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BOY DEAD, 10 HURT
IN STREET CRASHES
Youngster Loses His Life Under
Trolley Collision In-
jures Five
jRUTO HITS CHILD OF EIGHT
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, One boy Is dead nnd two others nrc
Sadly Injured in Iioipltal todnr as the
result of street accidents. T'iRht other
persons were hurt in trolley car or
automobile pmaMiups.
The dead child uas .Toeph Jackson,
twelve years old, 410 Dtirfor street. lie
was knocked down by n trolley car nt
Fifth nnd Durfor streets. Patrick
Rush, of 2407 Nicholas street. ins the
wotormau. Hl- -vx ill be nrrnisned be
fore Magistrate l'ennock today.
Tony Lukens, eight years, of 710
Kater street, was hit by an automobile
and scriouslv injured lnt nlejit while
playing on South tuet. between Sixth
nnd Seventh street. David Perloff,
600 North Tncnt -thiid street, owner
nnd the drhcr nt the automobile, will
have n hearing toclaj. Doctors at tie
rennsUanm Hospital found thnt the
boy was buffcrinK from n fractured
skull and internal injuries.
Edward 'Whickwar, n fUo-ycar-old
boy, residins nt 1709 Lombard street,
was struck by a trolley at Columbia
avenue nnd Nineteenth Micct last
night, nnd suffered a fractured skull.
The boy was removed to the Woman s
Homeopathic Hospital, where his con
dition was pronounced serious.
A trolley struck the tonrinp car of
I,ouis Schuchniau, of l&'.O Marvine
street, as he was crossing the track at
Sixteenth nud Marvine streets. Schucli
inau's two car-old daughter, Sarah,
was thrown from the i cuter of the
street to the sidewalk, just escaping
another car The child was treated at
the Children s Homeopathic Hospital
for shock nud tontutious.
Four women and a man were hurt
when two trolley cars collided last
night nt Eighteenth street nnd Ridge
avenue. The injured nrc :
Mrs. Helen Steele, 6207 Chew street ;
Miss Matilda Englehart, !M10 North
Garnet street; Mis Hobcrt 'Wilson,
1024 West Toronto avenue: Miss Flor
ence O'Connor, .'KilO North Sixteenth
street, and Robert Maddo-c, 2202 North
Sharswood street. All were treated at
St. Joseph's Hospital.
HOG ISLAND CARS BLOCKED
Trolley Trailer Jumps Track Holds
Up All Traffic
Many Hog Island workers had to use
automobiles and motortrucks to reach
their work today because a trolley car
jumped the track at Island road and
"Woodland avenue. Trolley traffic was
hampered for nearly three hours by the
occurrence.
The trolley car a trailer that
jumped the track swung over on the
eastbound "Woodland avenue track so
that traffic in both directions was
blocked.
Transit officials later sent Chester
cars .down Forty-ninth street and out
Elmwoocl avenue, iseiorc me swiirinnu
arrangement was ordered about twentj
cars passed Torty-ninth street nnd had
to back to that point to continue their
trip.
Hibernians Deplore Legion Stand
A resolution "deploring" the nction
of, the American Legion nt Harrisburg
on Saturday in calling De Vnlcra a
traitor was adopted nt the last session
of the biennial county convention of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, at
1600 North Broad street, last night.
BOMB MAILED TO MRS. RODMAN WANAMAKER
Ir' ii ti ii ' rrd
i i'i !; t j , fir
BARRAGE OF BRICKS MARS
JOY OF 8 BARBER PATRONS
Customers and "Artists" Dash for Protecting Cover of Furni
ture When Strikers Attach Market Street Shop
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The illustration shows tho bomb container and the infernal machine recehed and opened by Mis. Itodtnan Wnn.i
maker at licr suiiiiiicr home at Tuvedo 1'arU, N. Y. A discharged butler's desiio to get cen with u maid he
blamed for Ills dismissal caused him to mail a bomb addressed to Mrs. Wan.uiuher in tile cpectntion that the
maid umhl open the parlmge
MRS. RODMAN WANAMAKER
ESCAPES BOMB BY CAUTION
GLOUCESTER HOMES
"A closo shave."
"With lilac, sir?"
"Yes, nnd si "
Whang! Dang! Also Xing!
Eight expert barbers nnd eight equally
expert patrons exercised all their ex
pertness in the race for shelter as an
expertly timed barrage of rocks came
hurtling through the expensive, plate
glass window of tho shop nt Eleventh
and Market streets last night.
