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tEXTBOOK TRUST
GAINS FIRST GRIP
Rural School Directors As
sent to Plan for Increase
' in Prices
WILL BACK NEW BILL
American Company Dines Visit
ors nt Capitol, Who Readily .
Succumb
Hy a Staff Corrrpomtrnt
HAimiSnUKO, Kcb. 9 The Public
Bchool Text Hook trust mado Its appearance
hero In full strength lout night nntl toda).
when It staged a convention of tho rural
school directors throughout tho Htate, to
get their support for a bill which It to be
Introduced In tho Legislature won and
which provides for a standard textbook
for all sidles and at an Increase of price
to the State
The school directors pledged their sup
port. Thev lunched and staled at local
hotels during their Btay nnil the bills were
Ml paid by the American Text Hook Com
pany, which has a monopoly on the text
book sales.
National educators hae for )eari been
erttlclilnir the Mirlanco of the public school
textbooks. Each district has different hooka
and different teaching method
The most serious objection that was
r&lsed today and last night was tho fact
that the present law gives the school direc
tors In the various districts tho opportunity
to purchase textbooks at reduced price,
and textbooks, as some of the pirtlcipants
In the conference"! claim, of an inferior
quality.
The proposed bill would create a com
mission composed of tho superintendents
and two school men to be appointed by tho
Superintendent of l'ubllc Instruction to de
otde what textbooks should bo used
Stevedores on Strike
to Aid Sugar Workers
Continued from I'sie One
strike, and today store of refined sugar
tn wholesale grocery plants and chain
tores are nearly exhausted
PIIICKS BOOSTED
Some of tho wholesale house are en
tirely out of refined sugar and have no
hope of getting more Whllo the whole
sale price remains tho sime, hundreds of
retail grocers throughout the nty today
took advantage of tho scarcity to advance
the price They have boosted tho price
from eight to ten and twelve cents per
pound Unless tho strlko I broken and
the refining of sugar resumed, w holes iler
predict sugar will be selling for lirteen and
twenty cents per pound Iti Philadelphia
within a week
An ollicer of tho Olrard Grocery Com
pany, a wholesale firm which supplie sev
eral hundred retail grocers throughout the
city, said toda)
The situation I quite serlou We
are getting only about fifty per cent of
our normal consignment of rollned
sugar, hut we are making every effort
to supply the actual needs of our cus
tomers Philadelphia will soon ho In a.
very bad way fur refined sugar unless
this strike 1 broken
Ux-Sherlff A Lincoln Acker, uf the Kin
ley Acker Company, said
The shortage In refined sugar Is nip
Idly becoming moro serious Wo are
supplving our customers now, but we
don't know what the future will bring
forth
An olllclal of the V.; J MeCahan Sugar
Kenning Company one of tho companies
affected by tho strike, said
Our normal output of refined sugar Is
3000 barrels dallj Wo are not deliv
ering now to nnvuody because wo can
not get anybody to deliver tho little
amount wo have on hand
Philadelphia can 'get no lellef from
the outside, for New York Is crippled
by the strike In the Brooklyn plant of
the American Compaii) ty Is u very
bad .situation which threatens to spread
over tho entlro countrj Jn Cuba I
have learned that the output of raw
sugar Is being thientened by labor
troubles
The normal output of the Franklin Com
pany, another company affected, is about
CO0O barrels dall. and the Pennsylvania
Company manufactures about the rame
amount under ordinary conditions Not a
barrel Is being moved from either of those
plants
Notwithstanding the conditions and the
trowing scarcity, the wholesale price of
refined sugar has not advanced, and tho
refiners say they will not udvanco the price
The price still hangs at $6 "5 per hundred
pounds.
IIAW SUGAR UP
The wholesale price of raw sugar ad
vanced today from $4.83 to IS 0.', despite
the glut In trje raw product caused by the
closlng'of the refineries.
In explaining the udvanco In raw sugar,
a representative of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, the third refinery closed bv the strike,
said:
The market Is glutted with raw sugar
because of the stopping of exports by
the German submarlno campaign and
the closing of the refineries bv strikes
Under the circumstances tho price
should go down, but the raw sugar In
dustry Is conn oiled by the Cuban firm
of Czarnlkovv Ulonda In New Yofk, and
this firm has a habit of forcing the price
up when It should go down. In other
words, this firm virtually has a lorner
on the raw sugar market
According to advices from New York,
England has bought much more Cuban
sugar than Is generally supposed In the
United States, and English buyers are said
to be on the point of closing another big
purchase.
