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Staten Island
Trolleys Stop
Despite Court
Order Deniaiidin<* Midland
Line Cars to Continue t n
til Argnnient To-day on
Receivership ls Ignored
Buses Start This Morning
Night Superintendent Says
Company Official Gave In
structions to Shnt Down
I)e?pite a court order commanding
tltat the line3 continue in operation
pending argument to-morrow on the
city's applicatton for a receivership,
lhe cars of the Midland Railway Com?
pany on Staten Island stopped running
at 1:30 o'clock thia morning.
The original plan to discontinue at
niidnight, because of the city's failure
to authorize a seven-cent fare, was
modified when process servcrs, unable
to locate any official of the company,
served Suprerae Court Justice Faber's
order on Harry J. Blackum, night super?
intendent. Blackum said he would keep
the cars in operation until his tour of
duty ended at 3 a. m. Subsequently,
however, iie announced he htul com
municated with an ofticer of the com?
pany and been directed to stop the cars?
Cars Taken to Barns
Blackum stationed himself at tlio
municipal ferry, St. George, and ordered
each motorman as he brought his car
to the terminal to take it to the barn.
Ten buses, chartered by Commis
sioner of Plant and Structures Grover
Whalen, ^ill begin running from St.
George over the old routes of the Mid?
land lines at tj a. m. to-day. A police
man will be put on each bus to show
the driver the way.
SheViff William K. Walsh swore in
ten car crews as deputy sheriffs, who
were sent to the power house at Gras
mere, Staten Island, apparently to act
as guards in case public resentment
inspired an attack on the power housc '
City to Operate Buses
Arrangements were made to have
ten private'.y owned buses, operated
by the city, at the St. George ferry
house early this morning. Later the
number is to be increased to thirty.
The machines will traverse five routes
mapped by city ofiicials.
Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of
Plant and Structures, spent all yes?
terday in Richmond traveling over
these routes. Many commuters e.\
pressed floubts that these buses could
I>e operated long on a five-cent fare,
but the commissioner said that a nickel
would be the rate.
The bus lines which are taking the
place of tho trolleys are as follows:
1. Dongan Hills, through Richmond
to Concord and thence through Van?
derbilt Avenue. Clifton, Rosebank Ave?
nue, Canal Street, Stapleton and Bay
Street to the ferry at St. George.
2. Concord, through Richmond Road
and Van Duzer Street. through Broad
Street to park at Stapleton; thence
through Wright Street, Van Duzer
Street, Richmond Turnpike and Bay
Street to the ferry.
3. From Four Corners, Richmond Turn?
pike and Manor Road, through Manor
Road, Delafield Place. I'rospect Street,
Oakland Avenue. Henderson Avenue,
J.afayette Avenue, Xew Brighton, and
liichmond Terrace to the ferry.
4. Westerly from the Richmond
"urnpike to Jewett Avenue. through
Jewett Avenue, Castleton Avenue, West
New Brighton, Broadway; Henderson
Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, Xew Bright?
on, and Richmond Terrace to the ferry.
5. Short route from the Village of
Richmond to the Xew Dorp railroad
station.
Will Rcquire F.xtra Fare
Those persons uaing the last route
will have to pay an extra fare on the
steam lines, but all the othera will be
able to get to the Xew York ferry i
for the same price that they have been '
paying the traction company.
A disc*ntinuance of "tlie line
would atTect about twenty cars and
sixty men. According to an announce
ment made last night, the men will
be taken care of by the Richmond
I.ight & Railroad Company, which has
operated the Midland trolley line. The
Richmond Company will also use a
number of the cars on the Silve'r
l.ake line and on the shore lines be?
tween South Beach and St. George
and between St. George and Port
Richmond. This will give to tho<e'
lines a nve minut- headwav, instead
ot seven as at present.
The men will work but eight hourn
instead of twelve, and their pav will
l>e decreased one-third.
