Syri. ; ' " ,.y-?'ii"rf-'iviffWysr,-,5'kfi!-' Tjy."T'iv W5ifil'iPI in'W,WYVVr ' '' """&1TX3 i?T'' ' '-"'-. " .'" iT' -" -' ' -V ' 't,W i MBPBWiBBBB""MP"""""""""B''"""""""""""""BB57.: - "ITTSSi i- ri'n.' cfni 'mitr'!-'! i o tit . fl 'l 1 EVENING PUBLIC LEpGEKr-PHILADELPmA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9.0. . 1921 o ma FARE RISE FIGHTJSOUTLINED Formal Protost Sent to Com mission Would Mean 60 P. C. Cut In Traffic CITY COUNSEL GIVES VIEWS Tlir- prediction Mint ft ton-cent fare would Mine n 0l per rent slump In trolley riding In C'nmden was mnde tn ilny by f'ty Counsel E. (J. C. Hlenklcy, of Cmmlen, In n formal protest (lKtiltut a fare rise to tlio New Jersey I'ulille t'tlllt.v Coinmlislon, Petition for n ten-rent fare Is now before tbr utility board from 'the Public 'Hen Ice Hallway Co. Decreased reve nue tliroiiKb Jitney competition is ono of tlie renons advanced by tbe com pany to back up ltn fare boost request. "The president of tbe street railway eompHtiy says tbc jitney l Its greatest rhnl and that It is greatly depleting the rcM'iuics of his corporation," wrote Mr. Weakley. "The jitney men reply that the Pub lic Service Hallway (So, N the solo rca ton for their existence. They cheer louill) every niove'of this kind made by the railway company officials. "U'lieii a business man has n compet itor lie does not raise prices In order to drive that oomKtltor out of businrs.. The practical method is to either reduce priees or Increase service In quantity nnil ipialltj." Mr. Weakley argued that the com naav's efforts to Increase Its revenue tliro'unh a higher fure would fall and that tlie practical method would bo to lower operating costs. The cost of coal, he continued, Is at. important Item In the company's ex pire short. The general public "hah -one en a strike," he said, "and all thu order in the world will not affect Its quiet but determined resolution to light ll out on'thls line If it takes all sum' iner." Mr. niMklO) told the commlsslon'that if the company would try to obtain reductions in coal prices that public iigcncles Interested would back up the proceeding. Fire Doei $1000 Damage to Home Fire of undiscovered origin caused $1000 damage to the second floor of the home of Isaac Schwartz, 11,11 South Hhermnn street, at 2:110 o'clock this morning. The family was asleep when the fire was discovered In a rear room, and stood In the hnll while the firemen were at work. LIONS CLUB TO MEET Be Presentation of Charter Will Made This Evening Members of the Lions Club will bold a charter night on the roof of the Hotel Adclphla tonight at 0:30 o'clock, when a dinner will be served. A feature of the occasion will be the presentation of the charter to the local club by the secretary general of the In tcrnatlonal Association. Gold Glass ' Etched and Plain Border Wide Selection $4.00 to $10.00 Wrignt,Tyndale & van Rodeiu Inc. Reputed the Largest Distributors of High-Grade Dlnnerwarc 1212 Chestnut Street MHSSSMTC Bmm&53S3C. At all our Stores QSCO Coffee 25' 'Where Quality Counts" litem rirofct &n ram 131 vrV - (( Chiffon, Brown Chiffon Gray9 Just now, the rarest and most desired of Women's Silk Hosiery- Perfect shades, per fect weave. Draw them through the slimmest wedding ring! $3.50 a pair rfioiqoru)al1 S L7 'Soot Shop f 1420 Chasinut Si. What does "denture" mean? DENTURE meins "a set of teeth" ARTIFICIAL DENTURE means "a set of false teeth" such as a plate or u bridge. Caulk DENTURE CREAM CLBANS ARTIFICIAL DENTURES PERFECTLY Made by The L. D. Caulk Co.,Mtlford, Del., and sold at all drug stores (9(iVV Av Cie ) f iV"1"" lan-luh "FAN-TUNG In Black Satin, Gun-metal and Tan Calf. $12.50 ... In White Kid-Cloth, $ 1 .00 In patent leather with grey buck back, tan calf with fawn buck back and all gray buck. DHE "Fan-Tung" stands out as the sensation of the season, a style that, original with Geuting's, is now being copied by prominent retailers throughout the country. It offers a delightful varia tion to the vogue of straps which is so justly popular just now. $14.00 jummg q Iff! The "CARLTON" An exquisite two - strap model, smart and dainty in seven styles satins, leathers and leather combinations. $10.50 and $11.00 Silk Stockings All shades, plenty of tans and grays. $2 TA"SoToncs