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CYRUS 11. K. CURTIS, Prmimnt
. ChnrlcB II. T.udlnjtton. Vlcn President!
JsUn C. Martin. Secretnry and Treanureri
I'h.llp 8. Collin. John It. Williams and
John J. Spurieon. Directors.
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CtMji II. K. C't'HTii, Chairman
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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM
PHILADELPHIA
FOR
Things on Mlilch (he people expect
lhe new mlmliiiotratlou lo com ni
trate lis utlenllont
The Delaware rtver bridge
A itrudock bin enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem. A convention hall.
A building or the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion. , $5 A DAY FOR THEM
THE poliromen are getting within
hulling diotnncp nf a minimum wage
of $5 a day. the figure suggested by this
newspaper two years ago.
The Civil Service Commission, which
Is making a survey of the city depart
ments for the purpose of classifying the
employes and iixing an equitable scale
of pay. hn. already recommended S." a
day for the police. To be made effective
the recommendation must be accepted
by the Mayor and approved by the
Council through an appropriation suffi
cient to meet the new rate.
Although it will require more than
$1,000,000 to cover the increase, the
need of it is so great that the unnnl
motis apptoval of it by ,the Council is
expected when the budget Is submitted
in the fall.
CONTAMINATED SCHUYLKILL
THE ppllution of the Schuylkill, as
authoritatively reported by Doctor
"Furbush. not only endangers a portion
of the city's1 supply of drinking water
tut imperils the municipal bathing beach
project, which up to now bos met with
deserved favor.
The river, however.' Is not normally
a filthy stream. Carelessness and in
difference nre responsible for it$ con
tamination by the dyes nnd acids from
industrial plants. Quite correctly its
condition has been called "intolerable,"
for by proper regulation it can be re
formed. It is in the power of the state health
authorities to end these abuses, and
happily Doctor Martin, informed of
yhe
pir existence, has already instituted
an examination of the rver banks from
vIteadlng to this city. If his work has
the desired results the Schuylkill will be
both tit to drink and fit to swim in, two
virtues which, without a filtration
process, have been denied it for an in
excusably long time.
RASH PUPILS OVERSEAS
PLEASURE from a compliment is
.mingled with apprehension for
France on learning of the determination
of that country to adopt the telephonic
system of dispatching railway trains.
The Echo de Paris in a burst of
gratitude for American Innovations es
pecially commends our transportation
efficiency and deplores the fact that so
much dependence has been placed in
France upon transmitting orders by
telegraph. The dispatcher, it adds, will
have to be, under the uew conditions,
"an ace of foresight, precision and
pang-froid."
Americans, however, arc aware that
French character is often possessed of
these attributes. Witness the Paris
taxi drivers There is considerable to
be said also for French generalship and
French aviation.
For all its liuinllitv. our Paris flat
torer ha.s not explored the heart of the
difficulty. The vital objection will occur
to almost any oue who ever tried to use
a French telephone. The Idea of regu
lating a train service through that me
dium is one inspiring the deepest svm-path)-
for an old friend who so des
perately mingles rashnesn with good
intentions
HOUSE HUNTING
IT WAS not so long ago that the
Philadelphian, arguing with the
New Yorker or tho Chlcagoan on tho
merits of American cities, was safe in
falling back upon the Indisputable
"Well, anjliow. Philadelphia is the
place for home life. You may have the
other things, but we have the homes."
And he could give visual proof of his
contention in the long rows of neat two
atory houses, each w'ith Its six to eight
rooms unci n hath, most nf them with
hC characteristic front porches, nod all
easv to rent at from ?12 to S2." a month
or "to buy at from .$1M0 to $.'!000.
'There was a home for everybody and
orerybody had a home. Even the tran
sient, in the city for only a few months
or "htunding by" while he decided on
n home, could get a comfortable room
find three good ineals n day in the
Wnjnut-Spru Pine street hoarding -
.Louse section for from ?1 to $10 a week.
The change that has taken place in
'these conditions during the last three
or four years Is dismaying to the old-
time Philadelphian. His own experi
ence, if he attempt to huut new living
quarters, will open his ejes wide ami
the experiences of his house-hunting
friends will open them wider. The re
ports, of the Housing Commission may
ferve to give him an extrn stir, but it
lifts remained for tin unnamed indi
vidual to cap the situation In n display
ndvertlkemeut wlthblack type and oc'
fupylng three andoue-haif inches of
space in the Kvenino Pubuo Ledoeb
-wb. iin offer- to pay good rent for a
small houe Jn "West Philadelphia ami
to relieve tho. owner of all the expenses
of repairs nntl taxes.