4,000 Harbor Boatmen
Threaten Strike To-day
Refusal of Demands for Wage
Inerease Given an Reason
for Action
Jerome Healy, a member of the griev
ance committee of the Harbor Boat
men's Union. announced list night thai
?1,000 liremen, deckhands and cooks
would go on strikc this morning be?
cause the towing companies had re
fused to grant their demands for wage
mcreasea averaging about $35 a month
tngmeers, he declared, would refuse
to work with strikc breakers, and the
p?rt would be t e,| up. Members of the
union d-clared the companies had ad
vanced their charges for towing and
that the men. who had not fared so
well as the members of some other
unions m the recent harbor strike set
tJement, ought to gei a shar. of the
n creased income.
Firemen said althougl they worked
T ': "'- ? '"? ?'?? ??- ?-' hour dav, in re
;' "' lh'v h?ad '" report an hour before
their day began, in order to get
sieam up. Cooka object to doing mar
keting after houra and to the allowance
made to the,,, for f00(j
Plan Is Launched to
Keep War Relics Here
KnighiH of Columbus Told
Ilascam Pictures Portra>
Patriotism of Citv
fn an effort- to keep jn \\.w York
the picluren of treet ncenes duriniz
the war penod, painted by Childe Has
?*"' Bl '?'? bition or hia work was
held >r: the Lincoln C? rridor of Cit\
( ollege yesterday. Church rel ? ??
W-rdun. collected by W. J R Keaten
formerly Custodian of 'he yr,-rr} II ?--,
Commission W,-,r Exhibit, ?.-..??, nown
/n eonjunction with the picture It
wa? explained by Mr. Keate? to a gath
attng of the Kmghts of Columh .? tl ?
'>*r>r? for the picture had come <,,,?.
OUt Of tOWTi. He Hjgjf, ..,.,j ,...,, .,
>h>y were vividly descriptive of N'ew
Vork's w*r-t\m> > ?.-. , .,-, ...
should be bou I by tho city and
placed in h v,'\, ? ? al hall.
The r< llca on , ibitioi .... ? ,
rross from tl e Chi rch of R< ? igny 11 ?
tr'irr/.n statue of ::> John the Ba'ptisi '
*? a ehfld, snd ? memorial bcll from
^fc* Hukjick at Vralnct/urt.
Fire Engines Beat Stork
By Only Few Minutes
Baby tiirl Is Boiti to Bronx
Mother While Flames Creep
Toward Apartment
The stork started for the house at
855 Tremont Avenue, where Mrs. Paul?
ine Jari-t lives, yesterday at almost the
same time the fire engines did. The
fire engines got there tirst, but it was
only a matter of minutes.
While smoke billowed up through
the hallways of the apartment house
and the fire was eating its way from
the first to the second floor, a new
six-pound female member of the Jaret
family came into the world on the
third floor. Father Jaret was apprised
of the arrival in the hall, where he
stood with a water bucket in each
hand. waiting to do his part in keep
ing back the flames.
Only a few minutes after a physi
cian arrived yesterday to attend Mrs.
Jaret fire was discovered in a tailor
shop on the tirst rloor of the building.
The apparatus was slow in responding
to the alarm, .since most of it in the
neighborhood had already been sum
moned to a three-alarm fire at McKin
ley Square, and the flames spread to
the apartment of Mrs. Clara Osrin
above the shop.
For a time it was feared that it
would be necessary to move Mrs. Jaret,
but because of the danger of such an
attempt it was decided to defer it
till the last minute. Damage is esti
mated at about $8,000.
Ship Once 8unk
Crosses Oceaxi
By Own Steam
The Ophir, Which, Reaching
Gibraltar Afire During
War, Was Shot to Bottom,
Brings 9 Brides to U. S.
The Ophir, a convertcd naval trans
port which made Gibraltar on fire early
last year and was sunk in the harbor
by the guns of the fort when shells
in her magazine began to explodc,
reached New York yesterday, a queer
looking cripple of the seas. American
sailors raised the ship, replaced the
stern. which had been shot off by the
fort, and brought her across the ocean
with nine war brides and the bodies of :
fourteen sailors who died while sta
tioned at Gibraltar.
The girls, English and Spanish, were
married by men of the salvagc party
while at work retrieving the Ophir.
There was a tenth bride, but she de
serted the ship after having been
brought aboard by a master-at-arms.
