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EVENING LEDGEPHITxDELPHIA, THURSDAY MARCH' 8 1917
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VARE LEADS SUFFRAGE
FORCES IN SENATE
Advocntes of .Equal Franchise
Expect to Unite Factions
in Support of Cause
BRUMBAUGH FRIENDLY
'jSamuel A. Whltakcr, a Penrose Lieu
tenant, Sponsor of Amendment
' in llouso
NOW SUFFRAGE CHAMPION
BR0THERH00DS.MEET PITY THE POOR GYPSIES! LEAVE IN AUTOS
HUDSON MARU'S CAPTAIN
FAVORS SHIPS' ARMING
TO CONSIDER STRIKE
Chiefs of "Big Four" Resent De
lay in Supreme Court Ruling
on Adamson Act
Declares His Vessel Could Have
Escaped Capture if She
Had Carried Guns
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Suffrage strategists have announced a
Dolitlcal coup, which even their opponents
have admitted will ro far tmvnrd lining, un
all factions In tlm present Legislature In
.import of tho woman suffrnKo amendment
1,111 Thl' Is revealed In their announce
ment that In tho upper branch their leader
ind champion will be Senator tidvvln II.
Vare. of Philadelphia.
Hie full significance of this revelation
mty ho appreciated when It Is recalled that
representative Samuel A. Whltakcr, of
('neste.- County, a Penrose lieutenant, Is
nonor of the suffrage amendment In the
ltouse, and suffragists declare that tho Vare
leadership carries with It the full strength
of ri'cvernor Martin 0 nrumliaugh, who, In
fact suflragists my, has promised to do
II ho can to have his entlro following In
both House nnd Senate oto to pass lillh
which lll authorize u woman suffrage
nmendment In 1920.
I'pon the other hand, although oppo
rents of suffrage say that the suffragists
re basing their hopes of Senator Penrose s
support upon statements made by him last
Mil the suffragists also reveal for the first
time tha they hao had recent reiteration
cf ne Senator's promise of aid.
Thu, the suffrago forces' declare that
any who oppose them in tho Legislature
tiot only will he repudiating their national
ratty platform, but will be repudiating
their leaders, under whatever factional di
vision thev may come, and In most cases
will be basing their opposition upon alle
giance to some force which they will not
niienlr admit
When the alignment on the amendment i
comes the suffragists ncciaro uuu mey are
prepared to show how opponents have
Mood upon other progressive legislation.
Apart from their strategy In choosing
their House and Senato leaders, tho suf
fragists arc known to consider as their
bet weapon the $50,000,000 good roads
amendment which personally they do not
...n but which they declare In nil Its
phases parallels the woman suffrage amend- 1
ment This amendment was defeated nt
the polls In 1913, was reintroduced a"nd
passed In 191K, and must pass again this
MSslon to secure a vote again In 1918.
i-enator Vare, who is chosen by the
omen as their Senate leader, has been a
constant friend of suffrage, nnd was a val
uable asset In their last fight In the 1913
and 1915 sessions of tho Legislature.
In contrast to the seasoned campaigner
who will direct the progress of their amend
ment bill In the Senate Senator Vare suf
fragists havo chosen as their House leader
a younger tactician, Samuel A. Whltakcr,
ef Chester County. f .
When last elected to the Legislature, Mr
VThltaker was sewing up the Mexican bor
der with the Phoonlxvllle IJattery, tho old
est organization of Its kind In tho State.
Mr. Whltaker was graduated from tho law
department of the University of Pennsyl
vania In 1899 and practices In Philadel
phia He has been president of the Stato
Institute for Heebie Minded at Spring City,
and has been Interested In public libraries
and other activities In his home county and
In the eastern part of the State.
ORDER GUNS TO AVIATORS
Pennsylvania Guard Equipment Will Be
Sent to Buffalo
HArJtlSBURG. March 8 Adjutant Gen
eral Stewart was directed by the War De
partment at Washington today to send
orne of the machine guns of the Pennsyl
vania National Guard to Buffalo for uso by
the Government aviation squad there.