Today the hunter after a flvc-room
flat can offer $75 a month In even the
remoter parts of North and West Phil
adelphia nml get nothing. Many stieh
flats arc bringing $rJu a month, and
these, if they have modern conveniences,
nre besieged by a waiting. Hat like
, that of tho Union League. There
i Is no graver problem facing the real
estate men than the alleviation of such
conditions, nnd there should be no let-up
j in 'the efforts of the city authorities
until renci is lounu. t
DANGER FOR PUBLIC IN
LATEST TRANSIT MOVE
Appeal of P. R. T. Subsidiaries to
the Superior Court Is a Blow
Aimed at the Vitals of the
Public Service Commission
TTAS tho Public Service Commission
of Pennsylvania the right to deter
mine what Is a just and reasonable rate
to be charged the public by public utili
ties companies?
That is the fundamental question
lying ut tho heart of the appeal just
allowed by Judge IJiiii, of the Superior
Court, to the street railway subsidiaries
of the P. R. T. in this city.
Camouflage it as they may, cover it
up with a maze of technicalities and n
hundred side Issues, that question in
the end will always be reached as the
great, vital issue, and no amount of
dodging and shifting will escape It.
Therein lies the gravity of the situa
tion to the street -car riders of this city
ami tho stockholders, of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company. Its impor
tance cannot be exaggerated, and it be
hooves Mayor Moore, City. Solicitor
Smyth and Transit Director Twining to
be fully alive to the danger of a deci
sion adverse to the case of the business
men's organizatidns which brought the
proceedings beforo the Public Service
Commission now removed by Judge
Linn's supersedeas to the appellate
court.
Should the Superior Court grant he
appeal of the underlying companies and
declare that the commission has no
jurisdiction to prosecute its Inquiry fur
ther into the lease terms nnd rentals
paid by the P. R. T.. the Public Serv
ice Commission itself might as well be
disbanded and go out of business. It
would leave the state of Pennsylvania
weakened to the' point of impotence in
its right to regulate' and control public
utilities for the protection of the public
welfare and interest.
The issue has suddeuly outgrown the
comparatively narrow limits of an ar
gument between public service com
panies and patrons in a particular com
munity, nnd it has become an attack
upon the essential power of the com
mission and the state behind it. There
fore it may not be too much to antici
pate that Attorney General Schaffer and
the full force of bis office will be found
defeuding the course of the commission
when the nrgumeuts arc held before the
Superior Court in October.
Strategically this flnnk movement of
the underlying companies is intended to
divert the method of attack upon them
from the broad field of facts and figures
to the limited ground of legal nicety.
The business men's organizations have
been advocating a revision of the enor
mous rentuls which have proved to be
the millstone around the neck of the
P. It. T. management. They allege
them to be excessive and unfair and
productive of the financial difficulties in
which the operating company now finds
itself. The subsidiaries evidently do not
v.lsh that point opened for adjudication,
and hope by this appeal to avoid con
sideration altogether of the question
whether the rentals are fjiir or unfair
to the public which primarily has to
pay them. Hence the effort to bead off
further Inquiry along this line.
But it is difficult to see how the
Superior Court can consistently deny
the right of the commission to proceed.
The law of 1013 creating the Public
Service Commission rests wholly upon
the doctrine that the state has the right
to regulate such utilities in all their
relations to the public, and to deny this
right even in part would he virtually
a negation of the whole public service
law.
The greatest power given iuto the
bauds of the commission by the Legis
lature is the authority, or rather the
mandate, to see that all public utility
rates shall be "just and reasonable" to
both the public aud the companies. The
philosophy of the Public Sendee Com
mission idea, which has only been de
veloped iu n majority of the states dur
ing the present generation, is that pro
tection must be afforded to all factors.
To this end it has repeatedly been held
by such commissions that the fran
chises of a company shall be protected
from ruinous competition In its field,
and the Superior Couit itself only u
short time ago sustained the commis
sion's action in setting aside unfair
provisions of contracts between com
panies and municipalities where changed
conditions made this advisable.
How tremendously unfair, then, it
would be to prohibit the commission
now fron' even inquiring whether con
ditions in this city warrant it In inter
vening on behalf of the public in the
matter of the transit rentals, wiitch
everybody knows in some instances run
as high as 711 per cent a year on capital
actually invested.
