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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 15, 1924. 22 ARRESTED FOR USING 3-Year Health Figures Shoiv MAIL SERVICE "LONE WOLF9 ASHER WILL LEAVE CITY Marriage Gain, School Examinations Reveal JONES TO TEST WATER SUPPLY I FOR DRUID POOL i' SVill Advise People To Stay MILK-ICE FUND AIDS BABY AND YOUNG MOTHER Wife Compelled To Work While Husband Is In Sanatorium. COADY TO INSIST ADTOISTS REMIT ALL BACK TAXES Senders Of .1924 Checks Notified Other Delinquencies Must Be Paid. Defective 46,790 Have Bad Teeth, 31,650 Throat Trouble, 10,105 Eye Affections.

AX INSTEAD OF KEY Aged Negro Tells Magistrate He Is Homeless Then Pays Fine. He started out to cut down the door of the dwelling he used to call home. He ended by giving Magistrate Paul Johannsen the unkindest cut of all. The aged negro with flowing white beard was arrested yesterday when a patrolman saw him using an ax instead of a key to open the door of an unoccupied house on Webster street. He said his name was James F.

Kel-lum, and that he was 74 years old. He explained that he had been sleeping in the Webster street house without paying for the privilege, but the owner had nailed up the door. Consequently he had no home. Magistrate Johannsen's sympathies were stirred. "I'll give you a home," he said.

"Ill fine you $1 and costs; that's three days in jail." "now much in money?" the negro in quired. Then from a pocket he drew $2.45 and laid it on the magistrate's desk. Before the magistrate recovered from i his surprise the homeless negro had walked from the courtroom. KELLER FULFILLS HIS PROMISE Xorrls Case "Tip-Off" Boy Appears In Court To See Jnttgre. John Keller, "tip-off' boy in the Nor-ris murder case, yesterday kept his promise to Judge Charles W.

Heuisler in the Criminal Court to go to the court for a talk with the judge. The promise was made to Judge Heuisler Wednesday after Keller's acquittal on the charge of robbery, Keller was in the courtroom early in the day and waited until court adjourned at 3.30 P. M. Then Judge Heuisler called Keller to him and made an engagement for next Wednesday. SISTERS DIE OF PARALYSIS Both Women Are Stricken Within Few Hours At Homei.

Stricken with paralysis within a few minutes of each other, Mrs. Julius J. Mauer, 65 years old, 1233 North Caroline street, and her sister, Mrs. Mary Dressel, 68 years old, 1313 North Central avenue, both died Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs.

Dressel will be held at her home this morning. Burial will be in Loudon Park Cemetery. Services for Mrs. Mauer will be held at her home this afternoon. Burial will be in Baltimore Cemetery.

PREDICTS CLEAR SKIES TODAY Bureau Also Forecasts Warmer Temperatures To Follow. Fair weather, with moderate temperature today and increasing cloudiness and warmer tomorrow, is the forecast of the Weather Bureau for Baltimore and vicinity. The temperature ranges yesterday were between 64 degrees at 6 A. M. and 78 degrees at 2 and 4 P.

M. The average was 71 degrees, 3 degrees below normal. Today's maximum temperature, according to the local forecaster, is expected to reach about 80 degrees. BOY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Burton Strait Is Struck By Ma- chine At Annapolis. Annapolis, Aug.

14 (Special). Burton Strait, 12 years old, received severe injuries this afternoon when he was run over by an automobile operated by Paul Medford, of this city. The boy sustained lacerations of the scalp and bruises on the body. lie was taken to the Emergency Hospital. The accident occurred on Church Circle.

The boy is the son of Mrs. Dorothy Strait Eason and the late Lieut. Burton- A. Strait, of the United States Navy. AUTO BREAKS OFF FIRE PLUG Water Thrown Ten Feet Into Air After Accident.

A stream of water 10 feet high flowed for about 10 minutes last night when an automobile broke a fire plug at Cathedral and Mulberry streets. The emergency crew of the Water Department repaired the break. The automobile, which was driven by William T. Andrews, was bound north on Cathedral street. At Mulberry Andrews attempted to turn his machine.

He made too wide a turn and struck the fire plug. No damage was done except to the plug. DELIGHTFUL! COOL REFRESHING Salt Water Bathing BAY SHORE Delicious Shore Dinners ocean an, MB, Special Sunday Exourtion From Pier 8 Iieht 7.30 A. M. return nt 10.20 P.

