i , ri ' KculTel Esser, Hoboken, N. J. Prcdcrio Mcu'trc, Architect "Turner for Concrete Anyone in the food in dustry will recognize the character of the following concerns, for whom we are now building: Merrell-Soule Co. Great A. & P. Tea Co. Hills Brothers Co. Mint Products Co. American Chicle Co. II. 0. Wilbur & Sons, Inc. TURNER Construction Co 113 Saimom Street Deaths of a Day NATHAN C. LANE Realty Man, Developer of Edgely, Victim of Pneumonia In Florida Xathan C. T.ane, n real estate opeia tor. with offices nt 014 Chestnut street, died of pneumonia on Wednesday in St. Petersburg. Fin. He was fifty-live vears old, and made his home at the Cedarcroft. on apartment liouce at Porty-ninth street and Ccdai avenue, which lie owned. Mr. Lane was n native of Washing ton, D. C, where he was engaged in the real estate business until fifteen j ears ago, when he came to this city. lie was the owner of considerable real estate, including the Cednrcroft, u laigc apartment house at Kortj -niuth street and Cedar avenue, where he made his home when not in Florida. Mr. Lane's greatest achievement in the real estate lino was his purchase of a large tiact of ground two miles fiom Bristol, Pa., which he developed with sn operation of dwellings. lie named the settlement Edgely and dc eloped it into u good-sized suburb of Bristol. The development of the town by Mr. Lane was begun before the world war, and with the advent of a large ship arc! in that loculity the demand for dwellings t Edgely was very large. Mrs. Cora Rowland Biddle s. Cora How land Biddle. wit .T. Wilmer Biddle, died jestcnlav. The funeral will be held nt - o'clock Satur day at the Biddle lesideocc, on Chest nut avenue, Chestnut Hill Or. Charles S. Straughn The fuueral of Dr. Charles S. Straughn, D. D. S., who died on Wed nesday usbt In the Misericordia Ilos nitcl from injuries received bj bdng tiuck by a trolle.v oar at Fift; -second und Larchwood ,ueuuc, will be held tomorrow ut his home, ."1.'!7 Catharine street. Doctor Straughn was lift jears old and in recent jcur.-. hud been en gaged in, the insurance business. James T. Lang James Traquair Lang, an nlloiuev, of 2221 West Hunting Park avenue. died cstcrdny. He was the husband nt Mrs. AViuouu 11. Sewell Lang, ljis .LUU"avu.PI!"0.u"V...,111-.; U WUU IIUUI M nuvjlliuuvi H ' llll'VI righteenlh uud Chestnut streets. General Alfred H. Stead Wllliamsport, Pa., Jan. 2. Briga dier General Alfred II. Slcad. letired, died suddenly last night of acute itidl eestiou. He was the first colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, National Guard of I Pennsylvania, ami rerved as such from 1&74, when the regiment was mganiml, until 1SSS. At the time of bis death he was a retired brigadier geueial. He was an alderman iu Wllliamsport for forty 3 cart. Sir Frank C. Lascelles London, Jan. 2. Sir Frank Car indish Lascelles, British ambassador to nA.n.... I.-.... 1Cn-. ,n 10I1B ,lln.l linrn today. He bad been minister to Ru mania in 1S8(I and to Persia in 1801, j and ambassador to Russia iu JbiM. He' was born March 2.'!, 1841. , I If your health were a ma terial asset you could check up in figures you'd be mighty careful to watch its increase or depletion. Let us show you how to protect it. A personal demonstration without charge. COLLINS INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE COLUNS BL.DO.. WALNUT ST AT 1S11I t Don't Carry Freight Claims Into the New Year! Check up on jours Bet all your old, lorre-stiuullnjr freight o 1 a i m s together, laitje or small, and send for our servleo man We'll clean thein up for you or our service Is gratis, nurlng 1919 I T A. service collected thousands of freight claims. Among our list of clients you'll find uome of the largest manufacturers In Philadelphia Wrlla or phono. Our service n will call. is Years of taHslaetorv Rtiults INDUSTRIAL TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION rrrr BnUitnr. Philadelphia rh Sprue ISt. Sso HI BAY RUM B LAID FDR DEATH OF MAN York Road Barber's Case Indi cates Wood Alcohol Poison- i ing, Say Physicians NEW MOVE PLANNED HERE Wood aleohol rlnimpil iti fait vic tim in the York Ito.itl section with the (loath of Philip Seltzer, n harher, ae mrdiiiR to physleinnn nt the Abington Memorial Hospitnl. Seltzer, who was fifty years old, and iminarred. died in the hospital shortly before mldlnclit. Abington police be lieve lie dionlt bay ruin nntl arc inves tigating, The bather was taken to the hos pitnl Inst Tuesday, presumably suffer ing from neutc indigestion. Hospital physicians say he denied he was drink ing liquor or a liquor substitute. His condition, however, showed unmistak able sjmptoms of wood alcohol pois oning, tliey said. Sellor was cmplojed In a baiber shop at Willow Oiove. Ho wnji woik itisr in the mIioii Tuesday when he drop ped to the floor, apparently in gicat until, lie was unconscious for hours bcfoic he died. An ordinance leculntinB the sale and distribution of wood alcohol will hcjgress iv December, 1020. In the case one of the first things sent to the city of the farming and agiicultuic schedule, Council by Dr. C, Lincoln Fiirbush. 