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NEW ZEALANDER HERE
TO STUDY BOOK TRADE
Walter Nash Says American
Authors Are Popular in
the Antipodes
V One very much interested and mo't
burnting litor nt the convention of
flic American IJootoellcrs in the Bolle-ijnif-Stratfonl
Hotel came nil the wny
from the dMnnt Antipodes to study
tfe American honk trade.
- He is Walter Xnh. of New Plym
outh. NW Xenlmid. He Is eanpnlnlk-
jjlDtntsttcl in books on socioloRionl n"cs-
iiiom, nnicn lie nns been detailed to
lulr by moral sociological societies,
jliit helnons all phases of the book in-
."America." nld Mr. Nash in reply
taHur'tlnn, "i not jet ready to tnke
Jiplwv heMde or supersede Knglnnd ns
itle world's sreat'lmok market, hut she
ha lot to give the world in the lino
!( bonks.
"Alwavs heretofore bookmen from
j iwtinn nf the world have koiic to
-fnnvctitions nrtd niectini's In I r. mint.
lml other KiirIMi cities, but vte believe
M that we lme much to learn in
Atnr-ric .1.
."Alrendj 1 lime spent several weeks
In thl cnnntij mostly in New Yotk,
rid I lave fnnml t lint nnt ninliliiind m...
im similar to our own.
J' "Wlirn I said that England had nl
iaiii been our prlnciiial book market
jito not initiiiderstnnil me. America
,ff0l n crent llinnr ImnLrx In Aiiuti-nlln
jN Xen Zealand, and American nu-
"'or aie gicnt fnvoiltex down thcic.
(in one mr the uilue of Imports in
N hiln Austrnlin amounts to .$!.-
j-"Mi. m which Kii.'n.nnn beioncs to
III' 1 niled Stnte.
"Harold iwi WiiRht. Znne drey.
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y nan As a whole I think. Immwr.
"t there nic more serious books read
Auvtrnlin mul Vnu- 7nilni..i i.n..
Jhere eNo t, 0il. Inciden
m. I th ink I see this fondness for
:' worth while honks, those that
Wi fomethinc mid ore inteicstinclv
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throughout the woihl."
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fUR entire stock, all from
J famous English and Scotch
manufacturers, both summer and
winter weights included.
It is to be noted that this con
cession brings our prices down to
a level of one year ago and repre
sents a genuine effort on our part
to reduce to the customer flic ever
increasing high prices.
FOR EXAMPLE, OUR $95.00
SUITS ARE NOJV $80.75
AND SO ON
In this offer you have at your
disposal the 4afgcst stock of Eng
lish woolens shown in Philadel
phia. We wish to inform the public
that our entire, force of workmen
has agreed to accept a decrease in
wages to aid us in making such a
sale as this possible. '
CIRCUS CLOWN DEAN
IS YOUNGSTER AT 81
Al
Miaco Proves Once More He
Is the Real Peter Pan of
the "Big Tops"
If Ringling Hrothcrs and Barnum
&- nalloy's greatest show on earth
has a "congt ess of clows," as Jay Rial,
official dispenser of adjectives and
"Annie Oakleys," says it has. then
Al Mlaco is a combined "speaker of
the House," and "whip of the Senate"
in that congress of eut-ups.
Jay Rial has been with the Barnum
show as authentic press agent ever
since an elephant was called a pachy
derm, and a hippo became nn emblazon
ed "behemoth of the jungles." but he
is n joungster beside Miaco in the
realms of the tanbark and blgtop.
Al Miaco rubbed a bit of make-up
from his eye today, looked at his In
terviewer and smiled, when nsked to
recall incidents of his life of lough
making. "I don't remember much that's in
teresting." he said, "but, -.ny. I'm go
ing to pull some brand-new stuff in my
uri nut uiirrnuoii nun roniglit.
Proving why he is a good clown.
From others, who have traveled with
Mr. Miaio for the last quarter of a cen
tury, it was learned that this prince of
the pantomime is now eighty-one years
old. anil hns amused small children nml
overgrown, girls and hoys bj his antics
for sixty years.
