'' Y I ' . t 5 : f IB !'! w TU 7 " ,M EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHIIDELPHIA'. FEIDAY," DHJCEMBlte iif M7 V rv - . - ;,, ) t WHEN IS ABANQUET EGG PROFITEERS BOARD GETS PLANS Ifc&srtffi .teras.K . w . f -, SIMON-PURE OFFICIAL?' COOKE'S NEXT PREY' TO BRIDGE DELAWARE Wi r iVj ' Here's a Problem That Puz zles Prospective Guests of Two Dinners Food Administrator Plans ! Largest Suspension Span Campaign to Stabilize and Lower Prices World Feature of Proposed Structure HA R RIG AN PEE VEDJTO AMEND STORAGE LAW I TOTAL COST, Calls His-rcllow Magistrates' Feast "Spite Work," but Squire Rick ards Jest Laffs Aim to Hold Dealers to Fair Profit and Conformance to Regulation Mighty Arch Will Carry tomobilcs and .1000 trie Cars of which 112,000,000 would lio New Jer ney'd share on both the Delaware bridge nnd tlio Itudnon tunnel- TllA nlotll tnw Vi rn.1llAna1Mlltllt1f1 I phln bridge embrnce n width of 114 feet with a rmulnay of SO feet, and there are 1,1 to be two tracks on ench Klde of the roadway for rapid transit. There nisi ' nro to he two pronlennden twehr feet wide, to whlih oniHlutcirH will lend The ninncltv of the )ironsed bridge will be 6000 automobiles and 3000 elce- $9,940,000 I tr' "" H" l'ur without crowding. It I Is etlmated that the croislii will bo made In about one hundred second. The hrldge, according to the plans, would be located Juki north of Arch street, l'hll.itlcliililii, and north of Cooper street, Ciiinden Tlie engineers recommend the bridge In prefereme to a tunnel sMKre'Sl 5000 Au-Elec- Squlre M. V. Ilarrlgan. of Paoll, nas that the whole trouble nppenrB to hae bAen fbiA In "nlti unfit" nn the lisrt of Squlro C. Scott KIcKard-, but h(iulre '1:''"',el,n.!n- fo"'P ,ft Icn"th ' , Terence with C J Hepburn, counic lucKnrus, oi iuoorcs, rciues 10 gel inuu. lie Jest laffs. Squire Harrlgan will hold, his Magis trates' banquet as tier original schedule, December 20. Squire Hlckards will hold Ms Magistrates' banquet ns. per original schedule. In March Squire Illckard asserts that his Magistrates' banquet Is the only pfTlclal blown-ln-tho-bottlc Magistrates' banquet Squire lTarrlgnn A Vigorous campaign nftiltut egg profiteers will be Inaugurated by Jav Cocke, federal food admlnlstrttor for. con nbtirn. rolinsel f.ir the ndmlnlstrntlon In l'cnnstanla. to dav at the food ofllces In the Finance building Price nnd distribution will he stabilized, nnd hope Is expressed that tho price may be reduced It Is predicted that tho opinion, ex press! unofficially cterdny by frauds Shunk Ilrown. Attorney fleneral of rennsIxanln. In which he snld that the Federal food laws should supersede the State laws In nil cises where so dolred I bv the food administration, will qhoi does not nssert that bis own Magls-' V,'a,,nV,n rnt " V' ls 1,mvcr "tnU,lz,nK trates' banquet Is official, but ho adds "Hrlhutlon and price. The text of the i that so far as an official bitmuet of the . foFma.1 .0"l,.,l.on '" Ihl" point will he re- Magistrates' and Constables' Association' ZV ...... "",. CUJ' UUrInB ",0 ""' parl Is concerned, there ain't no such anlmllc Again Squire niikards jest laffs. TIUJNTON. Dec. 14 rians wero submllted today to the New Jersey Delaware ltlver Hrldge and Tunnel Commission by Wnddcll & Son. consulting engineers, of New York, for the proposed ne Delaware lller brldgo from Philadelphia to C.imden. Tlie bridge Is t be of tile suspension tipe, with ejebar chains, declared to be MORE THAN 300 ROOKIES ARRIVE AT CAMP MEADE Ittf n btaff CorrcvoHtlrnt CAMP MI:aDI: Admiral. Mil. Dec 14 More than 300 oluntcers hno nr rhcil at Utile Penn during the lart a better tpe than cable bridges, not twcut.wfotir hours nnd until quirtcrs The resentment on the part of Squire Ilarrlgan began two or three Unjs ago, when District Attorney Ilotnn announced that the Harrlgan banquet had been can celed, the promoters promising him, he said, that they would return tho sub scription fees which they fad receded Mr, Ilotan's announcement fo'lowed a complaint made to him by K. T, Motcs- of next week 1 It was pointed out by Mr. Cooke to day that under the present Stnto law ieggs put Into cold storage In April must bo rclfased during tho first part rf December The April eggs are known as "hard" They will keep In cold stor age much better than the eggs of nnv I other month In the ear Following the I release of these April eggs the market advances to prohlbltue prlcei In Janu- only In appearance, but In stiffness and economy Its center span Is to tic ii feet from center to center of the plenr. the largest suspension span In the world. The total estimated cost Is $9.9(0 000, of which New Jere's share would be J4. 