She had spent something like S.'iOO sent |
by her husband, a fireman, on two oc
casions to pay her passage, and was
pracirically arrested at his instance and
taken aboard the Ophir wi.1 a truck
load of household effects. The hus?
band will get these when the ship
docks, but no bride.
(aught Fire at Sea j
The Ophir, formerly in the Dutch
Indies trade, was one of the larger
neutral passenger ships taken over by
the United States to case the trans
port situation during tfco war. Just
at'ter the armistice was signed the ship
caught fire at sea. Two of the cr< w
were burned to death in the hold. The
remainder managed to work thc ship
to Gibraltar. when she was so nearly a
furnace that. the inen at last took to
the boats.
Almost at once the shells for the.
anti-submarine guns began exploding,
Shell fragments were flying all over
Gibraltar. The inhabitants flcd to the
back country, and the guns of the
fortress in the Roek opened on the
flaming hulk, but because of the dense
volume of smoke, a veritable submarine
screen, only one shot hit. That, how?
ever, tore off the Ophir's stern, and
the vessel went to the bottom.
The British authorities offered the
government $300,000 for the wreck, but
the American survey officers estimated
that it was possible to float her and
save $1,000,000.
Captuin Gonnley, who brought the
Ophir to Xew York yesterday. volun
teered for the salvage job. He had
but one object to get the vessel on
the surface and make her sufllciently
seaworthy for the voyage to America.
No attempt was made to refit the
burned-out hull beyond the engine
room, and the Ophir arrived here still
very much of a flame-and-shot-scarred
wreck, 8
One Bride Deserts
When the vessel was ready for the
hazardous winter voyage home the
brides of the men voluntcered to come
with_ them; that is, all except the fire
man's wife. who deserted. The fireman
had been ordered home before the
Ophir sailed. His bride insisted on
first class passage to America. The
check for $100, which he sent in care
of the American Consul at Gibraltar,
was not sufficicnt to cover this, but she
took tl?e check from the consul and
spent the proceeds. When the girl
failed to appear in America the waiting
fireman cabled an inquiry to the con- I
sul and then sent another check this
time for $2.".0. The bride apparently
was not anxious to come to America
Mter all and after spending most of
tliis cabled lor more.
The consul then notified Captuin
1 onnley, and the ship commander sent
a mast.-r at arms ashore with orders to
pack the girls and her elfects in a naval
.l;.":" truck and bring them abroad
i he master at arms obeyed orders load
mg the girl on top of her baggage and
drivnig through the streets of Gibral?
tar, much to the amusement of the in?
habitants. The girl remained with the
l other brides aboard ship for a day and
then disappeared. probably dropping
into a small boat alongsidc at night.
?-~??-,?
Illness Changes Cast
For Milk Fund Benefit
Mrs. Bigelow Tiltoh to Replace
Mrs. Lydig llovt iu
WildePlay
Because of the illness'of Mrs. Lydig
Hoyt, who was to play Gwendolyn
rairfax in Oscar Wilde'a comedy,
"II." Importance of Being Earnest"
, in behalf of the Milk for Children of
America Fund, Mrs. Bigelow flLtbn
nioco i?f Poultney Bigelow, will t_ke
thc part.
?Mrs. Tilton will berfin rehearsals
to iiuy v ith the other society women
ai d professional actors who are to
present the play at the Hudson Thea
'' r '?' idea tak i ,? an active part in
tocial al fairs Mrs. Tilton is a portraii
pa intei of note.
According to I'rincess Cantacuzene,
f'"? beforu her marriage was Julia
>>' ? t Grant, conditions among children
thi ? are very aerious.
' A?? ''?<? chHdren who ha-.?- been
born ,r, Ornsk during th,. |Ust twelvo
?" ' ' '? havo been oft boned," declared
the princess. who returned recently
'""'" rtussia. "lt ia vitally necessary
" ' 'ood and medicino be sent at
' ?'?'? ' ?? commitK .? in cl ai ?
