tl'-lrwrfuljgfv t i - - -v -y, .'"'r f't-'iHr-!Bor' r "" 'r!rjir'VTiiis' ".'ipyjwgptiisyy? EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, 'AUGUST 18, 1919 &" " " 'S'"'.V'tf business hit BY N. Y. CAR STRIKE Thousands Lato for Work After Braving Rain and Traffic Congestion 1. R. T. TIE-UP IS COMPLETE By the Associated Press New Yorlt, Auk. IS. Forced to reach Its offices by devious routes In n rain- . .. . !1 X..... n.t nntn.Ail Ii BlQrm, cuiuiihtuihi m: luin iiiiv'ni ! tho second day of Its traction fctrlko with resentment In its heart, With IntcrborotiRh subways and clc- Vfltcds completely tied up, the city's millions this mornlns battled their way 5nto such surface cars as were running, or Into buses nnd .moving vans hastily "organized Into semblance of a transpor tation system. Residents of upper Manhattan and the Bronx suffered most. Many, tie BpairinK of ever rearhing'the financial tip of the island by other than extraor dinary means, twice crossed the Hud son in n three-hour trip to their of fices. Ferrying from 12!)th street to Fort Lee, they made their way down the Jersey side to the Hudson tubes and thence rccrossed to Manhattan, 'The city operated several motor bus ni. ohm-i-inc n ten-cent fare, but pri vate buses, " trucks and automobiles charged from fifty rents to ?1. BTokers and financiers Hastening to "Wall street in their automobiles ar rived In the business district with the greatest numbers of clerks and stenog raphers to whom they could offer a "lift." In many rases the, owner of the car seated lilmseit oesuie nis cnaui ,feur, leaving the dry comfort of closed cars for girl employes. Offices Late In Opening .Many offices and stores were late in opening. Almost every employe was late and it was not until 10 o'clock that lower Broadway took on its usual busi ness day appearance. Service on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway entering Manhattan the only underground in operation on the island was increased 2,"i per cent because of the strike, while Hudson and East river ferryboat lines hastily reorganized their schedules, plying back and forth ns rapidly as it was pos sible to take on passengers and dis charge them. ' But New York found that, with its main traffic arteries crippled, it was a difficult task to find extra means to han dje the 1,260,000 passengers carried tach day by the subways and the 1,111, 000 by tho elevated. Tho first disorder attending the strike occurred this morning at the Inter borough power house at Seventy-fourth Manhattan Isle's New Sport, Walking in Rain Residents -of Manhattan Isle, de prived of subways and "els," made n wild scramble this mornHig for such surface cars as were running. Thousands were packed Into mov ing vans, buses, trucks, horse drnwn buggies nnd other private vehicles, nt rates from fifty cents up. Extra railroad trails and ferries were opernted. Thousands walked '-- work In the rain. ' Roller skating suddenly became popular. Benevolent financiers with autos gave a "lift" to Wall street clerks. Taxi drivers worked n gold mine. Many Bronx residents twice crossed the Hudson In a desperate three-hour trip to their offices. BRITAIN TO TAKE OVER COAL INDUSTRY Lloyd George Says Conditions Require Drastic Measures to Avert Ruin WAR'S TERRIFIC SEQUEL street and the East river, v.'lien two Italians leaving- the building were sur rounded by 100 strikers, who demanded to know if they had been working there. Police with drawn clubs dispersed the crowd. District Attorney Martin, of Bronx county, today began an investigation of reports that strikers Tiad informed po licemen that they did not care how long the strike lasted because they were being paid anyway and that certain loynl employes' who reported for work yesterday were told by officials to leave tho railway yards because a btrike was in progress. Pity officials and others who have charged that there was collusion be tween the Interborough Comnany nnd its striking employes to obtain n fare increase by the ftrike said they re garded as significant the fact that no attempt has been made by the company to operate any of its subwny or ele vated lines since the strike was called. Strikers voted today to Invite Mayor Tlylan to address them tonight nt their headquarters. His request that they meet him