The man with but one side of his
face shaved fought for the privilege of
hiding behind n couch with the man
wyo had ordered n haircut and remain
ed in tho thair just long enough to have
the clippers trace a neat furrow through
his crop.
And the barber who had been "sir
ring" n patron a few second beforo
kicked thnt same patron in the face
during the courte of nn argument for
the protecting influence of a chair.
Hut the minature Maruc within, the
shop was nothing in comparison with
the fight between the barber strikers nud
protecting detectives nnd police going on
in the street by that time.
As the fighting, grew more furious in
the street, tho strikers withdrew their
attention from the shop to devote nil
their efforts to keeping the police quiet.
And the eight expert strike-breakers
nnd eight expert patrons cautiously
peered from their respective hiding
places, watching the tide of battle."
After the strikers had been dispersed,
tho tonsorlal processes were concluded,
but none of the patrons hod the nerve to
order n "close shave."
Equally stormy scenes were enacted
about n barber shop nt Ninth nnd
Chestnut streets n hort time later. Six
barbers on strike were arrested during
the night. They gave their names as
John Cutengo, Darien street near
Christian ; Ilcnjamin l'uggone, Seventh
street near Catharine; Frank Rizzoli,
Ninth street near Reed j Frank Scv
crino, North Avondnle street; An
tonio Cajgrio, Juniper street near
Dickinson, and Pnsquale lioccalo, Six-tv-third
street near Arch.
GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Young Woman Takes Poison After
Trip to Seaohoro
After nn attempt to end her Hfo by
taking poison tablets -while in her room
nt tho Majestic Hotel lost Saturday,
Miss Anna F. Sclinffcr. seventeen Years
old, of Enston, l'o,, is in ti hcrious con-
union in St. Joseph's Hospital. Her
parents were notified nnd visited her.
Tho mothe could uot bo ascertained.
The girl is supposed to have come from
Atlantic City, checking in nt tho hotel
last Thursday. On Saturday, after re
peated knocking nt her door had failed
tb bring any response, the room was
entered forcibly nnd she was found unconscious.
DEATH PROBE HALTS BURIAL?
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State Police Investigate Case of
Child, Supposed Victim of Fall
Investigation of the death of five'
year-old Mary Gorber, of Sprlngtown,
has caused Coroner White, Bucks
county, to postpone tTIo funeral. The
investigation is being conducted b
state police.
Dr. F. J. Diebert, of Hcllcrtown,
has issued a certificate of accidental
death, however. v
The child's death is thought to have
been due to n fall. Her body was
bruised from head to foot nnd thcro
was a deep cut on her forehead.
ALLEGE RENT GOUGING
IN NEARLY 500 CASES
Tenants' Associations Will Pre
sent Complaints to Former
Lieutenant Governor Today
Nearlj the hundred specific cases of
nlleged rent profiteering will be sub-
CMTCDIin DV TUinCQ'inlttod to former Lieutenant Governor
Avoids Opening Box and Tears Off Corner, Discovering Gun
powder Butler Confesses Plot as Aimed at Maid
New Yoili. Oct 7.
A German butler's desire to get even
with nn Irish maid he blamed for his
discharge from the employ of Itndmnn
Wnnamaker caused the butler to make
a bomb and mail it on September -."' to
the Wnnamaker summer home at Tux
edo Park lie addressed it to .Mis. , Kmt, ue
Nnnnmnkcr. The explanation gnen lor Wnnainakers
this is thnt he thought the maid
variablj opened all packages intended
for her mi-tres.
The package, however, went dirertl
to Mrs. WnnamnUer, arrhing on Sep
tember 27. Perhaps because the wrap
per was n kind nf paper used onh by
the AVannmaker store, but did not bear
the store label, n it ought to hue done,
coming from that sourer, she looked
upon it with suspuiou. Cautiously she
removed the wrapper Inside it was
a handsome paper bn, laender in
color, oval in shape, with embossed let
tering on the rover indicating the con
tents were bottles of perfumery.