? ' '' ' hei i fit ir cludc ? M, Olivei
[larrim* . Mi Kli abeth Murb uy,
Ji Edward Breitung und Mias Elsio I
u> yvoiff.. t
'Irish Rcpublic'
Drive Gathers
ln $2,550,000
Archbishop Hayes Is One of
First to Respond When
De Valera Opcns Bond
Subscription Campaign
State Quota $3,000,000
Leader Gets Ovation Last
ing Five Mimites When
Introduced lo Audience
More than $2,550,000 of Xew York
State's quota of $3,000,000 toward the
$10,000,000 "Irish Republic" bond loan
was pledged yesterday when Eamonn He
Valera, "president of the Irish Repub?
lic," opened the loan drive in the city
with an appeal to an audience that
filled the Lexington Opera House.
A $1,000 check from Archbishop
Patrick J. Hayes was accompanied by a
letter in which the Archbishop said:
"The present crisis in Ireland is most
momentous, because it has gone
beyond the bounds of a purely domestic
issue and has grown into a world
problem, under a world impulse and
toward a world ideal evoked by the
great. war and proclaimed by the United
States.
"The centuries-old struggle of the
Irish people for self-determination and
self-government is to-day a matter of
grave concern to the civilized world.
The permanent peace of mankind can?
not be assurcd until Erin's long and
unbroken dream of racial emancipation
awakens to the dawn of fulfillraent.
Ireland's Children a Worid Power
"From time immemorial Ireland has
been a world power in her exiled chil?
dren. working among nearly every civ?
ilized people for the spiritual and
material betterment of the world. Her
sons and daughters have figured as
material, moral and spiritual builders
for good nearly everywhere, hard toil
ers, patriotic citizens and zealous
mi sionaries.
"Thi.- greater Ireland. seattered the
world over, |ias ,_.,,, :i aroused to active
sympathy with Erin's fortunes at home,
with the result that a vital question
of universal importance rises whcrever
free men are brave and strong.
"America surely will not refuse her
moral support to Irelapd, which has
been ever loyal in devotion and serviee
to America as it was possible, perhaps,
for no other land to be. The love of
Ireland for America bursts from her
very soul with purest motive and with?
out selfish reservation or jealousy of
American power and prcstige."
.1. S..O'Leary Contributes $5,000
The largest contribution reported
yesterday came from John Stratton
O'Leary, of the Bronx, who pledged
S.>,000. The majority of the contribu
tions will come in through the small
Assembly district units which have
been organizing for a housc-to-house
canvass.
W. Hourke Cockran was chairman of
yesterday's meeting. When he intro?
duced the "President of the Irish P.o
public" there was an ovation for more
than live min tes.
Mme. O'Rahilly, wife of James
O'Rahilly, who was killed in the out
break in Dublin in 1916, brought ??? mes
sagc from the Irish at home. Anrong
the other speaknrs were Supreme Court
Justice Daniel !?'. Cohalan, Rabbi David
Klein, Joseph I.. Scott, of Los Angeles;
the Rev. Francis P. Duffy and Warren
Shaw Fisher, commander in chief of the
United War Veterans, who presented an
irish flag to Mr. He Valera.
ln the evening meetings were held
throughout the city in parish schools
and public schools.
Firemen Rcseue
Three Women in
'oux Casino Fire
Pneumoiiia Sufferer Carried
Down Ladder From Top
Floor of NearbyTenement:
Blaze Starts After Ball
McKinley Square Casino, the huge
triangular structure at 169th Street
and Boston Road, The Bronx, was
burned yesterday, shortly after day
light had ended the annual ball of the
Tiara Social Club. The fiames started
on the top floor in quarters occupied
by ;t dancing school, and fai .. | I.,, :.
wintry gale spread rapidly through the
big building in spite of the efforts of
several battalions of firemen summoned
by three alarms.
Three women. one of them critically
ill of pneumonia, were rescued fro'iii
the top floor of a tenement next door
at 771 East 169t.h Street. The sick
woman, Miss Anna LarMn, was carried
down a ladder by Lieutenant John (.;.
Gilmartin, of Fngine Company '. 1,
amid the cheers of a throng of spec
tators. Miss Larkin and her sister,
Catherine, who had been attending her'
were taken to Lincoln llospital. ".Miss'
Maud Hotz also W;is saved by liremen.