When Mink 'Palti wo gathering his
impressions of the Mississippi river and
niso ins mini no plume. Al .Mioco was
already familiar with the course of the
Father of Waters, lie traveled up and
down the Mississippi fifty jcoi nR0
with tlie old Don Hlcc show, when that
historic institution inoed h, boot.
Mr. Mioco is one of the xouugest
eighty -one-j ear-old mn extant
The smell of the tanbark. the Hop of
the caiiNOs, the blare of the circus band
GAS
Soldering Furnaeei
and Appliances
. St. no ton CATAI.OOVB
L. D. Berger Co., 59 N. 2d St.
BtU llarhtt m Ktu'lone. Main (
Fourteen East Sixtieth St.
A luxurious Residential Hotel.
Opposite, the Metropolitan Club and Fifth
Aieniia I'.ntrume to Central I'ark,
de,.lrred,perlid:lnf,', " ,n ""'"' '"' an'
EAGER & BABCOCK
New York City
NEW INVENTION
for turned ankles, weak, tired or flat-feet
healthful supporters no plate:
springy, light weight! Immediate
relief from all strains and un.
natural pressure up to hip.
Doctors prescribe It. JFat.)
B. A. LEWIS
Third fit.
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ELECTRIC GROUPS
Hearings Will Be Announced
Soon on Five Big State Con
cerns' Application
SEEK TO ECONOMIZE
t,,IrTc,,,r1i,l;K will soon be announced bv
tlie Public Service Commission uipon the
application for a merger of five big
groups of electric light and power cor-
A 1 '" l",S Slnt?'
Applicotion'for permission to merge
was received today by the commission,
i he new corporation Is to be called
IMP I'enilSVltnntn Imvi. nn.l 1.I..1.1. n
U is explained in the application that
V...I- inviKer win eliminate needless cor
porations ond make possible present and
f liifi mmnplnS required tp extend the
ii mi ""' corporations concerned.
111 1 under one management, and
tiifi I,PrntJ n" "c Brent system.
Millions rf tons of coal arc expected
to Do saved bv the merger, as the new
management hopes to he able to o
extend its lines and service that many
coal-mining companies now depending
upon stinin for power will be able to
buy their current in futu'ie, thus re
leasing for the general market the great
quantity of coal annually burned under
boilers at the various collieries.
To Alergei With Pennn. Co.
There was a consolidation three years
ago, bringing tinder one control various
electric corpoiatlons. These concerns
will now be merged with the Pennsyl
vania I.lchtlmr Co.. formlnc llm nnw
corporation.
The I.ehigh Power Securities Corpor?
ation controls four of the group to
enter the new mereer. Tim northern
central group of these companies on-
crates from Berwick north and north
west through the Susquehanna river
valley to Milton.
Another group operates In Hazlcton,
Shenandoah. .Freeland and the sur
rounding territory, obtaining Its power
from Harwood. Still another group
obtains power from the plant at Hauto.
operating in I.ansford. Mniieh Chunk.
Tnmaqua, Nazareth, Bethlehem and
Stroudsburg. The plont of this com
pany was built originally by the Lehigh
Navigation Klectrie Co.
Still another group, known as the
Lehigh Valley Transit group, takes care
of Slatington, Allentown and surround
ing country. Power from Allentown Is
niso supplied the Lehigh Valley Transit
Co. electric lines from'Easton. Xorris
town and as far down as Chestmit Hill,
this city.
Independently controlled, the Penn
sylvania Lighting Co. is operating now
in Mount Carmel. Trcverton. Shamokin
and surrounding regions.
iio npenu .,uuu, uim
Close affiliations will e had by the
In- r. . Av Ann nn..
new corporation with the Ocncral Klec
trie Co. and the Lehigh Coal and Navi
gation Co. At least STi.000,000 addi
tional capital is planned to be spent
by the new corporation for new electric
genet nting machinery and stronger
transmission lines.
