'i .1 WOULD WORK CONVICTS OLD CHRISTMAS TREE CELEBRATES FOURTH OF JULY IN BLAZE OF GLORY Hot With Indignation at Lying Neglected for Six Months, or Filled With Ardent Patriotism, It Bursts Into Flames EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, .JULY 5, 1917 j i 1 ON UNCULTIVATED LAND Italians Will Hold Mass-Meeting to Protest Baldi's Leadership Here OTHER CITY NEWS BRIEFS Unproductive land In different -parts of renniylvanla could be cultivated by pris oners now confined In tho Kastern State penitentiary, according to a statement mado today b' Warden Hobert McKcnty. At least 100 rrlsoners are confined In the "man makltK factory" nt Halrrnount nvenuc and Twenty-nrst street. Warden McKenty said tody. wno wcrc farmers before they "went wrong." The American I'rlson Association, which hu Just finished Its conference In Wash ington, has starfefl a movement to use 10,000 com lets to work on farms under Federal supervision The plans of the American I'rlson Association have nlready tMn (submitted to President Wilson. lf I am Rlvon the proper authority," said Xfitttn McKcnty. "I will turn oxer to the United States Government 300 prisoners Who will cultivate somo of the unproductive land that Is lylnc around here In I'enn iyanla And the persons who reside near the unproductive land need have no fear tf the convicts being near them. 13vry one of the men that I will assign to work on Tiwnt land later to be turned Into fine firms, Is a man who has proved to me that he can bo trusted." To Depose Daldi as Leader Italians In Philadelphia who are opposed to the pre-eminence of Chcallcr C ' A. Baldl as leader of their compatriots In this city are planning a protest nmss-meet-Ine to be held next Monday night It was laid that efforts v.i! ne rriade to have honors conferred rtpon the Chevalier by the Italian Government revoked The Indc ptndent Amerigo Vespucci Society leaders have Joined in the fight. It was said that Mr. Baldl "usurped rights" when he repre sented tho Italian colony nt the receptlor jlvn the Italian envoys In this city re cently. Women Attack Policeman Several women delivered u furious at tack on rollceman Monnghan. of the Second and Christian streets station, when ho knocked down Julius Barnnskl, of 730 South Fourth street, with the butt of his revolver They thought he- had been killed, and set upon tho policeman, tear ing his uniform and Indicting several cuts and bruises. Booze No Excuse Tor Autoist Drunkenness will not bo accepted as an devise for motor accidents while Maglstrato Watson is presiding at tho Central stntion In City Hall This rule w.ia laid down yesterday when Frank P. Hughes, 3710 M itreet. was arraigned. An auto which Hughes was driving collided with a car operated by Karl P. Hnrrls. 402 West Nor rls elieet, and an attorney representing him irled to explain that his client had been drinking too much He was held In (00 ball for ti further hearing after Mag istrate Watson explained that rum cannot be employed as nn excuso for auto acci dents Goes to Jail in Heart Halm Suit Henry P rtayfleld Is today in Moya tnenslng Prison as the result of not fur nishing 1600 ball as defendant In a breach of promise of marriage suit, entered by Miss Katherlno B. Hauseman. In Court of Com mon rieas No 2 Tho plaintiff claims that an ardent courtship wan followed by a promise to marry on August 3, 1915, but that about a week later the defendant Iroke oft the engagement. Money Pours in for Red Cross That Philadelphia's 3.000,000 Bed Cross fund has been handsomely oversubscribed and Is being swelled each day was the gist of an announcement mad6 today by mem bers of the campaign committee. The total will be announced within a few days. Tho campaign closed ten days ago, but contri butions continue to pour Into the treasurers. Sailor 'Who Died in Hotel Identified The body of a sailor who died at tho Prospect Hotel, 827 Itace street, yesterday morning, has jeen Identified as that of Thomas W Smith, of the l S. S. Bushncli. Emlth was thirty years old. Tuberculosis Victim Dies at Station Frederick Kohler, 207 Baldwin street, Manayunk, died In the Bending Hallway station at Manayunk jesterday afternoon. For several ears ho had been suffering from tuberculosis. Fireman Wounded in Fight With Sailor John Commesky. a fireman on the U. S. S. Minneapolis, Is In Ihe Methodist Hospital as a result of a fight with Glen C. Beed, of the V H S Baron von Steuben. Yes terday afternoon Commesky nttempted to follow Beed Into n house at Oregon avenue and South Isemlnger street. Beed pro tested, and when Commesky refused to leave jVew his service revolver and fired. The bullet entered Commcsky's stomach. Beed was arrested by the police of tho Fourth treet and Snyder avenue trillion. Negro lulled in 15th Street House William Hamilton, a negro of 830 Burns treet, was killed In a house at 847 North Fifteenth street yesterday. Detectives arrested the Inmates of the house although the latter Insisted that Hampton committed lulclde. Tugboat Damaged by Fire The tugboat George D. Murray was badly oamaged by Are while moored to the Do Tain sand wharf at the foot of Berks Kreet yesterday George B Murray, managing owner of the company, placed the t WOO. Other tugs were badly torched. EVANGELISTIC MEETING Large Steel Tabernacle ni..PR0AD AND SIIUNK STS. Sv.Jilf 8"lr- Jul . 