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EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917
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fARYTRAlNING
HOW SOARING PRICES HJT THE SMALL PURCHASER OF COAL
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RAISE SCHOOL TAX RATE
TO SCC MILLS TODAY
Education Board Will Also De
termine Distribution of $300,000
Increase in Teachers' Salaries
ALL AMERICAN AIRMEN
NOW FLY IN U.S. COLORS
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Student Battalion to Be Pro
vided With Uniforms and
Rifles by United States
OTHER CITY NEWS BRIEFS
tforthcliffo and Gerard to Ad
dress New England Society's
Annual Dinner, Dec. 22
Military training Is on nsaln nt tho Unl
... ltv of Pennsylvania. Tho student bat
iSioVl lea by Major Charles T. Orlllln, V.
g i has resumed Its Instruction.
Major Orlllln, tho new commandant. Is
in officer of fourteen years' experience and
Vera Cruz campaigner. A fall from u
horse a year ago at Tori IUley, Kansas,
hroke his right leff and Incapacitated him
for actlvo service. Tho battalion will ho
Mttlded by the 'War-Department with uni
forms and drill rifles within about a month.
Big Speakers for New Englanders
' prominent men who already liavo ac
cepted Imitations to speik nt tho New Unit
lanl Society of Pennsylvania's annual din
ner December 22 Include Lord Northcllffc,
chairman of tho British war mission to tho
United States; James W. Gerard, former
Ambassador to Germany; Wellington Koo,
Chinese Minister to tho United States;
Inln Cobb, the humorUt, and "Old Josh"
Cobb, of Otto Creels, Vt. Tho dinner will
be one of tho Import Hit winter events.
Arms Plant Tops Cathedral as Art
The Remington Arms nlint at IMdystono
Is a finer example of architecture than any
cathedral, declared Joseph Pcnnell. the. noted
artist, addressing the Philadelphia Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects at
dinner-meeting In the Meridian Club- last
night
Navy Yard Workers Give $2000
A check for $2000 for Chrlstmis tobacco
for American Bailors In foreign waters was
contributed by Philadelphia. Navy Yard
workmen. Wives of 10.000 navy jard em
ployes will organize mT. tectlon of tho Itcd
Cross naval auxiliary.
Physidnii-Autolsls in Fall Meeting
A service Hag. showing that 17S of Its
ltJ67 members have gono to the colors, will
be displayed at the fall entertainment of
the Physicians' Motor Club, at tho Kitten
house, at 9 o'clock tonight.
New Hed Cross Rooms
Many Jewish women of the city have
started work at tho new rooms, 23 South
Xlnth street, as Auxiliary No. COfi of the
local Red Cross. The rooms and all fur
nishings were donated by Gimbcl Brothers.
2000 Sweaters Sent South
More than 2000 an eaters liavo been sent J
to southern camps by the Philadelphia aux
iliary of tho Southern Industrial IMuc.i
tlonal Association.
"Objectors" Traitors, Says Bishop
War's "conscientious ohjectorh" nro trca
tonable, according to BIhhop I.uther B.
Wilson, speaking at the fall banquet of the
Methodist KpUcop.il Social Union. Scottish
Rite Building, l.iht night. Walter l- Bal
llnjer was elected president.
Miss 'Biddle, Auto Victim, Better
The condition of MlbS Sydney Biddle,
fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A, Mercer Biddle, who was badly Injured
In an automobile accident Saturday, was
reported as slightly Improving today.
Church Has 53 Stars in Flag
Asenico Hag containing llfty-thrco ttars
Is fluttering today from tho St. I'aul'a Re
formed Uplscop.il Church, Broad and Vc
,ngo streets. It was made by tho "Daisy
Chain," a Sunday school organization.
WILL INSPECT CITY'S
: PLANS FOR TRANSIT
Massachusetts, Street Railway
Investigation Commission Com
ing Here Tomorrow
Philadelphia's present and proposed Iran
alt facilities will bo Inspected tomorrow by
the Massaehusctts Street Railway Inves
tigation Commission, which Is visiting the
largo ctles of tho East to study stteet rail
way problems.
