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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2S, 1920
Some Earned Over 1000 Per
Cent in 1917, Miners
Allege
GIVES LIVING COST DATA
HOOVER NOT MENTIONED
A T COL. HOUSE'S LUNCHEON
Affair JF6 Simply Social Event in Honor oj Viscount Grey
Before His Departure Political "Sensation'
Proves a Fizzle
By tho AvMicUted I'i ess
Washington, Jnn. 2S. MiuriV icp
Tesentatives completed their riivvnt.i
Jtlon of wage and coal mining oo-.l sta-
jtlstlcs to the President's eomnmsiou
io settle the co-il strike today and,
at the request of the operator". Pres
ident Robinson adjourned the Inuring
until Monday when the. operators ill
.Jpresent statistical data. Hobint-ou also
(save notice that, beginning rebruary
14, the commission would hear repress -gtatlvcs
of the coal fields outside the
(central territory
Hugo Coal Prollls
i. Van H Bittuei, statUtiWnu for the
jniners' union, continued his an.il.vsis
iot cost of living statistics 'flung the
,dTance in them since tOlil at So per
(cent. As to the ability of the mine
owners to pay advances he cited their
profits. His fisures showed that the
'Pittsburgh Coal Co made a net profit
of -approximately S3 000.000 for the
"tweyear period of 1014-101.". while
for the two jear period including 1017
flOlS the net profit was moie Hum
,321,000 000. The nrolit of SI l.OTC ."U ,
jin 1017 he said repi cseiiU'd "ft 0 j
per cent on the capital Unk uud Pli'll) i
Jon each cinplojc
j Bittner pointed to the Lehigh A a! I
jley Coal Co as another corporation j
whose net profits increased enormously
?from 1014 to 1015 In 1014. ho said,
Ithey were 5511,410. and in 101S. !; -1-886.180
In the two-ear period 1011
.1015. he said, the Consolidation Coal
.Co. had net nrofits amounting to .ip
Iproximately S4.500.000; in 1017-mtS
tthe net profits were approximately Slo,-
fcoo.ooo
labor Receives Los
t Further Bittnei cited statistics which
ihe said were obtained horn the treu
Jurr department and finain.nl iepnrts
(Showing that ;135 mining comoanie- m
.1017 made 15 pei cent on their capital
istocb; "ill mad" -ft tier cent ; 205 nnde
s25 per cent 270 made o0 per cent ,
J232 made 40 per ecu or moie. 107.
,B0 per cent or more. 1ft." IftO per cent
ijor more and eight companies- made over
J 1000 per cent
Regardless of all increases, he aid.
mirj labor was receiving todav fewer
cents out of evcrv dollar paid to opera
tors for coal than the got iu I'll:;
and 1014.
Tho following editorial is reprinted
from today's Public IjtDant:
A Political "Uud"
The Philadelphia North American
last week published an article under
care headlines setting forth iu gieut
ditnil its "discovery" that tlw presi
dential boom for II C lrt)ver had
been launched at a "dinner" ghctt by
Colouel E. M. House on December "i.
This "dinner," it declared, miis at
tended by Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of
the New York World; Frank Cobb, ed
itor of the New Xork World ; Cleveland
II. Dodge, "a ery neb" mau, hitherto
a fueud of the President". Colonel
House, and Cyius II. K. Curtis, pub
Usher of the Pmi.tc LLDOi.ll
Following this "dinner," the North
American pointed out, the Now York
World printed a long storj to the of
feet that the President and Colonel
House were "on tho outs" aud that
therefore Colonel House was seeking
anther candidate than Wilson for the
Presidency. The North American net
made the astounding discover that
"about the middle of December the
Plbiic Ledoiti devoted tiuirlv two
Lolunms of spare to evultiug Air Hoover
without di daring for him fin Presi
dent "
Having got this far with its masterly
deduction, the North American dicov -ered
that its storv was a "dud " It
didn't explode It created no sensa
tion, iso in its dilemma it applied to
Hearsts New York American.
newspaper very quickly showed
ASSERT VIBRATIONS
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an American President is launoetl ; but
Mr. Hoover is understood to be the
tandidatn f the Democratic adminis
tration pledged to perpetuate Mr. Wil
son's policies. And. naturally, the
British ambassador is antious to see
continued policies which hao been so
advantageous to England."
With Hare headlines the North Amer
ican published simultaneously with tho j
rew ioik American these newest dis
coveries Its "dud" was now n real
cighteeu-iuch shell wan anted to ex
plode. And now what are the tacts? They
are contained in a news dispatch print
ed on another page of the Public
Ledoir, in the form of u telegram
from Coioncl House, whb says: "Her
bert Hooer was not present at the
luncheon which I gao to Lord Grey.