To expect the commission to deter
mine what is a "just and reasonable"
rate of fare and not permit It to ex
nmlue Into all the factors which enter
into the costs of operation would lie
tantamount to a denial of the very chief
rurposc of the act. There is no other
logicil conclusion to be gained from n
rending of the law.
Of course, it may be that tho counsel
for tho companies can raise constitu
tional questions which will lend the
court to a conclusion adverse to the
commission, but it enn only be with the
result of nullifying the oue power that
makes all the acts of the commission
effective, and that is its rate -fixing
power.
The net has withstood attack for
seven yenrs in this state, nnd others
like it hue weathered many legal bat
tles along simllur lines in other states,
A decision in favor of the view held bj
the underlying companies would be a
Htcp backwurd into the old conditions
prevailing before state regulation was
developed, and that would be n catas
trophe, not only to the public, but to
the great mujorlty of public utility com
panies themselves which huve prospered
and grown under tho system which freed
them from the old-time guerrilla wnr-
fare of the politicians aud the greed of
crooked promoters.
There are many managers of public
servico companies big enough to admit
WEfofd- PUBLIC LEDGEPm:
that tho public service company act
has been as beneficial in its effects on
their properties as to the public. And
they nre further big enough to realize
that it cannot be one-sided In Its favors,
as the present attempt to upset it would
prove.
Another point Is worth bearing In
.mind. Why should the underlying com
panies fear having the fullest light
possible thrown upon their agreements
and rentals if they arc just upd equi
table? The commission 1s n quasi
judicial body, although unfortunately
not constituted wholly of judicial minds
In its personnel, and its actions nn dis
closed by Its recorded opinions do not
Justify the assumption that it would
give the underlying companies as well
as the complaining public anything but
a square deal. Yet these mortmain
corporations shun a show-down before
the commission and seek diversion iuto
the law courts on technical grouuds.
It might very well be that if the
rentals were found in nctord with pub
lic policy which means thht they were
merely a fair return upon property
rights held by the old companies they
would confirm them for perpetuity, nlid
thut would end n controversy which has
plagued cut body who lias tried to
solve the transit snarl in this city for
twenty years. 'CJieu would come ,uu
Inevitable readjustment of the rate of
fare paid here to produce uu income
ndequutc for the needs of the operating
company. Put the prospect of this
evidently appears slim to the advisers
of, those ccmcerub or they would not try
to choke off the business men's orgaul
satloiu before their case of fuels is
fully prcscutid.
In view of all these circumstances it
will not do for cither the city or state
officials to let a decision before the Su
perior Court go to the underlying com
panies by default or for want of careful
wutchiug, preparation and prcseutatiuu.
It Is u situation which, before it is
closed, may intimately affect the In
terests of every public utility and every
individual patron in Pennsylvania.
ROPER SPEAKS FOR MANY
WW. ROPER, one of tho leading
administration supporters in tho
City Council, has been saying aloud
what wuuy persons have been thinking.
He is not satisfied with the slow prog
ress of constructive work und he is
Irritated by the amount "f attention
that is paid to ward politics.
"There is too much speculation,"
says he. "as to what the Vurcs are
doing and what will happen if they do
it." He seems to think that the people
would be much better pleased if the
administration would go uhciul with the
things it promised to do- instead of
jockeying for position iu u fuctional
political fight.
Among the things on which action has
been delayed too long he mentions the
Delaware river bridge and arrange
ments for the cleaning of the streets by
the city. Seven months have already
passed, with no definite plans for mu
nicipal street cleaning and no definite
promise from thu Mayor's office that
the contract system will be brought to
nn end on January 1. The bridge
project is little further advanced than
it was a year ago.
Mr. Roper's remarks ought to have
a wholesome effect in the Mayor's office
and, on his associates In the Council.
The (Sejunantown councilman is not
wavering; iu his loyalty to the adminis
tration. ' It is because lie wishes it to
succeed that he has been free in his
expression of opinion. He knows that
unless there arc results the people will
be dissatisfied and there will be danger
of u restoration to power of the men
who produced the conditions against
which the city revolted last November.
No one on the Inside, least of nil Mr.