The commlMson, which Is headed by Sen
ator Joseph W. Martin, Jr., a prominent
newspaper publisher of Boston, will arrive
In this city tonight. They will be tho guests
tomorrow morning of Director Twining, of
the Department of Transit, who will ex
Plain to them the present syRtcm and take
them oa an inspection tour of tho Market
street elevated and subway. They will bo
shown alstf tho work being done on tho
Broad street subway, tho delivery loop of
the new system and the Frankfort ele
vated. The Board of Trado will entartaln tho
members of the commission nt a luncheon
at the Union I,eaguo at 1 o'clock .
MILKMEN'S NEW SCHEDULE
Daylight Deliveries Will Begin Tomor
row in All Parts of City
Tho curtailment of' milk deliveries by
,ealers In this city becomes effectlvo to
morrow. Tho early morning deliveries are
to be abandoned. The first will bo made
t 10 a. m. This schedule la to continue
throughout tho winter.
This order means that Philadelphia hdusc
lves no longer will find their bottle of
milk on the doorstep In the early morning
and that breakfast milk must bo purchased
the, day before
Bull Dog Bunting
Service Flags
Anr number of tar for
clubs, churches, faetorleii.
etc.. mad rRtlMI'Ti.v.
nr..M. . Arnnnrnwnts deals-lira to
iSV ,! for additional Mars, If deslrrd.
u.t free by return mall.
Louis Fink & Sons : Good Flags
"the llouae o rrompt Bcrtfec"
W N.7th Street (ab. Market, nr. Arch)
J"WCH STORK. 10 NOL-T1I BTH STKKKT
Stand Behind the Government
UBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
THIRD FINANCIAL DIHTKICT
., 101 H. Ftll'RTII HT I'llll-A.
Fountain Pen?
Wefit the Pnlni ' -r. '
laoyour Hand
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Above tiro shown two pictures of small purchasers of fuel, who tire chaiiroel pi ices that seem disproportionate,
even in an era of ascending living cost. One shows a Wood street grocery store, where twenty pounds of coal
in a scrubbing bucket is retailed at 10 cents, if the purchaser supplies a box or receptacle, a rate of !?11.'J0
a ton. Uy the bag, as shown in the "other pictuio, chaicoal costs 1 cent a pound or $22.10 a ton.
SMALL COAL CONSUMERS BILKED BY GROCERS
WHO GROW PROSPEROUS AT EXPENSE OF POOR
Paper Bags and Buckets Mediums by Which Unscrupulous Dealers
Increase Their Profits Some Net as High as $20 a Ton Evening
Ledger Investigation Discloses Serious Abuses"
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AL coiiMimers of central Philadelphia
re palng all tho way from $11 20 to
$20 for coil bought bv the paper-bag and
bucket plans. Many grocers in this section
openly aio df fling tho law by giving short
weights, both In bags and baskets. This
has been proved conclusively bv an Investi
gation mndtft by tho Hur-MU of Weights and
Measures, aided by lepreseut.itlvcs of the
Hvcmno I,ni)tii:n.
"Coal of no special weight just coal"
wn handed out by dealoni In this hcctlon,
bounded by Hlglitli and Sixteenth streets
and Itaco and Spilng Harden btrcets, In
flvf.-elghth bushel lots, in detlanco of tho
act Of July 14, 1913, which fixes the weight
of a bushel at seventy-five jiounds and de
crees that "any vender htlllng any sub
division of a bushel nuibt give weight ex
actly propoitlonate to that bushel."
Is this law purely a dead letter In Phila
delphia? At a corner grocery on North Sixteenth
street near Pace tho Investigating party
put chased for fourteen cents n paper bag of
coal purporting to contain eighteen pounds
of coal net, and -o marked on the bag This
bag when weighed liter at tho Hureau of
Weights and Measures was found to welsh
lflai pounds, including tho weight of tho
bag. Tho bag bears tho print of a coal dealer
on Ilclgrad-5 Mreet, ono of tho three larger
dealers specializing just now on the distri
bution o' coal In paper bags.
liven assuming that the bags had been
full weight, as stamped, the consumer Is
paying at tho rnto of closo to $10 a ton for
toal purchased by this method.