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TOLCIIESTEII BEACH. DELIGHTFUL WEEK-ENDS ARB SPENT AT HOTEL TOLCHESTER. Births Decline 78,848 Children In 116,958 dent to the first five years of life, the reports show the years between 60 and 64 were the most fatal to male residents, 966 men having died at these ages. The death-age table for the year reveals women lived slightly longer on the average than men, the peak of female deaths occurring between the ages of 65 and 69 years. Four Pass Aire Of lOO.

Four persons lived to be 100 years or over last year. They included two whites, man and woman, and two negroes, man and woman. Statistics on school work compiled by the Health Department in 1923 reveal that of 116.958 pupils examined, 78,848 were found defective in health in one way or another. Teeth troubles affected 46,790 pupils, affections of the throat and tonsils were found in 31,650 children and 10,105 pupils had defective sight, according to the report. Of the total of 77,617 white elementary school pupils examined, 30,801 were found to be underweight, 21,137 overweight and the weight of 8,318 children was normal.

350 CHILDREN ENJOY HOMEWOOD SCHOOL Director Of Demonstration Work Outlines Results Of Plan. 99 PER CENT. PASS GRADE Pupils Allowed To Skip Half Year By Completing-Course. "Here are 350 children who like to so to school, who beg to come to us. and who, when they are dismissed at 12.30 rush home for luncheon and come back 'to stay until 4 or 5 o'clock," said Miss- M.

Rose Patterson yesterday, speaking of the Homewood Demonstra tion Summer School, of which she is director. "In the first place, there is no compulsion about their coming here," she said. "No one is enrolled who has not passed in June with higher than a fair average. The understanding is that in eight weeks the child will be taught enough to save him a1 half-year's work in his regular school. Only those children who are known to be above average mentally are selected.

Fifty Sehools Represented. "About 50 schools are represented in this year's enrollment, including Curtis Bay, Roland Park, Highlandtown, Guilford, Pimlico and all sections of the city. The school is here on the Johns Hopkins University property and is open to observation classes from the university summer schools, but we are controlled directly by the School Board, which pays the teachers' salaries and supplies the classroom equipment. This is the third year of the experiment, and each year only strengthens the success of the project." The school includes classes in all grades from kindergarten through junior high school. This year an overflow of 300 pupils who had applied for admis sion to the Homewood School was taken care of at School No.

79, Park avenue and Hoffman street. Each Pupil Teachers in the school were selected from the entire teaching force of the city. Each pupil is studied and analyzed. A complete statistical record of each is preserved and a copy is returned to the principal of the school from which he came. The records show that out of the number of children who passed the Homewood Summer School and were allowed to skip a half-year, 99 per cent, made the grade.

Air Mail Service -Expedites Pay Day On The B. And O. Those On Pacific Coast Re numeration At Same Time As Baltimoreans. Establishment of the transcontinental air mail service hasenabled the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to institute a uniform pay day for employes in its Pacific Coast agencies and its employes in Baltimore. Heretofore, the Pacific Coast employes received their pay checks a few days after the Baltimore employes.

The first checks were sent by air mail on the last Baltimore pay day to employes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Spokane. Tomorrow the next installment of pay checks for the Pacific Coast employes will be placed in the air mail. TWO HURT IN AUTO MISHAP Machine Goes Over Embankment On Illllen Road. A young woman and a young man were injured early today when an automobile in which they were riding turned over and fell down an embankment on Hillen road, near Taylor avenue. Both are at Mercy Hospital.

At the hospital the girl's name was given the police as Theo McGee, 19 years old, ,1961 North Collington avenue. She has a fractured skull. The man's name was given as Ellsworth Besterman, 19 years old, 2637 East Madison street. lie has a fractured rib. George C.

North Guilford avenue, took them to the hospital. ELECTED GRAND SECRETARY Sadie E. Hanna, Of City, Chosen By Faction Of Loyal Oransre Institution. Sadie E. Hanna, of Baltimore, yesterday was elected supreme grand secretary of the Women's Auxiliary of the Gilmore-Kirkland-McClintock faction of the Loyal Orange Institution at the closing session of the faction's convention in Atlantic City.

TO BE CUT FOR P. F. P. Woelper Issues Order Cur tailing Deliveries For Tomorrow CHIEFS OF 3 TEAMS MEET AT STADIUM Final Arrangements For Municipal Event Made. Track Is Approved.