eovrtMo (The Mora ot f mou JKod" 1230 Market St. 1 308 Chestnut St. (Shoeo and Stocking for All the Family) kh L-'-1 " '', i To-morrow at Strawbridge & Clothier's C3.95 &o 4i20o' ,35o I More New Trimmed Hats $10.00, $12.00, $15.00 Summery Hats of malinc-halr and mllan-tagal, many in the larger effects, with wispy feathers and fancies, ribbon bows, (lowers singly and en masse, ostrich feathers drooping from Sailor brims. Plenty of black and blue and gray and many new and beautiful combinations of shades. Ready -to-W ear Hats, $4.95, $5.95, $6.95 Taffeta, hair and various fashionable straws, small, medium and large, trimmed with flowers and fancies. Banded Sailors, $3.50 to $8.95 Roll nnd straight brimi, round and square crown's, plain straws and combinations, plain shades and two-color effects. Ribbon Sports Hats from $4.95 to $8.95 Of soft-finish ribbons, wide and narrow, plain Bhadcs and com bination effects, and including the Ribbon Crusher Hat, at $4.05, so smart on the head, yet can be folded and put in the pocket. In the Girls' Millinery Store Trimmed Leghorns with ribbon streamers, $5.95. Ribbon-trimmed Milan Hats, $1.60 to $6.95. Sailors, $3.50 to $8.05. Trimmed Hats of various kinds, $3.50 to $10.00. Broad-brim Hats, $1.85 to $6.50. &- Btrawbrtdee & Clothier Second Floor, Market Street, West Girls' and Misses' Apparel At Exceptionally Low Prices A Smart Coat-Wrap Like the One Sketched is $29.50 It is one of a group at $25.00 and $29.50', which includes short, flared Sports Coats, belted Tailored Coats and Coat-Wraps of unusual excellence. Sizes 14 to 18 years. Misses' Coats, $15.00 and $19.50 Double-breasted, flare-back Coats and Belted Coats in sports and three-quarter length. Sizes 14 to 18 years. ' Misses' Tweed Suits, $25.00 Tailored Belted Suits with notched or tuxedo collars. Tan, gray, brown and blue. 14 to 18 years. Misses' Dresses at $15.00 Embroidered Jersey Dresses in tunic style. Tai lored Jersey Dresses with plaited skirts, and combina tions of crepe de chinc-and-tricotine. 14 to 18 years. Girls' Coats, $10.75 to $19.50 Short, flare-back and full-belted Coats of burella, serge, veiour and cioaKing. Sizes a to 16 years. Girls' Lovely White Frocks, $5.00 to $21.50 White voile, batiste and organdie, trimmed with laces, ruffles and rose quillings; many with organdie sashes or ribbon girdles. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Girls' Fine Dresses Greatly Reduced Colored crepe, lincne and chambray. Chiefly one of a kind. Not quite as fresh as now. Sizes 10 to 16 years $12.50 to $16.50. gft Strnwbrldee & Clothier Second Floor, Market Street Men's Spring Clothin Of Outstanding Excellence The Slcin-Moch Smart Clothes, the Hurt, Schaff nor & Marx Clothing. "Alco" and "Wickham" Clothing lines of matchless quality in fabric, workmanship and style and obtainable at this Store only in this city. - Prices for Suits $25.00, $30.00, $35.00, $10.00, $45, $17.50 up to $67.50. Top Coats $30.00, $32.50 to $07.50. At these prices you can now and here secure the sort of Clothing that cost one-half more last year. SOME OF THESE EXTRA-SPECIALS ARE ABOUT ONE-HALF 1920 PRICES Medium-weight Suits at $22.50 $27.50 and $34.50 Serviceable Suits, at low clearance prices. Spring Raincoats at About Half Price now $15.75 Conservative and youthful belted models. Hart, Schaff tier & Marx Oxford Gray Suits, $39.50 About one-third less than the former price. AM 'Qk 1 A Suits with Two Pairs of Trousers, $27.50 and $34.50 Of serge, cas3imcrc and worsteds. Men's Separate Trousers Special $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50 Neat stripes and mixtures. All unusual values. Youths' Long-trousers Suits $22.50, $27.50 and $32.50 ' Designed for youths of 16 to 19 years. --- Ht'nulirldKi St Clothier- Second Floor East Beautiful Afternoon Frocks $25.00 to $32.50 And you couldn't wish for a better assortment. Taffetas with quaint flat bodices and .skirts with perky little side fullness, side tunics edged with plaiting, silk-ruffled crepe Georgette draperies, or finely plaited tiers. Crepes do chine, sitli plaited skirts, plaited or tucked tunics or tiers of plaitings set in panels at .the sides. Canton crepe and trico lette, in coat styles and many straight-line effects, some