Killing of Children
May Precipitate War
Continued frotn Pus tine
Anthony's Catholic Church, Cray's Perry
road and KlUwaUT street They also at
tended tho parochial school of that church
Cornelius, the eldest child, was born at
2.MS Panama street April SO, t'JOl Dr.
IMuarcl V. Clark, Kilt South llroad street,
was called to attend io the mother ho
said today, hut he sent another phvslclnn
bocnuse ho had nnolher case nt the time
Doctor Clark remembered tho Incident very
well, ho said
The children had lived In Philadelphia
virtually nil their lives Their mother on
many occasions expressed the wish that
they become Americans
Details of the death of the children after
tho sinking of the Calirirnl.i have not been
forthcoming It is not known whether they
wcro nblo to leave the ship or perished
from oxposure Many of those who know
them while In this city expressed horror
nt the suffering they must have undergone
Mrs. C) Donnell and her husband nro saltl
to have separated threo venrs ago She
then obtained work In the Klrkbrlde laun
dry, In West Philadelphia in an effort to
support her fetull She ilnallv listened to
the ideas uf her fumll) and decided to move
her small fainllv to their homo In Scot
land The O Donnells left Philadelphia Ian
uary IS The sullcd the next day on the
California Enrlv Wednedu) morning the
liner wan torpedoed without warning off
the Irish coast
Mrs O 'Donnell' hardships In this coun
trj and the feai that she" would bo com
pelled to separate from her children If she
stnjed hero gave her no c holco but to bravo
the I -boat menace, nccotclltig to one of hei
best friend In this cits, who for thtee veirs
worked sldo b side with Iler In the Klrk
brlde laundry This former covvoiker
united with Miss Marlon lluntlev heHd of
tho laundrv. In praising Mrs o'Donnell s
biHVery Iti her struggles to keep her little
family together
"Mrs ei'linunell was n like respectable
little woman,' said her friend Her only
dissatisfaction with Ai.erlei was that she
could not eain enough money to support
her rhlldien Tho second bo) she put In a
Catholic protector) and she was afralil tint
tho others would have to go too This Is
what inado her accept her parent' Invita
tion to come back to Scotland
"I really don't know if sho was afraid of
tho submarines, but even If sho a what
could tho poor woman do? She had to go
bnck tn Scotland or see her children starvo
oi bo separated from her After they grew
up and weio old enough to support her sho
intnmlril nmlnir hark to America "
A pathetic stor) of Mrs (i'Donnell's
struggles in this city was told by Mrs Ida
C Wilde, 310 North Thlrt) eighth hlrcet,
with whom tho O Donnells made their
home
"Although sho made ever) effort to np
pear cheerful In the letters she sent heme"
Mr Wilde said, "Mrs O Donnell's parents
In Scotland got an Inkling of her el'stress
and repeatedly urged her to go tu Scot
'and "Mr O'Donnell loved America Sho had
told me many times that It was the most
wonderful country In the world M'o s.ild
however, that although Mio wanted her chil
dren to be American, rhe realized she could
never give them what they needed In this
country and decided to ltavo for Scotland
nnil home
According to Mrs Wilde, the mother wai
well-educated and refined Iler pnrents nro
well to do, and Mr t) Donnell Imu never
worked until forced to do so to support her
children
I'ather Curran spoke In high praise of
Mrs O'Donnell "She waH a faithful and
hard-working woman," he said. "Her hus
band took to drink sonio years ago. I saw
her onl) recentlv She oamo to the parish
house and told me she intended to cros3 to
Scotland
"When I asked her If sho was not afraid
of tho ship being torpedoed by a sub
niailne sho said 'We'll get along nil tight
Nothing will happen to us' '
WATCHMAN ACCUSED OF
SHOOTING YOUNG MAN
Frank O'Neill in Hospital SulTeriBj?
From Set Ions Pistol
Wound
Kiunk D'S'elll twentv-tveo vears old of
233 North I licks street, I In Hahnemann
Hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound
In the Fide which inn) tesult fatillv
Daniel ('allngher, sixty jents old, of 1313
Vino street a watchman cmplovcd nt
llroid nnil Cherrv street i I locked tip nt
the riftecnth unci Vino streets police Ma
lion, charged wllh the shouting
tlallagher was held without ball todi bv
Mnghtinto Tiacv of thn riftecnth nnd
Vino streets stitlon, to wnll the nute'n'iie
of ONellls wound O'Neill Identified (lal
higher as the man who shot him, In nn nnte
mortem statement toda) In Magistrate
Tracy
Gallagher declares ho fired his tevolvci
In self-defense when lie was set upon bv
two men who attempted to beat him
Joseph Casev nineteen J cars old. of HIS
North 'I event) -third street, who was hi
O'N'elll'H rompan) when the latter whs shot
told the police thut the watchman union
strated with the voung men iih thev walked
out Clierr) hired about 1 30 oelmk this
morning telling them the) vveiu too bois
terous When ONclll ntte mptcd to dispute
the assertion, Casey savs, Call'eglier pulled
out the pistol and fired three time at tho
voting men Two of the bullets went wild.
