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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
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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. ,
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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
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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
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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!
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Suits are reduced!
The seventy -dollar
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The sixty - five - dollar
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