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£1,131.18HED 1870
W /WANAMAIIER, FAMOUS
MERCHANT, DIES AT 84 YEARS
A.
ONCE POSTMASTER GENERAL
ly Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12. ——John Wanamaker died at his home
,reat83.m.
The world famous merchant and former Postmaster- General
n1 and away at his town house, 2032 \Valnut street.
He had been
fined there since early in November with a heavy cold contracted
11 Ms country estate, “Lyndenhurst,” at Jenkinxtown,n near here. He
11:1» 84 years old.
,\"n1- Mr. Wanamaker was brought
1;.1 town house. he did not im-
and about two weeks ago his
ion became such as to cause
1' A week ago. however. he
1i such marked improvement
as physicians ceased issuing bul-
3M
3111' '
tin". '4
o 'clock this morning Mr. Wan—
violent
(11”! mg spell. his physicians stated.
1w resulted in extreme heart weak-
3.3.... Major Barclay H. Warburton.
11: ht’anamaker's son-ln-law_ notified
\nsociated Press that Mr. Wana-
. died peacefully at 8 a. m. All
Hrs of the family were at the
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BY AF
\ man. believed. from letters and
131 - "s In his effects to be Elbert A.
v, ' an, Sr.. of Ithaca, N. Y., an em-
I
’1
“11 r was seized with a
$1.0
n11}.
. of the Syracuse Portrait Com—
‘vll down a flight of stairs at
:4 J . ,3 : gton avenue. last night. about
9 1 .lock. and died about a. half
1 .-~ r at the Norwaik Hospital.
1 h min: been broken
:111. who ii. about 40 years old.
1 calling at the home of Gas-
3.118. at 74 Lexington avenue.
orders for enlargements for
~11 one. and had just left the
”me when he either tripped.
Ht slipped and he fell down
1 .- illght of stairs. landing on his
I-‘h'o‘cr'l Santa and Stephen Totb.
““111 11a 111 the same house. picked
1:1» mm 11p and noticing he was un-
r1'121r/I1':= sent in I. call .19! 3Dl'. I.
Roser‘ 11. Dr. Rosenthsl examined
m» 11.11 and had him removed
In 1‘. Norwalk Hospital. where
1"“ Willi m J. and W. W.
1 attended the man. Dr. Tracey.
1‘11 l the man Was practically dead
he arrived at the Hospital.
remains were taken to
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the
bedside except Rcdman. Wanamaker,
who arrived too late.
Mr. \Vanamaker was active in busi-
ness up to the time he was stricken.
lda. but was in this city all summer.
hard at work. with exception of an
occasional trip to the seashore. He
was always an early riser and was
usually at his mercantile establish-
ment before its doors were opened.
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by a
son. Badman. a resident of New YOrk
city; and two daughters. Mary 13.. wife
of Barclay H. Warburton. and Eliza-
beth. wife of Norman MacLeon both
lot Philadelphia.
IS KILLED
ALL DOWNSTAIRS
funeral parlors of Frederick H. Ga.-
nung. South Mam street. who‘re Med-
ical Examiner Samuel H. Huntington
this morning conducted an investiga-
tion into his death. and also to en-
dcavor to trace his relatives.
A grip full of photographic sup-
plies. order blanks, letters and. clip-
pings, showed that the man's name
was E. A. Hoffman. and that he
worked for the Syracuse Portrait
Company. A clipping givi g the ac-
count of the death of a re. E. A.
Hoffman. of Ithaca, N. Y..
was also found.
In the clipping it stated that the
deceased woman was survived by a
husband. and by three sons. Eldred
W. Hoffman. Elbert A. Hoffman. Jr..
and Caius Hoffman. all of Ithaca.
Mrs. Hoffman‘s age was given as 47
years. and the man who is here is be—
lieved to be about 40 di‘ 42 years of
age. so that it is believed that this is
the father of the three Hoflman boys
mentioned in the clipping.
Chief of Police William R. Penn-
ington has notified some of the people
mentioned in the clipping by tele-
gram. of the death of the man.
Ilia Anderson Held For Assaulting
Rodiguez With a Deadly Weapon
Bonds of $1, 500 Demanded for Man Who “Playfully”
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Probable cause was found by Judge
‘1 rge if. Vosburgh in the down-
31"1 court this morning in the case
"11’ State vs. Ira. Anderson. colored.
was charged with assault with a,
113v weapon on Silvia "Silver" R0-
-5. a Portugese negro. and R0-
5‘
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’1'" ”Funny" Patterson. proprietor
"1.- Silent Four Social club on
“'1 1'- strnet, and Anderson was
l1 . l over to the February term of
l r 1‘l‘lmlnal superior court in bonds
1.! 11,300.
