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PENROSE PLANS
FIGHT TO FINISH
Senator and Aids Confer to
Push Brumbaugh Probe
Bill
LAUGHS AT COMPROMISE
The Penrose "war board" opened confer-
, ences. today In the olllce of Senator Tenroso
In this city to make plans for trying to force
the Sprout Investigation resolution through
tho Senato when tho Legislature recon
venes nest Monday night.
The senior Sonator returned unexpectedly
from Pittsburgh lasfnlght. He declared his
Intention to appear personally before- the
' Senate If It should be deemed necessary
to Insure the passage of the probe measure.
Ho added, however, that ho was confldont
of at least thirty votes for the resolution
'Ivfhcn It comes up for final passago In the
upper house of tho Assembly.
Penrose also emphatically denied that any
compromise suggestion had been made to
the Vare-Brumbaugh forces. It was re
ported yesterday that Penrose representa
tives had Informed Governor Brumbaugh
that If ho would get rid of Attorney General
Brown Penroso would confine the probe to
tha departments of tho. Stnte Government
and leave the Governor alone.
"The prob'e will go on," saldfienator Pen
rose. "There will be no halting or com
promise. If I thought there- was any doubt
about the passage of the resolution calling
for an Investigation, I would go to Harris
burg and ank tho privilege of addressing
. the Senate and House In Joint session. When
I woufd get through with my statements of
"fact I do not believe there would bo n. single
member of the entire Legislature who would
have the temerity to vote against the reso
lution calling for a probe of tho Brumbaugh
Administration.
Concerning the proposed compromise
proffer. Penrose said:
"I do not believe any such proposition
was made. Of courao It would be a logical
thing to get rid of Brown as salvage. You
will recall that Jonah wan tossed to the
whale. But there Is no Intention to com
promise or to drop the Investigation of tho
Governor."
Tenroso asserted that more than $200,000
has been pledged by citizens' of the State
for tho expcnsc-TM the investigation If the
Sprout resolution should not paw. A con
current resolution, which will not carry
with It an appropriation, and which will
not requlro the Governor's signature, will
be Introduced at once If tho Sproul measure
Is defeated, ho sald.-
The Vare-Brumbaugh leaders nlso are
busy today drafting their final plans for
fighting tho Sproul probe resolution In Its
present form. They will probably make an
offer to the Penrose forces to support, the
Investigation bill If It is amended so (hat
It specifies Just what individuals and de
partments are to be Investigated nnd re
quires that a report be mado to the present
Legislature nnd that tho commission be ap
pointed "in somo other manner than by the
Penrose president pro tempore of tho Senate
and Speaker of the House.
HOW CAN YOU GET OUT
WHEN YOU NEVER WERE IN7
Which Is tho Question Arising When
Dr. Moses Steam Snys Ho Is
Through With Politics
Tho campaign for 'more bathhouses re
ceived a severe Jolt today when Dr. Moses
Steam announced his retirement from ac
tive participation In politics.
"I am dono for good." Thus spoko tho
Lib. Sun. Law candidate his ruddy face
cracked In a smllo that obliterated for tho
moment his black choker.
"I am henceforth nnd forever more go
ing to devoto my time to cattle growing.
I am going ,to raise goats, and tho first
one Is going to belong to Superintendent
llohlnson. J I, wouldn't let mo talk on City
Hall Plaza."
Tho venerablo doctor denied that his de
feat for Congress last fall was related In
any way,to his' decision to leave the quixotic
political lleld to Plersun Stackhouso and
John Callahan.
WILL ERECT 500 HOMES
Twentieth and Passyunk Avenue Deal
Will Involvo Expenditure of $2,000,000
More than BOO dwellings will bo erected
In tho vicinity of Twentieth street nnd Pass
yunk avenue, adjoining tho O I rani estate.
They will Involvo an expenditure of more
than J2.000.000. The work of construction
will start within the next few days.
The announcement was made by Burton
C. 8lmon, n real estate breker and builder,
who said that at last he was about to realize
the ambition of his life in building what
will bo virtually a small town. He has
had that ambition since a boy, he said. His
father was a truok farmer.
Title papers have been prepared. The
lota will 'be 1C by 01 feet.
TO CONTINUE S. P. C. A. FIGHT
City Appointments Announced
City appointments today Include Oswald
T. Fredrick. D79 Cedar avenue, clerk, De
partment of Transit, salary $1000 : James
Donaldson, 3720 Knorr street, fireman.
Bureau of Water; JS00 : Nicholas Dole.
Byberry. fireman, Bureau of Charities,
$600 ; Grace Rlckcr, 1921 Falrmount ave
nue, laboratory helper. Bureau of Health,
$600; William Moore, 11 Kimball street,
Janitor, Board of P.ecreatlon, $720; Anna
Brenner, 2532 Lombard street, and Eliza
beth A. Clark, 2063 East Arizona street.