570,000 nnd Pennslnnla's share $5,370,000 i:xcluslc of the .ipprmUies the cost of tho bridge would be $6,540,000. The commission considers the bridge oor tho Delaware, and the proposed nro proUdcd for them nt ricular nnm and National (Juard camps, the new re el ults will rvtn iln here Mnn of the men enlisted for sen Ice In nlatlon units, although a maJorlt will bo assigned to (nfantrj regiments In tho tegulnr arm v. They raino front points In Mnr.xland and Ptnns)lnnla nnd during thilr stay at this cuiip will be housed in the barracks of the 151th Depot Hrlgudc Despite the bitter cold wne the tookles are 111 line spirits and tpbleular tunnel under tho Hudson be- spending their lirt dai as soldiers in nn tween New York and .lerscj City, as an effort to leirn camp songs nnd Indoor extension of the New Jersey Htato high- Barnes way sstcni and proposes to p ly fori I-st nights blizzard failed to stop these Improvements b a direct State tho camp's training ninchlncrj, although tax which would bo a continuation of I It bis Interrupted rlllo and bomb, the present State road tax The now tax lr utlce Illlus oer tho snuncl.ul bills would not go Into effect for four e.ns and lectures In the barracks featured I more, when tho road sjstem Is expected the dij's worl. i .- . .. . . ... . lmrv in i, ff,. ii.i whiln Mr kiin.. ' arj" anil l enruary u Keeping tneni in bury had received a dinner card, he did "f""" and releasing them evenly up to not know any of tho promoters. Mnrch 1 tho price will bo stabilized Squire Harrlgan Jssued an open letter Tho f"0'1 administration pledges Itself to tho public today, In which he said that to Prevent the price of these eggs from his banquet, which waa In honor oi ri"inK abt tlll normal for pist vcars Judge Charles K. Melville, president of, Vo promises of lower prices tlnn rormal tho Magistrates' and Constables' Asso-1 nre """! but It Is hinted that the prie clatlor, never claimed to be an official i "m " equalized throughout the entire banquet, and that If anjbody wanted I ar their money back they wcro welcome to' "We inter il to keep egg deajers, whole It. "It appears on the face of It" be i site and reatll, to a fair pmlt lly the said, "that thero lias been some spite I release of eggs from storage wo Intend work done on the part of cuo C Scott to stnhlllze tho price," Mr Cooko said Hlckards, a Magistrate, of Moore, I'a , 'The dealers have got to conform to the who Is secretary of the association, ami State and Federal laws or suffer the has beer the prime mover In a number pen ilt. AVe Intend to see tint an of magistrates' banquets held In the last dealers breaklrg the laws do pay the six or seven cars He has received all penaltj We will also prosecute an) the glory of banquets held In the pist one allowing food to spoil In stouige and nnd proposes to held one during the com- will protect the public from lnvlng bad Ing new car and probably Is Jeilous" food sold to them" When this letter cunc to Mr. ltlck.ird's, 1 lie state food officers were lnghlj attention he untiled at tho charge of1prals(d tulij b Administrator Cooke "splto work" on Ills part and said. ' Thev have all co-operated with us "It'H not a matter of Jealousy at nil splendldlj," ho said "The Stnte laws Harrlgan's a pretty decent fellow Wo llnxe tle1 tl,elr bands It lias been vlr haven't anjthlng whatever against hint tually Impossible to prevent the r.lo or He has been misled by one if tho men cold-storage eggs as fresh who got him into this and apparently I 'Tho new Federal law requires all he doesn't grasp tho situation The storage eggs to be so marked on the -iiaBisirates nnd Constables' Assucla- container It will now bo casv to nrc tlon began giving an utmuil dinner in March, U or seven jears ago, and, I starting with about sixty diners, we now havo a thousand or twclvo hun dred men at a' bunquct "When tho Harr gau banquet was started, we asked Its promotem not to take ndvantnge of the public b giving out the Impression that theirs was the I association's inquet, but they told us to 'go ahead and crack our whip' We I were obliged to send out hundreds of letters notifying business and profes sional men who have attended our ban quet regularly that we had nothing to do with the Harrlgan banquet They had received the Impression from the pro moters of the Ilarrlgan bnnquet, either directly or bj Implication, that It was vent this form of fraud Some months ago Herbert C Hoover requested all cinners of baked beins to stop their output In order to save tin This request was withdrawn today Tlie fallowing telegram vfns received nt tho o'llce of Howard Heinz, food administra tor for Pennsjlvanli, to "Recent developments make It possible for the I'nlted States Food Admlnlsf.i tlon to grant permission to canncrs of baked beans to use up accumiilnted sup plies nniHo tike care of Immediate or ders. Permits arc belntr mailed out Pending their recelnt canners who h.tce Hied their applications may begin pack- I ing. hi:rhi:rt c hoovi:r The supply of meat, eggs and other provisions now In cold storage In this the regular association banquet. That's ' State were reported as normal for this an mere is to it. we uidn t attack the "me or jear by Mr. Cooke. other banquet at all." An investigation Is being made Into Kvind words, ns the poet uajs, kjind the sugar situation by 'the ndmlnistra- Mords can never, never die tlon to determine tho adequacy of the I i present supply. The rdlclnl price Is Boy, Cleaning Revolver, Is Shot , 8 1B '" '5 6a a hundred pound wholo Russell Rhode-, sixteen ears old, of 'J1'8,1""1 W6" retail It Is hoped that 815 Ulrch street. Camden, Is In the ! " ln:r1Pa,01 ln he supply may reduce I Cooper Hospital ns a result of shooting Jh? "tall price An Investigation Is also himself In the wrist with a twentj-twc lnB niado of complalnt of food dealers! caliber revolver at his home, He was '" this city by Tgents rent here directly cleaning the weapon from Washington. "We're helping Mr. Hoover" Cut down your Bread consumption, and eat two of . DR tfEAi vorfs TfT 3li with each meal, buttered and very slightly heat ed. You will have perfect bowel action, normal digestion and a marked increase of physical strength. They contain no drugs. 'If you are taking medi cine now, discontinue gradually and then totally. The most severe cases of chronic constipation will be. relieved after the third or fourth pack age. 25c per package At all Drug and Grocery Stores, or direct from DR. VON'S HEALTH BISCUIT CO. , ' 2218-2220 Market Street . ft ", n ''. 3T5" ZX,4&$ Wcsr!Z.ser 3SBJ4ffiSKs Si il PSSSST iiKr;" - Tl'X'm AV .BANKSSB Pearl JNecklaces. Pearls for Necklaces llic Gift most appreciated Berkshire Hogs Win Over All Breeds in All Classes INTERNATIOAL LIVE STOCK SHOW Chicago Week of Dec. 3-8 Grand Champion Barrow Grand Champion Pen Grand Champion Carload Lot We Own on Our Ranch Two Full Brothers of the "Grand Champion" Four Litter Sisters of the Dam of the "Grand Champion" Twenty Daughters of the Sire of the "Grand Champion" These, together with hundreds of other Pure Bred Berkshirea, can be seen any day by visiting the Ranch. Booklet of photographs, descriptive literature and pass to visit the (Ranch upon application. Chester Valley Live Stock Farm, Inc. (The Largest Pure Bred Berkshire Brood Farm in the United States) E. C. DEUBLER, V. M. D., Supt. (Original Producer of Hog Cholera Serum in Penn i sylvania for Pennsylvania Live Stock Sanitary Board) RANCH New Centreville, Chester County, Pa. 15 Miles Out on C. V. R. R. (P. & R.) ' ' OFFICES Stock Exchange Building, Philadelphia, Pa. W are increasing our herd. No pigs for tale. SlBJ3JSI3S3I3fflSISS3!8I3MgSM3!SSGIMEEJ Liberty Bonds accepted as cash at par. Mail orders filled promptly, P ti r c h asing agents' orders accepted. Mason & DeMany 1 1 15 Chestnut Street Opposite Keith's r .1 ,iii Extra I art size coats up 50 butt meat' ure, cut In cor reef proportion all over. Repairing and remodeling at moderate prices. January Prices Here Ahead of Time in Our Great Fur Sale RIGHT into the middle of December and into the happy Christ mas crowds hunting