Mrs. YVanaiiukcr. Cautions
Had Mrs. Wnnamaker lifted the
coer from the box and the contrap
tion within woiked as intended, she
rould hardly have escaped disfigurement
and po-sibl would lia'.e been badly in
jured, for there wns in the box a crude
detonator, a pound of gunpowder,
spriukkd with cajenne pepper, and
scraps of brass tubing
Hut Mr-,. Wnnamaker did not lift
the lid. Instead she turned the box
upside down and i emoted a bit of the
paper at a coiner. (Stains of black
powder trickled out. Mrs. Wauamaker
then handed the box, wrapper and all,
to George Lllis, her husband's valet,
who took it to police headqsiters.
whero Mr. Wnnamaker is a special
deputy commissiouer.
Detectives Edward Cooper and
Charles Newman, of the bomb squad
went to work under the direction of
Detective Sergeant James Gegan. The
investigation ended with the arrest of
the butler, nnd, according to tho police,
his complete confession, nnd is de
scribed bj Alfred J. T.illej , nssislnnt
district nttorne, "as neat u bit of
police woik ns I ever heard of."
Koimer Itutlcr Confesses
The butler now a prisoner in liolle-
Mie Hospital is Lrnest Allien liustnt
wns cniplojcil hy the
two jeais, b the lntn
Finding of Strand of Hair Leads
Police to Believe That Woman
Figured in Robbery
James Hill ten jcars, during which
period his wife was Mr. Hill's house
keeper, and b John Sloane twenty I
cais. When the distiiet uttornej pre- '
sents the cildcuce to the giand jurj to-, small intrinsic
il.i .Mrs wnnamaker anil ;he maul,
Man O'lliieti, will be asked to testif
The detectives found in the box four
matches, the business ends of whiih
were piessed against sandpaper. The
other ends of the matches were fastened
to Hie lid. If the lid hud been lifted
friction with the sandpaper would have
caused ignition. Near too heads of the
matches was a piece of loose cotton
resting on the compound of guujowcler,
red pepper nnd fragments of brs.
The box wns nbout lite inches long
nnd four wide The label on the wrap
per was a regulation American Express
Compnti) label bearing the canceled
two-cent stamps and addressed in
handwriting to "Mis Itadmnn Wnna
maker, Tuxedo I'atk, N. Y." The
package hnd been mailed nt Ili'J Fourth
avenue, the postnflire substation near
est the Wnnamaker store. Even thing
possible had been done to make it ap
pear that this was nn innocent parcel
sent by the New Yoik store.
Twelve homes in the residential sec
tion of Gloucester were entered and a
number lobbed enrl.v todnj b two
thieves whom the police believe nie a
man nnd woman. With the exception
of two pearl rings which were taken
fiom the home of William lirodwny,
'.yj'2 Monmouth street, only articles of
worth are missing. In
one case a child's bank nnd pocket
book were rifled.
At every house which was robbed
entrance was gained by forcing open
one of the side windows. The thieves
made no attempt to leave the first
floor in nny instance. Finger piints
and n strand of hair lead the police
to believe that one of the two was a
woman. It is thought thnt they nre
the same pair who operated in South
Camden last xvcek.
Those whose homes wcre robbed be
sides Mr. Ilrodwnj nie: Nelson
l'owcll, SUO North Brown street; Leo
Scrcncflf 'IJ10 Monmouth street; Wil
liam Fljnn, 021 Monmouth street;
Joseph Van I lest, 034 Monmouth
street, nnd II. It. Lawrence, 021 Gaunt
street. Police are investigating.
Fiank li. McCluin today for action
when he meets olfieials of xarious ten
nuts' associations and members of the
Heal Estute Itoaid
The probe into rent profiteering in
this city is being conducted by Mr.
McClnin, who is chairman of the Pub
lic Welfaie Commission, at the insti
gation of Governor Sproul, who ordered
a thorough investigation.
Harrj Coryell, vice president of the
Tenants' Piotective Association of
l'eonsjlvnnin, declared that a street list,
with the numbers of nearly 2000 vacant
houses held for sale which cannot be
rented, has also been piepared for pres
entation nt today's conference. .This
list, it is alleged, will show a conspiracy
exists on the pait of certain landlords
in this, pit to withhold properties from
the renting market. In one Wfst Phila
delphia street there are said to be bolid
blocks of old houses which their owners
are holding for sale nt high prices. At
one time, according to Mr. Cor ell, all
of these houses were occupied, but it
is said that within a enr the teunuts
have been driven out nnd the houses,
now acated, are available onl to pur
chasers. The lists to be submitted to the head
of the rent piotiteeriug probe todny
were compiled by the police at the re
quest of Sheriff's Counsel Itusscll. He
turned the lists over to the Tenants'
Associatiou as of value in the investi
gation into the methods of some city
landlords.