Hags of coal aro offereil also by another
grocer, also on North SlNteenth street near
Vine. Ho cairics bags In two sizes; nut coal
In bags purporting to contain clrfTiteeif
pounds; pea coal in bags claiming twenty
three pounds. Iloth sizes sell at thirteen
cents, ono cent less than the price at tho
first store, Tho x-arlatlon of one cent or bo
a bag seems to worry these dealers llttlo.
At thirteen cents this grocer Is still clear
ing tho neat profit of two cents per bag, or
J1.S0 per ton at tho expenso of you, tho
consumer.
The eighteen-pound bag In this caso was
found to contain full weight. Tho twenty-threo-pound
bag. however, was short by
ono pound two ounces, plus tho weight of
tho bag; tho gross weight being JTouud to
be twenty-ono pounds fourteen dunces.
Accidental, possibly. "Kvery Imb weighs
different," supplemented this grocer.
At tho corner grocery near 1'leventh and
Wood streets coal Is sold looso by tho
ROOFING
MATMUAI.S ,
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Main 4000 Market 5S4
Iastic Hosiery & Abdominal Supporters
jriiNien nmi inwiliu -hippum
Our coojs ar nlwnia freih.
Only thi tteat Para rubber and
flneat allk oii'l linen thrsail
usrd. We make these to
order, thus amiurlnK you not
onlv frrxh eoous, but aUo a
perfect fit.
We also fit trusses and iruar
antre satisfaction.
Ezpert filters and lady at
trndant.
MI1NICIANH SDl'I'l.Y CO,
op iiiii.Ai)i::.ini.
1IA Houlh K.tli St.
N, V. for. Sankorn St.
Meenehan's New
Cafe
62d & Walnut Sts.
so many mllei out of their way "
to dine there again. You will
know why one you have, eaten
one of our
Sea-Food Grill Dinners,,
75c
Steaks Chops Salads
Muslo Every Evening
Dtnntr tcllt I awaiting vou
vou phoae Ilclmonl C(HH
for latl rsaervalion.
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bucket at ten cents per bucket. How miny
pounds vou pet oh, cotno ' Surely our
not going to quibble over a trlllo like that?
"That's Just as It luns," tho grocer said.
At the UuriMii of Weights nnd .Measures It
wa.s found to r tin twenty pounds of coal for
ten cents after deducting t,lic weight of
the bucket.
Tho bucket, by thoVay, Is of the scrub
bing varletj. di-.Kncd by its tinker to hold
ten quarts of liquid measure It would be
splltfng hairs, doiibtlers, to ral.e tho point
that every liquid quait contains 0'i cubic
Inches Irss than every dry quait. so that
In bulng ten quarts, wet mcasuie, of coil
.vou aie really getting but pshaw, what's
tho use?
A grocer on North Tenth street near
Vino gives approximately tho samo weight
of coal, twenty pounds, but in a wooden
basket, and charges for it eleven, not ten
cents. "Very haul wo,k. ' ho observed In
disgust, after transferring tho contents of
Him bucket to a, paper bag tor ur con
venience Put his Is nothing to tho hardship blip-'
poited by a grocer on Wood street near
eighth In handing out "Just coal" In btand
ard twenty-quart basket lots. "It's no spe
cial weight, lady," tho grocer, martjr-IiUe,
repeated several times.
Dags of coal aro banked in front nf his
bliop, but selling looso by tho bucket Is ad
Furniture at Half and Less in the
Linde Clearance Sale,
The sweeping reductions on high-grade, year-round Furniture,
Rugs and Carpets are positively astounding. When we determine
to sacrifice a piece we cut deep to insure its speedy departure.
Hundreds of wonderful bargains await the shrewd buyers who
are quick to appreciate real value.
