CITY COMMISSION
DISCUSSES ZONING
Stabilizing of Property Val
ues by Protective Meas
ures Is Object
POINT TO PRESENT LOSS
Points Made in Argument
For Zone Classification
ZONE or district classification of
properties is upheld ns factor in
increasing assessable- values.
Philadelphia Housing Commission
estimate loss to city, through ab
sence of such restrictions, nmounts
io millions of dollars.
City's incomo through tax returns
sudors accordingly.
Zoning commission considers sta
bilization of property vnlues by pro
hibiting encroachment of industries
into homo sections.
Advisory commlttco on municipal
finances in 1912 suggested class!
nantlon of buildings into various
types or classes nna preparation of
'"factor of value."
City Parks Association holds
property vnluesare being impaired
by extension 6flChcstnut street can
yon, due to cncloachlng skyscrapers.
Assessment of property abutting
on ground secured for municipal
parks, parkwnya and similar neigh
borhood improvements is suggested
as n means of revenuo increase.
Excess condemnation, in street
opening in built-up sections recom
mended, with subsequent profitable
resale or rental on long-term lease.
StablltxInK of property values by prohibit
ing" the encroachment ot Industries Into
home 'sections, with a consequent flecreswe
In residential values through obnoxious
proximity nnJ Increased lire risk Is under
consideration by the commission on zoning
and dlstrlctlnc the city, appointed early In
the present month by Mayor Smith. The
members of the commission are also en
deavoring to ascertain what amount of
realty values has been lost to Philadelphia
because of the absence of these restrictions.
'According to the Philadelphia Housing
Commission, this loss amounts to millions
fit dollars, whllo tfte city's Income through
, tax returns haa suffered correspondingly.
Vhe zoning commission was appointed
October 4. Jt was authorized by Councils
left spring, and was the outcome ot a sug
gestion embodied In the '"smothered'' report
el the advisory committee on municipal
finances which conferred with Mayor
8!ankenburir In 1912 on the financial re
quirements of the city.
One of the principal suggestions mido by
rttne committee Is tho Idea which the lonlno
commission now has under consideration
Srlth a view to Increasing tho municipal
'rteources.
I The committee recommended the adoption
by the Board of Revision of Taxes of sev
ers! features of the New York system ot
assessing realty, among which la "tn
'classification, so far as seems wise ana
practicable, of buildings Into various types
or classes and the preparation of a 'factor
iof value' for each class, so that the con-
atructlon cost of any building of n par
ticular rlass can be readily ascertained oy
ntilttnlvlng the pioper fnctor by the total
numbor of square feet of floor space, or
by the total number of cubic feet of con-
't?!jts of the building."
'' rnOTKCTION" NEEDED
Follow ng the suggestion the City Parks-
'Assoclatlon In Its nnnuai report, issued
Urch 20, 1915, makes the following com
nVJ "Into the midst of the most exquisite
jort'on ot any of Philadelphia's Justly fa
mous and world-known suburbs any kind
lot Industrial establishment may at any mo
ment be Injected. There Is now no effective
protection. Not only cities and towns, but
suburban counties, need this power of nro-
'tect'ng residential areas, and hence residen
tial values, by means of residential zones."
The canyon-like effects resulting from
-failures to zone districts and the conse
quent occupancy of sections devoted to busl
Bess houses by olllce skyscrapers come In
for crlt clsm by the same body. Other Im
pairing consequences. Including the depre
ciation In property values, are cited as
follows l
buildings In Philadelphia Is becoming more
Imperative every month. The Chestnut
street canyon Is becoming deeper and
darker, and hence more dangerous to
health, with the erection of each new sky
scraper. When Its south side Is built up
as the north Is today being built up for
the two or three blocks near llroad street,
the Utter Inmlttiitnot. n, ,1,1.. lw... r.
ji, thoroughfare will bo demonstrated too late
' LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Tha Ttrtfttfltltr tafcnllM analvl. W .ltl.
s j Pennsylvania to deal with this destruc
"' "sency obstructive of health and life
and ultimately of property values and to
deal, with It ns each section of each city
may require. It should, consequently, au
thorize tho division of cities Into districts
.v.i iuiyci uii eucii ciiy io aaopi ror
I' each district such regulations as may be
uwi appropriate ror It. '
t Assessment of property owners for lm-
BTOvetnentH ! ctn.l,,,.. m..ki.i..i ...
..-.-,..-..... ... M..w.. (iiutnuiijai revenue
SUraMtlnn ma. liu .... ri... . .
elation. "When a park or parkway Is
1 37. suouroan territory." It urges,
It Is obvious that In the course of flv
or ten years the obuttlng properties enjoy
great enhancement In value, caused
Prlraarllir bv th vnniiii,. e .. ...