She was found uneonscious in her
apartment and brought down a ladder.
The pneumonia patient was help
less, and her sister, who had been
her nurse, had determined, she said,
to die with her. Lieutenant Gilmartin
when he burst through a window of
the Larkin apartment found the dooi
of the apartment burning and Miss
Catherine Lurkin holding her sister in
her arms.
Six negro nurses were brought to
the fire in an ambulance and thev
aided liremen suffering from frostbite
:" the bitter cold. First aid also was
rendered rireman Stewart, of Engine
I "ii pany 45 who was s| ruck " on
tlie head by a briek from chimney that
collapsed.
Motor Engines -11 and 82 were moved
: ronl '' '? curb just in time to preveni
them being buried under a falling wall
Residents of the neighhorhood boiled
huge pots of eotl'ee and served the hot
beverage to the liremen as they Worked
lor this reason the new signal Figh
teen, to call the coffee squad of the
Red Cross, was not utilized.
The lirc interfered with plans t,,
hold a mass meeting in the casino to
night to protest against the suspension
?of the five Socialist members of the
Assembly.
Glcnnon to Open Navy Club
liear Admiral Cilennoi
'put in cummrs iion" i h.
will
,? ,, .. ?' qu ii ii ?
ol 'he Manhattan Navy < |ub, 1;, I-.,,t
torty-lirsl Street, a. a ceremonv to
take place \\ ednesday ni| ln ,',, h
o'clock. 'I he usual i u itom in th.. ,.,.,?,.
ol putting a ship in commi ion ' bv
raising the colors is impoi <ible he
cause of th,. hour, but, Admiral Glen
non and his staff have worked out a
Plun that will adhere ?? navy tradition
1 '''"?'? hundred oflicers and their
have been invited ,., attend ihe
' ? ; ' ".'? '' lh, r, horn, ?| .,..
'?i Ii f'd perso me] ... th, ?i . ' \|i
'''" ''"" ded men, itctive and di ,?':. ,,. |' j
'" the navy will |?. welcomod at their
'l,W club. I
State Subsidy Urged
For Country Doctors
Physicians Will Not Leave Cities
Unless Assured Definite In
come, JSays Dr. Park
Rural communit'ies of New York in
need of a general medical practitioner
can be supplied only if the state guar
antees the doctor who takes up this
country practice a definite income, Dr.
William Haddock Park, professor of
bacteriology and hygiene at the Xew
York University, said yesterday.
Dr. Park made this statement in ref
erence to a recent appeal from the
State Ilealth Department for doctors
willing to settle in small country towns,
many of which afo now without compe
tent medical attendance. Requests
have come to the department. from
fifty-eight towns. Thus far only five
doctors have expressed a willingness
to go.
"Unless the state agrees to guaran
tee to physicians a certain amount of
money as a sort of subsidy," Dr. Park
said, "the situation in the country
places will become even more acute.
Few physlvians volu.tiriry choose a
small country district in which to
practice, the financial remuneration
is so much smaller and the assurance
of a continued practice so much less
than in the city.
"Besides, after a man has devoted six
years to intensive study of his profes?
sion he hates to give up all the social
life and recreation available in a city
and from which he. of necessity, cuts
himself off as a resident of a small
country town."
Rocket Devised
To Get Photos
In Upper Air
i
Prof. Goddard Says Too
Much Attention Has Been
Given to Chance That Mis-I
silc Will Ultiininate Moon !
WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 19. The
possibility of photographing in space
above the earth's atmosphere is sug
gested in a statement made for The i
Associated Press to-day by Dr. Robert.
II. Goddard, associate professor of
physics at Clark College, who is per
fecting a rocket which, it is expected,
will carry recording apparatus to ex
treme altitudes.
Dr. Goddard says, however, too much
attention has been given to the chanco
that his rocket with a flasb powder at
tachment may hil and illuminate the
dark quarter of the moon. For the
present thc exploration of the atmos- :
phere is the thing to be aimed at. In
a signed statement Dr. Goddard says:
'Since the announcement by the :
Smithsonian Institution a few days ago,
I have been interviewed a number of
times, and on each occasion have been
as uncommunicative as possible. The
result has consequently been a number
ol published articles that were not all
that could be desired, and I fcel that
I owe it to myself. as well as to the'
institution, to make (he situation clear.