1ml tho third pie reed O'Nelll'H light side,
and he was lv Ing nn the sidewalk when
Policemen Dood) nnd Dodds. nttrnctcd bv
the suiiud of the shooting run up
THREE MEN DIE WHEN
MINE (JANG WAY IJREAKS
Hungarian Laborers, I.cavinff Wives
nnd Children, Suffocated Under
' Debris in Accident
MAHANOV CITV P.t Pel, 'I liren
men are rlead n a result of n counter gang
way collapsing In the East lie. it llldge nilnn
last night Thev are William M.irkus, thlitv
ve.trs old. n roiiti.ut miner, hiving si wife
nnd four chlldieii. Mnhano) Plane; M.ntln
Melulck twentv-elght vear old lalioter of
Corktown hiving n wife nnd two e hlldreu
In Austria, and Andrew Il.irliiv, 1 iborcr
thlrtv-Ilve )enrs old wllh n wife and four
children nt Gllberton All are Hungarians
The body of Ilnihay has not been recovered
A icscua force under Mine Inspector Limb
ami Superintendent Pierce te.nlied Melnlrk
nt 10 o clock last night M.irkus was tiken
from his tomb at X ei clock this morning
Ilotlt weio baillv bruised, but It Is believed
that death was due to suffocation
Markus was the last to die, as for houri
he communicated through n tub with Ills
lescuets nnil frantii'all) implored them to
save him
Tho mine I owned bv Cook A Urooks,
coal operators, of Scranton nnd Haltimoro
I'lilling Fire Iluins Crush Four
LANCASTEIt, Pa, Teh 9 Thrco men
weie mortall) hurt this morning when thev
were burled tineler a wall tint fill from the
flie-wreckeil building of the Standaul ( lr
ment Compaiiv In Columlili It teriulict!
nlinost ten minutes to dig them from under
tho debris Thev we to taken to the Colum
bia Hospital where thev nro elvlng 'ihev
nro Harry Wolf Henry Shenabrooke anil
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LITTLE MAN SUBDUES
GIANT NEGRO INTRUDER
Dr. Charles Marsden's Chauffeur, With
Club, Captuies Strange Visitor
to Garage
s. regular D.ivId-and-Gollath ait was
staged during the "vveo sma' hours In the
garage of l)i Cliailes Mirsiten, S811 fier
mantowu revenue Chestnut Hill When the
police urrlved they found the modern
Goliath John Turner, a full broad
shouldered negro who lives on Bethlehem
pike iceurelv bound und locked In a closet,
while the diminutive David of tho episode,
(leorgo Hogg, chauffeur for Doctor Mars
den, stood guard b) the closet door armed
with n hugo stick
Doctor Mnrsden departed )esterday for
a trip to Florida, and left Ills home in
chnrgo of Hogg who sleeps above the
garage Earl) this morning the little chiuf
feur heard a noise and descended to the
garago In hl.e bare fret On the floor of
a large touring car ho discovered Turner
hidden bya large lap rug Hogg seized n
BtlcU and challenged the negro and a strug
gle ensued Hoggs five feet live Inches,
plus the htout club, proved victorious
Magistrate Pennock held Turner under $301)
ball fui a further hearing
City Hall Appointments
City appointments today includo William
IV Heeder, 1312 South Fifty-seventh street,
rodman Ilureau of Surveys, salary J 800:
Anna M Dannenberg, 213 South Fifteenth
street, hospital clerk, Bureau of Charities,
1700, und Trank S Craig, 3013 Montague
street machinist, Bureau of Water $1 7B
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Dress Goods
NevO Location, East Side, First Floor
The Latest Novelties Made Abroad and
at Home in the Colors and Weaves
Approved by Fashion
English Satin Stripe Voile
Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Royal (Self-Color).
40 in. wide. .$1.13 per yd.
Novelty Skirtings
Woven Stripe and Plaid with Ratine cfTect. White
ground. HG inches wide. $1.2.5 and 51..15 yd.
French Printed Voiles.
40 in. wide. ' $l.r0, $1.(m, $2.00 and .$2.o0 yd.