As more than 1.000,000 tpns of coal
n year are now burned by the Phila
delphia and Reading Coal "and Iron
Co.. nud the Lehigh Coal and Naviga
tion Co. Inst year burned up S.S.'i per
cent of .the coal it produced, under its
own hollers, the purchnfc of current for
these collieiies would ridcase this coal
for general consumption. It is under
stood this matter is now being discussed
by the electric people anil the coal men.
LEAVE BED TO FIGHT FIRE
Men, In Nlghtclothes, Get Blaze
Under Control
Two men in night clothes fought a fire
to such good result today that the city
firemen had little work .to do when they
arrived.
The blaze started on the second floor
of the home of William Brny. 'J.'tH
Madison square. Robert Bray, twenty
years old. wns asleep in the loom. He
was awnkened by Fionk Mcfloldrick.
twenty-seven years old, an uncle, who
discovered the blaze.
Both arc employed at night nud were
clnd in their night clothes. They cur
ried water from the bathionm to light
the flames. Patrolmen l.amoiid and
Kcegnn. who weie passing, turned in nu
alarm. i
SHIP BY TRUCK
py co-onllnstlns our shipments wn are
able to handle our shipping problems
economically and ranldlt We secure re
turn Iciniln and will ship from I'hlladel
phla to New lork, Washington or .Mhssii.
rhtisetts. l.VTI'nHTA'Pl timti.l'i....
D BIirtRAU. 17 Tremont Htre.t. Huston
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Why be satisfied
with the ordinary type of
L lot twig, when you may
'have the finest that the
world supplies at no greater
1 cost ?
iJACOB REED'S SONS
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ledger-Philadelphia, Wednesday, may 12, 1020
FATHER DROPS 4 CHILDREN
FROM WINDOW DURING FIRE
Man and Wife Leap as Unconscious Woman Lodger Is' Carried
Out by Patrolman $500 in
A woman and her husband leaped
from n second-story window and a
woman lodger was carried unconscious
through smoke nnd flames In a fire which
swept the Interior of A. Brooks's home
and tailor shop nt 1fil North Fifty-sec-ond
street, shortly nftcr 11 o'clock last
night.
Brooks tossed his four small children
from the window from which his wife
leaped to safety. Two were caught ns
they fell, but two others struck the
ground and were painfully hurt.
Brooks had a ladles' tailor shop on
the first floor of the three-story brick
building. He, his wife and four chil
dren were asleep in two rooms nt the
rear of the second tloor. Mrs. Madeline
Bergen, twenty-three years old, n
lodger, was asleep In a front room on
the snmc floor.
Shortly nftef 11 o'clock, Brooks was
awakened by the dioklng smoke. Ho
rushed to the stairway, to discover it
blocked by tlamv, which were bursting
through the door leading to the tailor
shop.
Brooks aroused his wife. She
smashed n window nnd leaped from It
twenty-five feet to the giound..ln her
night clothes. Brooks groped his wny
through the smoke to the adjoining
room, where his children slept.
COUNCIL IS IARGEI
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Independents Will Try to Estab
lish Commission Form of
Government in Camden
Camden Independents today began
assembling their forces with the ultimate
aim of ripping out the present city coun
cil based on ward lines and establish
ing a commission form of government.
Prominent business nnd professional
men who nre proud of Camden, but are
opposed to its political organization,
arc looking to a revised form of gov
ernment to wrest "the biggest little
city in tlu? world" from boss control.
Camden, independents pointed out to
day, is the only city of its size In New
Jersey that is without thjp commission
form of government. The present sys
tem Is termed "nrchnlc," and entirely
unfitted to the needs of a growing and
progressive city.
One tnrget for the anti-machine forces
is what their leaders term the extravn
gnnces of the existing svstem nnd the
extreme difficult of molding the city
administration along business-like lines.
The situation in Camden todnv Is
somewhat similar to that which existed
here when the movement tg give Phila
delphia a new charter gained force.
ITnder the New Jersey law electors
may petition for nn e'ection on a com
mission form of government. The first
step in the campai?n will be the edu
cation of Camden residents to the vnlue
of a more up-to-dnte municipal Hstem.
one more responsive to the needs nnd
wishes nfthe residents.