"ln the first place, too much atten?
tion has been concentrated on thc pro
posed flnsh powder experiment and too
little on the exploration of the atmos?
phere. My reason for saying this is
not because I believe the former is cn
tirely unrealizable.
"'<" fact, if I were to speculate i
boldly. instead of too timidly, I would j
say that. based i pon equally sounil
physical principles, is the possibility
ol obtnining photographs, in space, by
an apparatus guided by photo sensitive '
'"'?|l:- '.to guidc it toward, or near, a
luminous body. a method already pro
I'os, il for directing high altitude ap?
paratus), precautions being taken to
insure a sufficiently safe and conspicu
ous landing on the return.
"To continue a speculation, however.
on matters concerning which there \s
little experimental data would, of
course, be unwise.
"The point is this: whatever inter
esting possibilities there may be of the
method that has been proposed, other
than the purpose for which it. was |n
ti nded, no one ,,f them could be under
taken without tirst exploring the
atmospherb.
"Any rocket apparatus for great
elevations must first be tested at vari-|
ous moderate altitudes; also. a knowl
edge of densities at, high lc\cls is es
sential. Ilence, from any point ofview,
an investigation of the atmosphero ;>
the work tn.it lies aliead.
Inasmuch as no definite action is
eyer obtained without a definite propo
sition, I would hke to propose, i:' the
work is of sufficient interest, the rais
ing of froni $50,000 to $100,000 by pop?
ular subscription, to be used by the
Smithsonian Institution in. preparing
for and undertaking a preliminary ex?
ploration of the atmosphere by the
method in question, the work to be be
gun either now or at such a time as
the institution shall present such ex?
perimental results as will be satisfae
tory to those who nre subscribing."
Limitalion of Working
Hours Assailed by Women
Equal Opporlunity League Asks
Repuhlicbns to Omii Any
Such Plank iu Platform '
LTie Women's Equal Opportunity
League made public yesterday a letter
", s""' '" Will II. Hays, chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
asking him to hear working women on
the subject before committing the Rc
pub icaii party to limitation of the
working hours of women.
_ "This organization," the letter rays,
composed of self-supporting women
representatives of many industries and
professions, urges that you suspend
judgment on the advisability of insert
mg a plank in the Republican platform
which would limit the hours of work?
ing women. We ask that you wait un?
til the workers themselves are given an
0PP?rtunity to he heard. The women
who ?''?? ?' ? luesting this p!ank do nol
'.'I''-1' - nt the working women in the
: ull sense of the word.
"This organization is now working
!" defeat th. so-callod welfare legis
i:'' '"! '" rore the New York State I cg
? ilai iro, which prohibits women from
'?'?"' king bel wei ;i cei tain hours and re
stricts them to short working days and
we are supported by all representative
classes of working women."
Woman Peacemaker Shol
A man calling last night at the home
ol Mrs. Frances Cieco, 538 East Four
teenth Street. goi into a dispute with
1 te: - and stabbed her three t:rn
in ii e the ? and ga med her left w'rist
She slruggled with him, screaming, and
?'obn Supr, junitor ,.i the house, ru
!" ' di d, ; ??. niipiinied by his wife.
|; 'bal Mme Mrs. Cieco and her
assailani were fight'ng in the hall.
Mipr and his wife joined in the melee
and the knot. of contesiants trnmpled
??t lo thc front steps and into tho
street. Being close pressed, Mrs. Cieco's
caller .lr.-w a revolver and fired sev
eral shots,
'?"'? bullel .,t,uck Mi -. Supr in the
ide. Another, fired at a down
ward ??<! gle, ripp, ,| Supr'n leeve and
:' dg 'I in .i cun of tobuccn in hi ,-, .
11,1 Wii moi hurt. The Lwo i
.mc? ,:?';'"? laken to Bellcvuo Hos
i'lt.al, 'lijeir. uuauiluufc ?aci_4j_,
JOHN
Formerly A. T. Stewart <$ Co.