in Mndison Square Cardon at any hour of the day or night was refused. Pittsburgh. Auc. IS. (By A. P.) A suit asking $000,000 damages was filed this afternoon by the receivers of: the Pittsburgh Railways Company against the local division of the Amal gamated Association of Street and Elec tric Railway Employes, alleging breach of contract by .",000 striking motormen nnd conductors who have tied up trolley transportation here since last Thursday mmnignt, wnen tney rejected tnc na tional war labor board's award of a five-cent an hour wage increase. Boys Pavor Bath Pools Nearly two-thirds of the bathers in the city's swimming pools last week were boys, according to the reports from the board of recreation. The total number of bathers was 208.037, of whom 121,2."4 were boys. The girls came next with .IS, 411 followed by 37, 014 ns n total for the men and women swimmers numbered 11,058. By the Associated Press London, Aug. 18. The British Gov ernment hns accepted the policy of the state purchase of mineral rights in coal. This announcement was made by Pre mier Lloyd (ieorge In the House of Com motis today. He said the government could not ac cept Justice Sankey's scheme for the state Vurihase of mines, but had ac cepted In principle his plan for the. uni fication nnd recognition of the coal in dustry. He declared that coal was the chief factor in the Industrial situation and added that the outlook was indeed dark unless the conditions which he stat.-d were changed. He continued: "In America the wages nrc higher, hours of labor nre no longer and the inhor cost in proportion to the nrticlr produced is less. This being the case, competition is impossible and no tariff will remedy this." Adverse Trade Balance $, 000,000, 000 In discussing the financial and in dustrial situation, the premier said be fore the war imports had exceeded ex ports from the Pnlted Kingdom bv 150.000.000 ($7."0.000.000). Receipts from foreign Investments nt present are down to 100,000,000, while Great Britain has to pay back an adverse trade balance of SOO,000,000. "Wo must bridge that chasm or at the bottom of it is ruin," he said. "We nre building a temporary bridge by borrowing, not only state borrowing but traders borrowing for raw material, food and so forth. That will only add to the catastrophe. "In every ilrectlon we nrc spending more. We n earning less. We are consuming more and wo nru producing less. These are facts. It cannot last. Gigantic Price of War The war cost 40,000,000,000 ($200. 000,000,000), the premier said. Most of this sum was spent for purposes of de struction. The national debt, he declared, had grown from 041.000.000 ($,20.'j,000, 000) to 7.800,000,000, ($30,000,000, 000). After pointing out that the British pound nt present was worth In the I'nited States only l"Vi shillings, the premier said : "We shall never Improve matters un til we inrrease production, or we will be driven later to reduce even lower the standard of living In this country. There Is no other alternative except quitting the i country for which we fought for fotir years." CLOUDBURST IN READING Great Damage Wrought by Heaviest Rain In a Generation Reading. Pa., Aug. 18. (By A. P.) A cloudburst carrying five and a quar ter inches of rnin, the heaviest for a generation, broke over this city last 'night. Many sections of the city were j flooded nnd damage estimated at $2000 Jor more was done to the linesof the Metropolitan Electric Company. Automobiles floated away in the flooded streets and the breaking of a small dam In Mineral. Springs Park flooded East Heading to a depth of three feet, the water rising to the first floor of many' homes in that section. Bare Safe, but Leave Booty When the office of the Kolb Baking Compauy at 1401 South Tenth street was opened today it was found that robbers had bored holes into the safe, but had not foiced it open. It is be lieved the thieves were frightened away I when their work was half mushed. 