Around this nucleus, leaders say. tin
fight will take definite form and at the
proper time the matter will be nut be-
fore the electorate.
Strong Intel est was manifest In the
independent movement tnilgy among the
thousand of shipworkers employed in
nnd near Camden.
Trimble to Head Frat Council
Frnueis C. Tiimble. of this city . bus
been chosen to bend the interfrntei nitv I
council ot me university of lVnns
nnia next year. Trojan M. ICoddiiig.
of Pittsburgh, will be secietnr.v. The
Y. W. C. A. oigoiii.ntion yesterday
elected the following officcis for next
year: President, Ruth Nibert . vice
president. Ardls Voegelin : secietorv.
Mnrgueiite F,ans; treasurer. Heniietta
Vtebec: annual member, Muigniet I
Shorpfss.
UNDERWEAR SPECIALISTS I
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Dank Notes Arc destroyed
llavld. eleven; Tlllle, eight, nud
Sophie, six years old, were led to the
open window by their father, who car
ried eighteen -months-old George in his
arms.
One by one the father tossed the
children to he yard below. DaVld ami
Sophie received srra net! ankles In the
fall nnd were bruised.
By this time n heavy draugnt was
sweeping the flames up the stalrwav
hnd It was Tr.ipo-slhlc for Brooks to
reach the front of the house to arouse
Mis. Bergen. He then jumped from
the wlnuow.
Patrolman Saunders arrived at the
scene shortly before the firemen He
rushed up the front stalrwny. through
the dense smoke, nnd carried Mrs Ber
gen, unconscious, from the burning
building.
Fire swept the interlnr of the build
ing from top to bottom. Brooks tnM
the police that o00 in bank notes
which he had drawn from a bonk jes
terday to mukj a first payment on a
property, were burned. The loss will
total $5000.
Mrs Brcoks and her four children,
who snved none of their clothes or per
sonal belongings, nre being cared for by
friends nt -I'.H'J Chestnut street.
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Allies Will Arraign Group Rang
ing From Corps Commander
to Private
By" the Associated Press
Berlin. May 12. Forty-six Ger
mans ranking from nn nrmy corps com
uandcr to a simple private figure on the
Allies' first specified list of war crim
inals to be Arraigned In the I.eipsic su
preme court.
Prominent nmong them nie Prince
Krnest of Saxony and (lenernl von Bil
low, commnnder of the Set ond nrmy
corps, who, together with some of their
subordinate officers, nie accused of
cruelties in the Nnmur district of Bel
gium. General von Kinhbncli and
Colonel on Seydlitz will he tried foi
nlleged cruelties committed at Kalisz.
Poland, nnd the well-known submnrlne
c (inimiimler. Arnniild do la Perrlere. for
toipedoing Italian vessels. Three other
submarine commanders, Neumann vou
Nostltz, Werner and Patzig. will be
tried on the charge of torpedoing re
spectively the Kuglish hospital ships
Dover Castle. Torrlugton ond Llun
devery Castle.
General Stcngcr, of the nrniv. U
charged with oiderlng that iuiminrs and
wounded taken by his brigade be put
to dentil. A further number of offl
crw. noncommissioned officers and
piivntcs nro accused of Inhuiunii treat
ment of British prisoners in the dif
ferent camps.
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MARTINDALE SUES
TO IES1 LEVER ACT
Grocer Says Overhead Charges
Absorbed Most of Profit
nn Qiirrnr 5ol derense, and statistical tables to show
on OUgar oaiG3 ( that the overhead charges ate up nearly
all of It, and that the actual profit to
ASKS HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
The constitutionality of the Lever
food control law was attacked today by
Thomas O, Martindalc. Jr.. of the
Thomas Martlndnle Co., Mnrket street
grocers, who was yesterday held
$1000 ball for court by Commissioner
Manley, accused of making excess
profits Insugar.