- -- - .-yvw,ui w. ltq Lew
Si' mo"sy for the park or parkway.
Koyements Is, therefore, regarded In many
mates a an advantage to the owners or
t&S nrrttru ... !.... ...- ..
v, i ---''-.. bv mvuciiicu, who are, inere
v w'nVorap"ed t0 pay '" wportlon to the
"-- oui payments are usually spreaa
?L?v'r a P'f'od t some ten years, the
aayments thus being made to follow, not
?' accrual of the benefit.
The method of excess condemnation Is
t used generally In European cities
fcnlructlon projects. When a new
tKr . 0Den' through the built-up por-
tu.ii. R ?U5r' not onI' tno Property
imJy feured for the street Itself, but ad
Ii.l L ProPrty on each side, is taken
wer by purchase or condemnation ei
wprittlon. as it Is called in Kurope and
Z' xc Property is then either resold
av ? on 'oas1 In this
. nJi., v""" " wnoie. coft or men, new
."uT!" i rt.a ,s pald out ot the Droflu o'
-- ..-. U4 ww Boutiing greuna wimout
r permanent charge on the city's treas-
EVENING LEt)GEK--rHIIjAt)BLTmA. THUKSDAI. OCTOBER 10, 1910
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AMERICAN LEGION FIGHTING
"TO AVENGE THE LUSITANIA
Staff Siirnn.1 Rovrronrtf
Describes Famous Bat
talion Recruited From
Every State in Union
"Down With German
Menace!" Slogan of
Men Now Enlisted
Under British Flag
By HARRY NORTON
(Mr. Norton I. l-hlUdrlphUn und
tIT lcnl ergeant In the unique but
tallon he dentrlben 'n liU trr The
attempt to get nmlMii,T nthrr than
eemmonplste out nf hU I'fe led hn to eek
ettlee In many landt. He fnuabt the Hpn.
lanU In be Oo.IkcI ,oln from lit half
naked Flllplnoa daring the npiltdns In the
llsndt, and then ruttie bark to eltll lite.
The. prenent war rausht him. and It rn
durlnr n lull In nnlllna to Ko In the front, on
September t, that he wrote tl.l. .lory from
Liverpool. I'rrqnentlr he ro.e to lirlihu of
Indlvldnal mention, narli being I he man
who arnt the le;nal to Admiral llewey to
open fire on the l'lllplim, nlirn ther lanr.
reeted, nbtle hi merltnrlouo .rrtlre on the
ttr of (irnrral. MarArlhur, llarrlton
( rey (III, ani Klwell S, Oil. and under
tleneral fun. Ion, ol.o attrarled altenllon.)
Tho Ninety-seventh Overseas Batlallan
or the llrltlsh army, orgnnlzed as the
American Ieglon." under the command of
I.lelitennnt Colonel Wade U Jolly, of Ph la
delphln, Is awaiting orders In Ilnglnnd for
embntkment to tho Prench or some other
theater of war As s.vm as the last batch
Of recruits Is hroilirlit iii, ,,. ,.A ... It...
the command, tho "fliiest Iwdy of troops" Sir
ham Hughes, Canadian Minister of Mllltla.
eter saw. will 1 sent Into action.
AMKIttCAN I.IX3ION
When the troops, gathered from eery
corner of the fntted .States and Canada,
go Into battle OKatir.it the Hermans the let
ters American Legion" will be missing
from their caps and ool'ars because tho
Tm .,0 J,P!,rtn"'"t of the United Stntes pro
l'.lbltel the use of the name. Instead, their
cap and collar badges will bear the legend
Acta, non verba" (action, not wordv'x
which was adopted ns the battalion's motto
Inlquo In Its liolygenetlc muster roll, the
nlnety-oenth battalion Is tho first body
of Americans to enroll to fight sldo by
side with Kngllsh troops under the llrltlsh
(lag since tho "Hoston tea party" There
arc hundreds of former American c'tlzcns
now scattered among the A'lled armies,
but those of tho "ninety-seventh" nro the
first to enroll as a unit
Under the battle Hags of the battalion
are gathered men from every State In the
Union, many Phllndolphlans, ex-army offi
cers with service records In the Philippines.