Store hours?9 to 5
Broadway at Ninth, Xeic l
ork
Good morning!
This is January 19!
The weather today will probably be fair!
Saturday was
Benjamin Franklin's
The drawing shown here will be a
new picture of him to many, and
without doubt must have been made
during his lifetime.
He was born at Boston, in New
England, January 17, 1706.
It is interesting to read, from
Franklin's Letters and Miscellanies,
written during the times of Revolu
tion and the formation of the Gov?
ernrnent of the United States, to
realize that politics then was about
as difhcult as it is today.
"Poor Richard" signed many of
his letters "Veritas," and when he
signed his own name it was gener
ally
"B. FRANKLIN"
Evidently he had, with all his ex
perience and ability, to encounter
much bitter opposition while he was laying the foundations of our
country.
It may be seen that a very bitter attack was made in 1763, in the
shape of a protest against his appointment as agent of the Province of
Pennsylvania, in which it was pointed out that he was unfit because
"he had just failed of clection to the Assembly" and for other reasons,
some of them even insinuating his mismanagement of public funds.
In spite of the bitter protests and attacks so often made against
him, Frankliri still maintained a calm demeanor with the philosophic
content of the man who knows that he is in the right, and when he
was leaving for England in 1764 to submit the cause of the Colonies,
he wrote:
"I am now to take leave [perhaps a last leave] of the
country I love and in which I have spent the greatest part of
my life?llsto perpetua! I wish every kind of prosperity to
my friends,?and I forgive my enemies."
How familiar some of these old bitter bickerings sound nowadays
in what we are pleased to call our days of greater enlightenment, and
how small would all the httle partisan quarrels of today seem to
Franklin, whose labors concerned no little appointment to office or
small offense to officials of the district, but no less than the con
struction of the world's greatest and most prosperous nation, that
remembers today to venerate his memory!
Pray for more plain eommon sense and the spirit of Franklin to
be given to our leaders and representatives in Washington.
[Signed~\
January 19, 1920.
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Offers its rurc February savings?NOW
It is only because we placed a contract months ago cov
ering hair supplies for the February sale that we are able to
make the prices as low as they are. We were advised this
week that another advance had gone in on hair, but this does
not affect us?nor you?because of this contract which we
have.
_ Every piece of Wanamaker bedding, whether it be a wire
spring, box spring or mattress of any kind, is reduced at least
10 per cent. The following are reduced even more?
$50 for our regular $64 mattress
Filled with the best black horse hair, weighing 40 pounds
to the 4.6 x 6.4 footeize.
$37 for our regular $50 mattress
Filled with pure South American horse hair, weighs 40
pounds to the 4.6 x 6.4 t'oct size.
$37 for our reguk^" $50 mattress
Best black mixed hair. weighs 40 pounds to the 4.6 x 6.4 size.
$30 for our regular $40 mattress
Filled with a special grade of our black mixed hair, weighs
40 pounds to the 4.6 x 6.4 foot size.
$33 for our $40.75 upholstered
tuffed top box spring
80 spirals in a L'i 11 size, 4.6 x 6.3 t'eet.
$27 for our regular $33 box spring
Upholstered top, without tufts, 63" spirals in the full size
4.6 x 6.3 feet.
All the above in smaller sizes at prices proportionately
lower.
> Also at $3.00 for our regular $5.04 mixed feather pillow,
which is 22 x 30, weighing 3'.,, pounds. These can be made
in smaller or larger sizes. sixth Gallery, New Building.
?ine old French
eminees
iu Quatrieme
A small collection of p< rhaps
a dozen old French mantels of
the Louis XV and Louis XVI
periods have just arrived Au
Quatrieme. Fine little marble mantelpieces suitable for the
exquisite French bed-room or boudoir and for use in the small
apartment. They are delicately charming and simple; their
small size makes them of interest. to architects and decora
tors who are confronted with the problem of the suitable
mantel for a small room.