Roper, is unaware of the difficulties
with which the Mayor has been con
fronted., He has been beset by enemies
who have been' trying to undo every
thing that lie has done enemies in
office whom he has been seeking to get
rid of. It has seemed to him necessary
to play politics iu order that he may
convince the little fellows that it will
be more profitable for them to be loyal
to him than to any influence outside of
the City Hall. And tho delay on street
cleaning arrangements nnd the new
bridge plans has come about because of
the unfumillarity of the new adminis
tration with all the conditions.
Hut after making nil allowances, it
must be admitted that there is some
justification for Mr. Roper's dissatis
faction. The causes of it can be re
moved before the end of tho year if
some uctuul progress is made on the
bridge project und if the Mayor comes
ut definitely nnd unequivocally for end
ing the contract" system of cleaning the
city.
WIRE FREEDOM
THE conference cure for cuble condi
tions, very seriously in need of
reformation, is belated.
Throughout the war British control
of the transatlantic wires resulted in
a rigid scrutiny of most of the messuges
sent to this country. The situation,
ulthough inconvenient, hardly war
ranted a protest at the time, lor Eng
laud had unquestionably performed the
Allies a service in cutting the German
lines; arid, moreover, argument over the
subject would have been ill-timed dur
ing the season of mutual peril and a
common cause.
But the English monopoly bears a
different uspect in pence, and it is surely
advisable to prevent for the .future the
recurrence of dependency. This, of
course, is one of the reasons why an
international meeting, to be devoted to
the cable question, is called for Sep
tember. Pending the sessions the Americnn
Government is fully justified in with
holding permission for the laying of a
new British cable to connect Minml,
Pin., with Barbados, important junc
tion ,of British-owned lines to Europe
nnd South America.
Despite the Nnvj Department's, or
ders to prevent, bv force if necessary,
the landing of the British cuble ship
Colonla, the situation cannot be called
n "crisis." Britain will doubtless con
form to the ruling, which does not mean
that the Barbados cable may not
eventually lie laid, but merely thnt
nostponenient of nnv nction in the mat
ter is sought tint i 1 a general world I
policy lias been formulated.
There Is no reason ior supposing unit
an amicable ugi cement will not be
reached und there is ground for
hope that the settlement will involve
some recognition of Americnn claims to
firsf-hand .information from abroad.
Propaganda nnd prejudice assuredly
throve under the old system. Wire
freedom with the aid of Americnn
owned and operated cable companies Is
a necessity. .
One cause fur gratulatlou lies In
the fact that the proposed increase in
passeuger rates comes at the end of this
year's vacation scabou instead of at the
beginning.
MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING
Over 3000 Persons Reported to
the Police as Vanished Last
Year Seventy-five Wero
Never Htiard Of
Hy OEOROE NOX McC)IN
Y1APTAIN SOUDER, of tho Detec
tlvc Bureau, tells mo that more than
.1000 persons were reported "missing"
to tho Philadelphia police department
last year.
To be 'exact there were .1077. Of this
number ,100J were discovered, returned
or traced with sufficient detail to indi
cate that they were still living nnd had
not met with foul play or nccldent.
Tho nbovc does not, of course, include
a considerable number of mystcrioiN
disappearances that arc never reported
to the police. Family pride, the fear of
publicity nnd cases where the Individuals
have neither friends nor relatives Inter
ested sufficiently to bother nbout their
whereabouts militate against the facts
becoming known.
A very important department of
Philadelphia police work is devoted to
the discovery of missing people. An in
dividual Is not nlways listed as missing
as soon as relatives or. friends report the
mntter to headquarters.
The report of an unexplained absence
leads to un examination of arrests' and
hospital accident cases. The city
prisons and public institutions nre over
hauled. If tliertkis no success a gen
eral alarm is sent out, particularly if it
is of sufficient importance to justify that
action, with n description of the missing
person.
ml IE recent disco cry of Dr. Harry
x E. Campbell, a graduate of Jeffer
son Medical College and for jears a
physician with a large practice in Pitts
burgh, working nt the time of his death
as a dishwasher in n New York res
taurant, adds another to the long list of
men and women, some of them famous,
who disappeared and have never been
heard of until death years afterward
disclosed the secret.
Some have gone nnd the world knew
them ngaln no more forever.
William Livsey's was perhaps the
most celebrated of its kind in Pennsyl
vania. At the time of his disappear
ance ho was state treasurer. He
walked out of his office in Harrisburg
one day aud no trace of him was discov
ered for jenrs. Then lie was tounii in
Chicneo bv the writer. His cNplnnatioti
was that he "was just tired aud wauted
to quit."