To the home maker who has a house or apartment to
furnish, the householder who desires to re-furnish a room
or the seeker after sensible, practical gifts this sale
presents a wonderful opportunity. See the bargains. They
speak for themselves.
$62.50 Living Room Suit; three
Covered in Imperial Sp'aniih leather,
strictly guaranteed for long service.
$95 Four Piece Bed Room Suit,
Bureau 42-in. long. Chiffonier 33-in.
3 beveled mirrors. Bed full size.
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9160 Four Piece Dining Room Suit, $05. In
Mahogany. Buffet 54-in. long. China Closet 44-in.
39-in. long. Extension Table 48-ln. top.
Open Monday
and Friday
Evenings
HENRY LINDE
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23rd Street,' Columbia
mittedly bis favorite method Why not?
Uy test, ono of these b.ibketfulu Is found
to contiln lorty-one and one-half pounds.
Instead of the forty-six and beven-elghths
pounds (Ilvo-e'ghths of a seventy-live-pound
bushel) to which jou aro actually
utltled ,y law.
Trolley nnd Auto In jure Two
llilty Cap1) tit. twenty-four jears old,
-OJ7 Itlilge a vi iiue, wna knocked down by
a Molli-v n nt Tvvcnt -eighth and Jeffer
son stmts list night while em her way
home. ,M was iciiioved to St, Joseph's
Hospital," hiiili'ilng ftoiti tc.ilp wounds
Stamford pollaul, hlx arH old. 'J'Jli Tutuer
ilrei't, vilille plajlng near Ills home was
struck last nlKlit by an automobile driven
by Joseph A unker, 4110 Spruro btrect.
He was tenioved to the Noi tliwcstcru tie.iv
eral llosplt.il, sulTerlng from a fracturo of
the right Kg. Yuuker was held by .Magis
trate Collins toilay for a tuither healing.
New Civil Service Examinations
Civil service examinations nro to bo held
as fdlovvn: Kor Junlur cheinlcal engineer,
$1"0( to SVU0, on Deiiinber 5; for ore
dressing cngliKor. $J4i)0 to f.T'.UO, mid as
sistant In lumbering, JHOUO to JIOOO, uli
Iecember IS. Thebc positions aro open to
men only.
pieces, $45. Mahogany frames
Workmanship and inner materials
$60. Old Ivory or Golden Oak.
long. Toilet Table 34-in. long,
American Walnut or
wide. Serving Table
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and Ridge Avenues
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One of tho moil Important meetings of
the Hoard of I-Mucatlon In many years will
be held today at -1 P. m. ,ln the Keystone
Itulldlnir. Nineteenth street above Chest
nut. Formal ictlon will be tako ralsliiR the
school tax rate to s hiIIIh, In lino with
tho recommendations of the finance com
mittee. .
Tho board Is nleo required to determlno
today how tho fund of $300,000 available
for Increased salaries for teachers i-un be
distributed bo as to satisfy ill tenchcrs.
A lively contest Is expected on tho recom
mcdatlon of tho elementary schools com
mlttco that ono associate and two dlstilct
superintendents be dispensed with..
Strong opposition has dev eloped In the
board niralnst this plan. It was predicted
vesterday by otllclals f the bonril, and liv
several prominent men not runnrcted with
the school system, that tho adoption of
this resolution would result In u tonlllc
storm breaking over the hool s stein
This will result In H eompletc nlrliiK if
the whole cdue.itlonnl situation, it Is bald
fias Cuuscs Death of Old Negress
Oas polsonliu; caused tho death toclav
of Mrs ltosr Jl Hrown, mi e-lKhty-j ear-old
ncRress, 1S47 North Tajlor stii'ct, at the
I.ankenau Hospital, as a result of turning
a Jet by accident.
Girard Alumni Flair Kai.sed
The l"! Irani CoIIcko alumni have raised
a hervlce Hag vvlth 210 stais, in front of
the alumni house at 1502 l'oplar street It
was presented by the Twentieth Century
Decade organization of tho alumni.