'three 3 ears are allowed to complete the who takes office ns director of public 1 tally. However, officinls believe that health under Mnjor-eUct Moore on this portion of the count will be fin Mondtiy., I ished by January 1. 1021. The discovery that much of the wood 1 Peisons living in hotels and boarding alcohol used iu making whisky sub- I houses, with the exception of trnn stitutes in this and other ( itie3 is sold sients, will be enumerated by individual bv cninire owners and naint stoic pro- lsflin(luln. The hostclrv manager is niietois to purchasers who say thcyiobliecd to submit to the Bureau of want tnc poison lor scientnic or com meici.u purposes is tlie reason tor uoc tor Furbush's detcrminatiou to iutio-duc-e the ordinance. Doctor Fin-bush said that the ordi niiiKc would not extend to (hug stoics, as there stoies aie restricted in their sales of the stuff by the government. He said that it was mennt only to apply to paint shops and automobile garages and workships. where the wood alcohol was ued extensively for commercial pur poses. "Counting of Noses in Census Begins Continued from Pane On son is nble to read or write. Occupa- 1 tions will be recorded, place of nativity thcr tongue. Headquarters Open Dail According to Nelson Wilson Camp bell, assistant supervisor, the head quarters of the Bureau of Census in this oitv at JI20 South Broad street, will be open flail (luring cue cauass. 1.1111- 1 merntors not sworn in will have an op- portunity to do so todov. They are required to work at least eight hours 1 cer.vday. j I'he mm tecum census is 10 uc a ma- ohinc-niade schedule. Machines have been uindp for sorting, punching and tabulating all census returns. These machines were designed for the most part b officials of the Census Bureau. Groups of forty to fifty enumerators in a section are under the direction of an inspector. Each inspector will meet .. .. ......in . ,1 hniin a n I ( riii 1 ti rtci n n n his enumerators ever dav and receive the collected returns for that day. The icturns will be checked up iu the South Broad street hendquurtcis bv Supot- visor lingers and his corps of a-sM , nuts. And us soon as the returns are iece ved in Washington tnev will Be placed upon cards by means of punching machines. Numbers comsponding wJanuaru 2a, at Uo p. m at ST. the numbers on the ciiumerators schedules have been placed on 'I lie cards. To Bo borlcd Inlo Cla&scs When the schedules arc leocivcd a clerk will take a card, put it in the . f i PYBANK3 KJV Jewelers Silversmiths dtalionera Pearls A collection-ntfjvjcfuallr and ' coHectiusJr: of j-ejtiar-AaLJe jayooj-tcuice. Necklaces Pearls far Necklaces Prompt Payment for Exports BROWN BROTHERS & CO. Fourth and Chestnut Streets , NevrYork PHILADELPHIA Boiton Brown, Shipley & Co., London BVtiXlNG PUBLIC Highway? Arc Reported to Be in Better Condition Condition of highways this mottl ing as repotted hy the United States Weather Ituteau co-npctatlng otih the State Hightcay Department: Lincoln highway (Trenton to ChnmbersburR), fair to cu mostly good. Headway now practically free from snow or tec. WillJnm l'enn highway (I'aston to Cliambersburg), poor near llethle hem, fair in Montgomery county near Xorristovvn, elsewhere good. Practically free from snow or ice. Philadelphia and Heading pike, fair to good. I.amnstcr and Harrisburg pike, generally good Forecast for Tomoiioie Xo change iu highway conditions. The weather will be continued cold and probably fair. punching machine and punch out the various ntunbciri given by the schedule, and lcptescnting the vnrious answers made to the twenty questions on the schedules. Then the cards are placed in a sorting machine, which will &oit them into classes shown by the holes punched in them, from the sorting machines the cards go to the tabulating machines, The enumerators aie expected to com plete their work within thirty fhiyi, and the schedules arc expected to begin flowing into the Washington oulco bj Jnnuarv lu. The nonulation census population 'must be ready for submittal to Con- Census a list of his guests on Jan uary 1, whom he does not consider transient. A sufficient number of schedule blanks will be given him, nud he will be required to see tht each guest receives nnd fills out one. The schedules aie placed in