Mail deliveries will be cut almost in half tomorrow when the P. F. P. Games will be held in the Stadium, according to an order issued yesterday by Postmaster Benjamin F. Woelper, Jr.

By tomorrow night new. stars will have risen in the municipal athletic firmament and perhaps new chumpioiis will have been crowned. It may be in the police station houses that joy will be greatest. Or it may be in the fire engine houses. Or may, be it will be along the mail routes.

It will be one. surely. Stadium In Prime Shape. The. Stadium is in prime shape, and the final arrangements have been made.

Yesterday the chiefs of the three teams met. with, the referee on the field and talked over some last-minute details. There was not much to talk about. Everything already was settled. It was little more than a ratification meeting.

One thing certain seemed to be that the pigs in this year's "pig chase" will be smaller and faster. Last pigs, it appears, were too slow and fat. There will be five pigs this year, and all live will be champions all kinds of speed. Lieut. James C.

Downes talked mysteriously of a speed wizard they had dis covered on the police force team at the last minute. Seems he had been on the tug-of-war team. Nobody knew be could run. But day before yesterday he sot into the half mile or was it the quarter out at Pimlico, and ran away from the field. Knew nothing at all about running didn't even know when he had finished the quarter-mile, or was it the half? Booth Pronounces Track Good.

'The Stadium track seemed to be in excellent 6hape. Verne Booth, the Olympic and Johns Hopkins star, who will give an exhibition, walked around it, and pronounced it good. The flags by which the crowd may know the placing of the teams in each event were brought out and. tried on the flag poles on either side of the Stadium. They were red for the Firemen, blue for the Policemen and gray for the Postal athletes.

These were long-pointed pen none. Three smaller, square flags, of the Bame colore, mounted to sharp-pointed Eteel rods, also were deposited in the locker house foruse in marking the distances of the weight and throwing events. In the baseball throw, the javelin throw, the shotput and so on a red flag will mark the Fireman's throw, (Continued on Page 12, Column 4.) The Switzerland On th Picturesque Western Maryland Railway. Enjoy Qua Cool, Refreshing Blue Ridgo Mountain Breezes. EVETtY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY.

So-round Pen-Mar Express leaves Hillen station 9.00 A. Union Station H.05 A. JL SUNDAY OUTINGS. $1.85 Gettysburg TRAIN LEAVES HILLEN STATION S.30 A. M.

$2.10 IlaRerstown St.8.r-FREDERK'.K-$1.85 Excursion Fare to Intermediate Point. Train Leaves Hillen 7 35 A. M. Purchase Tirket at Albawh'a Ticket. Office.

2 East Fayette street, or Ilillen, Union and Walbrock Stations. WESTERN MARYLAND RAILWAY. Tolcheater Co. Trips All Start from Pier J.fl. JsTit Street, TOLCIIESTER BEACH Hoteta.

Famous Meals, AmusemeaU. Salt-Water Hatbiitg. TWO HOURS' SAIL ACROSS THE BAY POPULAR STEALER LOUISW. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, ti.45 A. MVinniiolitl fi 40 M.

HoiIlB uT. M. Wednesdays. Thursdays. Ht.urda i at aoa 1 1 Sundavs.

8.45 A. M. nd 2.30 P. M. Hoioe at 9 80 P.

M. TicVeU. iOc. Children, 25c. Wednesday a aai Thursdays, family BETTERTON AND BKAUTIFUL SASSAFRAS RIVER EXCURSIONS.

Wednesdays at 8.30 A. M. JIrne about O'l P. M. Saturdays at.

1 P. M. Hmie at 10 30 P. M. Historic freorgetown and I-Yederlcia'own.

A very pooular family eciimio. Tickets. 76c; Children, 40c. way, B.V'. BETTERTON A.N!) PORT DEPOSIT EXCURSIONS.

SUNDATS af. 0.15 A. M. Hiw a.AH i Tickets. SI -ood thirty days.

Steamer AnI NAPOLIS. Thursdays at 10.30 A. M. Huret about 10 P. M.

TlckeU, Rood one day, 750 one way, fi.V. Very etijoyame trip. AXNAPOLJH AND WEST RIVER EXCURSIONS ALL DAY ON THE BAY. THE POPULAR STEAMER EMMA GILES. Mondays.

Wednesdays. Fridays. 8 A. M. Hvna about 8 P.