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DRIVER AT GUN'S POINT
Thinks Ho Won't Pay for Ride,
He Tells Chauffeur Then
Takes Roll
A "fare" picked up at Hioad Street
Station, robbed n tnxicab chauffeur ut
the point of a 'revolver early today nt
Fifteenth nud Wavcrl streets.
Tho clmuffeur, .lames Morris, 2224
Catharine street, told the police that a
negro entered his cab at the station and
Baid he wanted to go to AVnverly street,
which is near South street.
When the machine reached there the
negro, Morris said, stepped out and
said he didn't think he would pay for
the ride. Then he nimed a levoher nt
the driver ''and demanded his money.
Morris gave him his watch nud S15 in
cash.
The negro menaced the chauffeur with
his weapon as he backed away and then
disappeared in a side street. Morris
related his experience to the police of
the Twelfth and l'ine streets station,
who have n description of the hold-up
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Great Fur Clearance!
"Small" and "Individual" Lots Only, but Each
Item an Extraordinary Bargain
on Sale, Tomorrow!
It is only natural that such "fast and furious" selling, the selling
that characterized every hour of the Annual Fur Sale, should 'prove
rcsultful in the variety and number of "odd" and "broken" line"!. This
is what happened!
Furthermore, many lines can only be replaced at prices that are
1 severely raised in the wholesale market above the prices we originally
paid for our skins. We haye thus decided to "close out" these lines at
prices even less than those that prevailed during the Sale. Detailed in
formation is given below in list form.
Quantifies Only as Specified Against Each Item
To Avoid Disappointment, Shop in the Morning!
A Small Deposit Will Reserve Your purchase
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Fur Coats
(2) Marmot
Sports lenpth; shawl collar
nnd cuffs of marmot.
(1) Australian Seal
Three-quarter length; shawl
collar and cuffs of seal or
contrasting fur.
(2) Natural Muskrat
Smart Sport Model; laro
rolling, shawl collar and cuffs.
(2) Natural Raccoon
Flared Sports design; shawl
colalr and cuffs of natural
raccoon.
(7) Hudson Seal
Smart Sorts model with
shawl collar and cuffs of seal.
(4) Natural Nutria
Smart Sports Flared models;
large rolling shawl collar
and cuffs of nutria.
Regulaily
125.00, Now
ff 5.00 . . .
(3) Hudson Seal
36 inch. Smart model; large
rolling shawl collar and cuffs.
Fur Scarf 8
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larly Xow
(6) Taupe Wolf ...'.... 25 00 14.50
(5) Brown woir sg.oo h.so
(6) Brown lox 25 00 17.30'
(5) Taupe Fox 26,00 17.BO
(4) Blacic j-ynx 35,00 si.oo
(3) Black Fox t 45.00 Si.SD
(3) Natural Mink 45.00 ss.sq
47) Hudson oeai ...... 10.00 34.50
(2) Stone Marten GO 00 44.56
(7) Jap cross trax.,,, 87 BO 44.5a
(2) Hudson JJy oauia , 10, vu 49.50
Regularly
285.00, Now
225-00
(4) Hudson Seal
36-inch model; shawl collar
and cuffs of seal, beaver,
squirrel or skunk.
Regularly
425.00, Now
325-00
Fur Stoles
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(3) Australian Seal .. 67.50
(3) Hudson Seal 106.00
(2) Natural Squirrel . 125.00
(1) Skunk ,.... 145.00
Now
44.50
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80.50
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Fur Coqtees
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Nutria .., 160,00 110.00
Australian Heal ,,, 165,00 115.00
Scotch Moleskin ,. 215,00 103.00
Natural Saulrrel .. 265.00 1D5.00
Hudson Seal ,,,., 206,00 225.00
Fur Sets
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42.50 I
44.50 I
40.50 I
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Blacic Fox ..,,.., 100,00 74.50 I
Taupe Lynx 110,00 70,60 I
Mink .,..,....,, 126.00 84.50 I
U lack Lynx , 196.00 88,00 I
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larly (3) NaturalIlaccoon . 45,00
(4) Gray Wolf 62,50
1(2) Nutria 60.00
(3) Hudson Seal ..... 72,50
(4) Black W'olf ,.K... 75 00
(4) Taupe Fox ..,,,,, 98 00
(4) Brown Fox ..,,.. 98.00
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