Illustrated is a small Louis XVI mantel of gray St
Agnes marble, delicately carved and fluted in classic style"
The mantelpiece is 3 t't. 5 in. square and the fireplace open
ing is 2 ft. 10
m. hv
ft. 4
Price $600.
Another mantel is of the same gray marble. a Louis XV
cheminee, size 3 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 6 in. Fireplace openiwr 3
it. by 3 t't. 4 in. Price $650.
Others are of stone and may be painted to match a room
Ihe prices range from $375 to $450 for the stone mantels
and $4ii(i to $650 for those of marble.
Other Mantels
in the collection Au Quatrieme include fine English carved
wood mantels of the Adam and Georgian periods Prices
$200 and u\-\.
Two very fine pairs of mantels for the opposite ends of
a room are $220 and $800 the pair.
Ai -^J.m''1' vvhite marble Adam mantel wonderfully
carved is $2,325. P ,. ? ,-.,_,? ....
* ' lourth floor, <j>ld Building.
Fine Furniture in the
February Furniture Sak
Its Particular Significance
this Year
The Furniture Sales of yesteryear have all been tJ
markable in their day. Carefully planned and largeh
worked-for sales with wonderful results.
This Year
The task loomed gigantic.
what with the present furni?
ture shortage in the tremen
dously increased prices. Who
would attempt a Million Dollar
Sale under such conditions?
BUT we have a way of at
tempting the impossitale?
And Achieving It.
In spite of the almost over
whelming conditions there is
this sale of more than a Million
Dollars of Furniture at ten to thirty-three per cent less ii
price.
Every piece of furniture for the home enters this sale?i
nothing has been held out as too fine. All at a price-lessenir.tr
of 10 to 33 per cent. (The furniture in Les Galeriet Bal
maison and Au Quatrieme is excepted.)
Furniture for the most formal drawing-room, the m<v
important dining-room, the most delicate and fastidious o!
bed-rooms.
Examples of this Fine Furniture
are the suites in fine mahogany designed from old period
furniture.
The fineness and spirit of triMld furniture has bm.
faithfully kept. The same beauty ^?irfaee, tho charm oi
line. But the designs have been adapted to practical mod
ern usage; there is no piece that cannot be used and enjoyd
every day.
A Dining-room Set in the
Louis XV Style
is of fine walnut, beautifuiiy
grained and satin-smooth c!
surface. The set consists o!
ten pieces; buffet, closed china
closet, extension table and five
side and one arm chairs.
This set has taken a great
deal that is charming and loli
ly in an elaborate Louis XVde
sign and simplified it for iu'
own needs. The table is very
true to type, long and compara
-:, ??--.-?? ?--- r?. . ,,,.,. tively narrow, with the grace
fully carved legs of the period
The chairs carry out the same theme, and ever piece is beaj
tifully decorated with characteristic Louis XV scrolls. Tb
brasses on the buffet and closed china closet repeat the Louis
XV motif. It is a remarkably beautiful set.
At $1,903.50. Was $2,538.00.
?
That is but one dining-room suite. There are others 8Sl
characteristically fine. One of mahogany in a Chinese Chip-I
pendale adaptation, very beautifuiiy proportioned and digni
fied, ten pieces.
At $900. Was $1,013.
Bed-room Suites
of unusual fineness and newness of idea are an important
feature in this sale. Quaint old designs have been mostsuc
cessfully adapted to do modern duty; a happy effort hasbees
made to get away from the banal.
From the Italian Renaissance
has been borrowed a beautiful
design for a bed-room suite of _?
fine walnut. Eight pieces com- *?ra
prise the set?two beds, a chest
of drawers and mirror, bedside
table, a bench and an interesting
chifforobe.
The walnut has been flat
antique finished, and where it
has been carved a wash of
antique gold has been put or. tht ?_______
highlights.
This is a set of unusual charm. Was S2.770. Now ?2,493
Other bed-room suites are in the Early American style.
of mahogany, and the beds are charming four-posten
Still other suites are Louis XV and Louis XVI in ivofl
enamel and light gray. Very dignilied and beautiful suite?
in dark mahogany are made on lines reminiscent of the
Empire.
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Fifth and Sixth G.tLiie*,