3 V. M ami N P. M NOELIST 1NMAN A. McKENNY and Party .?! ?' 20 voices under the leadership of " eijwrlenc.a evangelistic slnaer ' if - I l , UiW w ' imf(immmmmmuim&t PRINCESS MARY Only daughter of King George V of England, who is dividing her time between her vegetable garden at W.ndsor and vjsiting munitions plants, where sire usually presides over the cantcent. NEW SECRETARY TAKES UP CHARITY WORK HERE J. Byron Deacon Begins Duties by "Studying His Job" ACTION IS PRESSING NEED J. Byron Deacon, who surcesfiillv co-or dinated organized charity in Pittsburgh, took up his new duties as general secret.irv of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing 'hailty today. As his Initial move he Is to study tne job from a business stand point, a problem of filling empty mouths and keeping shelter over otherwise roof less heads The new secretary raid he would not "cram nnv Pittsburgh closes down Phila delphia's throat.' however, for he distinctly (inserts that each city has Its own prol). lem and has to be treated as u civic Individ uality. At the samo time, he Is not going to rio too much effort to nualsis: he ad mits the pressing necessity for practical ac tion to meet the war needs. "Chailtahle agencies arc not expending their very best energies In pulling together," says Mr. Deacon "Curiously enough, they are pulling apart. It Is my policy not to claim anything for the particular agency that I reptesent which every other falt minded group Is not willing to concede "Tho. work of organized charity, par ticularly In times llko these, gets down to tile fundamentals of life It Is hard to keep food In empty bellies and shelter .over heads In spite of soaring prices. An expert In that line has to have a very substantial fund of commonsense and a disposition to play absolutely fair and In the open with all the other groups working to the same humanitarian ends. "I feel that the bickerings among groups engaged In charitable work, not especially in Philadelphia, but the country over, are going to be ended by tho war, for the rea son that tho contributing public Is going to show a very prompt Intolerance of the application of effort to nn thing but the ends of human helpfulness for which such agencies exist." In answer to nn Inquiry as to his plan of work In this city, Mr. Deacon said' "I am going to do what every man does on a Job that has big business problems lonnect ed with It; I am going to study the job I am going to know tho workers, of whom there a large number "I can't waste much time doing that, how ever, because the pressing need Is to find out how the society can fit In to the gen eral community preparedness to meet the war needs. These times of prosperity bring special problems of their own to the poor For example, desertion, nonsupport nnd Intemperance have operated to produce acute poverty and suffering more In these past months of Industrial prosperity than during the industrial oppression or a lew winters ago. "Then. too. there Is the rising cost of living, which more than offsets the Increase In wages. People are getting higher vvnges than ever before In their lives, but that Ready Money- United States Loan Society 117 North Hroad St J 414 fl. Mb tt. 2318 Ctnnant.wn are. FountainPen? t7" Wefit the Point ) ", to your Hand Al.l. M.VHI-..1 Iin'AllllMl Allnwtinre on -old lni W. O, MCIIOI,, AtlK.NT IfllfiFb rWaterman's Pens lUIDcM ESTN UT Stand Behind the Government LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE THIRD FINANCIAL HISTUICT 10 H. FOURTH ST.. FII1LA. I Free delivery costs you noth-Bbh lug at Hanscom's, and you get quality groceries, low prices, courtesy and satisfaction. Try us this month. We'll bo glad to have our Salesmen call lor orders. ftanscom's ISM MARKET HT. I YcOMMRC!flL755o&i The Mann 1 Transfer Case I What'sNeededl A new engine! A new pro peller? Paints, glues, ma rine hardware, flags or Balls? We have anything: for a boat We make any thing In canvas. Full paneled sides. Substantial mortised con-' struction. Roller bearing. All oak. The Mann Alt-Oak Transfer Case Is made so that It may be easily bolted together. This enables you to build any quan tity of these cases Into a solidly constructed cabinet LETTER SIZE, $2.50 each May we send you one on approval? WILLIAM MANN COMPANY Blank BmIu-Ihu Lest All day n sad old Christmas tree lay on a vacant lot on Ludlow street between Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets nnd brooded over Its fate. Six months nnd a l'ltle more ago It had been popular. Chll dien had been Gathered around It; vari colored UbIU- hntl Klovvcd anion Us branches, which had been weighed down vnth presents nnd festooned with crnn berrles nnd popcorn. Now It was cast crlrie forgotten left out In the cold, ns It were. i:verhody was celebrating everybody vas happy hut nobody had n thought foi tho mournful old Christmas tree. All the public Interest was claimed by the flag. Tho