for gifts we bring JANUARYSALE PRICES. aj any nave wished tor them so they might give furs. Many put off buying needed fiirs till first-of-the-year reductions. We Bring January Savings Now on Both Coats and Sets Tf VERY fur coat in stock is reduced. The ever-desirable -' Hudson seal coat in many, many styles. The lustrous, serviceable muslcrat coat in enchanting shadings of light and dark brown, some toning here and there almost to black. Daintily beautiful'mole coats, their lovely gray color being one of fashion's favorites. Superb natural mink coats. Magnificent ermine wraps. Aristocratic broadtail and caracul coats a wealth of, choice. Handsome fur sets are also among these sweeping reductions. Hudson seal sets that always give a rich, distin guished note to the costume. Pointed fox, beautiful and becoming. Red fox with its glowing color toned with rich dark markings. Taupe fox that blends so well with the season's smart suits. Serviceable and well-liked skunk. Many, many others. 1 I MEN WILL FIND HERE so many different things -to give, such variety in price and style, that they can quickly and easily settle the gift problem. A special force of men salespeople to wait on men customers. ' There is no delay. A small deposit will reserve your purchase, till Christmas. BEAUTIFUL FUR SETS AT DECISIVE SAVINGS III ULI-I! iMiici: iu:i)L'ci:u 'IO 39.50 Natural Raccoon Sets 24.50 42.50 Skunk Sets 28.00 49.50 Kamchatka Wolf Sets 32.50 49.50 Taupe Wolf Sets 32.50 54.50 Jap Cross Fox Sets 34.50 69.50 Red Fox Sets 44.50 r.Knm.ui i'iuci: iu:ii;ui:d TO 75.00 Hudson Seal Sets 54.00 75.00 Pointed Wolf Set 54.00 82.50 Jap Kolinsky Sets 59.50 87.50 Kamchatka Fox Sets 69.50 1 15.00 Natural Fisher Set 74.50 1 15.00 Cross Fox Sets 89.50 Note These Three SILKY WOLF SCARFS The desirable taupe or Kam chatka brown color. 14.50 Reduced from 24.50 Graceful animal scarf style i- -. . t - - v,' P jifr Very Attractive Offerings' FRENCH SEAL COATS Collar and cuffs of contrasting fur. 58.00 Regularly 84.50 to 110.00 Three-quarter length, flare models. Many with fur borders WHITE FOX SCARFS Style and becomingness combined. 22.50 Reduced from 37.50 Animal style, fluffy and full 4 ALL OUR FINEST COATS INCLUDED 1:1:01 i.m: i'iuci: r.l:i)ici:D TO 98.50 Sable Marmot Coat 74.50 145.00 Caracul Coats 98.50 175.00 Leopard Coat 135.00 165.00 Nutria Coats 135.00 225.00 Leopard Coat 165.00 245.00 Nutria Coats 185.00 275.00 Leopard Coat 195.00 285.00 Natural Squirrel Coats 225.00 295.00 Leopartl Coat 235.00 325.00 Leopard Coat 265.00 375.00 Mole Coat 275.00 375.00 Natural Squirrel Coat 295.00 EVERY MUSKRAT COAT I N STOCK IS IN THIS SALE nr.oi'i.Ai: i:t:nL'ci:u, mien to 395.00 Mole Coats .' 295.00 450.00 Mole Coats 345.00 575.00 Jap Kolinsky Coat 375.00 450.00 Mole Coat 395.00 650.00 Natural Mink Coat . . . . 445.00 675.00 Baby Caracul .v . . . . 475.00 875.00 Hudson Seal and Kolinsky Cape 565.00 975.00 Russian Kolinsky Coat 675.00 985.00 Mink Coat 745.00 985.00 Broadtail Coat 775.00 1 250.00 Ermine Wrap 945.00 1 250.00 Natural Mink Coat 975.00 ituii;t.Aii PIUCK nniu'CHD TO 98.50 Natural Muskrat Coat 74.50 125.00 Natural Muskrat Coat 89.50 1 55.00 Natural Muskrat Coat 1 1 0.00 175.00 Black Muskrat Coats 125.00 nnoui.Ai: rmci: ni:nucKD TO 1 85.00 Black Muskrat Coats . '1 35,00 1 95.00 Black Muskrat Coats 1 45.00 210.00 Natural Muskrat Coats 155.08 265.00 Natural Muskrat Coats 195.00 THE MUCH-WANTED HUDSON SEAL COATS ARE ALL REDUCED . IIKOL'I.AU i'iuci: . (i:i:ruci:D TO J 10.00 Hudson Seal Coats 74.50 135.00 Hudson Seal Coats 98.50 165.00 Hudson Seal Coats 120.00 185.00 Hudson Seal Coats 135.00 .1 95.00 Hudson Seal Coats 145.00 225.00 Hudson Seal Coats 165.00 245.00 Hudson Seal Coats 185.00 265.00 Hudson Seal Coats ,. . . 195.08 295.00 Hudson Seal Coats. . . , 225.88 nnc.ui.An . nnmiouD IMUCK TO 325.00 Hudson Seal Coats . . . . 245.88 365.00 Hudson Seal Coats 288.88 375.00 Hudson Seal Coats 275.18 395.00 Hudson Seal Coats 2S5.M 425.00 Hudson Seal Coats 388.M 425.00 Hudson Seal Coats -31S.M 450.00 Hudson Seal Coats 345.M 475.00 Hudson Seal Coats. . . ? j 4.Wt Hudson SMl.U9k.-v. ... . .v .. i IV 1 " ( Vim- ;- i ' f i 8 tt. m iv i , Hit! :M v. yv r , ' ? i i m "x&f-.m m - 1 ' - " ""
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