M. Sundays, a. 30 A. M. Horn about 8.30 P.

M. Saturdays, 1.30 P. M. Home at 10.30 P. M.

A very delightful trip. Plenty tyt room; music snd dancing. Tickets, 75c Oat way. THE VAY-DOVN-THK-HAT AND CHOPTANK R1VEB EXCURSION. miles: salt water; all dsy life-ssvers for itmall children; povmla' steamer Emma Giles.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 A. home about 0.45 P. M. Tickets, 75 cents; one way. 65 cents.

OWFIS Buy from the Grower. Wt JCJivO Flowem for all occasions. r'B isinziA. iXSfclWlj A SPECIALTY. Oummings.

1131 W. Balto. ph. Gil. 1730.

STEAMER DREAMLAND CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10.50 Ml Saturdays at 1.43 P. 75c. Moonlights Mondays and Fridays. 7 I.

50c. St-wwner General llncoln. To SANDY BACH-BAY SHOKF. Week d.a 2 P. M.

Sundays A. 12.30-4.15 Each way. 15c; children, 10c. Mowilite To-Niti nd nerr uite. f'lasey.

Peppy Dance Mufio 7.30 T. 50c Pier 2. LIGHT ST. I TO BETTERTON. Fsftest excursion host, lord Baltimore PW No.

1. Sundays y.uo A. M. and 3 00 'P returning about 3.00 and 0.30 P. M.

Round'trMi" $1.00. Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Co." IMrtnre and Art Good. SUSSMAN 223 PARK AVENUE. OUK KODAK MAN. GAMES Perennially Popular! PEI- lAIIj QtSSKSnffla Of I Says He Has Turned In Cases During Three-Month Stay.

300 James L. Aeher, "Lone Wolf of the Federal dry forces, tomorrow will "shake the dust" of Baltimore from his feet, after having been active here about three months. During that period, he said yesterday, has turned in more than 300 cases, very few of which were dismissed after hearings before J. Frank Supplee, United States Commissioner. Asher will return here when court reconvenes in September to help prosecute the cases.

At least a third of the cases he is interested in represent second and third offenses against the accused, Asher declared. JACKSON APPROVES PARKING CHANGES New Regulations On Downtown Streets To Be Effective Monday. TIME LIMIT IS EXTENDED Ante Will Be Permitted To Stand For Hour On Thoroughfares. Mayor Jackson yesterday approved the modification of the new parking regulations recommended by Charlea D. Gaither, Police Commissioner, last week.

The chauges will become effective Monday. The changes allow parking during the morning and afternoon rush hours for an hour, instead of half an hour as at present, on certain streets in the central business district. List Of K.tceptlonst. The changes do not affect regulations on the following streets, parking during rush, hours is prohibited Lombard street, from South street to Faca; Redwood street, from South street to Light; Baltimore street, from Fallsway to Paca Fayette street, from Holliday street to Paca south side of Fayette street, from Gay street to Holliday Pleasant street, from Holliday to Calvert Franklin street, from Howard to Paca Gay street from Baltimore street to Fallsway Holliday street, from Lexington to Saratoga. South street, from Baltimore to Pratt Charles street, from Fayette to Centre Park avenue, from Fayette to Mulberry Liberty street, from Baltimore to Lombard, and Howard street, from Fayerte to Centre.

Signs To Be Changed. During the morning rush hours, from 7.30 to 9.30 o'clock, parking will be prohibited on the west sides of Cathedral and St. Paul streets and during the afternoon rush hours, 4.45 to 6 o'clock, on the east side of these streets. Work of altering the signs, which police have posted on the- Btreets affected, will commence next week, Mi-. Gaither said.

The full text of the changes will be advertised in the newspapers this afternoon and tomorrow morning. 169 Take Examinations i For Police Department Applicants Tested In Aptitude, Locations, Spelling: And Arithmetic. Examinations were given yesterday to 169 applicants for appointment as probationary patrolmen in the Police Department. The examinations were held at Odd Fellows' Temple. The candidates for appointment were examined in aptitude, locations, spelling and arithmetic.

John T. Doyle, president of the board; Dr. Frederick H. Vinup, E. Lester Muller and William B.

Kines gave the examination. Charles D. Gaither, Police Commissioner, announced there are 28 vacancies in the grade of probationary patrolmen. Mr. Gaither also said he expects the Board of Estimates to allow him to appoint on January 1 50 of 100 men allotted the department by the 1922 Legislature.