deeply girdled. Crepe Georgette in plain shades, or combined with pretty foulards, or in flowered effects, one of the latter sketched, $30.00. Navy, brown, black, flesh pink, white and gray. Lovely Crepe de Chine Dresses, $16.75 to $20.00 Plaited-tunic and gathorcd-tunic styles, in navy, brown and black, at $18.75 and $20.00. A straight line model with plaited skirt, in white, flesh, navv. brown and black $10.75. Wash Frocks, $7.50 to $16.50 Fine ginghams and dotted voiles in dark shades. In straight-line, tunic, panel and long-waistcd effects. -5 - Strnlirlili:e J. Clothier Sei onj Kliior. Market Street Tailored Tweed Suits at $24.75 An Extraordinary Value Only thirty-five of these Suits, but the thirty five women who get them will be among the most fortunate of the season. There are two models, one sketched, the other in Norfolk effect; both of smait, sturdy tweeds in gray and tan, and beautifully tailored. Tweed and Homespun Suits, Special at $35.00 Belted models in straight-line btyle or slightlv gathered at the waist-line. Unbelted models with quite on English air to them. Also combinations of plain coats and plaid skirts, and some combining the long circular capo with the plain-tailored skirt. An excellent variety in models and colorings some very effective checked tweeds in the lot. This is nn accumulation of Suits from our regular stock which were formerly higher in price. ')&- Slrwbri(1e 6 Clothier Second floor Centre Wonderful Values To-morrow In Coats and Coat-Wraps Sports Coats, Special, $10.50 Of the fashionable tan cloaking, made on plain tailored lines, belted all around; centre-back slot seam. Others in various loose and belted styles $15.00 to $45.00. Wool Veiour Dolmans, $20.00 In tan and blue. Belted across the front, fin ished with deep collar, and Milk-lined throughout. Others from $22.50 to $60.00. Wool Poplin Coats, $25.00 In black and blue. Made in all-around belted style, with deep collar; silk-lined throughout. Others of wool veiour and tricotinc at $30.00 and $35.00. ' Seventy Fine Cloth Coats ! Much Under Price. $18.50 , AX EXCEPTIONAL VALUE worth one-tlunl I more. Four different models, in the fashionable three-quarter-length, of plain and two-tone veiour and fine veiour de laine. All bilk-lined throughout. I One model sketched. Top Coats, $20.00 to $37.50 Of fancy mixtures in tan and gray. Made un full, plain-tailored lines; ome full-length, some shoitei. Forty High -Grade Cloth I Dolmans Are Now i Only fort m this lot but they are bcautii-s ami uell uorih com ing here early to secure. Made of high-grade cloth.-, in tun-, and tnupes, heautifullj embroidered and button-trimmed, and silk-lined throughout. Smart, Mannish Top Coals in Man-Tailored Overcoat Style ft, $15, $50, $55 and $60.00 . High-grade Cloth Capes, $,15.00 to $05.00 $30-00 - Mr i il n iki A 'lot til. r Handsome Moire Bajs j $8.60 Hand Bags of distinctive ele gance, at a moderate price. Of brocaded or broadtail moiro silk, in brown, black or navy blue. In one-piece style, with smart plait ed frills at the sides, harmonizing in shade with the beautiful silk linings. Mounted on covered frames with snap catches. 8tmwbrlcle lc Clothier Aisle 8, Centre Now All the Kiddies Want Gay Parasols Silk poplin, taffeta silk, plain and mercerized cottons, flowered or figured, plnin or with shirred edges; some with wrist cords, others with rings $1.25 to $3.50. Slrawlirlilue It ("othler Alile 7. Nrket Street Men's Shirts Under Price Tho following specinl attrac tions for men who have planned to choose Shirts to-morrow. Soft Shirts 95c Oood pHttcrnN nnil fabrics, out full h7.u nnd well-made Soft Shirts $1.50 Mam styleH of Hhlrtlnes and pat turnn All made with Hoft cufffi Madras Shirts $2.25 ' With the attractive colored Htrlpes woven clear through. Madras Shirts $2.50 Of niadru.s bo lino In weave as to feel like linen. White Cheviot Shirts $2.50 Mercerized, with neckband or at tached collar. Kant Rtore UlRhth Street New Stripes Avail able in Men's 50c Four-in-Hands Scores of different color com binations and stripe effects in Neckwear of a quality far high er than this unusually low price would indicate. They'll go quick ly to-morrow at 50c. Alule 1, Market Htreet Traveling Bag's of I Real Cowhide, $11.95 Black or