These weapons, of which there are thirty
nix In the Pennsylvania militia, will be re
placed by others now being turned out
under Government contract.
Police Court Chronicles
The suggestions which various persons In
the northeast made recently to reduce the
high cost of living bored Tom Iladsky.
Ho decided that tho best way to solve
the problem was to go out and get the food,
without bothering about such a little thing
as price. Tom proceeded to carry out tills
plan, but his action was a little slow; other
vise he would havo been successful.
He saw a large bag of beans resting In
tocently on the floor of a Clearfield street
grocery. Knowing that beans possess a
Urge number of calories, ho embraced tho
tag and coaxed It to the door.
The beans reciprocated, and everything
was going well until Iladsky attempted to
pass through tho doorway. His aim was
bad and ho knocked a number of things
.over In trying to swing clear. The pro
prietor heard the commotion, caught Tom
on the sidewalk and turned him over to a
Jiollceman.
"I Jlst wanted to cut down der high cost
pf iivlnV said Tom, when he faced Magis
trate Wrlgley, at tho Belgrado and Clear
Held streets station.
"It's not a bad Idea to reduce the cost
ef living," said the Judge, "but we'll have
to do It along straight lines. Five hundred
ball for court."
Ab there was no great rush of friends
'to go Tom's ball, he was sent to Jail.
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' EVERY JOB on time every time
that's how we deliver our
GOOD PRINTING. Our spec-
II laity is commercial work, in
$t large or small lota . for
I' large or small firms. No
' , catalog jobs to delay others
ui ACUAinTED.-6nd for prici-llt.
uplts or tlmtB,by nail or rpr
ntatlve. Parcel post shipments to
ut-of-ton custonar.
LOUIS FINK & SONS
PRINTERS and STATIONERS
56N.7thSt.(lst.floor)
eurHEVproctti glvis mboiiadorcngravtd
ffact without platao or dUs, Suitable
for announcmnts. Invitations. tc.--buiinesa
or aoclals
Skipper's Confidence
in Vanderherchen sails
.and marine equipment of all
sorts runs as deep as the
clearest water.
F Vanderherchen's Sons
7 North Water Street, Philadelphia
. Anything: for n ltoat
"At the Him of the 8U"
Ready Money
United States Loan Society
117 North Broad St.
MB. BUj.t, tSU Oermantoirn an.
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SENATOR EDWIN H. VARE
Votes - for - women leaders effect
coup when they get him as sponsor
for their bill in the upper, chamber
nt Harrisburg after winning over
J man on the other side of the po
litical factional fence, Samuel A.
Whitaker, of Chester County, an
out-and-out Penrose man, to father
tho bill in tho House of Repre
sentatives. LICENSES TO MARRY
ISSUED TO DIVORCEES
Mrs,
May M. Wycth to Wed I. C. Flit
croft, and Howard Coward
Eleanor C. Morrow
Among tho marriage licenses granted to
day weie two to divorcees.
Mrs. May M Wycth, 202 North Thirty
thlnl street, wilt wed Ivan C. Klitcroft,
121 North Thirty-third street. She Is thirty
one years ojd ; ho Is twenty-nine. Mrs.
Wyeth was divorced by the Chancery Court
of New Jersey March 1, 1916. 1'litcroft is
a bookkeeper.
Tho othtr divorcee to get a license was
How aid Coward, forty-ono years old, of
1935 North Hroail street. He will wed
Hleanor Caroline Moriow, twenty-seven
yeara old, of 2C52 Jasper street. Coward's
first wife was granted a dlvorco March 7,
1909. Ho is a shipping clerk
Other licenses granted were:
David llcrllow. Mf! Cnntrrll nt
I)ouphort .lltl Ontilroll t
Howard Unwell. 114 H. 4Sd St
bourn. .'IT 17 Wnrren st
nolisrt stein WllmlnKlon. Del ,
lltn s. nili nt.