'u side the t-afe, it is said, was about I $2000. LETVIA PLEADS FOR AID I Premier Asks U. S. to Rellev Spreading Famine Washington, Aug. 18. Premier TJ11- man, of the Lettish government, in a cablegram from Llhati to the Associ- ' ated Press, declared that, unless re lief In the shape of food were forth- ' coming uitliiii n very few days, suffer- , ing would be widespread In Letvla, and that all work done by the American : relief administration through funds from the $1,000,000 congressional appropria- tion would be nullified. I Letvla, he cabled, also faces the! danger of bnlshcrlsm being engendered , through famine. j KIDNAP I. W. W.JPEAKERS Two Men and a Woman Disappear Before Colorado Meeting Walsenlwrc, Col., Aug. IS. (By A. P.)--Cltl7.ens of Walsenburg kid nnpped three alleged members of the I. W. W., scheduled to speak nt n mnss-meetlng here, anil the whereabouts of the thrre. one of whom is a woman, is unknown to the sheriff. One I. W. W. organizer. John Shank, wns arrested, charged with car rying concenled weapons. & a --. Recently Opened Household Science KitcVien 1019 ARCH ST. Tlie unlfiu feature of thin ltinr-h room I that the tonkins nnd nerlnc is ty graduate nf the Household Frlnire departments of net tle Creek. Drexcl. Templs nnd other roiiegea. under the dl fen inn, of un experienced dlctitinn LUNCHEONS 50c and 60c Mondays Roast Turkey 5c nailv Speetala nt 35 cents. Tastv salads and sand w tenet Quick Sen. ice No Tipping. l!ill!l!lIlillill!!III!!IliOi!:i!linil!l' ; llTOIWllllilllllllillllM Formerly 1115 Chestnut Street lllllllilllllllllllllllllilllitllllllllllllllllllllliilililllllllllll'llllllllllllllllll M & Demand Sale Revolution ! THERE is one going on right now in the moving picture business. Its' other name is 'Single Selling. Single Selling means that instead of forcing whole programs on exhibitors with the chance that there might be one good picture tucked away in a mediocre mass, the big manufacturers are now sell ing picture by picture. This means a lot to you. It means that you and your community can so influence your exhibitors that you will see the pictures you most want to see and skip the others. As a result moving pictures will, go ahead faster than ever. They will be bigger and better every way. Photoplay, the leading Magazine of the Moving Picture World welcomes this rev olution. It has worked hard to bring it about. Wherever, the fight for better pictures is waged, Photoplay is up- on the front line. Photoplay's readers the country over arc keen for better pictures and they know that their favorite magazine isiout to get them. THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE MAGAZINE PHOIDPW JAMES R. QUIRK, Publisher Tahe the Stptembtr Photoplay for imtance' if your dealer has one left. - ao cents the copy 2.00; tnc year , II if ' HI I'- aWson 1215 Chestnut Street Of Greater Importance Than Ever Commencing Today Our i 1 Annual Fur Greater by reason of greater collections, comprising greater varieties styles end furs, but especially greater by reason of the Savings of 20 to 45 Per Cent. aving planned for large exten sion of business, consequent on our Removal from 1115 Chestnut Street, to our vastly more spacious quarters in our present location, we planned for our Fur Sale for 1919 on a scale hith erto scarcely comprehended. We bought huge quantities of skins last season and manufactured them during the summer when labor costs were low est. These advance purchases enable us to make i Extraordinary Offers In consequence, we are selling Furs 20 to 25 per cent less than the prevailing prices. The extra Sale discount of an other 20 per cent makes a double sav ing for Sale purchasers. A Small Deposit Will Reserve Your Purchase in Our PriJ&' Vaults Until Desired wr of Ermit Wrap 1250 &. H fWPf WIW 'ooW$ V 9 Seal and Squirrel Coal 194.00 Specimen Fur Coat Values SALE 97.50 Marmot Coats 78.00 167.50 Natural Muskrat Coats. .134.00 155.00 Natural Nutria Coats 124.00 167.50 Australian Seal Coats. ...134.00 242.50 Hudson Seal Coats 194.00 '305.00 Hudson Seal Coats 244.00 310.00 Hudson Seal Coals 248.00 Also Extra-Size Coats Up 367.50 492.50 617.50 617.50 875.00 1185.00 1170.00 Scotch Moleskin Coats. Beaver Coats Hudson Seal Wraps Moire Caracul Coats Scotch Moleskin Wraps Natural Mink Wraps. . . Broadtail Wraps to "50 Bust SALE 294.00 394.00 00 494.00 694.00 948.00 975.00 Stple 8 55 72, 85, 92 92 97, 110 117 245. 330 SALE .00 Seal Stoles . . . 44.00 ,50 Kolinsky Stoles 58.00 .00 Hudson Seal.. -68.00 !.50 Mole Stoles... 74.00 .50 Mink Stoles... 74.00 .50 Skunk Stoles.. 78.00 .00 Squirrel Stoles 88.00 ,50 Beaver Stoles. 