English Voile
Blue, Pink, Green, Ilelio. Yellow ground with
white woven htripes. 158 in. wide. Soc yd.
English Voile
Black and white in a variety of patterns. 36 and
40 in. .10c, 7."ic, 83c and $1.00 yd.
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Persian designs. 38 inches wide. 83c per yd.
Plain Colored Voile. Wide range of Colors. 36 and
40 in. wide. 23c, 50c and 63c per yd.
Striped Shirtings. 32 inches wide. 38c per yd.
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dressed men for 69
years without a reason.
That reason is
that we have con
sistently combined
leadership in sane
and dignified fash
ion with the selec
tion of fabrics of
exclusive quality.
Examination of our
stock of Spring offer
ings will show that we
retain our leadership
for the same reason.
HUGHES
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Tailors
1527 Walnut St.
Correct Styles in Corsets
Perfect Pohe and Complete Comfort
Ranging in prices from $3.00, $3.00, $7.50 to $10.00
Brassieres in large variety, 00c to $6.00
Bathing Suits and Tights
Annette Kellermann
Suits,
$6.50, $G.75, $7.50
Tights, $1.23 to $1.73
Bathing Suits, formerly
$S.OO, $0.50, $12.00 to
$18.00.
$5.00, $7.50, $9.50, $15
Gloves for Southern Wear
New 1-Button English
Doeskin, White, $2.00
2-Clasp Washable Fabric
Gloves White with
heavy self emb., $1.00
CulT Wrist Novelty
Chamois Gloves,
White and Yellow with
contrasting cuffs and
embroidery, $2.25
12-Button Duplex Fabric
Gloves, $1.50
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS
OF CITY AT BANQUET
Owners nnd Ucprcscntntlvcs of Papers
Address Men and Women nt
FenstinK Port
'Hie men who deliver your newspaper In
the rnln, In the sleet In the snow and ever)
other sort tif weather enme Into their own
last nlKht whin the Philadelphia MornlnK
Paper Carrlets' Protective nnd llencllcla
.Voir,, InllnM tatiti'nfl llu lllltllltll hatHIUCt lllld
,iii nt itu, Mimun nuditnrlum Pro id &
below Muster stieet
Three hundred members of the nsocln
tlon nnd tin It wives nltended the baiuiuet,
nt which speeches were mnue nj wim m
noil leprescnlatlvcs of niornliiK inpers. In
iludlni: Cvrus II K Curtis, llenrue It.
Miindv James I. Parle). I. P llulherford.
John c .Mm tin nnd II II WIpkIiim
In ii'lelltlnii to the speeches there was ii
vaudeville performance nt the ellnner, fol
lowed b) eliituliiK. On the committee thnl
nrrniiKed the entcrtnlnment were .1 W.
Mavs, president; William I". Steekerl. sec
retary and H II IMibbs, W A llaner, (I
(1 iner, I, A Fredericks l Aiken and II
P Klosteriiiau
The olllcers of the nsvulntlon are W
KnhllKh president, H II. Uuhbi, vice preil
iknt W A Itnvner, reeitillnir secretnr) .
I, A HciWIcks, llii.inelnl seerctiei) , C.
Sclimel.-er. treasurer, board of directors, II
(iiaelT, l II Knlp, ' Sclimeler. II F
Klootciiiiun, T P llerliam and I IS Craw
feird
Man l'0Hiti ni Clcrgjntan Held
Prank Perr) Hamilton neeuved or rib
t iininK mone) under false pretenses while
posinc; ni a cleruvmnn was held In J8no
ball todav bv Magistrate Tracy, of the
t.-ii....t. m Vfln. alpj,! RtntlorV. fOT A
further henrlnB n week from today. Hamil
ton, whose homo H at 109 North llroad
street. Trenton, was
Central Young; Mens
tlon jesterday afternoon
arrested at the
Christian Assocla-
by Detectives
Creeden and Malone, Several i.ji c.
Phlladelphlons are said to have bes
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Saturday of This
Great One -Half Sale
Words fail to express
the splendid success of
this Annual February
Sale.
Breaking Sales Rec
ords has become a
mere daily routine in
the avalanche of busi
ness that we have at
tained the first five
days of this one-half -off
event.