envelopes nnd sealed bv the iiersnn who fills thein out. Thev are returned to the South Broad I street headquarters. "It is a patriotic and a civic duty for the people of this city to do every thing in their power to facilitate the enumeration." said Assistant Super visor Campbell todav. "It is an over whelming task to collect such a mass of statistics under ordinary conditions, but if the peopio aren't sympathetic with our efforts the task will be infinitely greater. There Is no ffiformation peo ple can give in answering the schedule that can he used to harm them. The government's taken care of that. And fuithermorc, an enumerator who di- ivulges anv private information lie sc I cures during his canvass will suffer a I heavy penalty." TWO HELD FOR ROBBERY Wlrnngt0n Man Held Up Watch """h . , and Cash Is Stolen Two men weie held in $1000 bail each . for ,.0urt b .Magistrate iieaton louaj ' . i on the charge of highway robber. The arc .tames Wilson, alias Bloomingdale. of Twelfth and Mt. Vernon streets, nud Frank llogan, of the same address. According to the police. the ac costed Frank Xew mnn, of Wilmington, Del.. :it Marshall and Xoble streets. earl this morning nnd took his watch ' and $110 in cash. The men were later mrested in 11 saloon at Seventh nnd Uare streets, where the were identi fled by Newman. The police say the TVfl LEAGUE OF THE I'M ENDS I OV KOREA will hold a meeting MATTHEW'S CHURCH, Broad a(,d tilt, vernon streets, rrot. it. u. iiul berl, former Director of Education of the Korean Government, will de liver an address and all arc coidially invited. H ttDIIll We are paymasters for commercial letters of credits, issued by foreign banking institutions to pay for merchandise purchased in the United States. This is the safest manner in which American merchants can se cure payments for their mer chandise as it assures either immediate cash or a bankers acceptance for which there is a ready market. LEDGrER- -PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, COAL GASBLAMED City Chemist Reports Wood Al cohol Did Not Cause Colum bia Avenue Tragedy VICTIMS DRANK PURE RYE Wood al-ohol did not kill the foili persons, three women and a mnn, who were found dead nt 1020 Columbia ave nue last Tuesday, according to n rcpoit innde to Coroner Knight today by Dr.t William C. Kolitron, city chemist. He snjs that the liquor drunk by the four was pure rc whisky. It is now believed the four wcic suffo cated by coal gas ft 0111 the stove in the loom iu which they were found. The dead nic Mrs. Amelia Davis, sixtv-two ears old, and Mrs. Fiancis Hurley, forty-live cais old. 1020 Co lumbia avenue; Mrs. Daisev Meddhk. 110 West Thirteenth street, New Yoik, nnd Willlnm Oat. forty-five yeais old, Park avenue, near Columbia. When the bodies weie found scveiali whisky bottles were picked up in the room. This led to the conclusion that the dead persons had been poisoned bv wood alcohol. Each of the bottles still contnined some of the liquid. This w-a tested by Doctor Kobiiison, who found it free from poison. Search began todny for two diamond rings which Mrs. Meddick was wenriue when she left Xew York. Her husband, who came here when infnimed of her death, told the police the rings were not restored to him with the valuables taken from the w onion's hod . The police say when they moved the body from the Columbia incline house they did not notice the diamond riugs. Other peisons who helped in cat ills' for the dead also said they did not sec the rings. MRS. FITZHUGH COLLAPSES Mother of Dead Actress Arrives Here to Take Body Mrs. Isabel Fitzhugh, mother of Miss Venitu Fitzhugh. the nctrcss who was killed Xew Year's morning when she was thrown from nn uutomobile to the ground from the Walnut street bridge, is in complete collapse. She arrived jesterday afternoon from New York nnd went nt once to the home of Mrs. Mary Cinder, (110 1 Christian street, mother of William A. Cinder, the ovyn er of the nutomobile ir which Miss Fitz hugh was riding when the accident oc curred. So prostrated is Mrs. Fitzhugh by her grief that she is unable to see any one nnd no arrangements hnvc hceu made for the funeral of her daughter. Mrs. rirzliugh is a widow, nud Miss Fithugh was" her only child. The Fitz hughs and the Cliideis" have enjoved a friendship of many jears. It had been the custom for them to exchange visits over the holidays, and the oung nctrcss was on oue of these visits when she met her death. She was tvvent-four ears old and had just returned from 11 si months' tour in England, where she en tertained American soldiers. FUR DEATH .pP WV- N 0n 0ur 10 Above Cost P Thispien's All-Weather Dress Shoe of Tan or Black Calfskin Worth $7 or $8, at Here