Another case, this time a" Philadel
phian residing in New York, was that
of Prof. John M. Chillis, of 'JS West
Twentieth street. He was the principal
of a small Quaker seminary there.
He was a finely educated man, a
model in moral deportment aud his do
mestic life was above reproach.
On October l''. 1SSS, he retired as
usual. 'In the morning his wife went to
his room and found it empt). No trace
of him was ever fouud.
T) UNA W'AY boys and girls comprise
tho great majority of the so-called-missing.
When loneliness, hunger or
fear of arrest grow too strong they
usually surrender or notify their rela
tives of their whereabouts.
From time immemorial English boys,
fired with tales of the sea, ran away to
become sailors. The circumscribed nrea
of England aud its insular position left
the ocean as flic only avenue opcu to
adventurous youngsters.
Iij. this country, with tho vast and
mysterious West continually beckoning
hiin. tho American boy broke open his
penny savings bank, swiped the old
man's revolver anil made a dash sunset
ward to fight Indians.
In these later days the exploits of the
rough -riding, manhandling, dare-devil
kincs of the movies are the Inspiration
that fire lads from ten to fourteen years
of age with a. desire to emulate these
heroes of the film.
A week's absence from home is usu
ally long enough to peel the veneer from
the idol of their romance.
I
N PHILADELPHIA last year there
were seventy -five persons who van
ished from sight like u land mist and
have never been heard of since.
The fact that the police department
vas able to account for all the missing
except these few out of a total of S077
is evidence of the efficiency of at least
one of its many bureaus.
Not all disappearances can be traced
to domestic difficulty or the eccentrici
ties of those addicted to alcohol or
drugs, financial difficulties, betrayal of
trust or fear of arrest for some real or
fancied crime. ,
The wanderlust, which may be
hereditary, that sudden impulse to break
away from the conentIonalities of so
cial life, and perhaps the result of
atavism, plays a prominent part in such
vanishings.
Another cause, and one well recog
nized by the medical profession, is
mental collapse, with an accompanying
lass of memory, although other bodily
Functions are seemingly normal in their
operation.
Overwork, particularly In the case of
students, educators and professional
men. generally contributes materially to
the long roster of the missing. Profes
sional men nre almost exclusively the
victims of such attacks. Weeks and
months of mentnl stinin snap the deli
cate links thnt form the chain of mem
ory and the individual becomes, an au
tomaton. A MOST interesting case was that of
" Frederick Rew. He was n student
nt Cornell. One day lie went for n walk
along the lower end of Lake Cayuga
and vanisiieu into n pun or smolfc.
For two yenrs detectives searched all
over tho world for lnni. but without
avail. Finally he whs found in Ceylon,
where he had gone us electilcJau on n
French trodlug steamship.
He was unable to give much account
of his wnnderliigs. For weeks after he
left Ithaca his mind was a blank. Mt
was months before he could co-ordinate
any facts about his past. He had en
gaged passage on a cattle ship to Bor
deaux, France, went from there to the
Caribbean and Inter on shipped as elec
triclun on a tramp bound for the East
Indies. v
fSK of the mjsterles of New York
stJU uiisohed is the Identity of the
man who disappeared In a blUznrd three
jears ago. He stepped fioin a surface
trolley and, with. hat pulled down over
his eyes to protect them from the blind
ing snow, started around the rear of the
car to cross the aveuije.
An unprotected sewer inlet into which
Rtreet cleaners were dumpinc snow
vawned before htm. He plunged In nnd
was swept to icy death.
He was well dressed and apparently
wtII to do, hut Ills body was never
found, and no inquiries were ever made
concerning him.
A recent! popular novel is based on the
dramatic occurrence.
SHORT CVTS
Presumably tfio Cobbs Creek nomo
Association objects to visitors.
When a mnn begins, "I am not a
pessimist, but" look out for a deluge
of Indigo blue.
AVhnl the city looks for In the mat
tcr of street Improvements Is concrete
riMilts. . i
Come to think of it. the Weather
Mini is n fairly decent old scout, don't
you think? '
No, Maude the state hymn of
ftowcr California does notbegln, "Olr,
say, Cantu see."
Football boards of strategy remind
us that Thanksgiving Day has been
sighted in the offing. ,
We won't feci dead sure that
women have all their rights until every
newspaper has Its Man s Page.