Fur Coats
Regularly
5 Russian Pony 50.00
6 French 65.00
3 French Seal Coat 85.00
6 French Seal Coata 89.50
6 Natural Muskrnt' Coats 97.00
3 Hud. on Seal Coats... 110.00
4 Hudson Seal Coats... 135.00
3 Hudson Seal Coats... 150.00
1 Caracul Coat 150.00
2 Caracul Coats 180,00
2 Muskrat Coat 160.00
7 Hudson Seal Coats... 190.00
1 Civet Coat 225.00
3 Hudson Seal Coats... 230.00
2 Hudson Seal Conts. . . 290.00
1 Mole Coat 325.00
2 Hudson Seal Coats... 350.00
1 Hudson Seal Coat 350.00
2 Hudson Seal Coats... 390.00
2 Hudson Seal Coats... 450.00
I Caracul Coat 450.00
I Mole Coat 490.00
1 Mink Coat 600.00
I Eastern Mink Coat 950.00
WS?wS
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Now
24.50
32.50
42.50
45.00
48.50
55.00
67.50
74.50
74.50
89.50
79.50
94.50
112.50
115.00
145.00
162.50
175.00
175.00
195.00
225.00
225.00
295.00
300.00
475.00
Fur Muffs
Regularly Now
8 Black Tox Muffs 19.00 9.50
3 Natural Raccoon Muffs 20.00 10.00
5 Hudson Seal Muffs 23.00 9.50
5 Australian Opossum.. 25.00 12.50
4 Skunk Muffs 27.00 13.00
4 Black Tox Muffs 29.00 14.50
3 Hudson Seal Muffs.,.. 29.00 14.50
4 Black Tox Tuffs 35.00 17.50
8 Skunk Muffs 44.00 22.00
2 Red Fox Muff. 49.00 24.50
2 Dyed Blue Fox Muffs.. 50.00 24.50
5 Skunk Muffs 50.00 24.50
3 Black Lynx Muffs .... 50.00 25.00
2 Battleship Cray Fox
Muffs 55.00 27.50
2 Taupe. Fox Muffs 55.00 27.50
4 Black Lynx Muffs.... 56.00 28.00
2 Slate Fox Muff 75.00 37.50
4 Cross Fox Muff 80.00 39.50
The quality and
value of each and
every item is positive
ly far beyond the ex
pectations of even the
most critical.
Only the actual in
spection of these furs
will convince you of
the wonderful oppor
tunity these prices af
ford. Read Every Item
Carefully
Fur Sets
Regularly Now
3 Natural Raccoon Sets. 39.00 19.50
3 Beaver Set 59.00 29.50
3 Australian O p o s sum
Sets 42.00 21.00
9 Australian O p o s sum
Sets 50.00 24.50
7 Nutria Sets 55.00 27.50
3 Brown Fox Set 59.00 29.50
2 Jap Cross Fox Sets. . . 65.00 32.50
4 Kamchatka Fox Sets.. 65.00 32.50
2 Australian O p o s sum
Sets 79.00 39.50
3 Red Fox Sets 98.00 49.00
I Hudson Seal Set 125.00 62.50
1 Fisher Set 130.00 64.50
2 Cross Fox Sets 160.00 78.50
I Pointed Tox Set 190.00 95.00
I Blended Mink Set 300.00 125.00
I Hudson Seal and Er
mine Set 350.00 125.00
I Hudson Bay and Sable
Set 350.00 175.00
I Silver Fox Set 650.00 325.00
I Hudson Bay and Sable
Set 1 000.00 500.00
Fur Scarfs
Regularly Now
3 Natural Raccoon Scarfs 10.00 3.50
I Beaver Scarf 1 2.00 5.00
5 Black Fox Scarfs 1 5.00 6.50
5 Hudson Seal Scarfs.. . 14.50 6.50
5 Skunk Scarfs 15.00 7.50
3 Natural Raccoon Scarfs 17.00 8.50
5 Skunk Scarf 24.00 12.00
5 Skunk Scarfs 27.00 13.50
3 Red Fox Scarfs 29.00 14.50
4 Black Fox Scarfs 29.00 14.50
5 Hudson Seal Scarfs... 32.00 16.00
3 Black Lynx Scarfs.... 33.00 16.50
I Ermine Scarf 33.00 16.50
1 Persian Lamb Scarf.. . 50,00 19.50
3 Black Fox Scarfs 39.00 19.50
3 Skunk Scarf 39.00 19.50
3 Black Fox Scarfs 49.00 24.50
2 White Fox Scarfs 45.00 22.50
3 Cross Fox Scarfs 59.00 29.50
4 Dyed Blue Fox Scarfs. 65.00 32.50
I Natural Blue Fox Scarf 190.00 75.00
I Silver Fox Scarf., i... 225.00 112.50
For Thrifty Investors
Purchases will be reserved in our storage vaults
until next fall on payment of a deposit.
Payments to be continued during
" the spring and summer.
Purchasing Agents' Orders Accepted
Charge Accounts Opened.
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