Janitors, Bureau of Surveys', salaries $180
a year.
Defeated Progressives Will Ask Court
to Invalidate Election
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Action against the victorious conserva
tive faction of the Women's Society for Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals will bo
brought today by the progressives defeated
at the recent election.
An aflldavit will be filed shortly after noon
In the Court of Common Pleas, contesting
tho election. It Is signed by members who
are socially prominent. It contains names
of thirty-four women, all of whom am llfo
members. It Is expected that a tlmo will bo
fixed for a hearing within tho next ten days.
COUNCILS TO GET
"SKELETON" BILL
Measure Suggesting Need
of Bigger City, Debt
Up Today
SUM MAY BE $10,000,000
Final Shaping of Legislation
Waits Upon Report on
Taxes
Porch Climber Confesses
LANCASTER Pa., Feb. 1. Confessing
numerous house-breakings in Lancaster In
tho last six months, Edward J. Mullen, fifty-nine
years old, has been committed for
a hearing before Alderman John F. Hcl
nltsh, whoro house he unsuccessfully at
tempted to rob the night of January 21.
Some years ago Mullen served twenty-nlno
months for looting J. It. Goodcll's homo.
Western Fruit Men End Convention
NEW OltLEANS. Feb. 1. Houston,
Texas, was selected for the 191S conven
tion and H. M. Well, of Shreveport, was
elected president of tho Western Fruit Job
bers' Association at tho closing session of
the nnmial meeting hero. It. II. Jones,
of Kansas City, Mo., was chosen treasurer.
Believe Laborer Footpad Victim
READING, Pa., Feb. 1. Lying uncon
pclous on the street In Oakbrook, a suburb,
Harry Ilollmnn, an Iron worker, was found
by a street-car crew. Tho top of his head
was crushed In and ho Is expected to die.
Two squares away his lodge card was
picked up. Hollman la bolloved to have
been assaulted by a. footpad.
The first step In a move to Increase tho
.. i j. i. ..t.., ...in tin taken today
when Chairman Oaffney. of Councils i
'...... f-4Mt.. ...iii tntrmluco In Com-
mon Council a "skeleton bill" announcing
the desire to Increase tho debt or the clt,
but naming no figure for a loan nor any
detail of the uses to which It Is planned
to put tho money. It Is u"l'"!;'od ,th.
amount will bo fixed at $10,000,000 when
tho unfinished measure comes before tho
Finance Committee for final shaping.
Mayor Smith had planned nnd hoped to
have Introduced today n measure that
would outline In detail proposed loan leg
islation this spring. This was found to
ho Imposslblo when Controller Walton re
ported that ho had received assessment fig
ures on realty and personal property from
tho Board of Revision of Taxes too late
to fix the borrowing capacity of the city
upon which the loan will have to bo based.
It was with tho understanding that such
figures will be forthcoming soon that tho
blang loan legislation was prepared.
WALTON GIVES WARNINO
An Increaso In the tax rate to at least
12 Is Inevitable next year to meet the run-
nlns expenses or me cuy aim '" ""
unless Councils call a halt on further loans
and expenditures nnd are moro careful
In passing land condemnation bills that be
come a part of tho city's unfunded debt.
nM.i.. .invt. mttinnk ia nrpiltetwl In the pre
liminary financial report that Controller
Walton submitted to Councils today.
His warning as to cautious procedure
In tho futuro came as a surprise to many
members of Councils who believed they
had available at this time somo $800,000
that might. In a pinch, be used for salary
raises to stavo off possible labor troubles
In municipal departments. The controller
briefly shows tho members that their sur
plus Is approximately J70.000, a sum In
sufficient to bo of any real service to the
members of tho Finance Committee En
forcing his prediction that an Increased
tax rato will bo necessary next year. City
Controller Walton says: "Seven cents ad
ditional to tho new 1917 tix rate of J1.23
for city and county purposes, other than
schools, or $1.32 per 1100 of valuation,
would havo been required to provide sum
dent appropriations to the City Treasury
for the lawful obligations of 1917 If the
Sinking Fund Commissioners had not como
to tho assistance of City Councils by agree
ing to pay tho principal and Interest on
non-slnklng fund debt duo In 1917 out of
the surplus reservo of tho sinking fund that
had been accumulated over a great ma'ny
years. Such a procedure cannot ngaln bo
resorted to. and It will, therefore, bo neces
sary for City Councils to add seven cents
to the 1918 tax rato for this purpose."
The speed with which the preliminary loan
legislation is rushed throligh tho Finance
Committee nnd returned to Councils will fix
the probahlo date for an election to plnce
tho loan proposal before tho voters. The
tentative date of April 10. that was agreed
upon a week or so ago, probably will havo
to bo abandoned for a day later In April,
as the necessary advertising will requlro a
month and tho pas3ngo of tho bills several
weeks.