Kenntr lfnnllnc's contemnlatod
brief political trips may bo described as
a porch swing n round trie circle.
The only effective way of punish'
Ing the profiteers is to use discrimina
tion .mil common senso In buying.
The dnys have passed when the
news editor reduced pounds sterling to
dollars by simply multiplying them by
five.
The contention of the P. II. T.
underlying companies appears to be that
thev are disembodied spirits with n big
kick.
The New York state Democratic
convention seemed determined to prove
that this is not a good jcar for plat
forms. Ponzl is said to be nnxious to enter
politics. He might bo able to put speed
iu the service if he were postmaster
general.
Partisanship should blind nobody to
the fact that the Japanese -Saghalin
incident is one to be treated dispassion
ately and carefully'.
Mayor Moore and Director Caven
both realize that It will take more than
good Having to put Christian street
cast of Broad in good condition.
You'll notice, remarked the Chief
Type Butcher, that it's tho. guy who is
going on his vacation that beefs the
most about everybody getting down to
work.
The fact that higher railroad rates
through increased efficiency may bring
about reduced prices of commodities
proves thnt even the dismnl science de
lights in paradoxes.
'Tis nn ill wind. etc. Perhnps re
ports of the flourishing condition of the
bandit business in Mexico may induce
some of our auto bandits to go there nnd
apply for pensions.
There Is little likelihood that pho
nograph records of political speeches
will ever have the popularity of rag or
iazz. This is not necessarily a reflec
tion on popular intelligence.
Shakespeare's times knew nn hous
ing problems or he never wnjiild have
said. "Home-keeping youths have ever
homely wits." It is n wise nuth tflat
gets a home to keep nowadays.
The fact that British and American
subject!; nre enlisting in the Polish army
has significance. Individual sympathy
i rystallized into deeds does not always
presage national action, but invariably
precides it.
One of the most important peace
conferences iu the history of the world
(though it is not so officially deslg.
natcd) Is now being held In London
the International .Boy Scouts' confer
ence or jnmbnree.
.
If Conan Doyle will put Sherlock
Holmes on the trail of the Cyclops and
tell exactly what happened to the mys
tery ship we'll begin to believe thnt
spirits, come back to tell what is hap
pening in the Great Beyond.
The selection by New York Demo
crats of a woman candidate for secre
tary of state is considered by many to
he a clever piece of political strategy.
Whether anything better cnu be said of
it later may depend lnrgely on the lady.
There is nothing necessarily altru
istic in the attitude of the prisoners nf
the New Castle (Del.) county work
house, where the honor system prevails,
who have offered a reward of $."0 for
the return of a runaway. Every blow
nt the system has a tendency to rob
them of their privileges.
Internal Revenue Collector Lederer
has ruled that spiritualists, clairvoy
ants and mediums who charge admis
sion to their seances must pay the 10
per cent war tax; which would go to
show thnt when it comes to materializ
ing spirits Uncle Sam is no slouch
himself.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. Where Is Saghalln island?
2. What state does Senator Wadsworth
represent?
3. Who Ip the nuthor of the verses
beir'nnlntr "Tho brenldng waves
dashed hlph on a stem and rocK
hound coast"?
4 What relation was Queen Victoria
to William Hohcnzollern?
5. Who. was Antolue Bnryc?
6. Who founded the flrfct botanlcil
gnrden iu America?
7. Whore was It located?
8. For what achievement In medicine
wns Ftirftcur especially noted?
9. Namo an America's Cup defender
which sailed In two series of raws
against British challenge.
10. What -two Btntes originally ceded
territory to form tno District ot
Columbia?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 Autophagous animals nre birds able
to run ubout and feed themselves
hh soon ns they aro hatched.
Literally self-eating or feeding
I. Constnntlne the Great made Chris
tianity tho Btato religion of tho
Bomnn empire. Ho died In 337
A. D. '
3. Tho Phoenicians are said to have
been responsible for tho Introduc
tion of the alphabet In European
civilisation.
4 The masque of "Comus" wuh written
by John Milton
6 The Confederate name for tho battle
of Antietum Is Sharpsburg.
G. King Solomon lived In the tenth
century D. P.
7. Tho pass of Thermopylae Is n
northern Greece leading from
Thcssaly Into I.ocrls.