mahogany colors; made with sewed frame, cor ners and edges; finished with strong centre lock, and lined with leather. Double handles a feature sel dom found in Bags of this quality at such a low price. Your choice of 18- or 20-inch sizcs$11.95. tuilN'le 4. Clothier A mr t'entrr Fragrant Djer-Kiss Toilet Preparations Djer-Kiss, the perfume of dis tinction, subtle, but heavy enough to be lasting. In these Toilet Preparations Toilet Water, $1.82 und $3.12; Extract, $1.82, $2.00 and $3.38; Talcum Powder, 2Gc; Face Pow der, 52c; Sachet, 91c; and Vege tale $1.30. WimlMiilw & I'inihler- Aitlr ! Centre Moire Taffeta Ribbon, Special, 45c In the 4 -inch width desired for hnir bows and sushes; gootl Colors. Alele 11 Mnrkol Mr. et Satin Skirts7$9.75 In black, navy, flesh color nnd wlHte. Also, these fashionable kinds in great varety: Flannel, while colors $10.00 to $15.00 Combination Effects $20.00 Silks, white colors $22.50 to $30.00 SERGE SKIRTS FOH FULL FIGURES requiring waist measures of 29 to 41 inches; in black and blue $10.00. . i nnil I iimr I1llrt M-eet Prices are 25 to 40 Per Cent. , Less Than Last Year's in This Semi-Annual Sale of Floor Coverings One of e greatest Floor Covering t-voiits Philadelphia has enjoyed for many years. More than 117 different manufacturers have contributed to this great under-pnee assemblage, which Includes our entire stock of Wilton, Aminster, Bodv Brussels and Velvet Rugs, our Waite Grass Rugs and other Summer Rugs, alco Carpots and Linoleums of different grades. In view of the continued scarcity of desirable Floor Coverings at the source, wo urge our customeis to take full advantage of thi important opportunity. -a -stntin iiu i ,, i UMii r ... w- Candy Special for the Week-end Fine assorted Chocolates, with creams and hard centers. A qual ity that usually sells for almost double 70c a pound box. Chocolate-covered Almond Pat tics, peanuts, raisins, filberts and figs -48c a pound. Assorted. Assorted Cakes Macaroon Butters, Sweet Maries, Butter Jumbles and brown-edge Wafers 45c a pound, Blrawbrfti A Clothier TUternent Bicycling Finest Kind of Exercise The Waverly Bicycles are the best tho money can buy. Men's $40.75, $54.50 and $60.00. Women's $55.50. Fay Juvenile Bicycles, made especially for the kiddies $49.50. The salesman will gladly toll you how these Bicycles can be purchased on terms of convenient payment. Htrnwlirlilne & Clothier Poui th Floor Baby Coaches, $30 A handBomely-designed, well made Coach, neatly finished in gray or ecru, lined with corduroy and equipped with the convenient rovcrsiblo gear $30.00. StraWbrldie A Clothier Fourth Floor Phonographs for the Play-room Cabinet ste in .small size -just the thing to play the Bubble-Book Recoids 12.00. Other styles at $0.1)0. tlr.ivl i i.u. i ih . i I .mi: in I )it Taffeta Silk Petticoats, $5.95 Smart in effect, ecellent in quality and inexpensive these Petticoats in black and desirab e shadesat $5.9.' Cotton Petticoats $1.50 Of lovely flowered cotton tnf- feta, with tucked and plaited flounces. At once practical and good-looking. , stnmnridiM A. Conner Recond floor Vel Waists and Over-Blouses Many Exceptional Values MKi.NOXLnK, ( RKPE M l MINE AND CREPE GEOR GETTE OVER BLOfhES, in p i- t i cully all fiifchionable light nnd daik shades, h.auti full, I.1.....I...I I . . . 1-. . jyr Iff " '""iiii-'u, i-iiiui i hum ((! Di Arttr&VA trimmed with late y.i.M, to r r il SI0-" Tlu' mo'li'l sketched, VmU S10on Also Striped VOILE ' r.K-m.ui hk.S, us shown in me sketch at the left $1.75 I'ONGEE WAISTS -iHiluri. I and scmi-tai ored in ariou-. stj l . $:;.oo. PORTC UK AN HAM) MADE BLOUSES-with frills and plaitings, embroiderj, tucks, diawn-work and hein- -utcning s;;.75 to S7.5ii. Lovely Cotton Waists, Special at $1.00 oilVtLin. lni-'1,,t's. trimmed with gingham; white voiles with col- oted s ripe.s anil white organdie collar; and some of all-white tucked organdie. Many uith Peter Pan cellars. OthorJ In wh to, flesh-color m1o!leKC;iot"SLS:5.,,0red' -- tnmiJfcr of' 150 Crepe de Chine Waists, $3.95 highf S; "Tjo-Iia,! Ar&lTC!? clre-fi combination tucking nnd convertible Cl,lnr, the omer finished u Ih narrow plaitings Sues :t(i to 40. nnisnccl with ' "" .in henna ! 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