No matter vhat tho horrowlng capacity
Is, found to be, the sum will b A disap
pointment to many city officials who had
hoped to be able to .care for badly needed
bridge, sewer and highway construction
from any loan decided upon thin year. Bo
cause of nn Item of fZ.4ai.684 of unfunded
debt that must be provided for, to say
noth ng of other Items of a similar nature
providing millions for the completion of
t-onventlon Hall, an Art Museum and Blm
,lnr undertakings, tho amount that will be
available for general Improvements Ja
bound to be small. It Is understood that
not loss than $3,000,000 of tho total will bo
allowed for water plant extensions. This
sum Is admittedly less than one-half tho
amount needed to place tho city's $60,000,
000 worth of equipment In condition to serve
all sections of the city at all times.
City employes advocating an Increaso of
salary for many classes of labor aro anxious
that an item be Included In the loan to pro
vldo funds to cover In part at least tlio
more than $1,1100,000 salary demands now
resting In the Flnanco Committee That no
such Item will be included Is certain, as It
would mean a return to the old system of
borrowing for current expenses, which has
been condemned by all,
Mayor Smith will answer tho appeal to
day for Philadelphia co-operation In tho
Camden brldga ccheme. by sending Coun
cils a message, accompanying the drnft of
an ordinance, to provide $1G,000 for the
use of the commission nuthorlzed by Coun
cils months ago to prepare plans nnd pro
vldo estimates of cost of the structure. The
plan Is to havo tho city commission co
operate with tho New Jersey Commission.
No transit legislation will appear In
Councils today, but each member will bo
given a copy of tho latest proposal of the
rhlladelphla Rapid Transit Company to
leaso clty.bullt lines, to study until such
time as the Mayor shall have prtpared nnd
be ready to submit his final recommenda
tions as to leasing the lines.
Hills scheduled for' passage today Include
measures appropriating $26,000 to Director
Kruscn for employment of nurses to work
among tho poor: $3000 for the employment
of a supervisor by tho Board of Education i
$73,000 of loan moneys to Dyberry work
for tho purchase of jiler No. 8. North
Wharves, by tho Department of Wharves,
Docks and Ferries from tho Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company for $440,000, and the
naming of two parks nnd playgrounds In
South Philadelphia nfter Mayor Smith' and
Director Wilson, respectively.
Acid Phosphate Order for Holland
ATLANTA, Feb. 1. Tho closing of a con
tract with the Netherlands Government for
$2,500,000 worth of acid phosphato to be
used by Holland farmers for fertilizer was
nnnounced by a local firm. Shipments will
begin about March 1, next. It was said. The
phosphato sold for $11 a ton f, o. b. American-
ports, It wns reported, but freight
transportation and other costs will bring the
total expendlturo to about $35 a ton.
BALDWIN'S MEMORY JOGG1D
(SuffragistIader Advisea llim to Re
call Last Keierenuum Election
MEDIA. Pa.. Feb. 1. Mrs. 3( Claude
Bedford, chairman of the finance committee
of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Asso
ciation, fears that Speaker Richard J. Bald
win has forgotten what ho heard when he
had his "ear to the ground" In Delaware
County In 191G. Mrs. Bedford also Is a
resident bt Delawaro County, her home being
at Media.
"I have read," Mrs. Bedford said yester
day, "that Speaker Baldwin has 'wondered'
It thero Is enough sentiment In favor of
another woman suffrage referendum In 1920.
All Mr. Baldwin need do, in addition to re
calling that we carried thirty-three coun
ties and polled moro than 385,000 votes, Is
to look up the records of Delaware County.
If he does ho will find that suffrage car
ried his legislative district by 317 votes.
"We can assure Mr. Baldwin that the
sentiment In Delaware County ndw Is even
stronger."
No Funds to Care for Consumptives
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 1. On nc
count of tho Levy Court having failed to
make nn appropriation for llopn Farm,
tho tuberculosis sanatorium near this city.
It may bo necessary to send twenty-seven
patients to their homes, as the Institution
Is without funds to caro for them. It may
also h necessary to send home ten patients
supported by tho State, as tho Stato ap
propriation Is about exhausted.
Line to Tap Greene County Coal Fields
WHEELING, W.Vtt.. Feb. 1. The Wheel
ing, Ohio and Eastern Railroad company has
purchased tho survejs, rights of way
and properties of tho defunct Pittsburgh,
Connellsvllle nnd Wheeling Railroad Com
pany, It becamo known today. The
former railroad will build a tine up Big
Wheeling Creek to coal fields of Greene
County, Pa., It Is officially announced.