, nnd Jrnnln C.
and Annlo Mil
nnd Sara Doull,
Itohnrt I. Johnson. 171.1 Addison 8t
drill 1'cnlon. 171:1 AcMlnon rt.
nnd Cor-
J. l:impr S Kev SSL'l X I'mskry st
nml
i;ihgl .V voBt. .'4-J.' N llununKUon nt
Mever l.iwltnH lLililmiire, jm , nd llertha
Melzoll. Camden. N. J .
I.lny,l 8 l.olth. '-'SI s 4ih st . nnd Cl'nevievn
Do Venm 1 101 Chfstmit n
James K. I'rleskett. inl'J N. 8th St., and Htlicl
M. I.oe. (137 N. 17lh nt
William I Demm tnL'3 Newhnll t . and Mildred
t Folsom, Oalc I.ane
Irn D. Mnzrv. I.phkuo IslamH and Julia H
Schwart?. lion VIhp st
Anthony llrown. 17.11 Dover st.. and Jose
rhino Schmidt, .104 J Urdner t.
aeorst- Hanks. 141"J Snutli et., and Prances
llraxtnn, ll'J2 Houth 8t .
Meier Phillips. L'lmio Lombard st , and Lllza-
bcth Kesslcr. 'MX South st.
Elkton Marriage Licenses
EtKTON Md . Mnrch & Tho follow Inp
obtained marrlaee licenses 1, Hlkton today:
K. Frank Donovan and Grace Lyman, Har
old U. Wilson nnd Charlotto HoRcIoBlcr.
Clifford Kouder and Ircno C. Henson nnd
William WrlKht and Illlzaheth Olynn, all of
Philadelphia; William Urovvn, I.ansdowne.
Pa., and Ulanche DoaU, Dnrby. Ta : Harold
Kveland and i:islo Weer, Atlantic City,
X. J. ; Mart Malcy nnd Edith McMllnu.
Shenandoah, Pa.; Joseph It. Heinrlcks, Aid
more, Pa., and Christine Caldcrwood, Wil
mington, Del.
TOM, THE GATEKEEPER, DIES
Well-Known Figure in the Bourso Was
111 Short Time
Thomas Harris, flfty-slx. 1015 Wallace
street, died today after a short Illness. For
twenty-five years he has been In charge of
the cato at tho Marltlmo Exchange and
was ltnovvn In that capacity to scores of
men who aro In tho Bourso every day. Ho
was familiarly ltnovvn as Tom.
About a year ago ho was operated on for
kidney trouble and never has been quite
well since. Ho is survived by a widow.
GIMBEL BROTHERS have been using
Autocars since 1910. On February 8
they added to their fleet.
They realize the importance of the after
sale service rendered by a successful and
responsible motor truck manufacturer.
Our repeat -orders show- that houses in every
line of business, arc, preparing for a nig spring.
THE AUTOCAR CO. Ardmore, Pa.
PHILADELPHIA FACTORY BRANCH i1.
The Autocar Sales & Service Co., 23d and Market Su.
CI,F.VniiAND, O, March .
Plans for nn Immediate strike If tho
t'nltcd Statei Supremo Court holds tho
Adamson eight-hour law unconstitutional
wero discussed today nt a meeting here of
tho heads of the big four brotherhoods with
COO district chairmen from tho Hast and
West.
W. 8 Carter, chief of tho motherhood of
Ix)comotlvo Klremen nnd Hnglneers, and
L. H Shepp.ird, ncllng head of the Order
of Hallway Conductors, lyrlveil e?tenl.iy
and weie In tonsultntlon tho greater part
of the night with W. (!. I.ee, chief of the
llrotherliood of Hallway Trammcn and W
S, Stone, head of tho llrotherliood of Loco
motive Engineers.