Sculptors Join Movement To Preserve Shot Tower Beanty Of Shaft Alone Is Reason Enough To Save It, Baltimore Artist Writes. Maryland members of the National Sculpture Society have indorsed the movement to preserve the Shot Tower. In a letter to George II. Iladcliffe, chair man of the committee to raise funds to buy the shaft, George Worthington, a Baltimore sculptor, declared For its beauty alone aside from its historic associations the Shot Tower should be preserved. Baltimore already has lost so many beautiful buildings that there is danger of it losing its most precious possession its individuality.

Announcement of the amount of money raised in the campaign which started August 4 will be made upon Mr. Radcliffe return to Baltimore. BUSINESS MEN PLAN OUTING Steamer To Take South Baltimore Excursionists To Ocean View. The program committee of the South Baltimore Business Men's Association has made elaborate plans for the excursion which the organization will hold next week. The Bay Line steamer Alabama has been chartered and will leave the Light street pier at 2 P.

M. August 23. She will lie in Hampton Roads overnight and will dock at Norfolk Sunday mom ing. Arrangements have been made for the excursionists to spend Sunday at Ocean View, near Norfolk. The boat will return Monday, August 25 Reservations may be made with Adam H.

Kromm, 724 Light street, chairman ot the entertainment committee. Marriages increased slightly in Baltimore during the last three years. Births fell off during the same period." These facts are part of the annual report of the Health Department made public yesterday by Dr. C. Hampson Jones, Commissioner of Health.

In 1921 there were 9.65 marriages for every 1,000 unit of population. In 1922 the proportion was 9.63 and last year the average rose to 10.93. Births recorded during 1921 per 1,000 of population were 24.98. The following year there were 23.41 births per thousand and in 1923 the ratio had fallen to 23.11. There were 8,458 marriages last year and 17,880 births reported.

Of the 17,880 births 14,555 were of native American parentage. The birth records show 14,130 fathers and 15,279 mothers were born in this country. Women Live Longer Tban Men. Of the children of foreign parentage, those born of Russian parents lead all other countries with 1,637 births. Italy is next with 732, and then Germany with 205 and Austria-Hungary with 154.

Discounting the high mortality inci WAYWARD COMPASS MYSTERY SOLVED Official At Custom House "Proves" Ship Anchor In Rockies. GIVES CLUE Post Serves A Clearing- Houe For Widf Range Of Qnen-tfons. The purpose of the Hydrographic Office, as set down in the rules and regulations of the Navy Department, is for the "collection and dissemination of hydrographic information." According to Clarence F. Shomber, on duty in the local hydrographic office, the average Baltimorean looks upon this office as a general information bureau where all questions not answered elsewhere may find solution. Among the many questions which have been asked, and answered in the looal office, are those regarding the proper way to build a house, what the weather is likely to be two weeks from now, and whether or not the fish are biting in the Chesapeake Bay.

Deflue Xautical Once Mr. Shomber was asked, "What is a nautical mile?" Here's the answer Mr. Shomber gave "In the United States the nautical mile is defined to be one sixtieth of the length of a degree of a great circle of a sphere whose surface is equal in area to the area of the surface of the earth." The other day a skipper toiled up the steps of the local Custom House, and headed for the hydrographic office. Under his arm he carried a large box, which he carefully deposited on. the table in the office as he sat down with a soulful sigh.

Inquiry revealed the box contained a ship's compass, and that, for some unaccountable reason, the ship "would not steer the way the compass pointed." Here was a serious situation, and it tta "1J there was something wrong with the ship or with the compass. The latter being smaller, the captain had brought it along, leaving the ship anchored in the harbor. Other compasses were compared with the one brought by the skipper. They compared favorably enough, and the little card swung merrily as Shomber puzzled. "Deviation." At last it was decided to bring out several charts and plot the course sailed by the skipper.

While this was being done the word "deviation" was mentioned. The skipper looked blank. Shomber informed him that a ship's compass does not always point true north and that a certain amount of deviation must be allowed for. Shomber plotted the course. Then he gently informed the skipper that, ac cording to his own figures, his ship was anchored somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

The skipper blinked as Shomber handed him a little pamphlet, across the front of which was printed in black bold type "Deviation." Man Is Taken To Hospital With Bullet Near Brain Camp Holablrd Sergeant Found By Wife Is In Serious Condition. With bullet lodged near his brain, Sergt. Chris Sylvester, of Camp Hola- bird, is in a serious condition at Bay View Hospital, physicians say. According to police, Sylvester was found last night in the bedroom of bis home, 1G02 River "View avenue, by his wife, Mrs. Prudence Sylvester.