Cubu, Mexico, China and South Africa ;
soldiers of fortune and adventure, miners
from Alaska, students from the UnUerslty
of Pennsyhanla, Vale and Cornell; whal
ers from the Siberian coast, homesteader.!
from the Northwest, society men from
Washington, 1. C. : wea thy Boston shoe
manufacturers, men In every position In
life. A canvass of the men revealed their
motives for enlisting. Kpltomized. It Is:
"To avengo the Lusltanla and to hefp
?tnmi out the German menace to clvlllza
Ion." Colonel Jolly, lender ot this grim battal
ion In Ilrltlnh khaki, won tho command of
the detachment on his merits A board of
British nrmy officers, consisting of General
Llssard, General Gwatkln and Colonel
Thompson, selected him after a detailed
examination In wh'ch the battalion's thirty
one ofllcers were chosen from eighty eager
applicants.
Colonel Jolly, whose homo Is at 121t
South llroad street, Philadelphia, served
fourteen years an an officer In the United
Stntes Marino Corps, seeing action In tho
Hoxer uprising and nt Vera Cruz. lie re
tired from service in 1911 to enter tho con
tracting business in Philadelphia and helped
in the construction of the Curtis' Ilulldlng
and other large structures.
Major A. llnsmussen, of Portland, Ore.,
served In tho Philippines In tho Fourth
United States Cavalry In 1888-0. and was a
colonel under Villa In Mexico, where ho had
mining Interests. Major W. U. Guthrie, of
Washington, I), C , a graduate of George
town University, was an olllcer nf marines
and of the Philippine constabulary for
eighteen eais. Captain John Manning saw
active service In the Philippines during his
fifteen years In the United States nrmy,
Lieutenant Roberts served In tho Seenth
United States Cavalry. West Point gradu
ates arc numerous among the ofllcers.
The machine-gun section Is commanded
by Lieutenant A. A Allenbnch. ot Potts
vllle, Pa, He succeeded Captain Tracy
Illchardson. a soldier of fortune, who was
left In Canada to undergo nn operation
Itlchartson, who was a former Mexican
general, previously enlisted with the Prin
cess PatB and received twenty-four shrap
nel wounds In one battle. Sergeant Major
Alexander Robertson was In the famous re
treat from Mons with the Second Scotch
Guards and was "gassed" by the Germans. '
WAS 1500 STP.ONO
Recruiting for the battalion began In
Toronto last December, and by February It
had a strength of 1600 men. Although they
were promised to be sent to the battle front
by the middle of March, time passed In
monotonous drill, and many of tho original
volunteers transferred to pther outfits that
were sailing. Tho. Mexican trouble then
came and others left for the Mexican border.
In June the battalion was sent to Alder
shot a training camp near Halifax, Nova
Scotia, causing a further depletion In ranks.
Three hundred of the best drilled were
transferred to the Fourth Pioneers, who
were sailing.
l'or a time It looked as If the "American
Legion" was to be disbanded, but when It
was found "Ihey could go Into service under
their n?w motto, two other American com
mands the 212th and 237th battalions, re-
ty
CANNED SONGS OF THE PAST RECALL
STRANGE PHILADELPHIA COMPOSER
Many Remember "Silver Threads Among the Gold," but
Who Can Say Who Wrote It? Other
Phonograph News of Week
' lly the l'honoKraph Editor
HEADS AMERICAN LEGION
Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Jolly,
commnmlcr of tho Ninety-seventh
Overseas Battalion
crultrd at Winnipeg and Halifax, respec
tlely wero merged Into the Ninety-seventh,
It sailed the mlddto of September on a
troopship containing S000 troops boupd for
Liverpool.
Romance lurks behind many a song. It
adopts queer guises. It goe In purpl
or In rags, to put it melodramatically.
The sentimental circumstances surrounding!
some of the most popular ballads of the
United States are that vny And never
more so than In the curious life and equally
curious death ot Hart Pease Dnnks,
Not many Phlladslphlans, In likelihood,
remember Hart Pense Danks Hut h s
name. If not his life. Is brought to the minds
nf some by the announcement by the Colum
bia Company of n new reconl ot nn old
song It Is "Silver Threads Among tho
Gold." recorded In Kngland by the llrltlsh
cellist. W. II. Squire. Danks comi08ed
that song.
About thirteen years ago. this obscure
wr ter of melodies, whose principal piece
has strangely outlived him In general recol
lection, was found dead In his little obscure
home In Race street At the foot of his
diminutive cottngo organ, whfrre ho did
nil his composing, Iny the body of a man
who had written a song that simply will
not diet lost-mortem formalities showed
that he had been poor, mlsernbly poor, so
poor that a local song publisher, a friend
of many years, hnd to gather together some
money to have DnnVa burled pro:erly.