‘> mrson was playfullyaaccording
‘ ~ claim of his attorney. Freeman
Rodi-
i
LI. r~cndeavoring tm‘oblige
Drew Knife Across Man’s Throat.
guez by cutting his throat at the club
on Saturday night at a late hour. He
had had few words with Rodigunz
and tho 1 tier was heard to exclalim
“I didn't do anything to you. but if
you want to cut my throat. why go
ahead."
Anderson obliged by drawing the
blade of his jack knife across Rodi-
gnez' throat several times. finally ex-
cTaimlng “Your throat's so tough I
can't cut it." He tried again and then
held the blade up and said: "Well,
I've drawa blood." Other negroes
I
Continued on Page Two
Trolley Car Collides With
Truck When Lights Went Out
Pole Crashes Down Tearing 12 Wires to Earth Causing
l urore as Town Becomes Lightless Ahnost Two Hours.
Within some twenty feet of the spot
r 1 are on lower \\ est avenue. last fall.
lflhnm l’ariliit was killed in an 80‘
'moi H111»; .11‘r.ilv,nt another ac-
Pl'b ‘ luck place last night ln'thCh I
#1 111d a trolley mr figured.
J 1.11": the time that. the ltfeet
.' is err off. due to trouble with the
1 1:: r11. a trolley car. being driven
3. 1 onuman car. Motor-mm Fred Mil-
* nr “'cst avenue in charte. 61'“th
u the rl'rif‘ of a two-ton truck owned
.1”th Crescent Storage company of
East 86th street. New York city.
' a truck had turned over in front
'o trolley car onto th etracks to
1 an automobile parked close to
'li‘b.
3 1- street was very dark and Mil-
11- «.1111 that he did not see the truck
I
at .
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in front of him until just before he
struck it.
The truck was hurled on to the side-
walk in front of the home of Miss
Frances Hard and struck a tree there.
which it splintered and knocked down.
Anthony Miller of 89 First avenue.
New York city. driver of the truck.
was injured about the left leg. but not
seriously. and his helper. Charles
Schivak of 424 East 6th street. New
York city. was shaken up quite a bit.
The front of the trolley car was
crushed in pretty well. but neither
Miller nor any or as passengers were.
iniured.'1'he truck was badly dam-
aged. The accident took place about
9 o'clock last night and was invent.
gated by Patrolman Wallace Sammie.
No arrests were made. 3
MASON“) DIRECTORY.
A stated convocation of Butler
1:.11-1-3 No. as. R. A. M., will be held
Masonic Temple. Tuesday evening.
'1 12. 1922. at‘ 8 o'clock. work M.
\l. and n. A. degree. All R. A.
'hms cordially invited.
8. P. DECKER. H. P.
l". 8. LYON. Bec’Y.
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Attest:
H.111" Chapter. No. 3!. R. A. It.
"1‘"?! in Masonic Temp“. mm
mm: the 1nd and 4th W or
SUIT anss TO GUST PRISON
AND RAILROAD AT ossnnso
Howard G. Bl shop and others have
trought suit against Willis P. Thomas
trfore Justice Tompkins in the Sn-
preine Court. \Vhlie Plains. for the
partition of property in a legal scheme
ti at .nvolves an attempt to obit the
New York Central Railroad. several
factories and Sing Sing Prison from
their present sites at training. The
suit is ma on the W3“
AMIC
"Ch month“ 30‘“ m “i
«waited. 15101. area--
Catalan,“ .,
He spent much of last winter in Flor- ‘
recently
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«as A RATHER
PLEASANT BUR
AT THA'T”
ELEPHANTS IN
PANIC AT CIRCUS
QUARTERS FIRE
By Associated Press
BRIDGEPORT. Dec. 12.——-Ele-
phanls in the big herd housed at the
Barnum and Bailey-Ringling Broth-
ers' winter quarters here were thrown
11170 a state of panic by a fire which
broke out early today in the cook
house, near the elephant barn. The
fire was quickly controlled, but the
animals threatened a stampede. and
it was some time before the keepers,
passing between them and calling
each by name, restored confidence.
STATE OTOB BUREAU
TO' AR 0N ROAD MOPES
The State Motor Vehicle 3Bureau
has no use for “road mopes'"—the
fellow who ties up traffic by mop-
ing along at a snail's pace——any
more than it has love of speed ma-
niacs. -
In an appeal to motor vehicle op-
erators to co-operate in the safe and
convenient handling of trafllc. the bur-
eau serves notice that "road mopes
who are holding up traffic will be
removed from the line."
WHAT’S YOUR
.WGUESS?
When the actions of a man's
wife puzsle him — and the ac-
tions or the wife’s husband puz-
zle her——‘
WHAT’S
WRONG?