She told tbem she was attracted by the re port of. the pistol and found her husband lying on the floor unconscious. While waiting for the Eastern district ambulance to arrive Major C. II. Witherell.

of Camp Holabird, administered first aid. Physicians at Bay View declared that a difficult operation would be necessary to save his life. NEW SENIOR TAX CLERK NAMED Mrs. Pearl II. Xorris Appointed To Succeed Maurice J.

llanrahan. Mrs. Pearl R. Norris, 5606 Garrison avenue, will succeed the late Maurice J. llanrahan as a senior clerk in the Tax Department.

Her appointment was announced yesterday, by Charles P. Coady, City Collector. Miss Florence Becker, 216 North Gay street, was given a temporary appointment by Mr. Coady as an operator of a machine on which assessment rolls and tax bill are prepared. Out If Pollution Is Found.

PROPOSED SOURCE CONDEMNED IN 1913 jWolman Also Questions JJtility Of Jones' Falls As Base. The swimming pool for white persons in Druid Hill Park, to be opened Sunday, will be filled today with water from the Jones' Falls supply. Jones' Falls water is neither filtered nor chlorinated. 'If the Jones' Fulls supply is in the Condition we found it to be in when we 7a st analyzed it I am going to advise people to stay out of the Dr. Hampson Jones, Commissioner of Health, said last night.

Jones' Falls is one of the feeders for Kolnnd. Other streams and runs declared by officials of the city and Mate Departments of Health to be polluted, also feed into Lake Roland. They include Roland and Towson runs. V. Bernard Siems.

Water Engineer, rnid the pool for negroes in Druid Hill J'ark filled with filtered water. Letter Is Sent To Stems. Dr. Jones sent a letter to Mr. Stems yesterday asking what, water would be jsod in the new pool.

Mr. Siems will notify Dr. Jones officially today that the water will be taken from the Jones' Jfalls supply. The Health Department examined "water from Jones' Falls before it was abandoned for drinking purposes upon rompletion of the filtration plant at Lake Montebello. Dr.

Jones said. This was in 1013. "Jones' Falls was the greatest source fif pollution in our water system," Dr. Jones asserted, "and that is why we stopped its use for drinking purposes. Sewage from Towson drained into it.

1 not know whether this is so now nr not. If Towson still drains into Jones' Falls, conditions there are no better than they were when we stopped using the water. As a matter of fact, they are worse. 1 propose to confer with officials of the State Board of Health tomorrow as to this point." Dlnposal Plant Xoh Vaecl. Abel Wolman, chief engineer of the! State Board of Health, said last night that sewage from Towson now is taken rare of in a disposal plant, the effluent draining into Towson run.

"But Jones' Falls water certainly is rt fit for drinking purposes," Mr. Wol-nan added, "and I very much question whether it is fit for bathing." Dr. Jones said he will confer this morning with Dr. J. H.

Shrader, director of the Health Department's Bureau Chemistry and Food, on plans for analyzing the water to be turned into the Druid Hill pool. Explaining the use of Jones' Falls yupply, also known as Lake Roland pupply, George Nichols, General Superintendent of Parks, said "We asked the Water Department for water and they gave us a supply from Lake Roland. The Park Board can not dictate to the Water Department in this have never received an official request from the Park Board for a water connection for the pool." said Mr. Siems, Water Engineer. "The decision to use water from Lake Roland was reached during the last administration, when the construction of the pool was started.

I have advised the Park Board that it should use purified water in all of its swimming pools, and I agree with Dr. Jones in this regard." Mr. Siems declared water from Lake Koland will be run into the pool today. Jf this supply is found to be polluted unsafe for bathing, he will arrange for a supply of filtered water from Druid Lake. The water cannot be examined with ny degree of satisfaction inside of a week or 10 days, according to Dr.

Jones. Samples from several places may have to be taken, and at different times. Theodore Mottu. member of the Park Board, said he did not recall that the cuiestion of the source or quality of water to be used in the pool had been discussed by that body. J.

Cookman Boyd, president of the Park Board is put of town. To Fill Pool Today. "Arrangements have been made to start filling the pool at 12.30 P. M. to-' morrow," Mr.