is the answer to the high cost of footwear! Gen uine, honest-built shoes, made to stand hard wear, with out any sacrifice to appearance You will always ho glad to weas them and yet pay a pre-war price. Broad ftlunson Last or English Toe Models These shoes ore not the ordinary lieaj wot king shoes On the contrary, they are medium in weight, stjllsli in appearance anil built to wear in winter we.uher. Their soles are of solid oak leather and will give ou the old-time wear jou always exacted In a pair of shoes. The Downstairs Store for Men JJeQKr&Compamj 1211 Chestnut Street "CLING-SURFACE" Cures all belt troubles. To get the best results from your belts you should run them easy or slack, and treat them with "Cling-Surface." Then they will last twice as, long as they do now, they are tight, and will always carry full load without loss in power, and without slipping. Theie is u lot more loss of output due to belt blippago than is generally appreciated. CHARLES Bell Phone Market 3930 The New and Better Way Nujol For Constipation will teach you the healthiest habit in the woild. Cctabottle of Nujol from your druggist today and write for free booklet "Thirty Feet of Danger" to Nujol Laborator ies, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), 50 Broadway, New York. SICKNESS PREVENTION "JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS" Beer Bottle and Razor Fall to Sever Amicable Relations A friendly scene just among friends took pla(c bcfoic. Magistrate Coward in the Seventh nud Carpenter streets station todny. Dominick Samoni, of League street above Fifth, was there with Andrea Znllnika, of So;ith Frank lin street near Washington avenue. Sa moni sported a black eye, which had Ik en caressed by a beer bottle in the hands of Zallaika, who was still pale from excitement caused by the fas cinating way in which Samoni could wield a razor. "It was just a friendly little game, judge," voeiferuted Samoni. "I in vited my friend here to my house and we plnjcd curds. Just a friendly game, and I ain't mad." "Bah, he '-lieut, judge. I saw him, my friend, he cheat, and then he got after me with his ruzor. It was n friendly gnme, but he client." Magistrate Coward held Samoni in .$500 bail for a further hearing Mon day, and suggested an armistice in the matter of friendly little games. To Speak on Railroad Problem Frederick C. Howe, executive secre tary of the conference of democratic control of the railroads nnd former im migration commissioner of Xew York, will address the Business Science Club nt its first January meeting, to be held at the Hotel Hittculiousc this evening. Mr. Howe will speak on the "Kuilrond Problem." F 1919 was a big year, you can afford to make 1 920 even bigger by consulting HERBERT M. MORRIS Advertising Agency Every Phase of Sales Promotion 400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Key. Phone Main 5115 COMPANY HyBL $4 Q HI 15c Extra by Mall JANUARY .2. 1920 1$ A Perry Sale is always remarkable. It means a real reduction on prices marked to make and keep customers. CJ This particular Sale is further remarkable because the reductions are made on lots and assortments of Overcoats and Suits that should have come in during September and October, but instead have been arriv ing the last few weeks, and are still arriving! October assortments, sizes and prices at January Reductions! Fur Collar Coats Reduced! Pur Trimmed Coats Reduced! Big Warm Ulsters Reduced! Plaid Back Ulsters Reduced! Leather and Cloth Reversible Coats and Sheeplined Coats Reduced! Smart Ulsterettes Reduced! Double-breasted form fitting Coats Reduced! Belted Overcoats Reduced! Conservative Coats Reduced! And sack coat Suits of every good kind and style are now at worth-while reductions! OVERCOATS The finest $85 and $90 Overcoats are reduced! The finest $75 and $80 Overcoats are reduced! The finest $65 and $70 Overcoats are reduced! The finest $55 and $60 Overcoats are reduced! The $45 and $50 Over coats are reduced! Even the $35 and $40 Overcoats are reduced! Perry & Co.,"n.bt. 16th & Chestnt.Sts. Put your Money into an Overcoat or Suit in tbis Remarkable REDUCTION SALE1 of Perry Clothes! The $55 are reduc are ret . ft Even Suits Reduced Prices on Separate Trousers j. t j"i rrr, r i ? ..rfjj 1 HIM. ;v -.ri. SUITS The seventy-five-dollar Suits are reduced! The seventy -dollar Suits are reduced! The sixty - five - dollar Suits arc reduced! itW' Di 0 Suits J. flH '& smWsssW nratBf fur JkWkWf The $4fy$Ki $50 .Suits WKdl tiTe $35 and $40 are reduced! iV ' J 11 . I l t ..! ax i A i s A I I I & V ?L ,M ffl ! Vl M A r i J 517-619 Arch Street rr 131 1 t ft, ..,) ,r. . r. ., V 'if. 3
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