spirit of the celebrants rose with the day and tho old tree grew more mis erable and angry. Hy 1 1 o'clock nt night It was so hot with Indignation that It burst Into flames. Anyway, that Is one theory. Maybe the old tree Just got patriotic. Maybe some body set a. match to It. At any rate, It flamed up, as heretofore mentioned, nnd many firo engines were called. The patri otic firemen refused to interfere with a t'hrlstmas tree's Fourth of July celebration, so the eveigrecn died gloriously. brings about carelessness In respect to the Increased cost of commodities. "In order to get funds for our work, one must be so sensitive to the needs of a com munity ns to get on the Job nt the time of greatest need, and that means to catch pov erty In its enrly stnge Wstrlct officers must be ready to go out on Instant rail nnd the workers must know their district. The tradespeople and neighbors of the poor must put us in touch with need wherever It oc curs " GOLF PLAYER DIES ON LANSDOWNE LINKS Julinn J. Kecnan, Sr., Stricken With Heart Disease on Finishing Game n attack of heart disease ended the life of Julian .1 Keennn. Sr. of .andnwnc uisf afler he had finished eighteen holes of golf The de.ith occurred In the presenre of ilosons of golf plnjers In the Lausdovvne fountry nub. He Is survived by a widow, a ton and daughter. For twenty-four years Mr. Kecnan lived In I.ansdowne. Ho was well known in golf circles nnd for several vears had been chair man of the house committee of the I,ans dnvvne Country nub. Mr Keennn was en gaged In the metal business nt Slfil l.udlnvv rtrect He wns a native of Philadelphia nnd graduated from tho Central High School Up finished his education In the seminar nt Vlllnnova Asks $23,000 Damages for Shock Asserting thnt his whole nature wan changed through nn electric shock which he sustained while driving over n broken trolle wire on Warren avenue, lleverlv 'ieorge M Allen, of Ilurllngton. N .1 . todav brought suit against tho WcH .Irrsev null Heashore Itallroad for 52B.O0O "1(h" Hurt 11-Years Ago, Now Hurts On July I. 1006. Thomas (lerlty, twentj one years old. of 2U North Eleventh street suffered nn injury to Ills right Land while plalng with a revolver. Yestcrda. or elnv -en years after the accident, (lerlly felt sharp pains In his hand nnd went to the Hahnemann Hospital. Physicians said a part of the blank cartridge wadding thnt was shot Into bis hand eleven enrs ago had not been removed. The old Injury was dressed. J flPONICfl Gardens Even to the un trained ear the Ma rimba Dand's a treat. And when those per fect time beats trav el from ear to feet, then fox trot, one step and waltz take on a newer mean ing, spid the earth seems even further away than 21 stories! HOTEL ADELPHIA CheatnutatnilA J E-CALDWELL 8f(0. THE EKEGREN WATCH Of unquestioned superiority for more than half a century? Plain Timers Repeaters Split S Solo Agents in the U. S. econds Thin Models men and Women for -J Bffll lAI.SIM7fisfAMAltll sunns 2ZZZZZZi'CT miiiiii y Foremost Faskion Feminine Footgear m i Back on the Firing Line with the Biggest and Best MID-SUMMER REDUCTION SALE 4 tf: PERRY CLOTHES that Philadelphia has seenin years! These Price Cuts tell only half the story! I $15 and $18 Suits for ,...., ,.t:,lK........ $13.50 $20 and $22.50 Suits for.... $16.50 and $17.50 $25.00 SUits for...... $19 and $20 $28 and $30 Suits for $23 and $24 And so on up to the finest $35, $40 and $43 Suits at Corresponding: Reductions! Trousers Reduced , $2.50 for $3.50 Trousers; $3 for $4 Trousers; $4 for $5 Trousers; $5 for $6 Trousers, and so on, and so on! Those Reductions do not look sensational, but they are! I Now at :- " V7 $Q.25 h-: Wkite Sports Boot This fine white linen model has- the customary Dalsimer workmanship. Tis a Feat to Fit Feet Shoes and Hosiery 1204-06-08 Market St. lllil I In the first place, we bought our goods so well and we marked them so close that our original selling prices were actually three to five dollars below any similar goods elsewhere! 9 CJ In the second place, we are facing a situation different from any other within the memory of any man living! Prices are going up and fabrics are going out! There are weaves and patterns among the suits in this Perry Sale which in many cases cannot be replaced at any price, and in all cases, the prices will be greatly advanced in the future! Figure it out for yourself! 1 J Buy what you can afford to carry over, as well as what you need todayand do your buying NOW! White Flannel and Striped Outing- Trousers $5 .t0 $8 . Perry Tropical Suits 1$ Hot-weather fabrics in natural and dark colors grays, greens, dark shades of tan, dark grays, oxfords and blues with stripes, and a number of novelty patterns! Palm Beach Suits $7.50 to $10 "Breezweve" Suits $10.00 to $12 Mohair Suits $13.50 to $15 White Flannel Suits $20.00 q Store closes daily at 5; Saturdays at 1, during July and August. PERRY & CO., "N.B.T" 0 t i Ml - ,. a 'V BUtUnur rrlntlos ad LUhemphliif 529 Market St. F. VANDERHERCHEN'S SONS N. Watr St., PMU. i "At tit s H-W '. 'F? 16th & Chestnut Sts.
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