T h e an-
sweris dif.
ferent in
lifter-ant
cases! _
, Can you
guess what
has made
Helen Dim
look a cer-
tain doorinv
t h e Duff
home. and
.keep To in
out of that
next month.
By JEAN VERNON
Santa. Claus is on'his way to Nor-
walk. .
From the white spaces of the Far
North .come _ihe patter of reindeer
hoofs and the jingle of Christmas bells
acrossgthe snows. Santa. Claus. that
portly old fellow whom children have
from time immemorial. has crammed
the last toys into the bulging bags.
packed his sleigh full of presents and
now is on his way to the homes of
good children. putting a bit from his
exertions. ‘
Meanwhile dad and mother are
wont to tuck the youngsters into bed
a quarter of an hour early these days.
Children accept this judgment with
an obedience suspiciously prompt. for
they bear in mind parental admonr;
tion that virtue isn't its only reward
at the holiday season.
After the most wide-awake of the
little folks has finished his tussle witli;
the Sand Man. and “given in" to the
drowsiness that crept upon him una-
"Christmas list" for the fourth time.
dad and mother get out pencil and
paper and begin a little serious figur-
ing. Santa Claus may be all right,
but it’s just as well- not to depend
wholly upon his heralded visit Christ-
mas ”eve. Mother suggest: and dad
silently sets down each item and adds
the total cod.
N0 DRESS FOR MOTHER
”Quite a. lot. isn't it. mother?” he
ventures. “now if we wait and give the
hen the skates next winter—no?
Well. en. _if we plan to give them
the sl alittlo later. maybe you
could have that new silk dress you
wanted, mother."
Mother would like one dress she
needs it. 1111111 dad saw a warm ovar-
coat in the window of a Wall street
store. on his way to work this rim-n-
ing. that would Just suit film. But—-
"It's. Johm. and they can
be children col once.
don’t need the 3}... much—I'd only
wear it to church suppers now and
then; or to—llrs. Sinai-mania party—-
But. if you think you
need a. new overcoat—Islander!"
basal-Al three year? of wear "new", _
"It'll do another victor. . then.
WhatshallwegetforAlioe? Isaw
dolls {no-n " 3
spine KOBE norms
"misfit. slie doe-aft want con-
my more! I511 know .511. hasn't
iii-weaving violet- Jane ougi-c. aw
Washington foa- Jacks!
loved and written annual letters to ‘
ware. even while he was repeating his‘P
Iguasin
1 3“ M‘s-eggs,‘
a. me I}
wheahla'drl‘ Mummers“:
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AL '11.
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s
MRS
LEAVES STATE
3iSANAT0RIIIH
Was Sent There _——froin Nor-
walk December 8th, and Is
Supposed to Have Met
Friend Outside.
‘ Search is being conducted by the
authorities of the tuberculosis sanitpr-
ium in Shelton for Mrs. Stanley Bern-
sen, of this city. better known as
“Florence" or "Rose" Remson. who
disapppearetd from that institution orr
Friday last. December 8th. after site
had been taken there by the Charities
apartment pf this city, as s. tuber-
culosis patient.
Mrs. Remson is thofwidovr of stan-
lay Bemson. another patient from this
city who died of tuberculosis several
months ago. She was found to be
suffering from consumption and was
taken to Shelton On Monday Decem-
her 4th. by the local Charities ofnée.
who had arranged for her admittance
there.
On. .Friday Mrs. new left the
institution and is believed to have
cloned with a man from this city.
11 Al Lent. although this report
has not been confirmed as yet. ' C
There is. no law which prohibits w
consumptive patient from having en-
tire freedom. hence Mrs. Henson‘s
absence was not noted in time. .
The local authorities are said to be
making no search for her. slitting]: as
a. tuberculosis she is more 'or
less of a menace to the health or the
community whens she may redde'.
Si. PAUL’S; ,
Tii’eannuaibasasr of st. Paul's
Bane opened this afternoon at
o'clock in 1116 ‘3‘“be the c
‘ " despondent.
Iodtothegrouudfiorthbeforenino
:30. '7
Has Violent Attack and Is Taken
. PRICE THREE CENTS
to Westport Sanitarium -
Sought Spiritualistic Aid in Bridgeport for Loss
. of Lover—Said to Have Been Given
“Medicine”
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Believed to be mentally unbalanced from constant visits tofu”
time tellers and. spiritualists, as well as the loss of her lov Miss
Maria Scharf, 9. Hungarian girl, who lived with friends In till-’5 city
and who has two brothers living in Bridgeportwent violently mash:
on Sunday night, and has been removed by the Charities department '
to Dr. Ruland’ s sanitarium 1n Westport, where she is being confined
until her relatives can make some provision for her.