It was given largely for the purpose of
luiviuc Lord Clrev met Mr, Curtis
Mr Hoover's name was not mentiontd
and there was no political discussion of
nnv kind whatsoever."
Mr. Pulitzer has taid the same thing
in his newspapers. The North Amer
ican could bae had the same informa
tion from Mr. Curtis had it taken the
trouble to ask for it. But that would
have spoiled its story. Th,ere would
have been no "dud" merely the truth.
Witnesses in Probo of Fatal Ac
cidents Tell Coroner Vehicles
Disturbed Ground
CLOSE INSPECTION NEEDED
Vibration ftom hraw vehicles pass
ing over frozen ground, causing street
mains to leak, was blamed today by
wltnees as the cause of ix deaths
from illuminating gas in recent accl
dents. Chief Deputy Coroner Sellers and a
jury heard testimony Into tho deaths
of John J. Kelly and four other mem
bers of his household at 041 West Al
legheny avenue, who were asphyxiated
on January 10, and of William Reed,
2852 Gaul street, who died January
0 in tho Northwestern General Hos
pital. Verdicts of accidental suffocation
from illuminating gas escaping from
broken mains In the street were returned
in both cases,
Reed was overcome in tho Stevens
Beneficial Club, Gaul and Ann streets,
dying a few hours uftcr reaching tho
hospltnl, Tho Kelly family were found
dead by neighbors.
Ronald B. Dttncnn, superintendent of
the Spring Garden district, and Walton
Porstall, Roscmont, an engineer for the
U. 0. I. Co., testified that the supply
mains lay three feet tinder the street
surface. In cold weather, ho said, the
ground freezes to a depth of mofo than
two feet. Prcssutc of heavy vehicles on
this fro7cn surface, he continued,
pushes tho dirt agulust the pipes causing
cracks through which the gas leaks into
the bouses by way of crevices in foun
dation walls.
Iu tho Kelly case n inanholo recently
was placed In tho street near the
Seventh street eldo of the house. Later
n depression or settling of tho surfaco
was noticed by Ernest Kley, n butcher,
701 Allegheny avenue, who said ho had
talked With Kelly over tho fact aud u
resulting shaking of the houses whenever
a heavy truck passed by.
The gas company officials said no
remedy other than by constant lino in
spection throughout the city could pre
vent such accidents in cold weather.
KILL ANTI-SMOKING BILL
South Carolina House Refuses to
Accept Senate Measure
Columbia. S. C. Jan. 2S. (By A.
P.) The bill piohlbiting smoking iu
public eating places In South Carolina,
passed by the Rtate Senate last week,
was killed in tho House today without
a dissenting vote.
ho House adopted nn unfavorable
report from the judiciary committee on
the bill.
SHIPYARD CHURCH
NEARLY YEAR OLD
Pastor of Mount Calvary Praises
Congregation of Hog
Island Workers
UPHELD MP IN DISPUTE
Mount Calvary Presbyterian Church,
Seventy-seventh fctrcct and Lyons ave
nue, which will 'soon celcbrato Its iirst
anniversary, is one of tho outgrowths
of tho Hog Island shipyard.
Started as a mission, under the dircc-
-.w v iua iiflv. frank TO
organised as a rh. ,"?"r, it,. 1
now has n ,4.."". ,a SPMn ..I'I
Plet.br paid for." Virtually Tti S 4
members arp connected ? iSOO I
th0 HOC IMnnH "S? L aWBVffl
With tho evri.nl !.. ... J
WVK&i
height of the lifluenaTpffi'toSv
vary "f B&"ffifc? . )
' iJEl ? I have foi'S'a-
religious men.""0! X?s J
fe1"11 "."Hon of thP&? . ,
and nat &.S " . ?&
right, religious people."' m M
The minister upheld the lrn t . I
'V controversy whlcii Ii,,
at tho Presbyterian mlni,? ' ,redr
Monday, when George MuilCP''"M 0
vuu ouipjruru worKcrs, ""ailCJ
Mount Calvnrv m,..i. ... 1
year old April 17, 1020. be
Mr.
Thi
how to revitalize the "dud." It must
not only be Colonel House who wanted
Hoover for President, but it must also
be England! To transfoim the "dud ,
into a real explosive. Hoover must be
a candidate "made in England." There
fore the New ork American made the
further damuing 'discover" that in
addition to the geutlemen previouslv
named as having been present at the
"dinner," vvhieh was reallv not a din
tier at all but a luncheon, Viscount Ld
ward Grev. Iiritisb ambassador to the
United States and the IJritish made
candidate himself. Iltrbert C Hoovei,
were also present
Announcing this discovery in heavv
black type, the New lork American
pointed out that "it is rather unusual
to have a Briti-.li umbasador pre-eut
at an occasion at which the boom for
Immediate Deliveries
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