Tho district chairmen began drifting In
early today They assembled at I.ee's olllee
In the American Trust Uultdlng and. after
being handed printed c'rculars. the contents
of which wero kept carefully guarded, wero
sent to the assembly loom In the llrother
liood of Locomotive Engineers building,
across the public square
All our of the biotherhood chiefs today
absolutely declined to discuss the meeting
or tho steps planned A district chairman
from Indlanapol.s was authority for the
statement that a strike was being discussed
"We want to be all.ifady to hit ami hit
hard." he said "The time to striko Is when
the railroads and the public need you the
tno&t "
The Indianapolis chalimnn said tho ma
jority of men he had talked with were In
favor of striking without a decision on the
constitutionality of tho act fiom tho United
States Supreme Court.
"The men feel that the delay of the high
tribunal in handing down a decision means
that the law will be knocked out." said the
district chairman. "They feel that the delay
Is giving the railroads an opportunity to
prcparo for the strike, and hence Is hurt
ing our cause.
' Only a declaration of war will avert tho
striko If the Supreme Court decision Is ad
verse to the Intctestn of the men In such
an event the patriotism of the men would
come to the front and overcome their fel
ing that thev had been treated unfairly bj
tho railroads "
GIIADE-CROSSING CRASH
MAY BE FATAL TO ONE
Three Injured When Atlantic City Rail
road Train Strikes Truck
Near Glassboro
Threo men were Injured, two of them
probably fatally, when a train on the Wll
llamMown branch of the Atlantic City Kali
road struck n delivery truck nt a grade
crossing near Ol.-H'boro, N, .1. Tho truck
was hurled fifty feet.
Those Injured wero William Scharnagle,
twenty-six ears old, of Olajsboro; Wil
liam IKIey, tvventy-ieven years old, of Pit
man, nnd Chnrles Devaul, thirty-eight
years old, of Pitman
Moth Scharnnglo and Ikley were brought
to tho Jefferson Hospital in this city, suf
fering from concussion of tho brain nnd
other Injuries. Their condition today was
said to bo critical.
Tho scene of the accident Is said to be
one of the most dangerous spots on the
Glassboro-Clayton pike. Tho men nrc em
ployis of tho Electric Company of New
Jersey.
What HOLMES
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protection.
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Rands of the fortune-tellinp trust departed from Philadelphia yesterday
in brand-new nutomobilcs. They crossed to Cnmden and struck off in the
neighborhood of South Jersey. The police of the city were responsible
for their leaving, after their pernicious activities had been revealed by
the Evening Li:m;ku.
NEGROES NEAR DEATH
IN FIGHT OVER TRIFLE
Pennsylvania Railroad Laborer at Sea
ford Slashed as He Beats His
Assailant
SEAFOnP. Pel , March n. Following a
fight between laborers living In a Pennsyl
vania Railroad construction camp near here
last night ti negroes aro dying In tho
.Salisbury Hospital, lleorge Clrahani, known
as "Hrlght Hcs," Is suffering from razor
slashes on the bodv. narfield flrnham, his
assailant, was Injured by a shovel In tho
hnnds of "Bright E.ves"
Tho fight followed a trivial dispute, lloth
men closed in combat and only dropped
when too weak to continue Two other
negroes have been arrested as material
witnesses. Iloth Orahams are under arrest.
Alf and 'Alf Jury Tries I. W. W.
KKATTI.E, Wash, March R Six men
nnd h women composed tho Jury horn sit
ting In Judgment over Thomas X. Trnry,
first of tho scventy-threo members of tho
I. W. AV to face trial under a minder charge
growing out of tho riots at Everett but
November Tho specific ehargo against
Tracy is complicity in the murder of Jef
ferson lleard ,ono of tho citizen posso killed
vvh'n the boatload of I W. W 's arrived in
Eveiett for "vengeance"
Means
A highly 6pcc.iali7.ecl individual
burglar alarm service, built up
and developed by more than 40
years' progressive experience in
the protection of property that
is the Holmes System of electric
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Girl Lodger Commits Suicide
Plugged crevices about doors and win
dows prevented gas escaping from tho room
of Miss Mary Mcfnfficj, twenty-flvo years
old. who committed suicide early today In a
lodging house at J40S North Fourth street.