94.00 .00 Black Lynx... 196.00 Hud. Bay Sable.. 264.00 55.00 80.00 92.50 92.50 110.00 122.50 122.50 137.50 435.00 492.50 Sets Gray Wolf.. Taupe Wolf, Beaver Sets. Brown Fox.. Mink Sets.. . Black Lynx. Taupe Fox.. Skunk Sets. Silver Fox. . Blue Fox... SALE 44.00 . 64.00 74.00 74.00 88.00 98.00 98.00 110.00 348.00 394.00 Scarfs 30.00 Taupe Wolf. 30.00 Brown Wolf 35.00 Taupe Fox . 35.00 Brown Fox. 420 Hudson Seal 42.50 Black Wolf. 60.00 Jap Cross... 92.50' Cross Fox.. . 205.00 Blue Fox. 367.50 Silver Fox SALE 24.00 24.00 28.00 28.00 34.00 34.00 48.00 74.00 164.00 294.00 Coatees 122.50 Seal Coatees Sale 98.00 137.50 Nutria Coatees... Sale 110.00 242.50 Mink Coatees Sale 194.00 280.00 Squirrel Coatees.. Sale 224.00 377.50 Kolinsky Coatees.Sale 294.00 Choker Scarfs 37.50 Natural Mink Sale 30.00 55.00 Stone Marten Sale 44.00 72.50 Hudson Bay SablcSale 5&00 110.00 Fisher Sale 88.00 180.00 Russian Sable Sale 144.00 tChargd Accounts SolicitcdygiMail Orders Filled STEM BRIDGE & CLOIHIE Stop and Consider What a Really Wonderful Thing It Is to Choose Any Piece of FURNITURE at a Reduction! The August Furniture Sale is breaking all records, of course. But tho rush for Furniture would surely be even greater if everybody fully realized the advantages it presents. Furniture manu facturers are behind with their orders. Cost of produc tion is high, with no indication of being reduced We had a large stock on hand on August 1st a store full and a ware house full also shipments arriving from lime to time during this month. The regu lar prices on the greater part of this Furniture were based upon lower costs of the past year or more. Notwithstand ing all these facts The Price of Every Piece of Furniture We Own Is Reduced And our stock is comprehensively complete in all lines beautiful Furniture in great variety for BEDROOM DIT ING-ROOM, LIBRARY and LIVING-ROOM and hundreds of single pieces or novelities. rlnthlr rurnltur. TMM rinor :ilnl ,!MinR I'nurth Plonr, Cut New Plaids Just in tho new Wool Plaids for autumn, surpassingly beau tiful, and in tones to charm an artist. The assortment is large nnd varied, but scissors have been so busily clicking ever since these Plaids were opened up that we would advise look ing them over immediately. Prices range from $4.60 to $6.50 a yard. Htmwbrlds riothir Alule 7. Ontre Health -Promoting Nemo Corsets Wearers of Nemo Corsets are assured of comfort, bodily sup port where needed, all combined with shapely, correct figure lines. A model for overy type of figure from tho young slip of a girl to the ovrr-stout woman: Nemo Self-Ucducing $4.00 to S8.r.o Nemo Wondcrlift S7.00 to $13.50 Nemo Marvrlacc S7.50 to 512.00 N'emo Kopservico $.1.50 to $10.00 Nemo .Tuspul Rrassieres $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 filniulirlcljt" rinfhlT Thin) Floor, Marknt .Slr'ft. Wt h Ptrautrlr1ff M'lal lli-,ll.-,rs SPECIAL 3,000 Women's Vests at 20c An unusual lot of 3000 Rib bed Cotton Vests low neck, sleeveless, in regular sizes, less than regular price to morrow at 20c each. StrawbrMp A Clothlfr Marlctt Ntrrn '"ross Aisle Two Hundred Men's and Young Men's Suits Reduced $26.50 c ., X,V "' "lK .',njOK- "",""',e i tne several groups in our Reduction Sale ot Spring suits. 1 hese are m good styles, light and medium weights, mixtures and plain colors. A very exceptional saving at $26.50. Other groups of cloth Suits in the Sale at reduced prices now $19.50 to $34.50. Also two-piece Suits of thin summer fabrics, now $11.75, $13.50 and $16.50. I- - .strawbrldue Clothier Srcond Floor. East Men's Fine Silk Four-in-Hands Under Price $1.15, $1.35, $1.45 An average saving of about one-third and these Four-in-hands are ALL NEW. Many of those at $1.45 arc made of silk from.Como, Italy. Special purchases from some of the foremost manufacturers of this country. sti-jwiiriiUc a rioihior AI'o 1. .Mark. a Street Muslin Underwear Wanted Kinds PETTICOATS Of white sat ine trimmed with hemstitching $1.75. NIGHT GOWNS With high or surplice neck. Of soft cam bric trimmed with tucks and em broidery $2.00 to $3.50. ENVELOPE CHEMISE a hemstitched model of white or flc3h-color Windsor crepe $1.50. MARCELLA DRAWERS of cambric.trimmcd with embroidery $1.25. PAJAMAS in several pretty styles; some in batiste, others of crepe, but not all sizes in every model $2.75 to $4.50. BtrviwUrMuo S Olothlfr Third Floor, West Leather Brief Cases $4.50 to $26.00 Of interest to business men and women this group of exception ally good Brief Cases, strongly made of durable black or brown cowhide. All have leather han dles, secure lock and catches; some with two or three pockets, others with four or five; in sizes from 0x12 inches to 13x17 inches. Strawbrldee & L'lothlrr Aisle 6, Center Men's $hirts Special at $2.25 Fine woven-stripe Madras Shirts fast colors blue, black, heliotrope and other colors and combinations fav ored by mot men. Could not be bought to-day to sell at so low a price $2.25. Strawhrldce A I'lothler li.-ist Store Klshth Street Women's New Autumn Gowns Are Winning Admiration One look, and you know you are going to be sat isfied with the new season, as far as fashions are cont-erncd. For instance, there are beautifully tai lored Oxford cloths that are the novelty of the season for street wear; and fine tricotines and serges on straight lines or in redingotc and new blouse styles. that arc the perfection of the tailor's art. For afternoon wear there are Gowns of crepe meteor, wonderful satins, matclasse and crepe. uiuiKviLi-, iii niuiiy instances naving tne low-hung, close draperies, and nuplications of cascade fringe. me jnuuei sKiucnect yz.ou) snows a charming new idea in crepe Georgette, combined with a novelty braid in a border width. Others with novel ideas in beading, braiding and embroidery $55.00 to $150.00. Welcome, the Elaborate Evening Gowns! Of silks and satins, nets and brocade, slightly bouffant, or closely draped, with surplice bodices and cunning sleeves, or sleeveless, if you so wish or if you would follow Paris closely. .ni.i-?' cana,rj';, saPP"';e. cerise, peach, turquoise, lavender, black Prl). leirrn".1 ai',.??nnesh and lov?1-v you wi" charmed with them. Prices $47.50 to $13.00. ,-. Klrnwbrld... & clotl.ler-S,l Floor, rentr. nfffx msk rnwL few Golden Special To-morrow 1,200 White BED SPREADS A Great Saving1 At $315 Good fortune indeed, for every home surely needs one or moie new Red Spieads. This exceptional lot includes SATIN-FINISH MARSEILLES, CROCHET-WEAVE nnd best domestic DIMITY all in double-bed size. An excellent assortment of designs from which to choose, and very unusual value at $3.15 each. i Straw l,rl,!,je t'lmluer .M.sle 11'. rilliert Street V&PECIAlA Children's Stamped Dresses, Special, 75c Dainty Lawn Dresses, kimono style, with tucks at the shoulders. All are made nnd stamped, ready to be embroidered, some hemmed at the bottom, others stamped for scalloped embroidery. Sizes one to four years. An unusually good value 75c Models in Children's Stamped Dresses in sizes up to 12 years. Various fabrics 75c to $4.00. Autumn designs in Scarfs, Table Covers, Centerpieces and Pillow Slips on display in the Art Needlework Sec tion. StrawhrhUe A Clothier Third Flour. Market Street Buy High Shoes Now in the Summer Clearance Our summer clearance of High Shoes for MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN continues, with new lots added. It has been a great success, because so many of our customers realize that such Shoes cannot be bought regularly at such low prices. Most of these are from our stock of last season, and all are marked at substantial reductions. A wide variety of styles. Women's Soft Shoes, black glazed Iridskin now SJ.45 Women's Laced Shoes, of soft leather, in gray $7.95 Women's Shoes, from Laird, Schober & Co. now $8.95 Women's Kidskin Shoes, with cloth tops now $3.95 J. J. Grover's Soft Shoes, sizes 2"2 to -I 2 $2.45 Men's Laced Shoes, heavy Bluchcr styles $3.9f Men's Lace and Bluchcr Shoes now $7.45 Boys' and Youths' Shoes, broken sizes $495 Infants' and Children's Shoes now $2.45 - Children's White Canvas Lace Shoes now $2.75 Children's and Misses' Patent Leather Shoes $3.35 Misses' White Canvas and Nuhuck Shoes $2.35 Misses' Laced Shoes, dark tan leather now $4.25 A special purchase of J. J. Grover's Oxfords, Pumps and Strap Slippers, for women now $5.05 a pair. (- Strawbrldse t flothler Klithth and Filbert Street MARKET STREET EIGHTH STREET FILBERT STREET Strawbridge & Clothii MARKET STREET EIGHTH STREET FILBERT STREET il 1 I II l -i k 1 1-Jfl i , " !1 r,A Mv n '.' ;, 11 n 'I fl- i
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