ty of nii 2,,rcrnlS?1 wl" be ln lhe me'
Mr. S1m8vL Davld8 Church. Devon.
year, ail k.1!8 "n lma,l,1 nboul l
Hart ln?S,.b'Jrt nSl,,d ln ttakln ttn ctl
.h I ,he afr,r of ,he daV- rt Friday
X eC?,'rcnl,'c.,UI,r IM at " B wuntw
SrH .'yihe, W0,d' at ll8,,nor' "nd '
house Tw!Slre '"i" '""" to her town
aha J;.-?, ,,R? d,,ne "nd on Saturday
J1S'"1 a stroke and lapsed Into un
consciousness, from which he did not rally.
cunZ.0,?. 'r matrlaK Mrs. Bell was
J.V? It De tnn1"" !. the daugh
ter of Leonard Myers, a member of Con
gress during tho period of reconstruction
2 J, 'ntlma,e f"nd of Lincoln, Garlleld
5?u.. 'I8, . Mr8- BeU mlntalncd many
private charities and also took much In
terest In the growth of the University of
lennsylvanla. She leaves her husband and
two sons. John Cromwell Bell. Jr . a lunlor
lit the University law school, nnd De Benne
M"e, a junior In the collega department
THOMAS MARTINDALE
DIED IN A FAIR LAND
Dr. W. Wayne Babcock Tells of
Passing of Aged Hunter.
Funeral Tomorrow
HUGHEY DOUGHERTY
RETURNS; MIND GONE
One - Time Greatest Minstrel
Back From California.
Sent to Asylum
Funeral sen Ices for Thomas Martlndale,
who died September 12 In the wilds of the
Northwest, will be held at 2 o'clock tomor
row afternoon, conducted by the Itev. Dr.
Floyd W, Tomklns, In the Oliver II. Balr
Building. 1820 Chestnut street. The body
arrived In the city jesterdav, brought from
Vancouver, B. C by his Ron, James Mar-
unaaie. who met Dr. w. Wayne Babcock,
member of his father's party, who had
brought the bedy out of tho wilds and on
a steamship ficm Skagway,
The widow, Mrs. ltosle Martlndale, and
her other son, Thomas B. Martlndale. and
his wife, returned from their summer home
at Wlldwood, nnd went to their city home
at 413 North Thirty-third street.
Dr. W. Wayne Babcock reached the city
last night. He told how the veteran hunter
came to his death In the most beautiful
country he had, ever been In, where game
was more plentiful th'an ho had ever seen It,
and of how Mr. Martlndale had been un
able to lift a gun. Doctor Babcock said
Mr. Martlndale had suddenly fallen asleep
and never awoke.
Mr. Martindale'8 condition, he said, first
came to his notice when the 70-year-old
hunter became absent-minded about Im
portant things. At Ketchikan, Alaska, he
said, Mr. Martlndale left tho steamship for
a few hours ashore and missed the boat, hav
ing to wait over there three days.
"He seemed active when I first saw him."
said Dr. Babcock, "but little things began to
Indicate to me that he wai weakened and
not himself. II worried one night because
I did not get Into camp until late, nnd
wanted to go out and hunt for me. The
third night out I spent In the open and
returned to camp to find that Mr. Martln
dale had not returned. He was out all
night, too, unable to call a guide because a
bolt had caught and locked his gun. He
hnd spent a terrible night in the woods,
afrafd to make a fire for fear of starting a
forest fire, and getting ilp every fifteen min
utes to walk, trying to Keep from freezing.
"A day or so later little bolls began to
break out on him. Then ht -was bitten by
a moosefiy nnd facial erjsipeias set In.
By this time he had become so weak that
we made him ride a horse most of one day.
He collapsed when ho reached camp Sep
tember 3. We put him to bed in our tent
under a cluster of trees on a beautiful
plateau.
"All around us were towering mountain
peaks, except at one place where we could
look down In a alley 2000 feet below,
where small lakes, marshes and winding
rivers made a fairy landscape, with the
glacier-topped mountains rt the coast off
In the distance. It was among these sur
roundings that h died."
Hughey Dougherty Is a broken old man
today at Klrkbrlde's, the Pennsylvania Hos
pital for the Insane, in West Philadelphia.
The one-time greatest minstrel's death
has been predicted many times In the last
four ears, but this time there doesn't seem
to be much doubt that he has come home
to die. At 73 tils fine trust and friendliness
have given out and In their place suspicion
and disbelief have come.
Dr. William F. Morrison, a district police
surgeon and member of the staff of St,
Agnea'a Hospital, sa'd Hughey had senile
dementia.
Hughey was In ft bad way when he left
last June to go to California, where he
planned to live the rest of his days with
Mrs. Kvallna J Buttman. whom he had
adopted when she was a little girl. But his
illness asserted Itself again In California;
he kept getting worse, nnl Mrs. Buttman
filed an Insanity complatnt against him. A
court found him Insane.
Ills daughter dldnt feet able to pay for.
his care In a private Institution, and the
State said ho had not been In California
long enough to deservo free care So
Hughey had to come back home. That was
why he arrived here yesterday.
Sidney J. Brady, an otllcer from Califor
nia, had him In charge The change from
the old Hughey was noticeable wnen he re
fused to go to the Bingham Hotel. It was
there he lived many, many jears. They
loved him there and he returned the affec
tion. Mr, Brady did as Hughey bid He tried
other hotels, but tho clerks there "had no
rooms." Hughey was talking loud and was
quarrelsome.