Miss McCaffrey engaged a room In tho
bouse seven weeks ago and was llttlo known
to tho other lodgers Her bodv was taken
to tho Morgue, while police endeavored to
find relatives. The icason of the sulcldo Is
unknow n.
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Chestnut Juniper South Penn Square
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honestly priced"
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always admired the policy of its makers, as It accord
ed so well with our owji in aiming solely to SERVE.
We cordially Invite you to visit our warerooms,
and hear as well as inspect these great instruments.
Catalogues wll bi sent en request.
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Wholesale and Retail Victor Distributors
Philadelphia Representatives for Aeolian-Pianolas
The nrmlng of nil merchant vessels was
ndvocnted today by Captain Takeshlma. of
the Japanese (teamshp Hudson Maru,
which arrived hero yesterday after having
been captured nnd released by a derman
raider In tho South Atinntlc.
Captain Takeshlma said that the capture
of his fchip could havo been prevented If his
vessel had carried guns. He said that It
wat not a question ol speed or relative
sliength of the crews of tho raider nnd of
the Hudson Muni which resulted In tho
capture of his ship, but the fact that the
raider had guns nnd he had none.
He said nlso that the convoying of mer
chantmen would prevent tho capturo of
many vessels and said that such measures
should ho adopted It possible.
Tho Hudson Mnru was captured oft the
coast of Argentina on January S and was
held a. prize by the raider for seven days.
At tho end of that time 1135 pilsoncrs were
placed on board and orders wero given the
captain to make the nearest port, which
was Pcrnambiico, Iliazll.
FIDDLES MODERN DANCES
AT HIS GOLDEN WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Vanartsdalcn Cele
brate Half Century of Matri
monial Happiness
Photograph! llluMrntlnr (his utorj appeur
on II pnge of the pletnrlnl lection.
Mr. and Mrs Amos Vanartsdalcn, of New
town, Pa., celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Monday night by attending a
reception given In their honor by their
daughter. Mrs Charles Eagle, 413 Norway
avenue, Trenton, N. J Fifty guests, In
truding five grandchildren, were present
The happy bridegroom, who has Juit
passed his seventy-seventh birthday, played
tho violin while his jounger friends danced.
Modern dances weie on tho program, as well
as tome which wero In vogue when the
couple wero wedded In llrldgewnter, Pa., a
half century ago
Itefore her marriage, Mrs Vannrtsdalen,
whoso maiden name was Lottie Shaw,
taught a school at Hildgewater. Pa. Among
tho guests was a former pupil. Mr. and
Mrs M. Tompkins, of Philadelphia, were
also among those present nt the celebration.
For The Traveler's
Pocket or Hand Bag
Fifteen Dollars
will buy the
biggest and best
Values you'll see
for some time!
Therefore
Salt away two
or three Suits
and an Overcoat!
J Bring in your Boy,
or all the Boys the
more you have to pro
vide for, the greater
the reason for doing
it now.
Buy the Boy a couple
of Suits and an Over
coat ! Tell your sales
man you want them for
service next year he'll
understand, and sell
you a little leeway in
the size !
5f Every Suit and Over
coat in this Final
House-Cleaning Sale is
a bird of a bargain ! No
good store in the
country will be able to
offer you next Fall any
thing like the value
you've been accustomed
to at $15!
CJ In this Sale you get a
1916 twenty-five to
twenty-dollar value for
$15! Similar Suits and
Overcoats will cost at
least $30, $28 and $25
next October!
You're really saving $10 1
$15 when you buy now! A
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this Season
of Remainders of
$25, $22.50 and $20
Perry Suits
Winter Overcoats
Early Spring Coats
at $15
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