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known nicmberiTot the ChmcryMhfr ife
la suffering from a broken arrn.-s
when he felt from his mount while rMkla&i
wun me niainer nounas, ini m m mini
time he has broken nn arm thla.year,
M. U. IIAKNim has been lu to-
slstant to J. M. Davis, vice preeMeat pf tW
Baltimore anu unio jiauroaa, in. enans rm
operation and maintenance. . He dH MW jr
upon his new duties today? Mr.'eiiiWi YA
was formerly superintendent of meUve i
cr of the eastern lines of the .Mltta
and Ohio at Baltimore. y
WILLIAM M. HAILKY has
nnlntrri nsslstant to the president n
Mldvale Steel and Ordnance Compahy In-ft
management of the following subsidiary
units of tho company: Mldvale Steel Com
pany, Cambria Steel Company. "Wfortk,
Brothers Company and the Wilmington '
Steel Company. Alva C Dinkey ,1s preel- -dent
of tho four concerns. Mr, BsJlcy wai'.,
formerly secretary to Mr, Dinkey. v ' ( '
MANKELY-TUCKUK MEMORIA'raH,'
chartered May 29, 1916, will be greatly 'aV ,
benefited If tho suggestion made by'Supw-V ' J
Intcndent or i-oiico jiooinson uo carried out.-
It has been suggested that each member ef
tlio iorco voiumariiy i-omriuuie 41 a year,' r i
to the fund. Tho fund now amounts to JTJ
$0300. captain ueorge a. -iempesf. Room
225, City Hall, Is acting as treasurer., ' "
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Furniture Month Formally
Ushered in by Foremost
Furniture House
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0-DAY begins our great February Sale. It
promises to be the greatest in our history in
point of business, as it is in point of values of
fered, vastness, variety and beauty of the stock
which occupies our acreage of floor space. We have
reproduced our building at the head of this announce
, ment because we want you to idealize its magnitude and
its nearness. "Just Across Market St. Ferry" is the
inscription a four-minute ride that brings you face
to face with the largest exclusfre furniture store in the
United States a four-minute ride that has saved tho
householders of Philadelphia and surrounding terri
tory hundreds of thousands of dollars, and given them
more beautiful and comfortable homes. To describe
our proposition seems but to iterate tho obvious, for
everyone can see that our being manufacturers as well
as retailers gives us a deeper insight into the business,
the artist's and artisan's point of view rather than
merely that of the merchants', which is almost always
the case elsewhere. Also, that specialization is the key
note of economy in manufacturing and marketing, an
economy which, in conjunction with that of our inex
pensive location, enables us to sell the finer grade of
furniture for less than the commonplace kind sells for
outside of this unique Store. Here you will find, in ad
dition to the standardized designs, hundreds of exclus
ive suites and pieces, the choicest output of our own and
over four hundred other factories; an all inclusive price
range, a display of merchandise taking in the most in
expensive, 3imple pieces up to the most magnificent
Period reproductions. The Van Sciver Store is "Furni
ture Headquarters" for every householder, the "Fairy
land of Furniture" wherein all will find their kind of
home equipment at the price they can afford.
This Unusual Dining Room Suite is a Perfect
Reproduction of trie Classic Jacobean Style
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A Sale of Over $200,000 Worth of Rugs
and Carpets at Reductions of 10 to 33ls
Our Hub and Carpet Department contributes largely to the
interest of this February Sale in its presentation of moro than
$200,000 worth of floor coverings at reductions ranging from
10 to 33J3 per cent. Even these figures' are not fully represen
tative of tho savings involved, for they havo been made on our
old prices those in effect before tho heavy advance in cost of
materials nnd manufacture. Becauso of these conditions; par
ticularly tho shortage in dyes; many choice designs will not be
renewed next season and these we aro closing out at the greatest
possible reduction. Tho entire line, however, during this sale is
offered at prices that, from all indications, will not bo available
again perhaps for years. The Van Sciycr Store is the logical
place to secure the best values in floor coverings because wo aro
specialists in furniture and furnishings and wo uq our pat
rons to take advantage of tho really unusual opportunities during
this month.
TYD ADT7T?TF1 During the February, Sale.our
Lftsaxr'EitS.lEiO Drapery Department, In -addition
to offering interesting prico reductions on Portieres, Cur
tains, Materials, Table, Throws, Comfortables, Blankets,
etc., also provides a special Shado Service. Shades up to
3x6 feet are supplied, fitted and hung for 96a each.
RESTAUR AWT Tha Van Sciver Restaurant
during our semi-annual sales, for it provides for the com
fort of hundreds of out-of-town and local visitors. Prices
are very moderate, cuisino and service are of the best and
the surroundings attractive and restful. ,
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Van Sciver Furniture May Always Be Recognized by Its Correctness of Design and Soundness
of Construction. No Matter Hoxo Inexpensive or Costly, ThesFeatures Are Invariably Present
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