To make the test Martindalc had his
bondsman. William F. Breltenbauirh. a
member of the Mnrtlndnle firm, surren
der him to the rnitcd States marshal
this morning, and Immediately, the de
fendant's counsel, Elton J. Buckley, nn-
nlied to United States District Judge
Thompson for a writ of habeas corpus
to obtain the discharge of the accused
merchant. ,
Judge Thompson allowed the writ nnd
fixed n henring for 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. Mr. Martindalc was paroled
in the custody of his counsel.
After filing tlw- petition for the writ
Air. Buckley snld thatrwhllc the consti
tutionality of the Lever bill will be ns
sailed, his client will not rely upon
recnnicaiuies 10 prove ins Innocence.
e want it understood." said the
awyer. "tliot we are not triliie tn es.
enpe on technlcdlltlcs. We feci that we
an prove to the (.'onrt that Mr. Mnr.
I tlndale did not. and Is not, profiteering
in sugar, and we will nsk for his dis-
Secretary or Assistant
Youne woman, nt rrraent unployrd
secret sry to ndxertlnlriK mn,r f
larae .publication, hnvlnir reiichrd limit
of advancement, denlree to change po
sition for one offerlnic greater opnor
tunltlea. preferably as eecretary or
aesletant to advertlalnc manager of
manufacturing concern or More. Ca
pable pf handling correepondenre on
own Initiative, amumlnu rennonelblllty.
and taWnir an Intelligent lnteret In
work. Ralary 130 a week: would uccent
125 until ability la nhown . pl
B 521, Ledger Office
"If you want a
thing done
get a busy man to
do it." But most
busy men cannot
give their Real
Estate problems the
time nnd manage
ment they deserve.
Real Estate manage
ment ia a profession
in itself, and as such
should be entrusted,
to those whose pro
fession it is.
MEARS & BROWN
Real Estate
202 S. 1STH ST.
Il
voice
M. Austin
c4ioon.3nc.
- f? iiiftiniiiisf -
charge on the ground that he has com
mitted no offense."
The test will Involve n more Impor
tant feature to the purchasing public
than the constitutionality of the Lever
bill. The court will be nsked to deter
mine What the Lever bill means bv "an
.unreasonable and unjust chnnre" for
necessaries,
I The charge against Martindalc grow
fog" Jounrugrtifa0?
I was bought for 10'& cents a pound. This
twas" not a net profit, nccordlng to the
me acaicr was oniy i-iuu ol l per cent,
wcre produced.
Break Leg In Fall on 8treet
, Henry Mocssncr. thlrty-elgM years
old, 2031 Aspen street, fractured his.
left leg In n fall at Twentieth street
and Olenwood avenue Inst nlclif A
In i slippery pavement wns the cause of the
acciueni. lie was laKcn to the Wom
en's Homeopathic Hospital.
Rudolph 8. Herr Dies at 93
Lancaster, Pa., May 12. Rudolph 8.
Herr, pioneer manufacturer, founder of
Lancaster county's horse ear line nnd
widely known here, died nt his home Intc
last night at the age of ninety-three.
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An Important An
nouncement of Sweep
ing and Drastic Reduc
tions on Spring: and
Summer Clothes will
appear Tomorrow 1n
every Morning Paper.
PERRY&CO.
36th & Chestnut Sts.
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Reduction average over 20
Sale Now On
This is your opportunity to
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$10, $12 & $13 OXFORDS
Eery pair Genuine Calf, niark nnd
Tun; including odds and ends. Values
up to $16.
$13, $14, & $15 OXFORDS -f -f 7-C
Mostly Russia Calf and Cordovans. N l'13
Some with Wing Tips. All Shapes. ) 1 g
$15.00 to $20.0n OYrORnc
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It it one thing to design itrue
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to deiign for economy.
The first impliea reliance upon
formulae: the second, the
exercise or judgment modified
by unremitting contact with
actual operations.
ADERTIIAW clients and their
engineers may enjoy the bene
fit of a quarter century '$ prac
tical experience recorded and
analyzed to the latest minute.
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CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
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