JEOldwellcV(o.
THE WRIST WATCH
for Military Men and
Devotees of Outdoor Sports
Gold and Silver
Unbreakable, Non-explosive Crystal
Sanitary, Damp Proof Khaki Band
Convenient, Identification Clasp
Hands and Numerals
Visible in Darkness
Mann & Dilks
1102 CHESTNUT ST.
Ladies' &? Misses'
Plainlailored
Suits ana 1 op
Coats
Tyrol Wool Suits nre the
prevailing style their sim
plicity hua character.
Tyrol Wool is positively the
best fabric ever made for
outdoor use.
Needs no pressing and ha
endless wear.
Tyrol Wool Suits and Coat
in girls' sis 10 to 15
years.
Also
Stetson s Velour Hats
Mann & Dilks
1102 CHESTNUT ST.
Just Received!
A Biiccial lot of
Kuidistuns, Moa-
aouls, Daahestun.
etc., in sizes ranginu
from
3x5 to J,x7 feet, at
$.15 io f.JS
Kortli from
$55 to $00
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Stop suffering from Bright' Disease, Rheumatism,
(Tout, Diabetes, etc. Drink daily 8 to 12 glasses of
Mountain
Valley Water
Pure, tasteless a delightful table water
IsCt u send sou letter ehowtne what It has
Uone for other rhttadetphUna, Call, write or phono
gt.f 718 Chestnut Street Sfffl-Vt"'
Krrve.l nt leadlnc Clubs. Hotels. Cafes and P. II. It. Dining Cars.
Hold In cases, ana cssks by Itm-ctaas Grocers. Drag-gists and Win
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Aviators Fighting With French
Receive Commissions From
Home Government
AMi:mcAN kii:m HiunQtunTnits,
KIIANCK, Nov. 13,
All American avintors now lighting In
the Krcch nrmy weie today formally com
missioned ollleers In the I'nlted States army
aviation service The famous Lafayette
llsoadrllle of Americans was Included,
Knmn of the new American fivers will
continue temporarily vvlth their present com
mands and under Krcnch direction until
they are cnllul upon for active service with
tho American expeditionary forces A great
many airmen however, will Join the Ameri
can colors nt once.
Flowers f
rom
CTha Sign ofthc &osa
arc always fresh.
Four shipments daily.
Send a
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Oriental Rugs
Rare Values
TVTO TWIT HSTANDING
" the present scarcity and
advancing cost of importation,
many of our finest pieces in this
offering represent no advance
over our former low prices.
Hardwick & Magee Co.
1220 MARKET ST.
the Clothes!
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The Finest Fabrics
of the Season; the
Finest Tailoring
that can be done; a
Swing and Smart
ness in the style a
little ahead of the
nearest imitation
and Values that
you cannot dupli
cate at the Prices
in any store that
did not buy as
early and as ad
. vantageously a s
Perry's !
Take our advice and
supply your needs today!
CJ Evening Dress Suits
and Tuxedo Suits of
fine Bird's-Eye Coat
ings, full lined with
silk, or skeleton lined,
some satin faced, and
silk pipings on collar,
pockets and cuffs $25
to $50 for Tuxedo Coat
and Trousers; $28 to
$50 for Dress Coat
. and Trousers. Sepa
rate Vests, $3.50, $4,
$5, $6.
Fur-Collar Over
coats Collars of Beav-
er, Otter, Hudson Seal
for which the skins
were carefully selected
from thousands $55,
$60, $65, $75, $85.
flOVERCOA TS
Big, fleecy Coats, dou-ble-breasters,
with
half belts, full all
around belts, or ho
belts at all Raglans
with Belts and without
belts; Velvet Collars
and Cloth Collars
Single - Breasters of
every variety $18 '
$20, $25, $30 to $65. ,
jj And Business Suitsr
both single - breasted
and double - breasted,
belted or plain of.
ouy, smug-iiniug iui, , jy
young fellows; com- i
tori comumcu wiui
style for older men who
want to be young $18,
$20, $25, $30 to $48.
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