8. There. In 480 B. C. the Persians
defeated, the Greeks under Loom
dus, slaying In battle tho entire aoo
p.inuii men iuu i ncxpiuilij who
remained to defend tho pass,
9. Corinthian ns applied to a jachls
man means thut ho is an umnteui
one who does not exerclso Ida bMi'
for money but for the loe of thu
rjorU
10. The word limbs Includes both arms
ml lets.
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PHILADELPHIA
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SURROUNDED BY GOLF
Links Arc Everywhere and Game Is Doing Citizens "an Im
mense Amount of Good
"Myriads of business nnd nrofessionul
men nre attiring themselves iti knickers
nnd short'sleecd bhirts nnd renewing
their youth in the green fields and be
side the still waters.
"Men who are too old for tennis or
baseball nnd too masculine for croquet
nnd too negligent to hold themselves
to any drudging routine of exercises,
nre finding In golf a real elixir of youth
the oniy golden panacea that will
bring back a has-been."
In metropolitan Philadelphia there is
today nn investment of unwnrd of
$10,000,000 in lands and buildings de
voted to golf and the above words by
George Ade supply the explanation,
sa.is the Corn Exchange, published by
the Corn Exrhnnge National aBuk.
With devotees of the pastime multi
plying in astounding fushfbn In this nnd
all other built-up sections of the coun
try, with old courses being enlarged un
new ones constructed, one may well
pausf to consider the financial aspects of
the golf tidal wave.
About 10,000 Philadelphia men piny
golf. The play at the thirty-eight
country clubs, most of which compose
the Philadelphia Golf Association, A
view of the golf map shows Philadel
phia to he a city almost entirely sur
rounded by golf courses. On the north
there Is the
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ionic, and from there south- fnr, "o Puduii fair aro not yet avail
ward the countryside is dotted with
them tho Torresdale. the Huntingdon
Volley. Old York Road, the White
marsh Valley, Philadelphia Cricket,
Sunn brook. Lu Lu Temple, Phllinnnt,
Frankfnrd. North Hills und the Stenton
Country dubs.
Westward the rase is the same.
Hardly n road out of the city that does
not pass a golf course in the first live
miles. First the Philadelphia Country
Club nnd the Rala and Overbrook clubs,
then the Merion and St. Davids, Tredy
ffriu nnd on to the big new Gulph Mills
Golf Club, in the hills this side of Nor
ristown. Also nenr Norristowu is the
Plymouth Country Club.
Southward and southwest the courses
begin nt I.ansdowne nnd Llunerch, und
taking in Aronitnink and Spring Haven,
near Kwnrthmore, provide) facilities for
the game as for out us West Chester,
where the West Chester Country Club Is
locoted.
Across the Delaware river the New
Jersey clubs command strong member
ships und number many uctlve players.
I'luc alley, Utverton, .Moorcstown,
Merchantville, Woodbury und the Had
don Country Clubs, iu the nearer sec
tions, are well known, and further east
nre the seashore courses, Sea View und
the Country Club of Atlantic City.
Golf was played in Philadelphia as
early as mil where lu the United States.
This was lu the eariy nineties, when
tlio first clubs were organizing in New
York and Chicago. The Merion Cricket
Club, at Haverford, was tho first or
ganization iu tho country to have two
eighteen-hole courses, und held this
distinction for n number of years uutll
recently n few Chicago und 'San Fran
cisco clubs built second courses.
The growth of golf iu Philadelphia
has been steady and continuous. This
year the Roxborough Country Club,
which has just become u member of
the Gulf Association of Philadelphia,
is having nn active first season, and the
new Valley Green Country Club has
begun construction of an eighteeu-holc
lourse near Roxborough.
Tho passing of each year brings more
general recognition of the essential
value of golf, and each year the number
of pluyers increases. 'I he man who in
the spring uccompunles a friend out to
the country club, smiling tolerantly be
cause he is seriously allotting a whole
nfteinoon to playing golf, generally
falls a victim himself define cool
wtutlicr if he condescends now uml
then to tukc u Nwiug with u club.
The first few times his feelings ure
mostly rage at his inability to accom
plish what he always held was the
trilling feat of hitting a small ball with
EITH'S
1 "A TRIP TO HITLAND"
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si stick. Sooner or later the victim'
happens to swing his club down with
accuracy and the ball speeds away an
astounding distance. Thereafter he
spends ninny days trying to do this
again with precision, humbles himself
to the point of taking n few lessons of
the club professional, and so joins the
ranks of the golfing "hugs."