Siems said. "The Water Department will take samples of the -water as it flows into the pool and will send them to the Health Department for analysis. "Personally, I believe Lake Roland water is all right and safe for bathing purposes. A chemical analysis will tell whether or not I am correct. "This water is being used in the pool Roosevelt Park.

But this pool has a constant circulation through a siphon. No provision has been made for a siphon at the new pool in Druid Hill Park, but I understand arrangements will be made for a circulating flow at the pool by opening the gates. This may overcome any objection that may bn made to the use of the pool. SleniA Visit Pool. Mr.

Siems visited the pool yesterday afternoon and observed a flow of water into it for the purpose of cleansing the mains of mud and sediment. He said (Continued on ragre 4, Column 7.) be CONDITION OF CHILD IS CALLED CRITICAL Donations For Day Total $508, Less Than Required Quota. A young mother and her Hi-months-old baby lived in one room on the third floor of a shabby dwelling in South Baltimore. The father was in a sanatorium with tuberculosis. The mother worked in a tin factory to support herself and the child.

Mary, a neighbors 10-year-old daughter, was supposed to care for little Billy while his mother worked. Most of the Mary left the child to crawl on the floor and care for himself. She gave him his food at irregular intervals and sometimes not at all. Mary, who was thin and poorly fed, frequently drank the milk herself. Baby Becomes Emaciated.

The baby became pale and emaciated. The visiting nurse from the Babies' Milk Fund Association noted his loss of weight and asked Mary vWhat the baby ate. Mary said that Billy's mother bought him "milk, fruit and cereal." It puzzled the nurse to find that the child was on a proper diet and yet undernourished. One day when the nurse stopped to see the baby she found Mary drinking his milk. Little Billy was sitting on the floor chewing on a carrot.

That was how the nurse discovered that Mary had been using the baby's food. Repentant, Mary went home to her mother. Milk Is Bought For Baby. The nurse bought milk and fed the baby. When the young mother returned from work the nurse explained that the baby's condition was critical and that he needed nourishing food and country air to restore his health.

The mother could not pay for the necessities which the nurse ordered. The Babies' Milk Fund Association made arrangements to send the baby to the country for free treatment. When he returns he will need two quarts of milk daily instead ot one. The young mother can afford to pay for half the milk. Money will be needed from the Milk and Ice Fund to provide the other quart of milk.

Welfare workers also wish they might have a few extra dollars to send a pint of milk daily to Mary. This is only one of the many new cases which come daily to the attention of the Babies' Milk Fund Association. At present the association is aiding more than 500 poor families in which there are sick members. Contribution For Day $508. Contributions to the Milk and Ice Fund yesterday totaled $508.72.

This was about 250 less than the amount donated Wednesday. An average of $600 must be contributed to the fund each day if the suffering poor of the city are to be relieved in the manner planned. Returns from the fair held at 1537 Covington street by Garnet Moles, Louis Lang, Lola Gough, Dorothy Gough and Junior Smith amounted to $25. The fair given at 1430 Harlem avenue raised $14.45. The primary class and cradle roll of Betterton Methodist Sunday-School sent in 227 birthday pennies for the babies and sick.

The Girls' Club, A. M. R. department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, donated $5. The keeper of records and seals of Patapsco Lodge, No.

127, Knights of Pythias, gave the same amount. Contributions Listed. Contributions received yesterday follow: George and Jack $2.00 K. of Jl. S.

Patapsco Lodge, No. 127, Knights of Pythias 5.00 N. H. 5.00 1.00 Cash II. W.

Widow's mite A. Cambridire 25.00 3.00 2.00 2.00 10.00 5.00 3.00 1.00 10.00 2.00 3.00 5.00 In memory of Richard Flagle Mrs. B. TV. Gore Fannie K.

Bachrach Cash S. B. Tn memory of E. H. Cash Mary, E.

Ewing i. Frank We.itherley Birthday pennies of the primary class and cradle roll of Betterton Methodist Sunday-School 2.2T Hannah It. Moore 3.00 Qultona Club, of Walbrook M. E. Church 12.50 Mr.

and Mrs. R.1 C. 1-00 From friends 3.00 Mr. Outis 2.00 Bobbie Coles 3 00 Mary Caroll 500 J. P.