Miss Schar! wrote several letters be-
fore she became violent on Sunday,
which she addressed to friends. in
which she stated that
happened" to her. that a certain
spiritualist or fortune teller in Bridge-
.port should be the one to be held
responsible.
According to information obtained
by The Evening Sentinel todaY. Miss
Scharf has been making plans to sail.
for Hungary on a. visit very shortly.
and had sent most of her effects to
New York, from which city she was to
sail. She had obtained he rpassports
and also had made arrangements for
her tickets.
Visits Spa-nudists
Constant visits to fortune tellers had
helped to make the woman still more
'fgueer" in her actions. and it was then
, that she began to dabble in spiritual-
ism. From local spiritualism she went
gone splritwalist in Bridgeport. and
e .
u said to be living in Bridgeport-
bout two weeks orso ago the an-
popncemeai‘t o ft‘his man' s engagement
another Sir! was published. and it
was then that the girl began to grow
1‘
:3
For some time she had been ob-
. etaining‘ what she said was “medicine"
from (the. Bridgeport spiritualist. and
had been noticed taking- th'e “me‘dicine'
at intervals by those who knew her.
“if anything '
gagement to another girl was an
nounced. she informed people that their?
spiritualists in Bridgeport had ail-I"
advmed her to leave the country.
In the letters which Miss m
wrote. she stated that she ‘was dis:
com-aged and that if ‘ hap-
pened to her that the Bridgeport
Spiritualist could be blamed. both for
what had. happened and also for her
condition from the “medicine" given
her. 5
Always erratic. with a tendanc!
towards Bolshevism in her manner
and talk. acquaintances of Kiss
Scharf. who is believed to be about 23
years old. noticed that she Was bee-
coming more and more mentally “P“
L
R uranium “a"!
..
On Sunday. after visiting in W;
port, it is believed with her two bro .3
maestricame to this~ ‘
“mi visiting friends here,
unbalanced that the people the 785
visiting became alarmed and m
the authorities who removed her to?
the “film 4 13%
on “of her visits to fortune tel—
lers and Spiritualist: the Scharf girl ll
said to have been accompanist! my
other young girls from this elm and
these girls are to be questionedto
learn who the spifltualist is and
whether they had been given any of
Advised to Leave Country
mm the completion of a program
of "highway improvement in Connecti-
cut in which the United States goyern-
ment has provided an aggregate sum
of $2,200,000 in sir. years, the federal
limitation of seven per cent. of the
total mileage of improved highways
will have been reached. Charlels 3'.
Bennett. state highway comissioner
disclosed today. Future federal road
money can be expended only for
maintenance of existing highways;
Roads in this section built or building
under this classification are the main
Post Road and the Norwalk-to-
Canaan highway through the House.-
tonic valley.
Bennett Heads Association.
Commissioner Bennett. just return-
ed from the com cation of state high-
way 3Commissioners at Kansas city
the so-called “medicine" for any of
'After the news of the man 's an. itheir complaints or for love philters.
Federal Road Aid For This 3 .1
State Has Reached The Limit“
Completion of Present Program Marks End of New High
ways to Be Built with United States Funds,
Commissioner Bennett Announces.
my
1.
‘~£A§L
, 1». l
where he owes elected ”prefidehl‘.
states that the $300,000 to como'to
Connecticut as it: allotment for road
work next year will largely be as
pended for upkeep; that the federal
aid road projects now under way. will
be completed with funds already rec
ceived and unexpended. ,
Connecticut has built approximate-i
ly 8511 miles ' highways with Ems
proved pavement in this clam under:
the financial arrangement with the
national highway’ department, 1:
places the state at the limit set 101‘
use of federal iteasury funds for-peg
work. -
At the conference of the highway:
chiefs the subject of these roads wan
discusse‘d at some length and the pros
n
3 _ 41;:
fmntinued on Page M " '33
WEBTPORT. Dec. ’12.-—A'lt3ough_ 13
live electric wires writhing on a sec-
tionof the Bucharest road near
Builders Brides caused \' pedestrians
noonewssinmred. Thcwirescrash-
o'clock lad evening when a telephone
westport *“Hops” Around
When Live Wires Fall
Driver Anthony Miller and Bis Helper, Charles Seluvsk.
Somewhat Injured in the Crash.
and motorists to..“hop"' for their lives. '
fr
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form by a matter of a. split-moon‘s 3., 3
3 The wires went "wild" for M 1
20 minutes until power. was shot a:
in: Weuportz Guards were m
at points one hundred yards matu-
more to detour traflic.
force of electricians who sped do:
Bridgeport iii an automobile repaired
the damage shortly after ten o’clock:
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