When the hotels were found closed the
otllcer telephoned to Captain Tate and Detective-Lieutenant
Wood, and they learned
that St. Agnes's Hospital would be glad to
have Hughey. return as a patient, for he
had been there not so long ago and cery
hospital attache becamo attached to him
Hughey was taken there, but then a hitch
came. He refused to stay. He rushed out
to the sidewalk, gathered nu audience of
500 he still likes the theatrical and made
an Impassioned plea for aid. He was being
kidnapped, he said, and needed friends.
They got him out to Klrkbrlde's by on ap
peal to his vanity. He went In the taxtcab
willingly enough, but when he saw tho gray
stone walls he balked.
"What Is this?" ho aslied with a sort of
threatening suspicion, and rested back hap
pily when told that It was Olrard College
and that "the boys wanted to hao him per
form for them ngaln."
Soon after that tho taxi entered the gates
and Hughey Dougherty was a patient In the
hospital for the insane.
Hughey Dougherty was born In Philadel
phia, near Fourth nnd Gasktll streets.
After doing little turns nt concerts he came
to the attention of Sam Sanford and made
his professional debut with Sanford's Mln
strelB at the Eleventh Street Opera Houso.
When Carncross & Dlxey succeeded San
ford Hughey remained for many jears. He
left for a while and 'toured the United
States with minstrel troupes. I-ater he
returned to Frank Dumont's Minstrels,
which succeeded Carncross.
A watch, a ring and TH in money were
the only valuables Hughey had yesterday.
HUGHEY DQUGHERTY
Freight Wreck Near Glaisboro
Tho locomotive of a local freight trnln
on the Pennsylvania Railroad was derailed
near Glassboro early today A serious
wreck wa-t prevented by the block signal
system. No ono was Injured Trains on
the Brldgeton branch were dclavcd not more
than twenty minutes.
Steamship Captain on Trial
Captain W. S. French, of tho Clde
steamship Delaware, wan placed on trial
before tho Federal Board of Steamboat In
spectors today, accused of negligence and
Inattention to duty. While bound for New
York on August 24, the Dclavvaro Is snld to
have sunk tho barge Detroit oft Kalghn's
Point-
GRlEF-STRICKEN girl
LOSES HERSELF IN WOOD
Miss Esther Newbold, Driven
Out of Mind After Mother's
Death, Rescued
Miss I'sther Newbold, sister of Mrs. lid
ward Lowber Welsh, 1422 Spruce street,
nnd daughter of Mrs. Karah Duneon New
bold who died Saturday In Warren, I'a,
was so illuming by her mother's death
that she wandered away nnd was lost In the
woods for twenty-four hours
It took n Sheriff's pose of 125 men to
find her She was almost oue of her mind
nnd had spent tho night In thin clothing,
nnd this was vrct. Physicians said grief was
responsible for her action. She was taken
back to the New holds' summer home, where
she Is being cared for.
Besides Miss IUither Newbold nnd Mrs.
Welsh throe other daughtera survive, nil of
them unmarried They are Mary, Margaret
nnd Kmllv Mrs. Carjl Itobcrts. 1420
Spruco street Is n granddaughter of Mrs
New hold Tho New holds go every summer
to Warren to spend the season there Their
winter home hero Is at Broad and Pine
streets.
Mrs Newbold wns seventy-eight years
nld. Her grandfather, General William Ir
vine, was one of the first scl'lers of Warren
County. She 1 ltd been III povcral months,
nnd Miss nstlici. who woh particularly de
otcd to her mother, had went herself out
In attending her When tho end came the
reaction, phjstclnns said incite her want to
lose herself, nnd the lonely trip to the
woods waSthc result.
When she hid been gone somo hours the
searching party wns organized, Men had
nlreidy started to grnpplo In tho Allegheny
Itlver when she was found Assisting In
tho search was Hear Admiral Sidney Stone,
of Washington, who Just dropped In to visit
tho family.
REFUSES TO AID HUGHES FIGHT
Mrs. Klingelsmith Won't Speak as In
vited, Because She's a Democrat
Sirs. Margaret C. Klingelsmith, member
of the Philadelphia bar and librarian of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School, has
refused to speak on behalf of the National
Hughes Alliance Women's Committee dur
ing the presidential campaign. She was
Invited to do so by representatives of the
committee, Mrs. Klingelsmith answered the commit
tee with a statement, ln vvhch she gave
her ery good reason for refusing that she
is a Democrat, "To the cause of American
Ism," she wrote, "I am already pledged as
a profound believer In the truths of Democ
racy." Woman Walks PIT Movinjr Trolley
LANCASTnn, Pa., Sept. 25. Stepping
from a moving Lancaster and Coatesvllie
trolley car at Atglen, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bailey, Bixty years old, of Atglen, suffered
a fractured skull and collarbone. She
walked from the car without appearing to
notice It was moving.
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Infantile Paralysis in Lancaster
LANCASTER. Pa.. Sept. 25. An Infant
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey, and
tho child of Corporal Harry Kurl, of Com
pany K, Fourth Iteglment, now nt El Paso,
Tex., have developed Infantile par.il sis.
With the Bailey house two other houses
were quarantined, as nit tho Inmates, num
bering twenty-nine, use a common yard,
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