10.00 The Girls' Club, A. M. R. B. No name T.

L. W. r. Mrs. C.

O. Richardson In memory of dear country physi- nlan 5.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 1.00 Elizabeth and Joanne. 2.00 Free will (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) SPECIAL NOTICES. Diamonds bought for cah, remonnted and sold. Raymond Hughes, Diamond Appraiser, 824 Fidelity Sth floor.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. YOr IT WE PARKING PRIVILEGE p'r rritrHASM at tiinoek NORTH ANTjPENNSTIA AMA AVES. Will Buy Residence In MT WASHINGTON or WATBROOK ABOUT 10 ROOMS AND NICK LOT. bo xe a'sa Manufacturers. 6-8 S.

Greens eU Plaza 2527. CUSTOM OF OFFICE IS CITED IN ACTION Collector Says He Will Require Full Settlement Of Arrearages. A new tax problem was before Charles P. Coady, City Collector, yesterday. He received several checks in payment of automobile taxes for 1924.

In nearly every case the owner of the car was in arrears for other years. In one case a judgment against the owner for non-payment of taxes was obtained by the city in the People's Court, 1 The checks were the result of the act of the last Legislature directing the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to refuse licenses for cars on which the taxes for 1924 were not paid. Insists On Fn 1 1 Payment. 'Mr: Coady met the situation by noti fying the owners that their checks for 1924 would not be received unless all back taxes also were paid. He said he would refuse to certify payment of 1924 taxes to the Automobile Commissioner until arrearages for previous years were settled.

"There is no law requiring the city to accept taxes for the current year when back taxes are due," Mr. Coady said, it is the practice of the office to insist on the payment of back taxes on all classes of property before money for current taxes is received. "Custom has made this the law of the department, and I am not going to depart from it. Therefore, if Anyone in arrears for years prior to 1924 thinks he can get his automobile license for 1924 by paying taxes for 1924 only he is mistaken." Inv Wan Amended. As originally drawn the automobile license bill stipulated that licenses would not be issued for cars on which takes had not been paid.

The Legislature adopted an amendment making the law apply to cars on which taxes for 1924 and succeeding years had not been paid. Mr. Coady said that while he preferred the original bill, the rule of his office requiring all back taxes to be paid before current taxes are received makes the amendment as effective as the original bill would have been. 13-Year -Old Boy Is Struck By Unidentified Motorist Fonr Are Injured When Two Autos Collide At Eastern And 1011 wood Avenues. Crossing the Washington Boulevard at Scott street last night, Lester Bowery, 13 years old, was knocked down by an unidentified motorist, who drove on without stopping to render assistance.

The boy was taken by po- 1 1 nn TTn irarci ttt TTp vol nrliAn was found his injuries consisted of cuts on face and neck and bruises on the body. After treatment he returned to his home in the S00 block West Cross street. Four persons were injured when two machines collided last night at Eastern and Ellwood avenues. The injured, who were taken to Bay View Hospital, are Mrs. Lillian Williams, 3000 block McKay Court, sprained back 'Miss Marie Iteed, 1900 block Aliceanna street, cuts on body Mi-s.

Bertie Burns, 900 block South Linwood avenue, sprained shoulder, and August Schmitz, 3000 block Fait avenue, cuts on face. Mr. Schmitz was driving one of the machines. Sylvester Helminak, 3000 block Hudson street, was the driver of the other car. He escaped injury, but has been summoned to the Traffic Court to answer a charge of failure to give right of way.

ALLEY KEP0RTED WASHED OUT Safety Board Moves To Reduce Danger From Hon fives. A report that part of the alley in the rear of the 1S00 block of Ashburton ave nue had been washed away was made to the Board of Public Safety at a meeting yesterday at the Health Department office. The question of reducing the menace of burning trash in back yards was taken up. The board asked Dr. C.

Hampson Jones, Health Commissioner, to investigate the laws applicable to such cases and to notify all offenders of the danger of setting afire nearby prop erty. HELD ON AUTO THEFT CHARGE Sidney Rouse Is Brougrht Back To City From ISew York. Indicted July 12 on a charge of stealing an automobile, Sidney Rouse, 24 years old, who was arrested in New York July 18, yesterday was brought back to the city by Detective-Lieutenant Charles F. Barranger. According to police, Rouse, with his brother, Jack Rouse, hired an automobile and took the machine to New York.

BLAZE IS DISCOVERED ON SHIP Flrebont Puts Out Flames Found By Watchman. A small fire on board an iron hulk which is being scrapped by the Boston Iron and Metal Company, East Falls avenue and Lancaster street, was ex tinguished by the fireboat Cataract last night. James Hafferty, 100 block North Cur- ley street, the watchman, discovered the fire..