He hnd made n fortune out of "Silver
Threads." but It went the way ot the wind,
leaxlng him with only the rngs of his old
repute nt his death. IjisI year In Ronton
another man died He always made the
claim that he composed the fnmons song
The question was neer really resolved, but
to those Phllndelphlans who recall him
Danks'a right of nulhorshlp was never
doubted.
Hanks' coltaborntour on the song. Kben
Kugene IleTford. who wrote the lyric, lived
much longer. Only yesterday news of his
death in the West reached this city.
"Slher Threads" was first brought cut In
this city by the lmmort.il Dumonfs Min
strels at their old Kleventh street house
Kor many years It was the most beloveil
of tunes played on the children's hand-operated
music lwxes, a dear relic of late Vic
torian days. It later was introduced Intu
vaudeUltc, and as an olio number at roar
ing melodramas of the National Theater
type It always got moro than the customary
"hand" Rut the final pat glen It by famo
was when It was actually dramatised and
played by Kdward Jose, who sang Us
weather-beaten measures often.
lly a curious coincidence tho composer
of the words, Kben Uugene Rexford. died
yesterday nt his home In Shlocton, Wis. Ills
authorship of the lyric also was disputed,
but the assertions nf rival claimants for
the honor of long drawing out the sweet
ness of the "lyric" wero never buttressed by
convincing proof and Retford In later years
had an undebated mastery of tho situation
He wroto hundreds of poems and was
widely known In another field, having boon
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'T HAVE
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faction that
with the new
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actually costs
less than any
other artificial
illuminant.
But there is also a more important factor,
continued Mrs. Happy Homtmaier. "With the price of food nnd
service soaring, we must practice Xl economy to make ends meet.
I have found that I can effect poitive savings in my 'operating'
expenses by doing tlie housework Electrically. It costs, for
example, between two and three cents to do an entire washing
with an Elctric Washer, whereas extra help for that woik would
cost $1.50, plus carfare and two meals.
""Hut's enly one instance of what I call my 'electric economy.'
I do all mycleanjugwith the Electric Sweeper at a cost of nine
tenth of a eant per hour; and alt y machine sewing with the
aid of tKe little Electric Motor at a cost of four-tenths of a cent
per hour. And I have the satisfaction of knowing that the work
is done better and more quickly than in tlve old way,''
Let us gleg you thm Mgurt en the eost at '
doing ymur houaewark MhetrMly-thy
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writers on horticulture and nmstcur-nRrl
culture.
Hut who remembers Hnrt Tense Punks?
Sonits of the past, sonits worth keeplnR
for their Associations. If for no other rea
son, are plentiful In the phonoRrnphlc lists.
The Columlila has nn Interesting nfferltiR In
MsKKlo Tete's slnKlm? of "Home, Hivcet
Home," Tho parallel between the fate of
Ms composer, John Ilnwnnl rnyne, whose
life has hern Immortalized In the movies
by no less rt celebrity than 1. w. Qrlfllth,
and that of the ronrotten Danks, Is too
striking to pass unnoticed. Payne perished
wretchedly In poverty, nrter yeara of wast.
In Vtw know who ho was, yet his melody
I' still with us.
Another trood oldtltner produced by the
Columbia Is "Abide With Me." the famous
hmn. sung; by IxjuIs llraveure, tho foreign
baritone.
Kdlson Is on hand with several other
mellow.navored sonirs. One of their records
Is "Old lllack Joe," by Stephen C. roster.
n composer who has happily escaped the
oblivion of Payne nnd Danks, suiik by
Christine Miller, contralto, while "Sonus of
Other Days" embodies In a medley by the
letropolltan mixed clionn such nnclcnt
charmern as "Vnnkeo Doodle" (the Oconto
Cohan version), "I.lttle Annie Itooney" nnd
the like.
"Sonjrs of the Past" Is what the Victor
Company cnlls Its recent collection. Nos.
11 nnd II nro combined on both sides of n
twehe-lnch reconl sunc by tho Victor m.xed
chorus. Coon sours, nilintrcl ditties, n
sentimental ballad, ot 1D0G and nn Irish hit
are Included. Do you remember "In the
Shade of the Old Apple Tree." "Push Dent
C ouds Awny" nnd "Ta-lta-Ua lloom-de-ay."
the last-named t,ottlo Colllns's greatest
bit for KloryT They nre all comprised.
Lead, Kindly Light" (to switch from,
ny i uravc in our nnain inis weoi.) nas
been recorded for thoVlctor by Oeraldlne
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this winter with tho Campnntnl Chlc.tKo.
wpern i-ompany. Tho combination of nrtist
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