On the serious side, it is generally
'onreded thnt golf is doing morefor tho
health and fitness of the busy business
mnn than any other tdnglo agency.
Physicians say the reason for this is
the fnct that golf is the only form of
exercise men will tnkc nt a time when
exercise is most uecessnry und nccoit
plishes the greatest good.
ITALY PLANS FLOATING 'F AIR
Steamship Will Tour Mediterranean
t Ports to Exhibit Goods
Washington, Aug. 0. The success of
the sample fairs held both at Milan
nnd at Padua seems to hnve been suf
ficient to stimulate further interest in
this plan nf developing sales, according
to Trade Commissioner II. C. MncLean
nt Rome. It is claimed thnt at the
Milan fair nctunl orders nmnnnrlnir in
able.
The latest project of this character
is that of a floating fair on board the
steamship Trinacria. wliiclr will cover
the principal cities of tn western
Mediterranean in the interests of Ital-
ian manufacturers. After sailing from
Napjes stops will be made at Tunis, Al
giers, Tangier. Lisbon, Barcelona and
Marseilles, returning to Genoa. The
date of departure will be nbout the mid
dle of August, und the ship will return
to Genoa in October.
The leugth of the stay in each port
will vary, in accordance witli Its im
portance, from four to seven duvs. The
cost to exhibitors will be f.OOO 'lire, in
which all expenses nre included. Pro
vision lias been made for special ex
hibits of virtually all kinds of goods
whose manufacture in Italy is m '
pnrtant. including food products, tex
tiles, machinery, automobiles, glass
ware, art goods, etc.
METROPOLITAN
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OPPOSES COLONIAL RULE
De VSTera Denies He Has Urged Ai
ceptance of Plan
Washington, Aug. 0. Eamon de V.
Iern, "president of the Irish Republic."
issued u statement jcstorday vigorouslj
denying that he had written letters homo
counseling nccciitnnce of n colonial home
rule plan for Ireland. The statement
was in the form of a cablegram to Ar
thur Griffiths, ucting head of the re
public. "From cable dispatches publlhetl
here." it reads, "it is evident that m
attempt is being made to fool the Irish
people iuto the belief that I have writ
ten n letter indicating that I would
accept colonial homo rule. I have, of
course, never ut any time written anj
such letter. Any one in possession ol
a letter of mine, no matter how con
fidential, on any such topic, is free to
publish it.
"The New York Sun and Herald cor
respondent specifically mentions today )
one of tho members of the recent ddK
gallon to Lloyd George ns saying be
heard such u letter rend at u moetisj
that preceded the appointment of the
delegation. Let the letter be produced.
"Surely no one can think that now,
when the republic i" established. I-
would counsel a course which I refused
to stnud for when the republic was yet
a hope. The whole thing is absurd."
BOARD TO DECIDE FARE RISE
Wilmington's Public Utility Com
mission to Take Up Question
Wilmington. Dei., Aug. fi. City
Council last night confirmed the ap
pointment of .Tnines Le Fevre and John
Foote to he members of tho Wilming
ton Public Utility Commission The
appointments had been held up brcau'e
there wus a question of' whether Mayor
William G. Taylor hud the lifjlit to
make the appointments when lie wis
0,lt of thu c,ty
It Is now cxnected the cnmniMoa
will uct on tho application of the locil
traction company to increase ts fart
to ciaht cents. At present a icven-
cent fare is being charged, with four
tickets for twenty-five cents. Fisurei
submitted by the company slrtiw tbatit'l
cannot pay cxpeus.es on this rate.
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Market Bt. ab. ICth 11 A. M. to 11 F.
KATHERINE MacDONALD
In "THE TIJHNING POINT' f
NEXT WEEK
THOMAS MEIGHAN
In DB M1LLD Production
"THE PRINCE CHAP" ,
A PARAMOUNT FICTUHU
DAI A T"1 1214 MARKET BTBEEt
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CHARLES RAY '" Smu'
A"KATDuiin LARRY SEMON
In Now Comedy "Till! BTAOK HAND"
Next Wissli WILLIAM FAVEnSIIAM
In "THU MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF'
ARCADIA WSi.W.5
ours, 7:4D, u:w ' -"The
World and Hia Wife" '
NEXT WUUK "SINS OK ST. ANTH0NT
VICTORIA 'TCWJftftS
WSStii "B'l the Surface"
Next Week aiUFKJTIl'S "IDOL DANCE"
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